The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXIV

[Synobun]

Is frequent screaming and explosive temper tantrums a symptom associated with a child on the autism spectrum. I'm not talking everyday children tantrums, mind you. I'm talking really extreme, loud and frequent outbursts.

That really depends on whether or not the child was disciplined and educated.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Of the widely used free e-mail services, which is the least of these evils? (eg, "the lesser of two evils", and so forth.)

 

[_random_]

I'm super happy with Gmail, and that's what all my techier friends use. Although Zelig uses Outlook I think, but I have to use that for school and as far as I can tell Zelig is really weird.

 

[Zelig]

All the free ones have ads, if you won't pay the $10/yr for a proper ad-free email service, I'd opt for gmail simply because gmelius is the best for removing ads from any free service.

I use gmail (filtered with gmelius) for all my spammy online stuff, paid outlook.com for all my real life/serious/professional stuff.

 

[madviking]

i use gmail. my uni uses gmail.

 

[Cutlass]

I've had very little trouble with yahoo email. Their spam filter is reasonably good. No ads when used with a mail client instead of online.

 

[Farm Boy]

I haven't had any significant problems with spam using free Hotmail/Outlook since around 2004.

 

[Zelig]

In my experience, spam volume has decreased by several orders of magnitude over the past several years. My gmail account used to get 1000+ spam messages per month, and it's currently sitting at 24 received in the past month.

 

[Farm Boy]

I'm probably being too generous with 2004, but yea - it's been getting better every year. It terribad in like 2000/2001.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I use yahoo for my personal account and gmail for my school account. Gmail is much, much better. Also, if you go with yahoo and you want to use it on your Android phone, you have to download the official yahoo app, otherwise the generic email app won't let you send or receive emails to/from your yahoo account while on a wifi network. While it's probably trivial to get the yahoo app if you don't have a 4 year old Android like myself, if you don't have it then your email service will be next to useless on your phone if you spend a lot of time at home or on a public wifi network. Absolutely useless.

Plus, even with the yahoo app I always had issues with sending and receiving stuff - it just wouldn't work half the time.

So go with gmail.

I also receive much less spam on my gmail account and it's easier to set up filters for stuff (like spam - or to automatically shunt certain emails to certain folders to keep your inbox clean) than it is on yahoo.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I was talking in terms of privacy/data hoarding/gov't surveillance issues. I probably should have said that in my initial question.

 

[bhsup]

Google is evil, don't use them. I pay a yearly fee for premium yahoo email and also have my own domain for email. There are no good free email services.

 

[Synobun]

Google is evil, don't use them. I pay a yearly fee for premium yahoo email and also have my own domain for email. There are no good free email services.

Google is evil.

Haha.

 

[bhsup]

They say it right in their slogan! "Be Evil"

 

[Zelig]

I was talking in terms of privacy/data hoarding/gov't surveillance issues. I probably should have said that in my initial question.

Don't use a US-based service.

Run your own email server.

You get what you pay for.

 

[CKS]

They say it right in their slogan! "Be Evil"

The diocese of Belleville has some signs out along the road where the first ll is the bottom of a cross, that is painted in a slightly different color than the letters. Unfortunately, on one sign, the cross is painted with some paint that doesn't show up well when it gets dark. About the time you need to turn on your headlights, the sign changes from Diocese of Belleville to Diocese of Be eville.

 

[Synobun]

How does one qualify to enter a League of Legends tournament? Googling reveals nothing except that there are teams and you win money.

Is there any way to be emailed whenever a new episode airs of a show?

 

[SouthernKing]

My question: has the issue of when/in what direction Muslims in space are supposed to proxy pray been addressed? If so, what's the solution? Same with Muslim astronauts on other planets.

That probably could have been worded better.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I assume they just face toward the earth. In LEO you orbit so fast (once around the planet in 90minutes) that there is no practical way to face mecca as you would move out of alignment nearly instantly.


Beyond Low Earth Orbit you would also just face the earth I assume. It's a really good question, one I had never thought of. I also wonder if they get accomodations in the daily schedules they have - astonauts can litterally be busy every single minute of the day at times so I reckon putting in 5 prayers can be a challenge.

Also! Technically a day is 90 minutes up there, so I wonder if they feel guilt for not doing prayers every 18 minutes?

 

[Cutlass]

I believe that they just face the Earth itself, best they can. I think they are required to try to face Mecca, best they can. Not that it absolutely has to be an exact direction.