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The product of a quaternion multiplied by a real number is a quaternion, but the product of a quaternion multiplied by a complex number is not in general a quaternion. Why are the quaternions defined so narrowly? What was gained by banning zq=q' where z is complex and q and q' are quaternions?
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The question is a little ambiguous. However, maybe you are asking why don't people work with quaternions having complex coefficients as opposed to real coefficients.
The answer is that as an algebra, complex quaternions are isomorphic to the algebra of 2x2 matrices with complex entries, so there is nothing gained by using the quaternion notation, that isn't already available in a simpler form. You can find a proof in "Spin Geometry" by Lawson and Michelson.
There is still some fun to be had though. For instance, the group SU(2) is the set of real quaternions so that $q\overline{q}=1$ under quaternionic multiplication. We can define $\overline{q}$ for complex quaternions in analogy to the real quaternions so that it is complex linear, That is if $q=a+bi+cj+dk$ then $\overline{q}=a-bi-cj-dk$. The set of complex quaternions with $q\overline{q}=1$ under quaternionic multiplication is SL(2,C).
There is a unique copy of $\mathbb R$ in $\mathbb H$ and it is the center. On the other hand, for every quaternion $q$ not in $\mathbb R$, the generated $\mathbb R$-algebra with unit is a copy of $\mathbb C$, but none is central.
I like to view quaternions as $q=(x,X)\in \mathbb R\times \mathbb R^3$ with multiplication $$ (x,X).(y,Y) = (x.y - \langle X,Y\rangle, X \times Y + x.Y + y.X) $$ This uses oriented Euclidean $\mathbb R^3$, and it turns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion#Quaternions_and_the_geometry_of_R3 into a definition. One can then take any oriented orthonormal basis $i,j,k$ for the basic imaginary quaternions.
Edit: Note that $X\times Y$ is a Lie bracket and $-\langle X,Y\rangle$ the corresponding Killing form ($\mathfrak s\mathfrak o(3,\mathbb R)$ up to a constant), one can repeat this construction for every real Lie algebra. Only for 3 of them one obtains an associative algebra.
Second edit: The reference for the first edit is:
Peter W. Michor, Wolfgang Ruppert, Klaus Wegenkittl: A connection between Lie algebras and general algebras. Rendiconti Circolo Matematico di Palermo, Serie II, Suppl. 21 265--274, (1989)(pdf)
Moreover, a similar construction as the above on $\mathbb C\times \mathbb C^3$ using also complex conjugation (see "Greub: Multilinear algebra, 2n ed. 1978" page 289) leads to octonians.
This is sort of implicit in Ben Linowitz's answer, but if you allow complex scalars then you get zero divisors, so that $x \cdot y = 0$ does not imply that one of $x$ or $y$ be zero. To be explicit, look at the product $$(I + i J) \cdot (-i I + J) = i - i + K - K = 0$$ where $i$ is the complex scalar and $I, J, K$ are the quaternion generators. So these complexified quaternions don't have the same nice algebraic properties that the quaternions do.
That said, these things aren't "banned" --- they are studied under the name "biquaternions" and, while less useful than proper quaternions, still show up occasionally. I've had a brush with them while studying the differential geometry of plain old surfaces, for example.
I do not understand Your question. Here You may find that quaternion may be concerned as pair of complex numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion#Quaternions_as_pairs_of_complex_numbers. So If You proper define quaternion coefficients it may represent every complex number. As quaternions are algebra, so You may multiply one quaternion by other, so whole complex algebra is within quaternion algebra ( You may say it is isomorphic to subalgebra generated by c=0, d=0 in quaternion definition)! From the other side: if You see quaternions as abstract objects outside real numbers, then multiply quaternion by real number have to be defined! It is the same natural/unnatural embedding for real number within quaternions as for complex numbers within quaternions!
It is the same as with complex numbers. You may multiply complex number by real number and You obtain complex number, because You do not go out complex numbers indeed.
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The six were sheltered by the Canadians until they could be exfiltrated from Iran in January 1980. They left Iran under the cover of working on a film crew that was scouting shooting locations for a science-fiction film called "Argo."
Ben Affleck's "Argo" was certainly worthy of the best picture Oscar. It's a thriller with just enough humor to keep audiences engaged for its entire two-hour run. By the end of the film, you're proud to be an American, and why not? It has a little of everything we love - it's a spy story, it's a story about success against all odds, it's a story about the American courage from the days of the wild west - that a CIA agent would dare to take the six out of Tehran's Mehrabad Airport by having them board a commercial airliner under the watchful eyes of the Iranians.
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Mendez, who will speak in the Steubenville High School auditorium on April 9 as part of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, Herald-Star Lecture Series, provided a more detailed account of his life, his work as a CIA agent and the rescue of the six in the book "Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History."
That information was so skillfully weaved into the script for the real "Argo" that Chris Terrio was honored with the Oscar for the best adapted screenplay.
Affleck, who portrayed Mendez, is proving to be a master of his craft, and it's tough to understand how he missed out on at least a nomination as the best director. The film itself shows traits that are common to any adaptation: some characters are combined and some are eliminated altogether; some dialogue is faithfully reproduced and some is created; some scenes are created for dramatic effect, and there is great drama added to other situations that make them seem even more perilous than they actually were.
Things get a little more tricky, though, when you are using a real story for the basis of the film - and it's also where perspective really comes into play. While we Americans were ready to cheer the exploits of the CIA in the film, a Canadian named Ken Taylor felt a little slighted.
Taylor is in a position to know what he is speaking about - he was the Canadian ambassador in Tehran who joined with John Sheardown, the embassy's first secretary, to protect the "houseguests," as the six were called.
Taylor was rankled by the film because it portrayed the rescue as being a total CIA operation, when in fact, as Mendez points out in his books, it was unprecedented cooperation between the CIA and the powers that be in Ottawa that made the rescue possible. Taylor, by the way, was joined in his concerns by another political heavyweight, Jimmy Carter, who was president during the Iranian hostage crisis. Carter has credited 90 percent of the plan to the Canadians.
Affleck, for his part, did acknowledge Canada for its role in the operation during last Sunday's acceptance speech.
And what about the Iranians? Well, it's that perspective thing again. State TV in Iran said "Argo" was "an advertisement for the CIA," according to The Associated Press. And, the semiofficial Mehr news agency said the Oscar win for "Argo" was "politically motivated," pointing out that first lady Michelle Obama teamed with Jack Nicholson by video to present the award.
Whatever your perspective, however, I'm very confident there's only one conclusion to come to after seeing the movie and reading Mendez's books - and that's he's a real American hero, a man who's worthy of all the accolades he earned while in the employ of the CIA. It took all of the skills he had honed working around the world, from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the streets of Moscow, to pull off the rescue of the six.
It's a story worth hearing, and one he will be sharing with residents of the Tri-State Area during his April 9 appearance in Steubenville.
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When I was studying Latin, I would learn the conjugation of each verb by memorizing its principal parts (for example, "amo, amare, amavi, amatus"). In Spanish, are there any principal parts of a verb that can be memorized in order to conjugate every form of a regular verb? According to this Yahoo Answers post (which clearly isn't a reliable source), the principal parts of a Spanish verb correspond directly to those in Latin, but I'm not sure if this correct. Do Spanish verbs have principal parts that can be used to conjugate them, like Latin verbs?
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All regular verbs are divided in three conjugations: 1st conjugation or -ar verbs, 2nd conjugation or -er verbs, and 3rd conjugation or -ir verbs. (Although 2nd and 3rd are almost identical).
There are three non-finite forms: the infinitive, the past participle and the gerund.
There are four moods: indicative, subjunctive, imperative and conditional. The indicative have four simple tenses (present, imperfect, past and future) and four composite tenses (perfect, plusperfect, anterior and perfect future) althoug I will skip composite tenses as they are formed by conjugating auxiliary verb haber with the past participle. The subjunctive have three simple tenses: present, past (with two forms) and future. The imperative and the conditional have a unique simple tense each.
Let's begin with caminar as an example of a regular 1st conjugation verb.
Infinitive: caminar Participle: caminado Gerund: caminando Infinitive mood Person present imperfect past future s. 1st yo camino caminaba caminé caminaré s. 2nd tú caminas caminabas caminaste caminarás s. 3rd él camina caminaba caminó caminará p. 1st nosotros caminamos caminábamos caminamos caminaremos p. 2nd vosotros camináis caminabais caminasteis caminaréis p. 3rd ellos caminan caminaban caminaron caminarán Subjunctive mood Person present past (-ara) past (-ase) future s. 1st yo camine caminara caminase caminare s. 2nd tú camines caminaras caminases caminares s. 3rd él camine caminara caminase caminare p. 1st nosotros caminemos camináramos caminásemos camináremos p. 2nd vosotros caminéis caminarais caminaseis caminareis p. 3rd ellos caminen caminaran caminasen caminaren Person Conditional Imperative s. 1st yo caminaría s. 2nd tú caminarías camina s. 3rd él caminaría (camine) p. 1st nosotros caminaríamos (caminemos) p. 2nd vosotros caminaríais caminad p. 3rd ellos caminarían (caminen)
The first thing we can notice is thar there are a few patterns. There are two main unstressed conjugations: -a, -as, -a, -amos, -ais, -an which is common in the imperfect (after -àb-), past subjunctive (after -àr-) and conditional (after -arí-); and the -e, -es, -e, -emos, -eis, -en which is common in the subjunctives past (after -às-) and future (after -àr-).
There is one stressed them in the future: -é, -ás, -á, -èmos, -éis, -án. The present subjunctive is almost identical to the unstressed -e- theme, except that first and second plurals are stressed, and the present indicative is similar to the unstressed -a- theme, except for stress in first and second plural and the first singular taking an ending in -o.
A more irregular pattern is found in the past (but if you go to Spain you can forget about this past (or indefinite preterit) as they use almost exclusively perfect preterit). This past theme is -é, -àste, -ó, -àmos, -àsteis, -àron. (I've been using the grave accent ` to mark an unmarked stress).
When we take a second conjugation regular verb as beber we have:
Infinitive: beber Participle: bebido Gerund: bebiendo Infinitive mood Person present imperfect past future s. 1st yo bebo bebía bebí beberé s. 2nd tú bebes bebías bebiste beberás s. 3rd él bebe bebía bebió beberá p. 1st nosotros bebemos bebíamos bebimos beberemos p. 2nd vosotros bebéis bebíais bebisteis beberéis p. 3rd ellos beben bebían bebieron beberán Subjunctive mood Person present past (-ara) past (-ase) future s. 1st yo beba bebiera bebiese bebiere s. 2nd tú bebas bebieras bebieses bebieres s. 3rd él beba bebiera bebiese bebiere p. 1st nosotros bebamos bebiéramos bebiésemos bebiéremos p. 2nd vosotros bebáis bebierais caminieseis bebiereis p. 3rd ellos beban bebieran bebiesen bebieren Person Conditional Imperative s. 1st yo bebería s. 2nd tú beberías bebe s. 3rd él bebería (beba) p. 1st nosotros beberíamos (bebamos) p. 2nd vosotros beberíais bebed p. 3rd ellos beberían (beban)
So, in all past and future tenses we have the same pattern than first conjugation except in the sub-root: past indicative uses -í- instead of -àb-, and the past and future conjunctive using -ièr-, -iès-, instead of -àr-, -às-. The conditional and future indicative are based on the infinitive and therefore use -er- instead of -ar-.
The main difference is that the present indicative and present subjunctive shift cases (but first singular person in the indicative keeps the -o ending), and the simple past (indefinite preterit) has a complete different theme: -í, -ìste, -ió, -ìmos, -ìsteis, -ièron.
The third conjugation is very similar to the second so I will not write it down. Future indicative and conditional use the _-ir- infinitive, and the present indicative first and second person plural in the present indicative are respectively vivimos and vivís, as opposed to bebemos and bebéis.
The imperative mood. I marked in parenthesis the first person plural, and the third persons as they are just the present subjunctive, but they are important as the third person conjugation is used for the formal second person usted and ustedes, and I completely ignored the voseo second person as used in several places in Latin America with different degrees of acceptance.
The second person singular imperative is just equivalent to the second person singular present indicative without the final -s (or equal to third person singular present indicative).
The second person plural imperative is equivalent to change the final -r in the infinitive to a -d.
So you can learn by heart all these cases, or you can learn the patterns.
Now the tricky part: the irregular verbs.
One of the most common irregularities come from verbs inherited from Latin when they had an open
So a verb like tender, the root is tend- when unstressed and tiènd when stressed. Otherwise it is regular, so remember when the conjugation is stressed (as all conjugations with a subroot) or unstressed.
A few verbs are almost regular, but have some consonant shift in the root. For example crecer, with the root crec- (with -c- having a /z/ sound) will shift the /z/ to /zc/ when followed by an open vowel. This affect the first person singular in the present indicative crezco and the whole present subjunctive theme.
Other irregular verbs have phonetically induced changes, particularly when the root ends in a palatalized (or historically palatalized) consonant, such as -ch-. Then all roots with a week diphthong -i- will lose it: plañir → plañendo.
Another common irregularity comes in the future indicative and conditional when the indicative vowel is lost: haber → habrá, tener → tendrá (note consonant added), saber → sabrá, etc.
Then there are two root-changing paradigms. The past tense changing root, and the present tense changing root.
The past tense changing root paradigm are some irregular verbs whose simple past tense, as well as the past and future subjunctive, has a different root. Examples are ir, ser (which are too irregular), estar, caber, poner, tener. The simple past tense (indicative) of these verbs are, respectively:
These are also the roots for the past and future subjunctives: fuera, estuviera, cupiera, pusiera, tuviera.
The present tense changing root paradigm, affect the root in the present tense (indicative and subjunctive) whenever it follows an open vowel. This is similar to the cases when there is a consonant shift (v.g. crecer → crezco), but with a change that goes deeper than the final consonant in the root. This is why I don't include poner an tener as present tense changing root paradigm, as there is only a -n-→**-ng-** consonant shift. But caber is included:
For each verb: all regular verbs and most irregular verbs, if you have the third person conjugation you will be able derive most other conjugations: as some tenses are derived from others, we don't need all ten combinations of mood-tense. We need: all indicative forms and present subjunctive, plus the non-finite forms.
So regular verbs are:
Some slightly irregular verbs include:
Some root changing verbs include:
And complete irregular verbs (some of them with monosyllabic infinitive)
So, knowing these forms you can get most of the forms for both regular an irregular verbs. I hope this is what you mean by principal parts.
A few verbs have a different forms for the participle when used as adjective and as verb in composite tenses (althogh sometimes the difference blurs) such as imprimir with impreso and imprimido; or teñir with tinto and teñido. So from the Latin principal forms I rather prefer the third person singular paradigm, and I add a few more tenses to show main shifts in common irregularities.
Well, conjugations change depending on the category of the verb (AR, ER, IR verbs).
This is an example for the present tense:
However, there are irregular verbs!
Spanish regular verbs have -ar, -er or -ir endings. If you drop those endings, you get a "principal" part or "stem" that you can conjugate.
Some of these principal parts change the stem in certain conjugate forms. For instance, tener has ten-go and ten-emos in the first person forms, but the stem changes to tien-es, tien-e and tien-en in the second and third person forms (the second person plural is teneis, and retains its stem).
To handle every single non-defective verb except for ser, ir, and haber (they have tenses with unpredictably arbitrary conjugations), you could figure out all conjugations with the following principal parts.
So, for a few examples (all irregular in some way)
This even covers odd ball verbs like cernir and adquirir because you can see they stem-change in the present, but not the preterite (thus indicating a lack in subjunctive too).
Most verbs, however, are not very irregular. As noted above, if you're willing to memorize that saber has the odd sé/sabe/sepa and dar/estar just do vowel swap for subjunctive (rather than building off of the yo), then you can entirely remove the present subjunctive conjugation. Ditto for if you're willing to remember the handful of irregular tú commands. But then again, excepting stem changes, you're only ever looking at a dozen irregulars in each tense, so honestly, you're better off just learning them.
If you really want to, though, I'd recommend just sticking with, for example with tener: tengo, tiene, tuvieron. Those are the forms whose irregularities will most heavily propogate in other conjugations, giving you nearly 95+% coverage and leaving you with just future and tú commands to memorize separately which are quite painless.


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Are 'lose time' and 'waste time' different in meanings? If so, how does it use the first and the second in different contexts? If not, what is it preferable?
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They're very different, though there are some circumstances where both could apply.
"Lose time" is used when there is an urgency to do something or get somewhere by some particular deadline, and some hold-up happens. It is typically, though not necessarily, something outside the person's control.
"Waste time" does not necessarily imply a deadline: there may be one, but there need not. It tends to be used when the delay is by somebody's action, rather than by an accident or bad luck.
When used without a possessive pronoun ("wasting time") it implies that somebody is doing something that makes themselves late (and often others as well). With a pronoun, we can talk about "wasting my time" or "wasting your time".
When the latter form is used reflexively, as in "You're wasting your time", the implication is that you are doing something that you think is worthwhile but I'm telling you that it is not.


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Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is the most bizarre game in the Zelda series; it has those creepy masks that turn you into monsters, that world-killing moon with the haunting teethy grin, and Tingle. Motherfucking Tingle. How could anyone possibly make this game any weirder? Two words: Nicolas Cage.
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No! Holy Christ, no!
What you're looking at, in case your brain refuses to comprehend it, is Nicolas Cage's face plastered over Majora's Mask, and we mean both the game and the character. Someone took a not-insignificant amount of time to take every single character in this game (and several inanimate objects) and change their face into Cage's, for no earthly reason. Literally every single character in this game, from the annoying little fairies in the forest ...
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... to the sexy big one in the fountain.
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Remember the little girl who lives in the ranch? She's now Nic Cage.
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From the little seen Face/Off sequel, co-starring Dakota Fanning.
And your horse? Nicolas Kim Coppola, known professionally as Cage.
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Wow, they didn't even have to change his features to put them on the horse.
Even the scenery has been completely Cage-ified:
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Wait, this one was actually in the game already, never mind.
We might as well tell you right now that, in this technically playable but in practice utterly intolerable version of the game, everything from the treasure chests you open to the rupees you collect now sport the face of Nicolas Cage. Why? Not even the guys who did this know for sure. In the description of the video, they only say: "We had no goal, only Cage."
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Which was also the exact reason Cage gave for doing Ghost Rider.
In short, there's nothing to do in this game but surrender to Nicolas Cage and learn to accept Him in your life. After all, what is the sun but Cage, and what is the moon but Cage?
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Oh God, we keep pressing "B," but nothing happens.
Hmm, now we kinda want a crossover between this and the all-Jackie Chan arcade game.
#6. Turn Grand Theft Auto IV into a Humanoid Horse Rampage
A game series like Grand Theft Auto, with dozens of cars, motorcycles, helicopters, planes, and various other methods of conveyance, is missing just one thing: horses. Because, you know, when there's a sports car on every corner, sometimes you just really feel like John Wayne-ing some shit. This is exactly why we have Red Dead Redemption.
But apparently whoever made this mod completely misunderstood the idea of adding rideable horses to Grand Theft Auto IV, because they made Nico Bellic, Eastern-European criminal kingpin, into a horse instead.
That may seem disappointing, but now you can do all the things you never knew you wanted to see a horse do, like perform horsey drive-bys ...
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"Farmer Brown says hello, bitches."
... go on an RPG-toting rampage ...
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Horses only walk like that when they mean business.
... or beat someone to death with a baseball bat.
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Wow. That's actually irony.
Basically, you can turn the game into Scarface meets Seabiscuit. Finally, the people of Liberty City will live in fear of Horse. The city will belong to Horse. And if they try to stop you? Well ...
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You don't fuck with Horse.
#5. Minecraft Sex
Minecraft, as we've established, is a game where you can make basically anything. That kind of thing appeals to two sorts of people -- creative types who want to make awesome new things like the world has never seen and people with the maturity of 10-year-olds who want to make extremely elaborate representations of bodily functions. You can guess which of the two we're going to talk about.
First up, we've got the Minecraft poop mod. It lets you poop, just like in real life, but you can do it in Minecraft instead! This is obviously an experience that was sorely missing from such an open-ended game.
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And apparently also from this mod.
It's a little weird, because basically you just stand over a toilet, then use toilet paper on the toilet water, which gives you shitty toilet paper, and you then can craft it into nigh-indestructible, fecal-hardened weapons, armor, and building material, which is not where we would have guessed this was going at all. We can draw two conclusions here: One, this person has never used a toilet, and two, they have an extremely poor diet if they think you can craft shit into anything other than a larger, grosser shit.
Then, there's the Minecraft sex mod. It's just as erotic and mature as it sounds, which is not at all. There's nothing quite like watching two block people, desperately hunched over and humping like rabbits to really make you question if we're really putting modern technology to its best use.
And if you thought the poop mod showed a horrible misunderstanding of how basic anatomy and biology work, then you ain't seen nothing yet. The Minecraft sex mod requires you to build a giant, gold "SEX" card using basic items, which you then use to spawn a nude woman who immediately wants to jump on your square, rigid boner. She literally does nothing else.
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Do ... we even censor that?
Then you begin the horrifying mating ritual (the only proper way to describe it) where your character kind of ... jives with her? It's not really thrusting so much as your knees repeatedly buckling, like you're having strange fainting spells over and over.
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Maybe just seeing a naked lady has given poor old Minecraft Steve the vapors.
#4. Super Nazi Mario and Extreme Weiner Sonic
There are some classic games that even the most novice of gamers has played a million times, like Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., or the immortal Shaq Fu. While these games are still endlessly replayable today, you just reach a point where going through the same landscapes and looking at the same enemies gets a little repetitive. Some modders have solved this problem by taking the time to modify these classics they love so much ... and replacing everything with genitalia.
That's Super Nazi Penis Cartel Freedom Fighters 3, perhaps the most accurate name ever given to a video game. It's actually just Super Mario Bros. 3, only Mario is dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe and goes around smashing vaginas. That is not a euphemism.
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We're really, really hoping he's dumb enough to put this on a resume.
Ah, but that's not the only difference with the original game. Far from it. Instead of the classic feather power-up, when you hit blocks you get floating condoms ...
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... and instead of turning into a raccoon, touching them turns you into a giant flying penis.
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Which, come to think of it, makes the exact same amount of sense.
Even if this was only created as a parody of other game mods, the amount of work put into this thing is pretty impressive. Instead of question mark blocks, you hit "NUDE GIRLS" signs. Instead of Star Mans, needles make you invincible (this one actually makes more sense). Instead of fire balls, you shoot little swastikas. You get the idea.
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"This will show Phil from Kinkos my attention to detail!"
Mario's foremost rival couldn't be left behind, which is why a guy modified Sonic Generations to turn Sonic into a big cock. Again, not a euphemism.
Via Daku Neko
There are no jokes that can be made about this image.
You can see Dong Sonic in action in this quite NSFW video, which YouTube hasn't deleted for the same reason that school textbooks don't cover the Venus de Milo's boobies -- it is a work of art. It's the exact same game, only Sonic is now a super fast penis jumping around and grinding its balls against rails.
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He looks pretty happy to be doing that, too.


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Can I have more than 1 aura active at the same time?
Example, can one character have both:
- Aura of Peace (peace of messenger paragon path lvl 16)
- Skald's Aura (bard utility)
Can I have more than 1 aura active at the same time?
Example, can one character have both:
Yes to both the general and specific cases.
Multiple Auras In general:
While unconsciousness will end an Aura, an aura that is not a product of a Stance will be unaffected by other Auras up save through explicit mention of the rules.
There is nothing, for example, to prevent a skald multiclassing as a cavalier to have both her skald's aura up and the defender's aura at the same time. Also given that at least one of those auras is at-will, it can be presumed to be "always up" and does not need specific activation at the start of combat.
Bard and PP Feature
The Skald's aura is an aura produced by the class utility power and governed by the aura rules above.
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State Officials Directed to Impose System on City Educators If No Deal by June
A stalemate over teacher evaluations in New York City prompted Gov. Andrew Cuomo to toughen his stance on Wednesday, instructing state officials to impose their own plan if the city and its educators can't reach an agreement by June.
The governor included the measure in a package of executive budget amendments and said it wouldn't be a one-time act. "Any year that the New York City school district does not have a plan in place, then [the state Education Department] would come in and put the plan in place," Mr. Cuomo said.
The governor, a Democrat, had set a January deadline for districts to comply with a 2010 law requiring the new teacher evaluations. The vast majority reached deals with their unions to create a four-tiered rating system that relies in part on student scores on standardized tests.
But New York City, by far the largest school system in the state, failed to come to a deal and lost $250 million in state funding for the approaching academic year. New York has long had a system that rates teachers as "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory," with a very small percentage receiving a poor evaluation each year.
Mr. Cuomo has said any deal wouldn't restore the lost funds but would prevent future forfeitures. The Obama administration has required stricter evaluation systems as a condition for certain grants, and the city is at risk of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding if an evaluation system isn't put in place.
Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott expressed optimism that a deal could be reached in time. "There's a lot of time between now and June 1 to still talk to the union, so we'll see what happens," he said.
United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said he welcomed the governor's involvement: "We've seen the kinds of plans the state has approved. We are comfortable with them because they are about helping teachers help kids, which is something that we don't often hear from the city. So while I would prefer to get to a negotiated settlement, with this in place, I know a deal will get done."
Additional amendments introduced by Mr. Cuomo include a measure intended to bolster fuel delivery systems in the wake of systemic failures during Hurricane Sandy. The amendment would require gas stations located within a half-mile of a highway exit or hurricane evacuation route to be prewired for backup generators, which would allow electric pumps to continue to pump fuel in the case of a power outage.
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History was made this week as Barack Obama was elected the next president of America. But Obama will take office during a time when his country, and the world at large, is deeply fractured. What do you think will be the most important issue he will have to tackle once his administration begins?
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economic loss of their banks.
Originally Posted by neo_vieconomic loss of their banks.
lol the money issues and stuff, mabey the war in iraq but im not to sure about how he will tackle that


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What's the Story with Gluten Free Diets?
Blame Hollywood. In 2009 svelte starlet Gwyneth Paltrow blogged about her gluten-free Detox, which caused celeb followers to root out gluten in hopes of transforming their bodies.
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. So a gluten free diet means no bread, no cereal, no pasta, no beer, and no soy sauce (unless they are specifically made "gluten free"). Because of this new trend the gluten free market is now worth several billion dollars and has increased by 17% in the past 2 years.
Before this g-free diet trend hit the scene, only a few people were eating a g-free diet, those diagnosed with celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder that makes it difficult to digest gluten. According to a recent study in the Annals of Medicine, more and more people are being diagnosed with celiac (1 in 133 people). In celiac suffers, gluten causes damage in the lining of the small intestine, causing gas, bloating, diarrhea and headaches.
If you have intolerance to gluten, you would be best to avoid it. However, if you have decided to avoid gluten to transform your body, be warned that avoiding gluten on a regular basis can cause a vitamin B deficiency, because wheat is rich in thiamine and other Bs.
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So, the big question is which Plush gear is right for you? Well, as you may have guessed, that is something that will simply come down to personal preference. To narrow down your search, you should decide if you're looking for an effects pedal or an amplifier. From there, you may want to have a look at some of our best sellers to determine which one is perfect for you. For example, if you're after a delay pedal, you may want to set your sights on the Replay Jr. Digital Delay Guitar Effects Pedal. This pedal offers the warmth and musicality of a classic tape delay, but removes the constant hassle of replacing your tape, belts, and monitors. Clear, concise, and analog, this is the kind of pedal that effects junkies dream about.
Another great pedal available from Plush is the Dual Plush Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal. This pedal is, in fact, two effects in one (separated by channels). Channel one offers an aggressive overdrive, while channel two is designed to replicate the sound of the original Plush Drive voicing. With a true bypass, hand wiring and premium parts, this pedal is designed for a long life on the road.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - The State University of New York at Geneseo is celebrating Cultural Harmony Week Oct. 24-28 with events designed to address a wide variety of community and diversity issues, including race, gender, ethnicity and culture.
The college plans an entire week of programming both inside and outside the classroom to deepen students' understanding and awareness of important aspects of human behavior and social organization. Activities are envisioned as an extension of the Social Sciences core requirement, which works to deepen students' understanding and awareness of important aspects of human behavior and social organization, to increase students' understanding of the human condition and human institutions, and to augment the non-western traditions graduation requirement seeking to focus students' attention on ideas, experiences, and concepts existing outside Western traditions.
Among events during the week:
Oct. 24
An Intercultural Night Dinner will kick off the week in the MacVittie Union ballroom from 6 p.m.- 8 p.m. Multicultural student organizations will highlight the evening with foods and performances representing their organization.
Oct. 25
Jan McDonald, executive director of Rochester Roots, a non-profit organization that since 1991 has been committed to improving community health and well-being through the reduction in hunger, describe the project at 4 p.m. in Sturges Hall Auditorium. The innovative project is an experiential learning model that integrates sustainable agriculture, art, nutrition science, healthy eating, entrepreneurship and social justice into a project that serves the needs of urban dwellers living in poverty.
Oct. 27
Writer, activist, teacher and transman Eli Clare will address "Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies" during his keynote address at 4 p.m. in Newton Hall 201. He will examine how oppression often lodges in our bodies.
Oct. 28
The "Everyone Loves to Travel" event is scheduled in the MOSAIC area of MacVittie Union from noon to 2 p.m. It will showcase foods of five of the most traveled study abroad locations for Geneseo students. The food will be served progressive meal style.
At 5 p.m. is the opening reception for the El Sauce exhibition in the Lederer Gallery in Brodie Hall. The exhibit features the photography of Kris Dreessen, manager of editorial service at SUNY Geneseo. Her work highlights the people and culture of the remote town in Nicaragua and the economic development initiatives that SUNY Geneseo is taking to support the area.
A variety of other events also are taking place during the week including videos, films and other exhibits throughout campus.
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spoiler:He was the one who put a bounty out for the capture of live Jedi, and pretty much one of your antagonists in the beginning of the story since the all the Bounty Hunters were essentially working for him.
spoiler:G0-T0 was the missing droid intelligence slated for Telos restoration project, he was actually doing his job since he came to the conclusion that Telos would just happen again and again so to perform his task as he saw it he left Telos to heal the whole of the galaxy it requires stability, either Sith or Jedi but one or the other needed to exist to help provide that stability. He does what he does because he wants to see the galaxy stable and functioning, he is in all actuality more of a good guy, just he is a droid and thusly his logic allows 'evils' to happen as he sees it as a function of life.


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While some people in the United States are preparing for holiday activities, local volunteers with Operation Christmas Child - the world's largest Christmas project of its kind - are filling shoe box gifts with toys, school supplies and hygiene items for needy children overseas.
This year-round project of international Christian relief and evangelism organization Samaritan's Purse, headed by Franklin Graham, is ramping up as local businesses, churches and community groups prepare to collect 750 gift-filled shoe boxes during National Collection Week, which runs Monday through Nov. 19.
Anyone can drop off a packed shoe box at the Steubenville-area collection site. Then, using whatever means necessary - trucks, trains, boats, bikes and even elephants - the shoe box gifts will be hand-delivered to hurting children in 100 countries around the world, according to a press release.
There are two local collection sites. One is First Westminster Presbyterian Church, 235 N. Fourth St., Steubenville.
Collection dates and times are: Nov. 12-15, all four days from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Nov. 16 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.; Nov. 17 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.; Nov. 18 from noon to 2 p.m.; and Nov. 19 from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Jaclyn Walters is the collection site coordinator and can be reached by calling (740) 282-4591.
The other local collection site is at Brooke Hills Free Methodist Church located at 1340 Washington Pike, Wellsburg.
Collection dates and times there are: Nov. 12, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Nov. 13, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Nov. 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Nov. 15 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Nov. 16 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Nov. 17 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Nov. 18 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; and Nov. 19 from 10 a.m. to noon.
Sharon Jackson is the collection site coordinator and can be contacted at (304) 737-0186.
Additional local collection sites can be found using the online zip code locator at the website www.samaritanspurse.org.
In 2012, Operation Christmas Child expects to reach a milestone - collecting and delivering shoe boxes to more than 100 million children since 1993. During that time, Operation Christmas Child has collected more than 94 million shoe box gifts and hand-delivered them to suffering children in more than 130 countries, according to the news release.
This year, Operation Christmas Child hopes to collect another 9 million gift-filled shoe boxes.
For information on how to participate in Operation Christmas Child, visit www.samaritanspurse.org/occ.
Although the National Collection Week for gift-filled shoe boxes is Nov. 12-19, shoe box gifts are collected all year at the Samaritan's Purse headquarters in Boone, N.C.


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ROCK HILL, S.C. – South Atlantic Conference co-regular season champions Anderson and Lenoir-Rhyne will be the top two seeds in the upcoming Food Lion SAC Softball Championship, which kicks off Thursday in Harrogate, Tenn.
Anderson and Lenoir-Rhyne finished tied atop the conference standings at 16-6. Lenoir-Rhyne, however, will be the No. 1 seed in the championship by virtue of its 2-0 head-to-head record over Anderson.
L-R's SAC title is the program's eighth in the past 11 seasons, while Anderson claims its first since joining the conference in the 2010-11 academic year. The Bears – ranked 13th in the nation - are 38-11 overall and the Trojans are 38-10.
Lenoir-Rhyne's first-round opponent in the SAC Championship will be No. 8 seed Catawba, which finished 9-13 in league play.
Anderson, meanwhile, will face No. 7 seed Carson-Newman in the opening round on Thursday. The Eagles went 11-11 in SAC games this season.
Wingate earned the bracket's No. 3 seed after finishing 14-6 in the conference. The Bulldogs – whose final series of the season against Lincoln Memorial was rained out on Saturday – will play sixth-seeded Brevard in the first round.
Brevard also had its weekend series against Queens washed away, and finished 11-9 in SAC contests.
The championship's final first-round matchup will pit fourth-seeded Tusculum against fifth-seeded LMU. The Pioneers went 14-8 in the conference, while the Railsplitters finished 12-8.
Lenoir-Rhyne is the event's four-time defending champion.
2014 Food Lion SAC Softball Championship Schedule
Thursday, April 24
No. 4 Tusculum vs. No. 5 Lincoln Memorial, 10 a.m.
No. 3 Wingate vs. No. 6 Brevard, 12:30 p.m.
No. 2 Anderson vs. No. 7 Carson-Newman, 3 p.m.
No. 1 Lenoir-Rhyne vs. No. 8 Catawba, 5:30 p.m.
Friday, April 25
Gm. 1 loser vs. Gm. 4 loser, 10 a.m.
Gm. 2 winner vs. Gm. 3 winner, 10 a.m.
Gm. 2 loser vs. Gm. 3 loser, 12:30 p.m.
Gm. 1 winner vs. Gm. 4 winner, 12:30 p.m.
Gm. 7 loser vs. Gm. 5 winner, 3 p.m.
Gm. 8 loser vs. Gm. 6 winner, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 26
Gm. 9 winner vs. Gm. 10 winner, noon
Gm. 7 winner vs. Gm. 8 winner, 2:30 p.m.
Gm. 11 winner vs. Gm. 12 loser, 3:30 p.m.
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clitoris, especially a prominent, erect one
The first time I went down on her I was surprised to find her love button was like a 1" penis
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I wanna kiss your love button while I slowly probe my fingers deeper and deeper inside your love box.
by joepetersiii November 01, 2003
in reference to the clitoris, often times referred to as the happy maker, or orgasm-switch, girls like to touch there, and have it licked.
Slam my stinktube while you push my love button!
by Assmoter December 20, 2004
Also known as a clitoris.
My girlfriend laughs when I push her love button!
If you push it enough times, you get a prize!
If you push it enough times, you get a prize!
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the clitoris or the spot at the top of the pussy lips
i made her cum hard when i took her lovebutton in my mouth and tonguewhipped it
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I am not sure if this is right forum, but I have not found any other.
We use Java scripting and I just added JavaScript editor into our new application using RSyntaxTextArea and LanguageSupportFactory.
It works fine when using autocomplete for global classes like Math, Number, etc.
I would like it would work also for classes and variables that are bound using engine put() method when evaluating javascript using java scripting, like:
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engine = new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("JavaScript");
engine.put("obj", new MyClass());
So when i type obj. in editor, it would suggest methods of MyClass.
As I guess there is no support at this time. Is there any way to add them to JavaScriptAutoCompletion? I could list available classes and methods, but I do not know, how to bind them to JavaScriptAutoCompletion.
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Intelligrated opens materials handling parts fulfillment center
Intelligrated, a leading North American-owned automated materials handling solutions provider, has opened a new state-of-the-art parts fulfillment center for aftermarket support. The new center, located in Cincinnati, provides customers with access to increased parts stock levels, faster order processing and same-day shipping on all in-stock parts.
The 81,000-square-foot facility, which stocks over 14,000 SKUs of genuine OEM replacement and commodity parts for immediate fulfillment to its customers, is strategically located to provide Intelligrated customers with quick turnaround on emergency manufactured spare parts needs.
"Intelligrated is dedicated to providing the highest level of lifecycle support to our installed base of equipment," said Dennis Gates, Intelligrated's vice president of customer service and support. "Intelligrated's OnTimeParts initiative, which combines the expertise of our parts specialist team, the convenience of online ordering and our new aftermarket fulfillment center, ensures that any maintenance department providing service to their facility's automated material handling system can find and receive their spare parts quickly and efficiently."
Customers can place parts orders directly through Intelligrated's Web store at http://www.OnTimeParts.com or contact Intelligrated's Service & Parts Hotline at 1-877-315-3400. Parts specialists with field experience provide live support Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. EST, with emergency and after-hours support from Intelligrated technicians available 24X7X365.


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I am having a really hard time getting
ddclient (which updates OpenDNS with my current IP address) to work. I have it running as a daemon, but it never succeeds in updating my IP address at
To troubleshoot, I am running
ddclient from the command line as follows.
(In these examples, values in square brackets [] are stand-ins for the real values for security reasons)
/etc/ddclient.conf contains:
use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.org/, web-skip='IP Address'
login=[my login]
password=[my password]
When I run:
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WARNING: file /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache, line 3: Invalid Value for keyword 'ip' = ''
WARNING: skipping update of Home from <nothing> to [my real ip].
WARNING: last updated <never> but last attempt on Tue Oct 4 08:38:32 2011 failed.
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Whilst I haven't played Magic in a while, use of the stack was something that I always found a little confusing. When I first started out, our group could tap an opponents attacking creature after attackers had been declared and effectively take it out of combat? Is this right? Or did we have the stack order backwards?
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This is not so much about the stack, as the order of the turn:
After the first main phase, there's a step where you can play abilities like tapping, but before they can attack you: Beginning of Combat step. Every turn goes in this order (with minor exceptions) But when we play, we usually don't bother talking about every phase and step, often because nothing happened in them! But they're still part of every turn, if we need to do something then.
So there's nothing wrong with your opponent playing a spell, then moving right on to "I attack you with this guy." All you have to say is "wait, I want to do stuff at the Beginning of Combat" and back up to that point. Then you tap whoever you want to tap. Just remember, after the tapping your opponent gets to decide how they want to attack, knowing their creature is tapped!
And after they know you can tap things, in future turns they should stop and ask you before they declare attackers. (You can ask them nicely to do this.) That way they don't give away the info of who they want to attack with!
Spells, activated abilities, and triggered abilities go onto the stack when they are cast, activated, or triggered. Before they resolve, any player is allowed to play other (instant-speed) spells or abilities, which themselves go on the stack and can be responded to. If no player responds to an item on the stack, the top (most recently played) spell or ability resolves.
There are, however, several actions that do not use the stack. Among them are the turn-based actions, the game actions that happen automatically when steps or phases begin or end. Declaring attackers is one of those turn-based actions: As soon as the "Declare Attackers" step begins, the attacking player declares any attacking creatures, before anyone gets to play any spells or abilities that step. This action cannot be responded to; once a creature is declared as an attacker, you cannot tap it to prevent it from attacking. Even if it has vigilance, tapping it will not remove it from combat unless it's due to regeneration or an effect that explicitly removes something from combat.
However, there are occasions before the Declare Attackers step when opponents are allowed to tap potential attackers; in particular, the end of the pre-combat main phase, and the end of the "beginning of combat" step. For convenience, most players respect "In response to your declaration to attack" as shorthand for playing something at the end of the main phase. Note, however, that the attacker is not obligated to declare attackers before such a response, and is free to change any declaration that was proposed before you interrupted it.
For example, if your opponent plays Arc Runner and immediately declares it as an attacker, you may play Twitch on that Arc Runner "in response," by which you really mean at the end of his or her pre-combat main phase. However, if you do, your opponent is then allowed to attack with any other creatures he or she controls. On the other hand, if you specifically ask which creatures your opponent is attacking with, you have implicitly given up the ability to play Twitch until after they're attacking.
As for tapping a creature to remove it from combat, something similar used to apply to blockers, not attackers. That rule was removed in the sixth edition rules update, when the stack was introduced.
Once attackers have been declared, tapping them usually has no effect, but there are exceptions.
Suppose a creature with Vigilance has been declared as an attacker. You can surely tap it, and perhaps gain an advantage thereby (e.g. being able to attack next turn without it being able to block); it just won't remove the creature from combat.
A little confusingly, if a creature is regenerated mid-combat, it is both tapped AND removed from combat. But the removal from combat is a property of regeneration, not a property of becoming tapped.


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"Columbia College-Lake of the Ozarks is very proud of the students in its first nursing class," said Walter. "They all show strength, courage and enthusiasm and will be assets to the nursing profession."
The 14 nursing students in the first class received their Associate in Science in Nursing degrees at the Columbia College-Lake of the Ozarks commencement ceremony in May. Eleven have accepted positions with Lake Regional Health System, Walter said, and others will work in the Jefferson City and Moberly areas.
The first nursing class includes the following students: Nichole Choate, Climax Springs, Mo.; Monica Dixon and Sherri Stoner, Camdenton, Mo.; Angela Frisbie, Eldon, Mo.; Beth Givens and Lindsay Steen, Lake Ozark, Mo.; Lori Hinrichs, Mack's Creek, Mo.; Lacy Klouzek, Linn, Mo; Nicole Kusgen, Osage Beach; Tasiana Malya and Gillian Rono, Jefferson City, Mo.; Stacey Menke, Gravois Mills, Mo.; Angela Owings, Stoutland, Mo.; and Shaun Tilly, Linn Creek, Mo.
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While many shoppers arrived at stores early for midnight specials, others decided to wait and get in on the action later today. Some shoppers plan their days out to the smallest details, but one of the youngest of shoppers had a simpler strategy.
"I've been eating breakfast... and doing alot of shopping around," said shopper Connor Proctor
Proctor had plenty of people on his shopping list.
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Slightly older shoppers still got an early start to their day.
"We have been Black Friday shopping since 7:30 this morning. We've hit Target... Lowe's... the mall. We're now at Barnes, and about to go to Hobby Lobby. We are hitting everywhere," said shopper Telia Butler.
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Shopping can make a person hungry. Chick-fil-a on Campbell Ln. has opened early for the second year in a row, and after receiving large crowds last year, they had their drive through process down to a science this time.
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The title should describe the problem, not the audience - unless the audience is the problem, in which case it's not programming related.
So yes, I'd remove it. If it forms an important part of the question, reformat the question so it's clear that answers need to be aimed for a beginning audience, but the title itself should reflect the problem alone.
Aside from that, it's slang that we don't need to use on a professional programming site, and to some degree implements a needless class or caste system that is unproductive. Yes, there are people of all experience levels, and sometimes the experience of the OP needs to be known. But we do not need to use slang terms that may disenfranchise some even in such a small degree.
I normally edit out stuff like this and add the
Question content should be separated from the user asking that question -- if someone is new to something, that should have no bearing on either the question being asked, or the answers they get to the question. However, it does provide some context in which to give an answer (hence the
I'd also say yes for these reasons in addition to Pollyana's:
Tough call. Personally, I feel like terms such as that should be edited out. I grant that often the OP himself has placed that in the title -- probably to acknowledge that he ought to know the answer, but doesn't. However, I think it really doesn't add any value to the title, and may in fact turn off some people from answering.
I guess YMMV. (Talk about a wishy-washy answer.) Personally, I guess I'd treat it the way I treat greets -- I probably wouldn't go in and edit just to get rid of it, but I'd most likely get rid of it if I was in editing for other reasons.


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Pasta with Rappini (Broccoli Rabe)
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This sauceless pasta offers the fresh flavors of Pecorino Romano, tamari, and broccoli rabe.
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- 2 tablespoons olive oil
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- Drain the pasta and toss with a tablespoon of oil and salt to taste.
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I currently use an NN3 mk2 with a Panasonic GH2 and 7-14mm lens. I have started thinking about moving to a Pentax K5 with either a Sigma 8-16mm or Pentax 10-17mm fisheye.
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Here's the next creature, an Androsynth. The head is ok, the body and limbs need work, but I'll tolerate them as they are for now.
Androsynths were created to house the disembodied minds of the Ascendents (next), before they evolved beyond the need for any physical form.
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If I am right, using the Blobstore API (http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Blobstore) requires apps to have billing enabled. However, do application need to have billing enabled to use db.BlobProperty() ? http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/typesandpropertyclasses.html#Blob
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I'm developing a J2EE application that runs in JBoss on a Windows Vista machine, but the application will end up on a Linux machine. Is there a way to pass in the value of an environment variable in a platform independent way?
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While making a storage room for all my mined cobblestone from my quarry, I came across a rather cosmetic problem with my chests: not all of them face me.
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A Few Things That I Believe: Observations From The Doc
* All that being said, we *are* in a cyclical bull market and only recently have we begun to see the kind of bullish sentiment extremes that might accompany a topping process. This bull market has lasted a little more than a year. Most bull markets last longer than that. I'm not convinced we'll roll over until there are stronger hints of a move away from low interest rates. The inability of traders and investors to recognize the difference between cyclical market moves and secular ones has created much pain for bulls and bears alike.
* I find it hard to believe that the Fed will have the political cover to raise interest rates until we see hard signs of inflation. That means that commodities might have to rally hard before we see the bull market in stocks roll over. If we're not overheating, I'm can't imagine the Fed raising rates in a high unemployment environment. So we stick with monetary ease until we overheat.
* A rise in long Treasury rates (decline in bond prices) will be a good tell for inflationary expectations and anticipation of overheating. As long as rates stay tame, it's hard for me to imagine stocks going to hell.
* I'm open to the possibility that all the above might be wrong and that the next driver of stock prices will be monetary tightening and a hard landing among emerging market economies. If the emerging nations stop serving as the engine of global economic growth, that's when we could see a second economic slowdown. I'm not convinced that the China miracle won't end up looking like the Japan miracle.
* I don't know how we emerge from burdensome debt other than to transition from being a consumption-driven economy to being an export-driven one. Over the long haul, growth-by-export will support a weak U.S. dollar, though any near term economic slowdown led by emerging markets would likely see a flight to the dollar.
* It is hard for me to imagine a transition away from a consumer-driven economy without deflationary pressures coming from household deleveraging, weakness in commercial real estate, and pressure on local/state governments and local/regional financial institutions. The panicky flight to high yield debt (junk bonds, muni debt) could end badly if we get a second bout of deflation.
* If I have to bet on the future, I'll bet on countries with favorable demographics, favorable balance sheets, favorable rates of taxation, and freer markets. Free markets are messy and far from perfect, but they are ultimately self-correcting; centralized ones are not.
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- TD said...
On your point about the debt burden, isn't inflating the debt away much more likely than transforming the US economy into an export-driven one? There are two ways to effectively default on your debt. The first is to stop paying interest (highly unlikely for the US). The second is to let inflation reduce the par value (in real terms) for you.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi TD,
I think that transitioning to an export-driven economy by weakening the dollar and making US good cheaper *is* inflating away the debt.
- Vic said...
Dr. Brett,
Not sure what your take on Canadian markets are but the Bank of Canada is about to raise interest rates in the next month or two and possibly a half point to start.
As well TD Bank is calling for 11 quarter point raises over the next 1.5 to 2 years. With a US style housing bubble in place I am not sure how this plays into how the US evaluates staying in step or close too it with the Loonie above par with the US dollar. Any thoughts ?
- skipper said...
Thanks Doc for sharing your thoughts. I truly appreciate all your posts and have learned a lot from you. Cheers.
- Ben said...
I have to disagree -- we are in unprecedented times, the markets will continue to rise and inflation will be huge. The US dollar will not decline but inflation will ravage the purchasing power many fold over the next 3 years
- Mike said...
We will reach a point where we can no longer finance the growing debt. Then nobody will want to own treasuries. That will cause inflation with all of those excess dollars that are not wanted. Labor costs will fall as they won't keep pace with inflation here, and things that must be bought and sold here like real estate will probably fall also. Americans will see inflation of products they want to own like gas, cars, durable goods and food, and loss of value of assets they have tied up a lot of money in like their homes. Loss of value in the sense that those assets won't rise at the rate of inflation because nobody will be able to afford to buy at the inflated prices. Real estate will still hold up better than cash probably but it will take another beating.
I thought the Euro might fill in as a possible alternative to the dollar as a reserve currency but it appears that there is too much debt there as well.
We will reach a point where our labor is cheap enough (wages will be destroyed by inflation when they won't keep pace with it) on a relative scale to be competetive again and we start exporting again. To be competetive the standard of living of they typical middle class family here will have to be cut in half and it will happen. Welcome to the world of extended families, sharing cars, car pooling, home cooking, borrowing a cup of sugar from the neighbor, and keeping the house heated to 60 with sweaters.
- Davide said...
Dr Brett,
thanks for sharing.
I tend to agree with Mike's comment, and have some reservations about who the US would be exporting to in this world, so far dominated by US consumption!
Otherwise, concerning the debt issue, the latest piece from GEAB / LEAP 2020 (subscription required) has some interesting points on it. Enough snippets to get the whole picture are available for free on their site.


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STEUBENVILLE — Judge Tom Lipps, who will be presiding over the rape trial that begins Wednesday in juvenile court at the Jefferson Count Justice Center, is known for his hard work ethic and his......
I don't think it was correct for Judge Lipps to allow Ma'lik Richmond to leave the state on vacation with his guardians. Rather, Ma'lik should have been returned to juvenile custody. These boys are not charged with breaking windows, or spray-painting graffiti -- they are charged with a serious criminal offense -- rape.
According to reports, Richmond arrived in court with his ankle bracelet in a plastic bag -- this was prior to the judge ruling that he could go to California to the Rose Bowl with his guardians. If correct, that was brazen in its presumptuousness.
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I actually can see dodge and matts points.
Putting faith in a system that has failed so many times is tough.
Because of the public outcry, I do have a little more faith this time around.
All we can do is wait and see.
Speaking of balls and strikes....I am ready for Baseball.
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I hope everything is on the up and up.
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Tom: You cannot possibly live in this area because if you did, you'd know that the 2 accused young men were in the juvenile detention center from August to November. They DID NOT play football! Geez, that's part of what's so infuriating about this case...it's already a bad situation, but looky lou's who jumped on the bandwagon and spread misinformation have just made things worse. I want a fair trial and I want justice and I believe that this Judge will give us that; he's one of the best in the state. But regardless, someone will be mad about the judgement.
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Tom the 2 arrested NEVER played football and the JUDGE released them.
dodger50 you call it a ball I call it a strike. The article showed me that he would be fair and impartial. It shows also his experience in this field and why he was brought on board. How would the Herals Star know what you call the bad news anyhow? You need to have faith in the judicial system............................ if you don't to bad for you.
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Are we being set up to hear the bad news by telling us all the good things this man has done.
These kind of articles seem to always have a "BUT"........
Until I read this article I had all the faith in the world in Judge Tom Lipps; now I am not so sure.
Not in what was said, but kind of how it read; I was waiting for the other shoe to fall the whole time.
The good people of Steubenville desire a clean house. Here's hoping.
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We shall see how fair he is to both sides. I hope that justice is served in this case. So far, the two accused rapists have been given too many breaks including being allowed to play football last season and not being put in a juvenile detention facility like most would have been.
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