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Debating between this: http://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Power-2-5-In...=A25SITGFW0OQJA which was reviewed favorably here: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-...ble-hard-drive/ but I'm also looking at: http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Portable-Ex...bs_595048_price because it's a little cheaper, but perhaps more vulnerable to damage. And then I'm just generally feeling bad because these things apparently have a high rate of failure

http://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watte...oonists-advice/ -- worth reading in addition to this strip

It is getting much harder to fake an ADHD diagnosis FWIW. Primary care physicians prescribing these things are pretty much the ones making those of us with an actual condition look bad. To get accommodations in college or things like this, you have to take very extensive tests and those would be very difficult to fake. There are algorithms in some of the computerized tests that are designed to detect intentional errors and the rest of the testing, even aptitude testing, is done with a psychologist face-to-face. They can smell bulls***. Also, FWIW, don't jump to the conclusion that X person has a bogus diagnosis. They may not seem that bad because...they are being treated effectively. The untreated ADHD sufferer (there are three types BTW: inattentiveness, hyperactivity, and combined) may not look like someone with an illness, but rather a person that is lazy, uninterested, or just not that smart. As you age, the symptoms change in the way they are manifested. For instance, hyperactivity becomes less obvious and turn into feelings of restlessness. People may get good grades in school but they have to expend much more mental energy (that does not necessarily mean time since these folks will usually have trouble spending a lot of time on anything). I say the above because people with ADHD are often used to being criticized and have low self-esteem due to the symptoms of the disorder. It is very difficult for them to not place blame on themselves for their shortcomings when in many cases it is out of their control. Having people constantly question the legitimacy of their problem only makes them feel worse. A PSA from your friendly neighborhood Adult ADHD poster I'm happy to answer more questions in a thread that isn't about Adam Dunn

If Derrick has to tear another ACL to end these arguments, I might not be against it

My laptop has a USB 3.0 port and the machine I'll be using to do the video editing is the coolest most souped up thing ever, so I'm sure it does too.

Advice needed, fairly quickly: Unbeknownst to me, I enrolled in an advertising class that involves both theory AND practice - in other words, I have to do some video editing. I've been advised to buy a portable external hard drive, in which 500 GB is a "good" amount of space and 1 TB is "plenty." I'm new to this market. Can someone tell me what to be looking for? I want something good, but I don't want to blow any more money than I have to at this point. I'll probably continue to use it beyond this course to back up my computer, which I've always wanted to do anyway.

Shin Soo Choo will fix it, guys

TWTW is more Hawk's than the phrase "The Will to Win"

He has definitely had concerning displays of anger. I'm not alarmed yet

QUOTE (ptatc @ Aug 26, 2013 -> 06:50 PM) It's not for the stimulant, it's for the increased focus component that works with ADHD. If you have ADHD the drugs decrease the hyperactivity and allow the student to focus. The problem is with people you don't truly have the ADHD it can cause increased hyperactivity (similar to the stimulant) however, it cause many to lose focus and just be hyper. So many try but many also stop because it doesn't help. Yes, I have recently been diagnosed with ADHD and I have found amphetamine drugs to be very soothing for me. "Normal" people would not get this effect in most cases

If drone strikes are your top priority as q voter, you have to realize that Republicans in charge are extremely unlikely to end those policies. You may also feel that Democrats are unlikely to end those policies; you might be right, they might not end those policies (they have been unable and/or unwilling to do so, so far). Since they are, in the pessimistic view, equal on this issue, you move on to the next one on your list. Maybe human rights? Guess I'm voting Democrat.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 26, 2013 -> 07:14 PM) C'est la vie It sucks, but I'm not gonna lose any money over it, so... ehhh. If they decide he doesn't need surgery, what do you do with him? A bit of a gamble, but at least it's the seventh round

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 26, 2013 -> 07:54 PM) They just pointed out that Gordon's most similar comp at this age is Geoff Blum If it means a Sox WS, I'm in

White? check Brown hair? check Man? check Douchebag? check Batman!

Hey knight, really glad I didn't make that trade

QUOTE (bbilek1 @ Aug 26, 2013 -> 12:09 PM) I don't know if this has been mentioned in this thread yet but I had heard on ESPN that while Puig signed for 7yr/42mil, the second highest dollar amount he was offered was 12 million. Take it for what it's worth. I want that agent then

All we can know for sure is that Hillary will sometimes say the F-word Also, Greg you made me laugh my ass off by googling "Hillary Clinton is a b****"

I'm going to be working with Roger Scruton's How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism in a course this semester, and I'm very excited. Scruton is a really good thinker on the conservative end of the spectrum and I've really enjoyed some of his work, including his "Short Introduction to Beauty" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/019989557...=UTF8&psc=1

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 25, 2013 -> 06:27 PM) In some areas there does exist the 'stigma' of 'acting white'. It does exist. Go ahead, call me a racist for pointing that out. I don't claim to know why that exists, but it does. I also witnessed it with some of my friends in high school, although that was many years ago. But they caught hell for hanging with us white kids for 'trying to be white'. Of course. People used to get arrested, whipped, killed, etc. for doing "white" things such as reading and writing. Sometimes cultural things take a while to fade away. I'd have a tough relationship with what I perceived to be white culture in that situation too

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 25, 2013 -> 08:30 PM) I hate the Cubs more than anyone....and I hope they go on a 10 game win streak and the Sox lose 10 in a row. If we had a top 3 farm system and not a bottom 3 farm system, I might feel different. When it's the Cubs, I feel pretty confident that they'll f*** it up in the long run

I'd like to have a better record than the Cubs....because Cubs fans are stupid and really care about that stuff and thus make me care about it

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 25, 2013 -> 12:44 PM) Joe is a f***ing nutbag, like the drunk uncle you try to ignore at family gatherings. Just because he has been sucking off the government teat forever doesn't make him competent to be President. And just because Hillary sucked up her dignity and stayed with Bill doesn't make her fit to be president either. I don't HAVE to have a viable person to replace them to say that they would SUCK at the job. You still never told me just what Hillary's credentials are. Job titles don't do it. And McCain is a demented old man obsessed with being liked by the media, Palin believes her own hype way too much and Rand Paul will never be able to escape the crazy of his dad. Romney had better 'credentials' than Obama, or Joe or Hillary for that matter. Joe Biden says silly things all the time, but that didn't make him a bad legislator or wholly unfit for the presidency. To insinuate that Palin and Biden were equally unfit for office is what is crazy here. A huge part of governance is actually knowing as much about issues as possible and this is especially true for the president, who doesn't have the luxury of specializing on a given committee or two. We know Palin was a complete idiot that never had a fighting chance at knowing even the basics of public policy, had little to no legitimate experience as a politician AND had every other negative personality trait that you dislike about Joe Biden. You probably watched the VP debate this last time and saw those things you don't like about Biden (I saw those things you don't like too) - he can be impulsive, too witty for his own good, etc. What you should also see is that he is a policy expert with unmatched legislative experience as he mopped the floor with the wiz kid Paul Ryan, who just couldn't stand a chance either due to deliberate misinformation, lack of knowledge, or (my guess) both. Biden may not be your or my favorite to be the next President, but he's a lot more qualified than just about anybody that has been considered for those positions recently. QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 25, 2013 -> 02:25 PM) I'm a Republican but I guess I've changed quite a bit. I did vote for Obama believe it or not this last time. I just couldn't vote in good conscience for the Republican ticket. I also like the idea of Obamacare, though like everything else in America, it's impossible to understand it. I have no fricking idea how it works for me if I get laid off and lose my insurance, no fricking clue. I'm sure I'd have to read 50 pages of legalese to find out. I just truly think Hillary is "bad, bad, bad", to copy a George Bush line. I think my Republican party is pretty much obsolete, except catering to the rich assholes who are ruining American business by laying off so many people chasing every nickle while exploiting their workers. I'd suspect the next Demo candidate will win, I just hope it's not Hillary getting the nomination which she probably will. I think she might ruin our great country single-handedly. I think the bolded is actually impossible. We had who was very likely the worst president in our history in GWB and our country made it. Some bad stuff happened and is happening, some of it is his fault or could have been prevented by a better POTUS, but we made it. If you hate Obama, you can see that our country is not falling apart despite so many years of his leadership. This is, of course, how democracy should work. It should be very difficult for one idiot to ruin the whole thing, POTUS or not. I like to think of McCarthy way back in the day -- the witch hunt was crazy, it hurt the country and the people in it, but we had the means to stop it. Some of the means was just the fact that Congress requires a lot of people to agree with you for things to happen, part of it is Congress slowing things down so that we have time to more calmly evaluate what is going on, and much of the rest is on the people (media included) to intervene, which they eventually did.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 25, 2013 -> 03:32 PM) See! This is what I was referring to! Just identifying the fact that there is a problem here (and there clearly is) has been relabeled racist. Now if you start making excuses here, start hyping the multi-culti myth of cultural coexistence and how its just white privilege that created all these problems it sounds real good to people who are terrified of looking racist when they try to articulate the cause of all this. Holding people accountable for anything, both individually and as a group is just not something you're willing to do unless you're self loathing whites. You didn't identify a problem, you just offered an explanation (which is that black culture sucks and is not fit for Western civilization - I suppose the next step is shipping black folks to Liberia?) Black folks didn't have to have anything in common, but they do because of white folks. It can't be shocking that there will be differences consistent with demographics when their parents', grandparents', etc. livelihood had been altered in a consistently negative way by white people and their government. It seems to me that Western civilization must be at fault, since it created this "problem"

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 25, 2013 -> 10:00 AM) Why did I think he threw in the mid-90's? Hm. He did in HS

I used to get annoyed by Greg, but I really don't now. I honestly look forward to hearing what he has to say about things on Soxtalk. Not necessarily because I think they'll be "right" but they will always be....stimulating