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"Don't take it seriously The privacy policy, the contact us page — it’s all a joke. We came up with the idea of building a crawler like this and keeping the maintenance price under $300 a month. There was only one way to prove our theory worked — to implement it in practice. So we did. Now, we find ourselves with a big crawler. We knew what it did but we didn’t know how to use it. So we decided to make a joke out of it. That’s the beauty of jokes — you can make them out of anything."

Hi, actual facts incoming based on science. Meth, as in the type meth you would buy on the street is extremely similar (in terms of molecular structure) to some of our favorite legal drugs, namely Adderall and Ritalin. There is nothing different about street Meth that would make it extremely harmful to user that wouldn't also be the case with Ritalin or Adderall.

In fact, I went to a lecture at the Natural History Museum (NYC) from a scientist who has spent years working with Meth addicts. He said himself that the media had created many myths about Meth and Meth addicts, E.g. Meth mouth, the idea that Meth makes you lose your teeth. He said that Meth, in and of itself is not very dangerous or harmful at all, and in fact the dosages that get you high are nowhere near the dosages that it would take to cause brain damage, for example, or to seriously harm you.

The real problem with Meth, and other addictive drugs, is that people get addicted to them, lose their jobs, live on the street, stop eating healthily, stop exercising, stop brushing their teeth or cleaning themselves. THAT is why drug addicts often look bad, not because the drug itself is causing the degradation of the body.

Reference: http://www.erowid.org/ask/ask.php?ID=2846 (Is meth the same thing as Amphetamines such as prescription drugs like adderall and ritalin?)

I may be completely missing the point here, but this ruling seems completely unenforceable. How do you stop four friends talking to each other if they are not incarcerated? There are a hundred and one ways to talk to people in this modern age and many of those are anonymous and not easily tracked or monitored.

This just seems like one of those sentences which is "harsh" to make a point but doesn't actually make any difference to how these men will communicate. That said, it's also completely ridiculous that these people with no ill intent were made such an example of, and that they were given a punishment which is illogical and far too much trouble than it's worth to enforce.

Are you serious or is this a subtle joke I am miss-understanding? Romney is intellectually and experientially the most qualified candidate for US president? Really? Really?

Romney is a corporate shill, who is willing to flip-flop on any issue as long as it gets him the nomination and presidency. He doesn't care about 99% of the people in this country, he only cares about keeping himself rich and empowered, and keeping those other rich people and especially corporations, rich and empowered.

If he becomes President, expect more lobbying, high taxes for middle-income and working classes people, lower taxes for big corporations and wealthy individuals, less benefits and lower standards of living if you're poor, and so on. Also, expect less regulation on banks, increasing the chances of another financial crash. Of course, if that happens you can be sure he will make a bunch of money out of it, as will all his friends, and indeed the bankers responsible for the crash.

Oh, and all those people who got healthcare thanks to Obama's healthcare improvements (examples here: http://obamacarestories.com/ ), well, screw all those free-loaders, under Romney we can point and laugh as they go bankrupt and/or die, because he'll be repealing that bill.

Actually my girlfriend (a Nurse) says you should cover your mouth with the inside of your elbow when you sneeze. This way the virus particles are not spread onto your hands and there is much less chance of rubbing your elbow against a door handle or some other often used public object.

Mod parent up.

My girlfriend works as a nurse at one of the most respected hospitals in NYC and she says that the Doctors and Nurses think it's all a storm in a teacup. They believe it's no worse than regular flu and is just being publicized so much for the revenue in terms of newspapers sold etc.

When I ask her what the real killers are: smoking related illnesses, heart disease due to obesity/being overweight, accidents/drunk people/cars/ etc...

Don't worry about H1N1, we have enough worry about without this bullshit.

This bug goes deeper. You could actually also glitch through any locked door in the game. However, what made this glitch a bit different was that you could only do it if you were wielding a dual-saber type weapon.

Basically the method was that you stood with your back to a door while wielding a dual saber then performed a 3 hit combo. Characters that could wield the dual saber performed a step back at the end of the combo and each time you performed it, you stepped back into the door. Apparently the collision detection didn't work in this particular scenario.

After a few steps back you were fully stuck in the door, then you could turn your character round and then walk gradually through the door.

The only hard part about doing this was acquiring a dual saber in the first place, since they were a pretty rare weapon.

I'm a WoW player, achievement points are my crack.

posting for achievement..

As someone who has experienced small cameras with large amounts of pixels and SLR's with fewer pixels, I can safely say that it's a much better idea to buy a 6MP DSLR (example Nikon D50) with a nice lens than it is to buy a super compact camera with 12MP and a tiny sensor.

In the world of photography the most important thing is the photographers eye for a good picture, the second most important thing is the lens, the third most important thing is the size of the sensor (full frame = best) and the last most important thing is the number of pixels.

I think you're miss-understanding the original article.

This article is about what is needed for average people taking average photos. Most people (99%+) will never print larger than 20x30 inches and most will never even print that big. Even with a 7MP camera with a decent lens, you can print perfectly fine at that size. I've tried myself and have several great examples.

Given that 7MP can produce great results at 20x30, why does the average person need 12MP? Especially when most of the cameras they use have tiny sensors. You may not realize this but there is no point in squeezes more pixels onto a small sensor because all it means is grainier photos and reduced low light quality. As each sensor receives fewer photons.

The only cameras where going > 12MP makes sense are full frame SLR's where there is obviously a good size sensor and lots of light can be let in. These cameras should the be paired with nice big lenses to make the most of the huge sensor.

TLDR version: Most people are taking vacation snaps and photos of their kids/dog. They don't need anything more than 7MP because they don't actually make any prints big enough to see the additional pixels.

I think you're miss-understanding the original article.

The author isn't talking about the 1/1000000 person who's interesting in taking photos of protozoa on the wall of his fish-tank.

This article is about what is needed for average people taking average photos. Most people (99%+) will never print larger than 20x30 inches and most will never even print that big. Even with a 7MP camera with a decent lens, you can print perfectly fine at that size. I've tried myself and have several great examples.

Given that 7MP can produce great results at 20x30, why does the average person need 12MP? Especially when most of the cameras they use have tiny sensors. You may not realize this but there is no point in squeezes more pixels onto a small sensor because all it means is grainier photos and reduced low light quality. As each sensor receives fewer photons.

The only cameras where going > 12MP makes sense are full frame SLR's where there is obviously a good size sensor and lots of light can be let in. These cameras should the be paired with nice big lenses to make the most of the huge sensor.



TLDR version: Most people are taking vacation snaps and photos of their kids/dog. They don't need anything more than 7MP because they don't actually make any prints big enough to see the additional pixels.