the grammys are a fucking joke, look at these nominations

sachiel416 · 2012-02-06T21:46:19.302406+00:00

Sounds like someone is getting older and losing touch with modern pop-music.

Rohansi · 2012-02-05T23:33:08.847691+00:00

I had something like this happen. I'm not sure I had any food, but the second one of my still-moving guys picked an apple off a tree, one of them got up and ate it, and it cued me to start picking apples. I was always afraid they'd all stop moving. But I seemed to have dodged your bullet.

merreborn · 1 day

That Wiki needs some serious work. It's not very helpful at all.

Squishpoke · 3 days

I've been programming for a couple years now. I know how bad of a practice it is. The hardest part of this CS course is figuring out what my professor wants that is different from everything else I have ever been told.

I feel really, really sorry for the kids in my class that have no programming experience. The guy who teaches it is really old and scatter-brained. Sometimes he'll go on about a concept for 10-20 minutes, all the while using an incorrect word to describe it. Typically one of the more knowledgeable students will correct him. "Don't you mean ...?" "Oh, yeah."

Weeks into class the more knowledgeable students have become sick of correcting him. I don't because I am pretty sure he doesn't like me.

beingundonedaily · 3 days

Having worked in a fast food place in my youth, late night, I can tell you that this video was pretty much the same reaction as anything that happened out of the ordinary in an otherwise monotonous job. The highlight of our Saturday nights we typically kids going through the drive through with their bare asses hanging out the window.

kewiiq2 · 3 days

This one seems to cycle back through here on about a two month cycle.

Squishpoke · 3 days

In my first CS course right now, my prof is the same way. They want exactly what the program does in normal speech, commented out, and you're supposed to fill your code in between it.

variousconcerns · 4 days

Tobacco and Cannabis are two very different substances, are prepared for smoking in different ways.

Uhm, no. Tobacco, in it's simplest form is taken from it's plant, dried, rolled and smoked. Which sounds the same as cannabis to me.

If you've ever owned a vaporizer, I'd assume you'd know that you can use tobacco in it just the same. Break up a cigarette, or use loose tobacco for cigarettes or pipes in it. It will work the same way. Vaporize mint, or aloe. You take a plant that contains a chemical you want to ingest, you run air through it heated to the temperature where the active ingredient boils out of the plant material. You then inhale the the vapor, and viola. Only thing that changes is the temperature you need the air, as the boil point of the active ingredient is different for each different thing you vaporize.

Vaporize is a large word to use. I would say "steam" the tobacco.

Vapor is steam, sorta. It's steam that exists below the boiling point of the liquid due to the boiled away ingredient condensing on air molecules. Haven't you ever used a heat water vaporizer? The bulk of the operation is performed by a heating element boiling the water away at just above its boiling temperature.

Hookas work the same way. Instead of using a heating element, you're using a coal. And then you're pulling the warm air through it as you draw to pull the heated air through the shisha, where it boils away the active ingredient, then instantly cools it afterwards with the air and water. And while burning the shisha is a common occurrence when smoking a hookah, it isn't a desirable effect. It's what you try to avoid. It's what 'harshes' the draw.

Seriously, I lived in a hookah bar for the better part of five years. If your shisha is burning, you're doing it wrong.

Iam_alwaysRIGHT · 4 days

Sounds like he needed it,

variousconcerns · 4 days

You aren't the first person I've run into who's thought this. It makes me wonder what the people who've claimed this were smoking.

Shisha is molasses soaked tobacco. It's soaked in molasses to help prevent it from burning, as the idea is for the hot coal that is placed on top of the foil cover to syphon heat through it as you suck and make a vapor mist. When you're done smoking, the only tobacco that will possibly be burned is what was touching the top of the foil. The rest of the shisha comes out dry and crusty, but not burned. But a perfect hookah load is one that never burns.

Again, if the hookah you tried pulled smoke like you'd get out of a pipe, someone is doing something wrong. If it was meant to be burned, there would be no reason to sell it soaked. You'd get it like normal pipe tobacco.

Just to Illustrate, find a video on youtube of someone smoking hookah. Hookah vapor weighs more than combusted byproduct, so it tends to sink quicker. Also You'll notice that the hookah 'smoke' dissipates really quickly. It's what happens when the warm vapor hits the cooler air. If you've ever smoked a volcano, or other vaporizers, you will note that the 'smoke' that comes out of a hookah has a similar consistency to it than it does to smoke. A hookah that becomes 'harsh' is a hookah that has become too hot and is burning the molasses/tobacco.

The hookahs I've owned over the years, as well as the ones that I've had loaded for me, mostly at hookah bars, have never given off anything that felt like smoke obtained from something that was burned like a pipe. On purpose anyway. Oh yeah, it's also one of the reason hookah bars that don't allow real smoking, don't get all hazy like the inside of the bar. The 'smoke' quickly condenses and falls to the ground, or sticks to a surface.

Hookahs are not supposed to produce smoke.

pnpbios · 4 days

Yeah, I'm not going to store GC games on my SD card.

variousconcerns · 5 days

Well, that often depends on who you are speaking to. But vaporizing doesn't involve the same carcinogens you get from combustion. With a pipe you are putting combusted material in your mouth. Which from my understanding, the process of combustion is what creates the bulk of the cancer-causing carcinogens.

variousconcerns · 5 days

Hookahs vaporize the tobacco rather than burning it. So technically you aren't smoking them, you're inhaling the vapor that they release.

And hookahs aren't the only way you can vaporize a substance. Vaporizors commonly used for consuming cannabis can also be used with tobacco, and a host of other types of plants that give off medicinal properties when vaporized and inhaled.

reemness · 5 days

The end of the world as you know it... But I feel fine.

SandmanXC · 5 days

If my Steam account was somehow removed, I'd have zero issue pirating anything I no longer had access to. So someone else might think I don't own them, but I will break the law to re-obtain property I believe I rightfully own.

DISHTY · 5 days

I was kinda in the same boat. Substitute a c64 for Amiga, and that's where I began too. The idea of it was amazing at the time. A story I didn't have to read like a book. And I don't think I have seen too much since then that equal it. Which I guess means that most people found it less amazing than I did.

Closest thing I think think of are Which-Way books, and those were around well before it. And not really the same, because the story changed with your decisions. In Portal you slowly discovered a static story in the same way a person investigates a crime scene.

BloodyThorn · 5 days

I agree, kinda. Seems like the popularity of the Wii is waning. But it has some of the most awesome modification potential. And by that fact alone I expect this reddit to get a moderate amount of traffic... But I believe the people who actually mod their Wiis are a small fraction of a percent of who own them.

virtuous_d · 6 days

Sorry for the downvotes. Nope haven't played it. Honestly it looked like another attempt to milk the tower defense genre, and I never really liked them to begin with. But as far as that type of game, it looks like one of the better ones.

DISHTY · 6 days

Yeah, interactive fiction. In no way related to the Valve game. It's an awesome game though. Really good story.

DISHTY · 6 days

Evidence for sarcasm? It's pretty evident in his post...

gayunicornrainbows · 6 days

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Not that I am trying to correct your grammar, but in this case it is preventing you from being understood.

If what you mean is, "That is not true. There are plenty of countries where football is not THE most popular sport besides the US."

Then you misunderstood my statement. Football(Soccer) is the most popular sport in the world. Research it.

EDIT: if that isn't what you meant, then a clarification is in order.

DISHTY · 6 days

I believe what he had there was sarcasm. This game here doesn't pre-date Portal, but it predates 'Gateways'.

EDIT: This portal game predates Portal.

gayunicornrainbows · 6 days

You are aware that soccer, or football if you are anywhere else but the U.S., is THE most popular sport in the world, right?

doobz · 6 days

What I was taught was that if you have a function that you are wondering whether it was one-to-one, say...

sqrt(x-4)

you know that a function is one to one when a=b, and substitute them in the equation making it equal itself.

So,

sqrt(a-4)=sqrt(b-4)

Square them both...

a-4=b-4

Add the four to both sides...solved down to..

a=b

If you come up with something else, say, a= +/- b, then your equation is not one-to-one and therefore not a function.

As Erereieu pointed out, there are possibly exceptions to the rule of if y=y² or y=|y| then your equation is not one-to-one. But I just had my algebra teacher tell me to use this same rule of thumb.

pnpbios · 6 days

Wake me when it will play them off the USB port.

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