Of course, talking about the game is one of the best ways for people to stay engaged and continue to play (get better). So a community where bronze-gold (platinum?) feel safe enough to put forward opinions – even where they get corrected by higher ranked players – is a positive thing. And very good for the game on all levels of play.

cant wait to cop it

5 stars , very nice , good energy .

nice pile o gold

Protip: stop using e-cigarettes and instead try supplementing with some form of choline. Maybe in the range of about a half a gram a day. Choline acts on the same receptor sites that nicotine does, and it’s actually an essential macronutrient. The DRI is set at 550mg daily, but many people do not receive adequate amounts in their diet. Also the DRI might not be enough for many adult males. We’re also obviously much more efficient at disposing of excess choline compared to nicotine, because we actually have a need for it. Man I sound like a choline sales rep right now, I discussed here on askscience on two different drinking related threads how choline intake alleviates hangover symptoms Here are some of the sources I drew info from: [4](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18779284). You can get it in decent amounts from [milk, eggs, alternatively you could try supplementing. Now I’m really gonna sound like a sales rep, but you can get it quite cheap in bulk from if that’s your intention as well. Choline Citrate probably has the best ratio of effectiveness:cost. Also it’s important to note that Choline Citrate is only about 1/3 Choline by weight.

My groups working on concepts to shape candidacy process for people entering ministry based around spiritual discern't practices.#vocare

RT rel=”nofollow” In addition to bin-Laden, 3 adult males were killed in raid: 2 couriers and OBL’s adult son. A woman used as shield also killed.

i love the way it goes from 146 to 143

I would cheat make a sword in my lab’s fabrication shop (with the help of our technicians if I’m allowed). We have all the raw materials and equipment needed. I’m not sure what shape of sword I’d want: straight, curved, single vs double edge, etc., but I have an idea of what I’d want for the materials selection and basic processing. Unfortunately, I have about 100 times too much to say on this topic for a single comment, so I’ll go over some basics of refining steels that might be used for a sword. The first step is refining the ore for your materials. Before you refine the ore, you’d better know what alloy composition you want your sword to be. I can cheat because I have access to every metal from Li to Lu minus a few radioactives, which is a good thing because I don’t think they make manuals for our refining equipment. The idea of refining ores is quiet simple, but it’s actually a complicated and delicate practice in order to get high purity. I wouldn’t have to refine since I’m lucky with the raw materials, but I’ll describe a tiny fraction of the steps. The iron ore would need to hit a blast furnace first, in order to *get rid* of the high carbon content. Steels need carbon additions to their iron, but actually the normal iron ore is typically too high in iron content so it needs to be decarbonized. The iron oxide, coke and limestone would be dumped into a furnace and it would be heated up by various gasses (CO, CO2, N2, H2) to reduce the iron oxides. Temperatures might reach around 1600^o C or higher. All of the impurities would have to be removed (called slag) and then more refining with C and CO would take place to get ride of the oxides. Coke acts as a reductant and burns with hot air through something called “tuyeres” of the blast furnace, generating the high temperature needed for smelting. After this, it would have way too much C in it (over 20 at%) and too much S as well. Desulfurization would need to take place with CaO, CaC2 and Mg to make various sulfides to get rid of it. Equilibrium curves are all over the lab, so I could figure out what temperatures and times to sit at in order to get my carbon content where I want it. We also have other equipment to help make the steel, better equipment, but I’m only familiar with the blast furnace methods on this large scale. I could make my own alloys with ease in the arc melter down the room, I suppose, but that would take a long time to solutionize and anneal everything in small individual portions before I put it all together. Let’s skip another few posts worth of material and get to the alloying content. I’d place a variety of other additions to my steel in the form of ferroalloys, which would include Cr, Mn, Nb, and V to name three important ones. These additions do many things, one of the most commonly heard is to form carbides. These additions essentially react with carbon to form intermetallic compounds that help give the steel its properties. These carbides might help prevent dislocations from gliding through the material, or help the grains stay in tact. They also might react in order to prevent rusting of the iron as well, which is something that I’d want in basically all of my ferrous components. Then we get to heat treatment. This is critical in the performance of the sword. Depending on the carbon content, and what you want your final microstructure to be, you’ll need various heat treatments. I’d anneal the sword to grow certain second phases, quench the sword in oil or water, then possibly heat treat it some more. I would try to get a microstructure that allowed for a balance between toughness and hardness. I’m thinking if I go back in time, it would be a pain in the butt to sharpen a really hard sword because of the lack of equipment, so I’d probably settle on the tough side and avoid the harder martensitic microstructures altogether, or maybe just a little “martempering”, which is a method of making martensite that minimizes residual stresses and cracking, and still gives high hardness (about 53 HRC) and high impact energy (38 J). Still, I’d probably go for a softer microstructure that won’t rust and will still hold up. Then all there is to it is melting and casting the sword, a typical “heat and beat” process and refining the edge. That is probably a process I could actually carry out on my own if our lab retained power and I had access to the necessary metals. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In my dream world, I’d probably make a sword out of a metallic glass, which might have to be done by plasma spraying the alloy onto a substrate of sorts. We have the facilities to do this as well, but I’m not sure if we could do something as big as a sword with plasma spraying methods. Amorphous metals are very strong and permit unusually large elastic strains, and relatively easy to make these days. Especially compositions with deep eutectics. However if we wanted a sword, we’d probably go for a more difficult alloy if we wanted to maximize our properties. Still, most metallic glasses with deep eutectics can be made easily without plasma spraying. [Here is a property of various materials, and as you can see, metallic glasses could potentially be a great candidate. This is what I’d choose if I had my choice of modern materials: they’re light weight and have excellent mechanical properties. Metallic glasses are extremely resilient, meaning they will bounce back to their original shape after strained. Vitreloy, a very famous metallic glass, has a resilience nearly 5 times greater than 4340 steel (I used the yield strength of 1900 and 1600 MPa for both materials, and the yield strain of 0.02 and 0.005 for both materials). Amorphous alloys are easy to fabricate into complex shapes because, as supercooled liquids, they can be heated to achieve low viscosity and then injection molded into a chilled copper mold. Vitreloy can be injected at 400^o C, since the material itself doesn’t even crystallize at 400^o C. Vitreloy is the alloy I’d probably use, since it’s so easy to work with and I wouldn’t have to use complicated techniques. Because amorphous alloys do not have grain boundaries, they are extremely corrosion resistant. The near perfect homogeneity and absence of crystalline defects make these alloys more corrosion resistant than crystallin metals. They are perfect for highly corrosive environments, so I’d never have to take care of them if I were shot back in time. They can be held in salty water for years without rusting, which comes in handy when you’re magically stuck in a place with no decent resources to take care of equipment. They also posses low ductility, specifically because of the lack of crystalline structure. Amorphous metals can’t deform by dislocation motion, which is why all crystalline metals deform. So they fracture once the elastic limit is exceeded unlike most other ductile metals. Amorphous-crystalline composites may possibly offer better ductility and fracture toughness, though, so that might be a better choice so my sword doesn’t chip up too much. I’m not sure what I’d be banging the sword into, nor how hard I’d be swinging.

…something called technology damass…

There are many ways to cause havoc, destroy property, and kill people. Certain acts of sabotage have been considered acts of war for hundreds of years. The fact that we can do many of these things by networked computers is novel, but the result isn’t.

To say that it is genetically innate for orangutans to rape as a reproductive strategy is unfounded and most likely wrong. Even calling it rape is humanistic and should be defined in the context of evolution as forced copulation or non altruistic mating. The only time forced copulation occurs in orangutans is when sub adult males, or what you incorrectly call she-males (they eventually grow into flanged males, yet sometimes they don't, they are still classified as males non the less), attempt to copulate with a periovulatory female. The fecund female only wants to copulate with the adult males with the flanges (the males who are of higher genetic quality) at the time when they can get pregnant. At times when she can not get pregnant, she will willingly mate with the sub adult males to reduce her chances of injury. Think of it in terms of game theory.

Hope this clears some of it up, it is a complicated subject but you can read articles by Galdikas, Van Schaik, Crawford, Mitani, and Wich to help explain all of this.

Today is the last day to upgrade to the gold or platinum package. Still unsure? I am 100% confident you’ll be…

Well, (c) is simple physics. It took tremendous energy over billions of years to create the concentrated energy of the fossil fuel hoard we're now drawing down, more than is in the hoard itself. It always takes more energy to concentrate energy than will be contained in the resultant concentration. And the industrial revolution has been the result of the concentrated energy of fossil fuels, which are the only available concentrations that can do so much work so efficiently. It's simply physically impossible to find some magic technology which will do the same for e.g. sunlight.

So if “replacing oil” means finding an energy source which can sustain civilization at anything remotely like today's level of energy consumption, the chance of that is precisely zero. That's according to physical science.

Regarding (B), since you used the qualitative terms “prosperity” and “improve economic output without increasing resource input”, I'm not sure exactly what you mean. But if you mean according to standard quantitative measures of production, consumption, and “growth” (which are no metrics of my definition of prosperity), then again it can't be done without cheap, plentiful fossil fuels. The EROEI is far too poor, not to mention the depletion of specifically necessary metals.

If on the other hand we're defining prosperity more in terms of spiritual, social, cultural, and political quality of life, there's certainly sufficient energy for everyone to have Enough materially. We can live as human citizens, but not as Western style “consumers”.

So if by (A) you're referring to the desperate impulse among the collapsing Western middle class to find a way to prop itself up economically, including the malevolent way such beleaguered middle classes have reacted in historically similar situations, then I agree this doesn't have to be the arbiter of what happens. At any rate, I hope we can figure out an alternative path which can be politically inspiring to enough people.

I guess the dilemma is how to convince people raised on the lies of the bourgeois ideology (the “American Dream”, here in America) that “growth” is finished, the middle class existence is no longer tenable physically or politically, but that we can transform ourselves to a way of life just as fulfilling as what was hoped for in any previous dream, if we take back the country from those who are stealing it and reconstitute our economy along lines which are simultaneously more modest (producing “less stuff” and distributing it less widely) and far more rich (as everyone who actually works receives more of what he materially needs for less work, than under the kleptocratic dispensation).

On the other hand, to trust in the current dispensation, including its research and “innovation”, I guess we'll see how much e.g. expropriating yet more African farmland and burning the food grown there to power Western automobiles “benefits most people”. I offer that as a seemingly extreme but really typical example of how this system allocates its “research” and the output of this research. It's self-evident that this is what Western governments will continue to do for as long as they can.

Right now and registers 107 on the outside corrugated part of the wall. There is no AC in yet, though it is built for a small wall unit, yet the interior of the hosue has a nice breeze and feels cool, though the temperature inside, with the windows open is about 93.The houses are built to ventilate the heat out the loft windows and benefit from the Venturri effect cooling the air as it comes through the windows on the lower level.The Icynene insulation blocks out 95% of the heat so the interior of the wall that is 107 on the outside is no different than any other wall an is 14 degrees below the outside wall temperature.Our biggest houses that are used for residences, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, will only have an electric bill of $35 for cooling in the heat of summer. 8 months out of the year will not even require heating or cooling. I can’t imagine it could get much better.No, all of our houses in Texas have proven themselves to be incredibly energy efficient and good in the cold as well. The last cold spell dipped into the teens for three days and one couple who has one of our houses used a 110 volt $59 oil circulating radiator turned to medium and it kept the house so warm that they turned it off while cooking dinner because it go to hot. We build them this way because the techniques of air flow and circulation go back hundreds of years and they work.

The Civic Si is to cars what little-man syndrome is to grown adult males. Sure you’re just as tough as that lineman. Sure you are. Time to go back home and have your mommy read you The Little Train that Could.

What’d I tell you, Paul Cameron, the peer-repudiated and discredited quack, Paul Cameron. After six other psychologists complained that he had deliberately misrepresented of their work in his anti-gay writings, the American Psychological Association (APA) began an investigation. They finally notified him on December 2, 1983, that the board voted to drop him from the membership “for lack of cooperation with the Committee on Scientific and Professional Ethics and Conduct.”6 In Dr. Cameron’s rebuttal posted on his web site, he said he had already resigned from the APA on November 7, and that his resignation was accepted.7 But like most professional organizations, the APA cannot accept the resignation of a member while he is under investigation. This is a very common rule, meant to prevent a member from short-circuiting an ethics investigation. Meanwhile, the APA has taken extraordinary measures to disassociate themselves from him.

Today is a gd day to shout out about #lions! Only 2000 adult males left, yet losing 640 pa as #trophies. Pls support our work to stop this!

This is a new topic to me. My cattery set up is such that
my males and females are seperated, but I am of the opinion that my males would indeed be inclined to behave this way.
I have often had altered adult males take over motherly duties with kittens at very young ages, and continue when
mom is no longer wanting the kittens to attempt nursing.

Thank you for this blog, the topic and the charming pictures.
i love the way you write.
Pat

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Its ok to wanna poke, human beings have been pokin’ vagina for hundreds of years, maybe longer. #dawgwisdom