One minute I'm eating Coco Pebbles and watching the smurfs.
Today my parents are getting noticeably *old* and just about half of my life,(if I live to match statistics,) is over.
Death is inevitable for everyone, of course. And yeah! We all get to experience it.
Before I have an anxiety attack, someone tell me what happens when you die.
Incidentally, do you believe in the whole thing about your spirit staying with your body for three days? Or is this another of those weird, Catholic things?

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A couple of nights ago I had a long conversation with a friend of mine about Kuro5hin.  He's about 63, so I sometimes have to explain Internet culture to him, which is great, because he doesn't smugly take for granted what happens here.

He asked me, however, a question that was difficult to answer.

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I haven't even looked for a job yet. so what should I tell them when thanksgiving comes? I graduated several months ago.

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I am working on a C++ program to load in a csv delimited configuration file. I can load the file in line by line into a string, using the string library. I have also set up a "vector of vectors" using the vector library into which I hope to put the components of the configuration file. I just can't figure out how to "split up" each line I read in by the separating commas. Any suggestions using GNU G++ are welcome.

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30 yrs. prison.

Female teacher has sex with underage student. 3 years house arrest.

Justice has been served.

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/ ^------that key is currently not working. Perhaps I shall get a new keyboard for Christmas. CAN I GET SOME SUGGESTIONS? Das Keyboard looks pretty hax, but it is kind of pricey.

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Is this the new wave of software that we are supposed to deal with? I decided to install Microsoft Money 2005 and provide my own background music to listen to while it installed. Not so lucky, I was. Microsoft has decided to pick the music and play it for me. I can't mute it and listen to my own. I write this as the music is playing right now. One can only wonder what is in store for me when I start the application itself...

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In extreme cases there can be little doubt of the superiority of one race to another.... It seems on the whole fair to regard negroes as on the average inferior to white men, although for work in the tropics they are indispensible, so that their extermination (apart from questions of humanity) would be highly undesirable.

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I'm thankful I have the rest of the week off. I'm not thankful I'm going to have to put up with relatives tomorrow. I am thankful for mashed potatos.

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The top State-wide ecological correlations with IQ are rather fascinating. Make of them what you will but here are the thoughts that occur to me:

1. "United States or American" and "Unclassified or not reported" as US Census "nation of origin" categories are pretty much the same category. People who don't classify themselves could choose either of these as their "nation of origin". This probably means we're looking at a proxy for illegal aliens so it isn't suprising that this is the most negative ecological correlation with IQ.
2. "Swedish" and "Finnish" are Nordic "nations of origin" so their position as the highest positive ecological correlation with IQ matches the known correlation between latitude and average intelligence for Europe and confirms my suspicion that a big reason the motion picture industry casts blond males in negative roles is a resource competition from Jews -- specifically for high IQ niches.
3. The negative association between alcohol binging and IQ is interesting but the explanations are not quite obvious. Are we dealing with fetal alcohol syndrome? Or is it the fact that among the highest ecological correlates of binge drinking is the presence of blacks in the State and blacks generally test at lower IQs?

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