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@wolfxin:

I've been uploading to a total of over 30gb in the last two month and yet my ratio only jump a little bit.

With the system showing that in 65 weeks you have accrued 44.55 GB, and with you experiencing a 30 GB UL amount not being reflected in the aggregate over the past two months, both would indicate that 44.55 was accrued in 57 weeks, an average of 3 GB per month.

If 30 GB in two months is the amount uploaded and not reflected in the aggregate, my question would focus on any changed circumstances where a person and their connection previously uploading only 3 GB per month are suddenly uploading five–times that amount in the same period as the possible source of your upload amount dispossession.

I have Seasons 1, 4, and 6 — constituting 18 discs in total. Are you looking for these seasons posted as converted individual episodes in mp4 format or as unconverted individual discs (DVD-R)?

Please advise.

Vive la France!

February 12, 2013

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS (AP) — France's lower house of parliament approved a sweeping bill on Tuesday to legalize gay marriage and allow same-sex couples to adopt children, handing a major legislative victory to President Francois Hollande's Socialists on a divisive social issue.

The measure, approved in the National Assembly in a 329-to-229 vote, puts France on track to join about a dozen mostly European nations that allow gay marriage and comes despite a string of recent demonstrations by opponents of the so-called "marriage for all" bill. Polls indicate a narrow majority of French support legalizing gay marriage, though that support falls when questions about the adoption and conception of children come into play. The Assembly has been debating the bill, and voting on its individual articles in recent weeks. The overall legislation now goes in the coming weeks to the Senate, which also is controlled by the governing Socialists and their allies.

With Tuesday's vote, France joins Britain in taking a major legislative step in recent weeks toward allowing gay marriage and adoption — making them the largest European countries to do so. The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway and Spain, as well as Argentina, Canada and South Africa have authorized gay marriage, along with nine U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The issue has exposed fault lines between a progressive-minded leftist legislative majority in officially secular France, and the country's conservative religious roots. Critics — including many Roman Catholics — have railed that the bill would erode the traditional family. Socialists, however, sought to depict the issue as one of equal rights, and they played off France's famed Revolution-era motto of "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity."

"This law is going to extend to all families the protections guaranteed by the institution of marriage," Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said before Tuesday's vote. "Contrary to what those who vociferate against it say — fortunately they're in the minority — this law is going to strengthen the institution of marriage."

As with many major and controversial reforms in France, the issue drew its share of political grandstanding over weeks of debate. Conservative opponents forced a discussion of nearly 5,000 amendments, a move derided by Socialists as inconsequential stalling tactics. But by the final vote, the government rank-and-file rolled out grand, solemn statements of victory. "This law is a first necessary step, a social evolution that benefits society overall," said Socialist representative Corinne Narassiguin, announcing her party's support for the measure. "Opening up marriage and adoption to homosexual couples is a very beautiful advance. … It is an emblematic vote, a vote that will mark history."

However, the political right hasn't given up just yet, saying the Constitutional Court — whose 12 members include three former French presidents and several other prominent conservatives — will determine whether the law, if finally passed, meshes with the law of the land. "So it's not the end of the story yet," said Herve Mariton, a member of the main opposition UMP party. "We still have arguments to make and we want to convince people that it is not a good project."

The government didn't get all it wanted. The Socialists last month backed off plans to link the gay marriage measure to relaxed restrictions on fertility treatments, after catching political heat for its stance on assisted reproduction. The issue is expected to come up in a separate bill later this year. Hollande made legalizing gay marriage one of the planks in his 60-point program on the way to winning the presidency in May over conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. But Hollande's popularity has fallen along with France's lackluster economic performance, and his foes on the right appear to sense he might be vulnerable on a high-profile social issue.

The latest polls suggest a narrow majority of French support gay marriage, but that has declined from about two-thirds support in August. In mid-January, at least 340,000 people swarmed on the Eiffel Tower to protest the plan to legalize gay marriage, according to police estimates. Two weeks later, about 125,000 proponents of the bill marched in the capital. French civil unions, allowed since 1999, are at least as popular among heterosexuals as among gay and lesbian couples. But that law has no provisions for adoption or assisted reproduction.

μTorrent 3.3 has been made the latest stable rel. as of the 12th. Can this be used or should we stick with 3.2.3

thnx

This is what confused me, as my "Last-Completed" list only shows 31 torrents. At a sum total of 13 GB, it appears to be missing 192 GB (give or take the ones that, having been deleted from the tracker, would not be available anyhow for inclusion). As none of the 31 showing torrents antecede August of 2011, additional entries were probably lost during the recent interregnum of domain un-availability.

My guess for what happened is this: In the past, this "Last-Completed" list used to only track 50 torrents. At some point in time a change must have been made to increase this number to 250. When implemented, it did not affect torrents downloaded retro-actively and those torrents were forgotten by the system. So for example, if a member had downloaded 51 torrents on the day before the increase was implemented, their "Last-Completed" list the day after would still only show 50 torrents, as anything beyond that amount and prior to the change would have been wiped from the queue.

:cheers:
So I believe the mystery of the incredibly-shrinking list has been solved. :cool2:

@MrMazda:

The answer to that question is dependent on a number of things, including….the emotional and sexual chemistry between you and the person you're with."

Or, as in the case of those three videos— the person you're not with.

So then these torrents (all less-than-100 of them) should be, by design, present on the list?

By my count, the Last 250 Completed Torrents list on my home profile page is short < 100 entries. Is this by design?

:blink:

Any HBO subscription is money well spent.

@agis:

If moral was based upon the feelings this kind of statement couldn't resist to  all the counterfactuals concerning the numerous cases when feelings have not dictated and still don't dictate moral but immoral behaviours."

Seeing cooperation as an evolutionary trait recognizable by infants suggests why all moral thought takes the form of feelings rather than rationally motivated thinking. Feelings are in the long-term more beneficial to us and to our concept of morality precisely because we have limited control over their emotional effects. This limited control introduces an element of unexpectedness to what we experience, and people invariably learn more from unexpected things in life than they do from the expected ones.

@agis:

Personally I'd consider those reactions as lead by this opening pleasure  more than an awareness of a good and right which, in themselves, could even not exist at all. Right?"

The fact that 80% of these infants demonstrated some kind of feelings towards the "helpful" puppets as opposed to the "unhelpful" puppets may indicate an inherent attraction towards these helpful behaviors concomitant with an inherent dislike of the unhelpful behaviors. As people are mostly attracted to things which are pleasing to them, your observation would naturally be the correct one.

Since feelings form the foundation of all moral thoughts — and all babies have feelings (they laugh and cry) — this Yale study may say something quite profound about the origins of human morality.

@jamesbr66:

Did morality begin with religion or has it been an evolving concept/characteristic within human nature?"

A study on infants at Yale University may shed some light on this matter.

See for yourself:

hxxp://nyti.ms/qFDXGt

Cet femme est dommage.

@leatherbear:

The scientists in Koebler's article, in my view, are now resorting to genetic subterfuge and are coming dangerously close to saying that homosexuality is the result of a genetic defect, a genetic abnormality. In other words, read from one angle, these same scientists are saying that homosexuality is the result of a birth defect. All this in an effort to maintain some ever thinner thread of connection between biology and homosexuality.

I do not for one moment believe that homosexuality is pre-determined, either genetically or epigenetically. "

The hypothesis for an epigenetic cause of homosexuality put forth by these scientists can be described as a series of statements:

1. Empirical studies demonstrate that XX fetuses are canalized to blunt androgen signaling (lower sensitivity to T) and XY fetuses are canalized to boost androgen signaling (higher sensitivity to T).

2. Empirical studies demonstrate the production of XX- and XY-induced epi-marks in embryonic stem cells and extensive sex-specific differences in gene expression at this time. Epi-marks laid down during the embryonic stem cell stage are also established to influence gene expression later in development. This stem cell period is the most plausible candidate time point for the production of epi-marks influencing sensitivity to androgens later in development (canalization of fetal androgen signaling).

3. Epi-marks produced in embryonic stem cells are mitotically transmitted to cell lineages leading to both the soma and the germline, and contribute to pseudo-heritability when they escape erasure across generations (nonerasure in the primordial germ cells and in the zygote and first few cell divisions of the next generation). Animal models as well as human data unambiguously demonstrate that such a multistep escape from erasure does occur at nontrivial frequency.

4. Epi-marks blunting (in XX fetuses) or boosting (in XY fetuses) androgen signaling will be sexually antagonistic (SA-epi-marks) when they have a nonzero probability of carryover across generations and are expressed in oppose sex descendants. Such carryover will contribute to discordance between the gonad and one or more sexually dimorphic traits.

5. The modeling work done by these scientists shows that SA-epi-marks are favored by natural selection over a broad span of parameter space because there is a net benefit to the carrier (due to canalization of sexually dimorphic development) that is not offset sufficiently by transmission (and fitness reduction) to opposite sex descendants.

6. Genetic mutations causing SA-epi-marks are expected to fix in populations and are therefore not expected to be polymorphic except transiently during their initial spread within a population. Therefore, no association between genotype and homosexuality is predicted.

7. Because the androgen signaling pathways differ among organs and tissues (e.g., use of different AR cofactors), the same inherited SA-epi-mark can affect only a subset of sexually dimorphic traits, e.g., no effect on the genitalia, but a large effect on a sexually dimorphic region of the brain.

8. Shared, gonad-discordant SA-epi-marks that carryover across generations would contribute to the observed realized heritability of homosexuality, e.g., monozygotic twins share the same SA-epi-marks coinherited from a parent.

9. Unshared, gonad-concordant SA-epi-marks, produced during fetal development, would contribute to the low proband concordance of homosexuality observed between monozygotic twins, i.e., they need not share SA-epi-marks generated during development that occurs after the twins have separated.

10. Homosexuality occurs when an individual inherits one or more gonad-discordant SA-epi-marks that are not masked nor erased by the production of de novo gonad-concordant SA-epi-marks that accrue during ontogeny. The SA-epi-mark(s) influence androgen signaling in the part of the brain controlling sexual orientation, but not the genitalia nor the brain region(s) controlling gender identity.

An illustration of these steps:

Reference

W.R. Rice, U. Friberg, S. Gavrilets, et al. (2012) Homosexuality as a Consequence of Epigenetically Canalized Sexual Development. The Quarterly Review of Biology, p. 000. The University of Chicago Press. DOI: 10.1086/668167

@Amazonios:

How do you react in situations like this? That spark that lights up, when you see some great looking stranger in the street?"

Usually people do not want a person who wants them too badly too early that they'd be willing to approach them out of nowhere to say hello. Someone who does that risks being ignored, as the person being approached will believe it shows the person approaching them may be desperate, and that they should wait for someone better.

It also shows the person being approached that this person approaching them may have their emotions too easily triggered by people (hence too easily triggerable by someone else). The contradiction involved in courtship— flaunting your desire while playing hard to get— is too-complicated a task for people passing on the sidewalk.

There is not one scintilla of surprise to be found here in how the good doctor runs his rusty-squeezebox of a talkshow.  The Oz mode d'emploi is found in almost the entire breadth of hokem and clap-trap created for television in his name and, not-coincidentally, in another's: Harpo Productions (Oprah)

His enervated "direction" of aides and co-producers in the developing and airing of a segment featuring people and information that, presumably— while reading byline in a make-up chair— he himself only discovered 15 minutes prior to, is idiocy on priceless display.

When a man looks back at a life filled with regret, mistakes, bad fortune, and missed opportunities, he is filled with an anger he cannot control, a spite which he cannot ignore, and a desire for retribution against those who wronged him which may never come to pass.

It is in the face of these feelings and the pain that accompanies them that he will perform his final act, his Götterdämmerung— a masterful performance by a lifelong actor which, he hopes, will inveigle those in the audience who survive him from discovering the real villain responsible for what is ultimately a lamentable squandering of the gift of life — himself.

@ultmate:

And hey, 220mg of ZINC can be very poisonous, even lethal…

You are incorrect. The UL doses listed in your chart are of elemental zinc, and should not be confused with the amounts listed in my post. For example, approximately 23% of zinc sulfate consists of elemental zinc; thus, 220 mg of zinc sulfate contains 50 mg of elemental zinc, both of which are not lethal doses.

Both amounts are on the product label, and for the compound I mentioned (sulfate) are never more than 220mg (50 mg elemental) per dose.

@fancydude:

Any idea why DVD Decryptor isn't working?"

You may be confusing DVD Decrypter (a defunct program) with DVDFab Decrypter. Both freeware's enabled users to either copy a full disc or just the main movie from a disc (the .vob files) but only the latter program is still available.

You have to seperately specify your avatar by it's URL in both the main profile section and your forum profile section. For you that link would be:

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