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Long background story short: I'm American, I moved to Finland when I was seven. I struggled with Finnish (Still do) and learned Swedish fluently, I go to school in Swedish. So recently I applied for Finnish citizenship now that I qualify for it, and it and the fact that the fourth of July is coming up got me thinking. When I go back to the US to visit my relatives, I feel like a Finnish tourist that knows everything. Then I get back to Finland and feel like a "loud, wasteful" American. Then I get settled for a while and don't feel like either. I just am. I don't feel patriotic to America or Finland, although I do recognize that a lot of work went into the independence of both. I don't feel like a citizen of either country (I'm assuming I'll get Finnish citizenship because there's really no reason for them to reject it), I will just have papers that give me the rights and responsibilities of a citizen of both countries. So whenever anyone gets really patriotic about either country, especially America as I feel somehow obligated to be patriotic because I was born there and everything, it gets kind of awkward for me. My point is mostly that I never feel like I belong to a country, I'm kind of in limbo. Now that's all well and good, but I also feel that I would like to feel I belong somewhere, I couldn't really tell you why. I'm wondering what other people think of this, and is there anyone else that feels similarly? Also, if you do feel like you belong somewhere, could you explain why?

Huh, I read before it but never even thought about that. I don't see why it would be a problem though.

HDR. All the lighting comes from that ray of light except for a tiny amount of fill I got from this weak florescent light nearby. Lots of people have probably already seen this, but I didn't get enough comments on dA. :-P I had problems keeping the colors consistent when I merged and adjusted it in PS. Yes, I booted up Windows. For the first time in about five months. And it broke after one boot. Way to go Windows! (I got it fixed again though) So, c/c and stuff?

Let's see, the parliament has a majority of women, and our president and prime minister are women. I still agree that it's not equal though, women still earn less.

Kind of related, I am starting to think I have weak dyslexia. I know my brother has it (Not so strong), and all the time I read words wrong because I thought a letter was somewhere else or I miss a word in a sentence, which can lead to problems when you miss a negation.

I can't actually think of much. I'm not very adventurous when it comes to food, but a few things I remember were pretty bad. Not like horrible death bad, but yeah. Penicillin (In the form of a pill), that stuff is weird. Someone made a cake and doused rum on it, I don't really remember the taste but I didn't like it. A week or two ago I had some Russian sauerkraut kind of thing... Really sour and kind of bitter and weird. It made beetroot taste good.

Four and a half years here. The feeling is mutual. I was like 12, lol. I'm getting near to four myself. Kinda weird. I actually have known about TIF since I was 11 or something, when my friend joined and showed it to me.

It just seems to me that it would be best to learn C really well, (Which is of course only procedural) and then learn C++ as a separate language with OOP.

I didn't even know that Canada day existed until last year. Don't worry, I haven't remembered the 4th of July for several years either. I'm just not big on this "belonging to a country" business. Gonna buy a Wacom Bamboo Fun medium today, oh yeah... :-D

^ I don't know what kind of programming education or experience you have, (i.e. you might know more than me) but I am guessing that GUI programming is taught more with Java than with C++. What's kind of strange to me is that they would teach C++ without teaching OOP. IMO if you're just going to teach procedural programming with a lower-level language you should just learn C, and learn OOP later with C++/Java. About the actual question, you could make a go fish program against the computer. :P Really simple game, there's not much AI to write.

Merch, concert tickets, special edition physical media (Ala Nine Inch Nails).

Like this, without the circles surrounding it?

Ahh those stupid cheapo disposable razors. It's just an indirect way of cutting up your face. I use an electric shaver because it's fast, and I don't care all that much as long as it gets rid of the hair, I used a straight razor for just long enough to know the basics in case I don't have access to an electric shaver (Sixish months?), but I didn't like it. It took too long and I cut myself nearly every time. Real men, however, use a sledgehammer to shave. They smash it into their face, knocking their stubble so far in that they just have to bite the hair off in their mouth. True story.

^What, really? I didn't know that. You're not the only one in that situation. <_< Oh, but in capitalism, it is. If a company wants to survive, they must adapt to the market- Not try to force the market to adapt to them. Excellent question. When you go to a record store and buy a CD or Vinyl, you are paying for physical media. You can't reproduce that physical media for a cost of much less than a cent (If you count the electricity that the file operation uses, which isn't even done by the media company). What about production costs, then? Concerts, of course. Just like physical media, you can't infinitely reproduce the experience of seeing a band or musician live. The media companies are producing the right thing but selling the wrong thing. It's a little bit like this: Imagine a company that makes boats. Instead of selling the actual boats, they sell boat rides for so much money that people start sneaking on. They're producing the right thing but selling the wrong thing. You could say that selling the boats themselves is more like what media companies are doing now, but it gets my point across: They're selling the wrong thing.

How do you plan on testing it? I assume you haven't purchased IPB :P No, and I'm not planning to either. If it works out we could use TIF's test installation that comes with each purchase of IPB. Yay proprietary software.

Not really, it will probably start after two things happen: 1. TIF upgrades to IPB 3.1.1 (Possibly 3.1.2 or later) 2. School starts. I won't actually be doing much there, and I don't really get on the internets during the summer.

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Not sure how well you can learn a language if you're not in a country with a large population of native speakers, so that you'd have someone to practice it on. Like America. :razz:

...Or both?

I've been on a Pixar binge lately, watching all the Pixar movies we own (All except two I think, Toy Story and Monsters Inc.). I might watch Finding Nemo tomorrow.

Thank goodness you came back. We need someone to convince the Admins to kick Das out. But like you said, drugs. On a more serious note I have no idea who you are, but a lot of old TIFers like Nadril and Azvareth are still here.

Magazines I'd like to have a subscription to: Linux Format Ubuntu User Linux Journ... Hey, where are you going? Computer Arts Computer Arts Projects Yeah. I'm not so interested in Wired although it is pretty interesting, I find the graphic design to be the best part. Gotten inspiration from Wired graphic design more than once. I used to like Reader's Digest. Then I turned thirteen and realized it was all sensationalist crap.

You bet he does. It's not showing up around here any time soon though.

Yeah. Because charred remains of paper are totally legible! How about manning up and showing your parents your stupid grades?

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