epochwolf

> Setup a business page for that persona or whatever.

Yeah... this doesn't work very well. I'm not transgendered or gay but I have a fairly weird hobby that has some parallels. I dress up in an animal costume on the weekends.

My primary social identity is Epoch Wolf. Most of my friends (100+ people I'm in regular contact with) know me as such. I actually answer better to "Epoch" than my real name.

Facebook forces me to use my real name. My Epoch Wolf account was banned years ago. Because of this, my family, my church, and my coworkers have seen pictures of me dressed up as a pink lynx at a furry convention.

I don't have the option of not using facebook. If I want to keep in contact with my friends OR MY CHURCH, I need to use it. Church events are only posted on facebook!

The only reason this is tolerable is:

* I have a lot of self-confidence.

* I am a straight, white, cis-gendered male with a college degree working a white collar job.

* I have an excellent relationship with my parents.

* My pastor has been to anime conventions.

* My coworkers are younger people who also have their own weird hobbies.

* I don't partake in the sexual aspects of furry fandom that the media and 4chan like to make a big deal about.

Because me dressing up in animal costumes is the only weird thing I do, I can get away with it. Everyone I know sees me as a normal person with a weird hobby.

Far too many of my friends have been severely judged by their parents or churches for being gay or having a weird hobby. Some of them have been kicked out by their parents and others live with constant emotional abuse and struggle with crippling depression.

Sorry, this got a little rambly. If I had more time I would write a shorter letter, etc. Anyway, it takes a lot of things going for you to be able to openly participate in a sub-culture that's not well looked upon and having that being dismissed so lightly irritates me to no end.

> So it's usually not a problem if you're not abusing the anonymity.

This is incorrect for some communities, I have a lot of friends who are furries and their accounts get banned for not having real names all the time. For example, my Epoch Wolf account got banned years ago.

That's because you can mail a letter with just a name and a zipcode if your name is unique enough. The city, state, and a description of the location also works.

There is some standardization of addresses but even those formats can be troublesome.

There's a lot of older web applications that run via cgi.

I know more than a few people that carry smart phones in their back pockets.

This fits better for me. I have two modes: I can either be "the life of the party" as I am right now. I try to spend most of my weekends out with friends, never being alone and I get antsy when am faced with a weekend alone. I spend my weeknights relaxing and cleaning.

Or give me a project I'm interested in, and you won't see me during the weekends for months. I'll be content to go out for a meet or two during the week but any large block of time will be consumed by my hobby.

No matter which extreme I'm in, I need a quiet place and a solitary activity to recharge. When I'm the life of the party, it's quiet week nights alone. When I'm on a project, it's the in the evening on the weekends after working on a project all day.

> it seems like they could go under very easily if hit by something unexpected

They do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_bankruptcies_in_the_Uni...

As a counter point, Apple has a habit of labeling products with i- and labeling software libraries with -Kit.

> As this hasn't been happening

I believe this is incorrect. In Russia, two terrorists set off a bomb outside the secure area in the arrival hall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domodedovo_International_Airpor...

The iodine used in cleaning skin causes all kinds of internal damage if ingested. See http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/symptoms-o...

In C, there is no concept of null or undefined, only 0.

This would mean something to me if police officers actually did something about the criminals in their own ranks.

> There's nothing that prevents a non-Microsoft calendaring system from supplanting it, other than on agreeing on the protocol.

Google and Apple both have integrated calendar and email systems. They just use separate apps instead of having everything in one silo.

Clearly you have not attempted to use an S-Video cable. :)

That only works if

1. The cable has a logo.

2. You can see the logo.

3. The device and cable both conform to the standard.

4. The port is not vertical.

5. The device you are plugging in is not on it's side or upside down.

6. The user is sober and of a clear, calm mind.

Samaritan's Purse was mentioned in the article. I did some volunteer construction work with them in Mississippi a year after Hurricane Katrina. We did mention we were a religious group when people asked but we didn't spend time proselytizing. We were there to help people regardless of their religious beliefs. Nothing was asked in return for our service.

> One explanation could have been that it was a 30-meter-wide piece of rock, but University of Arizona astronomers found that the object's electromagnetic spectrum was consistent with white titanium dioxide paint, the same paint used by NASA for the Saturn V rockets.

I know this is a really old thing but the idea that we can determine composition of the surface of an object from so far away simply by looking at the light it reflects is absolutely incredible to me. Very science fiction. :)

Jet engines are lined with kevlar to contain engine failures. It usually works. Uncontained engine failures are extremely rare. I'd hope they are using similar technology to prevent flywheel bits from flying outside the bus. Parts around the flywheel container will probably be damaged or destroyed but the container should survive intact.

There's two types of flywheels I'm aware of that are failsafe. The first is a tape flywheel. On failure it unwinds inside the container. The other type is a system where the disk is made of powdered ceramic. In the event of overload it turns to dust.

A paper I found online suggests the F1 system uses a powdered ceramic disk: http://136.142.82.187/eng12/Author/data/2097.docx

Just because there's no simple objective way to categorize and measure something doesn't mean it's automatically invalid.

Because there are places that will loosen qualifications to attract people of a specific race or gender because they can't find enough qualified candidates of that race.

One of the universities I attended had a lower set of requirements and scholarships for those that identified as "black". (The region was 96% white at the time so not really a surprise. Diversity was lacking and the admissions department was desperate.)

Many times. My grandmother was a hospice nurse for most of her career.

This is also true for me, I almost always took notes in college but it was rare for me to read them except to retrieve formulas that weren't in the course notes.

Most of my mom's extended family lives in The Villages, I've been there quite a few times. It's a nice place and my grandparents have few complaints about how things are run.

You forgot one thing, facebook knows what your friends tell them.

Something like that. I'm a part of the furry fandom. This is the first site I've even seen were LGBT is not heavily associated with sex.

I didn't mean to offend.

Point of Sale machines, machine controllers, etc.

Is this Safe For Work?

That's basically what I'm doing today. I'm trying to figure out what the hell that guy that originally wrote this codebase was thinking. (Probably something like "Oh hey, Ruby has this feature Java didn't have, let's use it in exactly the wrong way!")

There's a half truth there, a lot of young people think they are a lot smarter than they really are. They have false confidence that goes with not knowing what they don't know.