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Does anyone else think of this when they tell someone to label their axes? (Yes, I realise I didn't bother with units, scale, or a title.) Or do you have any other weird associations with common phrases?

Hello there, my name is Rich. I'm am a 32 year old individual who, probably like the remaining 99% of you, is not looking for a job. I currently live with my parents because that's what individuals my age are supposed to do. Just to let you know, right off the bat...I am a nice guy, because I can become quite cynical and acerbic (chem nerds, stay away from that one ). I have a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering, although I wasn't quite sure if I was supposed to capitalize all of that. After 7 and a half years, I still have not utilized my degree because I didn't want to become a stereotype. Though I still like Koss. Yes, I can be a nerd if I solemnly …

I'm interested in other people's diets if willing to share. For example, what foods you stay away from/gravitate towards for health reasons. Do you only buy organic food? Do you eat grains? Do you stay away from gluten? Do you stay away from dairy, even if it's organic? Do you use sugar? Use salt? Are you a vegetarian? Pescetarian? Do you drink only purified water? Do you drink alcohol? Do you eat 3 times a day? Do you consume the recommended amount of water?

If someone asks you want your greatest weakness is,what do you say?

I have gotten bored of playing the same games all the time.pls suggest

It looks like 129 other people on this forum shared my birthday today, but I am the oldest... yeah! i win...

I've always been a loser but I've never realized it until a few years ago. Never was good with people, and until very late in life I thought the only way to make friends and please people was to do and be everything they wanted us to. I shaped my personality on that of those I wanted to be friends with. I wasn't myself. So I was bullied, beaten, mocked, taken advantage of and such. Then there were the parental units. Work took them away a lot, and the little time we spent together was them saying constantly I behaved like a lunatic and if I didn't behave properly I was to be commited to an institution. What a great thing to say to a child, right? My whole family, t…

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement We can't let ACTA succeed. It's an even bigger threat than SOPA and PIPA. Why? Because it's trying to make it's way into a global scale. With ACTA in place all non-profit fanworks and other such user created content will be deleted. Don't let them destroy the internet like this. We have our rights and freedoms, they can't take those away from us.

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I've always been a loser but I've never realized it until a few years ago. Never was good with people, and until very late in life I thought the only way to make friends and please people was to do and be everything they wanted us to. I shaped my personality on that of those I wanted to be friends with. I wasn't myself. So I was bullied, beaten, mocked, taken advantage of and such. Then there were the parental units. Work took them away a lot, and the little time we spent together was them saying constantly I behaved like a lunatic and if I didn't behave properly I was to be commited to an institution. What a great thing to say to a child, right? My whole family, …

Hi all, Just wondering about peoples names here: How you came about them? How you pronounce them? What they mean? Mine is Tres Juicy: Tres from the French "Trés" (pronounced "trey or tray" - meaning "very") And Juicy Stemming from the fact that we used to call anything good/cool "juicy" which evolved over time to "trés juicy" due to working with a French guy. Eg: "Bob's got some trés juicy kit in his house" or "Pete just landed a trés juicy deal" I stole it for my online alias about 9 years ago and have used it ever since. What about you guys?

Hi, Maybe a little strange, but I'm wanting to start teaching one class a semster, but am unable to do so at the University I work at. I'm curious though whether my boss will appreciate this 'diversion' from his research - as a research associate. I plan to ask him before I start sending my CV around, but just curious, anyone have insight on whether this is offensive to ask? I almost feel like if I was in his position, I'd be like "Is there not enough work to do here?". Anyway, just wondering....any thougts?

Considering it's the Christmas Season, and one of his most beloved roles was in a Christmas film, I thought it would be nice to mourn. Roberts Blossom, aka Old Man Marley from Home Alone, died this year at the age of 87. It was devastating for me to find out what happened to Roberts. For those of you who didn't now, Roberts was married twice, and is survived by daughter Debbie and son Michael. Among his other famous roles included Guernsey in Arthur Hiller's The Hospital in 1971, George LeBay in Christine, and Doc in Escape from Alcatraz. I personally remembered him best as Old Man Marley, with his heartwarming scenes together with Macaulay Culkin. Rob…

Hello, I am a guy from Sweden who is on my last year in high school. This will be the first time I am posting on here on scienceforums.net. Here in Sweden, we are meant to do a project on our last high school-year. So I have decided to write an essay about "The meeting between art and science". And I would really like your help on answering a few questions regarding this. Feel free to elaborate on your own subjective opinion, or to use objective facts. I realize that art is a very subjective subject so therefore it will be interesting to see what your view on the questions are. I would be very grateful if some of you could find the time to answer my issues and if…

It turns out that I must research and discuss the Néel-Arrhenius equation. The only problem is, I don't know with a certainty how to pronounce the surnames Néel or Arrhenius. I can guess at the French name as NAY-el and the Swedish name as Ar-REY-nee-oos. However, they might be pronounced as nay-EL and so on. Does anyone know with some certainty how to pronounce these names. Please don't let me go blindly into the night.

Most people put a "signature" at the bottom of their posts. I change mine quite frequently in response to various thoughts. My first "signature" was a quote from the TV program "Bread" and was " The only good thing about getting old is that you don't have to give a bugger". Bearing in mind that I am quite old I thought it both apt and amusing. When I thought about it I decided it might be offensive to some of the members, so I changed it. Another "signature" that I have used is a quote by US senator Daniel Moynihan "You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts". I chose this after a disagreement with a Staff Member as we clearly had different opinions …

The other thread got me thinking... Here's Justin Halpern's Dad from the book, "Shit My Dad Says": "You can’t come. Because it’s not a vacation if family is with me. I could vacation in my fucking house if you people left it." "There won't be humans in 500 years. Enough people choke themselves when they jerk off we gave it a name. We ain't a species made to last." "You didn't get a good deal, you were just fucked gently. Trust me, Best Buy will not be the one with the sore asshole tomorrow." "So he likes drugs and hookers. That's the mustard & mayo on the sandwich of life. Problem is, that's all he's got on his fucking sandw…

Hi everyone! Just popped in for a bit to ask advice about where I should get some business cards made. I searched all night for places and found some good and not so good ones. However I did stumble across a company called cards made easy. Have any of you heared of them or ordered business cards from them. Would really like to know how it went and how the business cards turned out, beacuase this is where I may get my bausiness cards made

So I've been working on a little project over my winter break: re-aligning the terminal Poisson amplifiers on my VX equipment. I've gotten pretty far -- the T-pulses are easily collimated to a five-gram tolerance -- but I've been having a bit of trouble with sticky girdle springs keeping the Albertson flange from rasterizing. At this rate, I'll never be able to get the phase detractors to properly control the flux through the Poisson amplifiers. I was thinking of using some homeomorphic walnut oil to lubricate the springs, but I was worried that the extra inductance would cause a phase loop and blow out the monad. Should I be worried, or will the type unifier prevent …

Hi. This is NOT a trick question, just came up on a discussion among friends and would appreciate opinions. What is the rentability in percentage of a bank that pays 2% to depositors and gets 8% from loaners ? Perhaps the terminology am using in this post is not the precise one, but it is not my forte.

A couple weeks ago I posted a topic in "Politics" about heros, which didn't go over too well. Today, I found this on the net and hope it makes more sense. Every country has its "HEROS". I just happen to be an America. http://www.skygod.com/quotes/highflight.html

Why is the New Year not celebrated exactly on the winter solstice 21st of December but ten days after?

The Debunking Handbook pdf The challenge is that once misinformation gets into a person's mind, it's very difficult to remove. This is the case even when people remember and accept a correction. It's pretty interesting, explaining the psychology with a more effective and human strategy for debunking myths.

In The Same vein as the guitarist cyclops Met A woman I) I am seeing 20 heads of the man walking ahead of me they call me neuron psycho the whole works what do i do she cried II) bees have diamond eyes with 64 facets each perceiving 64 slices of reality each collated by its brain into a coherent image .{experts to please correct the Data} thou art still as a snow queen when you stir your body and eye move in small increments your eyes take snap shots along 20 different points of perspective your brain will hone in on the center one don't worry have fun with the psychedelic show more the merrier be firm footed in your center stillness ................counseled …