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07-17-2003, 03:09 PM
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Deliberately unfocused
Location: Amazon.com and CDBaby
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Quote:
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07-17-2003, 07:28 PM
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Fluxing wildly...
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Hold on, I'm going to have to check my list.
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flux (n.) Medicine. The discharge of large quantities of fluid material from the body, especially the discharge of watery feces from the intestines. |
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07-18-2003, 12:50 AM
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Squid hat!
Location: A Few Miles Away From Halx
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... only because everyone else posted in here.
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07-18-2003, 06:12 AM
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I aim to misbehave!
Location: SW Oklahoma
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The concept of Pi, an irrational number, has been calculated and explored throughout history from biblical times to the present. The Chinese calculated Pi and their value was used for a thousand years. One mathematician calculated Pi to 35 places and had it inscribed on his epitaph. With the advent of the computer, Pi has been calculated to over six billion decimal places. Whether it is of historical significance, mathematical importance or a personal goal, Pi has universal appeal.
Yeah. well take that!
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07-18-2003, 07:39 AM
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I aim to misbehave!
Location: SW Oklahoma
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Many common chemicals undergo exothermic reactions. For example, simply dissolving sodium hydroxide (NaOH) in water produces enough heat that if this is not done carefully it could melt a plastic container! Our entry on oxidation has an example of an even more exothermic reaction.
The heat that a chemical reaction gives off can quickly heat the surrounding area (or rest of the chemicals in the container) to very high temperature. As temperature increases, the rate of chemical reactions generally increases as well. Thus, once an exothermic reaction begins, it can quickly "run away" -- accelerating its rate because of the heat produced. This can be especially dangerous if the material reaches its flash point or autoignition temperature, at which point a fire or explosion could occur. Therefore, it is very important to know when a chemical reaction can generate excess heat and to take appropriate measures to deal with this. Examples include slow mixing, using a cooling bath or avoiding that reaction. Most mixtures of incompatible chemicals involve violently rapid exothermic reactions.
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07-18-2003, 08:01 AM
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I aim to misbehave!
Location: SW Oklahoma
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Excerpt from The Psychology of Motivation
By Denis Waitey Focusing on Positive Motivations There's nothing wrong with competition when it's employed in a friendly manner to push one another to greater heights. But too often, people today associate rivalry with aggression and find it difficult to conceive of competition that doesn't escalate into a free-for-all, with benches in opposing dugouts pouring onto the mound as they do in major league baseball every week or so. There will always be a place for competition, in athletics, business, and life. But what must change is the spirit that turns the mere acquisition of points into the number one goal. When the extrinsic motivation of competition becomes the basis for our motivation, it drives us away from self-knowledge and self-discovery. This is what over-competitiveness shares with fear of failure. Both are misplaced motivations, distracting our attention from the big dreams and goals of self-actualization. When we are worried about beating other people, we can't focus on developing our own potential. We become outer-directed, instead of inner-inspired Remember that all motivations arise from the same source: the desire to be satisfied with yourself. Even fear of failure, in its most basic form, masks a desire to feel good about ourselves - competitiveness also derives from the need for self-esteem. So the roots of even these motivations are quite sound. They are present in all of us to some degree. How we frame our desires and how we define the benefits we expect to receive will determine what drives us forward and how far it will take us. By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of your imaginative power. The longer you work on it, the easier it will be to frame your motivation toward intrinsic and positive achievement. I will sacrifice my self to winning for the good of the rest of you. No further posts are necessary.
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Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American G. I. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom |
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07-18-2003, 08:53 AM
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I aim to misbehave!
Location: SW Oklahoma
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I heard that you could not win with nonsense so I tried to up the class of the postings.
Ergo hys-ter-e-sis: n [NL, fr. Gk hysteresis shortcoming, fr. hysterein to be late, fall short, fr. hysteros later] a retardation of the effect when the forces acting upon a body are changed (as if from viscosity or internal friction); esp: a lagging in the values of resulting magnetization in a magnetic material (as iron) due to a changing magnetizing force. -hys-ter-et-ic adj
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Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American G. I. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom |
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07-18-2003, 09:23 AM
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Dumb all over...a little ugly on the side
Location: In the room where the giant fire puffer works, and the torture never stops.
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now I'M the winner. for a while anyway.
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He's the best, of course, of all the worst. Some wrong been done, he done it first. -fz I jus' want ta thank you...falettinme...be mice elf...agin... |
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07-18-2003, 09:30 AM
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Lord over all I survey
Location: Northern Michigan
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We're going ot do the same thing we do every night Pinky.. take over the world..
So I win rihgt?
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 ( • Y • ) I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. ( • Y • ) - Jack Handey |
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07-18-2003, 10:21 AM
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lonely rolling star
Location: Seattle.
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win?
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"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." -Lin Yutang hearts, by d.a. |
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