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This teaches a child a terrible lesson. Let them have their privacy, teach them to respect yours. Give them their passwords (if they're old enough to have internet accounts) and let them lock their doors, and don't react badly when you find out anyway that they've been reading the anarchist cookbook and touching a boob.
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the posted:And what are the problems with doing my recommendations? Will the kids whine? Boo-hoo. They'll get over it. The problems? I have to feed him. I have to NOT be watching over his shoulder every moment that he's online. I have a job, and I have my own need for "private time." I have my own computer so that I can browse porn and play violent video games (but usually not, because I like Peggle and CQ.) He's a person, with as much expectation (and right) to privacy as you or I have. If I don't trust him, I'll never be able to. the posted:I don't have any kids, but I did have a computer in my own room with broadband access starting in 8th grade. So you're a fisting addict then? Did you lose your "virginity" to NAMBLA? I saw my first dick in an AOL chatroom at 11. I'm not scarred. But it sounds like I'm doing it all wrong. 
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Nov 30, 2013 06:35
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Just going to ask one more time. Really bugging me  Im sure it's some mainstream band but at any rate I saw a music video and liked the tune. The music video is the band performing (well mostly the dude singing) at some sort of event and a guy and girl who's there with another dudeare flirting and in the end of the music video they run off into the city and are hit by a truck. Not a lot of details but the last bit should give it away.
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Nov 30, 2013 09:28
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hoobajoo posted:Because once you ever experience one extreme, you can never go back because you're so shocked and deadened? Is that why I drink until I puke every night, because I once got so drunk I threw up, so now I want that original rush of being lovely blackout drunk? And why, since I've done BDSM, I can no longer enjoy any intimacy that doesn't involve latex and spanking, because it's not a "rush"? Or are none of these actually happening, because you're drawing upon a made up, ignorant, puritanical view of human sexuality? Some pretty prominent sex experts would agree with the's train of thought. Dr. Drew being one of them. He's talked about the topic of pornography/desensitization on The Dr. Drew Show several times if you are interested. poopkitty posted:The problems? I have to feed him. I have to NOT be watching over his shoulder every moment that he's online. I have a job, and I have my own need for "private time." I have my own computer so that I can browse porn and play violent video games (but usually not, because I like Peggle and CQ.) He's a person, with as much expectation (and right) to privacy as you or I have. If I don't trust him, I'll never be able to. Mescal posted:This teaches a child a terrible lesson. Let them have their privacy, teach them to respect yours. Give them their passwords (if they're old enough to have internet accounts) and let them lock their doors, and don't react badly when you find out anyway that they've been reading the anarchist cookbook and touching a boob. I don't think the's suggestions are that out of line or archaic especially for the age group he is talking about. Kids between 8-14 don't need a PC with unfiltered access to the Internet in their bedroom where they are allowed to close and lock the door behind them. Privacy is something you give them when they are in the bathroom.
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Nov 30, 2013 09:38
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the posted:-Allow them to have a facebook account only if they let you know the password. Say it's for their safety from child predators but otherwise you don't care who they talk to. Don't let children have a Facebook account. It's against Facebook's rules if they're under 13, and makes things awkward for their older relatives. Your young cousin, nephew or whatever adds you on Facebook, what are you going to do, say no? And then when you go to post stuff you're thinking "Oh wait, there's an eight-year-old who might be reading this now" and even if that itself doesn't bother you, you could find that that child's parents blame you for what their child saw you post.
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Nov 30, 2013 12:24
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Tiggum posted:Don't let children have a Facebook account. It's against Facebook's rules if they're under 13, and makes things awkward for their older relatives. Your young cousin, nephew or whatever adds you on Facebook, what are you going to do, say no? And then when you go to post stuff you're thinking "Oh wait, there's an eight-year-old who might be reading this now" and even if that itself doesn't bother you, you could find that that child's parents blame you for what their child saw you post. You can block people from seeing specific things, like only your posts. I usually add family and then promptly block them all from seeing stuff except my profile.
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Nov 30, 2013 12:51
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Sieg posted:Some pretty prominent sex experts would agree with the's train of thought. Dr. Drew being one of them. He's talked about the topic of pornography/desensitization on The Dr. Drew Show several times if you are interested. Yes, the desensitizing effect of pornography is a real thing. You watch too much porn and have trouble reaching orgasm without it, or even during sex at all, because the stimulus doesn't measure up to the sensory overload offered up by "Extreme Gangbang Gapes vol. 4" and the like. However, it's an exceedingly simple thing to fix; you just don't watch porn for like, a week, and your responses return to normal. It's nothing to do with age, is not permanent, and has no relevance to the discussion of raising kids. I imagine Dr. Drew made it sound more serious than this, but he's also a sensationalist hack, so I'd expect nothing less from a doctor that self-identifies as specializing in "celebrity medicine".
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It's also not just porn, you know? Naked people isn't the only issue here. 10 years ago, a 13 year old boy who asks a girl out and gets rejected just had to deal with it and maybe got a little ribbing from his friends. Now, a 13 year old boy asks a girl out and gets rejected, googles "why don't girls want to date me?" and ends up being exposed to loads of men's rights or PUA bullshit, and forums where he can ask questions and get all sorts of terrible advice from a very young age instead of forming his own opinions on dating/relationships and developing his own worldview and coping mechanisms. It can really shape how they view women and relationships.
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Nov 30, 2013 18:24
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Is there a thread for technical writing? I'm trying to write a short bio for myself for an art gallery and I'm not sure if its going to be tacky/wrong to refer to myself (3rd person of course) using my first name instead of my last. Not sure if there are any hard rules/practices for that. I swear I remember seeing it both ways in museums.
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Nov 30, 2013 19:15
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Shaocaholica posted:Is there a thread for technical writing? 3rd person. Use last name or "the artist." Try to avoid needing either when possible, along with avoiding any pronouns.
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Nov 30, 2013 20:11
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XmasGiftFromWife posted:Coming from a gallery perspective.... How do you avoid pronouns in a bio?!?!
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Nov 30, 2013 20:22
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Shaocaholica posted:How do you avoid pronouns in a bio?!?! John Smith has been a technical writer for 10 years. Born in Salem, MA, Smith attended The University of Massachusetts, graduating with a degree in knitting and has authored How to Use This Machine, How to Use This Other Machine, and Another Machine Instruction Manual. John Smith lives in Ann Arbor with his wife Melinda. One pronoun but I think that one is acceptable. e: Apparently that's considered a "determiner" in that context and not a pronoun.
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Nov 30, 2013 20:36
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Can somebody identify this action figure:
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Nov 30, 2013 20:42
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Mister Kingdom posted:Can somebody identify this action figure: I think it's an alien. Possibly from star wars? e: I was thinking of admiral ackbar but it doesn't look the same.
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Nov 30, 2013 20:57
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Mister Kingdom posted:Can somebody identify this action figure: It's from Star Wars, the classic trilogy, but I can't remember more specifically than that.
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Nov 30, 2013 20:58
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hoobajoo posted:It's from Star Wars, the classic trilogy, but I can't remember more specifically than that. A friend of mine put it on my Facebook page and I'm trying to help him out. It's definitely Star Wars.
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Nov 30, 2013 20:59
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hoobajoo posted:It's nothing to do with age, is not permanent, and has no relevance to the discussion of raising kids. hoobajoo posted:I imagine Dr. Drew made it sound more serious than this, but he's also a sensationalist hack, so I'd expect nothing less from a doctor that self-identifies as specializing in "celebrity medicine".
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Nov 30, 2013 21:04
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Is there a better alternative to hanging christmas lights to a house other than those cheapo shingle clips? I am not opposed to something permanent. (The attaching force, not the lights.)
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Nov 30, 2013 21:05
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Yeah it's one of the cantina aliens. Can't be bothered to guess what, if any, character it's supposed to be but here's the wookiepedia article on the race. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Duros
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Nov 30, 2013 21:06
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Okonner posted:Yeah it's one of the cantina aliens. Can't be bothered to guess what, if any, character it's supposed to be but here's the wookiepedia article on the race. Thanks, I'll pass it along.
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Nov 30, 2013 21:09
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Mister Kingdom posted:Can somebody identify this action figure: Here's a bit more information, the character's name is Ohwun De Maal. And for a background character in a single scene in Star Wars he has a lot more information that I figured he would.
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Nov 30, 2013 22:17
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Small question, but this is driving me crazy. There's the reasoning in which you want something to happen so much that you hallucinate it to actually happen. Say, someone believes in ghosts and stays in a hotel room thought to be haunted. Although nothing actually happens, they think that they see a ghost. There's a word for why they think they do, and I can't remember it at the moment. It's like the opposite of denial, where denial is denying something happened, the word I am thinking of is saying something that didn't happen in fact did happen. I think it started with the word, "Positive," like "Positive Reinforcement," or something e, VVV Thanks, that's exactly what I was thinking of Boneitis fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Dec 1, 2013 |
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Nov 30, 2013 22:44
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Boneitis posted:Small question, but this is driving me crazy. There's the reasoning in which you want something to happen so much that you hallucinate it to actually happen. Say, someone believes in ghosts and stays in a hotel room thought to be haunted. Although nothing actually happens, they think that they see a ghost. There's a word for why they think they do, and I can't remember it at the moment. It's like the opposite of denial, where denial is denying something happened, the word I am thinking of is saying something that didn't happen in fact did happen. I think it started with the word, "Positive," like "Positive Reinforcement," or something Confirmation bias is probably what your looking for.
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Nov 30, 2013 22:58
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Boneitis posted:Small question, but this is driving me crazy. There's the reasoning in which you want something to happen so much that you hallucinate it to actually happen. Say, someone believes in ghosts and stays in a hotel room thought to be haunted. Although nothing actually happens, they think that they see a ghost. There's a word for why they think they do, and I can't remember it at the moment. It's like the opposite of denial, where denial is denying something happened, the word I am thinking of is saying something that didn't happen in fact did happen. I think it started with the word, "Positive," like "Positive Reinforcement," or something http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject-expectancy_effect ?
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Nov 30, 2013 23:01
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photomikey posted:Dr Drew identifies as a board certified physician and addiction medicine specialist. People can be board-certified physicians and loving hacks spouting nonsense on the TV at the same time. See also: Dr. Oz.
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Depending on local spider prevalence, this might be a little tricky to answer... So I've noticed, if you're going to find a spider in your bathroom it's pretty much always going to be on the wall or ceiling of the shower. I've found spiders in there living on the ground, second, and fifth floor, and I have no idea why. Why do the little bastards hang out there so often?
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I always wondered that too, I assume it probably has something to do with humidity.
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AlbieQuirky posted:People can be board-certified physicians and loving hacks spouting nonsense on the TV at the same time. See also: Dr. Oz. And Ken Jeong.
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AlbieQuirky posted:People can be board-certified physicians and loving hacks spouting nonsense on the TV at the same time. See also: Dr. Oz. Not to mention Dr. Drew's TV specialty has nothing to do with his medical specialty, internal medicine. Dr. Drew does have a certification in addiction medicine from the American Society of Addiction Medicine, but that is not a board certification recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties, and it did not require any residency training. His addiction medicine certification is roughly the medical version of a diploma mill degree.
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Alkanos posted:And for a background character in a single scene in Star Wars he has a lot more information that I figured he would. Oh baby.. that's nothing, if you featured AT ALL in star wars you have at the least a short story. "look sir, droids" - Remember that stoomtrooper from the 10 second scene in ANH? Well he actually invented the AT-AT's used on Hoth and also (unknown to everyone else) saved Han Solo's life during the escape from tattoine. "Stupid cylindrical bounty hunter robot" from the scene in ESB where Vader in giving instructions to the bounty hunters, came within SECONDS of controlling the entire galaxy by implanting himself in the core of the Deathstar. Luckily he was killed (unknown to everyone else) just before he took complete control. "Drinking Jawa" from ANH, a literal one second shot of a Jawa drinking blue milk? Turns out he had a deep and meaningful talk with Obi-wan and was going to lead a Jawa based revolt against the empire, unfortunately he was killed (unknown to anyone else) when someone stole the power pack to his blaster. Also there are so many copies of the Death Star plans floating around that I think someone must have put them on Wikipedia at some point.
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So I was out at breakfast yesterday and saw a man who looked like he'd shaved male-pattern baldness into his head. His hair was mostly short-ish, but the entire crown of his head was stubbly. My first instinct was that his hair was thinning and he was getting out in front of it, but leaving the sides and back, along with the apparent density of the stubble, made me think it might be a cultural thing instead. His ethnicity was hard to place -- maybe North African, Middle Eastern, or Indian. Is there a possible cultural or religious reason someone might style their hair this way? I'd never seen it before.
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Can YouTube videos have real 5.1 or > audio? I saw all these 5.1 surround test videos tonight but none of them actually triggered a real surround mode on my receiver like an ac3 audio avi played in vlc does. I have optical link from htpc to recv and it does go into dolby d mode with vlc and the right file but these youtube vids just play in whatever last faux-surround setting I was using. Seeing some old "no it doesn't" info when googling this. Wondering if I need to change a setting somewhere. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Dec 1, 2013 |
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Dec 1, 2013 03:47
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Looking at the satellite view of the forests around Eugene, Oregon (or most of I-5 in the state for that matter) shows that they have a distinct checkerboard layout which looks like it's alternating between cleared and grown forest plots. What is all that, tree farming for lumber or paper or something?
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Dec 1, 2013 04:52
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OneEightHundred posted:Looking at the satellite view of the forests around Eugene, Oregon (or most of I-5 in the state for that matter) shows that they have a distinct checkerboard layout which looks like it's alternating between cleared and grown forest plots. What is all that, tree farming for lumber or paper or something? Shot sites for "reality" television.
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OneEightHundred posted:Looking at the satellite view of the forests around Eugene, Oregon (or most of I-5 in the state for that matter) shows that they have a distinct checkerboard layout which looks like it's alternating between cleared and grown forest plots. What is all that, tree farming for lumber or paper or something? It's probably selective logging. People eventually figured out that clear-cutting huge swaths of forest wasn't that great for long term stability of the forest, so now they rotate around and harvest little sections here and there. Eventually those harvested areas will grow new trees and the cycle continues. EDIT: I just googled the area and that's most certainly what's going on. If you zoom in, you can tell which areas were recently harvested and all sorts of gradients of new growth. It's interlayed in areas of totally unharvested forest which I assume will eventually get the same treatment. So yes it's probably a farming operation that wants to preserve the forest for conservation/long-term use purposes, etc while still getting the lumber they need. It's a fairly recent conservation tactic to leave lots of "corridors" connecting intact forest patches. This greatly benefits species that move around a lot, like mountain lions and other big predators. Animals can basically move around the whole forest without ever having to pass through one of the barren areas, even though a large percentage of the surface area is denuded of trees. razz fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Dec 1, 2013 |
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Synonymous posted:Depending on local spider prevalence, this might be a little tricky to answer... I have a personal theory on this, so take it as you will. One day I'll bump into a spider expert and finally get him to verify/publish my idea. Anyway, spiders drink water just like any other animal, so in your house they'll seek it out. The humidity and abundance of non-porous surfaces in a bathroom means water is plentiful. The bathroom is also used less often than say your living room, so it could be quieter and/or darker which is ideal for predatory species. So they're naturally attracted to that area, but bathrooms also tend to highlight spider intruders through their function. They are full of clean, light colored surfaces and can be less cluttered so spiders have fewer places to hide and are seen easily. Also, those non-porous surfaces can be tough for bugs to climb, making sinks/tubs/etc traps that can be difficult for them to escape. Finally, bathrooms often have only 1 entrance so spiders may be more likely to get cornered in there.
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Bathroom floors have corners. Corners are great places for setting up a spider web. Drains in bathrooms are covered in biofilm, essentially a sludge of your old skin flakes and bacteria. Insects like midges of the families Sciariade and Psychodidae breed in these environments. Bathrooms are also more humid than most other rooms in the house. Spiders like bathrooms because there is stuff for them to eat and a nice environment for them to live in!
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So I'm trying to figure out what this tripod/stand is called and what it is normally used for so I can purchase one. All of my searches for tripods return camera tripods. It also isn't a model rocket/small tree stand because I've looked at those. if anyone knows what the hardware is called below or a better place to post the question, let me know. It's the little three legged tripod at the bottom of the tube. http://caliextractions.com/18inch300gram%20.htm
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What kind of vision defect requires a person to wear glasses that make their eyes look magnified to other people?
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DNova posted:What kind of vision defect requires a person to wear glasses that make their eyes look magnified to other people? Severe presbyopia (farsightedness).
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