My kiddo started 1st grade a few weeks ago - I'd forgotten what it was like to wake up so early.

Thanks for the list atmo liked several of your selections (the Swedish Reggae is something I'll never forget).

It should just launch in whatever resolution the game is set to be in regardless of your native resolution - have you picked at some setting on your gfx card to force the program to launch in a resolution it can't support?

Trying to get on an extant team is fine and all, and that can work for some people, but to be honest especially for somebody who is pretty unfamiliar with the game over all, your best bet would be the sad land of lobbies and pugs.

It will help you learn the game and also, the most important thing, get you a network of acquaintances and friends who will eventually put you on their extant teams, or find you a team to be on, or with whom you can make a team. Such teams are always far more stable and generally have a better environment (even if they end up not being very good). New teams comprising new players are always in for a *very* rough time generally, and you're going to need to be around people you like to survive the process. The players who burn out the fastest or find other, more fun, things to do are folks who end up on teams with people they dislike (or end up discovering that they dislike somebody on the team) solely to win games or be in a more respectable division.

Feel free to add me and ask questions (the same goes for generally anybody); although I have a pretty massive repertoire of medic related "thinky" type youtube videos that should be a pretty good primer to set you on your way (and oodles of demoreviews from all sorts of people) :D I'd also be happy to do a demoreview.

Playing medic on mid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8OfmyDl8iE&list=UUyTtw_807P3-mQW-gjADPhg

Roughish guide to playing med: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2ZYAqaXw&list=UUyTtw_807P3-mQW-gjADPhg

looking at 10 meds behavior during ubers (invite): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewO1LwqqIlE&list=UUyTtw_807P3-mQW-gjADPhg

demoreview playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3mOJ8ni4Qk&list=PL757vsS-wvM7Tt2plLg7DrWjuWCVvtZBM

The main issue for the NA scene is that the mid-IM to low Invite tier of teams die so frequently with their players simply disappearing from the game; we have a pretty massive hole in the system from repeated seasons of mass team death.

Particularly in response to the piece Kip posted from John Oliver - states were issued anti-terrorism money and it was divided by the state - my rural county, rather than buy, say a tank, purchased a gator (from John Deer) to fight terrorism, because one of the local commissioners is an elderly fellow, and it's hard for him to check out the parks and stuff he's supposed to be keeping an eye on lol. Although it's not going to ever fight terrorism, and they tried to give the money back, the ol' guy prolly appreciates his state owned golf-cart/atv. It has made for some great jokes about him patrolling looking for Al-Queda in the woods.

As for the assault rifles - the thing is, assault rifles are incredibly easy to acquire now. Granted you can't actually purchase a fully functional full-auto ak-47 without taking some gun safety courses and submitting to random ATF searches, but that doesn't mean random Joe can't buy a legal ak-47 (in my state with no background check of any kind other than a phone call to make sure you're not a felon) and look up on the internet how to make it fully automatic again. There *could* arise a situation where they may need a military grade assault weapon. But to show them at a protest? I don't see how they thought that wouldn't exacerbate the situation. I've protested *at* military bases before and the MPs guarding the gates did have their m4's on them but they were *never* pointed at us, they were shouldered throughout.

People of various ethnicities are gunned down by police (and other people) under dubiously legal circumstances all the time, so what makes this particular instance any different?

In particular, there is a growing consciousness that the way policing is done in the US has grown to be overly heavy-handed. The prevalence of recording equipment in civilian hands, and the speed in which those images can be shared is unprecedented. When The Onion can start making jokes about the militarization of police forces, and the video taping of them, you know it's such a pervasive phenomena that it's something folks are generally aware of (otherwise the jokes wouldn't make sense and their articles wouldn't get clicks). Whenever legal proceedings begin against the police officer responsible in this case, I'm sure cellphone video (which exists) will basically be the main piece of evidence. In particular, the fact that the victim in this particular instance, at least according to witnesses, surrendered, and then was shot six times (including being shot in the head) is what touched off the protests, while in other cases police shootings have not.

There's also the added fact that desperate poverty has grown substantially since 2008 and is not abating. The average life expectancy of a person in Ferguson is markedly below that of the surrounding areas according to a some Adj. Professor they had on NPR this morning. For a clearer example from my own state of Indiana - 1 in 8 persons is receiving "emergency" food aid on a weekly basis. It's in part related to the long-term unemployment problem in the country right now, mixed with the fact that real wages are falling to stagnant, while prices have risen substantially. The unemployment rate amongst blacks is generally worse than it is for their white counter-parts, and wages are typically lower - so they're squeezed tighter still.

Of course there's also the elephant in the room that racism is still a thing, that what I like to call "wink-wink-nudge-nudge" segregation is also still very real. Communities like Fergus highlight the issue, but basically anybody who lives in an area where nonwhites live know of the rough existence of racial enclaves - which exist just as much because of work/pay inequalities as their underlying racial factors. Hell, in Indiana you can even find white racial enclaves based on who was or was not Irish, who was or was not an arrival in the 1930's from Appalachia (all generally poorer and less represented, politically, than their German descended counter-parts).

You can also see how bad things are by how the character of any civil action has changed (this is primarily in reference to the riots in Fergus). I've been to numerous protests after I became politically active in the 0's. Before 2008 protests were mainly just big parties with lots of hippies. Granted, the hippies are still there, but much more militant currents are showing up just about everywhere. At OWS I would characterize the current as "iLeftist." Where you had your general lot of hippies, and then another group of wealthy folks who I marked out for their various mac-gear who were pretty wishy-washy and limp, who more or less claimed to be the leading organizers of the OWS movements. Such iLeftists were present in Baltimore as well, but the character of OWS Baltimore was - different, mainly because Baltimore had already fallen on much harder times (and it was broken up much more violently than OWS NY was). Even a simple pro-Palestine rally I attended in Indianapolis recently was markedly different from the one I attended in 08, and again in 12'.

I can kinda read it - I mostly deal in historical documents which tend to use a different vocabulary than colloquial speech, but if I had enough time to look at something I could prolly figure it out - but not speak lol.

I've been huge into German music for --- wow almost 20 years lol. I salute your tastes ;)

Rosetta stone is very expensive - but you can, on ebay and etc, often find used copies of "outdated" versions rather cheaply - and also most libraries will pass you the stuff on inter-library loan if need be. There's also you know... other means.

Another option, is find a university that teaches courses in Polish - e-mail the professor, tell them you'd like to learn Polish but wherever you are there aren't any good options to learn Polish. After a few days they should hit you up with *something*. I'm sure there have to be free websites that help with some stuff. That's how I went about learning Russian lol - just emailed a bunch of Russian language profs asking how a strapping young gent. like myself could learn Russian without it being offered nearby and without travel being an option. I got plenty of good recommendations and often free resources.

Rosetta stone should have Polish - I doubt it'd help much in the short term for actually learning the language, but it would definitely work out vocab and how the alphabet works. If you're in college you could acquire a copy from your library via loan most likely. If not there are other ways to acquire it (including buying copies or used copies, if that's your thing).

Another good strategy that's helped me in my quests to learn several languages has been finding TV shows, films, and etc in the language. I'm not at all familiar with Polish cinema or their music scene sadly :( But it'd be something to look into. Just watch or listen etc with subtitles (or a lyrics sheet) on and you'll eventually start picking things up as you go night after night.

A ha! http://www.filmgourmand.com/moviesdb/top-polish-movies/

You can also find dictionaries and learning books easily enough on abebooks and then acquire said books through your library if you're short on cash (or if you don't have one well, you can still look for the cheap ones ;) ).

Well to be fair, it's not necessarily the demo tanking heals now, but the scouts (you can dispense with healing the demo most of the time assuming there are enough players in front of said demo meat shielding). A scout without 185 isn't even playing the game in most circumstances. Most heal stats still show demos being healed more than scouts, but I think that's mainly a question of how heal statistics are recorded (healing actual HP damage vs. buffs) since scouts have less base HP -) less heals on stats per second of healing.

I feel so bad because Pharaoh bought me CS:GO so we could play together and I've only played it like twice :(

I worked lots and lots of OT at a factory for almost 4 years (money for college and child) - it ended up nearly crippling me for life.

If it's physical labor that's intensive - don't be afraid of telling a supervisor that you're in pain because you may just end up spending the following years taking daily medications and visiting doctors every few weeks like myself - and being perpetually on the verge of financial collapse :/

If it's not heat, I guess the easiest things to start out with would be checking that all of your cables are firmly placed something might be jiggling out of place.

Are you blue screening, crashing to desktop, or restarting to the BIOS message? Or does it just shut off altogether?

Did you screw in the mobo too tightly (it should have at least a *little* bit of play)?

Try plugging the computer into a different wall jack.

Is your PSU sufficient for your graphics card et al?

Have you done a chkdsk to see if the HDD is fubar?

Or perhaps windows' memory check utility to see if it's not a bad ramstick? It could also be the type of ramstick you've got isn't playing nicely with your CPU or your Mobo - check the mobo manual to make sure your ram stick is an accepted brand.