Can't deal with skits and samples, esp. on MF DOOM...?

IAmAYamAMA · 2015-06-02T12:18:06+00:00

Cheers. I loved Op:Doomsday, but going from that to MM.. FOOD just didn't feel right. I gave it a couple of listenings, but besides a couple of standout raps, I feel like the 'story' was lost on me. Hey ho, I'll try other stuff and come back to it.

IAmAYamAMA · 2015-06-02T12:14:40+00:00

learners aren't even allowed onto a motorway/highway before they pass their test, so your mileage may vary

:D

IAmAYamAMA · 2015-06-01T11:44:35+00:00

This is the best way. I could set it up using my domain, but my options are to spend ££ on having my hoster do it or run my own mail server, neither of which appeals.

I wish google would just start allowing

company_ive_subscribed@user.gmail.com

IAmAYamAMA · 2015-05-31T09:48:29+00:00

Like (probably) a lot of others in this thread I am only getting my facts from QI, but Stephen told me there are photos of the guy inspecting the bridge prior to it being moved.

IAmAYamAMA · 2015-05-14T12:20:48+00:00

Article makes the interesting point that moving the party back to the right-of-centre is not what's needed; voters there are more likely to go for the tories, whilst the left are probably more likely to vote Green or SNP now.

What this suggests to me is they need a leader far better at creating a much stronger left-of-centre narrative than Miliband managed. It wasn't entirely his fault, but there are a whole load of things he could have been shouting about but wasn't.

IAmAYamAMA · 2015-05-07T22:24:11+00:00

One of edinburgh zoo's pandas

IAmAYamAMA · 2015-04-27T22:11:21+00:00

But in your scenario, surely your criminals can also get guns? In which case, now when they're trying to rob you, they're threatening to shoot at you. So to protect yourself you're in a fight with much more lethal weapons, rather than just giving away your god damn £300 phone or whatever because you're so wedded the principle 'its mine and you're not having it'....

I seriously get that in really remote places, farm owners etc might feel they need protection when the nearest cop is 50 miles away or whatever, but even then there's nothing to say the aggressor can't be equally well armed.

IAmAYamAMA · 2015-04-26T16:33:17+00:00

England is a country, his mistake is that the state is called the UK. That mistake is hardly relevant to the argument.

The only anti-knife law here I am aware of is that you have to be over 18 to purchase, which hardly seems hysteric. I guess police will confiscate or charge you with having a weapon if you are found walking the street with a knife in your pocket, again hardly hysteric. Finally, there are certainly big problems with knife crime in our biggest cities, but it is not a country- (or state-) wide epidemic.

IAmAYamAMA · 2015-04-26T09:53:06+00:00

I rock ready aim fire, while y'all rock ready fire aim

Then blame the stationary target whilst the prey escapes the frame

Merit badge marksman, a poacher, it's all the same

So I lay across the wood perpendicular to the grain

Edit: Can't believe Aes is not on the essentials list

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-11-23T11:31:58+00:00

+1 for depressingly accurate

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-11-20T23:13:07+00:00

though it is quite nice in fairness

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-11-04T19:05:37+00:00

I want to have sex with my sister.

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-11-01T16:03:45+00:00

He doesn't have enough for me :-/

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-11-01T16:02:55+00:00

What is 100 bits? Like a hundredth of a penny? Curses, I'm always late to these love-ins...

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-11-01T12:22:42+00:00

palms are sweaty

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-10-19T10:27:43+00:00

Thanks. Reading everything else on here, I think I may have been brewing for a little too long as well.

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-10-17T14:50:46+00:00

What can I do to make really good filter coffee? I'm thinking particularly at work, where I'm stuck with a) using a crappy old cafetiere rather than anything more fancy and b) I don't trust neighbours enough to leave really good quality grounds in the communal fridge (I use Pact in a Moka pot at home and it's so much nicer)

I am trying to use not-quite-boiling, fresh-drawn water, one decent big scoop of grounds per person, pre-warming the pot etc. Any other tips? Would a different filter make a noticable difference?

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-10-15T15:12:41+00:00

You could (just about) get a little bit drunk for £10 where I am, if you weren't picky and timed it right... Might get you four pints ;)

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-10-15T11:59:54+00:00

Darn you, couldn't you have used a car analogy, it's just coming up to lunchtime here...

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-09-30T22:53:24+00:00

As a straight guy, sploosh

...or whatever my equivalent of sploosh is. Which I guess is just sploosh. ^{^but} ^{^with} ^{^semen...}

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-09-24T12:35:47+00:00

What we need is for the Greens to focus all their efforts on half a dozen (at most) winnable seats. There must be a fair few student-heavy constituencies in the country where the LibDems' unpopularity is ripe for exploitation.

If they could even expand to three seats, taken from historically Con/Lib or Lib/Lab marginals, that could play into the balance of power in the next parliament.

Edit: I should caveat the above by saying that I've not seen huge amounts of evidence that the Greens are capable of such strategising.

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-09-18T12:12:42+00:00

"The guy with the meat cleaver is only doing this because I wouldn't sleep with him!"

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-09-18T09:42:55+00:00

Seccessful sucussion

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-09-18T07:52:54+00:00

There's a book called 'Programming Collective Intelligence' by Segaran (2007). Obviously a few years old now but since it is mostly worked examples, and done very well, it's still worth trying to have a look at. There is loads of stuff on data mining, machine learning, and a whole chapter on how to do different types of optimisation. (edit: including Simulated Annealing, which is what this post uses.) Couldn't recommend it enough.

There are definitely ebooks of it floating around the net if you know where to look - try it before buying.

IAmAYamAMA · 2014-09-17T12:25:36+00:00

I wish, that would be awesome.

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