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Flymetothemun

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  1. I play Klondike at least once a year, so yeah, I'll press it. Press the button to get a printer that will print any currency legally but has to print 10 bills of Monopoly Money for every bill of real-world currency.
  2. Only sites I could find: Swedish Migration Agency: http://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals.html New to Denmark: http://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/ Norwegian Directorate of Immigration: http://www.udi.no/en/ Although you may not want to move to a completely different country. The US is a MASSIVE country, and I'm sure there's a town here that has the political/social climate and job market that you're looking for. You also make it sound like you don't have too much money. Well, if you don't have a lot of money, why would you want the expense of moving almost halfway around the world? And moving to another country is one of the biggest decision you could ever make, I'd say it's up there with the decision to marry somebody and the decision of what to give to who in your will. I'm not trying to put you off of your course, just be sure to weigh all the options and give them their time in the spotlight. This is NOT a decision to be rash about, and to hasten it is only going to make thing worse for you. And as for you being a student, well, EVERY COLLEGE STUDENT IS POOR. I'm sorry, but it's the truth. Unless you come from a rich family (especially an old money family) you're gonna have a crap job and low income as a college student.
  3. Your disuse of twitter is commendable.
  4. 2 boosters, too much power, no boosters, too little power?
  5. Any proper, dapper gentleman going out on the town in pursuit of sweets and fine, young ladies would know to include a sensibly-colored and properly-fitted pair of trousers in his ensemble.
  6. Today's your birthday Kasper, It happens every year, Today you eat a lotta cabbage and drink a lotta beer. You better not be bad or sad, you better not be fake, You better blow out all your candles and eat up all your cake.
  7. You need a crimson/mahogany tie, white shirt, black suitcoat, a pocket square, an utterly dapper haircut and a handsome face:
  8. Of course I wasn't representing everybody, I was representing me! And I've been giving it a rest for the past couple years, and the desire still hasn't come back.
  9. Me neither. I always saw KSP as just another gold rush; everybody flocked to "them thar hills", it looked good, but now the gold's running out. And honestly, I'm pretty damned close to putting in my resignation on this forum.
  10. It looks like a pretty cool game; I might just get it. Seems like a LOT more fun than KSP. And yes, I do agree with the sentiment above that there isn't much to do in KSP. All I'm using it for nowadays is a glorified flight simulator, and I only ever fly one plane.
  11. If you use a computer, and I hope you do, there are certain people attached to it. Not just you with a USB cable soldered to electrodes in your brain, but also people like Alan Turing, Charles Babbage, Bill Gates. But, there is one person you may not have heard of. Her name is Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, or Ada Lovelace, as she's known nowadays. Born on December 10th, 1815, she was the only legitimate child of the famed poet Lord Byron, and had a better life than most in England during the 1800s. From a very young age she was interested in science, or at least applied scientific processes when she set the task of flight before herself. She researched various materials to use and studied birds to obtain proportions for a flying apparatus. In her adult life she made acquaintance with such people as Charles Dickens and Michael Faraday. In 1835, she married William King, the 1st Earl of Lovelace, and had three children with him. She sadly died in 1853 at the age of only 36 due to uterine cancer. In 1833 she met Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Analytical Engine, which is considered to be one of the first computers. She remarked that the Engine, while it could calculate anything it was told, didn't have the ability to decide for itself what to calculate. She also remarked that: "[The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine... Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent." In 1840, Babbage was invited to give a seminar on his Engine at the University of Turin in Italy. An attendee of the seminar transcribed his speech in French and the transcription was subsequently published in an academic journal by the University of Geneva. It was then translated into English by a friend of Babbage's. Ada then added many notes to the paper, which were added to the translation as well. In these notes she describes an algorithm for the Engine so that it could be made to compute Bernoulli numbers. Because of this algorithm, she is considered by most to be the first Computer Programmer. We've come a long way since Lovelace, Babbage, and the Analytical Engine. We have countless programming languages, computers that would be considered wizardry in her time, and we do more with computation than Babbage could have dreamed of. Her writings influenced Alan Turing in his work with computers and the cracking of the ENIGMA machine. Her influence is in every computer, cell phone, and pretty much anything with a microchip inside. So, on Ada Lovelace Day on Oct. 13th, please celebrate or at least take some time to remember Ada Lovelace, one of the most influential people of modern times, a pioneer in computing, and one of my personal heroes. Below is one of the several portraits of her:
  12. The name sounds a lot like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDgQg6bq7o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator
  13. Tells me the same things over and over again: -Instead of actual singing, it's trumpets everywhere (DUH, what do you expect? Every classical piece to be sung like Land of Hope and Glory?) -Classical and/or (insert either Beethoven or Mozart here) sucks (Excuse me? What if I told you "You suck? Wouldn't that be personally insulting?) -No one listens to that (REDACTED) anymore (Uh, the 60 million views on Vivaldi's Four Seasons says otherwise.. and his "argument" (which is totally pointless because it's a matter of preference) is that Gangnam Style has 1 billion views. Ah, I see, Youtube is the best measurement with one piece from 2012 and another from the goddamn Baroque Period...) -It sucks -It sucks -It sucks!!!111oneonetwothree -"Dude, listen to some modern dubstep!" -(Another classmate) I'm a historian, and I think classical music is bad. (Oh my lord, a historian!!) -Long and so boring, you could fall asleep (Not if you're actually willing to try..) -Inferior to modern (Which is seriously broad, by the way --- In classical, there are piano sonatas, string quartets, symphonies, while you have dubstep, metal and such. Also, good luck replacing an apple and an orange.) And who is he to judge my preference anyways? It's not inappropriate to listen to something else, and even more so.. He doesn't even know any examples of a classical piece. And is it not possible to just.. leave me alone? I don't criticize him for listening to dubstep, why should he criticize me for listening to something else? [/rant] Geez, I never knew somebody could hate music so much. I mean, I don't like it either (Except for Ode to Joy because it was the tune to one of the hymns we used to sing all the time in Catholic school [i'm agnostic now but it's one of those "childhood memories" things]), but beyond a dislike of it I'm pretty ambivalent towards it. To each his own, as the saying goes.
  14. And I quote: "I kid, I kid. I'm aiming for semi truck driving, but if that doesn't go too well I'm more interested in trades (Mainly welding & pipe/steamfitting) rather than degree-requiring jobs and most of the time you can learn trades by union apprenticeship. The rest of the times it's usually a technical school, and those are far cheaper than college, usually only last 1 1/2-2 yrs and you only learn the thing you signed up for, not all the accouterments like algebra and whatnot." I said I'm AIMING, not enrolled. Although, that's more my dialect coming through. Aiming means you're REALLY interested around where I live.
  15. Mate, I'm not enrolled in anything! Although I MIGHT go to one of the technical schools for truck driving (and maybe welding, welding pays GREAT almost everywhere and you get to stick bits of metal together like a wizard); Tech schools are cheaper, you get hands-on training rather than just reading out of a book all the time, and you're out of the place in 18 months. It's a maybe right now. Good on ya! I'm from a blue-collar family and area and a lot of times we think that people who have gone to college really forget about us and stay in their "bubble". And then there are the ones who call us ignorant and stupid and all kinds of names that do barely anything except make themselves feel high and mighty. Also, this is a really GREAT interview with Mike Rowe about how college is getting to be overrated or at least getting to be too high of a cost:benefit ratio:
  16. Agreed. It isn't free speech if wrong things can't be said. I hate to say it, but it's the truth. And c'mon, saying that you should take somebody's child away just because they think the Earth is flat or that rockets don't work? No offense, but don't you think that's kind of petty, cruel, and heartless? And as far as I know with social services, you only have a case if the child exhibits signs of physical abuse (abnormal bruises, scratches, scrapes, etc) or mental abuse (abnormal anxiety, depression, etc). And as for your friend who believes that the Earth is flat, if he cannot be convinced, simply let it go. I bet you disagree with your greatest friend on at least one subject, and you both get along fine because of this. Apply the same attitude to your flat-Earth friend. If you allow differing beliefs of another to affect you so greatly then you will have a very difficult life.
  17. I'm not talking about this: I'm talking about this:
  18. And the only difference between them is a lot of press and money. Emphasis on $$$MONEY$$$.
  19. I quit it a long time ago; I got to the age where I was too old anyhow and my already small desire of candy tanked. What I'm trying to say I guess I that I don't know what's "in" when it comes to halloween costumes. Do what I did for my final one: Wear your everyday clothes and call yourself an Average Citizen. I guarantee you'll get at least one laugh out of it.
  20. I do the same thing (on the keyboard anyway), but I call it a "timing error".
  21. I couldn't care less about All Hallows Eve. But I do like fall, it's my favorite of the seasons. It has an interesting aesthetic and the rains are always welcomed.
  22. I prefer to bake real cookies. Tastier than RAM sticks and the smell's a lot better than anything that comes out of a fan vent. They also aren't horrendously copied without care or discretion.
  23. I eat WELL. Full plate in the evening and 2 bowls of each cereal in the morning. Little bit of Home Time and the news are all I need to make my day complete.
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