Captain Aggravated @ captain_aggravated @sh.itjust.works

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There are some tech circles where you'll get more and better help posting a blatantly wrong solution than if you straight ask for help.

It's been ages since I've actually gone through it but what I remember of it, it goes like this:

• Roseline, the chick Romeo has the hots for, has just come out as asexual. He's not taking this well.
• To cheer him up, his buddies suggest crashing a big party at the Capulet house tonight. Romeo tags along.
• While moping at the party, he encounters Juliet. The two of them hit it off HARD, they both like Blink 182 AND Evanescence, what are the odds?
• Problem: They're respective fathers have some unspecified feud, so when it comes out just who each other are, it's a problem.
• We get a scene where Romeo is in the back yard and Juliet is in her bedroom looking out the window, two back to back speeches about "(s)he's hot, it's a shame our dads hate each other.
• They decide to run off to Vegas and get hitched anyway.
• The parties get separated, and then there is a compounding series of "a thing has happened!" "I know! I'll make it look like I've done something drastic for some damn reason, and I'll send a messenger to tell the other party that I haven't really done that." "A thing has happened, and the messenger carrying a message that would completely inform your decision hasn't arrived yet." "I know, I'll do something drastic for some damn reason!"
• This ends in the two fathers standing over an almost literal pile of corpses to include the titular teenagers, trying to remember what they were even fighting about in the first place.
• Roseline is unscathed.

Moral of the story: Latency is just as important as bandwidth.

Thing with Shakespeare plays is there's no one alive today who has met anyone who was alive to see a play at The Globe. The scripts we have are just people's lines and the bare minimum stage direction. There's a lot of information missing, and you can interpret it in many ways.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone interpret Hamlet's To Be Or Not To Be speech as a mentally disturbed 20 year old stomping down a hallway muttering to himself under his breath; it's always either this huge proclamation or a weirdly wistful thing. And then, immediately after, two interpretations of the Blasting Ophelia section simultaneously: with and without Hamlet noticing the king and company watching.

It still narrows it down to about 1/8th of the Earth's surface area.

Yeah even "near Antarctica" narrows it down to the South Atlantic, South Pacific and South Indian oceans.

Basically the only thing that help my headaches is caffeine. But that's probably a me problem.

first that I used was an IBM PS/2 dual booting OS/2 and Windows 3.1. first that was actually mine was a NEC made Windows 98 laptop.

I used a Dbrand skin for awhile.

I'm not convinced OTC pain meds do anything, especially Tylenol.

when my cat is being a little too impatient while I'm givong her her dinner, I tell her to calm all six of her tits. hasn't worked once but I find it funny.

Elaborate?

Oh I should mention: each state has its own government as well, the exact shape of that government varies state to state but many states also have a two-house legislature and the upper house is usually called the senate. For example, the North Carolina General Assembly has a senate and a house of representatives. "My father is a senator" could also mean that, though "US Senator" would imply the federal government.

Do NOT stop to talk in doorways.

There's a somewhat obscure Robin Williams vehicle called Club Paradise. Critics panned it but it's a favorite in my family, we quote it all the time.

"Mr. Gundy: As the official represenatative of Her Britannic Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second, I order you to withdraw at once or I shall be forced to shoot you between the eyes with a rather large bullet." -Peter O'Toole

Kung Pow is the world's best example of a transformative work. It took some obscure kung fu film, and fucked it up in all the right ways.

I think Tremors 1 just edges 2 out as the better film, but Tremors 2 is very, very good. I wouldn't change a thing about it, it's an example of a truly well-done sequel.

Many European nations, and I believe the EU itself, has a parliament. A legislative body made up of representatives of a group of people. In the EU parliament, maybe each nation sends a representative.

For reasons that I think have to do with getting rid of royalty/nobility, the US legislative body is called the Congress. Much like the British parliament has a House of Commons and a House of Lords, which have different functions, serve different interests and serve as a check on each other, the US has a House of Representative and a Senate.

The House of Representatives is the lower house, it has more members, over 400. Each state gets a number of representatives based on population; small states like Rhode Island or states where nobody lives like Montana may have as few as one, big states with lots of people like California, Texas and New York might have 30 or 40. The idea here is equal representation of the POPULATION, though a cap on the number of members has kind of ruined that.

The Senate is the upper house. Each state sends exactly two senators. With 50 states in the union, there are 100 senators. Early on, senators were appointed by the governments of each state, but by amendment to the constitution senators are now elected directly by the people. Both senators are supposed to represent the state as a whole. Weird thing about our senate: The Vice President is nominally a member of the Executive branch, but the only job the constitution lays out for the VP is to preside over the senate and cast a tie breaking vote (because each state gets 2 senators, no matter what we do there's an even number of senators, so ties aren't uncommon). Otherwise the VP has no powers other than to be the hot spare for the president.

For a bill to become law, it must be deliberated and voted on in both houses. If both houses pass the bill, it goes to the President's desk to be signed into law.

There are details like which house what kind of legislation is to come from, etc. There are some powers that ONLY the House of Representatives have, and some that ONLY the Senate has.

There are certain appointed positions, such as cabinet members, supreme court justices etc. that the President appoints, but the Senate must approve. If I understand it right, the President/executive branch makes treaties but the Senate must ratify it for the treaty to go into effect. The House of Representatives has the power to impeach federal officials (impeachment is kind of like indictment) but the trial takes place in the Senate.

Being a senator is seen as more prestigious than being a representative; senators are considered senior and there are fewer of them. It's a position of significant political influence and massive corruption. Your friend's father is definitely in the position to have protestors killed if a big business asks him to.

about as much as I've read about scientology and Jonestown.

Feminism is anti-male. That's all it is.

And the entire topic of feminism was brought up to hijack a conversation about men. Moron.