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Going from 9s to 13s will almost certainly require a setup I would think. Don't take this the wrong way, but by virtue of the fact you referred to the truss rod as "that screw that alters the neck position" I'd suggest you might want to take it to get done professionally, or at the very least look up how to set up a guitar on the internet. I just don't want to see you damage your guitar by being overzealous with the truss rod! I'm not sure why you're wanting to jump up to such thick strings though, generally you'd only go up to 13s if you're tuning down really low. If you're playing in standard then 10s are more the norm, if you start going too thick in standard you're really going to struggle to bend them. You will get a 'fuller' sound with thick strings, but really their main advantage is when you start tuning low so that you can keep the string tension.

So the only thing stopping you from punching your girlfriend is the fear of legal action? Nice guy.

Be VERY careful diluting sulphuric acid. It's a very exothermic reaction which can boil when you're doing it, splashing concentrated acid out of the container. You need to add small amounts of acid to large amounts of water, never do it the other way round (i.e. don't pour water into a container of concentrated acid).

I don't know what sort of quantities you're talking about, but out of interest where are you planning on getting the sulphuric acid from? Getting hold of chemicals isn't necessarily a case of just popping down the shops! There's also the issue of how you'd dispose of the acid as well, you can't simpy pour it down the sink, it's more than a little frowned upon! Basically, while there are worse chemicals to handle, if you don't know what you're doing it's still dangerous enough to cause you problems. It's very toxic, corrosive, highly reactive and generally very unpleasant if you get any on your skin or in your eyes. I guess what I'm saying is don't piss around with chemicals if you don't know what you're doing (which maybe you do, I'm just hazarding a guess that you've perhaps not given this side of it much thought yet).

Screw the lot of 'em, Bareknuckle's are the way forward

It's pretty much a requirement of the mortgage company that you take out some form of building insurance (the mortgage company only care about protecting their investment, i.e. the building, hence the need for building insurance) and the flood cover would be part of the buildings insurance. This is generally separate to building & contents insurance, which as the name suggests covers both the structure and the belongings within it. There's no way to know without reading through your actual documents or phoning up the insurer, but my initial guess would be that the flood cover would only pay out for any structural repairs needed on the building itself, not the stuff you own inside it.

You need to find out what speed RAM your motherboard will support. It'll say in the manual, or if you don't have it then go to the manufacturers site and it should be available as a download. Even if it does support super fast stuff (which judging by your other components I doubt) it would still be throttled by the speed of your current RAM anyway. With graphics cards it should be a straight swap, but beware that if you've got a cheap power supply it might not have enough juice to run it properly. Regards the 64 bit operating system, I'd be very surprised if it is, not too many people use them and those that do have it for a specific reason. You're unlikely to have a PC with a 64 bit OS unless you asked for it specifically.

The important thing to remember is that protein shakes are a supplement. Under no circumstances should you be relying on them so heavily as for them to be your only source of protein, that's not what they're about. Most bodybuilders will take at least one shake per day (sometimes more on training days) and have been doing so for years. There are some people who suggest that excessive use of protein powders may be harmful to the kidneys. I stress some as I believe they are a minority and most believe them to be completely safe. In any case you should be drinking lots of water throughout the day anyway which will take the load off and help maintain healthy kidneys (kind of like a flushing them out kind of thing). I'm not too keen on your reasoning about what happens to protein left in the shaker for a few hours. Yes it does cake onto the sides, but then so do loads of other foods (hell Weetabix practically turns to concrete if you leave it on the side of a bowl for a few hours but I don't hear anyone screaming about what effect eating two of those at breakfast every morning does to the kidneys). What happens to food left in open air isn't necessarily what happens to food once it's in your digestive system.

Wait, what's actually hurting, your legs or your shoulders? They way you've written it makes it sound like your shoulders are hurting from resting the bar across them when doing the squats. That wouldn't be muscle soreness but bruising due to the weight pressing down on them. If that's the case maybe use a folded up towel between your shoulders and bar to take some of the pressure off? If it's your back aching I'd suggest getting someone who knows what they're doing to critique your form, as it's highly probable you're doing them wrong. Doing squats wrongly could give you soreness in your back and/or knees that you really don't want. In any case it's worth getting someone to critique you anyway. The amount of folks I see in the gym doing what they think is a squat when in reality they're not even doing a quarter squat - your legs should go past parallel with the ground so your bum is almost touching the floor).

I'd argue if you're trying to find ways of pissing your girlfriend off about what happened then things aren't fine or back to how they were before it happened. Clearly you're still harbouring a great amount of ill feeling and mistrust towards her and that's not healthy for any relationship. I'm not going to say either way whether you should or shouldn't have taken her back, frankly only you can decide that, but if you have taken her back you have to forgive what she did and not harbour resentment towards her or it'll never work long term. If you can't forgive then you need to split up, or it'll just end in tears further down the line anyway.

(-5 x 4) + (-2 x 1) = -20 + (-2) = -22 (-3 x 4) + (1 x 1) = -12 + 1 = -11 It's been a while since I did these, but from what I remember and looking at the numbers, it seems to work.

No problem, Mink did the hard work I remember doing this stuff a few years back but without my book of trig identities (which is sat in a box somewhere along with all my other college and uni work!) I wouldn't have been able to do it these days.

The last step is just multiplying both sides by sin2x. The "1" then becomes sin2x and the cos2x/sin2x cancels leaving just cos2x. On the other side you'd have sin2x/sin2x which cancels to 1.

Schecter Blackjack (Seymour Duncans) ESP/Ltd K-500 (EMG's) Mesa/Boogie F-30 Keeley modded SD-1 Boss CH-1 Dunlop Crybaby I came to within minutes of buying a Les Paul a few months back, and then bought a house instead! Bye bye new guitars for a while then!

It's worth noting that Half Life 2 is quite CPU intensive. The best way to find out if your CPU is holding it back, change the resolution and detail to minimum and note the framerate, then bump everything up really high and note the framerate again. If there's practically no difference the CPU is holding you back. On the other hand, if you get a massive drop in framerate when you up the res and detail it's more likely the graphics card causing the issue. In reality you're probably somewhere in between, and if that's the case just changing the gfx or the cpu probably won't make a massive difference.