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This probably isn't the answer you want because it is a what NOT to do, not a what TO do...

Trying to force and craft the foundations for a long term relationship after a week of dating is exactly what may make it NOT a long term relationship. The more you try to force it, control it, and try to craft this long term relationship the more unnatural and forced it will seem, and that could very well ruin all the awesome you're enjoying right now. And really, a relationship... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by PuppetMcSockerson at 9:47 AM on October 23, 2014 marked best answer

Games can be perfectly valid with challenge and without it, but I think a game that presents itself as requiring skill while requiring none might be somewhat harmful, as in its more time wasting than normal.

This is really important, because #GG is using the tactics of grinding games to keep the movement going. It's like they believe that if they respond to enough people on Twitter with pre-written, hollow, movement-approved replies, they will level... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by almostmanda at 11:18 AM on October 21, 2014

It's theoretically possible to have a concrete definition of 1000 IQ. The scale is constructed by imposing a normal distribution on the scores of test-takers. You can do a thought experiment where you imagine giving the test to quadrillions and quintillions of people, and then constructing new tests that distinguish amongst those who max out the existing tests, using the new tests to establish a new normalisation... and then repeating this process with increasing numbers of people until you... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by topynate at 6:40 AM on October 20, 2014

This all assumes that g is a thing, and that intelligence is a single quantitative trait

Let me get this straight—you're saying that it's nothing but a "g" thing?
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise at 5:57 AM on October 20, 2014

I've grown to think that there is maybe nothing less interesting than reading people's thoughts about music they don't like.
posted to MetaFilter by Lutoslawski at 10:20 AM on October 18, 2014

I think many developers will already have one or more applications that encompass all of the requirements, and this assignment would largely be a matter of making a copy, trimming it down, and probably sprucing up the comments, etc.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by doctor tough love at 10:17 AM on October 17, 2014

This sounds like a slightly buggy display driver, worth trying to see if an updated version is available.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Lanark at 12:13 PM on October 16, 2014

It's that Pentatonix are soulless automatons.

(I'm sure they are perfectly nice people and they are very talented but they are perfect robots, designed by the producers of The Sing-Off )
posted to MetaFilter by FritoKAL at 10:04 AM on October 16, 2014

I haven't been super closely following this, but weren't they at least selling it as the "normal people" stuff though, even if that isn't what they meant?

Oh they have been vaguely trying, but that assumes "normal people" give a shit about something as obscure and irrelevant to humanity as "ethics in games journalism", which is about as much of an issue to most people as "ethics in gardening journalism" or... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Jimbob at 5:06 PM on October 15, 2014

> I think when these people are talking about corruption in games journalism, they're not talking about what normal people would think that means, e.g.: payola, withholding previews from unfriendly reviewers, etc... They're talking about how the purity of their little world is being corrupted by the outside forces of feminism, etc...

this is super correct
posted to MetaFilter by postcommunism at 2:36 PM on October 15, 2014

A Brief Review of Your TV Model Will Never Work Arguments:
1) TV itself will never work. Because movies.
2) TV will die now. Because widescreen and color and 3-D and Cinerama.
3) Cable will never work. No one will pay for tv.
4) Premium channels can't work. No one will pay enough extra from them to afford to stop showing commercials.
5) Streaming services will never work. People already have cable and video stores.
6)... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by DirtyOldTown at 2:41 PM on October 15, 2014

Deadspin chimes in with a pretty strong summary of Gamergate so far, and its similarity to previous revanchist social movements. Worth reading its entirety, but a few points that jumped out at me with respect to hate group organization / tactics:

The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate


In many ways, Gamergate is an almost perfect closed-bottle ecosystem of bad internet tics and shoddy debating tactics. Bringing... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tonycpsu at 2:35 PM on October 14, 2014

Also, did anyone post more]
posted to MetaFilter by postcommunism at 10:24 AM on October 14, 2014

Just going off the Wikipedia story, there's no indication that it was actually launched under that domain. It could have been www.harvard.edu/students/mzuckerberg/facemash or something like that, with the domain being registered after the fact once he saw it was popular. Is there a more detailed history somewhere?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by rhizome at 1:00 PM on October 11, 2014

Devonian: "What server-side software uses trig anyway? Bugs that surface in 2014 but have been around forever - bugs in the normal operation of functions, rather than security-style misbehavious when fed malicious input - would seem to indicate that there's a lot of stuff in silicon that's just not seeing much action..."

MOBILE APP (to SERVER): Please return all points of interest within a five mile radius.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by pwnguin at 9:10 AM on October 10, 2014

I do not think this is a practicable notion.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 7:07 PM on October 9, 2014

Stress by Justice is probably the most sinister piece of modern music I can think of.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Admiral Haddock at 8:58 AM on October 10, 2014

TSR’s early efforts to include women explicitly in its fantasy games sometimes did more harm than good,

Oh, indeed. Dragon issue #3 (October 1976) had -- so far as I can tell -- the first article TSR ever published on female characters (editited to add; slothrup, this article was written by Len Lakofka). Highlights include a change to the attributes; while female characters have Strength, Intelligence, Wisdom, Dexterity and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ricochet biscuit at 7:41 AM on October 10, 2014

I don't understand the bit about no tolerance for services that charge month. Aren't you already paying monthly for a dedicated fax line? In general that monthly charge will dwarf any internet fax service.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bswinburn at 10:05 AM on October 9, 2014

My new rule for AskMe relationship questions is that if I read "she's 21 and I'm 23" and then there's a novel about all the relationship problems, I'm going to skip reading the novel and just come down here and tell you to break up. You're going to be a different person in two years and a different person two years after that and a different person two years after that and this person isn't going to be able to change with you when you're working so hard just to maintain in the present.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Kwine at 8:07 AM on October 7, 2014

I think you need to expand your description of "no longer works" quite a bit.

1. Can you view the website? If you go to http://imgur.com what do you see?

2. If the website does load, does everything appear normal? Is there missing pictures?

3. Can you try a different browser? Can you launch the Safari web browser (which should be in your applications folder) and try to use the website with that? What happens? If... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by leo_r at 3:48 AM on October 7, 2014

We Are Family by Sister Sledge is a classic for this.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by rtha at 9:59 AM on October 6, 2014

The feeling of these should resonate with anyone who has had to watch cheesy TV as part of a language class. (Forsthaus Falkenau, anyone?)

But this seems even more like something produced specifically for instructional purposes. The first video is the one where you learn about how to greet your host family ("How are you!","Welcome to Florida!", "They have arrived safely!") and where you learn important domestic vocabulary words like... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by BrashTech at 5:48 AM on October 6, 2014

Add a beat, feedback and a couple hundred "-uhs", and it would be indistinguishable from an actual album by The Fall.
posted to MetaFilter by vverse23 at 2:29 PM on October 3, 2014

This is a long form commercial for Harman.
posted to MetaFilter by Poldo at 6:59 AM on October 2, 2014

Herodios, the thing is that from a precise, scientific and academic standpoint those statements don't say remotely the same thing.

Well no actually that is not the thing at all. You have in fact completely missed what the the thing is, most likely by not reading TFA. There is nothing remotely precise, scientific, nor academic about the first writing sample, nor about the context in which it was found.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Herodios at 8:12 PM on October 1, 2014

Another comment:

Please stop cross-posting other people's comments on other sites. You've already linked this thread there and that thread here and we can all read.
posted to MetaFilter by 0 at 1:14 PM on October 1, 2014

If that's the case, what's the urgency to de facto evict her? When she leaves you'll be able to advertise the apartment for as much as you want and take the highest bidder.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Asparagus at 12:59 PM on October 1, 2014

Also sort of related: Briefly take us through this new theory of yours, in laymans' terms...
posted to MetaFilter by you must supply a verb at 10:41 AM on October 1, 2014

Network Operations Center monitor, basically monitor network uptime and swing into action when something goes down. Since that rarely happens you typically do nothing all day.

Coworker used to do map correction for Google Maps. He said he had loads of downtime.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by hellojed at 11:55 AM on September 18, 2014 marked best answer

So, the premise of this is that we're being lectured on the poor quality of our junk food by a country whose basic approach to cuisine is to fry and/or boil everything?
posted to MetaFilter by Halloween Jack at 8:04 AM on September 30, 2014

I teach (formal) logic now and then at the college level. And, frankly, I'm totally unnecessary: you can teach yourself logic from a book with a little bit of motivation. You already know how to do logic, you just have to have it coaxed out of you. There are a lot of excellent texts, and it all depends on what you want to do. Not strictly a logic text, I'd suggest working through Daniel Velleman's excellent How To Prove It and going to various online forums when you get stuck on a problem. Or... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:08 PM on September 29, 2014

Reliably? He can't.

Not true; see devnull's suggestion for DBAN. This is exactly what it's made for.

Except, the OP explicitly asks (and Mr. Parade is responding to) how he can "erase information without having to reinstall the operating system". DBAN is good at one thing only, and preserving the OS on the target system is exactly not what it's made for.

But who are we... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by quinndexter at 7:52 AM on September 29, 2014

That said: "Tory cabinet minister for civil society ... has resigned"? How the fuck would anyone notice the difference?
posted to MetaFilter by pompomtom at 6:37 AM on September 29, 2014

For overseas visas, our employees usually have to go to the Parish Sheriff's office and get a letter stating they have had no convictions. In Lafayette Parish this usually takes 20-30 minutes to search the database and produce a letter. Although it is mostly a form letter, if your arrest does show up they may add this to the letter to explain what refused means in that instance. They would probably accept this letter from the Sheriff's Office assuming it is the same parish the arrest was made... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Yorrick at 9:42 AM on September 25, 2014

Have you backed yourself into a place where you need to explain what refused means, or can you still go the "never convicted" route? If showing that you were never convicted is good enough, can you get some sort of background check or other official document with a section that says "list of all convictions" (or such) and that section is blank? Or some sort of official "Paultopia has never been convicted of a criminal offense" certification?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by If only I had a penguin... at 9:30 AM on September 25, 2014

Hmm, here is a quote that is just similar enough in substance and structure that I wonder whether it couldn't be the basis of the Rolly quote:

"It is obviously an attempt by animal rights people and pet lovers who have no idea whatsoever of the realities faced by the livestock industry in this state," added Rep. Bill Wright, R-Elberta.

Source: Animal Bills Draw Howls from Rural Lawmakers, by Jerry Spangler, Deseret News, 5 Feb 1991.... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by flug at 12:08 PM on September 25, 2014 marked best answer

Do you have a chafing dish? A crock pot? Access to a stove?

You can poach eggs most of the way, then slip them into cool water. Bring a giant tub of cold, mostly poached eggs in some cool water to the party. Take some method of making hot water and put it on the buffet line.

Instruct people to take an egg from the cold water, put it in the warm water for 90 seconds. Put it on toast.

Voila! This is how brunch places get a... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by fontophilic at 11:43 AM on September 25, 2014

Ohio is an open carry state. It was perfectly legal for John Crawford to be holding a real rifle, let alone a fake one. The fact that he was holding a gun (or gun-like object) when police came in the door is nearly immaterial -- other than the false evidence from the 911 call, there was no legal justification for shooting him.

There's very little difference between this and executing someone on the basis of hearsay.
posted to MetaFilter by 0xFCAF at 11:01 AM on September 25, 2014

Felton spokesman Nicholas Felton reiterated Felton's commitment to meeting fourth quarter targets for spontaneous conversations with male parking attendants. "At the end of the day, we have a responsibility to our shareholders," Felton said, referring to himself.
posted to MetaFilter by dephlogisticated at 2:28 PM on September 23, 2014

Wait you people are still mad? Haha
posted to MetaFilter by naju at 10:08 AM on September 22, 2014

You were offering the definition "frankish language" as something that would preclude my description of the term "Frank" in that usage as essentially "European." Here is the OED entry on "lingua franca to which the Wikipedia article refers:
Italian lingua franca (1553 in sense 1; sense 2 is not dated in dictionaries of Italian) lingua language (see language n.) +... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by yoink at 11:56 AM on September 18, 2014

Also the focus on indie games is strange considering all the really good games journalism corruption is in AAA titles where the money is:

But they don't hate corruption, they hate women.
posted to MetaFilter by howfar at 10:57 AM on September 17, 2014

“Understanding what Minecraft really means to Microsoft,” Kris Graft, Gamasutra, 15 September 2014
posted to MetaFilter by ob1quixote at 5:36 PM on September 16, 2014

My friend doesn't even own an iPhone but the other morning he woke up and Bono was standing over his bed screaming his new songs at the top of his lungs. Clearly, these tech companies are out of control and evil. We are right to be outraged.
posted to MetaFilter by bondcliff at 5:59 AM on September 16, 2014

This leaves only the status

I can't speak for other folks, but our reasons for eating at such places have nothing to do with status, and all to do with the sensual experience ("food drunk" describes it well) and, probably more important to my wife and I, sharing the event and strengthening our relationship.

Travel is equally ephemeral. We paid more than this, for example, to see the Grand Canyon, last winter.
posted to MetaFilter by bonehead at 10:32 AM on September 15, 2014

Clippy has been gone for almost as long as your son has been alive. The internet has a long memory.
posted to MetaFilter by smackfu at 7:39 AM on September 15, 2014

I bet GRR Martin would take the same deal, were it offered to him.

"Mr. Martin we're willing to offer you $2.5 billion dollars for Minecraft."
"I don't know what that is but you got yourself a deal."
posted to MetaFilter by griphus at 7:35 AM on September 15, 2014

guys i read on neogaf that notch is taking all the money and shooting all the developers so they never make something so beautiful again and moving to the moon to rule as Moon King
posted to MetaFilter by griphus at 7:29 AM on September 15, 2014

Personally, I tend to agree with much of what Max says ... but I have a couple of different angles on Lovecraft.

(Disclaimer up front: yes, he was reprehensibly racist. No question about it. But having said that, I want to move on and examine what else he was, and why we still remember him, unlike a bazillion other late 19th/early 20th century white racists: what made him different?)

The first angle I'd like to draw to your... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cstross at 5:33 AM on September 13, 2014