Bulldrek v3.0

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I only know of one way: do what you know you have to, every time. I don't know of any other ways that are under the control of the individual; willpower tends to be one of those things that the circumstances of your life provide, as opposed to something one can seek out and gain. But since the atte...

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Eat less, exercise more. It's that simple. Can more be said on the issue? Yes. But it really is that simple. How readily could you quit smoking? Reduce your internet time by two hours a day? At various times, I've had to do each one for periods of months or years. It's not really that hard; you jus...

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Yay, Thorn Caz and babies! Congratulations!

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A study in the UK has shown that a third of parents don't realise their kid is overweight. It seems like a good idea for someone reliable to tell them. Some months ago here there were a lot of news stories about rising rates of obesity amongst children, and how parents don't realise it. This media ...

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how 'bout now?

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My midwives told me that the medical definiton of 'real' labour is contractions that lead to the birth of the baby. So they are medically defined in hindsight. From the other end (the pre-birth end) Braxton-Hicks and false labours and whatever are all 'real' in that they progress your body toward gi...

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Anguirel, I remember that character. He was fun.

Paul, is having cyberware a problem for these characters, given their age? I was thinking about bone lacing, but she might not have finished growing yet...

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Congrats to your daughter, and to her proud father.

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Serious Paul wrote:"For the most part you've all grown up together, and this is your turf. You protect yourselves from the other gangs in the area, which for the most part are just a bit older than you all on average."

So we are not quite big enough to be taken seriously yet?

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Its a constitutional convention that in any impeachment of a public official there must be a prima facie case against them. Nothing you have said has established such a thing. Is there a procedure for deciding if a prima facie case exists or not? Maye that is Ang's step 1. Cain could begin an impea...

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Is this a mixed-race gang or racially purist? Are we about home-defence, i.e. the kids that live on this block, or do we hang together for a different reason, like, we all play pool together? Or maybe some of the characters have some scams going already, and they are looking to recruit around that? ...

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Cain wrote:US Constitution, Article 4, Clause 2. They're all considered to be "The supreme law of the land".

correction: Article 6

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If that's what you meant by push her abilities then I agree.

I would guess that your daughter likes to walk around holding onto your hands. That'd be what I call encouraging and supporting her. If she doesn't, what would you gain by making her do it?

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This looks like fun - I'm in. What happens next? I guess once we get 8 players, we can start making characters.

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While I may or may not know my child's precice abilities-- and being the type of person I am, I'm likely to vastly overestimate them-- but I can figure out what her comfort zone is. You should never try and push a child past their abilities, but you should try and push them out of their comfort zon...

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All of that is set up for this question: What do we do with the talented kids? The ones who did well on those IOWA tests and have really good scores and get thrown into Talented and Gifted Programs...what if they have disabilities? What if they get missed because, "Oh, they're really smart, th...

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What are converse shoes?

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Yes/No (what do you mean by timely?). With regards to the IGC, the new interim government that sovereignty will be handed to, and the government that should be elected next year, there has to be a point where America says "OK, you're on your own now". Those first two are American appointed...

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I would to a certain extent, but I wouldn't go as far as Cain would, for example. I know that a lot of my family/friends of family would refuse if I asked them to do anything very questionable. My mum just retired as principal of a private girls school. There is no way she would have, say, bumped my...

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That too, but what I am saying is they are actually recruiting, and by they I mean gangs, active duty soldiers, as well as former military. So what you have is a guy who is a soldier, but may also be, say a Latin King, or a Crip. Does that make sense? That sounds like it could make for a lot of tro...

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You can download minesweeper and solitaite from the Microsoft updates site. Maybe the calculator is there too.

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This site is quite useful if you want specific nutritional info about different foods. All meat is high in protein, not just red meat. Turkey, tuna and chicked breast are quite lean, too, if that is an issue. You can stir-fry them with vegies and soy sauce, or steam the vegies and mix it with the me...

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From what I hear, it feels like trying to squeeze a watermelon through an opening the size of a small tennis ball. Don't think I'm EVER gonna do that. Ever. That part of it is over so quick, it's more of a "Holy fuck!" moment than anything, IMO. The contractions are the hard part, and tha...

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I don't remember any spattering. Her dad was the first person to hold my eldest, though, which gave him quite a thrill.

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Council bans smoking on famous Australian beach

It's more to do with cigarette butts than passive smoke. I dunno how they are going to enforce it.

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Hemp is stiffer and harsher than cotton. Much easier to grow, though.

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I hate balloons. I can't function if people are playing with them near me. I am all tensed up waiting for the bang. The other thing I am blatantly terrified of is the surf. I used to love swimming and body-surfing. One day, after a storm, I got foolish and went out in some big waves. One just picked...

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I don't think Australian telemarketers know any of these 'scuzzy' tricks. I say "no, thanks" and they say "Ok, bye", and that's it. Though I have one guy who rings up during the day, insisting to speak with my boyfriend who is at work. Then he asks when he'll be home, and I tell ...

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Thanks, Teja. I have a suggestion: Go out and buy a prism, and maybe a nice light source. That way, you will be able to SHOW your daughter. I find that you learn better if you see it. We have some lead crystal which does the same thing. It projects rainbows onto the ceiling if you put it in the sun....

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My daughter wants to know, and I don't have the answer.

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The Israelis do hostage exchanges, or used to.

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Mathematically, if you take a circle with a diameter of 1, and then "cut" the circle and fold it out into a line, you'll find that there's absolutely no ruler /possible/ which can have lines fine enough to measure the line. So, if you had a circle with a circumference of 1, then it would ...

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We can do that, too. This board is a democracy before it's a haven of free speech. If we took a vote tomorrow and a majority voted to ban me, I should - and damned well better - be banned. No one has ever claimed that the freedom of speech here was not also under the control of our democracy. I'd j...

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John Basedow wrote:votes for you to shut the fuck up.

Would you mind rephrasing that? It's effectively a ban if he's not supposed to post at all.

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See, here's the thing. When I complain, I get told to deal. When 32 and the rest of the grand Rapids Coffee klatch complain, I get yelled at and told to shut up and respect the 32. See the problem? It's more than just them complaining, though. There's a lot of people complaining off their own bat, ...

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So basically speaking, there is never any absolute value for the circumfrence of a circle? Without rounding anyway. Exactly. I'm probably going to regret asking, but how does this work? If you have some string, or a line, of a certain length, and you make it into a circle, isn't the circumference e...

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Just to make it clear, I'm not speaking for Cain.

JohnnyRico wrote:Then let him wander over to LiveJournal or the DSF, and stop messing with out board.

It is as much his board as anybody's, isn't it?

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Thats absurd in my opinion. Are you saying Cain is protesting for me as well? For the rough shod treatment I too have received at times? I didn't ask him to stick up for me. I don't want him to. Heh. That's one of the problems with what he's doing of course, that the board as a whole has determined...

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A bomb under the podium - that seems very well organised.

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Cash, Eli, you make good points. My understanding is that Cain is protesting the history of abusive behaviour, on all sides. He is proposing a bilateral disarmament, as it were. Since he knows that people wouldn't normally agree to play nice, he is trying to point out the problems with being inconsi...

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<edit>OK, Cain has made this post unnecessary.

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Can anyone find a case of a severe personal insult toward Cain from before the "protests?" Anything anyone had done that "being polite" would prevent? If not, it would seem the protests and the solution to them offered by Cain are not in any way connected, which makes this solut...

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I'd like to say that my self-respect matters more than other people's opinion of me, but that's not always true. I don't get much disrespect from people who know me, but from casual acquaintances I might. That can be annoying, but mostly temporary, so I usually ignore it. I'm very casual with materi...

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This isn't really my kind of story, so I don't know how much use my comments will be to you. iIt's got too much focus on things (esp. equipment) and not enough on people, for my taste. I like the bits where you focus on Gordon, and what he is thinking, or doing. I'd like the descriptions of the peop...

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Love that blue, Kai. I tried to dye my hair blue many times, but it never really worked. Then I asked a professional and she told me to bleach it first, but even then it would only last a week or two. I didn't want to kill my hair, so I didn't. I don't care enough about my hair to do dye it any more...

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They showed it on the news, here. I wonder if they would have showed it if people had died?

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Cain, would it be too much to politely ask you to please stop messing with the formatting? I can understand if you are pissed off, but your targeting is like the Americans in Fallujah.

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so the question becomes, where's the rate you can most easily sustain? My argument is that it's pretty close to your "normal work" rate. I don't have any studies to back this up, but my experience is that this is true. Someone watching you might think you should be able to work harder, bu...

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What can I say? I'm on a quote kick. In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it sh...

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Very interesting post. Thanks, Cain.

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What are rainbows made of?