So, like, I'm this guy. And like, I do stuff...
Chemist, musician, artist, programmer, coach, husband, dad, uncle, etc.
So yeah.
Advice-wise? There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
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Could someone tell me what standard/general form and point-slope form are? And what the formulas for them are?
Thanks! (link)
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slope is change in y divided by change in x
thus m = (y2-y1)/(x2-x1)
point-slope? as in y = mx + b? where m = slope and b = intercept?
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whats that song that goes " so caught up in you little girl that I never wanna get myself free" anyone know? I saw it in a profile so im not even sure if its a song. (link)
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This is a song by the band .38 Special
The lead guitarist of the band is the middle brother of the deceased and current lead singers of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
IT IS CALLED "CAUGHT UP IN YOU".
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=so+caught+up+in+you+.38+special&btnG=Google+Search
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what is 30% of 250?
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Percents...
A percent is some number out of 100. Thus, 30% is 30/100. Also known as 0.3
So, you need to get x% of y.
Convert your percent into a decimal, then multiply that decimal by the other number.
NO ONE HAD BETTER HAND OUT THE ANSWER TO THIS.
-We can give homework help by discussing the topic, but no one on this site should be giving answers to someone's homework.
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Ok, my name is Adrianna and i'm fifteen. And I (Obviously) need some help. See, people at my school think i'm a poser. And it really pisses me off. Because I have NEVER talked to any of the people that call me it. So they base it all on the way I dress. Call me crazy but, I have always bought things based on if I liked them or not. So I shop everywhere. Hot topic, Abercrombie and Fitch, JCPennys, hell even the thrift store if I really like it. So like, I want people to understand that i'm not trying to be something, i'm not trying to be a "Punk" or a "Prep" I could honestly give a shit less. I understand that not everyone is going to like you but, it really upsets me that people don't like me based on the clothes I wear. I don't know what to do. I want these people to just stop.
Ugh, I know this is stupid and cliched. So bear with me. (link)
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People can be very petty.
You've found the joys of being a teen, basically. Your peers feel the need to label things - to make the world into easier-to-digest chunks. That includes ranking people into categories. And they'll base this on the stupidest of things - in your case, your clothing is under attack.
You have two choices - you can let them ruin your life and make you miserable, or you can blow off these losers and do what you want to do.
Next time one of them tries to label you, try something crazy like, "Oh shit! I thought I was goth! Damnit!" or, "no no... you've got it all wrong, I'm going for the post-modern Bavarian shepard look... don't tell me you haven't heard about that, right?", or better yet, "really? I thought I was just wearing clothes... my bad..."
Seriously, when people try to attack others to make themselves feel better, don't take the beating, nor should you fight back... blow it off, laugh it off, and move on. If you dwell on it too much, you'll find yourself becoming just as petty as they are, and I can't imagine that you want that, right?
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Whats up with this message?
Fair WARNING everyone:
Make absolutely certain that you have a valid e-mail address in your account info.
People who don't will be very unhappy soon.
DangerNerd. (link)
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Umm...
It would mean that if the email address you have listed on your account isn't valid that your account might be locked out? It is telling people to update their account information as an email verification system is beign put into place?
It just means that if you have bogus email info for your real email address in your account, well, you better change that.
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this is a retarded question but i really REALLY want to stop my boobs from growing. i just read the answers to a person asking why their boob itches and found out that it was because your boobs are growing. i DON'T want my boobs to grow any bigger than they are. i'm 14 and i'm already a size b cup! and i just want it to STOP i DON'T want it to get any bigger. so what are some things that i can do to make it stop?
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There's really not very much you can do. Your breasts will do what they do - it is mostly up to genetics. Keep in mind that breasts that become too large causing back pain and the like can be reduced in size surgically, but those are fairly extreme situations.
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Are condoms 100% safe? (link)
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The short answer:
No. Not at all.
They can be effective in the prevention of pregnancy if used properly and responsibly. They are not, however perfect.
Condoms offer very little protection from most sexually transmitted diseases/infections. You cannot rely on a condom to keep either partner clean in that respect.
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is there anyway i can get my hair to grow faster? (link)
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I feel like I just answered this...
Probably because I just did.
Really, there is nothing you can do to speed up hair growth beyond stressing yourself.
Hair doesn't all grow at the same time. It grows in groups. Stress is about the only clinically proven thing to cause hair to grow faster - just like your fingernails.
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there is a country song and i need the name of the song the artists name!!! The begining of the song goes... "i m drivin down the road....i got several women on my mind" then it goes.."take it easy..take it easy" (link)
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That would be "Take is Easy" by the Eagles, who are not a country band.
It was written by Jackons Browne and Glen Frey. Browne was not in the Eagles but he had been Glen's roommate in California back in the day.
It was the first hit by the Eagles back in the early 1970s.
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How can I get my hair longer faster than usally? Plz help! I will rate! :) (link)
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There's not a lot you can do, though admittedly stress will cause your hair to grow faster... so just worry about things... ;)
Hair grows in spurts and not all your hair grows at the same time - usually follicles grow in groups then go dormant for a while, then grow again after other groups have been active. I don't fully know how the cycle of hairgrowth works, but it is kinda intersting.
But again, as far as forcing your hair to grow, people claim that getting your hair trimmed will stimulate it to grow - not entirely true as hair cannot really record stimulus - you can stimulate follicles, but there's debate as to wether or not that really does anything. Stress I know for certain will cause hair and nails to grow at a faster rate.
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my mom went threw my journels and red some stuff about how bad i want to die and details about a time where i was raped and she flipped out at me
i feel so betrayed that MY mother did this because she always talks about how journels are a good thing, and one time i had my friend pamela sleep over and she wont let me have her over anymore because pamela snooped and red one of my journels.. and my sister read my moms journel once and she was grounded for 2 weeks
she doesn't listen to what i say though when i try to explain how i feel she just says im being selfish and just trying to turn this around on her
what can i do to make her see what she did was rong she wont even apoligize.. (link)
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I might be wrong about this, because I don't know your mother - keep that in mind. I'm going to say this form a more general mind-set assuming that the parent cares deeply for their child... ok?
While journals are a personal thing, it seems that you are keeping many secrets from her that you should not be keeping. Your mom is only concerned for you. Yeah, she should not be snooping, but honestly, she seems to have had a good reason to go snooping.
You're hiding your life from her. That makes it really hard for her to be the parent she wants to be. Maybe you have reasons for keeping such things secret, but things like rape and thoughts of suicide are not those you should bottle up inside - even a journal isn't going to make them go away, especially not rape.
Being a parent, I can't imagine how horrible it would be for my kids to feel they needed to keep such things from me. How am I to help them if they tell me nothing?
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My mom is friend's with this lady [40] who is gay. You wouldn't think she was but she told me. Well, I go to work with the lady and when i [13] sleep over we sleep in the same bed because i dont like sleeping on the couch. Does that make me gay because i've heard if you sleep with a gay person thas makes you gay? 13/f .. [ i dont think it is true ]
and are you born gay? (link)
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Sexuality is a complex topic. There is a social aspect to it as well as a biological aspect. Gender/sex is easy... sexuality is not. More and more evidence is pointing towards certian biological events that determine if someone is "gay" - which means that it could be possible to be "born gay", but again, that is still a vast oversimplification.
Sleeping in the same bed as a gay person does not make you gay. It makes you someone sleeping in a bed with another person. You having sexual relations with someone of the same gender is usually what defines someone as gay... not where they sleep. I mean, if I slept on the floor with a dog, would that make me a dog? If I sleep outside, and squirrels also sleep outside, does that make me a squirrel? No.
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i'm in this thing called PYO and it's an extra orchestra thing i can do. there is a lower level called PYS that i was in last spring. the new conductor makes it seem like he took two 8th graders(me and my friend) (it's really hard to get in PYO) b/c he needed people not b/c he thought we were good enough. i don't feel like i'm good enough to be in it b/c everyone else owns like at least 1-2 instruments of their own and i still have a rental. (b/c i can't find own that i like to buy) and they all can read tenor clef and i have no idea how to play it. and we have to do 3 octave G scales all the way in to the stratsphere... i'm so confused half of the time! what should i do?
p.s. i'm gonna get extra help w/the music from my teacher at school but i wont have a lot of time to do that b/c of other activities (link)
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Tenor Clef, eh?
I assume you can read Treble Clef, yes?
Tenor clef, I believe has middle C on the middle line of the 5. Alto clef, middle C is one line up.
Don't fret rental vs. owning. I didn't own my own instrument until well into high school. It just isn't always prectical to own your own - and it could be that your parents just don't have the finances at the moment, or that they are waiting until they think you are fully committed to playing before buying an instrument.
You mentioned other activities - this is where thing get hard.. you have to learn to balance what you want to do with what you need to do. Obviously school work you have to do. If you realy want to be committed to playing and playing well, then you need to find a way to practice and learn the theory behind what you're playing.
Also, if you really feel that you're in over your head, talk to the conductor and ask him if you really should be in there... perhaps he sees potential in you and hopes to tap into it early? It is hard to say, but could be worth asking about, because it is your life, so to speak. But no matter what, make your concerns known - it will show that you care.
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there is this guy that i have known for a while and he is hott and everything but he is like a brother to me and he asked me out should i do it or should i just say no?
love ? (link)
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What have you got to lose? It isn't like you're marrying the guy. Let him take you out. Any good relationship is built on friendship to begin with anyway. Before she was my wife, she was my best friend... I mean, love is friendship and friendship is love... it is just that love can take on differing forms and change over time.
Will going on a date with this guy destroy your friendship? It shouldn't. If you feel that from a romantic point-of-view that it is just too awkward to doesn't feel right, that doesn't mean you need to stop being friends, nor does it mean that it will continue to feel wrong in a few months - lots can change and you might suddenly feel differently about him.
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ive been wanting a cell phone for so long. and dont think i havent tried getting one. ive had the money and saved it, i even offered to pay for one. i wrote a whole 1 page essay on why i wanted one, how i used it, and if i did something wrong they could take it away. im on computer like 24'7 so i told them it would occupy my time and i wouldnt be on as much. but NOTHING has worked.
is there anything else left to try!?
~hopeless (link)
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Think about it this way:
for many cell plans, it requires a credit check because so many people who use cell phones don't pay their bills - thus, they have to do a credit check.
Cells can be a huge distraction. Text messenging, people handing out their number to anyone and everyone - and every incoming call counts against your minutes the same way that every call you make does. Texting usually costs $0.10 per message... that adds up really fast.
One thing to consider - if your parents are worried for whatever reason, talk to them about the Firefly. It is a phone that they would have control over and you could use. It rejects calls form people who are not a list they have to assign on the phone. Likewise, you can't call anyone not on the list. The minutes are tightly monitored so you can't go over and rack up a huge bill for them to have to pay. It can't text message, so again, no extra costs. Yeah, it might not be as "cool" but it is a phone, it works, and will get you want it seems to be that you think you need.
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why are all the good people on the site being banned? anyone know? (link)
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banning the "good" people?
No... we've banned some people who were using multiple accounts to harass others. We had to cut a few people off because they enjoyed telling people to do dangerous and/or illegal things. And a few were banned for other abuses they were performing on the site (yes, abuses, not just giving bad and/or "funny" advice).
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i know the umbilical cord is cut when the baby is born and it falls off, but what happens to the part of it that is connected to the mother? (link)
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That part is attached to the placenta, which detaches from the uterine wall. A few extra contraction after the baby is out and the placenta is delivered (otherwise known as "the afterbirth"). The blood from the cord is often collected and stored because it contains many stem cells that can be used to treat potential illnesses in the baby's future.
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As of recently I've been thinking about breaking up with my boyfriend.
Within our first month of dating, he asked me to marry him, and I said yes, out of my own stupidity. About a month later we got in a really big fight.. and I just didn't feel the same about him. Like before the fight we would talk about things like getting married and having kids, but after the fight, It made me feel way too uncomfortable. And I told him that.
Oh.. and a few days ago, he was at the gym, as usual, and some guy gave him some pills, telling him they were Tylonal Cold. For some stupid reason, he took them. He told me, a little bit after he took them, that they were making him dizzy. Then he started talking about how some people were after him and were gonna kidnap him. And then he started takling about how we were supposed to be together in our past lives, and how he wasn't gonna let these people take him away from me again. It really freaked me out..
Now.. I just.. I dn't feel the same way I used to about him, and I definately don't feel the same way he does.. He's a tad clingy. Like when I asked him about what he would do if we broke up.. he said he would probably start cutting again, and drinking as well. He also said he might not be able to talk to me for a year or so. And it made me feel really guilty...
I need to know...Do you think I should break up with him? If so, when do you think I should do it, and what should I say?
Thanks very much. (link)
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I don't want to say that it sounds a bit manipulative, but well... he sounds a bit manipulative. He seems out of control and not caring that he's out of control. Taking random pills, telling you things to intentionally make you feel as if you can't have life away from him, etc... not good signs. As for the "marriage proposal", I wouldn't put too much weight on that.
I can't blame you for no longer feeling the same way - it sounds like the relationship is unhealthy, there's not a lot of trust between the two of you, and that the love is more an addiction than it is a heartfelt sharing of each other's lives.
My fear is that it won't matter what you would say, should you choose to end the relationship - from what you've indicated, he likely won't hear it anyway. If you do break it off, make sure you have a friend or two at your disposal in case strange things happen.
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ok so i went to take a pregnancy test today..i read the box which said to pee on the test for 5 seconds..me being the idiot i am..i peed on the cap..im all new at this so i had no clue there was a cap! i dipped the test in the toilet..and it came out negative..im thinking this isnt accurate because of all the water in the toilet..am i right or is it still ok to trust the negative? (link)
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yeah - you can't trust that result. Consider the toilet water an infinite dilution, so any hormone that could have given a positive response is going to be too weak in concentration to give the response.
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would taking several birthcontrol pills cause a miscarriage? (link)
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If you're pregnant, one should be on the pill anyway. I can't say for certain that it would cause miscarriage. It can, however, fuck you up with a massive dose of hormones, as well as cause god-only-knows what sort of damage to the fetus. Birthcontrol pills are meant to be a regimented course - so taking a bunch of them is really a very unhealthy thing to do to yourself - it would be massively throwing your chemical balance way out of synch, and runs the risk of many complications - both physical and mental.
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