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I want to mark this as *skillful, but most things put in that channel are removed. Cross your fingers!

Mainly gaming jargon for getting a hostile mob to chase after you while it is peppered with attacks. Has been used recently to refer to the same tactic in mixed martial arts .>> ^messenger:

What does "kite" mean, as a verb? Is it a special technique or just gaming jargon for "lead"?>> ^Skeeve:
There is another player playing a "pacifist" character who is at least level 25. He kites dragons to towns to kill them and kites dungeon bosses into traps. He figures he could beat the main quest with only a single kill - the final boss.
The Draugr Overlord in Bleak Falls Barrow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKW6vYe_1Qg

"While slavery and its various and multifaceted discontents were the primary cause of disunion, it was disunion itself that sparked the war." - Elizabeth R. Varon, Bruce Levine, Marc Egnal, and Michael Holt at a plenary session of the organization of American Historians, March 17, 2011.

Most historical works I have read about the American Civil War explain that, from the North's perspective, the war wasn't to end slavery, but to preserve the union. That said, the South's reason for seceding was based more heavily on protecting their right to have slaves.

As with all wars, there wasn't just one cause and, as much as I dislike Ron Paul, I have to agree with his statement that slavery wasn't the only reason for the Civil War.>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^Kreegath:
However, he does make his opinion clear that he doesn't think ending slavery was the deciding reason for the civil war, something that I've actually heard is a historically defensible position.

Heard from who?

That was my first thought - went to go look it up and come back to see you beat me to it >> ^mentality:

>> ^Trancecoach:
pinky ring = douche

He's an engineer.

There is another player playing a "pacifist" character who is at least level 25. He kites dragons to towns to kill them and kites dungeon bosses into traps. He figures he could beat the main quest with only a single kill - the final boss.

The Draugr Overlord in Bleak Falls Barrow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKW6vYe_1Qg

Back when airlines were more heavily regulated there was Rule 240: "an airline with a delayed or canceled flight had to transfer passengers to another carrier if the second carrier could get passengers to the destination more quickly than the original airline."

The rule is now obsolete, but most American airlines will still abide by it. While most airlines tend to keep this rule a secret, passengers who speak up (and sound like they know what they are talking about) can sometimes get reasonable compensation.

That said, most airlines today are shit and will do whatever they can to make an extra buck.
>> ^Sagemind:

Personally, I think overselling tickets should be cited as fraudulent.
If they offer a ticket for a 12 o'clock flight, and I purchase a ticket for a 12 o'clock flight, they better provide me with a 12 o'clock flight. That was the agreement and binding contract upon purchasing the ticket.
If I go to the store and buy a Sony TV and they give me a JVC, that's fraudulent, so how is this different? "Oh, sorry, we only had two Sony TVs but we sell four just in case, you my friend get the JVC, sorry, that's just our policy and the way we do business." (Bait and switch!)
I'm sure there is a lawsuit there waiting to be battled out. But everyone lets the airlines bully us because they need to fly - there fore the bully wins in the real world.
FUCK is the correct word when they fuck you over.

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Currently we produce enough food for everyone in the world to eat about 2700 kCal per day. The main reason there are still starving people is that, either they don't have the money to purchase said food, or they don't have the land to grow it on. >> ^Peroxide:

Recently heard on the radio, there is more than enough food for everyone, distribution is the only problem, probably equity too.

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I've burnt up a few computers - releasing the magic smoke, as they say. Computers tend to run quite hot, and even a few minutes with a faulty fan can do it, particularly in essential components with less heat-sink like the southbridge. But, like @swedishfriend said, there's no reason it should light on fire like that.
>> ^longde:

Interesting. I've heard of batteries combusting, and CPU packaging melting, but never heard of combustion of a CPU or its packaging. How would this happen? What material in the packaging would be susceptible to becoming inflamed?
Also, I know some CPUs have thermal sensors built in to "lock up" at a particular temperature (at least some Intel CPUs). Why wouldn't these kick in? >> ^swedishfriend:
CPUs do combust. It happens all the time. Don't know why there would be more than some smoke though as it wouldn't be surrounded by many materials that would fuel a fire like that. Reading malformed data may cause a system to malfunction which may leave it open for someone to attack it but as stated before there is no reason the data on its own would be executed as a program. Pretty dumb overall. Is this from a spoof type show, I didn't recognize it at all.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. — John W. Gardner (1912-2002)

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I think he was referring to Lamarckism - the idea the the acquired traits of an individual were passed on to their offspring (ie. the stretching of a giraffe's neck to reach higher branches caused it's neck to lengthen, which passed to the offspring resulting in longer and longer necks.)

After Darwin, Lamarckism lost ground continuously. It has only been in the last 50 years or so that we have begun to have hints that there is a small kernel of truth in it as evidenced by epigenetic phenomena.>> ^carneval:

>> ^L0cky:
The idea that the changes you make to your body will be passed on is a very old one, but since Darwin it's been pretty much ridiculed. For it to come back is pretty big stuff.

I don't think that it's been really ridiculed, epigenetic phenomena are accepted in the scientific community as very real, testable changes to the DNA and DNA packaging structures (histone acetylation/deacetylation, histone methylation, DNA methylation, etc).