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Why don't you actually post things from the original source like the fed site itself after reading an article? CaptainSeeSharp wrote: Second, there is an inherent conflict in the manner in which regional reserve branch presidents are selected – in that representatives of the member banks select the regional president. It seems counterproductive, yet the banking system has provided case after case of regulated entities selecting their own regulator. According the fed's own site this is true, if I'm reading this right. http://www.federalreserveeducation.org/fed101/structure/BOD/BOD.htm[^] I thought http://www.federalreserveeducation.org/fed101/structure/[^]was very informative at a basic level too.

CaptainSeeSharp wrote: Vaccines can cause autism with developing brains No risk to you then monkey-boy! Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H

ragnaroknrol wrote: Oxidized iron is pretty useless though. Mix it with a little powered aluminum, stick in a magnesium ribbon as a fuse.... :omg: Oh, and you do get your iron back. :laugh: You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Oh no, not that, anything but a bunch of busybodies who can't be bothered to look at evidence and attempt to explain why it isn't possible. And there is no truly independent investigation, they want the results they assume to be true, no an investigation. I'm quite sure I have more of a background in physics and engineering than you do, due to the sadists who designed my degree program I could probably design and build CPU from scratch if I absolutely needed to. And to get to those physics classes I had to go through all of the basics, tack on honors physics from high school(the year after 9/11 none the less). That said, I did get into an argument with a few structural engineering students in college over this and deflated them pretty quickly by pointing out their initial assumptions were quite wrong due to the odd nature of the tower's structure. But hey, us software guys don't know anything right?

Yay? Perhaps fewer people will look at me like I'm going to mug them if they do not have anything of significant value on them? It isn't terribly pleasant. Given that nothing has intrinsic value to it there is remarkably little difference between cash, gold or straight number flinging. Currency and value are human created concepts, if the system that they rely on breaks down there will be no real difference between them.

CaptainSeeSharp wrote: It is a tutorial for beginners. And, applied to a simple 2D world, A* is a non-complex algorithm and easy for a beginner to comprehend. To present a beginner with a non-functioning algorithm is unhelpful. CaptainSeeSharp wrote: That is more important than listing the infinite details and possibilities. It is a pathfinding algorithm, it either finds a path or it doesn't, hardly infinite. CaptainSeeSharp wrote: My implementation is a bit more sophisticated You mean that it includes the test to ensure that the path returned is actually the shortest? Bob Emmett CSS: I don't intend to be a technical writing, I intend to be a software engineer.

Yeah, I see that now... Heh... The skitzo weather has been completely screwing up my sinuses, which of course means I get almost no sleep... So the brain never really turned on this morning... Should have had some caffeine, but I'm trying to minimize that. Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)

What was I thinking. :-D L u n a t i c F r i n g e

I had to turn off farmville posts completely and suddenly it was a lot easier to handle. It's like the thing needs to be split into 2 parts: facebook games (now with credit card scam offers!) and facebook for fun (now with FML posts!) Amazing how many people you can find from your past on there. Which is a double edged sword I suppose.

This just in! Science muddled by politics! Film at 11! (There... You got a reply... Feel better now?) Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)

Morse: Mr. Griffths, you can't fly over this hunt, ever. Griffths: I'm game, let's see who kills something first. ... Morse: Mr Griffths, do you have any idea how much damage this land rover will sustain if I try and stop you? Griffths: None at all? ...unlike your head? Morse: None at all! :)

You can get most of the info regarding the ConTen Act here: http://www.constitutionaltender.com/[^] We had a big hearing on the bill last session, you can watch testimony here: http://constitutionaltender.blogspot.com/2009/03/constitutional-tender-bill-was-heard-in.html[^] There's an updated & slightly improved version of the bill which will substituted when it goes to full committee, here: http://www.sicm.com/constitutionaltender/ga-bill.pdf[^] We're seeing more and more states introduce such bills. I'm glad to see SC come on board too! :) BG

um.... ewww

See, and people wonder why I have very little respect for most of the "Christian right". (Obviously our own Christian doesn't seem to fall into this category, as he's advocating some form of population control) Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)

... an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony ... Bob Emmett @ Ynys Thanatos

RichardM1 wrote: That is not the sign of a well grounded relationship. Yeah, you are probably right on this, it is just how I feel. I know the 15 years we were apart, I had other relationships with women but could never get past inf actuation and intimacy and lead the relationship to stronger forms of love such as devotion. Mostly because my heart was still/is devoted to her. Perhaps if she passed away and I had some therapy about it, I might be able to move on, but if I was an old man by then and she didn't die of a freak accident or illness I think I would be content with living the rest of my life with loving memories of a long and wonderful relationship. I know I could never replace her, if she did die of a freak accident, I would have to go all the way through the grieving process before I could even remotely think about giving my love and affections to another woman. But that would also be hard, because I would always know at the same time that I loved her more and that no one could compair to how much love I felt/feel for her. So it would cause conflict in any new relationship. That is just what my logic says, I don't know; and have never had any experience with this. I don't know anyone who has suffered such a loss. Closest thing is my Mother and Fathers divorce, and I know my mother loved my Father so much she could not share her heart like that with anyone else. Perhaps her new husband she can, but it took many years for her to get to a position in her mind and heart where she realized my Father hurt her and she must move on. To be honest, they hurt each other, my Father would say the same thing, in fact he recently told me that no woman has ever even come close to comparing with the love he felt with my Mother. :(( As far as it being a well grounded relationship, it isn't yet. We are making plans to improve this and make this a well grounded relationship. There are a lot of factors on both sides of our families, resentment mostly and fear that we will hurt each other again, and that I will flip out like I did last time. I'm not going to flip out again, I have had 15 years of improving my tool set so that I know how to see my own problems when I am having one. I immediately confront the issue, resolve the feelings (on both sides), and learn from the mistake and change my life so I don't keep making the same mistake or repeating a negative behavior. I think this is very healthy, many relationships don't have these lines of c

Just throw your change into the guitar case. :-D L u n a t i c F r i n g e

LunaticFringe wrote: “conspiracy theorists, anti-government zealots, 9/11 truthers, and assorted other cadres of the obsessed and deranged.” Two funny things to note here, I've never seen one successfully argue that this isn't true and nothing about this necessarily makes them wrong. Of course being disliked by the establishment doesn't make them right either.

or even I take a chunk of metal, I say its valuable, I keep locked up, I create a market for it, but its still a chunk of metal. the whole system is barter by proxy, I will give you x if you give my y, becomes i will give you x for a someone else will give you a for y all else is connivance Smile and the world smiles withyou, laugh and they think you are a nutter modified on Monday, March 1, 2010 10:00 AM

I'm glad that you got your son sorted. I have only second hand experience of AD(H)D, kids of colleagues and de-schooled kids. In all cases a change of diet and/or environment solved the problem. (I have seen the same class of boys running riot with some teachers and working quietly through the lesson with others. And, no, no physical punishment - just that those teachers paid as much respect and attention to the boys as they demanded of them.) Note, I am not saying that there is no such thing as AD(H)D, just that there are too many misdiagnoses of it. Christian Graus wrote: advice on a good diet is everywhere True. But dietary advice is also purveyed by MSM, which gives contradictory advice every other month. How are the ignorant to know which Doctor to believe? Christian Graus wrote: keep buying the processed food b/c it's cheaper Inevitable when you are poor. Christian Graus wrote: My wife knew someone whose children, from birth, had Coke in their sippy cups. I hope your wife dissuaded her from such a practice. Did the mother have Coke in her sippy cup as a child? Many mothers put fruit juices in sippy cups, as a healthy option. :rolleyes: Christian Graus wrote: lazy parents ... people both don't care ... people are just plain ignorant ... lazy parents ... lazy parents :) Bad parenting begets bad parenting. It is difficult to break the chain. Both parents need to be in accord, and often need support, but support groups are in short supply. I would like to see statistics comparing the frequency of demands for Ritalin by lazy parents, versus its recommendation by lazy Medics. (I read that parents often demand that treatment with Ritalin be reinstated, but as a doctor first prescribed it, and it worked, their request is quite reasonable when the disorder returns on withdrawal.) Bob Emmett @ Ynys Thanatos