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I'm sorry to see this, no one should be exposed to a DV situation. My sympathies. Go to a shelter, they are well guarded. They can provide you with housing, legal assistance and counseling.
Please, please, PLEASE call one of the following hotlines I will link to you below. Do it at work if you feel safer. They will help you avoid this assclown.
http://houseofruthinc.org/home
Sadly, the number is shrinking (one closed around me a few years ago).
Here's a list, though I don't know how accurate, or updated it is: http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Movies/Theaters/Drive-In_Theaters/United_States/
EDIT: I live in Pennsylvania (#2 on the list of most!), and that seems accurate to what I hear about. So it could be up to date.
EDIT2: As people are mentioning, it is a lot more inaccurate then I thought... whoops.
I don't know that site in particular, but it's design reminds me of all the old geocities witchcraft sites from back in the day.
Browsing this DMOZ archive is really nostalgic.
Turns out it's a summary that Google automatically pulled from DMOZ.
Good luck finding a category where the editor is still active. It can't hurt to fill out the form, but don't be surprised if you never hear back.
There are many categories that don't even have editors, so your form won't get delivered to anyone who can do anything with it. If you scroll down to the bottom of a category, you'll either see something like you see here where the editor is mentioned, or you'll see "volunteer to edit this category", like here. If you see the "volunteer" link, then your options are to either just turn around and go home, or volunteer to edit the category. The latter is your only chance of getting listed in that category.
Great answer and the one I would recommend for most people, but it is browser based and I actually prefer reading newsgroups in a client, and for reading I prefer command line clients as they are faster and easier to read . I use sln , because it was what I learned on in Linux, no other reason besides familiarity..
If you want to configure a newsreader there are free newsgroup providers that do not provide binaries. http://www.yottanews.com/contact.html and http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Public_News_Servers/ should get you started.
You can find plenty of free usenet server software, the hardware is what will end up costing you.
Depending on which groups you want to get you're going to need a ton of storage space and your connection is might be constantly maxed out. There's little benefit for doing this unless you really want to archive all the posts in some particular group(s).
Here's a list of usenet server software: http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/Usenet/
Correct register is a matter of a whole lot more than just the choice between "Sie" and "du". FWIW, the "du" form is usual for publications aimed at this age group.
Here's a list of online teenage magazines for you to browse through. Bravo is the most well-known one.
I found this list too: http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Movies/Theaters/Drive-In_Theaters/United_States/
I checked PA (where I live) and it seems accurate to what I hear is still around.
EDIT: As people are mentioning, it is a lot more inaccurate then I thought... whoops.
You're using 2016 logic.
If you take away the dotcom boom, and go back 20 years or so, you would have a completely different perspective.
Yahoo was one of the most notable companies of the late nineties to early 2000's because they were one of the first to start categorizing websites and making them easier to find and share.
Once Google showed up, all of the old search engines like Altavista, Ask, and Yahoo effectively lost prominence and the best search engines were the ones that could compete or find their own stake in the internet market.
"Knowledge of tech stocks" doesn't really seem that easy to access if you go back 16 years and look at how many people were so invested in the dotcom boom because they thought Internet = "makes money"
For an example of a website similar to old Yahoo, DMOZ still exists.
Why not try other, smaller mini tours? They offer quality competition to test your game so you can see how close you really are to becoming a full time pro golfer.
If Zen is your thing, start with the Zen Open Directory. You can find a center in your area.
Buddhist Centers vary greatly in form and function. Some are full-on temples like you would imagine from a movie, some are priories that are basically houses with areas for monks to live and people to meditate, and some are little more than an office or apartment space converted for weekly use. Most US centers bear more resemblance to the latter examples. You might have to try a couple to figure out what you like.
No matter where you go, the people will probably be very receptive to new folks. Once you find a center, see if they have a website and email the teacher, letting them know that you are new, and ask when a convenient time for a newbie to stop in would be. I would strongly urge you to take advantage of weekly or monthly meditation sessions at the centers.
It sounds like you are wanting one-on-one time with a teacher. Feel free to ask the teacher for a convenient time for that; most places have a system set up. Again, take advantage of the regular group sitting offered by the center. You can form a mutual relationship with the teacher and have plenty of contact with people who are asking the same kinds of questions you are.
As far as participating, just identify someone who looks like they know what they're doing and do that. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Most everybody is super-nice. When in doubt, bow. And take your shoes off at the pile of shoes.
Lastly: all the teachings and wisdom can come to you through meditation. Reading books and speaking with those with more experience than you can help you and provide you with a framework for your journey, but it will come through meditation if you commit yourself.
Good luck buddy!
Not now - you're a mess, legitimately, but in a couple-four weeks or so consider finding and getting involved with a grief group of some kind, even if only online (tho face-to-face much better). Most are free or donation supported, some church related, many not.
I doubt I would have survived my Beverly's death without mine.
Grief is not something we are taught to deal with, and everyone finds their own methods, these point to some:
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
Actually they do,
http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Poland/Science_and_Environment/Biology/
The Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, among others, is highly regarded. In addition the EU has many other independent research facilities.
Maybe a more relevant point is that there are no (or very, very few) independent long term studies on transgenic crops in the United States. Long term being more than six months. There are virtually no studies with humans and GMOs.
Let's not forget directories. The early days of Yahoo! were as a list of categorized links, not a search engine/web portal.
It looked pretty much like this community project to build & maintain a modern web directory.
I only have http://home.tiscali.se/~torb1/KultKlan/campaigns/kkcamp1.htm and http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Roleplaying/Systems/Kult/ in my bookmarks. Sadly both pages are gone. You may try to dig them up on archive.org. Good luck, sadly i don't remember if they were useful :(
I have still some paper books here (5-10), but nothing in electronic format.
See the Suggested Links on the right side. For a book have a look at Metcalf, Cohen, Reid: Modern Fortran explained. It can serve as a reference but also has examples and tasks. Maybe this Linklist is also helpful: http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Fortran/FAQs%2C_Help%2C_and_Tutorials/Fortran_90_and_95/
Seconding PastPerfect; three of the museums I've worked in have used this software and it's by far my preference. It's quite easy to learn, it looks good, and it can perform a lot of other functions in addition to the ones you've described, so if you have the cash, I'd consider it.
Otherwise, there are lots of open source software options available. I've used AdLib and it was pretty OK (it's the one that the collections management prof during my Museum Studies master's program seemed to prefer from among the open source programs). It would be worth it to spend a bit of time trying out a few of those options before you settle on one, I imagine.
Good luck!
As you report it the accident was the drunk's fault. Had you been driving you both might be dead. This death is not your responsibility, but coming to terms with it is.
Find and get involved with a Grief Group, even if only an online one.
Grief is not something we are taught to deal with, and everyone finds their own methods, these point to some:
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
I just put this on another post, but I think similar applies to you.
I suspect you need some more 'venting time', to process these issues, work them through. An in-person Grief Group could help with that. If you're in a community of any size you should be able to find one. Most are free or donation supported, some 'church' related, others not. These links point to resources for finding such.
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
http://griefnet.org/support/sg2.html
What you are going through is 'normal', but like many other things in life supports are useful in coming to terms with.
"The planet" being Earth?
The center of the Milky Way is (or "appears to be" - I'm not sure if the distinction is meaningful) Sagittarius A*.
Any off-the-shelf observational astronomy program will be able to point you to Sagittarius A*, given your location, the time, and the date.
> getting music licenses is supposedly stupidly expensive.
This is BS. Licensing music isn't that expensive. A quick googling says it should be about $.0019 / performance (eg. per person watching the stream per song). That's 500 performances for a dollar, so with 50k people watching the stream, it's about $100/song. Of course, they couldn't put these in VODs to rebroadcast but.. Besides that, there are plenty of other options:
- Find some upcoming artists who would be happy to trade licensing for some promotion - name and url on the stream would most likely be enough.
- Find a record label that would be happy to trade licensing for some promotion - MLG isn't peanuts anymore so this should be doable
- Use royalty-free music
- Commission their own music, googling revealed some sort of rates
DDG is good; I also use these guys sometimes. As for your question, it's hard to say, but I think they got a too clever for their own good. Everything is based on popularity, not accuracy. Popularity was always an important part of PageRank, but they've taken it too far, imho.
Edit: P.S. If you've been on the 'net for that long, don't forget that these guys never went away! :P
You could do the standard chocolate chip cookie dry ingredients, cornbread or biscuit (like red lobster ones) dry ingredients
Try out this link for ideas: Gifts in a Jar
With a PhD in chemistry and a strong coursework in computer science, you are well qualified for many jobs, as well as many graduating computer science students. Some things you can do to improve your chances is work on your c/c++ skills, study object-oriented programming (if you don't already know it), and possibly build or contribute to an open-source project in your field. As for companies in the field, here's a directory of companies at DMOZ. You might also look at Chemical Engineering software jobs as well.
To be fair, I only ever knew him in that setting, and even then, I'd only see him once every 2-3 months. I have no idea what he did for a living or how he lived his day-to-day life. He was in his 50s.
If Zen is your thing, you might try the Zen Open Directory Project to find a place near you. It won't help if you're totally in the middle of nowhere, but at least you've got fresh air and this subreddit.
Let me try to explain you from basic how you can select your best Niches in Affiliate marketing.
There are the 3 main core markets namely : -> Health -> Wealth -> Relationship.
Now mainly all types of core markets have other sub-markets and niches.
Let say for example - Health - It has sub-market called as Nutrition and again Nutrition has its own niches like Diet Plan, Weight Loss etc.
So we can put in this way
Health - Nutrition - Dietplan/weightloss
Similarly, Wealth has many such sub-markets like the Internet, Finance, real estate, Online Advertising etc..
Relationship has also some core market and niches like Dating, Love, Divorce, B'days etc some other like Dogs, Pets etc,
So each niche falls under the 3 core markets and as per my experience, the Health & Wealth is the best affiliate markets to earn money through it.
So this way you can find best niche.
You can also refer to this link to find many categories and select the best niche in which you are passionate about - https://web.archive.org/web/20170201124825/http://www.dmoz.org/
You might want to start for coin op dealers close to where you live.
Start with these two lists, and contact whoever is nearest to you first: - http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Coin-Op/Arcade_Games/Dealers/ - http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Coin-Op/Dealers/
According to this page (http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9553) it is relatively common, though it is also popular among collectors.
And TIL that there was a sit-down version of this game!
Find and get involved with a Grief Group, even if only an online one.
Grief is not something we are taught to deal with, and everyone finds their own methods, these point to some:
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
I was a basket case after my Beverly died. A coworker made me go to a local grief group, wound up going for a year. For me it helped.
Most communities of any size have at least a few grief support groups, some church affiliated, many not. Most in this area are free or donation supported.
Even an online group might be useful, these links point to some.
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
Instead of law school, look into trying to get a job at one of the many non-profits that do the work you're interested in:
http://piperkerman.com/justice-reform/justice-reform-organizations
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Crime_and_Justice/Prisons/Organizations/
In the early days, the web was much smaller so things were easier to find. It was fairly common for sites to have lists of related links to help people find more content, even if it wasn't directly linked.
Instead of search engines, we had hand-categorized directories of stuff. The early versions of Yahoo! were just a directory (note: they're taking that down at the end of the 2014). There's also open projects like http://www.dmoz.org/
Search engines came about fairly early in the popular acceptance of the Internet. Alta Vista was running in 1995.
The problem was that directories gave you quality content while search engines helped you find specific content. Early search engines weren't terribly good at finding specific high quality content, so you generally had to use both. When Google came on the scene with their PageRank algorithm, they started giving you quality search results, which is why they became so big so fast.
Find a Grief Support Group, esp. since you have no family support:
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
Hadn't seen this site before, and it didn't appear in r/Accordion search... the creator's name isn't highlighted on the site, or I'd credit here... more interesting links at http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Instruments/Squeezebox/
> As an accordion lover and film addict, I can't help but notice squeezeboxes when they make a film appearance . I started this list in 1996, the "Year of the Accordion", as a tribute to the contributions these bellowed wonders have made to the cinematic arts.
> My list of "SqueezeBoxes on the Silver Screen" includes any film made for the big screen (feature, short or animation) in which a piano accordion, bandoneon, concertina, button box or melodeon is seen, heard or both... Special thanks to the wonderful people at: rec.music.makers.squeezebox!
I suspect you need some more 'venting time', to process these issues, work them through. An in-person Grief Group could help with that. If you're in a community of any size you should be able to find one. Most are free or donation supported, some 'church' related, others not. These links point to resources for finding such.
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
http://griefnet.org/support/sg2.html
What you are going through is 'normal', but like many other things in life supports are useful in coming to terms with.
Grief is not something most are taught to deal with, and everyone finds their own methods, these point to some:
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
http://griefnet.org/support/sg2.html
The last thing you should do is try to get through this alone.
Find and get involved with a Grief Group, even if only an online one. Grief is not something we are taught to deal with, and everyone finds their own methods, these point to some:
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
You might try checking out some of these. Grief is not something we are taught to deal with, and everyone finds their own methods, these point to some:
http://forums.grieving.com/[1]
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups/[2]
For your consideration - find and get involved with a Grief Support Group of some kind. Nearly all communities of size have a few to several. Most are free or donation supported, some church/religion affiliated, many others not.
We are not taught how to deal with such as this, there is no manual. There is no 'wrong' way to handle it - except not to.
"I am so sorry" from a digital stranger probably doesn't help much, but I am sorry.
Find a group and get involved, even an online group - I would not have survived Beverly's death without mine.
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups/
I developed and run our Lodge's site. I am a web developer by trade, so I used the tools I am most comfortable with. We host with 1&1 Internet on a shared server, no problems so far with them. I wrote the site in .NET with a SQL Server database on the back end for storing any communications sent to us from the "contact us" form. I hooked into Google Calendar and Google Maps for events and location/directions to the Lodge. I also used Google Analytics to track web traffic and trends.
In the couple of years since we created the site, 99% of our new candidates have come to us via the website and the contact us form. My advice to you is to make your site "Google Friendly", that is, create your content pages in such a way that the keywords that you would expect someone to search on to find your site are contained within the pages. Terms such as Freemasonry, Masons, Lodge, the name of your Lodge, the city/town/state that you are in, etc. Make it easy for potential candidates to contact you. I have our form set up so that when someone uses the contact us form, an email containing the person's contact info and their question is sent to myself, the Master, the Secretary, and another tech-savvy brother.
I have also registered our site in the Open Directory project, a free website listing project that is used by most of the major search engines. Check their listings, your Grand Lodge may have a listing of its own, you should list your Lodge site under their listing category.
Hope this info is helpful to you.
For your consideration - find and get involved with a Grief Support Group of some kind. Nearly all communities of size have a few to several. Most are free or donation supported, some church/religion affiliated, many others not.
We are not taught how to deal with such as this, there is no manual.
There is no 'wrong' way to handle it - except not to.
"I am so sorry" from a digital stranger probably doesn't help much, but I am sorry.
Find a group and get involved, even an online group - I would not have survived Beverly's death without mine.
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups/
The Zen Open Directory Project lists most of the active Zendos in the world. It's far from comprehensive, but it's a great help to find other Zendos.
There aren't many sources that conveniently list surgeries in a step-by-step process in minute detail. As far as I understand as a surgeon going through school, you are taught the essentials such as how to clamp an artery, how to prepare to make an incision, etc. and this information is likely available in textbook format. As you move your way up and become more specialized, actually operating on a particular system, the information is given to you directly by those who preformed the surgeries. When you look at the body at a smaller level there can be plenty of unique situations presented at surgery that are played by feel. Arteries can branch unexpectedly (a major one is the brachiocephalic artery), organs may be orientated strangely, and all sorts of considerations about the condition of the patient are taken in account. This means a detailed surgical plan may be useless in some instances. There are resources but they are disperse. Wikipedia gave this directory from which I was able to find some techniques for heart surgery. They also had a list of videos. If you have fancy a particular anatomical system you might be able to search for surgeon's webpages and find their procedures detailed. And obviously medical journals will provide more detail than a dilettante can handle if you care to look. It's no different from any other field.
As far as your specific example, I don't know of any procedure that splays out the intestine such that it would be difficult to fold it back into the abdominal cavity but as the above poster alluded to, there is wiggle room for the intestines. There are blood vessels encased in connective tissue that partially orientate them but for the most part they are held in place by other organs. Where is a gastroenterologist when you need one?
I do not live in Southern California, but you could get Buddhanet's world Buddhist directory a try. Someone else posted in a self.Buddhism Zen thread about the Zen Open Directory. If I remember, SoCal has quite a lot of Buddhist sanghas, you might want to see if you prefer a certain lineage and go from there.
Have a poke around here and see if you find it. If it tries to link a geocities website that's not in the wayback machine, remove the stuff before 'geocities' in the url, then replace the g in geocities with r.
Am not sure what this solution to curated lists is. I often see people trying to create curated lists, like the old "Yahoo groups" style lists. These lists died, google search killed them. Even dmoz died, after many years if trying . http://www.dmoz.org/ -
Would be good to have a system for creating curated lists, a system that works as well as google page rank.
Such grief is normal, especially this close in time to the event. It's a process and it must be gone through. Just keep being there for her and maybe in a week or so suggest she consider getting involved with a grief group for a while. Besides you and family she seems to have little support, others can help.
Some places to look, they can help you find a local face-to-face group or an online group she might benefit from:
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
Find and get involved with a Grief Group, even if only an online one. Most are free or donation supported. Some are religious, many are not.
Check these out for ideas:
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
When I looked into this a few years ago for a client I looked through the list of architects on DMOZ to see who was available in the general area.
If you want someone local to where you want to build you could contact the local chapter of the AIA to give you a list.
We also looked into prefab. The prefab business model seems to have suffered from the economic downturn and good buildings such as the "Glidehouse", which twice won the AIA award, ceased production: I don't know the status now. Personally, apart from some, I find prefab rather unsatisfactory. An exception to this are the remarkable prefabs produced by the architecture firm Marmol Radziner. I suggest you also take a look at these.
Grief is not something we are taught to deal with, and everyone finds their own methods, these point to some:
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
Suspect you haven't been able to fully process your father's death.
Find and get involved with a Grief Group, even if only an online one. Grief is not something we are taught to deal with, and everyone needs to find their own methods, these point to some:
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
Consider checking some of these out. Grieving is a process, not an event. This provide some helps.
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
Dmoz An internet directory, a really good way to start browsing the internet and showing a bit of what's available in an easily accessible way, for even those brand new to the internet.
Also google of course.
what's neat about it is that you can take their database schema and do whatever you want with it - http://www.dmoz.org/docs/en/rdf.html
For you, it gives a link on that page to their music schema at http://musicmoz.org/
well there's https://maqtoob.com/ where people vote on business tools they use. So you're talking about expanding this concept to let them vote on anything? Then you're going to have to create a huge classification system database, or use something like the schema at http://www.dmoz.org/ so people can browse the site easily to find a topic to add their recommendations to. That's pretty ambitious dude! Congrats on your library degreee - I'm a law librarian and got my library science degree a year or two ago ;)
You don't, but you can reduce the burden. Dwelling on it after a year or two does nothing for no one.
Consider finding and getting involved with a Grief Group for awhile. Can help process such at this.
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
If you decide he needs to join a club that has good, fast greens and has a good practice facility, it could cost $10,000 or more up front and $600 /month dues. If you let him join a mini tour it will cost around $1000 per tournament plus travel expenses. With food, hotel, gas, golf equipment, and whatever else comes up, it could cost $2500 per week of tournament play. Only a top 5 finish will earn enough money to cover expenses....maybe.
If your husband wants to give it a go, why not encourage him to practice hard when he is off work, then take vacation time to play in a tournament to see what he thinks. There are many mini tours. Some have a short winter scedule to keep guys playing. Good luck.
Not a topic that I'm normally especially interested in, but you might find something here -
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Opposing_Views/Christianity/Catholicism/
(Actually, most of these look pretty bad, but maybe you'll see something useful.)
Another solution would be using any of the DynDNS services available so your friends don’t need to remember your IP and you don’t need to look it up every time before you want to play.
Suicides are particularly tough. You almost always wonder if you could have done anything, even when you know you couldn't have.
Find and get involved with a Grief Group, even if only an online one. Grief is not something we are taught to deal with, and everyone finds their own methods, these point to some:
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups
I am going to raise dogecoin for animal shelters in California. Animals are being rescued everywhere, but I believe animals shelters could use some extra money. I plan to contact at least 50 out of these 93 animal shelters, including California Animal Rescue, Homeless Animal Rescue Team, The Amanda Foundation, Milo Foundation, The Sanctuary, and SC Paw, about getting involved with dogecoin.
Ha, I'm enough of an old fogey to remember Night Flight. I loved those Church of the Sub-Genius videos. They were even better when you were stoned.
Looks like you're describing the old dmoz site - http://www.dmoz.org/Business/Marketing_and_Advertising/Internet_Marketing/Resources/ - with maybe more extensive summaries of each link and more community features (voting on links)? Their categories are open source I believe, so if you're technically inclined you could take the database file with all the categories and make whatever site you want with it - http://www.dmoz.org/docs/en/rdf.html
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Looks good, lots of good quality links.
Sorry to say, it reminds me of this: http://www.dmoz.org/ i.e. like the old yahoo directory system before google search got that good there was little need for it. Google page rank killed the directory of links idea.
Anyway, good luck with it.
Not parent - wife, 54 year old, heart attack out of the blue. I was a basket case, but after about a week of that a co-worker marched me into a local grief support group. I doubt that I would have survived without it.
Grief is not something we are taught to deal with, and everyone finds their own methods. It's easier (not easy) with a guide.
These point to some:
http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Grief,_Loss_and_Bereavement/Support_Groups/
The kind of list new students to university get in their welcome package/agenda every year; lists of where they can eat, dress, get books, drink, etc. The local Montreal free newspaper (which i haven't been reading for a decade, like Voir, Hour, Mirror, which are all dead now I think) used to do these lists at least once a year of the hip places to do X,Y,Z. I used to think people should build wikis for their cities and lists that stuff, but Google is good enough to find answers if people know how to search and make an effort. But people like to ask other people, as they feel there's some increased assurance of quality in a recommendation. It reminds me of DMOZ, this desire to curate lists based on user generated recommendation. All that stuff is too labour intensive to maintain, and it always die, get out of date, etc. Those asking questions like to ask other people, and I kind of understand the desire to ask other human beings.
Find a local user group. They often do hands-on stuff and you can meet and talk to real people (OMG!) who use linux. They tend to be populated by sysadmins with a good knowledge-base.
I would search your regional area + linux or try here
Google can use whatever the hell search algorithm they want. What business does the government/etc. have in saying what websites they display in what order? Search engines aren't primary services that need regulation, and Google search doesn't need special government scrutiny just because it's popular.
Not to say Google can do no wrong, just that a search engine is a fucking collection of links. Fuck, anyone can do that. Hell, reddit is a collection of links, are they going to start investigating what gets upvoted?
If anyone has the time, please consider Becoming an Editor at the Open Directory Project. Their list of LUGs is very out of date.
FairVote is known to election theory nerds (such as Steve Brams, Warren Smith, and the election methods mailing list members) as going against the grain and ignoring the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community on this issue, in order to achieve their real goal of proportional representation via the STV system. (IRV is the single-winner form of STV, so they see it as a "stepping stone" to proportional representation, and are thusly unconcerned with its merits as a single-winner voting system.)
You can see some typical examples of election theorists tearing their hair out over FairVote's brutal dishonesty and incompetence here: www.electology.org/fact-check scorevoting.net/RichieRV.html
See this comment at the Election Methods mailing list: "Voting System Simulations - Millions of simulated elections, statistics gathered, utilitarian bests found. Advocates Acceptance/Approval, Borda, Condorcet, Rated, variations, while considering IRV harmful" -- http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Politics/Campaigns_and_Elections/Voting_Systems/
The Pirate Party, one of the world leaders in innovation around elections, has primarily used Approval Voting, along with Schulze (Condorcet), and more recently Score Voting. They have done some experimenting with IRV, but it is a footnote by comparison to Approval Voting.
I can't emphasize enough how much dislike their is for IRV among the majority of election theory geeks.
CraigsList India might help you network toward a neuro-psychiatrist, or local support group. This turns up this, which could help.
>I can easily prove it in the same way that I can prove there are no coins in my pockets, that I don't have cancer, or that the flying teapot doesn't exist. It's simply an absence of evidence when I would expect to find evidence. This is not an unreasonable position to take.
Actually it is. Check this out:
http://www.teaguyspeaks.com/2012/01/drinking-tea-in-space.html
It is a wide, wide world out there, but you won't see it if you keep your eyes closed.
>now we critique you with arguments
Hadn't noticed that, I have debated many an internet atheist, mostly seems to amount to fanaticism, cognitive biases and logical fallacies. The few who are able to communicate logically end up admitting they are actually agnostics and respect my belief system once they understand it.
>I think there are more than a few people who don't believe that the truth about reality is that there always existed a being with unlimited powers who goes around creating his own friends and putting them in worlds to test them.
Strawman. Put down that chick tract and try reading this instead:
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Hinduism/Religious_Texts/Bhagavad_Gita/
>Dont send any religious books unless you know his religion!!
>Just get him Harry Potter books or something.
Of course all religious people have no problem with Harry Potter!!
Click away. http://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/Teen_Life/Memorial_Pages/
I discovered these sites many years ago. They always make my cry. Now that you asked me to make you cry I remembered them. The saddest part is that most of these sites are down. And you can tell they are from a different internet era, with midi sounds and not too many pictures. Twas before Facebook.
I had some other sites as well, one was called something like early angels, which was dedicated to children who died of diseases. And from suicides. You could read their stories. No way you couldn t cry.
I got so much more, I can definately win this game.
Generally, these represent a hazard to the population, like power plants; and so are often located away from cities, but such things do exist
Just start browsing the web in Norwegian! There is a lot of content available. Here is a starting point:
http://www.dmoz.org/World/Norsk/
Also: it appears Google Directory is down, which I had used just a few months ago... luckily it is based on ODP, which is still alive and well.
Well it definitely occurs: http://www.minorityperspective.co.uk/2011/10/03/bhm-2011-events-focus-on-african-british-civil-rights-history/ and http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/African/African-British/ for two examples
Not that I know of. All done by myself: I've followed Woorank's advice and that's about it. I've also added (or tried to) to DMOZ.
http://www.dmoz.org/ and things like that are good. In my experience I avoid directories. What you really want is a 500+ word blog post about whatever your site is about with a link or two back to you. This blog post should also follow the same on page SEO rules and have good PR. So h1 tags with your key words have a picture with an alt tag with a keyword. I have seen the best results doing that.