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I am arguing with someone that, if thrown from 10000 feet, both an empty glass bottle and a full glass bottle will shatter upon impact with the ocean. he says only the empty glass bottle will shatter. so, who's right and why?

I am in a stressful situation. be it Christmas, be it my birthday, be it what ever gift giving opportunity you choose, I seem to be stuck getting things I don't want or have very little use for. over 90% of the gits i received last year are sitting forgotten on a shelf or in a drawer. I've dropped hints here and there that I want two things in particular: a camcorder and a laptop. you guessed it, not a chance for those anytime soon. all I got of real interest is a Kindle. which I find useless right now: I got an app on my phone that does the same thing.

I recently posted on Facebook that, this year, I don't want anything, just money, this year, and my dear family is pissed off at me, saying that it's rude to post something like this and that I'm a jerk for not being grateful for the gifts I got.

how to act in this situation and how to get out of it? without getting things worse with the family and without me lying?

I know there's a President and VPs but I don't know the correct terms for their positions in Japanese. If you can provide more than you can find by Googling or Y!search, I would really appreciate it.

have/would you ever use(d) the services of a laundromat? (in case you don't own a washing machine at home)

where would be the best place for a laundromat?

how much would you be willing to pay for its services?

I have played two free-to-play so far: Cabal and Battle of the Immortals. Cabal was on a whim and after some peer pressure from some of my net-frenzied friends liked the story so far, but I don't like the fact that there is too big of a level cap, and the levels are too far apart. no auto-rute, no pet catching, paid instances (aka you need to buy entrance item if you didn't get it from some drops). After that I switched BOI. Like the story, it has all of the above. the levels are still too far apart, but at least you can earn some decent xp doing the dailies. and it compels you to play in a party, for the instances, if you want decent drops.

Now what MMORPG (free or otherwise) did you play, which did you like/dislike and why?

I am not a native of an english speaking country and english is not my first language. However, that doesn't stop me from writing poems in english. So, please tell me what you think about this one. I would appreciate every honest opinion :).

A knight’s death

Full moon – hidden

Behind the dark clouds;

The knight rests here, a place forbidden,

Wounded, under a blood red shroud…

Feeling the scorpion’s sting

And its venom coursing through his veins;

Hearing the flutter of an angel’s wings

As it flees from the darkness’ reign.

……………

Elsewhere, a flowing shade

Rushes through the trees,

The silhouette of the young maid

Looking for the one whose soul flees,

Her crystal crown

Askew on her head,

Her burgundy gown

Tearing as she sped.

……………

In the black pitch,

By the light of embers,

The venom making his muscles twitch,

He lays and remembers

Her sandy locks

Her grey blue eyes,

Ever slyer than a fox’,

(Oh, sight sent by the skies)

Her sweet smile,

Her perfect skin…

Although he’d known her for a while,

He’d never met the soul within.

A Fury by nature, a Nymph by name;

For her, he damned himself,

For her smile, he lit the flame.

And, yet, he long remained but a memory on a shelf.

……………

She hopes she makes it in time…

‘Damned be the treason and damn be the plot!

God, let me make it before the bell’s last chime!

A curse upon thee, father, and upon your whole lot!’

……………

‘I lay here, in my darkest hour…’

He manage to utter, drawing his last breath,

‘Let not my life be a blue flower

Withering as I’m nearing to my death…

Now, the fire’s ablaze,

And my kingdom’s turned to dust.

But I long for the days

My soul wasn’t covered with rust…

At last you came, my dear…

Speak not and let not a tear be shed,

Because there is nothing to fear…

In death, nothing is to dread.’

……………

‘And, yet, it feels like a nightmare…

I fear for your doom.’

A single crystal tear dropped by an ember’s flare.

‘May it light your tomb.’

……………

After the accursed deed,

He sealed his fate:

His heart to forever bleed,

As he’ll guard Hell’s Gate.

when you look at the names of individual processors, it usually says the producer (AMD/Intel/whatever), series and the processor frequency.

let's take the dual cores or quad cores into consideration. for example, let's look at one Intel Core2duo E7500, 2.9 Ghz, etc. does the respective frequency represent the total Ghz of that processor's power? or just of one of the cores?

My friend (aka D) has a seventeen year old boy (aka T) that has a problem - he is addicted to porn. I mean he watches porn videos/reads porn mags and masturbates every night D tried everything to make him stop, from talking to him calmly, to making threats, to banning him from the computer or taking his money. Nothing works. T is still hooked on porn and D is desperate.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to help D with his kid's problem?

anyone know?

every time i quit firefox, it keeps signing me out of sites i specifically requested i be kept signed in. this started after i updated my browser to the latest version.

does this happen to you too? or is my firefox gone bonkers?

without major temperature problems

My old dvd writer doesn't want to read any of the disks I put in it, whether I wrote those disks or not.

Now I want to change it, but i don't know if I have a newer SATA or the older IDE connection port.

Anyone know how I can I find that out?

anyone know the answer to this? why? because my dvd writer says that the discs are empty, although I know I have already written them...

In one of the job adverts I am interested in applying for, one of the requirements is "knowledge of Web 2.0 tools"? Anyone know what they are? Blogs and such? Or are they more than just that?

Thanks

dunno it doesn't. when I try to import any videos into the program, it says it can't download the codecs necessary. I did everything it asked and I still can't import anything and it doesn't download any codec it should.

by best I mean easiest to use.

by best I mean easiest to use.

I have a couple of yahoo accounts. one of them got... virused if I can say that. meaning they go online without me entering the password, which, btw, has not been changed (if it were hacked).

that certain account started to give mass commercial messages about Viagra and such.

How do you prevent something like this and how do you counteract it?

Thanks

I am trying to upgrade my PC's storage and RAM, but I have a limited budget. Right now, I have 250 Gb of storage and 1 Gb of RAM. I have a couple of options: (for the first two, I have the appropriate budget)

1. upgrade both my storage and RAM for a total of about $300.

2. upgrade my RAM only and buy an external hard drive, for about $325.

3. upgrade none of the above, wait a couple of weeks/months and get a notebook with about the same storage, but 4 times the RAM and the better part of mobility. total spending $600.

I really need your help.

Thanks