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I would. And don't worry much about the rattle. It means the fan is a bit off of its barrings, but it can still be plenty effective.

Ping varies a lot from server to server. So that number is about test conditions, not a general connection speed. It is the time it takes for the server to echo back that it got data from you, so the lower the better. For typical use it doesn't matter until you have numbers of like 50+. For gaming people tend to care more, though I personally don't see much of a difference.

How long were you looking? I find it to be bad practice but some systems will keep fans idle until the sensors say it is getting too hot. Technically more power efficient, but murder on CPUs.

Though if it really is completely broken, count yourself lucky and get a new one ASAP

Bah, my finger slips on my phone and I'm left writing most of this over again (due to a premature post and subsequent deletion)

I chose atheists informally because I wanted to leave other religions out of this. Though that is the standard demographic for belief in unguided evolution, correct? If you want to provide a preferred term that I must not be thinking of, I'll be happy to use it. In the mean time I'll just personalize this into you and me. Also works better for me since there are many flavors of creationism and I'm not wanting to get straw-manned with one of the ones I don't agree with anyway (like the Earth being created within the last 10,000 years).

Why would the burden of proof be on me alone? Isn't one of the fundamental concepts of science that the burden of proof be shared? There is an unknown and it would be mutually beneficial for us were it to be solved. The problem is though that it can't, not with our current understanding. We have both adapted our ideas to fit the world around until now there is nothing we know to look at that could define one over the other. And even if there were, I can't think of any way to disprove our ideas beyond modification. There is no intellectual high ground here.

And you mention that you can put up a decent argument against creationism. Let's see what you can come up with for the one I currently subscribe to (though it is one that admittedly doesn't give you much room, if any, to work with). And I'll describe it in terms of this thread just because.

So let's relate god during creation to a programmer designing a system. Normally the mark of a perfect programmer would be the perfect program. Clearly this isn't perfect, so we can just call it a day right? Well not yet. In this case the system has a necessary flaw to make it work, our free will, without it there would be no point. So then what would be the mark of perfect design in a flawed system? I would claim minimal intervention. Many people look for the miracles, but if god needed to tinker with everything constantly that would make him less perfect and thus less god. So while I do believe in supernatural miracles (Jesus's resurrection if nothing else) I believe miracles are more likely to be natural. Extraordinary events that were always possible but rare, occurring in circumstances of heightened importance.

Off the point, but Spamzone so screw it.

I'm struggling to remember the name, but there is a branch of philosophy that claims that an idea is defined by its expected results. For example if I say there are silent, invisible elves in a room that hide when people enter, and you claim the room is empty, then we are in agreement because we both say that when you enter the room you won't see or hear anything. It is rather dramatic in execution, but the core concept applies here. As neither creationists nor atheists claim a different set of results we cannot prove one over the other. As a scientist I can believe what I want until proven wrong. The scientific method does not have any rules about selecting between mutiple viable ideas. We've made suggestions over time (like Occam's razor) but nothing steadfast.

I don't think the end result would be lower birth rates. When you reach puberty and the hormones start kicking up your sex drive, the vast majority of people will find sex interesting (asexuals are really the only exclusion I can think of off the bat). I mean exposure at an early age doesn't mean much because it doesn't mean anything to you yet. I used to watch Family Guy as a kid and I would have told you it was clean until I picked it up again as a teen. And as a baby-sitter I have to struggle with kids to keep their clothes on because they have no idea why that would be in appropriate. Short of making kids watch porn, you can get away with a lot without them even noticing because they aren't looking.

So if nothing else sex will become novel at the age of puberty. At the epitome of "sex is normal, who cares?" you would be having sex at that point because there is no reason not to, thus resulting in smaller generation gaps.

Basically in the traditional format (mainly stemming from Christianity), you would have no sex for a while, then lots of sex soon after marriage, then drifting off into casual sex for most of your life.
With normalization you hit a similar deal, but you cut out a lot of the time without sex by waiting for puberty instead of marriage.


Plus there will always be people having sex because they want the child. Currently, half of all pregnancies in the US are planned. A number that used to be higher but there are more accidental pregnancies now (the baby that you might have ended up planning for in a few years might be an oops baby today)

Perhaps you could claim a lower actual birth rate due to the increase in abortions, but that is a separate issue with complex ethics that I don't want to get into.

To be fair on the Riku Terra comparison the major difference is the cost of failure. With help from DiZ, Riku was able to continue his journey and thus learn and grow more. Yes in the current moment entering BBS Riku is more experienced and such, but Terra's life has been on pause a decade.

Also worth pointing out that there are no hard and fast rules for what makes one qualified as a Master. Pretty much all we've got is that the master you are training under has to deem you to be a master. Under Eraqus, pretty much the sole example in the series of "too much light is bad too," any visible weakness to the dark would disqualify you. But under another master I would say he has much much better odds of making the cut.

Also worth noting here is that Xehanort is a master. So 1) You can be affiliated with the dark and be a master. 2) Since we know nothing more of the mark of mastery than a master declaring a master, the fact that Xehanort gave Terra the title might actually make him one (regardless of the reasons why).

You could negate the asperger's bit with the Department of Labor (or something connected to it, for me it is the Department of Human Services). There are federal regulations that mandate each state to provide "vocational rehabilitation" essentially saying that if you have a disability they have to help you find and maintain a job. The site will make it sound like you need to have something severe, but that is just government wording. If you have an official diagnosis you qualify, and actually if you were that severe it wouldn't be possible for them to get you a job.
Details will vary from state to state. In particular I'm not sure they would help you find a job if you already have one (Some consider that to be part of the "maintain a job" piece. Some say you should suck it up because you have a job) though ultimately if you were to quit you would be able to use the services then.
It isn't a guarantee to get you a job quickly and there is bureaucratic nonsense to go through, so it might take a while. But I can say first hand that it definitely helps.

Chrome is good about windowed pop-up ads but not as good with tabbed pop-up ads. I've mostly used ABP with a ton of white listing, but that really is a shotgun approach, and as mentioned it still isn't entirely accurate (though I guess nothing will be).

Just a quick thought, you may also want to run some form of a malware scan. Personally at least I find that when I start seeing especially annoying ads with any frequency it usually isn't the website, though that is very dependent on what sites you frequent.

Shhhhh, I'm tricking you.

Also this bullet wound is giving me a killer migraine.

You should use this thread to compare notes abou- *shot*

No problem , this is definitely one where you want to make sure you know all the information. I wrote that post without any research. So I might be mistaken, or it might change over state lines and so on.

For instance, researching now I found out that in most states you could secretly run a recording. Recording laws come in two general forms depending on state, single-party consent and full-party consent. In single-party consent only one individual be recorded needs to consent to it and it can be the same person that is doing the recording (e.g. you) so long as they are involved in some manner. So carrying a recorder in your pocket would be fair game, or tapping your office (provided you turn it off when you leave); but tapping his office would be a no. In full-party consent everyone in the recording needs to be aware of the recording and agree to it. That is how the law is for me and I didn't realize I was in the minority.

You said enough that I think you've already got that, but just to be clear about it. Plus it is worth double checking which your state runs as like you said with the Philadelphia case, it can backfire pretty hard in a full-party consent state.

And I agree that court is definitely a last resort solution. My work experience is minor, and none in this umbrella setup, but clearly they don't want a person that behaves like this guy. Otherwise he wouldn't clean up his act in front of people that could send it back at him. This mostly looks like a matter of convincing your boss that there is a problem and that she should do something about it. Maybe she's afraid herself of how people at HQ will handle that.

If you present the issue and nothing comes of it, you also don't need to escalate the matter if you don't want to. Find a new job and mention him in the letter of resignation. Not that I normally recommend the "not my problem anymore" tactic, but I would find it hard to believe that they wouldn't take a second look at any new issues after loosing an employee to it before (if nothing comes immediately from it). Though these days it is the "find a new job" part that gets hard.

Two things to keep in mind.

First, it would be illegal to record him without his knowledge. Though if you record him frequently he'll either slip up or you've solved the problem.
Second, an ultimatum is not necessarily blackmail. You are presenting an issue and giving them a chance to fix it before wistle-blowing. It can get messy if it ends up in a courtroom, but if you stay away from making specific demands you should be clear.

My advice though, this guy has to work for someone. If your boss refuses to run this up the flag pole see if you can skip the middle man. Some companies have a high tolerance for BS but I don't know any where he wouldn't at least get a reprimand for doing stuff as bad as you say.

Between Destiny Islands and Hollow Bastion I find it hard to picture a FF story driven world. If they were to try though I picture it going a bit like Sephiroth situation where they just scrap cannon and start over. Since video games tell a story over much more time than a movie it is very hard to water down the actual plot into a level.

I want to avoid comedy bands since they are trying to be weird, but Dr. Demento gets really strange even for those standards. Case in point being "Funny Farm" where you can just feel the sanity slipping away as the song goes on.

On the being serious weird I would say Babymetal as a whole, with "Gimmie Chocolate" if I had to narrow it down to one song. J-pop gets weird enough as is, mix it with metal and that just gets strange.

I smacked a gangster because I was drunk.

Strangely enough I've had the opportunity for this one. I think. I only met the guy once, so he might have just been a dealer and not a full gangster. And I don't drink. But I was seriously considering hitting him.

English is my native tongue, and I'm not learning any language.

Yay! Nothing changes.

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