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  1. Happy Birthday Totally-Not-A-Brony :)

  2. First, thank you to whichever kind soul decided to caption that video you may never read this, but know your work is appreciated. It's gonna be a real conundrum for a greater part of the world in the near future, that's for sure. At the same time, though... I'm almost looking forward to it. No, wait, I'm not evilyet, I swear! I'm just really looking forward to the day the anti-environmentalists and corporations finally have to own up to and admit the fact that yes, our "spaceship Earth" is unsustainable if we don't treat it as such. It's almost simple physics, really—Earth is not a closed system; we get energy from the sun. However, the more indirectly we use that energy (e.g. sources of high potential energy like hydrocarbons), the more the planet starts to feel like a closed system while we wait for all of those potential energy sources to regenerate (hint: they won't in our lifetime). As OP stated, solar and wind are excellent sources of energy, and so are tidal, hydroelectric, and geothermal. Barring geothermal, all of these are astronomically sourced, which I strongly feel is the answer to our energy woes. The sun ain't never gonna stop shinin' in our lifetimes, or our grandkids' lifetimes, or our grandkids' grandkids' nephews' half-brother genetically engineered lizard-person uhh... you get my point. As for the water problem, well... once we get the energy problem sorted out, that piece oughta fall into place shortly after. Reverse osmosis looks most promising for large-scale desalination. Also, I'm glad that video touched on the use of corn for ethanol. Plenty of studies have found it to be inefficient, and large-scale corn farming tends to be highly damaging to the soil. I'm just waiting for the day electrolytically-derived hydrogen fuel cell vehicles become economically efficient.
  3. Great chart! I love seeing physiological reinforcement of these concepts, since there's often debate over the mere existence of some of these disparities (I guess that's my introvert need for validation). Another interesting one is that introverts actually salivate more in response to lemon juice placed on their tongue, suggesting a generally lower threshold stimulus. On a side note, it's pretty strange how the spelling of "extrovert" has so strongly overtaken "extravert", at least in colloquial use. I can't think of a single other word prefixed with "extra" which has mutated in such a way; I guess the constant juxtaposition with "introvert" led to that.
  4. I noticed several posters having difficulties or whatnot acquiring Win 10, so I thought I'd you guys know MS has a tool which lets you pretty much instantaneously get the OS. I needed it to jumpstart the download on a particularly stubborn laptop... http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/media-creation-tool-install EDIT: As for privacy issues, following the instructions here goes a long way (though still far from perfect). It DOES however disable or handicap many features: https://fix10.isleaked.com/
  5. DON'T But seriously, the old aphorism still applies. Y'know why there's such an obesity epidemic in the U.S.? Overfed trolls.
  6. If you haven't found a solution yet, this page helped me with the same issue: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/windows-10-upgrade-notification-enable/ I also have a question for anyone who may know: I've reserved an upgrade for an old computer I have, but I'm extremely reluctant to go ahead with my main, as I've heard that it will DL (yet not install) automatically, and I'd like to have the chance to test it first. Will it be possible to reserve now, but reject the upgrade later?
  7. I will never be able to resist participating in these discussions. What is your MBTI type? ∟INTP Who is your favorite pony? ∟ though FS is a close second~ Which pony are you most like? ∟ What type of pony is your ponysona?(If you have one) ∟See avatar unless you care for your vision If applicable, how do you contribute to the fandom? ∟In a literal sense, I contribute to the numbers... I would love to see more large-scale data gathered on the fandom. The Brony Study's amazing, but it's just not enough data! Have you considered adding a poll?
  8. Finding secure PINs using crowdsourced data? Brilliant! You made me curious too regarding what (I assume) you're doing, so I looked around a bit and read this. It's an interesting conundrum. It seems that as data sets grow very large with increasing counts of identical data, it may be less secure to randomly generate a password. If I were actively trying to come up with a secure four-digit number, I'd first randomly select a number from the median to the minimum of the data frequency (though obviously avoiding either extreme), then run it through a search engine to be sure it doesn't match any instances in popular media. I'd make sure it isn't in the range of about 1900-2100, and contains no or minimal repeating digits or adjacent numbers on a standard keypad/numpad. Collecting data from mlpforums, though, hmm... If you collected a very large amount of data, I'd expect to see that it's markedly different from data collected from the general population, by virtue of this being a gathering place for people who are both similar-minded, yet outliers. Or maybe that's just my out-group homogeneity bias speaking... Oh, and so I don't go off-topic here, some numbers: 8840 6181 1502 9985 1640 8807 0207 5933
  9. For me, breakfast is the life preserver I cling to after a long night of undereating. If I skipped breakfast, I'd probably starve Or if you want the etymological killjoy answer, it's break+fast... A pretty lazy compound if I do say so myself.
  10. I absolutely agree! It's possibly my favorite song from the series. I honestly cried a little when I heard it the first time. As for being underrated, RainShadow, for example, has an upload of the song with about 10k views, well below many of his more popular uploads with about 50k. Not many PMVs either. It's also rare to see in polls for the best song...
  11. Heh, same problem here. I'm 21, half Asian, but people have guessed I'm about 15-16. Doesn't help that I'm incapable of growing a beard. I don't let it bother me, though, because chances are I'll still look decent when I'm older :comeatus:
  12. Oh, yay! An interesting topic right upfront after being gone for a few months. As far as, I suppose, psychological "metrics" go, I really like the MBTI. I've heard it compared to astrology and horoscopes (which for their end goals I suppose is at least somewhat fair...) but generally, if the subject understands the meanings of the dichotomies well, the final result will be pretty well consistent. It fills a purpose which other personality "tests" don't, because most focus on diagnostics and identifying psychopathological characteristics; the MMPI is more of a diagnostic tool than anything, and the Big Five, while detailed, empirically based and far more comprehensive, is better suited to large-scale data correlation than anything. One of the most frequent criticisms of the MBTI is that it is very "black-and-white", since there are only four dichotomies, producing a total of only 16 possible personalities, with no officially built-in mechanism allowing for, say, an ambivert. I like that, actually. The fact of the matter is, unless you design a personality test with over 7 billion possible outcomes, it will always be limited. I enjoy the fact that the MBTI is limiting enough that generalities can be inferred. Yes, you will be "put into a box" to some degree, but it's varied enough (and has been around long enough, with a lot of research being done regarding it) that we now have a simple, relatively easy-to-understand, and widely applicable tool which can say many, often profound and useful things about you and other people. I don't advocate its use as as, say, an employment screening tool, but on the other hand, it can help employers understand how best one of their employees can fit into the business. My main problem with the MBTI is the attached cognitive functions which lack empirical backing. Supposedly, socionics fixes this somehow, but I haven't looked into it too much. Criticisms aside, though, the MBTI is just plain fun to me! Or if not fun, at least introspectively satisfying. It's a real pleasure to see MBTI-described characteristics in action in the real world, such as in the high level of NT- and P-inclined members on this forum. I could talk about MBTI stuff all day... I'm surprised no one's posted this yet: Oh, and if you're curious, I'm an INTP.
  13. Hi there, and happy birthday! :D Hope you have a great time~ ^.~

    1. Not_A_Brony

      Not_A_Brony

      Thanks, appreciate it!

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