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Hi Mister Hugz, I am sorry to hear about your situation, It might be helpfull to lay down the rules a bit with regards to what kind of discussions you would accept with your mother,..,tantrums are not good or helpfull, and also word-use is important I dont know what is going on with your stepdad, but a lot of drugusers are actually attempting to selfmedicating themselves for a variaty of reasons. It think overall there should be more compassion going around.. instead of attacking, but of course there are boundaries to compassion if it harms your self interest. In case of the soldier trying to get you to sign up for more years,.., I think you handled it well,... , maybe you got him thinking,..., who knows....,you were also almost a decade in the military,..., so for some it takes longer then others,..,thats just how it is. All money is 2 handshakes away from the grim reaper, regardless if you work in the private or public sector. You are planning your escape to greener pastures...,I think it is best to concentrate on this future.

That just shows the the double standard,.., during the Neurenberg trials a lot of soldiers excused themselves with "befehl ist befehl".. (I was ordered to do it by my superiors). The US judges made the argument that lower military commanders and soldiers were culpable aswell....oh really???..., but now US soldiers are legal property of the US? This is a legal framework is new to me

yup, there is a whole universe out there to explore.

'class segregation?' It sounds a bit marxist to me, and it (the word) taps emotionally into race-seggregation (wich was also a government program) why would "poor" people care about what rich people do or vise versa,.. this artificially using government guns to have people forcefully associate is a bad thing.

What would Stef think about the idea of freedomain radio having an (akin to odesk.com) forum where ancap can engage in economic activity with each other? I think it would be a good community for that.

Cylons will rise and rule the earth...

There is no resource shortage,.., there is a technology /knowledge shortage ,.., . you can have all the resources in the world but if you have no meaningfull amount of engineers,..., not good,.., its going to be a bit difficult..,

I am from the Cargo-cult, and I pray 5x a day in the general direction of boeing headquaters in chicago. My god is real and has funky superpowers like flying with wings and dropping of goodies like good tasting food (cargo).

You owned them like a boss!!!

USA has a tipping culture...., I dont understand why a salaried employee in a customer facing situation should be tipped just for doing her job. If it was akin to a sales job , then she should just get a fixed commission on the food she sells, but that is of course not the same as tipping. -- I was in the US 5x, but never tipped, I avoided restaurants like the plague.

The sites are very interesting and media centric organised, venusproject, isnt that Peter Josef and RBE? www.tromsite.com is my fav. more of a lecture format. There will be a list to graduate books (buy at amazon and dover publishing). Some math books are expensive (100-300 usd) , in the future i will look for cheaper replacements. I cannot advocate the use of torrent although of course people will use it . There will be a hierarchy of dependancies (if you want to know about A you have to do C D and R first that kind of thing.) First year cirriculem will go online soon. (study outlines, numerical simulation scripts,..,and worked out solutions will be github). The material is top notch, better when what was presented to me during my studies, the books on the list is personally read and worked thourgh by me so i am not recommending something i halfhartedly read. The site will be concentrated around working out solutions in said books. Or if there is a solution manual available (some textbooks have this) I will highlight wich solutions are difficult to solve (as these are the ones that increase your understanding the most). Maybe in the future some ability like a forum where people can do homework together or ask questions. Or even the possiblity that more senior student can tutor beginners. If you want to do this parttime going through one of the books will take you 1-2 month of your spare time, if you spend 4 hours a day studying, thats because I really concentrate on the problem solving to integrate this knowledge into the intuitive part of your brian.

I have some ideas....

Sounds like Singapore to me.

"...I studied computer science and finished it..." Funny why CS people are the only ones explicitly stating they finished a course... I wonder why that is. Nothing personal, just noting this is kind of a trend within CS community (my experience anyway). CS in Europe is exactly the same as in the US. Schools may differ but the same goes for differences between schools withing the Euro space. Added: This whole college debate is a waste of time,.., I would like to see ancaps moving forward and designing DIY courses (in CS and others) online. There is DIY for everything these days, from building jets, homes, ships, submarines,..,....., why not science/engineering learning? A good start would be that several (in the case of CS) grads just post their entire 4 year curriculem online. with the books they have read, reviews, etc etc. etc and take it from there. We could have a online communities around DIY learning disciplines.... Free citizens should ban together and create solutions and alternatives to state-subsidized learning centers...,

I think it is helpfull to get away from the fact using programming as a benchmark to measure intelligence or if college works as advertised. We might aswell use "liberal arts" as a benchmark if you want to go there. You have to understand that a lot of nonsense degree are promoted because part of higher education is a scam. The scam is to feed some ego of people who dont wnat to do the legwork doing any of the science disciplines. Even then a lot of it you can do by yourself (especially the theoretical part). Its important to not feed this scam by acknowledging certain course as totally useless. For CS..I think their would be a few schools that would teach ( in an ancap environment) that would concentrate on compiler deisgn, networking protocols, os design,..,

there is some hidden pedofilia shit going on here.

The guy is an intellectual on the state's gravy train,..., bought and sold....mmm prostitution is legal afterall.

True, we have a lot of witchdoctors these days..., but I would not call them philos.

Well,.., i will take your story about not being spanked and treated well at face value.. irrational behavior,..., this is always a result of dysfunction,.., why are you speaking to a therapist? It seems on your side you have a need for emotional bonding with your family members, emotional bonding with severely irrational people is extreemly harmfull.

The job doesnt sound so awesome to you.., the way you talk about it..., You should take your salary as a given, companies normally are not in the habit of overpaying. I am not really sure what the problem is here,..., ok..., it seems there is some reward for playing silly office games in your company,..., but you are also doing very good for yourself (getting "outstanding" reviews etc). You might talk to your manager and discuss your need to grow in a more senior role and why you are not being promoted. Having managing experience is always a good thing. Are people bullying you at work? is anyone acting in an otherwise negative fashion towards you? For starting a business, this is not for everyone..., failure is the most likely outcome (especially if it is your first company)...., you should emotionally accept this.

its a good thing employers of the state trusted with guns are mentally stable!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/04/fbi_laser_reward/ US has gone wacko roman empire style! Thats not normal,..., 14 years prison,.., for a kid pointing a DIY laser at a helicopter. http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2014/03/12/laser-sentence-14-years-california-alpa/6330661/ Sergio Rodriguez, 26, of Clovis, was sentenced Monday for pointing a laser at a Fresno police helicopter, according to U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner. Rodriguez and his girlfriend, Jennifer Coleman, 23, were both convicted by a federal jury after a three–day trial in December.

ya know,.., sex is not really worth this kind of drama. girls are attracted to fat wallets,...like guys are attracted to physical beauty. Selfknowledge might mitigate biological drives, but not by much.

you should try a therapist maybe. I think this is the place for you to start

this may sound like a bit of a rant.., but maybe someone can explain to me why anyone needs ..."would spoonfeeding be an accurate description?" while everyone is basicly tzunamizied in massive amounts of information. I am just not getting it. This basicly means that if you have mature career (as in ex student), it will be totally impossible to selfstudy and adapt to the market changes,..,because...well, one never did any form of self-whatever in the past. I dont understand this overly dependence on tutors, from public school system or otherwise, sure, you can get stuck when analyzing a problem, but the web can help more then any tutor can. in my opinion Ancaps should try to be more seflactualized when it comes to acquiring skills and knowledge.