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Timedog said:
how much harder is o-chem than inorganic?
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I'm taking it right now and it is completely different. The only thing that you ever need to know from inorganic when you take o-chem is what the pka value is and what polarity is. You don't need to know math, you don't need to know any physics. You can have a brain injury and you'd still pass as long as you didn't damage the creative part of your brain. It's very hard but if you study and apply what you learned then you'll get through it fine.

My Question: My friend knows everything about the Nazis and I was to compete with him intellectually and know everything about Late 19th to Late 20th century Russian history. I want a single definitive book that tells me about the Soviet Union's political enigma it had hidden behind its iron curtains and I want to see the transitions over the 70 or so years it ruled for. Is there anything that can do that for me? I need a book and it can be boring as hell I don't mind. (I read The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, and Crime and Punishment so long boring books don't phase me)
 
any idea what insect this is? i've noticed a few bites over the last few weeks and found one of these on the washing machine after a housemate finished:

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Timedog said:
how much harder is o-chem than inorganic?
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It's more in-depth but you really understand the mechanics of what is going on in chemical reactions unlike the previous chem series where you jump from topic to topic. Initially it's a bit hard but once you get used to visualizing the electron cloud and geometry of the molecule, it becomes very intuitive to learn reactions and recognize how functional groups behave. Basically everything in o-chem is about recognizing nucleophilic/electrophilic groups and acid-base properties and understanding how those two things along with molecular geometry allow certain reactions to happen.

But the first couple months is the bottleneck stage where you need to build the foundation and that's when people usually drop the class/change their major. After that stage though, pretty much everybody finishes the series.
 
I need a replacement for my old first gen Zune, but only want something that plays music, plays videos, and maybe has a radio tuner for my trips to the gym. I don't need apps, or an internet connection, or anything else and was hoping to save some $ because of this. People have said try out a COWON, but there are so many I have no idea what the best one to get would be and reviews on the things are few and far between.

I was thinking of just waiting until my cell contract is up at the end of December and getting a smartphone that could do all of this. The only reason this scares me is because my current phone (Droid Incredible) has horrendous battery life. So my question is: 1) is it plausable to get a phone that can play videos and music that won't die in under 3 hours doing it, 2) what phones that are out now could do that, and 3) do phones even have a radio tuner in them? (subquestion 4: is there a thread for questions like this somewhere?)

I have no problem charging the phone in the car when I leave the gym, I just don't want 1.5hrs of listing to music and 45 minutes of watching a TV show to kill the battery and not allow me to make phone calls.
 
• Designed and built mechanical systems accordance to industrial standards such as Ashare, ISO, ASME, CSA and CEC

grammar vise ^ is it correct or no? Thanks.
 
snoopen said:
any idea what insect this is? i've noticed a few bites over the last few weeks and found one of these on the washing machine after a housemate finished:

[MG]http://i.imgur.com/qWugh.jpg[/IMG]
[MG]http://i.imgur.com/SU6E8.jpg[/IMG]
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I really hope I'm mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that's a black-and-brown assault fly.
It drops lays its eggs on your skin while sucking your blood, and when the maggots hatch immediately afterward, they burrow in there through the hole drilled by the mother fly.
The maggot then comfortably lodges itself in place and feasts on the sweet, sweet tissue of your skin glands for the next few weeks. Nourished by this, it starts digging deeper, consuming muscle tissue as it travels. In a unique adaptation for an insect, it fortifies its exoskeleton with calcium, which it gets from your bones. Don't worry, it only needs very little calcium, you won't miss it.
After a larval period of twenty-three months and an equal time of agonizing pain for the host, another adult assault fly emerges, ready to start the cycle anew.
A word of advice: don't try removing it. The larva, if stressed, will puke its guts out, infecting you with a symbiotic strain of bacteria it normally uses to digest the flesh it consumes. Unfortunately, they're not symbiotic with humans: they cause severe necrosis upon infection.
 
Is it okay to break off the casing on the end of a VGA cable? It and the HDMI out are too close together on my laptop and want them both plugged in at the same time.

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alr1ghtstart said:
Is it okay to break off the casing on the end of a VGA cable? It and the HDMI out are too close together on my laptop and want them both plugged in at the same time.

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People did something like that with xbox360 video cables where they shaved/cut off a little bit of the plastic casing and it worked fine for them apparently. I have no idea if that would be relevant to this though.
 
What kind of diseases can you get from drinking blood? Can you get aids? What diseases wouldn't get killed by our stomach acid?
 
Timedog said:
What kind of diseases can you get from drinking blood? Can you get aids? What diseases wouldn't get killed by our stomach acid?
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You can get diseases that are transmittable through blood. That would include AIDS, yeah.

Acid doesn't necessarily destroy diseases. The question is how it's transmitted. A virus can be quite resistant, for instance.

Besides, the acid can dissolve stuff only if it reaches the stomach before infecting you. Obviously, the whole path to the stomach is pretty much open to anything. All those fluid valves and shit, they're not unlike an open wound in a way.

Getting AIDS blood into your mouth can already lead to an infection.
 
Misanthropy said:
My Question: My friend knows everything about the Nazis and I was to compete with him intellectually and know everything about Late 19th to Late 20th century Russian history. I want a single definitive book that tells me about the Soviet Union's political enigma it had hidden behind its iron curtains and I want to see the transitions over the 70 or so years it ruled for. Is there anything that can do that for me? I need a book and it can be boring as hell I don't mind. (I read The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, and Crime and Punishment so long boring books don't phase me)
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Repost cause everyone answers Timedog's questions first.
 
wolfmat said:
You can get diseases that are transmittable through blood. That would include AIDS, yeah.

Acid doesn't necessarily destroy diseases. The question is how it's transmitted. A virus can be quite resistant, for instance.

Besides, the acid can dissolve stuff only if it reaches the stomach before infecting you. Obviously, the whole path to the stomach is pretty much open to anything. All those fluid valves and shit, they're not unlike an open wound in a way.

Getting AIDS blood into your mouth can already lead to an infection.
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God damn it!
 
Misanthropy said:
Repost cause everyone answers Timedog's questions first.
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I highly recommend The Structure of Soviet History by Suny:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195137043/?tag=neogaf0e-20

It's got a lot of primary documents but also great essays on lots of interesting topics. I would say you should read this alongside a more general 20th Century Russian history book. I read one years ago that was alright but I don't remember the author's name.

Once you start to get a sense of Soviet history I highly recommend Khrushchev Remembers, his memoir. It's fantastic, as are the works of Gorbachev.
 
So i have a 30min dvcprohd Video at 1080p and 25fps. Its 25Gb big... what would be the best way to get the size of the clip to 2Gb while maintaining decent quality? (I intend to drop it at a public dropbox folder, so not for streaming).

What would be the best codec(?)/Format to do this?
 
is the word "shtick" well known for native english speakers? i want to use it in an essay and my teacher is a south african so i'm sometimes not sure if the words i pickup on the internet are common or not.
 
Diprosalic said:
is the word "shtick" well known for native english speakers? i want to use it in an essay and my teacher is a south african so i'm sometimes not sure if the words i pickup on the internet are common or not.
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Well, in my experience people can infer what it means if nothing else, at least in the spoken word. I don't know if I'd use it in an essay though, as its a very informal word, almost slang.
 
The word "shtick" should be recognized mostly by people who watch American TV series and comedy screenings undubbed, or are of Jewish descent. It's really only commonly used in or around Jewish communities (it's Yiddish) and in the comedy business, and the highest frequency of its use appears to be tied to entertainment media based in the New York area.
 
Just for shits and giggles could someone tell me the various 'stereotypes' of the regions of England for me?

What I'm getting at here is I've been listening to the Ricky Gervais XFM shows and I hear stuff that sounds like the west country is kinda backwoods with farm animals and such, the northerners are angry/depressing, the southerners (Reading) are white trashy or working class and I was wondering if someone can validate or add to any of this.

NOTE: I dont mean to offend anyone here - just going off limited info from a comedy show.
 
wolfmat said:
The word "shtick" should be recognized mostly by people who watch American TV series and comedy screenings undubbed, or are of Jewish descent. It's really only commonly used in or around Jewish communities (it's Yiddish) and in the comedy business, and the highest frequency of its use appears to be tied to entertainment media based in the New York area.
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that's what i thought. shame, i like that word.
 
Maklershed said:
Just for shits and giggles could someone tell me the various 'stereotypes' of the regions of England for me?

What I'm getting at here is I've been listening to the Ricky Gervais XFM shows and I hear stuff that sounds like the west country is kinda backwoods with farm animals and such, the northerners are angry/depressing, the southerners (Reading) are white trashy or working class and I was wondering if someone can validate or add to any of this.

NOTE: I dont mean to offend anyone here - just going off limited info from a comedy show.
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North is awesome.

South is shit.

East are inbred.

Southwest are farmers.
 
Diprosalic said:
is the word "shtick" well known for native english speakers? i want to use it in an essay and my teacher is a south african so i'm sometimes not sure if the words i pickup on the internet are common or not.
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It's slang and it usually has to do with comedy, so I agree that I wouldn't use it in an essay, but it's definitely going to be known by most native English speakers.
 
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How many times do you see the word chile by following these rules:

You can move horizontally only to the right and vertically only down...

I think i see 26, but i´m not sure...
 
lolez2matt said:
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How many times do you see the word chile by following these rules:

You can move horizontally only to the right and vertically only down...

I think i see 26, but i´m not sure...
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Holy shit, 26? I only count ten. But I only looked at the C's and traced possible paths from those three points.
 
If I just go to my local Best Buy when I get the chance on Friday afternoon do I have any chance of getting a copy of AC:Rev for $35? I'm not a big Black Friday shopper so I don't know if that's the type of deal I need to camp out for. If I can just go during the course of my normal day I'll get it, but it isn't worth it to me just for that one deal.
 
Maklershed said:
Just for shits and giggles could someone tell me the various 'stereotypes' of the regions of England for me?

What I'm getting at here is I've been listening to the Ricky Gervais XFM shows and I hear stuff that sounds like the west country is kinda backwoods with farm animals and such, the northerners are angry/depressing, the southerners (Reading) are white trashy or working class and I was wondering if someone can validate or add to any of this.

NOTE: I dont mean to offend anyone here - just going off limited info from a comedy show.
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I don't know about just England but common stereotypes of the UK.

- Everybody hates each other from different regions, and it's very disproportionally high compared to the distance separating them. Example; In the US East-coasters hate West-coasters, but there's like 3,000 miles between us. In the UK everyone is really close but they still hate each other a lot.

- South UK (England) is where London is and so where all (ie the only) big city in the UK is. So thats where all the city dwellers/ British punk rock hipters live.

- Ireland is full of drunks.

- Scotland is full of drunks and sheep fuckers.

- Whales doesn't exist to most Americans.

And in General:

- Everyone has bad teeth.
- Your cops only carry batons and are pansies.
- Everyone eats fish n chips (with lots of vinegar)
- Everyone watches soccer.
- Cricket is a fake version of baseball, Rugby is a fake version of football, nobody plays/watches/ or probably knows what basketball is because you're all short white farmers.
- Most people take public trans instead of driving.

I think that's good for now. Start a thread if you want more.
 
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