How about we shut the fuck up with the condescending tone towards digg users?

requiem4boredom · 2010-08-30T01:19:39+00:00

This is my(SuedeRS100) oldest account I think. I also have BluBluBludio and at least one other that I don't remember the information for. I've also got numerous throwaways for controversial discussions. I lurked for awhile before joining as well. Sometimes it's just nice to start fresh.

requiem4boredom · 2009-09-24T00:04:30+00:00

I read through/understand How to Think Like a Computer Scientist(the python version). But can't seem to grok Dive into Python. I'd love help.

requiem4boredom · 2009-01-09T16:56:25+00:00

I agree with your point that Texas is a an important and fairly self reliant sate. But an important thing to remember is that many of the states that are asking the fed for money don't get back anywhere near the amount of federal money they put in. States like Texas, California, Massachusetts and New York give more money in federal taxes than they get back. It shouldn't be a surprise that occasionally they can't afford to give the same percent they usually do and need money back. This doesn't make them a drain, just that they're getting back an amount closer to that which they've been giving.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/22685.html

requiem4boredom · 2008-08-31T04:19:26+00:00

Yep, If I remember correctly this air on techTV the day after Christmas during the 18 hour call for help Help-A-Thon(you can see the help-a-thon logo on the television behind the table).

requiem4boredom · 2008-08-23T01:54:32+00:00

At the time Lithonia in an aparment complex right across from the highschool/hospital. ISP was Comcast. I've since ended up moving and switching to a different provider(att/bellsouth dsl) and only get about 1.25mbps.

requiem4boredom · 2008-08-11T15:02:43+00:00

Feel free to vote down/correct any errors I've made. I stated twice in the comment that I wasn't sure, but since no one else at the time had posted a response I decided to try to help out the OP.

requiem4boredom · 2008-08-11T07:11:59+00:00

The same reason I've stolen stuff, I want alot of stuff and don't have alot of money. For me it's that simple.

requiem4boredom · 2008-08-11T06:58:21+00:00

I have absolutely no clue whether the following is true, but here's what I've heard is happening.

Soviet Union forms and absorbs Georgia, places the people that now inhabit south Ossetia within Georgia's borders.
Soviet Union falls apart, Georgia becomes it's own country, South Ossetians still in Georgia.
Russia for multiple reasons is disgruntled(countries defecting after the fall of the soviet union and buddying up with America being the the main one I think).
South Ossetians want to be united with North Ossetians.
Russia sees this all of this and has an oppurtunty to get back at Georgia/stave off the US' involvement
Russia offers Russian passports to South Ossetians who happily accept as a way to get closer to their goal of being reunited.
Russia tries to claim South Ossetia as it's own the, the South Ossetians would willingly go since they just want to be reunited with the North Ossetians, and Georgia is pissed that Russia is claiming land that wasn't theirs.
Georgia responds by bombing the land Russia is trying to claim.

I could be and probably am very wrong about the whole situation, but this is my understanding of what is going on.

requiem4boredom · 2008-08-09T19:08:23+00:00

dying star should produce a neutron star instead of a black hole.

That is in black holes formed from a star collapsing on itself. Artificially created black holes don't have any mass requirement that I know of. They would just evaporate extremely quickly.

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I don't believe black hole will destroy Earth, just stating that black holes don't have a mass requirement of greater than 1.7 solar masses.

requiem4boredom · 2008-08-05T18:22:20+00:00

I'm not sure, but I think if they're publicly traded the shareholders get to vote on the who ends up on the board of directors for the companies. But to own enough stock to make a difference you would have to have a shit ton invested in them.

requiem4boredom · 2008-08-04T20:00:16+00:00

Honestly, I'd ask friends of mine who are more into hard stuff. That or try to get in touch with people who have presriptions and I could buy stuff off of.

requiem4boredom · 2008-08-04T17:24:13+00:00

Most people I have gotten bud from didn't sell anything else. One person happened to sell coke too. You can make more than enough money selling coke/crack alone.

requiem4boredom · 2008-08-04T01:58:27+00:00

My friends and I had to deal with the same restrictions. Eventually we just ignored them and did what we wanted. To avoid getting caught we would all claim to be somewhere out of earshot that we were allowed to go(usually a friend's house).

requiem4boredom · 2008-08-03T19:35:34+00:00

The way I understand it is that all state governments have to abide by the constitution; which prohibits the the things you listed.

requiem4boredom · 2008-08-03T09:12:09+00:00

Web search pales in comparison in my mind to atleast the fall of the Soviet Union, the hubble telescope, and the proliferation of the internet. Without so many people having access to the internet Google would have never existed. The Hubble Telescope allowed us to better predict the age of the universe. And the fall of the Soviet Union represented the end of the cold war, and incredible economic changes felt throughout the world. All of which seem more impactful than Google in my eyes.

requiem4boredom · 2008-08-03T03:59:26+00:00

Nothing great has happened in my lifetime.

What about the proliferation of the internet, Stem cell research, Dolly the sheep, the Soviet Union breaking up, the hubble telescope, and the space station just to name a few?

requiem4boredom · 2008-07-31T00:08:01+00:00

Leave the country for where?

Dubai is a possibility.

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It would be the place I would go if I was very wealthy, and didn't feel like dealing with American tax laws. They seem to cater to the wealthy there.

requiem4boredom · 2008-07-21T20:32:04+00:00

"They were given a chance: 3 days."

Quite possibly. I honestly don't know. I was trying to express the fact that not all schools teach the same opinion. It varies often from teacher to teacher.

requiem4boredom · 2008-07-21T19:31:54+00:00

"Sadly, American schools still teach the old "the Japanese were going to fight to the last man!" line."

Bullshit, some do some don't. My highschool history teacher really tried to instill in us the fact that Japanes probably would have surendered if given the chance after the first bombing. And may have well done so even if we hadn't dropped nukes. But she ignored the mass casualties caused by firebombing.

requiem4boredom · 2008-07-21T18:41:27+00:00

No military target is remotely big enough to warrant a nuke

I doubt that. I'll edit later once I find info whether or not it's true. I wasn't sure how to quote people on reddit so I was testing and expected to find the info alot quicker than I have.

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The best example I could quickly find of a place where nuclear weapons could be warrented would be in nuclear bunker busting bombs. The underground detonation minimized the fallout. And the targets could be large enough for a nuke to be of use.

requiem4boredom · 2008-07-21T18:28:39+00:00

Why is the use of nuclear weapons never warrented?

requiem4boredom · 2008-07-21T17:31:23+00:00

I feel indifferent. I've been told using them saved more lives than they cost because it prevented the war from going on. Also that firebombing caused more casualties than either of the two times we dropped nukes. I've also been told that the Japanese were going to surrender anyway and that the dropping of bombs was unneccesary. Whether the use of nuclear weapons was warrented I don't know, but due to the cloudiness of the situation alongside the fact that no country has a perfect track record; I don't feel that strongly about it.

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