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True, and inkjet can be used for other fun things, like printing food and some rapid prototyping devices.
But for the vast majority of my printing Laser is fine.

If people ask about my religion, I tell them. This gets especially fun with random evangelists (Jehova's Witnesses, Mormons, etc).

LED Throwies.

7TeV is half power, 14 is full.
2 beams, heading at each other. Each one at 7TeV is full power. ATM they're each at 3.5TeV, thus 7TeV, thus half power.

[toner]

wouldn't buying bulk toner and recycling the cartridges yourself save much more money and produce less trash?

Screw inkjets. Inkjet cartridge: $15 for 150 pages. $0.10/page. (black)
Toner cartridge: $80 for 5000 pages. $0.016/page. (black)
Just go laser.

Italian Soda:
1 glass sparkling water.
splash of syrup (1-2oz) to taste.
Cream if desired, don't use cream with citrus syrups & such.
Stir. Drink.

None of the good syrup brands (Torani, Monin, etc) use HFCS. Prepackaged sodas don't have nearly as good a selection of flavours.

They chose an epsilon so small it was negative!

AND I think absolutes that cannot possibly be true are funny.

So the President of Tautology Club is not the President of Tautology Club!

You're both correct and incorrect. External events happen, not everything is controlled by everyone. Controlling feelings is hard. Oh, sure you can suppress them easily enough, bottle it all up inside until one day you crack, but to really change the way you feel in response to a stimulus, that takes work. I can meditate to stop pain, change my heart rate, and stop the saccades of my eyes. Autonomic function control via conscious action. Yet I can't stop certain automatic thoughts I have. I can't change everything about my reactions at the flip of a switch. Sure I try, and I slowly get better, but it's taken years of work so far and I still have a damn long way to go. I've found the tools & accepted the effort it will take to change my life to be the way I want it. Not everyone has those tools, not everyone is capable of making the effort. To assume everyone can is arrogant. Even if they can many people need help, to deny it because "if you feel bad you just aren't trying" is asinine.

There's a big trend in modern society to say that everyone is equal. No one is less than anyone else, and we can all do the same things. Yeah, great, let's see a quadruple amputee run a marathon then, ok? "Oh, but that's a silly example" you say. Fine, it is silly, but so is assuming there is no difference in the control people can have over their own subconscious. Maybe not everyone can learn to control how they feel, maybe it's harder for some than others. Maybe Nigel isn't good at that (I don't know) and we should help how we can when she has trouble, because we're friends. Perhaps that would be a better path than attacking her for asking for help, for trying to vent. Maybe she doesn't want help, and if she doesn't I'm sure she can say so for herself. Attacking her for having trouble dealing with trouble is a rather asinine thing to do though.

So yeah, I think choices matter. I don't think they're everything. Sometimes a metaphorical bus comes along and makes a total wreck of you. Some things can't be avoided, some can't be corrected. If you think you are in control of everything, wake up, you're not god. If you think you're in control of nothing, wake up, you're not helpless.

Also, do you really want to feel good all the time? Pain has a meaning, it has a purpose, and there are some things where it is the appropriate response. If you can turn off your emotions all the time you're probably a psychopath. Sometimes you feel pain and need to share that feeling to let it decrease. And when you feel joy, and remember distant pain, the joy becomes all the sweeter.

Or perhaps he just hates the letter "U" and happened to miss the one in "Universe". "HOLY F-CKING SH-T. 90% of the -niverse hiding in plain sight!"

But, come on.

No armor, holding the sword by the blade, holding the sword upside down... it looks like he's about to jam the point into his own crotch.  All the guy in the armor has to do is hit the other guy's sword really hard, and the dude's thumbs are gonna get chopped off.

I have seen people sword themselves in the balls like that before. 
The unarmored dude could also be faking the blow high, planning to sweep low and hook out a leg if the armored guy goes for the high block.   

It's more practical than you'd think.
First, 4-6 inches of the blade beyond the hilt weren't sharpened, so his (unarmoured) right hand is fine.
Second, his left hand is only used to guide the blow, and isn't gripping the sword. (Well, shouldn't be.)
Third, the tip will pass his hip on the left side if he's doing it right, not go into his balls. That would be a rather stupid move.
Fourth, look at the pommel & quillions. It's a mace. What was the most effective weapon against armour? Oh, right, a mace. The move isn't a feint, it's an attempt to crush the opponent's helm & skull.
End result: If the guy on the right connects, guy on the left is fucked. Otherwise, guy on the right is fucked.

@Richter: about where do you live? I'm in the San Diego region of southern California.

That, of course, leads me to a question: is it better to add nothing or something worthless? Adding nothing doesn't clutter up the board, but a "mittens, fuck yeah" at least gives the OP knowledge that the post was read and liked.

Most other two handed weapons can behave like a staff.  (Spears, axes, glaives, swords - providing they have unsharpened bits, or you have heavy glvoes on and aren't handling a razor).  They only have extra, confusing bits.  Staff technique is at the basis of all of it, and if you're playing a game that allows it, the more you can use that sword like a staff, the more simple, effective techniques you'll have at hand. 

Staff is very, very different from sword. It's similar to spear/glaive/other polearms, but swords are a whole different beast. You're sort-of correct, but on the same level as saying that a rubber ducky is the same as a container ship: both float.

Don't think I clarified this enough, my mistake.
You're correct, certainly, for one handed swords, katana, etc.   For two - handers, at range, absolutely, hands on the handle - no reason to use staff techniques, you can still use it as a sword.  Renaissance longsword manuals, describing close range fighting, especially the German, involves gripping the blade, and utilizing the entire weapon in a very quarterstaff - like method.  Once you've switched to such grip, there are only so many ways a human body can move a straight weapon, so I say staff technique applies.

Yes and no. My knowledge is in Hapkido for staff and German manuals for sword, and there is some use of gripping the blade, but it's still different. Those moves are quite rare, and mostly use only the quillions as a striking surface, not the pommel. The equivalent move with a staff would be using the end of the staff, closer to the pommel of the sword.
Of course, the pommel was used, but almost always with both hands on the hilt (from what I've seen, mostly Liechtenauer and Talhoffer.) That's not to say there aren't exceptions of course. EG the following picture from Talhoffer.

Though from a quick check, out of 58 illustrations in Talhoffer's 1459 fechtbuch "Fight Earnestly" involving swords only 6 include such a move with both hands off the hilt, and one of those is illustrating the defense against such a strike.

I can't sleep when it's quiet.

Neighbors fucking, sirens screeching, car accidents, gun shots, pouring rain and thunder, however...

For that, there's Tucson.

Tucson might be a bit extreme, though not as bad as Detroit or Philly...

As for the silence, I've noticed the same thing. I leave my computer on (folding@home) and that works for noise. I think it might be a primitive reaction: when there's no noise from animals around there's something sneaking up on you.

Most other two handed weapons can behave like a staff.  (Spears, axes, glaives, swords - providing they have unsharpened bits, or you have heavy glvoes on and aren't handling a razor).  They only have extra, confusing bits.  Staff technique is at the basis of all of it, and if you're playing a game that allows it, the more you can use that sword like a staff, the more simple, effective techniques you'll have at hand. 

Staff is very, very different from sword. It's similar to spear/glaive/other polearms, but swords are a whole different beast. You're sort-of correct, but on the same level as saying that a rubber ducky is the same as a container ship: both float.

As for the stuff about different martial arts being similar, that's very true. Some schools have more techniques from certain areas than others (grappling, punching, kicking, blocking, dodging, etc) but within those areas they are largely the same.