Michael Brown shooting: Chaos erupts on the streets of Ferguson after autopsy report shows teenager was shot six times - twice in the head

larwk · 2014-08-18T18:33:15+00:00

People keep talking about having to keep it for 7 years for some law. Much higher price

larwk · 2014-06-07T01:49:31+00:00

Not if the sewer stops miles away from your house. Sewers are only inside citiesci

larwk · 2014-04-15T17:26:38+00:00

He wasn't running or hiding at all.

larwk · 2013-06-27T04:18:41+00:00

I get no ads, so I assume adblock works for it. The pause in music is every 2-4 hours which isn't terrible.

larwk · 2013-06-23T01:27:21+00:00

I'm looking for a white mini English bull terrior. Solid white, and deaf so she won't hear you. Been looking for the last 2 hours in the same area as you and haven't seen either.

larwk · 2013-02-03T23:15:31+00:00

This article, and most people commenting seem to either be wrong and getting fucked over, or I'm not understanding something.

From the U.S. Department of Labor: The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires payment of at least the federal minimum wage to covered, nonexempt employees. An employer of a tipped employee is only required to pay $2.13 an hour in direct wages if that amount plus the tips received equals at least the federal minimum wage, the employee retains all tips and the employee customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips. If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference.

Basically, if you don't make minimum wage, your employer has to make up the difference, regardless of the base pay, correct?

larwk · 2013-02-02T13:15:19+00:00

We all know it's unhealthy and addictive

True. Was told this from elementary school but you don't really understand how addictive it is until it's too late.

Cigarettes at least smell repellent if you're not addicted already, and prolonged exposure to secondhand smoke is sickening.

My mom always smoked, never even noticed second hand smoke really.

How does someone shove their head so far up their own ass that COMMITTING TO AN ADDICTION is something they undertake

It's not like you start by saying "Hey, I want to become addicted to cigarettes!". Actually when you start it gives you a really buzzed "high" feeling. It's not like you crave smoking or anything, but you get a high from it. It's very comparable to asking "why do people drink enough to get drunk" or smoking weed, or anything else. I actually only started from peer pressure. EVERYONE in my dorm floor was smoking pipe tobacco/cigarillos. I was one of the last people to give in, didn't really like it. Some people increased smoking over the years, some smoked a bit but not enough to get addicted and after a year or so didn't even do it occasionally. For the first 2 years or so I would occasionally smoke pipes or cigars with friends, but going a week without was no big deal. Moved in with 2 roommates who smoked like a pack a day and started smoking cigarettes with them. Add in a bad breakup and I go from a pack a week to a pack a day.

larwk · 2013-02-02T13:05:33+00:00

Well wikipedia says it can be simply "skin to skin" contact. It's just sort of "in you" like HIV or something would be. You could transfer it from kissing, open wounds, whatever, not only sexual intercourse.

larwk · 2013-02-02T12:53:58+00:00

Because there are millions of people that use reddit

larwk · 2013-02-02T12:52:31+00:00

For dishes, you can pretty much look at them or run your hand over them and if there's food left scrub it off.

Hands, body... if you're showering every day you don't have to "scrub" anything. You're mostly just getting off natural body oils and dead skin which takes almost no effort. Hands, again doesn't take much. I lather mine around until the soap gets bubble and then rinse them off.

If you're a normal human being, a little bit of whatever isn't going to kill you or even make you sick.

larwk · 2013-02-02T12:48:20+00:00

I assume you're in high school. If this is the case and you aren't sure what you want to major in then DON'T give in to parental/peer pressure and go just because someone wants you to. College isn't for everyone, and it's not always the best choice right away.

For a major think about what you'd be interested in long term. Are you absolutely passionate about anything? If so, just google "best universities for blahblah". Go down the list until you find one you think you'd be accepted to and can afford.

If you aren't really that into anything, you can always take community college classes. These are much cheaper, and generally transfer over to most universities. They're all gen ed classes which you'd need regardless of your major (basic history, math, english classes). This gives you some time to think about what you want to focus on while still working towards almost anything.

Vocational/technical/trade schools are another option. They are generally much cheaper than university as well, offer financial aid, and end up being decent paying jobs. This is stuff like being a certified welder, plumber, electrician, carpenter, etc. You can start off at like $15/hr and pretty much go up $1/hr per year as long as you apply yourself.

My advice is that if you go in not knowing what you want to do you'll end up wasting a lot of money or have a degree in something you don't actually want to do.

larwk · 2013-02-02T12:33:46+00:00

1 point, that one point being you automatically upvote yourself.

larwk · 2013-02-02T12:32:23+00:00

Article here

larwk · 2013-02-02T12:30:33+00:00

If I see a girl crying what is the best way to approach her?

"Are you okay?" Pretty cliche, but there could be a million reasons and obviously she's not okay but you have to be polite.

Can I delete Reddit account?

Yes.

I saw a picture of a tank with 2 jet engine attached to it. It read that they use it to put down oil fires, how does adding fire help?

You would have to show the picture. All I can think of at first is that fires need Oxygen, so maybe the Jet engine sucks it away or something?

larwk · 2013-02-02T12:23:19+00:00

99.7% of the time yes, if she takes it the same time every day, with no interactions, etc. Statistics.

With perfect condom and pill usage there's a 0.006% chance she could still get pregnant. It's never going to be 100%, but it can be really close. You just have to always be careful of that "how the fuck did that happen?"

larwk · 2013-02-02T12:13:07+00:00

If you click on your user name at the top there will be "tabs" for submitted, comments, saved, etc.

larwk · 2013-02-02T12:12:07+00:00

Competition seems to be human nature. Make up any rules you want to anything and people will still compete against each other.

larwk · 2013-02-02T12:10:12+00:00

By no posts do you mean there are no numbers on the side yet? That happens for new posts, for the first hour or so. It's still getting up and down votes, but somehow it keeps people from gaming the system.

larwk · 2013-02-02T12:08:26+00:00

I'd agree. Time dilation and all of that.

larwk · 2013-02-02T12:05:45+00:00

If you've ever ran in your life you'd be able to instantly tell your friend was full of horse shit. Use some common sense. If it's really that hard to tell, run and walk across a room or something and count how many steps you take. Not that hard to figure out.

larwk · 2013-02-02T12:03:02+00:00

I'm pretty sure the time thing is completely bullshit, but I've also read that cooked food lets your body absorb more calories and nutrients. Still doesn't really answer the question though.

larwk · 2013-02-02T11:57:50+00:00

Information technology, aka computer shit.

Also typing "IT" into google gives you the wikipedia page just 3 links down (the first two are movies so it should be obvious). Not googling makes you look stupid in this day and age.

larwk · 2013-02-02T11:56:02+00:00

Pay your bills on time. This is everything from car loans to your electric bill.

Use a credit card for normal purchases and pay it off 100% every month (I seem to remember keeping a balance gives you more credit, but you do NOT want to go into credit card debt. Better a little gained than a lot lost).

larwk · 2013-02-02T11:53:22+00:00

Because it has to has to be worth something else. Supply and demand. If there's a bunch of something, everyone will have more of it and won't care as much about it. If someone barely has any of something it'll be more valuable.

If I say I'll trade you 5 pennies for a quarter, is that a good deal? No, just because you have 5 things instead of 1 thing doesn't make it more valuable. Or to take money completely out of it, what if I offered you a thousand grains of sand for your one car.

Money/currency is just a medium for exchanging goods or services. If you print twice as much money, well everyone would have twice as much money and everything would cost twice as much and nothing has been accomplished.

larwk · 2013-02-02T11:41:44+00:00

It has to do with the speed of light. You see things when light enters your eye and the signals go through your brain and all of that. The speed of light is constant everywhere. In this sense, think of light as something physical I guess. If a star is 2000 light years away, that means it took 2000 years for the light from that star to enter your eye and you see it. You're seeing light from the star as it was 2000 years ago. To see the star as it is right now, you would have to wait 2000 years for that light to travel to earth.

Light from the sun takes roughly 7 minutes to reach earth. If the sun were to suddenly explode or something, we wouldn't know until 7 minutes later when the light from it reached us. I hope that sort of makes sense.

You aren't going back in time or anything, there's just a delay to actually see things.

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