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Well you definitely wouldn't want to overclock it, you'd want to underclock it which is the opposite. I dunno about on Windows but on Linux it's really simple with CPU Frequency Monitor. It doesn't actually downclock your CPU, instead it just puts a limit on your CPU usage. I'm sure there are similar programs for Windows. Of course that's kind of a last ditch thing because it really limits your computer's power. I ran my old laptop at 50% for about a year and it effectively rendered the thing into a netbook.

The easiest solution would be to get a fanpad, which wouldn't run you more than $20. 50 C is just fine, especially at load, but I would probably get a fanpad just to improve airflow and make sure it doesn't get to 90 C again because that's pretty awful...

The cost of fan replacement is gonna vary a lot depending on how easy it is to get to your fan, whether the manufacturer sells fan itself or only it and the heatsink, and who you take it to. The fan itself shouldn't cost more than $30, but a fan and heatsink will run about what Tellemurius said and labor costs will be higher. In that case though you might find someone who'll just throw a generic fan on there.

No, there are references to Muhammad as a prophet of God and Jesus in other medieval chansons and while the popular view might have been muddled, and almost everyone considered the Muslims to be pagan, nobles and scholar ought to have known it was Abrahamic, if only due to the Crusades. The Italians, in particular, ought to have been well-informed about Islam, considering they had large amounts of trade with the Muslims so were in steady contact with them.

No no, you're thinking politics. This is the anime thread, so clearly we have to follow the Kujibiki Unbalance rules. Who's ready to draw lots?

Mens Rights people are incredibly reactionary in most instances, and tend to be cut from the same cloth as the worst feminists. The idea should be pretty dumb, anyway - as dumb as starting a "bisexual rights movement" would have been. The fact that feminism

Basically, but I didn't want to say it while defending feminism because that would look a bit biased. Obviously, as a man, I have a vested interest in Men's Rights issues, but the fact that so often one of their core positions is that feminism has overshot its goals is while I call myself a feminist and not a Men's Rights Activist, even though properly they are one in the same.

There are no sides. And as long as the Feminist movement insists on exclusionary language and labels, fighting the true fight is going to be difficult. But yeah, there are many people in the movement that can see this is the way forward, and I'm hoping that is where things will end up.

You're right, but the issue has been stratified so that it appears that there are sides, or possibly that there actually are sides working at cross purposes to the same ultimate goals. And feminists can be exclusionary, I've had a few women (and even one man) tell me that I shouldn't call myself a feminist. I understand their concerns, but I find the prospect more than a bit sexist. It's true that I'll never understand a woman's perspective, but feminism needs perspectives from both sides of the aisle if it's going to accomplish anything.

I do think it is the way the movement will end though, because it's so self-evidently the actual solution.

I don't see anything wrong with calling it feminism though. I believe Vector once said that fighting sexism against women, which is far more rampant and needs more urgently to be addressed, is the solution to achieving equality for men. Of course, that's not true for everything, and there are plenty of men's issues that would need to be addressed separately, but on the whole I rather like that idea. As long as we approach the issue as striving for actual equality then true equality for one sex should mean true equality for the other.

I don't. And while they claim to, traditionally feminism has NOT been concerned with the plight of all women. Many second wave feminists pushed for brand new forms of oppression and forced conformance, and many women are opposed to the feminist movement as a whole threatening to disrupt the life they live. I think the feminists are still in the right, at least overall, but there will always be people that feel that they lose when others benefit, or who have desired positions that they lose when the ground shifts under their feet.

Second-wave feminism was full of a number of problems, I think, most obviously, installing women into the systems of oppression rather than dismantling or reforming them. It's also responsible for a number of styles of thought that influence public perception of feminism today. I think they accomplished some important things, but you're right, they also had a very narrow definition of femininity and a very narrow set of goals and I think in a lot of ways feminism of the last twenty years has been a reaction to that. And if you mean women who prefer the way things are now, yeah, second-wave feminism was strongly against them, but I don't see modern feminism as really all that upsetting to the status quo, and personally, I would like to see room for all people to live how they want. If someone wants to conform to older models of femininity they should be able to, be they male or female, as long as it's a genuine choice and society is able to recognize that.

The problem isn't just on the feminist side though. A large number of Men's Rights people I've seen take a clearly anti-feminist stance which isn't really the solution to the problem. Both sides need to realize that they are working towards a common goal, equality for the sexes. For my part I consider myself to be a feminist but I believe that clearly includes fighting sexism against men, because sexism, wherever it occurs, locks both sides into predefined roles. And I think this idea is gaining more traction with feminists.

I don't think it's fair to lay the blame solely on feminists though, and I don't think it's fair to say that feminism isn't concerned with the plight of all women. Mainstream feminism may not be, but it's a diverse movement and there are people within it advocating groups generally overlooked by the mainstream.

Is it bad that my only complaint about this flash is that you have to hit the arrows keys too many times?

I learned several words in Japanese today, but that's every day.

I don't generally learn new words in English daily anymore (:[) but I learned asseverate a few days back, which is basically yet another synonym for affirm. I also came across recrudescence, and while I already knew the term, it was probably only the second or third time I'd ever seen it used. That means resurrection.

Most of the English words I end up learning these days are jargon though. There is so much jargon...