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Before They Were Famous: The 10 Most Regrettable Celebrity Commercials
#5. Paul Rudd for Super Nintendo
Role: The "Cool" Early '90s Teen
Synopsis: Thanks to the infamous "Care Bear Backlash" of the late '80s, by the time 1990 rolled around, anything marketed to kids had to be "edgy." Here, the notoriously family-friendly (read: "square") Nintendo enlists a young Paul Rudd to shake up that wholesome image for their latest product, the "Nintendo Super-Happy, Fun-Time Game Box" (working title).
Bottom Line: Considering Rudd hasn't dropped below four levels of ironic detachment since 1995, his wide-eyed amazement at his surroundings (Trench coats! Smoke machines! SimCity!) seems less than sincere in retrospect. It's not exactly Rudd's fault, either-even to our young, pre-Clueless eyes, this ad stunk of cheese.
Bonus Moment: The cryptic "New Zelda and Football to come" disclaimer at the end of the ad.
#4. Meg Ryan for Aim Toothpaste
Role: Gummy Cheerleader
Synopsis: Meg Ryan's cheerleader friends give her a an old-fashioned razzing over her "fancy" mint-flavored toothpaste, until it is revealed that Meg's good oral hygiene has apparently nabbed her a date with the dreamy Jack Reid. (Not revealed in the commercial: Meg puts out like a wolf in heat.)
Bottom Line: So, girls who use mint toothpaste are easy. Whatever. We still pity an era where women's locker rooms were portrayed as places of sweaters and serious conversations about fluoride, and not the misty, slow-motion fantasies we now know them to actually be.
Bonus Moment: "My dears, this is serious toothpaste." Enough said.
#3. Seth Green for Nerf
Role: A Radical Dude
Synopsis: Despite the best efforts of Seth Green's haircut, Nerf guns are still pretty much the coolest things, ever.
Bottom Line: This ad makes it scarily apparent that it's now 2007 and Seth Green has not yet hit puberty. Also, from the smokin' fashions to the "NOT!" fake-out, it's a great start to our next article, "Things We Pretend Not To Remember About the Early '90s."
Bonus Moment: Mandatory Kids' Commercial Trope No. 23: Before all's said and done, a representative of the adult world must be taken down in a suitably humiliating fashion. Here, a mime falls into a pond. Man, does Nerf get kids, or what?
#2. Morgan Freeman for Listerine
Role: Straight-Talking, Streetwise, Vaguely Racist Caricature
Synopsis: Lawdy, mastuh, sho' is hard being a po' ol' telephone repairman. Good thing 'dis mouthwash is such a powerful concoction! Now, who wants some of Aunt Jemima's pancakes?
Bottom Line: So the message is that even if something tastes bad, it can be good for you? We had no idea! Thank goodness Listerine commissioned such an informative and non-condescending minstrel show to get the message across.
Bonus Moment: The other guy's closing non-committal grunt of a response to Freeman's twisted, mouth-cleansing logic.
#1. Bruce Willis for Seagram's Golden Wine Coolers
Role: Embarrassingly Over-Enthusiastic Guy Who Breaks Into Song and Dance
Synopsis: It's a classic commercial set up-this product is so great, that the mere thought of using it causes people to start hollering and gyrating like epileptics. Here, a pre-Moonlighting Willis stars as a good ol' boy who loves his wine coolers so much, that he and his jug band have to start an impromptu porch-front jam session.
Bottom Line: Ignore momentarily that Seagram's prize beverage will be a pop-culture punch line for years to come. Instead, focus on Bruce's slurred, "authentic-drunk" performance, which allows him to deliver the inexplicable tagline "It's wet and it's dry" with complete conviction.
Bonus Moment: If you look closely, tipsy Bruce Willis actually takes a swing at the guitarist 20 seconds in, and then tries to pass it off as a pirouette.


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UP students' all-time favorite. Delicious Italian food—make sure to try their famous and ENORMOUS calzones that are cheap, even for college students.
Great pub food with a unique atmosphere. Excellent burgers, sandwiches, Cajon tater tots. You can even enjoy all of this while watching a $3 movie in the historic theater dome.
Whether you're in the mood for Italian or sushi, these 2 neighboring restaurants provide great lunch and dinner options.
Flavorful Thai food that is a favorite among UP students. Cheap, convenient, and take-out or dine-in options.
929 N Russell 503-281-3333
A popular Monday night hang out for UP students with deals on microbrews and great burgers. All ages can enjoy authentic German style eats—Wiener Schnitzel anyone?
2222 NE Broadway 503-287-0270
Although this amazingly delicious and student friendly café is not right around the corner from The Bluff, the owner is a UP alum who began planning for this restaurant while in his entrepreneurial business classes. Great food, incredible coffee, and a unique travel motif unlike any other.
Spectacular breakfasts! Make sure to try their eggs benedict and fresh squeezed orange juice. Also known for their homemade macaroni and cheese of the day.
206 SW Morrison 503-796-2739
Great menu selection of American favorites like burgers, steaks, ribs, and salads. Right by Nordstrom Rack and
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Located in the historic Henry Weinhard's brewery building, Henry's offers a wide array of lunch and dinner options. Try their orange chicken or honey mustard chicken sandwich.
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Authentic Italian food with genuine Italian hospitality. Make sure to have their newly added Gelato!
1036 NW Glisan 503-546-8162
Delicious giant slices of pizza for little dough.
Fast and inexpensive Mexican food—try one of their burritos.
Tasty and affordable Italian food.
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Traditional Moroccan food. Be prepared to eat with your hands and sit on the floor!
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Another famous breakfast spot (meaning, be prepared to wait in line). You can also enjoy great lunch and dinner fare every day!
Great place for lunch or dinner with burgers, French onion soup, and salads.
Modern atmosphere with classic American food. Its more expensive sister restaurant is right next door so don't be alarmed if you see higher prices, just go next door to the café.
Excellent Italian food with an even better atmosphere. Small, friendly restaurant with plenty of inexpensive yet authentic Italian options. Go simple and try their spaghetti and meatballs.
If you like hummus, tabouli, baba ghanoush and kabobs, you will certainly love Hoda's Lebanese cuisine.
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Widmer Gasthaus ($$)
Costello's Travel Caffe ($)
Mother's Bistro & Bar ($$)
Rock Bottom Brewery ($$)
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Piazza Italia ($)
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being so drunk that you feel it necessary to split your words up with a hyphen.
dude, i am soo fucking t-rashed! lets go do a beer bong.
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Drunk, under the influence of alcohol. Usually to a large extent. Unable to think correctly, move correctly, or act normaly because of the influence of the alcohol.
Trashed after the party, she just barely made it up the stairs only to puke at the top.
He was trashed after one case of cheap beer.
He was trashed after one case of cheap beer.
by In My Own World June 14, 2003
Under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.
I took 3 hits of acid and I'm fucking trashed.
by AcidTears January 02, 2005
Synonyms: loaded, drunk, hosed,fucked, gooned
To be under the influence of EtOH, better known as ethyl alcohol, the drinking alcohol.
To be under the influence of EtOH, better known as ethyl alcohol, the drinking alcohol.
After going to the party, we were all so trashed because of drinking a bubba each, we decided to sleep in the street.
by Matthew Wiebe December 12, 2003
Beyond exhausted, so much so that one appears to be drunk. Symptons include staring into space, taking hours to respond to simple questions, pausing randomly inbetween words, walking unsteadily, falling asleep standing up, and generally acting tired and spaced-out.
I pulled an all-nighter on that paper last night and boy am I trashed.
by Christina S September 16, 2006
An extreme form of trashed, reserved solely for situations in which you have no control over your vocabulary or verbal actions. Usually has consumed at least 3 doubles at the point of usage.
oh my god guys, I am so trash-ed!
by gerdith October 20, 2008
A slang expression to express that your gonna get soo thrashed/drunk.
"Im gonna get so T-rashed..ima have a rash in the form of a T on my chest"
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Tory Burch: 10 Beautiful Things
Tory Burch has created an empire of preppy-chic designs, juicy palettes, and playful prints—all with just the right touch of bling. We asked her to share her list of the world's most drool-worthy things: fashion, beauty, and beyond.
Tory Burch takes her search for inspiration seriously—and globally. She has spent time in Capri, where she soaks up the vivid colors; France, where a $6 flea-market smock inspired her classic Tory Tunic; and Morocco, where the leather goods have given her ideas for her own preppy-but-cosmopolitan designs. "I make mental notes, and I take lots of pictures," says Burch, which is no surprise to her 300,000-plus Instagram followers. Recently she prowled a museum—New York City's Neue Galerie, to be specific—where paintings by Klimt translated into the reds and cerulean blues of her fall collection, and Lalique crystal was the starting point of her glass necklaces. Burch's discerning eye may be the reason for her rabid fans. "They have access to a lot, but they're looking for special pieces—and I'm interested in that as well," she says.
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"They're very comfortable and always have unexpected details." Leather shoes, $875, at Bergdorf Goodman, N.Y.C., 800-558-1855.
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When going on a holiday in Croatia where do you usually go? It is a very old dilemma: a soul refreshing, relaxing and very pleasant to the eye holiday in a health resort on the sea coast with beautiful gardens, old villas, seaside promenades opposed to a crazy seven day party with concerts every night combined with wild and adventurous sea and land sports during the day. (continue reading…)
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I hear a lot of talk about apparmor, I want to know the following:
- What is apparmor?
- How does apparmor work?
What it is
Apparmor is a Mandatory Access Control (or MAC) system. It uses LSM kernel enhancements to restrict programs to certain resources. AppArmor does this with profiles loaded into the kernel when the system starts. Apparmor has two types of profile modes, enforcement and complain. Profiles in enforcement mode enforce that profile's rules and report violation attempts in
In Ubuntu Apparmor is installed by default. It confines applications to profiles to determine what files and permissions that a program needs access to. Some applications will come with their own properties and more can be found in the
You can install
I found a good example of Apparmor on the Ubuntu forums that I rewrote for this post.
How it works
These are the most common commands:
NOTE:: Profiles are stored in
To load a profile into the kernel you would use
To disable a profile you link it to
NOTE: Do not confuse
Profiles are stored in
There are two main types of entries used in profiles:
Lets look at the profile for
NOTE: After creating/editing a profile, you need to reload the profile for changes to take effect.
Here is a list of permissions you can use:
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Apparmor guides for Ubuntu 12.04 & Ubuntu 12.10
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I'm creating a mobile app that I'd like to have the ability to receive donations to my Amazon account. Say, like $5 to my account to spend. Is this possible, and if so, could someone direct me to the information?
Amazon accounts can receive Donations but there are a few caveats. (Taken from this article)
It is probably easier to use PayPal to collect donations
You could ask people to buy you an Amazon gift certificate - you just need to provide them with your email address.
There's no donations for individuals, but what most people (I've seen Marco Arment and Lifehacker do this) is join the Affiliate Program and ask people to buy something with the affiliate link.
The next Amazon choice would be to ask them to send a gift card to your email, but this reeks of amateurism and ticks people off.
Flattr's micropayment model has been going up pretty well lately. You may want to look into that as an option.


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SCHULTZ, Mabel L., 79, passed away November 23, 2012 surrounded by her family.
She was born November 19, 1933 in Richlands, Virginia.
She was preceded in death by her parents Mardy and Pearl Lewis; sister, Darkis Jewell; brothers, Darnell and Jerry Lee; infant sister, Daisy; and infant daughter, Mary Beth.
She married her husband Thomas Schultz, Sr. August 2, 1958 and began their life together in Amsterdam. Mabel was a retired nurse of 30 years and a village council person. With the help of many friends she helped start the North East Ohio Food Pantry.
She was a loving mother to her son, Thomas (Kim) Schultz, Sr. and daughter, Marsha (Jeff) Prokopakis. She was also a proud grandparent of one grandson, David Schultz and three granddaughters, Heather, Sara Prokopakis, and Amanda Schultz; and two great-grandchildren, Aeros and Aubree who she adored.
She also leaves behind brother, John L. Lewis; her best friend, Mary Rayl; and her two little puppies.
Her care has been entrusted to the Everhart- Bove Funeral Home.
No service will be held at her request. She wishes all to remember her fiery attitude and she always told it the way it is.
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The 5 Creepiest Ways Animals Have Mastered Mind Control
Humans have been trying to control each other's minds for centuries, but have only succeeded in getting people to buy more tortilla chips and hand cream. Meanwhile, in the animal kingdom, absurd comic-book style mind-control plots have been coming true for millennia.
#5. Glyptapanteles (Zombie-Caterpillar-Creating Wasps)
Merle Shepard, Gerald R.Carner, and P.A.C Ooi
Wasps are horrible, awful, pointless creatures, and we hate them. If you want to go tell them we said that, go ahead. We don't care. But some of them are inexplicably worse than others: Enter the Glyptapanteles. These wasps are not content to sting and kill their prey (in this case, the gypsy moth caterpillar), but actually inject their eggs inside of the victim's body. So their victims aren't just killed and eaten, but are first impregnated via interspecies wasp-rape. And yes, did you even need to ask? Of course the wasp babies eat the caterpillars from inside.
They eat them from inside like crazy.
And yet, still, the caterpillars do not die (though there is some rigorous scientific debate as to whether or not a caterpillar can beg for the sweet release of death; we are going to assume they do so incessantly from this point forward). Some of the larva hatch and burrow out of the caterpillar's skin, sure, and that's horrible, but others stay behind ... to take control of its brain. The mind-controlling pupa inside manipulate the caterpillar into standing guard and protecting their vulnerable brethren outside, occasionally even forcing it to spin protective silk over them. So the caterpillar not only gets stung, raped and hollowed out, but also actually has to sit there and guard its attackers against all predators (by thrashing around like a spaz if anybody comes near).
PloS ONE
Above: Insect judo.
There's just ... there's no way this is the most effective way to procreate, right? At least some element of that whole procedure -- the spaz-thrashing, for example -- simply has to be for pure and simple spite.
Merle Shepard, Gerald R.Carner, and P.A.C Ooi
You can almost hear it scream.
#4. Cordyceps Unilateralis (Zombie-Ant-Creating Fungus)
So a particular species of carpenter ant, Camponotus leonardi, is going about its daily business -- carrying food, making piles, lifting, what have you -- when it accidentally inhales a spore. Now, inhaling a spore never ends in a pizza party and a trip to Sea World; it's pretty much always horror and death. And the spores of Cordyceps unilateralis are no different.
Above: A carpenter ant, blissfully unaware of the doom that awaits it.
The fungus begins by consuming "the non-vital soft tissues" of the ant -- while it's still alive, of course. (Actually, since that's the most horrifying scenario possible, let's go ahead and assume that everything is devoured alive from here on out. Saves time that way). Then the fungus uses those nutrients to sprout mycelia (that's science-speak for "horrible mold tentacles") up into the brain of the ant. There, the mycelia actually change the way the ant perceives pheromones in order to manipulate the insect into the fungus' desired position. And the fungus has a very specific list of conditions: It requires a north-facing leaf of a plant about 25 centimeters off the ground, in an environment with 94 to 95 percent humidity and a location with temperatures between 20 to 30 degrees Celsius. And it gets it.
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"I have no mandibles, yet I must scream."
That's how precise the control of the fungus is: It can navigate an ant to the absolute perfect location, down to a single percentage point of humidity.
Only there, finally, is the ant allowed to die. After setting up shop and fortifying the ant's corpse to allow for safe growth, the fruiting body of the fungus eventually explodes out of the back of the ant's head, shooting its sporey load onto the forest floor ... where there are thousands of unexploded ant heads just waiting to inhale more spores.
Planet Earth
The Thing doesn't have shit on Mother Nature.
Jesus, is there any point to that, aside from 'fuck ants'? It's like some advanced alien race with access to terrifying biological weapons had a picnic ruined ten thousand years ago and just cannot let it go.
#3. Spiny-Headed Worms (Masters of the Suicidal Pill Bug)
The spiny-headed worm lives its entire adult life with its spiny head stuck to the inside of the gut of a starling. And that's kind of messed up, but it's not exactly burrowing into the starling's brain to make it do an embarrassing tap routine, so let's just call that a win for the bird kingdom. And hey, if Mr. McSpiny meets a lovely lady and wants to settle down and have children in the bird's guts, well, at least it hasn't turned the bird's skull into a spore cannon. So go nuts, you crazy worms.
Oh yeah. This is ... this is totally cool.
End scene.
Exterior: Forest floor.
A cute little pudgy pill bug is minding his own business, sitting in some dark, damp leaf litter (he really likes the dark and damp). Then he happens upon some starling poop, which, being a stupid bug without access to burritos, he decides to eat. Delectable. A deep earthy flavor with sharp notes of digested earthworms hits the back of his pill bug palate to his roly poly delight. But there's something wrong, there's something just a little off about this bird shit in his mouth. What could it be?
Why, eggs, of course.
Mr. Pill Bug has just been unwittingly impregnated by baby hellraiser worms. He goes about his pill bug life for a while, probably rolling down hills with his children and building a little burrow for his pill bug wife, thinking that everything is fine. He forgets that there are demons growing inside of him. Everything is hunky dory, until one day, instead of hiding under a rock like he's been doing his whole life, he has an inescapable urge to run out into the open sun.
A hungry bird happens by, notices the unusually exposed and jaunty pill bug, and picks up an easy meal. Tiny pill bug children cry themselves to sleep at home. Mrs. Pill Bug starts turning tricks just to keep the rent paid.
And the starling spends the rest of its life with a permanent case of the shits.
And all this because the worms had simply outgrown their tiny little host and wanted something a little more spacious, with a bit of flair; modest, but definitely stylish -- a starling, perhaps? But instead of hiring some movers and checking parasitical Craigslist (it's kind of like regular Craigslist except ... uh ... no, never mind; it's exactly like regular Craigslist), the worms move house by invading the pill bug's brain and altering its chemistry to make the normally shade-loving creatures attracted to light. Defying every instinct they have, the pill bugs are brainwashed into direct sunlight -- and certain death -- by the mind-controlling parasites within.
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For the Mercy Academy softball team March could not have been much sweeter.
The Jaguars — No. 3 in the Kentucky Softball Coaches Association Top 25 — built a perfect 12-0 record in the month, including wins over No. 6 Male, co-No. 10 Scott County (twice), co-No. 10 Central Hardin, No. 19 Bullitt East and No. 20 Butler.
A trip to the Lady Warrior Classic in Tennessee last weekend netted four wins as Mercy outscored opponents 34-1.
Coach Josh Bloomer attributed the strong start to efficiency at the plate and several bang-up outings from standout senior pitcher J.J. Francis (7-0, two saves).
"I expected us to be a good hitting team … and very few people in the state have somebody they can throw out there that's comparable to (Francis)," said Bloomer, who is in his eighth year leading the Jags.
Bound for Murray
A four-year starter, Francis was a member of Mercy's state runner-up teams in 2009 and 2010. Last season, she went 24-6 with a .837 ERA and earned first-team All-State honors. In November, Francis signed to play college ball at Murray State.
Bloomer believes his ace should be a top contender for Miss Softball.
"I think J.J. is the best candidate," he said. "Not only does she pitch, but she hits in our four hole and drives in runs. She does a little bit of everything."
Francis is batting .484 with 16 RBI, but wants to keep the spotlight on her team. "I'm nothing without my teammates," she said. "I just want to focus on our goals and if an individual accomplishment comes out of that, I (would be) more than happy to receive that award."
A New Pitch
In the circle this season Francis has a .508 ERA with 59 strikeouts in 41 innings and is honing a new pitch.
"I like to keep batters off balance," she said. "I have a lot of moving pitches and I'm working on a drop ball this year."
Growing up, Francis watched Yankees games with her stepfather, but it wasn't until she joined the Louisville Lady Sluggers summer travel team as a 12-year-old that she committed to pitching. Bloomer coached that team and marveled at her progress.
"To see the growth from where she was as a 12-year-old to where she is now has been somewhat phenomenal," he said.
If Francis and the Jaguars are to make their third trip to the state tournament in four years, they will first need to claw out of a Seventh Region that includes top-ranked Ballard, No. 6 Male, No. 9 Assumption and No. 18 Eastern.
Most Talent
"We feel like we've got probably the most talent we've had in the program," Bloomer said. "What we want to do is just give ourselves an opportunity to be there in the end."
Other highlights from the first month of play (records and stats through April 1):
No. 1 Ballard (10-0) returned seven starters from last season's state runner-up team and has notched early wins over No. 19 Bullitt East and No. 23 Oldham County. Freshman catcher/1B Alexis Hall is batting .564, while sophomore Jessica Adell (P/CF), a Tennessee commit, has a .484 average.
Freshman pitcher Allison Wiseman (6-0) struck out seven in the final of the Ballard Invitational on March 31, a 6-1 win over Henry Clay.
"We've got great offense, great defense and a lot of speed," said coach Alan Jones. "For us it's going to come down to pitching … and they're getting better and better."
No. 6 Male (6-1) returned eight starters from last season's 20-8 team, including seniors Madi Phillips (catcher, .600), Katie Watson (SS, .471) and Taylor Messex (CF, .438). Junior pitcher Ally Miozza is 5-1 and has averaged eight strikeouts per game.
Assumption is 7-1-1 under first-year coach Jennifer Hunt. Senior pitcher Morgan Foley has a 5-0 record, including a 2-1 win over then-No. 1 Allen County-Scottsville on March 24. Sophomore Lillie Nitzken (.538) homered in each of the ninth-ranked Rockets' first four games.
Freshman first baseman Rachel Kelley has three homers for No. 18 Eastern (5-3) and Casey Smith (So., P) is 5-2.
After dropping its first three games, No. 20 Butler (3-3) has won three-straight and is getting major production from senior second baseman Jordan Hollis (.429) and senior catcher Bekah Ellis (.400). Mallory Evans, a senior pitcher, is 3-1.
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5 Classic Superman Comics That Prove He Used to Be a Dick
#2. Superman Drugs an Innocent Man and Takes Over His Life (Action Comics No. 4, 1938)
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Superman has a lot of moves in his arsenal, from lifting heavy things to standing placidly while bad guys' bullets bounce off his chest (OK, it's just those two). But there are certain things that it's impossible to imagine Supes ever doing, like, say, shooting somebody with a flamethrower or stabbing someone with a switchblade. Or dressing up in a checkered sport coat, sneaking up on a guy and sticking him with a hypodermic needle:
It's a little-known fact that Dexter was based on old Superman comics.
The background to that situation only makes it stranger. In this 1938 issue, Superman overhears a coach and some thugs talking about rigging a football game, and decides that the easiest way to thwart this plan is to impersonate a player on the other team, Tommy Burke. The Man of Steel stalks Burke as he's leaving his girlfriend's house one night and injects the man with some unknown sedative/paralytic to kidnap him. Superman then whisks his incapacitated victim away to the man's apartment, where he nonchalantly informs him of his intentions.
"I also took the liberty of dyeing your hair blond while you were out, for no particular reason."
Yep, "I'm going to take your place in life for a few days" is the entire explanation Superman gives to the guy before going away, leaving him a prisoner of his own body. At this point Burke has no idea if his insane doppelganger will go on to stop a rigged game, or murder everyone in his family, or merely bang his girlfriend.
Anyway, Superman attends the football practice as Burke, but a locker room misunderstanding leads to him being pummeled by another guy.
Every other panel of this scene was NC-17.
Superman ends up brushing off his attacker, knocking him out and probably breaking every bone in his body. The coach then kicks "Burke" off of the team for being a dangerous maniac. So far, all Superman has accomplished with his brilliant plan is scaring the crap out of an innocent man and getting him fired from his job.
"If we lose another match, I'll have to go back to my old job as a Dick Tracy impersonator."
However, Superman goes into the practice anyway and proceeds to mop the floor with everyone else with his superior strength and complete disregard for human life. Coach Dick Tracy is impressed and puts him back on the team. Soon, the thugs working for the other coach hear about this "Burke" and decide to pay him a visit at his apartment -- where the real Burke is still knocked unconscious by Superman's date-rape drug.
"Hey! I was watching him sleep!"
Superman watches as the thugs kidnap the helpless man and doesn't lift a finger. After following them to their hideout, Superman decides that he kind of hates Burke anyway and just fucking leaves him there with the murderous thugs, since they obviously "mean him no physical harm."
"Whereas I mean him both physical and mental harm."
Superman goes on to play the big game as Burke, managing to put the two thugs in the hospital and scaring the crooked coach into resigning. In the end, Supes saved the day and returned the man to his rightful life ... and he only had to commit a handful of felonies in the process.
#1. Superman Goes on a Car-Wrecking Rampage (Action Comics No. 12, 1939)
This unbelievably insane adventure starts with an image of Superman destroying a bridge for reasons that are never explained or even referenced in the story.
"How many times do I have to say it?! Cantilever bridges only!"
In the story, Clark Kent learns that a guy he knew died in a car accident. Pissed off, he changes into Superman, breaks into a radio station and formally declares war on all cars.
"And people who don't use their turn signals? You're next."
Now, "fuck reckless drivers" is a noble sentiment and one we can agree with, but soon it becomes obvious that Superman's personal vendetta isn't with the people who drive but with the actual vehicles. Superman starts his bizarre one-man crusade by going to an impound lot and flinging cars around like discuses -- he never even bothers to check why the cars were there in the first place or if they belonged to the people who had committed the violations, and probably doesn't care.
"They can just fly to work or whatever."
His bloodlust is still far from satiated, so Superman goes to a used car lot and starts tearing shit up in front of the puzzled owner.
"You can mail the bill to 135 Fuck You Avenue."
But Superman knows that he's only been addressing the symptoms, not the cause, so he goes to the source of all this evil: a car factory.
Superman single-handedly kept the Depression going well into the '40s.
Not content with just tearing up the cars, Superman brings down the whole fucking building, and this time he doesn't even warn the workers to evacuate the place -- by now they should know to do that as soon as they see Superman coming anyway.
"I forgot why I was doing this after, like, a minute. But by then I was in the zone."
After destroying enough personal property and putting enough people out of work, Superman decides that the next logical step is to kidnap the mayor, because fuck it, he's Superman, he can do whatever he wants. Superman hauls the mayor to the morgue and forces him to look at all the victims of reckless driving, blaming his policies for all those deaths.
"You had police tracking down rapists and kidnappers when they should have been checking expired registrations!"
The terrified mayor agrees to crack down on traffic laws, and the story ends with Superman feeling that he has done a good job when Clark Kent gets a parking ticket.
"I'm still going to have to fry you with my laser vision."
Comic book characters tend to get blander and more family friendly when they hit it big -- in Superman's case, we believe that this was actually a good thing.
For more superhero insanity, check out 5 Superheroes Rendered Ridiculous by Gritty Reboots and 5 Absurd Ways Comic Books Have Resurrected Dead Superheroes.
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The new iTunes version has brought some changes. And I just realized that it won't show anymore how much music do I have.
It used to say the size and the total play time at the bottom of the window, but it's gone now. Can I ripristinate the indicator? Or what's the easiest way to check my music library size?


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I am hoping that I can get some advice to solve a problem I am having with PTGui on a particular project.
I though I had my methodology honed I use a Nikon D60 with a Nikon 10.5mm fisheye and take 8 horizontal images at 45° plus 2 zenith images at 90° and when I import these into PTGui and use Align images.. the Optimisation usually reports very good with an Average control point distance: between 1 and 2 and occasionally this drops to good with an Average control point distance: between 2 and 3 if there is little detail for PTGui to generate the Control Points from.
When an important project came along a Nikon D300 with a Nikon 10.5mm fisheye was hired for the day because the Nikon D60, being an entry level DSLR, does not have a bracketing function and we wished to bracket 3stops either way (7 images per shot) to experiment with HDR.
Yes, I could have changed the exposure settings manually for each shot, but this would have been a real pain for one panorama, let alone 20.
The Nikon D300 was set up on the Nodal Ninja 3 so that the principal ray of the lens and axis of rotation were in the same plane and the gold ring aligned with the centre of rotation of the sphere when the NN3 was rotated, in exactly in the same way as I has set up my Nikon D60.
It was vital that this was done as accurately as possible because the centre of rotation of the camera and lens had to coincide with the centre of the HDS scanner we were using to a fraction of a millimetre, so a lot of care was taken.
When the Nikon D60 images are imported into PTGui they are all in portrait orientation, but the Images from the Nikon D300 came in with the 8 horizontal images in portrait and the 2 zenith images in landscape, which PTGui did not like, so this was sorted first, so according to my previous experience, and tests and panoramas I have made since, Align images.. should have resulted in a near perfect result, but no.
The problem is that the area of overlap between to two sets of images is timber and painted brick so PTGui is unable to create Control Points between the images in the two sets although it created a mass of Control Points for the 8 horizontal images and a mass of Control Points for the 2 zenith images. This results in the zenith images appearing in the centre of the Equirectangular image, so I added lots of additional Control Point manually (including line CPs) for the overlaps of the zenith images with the horizontal images, but the result is horrible with huge distances between Control Points and very bad with Average control point distance: in the region of 120 and detail appearing twice some distance apart. This also results in the Focal length: of the lens being reduced (sometimes quite dramatically e.g. to 8mm!) in the Lens Settings.
Using a Template from the Nikon D60 with a Nikon 10.5mm fisheye helps a bit, but not a lot.
There is no possibility of being able to retake the photographs or access to the Nikon D300 and Nikon 10.5mm lens used.
Any tips or suggestions as to how I can resolve this will be gratefully received.
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There is a time to follow routine and a time to disrupt it. In the interest of fitness, we generally have perfect consensus that becoming more fit requires the disruption of an established routine, one that is perhaps followed for around 4-6 weeks at a minimum. (Other periods are training may be substantially longer, such as 8-12 weeks.) Do we see the delicate balance here, though? In order for a routine to be broken, it must first be established.
The role of music in our classes may at times be a guide. For example, we follow a cadentially appropriate (i.e., 80-100 or 60-80 RPM) musical tempo at times. At other points, a major development in the mass or texture of the music may warrant a surge or reduction in effort. This may be considered a form of routine -- that we feel almost led by the nature of the music.
Johnny originally contended that music serves to motivate our riding, as opposed to dictating it; however, it remains possible to remain true to the program, even while allowing the music to shape certain aspects of a ride.
Nevertheless, once my particpants are comfortable enough in their saddles, so to speak, I often disrupt the musical routine. I intentionally use music that does not have a tempo or beat in alignment with a given cadence (RPM). If I am feeling particularly contrary, I might even include music that is arhythmic, somehow improvisatory, or that has deemphasized percussion.
At this point, each rider is essentially forced to swim in a sea of rhythmic uncertainty. He or she is then in a position to become more certain of what a given cadence feels like, and to simply know that they are within 4 RPM of a specific target cadence. This is muscle memory. Clearly the best path in this context is to implement cadence checks, and so musical instability plus cadence checks may in fact equal cadential stability -- a relative certainty that the intended cadence (RPM) is actually struck.


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Requirements, Choices, and Following My Nose
By the end of this article you will probably think I'm not telling you the truth when I say that I don't have a plan. Instead of a plan I have requirements, try to make good choices, and then just follow my nose.
In online software development, the career I found myself in, requirements are all the the things a piece of software is supposed to fulfill. Requirements don't tell a designer or programmer how to meet the need, they just describe the goal.
I've taken this simple approach and applied it to my life and ironically it has put me back on track and steaming full speed ahead toward what I expect to be a very satisfying free life. Here are some examples of the requirements that guide me:
- Increase personal freedom – The most important goal I keep in mind is freedom. I think a lot of us take it for granted and choose debt over freedom everyday. I was sitting in traffic on my usual 100-mile commute to San Francisco when I realized that I had fallen into that trap. Since that moment my number one goal has been to undo what I'd done to myself.
- Increase time with family – Julia and I adopted a baby girl, Katie, almost exactly three years ago. Our life and many of my values immediately changed that day. Family is one of my very top priorities.
- Reduce debt – Debt is a trap. Debt can enable us for short periods of time so long as we are actively monitoring risk but a life of perpetual debt is the antithesis of freedom. It's voluntary indentured servitude and it sucks.
- Decrease wasted time – Time is our most limited commodity and we must spend it well. The less time we waste the more we can accomplish and spend doing the things we love to do.
- Increase self-sufficiency – Many of us have one primary source of income, our jobs. This single point of failure puts our freedom and happiness at risk. If we loose our jobs we put everything at risk. Lower that risk by adding income sources and by finding ways to become less dependent on external forces. Never get involved in schemes or take unnecessary risks.
Every choice I make impacts my progress. Even the simplest choices add up so I've made a concerted effort to live as intentionally as possible and make every choice count. Nobody is perfect but as long as forward momentum is maintained progress is achieved. I also try not to distract myself with failure and instead focus on the next step. Here are some examples of choices that drive me forward:
- Watch little television – TV is a complete waste of time and it distracts us from the people around us and our goals. It also changes how we feel, usually for the worse. Experience the taste of real freedom, turn off the TV.
- Write everyday – Each of us has something to offer others. Writing is a great way to put yourself out there and always leads to more opportunities.
- Spend little money – Over consumption is wasteful in every way. I try to only spend money when it moves me closer to achieving my goals.
- Eat better, move more – Our health is essential for happiness.
Following My Nose
I move myself forward by keeping myself focused on my goals and making better choices. I don't need a plan with specific dates and milestones; I just need a good general direction and perseverance. If the economy hadn't taken a dump I'd be farther along than I am, but at the same time I have to thank this economic tsunami for the wake up call it provided. It has helped me focus and harden my resolve.
The Carrot
Sometimes the general direction and passing milestones isn't enough to keep us going. Often a picture of what the future looks like helps keep us going. Choosing the right carrot isn't easy and we often latch onto the wrong one.
For example if your first requirement is increasing wealth and your chosen carrot is a big house and fast car you may discover that achieving the house and car is a little too easy, because there's always someone there to lend you the money. Sadly this is probably the reason so many have ended up in the dire straits we're in today. We had our eyes focused on the wrong carrot.
If our goal is freedom and the right carrot is a life that enables and protects freedom, we're more likely to succeed. This is a life that is debt free, secure, independent, and sustainable. Money might be apart of that dream but it's not the focus. The focus is the freedom money can buy, not the money itself or the visible wealth.
My Carrot
I had intended to post a video tour of this 3D drawing of the homestead that's been developing in my head. It's my carrot. It's an imaginary place somewhere in my future where I hope to raise my daughter and grow old with my wife. Unfortunately my puny little computer couldn't keep up with my imagination and the video tour was just not possible. But I do have screen shots I can share.
I picture a homestead with a garden and small orchard on at least two acres. The main house would be small but not tiny. The main house pictured here measures 16′ by 24′ has two floors and a wrap-around porch. There would be a place for teaching tiny house workshops and a few tiny houses for people to stay in during workshops. There is also a tiny pottery studio (12′ by 12′), kiln shed (8′ by 8′) and mobile tiny house showroom. The first 'house' built would be a shed cluster and would initially serve as a place to stay while building the main house. Eventually the shed cluster would provide a place for guests to stay.
The place would help pay for itself and would be mortgage free within a few years. We'd buy the most value for the least amount of money and then build low-cost buildings. This place would also enable me to spend my time doing things I enjoy while moving me toward increased self-sufficiency and reduced dependence on a single job. I'm very lucky to have found myself in a profession that is made for working from home, so there would be no need to leave my day job behind while my alternate income sources grow. At some point I would technically retire but I can't see ever see truly retiring.
This carrot will change it's shape over time but helps me continue moving forward as long as I remember that this is not the end goal but a place that could allow me to reach my true end goals.
Above: Shed cluster built without permits; technically not a residence. Below: Pottery studio, kiln shed, and tiny house showroom.
Above: Tiny house workshops. Below: Main house, garden, and orchard.
I invite you to follow me on Twitter, and visit my blogs, Tiny House Design and Tiny Free House, the tiny house I'm building right now.


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Every time I select Movies pane on the left-hand side, iTunes crashes and I have to force quit it. I only ever had two movies in iTunes, but I don't think these are present on my hard drive any more. I have a lot of movies (avi, mkv, and mp4) in my Movies folder on my MacBook.
iTunes also crashes when going to the Movies tab when syncing with either iPhone 4S or iPad 2. When going to the Movies pane, I can see the two movies, however when syncing with iPhone it never shows me the contents of the tab, before crashing.
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Would custom social sharing buttons work better than the bulky addthis widget on a highly trafficked website (100mil pageviews/day)?
Yes, mainly because most large social network's code is delivered from a powerful CDN.
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Why does a bike/bicycle fall when its speed is very low or close to zero and is balanced when going with a high speed?
The surprising answer is that the stability of the modern bicycle has little or nothing to do with centrifugal force or gyroscopes or any of that. Look up "bicycle stability" on Google. Experiments show that the sloped angle of the front fork is very important, e.g. If the fork pointed backwards it is very difficult to stay upright at any speed.
At higher speeds a very slight turn of the handles moves the bicycle under the center of gravity of the rider quicker, so that the dynamical stability is improved. As usual experiment corrects theory here.
See the answer of Tristan at Does leaning (banking) help cause turning on a bike? as well for an even better answer
See the comment of nibot below for a reference to an actual definitive article.
A report appeared in Science today which addresses this exact question: Kooijman et al., Science 332 (6027): 339-342, "A Bicycle Can Be Self-Stable Without Gyroscopic or Caster Effects."
The abstract reads:
There is also a blurb in ScienceNOW that you can read without subscription.
Here is a free-to-read preprint.
We have a series of papers on exactly the topic of this discussion, but a bit more narrowly defined. That is, how and why can a bicycle balance itself?
In short, how does a moving bicycle balance itself? For a variety of complicated reasons it steers in the same direction as it falls. And, if you will excuse the sloppy informal physics language, because of the resulting curved path, thecentrifugal forces, push it back upright. What complicated reasons? Partially from the trail (or castor effects), partially from the angular momentum of the spinning wheels, and partially from other effects related to geometry and mass distribution. But there is no simple single necessary mechanism that we know of. For example, our paper in Science Magazine shows that a bicycle can be self-stable without no castor (no trail) and with no spin angular momentum of the front wheels.
We have written several papers and supporting documents. And we have in these a pretty exhaustive coverage of the literature. So if you want to know what we think, what others have thought, and what we think about what they thought, it's all there. I don't think you will know of some important reference that we have not reviewed and described. You can start with my www page http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu (or google ruina bicycle or google schwabb bicycle.
The www site includes photos and videos including simple explanations of some of these things.
When you walk on stilts or skate, you don't balance by being very careful. You don't even balance. You're continually out of balance, and you keep moving your point of support so that you arrest your fall in one direction and start falling in another.
If you're on a bicycle moving very slowly, you do the same thing. You keep moving your point of support left or right to arrest your fall in that direction. If you're moving slowly, it takes more steering motion to accomplish this, so you "wiggle about". At higher speed, it takes less steering motion to do that. That works even in the absence of gyroscopic precession, caster, or rake angle. Just watch a scooter with tiny wheels, or a ski-bike, or a unicycle.
Now, throw in rake angle. Turning the handlebars to the right moves the point of support to the left, even if you're moving very slowly, so that helps.
Now, switch to a high-speed motorcycle with a nice, heavy, gyroscopic front wheel. When it's traveling at a good speed, that thing precesses, no matter what people say, and its precession goes in exactly the right way to powerfully maintain stability.
So it's not an all-or-nothing single-explanation deal.
The basic concept (at least, as I've heard it) is angular momentum. As a bike wheel turns, it has an amount of angular momentum proportional to its rotational speed, associated with the plane of rotation of the wheel. This makes it act basically like a gyroscope: it "resists" any change in the amount or direction of that angular momentum, in the same sense that mass "resists" any change in the amount or direction of its velocity. This basically slows down the tipping of the bike to the point where you are able to prevent it by pushing down on the opposite side pedal.
The answer is "Centrifugal force"
The biger your speed is the biger this force is too.
You can notice that when you steer left you make your bike's slope on left side. And Contrifugal force don't let you fall (when your steer angle is constant at the end bike will make a circle). Then when you make your bike steer more left your bike returns to the balance because you increase that force (it comes from equation).
When your speed is smaller contrifugal force is smaller and bike is harder to steer so you can fall easier.
oneat's answer is correct (I would have commented but I think I'm going to need more space)
Imagine a vector (line) starting at your center of gravity. The line represents all the forces acting on you. When you are standing still, the direction of the line is straight down (gravity is the single force present).
To not fall over whens standing still on a bike, you have to keep the point where the line intersects the ground (let's call it point A), between the two wheels of the bike. If you don't, you'll start tipping over.
When standing still, the only way to affect that point is to move your center of gravity which you do by shifting your weight.
Now let's say you're moving. If you're moving in a straight line, at a constant speed, everything is the same, the only force acting on you is gravity. But if you change direction, you get centrifugal force (as oneat correctly pointed out), the same as what you get when you make a sharp turn in a car moving at speed. The value of that force is proportional with your speed, your weight and the speed of the turn.
This centrifugal force is added to the gravity, and changes the direction of the resulting force acting on you.
Remember point A? If you're riding your bike and it starts to lean to the right, point A starts to move to the right and the bikes leans even more, and so on. But, you instinctively know to turn your bike to the right. This causes a centrifugal force, pointing left, to appear). If point A is still between your wheels then you're fine.
If you're moving slowly, the centrifugal force is small, so you have to take the turn more sharply to compensate. If you're moving fast, you might only need to nudge your bike a little to compensate.
It's explained in more detail here. (I actually thought of looking it up in wikipedia only after writing this answer, I don't have time to read the article now, hopefully I'm not too wrong)
The answer is obvious by inspection. Unfortunately, researchers don't bother examining the object of study but create math models with assumptions that drive the result. Centrifugal force driven by the bicycle steering into alternating arcs is the most common assumption. Then there's the utter arrogance of physicists who won't study tire forces. It is an engineering problem and physics can't answer it. When a bicycle tips a lateral camber force is generated at both tires, pushing the bike into the fall. This sideways motion adds to the forward motion yielding a direction vector skewed to the tipping side. When a wheel's plane is out of alignment with the direction it is travelling, a slip angle is formed and a consequent force. The slip angle forces oppose the camber forces but at the front tire, the slip angle force steers the wheel into alignment, via the trail, with the direction vector. This allows the camber force to push the front end toward the fall while the rear wheel is pinched between the camber and slip angle force. These forces persist until the wheels are aligned with the direction of travel. As speed increases the slip angles become smaller and less important as the bike remains upright without steering and supported by camber alone.
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I came across this puzzle in the comments here
CREATE TABLE r (b INT);
SELECT 1 FROM r HAVING 1=1;
SQL Server and PostgreSQL return 1 row.
MySQL and Oracle return zero rows.
Which is correct? Or are both equally valid?
I came across this puzzle in the comments here
SQL Server and PostgreSQL return 1 row.
MySQL and Oracle return zero rows.
Which is correct? Or are both equally valid?
Per the standard:
Citation ISO/IEC 9075-2:2011 7.10 Syntax Rule 1 (Part of the definition of the HAVING clause):
Ok so that much is pretty clear.
is equivlent to
Citation ISO/IEC 9075-2:2011 7.10 General Rule 1:
Logic: Since the search condition is always true, the result is
The following is an excerpt from the General Rules of 7.9 (the definition of the GROUP BY CLAUSE)
Thus we can conclude that
results in a grouped table, consisting of one group, with zero rows (since R is empty).
An excerpt from the General Rules of 7.12, which defines a Query Specification (a.k.a a SELECT statement):
Therefore since the table has one group, it must have one result row.
should return a 1 row result set.
When there is a
... then
... which should group all rows of the table into one group (even if the table has no rows at all - it's still one group of 0 rows) and return 1 row. The
From a different angle, how many rows should a query like this return?
One, zero or "zero or one, depending on if the table is empty or not"?
I think one row, no matter how many rows
From what I see, it looks like SQLServer and PostgerSQL don't bother looking into table at all:
also returns just one row. Even though SQLServer docs says
that is not true in this case -
Oracle and Mysql behaviour seems more logical and correct to me...


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We live in a 90 year old home that has just begun to leak. The walls have always been somewhat damp, but nothing a dehumidifier couldn't help. We are now interested in waterproofing from the outside, but our neighbors live 2 feet from us. Some plumbers say this isn't possible, while others say they are looking into it...still haven't heard! Is it possible, or is it safer to waterproof from the inside? Also I have heard that waterproofing old homes from the outside could be detrimental to the foundation as it should be a little moist, is this true?
you should always stop leaks at the earliest opportunity. whichever way it's getting in that's where you stop it. don't worry about some old tales about keeping foundation a little moist. What do you mean by waterproofing from the outside being difficult because of 2 feet to neighbour? Are you wanting to wrap the wall from the outside? is that where the water is coming in or is it coming in under eaves or behind gutters or leaky roof...or a leaky drainpipe in the soil? Unfortunatelly when you ask particular trades people about a difficult to locate source of moisture, they typically only say that they can do x y z...and it will cost $$$ but no guarantee it will fix the problem. sometimes it takes years to find the true source of the problem. addressing it is the straight forward part.


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I work in a environment where packet sniffing can be easily done . I was worried about my confidential data . Please suggest how is it done and precaution which i can take at client level.
When you feel your local computer network is insecure, there are five main approaches.
Which to use depends on precisely what you are doing. If it's just "read my private gmail and do my online banking" then HTTPS should be enough, but if you want to hide all your private online activity then a VPN to home might be a better idea.
Lastly, bear in mind that your employer may not want you to be doing any of this. Apart from stopping you goofing of, some organisations want to read everything you send out of their network to ensure you are not leaking confidential information. So may try and block any and all of these, either by policy or with technical controls. Again, the safest method is to do your pirate stuff somewhere else.
Using VPN technology can protect all of your communication, not just communication to websites that support SSL/TLS. Here are 5 VPN services but you can set up your own VPN at home for a low cost.
A basic method of detecting and stopping a class of network interception attacks is managing your ARP table. Here are tools that provide ARP security:
Simply encrypt your data (using SSL/TLS for example). Else there is no countermeasure against sniffing.
I feel you need to provide more details. On one level, you suggest your environment is one in which packet sniffing can be done, but then ask how this is done. How do you know you are working in an environment which is vulnerable if you don't know how this can be done?
The type of environment has some baring on what you can do and what you need to do. For example, if you feel you are at risk becase you are connecting to the network over wireless, then using 802.x, based security may be enough. If you are concerned because you are using a public wired network in a library or internet cafe etc, then perhapse ensuring all outgoing connections are encrypted with ssl, ssh etc may be sufficient. On the other hand, if you are concerned about a remote network you need to access, the answer may be VPN. If on the other hand you feel your home network is at risk, you may only need to make some minor changes to your router/modem to get sufficient protection.
In addition to the environment, it is also important to consider the data you are concerned about. For example, if you are talking about your email messages, then the real issue may be whether email is the right communication channel to use and the solution may be as simple as just encrypting files before sending them. On the other hand, if you are involved in multi-million dollare stock trades, the requirements may be much higher.
Security is not an absolute. You can never be 100% 'secure'. All you can do is try to understand what the risks are and apply reasonable measures to mitigate them. I'm assuming that is what has prompted your question. Unfortunately, there is not sufficient information to provide any real non-generic advice past "use encryption" answers, which may not actually be correct. Failing to get the right balance will mean that things become harder and more inconvenient to do while not actually providing you with any real benefit.


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The reader wouldn't have been hurt by a little discretion, and as I wrote yesterday
If there was controversy or intense disagreement about a dancer, or if there was debate regarding whether the dancer postponed retirement longer than was desirable or healthy - not only is it legitimate comment but it's only fair to the reader to mention such matters and give an honest accounting of them.
someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember any controversy.
Borree's faults had often been noted and she was not the controversial or consequential figure that Kistler is.
In any case, I think this has been a very interesting discussion, and I've enjoyed reading different points of view.


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Legislation imposing a $75 fee whenever a person records a real estate instrument failed passage on the floor of the Senate. Senate Bill 1220 (DeSaulnier) would have covered a variety of recordings including: deeds, reconveyances, quit claim deeds, assignments, mechanics' liens, financing statements and abstracts. It only excluded documents recorded in connection with a transfer subject to a documentary transfer tax.
The bill would have directed the money to the Housing Opportunity and Market Stabilization (HOMeS) Trust Fund. The fund could then be appropriated by the Legislature for low- and moderate-income housing, including emergency shelters, transitional and permanent rental housing and foreclosure mitigation.
Senate Bill 1220 fell two votes short of passage after heavy lobbying by community housing groups and support by CAR. The groups were encouraged by the fact that the bill made it to the floor of the Senate in a year with a massive budget deficit. A large grass roots campaign was mounted to pass the bill, including over 20,000 postcards to legislators and a lobby day attended by over 100 supporters of the bill.
The CLTA actively opposed the bill, seeing it as a tax on homeowners, lenders, mechanics' lien claimants and others. There was no real nexus between the projects sought to be funded by the bill and those paying the fees.


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WHITHER THE COMICS CODE? So DC and Archie, the last bastions of the Comics Code Authority, have dropped the seal's use entirely. Which begs the question, hopefully for an actual comics journalist to answer: Who was the Comics Code Authority? Where was this self-governing body headquartered, who was on it, and what will they do now? As something that's existed for something like 60 years, you'd think we'd know more about it. Sure, we know what created it, but how has it been maintained these many years? What caused its complete loss of power (the direct market, I presume)? How will it be remembered?
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If I had access to potentially unlimited CPUs and wanted to quickly check 100 million digit numbers for primality using a map-reduce architecture, how many CPUs would be necessary? Each of the mapped compute instances would perform efficient checks against the number in question with an assigned range of divisors (e.g. Instance 1: checks divisors 1-1000, Instance 2: checks divisors 1001-2000, ... etc.).
quickly means checking a 100 million digit number within 30-60 minutes.
efficient division means checking odd numbers up to the square root.
1 CPU is the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor.
The better question to ask would probably be: what is the mathematical relationship between the number of CPUs and the amount of time it takes to verify a number of a given magnitude of digits?


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5 Reasons Parenting Is One Place We Shouldn't Imitate China
If you see a parent at the mall calling their toddler an asshole and breaking his toys, you can thank China.
If you believe the news, China is already like a step or two from world domination and is only getting stronger, thanks to an educational and economic system that apparently makes ours look like turds. Or as the New York Times put it: "... the long-run competitive challenge we Americans face from China will have less to do with its skylines, army or industry than with its Super Kids."
Yes, "Super Kids." China is breeding a nation of math and science whizzes that know no pity nor love, and they will dominate the future. This has led to a new parenting fad in the U.S. that involves treating your children the way the Chinese supposedly treat theirs: by relentlessly pushing for greater and greater success, and brutally punishing anything less.
We might be jumping the gun here, considering ...
#5. It Involves Being a Dick to Your Kids
An author named Amy Chua, an American-born Chinese mom, has ignited a media firestorm with her guide on mothering the Chinese way (her book was titled Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, probably after her publishers told her Enter The Dragon Lady was a bit over the top). The method Chua trumpets with such relish involves a number of basic tenets (and I should point out here that with my background, I've lived through some of this from the kid end):
* Extreme negative reinforcement.
Chua allegedly threatened to burn her daughter's stuffed animals if she didn't practice. She called her daughter "garbage", which in my experience is fairly tame. Sometimes hitting is involved. This doesn't do any wonders for your mental health but it does teach you that piano or math or whatever is fucking serious business.
How could it not be?
* No positive reinforcement.
There's a couple of reasons for this, but the basic idea is that you get yelled at for bringing home an A, A-, B+, and whatever grades come after that (I wasn't allowed to get them), but if you bring home an A+, your reward is basically no yelling. No "Good job," or even "That'll do, pig."
* Ridiculous hours of study/practice.
I've tutored fifth graders whose parents had them enrolled in classes from the moment they woke up until tuck-in time, because American school days are clearly too short and intended for lazy people. That's Chinese immigrants carrying on the same learning model as in China, where kids spend an average of 8.6 hours a day in school and only 4 in 10 have friends to play with. Yes, the crazed "isolated loner" kid in the USA would be commonplace there.
It seems like the basic mistake is the assumption that this is the only way to get achievement out of your kids. If I can again use myself as an example, I stereotypically learned algebra on the side in 4th grade, and I liked it (I was pretty crap at it, but I liked it). And I did it, not because of a string of screamed Chinese insults, but rather because my dad, the "cool," non-yelling parent, taught me. I was proud that he thought I was smart enough to learn algebra so young, even though I couldn't even pronounce it right ("a-LEG-bra." Come on, I was 9).
Not only did he avoid the mistake of browbeating me into it until I hated it, but also the other mistake of thinking, "We shouldn't ask too much of her." Dad treated me like I was great, and also like I could do better, and the result was a kid that liked algebra.
Also known as a nerd.
In other words ...
#4. We Don't Have to Choose Between Zombies and Retards
A lot of people are framing the debate in a completely wrong way, asking the question, "Should we be accepting of our kids the way they are, or should we push them hard to succeed?" If we push them hard, the reasoning goes, they'll succeed academically, but become psychologically scarred zombies. If we accept and nurture them, they'll be happy, but stupid (compared to the Chinese anyway).
But isn't it obvious that giving your child approval and encouraging your child to improve are two separate things? One doesn't have to come at the expense of the other, any more than you have to choose between diet or exercise when losing weight. You could (and probably should) do both, or could be a lazy ass and do neither.
Nobody has the advantage here.
In the same way, you don't need to choose between telling your kid they're the most awesome kid in the world and encouraging them daily to get better. It's not that you don't think they're good enough already, but that you know they could be 10 times more awesome, and you don't want them to miss out on that. Setting the bar higher doesn't have to go hand-in-hand with screaming at them about where they're at now. It's not a war between "You're special the way you are," and "We need to get your ass in gear before we disown you."
Both Chinese parents and American parents have strengths and weaknesses, but you don't fix your weaknesses by picking up somebody else's not-even-related weaknesses. I can't cure my cancer by picking up somebody else's malaria. You can't fix your neglect of your children by throwing down ultimatums and calling them garbage. Those are two different problems, not two ends of a scale.
#3. The Chinese Are Clinging to Ancient Tradition ...
In China, being an asshole to your child comes from the concept that the worst thing that you can do is give your kid a big head, because he's going to get his bubble burst. It's not just fear of looking prideful, which is a big no-no in Chinese culture, and protecting your kid from disappointment, but also fear of complacency. This goes as far back as Confucius. 2,500 years, in other words.
So for 25 centuries the thinking has been, if you tell your kid he's good at math, he won't try to get better at math, because what's the point? You already told him he was good at it. He's clearly done! I've mentioned above why this is wrong, but as an additional example, have you ever known a kid to stop making new drawings after you've told them their first crappy drawing was great?
It never ends.
As kids, we want to do the things we're good at. Tell us we're good at art, and we'll make art. And thus we'll get practice at making art.
Chinese parents don't start out wanting to pop their kids' bubbles. They're human parents. They have instinctive urges to tell their kid they are the best kids ever, and that their stupid painting is a work of art, before they catch themselves realizing what a disastrous thing they almost said. The very thing that everyone around them tells them will ruin their child! Shit!
Praising kids excessively is like the bogeyman of the Chinese parent world. Pretty much nobody does it, so no one's ever seen what would actually happen, and all you get are scare stories about what will happen if you try, like, "I heard Mrs. Li's sister praised her kid too much one day and he dropped out of Harvard to become a hobo."
Chinese parents do love their kids, obviously, but have been told for centuries that they shouldn't use empty words to tell their kids so, and should instead put their money where their mouth is, literally. A traditional Chinese dad shows he loves his child by making a lot of money to support the kid, so an American-born child can be confused and hurt when her dad never says "I love you," or "Good job," and her Chinese-born father will be confused why his kid isn't touched when he volunteers for overtime. Moms also will show their love through their salary these days, as well as the traditional favorite, food.
"Try harder next time. Now eat these meatballs."


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Watch Closely: When you see an unfamiliar bird, get a good, long look at him. Having a handy and reliable field guide along will help. When you find an interesting bird, start your observation at the top of the bird and work down and back. After the bird has flown away, write down as much about your observation as possible. This will ensure that you don't forget any important details (song, color, behavior, etc.).
Study Bird Anatomy: Bird anatomy will help you describe a bird more specifically during observation. Most field guides use anatomical descriptions when explaining wild bird conformation. If you are familiar with what each part of a bird is called, the more likely you are to successfully identify an unknown bird.
Shape & Size: The idea behind identifying the shape and size of a wild bird is to get a general overall impression of the bird's build and body proportion. How big is the unknown bird? What does its silhouette look like? Are the wings pointed, curved, broad or angled? Is the tail broad, short or long? How about the bill?
Color: Each species has a unique pattern, color or marking, known as field marks, that make a particular species different than any other. Many wild birds have distinct field marks on their head and tail so try to get an extra good look at these areas when you spot a mystery bird.
Behavior: It is helpful to take notice of specific bird behaviors. Eating habits give a good insight into a bird's behavior. Does the unknown bird visit seed feeders or does it prefer suet? Does the bird hog seed? Does the bird wag or bob its tail or flick its wings? What other characteristics do you notice? For example, the nuthatch stores food under the bark of trees and in crevices and also moves headfirst down trees, a behavior not seen in many other birds.
Sounds & Song: Sometimes you will find that you can see more with your ears than you can with your eyes. Song and basic bird communication reveals a lot about a particular wild bird species. With practice and persistence, you can train your ear to distinguish a particular bird species even before you are able to see it.
Practice: As the old saying states, "Practice makes perfect." You will notice the more you get outdoors and practice observing wild birds, the more quickly you are able to identify them. Be patient and don't get discouraged. It takes time to focus in on what to look for when you attempt to identify a mystery bird. As time passes, you will find that you are able to pick out distinguishing details more and more quickly.
Birding is an exciting and entertaining hobby that gives us insight into the wonderful world of nature. Use these tips as a guide while you bird watch. You will find that the more time you spend outdoors, the more successfully you are able to identify backyard visitors that were once unknown.
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@squirtle456: Often you can find the 10-12oz bottles at Target on sale for $2.50, too. I usually wait for a sale and stock up.
Buy one get one. This is a nice deal. I like.
@plogter: In case you didn't read the deal - it is buy one get one half price not buy one get one. You may like to pay more for your sundries, but others may not.
Here's the math -
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