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I tried using CTRL + V for pasting contents in a VI editor document, but CTRL + V is not interpreted as a paste.
First, make sure you're in edit mode (press i). Then you can paste with Ctrl+Shift+V, if you're in a terminal emulator like
You can also type
Also check this question on stackoverflow.com for more information.
If you want to copy/paste lines in
Vi (and Vim) works very differently compared to a normal text editor such as Gedit. It also has a pretty steep learning curve. If you want to learn some basic commands, start with this interactive tutorial.
However, to answer you question. The system clipboard's content can be accessed through the plus register. So to paste something from the system clipboard you can, from the Normal mode, press: "+p (Not at the same time, but one after another).
Use the center button of the mouse to insert text you've highlighted elsewhere.
Useful when you don't have access to your system clipboard (eg. in a remote ssh session)
Must be in edit/insert mode for vim
I always use Shift+Insert when I want to paste text into the terminal, works in all terminal programs.
(Which is also the reason why I never get a laptop where you can't press Insert without pressing a secondary key)
Once you enter vi, press
Detailed instructions to copy/paste lines of text in vi using
(use the following in the command mode of vi)
Copy (YANK)
To copy one line in vi:
To copy 2 lines in vi:
(likewise, any number of lines can be copied)
To copy all lines from the current location to the end of the file:
To copy all text from the current location to the end of the current word:
To copy all text from the current location to the end of the line:
Paste (PUT)
To paste text in the clipboard - after the location of the cursor:
To paste text in the clipboard - before the location of the cursor:


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Same-sex couples can't file joint federal taxes
|This Oct. 18, 2012 file photo shows Edith Windsor interviewed at the offices of the New York Civil Liberties Union, in New York. Windsor sued the government in November 2010 because she was told to pay $363,053 in federal estate tax after her partner of 44 years, Thea Spyer, died in 2009. The federal Defense of Marriage Act defines marriage as "a legal union between one man and one woman," and that's what the Internal Revenue Service follows when it comes to federal income taxes. AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
WASHINGTON -- Even though an increasing number of states are legalizing gay marriage, same-sex married couples still won't be able to file joint federal tax returns this year.
The federal Defense of Marriage Act defines marriage as "a legal union between one man and one woman," and that's what the Internal Revenue Service follows when it comes to federal income taxes.
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What's the funniest nerdy joke you know?
Be it math, science or something completely esoteric.
Mine is an oldie from my profession:
A mathematician, a physicist and a statistician went hunting for deer. When they chanced upon one buck lounging about, the mathematician fired first, missing the buck's nose by a few inches. The physicist then tried his hand, and missed the tail by a wee bit. The statistician started jumping up and down saying "We got him! We got him!"
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kills me everytime
Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar.
One says, "I think I've lost an electron."
The other says, "Are you sure?"
The first replies, "Yes, I'm positive…"
LOL I know, I kill myself sometimes....
Heisenburg is out driving one day and gets pulled. The cop asks, "Do you know how fast you were going?"
Heisenberg replies, "Not at all, but I know exactly where I am."
A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when a malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's navigation and communications equipment. Due to the darkness and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position and course to get back to the airport. The pilot saw a tall building with lights on and flew toward it, the pilot had the passenger draw a handwritten sign reading "WHERE AM I?" and hold it up for the building's occupants to see. People in the building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER." The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely.
After they were on the ground, the passenger asked the pilot how the sign helped determine their position.
The pilot responded "I knew that had to be the Microsoft support building, they gave me a technically correct but entirely useless answer."
Okay, that wasn't the funniest one I've ever heard. Maybe this one.
Bartender says "Hey, we don't serve your kind here!"
A tachyon walks into a bar.
...The problem with jokes about UDP is that you never know if the other person gets them.
What is red and smells like blue paint?
Red paint
Poor little doggie
lapped a puddle on the floor.
What he thought was H2O,
was really H2SO4.
Here's another one, also from chemistry class:
What is 1E-09 boo?
It's funnier in a heavy Chinese accent.
@rprebel: A man takes a hot air balloon ride and gets blown wildly off course. He sees another man on the ground and yells down to him."Hey, do you know where I am? I'm supposed to meet a friend after my ride, but I'm worried that I'm too far away now to get back in time." The man replies, "Yes. You're 40 feet above the ground in a hot air balloon, at 38 degrees north, 97 degrees west." "You must be an engineer." "You're right, but how did you know?" "You've wasted my time by giving me a technically correct but completely impractical answer. I'm still lost and late." "You must be an executive." "Yes, how did you know?" "You got yourself lost and made promises you couldn't keep, complained when I tried to help, and somehow the whole situation is my fault now!"
A neutron walks into a bar and orders a beer and asks "How much?" The bartender replies "For you, no charge."
For Star Trek nerds: Why did Captain Kirk pee on the ceiling? He wanted to go where no man had gone before.
@khellendros1984: lol nice. Yours is funnier.
I still chuckle when every time..
@jordan711: I didn't get it at first, but then after a second, I got it. Nice play on chemistry and the english language
you kinda stole mine!
Johnny was a Chemists Son,
But Johnny is no more.
What Johnny thought was H20,
was H2SO4.
A biologist, a mathematician, and a physicist are having lunch at a cafe across the street from a hotel. As they are eating, they see two people enter the hotel. A short while later, they observe three people leaving the building. The biologist remarks "they must have reproduced while they were inside!" The physicist smiles and says "no, there must be some part of the system we cannot observe!" The mathematician thinks for a second and says "if one more person walks in, the building will be empty."
A physicist, a marine biologist, and a chemist are walking down the beach. As the wind picks up, the physicist gets terribly excited by the wave mechanics, runs into the ocean and disappears beneath the water. The marine biologist, thinking of all the wonderful aquatic life, also gets excited and runs into the water and vanishes. The chemist thinks for a moment, pulls out a notebook, and writes "the physicist and biologist are soluble in water."
A farmer hires a physicist to help him get more milk from his cows. The physicist agrees to help, and after several weeks of deliberation, announces he has a solution that will increase milk output. He says, "Let's begin by considering a spherical cow..."
A neutrino walks into a bar, orders a beer, and doesn't interact with anyone.
I also really like when a friend asks me "What's up?" because I can give the deadpan reply "Entropy."
(Yes, I have a lot of these. Physicists tend to go either insane or inane.)
What do you do with a dead chemist?
What do you call a computer that sings? A Dell.
If you don't get it... Adele.
@snoopjedi: I get the jokes in the first, but the second post just lost me.
Two peanuts were walking down the street... one got assaulted.
Required reading: xkcd
Two men walk into a bar. The first man asks for H20. The second man asks for H20, too. The bartender hands them their drinks, and after finishing their drinks the second man drops dead.
How do know a computer programmer is an extrovert?
He looks down at your shoes.
There are four engineers in a car; an electrical engineer,
a chemical engineer and a Microsoft engineer.
Suddenly the car just stops by the side of the road, and
the three engineers look at each other wondering what
could be wrong.
"Sounds to me as if the pistons have seized. We'll have to strip down the engine before we can get the car working again", says the mechanical engineer
The electrical engineer suggests stripping down the
electronics of the car and trying to trace where a fault
might have occurred.
The chemical engineer, not knowing much about cars,
suggests that maybe the fuel is becoming emulsified
and getting blocked somewhere.
Then, the Microsoft engineer, not knowing much about
anything, comes up with a suggestion, "Why don't we
close all the windows, get out, get back in, open the
windows again, and maybe it'll work !?"
Before I started reading all the jokes, I thought.,.. "what could I add"... and my favorite would have been the UDP joke, but someone beat me to it.. that's OK... I'm sure many people here did not get it.
Shrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and doesn't.
What is this?
A ferrous wheel.
Not exactly nerdy, but . . .
What does an agnostic dyslexic insomniac do?
Stays up all night wondering if there's a dog.
'A Virus Walks Into a Bar...' and Other Science Jokes
with Science comedian Brian Malow
Remember when the "dude, you're getting a Dell" guy from the commercials got arrested for marijuana possession?
I thought this was weird, because I was always told pot was a Gateway drug.
A manager, hardware technician, and a software engineer are on their way to a business conference through some mountains. Suddently, the brakes go out just as they approach a hard left turn down one of the mountains. The car veers wide and crashes into a guard rail. Despite the friction from the barrier, they've still picked up a lot of speed and crash into the side of the mountain at the bottom of the slope. The passengers climb out of the car completely unscathed to assess the damage.
"We can fix this," says the manager. "We still need to meet our business objective of presenting at the conference. We'll form a committee, draw up an action plan with measurable goals, then email it to HR for approval."
"I have a hardward kit in my luggage," says the hardware tech. "I can probably find the cause of the failure and repair it."
"Wait, wait, before we do any of that," says the software engineer "we should push the car back to the top of the hill and see if we can recreate the problem."
It seems the US Federal Aviation Administration has a unique device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is an air cannon that launches a dead chicken at a plane's windshield at approximately the speed the plane flies. The theory is that if the windshield doesn't crack from the carcass impact, it'll survive a real collision with a bird during flight.
It also seems that British Rail was very interested in this and wanted to test a windshield on a brand new, ultra high speed locomotive they're developing.
They borrowed the FAA's chicken launcher, loaded the chicken and fired. The ballistic chicken shattered the windshield, went through the engineer's chair, broke an instrument panel and embedded itself in the back wall of the engine cab. The British engineers were stunned and asked the FAA to review the test to see if everything was done correctly.
The FAA checked the test thoroughly and had one recommendation:
"Next time, try thawing it first."
There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Actual transcript of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities
off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. (unconfirmed)
AMERICANS: "Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision."
CANADIANS: "Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision."
AMERICANS: "This is the captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course."
CANADIANS: "No, I say again, you divert YOUR course."
AMERICANS: "This is the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, the second largest ship in the United States Atlantic Fleet. We are accompanied by three destroyers, three cruisers and numerous support vessels. I DEMAND that you change your course 15 degrees north. That's ONE-FIVE degrees north, OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP!!"
CANADIANS: "This is a lighthouse. Your call."
What did one molecule say to the other molecule who tried to steal his extra electron?
I've got my ion you!
Ok..its still a couple lame BLOND jokes, but still WAY nerdy..
How do you kill a blond?.....You put a scratch n sniff sticker at the bottom of a swimming pool!
Why can't blonds make Kool-aid?.....Because they can't figure out how to fit 2 quarts of water in that tiny little packet!
I was trying to think of a good chemistry joke but all the good ones Argon.
@captainsuperdawg: The first one is a little tongue-in-cheek play at how physicists are infamous for over-simplifying problems (i.e., cows are not actually spherical, but assuming they are simplifies everything).
Neutrinos don't interact with matter very much, they usually sail right through (in fact, there are billions going through you RIGHT NOW!)
And the second law of thermodynamics says that entropy always increases (in a closed system), so it is technically always "up."
Oh and here's some more silly chemistry ones.
Q: What do you do with a sick chemist?
A: Helium or curium.
Q: What should you do when a drunk chemist approaches you?
A: Hydrogen.
Q: What does a mining supervisor tell his employees to do?
A: Boron.
Many years ago there was a mighty Indian chief who had three wives. It came to pass that his first wife was to bear a child. When the time came she was placed upon the hide of a wolf and gave birth to a boy weighing 5 pounds. The chief was concerned about how scrawny the child was but took no real action. More time passed and the second wife was to bear a child. When the time came she was placed upon the hide of a bear and gave birth to a boy weighing 5 pounds. This time the chief resolved he would do something about his next child. More time passed and the third wife was to bear a child. The chief went to the medicine man and asked what could be done to ensure that he would have a child that was a giant among men. The medicine man gave the chief the hide of a hippo. When the baby was born he weighed a robust 10 pounds. This goes to prove that the son of the squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides.
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
If you dont't get it: FRUIT FLIES
The angle of the dangle is inversely proportionate to the heat of the beat of the meat.
What breed of fish is made up of only two sodium atoms?
2 Na.
{.El Oh El.} 😆
Helium walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender says, "Sorry, but we don't serve noble gasses here."
Helium doesn't react.


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Are you looking forward to you new Woot branded cast iron skillet?
I know I am. Needed a new skillet anyways and how can I turn down something as awesome as the woot branded version.
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So close...I guessed it'd be $25 plus shipping in this question about it.
No, I already have more skillets than I can use. It's nice, I just have no use for it.
I told my fiance after seeing that question it would be 30 plus 5 shipping so I had it spot on.
As a cast iron cooking fan, I was looking forward to this deal. But $8 more than a plain design pan on Amazon of the same brand? I thought we're here to score some good deals, not pay for designer branding. Just sayin'......
www.target .com/p/Lodge-12-Pre-Seasoned-Skillet/-/A-10291923?ref=tgtadvXSG10001&AFID=GooglePLAdf&LNM=%7C10291923&CPNG=small%20appliances&cisku=10291923&cigpa=pla&ci_kw=
take the spaces out to link
even cheaper than amazon--18.99 at target +tx&shipping
I was looking forward to buying one, just kinda priced me out when they slapped 30 bucks on it tbh
I bought one.. Had they been $15/ea I probably would've gotten 3. Oh well.. I am a sucker for Woot items
Isn't Lodge like the last US made cast iron cookware manufacturer?
I was actually surprised that Harbor Freight could import and sell Chinese cast iron and make a profit. Then I saw their anvils ...
ANYway, big cast iron fanboy here. The original non stick cookware, and good for you. I get ratty azz inlaws questioning the health benefits of the cast iron- but I have yet to hear why eating and/or breathing teflon bits is good for me.
But hey- it's $30, it's an investment, in 50 years it may be a collectible. A Lodge will last that long.
I'll buy one and then my son can have it when he starts his household and he can then give it to one of his kids someday.
I woulda bought one if the brand had been on the inside of the skillet - imagine having Woot! branded pancakes in the morning!! Yippee!!!
I'm a little disappointed that you can get the same skillet, sans woot logo, for cheaper at several stores, including Amazon w/ free shipping. The woot logo is cool, but completely non-functional. With my prime shipping, I can get it for $22 on Amazon, vs $35 on woot. That's quite a bit of money for a logo. (I'm also not at all buying into the "collectible" argument. I stopped using that when I was 10 to get my mom to buy me pokemon cards)
I had about 4 cast iron fry pans that belonged to both grandmothers. I just donated them to GoodWill as I am in the process of downsizing, and they were simply too heavy and could not be put in dishwasher of course. Still I am very tempted. . . . I imagine rust is not the issue it used to be?
@klozitshoper: According to the fairly detailed instructions, rust is still a serious issue.
@gidgaf: Imported anvils ... I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere. :(
Bought the same skillet (w/o the punctuation) from Amazon a little less than a year ago. It was $18.59. Got free super saver shipping. Amazon's current price of $22.34 is still a better deal. The woot offering is overpriced. Exclamation point or not.
Almost $35 for a "logo" when you can buy the same skillet for under 23 bucks? Some are saying this will become a collectible. Ummmm....well, perhaps. Then again maybe BigLots will pick them up - their advertising logo is also an "!".


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Arrested: Zachary Moore, 25, 730 N. Seventh St., domestic violence, Wednesday.
Jefferson County sheriff
Cited: William Clemens, 53, 1052 county Road 39, Bloomingdale, public intoxication and open container; and Stephen Boyer, 45, 1400 township Road 189, Bloomingdale, public intoxication and open container.
Breaking and entering: The owner of a commercial building on county Road 40, Wintersville, reported Monday a breaking and entering occurred at his building and several items were taken.
Brooke County sheriff
Arrested: James Gene Hartley Jr., 36, RD 1, Wellsburg, unlawful taking of a vehicle and domestic assault, Monday.
Arrested: Mark Shawn Skinner, 51, Lot 14, Chadwell Trailer Court, Follansbee, domestic battery, Monday.


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Charles McGee Freedom Bound, 2012, Sculpture 108"x28"x60", Collection of the artist
Dates: Wednesday, September 19 – Sunday, October 7, 2012
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Visit a selection of exciting outdoor sculptures at the L.V. Eberhard Center located on the Robert C. Pew Campus for the 4th annual ArtPrize, an international competition. The beautiful grounds around the Eberhard Center provide a perfect setting for enjoying art.
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The Globe called The Pavilion "a thrilling production," adding, "The new team at the Dorset Theatre Festival gleans fresh insight from Wright's challenging yet ultimately brilliant script."
A review in the Bennington Banner was equally acclamatory, saying "Janis' signature is all over the play and the playhouse, and this bodes well for theatergoers who have patronized DTF for years ... Judging by this play's execution, we can hope that Dorset Theatre Festival has finally found its Muse in Janis."


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6 Classic Kids Shows Secretly Set in Nightmarish Universes
Children's cartoons usually present idyllic worlds full of innocence and wonder. Even when there's some darkness, strife or conflict within them, the universes themselves are quirky, adventurous and just generally a hell of a lot more fun than this shitball we all spin around on. Except that's not always the whole story: If you dig a little deeper, you'll find that some kids' shows are actually taking place in dystopian hell dimensions that make our world look like Candyland.
#6. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?: Life in a Shattered Economy
Scooby-Doo cartoons, in their many incarnations, are about four teenage friends and their dog who all travel around solving mysteries. The gang always ends up in some kind of spooky location where a seemingly supernatural monster is terrorizing the local population, but eventually, our heroes solve the mystery and reveal the monster to be a disguised criminal. So even when it seems terrifying, it all works out for the best.
It's not like the real world's justice system makes much more sense.
So, What's the Problem?
The criminals are all super-geniuses, and not one of them can make an honest living.
Almost every locale in the Scooby-Doo universe looks like the economy has just taken a nosedive. Even their nice "vacation" spots look like bad neighborhoods in Detroit.
"Gee, Scoob, it sure is spooOOOooky how many out of work mechanics this scene implies."
In the 25 episodes of the original Scooby Doo, Where Are You? cartoon, our gang comes across four deserted mansions, two abandoned castles and an empty ski resort, amusement park, ghost town, mine, Hawaiian village, airfield and mill. And of the 27 villains the gang encounters, 23 are motivated by monetary gain via theft, smuggling or land speculation. The Mystery Machine crew isn't running into domestic disputes or drug-related crimes. They are dealing exclusively with people who need money so badly that they voluntarily squat in the basements of abandoned houses for the off-chance of landing a paycheck. And if the villains don't need money, they need work. The remaining four motives? Winning a dog show, getting an acting gig, revenge for getting fired and a hatred of robots. Those who don't need money or work are acting out of a hatred for robots, the quintessential job stealer.
"Beep bop boop. No, I'm not union, why do you ask? Bop boop beep."
And Scooby-Doo villains are not run-of-the-mill criminals: They all have the uncanny ability to manufacture realistic monster costumes, project full-scale holograms and carve out high-tech hideouts in abandoned mineshafts. Many of them already had impressive vocational skills prior to their criminal lives -- three of the villains were PhDs, two were lawyers, one had the ability to produce near-identical forged paintings, one could repair boats, one was a magician, one was a stuntman and one could hypnotize people.
See that? That's the educational system, art world, maritime engineering and entertainment industries -- all in the toilet. Each of these villains showed creativity, intelligence, diligence and ambition. In our world, they would easily be employed, maybe even famous. But, in the universe of Scooby-Doo, it simply wasn't enough. The Scooby gang ran into a new, desperate genius every single week for decades. Either brilliance is simply run-of-the-mill in their universe, or else the entire economy has collapsed, and what we're witnessing is the death throes of society itself. Although there are signs that the sandwich ingredient and dog marijuana industries are booming, so it's probably the former.
With all the ghost pirates and ghost ships around, shipping must be in a bit of a slump.
#5. The Jetsons: They Burned the Sky
The Jetsons takes place in the futuristic utopia of Orbit City where George, the man of the house, is employed full time at Spacely's Sprockets for a total of nine hours a week. Robots and computers handle nearly all of the grunt work, leaving the bourgeois citizenry plenty of leisure time to shop for such frivolities as multi-dresses and ice cream for their space dogs.
There's apparently no space-fuel crunch.
The Jetsons live high above the clouds in their Skypad apartment. In fact, all of the important places in their lives are above the clouds, including George's workplace, the schools and the shopping centers. Wait, why is "in the sky" the safest, most cost-effective place for an elementary school?
So, What's the Problem?
The natural environment is gone.
Also, we have some troubling questions about the state of human/robot relations.
The surface of the Earth is never shown, and the Jetson family never visits it. They often venture off-world like it ain't no thing, but never down to their own planet. We only have a few stray clues that point to the state of the Earth's surface: In Jetsons: The Movie, Rosie pushes a button to have the Jetsons' apartment rise above the planetary smog.
We too adhere to the "standing up real high" school of environmentalism.
And in The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones movie, when George visits the past, he makes an offhand comment that grass is something he "remembers from ancient history."
When something as ubiquitous and hardy as grass -- something that grows in freezing tundra and burning desert alike -- is "ancient history," the only logical conclusion is that nothing grows on the surface of the planet. It is so polluted, irradiated or burned that no life exists there. The fact that George Jetson hints at the fate of the Earth in a Flintstones crossover actually has even more worrying implications:
In the Flintstones universe, primitive man enjoys roughly the same quality of life as modern man, but only by virtue of animal exploitation. A camera, for example, is just a box with a bird that pecks the image into a stone tablet, a vacuum cleaner is a woolly mammoth trunk, and so on. The main problem is that these aren't just animals. They're intelligent: They think, speak and joke. They turn to the camera and say things like "It's a living" or some other glib line before dejectedly resuming their "jobs." Jobs that entail extreme suffering and humiliation: The steam whistle at Fred's job, for instance, is a bird. It's activated by yanking its tail until it screams in pain.
Fred's alarm clock is also a bird: The snooze function is activated by punching its tiny skull in. Just for doing its fucking job and sounding the alarm that Fred himself set.
If the Flintstones and Jetsons exist in the same universe, just in different eras, and there are no dinosaurs in the Jetsons cartoon, then somehow the dinosaurs from The Flintstones, like ours, have gone extinct. But our dinosaurs were just dumb beasts, and they went extinct long before humans had evolved. In the Flintstones universe, humans and dinosaurs still coexist. They're actually dependent on one another. One is not going extinct without affecting the other. So in the span of time between The Flintstones and The Jetsons, some cataclysmic event occurs that kills off just the creatures, but not the humans. And the Jetsons universe, with its scorched, unusable Earth, hints at what that event might have been: The dinosaurs, like every other creature on Earth not brought into the sky to dance and amuse future man, were either killed off through massive environmental negligence once we finally learned how to replace them with technology, or else, like in The Matrix, we simply burned the sky in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to stop the great dino uprising.
Their corpses were fuel, and we needed our sport utility oblongs.
#4. Darkwing Duck: A World Without Free Will
Darkwing Duck follows the superhero adventures of Drake Mallard as he protects his city from evil, but not public indecency (seriously, nobody here wears pants; just corkscrew-shaped duckdongs flopping everywhere unimpeded). One of Darkwing's many arch nemeses, Negaduck, is an evil version of himself from an alternate mirror universe called the Negaverse.
Mustard is the color of evil.
So, What's the Problem?
The Negaverse, by its very existence, rules out free will. Or at least it does so in regard to romance and procreation.
The existence of "mirror universes" creates massive existential problems all throughout fiction. But let's focus on just Darkwing Duck for now. Negaduck is a recurring villain in the show, and Darkwing's main goal is to catch and incarcerate him. By doing so, however, Darkwing would be ensuring his own sterility.
He's a duck, which means there's a 66 percent chance he'd only use those genitals for necrophilia and rape anyway.
Within the majority of these fictional mirror universes, it's generally accepted that everyone has a double. (PROTIP: Shoot the one who doesn't insist that you shoot them both, "Just to be sure." Trust us, this situation will arise.) But in order for there to be a double for every character, that means that every set of parents, grandparents and ancestors since the beginning of time needed to procreate with the same partner they had in the normal universe. Additionally, the act of mating has to happen at pretty much the exact same time in order to ensure that the exact same sperm meets the exact same egg, and that the doubles are of the exact same age. This synchronized transdimensional boning is confirmed by the episode "Life, the Negaverse and Everything," when Darkwing leaves Honker's birthday party in the regular universe to arrive at Honker's simultaneous birthday party in the Negaverse. This means that Herb and Binkie, Honker's parents, must have got it on, conceived and laid an egg in an identical timeline.
The latter pair looks like they had more fun doing it, though.
With the romantic choices of every individual in the two universes tightly bound together, that means there's no room for free will to choose your own mate, or even when to procreate with them. If there were, the two universes would become unhinged and most, if not all the ducks, would lack any sort of double. The universe would no longer be "mirrored." As grim and depressing as that is, Darkwing himself has it the worst: Not only has he seen the Negaverse, and therefore peeked behind the veil that hides the yawning abyss from St. Canard, but, unless Negaduck is having children at the same time, Darkwing himself can never reproduce. It's Darkwing's mission to imprison or kill Negaduck. If any of those actions prove successful, it would be impossible for Darkwing to procreate. We've seen that Darkwing has romantic interests toward Morgana McCawber, but if he ever wants to have little ducklings with her, he would first have to let Negaduck escape back to the Negaverse to bone the mirror Morgana. Something his basic moral code would never allow him to do.
Not that other aspects of Darkwing's personality weren't flexible.
So yeah, you know how Batman would never, ever use a gun? Same thing with Darkwing Duck and his penis.


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And as i said above i guess it depends upon what you regard as higher level play. There's no denying that it is more common in lower level football, league 1 and below.
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Pique can play up front if required...
Also Azar Karadas
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Gary Doherty is DC who can play at Striker
None of the people you have mentioned are "higher class" footballers.
From Wiki..
Sheffield Wednesday
Sheffield Wednesday came in for Warhurst in the summer of 1991, for £750,000. He began his career at the club as a solid defender, but midway through his second season, injuries to David Hirst and Mark Bright saw Warhurst employed as an emergency striker. In a phenomenal sequence, he scored 12 goals in as many games, and after four years as a defender, was called up to the England national team as a striker. Warhurst was injured, however, and missed an opportunity to win his first cap. His scoring ratio inevitably slowed down, and when Hirst returned to action, Warhurst fell out with manager Trevor Francis, who wanted the player to return to defensive duties. In the summer of 1993, Warhurst was transfer-listed and left the club, having scored 18 goals in 88 games for Wednesday.
Pique is about as 'higher class' as you can get. Granted, he doesn't play up front on a regular basis, but he can.
I agree though, there's no real top player who is accomplished or higher at both CB and ST.
I actually came in here to post this, which is somewhat relevant
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what's the point of having that added to the transfer deal ?
"Villareal in top form as Netherlands Antilles dominate" <-- nice surname
No surprise he missed with a name like that...
Whining is generally a bad idea but two players getting sent off in one minute in a freaking Champions League match?
Probably the reason he won the "World Footballer of the year" and "World Player of the year" awards but isn't good enough for the national team of either Ivory Coast or Germany
^ I'm pretty sure that's Hebrew.
And there was i thinking they only existed in america...
oh my... XD
I hope SI have addresed this. Way too much shots that hit the bar are deflected more or less vertically.
I don't get it?
the guido jannsenn one
I know who to drop next time we play Ceahlaul.
Oh dear Mirel Radoi....
^ Ufuk - you f***
oh dear
If you read the name it sounds like you f**k ceiling,, it kinda lame but i found it funny when i read it
Well, I played him up front (target man IIRC)
His DC stat's just competent
Then why the ... ???
Crouch : getting in TOTW at DC when you actually play up-front and only have DC rating of 'competent' is CLASS
Oh yeah.. I always knew he can pull anything outta his pocket, but THIS??
Modric : only hat-trick in a game won 2-0 is a REAL HAT-TRICK!!
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It'll be interesting to see who finds this funny...
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Don't really find much funny on my games, but this did make me giggle.
Shame his aggression is only 13, not much of a bad man eh.
Some parents really need to be more carefull naming their children
I had a good laugh when i saw this guy mentioned in the news. Btw i don't play with real player names, as i don't want to sign the same players over and over again.
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We have a winner ^^^
I guess I'll have to invent some kind of time travel machine?
Lol @ Mr. Hook. Or should i say Michael Hook at the top of the page!
I get the distinct impression that this guy should be wearing a dress, and makeup:
*hums the M*A*S*H tune tunelessly*
David Beckham eat your heart out
The Will Swallow one is quality.
Added time: 4 minutes. Ehm... Oookay?
Better late than never?
( http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/downl...o=file&id=2923 )
there is a difference between funny 'haha' and funny 'hmm that's weird'
Let's cut out this petty stuff, please, regardless of its intentions.
So, I'm managing Willaston and at a pre-match press conference I was asked who I though would win the league.
We are 5 matches from ending the season and my team have already won the league, as seen here:
My answer to the question was "Willaston". I then finished the press conference, just to see this:
They are reacting bad, because I said we would win something we've already won? .. Gaah, I don't get my team
This one isn't funny straight out yet when i tell you of his international career he is. He always had stats like that, they've hardly changed except the odd 1 or 2 points adding onto a stats here or there. Yet the Irish chose not to pick him. He's suffered serial droppings from various mick managers. I checked if it was the manager and there seemed no problem. Then a new ireland manager was installed, and did the same "We believe Colin Hughes (who was wom the premiership 3 times and the champions league twive, plus all the little bobbles that goes with it community chield, FA/League cups, world club cup) he still has to go down to the un21s to prove himself."
You might then think well he fluked it all, however as his stats his match stats prove that he isn't anything but a over rated fluke.
A player of this quality and consistancy at every level would probably be able to break into every international yeam atm, yet alone the half baked ones you seem to get in long games.
P.S. I've also checked the current irish players who would play in his position and none of them are half the player he is, almost literally. The best passer of the ball had pass: 14, creat 15, flair10, first touch 16, dribb 14. That was ther beast mc or amc.
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Playing as AFC Telford and an ex player ( Danny Haynes ) came out with this statement regarding an older back up player i just bought. Look at the inbox headlines.
funny for some, bah for others
he did end up at arsenal
An old screenshot I found from my FM09 Southport game.
Looks like she's had a sex change and come to slice our mouths open...
Scarping the barrell here but it looks like Clint banged up an "african american" and he's decided to play his trade in the football leagues...
Utter amazing hes already been hired twice by them and sacked twice.
...into a great footballer or a sunday league substitute?
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Came across this guy in a Champions League match - got a good laugh


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Maybe I'm chasing a pipe dream here, but I'd really like to find an easy to use backup solution that supports both Windows and OS X, presumably something people never have to think about until the worst happens.
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I have been using Mozy on both OSX (primarly) and Windows for over a year now with few problems, including during testing of recovery. The biggest problem, which I don't think is solved by any backup solution, is the slowing of the computer caused by encoding or determining which files need to be backed up. Also, Mozy is very cheap and they have both enterprise (reasonable pricing) and personal backup solutions (especially cheap) There are other similar services out there now.
Another service that seems quite similar is Blackblaze. Similar pricing and services to that of Mozy.
CrashPlan is terrific. I use it to back up several Macs and a Windows box to local/network disks and remote servers over the Internet (mine, not theirs). It easily supports multiple destinations per machine, does incremental backups forever, deduplication, compression, etc. Also, it'll do near-as-continuous backups (every couple of minutes, if you want) and handles strange network configurations seamlessly, which makes it a great fit for laptops.
Before CrashPlan I used a combination of Retrospect and Bacula. I really wouldn't recommend either, for different reasons. Both haven't made the transition from tape to disk backups, so you end up storing big sequential files on disk like tape, and still have to manually manage your backup generations, redo full backups and so forth. Of the two, Bacula, while a pain to set up, is considerably more reliable.
The only multi-machine mixed Mac OS X and Windows backup system I've used is Dantz Retrospect; Dantz was bought by EMC several years back, and Retrospect is still a living product.
My experience back in the late 1990s through early 2000s was that they provided a great incremental backup tool for multiple systems on a LAN. It did take them a release to shake out their Windows and Mac OS X support but once they did, I started hearing good things about their Windows backup solutions too.
Back in the early 2000s their Windows and Windows Server (including Exchange) backup support was good enough that it resulted in a department of a Very Large Company that I was doing some consulting for to switch to Retrospect. I was doing software development for them, not systems/network administration; it was the Windows people at their site who discovered and dove into Retrospect.
Windows Home Serer supports Backup of 10 PCs, so it's perfect for a Windows Office.
And didn't the last update add TimeMachine support for Mac?
Since you mentioned enterprise backup, I'll mention both Tivoli Storage Manager and Veritas NetBackup. Tivoli tends to be more IBM-centric whereas NetBackup pretty much has clients for just about everything.
NetBackup is painful to configure but once you get it working, it'll keep on going. I've implemented a system for a customer that was backing up over 48TB daily with over a 99+% success rate.
I have no idea about smaller systems =)
I used to use Mozy. but these days I'm using BackBlaze.
I found Mozy to be pretty flakey, and it used to hog my CPU a lot. I've found Backblaze to be competitive and less intrusive. In the end you need to give both solutions a try to find out which one works for you.
I'm using Jungledisk and have been extremely happy with it for data backup purposes, for OS backup I'm just Time Machine on my Mac and for Windows I'm prepared to reinstall if the worst happens.
On top of that, I'm using syncplicity to keep just my "work files" in sync between work/home/laptop machines.
I think you want something like this from Iron Mountain. It is centrally managed and they say they support PCs and Macs.
Unitrends has a great system for backing up your business computers/servers. They support most OSs. Master backups and BareMetal restores to dissimilar hardware in case something happens to your location. Might be a bit pricey at first glance, but there customer support is amazing and the system just works.


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Clyde Nantais holds a B.F.A. from The Boston Conservatory and a M.Ed. from Temple University in Philadelphia. He became a member of Actor's Equity Association at the age of 18, performing chorus and leading roles in summer stock and dinner theater productions of such shows such as West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof. He has been associated with the Boston Ballet since 1973, first as a dancer with the company and currently as a teacher in the school. From 1980–1989, he was a full-time faculty member of The Boston Conservatory Dance Department, ballet master of The Boston Conservatory Dance Theater and principal ballet teacher teaching ballet, pointe, variations, men's classes and pas de deux. At the same time, he was also a principal dancer with the Festival Ballet of Rhode Island and a frequent guest artist working with such companies as the Ballet de Santo Domingo, the Ithaca Ballet, Ballet Arkansas, York County Ballet and the Granite State Ballet. He was also ballet master for the Berkshire Ballet and Pioneer Valley Ballet. From 1991–1993, Nantais was the principal guest artist at the National Institute of the Arts in Taipei, Taiwan. He has staged ballets from the classical repertoire and choreographed more than 50 original works for companies and schools throughout the world.
Currently, Nantais is the executive director of the Boston Dance Company, which annually tours its production of Nutcracker to cities throughout New England. He is also on the faculties of the Charlotte Klein Dance Center in Worcester and the Franklin School of Performing Arts.
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I have the question to express $\displaystyle f(x)= \frac{2}{4+x} $ as a series and determine when it converges.
This seems to work out pretty easily to $ \sum_{k=0}^\infty 2(-x-3)^k $ , and this seems to work for values $ -4<x<-2 $
However, the answer in the book is $\displaystyle \sum_{k=0}^\infty (-1)^k\frac{1}{2^{2k+1}}x^k $, with $ -4<x<4 $.
I keep going over the proof that $ \sum_{k=0}^\infty ar^k $ converges to $\displaystyle \frac{a}{1-r} $ if $ |r| < 1 $ but I can't figure out what I'm missing.


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In Vacancy (2007), David Fox is stabbed at night (supposedly after midnight), and at the end of the film (in daytime), it turns out he's still alive. Is it possible in real life that a person is stabbed seriously from their abdomen and they can stay alive after several hours? Should blood loss not cause death in these cases?
Medical experts disagree on the need for surgical treatment to abdominal stab wounds. Most agree that an expert medical opinion is needed immediately. However, barring the evidence of evisceration (organs protruding from the body), or injuries to peritoneum exhibiting visible dramatic blood loss or bubbles indicating an injury to the diaphragm, surgery in the form of a laparoscopy to rule out serious damage is not necessary.


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I often do programming tasks at night. When I'm working on a programming task, times I get Ideas and will implement them at a stretch. Subtle, I don't get Ideas that faster and I pause my task. However, when I try to sleep, my mind thinks about last programming logic. I'm assuming that my mind is working : thinking, though I was asleep. This may be a myth. Correct me here.
How can I have better sleep, and get rid of infinite loops in my dreams. I admit, that my lifestyle is worse. Are there any techniques to have a peaceful sleep, without dreams, so that mind doesn't think when I fell asleep.


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6 Laws You've Broken Without Even Realizing It
#3. Betting With Friends
So, you're drinking away at the local bar, trying not to think about how your significant other shouted "Ray Romano" during sex last week, when you notice the game playing on the TV. Turning to your buddy, you bet him that the defending team will definitely make the next basket. They don't. You bet again and again, upping the ante each time. At the end of the night, you've bet and lost more than $2,000.
Angry at yourself, you get up to leave, when suddenly a SWAT team storms the place, pushes you to the ground and cuffs you.
"Is this about the dead hookers? It is, isn't it?"
What Did I Do?!
You see, all those bets you made violated the Illegal Gambling Act of 1970. According to the IGA, any betting that goes against state or local law, involves five or more people and has a revenue of at least $2,000 in one day constitutes an illegal gambling operation, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
By comparison, punching your wife warrants about a tenth of the jail time.
And that SWAT team/bar wager scenario we described above? That really happened. The guy's name was Sal Culosi, and in 2005 he was overheard in a bar by a Virginia cop betting with his friends on college football to the tune of like $50. The cop befriended Culosi, and over the course of a couple of months led him to raise the stakes until one day Culosi crossed the magical border of $2,000.
A SWAT team arrived at his doorstep to arrest him and shot him through the heart.
It turns out gambling really does cause violence. Police violence, but still.
#2. Writing "Disturbing" Material
Are you an aspiring writer age 16 to 24? If so, how is your zombie story coming along? Seriously, even if you're not really into stuff like that, there must be some piece of "dark" writing you left behind somewhere, like a blog or a LiveJournal or a Facebook posting about some weird vampire Nazi dream you had or some moody lyrics you wrote back when you had a beard and a single pair of jeans.
Well, you better hope that no one finds what you've written "disturbing," because your goth phase might be breaking the law.
Honestly? We're OK with this one.
What Did I Do?!
Some state laws actually make it illegal to write about things that can freak other people out. Illinois, for example, has regulations against "disorderly conduct," which usually means stuff like prank calling 911, but can also apply to writing "disturbing fiction."
No, it doesn't even matter whether you make it public or not. If someone reads something you wrote and finds it reprehensibly soul-poisoning, you may face 30 days of jail time and a $1,500 fine.
And yet, Stephenie Meyer walks free.
In Kentucky, writing about a fictional military attack can result in a second-degree FELONY charge of making terrorist threats. And in Oklahoma, a completely made-up story wherein a person gets injured or killed can get you arrested for planning to cause serious bodily harm, the maximum penalty for which is 10 years in prison.
In 2007, a Chicago high school student named Allen Lee was arrested for disorderly conduct over a class writing assignment involving stream of consciousness where the students were supposed to write whatever came to their minds. Instead of page after page filled with "boobs" and "weed," Lee ended up with an unsurprisingly nonsensical jumble of words and phrases, including "Super Mario," "ballet" and four instances of "stab." After reading his assignment, Lee's teacher turned it in to the school officials, who collectively decided that they must expel the straight-A student and have him arrested. You know, before he goes on a writing spree.
"Call the police, we have a Code Kafka! Repeat, CODE KAFKA!"
Oklahoma high school student Brian Robertson found himself in an even more baffling situation in 2001, when he discovered an evacuation manual on the school computer and used it as a basis to write a story about a commando attack on his school. When his teacher discovered the story, Robertson was immediately suspended and arrested under the Oklahoma statute preventing "planning acts of violence." Though in the end the case was thrown out, Robertson missed a year of school and was fired from his job, which you may notice leaves him with both the knowledge and the motive to carry out his fictitious assault.
#1. Owning a Permanent Marker
Let's say you're relaxing in the park one day when the cops come up and ask to talk to you. Apparently there was a string of muggings in the area and they'd like to search your bag. You agree because you've done no wrong and have nothing to hide, but also because they're cops and they have guns. Inside your bag, they find all the usual stuff: textbooks, pens, permanent markers, a mini flamethrower, the drug salvia and the insanely explosive compound tannerite. You know, nothing illegal.
Pleased with your law-abidingness, you reach to get your bag back when suddenly the cops grab you by the arm and haul you off to jail.
What Did I Do?!
Actually, it was about the permanent markers. According to basically every anti-graffiti state law out there, it is illegal simply to possess "broad-tipped indelible markers" or "aerosol cans" in a public place, because they can be used to commit acts of vandalism. You can find such regulations all over the United States, from Florida to New York to California, which also make it a crime to buy permanent markers for anyone under 18. California, remember, is a state where it is legal to buy weed if you have a doctor's note.
On the one hand, it's kind of understandable, seeing as in California alone the removal of graffiti costs millions of dollars each year. On the other hand, it also means you theoretically can spend up to a year in prison for holding outdoor arts and crafts classes for homeless orphans, and it technically makes any art school guilty of possessing contraband.
"Screw busting grow houses. Art class is where the real money is."
But That Will Never Happen to Me, Right?
Since a 2007 felony arrest for tagging, a reformed ex-graffiti artist from California, Cristian Gheorghiu, was arrested a number of times for breaking parole because the authorities kept finding "vandalism tools" in his apartment. There were stickers, posters, a computer and markers, which, according to the sheriff's office, clearly pointed to Gheorghiu's revived criminal activity, and not the fact that he's making a living nowadays selling legitimate art.
The Art of Smear
Put it on a canvas, and suddenly it's no longer offensive garbage.
Right now, these parole violations (aka "owning stuff") can make it illegal for Gheorghiu to possess even a ballpoint pen. But OK, the guy was on parole, so as long as you don't get arrested for vandalism or graffiti, carrying markers shouldn't be a problem, right?
Not exactly. Just take a look at the case of the 13-year-old from Oklahoma who was taken into custody by the police for allegedly writing on his desk, which violated an Oklahoma City ordinance against the possession of permanent markers.
Hope the jail time is worth it, clowndick.
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6 Comics That Covered Serious Issues And Failed Hilariously
Just like sitcoms had "very special" episodes that tried to build awareness of serious real-world issues (like the one where Punky Brewster decides to get breast implants -- no, seriously), comics have occasionally wandered into "after school" territory. And who better to handle serious and complex political issues than comic book superheroes?
#6. Captain America vs. Drug Dealers
Captain America seems like a perfect "Don't do drugs" spokesman until you remember that it was getting shot up with a "super soldier serum" that let him gain muscles the size of basketballs and become a superhero. So that makes him pretty much the Barry Bonds of superheroes and the second-worst person to star in a PSA comic about substance abuse after Pablo Escobar.
The "Captain America Goes to War Against Drugs" story is so epic it spans two comics, and it's so offensively stupid that the DEA might as well have tattooed DRUGS on their knuckles and punched all the kids who read this comic in the face instead. In the story, Captain America teams up with The New Warriors, a team of superheroes that includes a guy named after a mix of heroin and cocaine.
"Hi! Have you met my sister, Black Tar?"
They're taking on a team of supervillains who are sort of based on drugs: Weed, who has the power to shoot smoke; Crack, who punches things and makes Whitney Houston look like shit; Ms. Fix, who shoots needles; and Ice, who in a surprising twist ... shoots ice.
Wait ... shouldn't Speedball be a member of these guys?
These guys used to be common drug addicts but were taken by aliens and given powers, with the downside being that if they stop consuming the alien drugs, they will die. Speaking of dying, that pretty much killed any hope this comic had of making any good points against illegal drugs, because they don't work that way.
Unless your doctor has you on regular doses of crystal meth.
It's one thing to be a PSA comic that fails to get any kind of point across, and another to actually have everything you say be completely wrong. This brings us to the scene where Ms. Fix tells one of the heroes that the aliens can fix her legs, but the catch is that she will have to take painkillers.
OK, hold on a second here! Is this comic implying that it would be bad to go through major surgery if it means taking potentially addictive drugs, like painkillers? Because painkillers are something you have to take after almost any surgery. This is like a PSA on highway safety that just flat-out tells people to never get inside a car.
The hero accepts the offer, but it is only a ruse to smuggle her team and Captain America into the aliens' spaceship. And then the shit goes down, the aliens get defeated, the ship explodes and Cap and the New Warriors escape while the poor villains die in flames while trying to find the substance that keeps them alive.
Well, except try to rescue those poor drug addicts who got turned into monsters
and were forced to attack us to remain alive ... but fuck them junkies.
By the way, if you're wondering where the police are during this scenario, the first issue makes sure to introduce us to a pair of cops who apparently have no idea what cops do for a living.
"Man, I wouldn't want to be the poor assholes who have to stop that fight.
Let's go to the docks and get our cut from the hookers."
The War on Drugs, ladies and gentlemen!
#5. Superman and Batman Jr. vs. Feminism
Back in the 70s, women had come around to the idea that maybe walking around the kitchen barefoot was not all they could do with their lives. Feminism was in full swing, and since it was a difficult and emotional subject, DC presumably didn't want to attach its most famous heroes to it. Instead, it put the hypothetical sons Superman and Batman on the job (as part of the "Super-Sons" series). The result is a bizarre comic that hates women so much that it was last seen getting its face blurred out on COPS.
The story starts when Superman Jr. and Batman Jr. visit a town where women rule and men are scorned and subjected to random imprisonment.
Wait, what point is this making about feminism again? If you ignore the cover, you might think the writer is not against feminism per se but is just setting up some violent fringe faction as the villain. You want to believe the writers had good intentions. But in the next scene, a woman is fixing a roof when suddenly ...
That's right, comic book reader: When women try to do men's jobs, their frail female bodies wind up dead and broken.
Clearly it's up to the DC superheroes to find out what evil is making women climb up to dangerous roofs instead of making sandwiches for men. It turns out to be an evil, giant, ugly alien who wants all females in the universe to be as ugly and lonely as she is.
At this point we are convinced the writer made up this story only because of a gypsy curse that would make his penis explode if women touched it. In the end, Superman and Batman Jr. kill feminism, defeat the alien and stop her evil plan of making women ugly. Oh, and by the way, the protection against the alien's evil uglyfying space rays is to be near men.
Feminism is death. Now come and get your sexual harassment.
#4. Superman vs. Drug Dealers
Writing Superman shouldn't be very hard. He flies, punches asteroids out of orbit and shoots lasers out of his eyes; we're sure most anyone can come up with something fun to do with that. The problem is that a lot of Superman writers, instead of dealing with issues such as "how many times Superman has to punch a black hole so it stops stirring shit up" prefer to deal with "Do we really need a Superman?" and "Gee whiz, what is Superman's place in the world?" These questions become completely unnecessary the next time a robot army from the future shows up in Metropolis (by the way, the answers are "yes" and "at fist's length from the bad guy's face.")
The story titled "Grounded" has been the latest snorefest in the life of Superman, where, after a crisis of faith, Supes decides to stop flying and instead walks aimlessly around the U.S. to find his true self. So it's kind of like Eat, Pray, Love, but without the good food or random sex with foreigners.
So, what kind of adventures has Superman stumbled into during his walkabout? Well, he meets with the either the ballsiest or most brain-damaged crack dealers in the world.
Look, we don't care how much crack you have on the brain -- you do not taunt people who can grab your head and compress it like a Pepsi can. But Superman doesn't do that; instead, he uses his heat vision to burn all the crack stashes and the houses where they stand. That, while probably fun in a pyromaniac way, was probably less useful than flying at superspeed to the nearest police precinct and telling them there's a bunch of shitheads openly selling crack in the streets who keep their stashes inside their own houses.
So he's kind of a dick, but that's OK, because later Superman sends a kid to deliver a message to the crack dealers.
Yes, Superman sent a 10-year-old kid to talk to a bunch of crackheads, trusting that they wouldn't mess with a little kid if he is under Superman's protection, right after we just saw that they were too stupid to not mess with Superman when he was right in front of them. The thing that will come out of this is that science will finally be able to answer how many switchblades can fit into a child's torso.
Now, what Superman did was basically pointless, since the crackheads will just get more crack and set up shop in another place. Even the little kid knows how stupid the whole thing is, and he is not smart enough to know he has been sent into a suicide mission. Here is Superman's reply:
For those of you keeping score at home, crime is OK as long as it happens to someone else. The phrasing of Superman's reply is so tortured that it looks like it was just rescued by Rambo from a Vietnamese POW camp. All Superman did was relocate the crackheads and then declare them somebody else's problem. For real, Superman? Especially since we can't think of a good reason why he couldn't stop his self-discovery jogging for a second to have them arrested and make them nobody else's problem.


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I can find many modification of the Jung-Abhyankar theorem. I can even find a new proof of the theorem (by K. Kiyek and J. L. Vicente). But I cannot find the original statement. Does any one know which paper/book is it in? Where can I access it?
The original papers are accessible online:
Jung's paper is devoted exactly to this result, whereas Abhyankar's gives a more contextualized explanation (his was an unsuccessful attempt to pass to characteristic $p$); I think the version of Abhyankar-Jung in Abhyankar is Theorem 3 (but it might be worth studying the paper carefully).
In Jung's statement, which I reproduce here, the field $K$ is defined as $K=\mathbb{C}(x,y)[z]/(f)$ for some irreducible polynomial $f$ (which is implicitly assumed to involve all three variables).
My translation:
This seems to be equivalent, in the formulation usual in more recent papers, to the following (I use $\mathbb{C}\{x\}$ to denote convergent power series):
Abhyankar considers the case of $n$ variables over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero.
The fractional power series solutions remain convergent in several variables. In fact, if you replace the ring of convergent power series by any Henselian ring $H$ of power series series satisfying some stability properties, then the fractional power series solution remain in the ring. See for instance http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2559


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Fast and slow deathJuly 18,2013
Fast and slow death
In response to Quebec deaths and Vt.s energy future (July 16):
Thought provoking.
Unfortunately, the thoughts dont consider the reality. The train disaster is confined to the local area not so nuclear. To say the least, nuclear power production produces a waste byproduct that accumulates. The disaster that we are creating by producing such waste to pass on to our children is enormous and growing. The consequences are unknown, and yet we get small indications that are ignored daily.
Up to 1 million eventual deaths estimated from Chernobyl exposure Sweden, Finland, others concerned about risk of forest fires near disaster area.
Children now sicker than ever from Chernobyl disaster Contamination to go on for centuries to come many with heart and digestive problems.
There has been a 28 percent increase in thyroid problems in babies born after Fukushima in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.
Officials report troubling discovery at Fukushima nuclear plant: Cesium levels rocket 9,000 percent over three days in groundwater.
And the reports go on.
Deaths are counted from the dispersal of contaminants from fossil fuels, but no one tracks and admits the losses from the continuous acceptable release from nuclear power stations. Radioactivity in this world is on the rise and has been for over 50 years. Natural radioactivity should be declining.
While the number of deaths daily attributable to fossil fuels accumulate to extreme numbers, the point is missed that nuclear disaster has the real potential to deliver those same numbers in one instance. A disaster at Indian Point could literally kill millions.
So, too, the chance is small that a third of the worlds population could die from a single asteroid impact; that kind of mass extinction has already happened in this world. Just how small does that make it?
When will people wake up to the reality that the world is not in danger. We are. And radioactive waste is the biggest threat we face and we contribute to it daily in the name of money. Just how stupid are we anyway?
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Poll: Again, women and pretty much everyone else supportive of restricting late-term abortions
posted at 2:41 pm on August 2, 2013 by Mary Katharine Ham
Aaron Blake of the Washington Post tweets a Quinippiac Poll with this finding thusly:
Interestingly, Q poll shows women more supportive of 20-week abortion ban than men. Women back it 60-25, men 50-35. http://t.co/R8g2CqicWQ
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlakeWP) August 2, 2013
Yes, it is interesting, even counterintuitive, but only if you've ignored the similar result in pretty much every poll on the subject. I'm not after Blake, in particular on this point, but the entire media makes it its mission to characterize any restriction on abortion as prima facie "extreme," without ever noting the obvious and inconvenient fact that late-term restrictions are, by definition, mainstream. They are supported by a majority of Americans, even many of those who believe abortion should be legal in the first trimester, and even more solid majorities of women.
Quinnipiac is just another example in a long line of data points:
On another matter, the Republican-led effort in Congress and in many state capitols to reduce from 24 weeks to 20 weeks the time period during a pregnancy in which almost all abortions should be legal is striking a chord with voters. A total of 55 percent want a 20-week limit while 30 percent favor the current 24 week limit.
Looking a little deeper, there is not a major demographic that prefers 24-week unrestricted legality to 20-week. Republicans prefer a 20-week cut-off 62-17, Independents 59-26, Men 50-35, Women 60-25, White 55-32, Black 53-28, and Hispanic 59-20. Democrats come closest, only preferring a 20-week cut-off by a 46-44 margin.
Looking a little deeper, there are precious few groups who don't prefer a 20-week cut-off by a clear majority. Those with no college degrees, Catholics, Protestants, Evangelicals, moderates, and conservatives all favor a 20-week cut-off in numbers well over 50 percent. Among age demographics, 18-29, 30-44, 45-64, and 65+, every single group is favorable to a 20-week cut-off, with 18-29-year-olds the most friendly to restrictions and 65+ the least friendly. Again, counterintuitive unless you've read polls on this ever before in your life. I imagine the numbers would look even more favorable to restrictions if you phrased the questions in months of gestation as opposed to weeks.
The groups who prefer 24-week legality to a 20-week cut-off are as follows: people with college degrees (still not over 50 percent), those who identify as non-religious, liberals, and those who make over $100K a year (again, not over 50 percent).
The only two groups that support unrestricted 24-week abortions at over 50 percent are those who identify as liberal (54-39) and "none" in the religion category (53-37). So, given that, could we please stop acting like something a majority of Americans— white, black, Hispanic, men, women, Catholics, Protestants, Evangelicals, moderates, conservatives, young, middle, and 65+ people—prefer is extreme?
It's not like this is the first time we've learned something akin to this.
Polls: Americans favor abortion bans after 20 weeks
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I have downloaded tar.gz files. But I don't know how to install it. How do I install this kind of file?
The first thing you need to do is extracting it in a folder, let's make it your desktop. You can extract an archive right clicking on it and choosing the appropriate entry.
It should create a new folder with a similar name, e.g.
Make sure you first read a file called
The file will contain the right indications to go on with the compiling process. Usually the three "classical" steps are:
You may also need to install some dependencies, generally after some
Remember that your mileage may vary.
You cannot "install" a
Similarly you can extract .tar.bz2 files with
If you would like to see the files being extracted during unpacking, add
Even if you have no Internet connection, you can still use Ubuntu's package management system, just download the
For an easier way to install packages offline, see the question How can I install software offline?.
How you compile a program from a source
Download a package from the software sources or the software center.
If you install a package via the software sources and not downloading the package on your own, you will get new updates to that package and install them via the Update Manager.
You could just install
or by using the software center and searching for
First things first
It is generally not advised to download and install applications from the internet files. Most applications for Ubuntu are available through the "Ubuntu Software Center" on your system (for example, K3B ). Installing from the Software Center is much more secure, much easier, and will allow the app to get updates from Ubuntu.
That said, how to install
First of all it is important to install the package build-essential, it contains all programs needed to compile on your own.
After reading the INSTALL file as stated above and fulfilling the prerequisites you can do the magic.
It is difficult to answer specifically, as each software may have a different build process, even if they are archived as a TAR/GZ
What I can say for most source codes that I know of is that you will first need to extract the tarball archive into a folder of your choice. Then most source codes rely on the AUTOCONF and MAKE programs, so you will need to use the following commands :
To build your binaries, and then :
To install it in the system.
"./configure" uses the autoconf mechanism to retrieve information on your system, and prepare the build scripts in the source file in order to build the appropriate binaries compatible with your installation. "make" will invode the build itself, that will create the binaries out of the source code. "make install" will then copy the binaries, documentation, configuration file, etc. into the appropriate folders of your system so that the software is available to the users.
It is a very basic explanation, the real answer is : read the documentation provided with the source code... Only there you will know exactly how to build it.
Okay, this is a fairly challenging task for a beginner, but just follow my instructions, and it should be fine.
First off, download the .tar.xxx file, and SAVE it. Don't open it. (In these examples, I'll be installing the Dropbox Beta build, because I was going to install it anyway, so I figured that I might as well document the installation.)
After you've downloaded your file, (assuming that you saved it to
NOTE: use the name of whatever file you downloaded. (e.g., for the Firefox Nightly 19.0a1 64-bit build, you would type
Now, change to the
(again, use the name of the downloaded file. Don't forget the extension.)
Okay, check to see what the extracted folder is called:
you'll get something like this:
Okay, in our example, we installed Dropbox, and the only folder there is called
Okay, it's now marked as executable, so it's time to create a symbolic link (this is what allows you to run it from the Terminal):
NOTE: this is
Okay, you're done. The program is now installed and runnable from the Terminal.
This part is fairly simple:
NOTE: If you're installing OVER a previous installation, use
Now, here's where you create the icon. Here's good template; edit it appropriately.
You may want to leave off the MimeType option completely. That could be very bad if you didn't.
Now, click "Save", close it out, and you're in business!
Sorry that tutorial took so long. Thanks for reading!
You should always try to install software from repositories whether it's official, a PPA/any other unofficial repository. That way, you'll get all stable release, security and new feature updates while you install other system updates. Another advantage is that you don't need to worry about building, dependencies and harder uninstallation (since the application won't appear in synaptic) with tar files.
For example, you can install mysql by installing mysql-server package.
If you really want to use tar files, the common process is to run (make install may require sudo):
Please note that some of the above commands may not be necessary, please refer to any readme files in the tar file or try to run
Files with the extension
You can extract this file with...
This will extract the files from the tarball into the directory you are currently in and should create a new directory there with in that the files from the tarball.
Short explanation on the options:
This is probably not enough though. Depending on what it is it could have a complete compiled setup and you need to cd into the new directory and start an executable. It could also contain the source to a program that you need to confire, make, make install. Generally (ie. I would assume) it should contain a readme that explains what to do next.
Installing software like this will NOT install any dependencies and will complain if you try to install a tarball before you installed these dependencies.
Use a website or the file itself to find out if there are dependencies and install those first. But always always always first try to find a
If you are trying to install the gimp plugins you skipped parts of the installation process mentioned in this link.
and you will also need
Before downloading the files with wget visit the website and see if it has newer versions. These instructions are from the 3rd of May 2012 so they could be old ;)
Installing from archives (.zip tar.gz, etc.):
These archives generally contain the source of the package. Each of them generally has a different approach to install. I will be discussing a common method which will supposedly work for all of them.
General requirements:
As these archives contains the source, your system needs the required programming languages to compile and build the source. So the general requirement packages stated above may not be sufficient for you. In that case you have to install the required packages through one of the processes #1,#2,#3 (requires internet connection). You can know about the dependencies about your software in a readme file included in the archives.
cd path-to-the-extracted-folder
a. If you find a file named configure then
If the first code fails to execute then run this code before above codes:
b. If you find a file named install.sh then
or you can double click it and select run in terminal or simply run.
N.B.: sometimes there is a file, something like
c. If you find a file named install then
or you can double click it and select run in terminal or simply run.
d. If you find a file named make (if there is no configure file) then
e. If you still can't find the required files
then it may be in a special folder (generally in a folder named
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I am wanting to post data back to a feature service using the addFeatures method on a feature service. Here it says to use a query and an esri rep says to use a query task. But my "Query" object doesn't seem to have a "features" definition as suggested in the linked doc page above where they say the parameters table. Anyone have any ideas on how to do the addFeatures.
QueryTask queryTask =
new QueryTask("http://server/ArcGIS/rest/services/geoprocessing/featureServiceName/FeatureServer/0/addFeatures");
ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Tasks.Query query = new ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Tasks.Query();


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Non verbal communication
we use different ways of communication to share information and to educate members. One way is verbal communication and another is non verbal communication – body language. The awareness of your body language and what it speak help you be better instructor and deliver the right information's. Sometimes we are not aware what we are showing and then the message is not accepted by listener.
Have you ever filmed yourself while teaching? You should than you see what your body says and you can go one step further with being better communicator. Communication does not always mean to speak. Often happens that what comes from our mouth and what body speaks is completely different. When listener is faced with these mixed signals, they have to choose either to believe your verbal or nonverbal message. In most cases they go with non verbal because it is natural, unconscious language that broadcasts our true feelings and intentions in any given moment.
The way you move, react tells other person if you care or not. When your non verbal signal matches with words, they increase trust, clarity and rapport. When they not they generate tension, mistrust and confusion. If you want to become better communicator – better instructor, it is important to become more sensitive to your body language and non verbal cues also of others.
Different types of nonverbal communication that you need to recognize and work on them.
- Facial expressions (do you smile, show fear, happiness ...)
- Body movements and posture (they include your posture, bearing, stance, and subtle movements )
- Gestures
- Eye contact
- Touch
- Space (Everybody has his own physical space, that you have to be aware of)
- Voice (it is not only important to say but have you say it. When we speak other people »read » our voices in addition to listening to our words. Things they pay attention to include your timing and pace, how loud you speak, your tone and inflection, and sound that convey understanding, such as "ahh" and "uh-huh." Someone's tone of voice, for example, can indicate sarcasm, anger, affection, or confidence.
Following non verbal signs maybe useful.
Leaning forward = interest, attention
Leaning away = lack of interest
Curling up = regression
Erect = neutral
Tilted = interested
Bent down = judgmental or negative
Fully raised = Disbelief
Half raised = Surprise
Normal = no comment
Half lowered = puzzled
Fully lowered = angry
Palms open = open
Gripping arm chair = holding in feelings
Fingers stapled = superior and confident
Thumb gestures = Controlling
So next time when you teach, think what your body is telling what message you are sending J.
"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives" Anthony Robins


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The Pratt Community College wrestling team finished their season with a trip to Nationals in Des Moines IA that resulted in a final ranking of #21 for the Beavers. This marked the second consecutive season in which PCC finished in the top 25 in the NJCAA, both of which have come under the tutelage of 2nd year head coach Ken Kepley.
Landon "Tug" Keiswetter, Norton KS sophomore, led the Beavers at Nationals by winning the national championship at #184, and being named All-American in the process.
The national title culminated an outstanding career amassed by Keiswetter in his 2-year stint at PCC. His freshman year, Keiswetter went 32-15 with only 4 of those losses coming in the NJCAA. He was named to the second team all-region, and was an all-American by virtue of his 5th place finish at the 2012 NJCAA Nationals.
As team captain his sophomore year, Keiswetter only improved upon those improved those numbers. He went 38-10 with no losses to NJCAA opponents. He was named 1st team all-region, winning the regional hosted at Pratt this year. And, of course, he went undefeated at nationals, claiming the #184 championship belt.
For his career, Keiswetter went 75-25 at PCC, and holds the school record for most career wins. He is Pratt's second two-time All-American, following in the footsteps of Bob Larson, 1970-71. He is also the first Beaver to win a national championship. (Local Daniel Prater was also a recent NJCAA champ, but was wrestling for Colby Community College at the time.)
Keiswetter also got it done in the classroom, making the Dean's List his first 3 semesters at PCC. In the current spring semester, he is on track for another 4.0. He was named an Academic All-American in 2011-2012.
Five other Beaver grapplers qualified for Nationals:
#141 – Luke Dutch – Record 20-14 – Went 1-2 at Nationals
#149 – Korey Pfannensteil – Record 11-17 – Went 1-2 at Nationals
#165 – Sheldon Graves – Record 16-17 – Went 1-2 at Nationals
#197 – Taylor Baird – Record 24-11 – Went 1-2 at Nationals
#285 – Kasey Crump – 9-9 – Went 0-2 at Nationals
The entire PCC wrestling squad sported a cumulative 3.03 GPA, attesting to their prowess with the books as well as on the mat.
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I have two tables one is PaymentDetail and another is Ledger
Here i want to prioritize paymodetype in manner that cash should be considered first for R,A and then I FundType, then Credit Card, then DD and then Cheque.
I want that amount received in cash should first be considered for R then A and lastly for I FundType.Another example
Here is sqlfiddle as well. Can it be solved by SQL only. I don't want to use Cursor. Edit: I have updated the sqlfiddle with what i have tried. I am trying to use join due to which multiple rows are obtained in my result with respect to Payment Detail. I want to span amount of one row of payment detail over Ledger then second row should be used. How can i achieve that? Result of current sqlfiddle is


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Accessibility features
Malaga Airport is well-equipped for disabled travellers. There are lifts and ramps, adapted toilets, reserved seats in waiting areas, and reserved parking spaces for disabled badge holders in the car parks. The Green Jackets provide assistance and wheelchair facilities in both terminals. For further assistance, passengers should contact their airline direct prior to travel.


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Just a reminder this weekend i'll be here for 3 demonstrations daily in the Traeger Grill ZONE!
Ill be doing demonstrations on:
- Boneless Skinless Chicken Thighs stuffed with cream cheese, pimento, onions, garlic, & spices all wrapped in Bacon!
- MOINK Balls (Bacon wrapped meatballs rubbed & sauced!)
- Cajun & Pineapple juice injected pork loin sandwich with caramelized onions and grilled pineapple
Hope to see you there!


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Today the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced further construction on I-65 starting tonight.
The Department of Highways will start construction between Cave City and Horse Cave.
Tonight, traffic will be pushed down to one lane both North and Southbound from 7 PM until 7 AM.
Drivers should anticipate slow-moving traffic.
This new project is one of two construction areas on I-65.
"The first section is between Park City and Cave City. The second section which we have just started takes us on up to Horse Cave into Hart County. And what the guys will be doing is setting up a barrier wall and getting it ready to do the actual construction. We have to get everything prepped before we can actually work in the median and work on those center lanes," says Highway Department Public Information Officer, Keirsten Jaggers.
Jaggers says the highway department is adding an additional lane both North and Southbound.
The project is expected to take two years.


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I am wanting to start building a portal 2 map for single player mode.
I have used the hammer world editor before but not for portal.
As far as portals are concerned will the distance I drop vertically be equal to the distance I am thrown horizontally?
So a 16 unit drop throws me 16 units forward?


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The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), otherwise known as the Detroit Motor Show, opens annually on a date in mid January.
One of the world's major international motor shows, the Detroit event takes place at the giant Cobo Centre in the heart of Motor City's downtown area. It typically previews the biggest new car launches, concept cars and new car technology that will define the global automotive industry over the coming 12 months.
The Detroit Motor Show's location is significant as Detroit, Michigan, is the spiritual home of the US car industry. Chrysler, General Motors and Ford, the 'big three' North American car manufacturers, are all based in the Detroit area and they traditionally use their home motor show to showcase their latest products to the world.
Non-domestic car makers also place great importance on the Detroit Motor Show as a crucial gateway to the lucrative North American market and the likes of Audi, BMW, Volkswagen, Honda and Lexus also have a history of holding major new model launches at the show.


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Can you imagine the absolute torrent of "'e isn't even from round 'ere!!" bile in the press if Capello actually lost a game to San Marino? I don't think the FA would have to the bottle to not sack him, personally.
Yeah I think I probably should have stuck with Weymouth a couple more seasons, and at least got them back into the BSP, but I'm a young hungry manager with lofty goals
Any thoughts for your own game yet?


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Located in the prestigious Oyster Pond area on Dawn Beach, Coral Beach Club is an intimate, design-informed masterpiece of villas, two-story townhouses
The Mercure St Martin and Marina is on the west coast of the island, 3.1 miles (5 km) from Marigot, the French capital, 4.3 miles (7 km) from Juliana International
Discover the resort that has it all on the greatest island of the Caribbean, on the best beach of Tropical Curacao. T
The Flamingo Beach Resort offers condominiums overlooking Simpson's Bay on St. Maarten's Dutch side. The resort has an outdoor pool, beach bar and grill
Breathtaking Coral Cliffs surrounded by a sugary white sand beach created the ideal setting for this luxury resort.
Situated on a private beach, the 30-acre Pelican Resort Club is halfway between the island's Dutch and French duty-free shopping areas and approximately
The Belmar Oceanfront Apartments are situated in the Belnem area of Bonaire Island, approximately three minutes driving distance from Flamingo Airport
Set amidst the color and beauty of the historic Dutch Caribbean city of Willemstad is the all-new Renaissance Curacao Resort & Casino.
The Westin Dawn Beach Resort & Spa, St. Maarten is located 15 miles northwest of the Princess Juliana International Airport.
The Residence Les Lataniers Yuana overlooks the Anse des Cayes, near the Saint-Jean Bay Beach in the French West Indies.
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