RocketFarmer

Think there's a trade involved, and it mostly centers on value. What you can get for your money drives it for me.

At a certain point you take these build guides as guidance (hint, "guide" = "guidance"). You need to decide what fits your build better. Sounds like LTT's annual build guide update fell into a block of time where there were other, possibly better build options coming onto the market. I don't see any requirement for LTT to have any build guides that are always current with the technology. I think they're covered by putting out content that reviews new products and options as they come out. LTT is also not hiding the fact they are sponsored and use components provided from said sponsors. And I don't think they've ever stated you can't use different components.

First, assume where you live under 21 is legal for consuming alcohol. If not, don't participate. If you have never had an alcoholic beverage, then going to a party where you believe there's a likelihood your friends are going to want you to drink is not a good idea. Your first time needs to be much smaller scale, limited, and with someone responsible to make sure things don't get out of hand. Also matters whether you are drinking beer, wine or liqour. At this point you have no idea what your limit is. Moderate alcohol consumption won't destroy your liver or brain, and in fact can actually have some health benefits. But alcohol consumption combined with eating can create a gut, which has it's own negative effects. Your other option is to learn to like something like cranberry juice or seltzer water, and never drink alcohol. That's a personal choice. Nothing wrong with that at all.

They learned it all from Linus.

I deal with NASA every day, and there's plenty of stupid to go around. It's an organization, and like any others it has it's good and bad. But no one is sitting around saying they want to waste billions of dollars. One possible reason to want to leave something in long term orbit is in the eventuality you want to recover it. Being that it's Saturn, however, I don't see us heading there any time soon. The closer missions have enough technological and logistical challenges as is.

The scientific method doesn't get to invalidate mathematics. Scientific method only works on the observable. For example, up until the technology was such that people could observe Pluto (it's a planet, damn it!), mathematicians had already calculated it's existence and position based on indirect observable data (movements of other planets) and extrapolation. At that time there was no observable scientific proof that Pluto existed. A similar, more recent situation has been occurring in the field of quantum mechanics/physics, on the smaller end of the scale of what's is and is not observable. Existence of life on other planets is now confirmed based on observable evidence - although we don't know very much about that very small sample set to say that we know anything about extraterrestrial life - intelligent or otherwise. We do now know that life beyond Earth is not only possible, but highly probable. Given the relatively young age of the Earth, and the abundance of life on this planet, under the correct conditions, intelligent life can exist on other planets. While not having observable data to prove intelligent extraterrestrial life exists, there is enough evidence to make an a priori statement that it does. Philosophy, like mathematics, often precedes science in the search for knowledge. BTW, you could also make an a priori assumption that observing intelligent life is likely to be so statistically small in terms of probability due to the shear volume of space and the absolute random chance of two such entities running into each other. Like two separate drops of water in opposite ends of the ocean ever coming together through the course of millions of years. I'll treat those who claim they've met intelligent extraterrestrials with the same level of scrutiny as those claiming to have knowledge that intelligent extraterrestrials don't exist while using the scientific method as their reasoning. I'll probably hold more scorn for the latter, because anyone claiming to know about science should know better than to make such claims. As for Cassini, the amount of radiation from that satellite is minuscule compared to the amount of radiation that bombards Enceladus. Need to stop thinking of everything in terms of Earth. It's the same as the no nukes in space argument - silly compared to the amount of radiation constantly present in space. Nukes raining down from space onto the Earth is bad enough without introducing some nonsensical argument about contaminating the "pristine environment" of space. Biological contamination makes much more sense, but then I believe that's also been overstated. The real reason is more along the lines of achieving other objectives by taking the satellite from a stable orbit into a degraded orbit in order to observe unique data. This was the plan from the beginning. The evidence on survivability of microbes in space came well after the launch and mission planning of Cassini (like 2013, when the Russians reported the existence of microbial life growing on the exterior of the International Space Station). It just sounds cool to say we want to protect prebiotic life from our nuclear powered satellite by running it into Saturn, especially when said satellite costs billions of dollars. From NASA: Cassini's Grand Finale is about so much more than the spacecraft's final dive into Saturn. That dramatic event is the capstone of six months of daring exploration and scientific discovery. (And those six months are the thrilling final chapter in a historic 20-year journey.) At times, the spacecraft will skirt the very inner edge of the rings; at other times, it will skim the outer edges of the atmosphere. While the mission team is confident the risks are well understood, there could still be surprises. It's the kind of bold adventure that could only be undertaken at the end of the mission.

Sorry, but the timing of the video on the total meltdown at the ice cream shop (pun intended) seemed to me to fall into an April Fools Joke.

One of the by-products of the internet has been an increase in the amount of complaining in general.

If you're just wanting a roleplaying game, then there are free options available. D&D isn't the only game out. Games either free or much less expensive than D&D. Most of the games tend to have a basic set that lets you play more or less an introduction with streamlined rules. I'd suggest that if you and your friends aren't that familiar with the system. Turn-based tabletop RPGs are going to have about an hour long combats. That's just the way they are. D&D, Pathfinder, etc. all have this in common. Before investing hundreds of dollars in an RPG system, I'd take advantage of getting as much info on the system you're interested and even see if there are demos or in store game days going on to sit in on some sessions and possibly even play. You get into a game like D&D or Pathfinder, and you will start buying product. Those games are made to sell books.

Got to keep up the hate America post count, eh? Have to live under a rock to not be exposed to all the movies where America or an "American protagonist" isn't involved. But when your examples list Michael Bay and Marvel, that's not exactly an indication of a broad movie-going experience. Hell, seems like half of the "American" actors are Canadian anyway. Not to mention British, a.k.a. "the good ones".

Think the KKK and Nazi nuts need to make room for this new breed of intolerant a-holes on that great big list of shame. The only way to respond is brutal force and/or incarceration until their ideology is obliterated. An ideology where it's OK to commit acts of violence in order to silence or intimidate people. Shouldn't have to do that, but this is a crowd that will only respond on a more primal, visceral level. Some aspects of this ideology will never go away, because they'll still have, and should have, freedom of speech to spout whatever stupid crap they want. But, when spouting stupid crap leads directly to violence, that's no longer just in the realm of free speech. That's incitement to riot, which I believe is illegal practically everywhere. But local governments, especially the one in LA, not only don't enforce the law, but actively support the cause of the offenders. Whether they do this because they are weak or support whatever political movement that's behind the violence, is academic. When you establish a precedence where law is enforced for the politically connected, but not for the rest of society, you really are no longer ruled by law, but by might of those in power. A good portion of these folks, however, aren't really doing it for a cause. They are doing it because they want, and even like to commit violence. Unless there is an adequate, proportionate response to that, they are going to continue that behavior. These folks don't have an ideology, and therefore once the violence is put down they're left with nothing really to say. Can't say what percentage of this type participated in this or similar events, but you can pretty much bet that they were there. Might even be 100% for all I know. Milo is intentionally offensive because those who he opposes have practically dictated to everyone else on how they are allowed to talk, think or act. So he's going to say the most outrageous thing to counter that. If he's good at it, he'll back up what he says with facts and data. He's a flamethrower for Generation Snowflake, and therefore is "dangerous" to them. Meanwhile, real acts of physical violence and vandalism happen outside, and to some it's no big deal. Worse, they'll try to blame the violence on Milo.

Don't buy that you want to understand anything. Think this is just a thread to troll conservatives. Have fun with that.

Depends on what type of training you're doing that determines frequency. If you are essentially doing light lifting that would amount to a warmup for serious lifters, you could do that everyday and see benefits. If you're really hitting power lifting hard (like 9-12 sets at 80-85% or 3-5 reps per set), then recovery takes anywhere from 24 to 72 hours depending on the size of the muscle. If you're training for hypertrophy, which is a large number of sets in the 8-12 rep range, and even more in some cases, then you could hit the same muscle group every other day. If you are training for endurance, your recovery time is a lot faster. You could train every day. For cardio, you can go low intensity (walking) or HIIT (sprinting) if you goal is strength or hypertrophy, and then moderate, extensive cardio (running) for endurance. The past year I've been working on strength training for 4 days per week, focusing on hitting each muscle group once per week for around 9-12 sets of 4-6 reps. Exception being calves and abs, which are trained more frequently. I've been doing this while cutting most of the year. I've intentionally kept cardio down during this period. This week I'm switching into a Strength-Hypertrophy hybrid with a few days of cardio (walking and/or HIIT). That essentially means I'll be training each muscle group once a week in the 3-5 rep range and a second time in the 8-12 rep range (or speed work = 70% of the strength weight for 6 sets of 3 reps). Apps used are JEFit and MyFitnessPal. And I must say that if you aren't handling your food intake and sleep/recovery correctly, you could be wasting your time with the training. That part is extremely important. Unless you are an elite lifter or athlete, you don't need supplements beyond maybe a multivitamin and perhaps vitamin D. Whey protein and caffeine are convenient, but won't make a huge difference for most people because you aren't training to the point where you've exhausted your reserves and the benefits are measured in the single digit percentages even for the elite athletes. Save your money and buy higher quality food instead.

We're going to run into the same kind of issues Andrew Carnegie ran into. Carnegie, despite the "robber baron" propaganda which was started by JP Morgan and company, voluntarily set up a minimum wage and wasn't as antiunion as the situation with Frick and the Pinkertons later on would have you believe. But he had to adjust these policies as the share of manual labor over automation decreased due to the explosion of industrialization. That's where he started to run into problems. As robotics and AI come more and more into reality, human labor, and not just manual human labor, will deserve less of a share of the reward for less of a share of the labor. In many cases people will just be let go. We're already at the point where some people think they ought to be paid over $10 just for showing up. I think many are in for a rude awakening. Huge percentages of the population will probably lead to social unrest, and many of the rich are already preparing for that reality. We'll have to see what sort of policies are put into place that counter that. It may just mean the opportunity to work and make a decent wage is over and you are now just a ward of the state.

I believe we'll see a gradual phasing out from oil once we actually have a better energy source. Saw this with whale oil when petroleum became the better, cheaper alternative. Currently a lot of these alternatives being pushed are essentially scams. We will get there. No need to worry.