What does mp3 stand for?

Moving Picture Experts Group Layer-3 Audio

That really doesn't answer your question but that's what it is.
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What do the stripes on the US flag stand for?

Since so many people seem to be looking for the answer to this question, I thought I'd write this.

The 13 stripes represent the 13 colonies of the United States at the time the flag was designed.

There's different stories about the colors. One is that red was inspired by the British colors and the white cutting through them represents the succession from the home country. Another idea is that red signified bloodshed and white represented courage.

There is several popular ideas on what the colors stand for but I've never seen a definitive answer.
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Tecmo Announces Tecmo Bowl Throwback

Today Tecmo confirmed the development of Tecmo Bowl Throwback. Anyone that had a SNES probably pee'd in their pants a little after hearing the news. Infinite snap counts and over 100 sacks per season are almost as enjoyable as hot apple pie.

Online multiplayer will be offered on Playstation Network and XBOX Live Arcade. Tecmo Bowl Throwback will include a Pro Bowl mode, customizable rosters, and online leader boards. For those of us that want a trip in the way-back machine, there will be an option to play in old school 2D graphics. Of course, updated, new age graphics will be the other option.

One major drawback will be the lack of NFL teams in the game. EA Sports still retains exclusive rights to use NFL teams and players in their Madden series. Even with that, Tecmo may have a winning formula with gamers from the 1990's.
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Dream Quotes

Here is a list of my favorite dream quotes.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman

Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
Edgar Cayce

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Erma Bombeck

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Baltasar Gracian

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Madonna Ciccone

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
Debi Thomas

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
Bill Watterson

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Les Brown

In dreams begins responsibility.
William Butler Yeats

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
Charles Lindbergh

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
Jesse Jackson

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. Lucas

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Terry Pratchett

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
Dorothy Gilman

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Tupac Shakur

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Kahlil Gibran

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Robert Kennedy

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel de Montaigne

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung

I hope some of these dream quotes can help inspire you.

Does saying it doesn't hurt make you more of a man?

I've always wondered why when a guy gets hurt he will say it doesn't hurt. Saying that it doesn't hurt doesn't make it hurt less. If it hurts, it hurts! Acknowledging pain doesn't mean you can't handle it. It simply means that it hurts. "I smashed my finger with a hammer. Yes, it hurts like hell." Its not that hard. It must be a blow to the ego to admit being in pain. Where do we learn that? Where, along the way, did we learn that guys don't feel pain? This is just physical pain. What about emotional pain? "Yes, she broke my heart and the pain is almost unbearable." There's no shame in that. There's a lot more shame in hiding in a bottle of alcohol because you can't admit that you're human.
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I want the whole story

I don't understand why, when someone is trying to explain a situation, they always only give up the details that make them look good or at least not look bad. I've always found that if you spill both sides and include everything you did wrong that whoever is listening reacts better. They are more willing to help or just listen if you are willing to admit that you screwed up.

A friend is having a spat with her ex and neither of them claim to have done anything wrong. I know that's not true because I have seen some things that they have done to each other that just aren't nice. Neither individual has committed any major social crime so, for me at least, it doesn't matter who claims what. I trust my friend and that is enough for me to stand by her.

Just be an adult and take responsibility for your actions. It will make you look better in the long run and you will feel better about yourself. Character is hard to hide.