In a pinch, you can try rubbing the scratches with your bare finger, and then wiping the disc off with a lint-free cloth. The oil/sweat mixture might be enough to "seal" the scratch and let the machine read it. I've done this with beat-up CDROMS that I had been trying to make backup images of with a fair amount of success.
Anything by Faulkner should be banned his stories just don't go anywhere except to describe mundane details like the color of the brilliant gold carpet and how it reminds him of this girl he knew that had long blond hair that made him think of neverending fields of golden corn with the sun setting in the west that reminded him of a candle in a dark room with its reflection coming off of a mirror and...76Yyulygb
* ProZachar is so bored he falls asleep on his keyboard.
Why do people want limited print runs as judge foils or something? How would that bring in "new blood"?
The price of these cards is high. That means at least one of the following two things is true:
The supply of these cards is scarce
The demand for these cards is high
If you want to reduce the price, what good is it to print 50 copies of each of the cards (which is about how many L4 and L5's there are in the world)? 50 is nothing in an estimated pool of 10000-20000 copies of each of the power cards in existance. But those 50 cards will be collector's items themselves. They won't do anything to the price of power.
What most people consider to be the whole of Atheism is merely one of many pieces. The stong Atheist asserts unequivocally that God does not exist. No if's, and's or but's about it. There are many reasons for their belief, most of which involve the apparent metaphysical contradictions that the existence of a deity presents.
The general objection to this position is that there is no way to verify its assertion. It claims that God does not exist, but provides few valid justifications for this belief. Consequently, very few Atheists subscribe to this belief.
Strong atheists (well, the smart ones, anyway) will argue that the probability of god existing approaches zero, therefore, it's logical to conclude that god does not exist.
As for my belief, weak atheism all the way.
EDIT:
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It perplexes me the amount of time atheist assault teams spend on the issue of motivation while simultaneously thundering about their devotion to the hard facts of the real world. But such is life.
It's because the Christian assault teams troll with tripe like "You haven't examined every possible corner of the universe, therefore being atheist is illogical".
I question your source. I do not believe there are five states without interstates. The only thing I can come up with is Lincoln and maybe Santa Fe. Anything esle? As for the fifty states and capitals I can name them but am not planning on doing so.
5 state capitals, not 5 states. Neither Lincoln nor Santa Fe are on the list.
Dover, Delaware
Juneau, Alaska
Pierre, South Dakota
Jefferson City, Missouri
Carson City, Nevada
Both Jefferson and Carson Cities are serviced by US 50, which, through portions of Nevada, has been named "The Loneliest Road in America".
The link itself says it usually only buys you about 10 seconds. It tricks your brain although it still requires that oxygen.
It tricks your brain because a high partial pressure of CO2, not a low partial pressure of O2, is what triggers the "need to breathe" impulse. If you suppress that impulse by artificially lowering the PP of CO2, which is what hyperventilating will do, your body will happily push itself into hypoxia and you'll never be conscious enough to figure it out. Then, when you pass out in the water, you breathe in water and you drown.
Alabama Montgomery
Alaska Juneau
Arizona Phoenix
Arkansas Little Rock
California Sacramento
Colorado Denver
Connecticut Hartford
Delaware Dover
Florida Tallahassee
Georgia Atlanta
Hawaii Honolulu
Idaho Boise
Illinois Springfield
Indiana Indianapolis
Iowa Des Moines
Kansas Topeka
Kentucky Frankfurt
Louisiana Baton Rouge
Maine Augusta
Maryland Annapolis
Massachussetts Boston
Michigan Lansing
Minnesota St. Paul
Mississippi Jackson
Missouri Jefferson City
Montana Helena
Nebraska Lincoln
Nevada Carson City
New Hampshire Concord
New Jersey Atlantic City
New Mexico Santa Fe
New York Albany
North Carolina Raleigh
North Dakota Bismarck
Ohio Columbus
Oklahoma Oklahoma City
Oregon Salem
Pennsylvania Harrisburg
Rhode Island Providence
South Carolina Columbia
South Dakota Pierre
Tennessee Nashville
Texas Austin
Utah Salt Lake City
Vermont Montpelier
Virginia Richmond
Washington Spokane or Olympia, don't remember
West Virginia Charleston
Wisconsin Madison
Wyoming Cheyenne
Can anyone name the 5 state capitals not serviced by an interstate highway?
Depending on where you do it, how far down it is, and if you do it alone, hyperventilation before a breath-hold dive ranges from ineffective to suicidal.
EDIT @ ProZachar - You don't need all the countries...
Well, it doesn't bother me so much that I forgot about countries like
Andorra
Monaco
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Vatican City
What does bother me is countries like
Hungary (Budapest) (this is the one that bothers me the most)
Ireland (Dublin) (this one also bothers me a lot)
Bulgaria (Sofia)
Belarus (Minsk)
Luxembourg
Lichtenstein
But then, I'm still pissed about my response to the trivia machine at Dave and Buster's a couple of weeks ago. The question was "What star is closest to the Earth?" and the choices were Sol, Alpha Centauri and some other star that didn't matter. Like a true nerd I picked Alpha Centauri because, well, that's the closest star to Earth...after the sun (Sol). I was the only one to get it wrong.
You shouldn't cough at all when you get a shot. As SnoopDogAtog said, it can cause the needle to go somewhere it shouldn't.
Hyperventilating before you go diving can make you dizzy. Also, I don't think there's much evidence to suggest that it can help you stay underwater longer.
The place where nerves get compressed when your arm goes to sleep are is in your wrist, not your neck (see carpal tunnel syndrome).
The thing about pressure on the roof of your mouth to combat a brainfreeze seems more about using the tongue to put a lot of heat onto it. There are large (well, relatively speaking) blood vessels in your tongue and heat transfers fairly well through the roof of your mouth.
As for #3, in my experience, I'm in for some bad times if I, um, put pleasure before business.
Lisbon, Portugal
Madrid, Spain
Paris, France
Bern, Switzerland
Brussels, Belgium
Copenhagen, Denmark
Berlin, Germany
Amsterdam, Netherlands (capital may be The Hague; I don't remember)
Rome, Italy
Prague, Czech Republic
Vienna, Austria
Slovakia (don't know the capital)
Belgrade, Serbia
Sarajevo, Bosnia
Albania (don't know the capital)
Athens, Greece
Croatia (don't know the capital)
Warsaw, Poland (I didn't forget Poland)
Oslo, Norway
Stockholm, Sweden
Helsinki, Finland
Reykjavik, Iceland
London, Great Britain
Estonia
Latvia
Vilinus, Lithuania
Kiev, Ukraine
Romania
Moscow, Russia
Istanbul, Turkey
Also, I understand errors, and being too lazy to fix them, and am guilty of apostrophe abuse in at least one of my posts on this site. The one that inspired me to compose this thread was "American's really free?" *twitch twitch*. It is sad day when college writing instructors ask their class to use no apostrophes because people can't understand the rules. (Yes, this actually happened to me.)
What's worse is that the incorrect usage of apostrophes, "your", "you're", "their", and "they're" is infectious. I've noticed errors regarding these things increasing in other people's writing for about the last 10 years. At the beginning of those 10 years, I could write/type the correct form the first time, every time, without hesitation. Now, I find that I make those mistakes and have to think for a second as to which usage is correct. Fortunately, I don't get much more than two or three words away before I realize that I've made the mistake.
It should not be the players' responsibility to please the cameras. They are there to play the game, not to entertain kids watching over the internet. If I ever qualify for a major event, I will not unsleeve my deck, and if I am forced to "for the cameras", I will try my best to prevent the camera from seeing anything. I will give no interviews to MTG.com, nor will I pose for pics with my trophy. I will take every opportunity to spoil the coverage of my games. If every player does this, the DCI will stfu and let players use sleeves.
If you fail to comply with the instructions of the head judge, you risk penalties including DQ and ejection.
It's not just for media coverage that the cameras are there. They're also part of a new "instant replay review" (ala the NFL) set up.
Of course, the best solution is to take it back.
* ProZachar is so bored he falls asleep on his keyboard.
The price of these cards is high. That means at least one of the following two things is true:
The supply of these cards is scarce
The demand for these cards is high
If you want to reduce the price, what good is it to print 50 copies of each of the cards (which is about how many L4 and L5's there are in the world)? 50 is nothing in an estimated pool of 10000-20000 copies of each of the power cards in existance. But those 50 cards will be collector's items themselves. They won't do anything to the price of power.
Strong atheists (well, the smart ones, anyway) will argue that the probability of god existing approaches zero, therefore, it's logical to conclude that god does not exist.
As for my belief, weak atheism all the way.
EDIT:
It's because the Christian assault teams troll with tripe like "You haven't examined every possible corner of the universe, therefore being atheist is illogical".
5 state capitals, not 5 states. Neither Lincoln nor Santa Fe are on the list.
Juneau, Alaska
Pierre, South Dakota
Jefferson City, Missouri
Carson City, Nevada
Both Jefferson and Carson Cities are serviced by US 50, which, through portions of Nevada, has been named "The Loneliest Road in America".
It tricks your brain because a high partial pressure of CO2, not a low partial pressure of O2, is what triggers the "need to breathe" impulse. If you suppress that impulse by artificially lowering the PP of CO2, which is what hyperventilating will do, your body will happily push itself into hypoxia and you'll never be conscious enough to figure it out. Then, when you pass out in the water, you breathe in water and you drown.
Honolulu is, in fact, not one of them.
Two of them are serviced by the same US highway.
Alaska Juneau
Arizona Phoenix
Arkansas Little Rock
California Sacramento
Colorado Denver
Connecticut Hartford
Delaware Dover
Florida Tallahassee
Georgia Atlanta
Hawaii Honolulu
Idaho Boise
Illinois Springfield
Indiana Indianapolis
Iowa Des Moines
Kansas Topeka
Kentucky Frankfurt
Louisiana Baton Rouge
Maine Augusta
Maryland Annapolis
Massachussetts Boston
Michigan Lansing
Minnesota St. Paul
Mississippi Jackson
Missouri Jefferson City
Montana Helena
Nebraska Lincoln
Nevada Carson City
New Hampshire Concord
New Jersey Atlantic City
New Mexico Santa Fe
New York Albany
North Carolina Raleigh
North Dakota Bismarck
Ohio Columbus
Oklahoma Oklahoma City
Oregon Salem
Pennsylvania Harrisburg
Rhode Island Providence
South Carolina Columbia
South Dakota Pierre
Tennessee Nashville
Texas Austin
Utah Salt Lake City
Vermont Montpelier
Virginia Richmond
Washington Spokane or Olympia, don't remember
West Virginia Charleston
Wisconsin Madison
Wyoming Cheyenne
Can anyone name the 5 state capitals not serviced by an interstate highway?
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=hyperventilate+diving&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Depending on where you do it, how far down it is, and if you do it alone, hyperventilation before a breath-hold dive ranges from ineffective to suicidal.
Well, it doesn't bother me so much that I forgot about countries like
Monaco
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Vatican City
What does bother me is countries like
Ireland (Dublin) (this one also bothers me a lot)
Bulgaria (Sofia)
Belarus (Minsk)
Luxembourg
Lichtenstein
But then, I'm still pissed about my response to the trivia machine at Dave and Buster's a couple of weeks ago. The question was "What star is closest to the Earth?" and the choices were Sol, Alpha Centauri and some other star that didn't matter. Like a true nerd I picked Alpha Centauri because, well, that's the closest star to Earth...after the sun (Sol). I was the only one to get it wrong.
Hyperventilating before you go diving can make you dizzy. Also, I don't think there's much evidence to suggest that it can help you stay underwater longer.
The place where nerves get compressed when your arm goes to sleep are is in your wrist, not your neck (see carpal tunnel syndrome).
The thing about pressure on the roof of your mouth to combat a brainfreeze seems more about using the tongue to put a lot of heat onto it. There are large (well, relatively speaking) blood vessels in your tongue and heat transfers fairly well through the roof of your mouth.
As for #3, in my experience, I'm in for some bad times if I, um, put pleasure before business.
";" can sometimes replace ", and". This is not always true.
Consider this variation on a Bible verse:
"Before I formed you in the womb, and before I formed your mother and father in the womb, I knew you."
OK. A perfectly good sentence.
"Before I formed you in the womb; before I formed your mother and father in the womb, I knew you."
Not OK. The semicolon seperates two dependent clauses.
Lisbon, Portugal
Madrid, Spain
Paris, France
Bern, Switzerland
Brussels, Belgium
Copenhagen, Denmark
Berlin, Germany
Amsterdam, Netherlands (capital may be The Hague; I don't remember)
Rome, Italy
Prague, Czech Republic
Vienna, Austria
Slovakia (don't know the capital)
Belgrade, Serbia
Sarajevo, Bosnia
Albania (don't know the capital)
Athens, Greece
Croatia (don't know the capital)
Warsaw, Poland (I didn't forget Poland)
Oslo, Norway
Stockholm, Sweden
Helsinki, Finland
Reykjavik, Iceland
London, Great Britain
Estonia
Latvia
Vilinus, Lithuania
Kiev, Ukraine
Romania
Moscow, Russia
Istanbul, Turkey
EDIT: Damn, I forgot several countries.
What's worse is that the incorrect usage of apostrophes, "your", "you're", "their", and "they're" is infectious. I've noticed errors regarding these things increasing in other people's writing for about the last 10 years. At the beginning of those 10 years, I could write/type the correct form the first time, every time, without hesitation. Now, I find that I make those mistakes and have to think for a second as to which usage is correct. Fortunately, I don't get much more than two or three words away before I realize that I've made the mistake.
If you fail to comply with the instructions of the head judge, you risk penalties including DQ and ejection.
It's not just for media coverage that the cameras are there. They're also part of a new "instant replay review" (ala the NFL) set up.