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6 Classic Movies (That Narrowly Avoided Disaster)
Nothing good in life comes easy, not even in Hollywood. The truth is if you go behind the scenes of some of your favorite movies you'll find fuck-ups, failures and bleeding ulcers.
If you needed any further proof that perseverance can lead to great things (or at least, a shitload of money), check out the stories behind...
#6. Star Wars
Ah, Star Wars (we're talking about the first film - and don't give us any of that "Episode IV" shit, either). It's the age old tale of a boy, his two gay droids and a confusing intergalactic struggle that should have ended after the third movie.
The film served as a coming out party for such stars as bearded, nerdy director George Lucas, ruggedly handsome actor Harrison Ford and... and...
Harrison Ford and...friends.
Well, it worked wonders for Ford and Lucas, anyway. The film became an instant phenomenon, shattering box office records and pretty much inventing the concept of the big-budget special effects blockbuster. For better or worse.
Why We Almost Never Got to See it
This production was pretty much a disaster from the first step. The script was bad, on paper (Ford famously hated the dialogue, saying, "You can type this shit George, but you can't say it."). The crew grumbled, openly unhappy to be working on what they deemed a "kid's film," and a retarded one at that. Kenny Baker, who squeezed into a garbage can to play R2-D2, admitted he thought the movie would be a steaming pile of shit.
We can't imagine why Ford thought this was weird.
Over the course of filming, the budget ballooned from $8 million to $11 million (big money back then, especially for a film the studio didn't think could earn it back). Props malfunctioned, costumes malfunctioned, wardrobe malfunctioned (with those last two words did you just picture C-3PO's chest plate opening and a boob popping out? Because we did).
And just in case you weren't picturing it...
How cursed was this production? At one point a freak rainstorm in Tunisia delayed the filming of the Tatooine scenes, which as you may recall were all in the desert. You read that right: freak rainstorms. In the desert.
As they were finishing filming, Mark Hamill got into a car accident, smashing his face (he was supposedly in surgery for seven hours to put the bones back together).
So it wasn't just the cast and crew, God apparently hated Star Wars too.
#5. Jaws
In 1975, a 27-year-old director that no one had ever heard of named Steven Spielberg unleashed Jaws on the world, at once creating both the summer blockbuster and shark phobia. The film starred Jonathan Brandis's Seaquest co-star Roy Scheider.
Why We Almost Never Got to See it
Mechanical sharks suck. At least, that's what Spielberg learned while filming Jaws on Martha's Vineyard. Originally, the plan was to feature the shark prominently throughout the film; devouring people, destroying boats and getting jumped by the Fonz. However, to do those things the sharks would have needed to, you know, work.
Not intentional.
The salt water wreaked havoc with the mechamism--the first time one was placed in the water it promptly plummeted to the bottom of the ocean. Even when the mechanical sharks did stay afloat, they were met by mechanical malfunctions that ultimately led to Spielberg's decision to keep the great beast hidden for almost the entire movie, forcing him to do all of this "suspense" and "character reaction" stuff that established the film as a classic and launched his career.
Stupid lucky bastard.
The production stretched from a planned 55 days to a whopping 159, with the budget ballooning to over $12 million (again, a lot of cash in 70s Hollywood). Spielberg wondered if he'd be fired from the project, and a demoralized crew nicknamed the film "Flaws." Really? That's the best they could come up with?
On top of everything else, actor Robert Shaw (the shark hunter Quint) proved to be a bit of a handful on the set, including getting completely shitfaced to film the legendary USS Indianapolis scene. In addition, Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss (the other star of the movie) openly hated one another, bitching and arguing back and forth throughout the production, just as their respective characters Quint and Hooper did in the movie.
"Cut! Robert! We said cut! Noooo!"
#4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
After they narrowly avoided disaster and achieved stunning successes with Jaws and Star Wars, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas decided to team up to make what would either be the most glorious adventure film of all time or, given their track records, the largest fuck up.
Luckily for us, all the pieces fell into place and Raiders of the Lost Ark was the product, introducing the world to Indiana Jones long before Shia LeBeouf came into the world dead set on destroying him.
Ouch! Right in the childhood.
Why We Almost Never Got to See it
With reputations for going well over budget, it's pretty understandable that studios would be a little hesitant to fund a joint venture between Spielberg and Lucas. So it's of little surprise that when they initially took their idea about professor by day; religious artifact-saving, Nazi-fighting, super-archeologist by night Indiana Jones to studio heads, most balked and told them to piss off. Finally, the duo convinced Paramount to fund their film, though at a potentially tremendous cost. The contract stated that, if they went over budget, Lucas and Spielberg would have to foot the bill themselves.
Casting proved to be a bitch, as Spielberg and Lucas wanted Tom Selleck's mustache in the role, but his conflicting schedule on Magnum P.I. led to Harrison Ford getting his second swashbuckling role under Lucas. And he was totally the shit.
Oh, what might have been...
Then, Spielberg wanted to cast his girlfriend Amy Irving as the female lead, but found that would have been extremely awkward once she dumped his ass. Debra Winger and Barbara Hershey, who have since disappeared from the face of the earth, were next in line before the role went to Karen Allen.
And speaking of shit, John Rhys Davies, who would later go on to play an angry, drunken midget in Lord of the Rings, shit himself in full costume. Sadly, this cannot be found on the DVD's deleted scenes.
"Bad dates. Also, I shit myself."
But as bad as shitting yourself in front of your peers while wearing a costume can be (and we know from experience), Ford may have actually suffered the most throughout the production.
On top of having a giant plane roll over his leg, tearing a ligament in his knee, the crusty star suffered from dysentery for more than a month while filming in the 130 degree heat of Tunisia, a location Spielberg hated so much that he cut the production schedule in the area by more than a week.
Ford's bout with dysentery got so bad that at one point, he begged Spielberg to alter a fight scene for fear that the sight of feces running down Indiana's leg might not strike the right tone. Instead of fighting a swordsman, he suggested that he just pull a gun out and shoot the fucker.
Spielberg agreed, understanding that sometimes just shooting a guy in the face is the best solution. Once again, the threat from a spray of rancid feces makes film history.


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ANDERSON, S.C. – Anderson University wrestling's regional dual with Newberry has been rescheduled for Thursday, Feb. 13, as the Trojans and Wolves will meet at Newberry's Eleazer Arena beginning at 7 p.m.
The original date was set for Feb. 18, but will still mark the final dual of the 2013-14 season before AU prepares for its trip to the Region 2 Qualifier in Tiffin, Ohio. The dual will also mark Anderson's third trip to Newberry this season, as the Trojans visited their regional rival for the Super Region 2 Duals on Jan. 25 and will later compete at the Newberry Open on Feb. 8.
Anderson returns to action on Thursday at the Abney Athletic Center when it welcomes UNC Pembroke for the Battle of the Belt. The opening bout is set for 7 p.m.

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Decoherence explains how a classical state appears once quantum information in a quantum state leaks out. But presumably that environment has its own quantum state which then leaks out to a larger environment.
Does this mean that decoherence can only be understood locally, and not globally? For example if the entire universe is encoded in a quantum state how can it decohere?


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I have a brompton which is about 7 years old. Do I need to think about replacing the aluminium clips that lock the frame in place when unfolded?
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The Brompton owner's manual states:
As the manual itself notes, that is an extremely conservative number, but considering the hinge plate itself is a £4.00 part it seems better to err on the side of caution.
Aluminum in general has a useful fatigue life of about 5 years. Which is why most manufacturers have started limiting frame warranties to 5 years. Fatigue Life data for 6061 alloy here.
If your folder has been ridden regularly over the 7 years you've owned it, then consider replacing them. If it's been lightly used, or mostly garaged, then you're are probably ok.
There is no way to check the soundness of the metal short of an ultrasound or possibly X-ray testing. So if you are concerned, which I gather from the fact that you asked the question that you are, then just change them. it will be worth the piece of mind.


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Was the High Adventure Cliffhangers: The Buck Rogers Adventure Game compatible with Buck Rogers XXVc game? From what I understand XXVc was a simplified AD&D 2e system.
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Looking around a little bit, it seems you're right- Buck Rogers XXVc appears to use a modified AD&D system (source).
However, High Adventure Cliffhangers appears to use an exploding d6 system (source - scroll down to the entry on High Adventure Cliffhangers). You can actually see a note to this effect in the RPGGeek entry for the game:
Those links actually imply the answer: RPGGeek doesn't group them in the same system family so, unless there's an error in the entries, they are very probably unrelated.


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Rube Goldberg Challenge
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Date & Time:Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Use dominoes and other common materials to make a complicated tool to accomplish---nothing in particular! Tons of fun and great for groups. Call ahead to schedule an afternoon.
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Sports good-byes are often painful
Shakespeare wrote, "Parting is such sweet sorrow." But in the sports world, there is often nothing sweet about it. In addition to the sorrow, there's usually a sizeable dose of anger, bitterness, and a lot of really nasty comments on talk radio. And the painful and acrimonious partings seem to overshadow and spoil all the good times that came before.


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With the regularity of a flip of the calendar page, November brings us another Assassin's Creed, the fourth major console game in the series in four years. This year's edition is Assassin's Creed: Revelations.
More Ezio. More adventuring 500 years ago. More towers to climb and Templars to kill. They're pushing it, no? But maybe this game is worth your time…
Stephen Totilo, who enjoys this series a lot: This game starts badly. Actually, it's got problems even before it starts, because the sales pitch is that this game wraps up all of those unanswered questions you have about Assassin's Creed. If you don't have any questions—if you don't want to know why Desmond stabbed so-and-so or how a guy named Altaïr ibn-La'Ahad is connected to a dude named Ezio Auditore da Firenze—and if you wouldn't buy a game just for its multiplayer—then stay away. Far away.
This one is for the fans, the fans who might be happy to know that somehow Ubisoft's phalanx of Assassin's Creed studios have managed to make a game that is as stuffed with single-player content as last year's bursting AC: Brotherhood and has even more multiplayer options. You mostly play as an older but still nimble and deadly Ezio in 16th century Constantinople, exploring the most beautiful if topographically uninteresting city in the series. You also play occasional flashback missions as Altaïr and some very strange inside-the-computer-world missions as modern-day Desmond, whose consciousness has been fractured.
You have to have an appetite for the series' formula, established most successfully in 2009's Assassin's Creed II, to even tolerate Revelations. If you do—if you like climbing through an open-world city, taking on main story quests, tons of side missions, lots of stealth, acrobatics and assassination, the new game presents the most intoxicating version. I spent five consecutive hours yesterday ignoring the storyline in the campaign, because I was pulled into a loop of taking over sectors of Constantinople, recruiting and training assassins, sending those assassins on missions around the Mediterranean, and becoming such a master of the game's elaborate chemistry set that I had two minions ranked up to Level 15 Master Assassin before I hit a storyline mission that introduced the concept of training people to become Master Assassins. And the Desmond stuff… wow. It's very good, for once. Plus there's the wonderful stealth-based multiplayer, expanded this year to even include more lowbrow deathmatch options. This game starts rough with a Michael Bay-style first chapter that pretends the series if Call of Duty,. And the genius of the new bomb tools take a while to reveal itself. But this is no mere franchise-milking here. This game is, somehow, the real deal. Should you get it? Yes
So with each new title comes a feeling that to play it I need to go back and start from the beginning, something I don't have time to do. What I'm left with is a series, like Mass Effect, that seems too daunting to drop into. I want to play Assassin's Creed Revelations, but not until I've played all of the others. In a year so packed with massive hits and lengthy games, I can't justify the time. My gut tells me that this is a game I want and should play, but won't until I work my way up to the latest iteration. So as a novice to Assassin's Creed speaking to other novices, I'd say No, wait until you're caught up first.
Just based on what I've seen, it's a lonesome narrative as well, beginning with both Ezio and Desmond isolated for different reasons. I'm surprised at how much I miss the camaraderie on both sides of the Animus, though I'm hopeful to see some familiar faces as the story progresses. And while I'm complaining: Revelations is a touch more challenging than its most recent predecessors, it's still too easy.
But it's also still Assassin's Creed, still that same enjoyable mix of stealth and swordplay, environmental puzzling and classic art. Revelations has also had a graphical facelift and looks much sharper than its predecessors, and its art direction and level design are frequently in lovely concordance. The city of Constantinople has proved to be a terrific and colorful playground, and Ezio's new toys make traversal faster and more fun than ever.
It may be overstuffed, but the stuff it's stuffed with is mostly good stuff. Yes.


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I'm a huge Pulp Fiction fan, and the following is one of my favorite scenes, but it also irks me. (source: IMDB)
Jules: [Jules shoots the man on the couch] I'm sorry, did I break your concentration? I didn't mean to do that. Please, continue, you were saying something about best intentions. What's the matter? Oh, you were finished! Well, allow me to retort. What does Marsellus Wallace look like?
Can a question be a retort to something? I see retort defined as (dictionary.reference.com):
- to reply to, usually in a sharp or retaliatory way; reply in kind to.
- to return (an accusation, epithet, etc.) upon the person uttering it.
- to answer (an argument or the like) by another to the contrary.
All the above suggest some sort of a reply. But can a retort be a question, or even a counter-question ?


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While actively browsing the internet (via phone/tablet/desktop), how can I quickly file an impromptu thought or idea into a centralized, searchable medium -- but importantly -- through a method that's as quick as possible and breaks flow as little as possible?
Ideally, it could be initiated through universal keyboard shortcut that brings up a pop-up box where you record the thought/idea, tags, and then have it disappear for later review.
The problem with the Evernote route is that it seems a bit "overkill" -- either having to create a new note for every idea, or breaking flow if you have to search for and pull up a note of centralized ideas. Notes would either quickly pile up with the former, or flow would be greatly susceptible to breaking with the latter.
With the individual note route, I'd be filing at least 15-20 of idea/thought a day. Having to review-sort 15-20+ individual notes each day, cutting and pasting each note's idea into a centralized/categorized document would be enough tedium to break the routine (in my case).
I've considered the route of using my GTD system for this -- Toodledo -- which I currently have a keyboard shortcut for through my Firefox browser, where I'm quickly able to pull up a to-do item, record it, and have it filed for review later.
What I worry about in doing this is the meshing of important tasks that need doing (centric to the GTD system) with items that are perhaps just scattered ideas, thoughts, or ramblings. I fear that it could infect the GTD system's effectiveness like an overwhelming virus.
With that being said -- I'm not opposed at all to answers that interact with this GTD system (like Toodledo and its browser plugin, for example), and in fact, it might be beneficial to have the two mind-dumping systems merged together.


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I have some SD cards that I use. Is there a limit to how many times I can write over them? If I leave information on a card, is there anything that can cause it to lose this information eventually (other than a magnetic field)? What's the preferred storage conditions for these cards?
Flash memory indeed has limited write cycles. However, by now it is unlikely that you'll encounter this within the normal lifetime of such a card. Usually this is in the order of 100,000 write cycles today and SD cards include circuitry to manage wear-leveling, that is, spread out writes over the storage media evenly to avoid "hot spots"—pages that are written too frequently and therefore failing early.
Information stored on the card is safe even in magnetic fields because the information is not stored magnetically (contrary to hard drives or floppy disks).
As for storage conditions ... you shouldn't store them in mud, water, lava or other harmful conditions. You probably also shouldn't put them on railways and let trains drive over them. Apart from that, not paying particular attention where I store my cards I haven't had any adverse effects so far. In practice I'd think whatever doesn't physically damage the card won't harm the data on it.
In my experience, memory cards are quite durable, though occasionally finicky when it comes to formats. I recently ran a cellphone through the washing machine (it was so dirty), and the 2 GB microSD card works just fine in my new phone (I eventually got the washed phone working too, but it was a good excuse to upgrade).
Rob Galbraith, who maintains an amazing website on CompactFlash and Secure Digital cards, says
Write cycles are important, but MTBF (mean time between failures) is often 1M-2M hours or more, factoring in advances such as wear leveling, bad-block marking and management, etc.
The 2004 BBC article Digital memories survive extremes covers an interesting study by Digital Camera Shopper on the durability of memory cards.
In 2004, there was an incident (covered happily in a SanDisk press release at the time) where a photographer's compact flash card survived a bridge explosion where the camera gear was set up so close to the blast that it was destroyed, but the CompactFlash card survived. Other incidents like plane crashes are hyped by SanDisk so much that, admittedly, I get nervous using other brands. That said, it's not always easy to get data from a damaged card. An atmospheric research balloon crashed in the Pacific Ocean and was recovered. One SD card was read easily but another required intervention from SanDisk, but it was eventually read.
Bill Biggart's photos from 9/11 survived the collapse of the second tower on a CompactFlash microdrive card.
If you suspect a card may be getting flakey, or if you run into trouble reading a card, immediately create a backup of everything on the card. There are low-level recovery tools like TestDisk and PhotoRec that come in handy for this.
Never trust FLASH memory of any kind for long term storage. My experience with FLASH is integrity begins to falter in as little as 5 years. The voltages stored in the FLASH memory cells dissipate and can be misinterpreted after a while. High temperatures will accelerate the dissipation and shorten storage even less than 5 years.
High density FLASH where one cell can represent 2 bits has greatest failure rate.. most common in use as it is the cheapest to manufacture (double capacity). Many FLASH micro-controller applications are failing after 5-10 years because of FLASH memory corruption. Re-FLASHing the firmware restores the chip for another 5-10 years etc. So you must refresh FLASH memory data periodically to ensure continued integrity. Same would apply if you wanted to use the SD card as long term storage.
The FLASH memory chip itself is extremely rugged and can offer hundreds, if not thousands of years of service; as long as maximum write cycle lifespan has not been exceeded. FLASH memory cells are like millions of individual microscopic batteries that are charged at different levels. As you know, any battery new in the pack sitting on a shelf for years will eventually discharge. Same applies to FLASH memory cells, they require "recharging" periodically to maintain proper charges which represent data bits. So a FLASH memory card put into a safety deposit box for 25 years... guaranteed you will have corrupt data when you try to use it. I have seen FLASH memory with 20% corruption after 10 years of sitting in storage.
FLASH thumb drives are great for transferring data from one computer to another etc, but NEVER to be used for long term archival storage. Same goes for the conventional CD ROM. After 5-10 years, the contrast dye will fail causing read errors.
The best medium for long term storage are ARCHIVAL GOLD CD-R or similar brand. The storage medium on the disk is a thin layer of 24K gold so it will not oxidize. Data retention on this type of CD is expected to be intact even after 300 years. They are expensive compared to conventional CD-R.
Don't store them below -40 °C or above +100 °C (for example, a car dashboard in some places).
You can theoretically damage them with a severe enough impact. 2000 g or more might be enough.
Don't short the pins, or use them in space. Don't use them for long term archival purposes - in 500 years several of the compounds will have started degrading and no-one will know how to read them any more.
Aside from that, I think it will take substantial physical damage to lose data in storage.
I don't know if this will help, but...
We use µSD cards for the entire filesystem on an embedded device, so they see reads and writes for logging purposes as well as swap. It is a journalled filesystem (previous teams' decision) and I have seen a handful of failures in a population of say 200 devices, with some brands having more failures than others. Some are complete catastrophic failures, I can't read nor re-partition and re-format the card and some are simply filesystem corruption and a re-partition and re-write has them working again. We don't trust those to be sent into the field however.
They have only been in the field for a maximum of 3 years. Thank goodness the real information has already been sent to a database and stored.
I've used several brands of SD cards in raspberry pi computers, and they usually start seeing memory corruption after a continuous uptime of anywhere between 1 to 3 months, larger SD cards seem to last longer, smaller SD cards wear out in just a couple of weeks.
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Hello Everyone. I've been lurking here for years and just recently decided to join up. I'm hoping to get some help here.
I'm a huge fan of MDPV. Not the white hydrochloride - it's inconceivable that anyone on the planet would willingly put that into their bodies -- I'm talking the freebase form. I think many of you that don't bother to freebase it yourself have at least tasted the freebase version when it was widely available as "tan mdpv". I think it's the finest drug evere conceived, not just for the indescribable hypersexuality, but also for the smooth euphoria and mild comedown.
My question is this: How can I more easilly separate the oil from the precipitate using some mechanical means?
Here's the nightmarish process I've been going through so far:
First I precipitate and then place the container on a foot vibrator for 30 minutes to raise the first oil (the oil is heavier than water, by the way):
Then I painstakingly touch each droplet with the point of a hyperdermic, which causes the oil to climb up the needle. Then I slowly extract the needle until the surface tension at the top allows the oil to float.
I can only do a small amount at a time or else the oil collects into a ball large enough to sink again. I draw off the oil with a filed down needle point and then spend another 30 mitues of vibrating until the next batch rises. As I proceed, the droplets become smaller and smaller until they are barely visible. The complete extraction takes 5 to 6 hours.
For anyone who freebases mdpv, by the way -- the oil is dangerous beyond belief. When I first started doing this I accidently got a few drops on my fingers while handling a used flask and didn't sleep for 4 days. I had visual and auditory hallucinations and the worst paranoia of my life. It's all the bad aspects of white mdpv times a hundred. If you think the comedown from the white mdpv is bad, rub this oil into your skin. You'll be begging for a hundred milligram dose of the white in exchange. Use rubber gloves.
Anyway --- can someone tell me how I can mechanically separate the oil from the precipitate in less than 5 hours? I definitaely don't want to use a reagent. I'm not a chemist or any kind of scientist by the way, just someone who refused to accept the "new mdpv".
Thank you.
If you do try it, here is what happens (the white HCL is on the right, the precipitate left out for 24 hours in water and air is on the left, the precipitate after 48 hours is in the middle. It continues to degrade all the way through dark brown over the course of a week. The color in the center is what you're looking for in terms of best characteristics. When dried it remains stable):
Note: The above posts are simply freebasing instructions for the HCL form of mdpv. To my knowledge there is no synthesis involved or transformation into any chemical other than mdpv.
P.S. DO NOT TOUCH THE OIL. Extremely dangerous. And never take more than 5mg of the tan colored form at one time.
I just tried it with 10 ml of water, 200 mg of pv, 150 mg of soda, and no heating, and you can see the oil residue on the sides of the beaker, so 100 ml and cold solution should be no problem - (although to FULLY recover your pv you do have to heat it). I didn't wait for the powder to fully precipitate before I took the pic - you can see it just starting to form the slightly darker thin layer on the bottom - just wanted to see if the oil was produced and precipitate would begin.
I can only assume that your pv is something other than pv.
If you do get it right, here's what it should look like after 72 hours of evaporation. (I scraped the lower half for drying for the next pic):
Here's the lower half after drying and before grinding back into a powder:
After 96 hours of evaporation you get the following. It's still very good, but not as good as the previous color:
Both of the above colored forms are highly potent. Don't eyeball dosage. If you're used to the white pv, you will certainly overdose on this stuff because it is three times heavier by volume than the white stuff. If you achieve a color similar to the first one above, then it's potency is hard to overstate. Always weigh it and never do more than 3mg at a time. 3 mg of this is not much larger than a pinhead.
A side note: heat IS required to begin the transformation. For example, if you don't heat the solution at all during precipitation you will be left with a light yellow substance that has exactly the same poor characteristics of white mdpv. If you don't provide enough heat the same thing will happen. You'll know when not enough heat has been applied because after 24 hours of evaporation your mix will have a light greenish yellow cast, with no orange tint. There will be no tan hue. It will look like this:
If the oil has a nice egg yolk color to it, then the heating has been perfect:
If the yellow-green color happens, don't worry, you haven't lost anything.. Add water, pour it back in the flask and heat slowly as described in an earlier post (two saucepans) for a couple of hours. Redo everything and the tan mdpv will appear.
There are dozens of things that can go wrong during this process - none of them irreversible. And there are a few possible end products that might look like the tan, but aren't (overheating the solution, for example, produces something, after evaporation and drying, that looks exactly like tan mdpv but merely gives massive, incapacitating headaches when bumped -- no euphoria, no high, no hypersexuality). If you run into problems I'll be happy to help.
I've processed 23 kilos of this stuff in the past year or so, and bump it myself every day - in fair quantities the hypersexuality... is beyond belief. I have had a number of acquaintances (both male and female) who have rubbed their genitals way past the point of bleeding and still couldn't stop.
In all honesty, a first time user, or a user on a large dose, when presented with food, will simply figure out a way to include it in the ongoing sex play with their partner. If alone, they will figure out a way to fuck it, or shove it up their rectum. This is not a joke. Everything on the Tan becomes a sex partner or a sex aid. If only visually. I will not, anymore, let anyone on Tan be alone with my dogs for example. (I have 14 dogs). Twice in the past year Tan users (one man, one woman - both after major massive doses, to be fair), attempted to have sex with one of my dogs. One user (again after a hugely massive dose), was arrested in a local village here for publicly molesting strangers. Fortunately, in my country, such a crime is punishable by a small fine at worst. So perhaps the appetite "suppression" that initially comes on is really an appetite "disinterest". Water though!!!! - dehydration is a major danger throughout. Force yourself to hydrate when on the Tan. It's way worse than MDMA, especially in higher doses, in terms of suppressing thirst. Watch your urine. If it gets darker, stop what your doing and drink water.
Over the past two years I have played with mdpv using ether, tuloene, xylene, baking soda, galacial acetate, vinegar, water, ethanol and dirt from my garden(the bacterial connection). I have precipitated, heated, frozen, incubated, dissolved, evaporated, combined and separated every possible combination of precipitate, solution and oil. In the process I have come up with substances that were less than enjoyable to ingest. I am my only test subject for these experiments. I temporarily blinded myself for three hours after drying and ingesting a brown goo that appeared after five days of incubating an odd gray precipitate after an ether/acetate experiment with pv. I once ended up with a dark brown substance that looked similar to the darker tan pv versions. It gave me an incapacitating headache that lasted 4 days. I had overheated the pv oil during precipitation and created something horrible. I got PV oil on my skin and didn't sleep for 72 hours, during which time hellish visual and auditory hallucinations had me locked in the bathroom where I hid in the bathtub for 30 hours. My first hit of the acetate salt that I created from the tan had me hallucinating again for a few days. I had not considered that the salt version of the tan freebase might have dosages measured in micrograms. I should have guessed from the huge residual slush left over from the Acetic Acid wash. But I didn't. I bumped 3 milligrams. 300 micrograms is a large dose.
What I'm saying is that my body is barely being held together, and what little cohesion is left is the result of vitamins and pure will power. So I just don't have the courage to go down the acetate road. The HCL road has used me up.
You should have seen some of my forum posts on other boards when I was overdosing on pv.
And this might be the place to talk about "Pure Tan". My first post in this thread alluded to the process, and visually showed some of the procedures. I purposely obfuscated a little, because, well, I did a lot of work to figure out how to make it pure, and it's not really necessary for the average user anyway. The quick and dirty, which anyone can do, is well explained above and produces, IMHO, the finest chemical ever to appear on this planet. I'm a perfectionist, however, and spent the better part of this past year honing a purification procedure. I won't talk about how to do, because it wouldn't be germane to the average kitchen cook. It requires, among other unwieldy implements, a rotovap:
An Airclean system:
A reasonably powerful microscope that will connect to a computer (so you can do detailed, microscopic measurements), and an incubator:
It's not a fun process. Five consecutive full 12 hour workdays will produce only this:
A one milligram dose of this, whatever THIS is, is scary. A 10 mg dose, unchaperoned, would be unquestionable fatal, or at least massively harmful - mostly from the uncontrollable insanity it would bring into your life. Keep in mind that the end product of the "quick and dirty approach" that I outlined contains less than 10% of this substance (precipitate, unavoidable loss through evaporation, mdpv contamination, etc.), so a 5mg dose of the "quick and dirty" is a good time. A 5mg dose of the pure would be a time you would never forget, and probably never want to repeat.
What I do here, with my friends and acquaintances who, rightly, worship this stuff, is mix it 50 to 1 with ground up Excedrin, and wrap it in 25mg doses:
Why Excedrin? First, large doses of the Tan is socially harmful, at the least, and people are people. They don't use the best judgment sometimes. Powdered excedrin, bumped or plugged in doses of more than 200mg in a single day, will cause massive pain, bleeding and discomfort. It is a deterrent to crossing the line into extreme danger. Second, daily use of the Tan causes a a slight background headache for some users after a few days (me included). 25 mg of Excedrin powder, bumped, removes it entirely. But.... since people are people, a number of folks have figured out how to remove the Excedrin by mixing the batch in a large quantity of water. The Excedrin remains in suspension for 10 or 15 minutes. The pure Tan falls to the bottom almost immediately. They siphon off the suspension and are left with an extremely dangerous substance. Dangerous because it is utterly impossible to measure a safe dosage of the pure substance, without possessing a scale costing thousands of dollars.. there have already been harmful events with people who have "purified" my Excedrin mix.
A local brothel owner (prostitution is legal in my country) talked me out of a large amount of Tan and provides it to his working girls and their customers. The idea was to simply increase business by having hornier customers and more authentic product. It worked for a while, and then girls started taking larger doses and giving customers larger doses. They began leaving and running off with customers - some after a single contact with the customer. Two of these men were married, had good jobs, and children that they loved. It has to be obvious, even to the most casual observer, that this is massively disruptive and borders on insanity.
If a person takes a large dose of the Tan and has the misfortune to have no partner at the time, then truly terrible things happen. A number of men, and women, have molested strangers after massive doses of the pure product (which is why I no longer provide it to anyone other than trusted friends - everything else is cut 50 to one). Twice, users on large doses have tried to molest my dogs. Again, even the most casual observer will see the danger in this.
I have distributed over 3,000 doses exclusively in this country. They call it SPT (I named it) and it is a seriously hot underground topic here. I know of at least a dozen people who spend virtually full time playing with this, and hundreds trying to get samples, which I dole out with meticulous care. Anyone caught sharing this with another without my consent doesn't get any more.
"Tan" is not the only thing that has come out of mdpv, and I am not the only person producing stuff. I try to keep track of all the recreational products on the world market, looking for constituents that provide evidence that other people are walking down this same path:
It also contains trace amounts of a Salvia Divinorum based product. I've been playing around myself with combining tiny amounts of Salvia based chemicals with the Tan - Hugely Awesome, but I can't get a dosage that works for everyone yet.
For those of you who have tried Salvia, you will recognize the leaves below - the most potent naturally occurring hallucinogen:
Salvinorin-A, the active ingredient in Salvia, when processed correctly, yields a hypersexual compound that surpasses the Tan (if you can even get mind around the concept), but Its side effects for even a tiny overdose are debilitating (uncontrollable shaking, frothing at the mouth - which oddly doesn't detract from its sexual appeal if both partners are on it). So minimal doses are required, and the effects of these small doses are additive when combined with the Tan. The Salvia based Chemical in this Bolivian brew is different from the one I use, but very close. I've been trying to figure out how they made it.
I suppose it's time I should introduce myself.
My name is John, and my main focus is the effect of medicinal tropical plants on bacteria, and vice versa. I don't need to tell you my exact location, because it doesn't really matter. "Imagine there's no country", as another John once said.
To do any decent research in this field, I had to be near tropical plants. Jungles have tropical plants. So I moved to this place:
until supplies could arrive, after which I built the lab:
And stocked it with stuff that I would need in order to do research:
Then, I went about the task of bringing some small civilization into the heart of darkness:
Ok. So I did what I came here to do. I've had fun and I hope I've given some of you food for thought. But I have to get back to the real world. The on-line world is more of a distraction than the self induced effects of the many experiments I've done using my own body over the past year or so, and I have work to do.
I'm going to delete all of my posts in this thread. I'm afraid that unless I can answer questions for people, the information will be more confusing than helpful. I myself won't have the time to log back on here. I may lurk again from time to time though. Two days should be enough time for those of you in the middle of making Quick Tan to ask your questions and get your answers. Those of you I've given my email to in private messages: That email address won't be valid in a couple of days. Those to whom i gave my phone number: Same thing.
So ask what you need (if anything), before i move on. Not trying to be dramatic, I just can't spare any more time away from the work. I've been on a semi-sebatical since I started this thread.
You are a good bunch of people.
Impossible to stay away from this thread. The dance is seductive.
It is entirely possible, I believe, to break every known sexual taboo and indulge in activities that many would describe as "monstrously depraved" with the one that you love and have both partners feel elevated by the experience.
I have photos of the boss fucking dogs in my safe at home. I think my job is secure.
Holy ****, ****ing Christ, ****ing unbelievable, ****ing wordless, ****ing amazing, ****ing everything. Thank christ I had a girlfriend who joined me. Most of the stuff we did that day we still can't talk about. Can't even look straight at each other while we talk around it. She blushes. I feel ashamed and uncertain. She wonders who I am. I wonder who she is. We wonder what the **** happened. It was awesome. And scary. And unsettling. But we sure as **** want more.
I am not gay, have never been gay, men don't turn me on, I'm not interested. But if I didn't have a female partner I know, fact, straight up, I would have gone down to a gay bar with a sign around my neck that said "Will pay $100 for every dick I can suck". Weird man!!! I can honestly, actually see how stuffmonger's friends wanted to **** his dogs. I swear I could have done it. Two days later I was still fantasizing about the strangest, most ridiculous sexual things. Even now my mind is still affected.
This is some scary, ****ed up, wild, wonderful **** and my hat is ****ing OFF to Stuffmonger.
has anyone tried this shit yet? gold star to the first person to investigate, take the plunge, and eat face.
I think I'll stick with plants that grow naturally from the earth. Also, I'm not interested in bestiality.
has anyone tried this shit yet? gold star to the first person to investigate, take the plunge, and eat face.
I think I'll stick with plants that grow naturally from the earth. Also, I'm not interested in bestiality.
How long does it take for a phone company to triangulate a cell phone signal? With what accuracy? Is there any way to confuse/delay the system? If a cell phone is turned off, but the battery is installed, is there any way to locate the phone? Are there any brands of phones are more/less difficult to triangulate ?
the ability to turn on your cellphone remotely (it will still look like it's off), listen to your conversations, and ping your phone to find your location. And when I say find your location, I'm talking within a few yards/meters.
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McAfee picks a bullet off the floor and fixes me with a wide-eyed, manic intensity, his light blue eyes sparkling. "This is a bullet, right?" he says in the congenial Southern accent that has stuck with him since his boyhood in Virginia.
"Let's put the gun down," I tell him. I'd come here to investigate why the government of Belize was accusing him of assembling a private army and entering the drug trade. It seemed implausible that a wildly successful tech entrepreneur would disappear into the Central American jungle and become a narco-trafficker. Now I'm not so sure.
But he explains that the accusations are a fabrication. "Maybe what happened didn't actually happen," he says, staring hard at me. "Can I do a demonstration?"
He loads the bullet into the gleaming silver revolver and spins the cylinder.
"This scares you, right?" he says. Then he puts the gun to his head.
My heart rate kicks up; it takes me a second to respond. "Yeah, I'm scared," I admit.
"We don't have to do this."
"I know we don't," he says, the muzzle pressed against his temple. And then he pulls the trigger. Nothing happens. He pulls it five times in rapid succession. There are only six chambers.
"Reholster the gun," I demand.
He keeps his eyes fixed on me and pulls the trigger a sixth time. Still nothing. With the gun still to his head, he starts pulling the trigger incessantly. "I can do this all day long," he says to the sound of the hammer clicking. "I can do this a thousand times. Ten thousand times. Nothing will ever happen. Why? Because you have missed something. You are operating on an assumption about reality that is wrong."
It's the same thing, he argues, with the government's accusations. They were a smoke screen—an attempt to distort reality—but there's one thing everybody agrees on: The trouble really got rolling in the humid predawn murk of April 30, 2012.
In a too-strange-to-be-true twist on an already bizarre crime story, fugitive tech millionaire John McAfee today revealed where he'd been hiding over the last six days: in his own compound. McAfee, wanted by police in connection with the murder of his neighbor Gregory Faull over the weekend, said in a phone interview that he had never really been on the run at all. He'd just been hiding out at home. The calls were coming from inside the house!
"I am," he said in a telephone interview Friday afternoon, "where I am most of the time. I am certainly inside my compound."
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Please stop calling them "bath salts", it's just furthering government bullshit propaganda. MDPV was on the street for years, and people weren't fucking dogs by the droves. It was banned a couple of years ago, but it isn't any more dangerous than any stimulant on the street. This guy is the kind of guy you don't want to posses experimental new drugs. He has no problem giving possibly lethal drugs to people around him; That's not a designer drug problem; that's a psychopath.
"@joerogan contact @chad_essley for my number. I will do an interview for you live on the air."
"@officialmcafee @chad_essley Will do! Thank you very much!"
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I really hope he wasn't lying about his lab being for rainforest pharmacological research. Searching for rare plants in the rainforest, taking samples, and trying to extract pharmacologically active compounds is something of a dream job for me, so I'm sympathetic if that is actually what he is doing.
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The 5 Worst Marketing Ideas Ever Put into Action
In the early '90s, the South Pacific Coke Region wanted young soda pop drinkers to really feel the joy of a salty-sweet Coke in their mouths. Hoping to recapture some of the magic their parents felt holding that long, hard, curved bottle of yesteryear, Coke launched a classic, retro-style container aimed at younger customers, with the slogan "Feel the Curves." They contracted with a small graphic design firm in order to best milk the creative shaft of the cultural zeitgei-
All right, look, we're running out of subtle dick puns here, people. Coke put a blowjob on the poster, OK?
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"I don't see- Oh. Oooooooooh."
It wasn't a fluke or some kind of phallus-based Rorschach test: One of the graphic designers intentionally inserted a surreptitious silhouette of a girl about to mouth-fight the fleshy Odin into the picture's foreground. Unfortunately, all of the posters were shipped out and displayed before the ice cube blowjob was discovered, and were, in fact, only spotted after the ads had been blown up to their fullest and erected on the sides of delivery trucks. All told, Coke blew huge loads of money (OK, so we lied about running out of dick puns earlier) on the recall process, marking the first and last time anybody ever dropped a ton of cash on stopping a blowjob.
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But it really went with their slogan, "This bottle doubles as an awesome dildo."
#1. Chevy: Make Your Own Commercial
It's rarely ever a good thing when a company decides to "tap into viral marketing." At best, you get an Old Spice ad or two; at worst, you get yet another rapping grandma video.
Or at least that's what we used to think the worst possible fallout for a viral marketing attempt could be, until Chevy's "Make Your Own Tahoe Commercial" campaign. Basically, the campaign gave massive commercial resources and dedicated space on their official website to anybody who wanted it -- even (as it turned out, especially) to people who actively hated the company. General Motors had just revamped the Tahoe and bought a full episode of The Apprentice (that's the show where celebrities compete to see who has the biggest ego, but the winner is always Donald Trump) to market the car.
"You buy this fucking Tahoe, you stupid cunts!"
For those of you who've seen the Internet before, you know where this is going. (And for those of you who haven't: Welcome! Don't waste any more time here; there's porn literally everywhere. Go, frolic!)
Chevy provided users with a selection of clips of the Tahoe doing generic SUV stuff like climbing mountains and not using its turn signal, then let them choose what clips to play, the order that they'd appear and the dramatic score, and let them add their own custom text to deliver a message. Here was the kind of thing they came up with:
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They should feel lucky at the surprising lack of dicks in the photo.
Although GM assumed that the Tahoe's legions of loyal fans would cover the Web with upbeat messages, as anyone who's even glanced sidelong at the Internet while racing by a burning computer lab could probably guess, this was not the case. A few of the submissions were positive, yes, but the ones that went viral were decidedly not.
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"Wow, the Internet really showed some class by holding back their racist urges, didn't they?"
Some of the parody ads focused on how SUVs are destroying the environment, some of them called the Tahoe out for being a horrible overall vehicle and others simply encouraged drivers to murder their families. And thanks to the tools Chevy gave the Internet, all of these messages were tacitly endorsed by the company and prominently displayed on Chevy's own website for several days.
On the plus side, Captain Planet villains with low vehicular standards and histories of domestic violence apparently really loved the car.
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We are beginning to look at replacing the floors in our home and are considering laminate flooring. We are wondering if there is a difference in type and quality, especially when pricing is concerned. For example, the flooring at Lowe's is considerable more expensive than at Sam's Club; should I be worried that the lower cost flooring is a lesser quality? Are there other considerations besides price?
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Great question! My wife and I were examining laminate flooring a little while ago too. Not all of them are alike -- here are some things to consider.
I can add one other option from my own experience as a first time laminate buyer/installer.
I'm in a rental where "anything goes" - it's an open floorplan but for the bedroom and bathroom. It came with horrid (and asbestos-containing) floor tiles. I eventually decided to buy the cheapest laminate flooring I could find. I covered an area of about 550 SF and laminate was actually the cheapest option compared to everything else I could find (I'd even considered epoxy paint).
First thing to note is that Lowes and HD have a pretty small selection and even their "cheap" stuff is expensive. Google found me Lumber Liquidators and I just waited until some of the 6mm stuff fell below $0.60 SF. It had fairly good reviews (most complaints were about installation issues, which I didn't encounter, being a reader of directions and such) and I was allowed to try to damage the sample in the store.
So in short, I suppose my answer is this - from what I could see, the differences in quality seem to have more to do with ease of installation and appearance than overall durability. My $0.59/SF flooring shows no signs of wear after a year (and two dogs). I've tried to damage some extra pieces with varying success - scraping a key does nothing, a sharp nail does nothing, but really gouging at it with a sharp screw can leave a mark. I suspected as much as I went through 4 circular saw blades cutting each end piece. The coating seems exceptionally tough and so far I see no issues with the adhesion of the coating to the underlying fiberboard, nor did I see any signs it was not well bonded when cutting it (I never saw the top layer separate from the board). The joints seem to be holding up, but are slightly visible, perhaps the high-end laminate has tighter tolerances in manufacturing.
Bottom line, if you're looking to spend less than $2.50/SF or so, go with something extremely cheap from a place other than HD or Lowes.


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5 Ways Your Telecom Company is Screwing You
When you look at your bill for phone, wireless and Internet service every month, you can't help but feel a sense of impotent rage. The bill is always higher than what they advertised the plan for, they cram in endless mystery charges and deep down inside you know they're screwing you. And there's really nothing you can do about it.
Well, we have good news -- it's actually worse than that! Wait, did we say "good" news? Sorry.
The point is, many of the annoying things your cellphone provider does happen behind the scenes, and you'll never find it spelled out on your bill.
#5. "4G" is a Bullshit Marketing Term
It was just a few years ago that everyone started getting 3G phones that could actually surf the Internet at speeds faster than '90s-era dial-up. But even 3G is going out of style. That's right, times are changing, grandpa! Now everyone's all about 4G. It's in pretty much every ad now, and every cellphone provider says its version is the biggest and best.
But ... notice how they're not citing actual speeds there? As in, actual megabytes per second or anything else you could actually make sense of? It's almost like they're taking advantage of the fact that the average person has no freaking idea what 4G is ("Wow, you can really feel the 'G' in this phone!").
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Suggested slogan: "We didn't give an 'F,' so here's another 'G'!"
Well, the good news is that 4G isn't just some bullshit term they made up -- it's actually an agreed-upon standard set by a group called the International Telecommunication Union, or ITU. Then cellphone companies promptly went about utterly disregarding that and calling their much slower service "4G" anyway.
See, the 4G standard the ITU established is fast as hell -- it was supposed to be an on-the-move (i.e., riding in a train/car/bus) data rate of 100MB per second. Standing still, you should get a data rate of 1,000MBps. That's freaking 20 to 200 times faster than the average broadband connection in the U.S.
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Goddamn! Tell us where to line up!
Ah, not so fast. The "4G" plans that cellphone companies are plastering all over their ads are a fraction of that blazing-fast 4G standard. Verizon is currently capable of 32MBps maximum (though they only offer 12MBps to customers), and AT&T's is about the same (though that hasn't stopped them from trashing Verizon's identical technology). Sprint theoretically gives up to 10MBps, and T-Mobile can do up to 30MBps. Again, compare that to the between 100 and 1,000MBps we were supposed to get.
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You can't mudsling if you're both covered in poop.
So why were these companies allowed to call that shit "4G" when it wasn't even 10 percent of the standard? Well, once they started using 4G as a marketing term, the ITU actually backed down and just said "Sure, fuck it, whatever" and retroactively applied the 4G moniker to the standards the carriers are actually using. Proving once again that if you say enough stupid shit, people will eventually give in just to shut you up.
"You're saying we at the ITU won't bend over and take it? Well you, sir, are about to get a surprise!"
So now they actually can say they're 4G and be telling the truth. It'd be like if McDonald's started making their Quarter Pounder half the size and convinced the rest of the world to change their definition of a pound.
#4. Data Rates for Texting Are Obscene
At this point, we probably text more than we talk. Americans alone send about four billion texts a day. The Pew Research Center has estimated that 72 percent of cellphone-owning adults text, usually about 10 times a day. Teenagers, because they actually have social lives, send about 50 texts a day.
And why not, it's cheap. It's like $20 a month and you can send every little thing that pops into your head to your mom, your best friend, your old third-grade teacher, your dog (you bought a phone for him just so he could read your texts) and that girl who told you never to contact her again.
"'Test results back -- it's herpes.' Annnnd send to all."
So $20 a month for a texting plan isn't bad, right? Especially when you consider that without a texting plan in place, each text costs 20 cents a pop.
Here's the thing that cellphone companies don't want you to know, though: Even the flat rate is a rip-off, because text messages cost basically nothing for them to send. Texts are kind of piggybacking on data they have to send anyway.
"Pass that to Josie, and tell Sarah on the way that she's an insufferable bitch."
When your phone is connected to a network, it operates on two different channels. One is the voice/data channel and the other is what's called the control channel. The control channel is saved for your phone saying, "Hey, I'm here!" to the tower and the tower saying "OK!" in return. It is constantly sending this traffic no matter what you do. Text messages use this channel.
Which is to say, this channel is used the same way whether a text is incoming or not. Have you ever wondered why texts are limited to 160 characters? It's because that's the maximum length of a string of data that the control channel can carry. When you send or receive a text, it's just the tower sending that instead of its usual "OK!" string. If there's no text message there, it just fills the space anyway.
The filler's nothing special, just "kill all humans" and things like that.
Even so, because texts are such tiny chunks of data, the phone companies are effectively charging you more than 7,000 percent more for a text than they do for the same amount of data downloaded as part of your regular data plan. A scientist in England found that a text costs four times as much as it would cost to send the same data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
And yet it never messages us.
It's kind of the data equivalent of bottled water. Because the total price is fairly low, you don't notice the obscene markup on what you're actually getting.
#3. Bullshit Apps You Can't Uninstall
Have you ever gotten a nice, shiny new computer, brought it home, set it all up and then found out that the manufacturer felt the need to install like five different antivirus software trials (and an AOL installer, for some reason) before it even left the factory? Now you have to uninstall all of them, otherwise they bog down your system resources and bug you to buy the full version a month later.
Now imagine it was set up so that you can't get rid of the bullshit, and it took up a good chunk of your hard drive space. That's the situation with smartphones.
It also comes packaged with an odd sense of self-satisfaction, but that's usually deflated moments later.
The first time you pull your new phone out of the box and turn it on, you might find some app you don't give a shit about. And then another. In some cases, as much as 10 percent of your phone's storage can be taken up by crap -- and by crap, we mean apps that will expire after a demo period and won't let you use them further unless you pay for the full version.
OK, you say, that's the same as what we dealt with on our PCs. But the difference is that in many cases, this stuff can't be uninstalled. It will eat up a big chunk of the phone's resources -- forever. Congratulations, you've got bloatware. It can be anything from a copy of the movie Avatar to the game The Sims 3, or any number of for-pay services you will never, ever use.
"What the fuck is this? A call button?"
Mobile phone companies have discovered that they can get fat sacks of cash by agreeing to place the apps of the highest bidder on your phone. Kind of like if Ford found out that they could put a huge, permanent Burger King logo on your back window and pocket some extra cash for every car sold.
And instead of an air bag, it just has a giant inflatable cheeseburger.
Currently, this is primarily an issue with Android phones. Google gives its wireless partners a lot of freedom with their software, so those companies do what comes natural to them and abuse the shit out of it. It can also crop up on some BlackBerry (yes, that's still a thing) and Windows Phone 7 devices.
Apple seems to be the only one immune to bloatware's curse so far, but that's only because it doesn't want to piss off the crazy, aloof guys making them boatloads of cash.


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If they use a Counter Spell or some other similar way to counter my Goblin Grenade do I still lose the sacrificed goblin?
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Yes. This is pretty obvious if you remember that, like the card says, sacrificing the goblin is an additional cost. It's like paying mana for a spell - and you don't get mana back if someone counters one of your spells.
If you want to read the comp rules, casting spells is section 601.1. Paying the cost for a spell is 601.2g; the spell becomes cast after that in 601.2h. At that point, it's on the stack and your opponent has a chance to counter it. When they do, the costs are already paid (your goblin is dead and your mana is spent).
Yes. You pay costs to take actions. This includes Mana Costs listed right of the Card Name, and any additional costs within the cards Rules Text. Nothing in the Basic Rules allows you to get back costs that you paid to cast a spell. Remember, your opponent is paying a cost to counter your spell (usually a mana cost, and the instant counter spell that will leave their hand and go to their graveyard). It wouldn't be fair for them to have to pay to counter your spell, if you just got your resources back. From the Basic Rulebook:


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Simple Definition of generation
: a group of people born and living during the same time
: the people in a family born and living during the same time
: the average length of time between the birth of parents and the birth of their children
Full Definition of generation
1 a : a body of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor b : a group of individuals born and living contemporaneously c : a group of individuals having contemporaneously a status (as that of students in a school) which each one holds only for a limited period d : a type or class of objects usually developed from an earlier type <first of the … new generation of powerful supersonic fighters — Kenneth Koyen>
2 a : the action or process of producing offspring : procreation b : the process of coming or bringing into being <generation of income> c : origination by a generating process : production; especially : formation of a geometric figure by motion of another
3 : the average span of time between the birth of parents and that of their offspring
generationalplay \-shnəl, -shə-nəl\ adjective
generationallyplay \-shnə-lē, shə-nəl-ē\ adverb
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Examples of generation in a sentence
She was worshipped by a generation of moviegoers.
He was a hero to generations of students.
We need to preserve these resources for future generations.
His books are popular among members of the younger generation.
That family has lived in the same house for four generations.
The house has been passed down in the family from generation to generation.
He has held that position for a generation.
No one dreamed that such things would be possible a generation ago.
The company claims to be developing the next generation of portable computers.
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1 : those being a single step in a line originating from one ancestor <This family has lived in town for four generations.>
2 : a group of individuals born and living at about the same time <the younger generation>
3 : the act or process of producing or creating something <the generation of heat>
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1a: a body of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestorb: a group of individuals born and living contemporaneously
2: the average span of time between the birth of parents and that of their offspring
3: the action or process of producing offspring : procreation
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Japan is the world's top LNG importer, making the trend bad news for companies developing or planning LNG export facilities in locations as varied as Australia, Russia, East Africa or North America.
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Japan's demand for imported natural gas, which ballooned
after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, is falling
-- and may deflate a lot further if the government succeeds in
getting dozens of idled nuclear reactors restarted.
Imports of liquefied natural gas in the first half of 2013
were down 2.7% to 43.4 million tons, the first half-yearly
decline since the nuclear accident more than two years ago, the
ministry of finance reported Wednesday. Last year, imports were
up 11%, to 87.3 million tons, after a 12% rise in 2011.
The reversal of the trend is bad news for companies developing
or planning LNG export facilities in locations as varied as
Australia, Russia, East Africa or North America. Japan is the
world's top LNG importer.
But bad news for gas producers could be good news for coal
miners in those same regions. With all but two of 50 licensed
reactors idle, what's currently capping Japan's use of imported
LNG -- which has been generating 40% of its electricity -- is
in part heavier use of coal.
Utilities have repaired some earthquake-damaged coal-fired
power plants and built new ones that can produce electricity
more cheaply than gas-fired plants. In April, Tokyo Electric
Power Co., operator of the Fukushima reactors, started making
electricity at two new coal-fired 1.6-gigawatt power stations.
Tohoku Electric Power Co. has restarted two coal units with a
combined two gigawatts of capacity since late last year.
The chief executive of one of Australia's largest miners,
Whitehaven Coal, said recently he is targeting Japan over big
buyer China for future thermal-coal sales because Japan's tight
environmental controls means demand
for high-quality, less-polluting Australian coal over cheaper
varieties from elsewhere.
"LNG demand may not fall sharply," said Tomomichi Akuta,
analyst at Mitsubishi UFJ Research & Consulting, "but it
won't rise any further even if nuclear power doesn't come back
What could turn the slippage in demand into a real tumble
would be the realization of the ruling Liberal Democratic
Party's enthusiasm for restarting reactors.
"It depends on when and how many reactors the authorities
approve," said Hidetoshi Shioda, analyst of SMBC Nikko
Securities. Japan's Institute of Energy Economics, a think
tank, last year forecast that restarting 26 reactors would cut
LNG demand 8.8% the following year.
Utilities have asked Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority to
clear an initial 12 reactors for restart, on the grounds they
meet new safety regulations.
But there are hurdles, including public hostility.
Pro-nuclear Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may be flying high,
coming off a big election win Sunday for his ruling party, but
he hasn't managed to overcome the resistance to nuclear power.
A poll by Asahi newspaper a week ago showed 58% opposition to
restarting any reactors.
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Birkhoff's theorem states:
The set of $n \times n$ doubly stochastic matrices is a convex set whose extreme points are the permutation matrices
This theorem seems to be commonly attributed to Birkhoff (perhaps also von Neumann). But I recall listening to a talk by Harold Kuhn, where he said that this theorem should actually be attributed to some $P$ where $P \in \{$Jacobi, Dénes Kőnig, Jenő Egerváry, Somebody else?$\}$.
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I would aim at "It is everybody's business".
Affaire in this context means "stuff one should be interested in", it is not related to commercial activities (unlike, for instance, in homme d'affaires, which means businessman)
Affaire generally corresponds to "business" in the sense of something that somebody should be concerned about (the kind of business that one minds).
Affaire is broader than "business" in this meaning, it can more generally mean something that is happening and is a concern of some kind.
The word affaire has many other meanings, including some other meanings which can be translated as "business" in the economic sense:


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A recent answer motivated me to post about this. I've always had a vague, unpleasant feeling that somehow lattice theory has been completely robbed of the important place it deserves in mathematics - lattices seem to show up everywhere, the author or teacher says "observe that these __ form a complete lattice" or something similar, and then moves on, never to speak of what that might imply. But, not currently knowing anything about them, I can't be sure. What would be a good place to learn about lattice theory, especially its implications for "naturally occurring" lattices (subgroups, ideals, etc.)?
A good, user-friendly, modern, introductory textbook is Davey and Priestley's Introduction to Lattices and Order.
Incidentally, Gian-Carlo Rota used to say much the same thing as you, Zev: that lattice theory had been robbed of its rightful place in mathematics.
George Grätzer has written a couple of well-regarded books on lattices. The wikipedia page recommends his "Lattice theory. First concepts and distributive lattices" and several others.
I've used Garret Birkhoff book "Lattice theory". Could be a bit outdated nowadays, but it gives a deep feeling. Not so sure if it is good as lattice field is not my field.
I agree with Gerhard. Imho, "Algebras, Lattices, Varieties I" is the best book on universal algebra and lattice theory (perhaps the best math book ever ;) Ironically, it's out of print. However, Burris and Sankapanavar is also great and is free.
As far as sharing examples of the utility of lattice theory, personally, I don't know how I got through my comps in groups, rings, and fields before I learned about lattice theory. Now the only way I can remember many of the theorems is to picture the subgroup (subring, subfield) lattice!
Professor Lampe's Notes on Galois Theory and G-sets are great examples of how these subjects can be viewed abstractly from a universal algebra/lattice theory perspective. The Galois theory notes in particular distil the theory to its basic core, making it very elegant and easy to remember, and highlighting the fact that the underlying algebras need not be fields.
There is still the question of what results are truly universal algebra results, rather than old results couched in universal algebra language? That is an interesting question, and maybe should be the subject of a different mathoverflow post...
Updates: See also this post.
If you want to see lattice theory in action, check out a book on Universal Algebra. Graetzer wrote such a text, so I imagine (but do not know from experience) that he will have many such examples; I cut my teeth on "Algebras, Lattices, Varieties", which has a gentle introduction to lattice theory from a universal algebraic point of view, followed by many universal algebraic results depending on that introduction. This was co-written by my advisor, Ralph McKenzie.
(Hopefully others will share examples from other fields that use lattices.)
Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2010.02.06
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The PS4 version of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is out this week and PS3 players can upgrade for free by following a few simple steps. Other highlights in the latest PS Store line-up include RedLynx's physics-based platform racer Trials Fusion for PS4 and EA Sports' tournament tie-in 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil for PS3.
Housemarque's zombie shoot 'em up Dead Nation makes its way to PS Vita with Cross-Buy support, and the Easter Sale has been updated with some awesome deals such as Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII for R249 and God of War: Ascension for just R229.
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• Ethan: Meteor Hunter (R95/£7.99/€9.99; Cross-Buy)
• No Heroes Allowed: No Puzzles Either! (Free)
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