zombieSquirrel

Very interesting! So you admit that you know just about nothing about psychology (and implicitly psichiatry), but for "some reason" you don't want want to " have this thread turn into that kind of discussion"... WHY?

It's because that's not why I made this thread, but I also said "at least not right away". I don't mind if it eventually turns into that kind of discussion. I just wanted you to wait.

Not to ignore your question or to brush it aside, but have you read the Wikipedia article on BPD? Most Wikipedia articles are logical, orderly and accurate and contain links to (outside) references that help readers to confirm the accuracy of the articles and for further reading or more in-depth study.

It probably would have been a good idea. To be honest, I kind of posted this thread without thinking and doing a little research first. Sorry about that.

Haha, perhaps, and don't worry about the electrocuting myself thing. I'm usually pretty careful around dangerous stuff, though I've been known to do dumb things, like grab onto a piece of iron that I had just welded... without a glove... yeah, that was smart

I don't really know a lot about psychology, but I'd be willing to take a look at some more advanced stuff if you think I might be able to understand some of it. If I don't understand something, I can always try looking it up online.

If you don't mind, I'd rather not have this thread turn into that kind of discussion, or at least not right away.

Well, that's not exactly what I was planning, but it sounds kind of like a crazy idea, so I like it. Rail/coil gun combo it is! I just need to go dumpster diving because someone felt like throwing out some of the stuff I was going to use to make it with. If you smell something funny tomorrow, it's probably just me after a refreshing swim in a month's worth of garbage.

What do you know about Borderline Personality Disorder? I recently learned a friend of mine has it, so I thought it might help to know more about it, like what kinds of problems people with it have and more about how it's treated. Any advice you might have would be appreciated too.

Someone can go ahead and delete this, since I'm just talkin' to myself here.

Guess I'll just give it a try then. Here's hoping I don't electrocute myself.

I'm thinking of making a low powered coil gun, but I don't have a lot of experience with electricity and electromagnets, and I have a few concerns about the following setup.

For the thing that turns the coil on and off, I was wondering if using the projectile as a bridge between two contacts in the barrel would work. The idea is that when the projectile reaches the two contacts, it would complete a circuit that turns on the power supply for the next coil, and also turns off the previous coil if there is one. So for a single stage gun there would be two sets of contacts, the ones that turn the coil on, and the ones that turn it off.

Do you think this would work, or should I try something else?

Did you get my message? It says "not yet read" under your name in the conversation.

I need one

DJ, Trucks have nuts? I didn't know trucks had gender...

There's a beat up truck that I saw driving around here that had huge tires, stickers everywhere, and a short chain with some rubber balls on the end of it, hanging off of the rear bumper. I can't believe someone actually would drive that monstrosity.

When I was computer shopping late last year and early this year, the price of most desktops + all that other stuff was still cheaper than the notebooks I was looking at.

"Would you feel comfortable showering with gays?"

Well, I don't really feel comfortable showering with other people, but I wouldn't feel more uncomfortable if they were gay.

"But I wonder: do we have policies like these because we're neurotic, or are we neurotic because we have policies like these?"

The chicken and the egg. I think they cause each other.

80070643, 80071A91, and 78F. I ran a search for each of them, and one for all of them. Found nothing that worked.

I searched, I tried, I failed. Failure always seems to be an option when it comes to computers and programs .

Thanks for the replies, but it looks like I'll have find something to save my program files on, then reset my computer.

Is it a computer owned and managed by your employer?

No, and as far as I know, this network isn't the cause. My brother installed the exact same updates without a problem.

If not that then it's probably conflicting with a plug-in or other piece of software somewhere.

So uninstalling recently installed programs might fix it?

I need some help with my computer. Every time I shut off my computer, it tries to update windows, but then those updates aren't there when I turn the computer back on. I went ahead and had my computer check for issues after a few days, and found that there was a long list of update failures. Got any ideas on how to fix it:confused: I would try resetting it to an earlier time, but I might lose some stuff I really don't want to lose.

This question came to me after reading recent comments in the "New Member Posts" thread. Why did you pick your user name?

humans as we exist now maybe only have another 100k years before we aren't human any more. hell in 5 billion years we probably won't even be humanoid.

That's assuming we don't interfere with the process. We might accelerate it, slow it down, or even take a hard left.

That's the worst part of death, imo, never getting to see what happens to us.

I'm learning to program in C#/XNA. Right now I'm about to learn how to use sprite sheets, and hopefully find out why my collision detection of two list objects is all wonky .

Haven't been playing much lately, but the people over at mektek did announce some good news regarding MW4 Mercs (hurray!), so that will hopefully change by the end of this weekend, if they can figure out what's going on with the download/installer.

Keep in mind I'm fairly new to how computer and internet stuff works . Here's a simple question in the form of a scenario.

Let's say you are playing StarCraft with a friend, who is hosting the game with his/her computer. Now let's say there's a two second delay between your computers. If you order a group of marines to move, how long does it take for you to see them start moving on your screen?

Definitely

"They are still, fundamentally, similar."

 

They're really not, though. It's like saying Mars is a split off timeline of Earth.

I think you mean something like alternate realities or universes. The extra dimensions in string theory are comparable to the three spacial dimensions and time dimension we exist in.

I watched a show that eventually led to a theory about how membranes might collide, and that somehow could cause a new universe to form. Don't know if we could travel to one if it turns out they exist, though.

'Insane' Clown Posse indeed (jk)

If you don't take the song too seriously, it's pretty interesting, though it could do without the over excessive swearing, and the part about scientists being liars.