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21  Other / Off-topic / Re: help with stalking and harassment on: November 16, 2013, 05:27:23 AM
Why don't you attempt communicating with her and try to settle things?

Seriously. Walking around with the mindset that you have does not defuse stalker situations. In the end, remember that you are dealing with a person who harbors intense feelings regarding you.

this person is mentally ill. no reasoning with insanity

How is she mentally ill?

shes obsessed, text me about going to see her shrink all the time. i dont know what shes ill with but glad i dont got it.

That's a weak answer. That doesn't sound like enough to consider someone mentally ill. So far, it sounds like she can't get over you and does not know how to deal with it. Unfortunately for her, you don't sound mature enough to address the issue effectively.
22  Other / Off-topic / Re: help with stalking and harassment on: November 16, 2013, 05:24:01 AM
Why don't you attempt communicating with her and try to settle things?

Seriously. Walking around with the mindset that you have does not defuse stalker situations. In the end, remember that you are dealing with a person who harbors intense feelings regarding you.

this person is mentally ill. no reasoning with insanity

How is she mentally ill?
23  Other / Off-topic / Re: help with stalking and harassment on: November 16, 2013, 05:14:28 AM
Why don't you attempt communicating with her and try to settle things?

Seriously. Walking around with the mindset that you have does not defuse stalker situations. In the end, remember that you are dealing with a person who harbors intense feelings regarding you.
24  Other / Off-topic / Re: Doing the splits. Going backwards. on: November 15, 2013, 08:49:38 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zXwOoeGzys
25  Other / Off-topic / Re: Android or IOS based smartphone? on: November 15, 2013, 07:55:53 PM
Most people don't jailbreak their phones.
Average people don't jailbreak/root their phones*

Incorrect.

Some average people don't. Some average people do.

Some extraordinary people don't. Some extraordinary people do.

But by and large, most people don't jailbreak their phones.
26  Other / Off-topic / Re: Android or IOS based smartphone? on: November 15, 2013, 07:30:10 PM
IOS. without jail break..

Without jailbreaking?! Why would you not jailbreak?

Most people don't jailbreak their phones.
27  Other / Off-topic / Re: Setting "Bitcoin" as your Xbox Live motto violates the terms of service on: November 15, 2013, 04:59:32 PM
What's an Xbox Live motto?
I'd also like to know  Huh

I guess they won't answer.

Why not? I know their customer service is quite good..

Missing some context? Yes, you are. Read everything that is quoted in this post.
28  Other / Off-topic / Re: Doing the splits. Going backwards. on: November 15, 2013, 03:46:14 PM
OMG! Is that for real  Shocked Doesn't look like computer generated graphics or visual effects ?

It's real.
29  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Quantum Physics Proves That There IS An Afterlife, Claims Scientist on: November 15, 2013, 06:13:48 AM
I remember reading Lanza's stuff a few years ago, and I couldn't help but feel that he was taking the whole "it takes observation to collapse the wave function" a bit too literally.

Now, consider this: if you step into the transporter room in Star Trek, and Scotty beams you planetside, essentially, he has vaporized you on the ship, and reconstructed you on the planet, with every atom and molecule arranged perfectly, thus your brain is exactly as it was in the transporter room, complete with your current thoughts and memories. You think you're the same guy. What the heck, it always seems to work, so why complain?

One day Scotty beams you down, and just like every other time, you arrive on the planet, memories intact, and go about your business. All is good. However, up on the ship, the transporter failed to vaporize you. One of Scotty's assistants walks up to you, and says "Sir, there's been a slight malfunction, but no worries, you're down on the planet. Now, if you'll just come with me...", as he leads you off towards the secondary vaporizer.

The point, of course, is what does it mean to have your consciousness live on?

1) Thats not real so any question leading up to it is irrelavent
2) Lets get to the transporting stage first to prove the theory once and for all. Pay someone alot of money and it will happen.

There's no need to for transporters to be real to follow the logic of the thought experiment. The scientists who worked out quantum theory did nothing but thought experiments themselves.

You're doing yourself a disservice by making the ridiculous assumption that a transporter be real to draw conclusions from the thought experiment.
30  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Quantum Physics Proves That There IS An Afterlife, Claims Scientist on: November 15, 2013, 05:49:27 AM
I remember reading Lanza's stuff a few years ago, and I couldn't help but feel that he was taking the whole "it takes observation to collapse the wave function" a bit too literally.

Now, consider this: if you step into the transporter room in Star Trek, and Scotty beams you planetside, essentially, he has vaporized you on the ship, and reconstructed you on the planet, with every atom and molecule arranged perfectly, thus your brain is exactly as it was in the transporter room, complete with your current thoughts and memories. You think you're the same guy. What the heck, it always seems to work, so why complain?

One day Scotty beams you down, and just like every other time, you arrive on the planet, memories intact, and go about your business. All is good. However, up on the ship, the transporter failed to vaporize you. One of Scotty's assistants walks up to you, and says "Sir, there's been a slight malfunction, but no worries, you're down on the planet. Now, if you'll just come with me...", as he leads you off towards the secondary vaporizer.

The point, of course, is what does it mean to have your consciousness live on?
31  Other / Off-topic / Re: Doing the splits. Going backwards. on: November 15, 2013, 04:12:53 AM
Watch it if you haven't seen it yet. Bump it to HD and make it fullscreen.
32  Other / Off-topic / Re: Setting "Bitcoin" as your Xbox Live motto violates the terms of service on: November 15, 2013, 03:12:01 AM
What's an Xbox Live motto?
I'd also like to know  Huh

I guess they won't answer.
33  Other / Off-topic / Re: Doing the splits. Going backwards. on: November 14, 2013, 09:28:41 PM
That's just the leather upper on his boot sticking up.

At first, the boot was leaning down, than pops straight up prior to the separation. Also, here's the teaser http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yatg89gi0nM showing two semi rigs will be used. In the "one take" video, the Volvo on the left is a panel truck, whereas only the one on the right is a semi rig. It looks like only the panel truck is moving away while the semi rig continually hugs the line.

That's correct. Which only makes it more believable. Still not trivial.
34  Other / Off-topic / Re: Doing the splits. Going backwards. on: November 14, 2013, 09:04:13 PM
I've watched the video a few times, but for the first time I bumped it up to HD and went fullscreen with it. It's really a beautiful and hypnotic piece of work.
35  Other / Off-topic / Doing the splits. Going backwards. on: November 14, 2013, 07:59:57 PM
A commercial from Volvo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10
36  Other / Off-topic / Re: PickStocks.com: A stock prediction site based on social media on: November 14, 2013, 06:04:16 PM
Do you factor in the following:

- Rise in number of tweets for a particular symbol?
- Identification of certain words, such as "up", "down", "top", "bottom", "crash", "rise", "fall", etc?
37  Other / Off-topic / Re: What is your gender? on: November 14, 2013, 05:37:19 PM
I am curious of what the proportion between male and female users is.  Huh Please vote whether you are male or female.  The results might be surprising.

The results are not going to be surprising.
38  Other / Off-topic / Re: Setting "Bitcoin" as your Xbox Live motto violates the terms of service on: November 14, 2013, 05:22:58 AM
What's an Xbox Live motto?
39  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Bitcoin is unregulated and there are no state laws for bitcoin on: November 13, 2013, 07:05:54 AM
Bitcoin has rules built into stipulated by its creators. So there is that.

In order for Bitcoin to be useful, it needs to be visible and accessible, and those visible and accessible points can be regulated by laws. So there is that.

Bitcoin, often touted as a means to not pay tax will not eliminate taxes, even if adopted as the only currency. Taxes can be levied against other things, such as your hair color, the length of your fences, and other such things. So there is that.
40  Other / Off-topic / Re: What should I have to eat? on: November 12, 2013, 06:52:28 PM
https://vimeo.com/35846172#at=0
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