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IDX06 Gator Golf ...................................................... IDX07 Mystery Vortex .................................................. IDX08 Frog Rock ....................................................... IDX09 Bumpusville ..................................................... IDX0A Bigfoot party (part 1) .......................................... IDX0B Dino Bungee ..................................................... IDX0C Vegitable Museum ................................................ IDX0D Bigfoot Party (part 2) .......................................... IDX0E The Four Totem Poles ............................................ IDX0F Copyrights and permissions ...................................... IDX10 Contacting me ................................................... IDX11 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Introduction to this FAQ and the game | IDX01 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sam & Max Hit the Road is one of the good old adventure games of long lost times If you wonder how to get this game, I cannot help you, I still got my copy from times this was still in store. I'm sure there are sites you can download it from, but since I cannot support software piracy, I cannot give you links. If you can give me sites on which this game can be bought/downloaded from WITHOUT VIOLATING COPYRIGHTS mail me, and I'll add those to this FAQ. Also note that since this game is old you may NOT be able to play it on modern machines. You may need an emulator to play it. One of the best out there is DOSBox. Download it from: http://www.dosbox.com I recomment only to use this FAQ when you are stuck, or else this game will be no challenge at all. If you are stuck look at the index on what you are doing and look at the IDX code. Open a search window (Ctrl-F in Windows and Linux and Apple-F in MacOS). Well, that's all folks... Let's get started on this +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | HQ | IDX02 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ In the game you control Sam, however you can use Max by either grabbing him and point a target with him, or by selecting him from the inventory. - First check the mousehole to get yourself some cash - Take the blacklight from the closet Some optional stuff is to use the dart-board or to feed Max' ant farm. - When you're done here, leave the building and go outside - Use Max on the cat If you want a quick laugh, go into the store at the corner of the street. - Enter you car and be ready to get on the road. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ | Snuckey's | IDX03 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ You can buy some silly things at the Snuckey stores, like a car bomb game, dress up dolls and shit like that. It's all optional, but it is kinda funny to collect. One of the shops has a cup lying. Pick it up. You can also get a box of pecan-candies. Take that too. When Max complaints he wants to go the bathroom talk to the attendant and ask him if Max may go to the bathroom. He'll allow you to and give Max the key. Now go out quickly and speak to Max before he returns the key. Get him to keep the key. That makes you ready for this part. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ | The Carnival | IDX04 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ - Show your orders to the firebreather - Pick up the bigfoot hair and exit north - Play the Wak-A-Rat game. If you win you get a flashlight as prize. - Take the magnifying lens from the Wak-A-Rat stand - Put the blacklight in the flashlight - Tell the guy sitting next to the Cone Of Tragedy you want a ride. - After the ride check your inventory and see that all your items have gone. - Ask the guy next to the cone about your stuff and he'll give you a claim ticket for the lost and found. - Go to the lost and found (close to the entrance) and reclaim your stuff. Along with it you got a magnet fish. Look at that fish to get a new location on the world map. - Now enter the Tunnel of Love - Use the flashlight to see spots otherwise invisible in the dark - When you get past a fusebox, use Max on it to stop the ride - At the right statue pull its beard to open the back door - Go through it. - Give the kid the pecon-candy and he'll tell you how Bruno and Trixie disappered. He'll also tell you about Shuv-Ool, his uncle. With this story the largest ball of twine on earth. You'll also get a crowbar. - Use the switch to get the Tunnel Of Love moving again - Leave - Now find Trixie's camper - Use the crowbar to open it - Open the closet - Pick up the calender inside for another new location - Open the box for a neat custume - Go to the freak show tent - Pick up the claw-in-a-jar - Leave the carnival and go to the Snuckey's. - Have the attendant to get the claw out of the jar - Now go to the Gator Golf. - Get the ball retriever here and go to the World's biggest ball of Twine +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ | Biggest Ball of Twine in the World | IDX05 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ - Enter the small hut at the bottom of the twine - Attach the claw to the ball retriever - Attach the fish to this combo - Use it to get a ring out of the twine - Now go outside and ride the tram to reach the upper part - Enter the building - Use the loose wires on the telescope - Talk to the telekenetic guy and get him to give you a bent tool - Use the elevator to get down - Go back to your car. Next stop, World Of Fish +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ | World Of Fish | IDX06 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ - Pick up a bucket of fish - Use the bent spanner to loosen the big fish doll - Enter it - Call Max to that too You'll end up at the kitchen of the ball of twine - Use Max to get yourself a bit of twine - Next stop Gator Golf +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ | Gator Golf | IDX07 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ - Exit north A fight between you and Conroy Bumpus will get you rid of Max. - Pick up the bucket of golf balls - Place the bucket with fish - Now pick up the club Now you can use the flag to aim. Now the alligators will change position when you put a fish in their neibourghood. Try to move them that wat that a bridge is formed. Don't worry about running out of fish, your supply is unlimmited, and Max will tell you when the bridge is good. Sam will automaticly cross it. - Open the door to free max (a hidden door will be revealed), and Max will give you some bigfoor hair - Open the newly revealed door - Pick up the snowglobe inside (leads to a new location). Well the mystery vortex is the next stop. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ | Mystery Vortex | IDX08 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ - Enter the vortex You may see a lot of doors here. Shuv-Oohl is behind one of them, which one it is, is diffrent each game. You are either too small or too big to enter those doors. If you enter by the mirror you can set the colors of the magnets to either red, yellow and blue, or combine them to get white, purple, orange and green. Try to set them to the door color you like to try. If it's the wrong door try it again, until you found the right door. - When you found Shuv-Oohl ask him about Bruno - Give him the ring you found in the biggest ball of twine He'll give you mole man powder. - Go into the back room (where everything is upside down) - Pick up the bigfoot hair from the block of ice - Leave this bizarre place and go to your next stop - Go to the top of the ball of twine and put the magnifying lens on the telescope. - Now use it to find Frog Rock With this your next target is set. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ | Frog Rock | IDX09 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ - Put the three samples of big foot hair on the rock - Now put the mole man powder on it Now you get the next location. Bumpusville. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ | Bumpusville | IDX0A | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ - Enter the mansion - Take the left way and go to the back to see a show of Conroy Bumpus You cannot do anything for Bruno and Trixie yet. If you try you'll set off an alarm which will get you kicked out. - Find the bed room (right of the entrance) - Get on the bed and pick up the pillow - Use the claw on the retriever to get a book from the shelf (It's the users manual of the cleaning robot) - Look for the cleaning robot and open it when you found it - Disconnect all wires and connnect the blue one This will set off the alarm and distract Conroy's bodyguard - Go to the back room in the right part of the mansion - Use the virtual reality simulator = Pick up the sword = Go to the cave = Slay the monster with your sword = Grab in the hear to get a key. This key will become real. - Go to the room where Trixie and Bruno are kept - Use the key to turn off the alarm and release the prisoners. The next location is now available - Take the picture of John Muir Go to the Bigfoot Party +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ | Bigfoot party (part 1) | IDX0B | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ - Enter the building - Give the rasp to the bigfoot with the hurting foot - Talk to the receptionist After your chat she'll give you some brochures - Examine those brochues to get two new locations. Leave here, and go to the Dino Bugee +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ | Dino Bungee | IDX0C | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ - Go to the Dino and Mammoth robots - Use Max to get the hair from the Mammoth - Put the string - Use the speaker to get the mouth of the T-Rex open - Put the string on it - Attack Max to the string. This will get you tooth. - Go to the back - Enter the bunge site - Get behind the screen to get in Bungee Equipment - Put the cup on the retriever with claw - Start bungee jumping and use the retriever with cup to scoop up some tar. - Now use the screen to get back to your normal self Now let's get outta here +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ | Vegitable Museum | IDX0D | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ - Give the picture of John Muir to the lady - Now leave, go wherever you want and come back here and ask the lady about the John Muir vegitable - Look the giant crate to pick up a Bumpus vegitable out of it. - Go to Bumpusville - Swap the Bumpus veggie with the wig (you'll be kicked out, but you got the wig now). - Now to go to the party again. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ | Bigfoot party (part 2) | IDX0E | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ - Put the tar on the costume - Put the hair on the costume - Put the wig on the costume - Enter the building - Put on the costume. - Enter the party - After the speech, pick up the wine bottle from the table - Go into the back (if there's a large fridge you're in the right room). - Pick up the screwdriver - Open the fridge - Open the back door to meet Bumpus and bodyguard - Talk to Bumpus - Tell him you're not a bigfoot (he won't buy it) - Take off the costume - When Bumpus uses the fridge to disguise himself use Max to lock them in The bigfoot chief will lead you to the four totems and explain the situation the bigfoots are in. After that we gotta solve the totem riddle +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ | The four totem poles | IDX0F | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+ The four totem poles all need an item in order to be activated. We got already three of those items. (At least when you followed my FAQ). One is still missing. For that one do the next things - Have the telekenetic at the ball of twine to bend your screwdriver - Use it to remove the cork from the screwdriver - Go to the upside down room in the mystery vortex - Step in the mini-vortex - While you are on the ride, use the snowglobe to catch some of the vortex' power and use the cork to lock it in. Now we got all we need. Go back to the party site to the yard with the four totems. From there is a way (extremely hard to spot) to a small pool where the bigfoot chief is waiting for you. Give him the next items to activate the totems: TOTEM #1: The snowglobe with mystery vortex power TOTEM #2: The tooth of the T-Rex from the bungee site TOTEM #3: The John Muir vegitable TOTEM #4: Conroy Bumpus' pillow Doing that will end this game. CONGRATULATIONS! YOU COMPLETED SAM & MAX HIT THE ROAD! While the credits are running you can shoot serveral things. Not that it matters, but it is kinda fun, I suppose. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Copyrights and permissions | IDX10 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ This FAQ has been copyrighted by Jeroen Broks aka Tricky, formely known as Tricrokra. This FAQ may be viewed, downloaded and printed for personal use only. It may not be sold, or used as a basis for commercial work. This FAQ may also not be modified. Parts of it may not be copied to your own FAQs without my permission. 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I wanted to choose a happy photo for this night. when i think about happiness, first thing that i remember are children with their deep and beautiful happiness.
every thing is for them a cause for knowing and play.
however, for some of them, life is not easy as we imagine but tiny things are enough for a child to forget all. some things those we have and forget them. a ball at corner of garage, a cloth that rest for years, a pencil in drawer, a book, an story that you are going to forget slowly, a game that it can help them to know each other better, your learns those sediment in your brain, or a respectful and friendly saying hello not just for children, but for all people.
A thing has rest some where, a thing that called unreasonable happiness.
Happy new year
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daddo (28722) 2013-12-30 14:58
Salam Rahim.Sensitive note that goes with this image. I like the imagery of sediment in the brain to equal memory and growth. Some people sadly have concrete or barbed wire in the brain and are unable to show joy or friendship. Nice moment, dramatic light. A happy 2014 to you. Klaudio.
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My review of previous NewsBusters posts relating to "Bill Nye the Science Guy" indicates that he's an atheist who doesn't think creationism should be taught in schools and, more pertinent at the moment, such an avid believer in "global warming" aka "climate change" that he believes those who doubt it or that it's caused by human activity are "unpatriotic."
Nye's belief in what I prefer to call "globaloney" appears to be based far more on faith than sound meteorological knowledge, given the alarming ignorance he expressed recently on MSNBC about the origins of the past week's snowstorms in the Northeast. Washington Post Weather Editor Jason Samenow ripped into Nye at the paper's "Capital Weather Gang" blog yesterday (HT Yid With Lid via Instapundit; links are in original; bolds are mine):
To educate viewers on the science of the recent mega-blizzard that socked New England, MSNBC's Craig Melvin brought onto his program noted "science guy" Bill Nye . What followed was the one of the most flawed discussions of meteorology I've ever seen on a national network.
In likening the blizzard and hurricane Sandy, Nye implies both storms originated off the coast from Africa, which is wrong. Sandy formed in the Caribbean (not from an African wave) and the blizzard formed off the Mid-Atlantic coast (from the merger of two North American disturbances).
Nye then draws an absurd comparison between East Coast storms and West Coast storms in an attempt to equate them.
"If you live on the West Coast ... that same type of storm is called a Sou'wester," Nye says. "If you go to the sailboat store you can get a Nor'easter hat in New England but it's a Sou'wester hat in Seattle."
Big problem: storms typically hit Seattle from the west not from the south.
(presented as an update within the post) ... yes, Seattle has storms that come in from the southwest, but they're not commonly called "Sou'westers" and they have important differences from Nor'easters. (resuming origina post) Nye then makes a convoluted comment about spin in different parts of the storm that serves as a non-sensical transition into a discussion of climate change. The climate change discussion is somewhat more coherent than his earlier comments but overly simplistic.
Why MSNBC turned to Nye for weather wisdom is headscratching, considering it has access to a stable of competent meteorologists at the Weather Channel.
If it's generally true that the Weather Channel folks are reluctant to appear on MSNBC, it wouldn't be all that baffling. I imagine that quite a few professionals in non-news or non-political positions would rather not enter such a leftist fever swamp full or reality deniers.
Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds observes that "Bill Nye's descent into partisan talking-head hackery has been painful." It's also should be considered potentially problematic for those using his work in the classroom or elsewhere, given that his stated mission, which is "to help foster a scientifically literate society, to help people everywhere understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work," appears to be more than a little misleading.
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Featured Guest: Walter Johnson's work focuses on slavery, capitalism, and, increasingly, imperialism in the nineteenth century. His first book, Soul by Soul (1999) used the slave market as a way to think about the fantasies, fears, negotiations, and violence that characterized American slavery. Since then, he has written a series of essays about social and historical theory relating to the history of slavery in the U.S.: on the idea of "agency" as the organizing theme of scholarship; on notions of time; on theories of capitalism and slavery; and on the idea of reparations for slavery as a historical narrative. Most importantly, he has written a history of the Mississippi Valley between the Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War entitled River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Imperialism in the Mississippi Valley (2013). While retaining a focus on the immediate experience of slavery and mastery, this book also embeds the history of slavery in the United States in the histories of global capitalism and American imperialism. He is currently writing a book about the 1841 revolt aboard the slave ship Creole. Walter Johnson received his B.A. from Amherst College and his doctorate from Princeton University. Before coming to Harvard, he taught History and American Studies at New York University.
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Christine Todd Whitman says there are valid environmental concerns with the Keystone XL pipeline but thinks it'll ultimately be built.
Former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman says the federal government has to take proactive steps to combat the effects of climate change.
Much of the world's electronic waste ends up in Guiyu, China, where old parts are recycled but chemicals like mercury leak into the water.
The Philippines is the second largest producer of geothermal energy, but the country is looking to export its renewable energy program to other nations.
The Obama Administration is expected to decide the fate of the pipeline project in 2013, and the debate between protestors and TransCanada continues.
With land prices at a premium in Singapore, vertical farms with rotating vertical racks present a sustainable solution while cutting down pollution.
Renewable energy has been used in Corsica, France, for decades. Now the island is considered an experiment for the newest technologies.
Aquatic hyacinth is overtaking Africa's Lake Victoria, but entrepreneurs are using the invasive weed to create baskets and rope to sell.
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Now that my review of En Masse Entertainment's slightly game-changing MMO Tera is in the can, you might find yourself wanting to give the game a try. And like magic, Tera is now offering a seven day free trial. What can you do in seven days?
With Tera's newly-launched seven day trial you can play all eight character classes up to level 23, after which you'll have to purchase the game to continue. You won't be able to bug people in area chat, access your bank, or harass other players via whispers, but you will be able to get a feel for all of that action combat I was mentioning earlier.
And who knows, maybe you'll wind up on the Dragonfall server and run into some members of Something Terable, a guild originating from the Something Awful forums.
Or maybe you'll run into someone from Passion, the guild I currently belong to, whose guild leader held a contest and promised the winning guild a mention on Kotaku without consulting me first. If he ever does anything like that again, I am setting him on fire.
So yes, there's plenty you can do with seven days in Tera. Tell 'em Back sent you, and when they say "who?" just tell 'em "some guy".
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Washington (CNN) -- An overriding question of "who is this guy" can be felt in the room when Tommy Wells stands to take the open microphone at an event about the racial disparities in Washington drug arrests.
The council member is addressing an eclectic, racially diverse crowd: a mix of people personally affected by racial profiling and white 20-somethings with tight jeans and button-covered backpacks. Wells, a suit-clad, oval-faced, gray-haired, white politician stands out.
"I am Council Member Tommy Wells," he said, before launching into a five-minute mellow talk about the effect of the district's drug laws and the need to decriminalize marijuana, an issue Wells is spearheading on the council.
Not once does the 56-year-old lawmaker who spent most of his childhood near Birmingham, Alabama, mention that he is running for mayor.
"We've got a lot of work to do and I am here to help you do it," the former social worker said. "This can't be just one race's burden."
For Wells, decriminalizing marijuana -- and his appearance at an event earlier this year about race and the law -- is as much a product of his job as it is about the fact that he is vying to become the District's first white mayor.
For nearly 40 years, since Washington was allowed to administer itself by using popular elections, the six people who have led the nation's capital have been African-Americans. With two white men, Wells and Jack Evans, another council member, running for the office in 2014, that could change.
Demographic shifts changing face of cities
Other cities -- like New York, San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta and Detroit -- have experienced similar demographic changes that have shaped electoral politics: white flight to the suburbs in the last century and white residents returning to gentrifying areas of inner cities in this century.
Google bus stunt reveals tensions in San Francisco
In Detroit, for example, the transition meant for four decades a black mayor led the city. That changed in November when Detroit residents elected Mike Duggan to become the city's first white mayor in more than 40 years. But for many, especially those who have lived in the District for decades, Washington is different because of its rich history of African-American culture and representation.
Detroit elects first white mayor in 4 decades
At least 10 candidates are so far vying to take the mayor's office from embattled incumbent Mayor Vincent Gray who said he will run for a second term.
D.C. mayor launches re-election bid
In addition to the incumbent, Evans, and Wells, Council Members Muriel Bowser and Vincent Orange, activist Andy Shallal, former State Department official Reta Jo Lewis and at least four other candidates have declared their intentions to run. Others have hinted at a run.
While the election is bound to center on issues like education, livable wages and ethics, race is an issue at the center of the contest, although it's not regularly addressed in speeches and statements.
"I have a track record and have always been able to win with significant African-American vote," Wells told CNN before the event. "If I am elected, they (African-Americans) will get someone that is not just a white man."
Both Wells and Evans have said -- quite bluntly -- that they are ready and willing to talk about race.
"My history would be one that has been able to represent everyone," Evans said.
But not everyone agrees. Black leaders, including other members of the council, say electing a white mayor would symbolize a trend that many have seen coming for decades: Washington, a place once known as "the chocolate city" because it was a mecca for African-American leadership, would no longer be able to claim that mantle.
"There are a lot of black people who are not ready for a white mayor," one-time mayor and current Council Member Marion Barry said emphatically.
But Washington is not averse to electing white leaders; David Clarke served as city council chairman for a dozen years before his death in 1997. The Washington Post in its obituary recognized the liberal leader's "ability to transcend race."
'Chocolate city'?
Since the late 1950s, many African-Americans proudly knew Washington as the "chocolate city" not only because it was a majority black city, but also because with that majority came a thriving African-American business base and broad representation in city government.
The majority peaked in 1970 when the District was 71% black. To Yvette Alexander, council member for the still predominantly African-American Ward 7, it was more than just numbers.
"I can remember even when I attended college at Howard University, all of my classmates all over the country were fascinated with Washington, D.C.," she said nostalgically. "Wherever you went there were black people. My classmates were amazed that even if you went into a store, wherever you went, there was black ownership."
The common refrain from her friends who came from outside the District: "This is amazing to see so many black people, that basically, have it going on," she said.
But D.C. has changed. In 2012, the percentage of the population that was African-American was 50.1%, according to the Census Bureau.
At the same time, the white population in Washington has grown significantly. While whites made up 27.7% of the population in 1970, they currently make up 42.9%. In terms of economic standing, white Washingtonians make more than the average median income for the District.
The answer to why the dramatic change has happened depends on whom you ask.
Gentrification, socially unequal development, the flight of white young adults to Washington, prosperity of government jobs, income stratification -- all have been cited.
During the 1950s and '60s, large numbers of white people fled Capitol Hill and downtown for more homogeneous suburban and exurban areas in Virginia and Maryland, leaving a higher concentration of African-Americans in the city.
But the era of white flight seems long over. Instead, many young whites are moving back into urban areas, choosing to live close to employment and transportation hubs. With them comes more development and higher prices, meaning black residents are sometimes being priced out of their neighborhoods.
Economic growth pricing some out of their homes
Sitting in a recently opened Right and Proper Brewing Company in the Shaw neighborhood, an area that was the epicenter of economic depression just a few decades ago, Mayor Gray remarks on the changes.
Young, largely white professionals returning to the District have been driving economic growth over the last four years, Gray said, noting that "on any given day, you will have 60 or more cranes that are operating."
The city is netting around 1,200 new residents a month "and a lot of those people are white," Gray said. "I have to acknowledge the reality of what the data indicate." The concerns of largely African-American longtime residents "are legitimate because the cost of living in this city is going up."
One way Gray said he is looking to combat that is by pledging to spend $187 million on affordable housing projects in the District, a plan he hopes will create or preserve roughly 3,200 affordable housing units.
A few decades ago, the brewery Gray now sits in -- with its shiny new floors, unblemished kegs and antique tables -- wouldn't have existed in Shaw. The area that at one time was the heart of African-American culture in the 1960s, was also the epicenter of riots after the 1968 shooting of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Through the 1980s and '90s, the area was an economic wasteland.
But as has happened to much of Washington, businesses began to come back to the area. One restaurant, then another opened up -- and then an apartment building or two were built. Houses that were once vacant became homes again. Then the Howard Theater -- a historic music venue that hosted the likes of Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine and Ella Fitzgerald -- went through a $29 million renovation and reopened in 2012, and the area is on its way back.
With that growth came change. According to the Census Bureau, in 2000, Shaw was 90% African-American. In 2010, it was 70%. White population grew from 4% in 2000 to 20% in 2012.
More like 'chocolate swirl' city now
The District, Gray said, is no longer the chocolate city. With a laugh, the 71-year-old mustachioed politician with a permanently furrowed brow said it's more of a "chocolate swirl" today.
As to the question about whether the residents would vote for a white candidate Gray said, "I think people want to see somebody who they feel empathizes with who they are, someone who can address their problems, who can address their challenges, someone they can relate to," Gray said. "I think that can be a person of any race, frankly."
But then he continued, saying he understands "the anxieties that people are experiencing" and believes that race "will be a factor for some people" who vote in the election.
While Gray was cautious about addressing the effects of the economic boom, others were not.
"The chocolate city is over," Alexander bluntly said as she retold stories of what the city used to be like.
The changes to the city have caused a noticeable divide among residents, too.
Streets that were once dominated by the black businesses Alexander remembers are now home to high-priced apartments and trendy cafes. For many in D.C., the polluted river that splits the city symbolizes the growing disparity between the haves and the have-nots.
"There is still a basic segregation that exists with the Anacostia River," said Clinton Yates, a columnist for the Washington Post who grew up in Takoma Park, Maryland, a town just blocks from the northern D.C. boundary. "It is still real. People west of the river do not have any real reason to go east of the river."
East of the river, in Wards 7 and 8, unemployment is far higher than the Washington average and poverty has become the norm, not the exception. The tourist money that floods into the city each day rarely is spent in Wards 7 and 8.
What's more, residents east of the river can see the boom on the other side of the Anacostia -- new high-rises and cranes dot the skyline as cars buzz into the capital -- but they feel unable to tap into that growth.
Black disenfranchisement 'a major part of this city'
Yates said, "The overall disenfranchisement of the black resident of D.C. is a major part of this city."
Because of that, Yates said, "I just don't think we can see a white person at the helm of the city."
Are the candidates prepared to talk about race?
Historically speaking, Council Member Muriel Bowser sits in a coveted spot when running for mayor. Not only does she represent a powerful ward in the District, but she is seen as the most viable black candidate in the field other than Gray. She said she is ready to talk about race.
"I have had the great privilege of representing a ward that looks just like the District of Columbia," said Bowser, a young-looking 41-year-old, fifth-generation Washingtonian with short black hair and direct eyes. "Black people, white people, old people, young people, straight people, gay people, you name it. And unlike any other ward council members, I have been elected in that scenario three times."
Bowser came up under the tutelage of Adrian Fenty, the former mayor who lost to Gray in 2010. Fenty represented Ward 4 before Bowser and when he won the mayor's race in 2006, she was the mayor's pick for the council seat. When she was contemplating a run for mayor, the former mayor told Bowser to, "Go for it."
Much like Gray, race seems to be a tightrope for Bowser. She regularly both downplays the role of race in the election -- "There is really no black- or white-mayor way to pick up the trash around the city," she said -- while also knocking her white opponents for being out of touch with what residents east of the Anacostia need and want.
"You have to go all across the city and make sure that whatever agenda we have for change and growth can be inclusive of all eight wards of the D.C.," she said, criticizing Evans, her mayoral rival who has made "urban renewal" -- the idea that every neighborhood should have grocery stores, pharmacies and restaurants within walking distance -- a centerpiece of his campaign.
Evans, the longest-serving member of the Washington council and a high-priced lawyer, put his campaign headquarters near the U Street corridor, ground zero for Washington's gentrification. All around Evans' headquarters are new high-rises, classy restaurants and trendy bars where before there were historic clubs that had seen better days.
'Retail on every block'
Evans, a thin, direct, 60-year-old who lives in the posh Georgetown neighborhood, is proud of that change.
"My goal is to create livable communities like 14th Street, where you have a street that 20 years ago was known for two things: prostitution and drugs," Evans said, pointing to the street from his headquarters. "Today, you have hardware stores, supermarkets, restaurants, retail on every block."
But what comes with the livable communities is rising prices. Just a block up from Evans' headquarters, a one-bedroom apartment starts at $2,200 a month. In 2012, a study found D.C. one of the most expensive places to own an apartment, finding that an individual must be making more than $60,000 a year in order to afford the market rate for a two-bedroom apartment.
While black leaders like Barry said this issue could hurt the mayoral candidate among African-American voters, Evans said he isn't worried because he feels he can answer the two pressing questions on African-American voters' minds.
"The concern in the African-American community is twofold, No. 1, if you get elected, will you forget about us? And No. 2, if you get elected, is this the last time we will have a black mayor?" he said.
To say the race for D.C. mayor is crowded would be an understatement. But the massive field, although typical early in mayoral races, could be a byproduct of a vulnerable incumbent.
When Gray first won the job, he defeated incumbent Fenty in the Democratic primary before cruising to victory in the general election in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans by 12-1. Despite the win, though, Gray's first campaign has dogged him for the first three years of his term.
His 2010 campaign has been the focus of a long-running federal investigation, with prosecutors saying his victory was tainted because his campaign was infused with $650,000 in illegal funds. Four of his top campaign aides from 2010 have pleaded guilty to felony charges, but the mayor has not been implicated.
In 2012, Gray acknowledged he knew that members of his staff had not properly reported funds raised for his campaign, leading some in the council to call for his resignation.
"I have already responded to that again and again and again and again and again," Gray said about his 2010 shadow campaign. "I didn't do anything -- period."
Big field could be advantage for embattled mayor
Political experts all over D.C. thought the nagging federal investigation would lead Gray to shy away from a second run. But now that the mayor has declared his intent, the fractured field against him is looking like an asset, not a liability. With more people in the running to oust him from office, the likelihood that those other challengers will splinter the "anti-Gray" vote is high, meaning the incumbent mayor could win the Democratic nomination on April 1 with far less than 50% of the vote.
Despite that, multiple candidates have raced to become the anti-Gray option. And no one has run harder to claim that mantle than Wells.
He goaded the mayor in a statement after Gray announced, stating the mayor was "elected under false pretenses and doesn't deserve a second chance because he ran a corrupt campaign" and in an interview with CNN, Wells stressed his ethics, an obvious way to contrast himself from the incumbent.
"The city is doing well, but we will derail our progress if we are seen as corrupt, pay-to-play, and that the only way you get contracts or are able to work with the city is if you either buy us off or pay us off," he said after mentioning the federal investigation into Gray's campaign. "I am known and have a brand of being honest."
Before the event on decriminalization, Wells confidently said his vision for the city transcended race and economic groups.
"I think that what I have found is that everybody wants the same thing," he said, pointing out that he doesn't change his message when he speaks to different audiences.
While many in D.C. disagree with that -- "I would not buy into this idea ... every Washingtonian wants the same things," Bowser said -- Wells seems like he confidently believes it, falling back on his time as a social worker in the District as to how he knows.
In possibly his most animated moment of the interview, Wells, whose entire district lies to the west of the Anacostia, began to use the dividing body of water as a metaphor for what he will do for the city.
"The Anacostia River is a symbol of social injustice in Washington," he said before addressing high rates of imprisonment and failing schools east of the river.
"My experience is that when I get a chance to make my case," he said, "I have truly found fairness in the African-American community whenever I have run."


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When I spoke about the course a few months ago it cost $392. Therefore I was both shocked and pleased to read last week that OnlineProfits is now free. All you need to do is sign up for a hosting account through one of the sites partners such as HostGator or HostNine. Hosting packages start from around $4.95 a month, making this the cheapest marketing course on the net.
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In the program you will get much needed help from several mentors such as Yaro Starak, ProBlogger book author Chris Garrett and our very own Zac Johnson.
Online Profits owner Daniel Scocco is also available to help too and over the next few months he will be doing a live case study where members can see how to turn a brand new website into a profitable website worth thousands of dollars.
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"I Earn More than You" – Should You Reveal Blogging Income?
I get a lot of chat messages on Facebook and Google from blog colleagues and acquaintances inquiring about my 'online earning'.
While some of them who are still stuck in the conventional mentality of success equaled with 9-to-5 job ask about online income quite frowningly, thinking 'blogging' is just a fanciful term of jotting down personal opinion online and claiming 'value'; there are fellow bloggers who inquire the same, not out of real interest but to claim bragging rights – "I earn more than you. You are just a speck of dust"!
On a further serious note, I have seen popular bloggers like Darren Rowse and John Chow cite their income online but they stopped revealing them after some time.
Why Would You Want to Reveal Blogging Income?
- You want to reveal how much you make money online because you seriously want to inspire and motivate others. Revealing the income acts as a proof that, yes, it is possible to make money online, especially from blogging.
- You want to gain some sort of credibility. There are many bloggers who claim to earn large sums of money, which sounds too good to be true. In such circumstances, feeling the need to establish credibility by displaying your 'real' income is justified.
But, hold on….
- Some people reveal how much is their blogging income is because they want to 'brag'. Bragging is a serious issue. People post their AdSense income checks on social networks even though Google considers this illegal but bloggers are unmindful of this.
If you are a cynic,
As a cynic, you probably think that the reason why bloggers won't reveal their income is because they are not making any money online. While a part of this maybe true, but not always.
Should You Reveal Blogging Income?
Personally, I am not comfortable revealing how much I am earning online, whether it is by blogging or by writing, not because I don't want to motivate people or because I am afraid of competition, I consider whatever I earn as my "own"; I am the "proprietor" and except for the tax department, no one has the right to question this, not even friend and family, unless I am willing disclose it.
Till then, I am happy displaying a Privacy and/or Disclosure Policy on my blog and websites.
Moreover, I feel that once you start revealing your online income, it sort of escalates the expectations of followers and readers – then they want you to earn more, make more money…and you begin to feel unnecessarily pressurized.
To sum up all this…
Why build unnecessary expectations? Isn't it enough to fulfill your own expectations first? Of course, unless you want to retain your bragging rights, go ahead and brag how much you are earning, but just this – is it really helping anyone?
What do you think?
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3 Strategies to Beat the Recent Panda 4.0 Update
The recent Panda 4.0 update which was rolled out on May 20th 2014 has created quite a storm. The update definitely shifted things around because people didn't know what to expect. Google implemented these search updates because they wanted to fine tune their search results while eliminating those websites that have used blackhat techniques to boost their content. They want to ensure the content which ranks the highest within the SERP's resonates well with its readers. With that said, it's important to know you're focus and the direction you should heading in when generating traffic to your blog. You should be in investing you're time in resourceful content writing while focusing on content that provides a solution and is geared towards user engagement. If you want to continue to build growth and write content that ranks well within the SERP's, it's important to know what Panda 4.0 has changed in the search algorithm so you can strategically formulate your own content creation plan. Before jumping into what's actually changed after the update, let's take a look at what Panda 4.0 is all about…
What is Panda 4.0?
All in all, these Panda updates are designed to reshape the way that Google displays its search results. It's aimed at improving the way that high quality content websites are ranked which will allow for lower quality content sites to be outranked in the SERP's. Each year, internet marketers are coming up with creative ways to produce content through software programs, scrapping programs, etc so there needs to be a way to filter out these websites. The goal of every search engine is to provide users with only the best content available while eliminating those that don't fit the "high quality" threshold. The good news is those websites which have dominated by creating high quality content from the start have done very well often noticing a boost in traffic each time an update comes around.
How Has Panda 4.0 Impacted Search Results?
Let's look at some ways the recent Panda 4.0 update has impacted the search results. I'll also want to discuss some ways that you can effectively work with the recent changes to improve your content.
The Affect on Aggregated Content Websites
When referring to aggregated websites, we're focusing on sites that have succeeded previously by combining and displaying content from other blogs. For example, they will partner with websites to have a feed streamed directly onto their website. These aggregated websites don't product any original high quality content but display relevant content produced by other well established websites.
Google has often prided themselves on original high quality content and decided to crack down hard on those websites that compile content from various websites. Many people will often consider this a sneaky way for websites to rank higher in the SERPS while benefiting enormously through advertising income. However, the funny thing is that some aggregated websites are still doing quite well for either two reasons.
First, they have NOT felt the impact of the recent Panda 4.0 update yet and will in the near future be affected. Google may just be trying to find out where to place the website.
Next, there are other factors which determine where to place certain websites that are aggregating content. For example, BuzzFeed.com continues to flourish even after the update which means that they've aggregated only the best content, post original high quality content written by their editors or were pioneers in the industry of aggregating content. Google has done a great job keeping their EXACT ranking factors a secret.
When I visited BuzzFeed.com I noticed a few things that stood out. First, they cater to every niche which means they'll be getting triple the traffic that niche targeted aggregated sites would generate. Next, through social shares, they've generated a lot of unique targeted traffic to their website. This means that social traffic does play a huge factor in their success. BuzzFeed.com has over 13, 528 referring domains generating 1,473,153 external backlinks which is way more than several other niche targeted aggregated websites have.
You'll never know the EXACT factors which divide aggregated website's however there are definitely some which are performing well even after the recent update.
Matt Cutts has talked about aggregated content and how it can affect you're rankings. When I read over his answer, this is what stood out…
"All the content in the widget can easily be found on another site. Also because the content is generated automatically, there's a high likelihood that the content may be irrelevant. Cutts argues that aggregated content like this can even hurt the search engine ranking of your site as a whole."
There are two things you can do to optimize your content…
First, keep content relevant to your niche because mixing and matching can harm your overall search rankings. For example, when you go too broad it becomes a question of where does your website actually belong in the search rankings. Even though BuzzFeed.com does cover various topics, if you type in any search phrase like "entertainment news" or "celebrity news" BuzzFeed.com does not show up on the first page of Google SERP's. However, many niche targeted "entertainment" websites did come up within the results.
Check this out…I did a quick "Entertainment News' search because this was what seemed to be dominating on BuzzFeed.com.
The lesson is to keep things relevant and targeted so this way you're able to rank higher for certain search terms if you do the next thing which is…
Moderate and only approve the best content for your website. If you have a partner system than only partner with highly reputable websites that are up-to date with the latest news. I would fear the "duplicate" effect because when you're aggregating content, your adding content which is readily available on the internet. This means it's depleting the value added to the hosting websites. You're better off working with partners and their editors to write original content for your website.
Panda 4.0 Impacts Thin Content
What does this mean? Many bloggers would have several pages with content but not all pages contain "high quality" content. Google search updates have been programmed to distinguish between websites that have various pages with high quality content compared to those with a few. Google algorithms crawl all your pages through URL structures within your website looking for user engagement. When Panda 4.0 notices that there is only user engagement on 1-2 pages out of 40 it indicates one of the following:
- You recently shifted your content writing efforts
- Your promoting products on a single page
- Only few pages have actual useful content
- You're site content shift's often which is NOT good in the long run because if Google ranks you higher than other websites based on a single page then there is no guarantee that you'll produce resourceful content when moving forward.
To prove this theory, let's look at the top 3 search results for the keyword "link building". Here are the results…
Now visit the top 3 results, which in this case are Moz.com, SearchEngineWatch.com and Wikipedia.com. From my experience I know all are reputable websites. Explore each and you'll notice several things that stand out…
- Content longer than 2000 words on each page and internal links
- Enormous comments and social shares
- Fresh content updated frequently, if not daily.
- Accurate URL structure which is well organized linking to high quality content
There are several more but I'm hoping you understand what it means to have Panda 4.0 weed out those sites that have thin content scattered throughout their blog.
"Content is King" and writing high quality content will always dominate the internet because it'll provide EXACTLY what the visitor is looking for. You'll notice that engagement, social shares and increased rankings have been the foundation of the recent Panda updates. Start investing more of your time in writing high quality content and watch your rankings soar. If you visit the site of any experienced blogger, you'll notice that high quality content is their most effective link building strategy. You need to write content that people want to link to and if you don't have that passion, you're in the wrong profession. Another tip is to visit older content on your blog and start updating it so that it becomes a valuable resource for visitors.
Panda 4.0 Rewarded High Quality Content
The new wave of Panda 4.0 simply rewarded "high quality content" and I had mentioned that above. "Content is King" and it's evident by some of the websites that were actually affected. For example, eBay.com saw a major drop in their rankings and many experts believe it was the "thin" content effect which was responsible. What does this mean?
Whenever someone did a search for a specific product and eBay showed up in the organic search results, most times the URL will point to a page with very little content. If you view product pages on eBay.com, you'll notice a title, image and very little content describing the product. The problem is that people who are inexperienced with SEO, normally the people posting a product for sale within eBay, are in charge of creating content which describes the product. They do a poor quality job which affects search results. Next, the related products will internally link to pages which have made the same mistakes as the previous product like title, image and very little content. This is known as the "thin" content syndrome and caused eBay a huge drop in the rankings.
How about the ones which were winners AFTER the recent Panda 4.0 update?
Many of the winners with an increase of 500% in the SERP's were health related websites. These sites, since governed closely due to the sensitive nature of the topic, are very detailed on every single page and regularly updated. Each page contains loads of content and interlinked to other detailed relevant content.
The point is that high quality content websites have done very well after the recent Panda 4.0 update.
In your niche, visit relevant websites to find out what's trending. You can visit websites like Topsy.com and type in a keyword phrase like "link building" and filter it down to find out the most shared content. Visit the top website and find out what's missing and create something better. The great thing about Topsy.com is that you can search a keyword in every niche and find out what's trending. If you're looking to dominate your competitors than read these 13 Content Writing Tips That Will Crush Your Competition.
Your objective should be to create something even better than your competition. If the top spot doesn't have images, then add some in your content, if their missing videos, then create a video tutorial. It's that simple!
Final Thoughts
Every day Google works hard researching ways to revive their search algorithm so that the search results become more relevant to the user experience. If you think hard about the purpose of any search engine, it is to provide their users with the most relevant high quality resources. Next, Google has dominated because they found a creative way to provide just that – High Quality Search Results.
What is the future for Google?
If you look back at every Google update since 2006, you'll notice a few visible trends…
First, you'll notice the SERP's produce more targeted results focused around websites with high quality content. If there are any lower quality websites that appear on the first page of Google, they'll slowing be eliminated in future updates. You'll also notice those sites that have always produced high quality content have NOT been affected by the recent updates or have benefited from higher search rankings.
Websites that produce fresh content more frequently have flourished in recent years and these are NOT one page websites which promote single product reviews. Google recently introduced a "freshness" update within their algorithm. Here's something from Moz.com
"For example, a document whose content is edited often may be scored differently than a document whose content remains static over time. Also, a document having a relatively large amount of its content updated over time might be scored differently than a document having a relatively small amount of its content updated over time."
Finally, user engagement has played a vital role in Google determining ranking positions. User engagement has two elements. First, how long a visitor remains on your page (bounce rate factor) which indicates the quality of your content and internal linking pattern. If a visitor finds your content engaging, they'll most likely visit other relevant resources on your website. Next, social shares, the importance in ranking is still up for discussion, but has played an important role in driving targeted traffic to a webpage. The more people share a piece of content, the more traffic is generated and the likelihood of someone linking to it just increased.
Going forward focus on these elements and you've just decreased the chance of a future update impacting your website. If I had to choose one element that you'll always succeed with, I'd choose writing high quality content every time you publish.
Let me know what you guys think is the most important element that will eliminate the chances of being affected by a future Google update?
Blogging News
Do You Believe in Ghost?
That's not a misprint. There's no "s" missing. The word is Ghost. It's the newly released, open-source blogging platform that's made quite a stir in the industry and will create an even bigger one now it's available, free of charge, to anyone who wants it.
The amount of fuss should be no surprise. The man behind the platform is entrepreneur, designer, and former WordPress User Interface Team member John O'Nolan. CTO and co-founder is Javascript expert Hannah Wolfe.
They went to Kickstarter for initial funding and instead of the £25,000 goal, they raised almost £200,000. Major contributors are Envato and Woo Themes: companies recognized by professional bloggers everywhere. Oh, and Microsoft is involved too.
The Ghost story
So should you be interested in Ghost or is it just another WordPress competitor that has little chance of gaining the critical mass necessary to contend with the industry leader?
Actually, it's not being discussed as a WordPress competitor at all. Nor a CMS. Visit the launch website and you're greeted by a simple headline that's appeared in all the publicity: "Just A Blogging Platform."
Delve a little deeper and you'll find that the philosophy behind Ghost is straightforward online publishing. It's about stripping away all the extra functionality that WordPress and other platforms provide and getting back to what blogging originally was, albeit a more stylish version.
Wired said, "Ghost aims to reboot blogging." Mashable asked, "Is This Kickstarter Project the Future of Blogging?" ProBlogger called it "a simply, elegantly designed and useful interface."
Some scary challenges
It's great publicity, but what does it really mean to the majority of bloggers? Those people aren't necessarily developers or coders but just want an efficient platform for getting their ideas — or their businesses — onto the Internet?
The claim of simplicity runs into a bit of a challenge right at the start. You have to write in Markdown, a language developed to translate text to HTML quickly and easily.
It certainly does that, and it's far from the most difficult language to learn, but what's wrong with hitting the "B" for bold button? Or selecting "Heading 1" from a drop-down menu?
Then there's installation. Soon they'll offer a hosted version (no mention of price) but at the moment you have to install it yourself. Many bloggers do exactly that with WordPress, so where's the problem?
Actually, you can't run it, as many WordPress users do, on shared hosting. It's got to be a VPS. $4.99 a month? Forget it. $15.00 is more like it.
If you're blogging on a commercial basis, maybe $15 a month is not the end of the world, but there are other, potentially more difficult challenges.
Business or pleasure?
If you blog for pleasure, for the joy of publishing your thoughts online, Ghost might be what you're looking for. If you're a freelance journalist or an author you might prefer the simplicity. After all, for many it is just about the words.
On the other hand, if you want to turn your passion or hobby into a business, or you already have a blog and you're wondering whether to consider this alternative, at the very least you'll want to wait a while.
As yet there's a lack of themes, so you can't customize the look or the user experience. Although Woo is involved, there's no mention of their well-known e-commerce plugin coming to the platform. Indeed the idea of plugins goes against the whole ethos of Ghost.
Which, ultimately, makes it unworkable. A recent article by Steve Wellen of Domo talks about mobile business intelligence. It should be required reading for all businesspeople, because it focuses on the importance of user experience and gathering what information you can from people's interactions and transactions.
Regardless of the size or nature of your commercial ambitions, you can't even begin to implement those vital strategies without plugins, or the ability to add code that tracks visitors.
Some very smart people are behind Ghost. We suspect they'll do some clever things with it. The problem is, at present we can't see what the practical applications will be.
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What is "Choice"
Here is a chat me and d0nut had
PS: d0nut my irc chat doesn't work for some reason trying to fix it now
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<Swift> Ive got a philosophical question if any one is up to it?
<d0nut> go for it
<Swift> What is choice?
<d0nut> a decision to be man
<d0nut> s/man/made/
<Swift> ok now do we have choice?
<d0nut> depends on which aspect of what you are talking about having a choice in
<Swift> could youelaborate
<d0nut> that's actually what i was trying to say
<d0nut> what are you talking about having a choice in?
<Swift> My point is that you have no choice in any matter
<d0nut> but to do what is already supposed to happen?
<d0nut> have you been watching the matrix?
<Swift> for instance if i say choose between red and blue I am forcing you to choose their for you have no choice
<d0nut> oh
<d0nut> then you have no choice but to choose red or blue?
<d0nut> assuming they are the same thing then no you don't
<d0nut> or if you hadn't considered just walking away
<Swift> true but then in every plain two option question like choose red or blue you would have 4 options
<Swift> well 3 actually 1: answer red, 2: answer blue, 3: dont answer
<d0nut> but then how does that mean you don't have a choice?
<Swift> but still being forced to choose one of those options
<d0nut> hrmm...
<d0nut> i don't see how that's not a choice
<Swift> choice is supposed to be a type of freewill how could you have freewill if you are forced to choose one of the options
<d0nut> you could have just as easily decided not to talk to the person asking you the question
<d0nut> walked down a different road and never seen them
<d0nut> it could also be something as easy as you being delayed and walking down the road it would have happened on but the person asking the question wasn't there yet or had already left
<Swift> but then that goes into fate
<d0nut> if you believe in fate, and that's a decision too
<d0nut> so, in a way there is no escaping a choice, you are confronted with them no matter which way you may turn
<d0nut> brb, bathroom
<Swift> not necessarily for my prior events in my life causes me to "choose" that I do or do not. Since we were born we were taught from a child in what to belive by people surrounding us we had no "choice" in that. Which causes us to belive in what we do now
<Swift> sure we can change what we belive in but no matter how hard you try what you were taught when you were a child stays with you
<d0nut> hrmm
<d0nut> but then it's not a choice in the beginning
<Swift> unless you gain amnesia but then it happens all over again as if you were a child. the people surrounding you teaches what is right and what is wrong, and if those surrounding you all do the same then you have no choice or didnt know even would have such an option to disagree
<Swift> so how do you have choice?
<Swift> then what is it?
<d0nut> then that's not a choice if an option is not available from the beginning
<Swift> but it is you just didnt know it right like you said you could have walked away
<d0nut> not if you didn't know any better, or if you didn't have the option of walking away leaving behind your people/way of life
<Swift> accoriding to what you said earler you could always walk away
<d0nut> well, not always, in the situation in my mind you could, but if you have no means of continuing your life after walking away then you couldn't
<Swift> how could you not continue your life?
<Swift> the only way i see a remotly way of haveing choice is this...
<d0nut> well, in a theoretical situation, such as leaving a family that provides for you and/or you can provide yourself, then you couldn't just leave
<Swift> you could leave but in that case it would be stupid to do so...
<Swift> i think thats what your getting at
<d0nut> well, if you never went back then you would die
<Swift> ok what would life be like if you were to wake up with amnesia with nothing to remember and every one was gone... then i think you would have choice...
<d0nut> with no one/no past experiences to affect your judgement
<Swift> right
<Swift> but since no one has that you have no choice
<d0nut> ...to do only what you would do, something extremely individual
<d0nut> i see what you mean
<Swift> right
<Swift> thats my point
<Swift> so would you now agree we have no choice
<d0nut> yes
<Swift> thank you very much for enlightening you
<Swift> :)
<d0nut> lol
<d0nut> i was about to say the same to you
<d0nut> thank you very much for enlightening me
<Swift> your welcome lol
<Swift> i hope you have fun "choosing" the next time some one gives you a "choice"
<d0nut> now, to continue, do you think instincts, instincts humans aren't supposed to have would take over?
<d0nut> kind of leaving philosophy
<d0nut> :/
<Swift> umm
<Swift> this is a good one... but then i would say that people who think that the one living organism that has "Choice" in the matter would take over but then what does...
<Swift> maybe a one cell orgainsism but then do they have "Choice"
<Swift> :}
<Swift> what do you think?
<d0nut> it kind of makes me think that instinct or a human in "primal mode" is just a person making their own decisions
<Swift> true but then their parents taught them...no?
<Swift> then it would go to the first thing on this planet had to made its own "choice" right? but what is that?
<d0nut> the bible says that eve was influenced to make the choice of eating the apple
<d0nut> and adam followed suit
<d0nut> another speculation would be that something experience something to make them not do whatever that was
<d0nut> say, if the first thing on earth hit it's head
<Swift> *too what you written before* umm
<Swift> "that something experience something to make them not do whatever that was say" but then what would of said something to it...
<d0nut> themselves
<d0nut> to not want or to want to feel what they experienced
<Swift> ah i see what your saying i think so the first thing just happened to wonder say which space to sleep in this one or that one?
<Swift> something like that?
<d0nut> sure
<d0nut> like say if they stepped on something that hurt them, they wouldn't want to relive the experience
<Swift> but then too me i would think it would automaticlly sleep in the one that best suites it self therefor not giving it that choice
<Swift> ah
<Swift> which would cause them not to choose to step on it again i c
<Swift> but then back to your question what would have it been? since it was the first thing on earth
<d0nut> that's why started with a bible reference
<d0nut> the situation was already there
<d0nut> but, i'm not sure what it would be
<d0nut> creationists generally assume some superpowered entity creates man
<Swift> i didnt really read the bible so not too good of a reference XD umm didnt adam make eve eat the apple?
<Swift> that it does
<d0nut> nah, it was a serpent that represented the devil
<Swift> o
<Swift> i learn something new lol thank you for that
<d0nut> but evolustionists believe life started with basic life
<Swift> which was what bacteria
<Swift> or simpler
<d0nut> not necesarily
<Swift> ...
<d0nut> it would probably just be a cingle-celled organism that survived in the chemicals of earth
<d0nut> survived in/on
<Swift> right
<Swift> but was there just one at one time or did two of them appear at the same time...
<d0nut> i don't think there is any way to know exactly
<Swift> true true
<d0nut> i would think multiple completely different organisms spawned in different corners of the world
<Swift> i would have to agree with that statement as well
<d0nut> although it could also have been an organism that came from space
<d0nut> although it's very unlikely
<Swift> true but i was not wanting to bring that into a factor cause then its like where did that come from xd
<d0nut> lol, good point
<Swift> :)
<Swift> so many questions lol so little answers
So tell me what you think about it or if you have your own ideas post em up


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Alexis Ohanian shares lessons learned from years of building three startups from scratch. Making a customer's day should be obligatory throughout every organization, he urges. Whether you mail swag to early users (like Hipmunk) or add fun to the otherwise mundane (like Wufoo), everything should have a personality that wins over users and, as a side effect, is more effective than any other kind of "traditional" marketing. "No one ever forgets their first 100 users," he says. "Let them know that you give a damn."
Alexis is the co-founder of Reddit (now on the Board of Directors) and presently founder of Breadpig. After helping launch Hipmunk.com in 2010, he's now an advisor. Today he's the author of the e-book Make Something People Love and is an active startup advisor and investor with Das Kapital Capital. His book-book, Without Your Permission, is due out Fall 2013.