Posts by Kenneth Lee16

Solid movie.

I really dug that scene with the girl on the swing...

Jadrolinija—basically a fleet of floating scrap metal

AC working maybe 30% of the time
Restrooms cleaned about 20% of the time
Car garage exhaust fumes? 100% pure pollution
Organization level: 2%
Staff quality: roughly 0.0002%
Microscopic bacteria and fingerprint stains everywhere... 100% guaranteed
Comfort level: 20%
Noise levels: 99%
Departure times shifting from 3:00 to 3:15? And we don't run on Sundays? Pure impracticality at 100%

Is it just me, or is this whole forum kind of an echo chamber? If I actually had the power to change things, I definitely

Hollywood

Ringing or popping in the ears. It can be constant, intermittent, pulsing, high-pitched, or low-pitched.

Medical malpractice. High pitch, sure—but nothing low-end...

So the literature says therapy involves listening to the same tone to get used to it? Personally, when I'm exposed to it, it just gets louder... though I've noticed if I stay busy moving around, I don't notice it as much.

Is there basically no cure? At least I'm aware of it. You should try every alternative out there, but who has the energy... feels like I won't even make it to next week anyway...

Could that laser thing be worth a shot? What if they miss the mark with the laser?

Noise-induced damage/acoustic trauma:

A common cause for tinnitus (around 30% of cases) is damage to those delicate hair cells in the ear caused by loud noise or an explosion. This mostly includes the music kids blast in their free time (Walkmans, clubs, rock concerts), but also workplace noise. Blast traumas can almost always be treated if caught early enough.

That's me. And I know exactly what caused it...

ps. rapidmaker10, great links! Spot on...

Jerry Booth10 said:Youth offers no immunity. There was a case where a seventeen-year-old girl passed away while waiting for a doctor because she showed up feeling unwell, only for it to be discovered later that her blood pressure was dangerously high. It is the silent killer. It wreaks havoc on your kidneys and your heart. If you aren't consistent with your medication, you're looking at a potential heart attack or a stroke. Aside from the tinnitus, other symptoms can include hand tremors, seeing spots, or even nosebleeds.

My blood pressure is fine...

If it wasn't, I'd probably know by now...

Haha, you think it’s clean? You aren't exactly cleaning up after yourself... and you're leaving the lid up too...

P.S. You can actually solve this—before you go, just drop one square of TP horizontally in the water (like, just two squares). That gives you a five-minute window before it sinks.

Man, you must be traveling a lot... considering how much trouble you have with your digestion lately... haha

Anyway, just my two cents.

Jerry Booth10 said:Tinnitus—that persistent, maddening ringing in the ears—isn't always just some phantom sound born from nothing. It can actually be a physiological red flag. One common culprit? High blood pressure. When your hypertension starts climbing, the increased force of blood pumping through your vessels can create enough turbulence to manifest as that rhythmic or steady buzzing in your head. It’s much like the hum you might hear from a pressurized water pipe in an old apartment building when the pump kicks into overdrive; if the pressure is too high, the system starts making noise. If you're experiencing this, don't just ignore it as a nuisance; it's worth looking at your cardiovascular health.

Alright, care to elaborate on this high blood pressure thing? Honestly, I doubt that's it—I'm pretty young... and even when the ringing starts, I'm not feeling particularly stressed or anything

I think I saw a thread about this once... usually caused by blasting music back in the day or working long shifts around loud machinery without proper ear protection, etc...

Health-wise, I’m fine—never had any issues before. But lately, when I’m lying in bed at night, everything is dead quiet and there’s absolutely nothing going on, I start hearing this constant tone in both ears. Honestly, I don't even think I'm "hearing" it so much as it's just stuck in my head.

Has anyone actually heard of or read anything about whether this can be cured?

p.s. if you don't have anything useful to add, just move along—I can hear better than most of you, I'd bet on that.

True, because apparently some developers just recycle the same basic algorithms... Sure, you can skim a magnetic strip or even a chip card, but all you're getting is whatever data happens to be sitting on there. You’d still need actual cryptography to make sense of those zeros and ones—to figure out what they actually represent. And you think you can just pull a password out of thin air like that? Not happening. To get a password, you'd need an insider to hand it over. You might clone a card, sure, but it's all based on the same ISO standards.

It’s not that deep, really... though I'm assuming the bank will end up covering all your losses from the theft anyway. I mean, you are their customer, right? At least that's how things work in most other countries... hopefully, we can get that same level of protection here in the States soon.

:-)

Turns out being able to hear pitch perfectly is part genetics, part practice

I guess you could say the same about pretty much everything else—college degrees included..not that they teach much anyway

Ronald Allen said:If they have a million, they go down to JP Morgan Chase, find a private banker to squeeze out a better rate, and honestly, if things ever start going south, those people always get the heads-up to pull their cash out before everything hits the fan...

Respect for this one. Definitely keeping this in my back pocket. Good stuff—5 stars from me.

Just kidding, you don't need a "private" banker, just go in person.

(I actually tried this once—not at Chase, but at Wells Fargo. Back then, who would have even suspected anything like that? And yet, here we are, talking about it again. Man, life is just too predictable. It’s all just one big loop... you really have to learn the tricks of the trade as soon as possible.)

Look, I’ve never had an ounce of discipline in my life—some people are just born wired that way. But honestly, that doesn't dictate your spirit, your energy, or how you actually live your life... you could even call it a flaw if you wanted to.

Besides, what’s another five years really going to do? You’ll actually live longer if you’re comfortable in your own skin instead of trying to fit into someone else's mold.

casualmoose63 said:You could split it up between several banks... though there’s really no need to.

Besides that, if you keep that kind of cash in a single bank, you can actually negotiate better terms—meaning higher interest rates and all that good stuff.

I get that, but isn't a million still a bit small? With a million, you can actually put your money to work in a practical way instead of just letting it sit there on paper.

casualmoose63 said:The contract covers other stuff too, like interest rates and maturity dates. If the fine print doesn't explicitly state there's a penalty or that your interest will be recalculated at the standard savings rate if you pull out early, then they won't hit you with it.
What you're surprised by is pretty much a thing of the past...

Your math is a decent ballpark estimate... if you want to calculate the exact interest rate on a CD, you'd use the European method, EV formulas, and all that fun stuff, so go ahead and play around with it.🤣

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_interest

"Pretty much spot on"? If banks actually provided standard benchmarks, people wouldn't have to guess. Usually, my contract just tells me exactly what I'm getting. What am I supposed to be calculating?

I missed your point earlier—that if you pull out at month 8, they calculate it as a 6-month term instead of 12. Fair enough. A little bit of liberalism for you. Banks generally know what they're doing...

give them what they want

Ronald Allen said:There’s basically zero risk of losing your shirt here, because the federal government guarantees your deposits in any bank up to $33333...

wow? how "good" is this exactly? it’s almost funny. what happens if someone has $1,000,000?

Most banks these days don't even bother charging fees for breaking a CD early anymore.

So what’s the point of the contract then? We're talking about fixed-term savings here, right?

Here’s my math:

Take $10,000 times 4.5%—though I doubt anyone's actually getting 3%—then multiply by 100. But since we're looking at a 6-month window instead of a full year, you can just cut that final number in half.

Not happening. Unless you stumble upon some soulmate who’s willing to carry you through both the emotional and financial stuff... or if you land a job that actually covers every single one of your needs...

Applies to people dealing with depression too. But hey, at least you guys have the internet? Dammit, Mike.

Look, just put two three-way speakers next to me and I’ll tell you exactly which one has a blown tweeter—without even getting close.

And honestly, how was anyone actually taught to listen to music? My specific preferences don't mean a thing to you anyway.

I know my way around tracker-based production—from Atari days to ProTracker on Amiga—by heart. But my ears are tuned for harmony, not chaos. And no, I'm not talking about repetitive sequences; staring at the same dot over and over isn't the same thing.

Anyway, check out this profile:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=briansredd

It's not mine... but you'll find some interesting stuff in there.

But I don't think you can define it like that—after all, tastes are subjective, right? Personally, I tend to show off a bit, and if you actually nailed my pitch... nobody would get the joke. It'd probably take you years for people to catch on. Or maybe I'm just an upgraded version of the original... like most of us who notice something, we immediately start realizing it within ourselves. Just a quirk of human instinct.

As for music, all I can say is: we're all kind of circling back to our roots. There isn't much more to it than that.

DJing is basically like a cashier at a grocery store. They can be pleasant, or they can be totally obnoxious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6KpXWmi590

It's just a game, but you still walk away with data. You just have to decode it.

What I'm really curious about is how the human being reached that realization where they actually enjoy music? That transition is what interests me.

And when does the enjoyment stop?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeX5KLEg6II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9tq6JZwdv0