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I desperately need a MacBook pro that runs on OSX before the 25th on this month. I'm willing to pay 100 dollars or so a month to rent, but I haven't found any reasonable dealers. One site wanted the price of the item as a deposit (if I had that kind of money why the hell am I renting!), and other sites want me to practically pay a fifth of the total price a week (once again, why am I renting!). Im a college student with zero credit, and I'm just trying to do something as simple as have my lifeline (in terms of my schooling) available to me without having to sell my soul or throw down money I just not have.

Does anyone have a credible rental house, that goes by month, and is willing to let me borrow a computer for a reasonable price?

I'm not big into computers and the rates of parts, so I thought I would run this by the good people of Yahoo Answers.

I have a 15 inch MacBook Pro that got over a year ago, and it was damaged by liquid. The motherboard was trashed, and I removed the hard drive, so all we have left is the body and any remaining parts. It's basically an expensive paper weight.

How much could I sell this for? I know I could sell the aluminum, and maybe some parts, but once again I'm not an expert on any of this, so I'm just going on one guys suggestion. Any ideas on the best way to get this off my hands and maybe get something for my troubles?

I love my best friend/ roommate. He's very mature, very caring, and I have massive amounts of respect for him. But, I often get frustrated by his self righteous attitude. He claims he doesn't want to impose his beliefs and ideals on others, but that is exactly what he does. He spends almost all waking hours dedicated to personal growth, which isn't bad, but the sources he uses have turned him into a robot. He has tunnel vision, and his intelligence mixed with these ideologies and religious beliefs have made him difficult. He rarely admits he's wrong, he doesn't respect the person I am, and he tries to come off as a sage or wise man at all times. It gets tiring when jokes turn into debates on ideals, or he passively attacks my points of view.  He tends to act like he knows best, and he fails to take many things about people into consideration when passing judgement. I want personal growth, but the more I follow his ways of the thinking the emptier I feel, and it's sapping my creativity. I just can't stand the person he has become, or the person he is trying to convince me to be.

In short, he's a good person, he has a kind heart, and he is an appealing individual, but he wants to be the ideal image of success, a religious servant, and a wise individual. The issue is that he is obsessive and despite all the books on success and garnering an understanding of others, he seems to know very little about how different people function different ways, and he is more often than not belittling others for not being what he views as ideal. Too often I get lectured like a child for getting stressed out or not having his mentality about how I handle things. He doesn't see his flaws, and when others see through him he has a million excuses and pulls these lengthy discussions on how he is o complex that he decides when to withhold information. He just can't admit he is just as flawed as the rest of us. 

All of this culminates in frustration and annoyance. 

How can I handle this?

Before I explain, please realize I'm not trying to pull a teenage "no body understands me," I'm a level minded adult and I'm asking because Ive dealt with this my entire life, and some clarification would put me a tad more at ease. I'm just wondering if anyone feels a tangible Separation like I do.

Anyway, I've never fit in beyond a very surface level with people around me. I have plenty of friends, a great family, and my life is pretty great despite the usual impediments. But I've always fealt like an outsider, and Ive had to play a role my entire life to get by. I'm always behind everyone on a social level, and I've never connected to any of them.Everyone has their ideologies on what constitutes life, and I'm in a constant flux in terms of how to spend mine because everyone feels I'm no suppose to be how I am. I can do all the right things, fake it 'till I make it, improve myself, whatever, but yet I still don't feel I'm in sync with them on any level. I can sympathize, I can be a fierce friend, and I can be a perfect employer or employee, but yet I fall into the background regardless of the effort I put forward, regardless of my loyalty, and despite my ability to put people at ease. I'm no latent genius, Im not a philosopher, nor do I feel I'm at a superior level of any kind, but I just don't feel like I fit, I'm just going through the motions. Ive observed this since childhood, and it only strengthened well into my adult life. In short, I'm pretty much told I'm always wrong by all sides, I don't take joy in the stuff most others do, and no matter how I excell or put myself out there never find people whom cherish me on an levels beyond your closest acquaintance.

I suppose it's true that INFJ is the ultimate square peg in a circular whole. Once again, it's just a rough description on my state of mind, so any help or ideas are plenty welcome.

My best friend has changed considerably over the past few months. Since we left home he has become obsessed by the idea of being better. What's wrong with this? Well nothing, but it's gotten to a point where he's a different person, and he's lost his identity to me. He's almost a robot that forgets emotion and whose prime objective is just to slave away at being the ideal version of success. Hes put aside his career ambitions in order to become a millionaire quick, and earning more so that he can live more comfortable in the future. There is nothing wrong with any of this except for the fact he's very one note now, and he views me as "lower" for not put aside my studies to work constantly, and listening to self help audio tapes every day. He's just not the person I became friends with, and his self righteous attitude doesn't help the frustration that rolls over me. I'm not trying to disparage his new way of living, and im not going to say he's just wrong, but I'm just in a weird position that I don't know how to deal with. He's so driven on being perfect on a social, financial, and religious level that he comes across to me as self obsessed, fake, and unemotional.

I'm all for growth, but after growing up early I decided to at least enjoy what's left of my youth and try to get the most out of my college years, but he breathes down my back and passively critiques my "lack of drive" or perceives me as wasting my free time. I'm already trying to pave my way, and it doesn't help that I'm being told I'm doing it wrong. He's seeing the benefits and not living his life to the fullest, everything is an attempt to reach these impractical levels of perfection. I want to grow, any sensible person does, but I don't want to lose my identity and force every waking minute toward the pursuit of trying to be ideal for everyone else.

Do you think I'm insane, and he's completely right, or do you think he's taking this way overboard?

I'm in a very interesting spot. I'm surrounded by people whom have very fierce loyalties to their selected resolutions and ideologies. This isn't bad, but I'm caught in between them, and I have to constantly deal with onslaughts of questioning and prodding. My best friend is a business man, and he comes into contact with other business men. They all talk about working now, to achieve financial and mental harmony. Everything can be achieved with hard, vigorous work. Others say enjoy my youth, and take it slow because I'll never get these years back. My other friend is an anarchist, essentially, whom believes knowledge should be free, nature rules above all, and pretty much a mixture of very interesting ideologies, but he calls me and others fearful for wanting to have stability and going to school and trying to do anything more than brute risk.

I can go on for days explaining their vast rationale, but it get frustrating for me. I'm intelligent, but my intellect is very primeval and I take a lot on intuition. I want to understand the world, but I know it's too vast for me to every fully understand. Overall, I'm not a business man, I'm not a reborn philosopher, I'm just an artistic that wants to make work worth remembering and I want someone I can stand with on deep, emotional levels. I want to help people, and I want a nice home. I just want simplicity, and everyone is telling me that is wrong. Im bing pulled in so many directions that I feel like I'm going insane. This post doesn't even begin to express the people and situations that have led to this point.

Anyway, how do I deal with this? I apologize for the long response.

I'm not an expert when it comes to manga, but I like my share of material and I've always liked the mood set by hand colored art, manga to be particular. I've seen photos of artists using markers to color their art, but I've never grasped how to work with them, or which brand to work with. I haven't found any real tutorials, so if anyone can offer any advice, or at least point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated. Videos, tutorial websites, ECT are all useful. Thank you.

I recently purchased an item on eBay. I have a paypal account set up with my checking account. I paid as usual, I even received a notice saying I had, but no conformation email ever arrived and the item is still marked as needing to be paid. My paypal has worked flawlessly prior to now, I have the funds, but no record, except that notice , states I have paid. My bank statement does not say otherwise, there is no pending amount or anything and paypal has no record either. I contacted the seller and she stated that she has not received any payments. What is going on? How may I proceed to remedy this situation?

I understand that sex is one of the key aspects of the human experience. In film school they teach that every film and show has a source of pleasure, I.e. One of the five aspects that control all of our motivations and actions. I don't usually watch HBO or any of those channels, but I have viewed their line up because without fail these channels kill the Emmys and television award shows every year, so I want to see what is so great about them. I understand the shows are more direct in their approach, but sex rules almost all those shows, and it stops being artistic and just plain pornographic. I hate when things resort to pointless sex scenes or blood shed if it is not needed, and I may be a minority on that, but none of what I've seen has impressed me or made those channels seem artistically legitimate. Seems like it is a lot of nonsense. Does anyone agree, or have a difference of opinion? I just want to understand why shows like those are o praised.

I don't frequently buy movies via Amazon but I want to pick up a few, and I was wondering if slip covers are included. The covers are with special edition Blu rays and DVDs, and I like them, but I'm not sure if I should buy them when they come out with the covers or wait till they depreciate, and buy them via Amazon. Sometimes the Blu rays don't have them after a few months of being on the shelves which is why I ask.

Am I arrogant? I don't like to be a know-it-all, and I sometimes avoid showing my true intelligence, but when I do, without fail, I always encounter that person that responds by saying, "and you know better...right?". I want to say I do because I know a lot about a variety of subject, but I feel bad for saying so. Am I arrogant if I state I do know better, or should I just act ignorant?

Now before I continue please note I am not a typical winy teenager that wants to have more freedom or something, I grew up way too early, and for as long as I can recall I was always more concerned with the burning, global issues as opposed to the pointless teenage drama. I've always respected my family, and have always aimed to be the ideal son.

But, I can't help but feel I am not respected by my family. I love them, but none of them seem to realize how hard I work, and how I strive to be a good adult as opposed to the typical teen. I graduated with my AA two years early, I don't smoke or drink, I dont stay out late, I work, I've lent them thousands of dollars I initially wanted to save, I don't sleep around, I am not obnoxious, I take care of virtually every handyman task asked of me, and recently I moved the entire house almost entirely by myself, but they never seem satisfied. They've done a lot for me, and I cherish that fact, but it just never seems to be enough, I have to hear them complain constantly about minuscule things, and my mother is passive aggressive as hell toward me at times. I would confront them on these issues but because I am younger 95 percent of what I say just rolls off their shoulders as if I lacked the ability to have an adult conversation with them. It's a situation of how one may act if you talk to a kid, you listen, you laugh, and what they said just doesn't change one iota of your thinking. They criticize me, and constantly throw how hard they work to give me a home in my face, as if I ever said I didn't understand what they have done for me.

I hate to rant and sound like those annoying teens, but it's just eating at me, and causing me a great amount of internal frustration that I fear will cause me to lose it. I won't do anything dangerous or evil, but I fear a possible bridge could be burned if it continues like this. If anyone read my rant, and agrees my point of view is valid, please tell me how I may deal with the situation. Mind you talking to them won't change a thing, or will cause a massive argument, so any other solutions?

A lot of people have stated they are real because Tourettes is a very real neurological disorder, and some of the events that unfold in the videos seem too real to be fabricated. Both arguments are valid, but as a filmmaker I have a keen ear and eye for what is staged and edited. It's second nature. The videos do have very real moments, but at other times everyone comes across as

wooden actors, and not to mention the camera setups are too perfect not to mention convenient. Also, if one recalls the editor mentions how Danny's ticks correspond to the Lion King in one video, but yet it's easy to hear that it was just audio dubbed in after the fact and not caught simotaniously. Just things like that make me question the validity of these videos.

Has anyone come forward and said they are fake?

I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me on this habit I've had for as long as I could remember. Like Taylor Morris, whom for some reason can't touch fleece, I feel that I must touch my eyes or face constantly. I have no idea why I do it, I just do. It's a burden when I want to be professional with people, or enjoy something without my hand creeping toward my face. It's not only a burden but it's unsanitary, but I can't help it one bit. Do I have a mental disorder or a neurological issue? Any ideas?

It's one thing to refuse to answer a terrible question on here, but it's another to pore ones life experiences and guidance into an answer only to find the dumbest and most simplistic response is the one chosen. I can understand that a response doesn't need your life story, and I've never offered mine, but I do put thought and support into my responses only to find the half wit answers to be the ones picked. I once wrote a paragraph about a hot topic, that agreed with the poster, but yet the guy that responded " yes" was voted best answer.

It wouldn't bother me if this didn't happen so often. I think there should be two separate answer services. One that specialized in extensive questions and extensive answers, and another for the people looking for quick and unsupported answers.

The one that really bugged me was one I answered today regarding why we watch movies. Being a filmmaker that has gone to film school, I can tell you that it's much more than entertainment. So, I wrote three sentences to try to explain in simplistic terms why we flock to the cinema. The best answer was "entertainment". Seriously?

Does anyone else get annoyed by this? Or have I just had bad luck with the questions I've chosen to answer? Any personal stories?

I love film. I breathe Hitchcock, Melies, and the numerous great filmmakers past and present. The point is, I respect the art form, and I have tried to perfect my own craft since. Yet, I don't post blogs about films I've seen, or keep up on the latest movie news. What I'm getting at is, I live for cinema, but I don't care to get entangled in all the crap that every so called movie fan involves themselves in? Am I a true film buff for spending more time on my short films than twittering about them to my friends.

I've been pondering my upcoming schooling for my Bachelors and I wondered if it were possible to go back to school for the same field AFTER graduating. It may be a stupid question, but I am not well versed in terms of higher education protocol and practices, so I figured I would ask. I found the University of my dreams, but one cant help but wonder if its greener somewhere else. I want to get the most out of my degree program, but what if I dont feel that Ive succeeded after graduation and need to try out a new school? Is it possible to do that without transferring right in the middle of things, and having to adjust somewhere else? Just inquiring.

Does anyone know the violin song played during the end of the "Midnight in Paris" trailer? Please, don't offer the music listing, ive tried that to no avail, hence I am asking this as opposed to looking at the music listings for the film again. Greatly appreciated.

I received an iPad for Christmas, and I want to register with iTunes. But, the home computer my family uses is not 'clean' and I am avoiding connecting my ipad to it. I am not an ipod, ipad, computer person ( I am not big into the latest technology) so I have no idea if doing so is detrimental to my new toy. Can my ipad receive a virus, malware, ect? Once again, I am not computer savy, so keep any explinations simple. Thank you.

I am 19, and though I am not sex obsessed, I know that my sexual peak is here, and I rather not look like a fool when I consummate a strong relationship, so I want to know what I am doing. But, for starters I have never pulled back my foreskin far enough. I have achieved ejaculation all these years without having to by stimulating the head (as opposed to the usual jerking motion) and that's worked fine, but sex is a different story. How can I get myself better use to the jerking motion, and more importantly have my friend make himself more known without a trip to the emergency room? This is a bit embaressing, so please be kind.