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Just got FIFA 13 platinum
Last trophy needed was Filling Cabinets - win a cup in seasons.
Thought this was going to be hard and frustrating (basically win 4 games on the bounce, something I've never done!) after 3 straight losses in the first round I strung 4 wins together to win the cup
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11-03-2012 #5802
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After Her! (Bronze) Complete Chapter 3 in Chris' campaign.
There's Always Hope (Bronze) Complete Chapter 4 in Chris' campaign.
J'avo Genocide (Bronze) Defeat 500 J'avo.
Borderlands™ 2
Definitely An Italian Plumber (Bronze) Killed Donkey Mong
-Finally freaking found a Donkey Mong, and Jenkins.. >.>
Killzone HD
Helghast Champion (Bronze) Win a battlefields game playing on the Helghast's side with the enemy AI set to hard
ISA Saviour (Bronze) Win a battlefields game playing on the ISA's side with the enemy AI set to hard
Two's Company (Bronze) Win a battlefields game with another player in split screen
The Reds Of Their Eyes (Bronze) Get 10 headshots with the STA-52 SLAR Sniper Rifle
Short Controlled Bursts (Bronze) Finish a level above 50% hit efficiency
Burn Baby Burn (Bronze) Destroy your first enemy APC Tanks
For The Good Times (Bronze) Destroy 2 Helghast Tanks attacking the Industrial level
Helghast Assault (Bronze) Complete Chapter 1
3 Birds With One Stone (Bronze) Kill 3 Helghast with 1 cooked M194 Percussion Grenade
One For You And One For You (Bronze) Kill 2 Helghast with 1 Double Shot from the M13 Semi-Automatic Shotgun
2 For The Price Of 1 (Bronze) Kill 2 Helghast with 1 shot from the BP-02 Pup launcher
Covering Fire (Bronze) Kill 10 Helghast with the M224 Mounted Machine Gun
Economical Soldier (Bronze) Finish a level above 75% hit efficiency
Assassin's Creed® III
(Hidden Trophies: 2)
Rude Awakening (Bronze) Re-Enter the Animus.
Mystery Guest (Bronze) Complete Sequence 1 & 2
How D'ya Like Them Apples (Bronze) Complete Sequence 3.
Heroes are Born (Bronze) Complete Sequence 4.
The Day the Templars Cried (Bronze) Complete Sequence 5.
Tea is for Englishmen (Silver) Complete Sequence 6.
House Party (Bronze) Recruit any of the Artisans and see them settled on the Homestead.
Tumblehome (Bronze) Upgrade the Aquila.
By Invitation Only (Bronze) Be invited to join a Club.
Blowing in the Wind (Bronze) Retrieve every page for one of Ben Franklin's Almanacs.
Spit Roast (Bronze) Perform a double assassination using a musket.
Whit's fur ye'll no go by ye! (Bronze) Block a firing line 5 times by using a human shield.
The Whites of Their Eyes (Silver) Complete Sequence 7.
Caged Wolf (Bronze) Complete Sequence 8.
Prince of Thieves (Bronze) Loot a convoy without killing any of its guards.
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Something like that, I got way too many games going
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Assassin's Creed® III (70%-ish)
(Hidden Trophies: 1)
Two if by Sea (Silver) Complete Sequence 9.
Grim Expectations (Bronze) Complete Sequence 10.
Difficult End (Bronze) Complete Sequence 11.
The Sum of Truth (Gold) Complete Sequence 12.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished (Silver) Open the Temple Door and learn Desmond's fate.
Fin (Silver) Complete each of the epilogue missions unlocked after the credits roll.
Man of the People (Silver) Liberate all districts in Boston OR New York.
Magna cum Laude (Bronze) Have a Trainee reach the Assassin Rank.
Monopoly Man (Bronze) Send a convoy to Boston, New York and the Frontier.
A Complete Set (Silver) See all the optional characters settled at the Homestead.
Patent Not Pending (Bronze) Craft one of Franklin's inventions to decorate your Manor.
Bring Down the House (Bronze) Explore Fort Wolcott.
Kidd Gloves (Bronze) Uncover the mystery of Oak Island.
All Washed Up (Silver) Complete all Naval Missions aboard the Aquila.
Entrepreneur, not Pirate! (Bronze) Complete all 12 Privateer Contracts.
Circus Act (Bronze) Kill 15 guards with a single cannon shot.
Multitasking (Bronze) Complete 50% of the Progress Tracker entries.
-Think I'm just about done with this game,I only got the feathers, end-game pivot map, citizen missions, and a few other things left to do. Predator and Jager Bomb will probably be my last AC3 trophies since the last trophies, an general things to do, are rather tedious. Never was a fan of the multiplayer, courier missions, or 100% all main story missions/everything.
Hell Yeah! Trophies
(Hidden Trophies: 2)
Armed and dangerous! (Bronze) Get the missiles from the shop! "Now's the time to strike back!"
Fashion victim! (Bronze) Have at least 10 face customisations. "Wow! All these
fancy things!" Pimp that wheel! (Bronze) Get at least 5 wheel customisations. "You can ride for hours!"
Island master! (Bronze) Open a gift sent from the Island "When you're the Boss, you have 365 birthdays."
Good Santa! (Bronze) Find a secret gift. "You are gifted, sir!"
-Nothing new now till December 4th, so I must beat as much of my backlog/digital games as possible before then.
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11-12-2012 #5813
Dead Nation
Gold: Genocidiary
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silver trophy is LBP on the Vita. 15x multiplier.
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Finally getting 100% sync on Assassin's Creed III
11-14-2012 #5816
Endangered Species
You collected every hidden package in the game
Key To The City
You completed GTA IV to 100%
Took a while =/ The multiplayer trophies seem too much of a grind so I'm not gonna bother with the plat
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Some trophies I picked up in my second run of dishonoured
Clean Hands
Mostly Flesh and Steel
An Unfortunate Accident
Big Boy
Hornet's Nest
King of the World
Lights Out
Speed of Darkness
Only a couple left to platinumI wonder when a nuclear warhead goes off, does the frame rate of real life drop?
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Bulletstorm (43%/61%)
Disco Inferno (Bronze) Kill all enemies without leaving the dance floor in the city outskirts
I might be late (Bronze) Kill all enemies during the sprint to the jumpship
Just one last thing (Bronze) Kill all enemies before you reach the escape capsule
Big Cheese (Bronze) Perform 50% of the Single Player Skillshots
Celebrity (Bronze) Perform 75% of the Single Player Skillshots
Master of Disaster (Silver) Earn 2,000 points or more at once
Remembrance (Bronze) Play three different Echoes
Destructive Beat (Bronze) Complete the Campaign on Very Easy or Easy Difficulty
Violent Melody (Bronze) Complete the Campaign on Normal Difficulty
Brutal Chorus (Silver) Complete the Campaign on Hard Difficulty
Blood Symphony (Gold) Complete the Campaign on Very Hard Difficulty
Total Malfunction (Silver) Destroy all Newsbots in the Single Player Campaign
Minced Meat (Bronze) Take out the Mall's biggest customer
Grilled Meat (Bronze) Prepare a big meal using an improvised electric stove
Armed and dangerous (Bronze) Grow as a person, experience betrayal. Again.
Stowaway (Bronze) Catch a ride
Pointless (Bronze) Execute at least 10 Headshots before you find the first DropKit
Major Malfunction (Bronze) Destroy 50% of the Newsbots in the Single Player Campaign
Insecticide (Bronze) Destroy 50% of the Electroflies in the Single Player Campaign
Size Matters (Bronze) Use your biggest weapon
Damsel in Distress (Bronze) Rescue the princess
Destroyer of Worlds (Bronze) Cause major destruction
Weed Killer (Bronze) Tidy up the back yard
No Man Left Behind (Bronze) Kill all enemies while escaping from the collapsed building
Fits Like a Glove (Bronze) Meet your new best friend
Pest Control (Silver) Destroy all Electroflies in the Single Player Campaign
Chop-Chopper (Bronze) Kill the enemy inside the airborne helicopter in the park
Om Nom Nom! (Bronze) Feed a flytrap with a Nom parasite
-Got pretty much all the SP trophies, no interest in anarchy, and echoes is kind of.. boring
The Walking Dead (100%)
The Walking Dead (Platinum) Earn all trophies in: "The Walking Dead"
Into The Fire (Bronze) Complete chapter 1 of episode 5.
Twice Shy (Bronze) Complete chapter 2 of episode 5.
There Ain't No Way (Bronze) Complete chapter 3 of episode 5.
Mercy (Bronze) Complete chapter 4 of episode 5.
The Marsh House (Bronze) Complete chapter 5 of episode 5.
What's in the bag? (Bronze) Complete chapter 6 of episode 5.
Stay Close To Me (Silver) Complete chapter 7 of episode 5.
What Remains (Gold) Complete Episode 5: "No Time Left"
-Awesome, kind of sad, story. Cant wait till "Season Two". PLATINUM 24, Need one to round it off.. ><
DOOM: Neophyte (Bronze) Complete any level of DOOM in single player
DOOM: Nightmare (Bronze) Complete any DOOM level on 'Nightmare' in single player
DOOM: Burning Out of Control (Bronze) Complete any DOOM level with 100% kills, items, and secrets in single player
DOOM II: Just Getting Started (Bronze) Complete any DOOM II level in single player
DOOM II: Burning Out of Control (Bronze) Complete any DOOM II level with 100% kills, items, and secrets in single player
DOOM II: An Important Looking Door (Bronze) Find a secret area of a DOOM II level in single player
-Didnt believe it when some said saves "took you out" of the experience.. what a fail save system lol
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Killzone (73%)
Captain (Bronze) Complete all levels on the easy difficulty
Colonel (Silver) Complete all levels on the normal difficulty
General (Gold) Complete all levels on the hard difficulty
4 X 4 X 4 (Silver) Kill 4 Helghast in under 4 seconds with the EAW-25/4 Chimera
That Got Their Attention (Bronze) Destroy the Missile launching APCs in the Misty Waters Firebase
Anti-Air Specialist (Bronze) Bring 2 Dropships crashing down in the Mist Waters Firebase
Bounty Hunted (Bronze) Kill the IFO Bounty Hunter
Abridged Bridge (Bronze) Collapse the Helghast bridge in the Jungle Valley
Supply and Demand (Bronze) Blow up the ammo dumps in the Forward Logistics Base
Generally Better (Bronze) Kill General Lente and his bodyguards
Orbital Strike (Bronze) Take down General Adams with a grenade
Escape (Bronze) Complete Chapter 5
Misty Waters (Bronze) Complete Chapter 6
Hunting the Traitor (Bronze) Complete Chapter 7
Forging a Path (Bronze) Complete Chapter 8
Hidden Pasts (Bronze) Complete Chapter 9
Onwards and Upwards (Bronze) Complete Chapter 10
Hope (Bronze) Complete Chapter 11
Rapid Reaction Force (Bronze) Complete Chapter 1 to 11 playing as Templar
-Finally experienced the first one, yeah.. not sure I can do that three more times for bronzes
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"It's not important to have a long life, the important thing is to have a happy life with your beloved ones"
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I can no longer copy paste facebook trophy entries, so I'll just start listing how many and what games they were for..
Far Cry 3:
So far got 29 trophies, this game is going to be easy to platinum - hardest part is only how long it takes. 38% complete, and I've only done 7 story missions.. and I'm at 12 hours. A really addicting game.
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Some more Black Ops II Trophies
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"It's not important to have a long life, the important thing is to have a happy life with your beloved ones"
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Wwe 13, Nba 2k13, ratchet and clank all 4 one and midnight club trophies
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And Then There's Your Ex
Divorce can be devastating to your financial situation, there's no question about it. (Read Changes in Your Marital Status on the financial implications of divorce.) Know, however, that there are ways to make divorce less financially detrimental for both parties. The catch is that you've both got to be willing to cooperate to make it happen.
If you've had an ugly divorce, it might be difficult to work with your ex on anything—including your financial situation. If you keep in mind, though, that you may benefit from cooperating, you'll probably find it easier to do so.
We probably can think of divorce situations that ended in financial hardship for one or both partners. The husband and wife may have fought bitterly throughout the process, hiring lawyers, private investigators, and other professionals without any regard to the cost. Or, perhaps they couldn't agree on any financial, custody, or property matter, dragging out the proceedings and running up huge bills in the process.
Divorce proceedings can occur in an orderly manner, and much of the need for professionals can be eliminated if both partners are willing to cooperate. If you're in a divorce situation, it's important to understand that the cost of legal proceedings can chew up a big chunk of your financial assets.
And once divorced, you could end up paying alimony and child support that will further impact upon your financial situation. Divorce often is inevitable, and we'd never urge you to stay in a bad marriage for the sake of your finances. Resolving to settle a divorce as amicably and cleanly as possible, however, can impact positively on your net worth—and that of your ex.
Once you've determined all your assets, along with your liabilities, you can start getting a handle on your net worth. Your net worth is the indicator of your overall financial situation.
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How common is it to be able to find good cappuccino in coffee shops in Thailand? Are coffee shops common in Thai cities at all?
Although nowhere near as ubiquitous as in the US, coffee shops are relatively common in major Thai cities, especially those with high tourist numbers (eg, Bangkok, Chang Mai). In addition to over 100 Starbucks stores around the country you'll also find countless McDonalds, many of which have "McCafe" and - depending on the area - many western style coffee shops serving your choice of various forms of espresso and drip coffees.
When ordering it's worth making sure that you're getting what you think you are. "Cappuccino" doesn't vary around the world as much as some other drinks, but there are slight variations between countries (and often between shops in the same counties!). Starbucks has the edge here in that they will almost always make the US version of a drink regardless of what country you're in.
Expect to pay about the same as what you would in the US, which means that your morning coffee could well be the most expensive thing you buy all day!
For a start, Starbucks Thailand exists. So if you're desperate, at least you know you can get a recognisable drink and service at that. It's like McDonald's, as a tourist you don't usually want to have it, but at least you know what you're getting. And they do have cappuccinos ;)
There are many, many coffee places here at the moment. Thailand goes through full-on phases - last year there was the fish massage parlours (i.e. you put your feet in a tank full of fish that eat the dead skin) - it was such a good business for 5 minutes that every other shop became one (they were even in Tescos!) - now they are all but gone. Right now there are wall to wall coffee places, many are already falling away (expensive equipment and lush set-up can not hope to be covered in 40baht coffees from passing Thais and tourists - and too many places to charge more!) All the usual coffee types are available - although I find mostly the coffee used for espresso is a bit on the weak side compared to say France or Spain (where the best coffee is served IMHO).


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Water Mill, N.Y.
And New Haven, Conn.
Amid the seemingly endless round of museum openings and reopenings, two stand out. The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, N.Y., and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Conn., reopened at the end of last year after extensive makeovers. Both tell us a lot about the outsize role that small institutions outside major metropolitan centers can play in our cultural life.
Founded in 1898, the Parrish collects and displays work by artists who have settled in or visited that part of Long Island since the 19th century. Originally in Southampton, it decamped a few miles east last year after failing to reach agreement with the town about an expansion that would allow it to show its permanent collection as well as temporary exhibitions. Its new home is a purpose-built facility designed by the Swiss firm of Herzog & de Meuron. It's a long, low structure that tips its hat to local tradition by suggesting a potato barn or other farm building. Inside, the skylit galleries are designed to evoke the atmosphere of an artist's studio.
The effect, alas, is slightly heavy-handed. There appears to be a larger proportion of ancillary space (offices, amenities) to gallery space than one usually finds, and in places the scale of the individual galleries overwhelms the more modestly scaled art on view. And the long, uninflected building presents an unforgiving silhouette against the landscape.
Still, the good news is that for the first time in recent memory almost half of the 2,600-work collection—some of which are superb works of art—is on permanent view. Entire galleries are devoted to American Impressionist William Merritt Chase; Esteban Vicente, a first-generation Abstract Expressionist; and Fairfield Porter, a maverick of post-World War II American art who worked in a semiabstract, realist mode when abstraction was the order of the day.
The remaining galleries showcase an eclectic array of work, mostly landscapes. Most of the work depicts the local surroundings. But some artists, such as American Impressionists Childe Hassam and John Twachtman, are represented by nonlocal subjects. Some of the names are well-known— Willem de Kooning is here—others not. Yet taken together it forms a fascinating survey of the ways different artists have responded to the same set of givens: the land, the ocean, the dome of sky above and the uniquely glimmering light. Approaches run the gamut from Chase's "Bayberry Bush" (1895), a view of three young girls amid the dunes, to contemporary artist April Gornik's water view "Light Before Heat" (1984). Ms. Gornik takes a kind of postmodern approach to landscape, with color in a minor key that gives the painting a coolly detached mood, as if she were deliberately playing against the emotional intensity that has been such a signature element of this genre, particularly in 19th-century America.
The Parrish's collection is small. But the new building presents an opportunity. The South Fork artists' colony is as important an episode of American art as those of Taos, N.M., Gloucester, Mass., and the various outposts in Maine. Through judicious collecting going forward, the Parrish could consolidate its position as a center for the study and appreciation of this region, its art and its artists.
At the Yale University Art Gallery, which opened in December, no new construction was required—at least not much. The expansion was into existing structures. The gallery had occupied Louis Kahn's modernist building of 1953 and about half the adjacent Old Yale Art Gallery of 1928. The collection now fills the Kahn building, the entire Old Art Gallery plus the contiguous 1866 Street Hall, the three now functioning as one unit. A new space atop the Old Art Gallery showcases contemporary works and outdoor sculpture.
The Yale collections already covered African art; American fine and decorative arts from the Colonial era to the present; European art from ancient to modern; ancient art of the Americas; Asian art; and photography. The expansion adds a new department, Indo-Pacific art. (See nearby story.) Exhibition space has nearly doubled, allowing the museum to show some 4,000 works.
But the real achievement is subtler. This is a substantial museum experience. You'll want to allow several hours and even multiple visits to do justice to its collection of near-encyclopedic sweep. But at no time, as you move from one period or culture to the next, does "museum fatigue" set in. This is thanks to the constant variation and sequencing of spaces that draws you gradually forward, refreshing the experience at every step, and to an installation, particularly in the modern and contemporary galleries, that does the same. It's no exaggeration to say that in the scope and quality of its collections and the way they are displayed, Yale has now raised the bar for university museums.
Yale has been fortunate in producing alumni successful and generous enough to populate its museum with masterpieces a Met, MoMA or Louvre would envy. But the museum's richness lies also in its exploration of the byways of art. The same is true of the Parrish.
Particularly when it comes to modern art, the major museums have increasingly opted for a streamlined, highlights-only approach. If there's a work by Kazimir Malevich, for example, it will likely be one of his seminal abstract compositions from around World War I. At Yale, you can see his "Knife Grinder" (1912-13), an almost hallucinatory work from an earlier, little-seen phase when he was experimenting with a hybrid of Cubism and Futurism. Esteban Vicente is hardly ever seen in displays of Abstract Expressionism, despite the fact that, although no innovator, he was a superb practitioner of the style in the Rothko-esque, color-field mode, as the Parrish installation demonstrates. And Fairfield Porter sightings outside Water Mill are ever fewer.
Perhaps because they are less susceptible to fads and fancies, small museums like Yale and the Parrish have the freedom to show art the bigger institutions won't. These two newly reincarnated museums demonstrate that such institutions are indispensable, able to offer nuance and texture to the story of art that their bigger brethren sometimes lose sight of.
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51st: U.S. Iran policy in the hands of Likud--or maybe Peter Sellers? MORE plus bipartisan sabre rattling
The arrest by the FBI of an Iranian-American used car dealer, Mansour J. Arbabsiar, for plotting to kill the Saudi Ambassador and blow up the Israeli embassy in Washington, while also setting up a deal between Mexican drug dealers and an officer in Iran's Quds force, begins to sound like a plot for a Pink Panther movie. And perhaps it is, what with the plot provided by the FBI and fed to Arabsiar by a drug-dealer FBI informant. The improbability of the whole thing isn't stopping the Amen Corner in our Congress calling for punitive actions against Iran, including booting out their ambassador.Juan Cole has the movie plot here.The New York Times on Thursday reports on the 51st's Congressional Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fl-R), and chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, rallying the troops.Eric Holder, Attorney General, made a big splash with his announcement the other day. Was he hoodwinked by the FBI? Does he actually read the indictments? Is this a trade for Israel not bombing Iran (with the Bunker Busters we gave them)--at least not in October!Who needs the theater of the absurd, when our public servant produce such scenarios?MORE: Just for those who think I am over the top, Pat Lang has this: "The overwhelming likelihood is that this is someone's "information operation" intended to condition public attitudes for some purpose. The over riding question is that of where the ovens are located in which this confection was baked and who the bakers might be.'Was it the Iranians as a subtle threat of serious action?'Was it the Israelis?Was it the NSC? (the Obama Administration)"Was it the FBI?"Was it the CIA?"As a former official in the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang offers his own scenario for organizing such an operation.AND THIS: Accusations of anti-Semitism about post or comments get deleted.More saber rattling: Senator Diane Feinstein (CA-D), "The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says thethwarted Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States shows the "collision course" that awaits unless Iran changes directions." All that from the arrest of a used car salesman!William Kristol: "Lest the administration hesitate to act out of fear of lack of support at home, Congress should consider authorizing the use of force against Iranian entities that facilitate attacks on our troops, against IRGC and other regime elements that sponsor terror, and against the regimes nuclear weapons program."
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IMO what's germane is the aftermath, wherem presumably, the Saudis are "taking the lead."
Wow--Commonweal subscribing to the ZOG theory of government, i.e., Zionist Occupied Government, and name-checking a Jewish congressmember! It's all a Likud plot, evidently, the treacherous zionists having used a remote brainwashing technique to manipulate Barack Obama and Eric Holder.I'd love to hear more about this, Margaret!
Mr. Cadharm, All you have to do is read the newspapers! Amazing what you might discover. The remote brainwashing technique is called fund raising for the 2012 election for both congressional and presidential candidates. Rep. Ros-Lehtinen name needs no checking just look up her legislative record. You need a little update on the Israeli-U.S. relationship....Neither Commonweal or I believe in the ZOG theory of government. No need to...just elected officials are enough.
Why is nobody talkling Pinochet and Orlando Letelier? And why was the fury directed against Iran not directed against Chile in 1976? This is the question.
The Arabsiar plot is implausible, therefore Margaret O. Steinfels dismisses it. Then she cites Juan Cole as laying the plot she discredits at the feet of Israel. Cole is known to be objective when it comes to Israel. Next she cites Pat Lang who places the Israelis right behind "subtle Iranians" as likely perpetrators of a disinformation plot. Mr. Arabsiar is innocent until proven guilty. But how do conspiracy advocates explain the money wired from Iran or the communications intercepts the government says it has?Maybe a careful reading of The Protocols can reveal the answer.
The number of new commentators who show up when Israel is mentioned and with accusations of anti-Semitism and references to The Protocols of Zion leads me to think the HASBRA effort is not a fiction.
Would the welcome mat be out for a new commenter who agreed with you that the Arabsiar plot was too implausible to be taken seriously as Iranian plan to kill the Saudi ambassador but plausible as an Israeli disinformation effort?What significance, if any, do you attach to the money wired from Iran and the communications intercepts the government claims it has?
The welcome mat is out for new commenters who can make any argument they want about plausibility. What is objectionable is the charge that anti-Semitism, actual or implied, is behind it. Money wired from Iran? Communications intercept? Has anyone seen these and verified them. Obama has gone out on a big limb if these are not true. The significance, if we can make out who and where they came from, may prove to be important. At the moment, I am simply reminded of FBI arrests that produce improbable perpetrators who have been abetted and aided by FBI informers or agents.
I assume you mean has anyone outside the USG seen proof of wire transfers and copies of communication intercepts. If so, the answer as far as I know is, No. I agree that some past FBI arrests have been made on the basis of improbable information and flawed testimony of informants. The majority of arrests they make are based on solid evidence. The Justice Department will soon bring its evidence in the Aabsiar case into open court. We shall see if they can establish their case.I don't believe that criticism of Israel is synonymous with anti-Semitism. But I do wonder on what basis you believe that the alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US is implausible while considering it plausible as an Israelis disinformation operation
Israel would like to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities. Though rumors abound that they might/could/would do this on their own (especially now that they have bunker busters from us), they would obviously benefit from American support. A plot, such as the one under discussion, to raise further animus against Iran will only increase the drum beats for U.S. support for an attack. My reference to Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fl-R) suggests that our Congress is ready, willing, and able to facilitate another war in the Middle East. Representative Ros-Lehtinen has a long record, along with other congressionwomen/men, of quickly supporting measures attacking Iran and supporting Israel.The ineptitude of the plot suggests to me that it is precisely this U.S. support for and complicity in an Israeli attack that was its goal. Hence whether the plot was successful or not was immaterial.
Israel would like to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities and so would the US. Israel bombed an Iraqi reactor without US knowledge or support. They attacked a Syrian facility without US opposition, at least according to Dick Cheney's recent book. In neither case did Israel require an inept bomb plot in the US as justification. If we wanted to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities we already have enough reasons.I think the reason either Israel or the US jointly or separately has not bombed Iran's nuclear facilities is that unlike Iraq's and Syria's they can not be destroyed in a single raid. It would require a sustained air campaign and even that might not do the job. Israel could not carry out such a campaign from bases in Israel even with US supplied aerial refueling.You assume the bunker busters that we gave Israel are for use against Iran. Why not for use against Hamas and Hezbollah who very likely store their Iranian supplied missiles in underground bunkers?Throughout US history there have been war hawks in Congress and out that have urged US military action. The mere existence of such people and their bellicosity is not evidence that Israel is behind an alleged plot to murder the Saudi ambassador in the US. Incidentally, right wing conspiratorialists who are also skeptical of the bomb plot say that its purpose is to distract attention from the Fast and Furious fiasco.Your argument boils down to Iran is too smart to come up with this plot but Israel and its sympathizers in the US Justice Department are dumb enough to think they can fool the rest of the US government and public into supporting war against Iran with it.
We are agreed! Matters are complicated. Motives and outcomes complex and unclear. "Iran is too smart." As the story has developed, it is not clear that "Iran's" government has had a hand in this, nor do I see claims from our own government that there is evidence for this. A rogue element from the Quds force is all that has emerged, an element that appears not to be all that smart. Israel as a perpetrator. I doubt that. I do not doubt... (to be continued)Continued...I do not doubt that this "plot" having emerged, much will be made of it contra Iran including by Israeli officials, entities, and friends of Israel, including most of our congressional representatives as well as some members of the Obama Administration though, as anonymous leaks show, not all. It would be foolish of Israel to use the bunker busters on either Hamas or Hezbollah--that would be a waste of bombs and very likely to create serious blowback for Israel.Unlike Iraq and Syria, Iran presents a special logistics problem for an Israeli attack--overflight of countries that will not give permission, hence the need for U.S. support. Wouldn't we both be pleased if the whole thing blew over, and did not become the cause for war against Iran.
I would share your pleasure if this incident did not lead to war with Iran. Even if the government's case against Arababsiar and his co-defendant are proved I doubt it will.I believe that Israel will only use the bunkerbusters if they and we are convinced that an attack against them is immanent.The situation in the middle east is complicated. If Israel were somehow to vanish tomorrow. Sunni Arab states, especially in the Gulf, and Iran would remain hostile to each other. So long as the mullahs rule Iran it will remain hostile to us.
Can't say I disagree with any of your points. And I hope that you're right that the Arabsiar event does not lead to war, though I doubt he will be found guilty by a jury--more likely there will be a plea bargain and he will disappear from history. And true, "so long as the mullah rule Iran it will remain hostile to us." And vice versa...if I may say so. As long as there are mullahs ruling Iran, the U.S. will remain hostile to Iran, especially when Israel plays such a central role in our Middle East policy. Stepping back from all that is not easy though I am convinced that none of this is good for the United States, and especially not good for Israel.
As long as there are mullahs ruling Iran, the U.S. will remain hostile to Iran, especially when Israel plays such a central role in our Middle East policy.
Israel is not the key to U.S.-Iran hostility. The Iranian rivalry with our Saudi ally for supremacy in the Gulf and the attractiveness of American culture to Iranian youth is the key.I think you are right that there will be a guilty plea in the Arababsiar case. The government will not have to disclose its evidence as it would if there were a trial. I hope they do disclose it to allay suspicion, much of it reasonable, about the case.
"Israel is not the key to U.S.-Iran hostility. The Iranian rivalry with our Saudi ally for supremacy in the Gulf and the attractiveness of American culture to Iranian youth is the key."There is a convergence of interests in containing Iran--that seems increasingly clear. The Saudi interest emerged during the "Arab Spring" in Bahrain--contain Shi'ism. The Saudis manage to stay below the radar of the U.S. MSM and we hear little about their plans, initiatives, and fears. Is the convergence of their interests with Israel a key to peace in the "Western" Middle East? That would be an irony of historic proportions.In the meantime, here is an analysis of Saudi policy by Vali Nasr at Brookings (Note that he too is waiting for evidence of who is behind the plot: "If True, Iran plot, a Giant, Dangerous Error"). http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/1012_iran_nasr.aspx


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WKU's Board of Regents did finally accept the proposal for a Greek Village near the campus.
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Tice says, "The fraternities and sororities will build and own their own houses. So they'll be responsible for their own maintenance, their own upkeep of their houses. They'll generate rent; they'll ask the students to pay rent."
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There used to be a separate accounts tab on the user profile page - I see that the accounts tab that was around is no longer seen - where's it gone to?
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My chemist roommate asked me the following question. Let $f : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a real-valued function and $F$ its Fourier transform. Suppose we know the modulus function $|F| : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. What can we deduce about $f$, can we determine it completely?
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I'm fearful about putting this forward, because it seems the answer should be elementary. Certainly, the Weak Approximation Theorem allows every system of simultaneous inequalities among archimedean absolute values to be satisfied. But equality combined with inequality?
Yes. Take $$ \alpha=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}}+i\sqrt{\sqrt{2}-1}. $$ Neither of the conjugates $$ \sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}}\pm \sqrt{\sqrt{2}+1} $$ have absolute value 1.
It is impossible, however, if $\mathbb{Q}(\alpha)/\mathbb{Q}$ is abelian, since then all automorphisms commute with complex conjugation.
This was all stolen from Washington's Cyclotomic Fields book.
Yes. E.g. consider the two complex roots of $x^2-(1-\sqrt{2})x+1.$ They are algebraic integers of degree 4 on the unit circle, but their algebraic conjugates are the roots of $x^2-(1+\sqrt{2})x+1$, so they are irrational real numbers.
If $f(x)$ is a monic polynomial in ${\mathbb Z}[x]$ and all roots have absolute value 1 (i.e. lie on the circle $S^1$ of radius 1), then all roots are roots of unity (satisfy $x^k=1$). Indeed, if $x_1,...,x_n$ are the roots of $f$, then for every integer $k$, $x_1^k,...,x_n^k$ are all roots of some monic polynomial $f_k$ of degree $n$ over $\mathbb Z$. The coefficients of $f_k$ are (by Vieta's formulas) $\pm$ elementary symmetric polynomials of $x_1^k,...,x_n^k$. Since the absolute values of $x_i^k$ are 1, the coefficients of $f_k$ are bounded independently of $k$. Since these coefficients are integers (these numbers are algebraic integers and they are obviously stable under any automorphism of the field extension), there are finitely many different polynomials $f_k$, so $x_i^k=x_i^l$ for some $k\ne l$ and $i=1,2,...,n$, hence $x_i^{l-k}=1$. Now if you take any algebraic integer on $S^1$ which is not a root of unity, some of its conjugates will not belong $S^1$.
There was a similar question on math.stackexchange: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4323/are-all-algebraic-integers-with-absolute-value-1-roots-of-unity/4332#4332 and my answer below is partly taken from that.
For any non-real algebraic number x inside C, its absolute value |x| is algebraic, so x/|x| is an algebraic number on the unit circle other than $\pm 1$. Most algebraic numbers do not have all their conjugates of equal absolute value, so it's quite easy to generate examples of what you ask for.
There is a constraint on the minimal polynomial over Q of an algebraic number on the unit circle other than $\pm 1$. Let x be an algebraic number with absolute value 1. Then x and its complex conjugate x* = 1/x have the same minimal polynomial. Writing f(T) for the minimal polynomial of x over Q, with degree n, the polynomials T^nf(1/T) and f(T) are irreducible over Q with common root x*, so the polynomials are equal up to a scaling factor: T^nf(1/T) = cf(T). Setting T = 1, f(1) = cf(1). Assuming x is not rational (i.e., x is not 1 or -1), f has degree greater than 1, so f(1) is nonzero and thus c = 1. Therefore T^nf(1/T) = f(T), so f(T) has symmetric coefficients (the coefficients of $T^i$ and $T^{n-i}$ are equal). In particular, its constant term is 1. Moreover, the roots of f(T) come in reciprocal pairs (since 1 and -1 are not roots), so n is even.
Partial conclusion: an algebraic number in C other than 1 or -1 which has absolute value 1 has even degree over Q and its minimal polynomial has constant term 1. In particular, if x is an algebraic integer then it must be a unit in the number field it generates.
There are no examples of algebraic integers with degree 2 and abs. value 1 that are not roots of unity since a real quadratic field has no elements on the unit circle besides 1 and -1 and the units in an imaginary quadratic field are all roots of unity (and actually are only 1 and -1 except for Q(i) and Q(w)). Thus the smallest degree x could have over Q is 4 and there are examples with degree 4: the polynomial T^4 - 2T^3 - 2T + 1 has two roots on the unit circle and two real roots (one between 0 and 1 and the other greater than 1). In Victor's answer, the two quadratic polynomials he writes down have product T^4 - 2T^2 + T^2 - 2T + 1. In Cam's answer, the algebraic integers he writes down have minimal polynomial T^8 - 12T^6 + 6T^4 - 12T^2 + 1. Note these polynomials are all symmetric, as they must be by the argument I gave above.
Fact: polynomials f(T) of even degree n = 2m with symmetric coefficients are the same as polynomials of the form f(T) = T^mg(T + 1/T), where g has degree m. (This is a nice little exercise by induction.) Moreover, roots of f on the unit circle other than 1 or -1 correspond in a 2-to-1 way to real roots of g in the interval (-2,2) by $e^{i\theta} \mapsto e^{i\theta} + e^{-i\theta} = 2\cos \theta$. (Note $e^{-i\theta}$ is also a root of $f$ on the unit circle and it leads to the same real root of $g$ since $\cos(-\theta) = \cos(\theta)$.) This is how you can count the number of different roots of $f(T)$ on the unit circle: convert it into $g(T)$ and count the real roots of $g(T)$ in $(-2,2)$ using sign changes. For example, taking for f(T) Lehmer's polynomial of degree 10 in cfranc's answer, the corresponding polynomial g(T) is T^5 + T^4 - 5T^3 - 5T^2 + 4T + 3. (Although f(T) has symmetric coefficients, there is no reason g(T) needs to have symmetric coefficients.) This polynomial g has all real roots and 4 of them are in (-2,2), so Lehmer's polynomial has 2*4 = 8 roots on the unit circle.
Another nice example is Lehmer's number $\lambda \simeq 1.17628$, which is the largest real root of the monic irreducible polynomial $x^{10} + x^9 - x^7-x^6-x^5-x^4-x^3+x+1$. This polynomial has a second real root inside the unit circle, and the remaining roots lie on the unit circle.
The Mahler measure of a monic irreducible polynomial is the absolute value of the product of the roots with norm $\geq 1$. The Mahler measure of an algebraic integer is the Mahler measure of its minimal polynomial. It is believed that Lehmer's number has minimal Mahler measure. For more on Lehmer's number check out this "What is" paper.
One interesting set of example is Salem numbers. These are real algebraic integer all of whose conjugates has absolute value less than or equal to one and at least one of the conjugates lies on the unit circle.
So you have a scenario of, one which flew over the cuckoo's nest, at least one in the edge and the rest are all in the nest (caged ?) .
Also if all its conjugates lies on the unit circle then it has to be a root of unity, its known as Kronecker Theorem.
One more comment on this frequently answered question: Let $a_0 x^{2n} + a_1 x^{2n-1} + \cdots + a_{n} x^{n} + \cdots a_1 x + a_0$ be a palindromic polynomial with real coefficients and $2k$ isolated roots on the unit circle. Then any sufficiently small perturbation of this polynomial to another real palindromic polynomial also has $2k$ roots on the unit circle.
Proof: Notice that $e^{\pm i \theta}$ is a root of this polynomial if and only if $a_0 \cos (n \theta) + a_1 \cos ((n-1) \theta) + \cdots + a_{n/2-1} \cos \theta + a_0/2=0$. Write $f(\theta)$ for the right hand side of this equation. Our hypothesis is that $f$ has $k$ isolated roots, $\theta_1$, $\theta_2$, ..., $\theta_k$. Then we can find $\epsilon>0$ and disjoint intervals $(a_i, b_i)$ around each $\theta_i$ such that (1) We have $f((a_i, b_i)) \supseteq (-\epsilon, \epsilon)$. (2) On $(a_i, b_i)$, we have $|f'|<\epsilon$ (3) Off of the $(a_i, b_i)$, we have $|f|>\epsilon/2$.
Then, if our perturbation is small enough that $f$ and $f'$ change by less than $\epsilon/4$ everywhere, then the perturbed $f$ still has one root in each $(a_i, b_i)$, and no roots elsewhere. QED
Why do I point this out? Take any of the above examples and perturb its coefficients slightly, while keeping them rational and palindromic. Then you get another example! This observation destroys most attempts to classify such polynomials by number theoretic criteria.
One more example. Let $\alpha_1$ be the real, and $\alpha_2$ and $\alpha_3$ the nonreal, roots of $x^3-x-1$. Then the six numbers $\alpha_i/\alpha_j$, $i\ne j$, are a complete set of conjugates, exactly two of which ($\alpha_2/\alpha_3$ and $\alpha_3/\alpha_2$) lie on the unit circle.


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It's a windows server. Do you think 1GB RAM would be enough? I can not make up my mind!
data would reach 1 GB pretty soon since it's multiple websites and some small images. Tables would be indexed. I am using ASP.NET MVC (C#.NET). I am caching things inside C#.NET big time. I will be returning around 10 rows of data for each visit, but I am caching things a lot in my websites, too. Do my questions clear things up? Those visits should be spread out throughout the day, BUT I dont know for sure.
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Finally have enough money after the holidays to put my old 1100 Remmy under the knife. She is at R&D (Americhoke) getting cut so I can use choke tubes in her. After measuring the choke constriction again, the advertised Full choke on the barrel is more like an extra full or turkey choke constriction (.685) No wonder it reaches so far, is hard to hit up close, and stops birds in their tracks. Even birds. This should make the old boat anchor (she's a heavy pig, but I love her) much more versatile. It's just funny because this was my first shotgun, and the first gun I ever bought myself, so I have hunted with it every year for the last 20+ years and I am more nervous about this than I am when I go in for surgery . Can't hunt right now anyway (weather), so it was the perfect time to take it in. But I should have the chance to try her out this weekend, weather permitting. Again, thanks to SJ and clampdaddy for the recommendation on his services. Just talking to him and picking his very intelligent brain each visit is worth it alone. And being only 20 miles round trip away makes it super convenient.Wow! On a side note, I dropped it off at noon this afternoon and mentioned I was maybe wanting to hunt this weekend before the season ends this weekend. I never even asked when he would be done (I don't like to push people as I don't like it when I am working either), but I just received a phone call at 4:00 saying that "Since my choke tubes were already in stock, and everybody else's guns currently being worked on are not trying to get out before the season ends, mine will be done tomorrow afternoon"!!! I may even get the chance to pattern it and hunt a couple days with it! YOU CAN'T BEAT SERVICE LIKE THAT. Thank you both again for the heads up on this place, I am even more impressed every time I deal with him.
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Posted 23 January 2012 - 04:44 PM
Good to hear of the excellent and f a s t service, Bob. Good for you on getting it done. You will like that shotgun a whole lottttttt more. I did that to one of mine 25 +/- yrs ago & works awesome. You will be a Happy Camper hitting more birds with it. Just don't let your nephew or anyone else hunt with it, as it may be the last you get to use it... as my youngest son did to me. I sure miss that gun. lolIt really is amazing sometimes, how one shotgun can be called full choke yet is considered modified in another, as your example so correctly points out. And all the more reason why one would do well to do like you did. More hits and more game will be the results. p.s. I'm hoping to get out this week also... Good Luck to you & let us know how you do.
Posted 23 January 2012 - 05:23 PM
From your title I was afraid someone in your family was in trouble! Glad to hear it was elective surgery, and that everyone is OK. Its good to hear reports of great service too. Normally its complaints on the internet. Let us know how you like it. DR
Posted 24 January 2012 - 06:52 PM
It is someone in the family, and one I actually like too And you are so right about only hearing negative feedback, seems like nobody bothers to mention the good things. But after the service I have received here, I can't say enough good things. Yeah frank, it was hard enough to pry it away from his 11 year old hands after dove season (even after his dad got him a very nice O/U 20ga) so needless to say, I doubt he will even touch her now He also tried to walk in the door with my 20ga 870 when I dropped him off Sunday after shooting some clays, the little booger. Good luck if you head out also. I am going, just don't know if it will be Thursday or Saturday. If I go Thursday, the little guy can't miss school and I go alone, but if I go Saturday I will be W A Y late showing up for a graduation party for a 20 year friend who also happens to be my hunting partner's sister But I think we both know what day I'm going Good thing she understands my family's priorities I just got back home with the barrel and I have to say I love it. You can't even tell it's been touched, and I can now use it for everything. I am one happy camper. It will be real interesting to see how a "true" full choke patterns with her now. My one and only fear is that she may not shoot to point of aim like she did before if anything is "off". But again, after meeting him, I truly trust his work. That's the only reason I let him touch her to begin with. And his customer service again was just excellent. Before I could leave he "made me" take a few extra o-rings for the gas seal and told me there are so many of these 1100's out there that he has just about every piece on hand if anything should ever break, just give him a call. I can't recommend him enough and feel good about supporting a small business man, but feel even better supporting a place with such great service. I will definitely be doing more business with him in the future Here is the link also if anyone is considering having this done. Top notch all the way!!!http://www.americhoke.com/
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I too am running out of space in my house to store my bikes. I have three bikes inside my house and my 5 kids bikes are outside in a shed (which is also over crowded). My idea is to buy a 6X12 enclosed trailer to store our bikes and modify it to also be like a bike shop. We take our bikes everywhere. My concern though is keeping the bikes in an environment that is not controlled. Although they will be completely sealed off from rain, etc., they will still be exposed to varying temperatures and humidity. Does anyone think storing these bikes in a trailer is a good idea?
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So long as the trailer is reasonably weather-tight it shouldn't be a problem. Since there's nothing in the trailer generating humidity, no significant condensation will occur, and, within reason, temperatures won't hurt bikes. (The only caveat would be that you maybe should have some vents that can be opened if temps rise above 90F or so, so that temps don't get over about 150F inside.)
It's definitely not as good as storing them in a climate controlled environment like your house but if you're buying a camper-style trailer it's going to be a little better than throwing them in a shed out back and a lot better than leaving them out in the elements. As long as the bikes are getting ridden and maintained regularly, normal wear and tear should catch up to them before the effects of the storage method you have in mind will. Unless you're running a climate controlled environment the two things you're going to have to watch out for are high humidity levels, high temperatures.
Unless you're running an AC or storing your bikes in a giant ammmo box, humidity is going to be a concern. Keep in mind that even if you don't have a steel framed bike, many of your components are either made of steel or have steel bits which are especially susceptible to corrosion. Even if the trailer is reasonably well sealed you may want to consider getting a chemical dehumidifier. These are often made of a type of clay or silica gel and you should be able to find them at your local hardware or home improvement store, or obviously online. If you find that they're getting used up faster than they should be then you probably have an issue with how well your trailer is sealed. Make sure to change the dehumidifier out as needed since the chemical type does get used up.
Regarding temperatures, extreme heat is the one you really need to watch out for. High temperatures won't affect the metal parts of your bike but they will degrade most anything made of plastic or rubber over time. Try to position the trailer somewhere that doesn't get much sun. If you live in an arid climate, consider venting it during the summer. However if you live in a humid climate leaving a vent open is probably just trading one problem for another. Cold shouldn't be much of an issue.
As an aside, don't store your bike in direct sunlight either. This is true of any storage method. The paint and/or anodization can fade over time which is purely aesthetic, but once again rubber and plastic parts (leather as well) are susceptible to degradation from sunlight. Hang curtains/towels/whatever in the windows of the trailer so that they absorb the harmful rays instead of your nice bikes.
I would suggest not sealing the trailer but leaving the vents open.A natural exchange of air will actually reduce condensation.Think in terms of an unheated crawl space in a home.If you close the trailer up on a warm humid day that humid air will form condensation the first time the inside of the trailer gets cold.Condensation will also occur if the trailer is cooled for several days and you open it to the weather on that first warm day.All that cold metal inside will not warm up as fast as the air.The warm and moister air will loose its water content as it comes in contact with the colder metal, again think cold beer, warm day,wet bottle.So basically allow the humidity to fluctuate with the ambient temp via ventilation.
use a incandescent lightbulb 60-100watt underneath the bikes and a moisture absorber called damp rid works, I got 2 Harley's in my 6 by12 trailer


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6 Shockingly Evil Things Babies Are Capable Of
#3. Getting High
You're a good parent. You're doing your best raising your stupid little baby and, so far, you think you're doing a pretty decent job. Then one night, you put your baby in their crib as usual but instead of nodding off they sit up and start beating their head against their crib over and over again. Hard. You're in too much shock to do anything, or maybe you're just kind of a crummy parent and you want to see where your baby's going with this when, after a minute or so, it is all over and your innocent little angel is fast asleep. What the hell just happened?!
It's not just your baby, either. Starting at about nine months, before going to sleep many infants will bang their heads against something solid up to 80 times a minute. Spells can last from a few minutes to a few hours. They're not mad, they're not trying to get something, they are seemingly just hurting themselves for no reason at all other than to fuck with your already fragile and sleep-deprived parent brain.
Why Did I Do That?!
It feels fucking awesome, and it's the closest this baby can come to getting high (unless you're really crummy parents). The surge of adrenaline that the kid gets from the slight pain induces a happy, calm and relaxed feeling followed by exhaustion. They don't care if you protest, and they don't care if there's any harm done. They just want that next adrenaline fix, and they'll bang their head all night to get it.
But they can quit any time they want. Totally.
You are destroying the lives of everyone around you.
#2. Stealing
Imagine this: A guy notices his neighbor, or his brother has something he wants. A watch, or a car. This guy wants it, so he cons and lies and manipulates until, eventually, his neighbor or brother either feels guilty enough or bad enough for him, and they give up the watch. The con man gets what he wants. What would you call that? Stealing, probably. Now, imagine that same scenario, but imagine a tiny, worthless baby is doing it. What would you call that? That's right: Adorable stealing, and babies do it all the time.
If they see something they want, they'll do whatever it takes to get it. They'll scream, sure, but they'll also hit their head, injuring themselves, so their parents feel bad. One bumped head and suddenly every cookie and toy goes to the baby, and Mommy is cooing, "Are you alright?"
This behavior of self harm and manipulation usually starts before six months and can continue well into childhood. During tantrums, babies will hit and bite themselves, and some children will hold their breath for so long they pass out. This emotional manipulation is, not surprisingly, very effective.
Why Did I Do That?!
Children don't have a complex understanding of other people's ownership until they are a few years old. Unfortunately, an understanding of personal ownership comes much sooner than that. In other words, to a baby, everything is theirs. The concept of things being taken away makes no sense. If it's MINE and I want it NOW why can't I have it? Since everything is rightly yours there is nothing wrong with doing whatever you have to do to get it back. And if it takes making yourself pass out to get your damn pacifier returned, so be it. What do you care? You're a little con baby.
#1. Murder
For a long time scientists had a theory that left handed people might have started out as twins in the womb. Their rationale was that in a set of twins one tends to be right handed and one left handed. Genetic and nurturing factors can also affect handedness, but they can't explain it completely in many cases. Maybe all lefties were the result of only one twin surviving the cage fight that is fetal development.
It wasn't until ultrasounds, and fearless cameras capable of surviving the uterus, that scientists discovered their hunch was right. Sort of. They were right in the fact that most lefties were once twins but they didn't go far enough. Scientists now think that a ridiculous one in eight people started out as two peas in a pod. Of course, only about one in 70 people actually is a twin. So what happened to your twin? You killed it and then absorbed it into your body. Yeah, those stories of adults finding teeth in their shoulder? Not urban legends.
Why Did I Do That?!
Because you're evil.
Not really. Chances are you were just the healthier fetus. Or you hogged all the blood if you shared a placenta. Or you grew faster and literally left your sibling no womb at the inn. If multiple pregnancies are really as common as they now seem, we evolved to be this way for a reason. Trying out two fetuses to see which one is more likely to survive is a pretty good plan evolutionarily. Unfortunately, carrying twins is very dangerous for the mother, meaning that our best bet as a species was to let one twin kill off the other early on in development. Just another reason lefties are a sinister, sinister group of people.
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Do you have a cat/cats?
In looking at the wonderful pictures of boxes of crap sent between Wootizens, I'm noticing a lot of felines. Do you have a cat? If so, how many? And what is its/their name?
I have an 11-year-old brown tabby named Wendell.
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No, I'm very allergic to them. But they all seem to love me. So, I've decided they're all really just passive aggressive jerks. Because they know I'm allergic to them. And they won't leave me alone. I don't sound crazy do I?
I have two cats - Itchy is an 8 year old female tabby cat and Snowball II is my 5 month old black kitten. He's in spoiled brat mode so I'm about to ruin his parade and get him neutered. Of course I was going to get him fixed anyway. Oh yeah, I'm a big Simpsons fan if the names seem weird.
@zuiquan: Give them the stare down. That'll make them leave you alone, if you don't stare at them and look at them they think you're friendly.
I'm serious.
...And where are the cat pictures? This is the internet after all.
@kmashaney: I love the Simpsons (at least the earlier ones). Do you actually call him Snowball II?
@zuiquan Yeah, I think I read that if you ignore them, they don't feel threatened and they will be all over you. If you make eye contact it'll make them uncomfortable and they'll leave you alone. (I'm also somewhat allergic, but I'm such a crazy cat lady I'm willing to put up with the not breathing.)
We have 4 cats. Two of them are indoor and my wife and I have had them since we were dating. They're declawed on the front and back. They don't like me or my children despite my attempts to go out of my way to make their lives more enjoyable. They're fickle like that. They also sit outside our dog's kennel at night and drive her insane. They mostly live under our bed, coming out at night to eat/poop and make a mess of anything they can. Our brown tabby is overweight and snores when he sleeps.
The other two are outdoor and sleep in the garage at night (Our indoor cats are older and we didn't want them to start trying to mark their territory inside the house because of new kitties) and are only a few months old. They actually like our children a lot and actually come when you call for them. They'll more than likely be my favorites eventually.
I have India. She's a 10 year old bengal. She's a bit of a jerk, always knocking things from shelves and attacking my toes just as I get settled in bed, but I still love her dearly. I don't have a photo handy, I'll try to hunt one down later today.
@figgers3036: My boy
I have one Siamese cat, named Jasmine. She is getting pretty elderly, I would guess maybe 12 or 13. She is on her fourth life, and more widely traveled than most cats. My stepdad. a long haul truck driver, found her begging in the snow in a supermarket parking lot in the midwest and tossed her in the truck and took her to their east Texas ranch. When they got divorced and gave up the ranch I brought her to my west Texas home. Given her excellent manners, she was obviously a pet in her early life. So she has been a pet, a stray, a farm cat, and now she is in charge of indoor and outdoor pest control at my house.
@curli76: yes! at first it was hard adding the "two" part, but over time it began to stick. That could be because I talk to my cats too...sometimes I like to call him SBII for short because it reminds me of RGIII (QB for the Redskins) Here are my babies:
He always looks like he's up to something...
Here are my indoor cats when they were much more curious about the world (and much less evil):
When they were kittens:
@capguncowboy: kitten picture....I just... I cant handle.... omg..... too much....
@kmashaney: Then you'll love this one:
She really is a cute cat, even now that she hates me. Her fur is the softest cat fur I've ever felt. I tell my wife all the time that when she (the cat, not my wife) dies I'm going to make a hat out of her fur.
@kmashaney: an attractive woman just posted a self-photo in an internet forum full of geeks? WITH cats? it's a good thing private messages aren't easily achieved 'round here.
I have 4 that came with my girlfriend when she moved in. Although 3 of them she acquired when we were dating. Her first was Verb because he was a very active kitten. He was rescued from the parking lot of her apartment complex. Then came Atlas and Raiden who were adopted at an adoption event when buying cat food. Atlas liked to climb up on my shoulders so he was named after the god with the world on his shoulders and his brother purrs so loudly he was named after a thunder god. Then there was a kitten we found in a storm drain at the same complex Verb came from. Since there was a good chance they were related she was named Noun.
I think you're all familiar with the Intern by now (this is what she prefers to be known as around here). She will be two years old next week! :)
She is also my woot cat, as I got her a few days before I started working here.
I have a "small" dog (she weighs 105#), so no (real) cats in my house.
I probably have at least 30 different cat shirts - most are from Woot, but some are from Threadless, GoodJoe, TeeTurtle and DBH too.
@pinchecat: oh my god cutest cutest cat gif ever
here is a close second -
@pinchecat: Just don't make this creepy. :)
@inkycatz: hey i didn't say i was looking for a PM button to smash....i just pointed out that several dozen keyboard cruising kitten cuddlers certainly are. :)
@kmashaney: A/S/L?
(sorry, couldn't resist).
@narfcake: My small dog weighs 140lbs. But he gets along very well with the cat, largely because the cat respects his position as alpha pet. He's been taught to treat her with respect as well, and he adheres to that even when they are alone together.
4 Cats:
I've got two black and white cats. About 10 years old. Brothers from the same litter. Doc is the smaller one, weighing about 9 lbs. Iggy is the bigger guy, weighing about 18. They both eat about the same amount of food, Doc is just much more active than Ig.
I think they've forgiven me for being gone for about 10 days over Christmas. They both slept with me the last two nights and have done an excellent job of keeping my feet warm.
Have an orange tabby named JJ. At 8:30 every nite he taps hubby on shoulder to let him know it's time for feeding and bed. If hubby is slow to move he climbs on back of my pillow, puts paws on either side of my head, pulls my head back and bites (gently) my nose.
Yes, I have one cat which is constantly plotting to kill me.
Yep, I have three. Two brothers, Malachi and Tevildo, that I found as bloody newborns in a trashcan outside my apartment in Cairo (someone had very clearly thrown them away and tried to cover them in trashbags; there was no way that a cat could have gotten into that bin and given birth). There were actually four in the litter, but two died because I am not a vet and it was hard to get/make kitten formula and get good care in a developing country that mostly sees cats as rats. The vet refused to give them deworming meds because they were "too young," even though my vet uncle insisted it was fine.
My third, Tigoon, is also a rescue. She was found outside in a Chicago February snow. She was half-starved, a runt, with a prolapsed rectum, and fiercely protecting her even runtier little sister. The family who found the kittens took the sister and I claimed my now-Tigoon.
Ooh, photos!
Malachi, the ginger, and Tevildo, the tuxedo:
You guys are making me sad that my hubs is allergic to kitties. But we have puppehs, so I'll live with visiting other people's kitties.
@thumperchick: that's okay, we have the dog thread for you!
Grundle, a tortie, named for Grendel the antagonist from Beowulf.
I'm also allergic but i love them (i have a bunch). here is one of my kitties taking a cool self-shot :P http://instagram.com/p/TzKqArIygg/
here is my other kitty, playing on my pet wild boar
@capguncowboy: i have a calico like yours, she has super soft fur too!
@capguncowboy: here is my calico, it's the only picture i have of her http://instagram.com/p/TgCP5loynP/
I did have cats. 8 at the same time. I cherished each one. Thank all of you for sharing your cats! :-D I'm enjoying the stories/pics.
these are the rest of the kitties: http://instagram.com/p/TbCp3-Iyhk/
and this is my super lazy cat... he's the most friendly. I think he sleeps way too much http://instagram.com/p/Tt52oUIyik/
This is one of my two cats Koda when she was a baby!
4 cats:
sister and brother, 15 years old
cat with only 9 teeth, AND she weighs only 9#, 12 years old
Craigslist cat, boy, 10 years old, and 16#!
Puddin' (yes, apostrophe!)
we also have 2 dogs, 15 years old and 17 years old!
Sammy is on the right and Diva the left:
Sammy is a ~14lb male and Diva is an ~8lb female. Both were rescues and it was totally a coincidence that they look alike (they are unrelated). Sammy is about 3-1/2 years old in these pictures and about 10 months older than Diva.
A better picture of Sammy's face:
Cooper can represent for the family; he's the vainest about his looks. We have four, Cooper is number 3, we got him at 10 weeks old from a rescue group to keep up with our Maine Coon (SPCA rescue with another cat, #4 just showed up + started talking to Cooper, who was sitting in a window) when the orange cat who raised her died. We explained that we needed a cat who could play with a large, playful 3 year old. Cooper had been wearing out the other kittens so they suggested him. I think he might still be growing.
This is Agent Smith, or Snookie to his friends. Which currently are just me: my fiancee hasn't been around so he has forgotten about her. He hides from everybody else other than his family: a bit of a fraidy cat. This is several years old, but this is how he looks now that his hair is long:
He needs a haircut soon. This is how he looked as a kitten
Arwen (left) and Strider (right). Arwen was crying outside our first-floor apartment window one day. I brought her into the building because it seemed like she might live there and walked with her past every door in the building, thinking she would pick a door. When we got back down to our apartment, I opened the door and she walked in like she owned the place. After a week of putting up "found" fliers with no responses, she was ours. Strider was adopted as a kitten from a local shelter. Arwen just hated Strider when we first got him, but as you can see now they're buddies.
I have 4 kitties; all indoor cats. The last two were an accident --- I saw a litter of kittens and I just couldn't help myself & brought two of them home. That was 5 years ago and I haven't been near a litter since.
We have one cat, Camry, who my fellow Wootizens helped me name,, helped me keep out of the Christmas tree, helped me gift at Christmas, helped me identify as a thief, and helped me guilt into returning the stolen item. And I've only had her since June!
Here she is, snuggling with big sister, Lexie:
(it's interactive fun!)
my cats do this after a little nip !
I have 1 cat called Izzy. Once, I made a domino rally and put cat food by the 1st domino. Izzy eats the cat food and the dominos toppled over!


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How can I remove it and use a browser of my choice?
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I have to license a java application and want to code a quick implementation, the scheme I came up with is:
1) The Application calculates a string X which we assume to be the md5 sum of the computer's mac address, the current date and some other information.
2) the application returns a string Y equal to the last 16 digits of X to the user
3) the user contacts the Software Support office giving Y and the office encrypts Y using AES with a secret key and returns a string Z equal to the last 16 digits of the encrypted Y
4) the user inputs Z in the application and this checks that Z is equal to its own Z which is calculated the same way as at the Software Support. If the two are the same the software unlocks.
Now I would like to know whether two assumptions are reasonably safe or not:
A) Assume a cracker knows how Y is calculated and can calculate it for its own copy of the software and uses this Y to request a Z to the support center and unlock his copy of the software. Is it possible he will be able to calculate for every possible Y he wants a matching Z to unlock any copy of my software?
B) Because my software contains the encryption key inside the application bytecode a cracker with enough knowledge can decompile the encryption key and create his own Z to unlock the program (assume I tried my best obfuscating the code). A solution would be to use public key cryptography, however this would be useless in my opinion because if a cracker is able to decode the compiled bytecode of the application he will totally bypass whatever encryption scheme I will put because in the end there will always be a part of the code checking for a condition and setting that condition always to true will bypass any encryption scheme I will come up with. is it true?


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WACO (January 15, 2013)--Citing a personal conflict, Waco's U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. on Monday signed an order recusing himself from hearing a lawsuit filed against new McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara that accuses the sheriff of improperly firing six employees.
Smith was appointed to the federal bench in 1984 and for many of the years he served, McNamara was a U.S. Deputy Marshal who worked both in the same building and in the same court.
Court records show the case has been transferred to U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel in the Austin court.
The lawsuit alleges the fired deputies First Amendments rights were violated when they were fired because, they say, they only were fired because they supported McNamara's opponent in the GOP Primary.
The complaint, obtained last week by News 10, lists Jimmie Channon, W. Derrick Johnson, William I. McKamey, Anthony W. McRae, J.C. Riggs and Norman Wade as plaintiffs and Sheriff Parnell McNamara and McLennan County as defendants.
Dallas attorney Don Tittle filed the suit late last Wednesday afternoon in federal district court in Waco.
In the complaint Tittle says the plaintiffs were denied their right to free speech and claims they were terminated from employment at the sheriff's office solely because they supported McNamara's primary opponent for the sheriff's job.
The lawsuit claim states all the plaintiffs openly campaigned for Randy Plemons, who McNamara defeated in the GOP Primary for the right to run for the job in the general election, which McNamara also won.
The lawsuit claim points out that combined the plaintiffs had more than 114 years experience in law enforcement and all had been given excellent job reviews.
"The unprecedented firings were obvious political retaliation," the claim states.
Further, the claim states that McNamara's actions "caused past and future economic damage to each plaintiff in the form of lost wages and benefits. Also each plaintiff has sustained damage to his reputation, ability to earn a living and standing in the community, and will continue to be so damaged in the future."