I'm excited.

Well Felix was in the Austrian Military and got the majority of his parachute training there - he also was part of some elite parachuting unit that does areal tricks and so on. He then took to doing more difficult things after his military career ended (base jumping, etc). I imagine most of his jumping was sponsored since I doubt any military really pays people lavishly lol.

It's an important step scientifically too because it shows how a parachute system could work for manned-mission aborts. It's been something everybody has been interested in since manned spaceflight began. The soviets *did* utilize an ejector seat system with Yuri Gagarin - of course that was as he was deorbiting and not as he was ascending. Interest in the US picked up after the Challenger disaster, since the investigation showed that at least some of the crew were still alive when they hit the water.

I watched live - it was the best, although they did get kinda scared for him slightly after the jump because he started rotating.

POV will be sick.

I did it last night and now have a civ 5 i'll pry never play.

Since the topic turned to utilizing chemicals - well I'll go there. Let ol' Marxist teach ya' some things - this is pry gonna be a bit long.

I went to college for free. I even had enough scholarship money left over that I could live where I wanted to and do whatever I wanted to so long as it accommodated my unique circumstances (I have an essentially motherless child).

I met awesome people and generally had a great time. Eventually, despite my determination that essentially every relationship I'd ever have with the opposite sex would be marred by the fact that no young woman in college would want to become a mother to a child that wasn't their own, I met one that was just weird enough to buy into the whole deal - and I suspect she even liked me a bit - which was a nice bonus.

We lived together for a year and some, essentially as a little surrogate family except instead of going to to work we went to class (and also a bit of work). I've never been happier in my entire life. The stress and guilt of my existence was gone - the fear of being a father was gone, and I spent everyday with somebody I adored.

Unfortunately, she couldn't get into graduate school anywhere but abroad. We had several lengthy discussion about what should be done about that fact. Ultimately it was mutually decided that she shouldn't put her life on hold on my account and that we'd try to work on a longer term solution. As time wore on a the date drew nearer, what had been an easy decision to make (months prior) was now one that, when it came right down too it, I couldn't believe I'd so readily acceded to or even suggested. I became intolerable to be around. I said things to her that nobody should ever have said to them - I hurt her worse than I've ever hurt anybody and we've not spoken since that night. Not a day goes by that I don't remember that year.

With essentially my entire life ripped out from under me, I went through graduation, and took a place holding job at a factory. I took to drinking heavily. I had drank a lot in college, especially when the kiddo's mom decided to start taking him every few weekends. But this was otherworldly. Then I got hurt at work, which brought all sorts of physical ailments on me - which still plague me daily. I decided to solve that with alcohol too, because the pain I was experiencing was dulled - and I could pretend to be a 20 something instead of being bound to a chair or bed most of the time.

I thought perhaps, everything would just carry on that way, I had an income from the injury, I appeared to be doing a decent job with the kiddo, but I was a wreck - everybody who knew me saw it as well. A few encouraged me to stop drinking so much or talk to somebody, but I shrugged it off.

I didn't realize anything was really wrong until I woke up in jail. Apparently, I'd wandered outside and was just meandering on the streets. I have no recollection of what was going on, or even that I had gone out. My memory of that night is that - well - I was just mixing some whiskey and 7 up and watching a movie. The next moment I'm in fucking jail. That's when I realized I'd basically just taken my whole life, marred as it was, and nearly ended/ruined it because I was so caught up in feeling sorry for myself that I refused to try and make anything better. Let me tell you, going to AA was basically the best thing ever - not necessarily because I bought into anything that was actually said there, but meeting people who were, in essence, the image of where I was going and what I would be in a few years time, completely alerted my self-perceptions.

I still feel really shit sometimes, and yeah, I still have a drink every now and again, but very rarely and with strict limitations. Is it a medical disorder that I experience? I don't know, I've been to a few psychiatrists and they tell me I'm relatively healthy lol. You can't rely on outside sources to make you happy - not chemicals, not other people, it has to be you yourself you decides to get your shit together and to develop healthy coping methods.

What defy is saying isn't totally off base - a change of circumstances, or just a simple trip to a place you've never been can make you feel *really* good sometimes. I would highly recommend it.

Open finals for s14 hung around 500 viewers despite it being a massive cluster fuck :/

I'd say right now anything is going to be biased because people traditionally don't like streaming pre-season stuff - and we're still not really in season for another few days here - once we get casts and such going it'll be a larger draw.

Although, I do say I'd rather there be more impetus to restream old games/casts particularly with how easy it'd be to do that.

This weekend I'll be producing a second round of "learning from" only this time on cp_granary... http://youtu.be/WWxB0t2zr8Y is the first episode. I also added a precepts video for demoman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kioJ2MgH9uQ :D

I likewise selected a mentee (if you're reading back through the thread and wanted to apply).

ENFJ

Basically every time I've ever seen this test I get ENFJ - Although I understand kip's concerns - it's a lot like that old political compass test - the wording plays a relative role in results, and the low response count makes it less than scientific - but it can give you a rough idea of things.

It's fun in the sort of way reading a horoscope makes you realize how bunk astrology is when virtually nothing about your sign applies to you lol.

But for the most part this captures a few things about me:

I tend not to give a shit about anything relating to order in my personal life - I leave cabinets wide open because I can't help, but feel slightly annoyed when I have to open them again later. My room is simply an archipelago of book-based islands with a pc and bed in there somewhere, and I tend to get really depressed if I am unable to make contact with other people, preferably large groups of people, on a regular basis. I also tend to take over, usually accidentally, any project I'm engaged in. I also have a series of social rituals which I'm incredibly careful to keep always doing x on y day. I also feel that I'm incredibly judgmental and it takes me a long time to break with my snap decisions I make about people.

This song gets me every time - there's a beautiful chord progression near the end - even if you don't understand the subject it's hard not to feel horrible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q2ijYcbuxc

(the entire audience was in tears after this performance) General Voroshilov later told the singer, had Stalin still been alive (the song was Stalin's favorite) he'd have immediately been awarded the highest possible honor for artistry.

You're pretty much right fzero - it would be highly unusual anyways for a speaker to call for a vote knowing full well that it would be the opposition who would be primarily voting in favor. It also could jeopardize his position as speaker since it's his party which elects him - and that particular act could be politically expedient for them - ending the shut down, blaming everything bad on Speaker B, and maintaining their tea-party positions - but I doubt they'd be that cynical. So who knows what they'll actually do with it lol.

Canada had the fourth largest Navy in WW 2. (Behind the UK, Japan, US)

My mouse is over 3 years old so it was a lost cause there - after looking at it really carefully the plastic part that strikes the sensor has a piece taken out of it (worn down). So the tape works perfectly to correct that :D And I didn't have to ship it away. After I trimmed down the tape with scissors and worked it with my hands it works like new and I can hear the click too lol

My other method was going to be switching to using right click instead - which would have been just ducky if I didn't spend 80% of my tf2 time playing medic lol.

Also, I'm very glad that I've worked in some disgusting places because it was nasty under that facing lol.

Well that's very reassuring lol.

There was an experiment with universal disarmament and collective security after ww 1 - but it kinda well. I don't need to bring up Hitler and how very little everybody but the UK actually disarmed :/

The problem with collective security is that historically, nations don't trust each other - they always assume that if they start a war with an aggressor for being an aggressor their friends won't actually help out and then they'll be bogged down in some major war (why France reneged on the Russo-Franco pact - or the 7 day war in 67'). So you are in essence correct - I just got hung up on China being used - or the US being brought up (since we essentially need no military at all minus a defensive navy and some air defences because everybody else is waaaayy far away).

see my goal was to avoid buying anything - cuz I paid like 80$ for this mouse - so I'm going to use it until I die basically or they implant peripherals in our brains. It's made it 3 years so, so far so good lol.

So after my previous graphics card thread where I demonstrated how to fix a poorly designed fan set up (gigabyte windforce) my 5 year old decided to zealously click on people and since that episode my mouse one has ceased to function properly - it simply doesn't click or respond.

So what is somebody who'd rather repair than buy new to do?

Step 1 - pry the top off the deathadder, apparently some versions the top facing is screwed on but mine is the 3.5 g 3500 dpi edition and it just popped right off using a butter knife.

Step 2 - clean things with cotton swabs and alcohol - I also verified that the clicky things still worked (by using a tiny screw driver with the mouse plugged in mouse 1 worked fine).

So with the conclusion that it was the plastic tab that presses mouse 1 being the issue I resorted to everybody's best friend duct/duck tape.

Step 3 - wrap plastic thingy that touches the clicky sensor with a 1/2 inch wide piece of duct/duck tape.

step 4 - pop the top facing back on via putting the front down first and applying pressure.

Step 5 - death adder works perfectly again, I can double click, drag and drop etc, although I have to push down kinda hard until the duct/duck tape shapes up a bit more (I imagine) and I no longer hear a tactile click.