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[ { "body": "Whenever one approaches me, I tell them with a straight face that I'm [the founder and chairman of Donnerkuppel International](http://donnerkuppel.org/), and that all my free money goes into our own programmes. If they're not busy, they'll usually try to start up a conversation about what our causes are, and I make a game out of describing the most horrible things and trying to convince the poor girl that they're both legitimate and amazing.\n\nYou never really know the power of your own voice until you convince a Salvation Army bellringer to bring her cat in for a trial run of a programme called \"Animal Eugenics\". You never really fear the power of your own voice until you explain that her cat will be given a special shower so she can interbreed with it, and she agrees completely that it would be a great thing. \n\nSo yes, in a way, I regularly \"out-argue\" charity muggers by getting them to vouch for things that the Nazi Germany was built around and bestiality. ", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I smell it before I put it on and if it smells I put it in the wash. It rarely smells after one day. More like 3 days. Or a week.", "score": 75 }, { "body": "I have to admit, I barely wash my regular bras. I never notice a smell, though.\n\nMy sports bra gets washed once a week with the rest of the laundry.\n\nEdit: I also don't wash shirts or jeans until they smell (or get dirty). It can take anywhere from two to four wearings.", "score": 46 }, { "body": "Well... months, honestly. They're all hand wash only and it's a pain in the ass, and I really don't sweat that much. ", "score": 27 }, { "body": "If you asked me to my face, of course I'd say after wearing it once. But thanks to the anonymity of the internet, the true answer is whenever it's dirty. If I've had a really busy day and ran around a lot, or it's been really hot and muggy outside, then after wearing once seems fine to me. But if I've spent Saturday lounging around the house, then I'll wear it on Sunday too. The only exception is sports bras...those get washed immediately.", "score": 20 }, { "body": "Mine stretch out as I wear them so it really depends on the fit. I'll wear them until they're too loose, even on the tightest hook. It's usually 5 days or so.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I love that this question is asked! Somehow I rarely have motivation to wash bras. They never smell and no one sees them. Guessing they get washed once every 2 months or so. Kinda disgusting now that I think about it.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "I have expensive bras because of my large chest (about $200 CDN each) which means they have to be handwashed only. Anywhere I've ever bought bras (even cheap places) have said that handwashing allows bras to keep their shape longer and keep the wires from popping out. I used to have the hardest time keeping bras because the wires would always come out. BUT - now that I handwash, my bras have lasted for years.\n\nBecause I have to wash by hand, I really only wash my bras every month or so. Haha. But I alternate bras, so I probably wear one of them 6 or 7 times each. But usually, once it starts to smell, I'll wash it.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Like a week. I'm not the smelly or sweaty type. I do this with all my clothes. When they start to feel 'worn' I throw them in the wash. My clothes last a lot longer.\n\nI'm a meticulous house keeper but loath washing clothes with a passion.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I wear them until they smell or are visibly dirty. Sometimes after wearing bras enough, they get, um... boob residue on the part of the cups that are in contact with my chest wall, especially in the center section between my boobs.\n\nThe one exception to that would probably be sports bras: if they are visibly wet when I take them off, they get thrown in the laundry basket.\n\nRelated question though: how many bras do we all own? I tend to cycle through bras, wearing them once or twice a week as opposed to days in a row. I also feel like I have a lot of bras though: 8 regular and probably 5-6 sports bras.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I have irregular washing habits, but I generally do laundry about every 4ish days, so that's when my bra gets washed. No, I don't wear dirty, smelly clothes over and over, I just have enough clothes to last me.\n\nEdit: I have worn one bra for over a week before washing it.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "probably weeks. i only have 3 that fit me. :(\n\ngood thing i don't smell. my big problem is that my skin is very dry, so i often flake off and you can see it on my black one.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I love this sub reddit! I've wondered if I was weird for washing my sparingly, nice to know I'm not!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Haha, another fan of Dear Prudence? (Guilty pleasure).\n\nI remember that letter she got and it was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread.\n\nTo be honest, like most of the women here, when it smells or when a week or two has passed. Sometimes more depending on certain circumstances. Femmebott's experience overlaps with mine, for sure. When I see \"boob residue\" on the lighter coloured cups, that's when I either hand wash or throw it in the washing machine.\n\nAs to how many I own... Five that I wear with some frequency, two that I tend to wear a lot. I tend to hand wash those.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Probably weeks or months - whenever it starts looking dirty. I don't really have that many bras anyways, like 3 tops. And one of them is kind of broken.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Had to make a puppet for this... \r\n\r\nDec 31, 2009:....For many hours I ate only chocolate covered cherry liquors and hazelnut chocolate wafers... \r\n\r\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Papadopoulos-Caprice-Viennese-Wafers-14-1/dp/B00067EGI4 \r\n\r\n\r\nJan 1, 2010: Woke up at 6am to tend the fire. Standing by the woodstove I realize I've got a fart ready..so I try to cut it loose.. \r\n\r\nMy first action in 2010 was to accidentally shit my pants... ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "> *I leave for one second go to take a piss I come back and she's making out with some random dude at the bar.*\n\nYou should have just bought him a big drink and as soon as **he** needed to take a piss, steal her back and get her out of there next time.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "[Game1](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZHikK2tefQ)\n[Game2](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFcZ-CNOYXA)\n**[Game3](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbzHpzjKuOY)**\n[Game4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqecwe3No5U)\n[Game5](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=320NcVG9dbY)\n\nAll on [Jon747](http://www.youtube.com/user/Jon747)", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "You should cross the other girl off your list and let me and your boyfriend pull a train on you. I get laid, you cross threesome off your list. Everyone wins.", "score": 24 }, { "body": "I'm convinced, 4somes are the only way to go. No one gets left out and Jealous feelings are left on all sides. \nMy relationship has been fucked over in the past by 3somes , a best friend(girl) got involved, it was never the same after he/me hooked up with her, I never could look at them in the same light, I felt and knew they wanted each other the whole time, jealously followed , demeaning comparisons ... Mistakes... \n\nSo I highly suggest a stranger for your 3some Craiglist is the best option but dont get murdered! (hehehe)\nOh for More fun, and pleasure all around 4somes all the way.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "If you are in Michigan (pretty much anywhere in MI), St. Louis, LA, or D.C. I can probably set that up for you. As long as you don't mind that they have been beanpudded in the past.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Pick a friend, someone you know and trust. I think you'll be much happier with that than a random stranger.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "You can try going to a swinger club--they're in every major city and there are often plenty of willing women there (either single or partner doesn't mind them playing with other couples). Almost none of these places allow single guys. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "my and my girlfriend are very much so into the whole threesome thing. (we're 22/23 respectively). we've slept with two different girls now (looking for a third) and how we've gone about it, is I essentially go out to the clubs myself, find some attractive girl, eventually bring up I have a girlfriend and it goes from there.\n\ni've never slept with a friend this way, because i always thought it'd be nothing but drama, so we try to keep it to strangers that turn into friends over time.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "WTF, game three.\n###### That's a lot of Ultralisks, but that's a *lot* of Tanks. Oh, and I'm really pleased that jon747 uses anti-spoiler vids for things like this. I hate knowing who is going to win game 4 before it starts.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "What is the amount of time the players get between each map in matches like this? It would seem to be extremely hard to maintain the same level of play if you play 3 matches back to back to back with very little time to rest.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "[Game 4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqecwe3No5U)\n\n[Game 5](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=320NcVG9dbY)", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Windows 7 runs flawlessly; just get the video drivers from NVIDIA's beta site or LaptopVideo2Go after installing the Boot Camp drivers for Windows Vista.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Well, Windows 7 is not supported yet, Vista isn't all that great, I would say XP is going to be your way to go here.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I've been using Windows 7 64-bit without any problems. Especially with the newest drivers from nvidia - and a few [overclocks](http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/a5uot/hi_rapple_looking_to_boost_the_performance_of/) things are running very nice (I have the white Macbook with 9400m).", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I recommend Windows 7 x64. Using nVidia's latest drivers, I get better performance in 7 than I did in XP. Also, don't worry about Win7 not being officially supported in Boot Camp yet, you won't find a single issue...", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "He says he's using Mint so a link to the Ubuntu LiveCd customization page is not that helpful. I'm a LiveCD fiend and I don't really consider Ubuntu to be an example of a real live-cd where real is defined as intended for long-term use in live mode. \n\nI've been sort of disappointed with Knoppix since 5.11 but I still tend to use Knoppix extensively and some language localized versions. I've also gotten more interested in Puppy. These are what I would call real live-cd distros as in distros made to be run permanently in live-cd mode. I haven't tried Mint so I'm not sure. Puppy and DSL have their own package managers. \n\nWith Knoppix derivatives it has become possible to simply use apt-get on the newest versions with decent UnionFS support. That's definitely a good way to go if what you want has a Debian binary which includes quite a bit of the open source software world. \n\nBut to get back to your exact situation and guessing that apt doesn't work in Mint, don't assume you can't compile from source without trying it. I've been able to compile quite a few things from source on Knoppix like Streamripper or other utilities of that nature. \n\nBarring the ability to build the source or use a package management system another trick if you're stuck on a LiveCD is to hit up Slackware repositories. Slackware uses plain tar archives to bundle binaries so if you want something that doesn't have many dependencies this can be a workable route. I think I got XmameSDL going on Knoppix 5.0 via that route. \n\nAlso, when working with printers, remember to try CUPS in a browser instead of fiddling around with customized scripts. Puppy, for instance, despite being lightweight at around a hundred megs has a sweet CUPS system that I was able to use with a forty dollar Epson all-in-one printer that I bought just a few months ago. If you use lp from the command line to print I find it a surprisingly stable platform for printing out large PDFs. \n\nTo use CUPS, just open your browser and type\nhttp://127.0.0.1:631/\n\nIf it is installed, it should be easy to configure. \n\nEdit: \nOops, I may have been a bit off by saying that the Ubuntu customization page is irrelevant because apparently Mint is based off of Ubuntu. And it also apparently uses the Ubuntu package management system which is basically apt or synaptic. I don't know Mint but I would strongly reiterate what I said about Ubuntu not being a good example of a Live-CD. If Mint is really close to Ubuntu and you want to use it as a Live-CD you might want to reconsider but, again, I don't know Mint. I have a couple of Ubuntu machines, but I really try to avoid hard-drive installs like the plague. ", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "I've used one that is sesame oil, lemon (sometimes lime) juice, a sprinkle of that mix of sesame seeds and seaweed you can get at the Asian markets, a dried red pepper, and some fresh ginger. Oh, a little olive oil, too. I never really measure it, but don't go nuts with the sesame oil or it will take over. I marinate for at least a day and then bake it in the oven. We use it to make vegan Bánh mì or sometimes eat it plain. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "URLs are valid C syntax:\n\n http://www.example.com\n \\___/\\_______________/\n | |\n Label Comment", "score": 118 }, { "body": "I know I will be downvoted, but please, don't look for \"neat tricks\" in C. If you don't have humility towards C, it will bite you. Seriously.", "score": 72 }, { "body": "The \"goes to\" operator \"-->\" is a particular favourite of mine. \n\n int x= 5;\n while (x --> 0)\n {\n printf(\"%d\\n\", x);\n }\n\n(Written on my iPhone; apologies for errors). ", "score": 65 }, { "body": "Scoped for loop to mimic C++\n\n #define for switch(0) case 0: for\n\nAllows you to do\n\n for ( int i = 0; i < 10; ++i ) {}\n for ( int i = 0; i < 20; ++i ) {}\n\ninstead of\n\n int i;\n for ( i = 0; i < 10; ++i ) {}\n for ( i = 0; i < 20; ++i ) {}", "score": 43 }, { "body": "Sure, here's Duff's Device. Please don't hate me.\n\n send(to, from, count)\n register short *to, *from;\n register count;\n {\n register n=(count+7)/8;\n switch(count%8){\n case 0: do{ *to = *from++;\n case 7: *to = *from++;\n case 6: *to = *from++;\n case 5: *to = *from++;\n case 4: *to = *from++;\n case 3: *to = *from++;\n case 2: *to = *from++;\n case 1: *to = *from++;\n }while(--n>0);\n }\n }\n", "score": 41 }, { "body": "linux/include/linux/compiler.h\r\n\r\nRedefine if to count true/false stats.\r\n\r\n #ifdef CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES\r\n /*\r\n * \"Define 'is'\", Bill Clinton\r\n * \"Define 'if'\", Steven Rostedt\r\n */\r\n #define if(cond, ...) __trace_if( (cond , ## __VA_ARGS__) )\r\n #define __trace_if(cond) \\\r\n if (__builtin_constant_p((cond)) ? !!(cond) : \\\r\n ({ \\\r\n int ______r; \\\r\n static struct ftrace_branch_data \\\r\n __attribute__((__aligned__(4))) \\\r\n __attribute__((section(\"_ftrace_branch\"))) \\\r\n ______f = { \\\r\n .func = __func__, \\\r\n .file = __FILE__, \\\r\n .line = __LINE__, \\\r\n }; \\\r\n ______r = !!(cond); \\\r\n ______f.miss_hit[______r]++; \\\r\n ______r; \\\r\n }))\r\n #endif /* CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES */\r\n\r\nBTW. 3 lines here are mine. :)", "score": 40 }, { "body": " float InvSqrt (float x){\n float xhalf = 0.5f*x;\n int i = *(int*)&x;\n i = 0x5f3759df - (i>>1);\n x = *(float*)&i;\n x = x*(1.5f - xhalf*x*x);\n return x;\n }\n\n[Source](http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8)", "score": 35 }, { "body": "The XOR swap:\n\n int a, b;\n a^= b^= a^= b;\n // a will now contain b's original value, and vice versa\n", "score": 31 }, { "body": "Indexed arrays literals. You can make amazingly compact code that way, as well as avoiding ordering errors\n\n char *enumnames[ENUM_MAX] = {\n [ENUM_FOO]=\"foo\",\n [ENUM_BLAH]=\"blah\",\n [ENUM_MEH]=\"meh\",\n };\n\nAll values not in the enum, of course, will be zeros.", "score": 22 }, { "body": " struct argument {\n char *name;\n char *filename;\n char *length;\n };\n int main(int argc, struct argument *argument)\n {\n //if you call ./program /etc/hosts 99\n //argument->filename will be \"/etc/hosts\" \n //and argument->length wil be \"99\"\n }\n:)", "score": 22 }, { "body": "not so much a trick, more of a defensive coding practice, but not widely practised:\n\nfor simple variable - numeric comparisons I got into the habit of always writing\n\n if (3 == foo)\n\ninstead of \n\n if (foo == 3)\n\nmeans that if I accidentally miss out one of the =, as is so easy to do:\n\n if (3 = foo)\n\nwon't compile, but\n\n if (foo = 3)\n\ncompiles fine and gives a runtime bug of the classic silent 'assign 3 to foo and return non-zero, so if statement returns true'. really nasty one to track down.", "score": 19 }, { "body": "compile-time assertions:\n\n #define assert_static(e) \\\n do { \\\n enum { assert_static__ = 1/(e) }; \\\n } while (0)\n\n(taken from\nhttp://pera-software.com/articles/compile-time-assertions.pdf)", "score": 17 }, { "body": "Here's a macro trick to avoid deeply nested if statements.\nLet's say you have three different boolean expressions, and you maybe need to do eight different things. You could do:\n\n if (x) {\n if (y) {\n if (z) {\n /* thing one */\n }else {\n /* thing two */\n }\n } /* retest z, later y again */\n\nOr, you could use this handy macro:\n\n #define MAP3(A,B,C) ((A)?4:0+(B)?2:0+(C)?1:0)\n\nAnd then use:\n\n switch (MAP3(x,y,z)) {\n case MAP3(1,1,1):\n /* thing one */ \n break; \n case MAP3(1,1,0):\n /* thing two */ \n break; \n /* And so on */\n\n", "score": 16 }, { "body": "Dealing with queer folks in the South Sea islands, they taught me some peculiar ways for printing numbers as character strings:\n\n void Cthulhu\n (int Ia) {\n if (Ia/10)\n Cthulhu (IA/10);\n putchar // ftagn!\n (Ia % 10 + '0');\n } // neblod zin!\n\nTwistin' and writhing like nothing of this Earth, it'll spit out those strings without no heap allocation in sight.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "C99 also introduced \"flexible array members\". Example:\n\n struct foo {\n int length;\n int data[];\n };\n\nsizeof (struct foo) yields the size of everything excluding \"data\" (in effect it's an array of size zero). This makes it handy in case you want to do something like:\n\n struct foo *x = malloc(sizeof *x + 20 * sizeof *x->data);\n\nif you want \"data\" to be an array of 20 elements. In C89 you could do a similar trick by making \"data\" an array of size 1, but this makes it a little bit cleaner.\n\nMy favourite \"trick\" is really more of a style and is illustrated above. Some people think you're not allowed to dereference an uninitialized pointer, but the C standard makes an explicit exception for sizeof expressions. I think casting and typing annotations look ugly and so instead of doing:\n\n int *x = malloc(5 * sizeof (int));\n\nI prefer to do:\n\n int *x = malloc(5 * sizeof *x);\n\nAn extra side-effect of this is that if you ever change the type of what x is pointing to, your malloc will automatically allocate the right amount of space without having to change that line. There's disagreement as to whether that's a positive side-effect or a negative one, but I like it :)", "score": 12 }, { "body": "The Linux kernel's linked list implementation is pretty neat: http://isis.poly.edu/kulesh/stuff/src/klist/", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I don't know how many people know this but in C99 this code is legal:\n\n int foo( int k){\n int array[k];\n }\n", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Just go read up on C99. Thats where compound literals come from, and there's plenty more in there. Designated initializers (`int array[4]={ [0]=1, [3]=2 };` and similarly for structs), finally allowing variable declarations everywhere, `stdint.h` and `stdbool.h`, it will all make C much, much more comfortable to use.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "[Bithacks](http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html) has some great little bit twiddling tricks.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Initializing elements of an array based on index:\n\n int foo[4] = {\n [2] = 6,\n [0] = 2,\n [3] = 9,\n };\n\nresults in an array initialized to {2,0,6,9}.\n\nAlso, expanding on compound literals, you can do\n\n (int[]){2,0,6,9}[y];\n\nAlso, anonymous structs:\n\n struct {\n char *name;\n struct {\n int x,y;\n } location;\n } somevar[] = {\n {\"point 1\", {6,17}},\n {\"point 2\", {-2,3}},\n {.location = {.y = 4, .x = 3}, .name = \"named init\"},\n };\n\n ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "not tried but here's a trick that might work:\n\n int return_two_variables(int num, int divide_by)\n {\n int number = n / divide_by;\n int remainder = n % divide_by;\n __asm__ __volatile__(\"pushl %0\" \"f\" (&remainder)::);\n return number;\n }\n\n int main()\n {\n int whole, remain;\n whole = return_two_variables(3, 6);\n __asm__ __volatile__ (\"popl %0\": \"=f\" (&remain) ::); //may be able to use remain = *(&whole + 1);\n printf(\"3 / 6 = %d remainder %d\\n\", whole, remain);\n }\n\nJust a final note. Do not use this. I'm just being stupid. (maybe use a struct or something)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I've found this one handy (faking inheritance I guess? not a very good example though sorry)\n\n typedef struct parent_t {\n // some fields in here, eg.\n int id;\n };\n\n typedef struct child_t {\n parent_t super;\n\n int some_var;\n };\n\n child_t* child = (child_t*)malloc(sizeof(child_t));\n\n child->some_var = 1;\n ((parent_t*)child)->id = 1;", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Not a trick but a source of.\n\nThere's a terrifying book about algorithms, bit handling and low level optimizations called Hacker's Delight. It contains a lot of C magic. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Most neat and useful things are well known (using a for-loop for traversing a linked list, lazy evaluation which allows you to if( x && x->next ), etc).\n\nI could only think of a few minor tricks off the top of my head:\n\n* !!x reduces x to 0 or 1.\n\n* x = malloc( sizeof *x ), x being a struct *, removes the need of mentioning the struct yet again\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "A lot of great fast bit manipulation code here: [Bit Twiddling Hacks](http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Not at all useful, but the thing I find suprises most people about C is that array subscripting is commutative, due to the internal representation as pointer arithmetic.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Great now I have to reinstall it.\n\nThere are a couple that attempt to update the graphics, but as far as I know none of them is complete and many appear to have been abandoned. [Deus Ex HDTP](http://www.offtopicproductions.com/hdtp/) did at least get a beta out before all activity appeared to stop. \n\n\n[Shifter](http://www.moddb.com/mods/shifter1) is a decent mod that attempts to improve the original game without changing the story, and there are a couple of renowned total conversion ones - [The Nameless Mod](http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-nameless-mod) gets talked about a lot, though I've not played it myself. \n\n\nIf you just head over to [the moddb page](http://www.moddb.com/games/deus-ex/mods) you can see a load more.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "LOL, I never played that game because my PC wasn't up to it.\n\nNow I've graduated college, have a real job, and my PC can handle anything in the world.\n\nShould I try this?", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Started playing Deus Ex for the first time ever a week ago; had played Invisible War on the Xbox back in '04, but that game just doesn't compare. This game still holds up to this day, without a doubt, even if you're not seeing it through nostalgia goggles.\n\nMost anything you'll want to use is detailed on this site (from modern DirectX renderers to interface fixes): http://kentie.net/article/dxguide/\n\nEdit: Just remembered that to get rid of the horrible mouse acceleration without breaking mouse control in the inventory you'll have to edit your registry. Here's a step-by-step guide: http://bit.ly/78iNcU\nDon't forget to reboot your computer for the changes to take effect.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Just install the official patch, it fixes things.\n\nI'm not a big fan of hi-res projects myself since they almost always try to ENHANCE! detail into pixels just for the sake of it, making everything look over-decorated and noisy. It's hard to get a consistent style throught a game, even if the result looks as cheesy as Deus Ex' plastic look.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "It's the only game where I actually gave a shit about the story. (Well, that and part of the Thief-series.)", "score": 5 }, { "body": "If you enjoyed Deus Ex, you should also play System Shock 2. If you do a a little research you can download high resolution and texture packs and models to bring the game to a more up to date status.\n\nI assure you, if you enjoyed Deus Ex, you WILL enjoy system show thoroughly.\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Every time I replay it I discover something new. Deus Ex is amazing.\n\nAlso, A BOMB. \n\n[What a shame.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DAPXMZk2iw)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Why does everyone always bitch about the graphics? It's not like you're going back and playing doom 1 or anything.. \n\nI think it mostly come from kids who's earliest memory was Halo.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I just finished playing it through for the second time (the first was a few years ago), and man it is just as good, if not better than I remember.\n\nEnjoy it!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "After 9 years, I'm going to play it for the first time. Soon.\n\n(Bought on Steam... now just need to finish some other games first).", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If you're thinking of playing Deus Ex for the first time after reading this post, a couple things:\n\n* The first area of the game isn't that much fun, it gets a lot better later.\n* Take the GEP gun.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Many girls (including myself) just hug their friends a lot. I think this might be the case here (although of course I might be wrong): she doesn't want you to get the wrong idea (i.e. she isn't interested) but will still hug you because you are a friend.\n\n\n", "score": 32 }, { "body": "I think you've got other issues to examine if you think that every point of physical contact means she's interested in you. Some people are just more touchy than others, and the touching doesn't necessarily translate to an interest.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "A lot of women like to hug. They consider it a nice thing to do, something you do with children. But touching face and hands is a romantic act. And a no-no.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "This comment might help:\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9m9q2/how_can_i_tell_when_girls_are_flirting/c0dd42l", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Some girls just like to hug certain friends. Who else does she hug? (and how many of them are guys?)\n\nInstead of trying to escalating to the next level, do the whole \"I don't wanna get hugged\" playful thing (this can be done with words, or body language, or both), see if she ups it by trying to hug you more (often).", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "Be supportive and understand that her telling you this was very hard. Ask her what she wants/needs and if she wants help. Be there for her, but understand she may just want to leave it be.\n\n\nIs this something that just came up in conversation or???", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I had a girlfriend that was raped once and when she told me who had done it I wanted nothing more than to beat the shit out of the guy, but it was best for me and her for me to just be supportive and let her deal with it how she wanted. Which was to do nothing but talk about it, and that helped her and me.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "i'm a current/former opiate addict. currently taking 8mg of buprenorphine daily for maintenance.\n\ni've never taken tramadol, but i've taken pretty much every other opiate under the sun. all i can say is... be careful. try abstaining from it for a solid week, and this should give you a good idea whether you're physically dependent or not. you're already psychologically dependent on this medication, so you're halfway down the rabbit hole. i'd wager that you're also physically dependent on this medication as you take it every day. \n\nthe first line of your post kinda makes me laugh...\n\n> I don't have an addictive personality, so for the last 2 years I've been supplementing my anti depressants with Tramadol.\n\nthat would be like me saying \"I don't have an addictive personality, so I've been injecting morphine at least twice daily for the past 2 years to supplement my anti-depressants.\"\n\nlike i said, try not taking it for 7 solid days. you might not feel any withdrawals for the first few days, depending on your metabolism of the drug and how long you've been taking it, but i really doubt that you can go 7 days without any physical discomfort. from wiki...\n\n> anxiety, depression, anguish, severe mood swings, aggressiveness, brain \"zaps\", electric-shock sensations throughout body, pins and needles, sweating, palpitations, restless legs syndrome, sneezing, insomnia, tremors, headache, among others. In most cases, tramadol withdrawal will set in 12 to 20 hours after the last dose, but this can vary. Tramadol withdrawal lasts longer than that of other opioids; seven days or more of acute withdrawal symptoms can occur as opposed to typically three or four days for other codeine analogues.\n\ngood luck, and welcome to the club.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "Best of both worlds- become a *fake* zombie. Kill your nearest neighbor, eat his brains, use his blood and guts to camo yourself and join the horde. During the winter, when they all freeze, *then* you can go all survivalist.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Zombies rise up from the ground, yeh? Obviously, that's the last place they're going to want to return because there aren't any brains in coffins. \n\nWhen the time comes, go to a cemetery, dig up a coffin, climb inside with food and water, close it up, and have a trusted friend rebury you. Make sure he makes the grave look undisturbed, maybe with a rock or something on top, so they don't assume someone's down there.\n\nThen you play the waiting game. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "It's too late to be a zombie hipster unless you are patient zero. But you could be a field agent for the zombies - encourage people to leave their houses saying things like, \"Oh, curse this big tasty brain of mine!\"", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Narwhals, bacon, memento, fight club, in the aeroplane over the sea, fox news is bullshit, religion is stupid, boobs, cats, half life 2, digg is for retards.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "What?\n\nRedditors don't need to change light bulbs. They all illuminate their homes with LEDs powered by fusion reactors.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I would say the reddit community is overall a smart bunch, so as long as the person had a ladder or the bulb wasn't too high up and they were a decent height, I think the answer would be 1.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Please tell your girlfriend that she is STUNNING. Well, tell her that I feel she is stunning; I'm sure you already tell her all the time. :] Even if she doesn't post here more (which would be sad, to say the least), I wish her the best of luck and she got a vote from me! Also, her stage name is great! I love Lili. :]", "score": 5 }, { "body": "She definitely should post. Very sexy 50's look going on there, and I'm sure the pictures would be super hot :)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "If you could get $1/week off of an initial investment of $100, I would be amazed. That's like 52% annual interest. ", "score": 13 }, { "body": "If your willing to actually do something to get the money then yes, but this other input will be called labor. Now you can always outsource the labor but that will still put you in a position where you need to input management which is really just labor plus training. \n\nTo start with $100 and make $1 a week should be simple, in fact I can't think of many things that you could possibly do that wouldn't be worth $2.93 a week. \n\nThe real questions is what does $100 of capital allow me to purchase that will enable me to provide a service for which people will pay $2.93 a week.\n\nThe next question is what do you spend $2.93 on each week?\n\nMake this list of things you purchase weekly at $2.93 or greater and try to find where you can either improve or inject yourself into the value chain using your $100 of capital.\n\nYou could also just use your $100 to purchase inventory, taking advantage of the economies of scale, and resell the inventory individually.\n\nIn this example you could sell candy, purchase a bulk box and sell individually, you only need to mark the price up 52% which is not a lot.\n\nIn the fist example, you could spend $50 on a cheap digital camera. $25 on a basic website, and $25 on business cards.\n\nGo to a busy area preferably with tourist or drunk people, take their picture, give them a business card with your site address on it. If they go to the site they can buy the picture or have it printed out by a third party like Snapfish or something similar try to get them to click on a link. It shouldn't be that hard and you can get a few thousand business cards for $25. You could also possibly save $10 of the original 100 and purchase props (funny hat, stuffed animal, crack pipe, wigs, fake guns, cardboard celebrity standup, etc) to have people pose with while taking their picture to entice them to purchase the larger version.\n\nTo keep most people from easily stealing the pictures you could javascript to have a floating div that covers a portion of the picture and when the mouse touches it moves to another portion of the picture allowing them to see the entire picture but never the whole thing at one time. You could also load the site with pop ups and many very non-userfriendly types of things as you are not expecting many returning visitors.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "You could put it into a certificate of deposit (CD). Better yet, build a [CD ladder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_deposit#Ladders).", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "i personally just have a livejournal and a fubar, and have been known to pop on yahoo and msn... yet to really get wild out in public haha", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You should get T-shirts with Voltaire's quote on them:\n\n\"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.\"", "score": 22 }, { "body": "You should try /r/favors. A free logo was requested there, and several professional logo designers replied with fantastic logos. ", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Sorry, I can't help you, but I have a friend who is just starting to perform events and get involved in Portland's magic community, and he would no doubt LOVE to be involved in the organization. We can't take him anywhere without him busting out his cards, might as well be a hospital.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "[Showtime?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284490/) \nHehey I think I even found an image of the scene [itself](http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/020207/152528__showtime_l.jpg)!", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "Give me a mouse and keyboard and I will rain down upon you death and destruction the likes of which you have never seen", "score": 102 }, { "body": "There is no technical limitation. Xbox Live and Playstaton Network are both merely closed garden approaches to community.\r\n\r\nIt would be trivial to create a game for both systems and pc that connects to a 3rd party centralized server outside of the specific community networks, and that game would probaby sell very well if it were at least decent. The only major reason companies don't do this is because of licensing with the console makers.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "There's actually significant reasons this doesn't really work. You'd have to sacrifice a lot of things that give consoles their appeal. \n\nFirst off, one appeal to console gaming at a competitive level is that the playing field is as equal as it can get. Which differs from PC gaming where a real hardware junkie can spend a lot for a very minor competitive edge. \n\nSecondly is infrastructure. You'd have to decentralize the networks you've come to love. This means no friends list, gamertags, no sending of messages. Forming Clans and cross communication would be difficult. Decentralizing the networks would mean more work for Infinity ward, Xbox and PS3 would no longer try to moderate people glitching and have less control over general douchebaggery. Patches would have to be developed in synch. \n\nTo play with friends cross console... Infinity ward would then be forced to make their own in depth centralized network... something they're trying very hard to avoid. You'd almost have one extra level to connect to your game. Something that would require an additional login and a lot more cost to Infinity ward. \n\nSo I don't think it's right to put the blame squarely on Sony and Microsoft. I think game makers are more than happy to build off the currently placed infrastructure and not have to go to great lengths to facilitate cross communication. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "because monopolies can't be formed if you share. all three systems go to \"the internet\" but they want to make a private gaming section for each one to try and force the other's out with the logic of \"if you want to play with your friends buy a [system]\"", "score": 5 }, { "body": "It's happened in the past (see: Final Fantasy XI or Quake 3 for Dreamcast). It's just a pain to get it sorted so it works between systems and infrastructure, and often the differing control types can leave different players at a disadvantage.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I do. Though I personally could make more money as a developer/team lead/whatever at a company (maybe 25% to 50%).\n\nGetting the application to the point of first sale took about 18 months. Took 3 years before sales leveled off, first year was about 1/3 of the third year sales. Second year was about 2/3. Nearly folded in the second year. Now it \"trundles\" along reasonable fine (more money would be nice... but I'm not sure I want to put the required effort in).\n\nTo start... well I picked an existing application/niche I knew _well_ and said I could make a better one... and did so. \n\nThere's a well respected book about Micro-ISV's you might find interesting. Check Amazon.\n\nIt's ok being your own boss... but it has downsides. I don't like accounting, taxes, marketing, banking, sales, font line support, and a bunch of other tasks that it takes to fully run a business. Plus anything that goes wrong is on my head... which some days is depressing as hell.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Not totally selling the software but also consulting and training on what I sell. I sell an ERP package to mid sized businesses (Macola) along with some BI software (Crystal Reports) and stuff like SQL Server, Windows Server, etc. I also sell some hardware, mainly high end printers and bar code equipment.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Just tell them that they are an atheist even though they don't realize it because when they were born they didn't believe in God.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "Spray some drops of water on them and say:\n\n\"I hereby accept you as a convert to Pastafarianism, all hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Ramen\".\n\nThen argue that they are now Pastafarian for life, even if they don't believe in it.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Get all psychological on them. Ask them why they feel so threatened that you don't believe in their religion - is it because deep down, they realize it's all a bunch of hooey? Are they desperately trying to assuage their cognitive dissonance? If they feel that everyone is like them, will that compensate for the desperate loneliness they feel due to their sneaking suspicion that that their invisible friend doesn't really exist?\n\nIf you can't reduce any theist to a gibbering wreck in three or four sentences, you're not doing it right.\n", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Have you asked him why he outed you to these people? Making out with his girlfriend without regard to his surroundings is perhaps a little more understandable (from my admittedly limited perspective) but it seems he should at least have some kind of motive (or naivete) to explain the rest.\n\nTo venture a guess, I'd say your confession scared him, and he started trying to push you away. Perhaps he thought the friendship would be too awkward to keep going, or perhaps he has some tendencies he's not ready to face himself. (You did say that he made out with a guy once, yes?)\n\nBut yeah, ask him for some kind of explanation. Or maybe his girlfriend? Non-confrontational would probably be better, or at least less likely to cause him to kick it up a notch.\n\nI realize this is rough for you, but keep your chin up. Most of us have had inadvisable crushes in the past, and it's something that you get over with time.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Would it be socially feasible to cut off contact from the two of them? If so, I would highly recommend it (as have the others). He's treating your completely inexcusably.\n\nBut, judging from your post, it seems like that's easier said than done. So, if it's not feasible to completely cut off contact from him:\n\nIs there a reason you haven't come out publicly yet? Do you live in a place where it would be accepted? (Note that I'm speaking from an inexperienced straight person's point of view when I say this:) It seems to me like if you came out publicly (e.g. Facebook), it would remove some of the tension; he has a lot less power over you if the secret of yours that he's revealing is both already known, and doesn't hurt you. My sense is that his doing it is partially a power/control play; if you preempt him, he'll lose his power. Obviously only you can decide if/when/how to come out, but it seems to me like this could solve some of your problems. It also seems like this might relieve some of the tension between you and your friend; if it's no longer a secret, he might feel burdened less.\n\nAnd, as others have said, there's no point in punishing him; he deserves it, but it'll only make matters worse. Taking away his \"weapon\" against you without directly addressing it to him is a much more constructive way of dealing with it.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I don't know about you folks, but my jetpack and flying car arrived this morning at 8 am eastern. The delivery guy said he'd be back with the cold fusion power cube tomorrow. ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "An increment in the counting based on an arbitrarily chosen point in space in rotation around the sun, counting from an arbitrary point 2010 revolutions ago.\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "nope. don't think it will make a bit of difference, but sometimes it is a good thing to stop and reflect upon where you have been, to help you know where you are going. and to say to yourself \"damn I'm still here! bring it!\"\n\nyea, *Two Thousand and Ten* is going to be OK, got to have hope.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Make it illegal for so-called \"News\" outlets to knowingly provide false information as part of their ongoing political agenda.\r\n", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Every US legal resident is assigned a ID number by the federal government. A public number, unlike SS#s. You publicly assign that number to you snail mail address, phone number, email address, allergies, whatever. Personal fields can be marked Private and cannot be publicly viewed. A website exists that will give a front end to the public info. When using snail mail, you don't need the physical address. Print the person's ID and the post office looks up the physical address. Emailing [email protected] will forward emails to your personal email address (if you opt in). Rig up a system to allow you to call a person using their ID (opt in, of course). Anti-spam techniques are needed. When you move or change your name, you edit one database instead of dozens. Whenever filling out a form, you can enter your ID instead of repeating data. Private institutions can us that ID as a unique identifier in their databases instead of always creating their own. No driver's license number as the state will edit the \"driver license field\" on your ID to Yes or No (class M etc). No Social Security #s to be stolen. Knowing your ID is not proof that you are who you say you are because everyone knows your ID. Instead, your ID is your username. Proof can be any number of possibilities: password, signature, photo, whatever the security experts say is most safe. Instead of every bank and company have unique identity verification, there is one. If it's every breached you know right away unlike current systems. You can put a freeze on your ID in case of suspicion and everyone will be told not to accept money or sign contracts with you until the freeze is lifted by consulting your DMV (or whatever) in person.\n\nThis wouldn't give the government any more information than it already has. It would just put the information in one place. It would actually improve security and privacy because everyone would control what information is available about them. Still, it should be opt-in for a while to test and get the public comfortable. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "OP: What happens when a politician you don't agree with gets control of the sterilisation reversal process and starts adding new \"requirements\"?", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Anyone playing load music on their phones in public places(especially buses/trains), will get his phone confiscated(then sell and give the money to charity). You can also add getting him banned from public transportation for a month.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "In order for a president to start a war (or a \"police action\", or whatever the kids are calling it these days) in a foreign country, they must be a **combat** vet or there must be enemy troops on our soil.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "OK, because you have LGBT youth in the group he has to go. Period. If you need a reason, just tell him that you know about his arrest, and you don't feel comfortable having him in your group, and that you have heard these conversations, and you can't put the youth in your group at risk.\n\nYou aren't a corporation, you aren't a business, you DON'T have to have a reason. You're a group. You don't have to have a reason to kick him out.\n\nNot to mention your group will begin to dissolve once it becomes clear to everyone else that there was a sex offender in your group and you did nothing about it.\n\nAlso, I don't know how young the youth are in your group, but his membership in your group may be a violation of his parole, and a call to the police may be in order. At the very least they may be interested in his activities.\n\nBut don't wait until something goes awry to take action. Get his ass out of your group... for your sake and everyone else's.", "score": 52 }, { "body": "It's also entirely possible that his participating in a group that involves youth is a violation of some condition of his release.\n\nIn either case, were I in your shoes I'd err on the side of caution. ", "score": 31 }, { "body": "I would make a statement to the group about your support for the legal age of consent with regards to the group, and encourage any members who disagree with that position to leave the group. The fact of the matter is that an 11 year old does not have the ability to consent to sex. This guy is sick for not recognizing that.", "score": 28 }, { "body": "I wouldn't allow him, that shit can be toxic. It's one thing if he demonstrated he had changed, or it was some bullshit charge (If the boy had been 17 or something), but 11? Forget it. You're trying to create a safe environment for these kids.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "It would be exceedingly strange if he were released just a year ago and was already allowed to be socializing with minors. It's not impossible, but it seems more likely that he's doing something by being part of this group that would land him back in jail if his parole officer knew about it.\r\n\r\nI'd strongly consider a call to the local PD to let them know that a sex offender is having contact with minors through your group, before you do anything else that might tip him off that you know about his past. That disturbing conversation sounds like something that would come from an offender looking for another victim. Just throwing him out of the group won't stop him from finding another one where he can have contact with young people.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "He legally cannot be in a group with minors. If I were you, I would privately approach him, reveal that you know of his status, and ask him politely to withdraw from the group. If he refuses or gets angry with you, you have every right to contact the authorities.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "First and foremost, your responsibility is to the group as a whole, not to the individual members. Many group members, especially young people, will not be comfortable with a sex offender being around. \n\nAlthough I respect that you're trying to keep an open mind on the issue and trying to be respectful of all your group members, you can't enable a risk to the young people in your group.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "You were right to kick him out. You cannot wait for him to *do* something wrong and justify you kicking him out; you know he will sooner or later and your group should not have to take the risk of that. \n\nWe had to make a similar decision when I was on the board of a local kink group. The guy never really _did_ anything, but he was obviously dangerous and reckless about consent; we knew we were just waiting for him to hurt someone. \n\nThe _law_ certainly cannot take these kinds of actions -- under the law, we're all innocent till proven guilty (at least ideally). But we are not the law; we are regular citizens with a membership-based club. I felt that we had a duty to our membership.\n\nYou done good, hon'. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I don't know what your organization's legal status is (ie, incorporated vs. not), but you may be opening yourself up to personal legal liability (civil) if you continue to allow this person to attend with youths present. You should contact a lawyer before you allow them to attend.\n\n(I am not a lawyer, and this is not formal legal advice. I am involved in a non-profit organization and we deal with issues like this. Talk to a real lawyer!).", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "First thing to do is realise she's not the perfect girl for you, that kind of thinking will make you creepy and awkward. She's just a girl you're attracted to right now who might work out and might not, don't over-invest in something that's not there yet.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "Girl's Perspective:\n\nYou should show her that you are interested in her, without coming off creepy. \n\nBe confident, funny, and casual. Try to hang out with her, but take it slow and be really casual about it. \n\nIt seems like you are being a little desperate as it seems like you barely know this girl. You should get to know her first and still try to socialize and meet other girls at the same time.\n\nBasically, send her hints, and see how she responds. If she keeps responding well, then keep the momentum going. \n\nCongrats otherwise and hopefully this turns out well! Keep us updated! ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "As a girl, I say, don't bring up a relationship too soon. Its long distance and its online, so you dont want to scare her off. Have you heard from her since the \"thank you\" text? Keep texting her for a bit then ask her out. Try and do something thoughtful and it wont matter how charming or cool your texts are. Take her somewhere that lets her know you've been listening to what shes told you about herself.\n\nCant wait to hear how it goes!", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Heres some advice from a fellow man. David DeAngelo. It helps, at first it sounds ridiculous but I've been practicing and its almost like seduction, but its not. Its amazing. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "You already kissed her and she was glad you did, so it sounds like you're doing just fine to me! Just ask her to do something else with you alone (what does she like? did she mention anything she wanted to see, any places she likes to go? do you know any of her hobbies? anything?). You kissed her so she obviously knows you're into her as more than just friends. So hang out again and kiss her again :)\n\nedit - and when you do this: don't get so drunk that you have to go home sick!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I'd say the answer is yes. Maybe they're trying to make a transition from covert to overt. Totalitarians often don't care if you know they committed the crimes. Your knowing just intensifies your fear of them. As Caligula liked to say \"let them hate, so long as they fear\".", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I think they are just succumbing to the hubris that must eventually destroy them. It's kind of like Nazi Germany, where they started out by deceiving the people with an elaborate mythology. But as time went on, and life got harder; the lies had to be stretched thinner and thinner to cover up the increasingly dire reality of what the Nazis were up to. Eventually the thin veneer of bullshit just fell away altogether and the Nazis were exposed for what they were. At that point they just gave up any pretense of civility to their own people, and said; \"oh fuck it; were in charge, so just shut the fuck up and do what we say, or we'll work/starve you to death in a concentration camp.\"\n\nI understand the US camps are already built and ready to go.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Not really . I think it was just easier in the past .People notice more now,and it is at least possible to engage them for a short time in thinking.More sloppy details show up..does it matter as we become apathetic in the face of the constant repitition? Almost everyone now knows or suspects whats up. Nobody cares. Why mop up all the details when nobody is even watching.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "People are at a point where they see it but feel they can do nothing about it. I think most people only care about staying comfortable and holding on to their job. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "The basic problem with conspiracy theories is that most people don't believe the government would deceive we the people to the extent that they do. Most people don't believe there could be factions within the government that would actually kill JFK and then manipulate the evidence and the media coverage. No matter how much evidence you may present the whole idea just goes against their faith in the goodness of the government. \n\nIn our culture we are condition to believe first of all in Santa, then Jesus, then the government is good, communism is bad. Very black and white. We believe the communists use propaganda to lie to their people, but not in the USA. The Nazi's used propaganda to lie to their people, but not in the USA.\n\nThe biggest problem with getting people to see the truth of 911 is that many people just don't think our government or factions within our government would do a thing like that to it's own people. So no matter how much evidence you might show someone, they'll never believe it. \n\nSo when the majority of people have faith in the government they will believe any stupid plan like the current 253 story. Even when there is plenty of evidence that it's a hoax. \n\nIt's all a hoax. The war on terror is a hoax. We as a culture have been lied to and manipulated for generations. What is happening now is a continuation of the lies. The few that do see through it are ridiculed and called conspiracy theorists.\n\nThat's why the media slant now is how these so called terrorist have been radicalized through the internet. Like the 5 Americans picked up in Pakistan last month and the 253 guy. They were corrupted by the internet, radicalized. That will justify putting filters on the internet. They will convince people to accept it in order to keep them safe. \n\nManipulation through creating fear. Works like a charm.\n\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I do not know of any nature show to offer, but just a quick question: Have you introduced Reddit to her yet? \n\nShe might find ASKREDDIT as a very interesting subreddit and she may find giving ADVICE something worthwhile. I understand that parents, those who are in 40's love giving advices and their perspective of things.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Seeing as she's interested in nature shows, would it be right to assume she's generally into nature type things? Perhaps you could find her a nice nature-lovers forum or something. Or research with her some good indoor plants (if she doesn't like going outside too often) or easy to handle outdoor plants. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Best nature shows are from the BBC. Life of Mammals, Life of Birds, Trials of Life, Life on Earth, Life of Plants, Planet Earth -- each is about 10 hours of material.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "If you want to see a message every time the function is evaluated, the best way to do it is with `Debug.Trace` and a guard that always fails:\n\n import Debug.Trace\n f :: Int -> Int\n f n | trace (\"f was called: \"++show n) False = undefined\n f 0 = 1\n f n = n * f (n-1)\n\nThis isn't my idea; I read it on a blog a while ago and I'm too lazy to find the original source.\n\nYou can use a related trick for debugging monadic code:\n\n trace \"here is a message\" $ return ()", "score": 23 }, { "body": "This one definitely has to become more widely known: Instead of\n\n foo (Bar _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _) = ...\n\nwrite\n\n foo Bar{} = ...", "score": 14 }, { "body": "A very neat trick using the continuation monad from Cale:\n\nYou have a function like `withCString :: String -> (CString -> IO a) -> IO a`. It takes a regular Haskell `String`, allocates and fills a null-terminated c string with it and passes it to the second parameter. But what if you have lots of `String`s and an action that wants lots of `CString`s? This is where Cale's neat function in `Cont` comes into play:\n\n nest :: [(r -> a) -> a] -> ([r] -> a) -> a\n nest = runCont . sequence . map Cont\n\nSo now if you take your `[String]` and map `withCString` to it, you'll get an `[(r -> a) -> a]`, and can apply `nest` on it to get a function that does what you want: takes a function that takes a list of `CString`s and does something with it. Of course, in a more realistic situation you're probably calling out to some foreign function and probably want a null-separated array of c strings, so [Cale's original version](http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-February/038963.html) goes on and does that, but the main trick is in the `nest` function.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "[The undefined :: a value.](http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/haskellwiki/Undefined) I made a big post here, but moved it to the Haskell wiki to save space.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "1) doubly linked trees (as in tying the knot):\r\n\r\n type Stuff = Int\r\n \r\n data DTree = DTree \r\n { stuff :: Stuff\r\n , children :: [DTree]\r\n , parent :: Maybe DTree\r\n }\r\n \r\n type DT = Maybe DTree -> DTree\r\n \r\n dt :: Stuff -> [DT] -> DT\r\n dt stuff children parent = this where\r\n this = DTree stuff xs parent\r\n xs = [ child (Just this) | child <- children ]\r\n \r\n dtree :: DT -> DTree\r\n dtree f = f Nothing\r\n \r\n tree = dtree root\r\n \r\n root = dt 0 [a,b,c] \r\n a = dt 1 []\r\n b = dt 2 [e,f]\r\n c = dt 3 []\r\n e = dt 101 []\r\n f = dt 102 []\r\n\r\n(vacuum can be used to visualize this).\r\n\r\n2) parameterizing product types by functors. instead of \r\n\r\n data Alma = Alma\r\n { someProperty :: Int\r\n , otherProperty :: String\r\n , thirdProperty :: Bool\r\n }\r\n\r\none can write\r\n\r\n data Alma f = Alma\r\n { someProperty :: f Int\r\n , otherProperty :: f String\r\n , thirdProperty :: f Bool\r\n } \r\n\r\nthen you can apply natural transformations (that works for any ADT), and nullary, binary, etc versions of them (that does not work for sum types).\r\n \r\ni have the feeling that this is a pretty useful idiom, but i haven't actually wrote (working) programs using it yet. though i have at least two in my mind.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Use the backticks. Useful with functions that consume monadic values:\n\n \"setup_pins\" `atom` do\n directions <- word8' \"DDRB\"\n ...\n\nAlso helpful for use with many other higher order functions:\n\n main = do\n digits <- filter isDigit `fmap` hGetContents stdin\n hPutStrLn stdout (show (read digits + 1))\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Three small tricks:\n\nhttp://community.livejournal.com/evan_tech/246130.html\nhttp://community.livejournal.com/evan_tech/246296.html\nhttp://community.livejournal.com/evan_tech/246692.html", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "[espn](http://soccernet.espn.go.com/transfers/index?cc=5739)\n\n[for all leagues, go here](http://soccernet.espn.go.com/transfers/transfer?leagueId=0&cc=5739)\n\nEDIT - added 2nd link (espn)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It's a sign of a common genetic abnormality in which the second X chromosome is replaced with a Y chromosome. In addition to the symptom you describe, you're more likely to engage in risk-taking behavior, excessive alcohol consumption, and promiscuity. On the plus side, patients with this disorder tend to have above average spacial cognition and upper body strength. In time, you'll find others like you and learn to live a normal life.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "No, not a problem at all. I do this all the damn time. It's like our hands and our crotches have magnets in them, so they're constantly attracted to each other. My wife catches me doing it all the time and finds it odd, but I think most guys probably play with their junk without even thinking about it. We've got dicks Goddammit, it's about time we embrace them....not together of course,..but dammit man, you know what I mean.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I find it strange you would even ask about this. It is perfectly normal, nothing to worry about even remotely. Boys do this from a very young age, my little cousins are constantly being told to get their hands out their pants, my flatmate sits in the living room with his hands down his trousers, I do it sitting reading reddit in my room. \n\nDo try not to do it in company, while it is normal it is not very polite to do it in front of other people, especially when you did it at your friends house. I tell my flatmate off for it.\n\nIt's just a comfortable thing to do for guys.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'm a girl and I do the same thing with my pussy. Not in my panties, but overtop. I have no idea why. I'd say it was for heat - and if anyone ever catches me doing it, that's going to be my excuse - but my hand normally isn't that cold. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You might need to be more specific about the type of things you are looking for. We all have photos we think should be published, but before I'd submit any to a publication (particularly a new publication who can't pay) I REALLY need an idea of the flavour/theme/style/genre of the publication. Can you link us to some sample content?", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Sexism: Female, because if a man uses it, it's vulgar, rude and hidden but if a woman uses it, it's printed in a newspaper as comedic gold. ", "score": 62 }, { "body": "Cell Phone: Female, because it uses fancy looks to lure you into a long term commitment. Then you find out features such as coverage and reception is not as advertised. But to break out of the contract it will cost you an arm and a leg.\n", "score": 38 }, { "body": "Men haven't evolved much over the past 5000 years?\n\nThis article: Female, because it can't make a joke.\n\nPlease, downvote me to oblivion. I have made my point.", "score": 31 }, { "body": "Tornadoes: Female, because when they're coming they're wet and windy and when they're going they take half of your fucking house with them.\n\nHonestly though, I'm not bitter.", "score": 31 }, { "body": "Remote Control: Female...Ha! You thought I'd say male. But consider: it gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know the right buttons to push, he keeps trying.\n\nUmm, men are the only ones that know what all the buttons do.", "score": 19 }, { "body": "Web page: Female, because if you are appealing, you get hit on alot. If, on the other hand, you are unappealing, no such hits exist.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "TOTALLY.\n\nmen are all like hurr hurr hurr and women are all like wee wee wee. you nailed it, buddy!\n\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Reddit: Female, because most men just look at stuff on it, only the experienced ones put stuff into it", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Why do people use gift cards? It's like taking perfectly acceptable money and turning it into something only one store will accept...", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Ya, I found this out a few months ago when I bought my iPod touch. Nowhere on the apple website or iTunes card could I find any info about this fact. I had to search google before I found some guys [blog](http://enkerli.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/apps-and-itunes-cards-in-canada-follow-up) about the issue.\n\nApparently Apple claims that it is Canada's fault in that our internet tax laws make them unable to sell us apps and whatnot. However, according to the Minister of Industry, Tony Clement, there is no law preventing Apple from selling us apps [link](http://www.jimwhitelaw.com/2009/09/itunes-credit-in-canada.html)\n\nBasically, Apple blows and think they can get away with anything....", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Glad I got the trackback.\nI realized this a year ago, after redeeming a 25$ card. Since then, I've been using prepaid cards. In my experience, when you try buying an app, it tells you that you don't have enough credits and that it will charge your credit card. But it's all very confusing.\nI still have no idea why Apple does this. It's not like it's helping them in any way. My guess is that they overzealously applied some rule they saw in Canadian law and have never changed it. In other words, my guess is that it's a lack of competence more than anything. Partly because I can't see how it benefits them to prevent app purchases. There was an interesting interpretation posted on my blog (about tracking purchases and such), but I'm not so sure it makes so much sense.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This is your answer.\r\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiatives_and_referenda_in_the_United_States\r\n\r\nLook at that map NY is red. You didn't adopt either of these populist policies back in the turn of the twentieth century like the western states did.\r\n\r\nedit: Since you can't put it on the ballot yourself just call your state legislators...all the time.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Yes, modern performance tends to be more technically \"correct\". I've heard samples of early 20th century performances that were highly lauded for the time, but sound hammy to modern ears (especially with the singing). I don't think they do much post-production besides balancing, considering that I often hear squeaky chairs and other stray noise in the background. If the artist wants a better take, they play a better take until they have what they want. You're dealing with professionals, not kids that can dance to a synth beat and look good lip-synching on MTV.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Photoshop is a program that only edits bitmap images, to create effects, or edit images to achieve some affect. You were probably thinking of something like \"Sound editing classical music...\". Anyways lol sorry for being a prude just though you should know in case you want to use the term \"Photoshopping\" again, even if Adobe deems it practically illegal to say.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "build it yourself.\n\nbenefits:\n\n1.) it may come out cheaper in the long-run.\n\n2.) you can customize your installation. (no bloated o/s partition via store-installed crapware)\n\n3.) you'll get satisfaction knowing you built your machine.\n\ngood luck!\n", "score": 15 } ]

[ { "body": "What is the webpage? I recently tried to organize a local zine similar to your project but was unable to get enough support to make it happen, although I had all of the editing and personal side complete. I will definitely contribute and help out if this is getting kicked off soon.", "score": 6 }, { "body": ">I am setting up an independent culture publication and website\n\nTwo questions:\n\n1. Is that publication *and* website or really just a website?\n2. I hope you won't take offense to this, but... why?", "score": 5 }, { "body": "If you're interested in articles on left-wing politics, film analysis, farming, Ireland, ennui or anything at all really, give me a shout and I'll write something for you.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Opera. \n\nI am built like a slightly-past-his-prime lumberjack. I eat waffles in the morning and steak at night. I disinfect all my wounds with either salt or straight alcohol and I never take pain meds, ever. The last time I was broken up with I sneered, spat, and left. Not a single tear escaped my eyes.\n\nBut when I first heard Luciano Pavarotti sing the *Nessun Dorma*, I wept. I wept silently and profusely, through the entire second half of the song. I have never been to an opera that *didn't* make me cry.", "score": 62 }, { "body": "Movies are designed to appeal to our most basic emotional centers. We've all been jaded to the relatively blasé emotional peaks in normal life.\n\nAlso, movies have soundtracks.", "score": 25 }, { "body": "I've had numerous people in my life die, my dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer this year. No tears.\n\nSomeone with a beautiful voice, or watching an emotional movie alone: I am in tears in seconds.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I'm a guy. I cried watching Avatar. I never cry in RL. I also cried watching Wall-E, and Amelie...\n\nPhysical pain has never made me cry either... not since I was like 4 yrs old... ", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I don't really cry, and haven't in a few years. I didn't cry at Up, or any of the 'sad' movies that people usually reference on Reddit. I didn't even cry during Dear Zachary, which is easily the saddest film I've ever seen.\n\nOn the 30th, I watched Avatar (a late showing), and had a blast. I went out to play some video games with friends, and then called another friend to see if I could come over. We watched Pixar movies until 5:00AM. I finally fell asleep, and woke up at 3:00PM on New Year's Eve. \n\nI ate dinner and went out to a party, yadda yadda I get home at 4:30AM the next day and I just cannot fall asleep, at all. It was bizarre. I was in some dream world. I start getting some work done and eventually I stay up until the 6:00PM showing of Avatar that I promised my parents and brother I'd watch.\n\n**DO NOT WATCH AVATAR WHILE TIRED AND/OR IN AN EMOTIONAL STATE, ESPECIALLY FOR THE SECOND TIME**. For some reason that movie was about two hundred times more powerful watching it again having been awake for more than 24 hours. I felt like I had an elephant sitting on my chest the whole time, especially during the middle section (I won't spoil anything, as many people probably haven't seen it).\n\ntl;dr: yesterday I watched Avatar for the second time while sleep deprived, I've never come so close to crying in a movie theater.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "I'm a dude. The end of the Lion King when he climbs Pride Rock to take his place as king still gets me. The end of Saving Private Ryan does it too. I guess sometimes you just get caught up in the moment. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Actually, quite the opposite for me. I never cry or get the slightest bit emotional during movies (with the exception of two: Old Yeller, and the scene in I Am Legend where Will Smith has to kill his own dog [late spoiler alert]. But even then I only feel emotional, I don't break a tear). And I don't remember the last time I cried from anything that wasn't a family member's death. The last time I remember crying was at my grandfather's funeral.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "All the time. I can't remember the last time I cried for personal issues, but just put on a slightly emotional movie and I will weep. Castaway with Tom Hanks is the movie that has made me cry the most. I'm talking about sobbing and all.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Surprised no one's mentioned [Kiwi](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs). It starts out cute, but it'll have me tearing up by the end if I think about it too hard.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I never cry at funerals or such (even though I'm sad). But I just shed a tear watching a [fan-made Super Mario ad](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1926862). So there might be something to it.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'm a guy and I cry at movies, beautiful music, sad stories, the theater, seeing old friends and relatives after a long time... I really cry very easily.\n\nIt can be embarrassing at times.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Ok this is not an inconsistency or a plot hole but, **Unobtanium**. Seriously??? All that creativity of James Cameron and that is the name he comes up with.", "score": 14 }, { "body": ">I think I saw the human Avatars in photos with the clan leaders. Does that mean they used to be friends with the humans?\n\nThe humans have been on Pandora for many years. Grace used to administrate a school where they taught some of the Na'vi English.\n\n>The Avatars and some of the Na'vi use neck radios to communicate. How did both sides get these radios? \n\nThe human traitors stole the radios from the company. You can see the name of the company on the neck thing.\n\nThe only big plot hole I noticed in the movie was regarding the flux vortex. It's supposed to disrupt all kinds of electronics and radio shit, right? But the avatar links work fine. Communications between the secret camp and Beardy McScientist work fine. The radios used during the final battle all work fine.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "My main problems with Avatar weren't plot holes, they were:\n\n1) They made the classic mistake of having villains so evil that they simply defied belief. It is laziness of the part of the writers that they couldn't come up with a way to have the bad people do bad things without making them the most soulless people ever.\n\n2) The movie was waaaaaay too preachy. Yes, we get it- undervaluing the lives of indigenous people is wrong. Destroying the environment in the name of progress is wrong. Going to war for oil is wrong. Oh did I say oil? I meant rocks. Yeaahhhh.... rocks.\n\n3) Why were our heroes so stupid that even after months of falling in love with the alien culture, they had NO PLAN whatsoever to stop the massacre they knew was coming? I mean, they could have at least TRIED to sabotage the humans by blowing up the base, or something! \n\n4) So this EXTREMELY expensive avatar program was put in place to establish communication with the natives... but never once do our main characters ever try to negate the massacre of the aliens by DOING THEIR FUCKING JOB and actually saying: \"Our government wants to mine some shit that lives under your pretty tree. Any way we can work that out?\"", "score": 7 }, { "body": "What bugged me was how they seams to know what to do when they tried to transfer Dr Grace into her avatar. When was there an situation before, when someone has an spare body to transfer into?\n\nAlso they don't even try to explain the \"psychic link\". What kind of transmission technology could have the necessary bandwidth/latency to perfectly synchronize two brains? Don't mind that there seems to be no transmitter on/in the avatar.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Giovanni Ribisi through 99% of the movie: Almighty $$$; Natives = superstitious retards. Basically the only thing his character did was show contempt for the Na'vi and their way of life.\n\nHowever, just before the Colonel blows up the tree,\n\nSigourney Weaver/Terminator 4: Y u kill tree? Let us talk to them with your expensive blue bodies plz.\n\nWhat Ribisi's character should have said based upon how he was developed: LOL STFU GTFO\n\nInstead, totally antithetical to his presented personality, he showed genuine concern and allowed them to utilize his resources in such a manner that could only undermine his plan.\n\n\nAlso, WTF is feeding those insane sky waterfalls?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Considering 1kg of unobtanium is worth $20 million, there is no doubt another corporation will be back to Pandora very quickly, and this time they'll bring a bigger military force and skip the negotiations. This movie was only a small victory, they effectively ruined any chance of their species survival.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The Humans are DEAD!\n\n\nZero-Zero-Zero-One\n\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64\n\n(Binary solo at 3:19)", "score": 25 }, { "body": "01001000 01100001 01110000 01110000 01111001 00100000 01001110 01100101 01110111 00100000 01011001 01100101 01100001 01110010 00100000 01010100 01101111 00100000 01000001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01010010 01100101 01100100 01100100 01101001 01110100", "score": 6 }, { "body": "010110 is wrong for two reasons:\r\n1. It isn't Y2K-compliant.\r\n2. It isn't big-endian, so it's useless for comparing dates.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Cut her out of your life and warn your new guy that he might start getting messages from a psychotic girl. She sounds unstable, but she also doesn't sound like a real friend at *all*. You will lose nothing good from this relationship that other friends cannot provide for you. Give examples of her stalking celebrities and mutual friends, etc, and explain that you made the mistake of sharing with her that you had a guy and now she has gone off the deep end by trying to blackmail you. Save any messages or emails she may send you/have sent you as proof, and in case you want to take legal action in the future since blackmailing is illegal (you could remind her of this fact as well as a hint to back off) If you fear for your safety you could also try to get a restraining order, especially if this girl has stalked people in the past.", "score": 25 }, { "body": "Why would you even WANT to save this \"friendship\"? She's crazy, trying to ruin your budding relationship with this guy, and she resented you for living your life. Seriously? You want to be friends with someone like that?\n\nI agree with the others; cut her off completely, you don't owe her any explanation. However, if it'd help her understand why her behavior is unacceptable and perhaps it'd be the wake up call she needs to change herself, then go for it. I think she'd just ignore any attempt on your part to reason with her, so just cut her off.\n\nWarn your guy and have the friend who introduced you to him back you up.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Usually, this comes down to the long and painful war between fans of Tolstoy and fans of Dostoevsky. Personally, I'd go with The Brothers Karamazov, but I fully expect to hear someone else argue that it's really War & Peace or Anna Karenina.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "I've read a few, and my wife recommends several (she's Russian). Our candidates are:\n\n* Master and Margarita, Bulgakov\n* Fathers and Sons, Turgenev\n* War and Peace, Tolstoy\n* Anna Karenina, Tolstoy\n* Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky\n* Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky\n* Eugene Onegin, Pushkin\n* Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak\n* Children of the Arbat, Ribakov\n* Two Captains, Kaverin\n* Twelve Chairs, Ilf and Petrov", "score": 8 }, { "body": "My favorite novel is Russian, but I don't think it'd count as the great Russian novel (I'm thinking War and Peace). \n\nThe Master and Margarita. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I am partial to Alexander Solzhenitsyn\n\n[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich)\n\nIt even had a significant impact on the politics of the day.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I am very biased because Dostoevsky is my favorite author and Russian literature, especially pre-Revolution, is my favorite genre, but I would strongly suggest *The Brothers Karamazov.* It's a biggun though and I came to it after I was very well associated with Russian literature, history, and culture. I had also had an introduction to the Russian language. I think for a quick read, try a few novellas. Dostoevsky's *Notes From the Underground* is a great intro to his works and themes and *The Death of Ivan Illyich* by Tolstoy is also another one. Frankly, I think short stories by either of these authors is a wonderful way to get a feel for Russian literature. I know you were looking for novels, but this is another route to understanding that can produce some very productive results *and* can make some of the longer works more rewarding. :-)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I really loved Anna Karenina, but it's the only Russian novel I've read, so I can't compare it to anything else. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "*The Brothers Karamazov* was the most epic, moving novel I've ever read. Admittedly, my experiences in literature are rather limited (and even more so when specified as Russian), but that would get my vote. \n\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": ">Gee who the F would be down-voting this? Either people that work for the Alcohol beverage industry, or....?\r\n\r\nStop complaining, **everything** gets downvotes.", "score": 225 }, { "body": "I drive a cab, so booze wouldn't have been a great idea.\r\n\r\nMany thanks to Iowa City for all the great tips last night.", "score": 117 }, { "body": "I have not drank in 16 years, so I was sober last night. I do enjoy people watching, so that was my fun for the evening. ", "score": 33 }, { "body": "I didn't drink anything because I don't drink. I've never been an alcoholic and I am legal to drink here in Australia but I've never drunk because it doesn't interest me.", "score": 32 }, { "body": "I didnt, my girlfriend and I stayed home, watched Stephen Segal Lawman then went to bed. \n\nMy friend died in a car wreck though. I wish I had gone out so I could have driven her home.", "score": 24 }, { "body": "There was beer and liquor at the LAN party I was attending, but I was too busy playing TF2 with everyone to get any alcohol in me. Besides, I had to drive later.", "score": 23 }, { "body": "I find arbitrary reasons to drink (New Years, St Patricks day, etc) stupid. Drink when you want. That said, I did not drink last night. \n\nOf course, I'm also taking xanax regularly, and I'd rather not stop breathing...", "score": 17 }, { "body": "I drank a fuck load!\n\nAlso I remember my mom calling me asking: \"Do you have a snoot full?\" That's her way of asking if you're drunk. I think that's hilarious!", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I got fucking wasted on sparkling cider. Still trying to figure out what the fuck happened last night or why I woke up naked on top of the police station. ", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I didn't! NYE is amateur night. It's the night that people who don't normally party go out and get shit-faced and start fights, and drive super-drunk like assholes, etc. Every professional partier knows that NYE is our night off. :)", "score": 9 }, { "body": "i didn't i'm sober....i went to a 12-step meeting and hung out with some recovering fiends.....it was cool.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "The folks downvoting are most likely people who did drink alcohol last night. It is their way of saying 'I did' to your question.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I was the Dj at the party, so I stayed sober. It's pretty crazy watching 26 people get more and more drunk surrounding you. Somebody stuffed pot in my subwoofer though, it's stuck in there for the moment...", "score": 6 }, { "body": "My parents kept giving me drinks. They said this morning they wanted to see what I was like drunk ...", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I had to work at an event as EMS. I was flashing my light at the people that were crying in the corner to pass the time.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I didn't drink at all. I had to go to bed early so I could get up at 3am and drive from LA to San Francisco to go apartment hunting.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I was the DD so i only had a beer and a glass of champagne at midnight. i did do a fair amount of toking though...", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I didn't drink because I can't control myself. I either stay sober or get shitfaced. Oh and I was driving.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "My dog is still in the veterinary hospital recovering from surgery, so it didn't seem like an evening for inebriation.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I played designated driver. I did have two drinks (which wasn't even enough to buzz) but stopped drinking a full 3 hours before we went home. My boyfriend, on the other hand, drank so much that he's STILL running to the bathroom to puke, a full 14 hours after drinking.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I was \"Designated Dan\" last night. It was snowing where I'm from and I heard my friends talking about their plans for the night. I wasn't gonna let them drink and party hop on New Years while it's snowing. \n\nAt the last minute, I opted not to drink. Ended up giving 7 people rides home.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I don't think I have ever drank alcohol on New Year's Eve. And I'm old enough to be the father of many redditors.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I was literally getting sex on the couch while watching the new years ball drop on channel 5, a while in I was thinking how no one on reddit would believe this when I posted it.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I was the Designated Driver... even though I was sick as a dog yesterday, I dragged myself out of bed and carted my inebriated friends for the whole night. If that ain't love, I don't know what is.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I have never had alcohol. Im 25 and totally content with that. In addition, I didn't have to drive any drinkers around. AND in addition to that I ended up getting a horrendous stomach ache from eating too much dairy... guess that's a ginger's hangover. OH and I went to bed at 12 but could not sleep until 3....woke up at 6 and then 7 and then 8 and then went to work. Seems equivalent to a hangover if you ask me.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I had a film marathon with my 11 year old brother. I was going to dwell on wasted opportunities under the pretence of being ill OR get horribly drunk. I am glad I decided against it though as I got to see 'Ferris Beuller's Day Off' again.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I believe I drank. Woke up next morning to find [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/akets/im_totlaly_drunk_why_are_you_not_under_are_you/)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Oddly enough, no. \n\nNew's Year Eve is a bit of an amateur hour ... and I prefer to get drunk when the folks out are more accustomed to drinking. Bars are crowded. Places charging cover. Hassle with the Taxi, etc. etc.\n\nI'll probably drink 360 days this year ... but there are about 5 days a year I avoid. New Year's Eve is one of them.\n\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "SCRAM device attached to my leg :-/ 24/7 Alcohol monitoring. Although I did get to indulge myself in other vices...", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I am super square. I turned down a party and turned in at 9:00. :( for all I know, time could have reversed itself at midnight last night. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "stayed in and didnt drink. had a great time with my girlfriend. nice to enjoy an event without booze, yay!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "3rd new years alcoholfree, just watched the city's firework show (as usual) and ended up gaming Assassin's Creed 2 all night. btw, not an anto-alcoholic here either, just nice to not drink every weekend :)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Reform Judaism. No one cares if you go to temple. No one cares if you keep Kosher. The religion encourages you to be skeptical and not to take the world of religious authorities.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Quakers. \r\n\r\nI saw a short doco. They're mass ceremony is essentially just a meditational gathering, where they sit silently for ~20 min until someone feels the need to express what they're thinking/feeling. Very chill, not the least bit ostentatious, evangelical or dogmatic, and almost uniformly snubbed by every other denomination of Christianity - so if you judge something by it's enemies, it's doing something evry right.", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "I am a delivery driver in the uk and I use a \"Garmin nuvi sat nav\" which does exactly what you need, just input all your destinations and it will sort them into the best (shortest and quickest ) order.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Torrent microsoft streets and trips. You can load in an excel document of all the addresses and it'll plan the best route to see them all. Works great for outside sales.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "If it is just the machine, there should be cuts on other clothing too. Any other clothing cut? \r\n\r\nIf it is an underwear design flaw, the others should have the same cut or develop it in the same way. Look at them.\r\n\r\nIf not, then it is a (male) person probably. You should see if you can set up a video camera in the laundry room so you can find out who is doing it. If you bring it in hidden in you clothes and there is a good place to hide it while filming, maybe you can catch the person.\r\n\r\nThis sounds worrying to me because of the cutting. Normal weirdos steal them. Cutting clothing esp. underwear has been related to the desire to cut people in past serial killer cases. I don't want to say this to freak you out but I am accepting your post as real and therefore I think that it is something that you should be aware of in this case.\r\n\r\nI hope it is the machine....\r\n\r\nPerhaps you should contact the police to start a paper trail....", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I'm getting married in October. Any tips on hiring a good photographer? Any tips in general related to wedding photography? The ceremony and reception are going to be outdoors. It's going to be semi-formal. I'd like everything to be caught on video plus the still photographs. How much do you generally charge? Do you think there will be a lot of weddings on 10/10/2010?", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Have you ever been asked to photograph someone in the nude?\n\nEver gotten bridesmaid tail?\n\nAny drunk-while-on-the-job stories?", "score": 5 }, { "body": "how hard would it be for me to get in the wedding photography game? \nI think i have decent enough material to begin with:\nCanon eos 50D\n4 lenses - 18-55, 28-135, 75-300 and 100mm macro\n480ex flash\n\nI really want to get into the whole process but I wouldnt want my first time to ruin the happy day for the couple. Got any tips for a beginner? ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "whats your standard gear? What do you do in terms of redundancy? (backup equipment, secondary photographers, redundant storage etc)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Do wedding photographers mind if the couple also puts out disposable cameras for guests to take candids?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Not the day I became a libertarian, but the day I finally started to see socialists as evil instead of merely misguided...\n\nThere was this guy in my grade school and high school who used to take people's lunch money, including mine. A real dick. Exhibited every psychotic tendency you could identify in a kid. In today's world, he'd probably be kept in a medical coma in class to keep him from disrupting.\n\nMany years later, after buying my first home, there was a news article that property taxes were going up.. As I read the article, what do I see... a familiar name. A local union boss. A *voiciferous* arguer for raising the property taxes, and all taxes in general.\n\nI turn to my wife over the paper, and I say, I can't believe it... all these years later this guy is still stealing my lunch money.", "score": 28 }, { "body": "I realized i was not a republican by the Bush presidency and the Mccain campaign. At the time i was unsure what i was, but held solid political ideals such as no nation building, and a limited and constitutional government. I began to be convinced that there was not a political party for me. Then i noticed Ron Paul in his bid for the white house. This is when i began to realize i was a libertarian, and when i realized Ron Paul is the only sensible politician left in Washington.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "I stumbled across a Ron Paul video on youtube - I was sorting by highest rated and one of his was first. As I was watching, I kept thinking things like \"yeah, this makes sense\" and \"this guy is exactly right\", and I was really intrigued by the basic ideas that were so clearly laid out. I'd never really heard the liberty message before, and it just struck a chord with me. Listening to a politician and not having my bullshit detector go off like crazy was different enough, but he had some great ideas. After that, seeing how I didn't have to force myself into the double-think 'pick your side and cheer for your team' mindset was incredibly liberating.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Always considered myself to vaguely be a libertarian, but tended to vote republican. But honestly, I didn't study much of the underlying philosophy on liberty - just always gravitated to those types of ideas. \n\nThis changed in about 2003 when I was in a prolonged debate on the internet regarding gold. I was arguing against it as being a good investment.\n\nAs I put together various facts and figures for my argument against gold, I suddenly realized that although whether its a good \"investment\" is debatable - it was however a great storage of wealth. (noting that things priced in gold over the decades tend to be exhibit very stable prices).\n\nAll at once it hit me as to why - that this was *real* money and USD was mere derivatives. Moreover, I realized that things were designed in such a way to permit governments and their elite bankers to steal.\n\nThis single realization led to lots of study (rothbard, mises, etc) which then gave me the philosophical understanding for why libertarianism is the only 'moral' choice", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Economics major, gravitated a bit towards Austrian theory although it was not taught. Since Sept 2008 I've watched all the neo-classical and Keynesian policies fail. During '09 I read Mises and Bastiat for myself, and discovered the truth therein. Basically this summer is when all the pieces fiinally fit together. \n\nPolitics wise, I became completely disinterested and fatalistic on that subject. I watched the Bush administration and modern \"conservatism\" turn out to be a farce around the time I became an adult. This last election, I knew both Obama and McCain were charlatans. I liked what little I had heard Ron Paul say, but thought some of his ideas were too \"out there\", i.e. abolish the Fed. The econ textbooks and professors had brainwashed me. I couldn't in good conscience vote for either facist puppet nor could I skip the election, so I wrote in Paul. Over the following year as I finally paid attention to politics and policy (due to the unraveling economy and the insolence of Obama), I realized Paul's \"out there\" philosophy was dead on and in line with Austrian economics. \n\nBasically I've started to get really angry about all the things I used to shrug my shoulders at.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "The constitution?\n\nI'm serious, we were taught as kids that freedom and the constitution was tantamount to the success of our nation. We're then showed proof of this over and over. When the government did things that the people didn't approve of, people took things into their own hand and changed the government. IE: George Washington, Al Capone, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks etc...\n\nYet now our government turns around and says anyone who differs from the common opinion is the enemy. Well if that were true, then why teach us to honour those who stood against?\n\nIt was all too contradictory, I made up my mind that the government today is just as wrong as the government then and it's up to each of us to try to change it.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I was born into a political family. My mother's side is ultra conservative; my father's side is mixed. In college, I worked on two political campaigns and made a lot of interesting friends. One of the campaign directors I made friends with introduced me to Ayn Rand, which indirectly influenced me farther.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "* First heard the term \"libertarian\" when I read some FairTax materials in 1998ish\n* Realized I wasn't a Democrat when I internalized the ideals of paleoconservatism around the 2000 election period. Dole sounded like a douche and Bush sounded like what I wanted -- personal liberty/responsibility, no nation-building, etc. (that worked out well)\n* Realized I wasn't a Republican once Bush started with the Iraq bullshit and the rest of the GOP cheered him on\n* I now understand that I'm a libertarian and have been since I was a kid. Never liked laws that claim to protect one from himself, etc.\n\nStill waiting for the revolution to take hold. I know it starts with me, so I vote third-party almost exclusively and I try to educate others on the density of misinformation available in today's media.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "My AP American History class teacher, back in 1997. He really sparked my interest in the idea of liberty, but freedom is just something I have always naturally craved.\n\nThe summer after I graduated HS I found this old flag shop in my town, and ended up buying a Don't Tread on Me flag from The Culpepper Minute Men. Then I went to the Univ. of Arizona, and the first week there I was strolling thru the Club Fair and saw two guys who had the exact same flag hanging over their table. So I went up and introduced myself. They had started a \"Libertarian Club\". I had no idea what libertarianism was, but it was a perfect fit for my 18 year old rebellious mind. I went on to organize a Million Marijuana March in Tucson (even though I had never smoked at that point), hosted two public access shows that often discussed libertarian issues, and became educated on all kinds of related economic areas. Ten years later I still consider myself libertarian-leaning, but I don't label myself as such anymore.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "When I was a teenager, I had a boss at a summer job who lent me his copy of *This Bread is Mine*, by Robert LeFevre. He suggested that I subscribe to \"The Freeman\", from the Foundation for Economic Education.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I would have to say the seeds of Libertarianism were sown in me after reading \"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress\" by Robert A. Heinlein. The \"Rational Anarchist\" ideas in the book really stuck with me. I Did not even know there were people called Libertarians at the time.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "In 2008 I was so pissed at Bush.\r\n\r\nThey I wanted obama.\r\n\r\nThen I found out obama was Bush.\r\n\r\nThen my mensa group talked about it.\r\n\r\nI did some reading.\r\n\r\nI saw this video.\r\n\r\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxPrULE6dUU\r\n\r\nI was in like flin.\r\n\r\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I've always been interested in politics, and majored in it at uni. So I suppose books predominately brought me into it. My very first glance was an online comic, [The Probability Broach](http://www.bigheadpress.com/tpbtgn), followed by [The New Barbarian Manifesto](http://www.amazon.com/New-Barbarian-Manifesto-Ian-Angell/dp/0749435054/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262397463&sr=1-1), and some works by [Michael Cloud](http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Libertarian-Persuasion-Michael-Cloud/dp/0975432613/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262397404&sr=1-1) and [Harry Browne](http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Z-Libertarian-Soundbites-Right/dp/0975432605/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262397225&sr=1-10). Read [Anthem](http://www.amazon.com/Anthem-Ayn-Rand/dp/1607960729/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262397183&sr=1-1), and watched [The Fountainhead](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041386/) by Ayn Rand, followed by [Objectivism in One Lesson](http://www.amazon.com/Objectivism-One-Lesson-Introduction-Philosophy/dp/0761843590/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262397073&sr=1-1), and finally some more economically leaning books: [Economics in One Lesson](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Economics+in+one+lesson&x=0&y=0) by Henry Hazlitt, [The Law](http://www.amazon.com/Law-Frederic-Bastiat/dp/0984203710/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262397028&sr=1-1) by Bastiat, [The Road to Serfdom](http://www.amazon.com/Road-Serfdom-Documents-Definitive-Collected/dp/0226320553/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262396991&sr=1-1) by Hayek, and [Vienna and Chicago: Friends or Foes?](http://www.amazon.com/Vienna-Chicago-Friends-Foes-Economics/dp/0895260298/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262396935&sr=8-1) by Mark Skousen (I, for one, prefer the Austrian school).\n\nAlso, just coming to a better understanding of how politics in this country works- or rather doesn't, in so many instances. Looking at the power of lobbyist groups, the ability of \"career politicians\" to become corrupt and complacent, and the ability of the people in predominately \"blue\" or \"red\" states to just keep on voting for the same people regardless of how little gets done. The way the chips are stacked against third parties, how the Electoral College is more important than the will of the people (not that I think direct democracy works- I'd favor a parliamentary system), etc.\n\nWhile this is none of my business and off topic, may I say, while I am...very much in awe of your passion and commitment, if you haven't already, please endeavor to get a GED and/or go to a university. It's incredibly hard to get a good job without a good education, and believe me, you don't want to be working at a drug store or at a fast food restaurant going into your thirties with few other options available. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I realized i was not a republican by the Bush presidency and the Mccain campaign. At the time i was unsure what i was, but held solid political ideals such as no nation building, and a limited and constitutional government. I began to be convinced that there was not a political party for me. Then i noticed Ron Paul in his bid for the white house. This is when i began to realize i was a libertarian, and when i realized Ron Paul is the only sensible politician left in Washington.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I think I became aware of the Libertarian party, at age almost-30, in 1993 when a co-worker identified me as being one. Apparently I already had the value set ingrained in me long before then. \n\nI have no idea where they came from, but it may be this: (1) I grew up in a family of blue collar of democrats who were also fairly religious and hunted; as such the whole left/right false dichotomy never sucked me in. And (2) I never liked seeing the \"big guy\" pissing on the \"little guy\" -- probably because I had various D.C. and Marvel comic book heroes instilling a sense of \"Truth\", \"Justice\", and \"Freedom\" in me.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I was born a libertarian in 1957 but Robert Heinlein was a major influence on my pre-teen years, along with [Lillian Lieber](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Rosanoff_Lieber) ([*The Education of TC Mits*](http://www.amazon.com/Education-T-C-Mits-modern-mathematics/dp/1589880331) and [*Mits, Wits, and Logic*](http://www.amazon.com/Mits-Wits-Logic-Lillian-Lieber/dp/0393063275) being relevant in this context) and Barry Goldwater. The Star Trek character of Mr. Spock was also influential.\n\nI grew up in a disfunctional family and the world quickly taught me that no one is responsible for you except you. Every decision you make is yours alone and you have to live with the consequences. The belief that a governmental 'mommy and daddy' will take care of you is a fatal error which leads directly to suffering.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "When I was growing up, my family culture was always that as long as I would be responsible, I could have as much freedom as possible, and I thrived in it. It seemed to be a very justifiable philosophy.\n\nI grew up in an extremely liberal town and I could see first hand how people behaved when they had freedoms without the responsibility or maturity that it required.\n\nWhen it came to politics, I always called myself a liberal Republican, because the economic conservatism only made sense to me, although at that point I was still under the corporate seduction. I never gave a shit about abortion or gay marriage. A coworker told me that I should look into the Libertarian Party.\n\nI bought Michael Badnarik's \"Good to be King\" and I was in, although since then I've realized the stigmata that third party candidates have since worked so strongly against the LP.\n\nI've tried to dedicate my political time to plenty of well-minded and almost always politically outsider campaigns. I've been a campaign manager for a small-time contractor in Indiana who almost took down a multi-millionaire, Chicago real estate linked, state representative with a two month campaign out of nowhere. Every time I venture into politics, it reinforces my philosophy.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Would love to know how many in r/Libertarian are here because of (either partially, mostly, or completely) because of Ron Paul's '08 campaign. \n\nWhile I probably would have considered myself a libertarian regardless, I am only a vocal/outspoken one because of his campaign and the impact it had. Granted this is probably going to apply mostly to the \"young people\" that Ron often speaks of.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "As a teenager, in the early 90's.\n\nMy prep school had an excellent debate program (and routinely won the national debating championship - like 80-90% of the time), so I enrolled in those classes to fulfill my elective courses, solely because it gave me the opportunity to \"learn\" without having to sit in boredom and listen to teachers lecture. At that point I was a fairly typical conservative (by Canadian standards anyway) - taxes are bad, but we need to control people's behavior for everyone's benefit, and have taxes to pay for things like universal health care and \"law and order,\" etc.\n\nWell, anyway, a large part of that class was actually debating (go figure), and usually on political topics. In order to do a halfway decent job, and not look like a retard when debating in front of your audience, well you had to do a fair bit of research. One stat I remember (and has stuck with me for almost 20 years) I came across in preparation for a debate on welfare was that it costs the Canadian government 7 dollars for every single dollar of welfare benefits it disperses. Eeek. That got me thinking, well that's pretty fucked up, there's gotta be a better way... and as I engaged in more debates and did more research, I quickly noticed an unavoidable truth - government is inefficient, fucks everything up, and is quite frequently used to abuse and oppress minorities (not just racial minorities, but minority behaviors and opinions and religions and so on), in spite of the fact that I lived in a \"democracy\" with constitutional \"protections\" for minorities (in the Canadian constitution - \"The Charter of Rights and Freedoms.\")\n\nThat was what really started me down the road to libertarianism, and the more I thought about it and got all introspective, the more I realized that government isn't bad *just* because it does things so much worse and so much less efficiently than free market solutions... but also because \"what gives them the fucking right?\" I was never a big drug user, and avoided illegal drugs, but at the same, I saw that there's really nothing different between, for example, alcohol, caffeine, nicotine (legal drugs) and THC, opiates, and all the illegal drugs. And the more I thought about it, the more I noticed all the ridiculous logical contradictions and compromises our government systems are built on...\n\nAnd I finally came to the logical/philosophical realization/truism that you only have \"freedom\" (or liberty, or whatever you want to call it) if you are allowed to make the \"wrong\" choice. So if freedom is preferable to oppression, as everyone [with half a brain] agrees that it is, then to have freedom, we must be allowed to \"choose wrong.\" Which means, in the case of drugs, in order to achieve freedom, people must be allowed to ingest THC, and opiates, and crack and PCP (and whatever else), even though I believe those choices are the \"wrong\" ones, and even though using those substances is almost always \"harmful\" and contrary to self-interest.\n\nThat realization obliterated all the \"greater good\"/\"public welfare\"/etc justifications and rationalizations I'd held for why government should be allowed to restrict economic or social liberty in the name of social programs and \"general welfare\" and the like, and quickly led me to the inevitable, libertarian line of thought which says everyone ought to be able to do anything they wish, so long as it doesn't violate the rights of others.\n\nI'm an intellectually curious guy, so with the aid of my teachers and mentors, I was able to find and assimilate the assorted libertarian [\"classic liberal\"] works of modern times and the French/American Revolution era philosophical writers to establish just what those \"rights\" are (the whole \"Natural Law\" thing), and that's how I got where I am today, in terms of my politics.\n\nShort answer: I used my brain. :D", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I first considered myself a libertarian when I was 18 and was registering to vote. I read through various political party websites for their stances on issues and thought libertarians sounded the most correct.\n\nIt wasn't until a couple of years ago when I saw the [video of Dave Ridley open carrying](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FWXnK5UyRI) that I really started thinking about constitutional rights and police states and everything.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Always had libertarian sympathies, since first becoming politically aware, but it never really hit home for me. Then the \"Family Court\" ruled that my belongings were no longer mine, and my children were no longer mine. At that moment I realized, now I am a True Libertarian. \r\n\r\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "* How much water goes through a person in a life?\n\nA person's body loses, during an average day in a temperate climate approximately 2.5 litres of water.\n\nMedian life expectancy: 26,680 days.\n\n=> 69,400 litres.\n\n* How many people have lived on earth?\n\n106,456,367,669.\n\n* How much water is on earth?\n\n1.26e21 litres.\n\n* How frequently are new water molecules created or old ones separated?\n\nPretty much never.\n\n* How much water is in a snowball?\n\n200ml? Dunno. Go weigh one. The fluid density is 1 litre/kg.\n\n---\n\nSo in summary you could say up to 7e15 litres of water have been through people, call it 1e16. So one in every million molecules of water has been through a person. That's a lot of molecules.\n\nI can't believe I just did this.", "score": 24 }, { "body": "Here's something to kick it off.\n\nFrom HowStuffWorks, total weight of water on earth: 1.26 x 10^21 liters ~= 1.26 x 10^24 grams\n\n\nThe human body is 61.8 percent water (http://www.enotes.com/science-fact-finder/human-body/what-percent-human-body-weight-water)\n\nThe average human weight is 75kg\n(got from averaging table on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_weight)\n\n(of course these figures have surely changed over time)\n\nNumber of people who ever lived: ~100,000,000,000\n\n\n\nNow you need to calculate the average water consumption for a person over their lifespan (noting that lifespan increases) and you should be able to get a rough figure of how much water has passed through human bodies.\n\n\nThe biggest problem here is that there is no way to tell how many UNIQUE water molecules each human is composed of, though maybe some genius could give a rough figure by figuring out the probability that a molecule taken into the human body was previously in another body, which is kind of the same calculation we're doing. Now I'm confused.\n\n\n\n\n", "score": 18 }, { "body": "Yes, you can be 100% certain that each snowball you make contains a molecule from at least one dead person.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Call a snowflake 1/1000 grams. 1 mole of water is 18 grams so .0000056 moles. 1 mole is 6.022x10^23 molecules so we have 3.35x10^18 molecules in a 1/1000 gram snowflake.\n\nNow for the total molecules of water on the planet... waitinforatrain has it as 1.26x10^24 grams - we divide by 18 for the number of moles so 7x10^22 moles then multiply by 6.022x10^23 for the total number of molecules so 4.2x10^46 molecules\n\nWater in a human - I am doing this for just one person, it will be 100% for one person no need to go for the whole population.... Human goes through 2 liters of water a day, so 111 moles a day or 1.42x10^6 moles in 35 years or 8.5x10^29 molecules\n\nOdds of a given molecule being from a human is then the number of water molecules from a human divided by total number of molecules of water on earth so 8.5x10^29/4.2810^46=2x10^-17... \n\ncouple of ways to go here for average number of molecules from one person in a snowflake is 68 (3.35x10^18/2x10^-17)\n\n\nNumbers\nMolecules in 1/100 gram snowflake =3.35x10^18\nMolecules through human in 35 years=8.5x10^29\nMolecules of water on earth=4.2x10^46\n\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I don't think I've ever found a maths puzzle that required more variables to get even an approximate answer...", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "alot of the charities that collect clothes through drop off boxes at parking lots and roadside are not collecting for usable clothes, but for rag material. They sell the rag bulk to raise money for food and education where they are ultimately operating. Or at least that was the explanation when I worked for for a couple of charities in Orlando. Try calling sme of those to make sure.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "If she has some free time on her hands she may be able to make some money off of them by making [rag rugs](http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa092599.htm) and reselling them. Alternatively, she may be able to find someone near her who makes rag rugs and sell or donate the material to them.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I enjoy the beer porn. I do agree that reviews would be nice along with the pictures, but I still like looking at what people have bought, especially when it's stuff I can't get here.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "I don't mind it. It's interesting to see what other people have. But I do agree with the OP that they could give a little more insight on their choices instead of just a picture.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "The Beerporn is fine. Reviews are great too, but people like showing off their treasures, and they should.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "nope, nobody is forcing you to look. \nget a life and stop trying to influence other people!\n\nEdit: that's just my opinion, not an order.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Honestly, I kind of like it, but I prefer if they post the picture along with reviews of the beers, even if they are kind of short.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "If you're not going to brine it, I'd recommend making a compound butter with thyme, rosemary, and sage and sticking that under the skin (with any remaining rub all over the remaining skin on the outside). Make sure you tie the bird excellently as this will promote even cooking and juiciness. Season skin liberallly! with salt and pepper. Stick in some steeped veggies (I like the herbs from Alton's: sage, rosemary, celery, apple, carrot, and cinnamon) into the cavity. Place a mir fois onto the roasting pan (sprinkle a little canola oil on the bottom of the pan too). Roast, uncovered at 350 using a probe thermometer to let you know the temp. Make sure you take the turkey out 5-10 degrees before your desired doneness as carry over big bird can be huge.\nGood luck.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "dude, if you buy a pc or a pc part, this will always happen. there is no way around it. waiting because something new will come out is not worth it in the pc market. remember that you are also paying for having parts now, rather than in 2 months", "score": 25 }, { "body": "Only buy what you need, when you need it, not any sooner. If you are willing to wait for something better to come along, it is a sign that you don't really need it right now. And especially with computers, it (almost) always pays off to wait for the absolutely last moment to buy something.\n\nAnd it also always pays off to not buy the top shelve products, but take the matured upper mid range parts (unless you absolutely need that bit more performance of course, in which case you are either a professional, that wouldn't ask those questions, or you are one of those kiddies that need some compensation for not having pubes yet).", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "I like the Sansa line of players. I have the Sansa Clip and it's perfect for me. Mounts just as easily as any usb drive and plays mp3, ogg, and flac (maybe others too, don't remember). Even upgrading the firmware is easy on linux. Just drop the file onto the player, then start the player while holding down the middle button, or something like that. The directions are easy to find with google.", "score": 58 }, { "body": "Anything that can run [Rockbox](http://www.rockbox.org) is a good bet. \n\nThe thing is, most of those players are discontinued so you would need to look on eBay and the like for one.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Sansa Clip+ or Sansa Fuze FTW.\n\nThey have pretty good battery life, a mini card slot for extra memory, fantastic sound quality (one of the best), and they're extremely cheap.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "iAudio 7. I am really really happy. Plays mp3, ogg, flac, wma and perhaps some more. The cowon players are really good.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Any kind of Sansa, or an Android phone (with a stereo headphone jack! the G1 does _not_ have one, and its sad).", "score": 5 }, { "body": "yep i have a 4GB Sansa Clip+ (has SDHC card slot) with an 8GB card that works great with linux, and if i had the money i'd have a Fuze ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My Cowon D2 served well for more than two years before I accidentally destroyed the screen a couple weeks ago. Looking at replacing it with an S9.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "No you don't. Get an old one and Rockbox it. I rediscovered my old Sansa e200r and love the hell out of it now. Saved myself about a hundred bucks.\n\nwww.rockbox.org", "score": 3 }, { "body": "anythingbutipod.com will give you an idea of what is out there with what features you like. I used it to find a sandisk sansa that at the time was $40 less than a comparable ipod and has a user replaceable battery. Mine was a model that had the ability to run rockbox as well, so I have my ultimate mp3 player without having to play to the whims of apple\n\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The first movie is The Gate (1987) and it holds up well. Awesome movie.\n\nLink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOX6-Rw5PWc ", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "**\"Hope you find your lost dreams in the New Year :)\"**\n\nDrawing the explanation right now. Give me a minute.", "score": 29 }, { "body": "The message reads as follows:\n\n\nI placed the cat's tail in the toaster, but don't worry, it was not plugged in. Seriously, the cat is fine, we were just having a laugh. How did your recital go? Did Lisa wear those stupid shoes again? Pick up some chicken on your way home from work.\n\n", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "I thought that said masturbation party, as if most masturbation parties go over in a normal fashion. But I would have to say a church bathroom. ", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I definitely saw the fingernail scene in the movie Nightmare In Canada (documentary) Ill link you to a list of all the movies in it http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431944/movieconnections . I think the film you are thinking of may be by David Cronenberg.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "When you added the bit about the inner monologue, it reminded me of this movie with Alan Rickman called Closet Land - just him and this woman where he plays mind games with her (she's some sort of political prisoner, whole movie's in one single room). Oh and he rips out her nails at one point. Think this was early 90's though. [the imdb link](www.imdb.com/title/tt0101597/)\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I sometimes smoke *to get* small bouts of derealization. Even though it can bring back some bad (repressed) feelings and emotions, it's fascinating that it has that power, and actually quite thrilling.\n\nFeelings of unreality are simply a side effect of most psychedelics. Most people feel them to some degree, but I think you get an abnormaly hefty and unpleasant dose.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Man, that sounds like the stuff horror movies is made of. But somehow I'd actually like to see what it would be like, just once, that sounds so... foreign, I'm intrigued even if i know i probably shouldn't be...\n\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Unfortunately, this happens to some people, it sounds like marijuana may not be right for you. I've had some mild panic attacks from weed, my solution is to just smoke much less. Try getting only a little high.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "That pdf crashes my adobe plugin...\n\nEDIT: you probably *shouldn't* feel at peace with reality. For the past millions and millions of years, almost everything that has existed in this world has been a result of evolution and natural geological cycles... human beings included. Yet we are now surrounded by plastics, vehicles, and huge, carefully engineered habitats, where everyone's primary objective in life is to hoard as much money as possible. The fact that we even have an \"objective\" in life is ridiculous to begin with. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Not sure about you, but I grew up with an anxiety disorder which smoking the buds would intensely trigger even though I had somewhat grown out of the anxiety. After I overcame it and was able to smoke without freaking out, it also helped me cope with anxiety when I'm sober.\n\nEDIT: Also, as with all drugs, weed affects different people differently. I, for one, am sensitive to psychedelics and can get quite tripped out on even weed.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I think the importance of this is really understated, it's retardedly easy for the source of pics (etc) to get lost on the net once they've been passed around the image hosts and pic blogs and spam blogs and been watermarked and re-watermarked and whatever else. It's silly to rely on another redditor recognizing the comic and posting the source.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Could imgur add a \"source\" feature for this purpose? Like imgur.com/b0g1s.source gives you just the source so that it can be used easily with extensions?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Why you should:\n\n* Versatility (They can run Windows or OSX.)\n* High resale value (Old PowerBooks on eBay still command high prices.)\n* Design Features (Multi-Touch trackpad, backlit keyboard, Magsafe.)\n* OSX (Expose and Spaces.)\n\nWhy you shouldn't:\n\n* Build quality is going downhill.\n* Glossy displays.\n* You are likely to become a douche fanboy like myself.\n", "score": 33 }, { "body": "You are paying a premium for the brand. What that gets you is hardware that the OS is essentially designed around. I've used Macs almost exclusively for the past 7-8 years. I've never had a system freeze or anything like the blue screen of death. Everything just works. The included software is hands down better than anything included with Windows.\n\nIf you're not looking to do any gaming or editing, you may want to look into a MacBook instead of the Pro. Both will suit your needs just fine, but the MacBook will give you all the benefits of the OS and software at about two thirds of the cost.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I'm a recent Macbook convert, and I would warn you that if you get it you will turn into an annoying Mac arsehole, just because the thing makes using a computer a hell of a lot easier.\n\nIt doesn't save the world or do such amazing things like some people say, but I rarely, if ever, get any annoying pop up messages or errors. Everything just runs, pretty quickly too, and it makes Windows seem quite clunky and disjointed in comparison. \n\nGo for the Macbook, not the pro, for what you say your requirements are.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "In college we were issued a brand new IBM Thinkpad every two years (or if it was necessary, sooner). We had access to a 24 hr turnaround helpdesk on campus that would fix ANYTHING wrong with our laptops. \n\nSounds great? Well by the end of the two year period those laptops were borderline paper weights. Seriously, they were junk after two years. \n\nMy Macbook Pro (first gen 2006) is still loading and operating at like-new speeds -- going on four years of daily use. I had planned to buy a new laptop over a year ago and just never got around to pulling the trigger. \n\nI am pricing up a new Macbook today and am realizing I can sell this MBP for almost the entire cost of the new one. \n\n\n\n", "score": 9 }, { "body": "> I generally just use it for surfing the internet and listening to music.\n\n\nSpending a lot more for a Mac doesn't make much sense for this. My 11 yr old son got a dell netbook for christmas. It cost Santa less than 500.00 and he's been doing exactly what you're after without any training or issues since Christmas. All I had to do was enter the key for our wireless and he was good to go. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\"I'm not particularly great with computers\" Then yes you probably would like a mac. \"No video editing or anything like that, and minimal gaming.\" Then you might be able to go without a pro, and save a bundle. Good luck!", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I have a dell, and regret not buying a Mac, not because of the software, but because of the hardware. It's portable, nice screen, nice graphics, nice sound (better than a Dell), good keyboard (better than the dell), and the touchpad is big and has nice scrolling features etc. \n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "The #1 reason to buy a Mac: you don't need to mess with it. It really does \"just work.\" It does what you tell it to do and gets out of your way. It doesn't crash, or need maintenance, or require you to know anything at all to use it daily for years. Simply put: you'd have to be actively malicious, unbelievably stupid, or in *way* over your head to screw it up yourself. If you're not \"street smart\" on Windows you're dead in a couple of months.\n\nWhen things fail, Apple has your back (but BUY APPLECARE! They'll replace things that cost many, many times the cost of Applecare for free if you have it). Seriously. I walked into a Genius Bar complaining about my battery and I went home with a new one for free 10 minutes later.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I loved it. Especially how the doctor rages against the dying light and trashes timelines and the tardis. Bravo David Tennant!", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Unlike you guys I thought it was good to see Rose one more time but I wish it was after she knew him rather than him seeing her pre doctor. Somehow him getting to see her and the half doctor/half human combo having fun in the parallel universe would've done it for me, even if he didn't get to speak to her. You can't beat a forlorne look from Rose with the tardis disappearing noise.\n\nI knew he was going but I just had this secret hope he wasn't going to. When he survived I just thought \"maybe... maybe...\" and then the knocking. Brilliant idea but just not worked properly.\n\nThe Doctor was almost insulting Wilf as he prepared himself to die, that's not the Doctor I love, he should've gotten in without telling Wilf what it meant and then spilt his guts about how he'd sacrificed himself.\n\nThe death was just kind of wrong. I mean it's great to see everyone one more time but it dragged the death out, like he could've gone someplace into the future and received medical attention or something.\n\n\"I don't wanna go\" was a great last line though. \n\nAnyone else not looking forward to the next series? The trailer makes it look super shit. Why bring back the aliens from Blink? That was arguably the finest episode since they brought it back and now they're going to piss all over it by using them again.\n\nEdit: Who was the timelord lady that was helping behind the scenes? Was her instruction for Wilf to arm himself purely to shoot the diamond? Or was it for Wilf to take his own life at the end?\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I'm just mad that Martha and Mickey were married off... to each other.\n\nWhatever happened to Tom Milligan with Martha? They were cool together.\n\nWTF.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Im in Philly, but I'm always looking for a reason to take the train to NYC. I got a real good (safe) spot in central park to blaze too, near the zoo. Set the date and I'm there.\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "In case any mod is reading this, I think this is a fairly easy pitch, actually. I have publishing connections in a number of countries and would be happy to be involved in setting up a proposal for submission (for those who don't know, non-fic books are sold on a proposal rather than a full m/s). Happy to run this past my literary agent (London/New York/Sydney) also.\n\nTru-life stuff is often quite captivating and I reckon this could work.\n\nIf anyone here is a marketing boffin, that would help in putting a proposal together also.\n\n If someone has already taken this up the approval chain and gotten an OK from the site owners, I'd be interested to hear that. Have issues like royalty splits and so on been discussed?\n\nI missed the original thread, obviously.\n\nEDIT: by publishing industry connections, I mean commissioning editors and publishers at Random House, Knopf, HarperCollins etc. I could get this one to jump the queue for quick appraisal.\n\nHow many redditors are there all up?", "score": 11 }, { "body": "It was an admin, [hueypriest](http://www.reddit.com/user/hueypriest). Here is the [submission](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9j8uz/reddit_is_thinking_about_publishing_a_best_of/).", "score": 5 }, { "body": "(Just now learned of this post)\n\nThe book is coming together, Erik (hueypriest) is organizing the selected AMAs.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I've just started re-reading [*Stranger in a Strange Land*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land \"Wikipedia page about the book\"). I haven't read it in years and I'm happy to see I'm liking it as much this time around as I did the first time. Maybe even more.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Orwell's 1984. I bought it a couple days ago while I was waiting to meet a friend. Seems appropriate*, given the world we're living in these days...", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "Clearly FSM wants this question answered, not only did I have this discussion with some friends about an hour ago, but Reddit also served it to me in the space at the top of the page for random stories.\n\nHis noodly appendage strokes this post.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "This may or may not be useful to you, but I remember watching a BBC programme narrated by Richard Hammond called 'Engineering Connections' about a year ago. They had an episode that was about the construction of the [Troll A Platform](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_A_platform) in the North Sea, that I thought explained it pretty thoroughly. You probably need to torrent to get hold of it now though...", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I can't really tell by your question what you're after, but I'm assuming you want to know how concrete is poured underwater.\n\nThis is usually done with a tremie pipe, which is placed right above the spot where the foundation is required. Then concrete is pumped very quickly, and the tremie is slowly raised. The result is a large mass of concrete, with wet and weak edges but a strong structural core.\n\nI'm sure that there are other ways of doing this too (precast for example), but this is the method they used to start the foundations for the Confederation Bridge between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick in Canada.\n\nCivil Engineering kicks ass...it's easily the broadest and most overarching of all the disciplines.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "To start using it, just get an Ubuntu disk [here](http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download). Torrents go faster if you're comfortable with those.\n\nBurn the .iso to a CD, reboot your computer, and choose \"try ubuntu without installing.\" It'll let you play around with it without touching anything on your computer. If you like it, restart and install. You can choose to erase your entire HD, or dual boot. If you choose the latter, on startup, it'll ask you which one you want to use.\n\nBut, the real question is this: what do you want to accomplish? Your question is kind of broad. Do you want to learn how to program Linux apps, use it as a desktop OS, or administrate Linux servers? What you want to do with it would shape the advice, really. There's so much to learn, best to know what you want to know.\n\n\nThe biggest advice I can give you otherwise is this: just try stuff. Distributions, window managers, kernels, it doesn't matter. Just pick one. Try it out. If you don't like it, you can always try another. But without using them, you can't properly evaluate what's best for you, so just don't even try. Just Do It, and then iterate.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "step 1) dive in\n\nstep 2) RTFM\n\nstep 3) take part in forums\n\nstep 4) take part in local linux user groups\n\nstep 5) grow neckbeard", "score": 9 }, { "body": "tl;dr - Try a Live CD or installing on an old PC or a VM, but the key is to participate in your local Linux User Group. \n\nRemember when you run a live CD, that Linux runs faster when actually installed on the computer. Looking at the OS on a live CD is a nice way to see it without committing to an installation. But it is not a fair head-to-head comparison. Don't expect it to be as fast as it will be when installed. \n\nSame thing goes for installing Linux on an older computer that you've retired because it was too slow. It is not a fair head-to-head comparison with whatever is installed on your current whiz-bang desktop with ultra-processors. Yes, there are ways to take advantage of older hardware with Linux. Tons of ways to re-purpose and extend the life of older boxes with Linux. But those aren't the desktop comparison that you are asking about. \n\nBoth Live Cds and installation on an old box will let you have a peek at Linux without committing to installing it on your main computer. But don't spoil your comparison by comparing the speed. You've handicapped that part of the race. \n\nThe best, absolutely best thing that you can do to help yourself learn Linux is to participate in your local Linux User Group. You'll meet other folks using Linux, you'll learn what they are doing and how. You'll make friends with others learning Linux and those that already have answers to the questions that you will ask today, next week and next year. As good as mailing lists, IRC and help fora are, sometimes you'll do better by talking with somebody who already knows you. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\"I've spent the last couple of hours reading about gnu, linux, ubuntu, kernels etc and Im absolutely swamped.\"\n\nThat is like trying to get a PhD in zoology and evolution just so that you can figure out what is good to see at the local zoo :-)\n\nLinux is fun - start with Ubuntu. \n\nIf you have a graphics card or a decently config machine, you should be able to see a 3D desktop - that should sufficiently hint to you the exciting journey that awaits you in Linux.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "[Linux Mint.](http://www.linuxmint.com) \nIt is based off Ubuntu but looks and feels more familiar (if you are coming from windows.) It also has a Live CD version so you can test it out before installing by burning it to a CD, and rebooting your computer with the CD in the tray. \n\nUse synaptic (in the start menu) to search for and install programs, here's a few basic ones I use personally and recommend:\nkrita (like paint.NET)\nVLC (great media player)\nseamonkey (has a built in WYSIWYG html editor)\nWINE (allows you to run windows programs)\n\nalso, there are the [Crossover suites](http://www.codeweavers.com/products/) which are built on WINE but are better, so you can play windows games, M$ Office, etc. and easily install them.\n\nAt the very least, give the liveCD a try.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I am not saying it is the best approach for everyone, but I started [here](http://www.slackware.com/).", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Well, you could start out like I did, installing Slackware onto a 386 PC from a towering stack of 3 1/2-inch floppy disks. That was 17 years ago, so I guess better methods might be available now.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If you are new to Linux you should try:\n\n* Fedora\n* Ubuntu\n* OpenSUSE\n\nThose are the distros I have tried and can suggest to new users. Personally I prefer Fedora, but you will eventually find your favourite flavour soon.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Right click on an installed programs shortcut and go into Properties and into the Compatibility tab.\n\nIt may not be perfect, but you can run in compatibility mode for as far back as Windows 95.\n\n", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Virtualization isn't that bad, plus with moderm hardware Windows 95 or 98 (please go with 98SE, 95 and 98 were horribly unstable) should boot really fast in a VM. To get started, download [Virtualbox](http://www.virtualbox.org/). Check out the documentation for how to mount an ISO or disk as a virtual CD inside the VM and then install your Windows version of choice (I suggest 98SE). If you have a Windows 9x disk lying around you can pass your physical drive through to the VM, otherwise find an ISO somewhere.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "As odd as this might sound, some games might work better under Wine or Cedega under Linux.\n\nThat having been said, I suspect virtualization is your best bet.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "If you're just looking for keyboard/mouse input, then Microsoft's own VM will probably be sufficient. It's not too hard to install and setup and it allows for network access. \n\nI built a top-of-the-line (circa 2000) rig from old parts I had in the closet that's runs whatever vintage OS is needed for the retro gaming urge of the day.\n\nIf you don't have your own supply of vintage computer parts, it's really not that hard to acquire some. Local governments often get rid of surplus gear for practically nothing. Animation schools often sell off old computers when they update their labs. Put an offer up on Kijiji or Craigslist looking for old computers or parts. I've seen lots of people throw away 'broken' computers that I was able to fix for under $5.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The premise of The Matrix doesn't make any sense. The humans blocked out the sun, so the machines captured the humans and forced them to become energy making machines, like batteries... except the first law of thermodynamics tells us that the human body won't produce any more energy than the energy you put into it eg) via feeding it food. Ultimately keeping the humans alive would cost the machines energy, not gain them any - there was literally no reason for keeping the humans around, or creating the matrix, or any of it...", "score": 219 }, { "body": "Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith\n\nOkay, so the galaxy is going to shit, and Yoda decides to go beat the crap out of the Emperor.\n\nYoda puts up a really good fight. He doesn't even lose-it's more like he lets the Emperor get away.\n\nNow, Yoda gets all sad and he's all \"I failed! Now I'm gonna go cry about it for 25 years.\"\n\nWTF? Why doesn't Yoda just march back to the front door and try again?! It's not like anyone can stop him.\n\nHey Yoda, here's some advice: Do or Do Not. There is no Try.", "score": 152 }, { "body": "The Passion of the Christ. Jesus is the son of God and God at the same time?? Yea ok cause that makes sense. ", "score": 126 }, { "body": "The Matrix Part II/III:\n\nWhen Neo is in the real world, he can suddenly sense and control the real world machines. This would have made sense if the writers had done what I expected them to, and showed us that Neo and the Machines were both inside of some larger Matrix.\n\nThe problem is that all of Neo's superpowers inside the Matrix were based upon the fact that the world was just a simulation. To give him superpowers in the real world, without explanation is just simply MAGIC.\n\nVery bad writing indeed.", "score": 125 }, { "body": "In 2009's *Star Trek*: After Nero went back in time, he didn't bother to warn Romulus of the past about an imminent attack and instead embarked on a personal journey of revenge, despite him proclaiming many times that the future destruction of Romulus, (which he could have easily prevented if he wanted) was his motivation to seek that revenge. \n\n", "score": 117 }, { "body": "The ending of Signs. Water kills the aliens? They didn't anticipate rain? What about atmospheric humidity? Biggest cop out ever. All the aliens had to do was wear clothes and they had humanity by the balls.", "score": 107 }, { "body": "It doesnt even matter if Indiana Jones was in Raiders of the Lost Arc; the nazis would have found the arc, opened it, and died anyway. Still a favorite movie of mine though.", "score": 99 }, { "body": "Fly the eagles to Mordor and drop the ring in. And I always get a kick out of any spy-thriller movie where they have satellites that aren't bound by the laws of physics. \"Just retask it so it hovers over that spot!\" OK, will do, General Keppler!", "score": 97 }, { "body": "Remember that time he ate my goldfish, and you lied to me and told me I never had a goldfish?\n\nWhy did i have the bowl, Bart? *Why did I have the bowl?*", "score": 78 }, { "body": "Where did those dudes get the cigarettes in Waterworld? Or the oil? Or the parts to fix all those fucking jet skis they had that were, judging by Costner's 'evolution', at LEAST tens of thousands of years old. The FUCK did all that water come from, anyway, the dirt that he retrieved from the ocean floor would have been too salty to grow anything in, how the fuck do these people eat, why not turn their turds and food wastes into dirt? \n\nGODDAMN IT I\"M DONE. Every SECOND in this movie is a plot hole in and of itself! ", "score": 71 }, { "body": "The butterfly effect always gets me:\n\nWhen Ashton Kutcher is in jail with the religious prisoner trying to get him to help him get his journals back he goes to the scene where he is drawing that evil picture in kindergarten, then he gets up and puts the spikes through his hands, creating a stigmata-style scar. \n\nThe religious guy in the cell with him is so amazed because of this he thinks Ashton Kutcher is a prophet and he decides to help him. \n\nHOWEVER\n\nIf Ashton Kutcher had really gone back in time and got those scars on his hands, he would have changed the original timeline and would have arrived in jail with those scars the whole time.", "score": 67 }, { "body": "Cube: Leaven spends too much time thinking about if 645 and 372 are prime numbers to be believable. ", "score": 64 }, { "body": "Any horror movie. Nobody has a gun. Scream would have been shorter than the trailer if \"scream\" had tried to terrorize the ghetto or a trailer park.", "score": 62 }, { "body": "Here's my beef with Avatar[maybe spoiler(see edit below)]: You mean to tell me that they grew those 10 foot tall blue Aliens from scratch, but didn't have the foresight to put a damn microchip inside them so they could locate one if it disappeared? When Jake took a dive off that cliff, a GPS locater chip would have come in real handy, but they were searching for him with binoculars! I got a bloody kitten from the SPCA with a microchip pre-loaded. \n\nDidn't keep me from loving the movie though. \n\nEDIT - I don't think this is really spoiler tag worthy, is it? The drop was featured in the Thanator chase scene that's been on youtube since before the movie came out. ", "score": 51 }, { "body": "Star Trek Generations:\n\nPicard is in the Nexus. When he leaves he can go ANYWHERE at ANY TIME. \n\nSo where does he choose to go? To the most difficult time and place he could possibly choose in an attempt to stop Soran: The surface of the planet, where Picard is unarmed, and Soran has a giant shield, a missile, and a blaster.\n\nHey Picard... why not go back in time to the Enterprise in 10-Forward when you first spoke to Soran? You know, where all you needed to do to stop him was tap your comm badge and throw him into the brig?\n\nOOOOORRR you could have used this opportunity to go WAAAY back in time and stop Tasha from getting killed by that black inky thing! Or you could go back to the time when you killed Wesley's dad on your previous starship. What a fucking retard. \n\n", "score": 48 }, { "body": "Not really a plot hole, but early in *The Dark Knight* the Batman grabs the end of a thug's assault rifle. He then bends the barrel. Even if you believe the Batman has the strength to do so, the generic thug holding the gun would have to be equally as strong (and willing to hold the gun while it is being destroyed). ", "score": 47 }, { "body": "Back to the Future.\n\nWhy isn't Marty's dad questioning that his son looks like his wife's high school crush?", "score": 47 }, { "body": "Why after the third Harry Potter they didn't use the \"going back in time sand hourglass thing\" that Hermione had. They could've stopped everything bad from happening by going back in time. Someone died? Go back in time. Bad results? Go back in time. Anyway... *Insert Spoilers here* ", "score": 44 }, { "body": "Terminator Salvation - the entire second half of that movie was one gaping plothole after another, but the one that really stuck out was this: the machines go to enormous lengths to get John Connor where they want him - inside their own base, where he is surrounded on all sides by a huge Terminator making factory. So how do they choose to dispense of him, now that he is in their clutches? They send ONE Terminator. IT DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A GUN....", "score": 39 }, { "body": "Back to the Future. And oh, how I love those movies. Watch them over and over. But there's a pretty big problem:\n\nMarty comes back, doesn't quite save Doc Brown, the Libyans drive into the photomat and die. Then Doc Brown vanishes into the future and Marty's got the badass truck, the awesome dad *and* the hot girl. Happy endings all around.\n\nExcept here's this kid with a brand new truck who just last night was hanging out with stolen plutonium and a bunch of dead fuckin' Libyan terrorists and where the fuck is Doc Brown? Yeah, it was the '80s but if I've gotta get strip searched because some Nigerian jackass shoved PETN up his ass, you'd expect Officer McGilicuddy to at least, you know, stop by and see if ole Marty knows anything about Dead Fucking Libyans At The Mall.\n\nHowever, the only cop you ever see in the Back to the Future series is the sheriff in III, who does essentially nothing. There are cop *cars* in BTTF, but they seem to exist solely to give Marty something to hitch a ride on his skateboard with. It is my firm belief that Clint Eastwood's presence in Old Maple Valley set in motion a culture of vigilante lawlessness wherein gibberish-speaking foreigners with RPG-7s at the mall are taken wholly in stride. Otherwise, the whole goddamn series makes zero f'ing sense.\n\nAnd I love it anyway. The art of storytelling is not in writing without loopholes, it's in writing something so entertaining that the audience doesn't care.", "score": 36 }, { "body": "i always have it in for Citizen Kane because its ostensibly the \"best film of all time\" or whatever.\n\nwell, for being such an \"important\" film, it seems ridiculous that everybody just ignored the _huge gaping plot hole_ that occurs in the five minutes of the film.\n\nso the old guy is dying, and he drops his snow globe while saying his last word: \"rosebud.\" the rest of the movie is about everyone trying to figure out what he meant.\n\nhere is the problem:\n\nin that beginning scene, this guy is _all alone in the fucking room._ the nurse doesn't come to check on him until _after_ he is dead and has dropped the snowglobe and said his last word. technically, there wasn't anyone _around_ to hear him say his last word. so how the hell does the whole world know what he said when the nurse didn't even come into the room to notice he was dead until minutes later?\n\nlet me reiterate: _absolutely nobody could have heard him say \"rosebud.\"_\n\ngreat movie. great plothole. i rest my case.", "score": 35 }, { "body": "Worst plot hole of ALL TIME:\n\nIn Iron Man, when Stark is replacing his crudely made power supply with his shiny new one, the writers seem to forget that the power supply is in there to power an electromagnet that is keeping shrapnel out of his heart.\n\nYou see, in the scene, they actually REMOVE the electromagnet without replacing it- so the power supply is now powering.... NOTHING.\n\nSo naysayers will be eager to point out that maybe the new power supply had the magnet built right in.\n\nThe only problem is that when Stark later has his power supply stolen, he replaces it with the OLD power supply, with NO MAGNET.\n\nStark should have been dead.", "score": 34 }, { "body": "In Superman returns he flies into space to push the metor away and save the earth. Then he passes out and falls to the earth, finally hitting it and causing a deep depression in the ground. The next seen he is in the hospital and they are trying to give him some sort of IV. \r\n\r\nBesides the liability, the guy can breathe in space, take on radiation, fall hundreds of miles to the earth, etc. What were the doctors trying to accomplish with the IV?", "score": 30 }, { "body": "In Batman Forever, where Batman has to try and save both Robin and his love interest. In order to make this happen, he quite clearly falls faster than both of them. I know there are differences in friction and everything, but this was way too dramatic.\n\nPlus, they were falling for about 30 seconds. Under Earths gravity, that would be a distance of 4.4 km ~= 2.7 miles. That's a deep fucking hole the Riddler must've had.", "score": 30 }, { "body": "The Matrix - Cypher somehow went into the Matrix by himself to negotiate the deal with the agents, but the movie makes it pretty clear repeatedly that you need an operator to get you in and out.", "score": 30 }, { "body": "Blair Witch Project -- they lose the map and get all freaked out b/c they can't find their way out of the woods.\n\nBut--- they had pics of the map on the damn video recorder they were using to record everything.\n", "score": 28 }, { "body": "The incredibly light security at the showing of \"Nation's Pride\" in Inglourious Basterds. I mean, cmon, HITLER was there, and all that stood between him and would-be assassins whilst The Jew Hunter was away were two armed guards outside the door?\n\nI dunno man.", "score": 26 }, { "body": "Not really a plot hole I guess but all movies that have some kind of countdown. Like a bomb going off in 2 minutes. Then the movie goes on for 15 minutes and hero has 30 seconds to disarm said bomb.", "score": 24 }, { "body": "In Armageddon; asteroid the size of texas; tunnel 800ft, blows it up in the center. I don't think so.", "score": 22 }, { "body": "Jurassic Park: the Lost World\nthere is a few in this one, but especially at the Trex boat scene. somehow this giant trex escapes the hold and kills everyone(including the ones in buildings much to small for it to fit into, then somehow gets locked back in the hold as well as killing the guy hoolding the \"hold opening/closing\" button.\n\ni always thought that the little Trex or velociraptors did it all\nbut none of them were there.", "score": 21 }, { "body": "At the end of Superman Returns, Superman flies a mountain of Kryptonite into space.\n\nWe even see jagged crystals of Kryptonite coming through the rock all around him.\n\nSorry, but Superman loses all his powers when he's near Kryptonite. It isn't a matter of will power for him! He would have been UNABLE to fly, or lift anything heavy- let alone a mountain. So dumb.", "score": 20 }, { "body": "Every time-travel movie except for *Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure,\" wherein the protagonists solve their problems by reminding themselves to go back in time to fix their conundrums. \n \nIf a time-travel film is gonna be plausible, it will most likely be boring. ", "score": 20 }, { "body": "I haven't watched \"Star Trek\" in a couple of decades, but weren't there a bunch of episodes when they seemingly forgot they had shuttle crafts and told the landing party, \"Sorry, we can't help you. The transporter is broken\"?", "score": 19 }, { "body": "Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen. The particle that is stuck to the t-shit in the closet that falls to the ground and burns through the floor; shouldn't it have burned through the t-shirt and not gotten stuck to it at all?", "score": 19 }, { "body": "In Rocky Horror Picture Show: \"A laser of pure anti-matter\". Then it's not a fucking laser genius!", "score": 19 }, { "body": "Fight Club. The scene where he and Tyler are supposedly fighting outside the bar. When we find out Tyler isn't real, it shows the scene with the main character spinning around, beating himself up. Then the other two guys show up and think that this guy is someone they want to hang out with. ", "score": 13 }, { "body": "In the Jurassic Park movie they show the hatched out raptor eggs but there are still only 3 adult raptors terrorizing people- in the book it was explained that the raptors had developed a way to breed and so had increased their numbers from the created 8 to more than 40 individuals- and this had allowed some to escape the island undetected. This would have been too complicated for the budget of the movie so they cut the adult raptors numbers from several dozen to only 3 and justified it by saying the aggressive female killed the rest- but they still showed the nest with the little footprints leading away. What happened to all those baby raptors? ", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Original Stargate movie... modern linguist who is expert in ancient egyptian language is talking to the sun god ra. Ra is all like \"Hai, I see you have harnessed the power the atom!\" Linguist \"yes, we are a blah blah blah\".. well, ATOM as a concept and a term was coined by democratus in Athens after that language died out. so, ra, yeah, he may know it but no way the linguist knew the translation!", "score": 12 }, { "body": "In I Am Legend, the lady and the kid drive off Manhattan after Will Smith martyrs himself to save them. How did they drive off the island when all the bridges were blown up in the first 10 minutes of the movie, thus ensuring Will Smith's isolation the entire time?", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Ripley had her arm wrapped around a step in the ladder where\nas the queen only had a finger-hold on Ripley's boot, when Ripley's boot\nslipped off her foot, the queen had nothing else to hold onto. (this\nassumes that the vacuum isn't SO violent that it would rip her arm\noff)", "score": 9 }, { "body": "It's worse that they have smoking on spaceships. And that Ripley spends time shooting up alien eggs when the area is due for an explosion in a few minutes. And worst of all; Newt should be presumed infested by aliens.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "The part in the Dark Knight where the Joker puts a gun to his own head betting that Dent won't kill him. The Joker is a criminal mastermind and his plans are incredibly complex. He knew that he could talk Dent into not killing him. What he couldn't have known, however, was that there would be a coin flip to determine it. At that point, all of his efforts became pointless, as his attempts to manipulate Dent to serve his own ends came down to something trivial, and largely unpredictable, instead of following his plan. He could not have known there would be a coin flip, nor what the outcome of that coin flip would be. I can't see him sacrificing his entire plan, not to mention life and the rest of the movie, on a coin flip.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I never understood in either Transformers film how the Decepticons could transform into humans, first the cop in the cop car in the first one, and the hot blonde girl in the second one. I had completely forgotten about the cop in the first one until I seriously started asking myself WTF was going on in the second one. \n\nThen I remembered it was a Michael Bay movie and decided to shut my brain off.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I know this is a stupid movie and I shouldn't have watched it anyway, but in My Sister's Keeper Cameron Diaz shaves her entire head in one scene and has flowing locks in every other scene afterward. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "In Final Destination 3 (I do not recommend watching) the chain of events that started the roller coaster crash seemed to be the dropping of a video camera by one of the guys who ends up not getting on the coaster.\n\nThis happens in the first ten minutes of the movie, I couldn't take the rest seriously after that.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "There were two episodes of Eureka that involved walking through walls. In one, Jack Carter has to rescue his daughter trapped in a bunker. He uses a device that allows him to alter his density and walk through walls, but he doesn't sink through the floor. In another, Carter is out of phase with this dimension and walks through walls, but manages to ride the elevator.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "There's tons in Battlefield Earth, but some of my favorites:\n\n* Not technically a plot-hole, but.... \"Pyschlos\" ? Really? The Aliens are called Psychlos? Real creative LRH.\n\n* I don't really recall much of the details of the type/cause of radiation in the film, but if they had done what they were orderded, couldn't the gold the hyoomahns mine for the Psychlos absorb radiation and re-emit it?\n\n* Furthermore, don't the Psychlos have some kind of radiation shielding? \n\n* Throughout the film there are items and equipment that are supposedly more than 1000 years old yet are intact/perfect working order: the jet's fuel would be gone, the jet's themselves busted, the books would be close to dust, even the nuclear bomb itself should have been bricked at that point.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Gladiator: Within moments of withholding his support for Commodus, Maximus is taken to be executed, fights his way out, and immediately sets out on horse, riding day & night, to save his family. Yet somehow soldiers are already dispatched to kill his family before he arrives. How the hell did the soldiers get there first? There are no telephones, no telegraph. The only communication is by courier on horseback, the same as Maximus was doing. So no way someone could have gotten to the family so quickly. \n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "There was something wrong in Back to the Future II, they went back to the wrong past or something I dunno", "score": 5 }, { "body": "At the end of back to the future 2, when the delorean was struck by lightning, how did it jump in time? It wasnt doing 88mph, it was stationary, albeit floating. And dont give me any crap about the Mr fusion and hover improvements, it STILL needed to go at 88mph to time jump, as seen at the end of Part 1. \n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "In Oceans Eleven, I want to know how they got the bags full of prostitute flyers down into the vault, since only damon and clooney went down the tube, meeting Yen inside. Also, an athletic guy could only carry about 6-8 million (about 10 kg per $1 million), hence they wouldn't be able to carry all that out so smoothly (especially the old man).", "score": 5 }, { "body": "The sixth sense. So this guy walks around for years and doesn't notice that no one is talking to him? He doesn't notice that he's not eating or going to the bathroom anymore? Or if he's eating, he doesn't notice that the waiters are all ignoring him and that he never gets served? I could go on forever, mentioning things this dumb sucker doesn't notice.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "In Apocalypse Now (The VHS version I watched - many years ago) they go aboard a small Vietnamese boat (the part when they find the puppy). You see Chef and Clean go aboard to search the boat and when a young girl starts yelling/freaking-out, Clean is now standing on the PBR with the machine gun. He panics and shoots everyone. He was in two places at once. I don't know if they corrected that in later editions, perhaps one of you with the DVD could check it out...but when I saw it on VHS it was a glaring error. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "THE NERD OVERLOAD IN THIS THREAD HAS LIKELY KILLED ANY CHANCE OF ME GETTING A BONER FOR A WEEK. FUCK YOU ALL", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Madagascar - saw it for the first time yesterday. Loved the penguins and not much else.\n\nFirstly, all the animals can speak to one another, but not humans. A deaf monkey can read. Monkeys are English. Penguins can commandeer a ship and magically find Antarctica- get bored and return to Madagascar. Also hippos are vicious mofos, so the wild cat things on the island should have been scared of her rather than the lion. Also Ross from Friends is not, I repeat, not a Giraffe. I can't be bothered to explain any more screw ups, as it is just a cartoon.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "In the Star Wars universe you need the force to activate a lightsabre. Yet Han Solo uses Luke's to slice open his Ton-Ton.\n\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope\n\nAt the end when the Death Star was going around the planet to get to the rebel base, the imperials could have just blown up the planet, then got the base in range much sooner. They would have won. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Has to be the end of The X Files: Fight The Future, where Mulder and Sculley are alone shivering, at the edge of a massive crater in the Antarctic. And the next scene is them suddenly back in Washington D.C back at work. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Superman flies in reverse direction around the earth\n to go back in time to save Lois Lane, but NOTHING has changed! he still has a decision to make, save that town from the flood or save her....\n\n\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "In \"Hannah and Her Sisters\" the Woody Allen character runs into Hannah's sister a year or so after their terrible date. He asks her if she recognizes him. How could she not recognize him, he was married to her sister for years!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Gattaca pissed me off. Why didn't they look for fingerprints or genetic material on the keyboard that the dude beat the other dude to death with? No, they had to fucking take up an eyebrow lash from DOWN THE FUCKING HALLWAY and use that as their ENTIRE basis for pursuing a particular suspect.\n\nWHAT. THE. FUCK.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Independence day. The fact that our computer viruses could even have a remote effect on the alien computer systems. That Windows virus doesn't even work on a Mac...", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "9/11\n\niPods/iPhones\n\nStem Cell Research\n\nThe Greatest QB Debate: Peyton Manning vs. Tom Brady\n\nYoutube/Facebook/MySpace/Reddit/Digg/etc.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Step 1: Go [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/). \nStep 2: Close eyes. \nStep 3: Click anywhere. \nStep 4: Select random text. \nStep 5: Copy. \nStep 6: Paste.", "score": 19 }, { "body": "If you haven't already checked:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies\n\nThat's all I can do.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Double strike gives a creature whatever it doesn't already have in terms of normal combat damage vs. first strike damage, so first strike doesn't stack with double strike (i.e. no triple strike.)\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering_rules#First_strike_and_double_strike\n\nThe chump blocker will effectively block all of the damage from your Paladin, unless you also gave the Paladin trample, because the Paladin is still blocked. This is the same as it used to be when combat damage used the stack.\n\nAlso, if you have Rafiq out, you're probably better off attacking with him, because he'd be a 5/5 double strike.", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "Do NOT buy a 10-speed chain for this bike. I'm pretty sure it's a 5-speed freewheel on the back. Count the number of gears in the back. If you aren't sure, bring the bike to a shop and have them throw the chain on. Where I come from, it would be around $20.\nedit: $20 would include a cheapy chain…", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Be aware that if the chain is badly worn it will have rounded the teeth on the sprockets. If you replace the chain and find it skips over the tops of the sprocket teeth, you'll need to replace these too.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Depending on the rims, you could even go lower; I did a couple triathlons on 26x1.00. Not the most comfortable ride around town, but fast and tracked really well; 26x1.5s felt a bit mushy because of the bike geometry.\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I ride slicks on my mountain bike in the summer and, depending on how much snow there is, in the winter as well. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Edit: wow. I didn't realize this would end up being the most voted comment. I did not intend to hijack this AMA for my story. So, I'm going to throw in a question. Is this marriage for the purpose of money? What is the story of why this arranged marriage is happening?\n\nI once knew a girl from Spain who was part of an arranged Marriage. She was forced to marry an older guy when she was 16. The purpose of the marriage was to help bring money into her family, which was poor. Her 40 year old husband moved her to NYC. Eventually he became very abusive, verbally and physically. I met her when she was 24. She was quite possibly the most beautiful girl I had ever seen in my life, minus the bruise on her face. While we were friends, she tried moving out. She got an apartment and tried to hide from her husband. However, her mother called and demanded she move back in with him. Her mother contacted the husband and gave him the address of where she was at. She went into a panic and stayed at my place a few days. After he had called her 100's of times, she eventually answered. Against my advice, she agreed to meet him for coffee. I never heard from her again. It was really, really sad. Every time I hear of an arranged marriage, I think of her.\n\nEdit: After a year, I just emailed her moments ago. I'll keep you posted.\n\nUPDATE: SHE JUST WROTE ME BACK! SHE IS DOING FINE!!! To summarize what I know at this point, she moved back in with her husband. After a few weeks she moved back to Spain and now she is back in the US and is no longer with her husband. I don't know if this means they divorced or what. Thank you REDDIT for your interest in this. I'm happy to hear this even though she broke all contact with me! Now my next objective is to find out why she just disappeared like she did. Fucking seriously, I just felt a weight fall off my shoulders. Who woulda thunk this would all go down today? I'll continue to keep you posted, I just shot off my number to her in an email.", "score": 342 }, { "body": "Created an anonymous account for this. \n\nI was born in South Asia. Not India but the culture is the same. My family is plagued with this kind of mentality but offshoots have broken free of this crap. Usually it ends up being legal rape especially if you aren't raised as a female sheep. \n\nMy immediate relatives broke free of this archaic BS and sure some people look down upon us but usually they are the same people who are stuck living with men that they serve as maids, and some even have the wonderful opportunity of having their house work divided between them and their husband's second wife. The exact words they used were, \"at least I'm living with respect with my arranged husband and his second wife\"\n\nGetting disowned was sooooo worth it. ", "score": 162 }, { "body": "The person you choose to spend the rest of your life with is the most important decision you may ever make - and be it based on cold logic or thoughtless emotion, it should be made by you and not your family. Don't let them do this to you. \n\nYou only live once.", "score": 76 }, { "body": "My parents got married this way, and the 18 years I spent with them galvanized my desire to not fall into the same system. My parents are *polar opposites* & there wasn't a single week that went by that wasn't without a huge fight. To this day, I have never seen them kiss. Or say I love you. Or even hug. The problem is, divorce is just as taboo as what you called a \"love marriage\", so they've been stuck in that rut for 22 years. Say what you will, but I will gladly take being disowned over a life like that.", "score": 46 }, { "body": "What would happen if you told your parents (whom I assume are the ones pressuring you into this) that you don't want to do it?", "score": 41 }, { "body": "My mom told me about a guy she heard on the radio, an Indian writer I think, who said that after giving a talk once he had a younger audience member come up and ask him his opinion on which was better: marrying for love or getting an arranged marriage. \n\nThe writer replied that the end result is pretty much the same for both options, the difference is just that with one you decide to jump in the well yourself, and with the other five or six people get together and throw you in.", "score": 29 }, { "body": "*Do you have any cousins who entered into a love marriage? \n\n*Do your parents/family have a negative attitude toward love marriages, or are they just unusually positive about arranged marriages?\n\n*I'm told that Indians in England are now more conservative than Indians in India or the US. Do you agree with that?\n\n*Do you think your parents look at you as being \"incapable\" of finding/attracting a right husband, which may be why they want an arranged marriage for you? (lol. they might look at your geekyness and think of you as being too geeky for any man to want you. lol) \n\n*Indians have such interesting ideas of love. Westerners (me, I'm American) tend to have a romanticized idea of love, and Indians have an ultra-romanticized idea of love (falling in love by sight at the train station, dance and sing for the next three hours about it) or a really pragmatic view--\"you learn to love your husband.\") Where do you fall?", "score": 19 }, { "body": "I know some girls from India who have arranged marriages. From what they describe, the parents gave them a bunch of choices until they found the guy they liked. As long as you have the final decision, it's not necessarily a bad thing.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "I kind of get to see things from the other side of the table. I've been in a relationship with an Indian girl for a little over three years now, but her family (especially father) is very conservative and her parents will occasionally mention finding a \"nice Indian boy\" (I'm Chinese) -- because she's been keeping this all a secret from them. Which obviously makes it difficult for her, because she's emotionally close with her family; dating me was THE biggest act of rebellion she's ever committed.\n\nWhen we first started dating (senior year of HS), the relationship wasn't as serious so it wasn't a big deal, but since then we've gotten closer and closer, and at times she'll have major guilt trips about what we are and how we may end up. When we talked about it (many times before), I came to the realization that chances are we won't stay together, and simply accepted it -- superficially however, since I still liked the idea of being with her forever. Over the course of the last few months, I've spoken to friends (many of whom are also Indian) and done some self-reflection, and realized that I want her and her family to be ultimately happy in the end. Indian culture is very family-oriented and there's a lot of traditions to be passed down, and I don't want to be the source of anguish and and strain for her and her family for the rest of their lives and mine.\n\nIn Western society, we're used to the idea of love marriages and being with \"the one\" which is solely dependent on the merit of the individuals, fighting against the forces that keep them apart. But we live in a multi-cultural world, and it's too easy to look at another way of thinking that we're not used to and say that it's wrong.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "My parents were engaged in an arranged marriage, worked out for them.\nHowever I think you should refuse any impositions until you feel comfortable around him. My question is, do you have feelings for anyone else that might get in the way of this arrangement?", "score": 13 }, { "body": "This topic is so close to my pulse it's grabbed me from inner lurkdom of one year and brought me to register. I'm also born and raised Tamil in England. \n\nThe idea of arranged marriage had always been there in the background but until recently it was buzzing out of sight. Just this year my cousin-of-same-age got into an arranged marriage. The first of our generation (group of us same age and from the same community). I was actually waiting for one us to come out say, \"Hey, about this arranged marriage thing.......\". I thought we were all pretty modern and this was in the past but now the first of us to get married went down this route. \n\nSo I asked around about the process and found the way we did it was more like Blind Date: Family edition. Basically both the guy and the girl get a change to say no and there is a pretty lengthy period between engagement and the actual wedding. During this period you get to know one another and if it doesn't work, its okay to break it. \n\nMostly though it depends on your immediate family. While my Mum would get upset, I KNOW my Dad would support whatever decision I made.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "I am a guy (indian) raised in canada. I was in a similar situation about a year and half ago when i went through the modern arranged marriage and am now happily married. My parents were against dating while i was growing up and frowned on the idea of having female friends. when i was 24, I started getting asked about marriage and if i liked anyone. Eventually the process started. The idea of choosing a partner was way more extensive than i had imagined...My parents, friends and relatives would suggest potential partners after performing background checks. I had to make a \"marriage biodata\" and was given biodata's of other girls. based on these i started meeting the girls if they were willing to. During these meetings both families would meet...ask about eachother...my family would grill the girl while her parents would grill me (unfortunately guys are more extensively grilled than girls). the girls and i were then allowed into another room where we could talk to each other. I saw about 10 or so girls before meeting my wife. i had 2 meetings with my wife before saying yes. we got engaged. the period between engagement and wedding is called the \"honey moon period\". the two partners get to know eachother. they say that it is better to break an engagement than a marriage. After going through this i would say that the whole modern arranged marriage is a good thing. I am happily married. I have many friends in canada who have gone through the same and are fine.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I am really curious about this arranged marriage. It seems like it could potentially make a lot of sense, assuming you have wise and loving parents. If not, then it could probably go really wrong. \n\nBut here is my point: I know I picked some losers when I first started selecting on my own. There are some things that are good to learn through experience and there are some things anyone would be far better off not learning about at all. My girlfriends who search endlessly on dating sites cry to me about how awful it is.\n\nIf you can concentrate on your education and a strong social life without the headache of dating and heartbreak and embarrassing decisions. Meanwhile your older, wiser parents sift through the riff-raff - that does not seem like a bad deal to me. Love is hollywood. Trust and teamwork are something you can achieve with an honest and loyal person. Hormones have a way of blocking our vision from these things. But parents who are thinking of your future and an extension of their own family will carefully select a decent person.\n\nI am an American through and through, but this idea of arranged marriage does not immediately strike me as all bad. Am I romanticizing this, or is there some truth to the benefits I have envisioned?", "score": 10 }, { "body": "You are 17. Your parents will start looking when you are 21. You have 4 more years. In this time, many things can happen. For example, you could fall in love (and be forced to have his parents talk to your parents) or you could not. In the meantime, show your parents that you are mature, have ambitious career plans and they can trust you with the decision of finding your own partner. Ultimately, I am assuming their biggest worry is whether you will do the right thing for yourself. I was born and raised in India and now live in the US. I see expat Indian families here who are even more traditional than my family in India. I feel it's partly because they want to protect their children from the 'Western culture' that surrounds them. While I don't agree with them - (its your values that matter irrespective of your culture) I can see where they are coming from. I can see you love your parents and the last thing you need is to outright rebel against them and alienate them. Instead, get yourself to a place where they feel confident trusting you. Sometimes, it helps to think more maturely than your parents. \n\nOn a side note, a UK born and bred Indian colleague of mine got married after his family introduced him to this woman. They are a happy and beautiful couple now. He never admitted in public that they were introduced through their family. He always told everyone they met at a party in NYC. :)", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Are you brown? I am and I think arranged marriages suck. I have friends who have been arranged, and while some of them learn to love their partners, some of them are miserable. Not that I would ever let my parents pick my wife, but mercifully I won't ever have to deal with them trying to do so as they are fairly open minded. ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I was in the same situation. My parents kept saying that as soon as I finished university I'd be getting married. My parents are Indian, but were born here and grew up here with English friends and what I thought was a wide perspective on things. \nSo yeah. That freaked me out because I wanted to be independant and see things I'd never seen, travel and experience life. Just be for a while before even thinking about marriage. I told my parents this but even still guys would come over with their mother or father and I'd be forced to sit down and talk to them. It was so uncomfortable. And they'd ask me after an hour \"so what do you think? Do you think you can marry him?\" \nAfter about a year of this and trying the talk to my mum and dad to no avail I moved out and now live with my boyfriend (who is not Indian) my mum is ok with it now (she met him a month ago) but my dad hates this. We argued over the holidays and he said that he feels ashame of me. \nI'm a better person for moving away, in many different ways. But I'm almost 23 now and if I was still at home I'd be married to a guy I have zero in common with and my sister is now being lectured on marriage. But she knows they can't make her do what they want. \nAll I can say is follow your heart and think about what you're doing and how it'll impact on your life. \nWhatever you decide to do, do it for yourself first. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Hi Aminaja, at first I thought you were looking forward to it, but then I saw your comments and noticed the quotes around \"look forward\".\n\nYou shouldn't do it if you are opposed to it. But if you want to give it a try (the arrangement process), no one should tell you otherwise either.\n\nI had a good friend in college, an Indian girl, who did look forward to it. She was a brilliant mathematician, got her doctorate, did research and got published. We stayed friends because I was the only guy who thought she had a right to pursue an arranged marriage if she wished to. All the other guys would tell her, \"Hey baby, this is america, we don't tolerate arranged marriages.\" Of course not realizing that they are not forced marriages. But I'd already know several couples who had had them and the fact was that they were kind and loving and raised wonderful children and had their act together in a way that my western peers simply did not. I knew that arranged marriages often work great, so who am I to tell anyone they shouldn't have one if they wish. The guys that would try to wear her down against arranged marriage mostly just wanted to loosen her up so they could get in her pants.\n\nBeing brilliant and beautiful, guys were always asking her out. Her parents found her a guy that was a perfect match for her personality, they got married, and here it is decades later and they are the perfect couple.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "* How does the selection process work?\n* When do you think you'll be married?\n* Do you feel at all ready for marriage now?", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Talk to your parents about it! You never know they may find your choice more important than tradition if you're really opposed to the marriage. And if it turns out that you're going to be pressured into it, make the decision which will make you the happiest.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I'm 22 and in a similar position. My only advice is eventually \"find a nice Indian boy\" that you actually like. Get his parents to 'arrange' the marriage with yours. Hopefully that will be compromise enough. I like to point out all the failed arranged marriages (there sure are a lot of them out there) my mother knows, but i don't actually know how serious she is about any of this.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "as someone with a saudi father, i say that you need to put your parents in their place. \n\nthere are a lot of things that are wrong about western culture, but being independent from your parents is not one of them.\n\nseeking out and choosing your own mate (i.e. falling in love) is one of the most amazing experiences you will ever have. don't let your parents or your culture take that away from you. you need to be revolutionary. some traditions are just plain wrong. \n\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I knew someone from India who had an arranged marriage. He was okay with it but his wife confided in my wife that she wasn't pleased with the result and that she wasn't attracted to her husband. You need to make this decision, not your family. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If you do go through with it, are you *expected* to have sex whenever he demands it of you? Or that stuff still completely up to you? ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Assuming everything goes best case scenario, the person you marry is great, you have children, your happy. Do you think you'd do the same with your children as your parents are doing with you?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I have a friend and former co-worker who had an arranged marriage. They were both from India working in IT in the US. I believe they had met once prior to the marriage but spoke on the phone daily. At the time, she worked in Florida and he worked in California. Neither party were raised super conservatively, but their families did insist upon arranging the marriages. \n\nShe got married back in India about three years ago then moved to CA with him, though they've since moved again for jobs. At no time was she ever upset over the prospect of the arranged marriage and although it had been arranged since she was very young, she got along well with her now-husband. She didn't date, but was free to socialize and live her life to the fullest. They married when she was about 25. They are both extremely happy and very much in love with one another. I think it helped that they ended up having a lot in common but honestly it worked out well for her.\n\nMyself, I can't imagine even being married. I would be horrified to be forced into an arranged marriage. I just wanted to share the story to show that it's not all suck.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Not supporting arranged marriages but I heard an interesting quote that I think is relevant. In the West, you marry the girl you love. Here, you love the girl you marry.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "ITT: Internet white knights. \n\nBut good luck, Aminaja!! Hopefully, you'll figure out a way to escape that fate. My advice would be to do everything you can to become financially independent (education, etc.) and then tell them to fuck off.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I understand where you are coming from, I am Indian in the US and I know friends who are being set up for marriage by their parents. Some parents are relatively liberal about it and allow the person find that nice Indian girl or boy while parents look for themselves. Others are extremely strict and the girls are not allowed to even look at another guy because they may lose their virginity. \n\nBut for the kids it is really weird. You would think they would be opposed to it but they are really not. They understand their parents are trying to look out for them. And for them it is cultural and nothing to be ashamed of. Though I know some people who have gotten married because their spouse was rich and they where basically gold diggers. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Not really a question, just some thoughts.\n\nI've met and heard of multiple people who have done the arranged marriage thing and are very happy. The argument goes that people put on a false face in order to attract a mate when they marry for love, and that many divorces occur because when the false face gets put away you might as well have married a stranger. At least in an arranged marriage you are going in with your eyes open about not really knowing your spouse, and because of that you can be more honest with each other. Also, if you and your spouse agree to communicate, you can overcome even the biggest differences of character in order to have a happy marriage.\n\nWith that being said, I'd like to add from my own reasoning that the biggest risk in accepting an arranged marriage is the risk that you are marrying an abuser, a sociopath, or just a bad person. You will have to search your soul on the question of whether you trust your parents to have the perception and concern for your well-being in order to screen out such men.\n\nI don't know what your relationship with your parents is like, but maybe you can talk to them about any concerns you might have. It might be beneficial to you to find indirect ways to let them know what sort of person you like in order to influence their choice.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I have no tolerance for this arranged marriage bullshit. It comes down to a bunch of selfish parents who would sacrifice the life of their own child to fulfill their fucking archaic religious traditions so they can feel better about their shitty lives. I've dated an Indian girl before who had a very traditional mother. The saddest part was the sheer hypocrisy of the situation. They moved to fucking MICHIGAN yet don't want their daughter hanging out with friends because \"that's what white people do.\" We were both 18 and once after my girlfriend drops her siblings off at school she swings by my house. We try to get it on but her mom calls 5 times in 2 minutes until she gets an answer. Her mother wouldn't even let her out during the day. The relationship ended because of this insanity. I still hold a grudge against my ex for putting up with it like she did. I know I don't truly understand, but I'll be damed if anyone treats me like this. Oh and it get's better. I wasn't allowed to meet her mom because it would have caused a major problem in the family. Probably the most twisted thing of all was when her mom signed her up for an Indian singles site without even telling her. What kind of mother does that disgusting shit to her own daughter? And my advice to the OP: **Fuck your selfish family** they obviously care more about themselves then they care about you. If they didn't they would encourage you to go out and live a fulfilling live and love who you choose. Just because you were born to a family that believes in arranged marriage does not mean you have to act like it. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "What part of Britain are you living in? Are there a lot of Hindu's in your area to add cultural pressure to parental pressure? ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "All I can say is, don't do it! \n\nListen to me, my parents' marriage was arranged, and it has been a total nightmare for them and their children as well.\n\nThey were both totally incompatible and regretted it and suffered though a lengthy and painful divorce.\n\nIf you don't know the guy, do not do it! \n\nIt is better for you to suffer your parents' disdain than to deal with a bad marriage.\n\nDelay the marriage as much as possible, and get the fuck away from them!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Well, you still have 4 to 5 years to make your decision. By then, you'll be a different person and have different set of mind. When the time comes, you could decide to go with arranged marriage or take out a loan to complete your education. Just remember to look back at this thread after few years before making your final decision.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "When you find a guy, use strategic planning to make sure your families meet. Then, get the guy's family to come and ask for your hand after a few months. Make it seem like an arranged marriage. If your parents think it was their idea, they'll be happy :) And you get your guy.\n\nIt's not that difficult, just have to be subtle and smart.\n\nPS: Might not work if guy is culturally different.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I work with a woman who is in an arranged marriage. In general, she has similar complaints that all married women do from what I can tell. She also has two children that she loves a lot. In general, I'd say that compared to a number of marriages I could cite, her marriage doesn't seem so bad. She works as a programmer.\n\nWould it be possible to say to your parents: I will try the way you suggest, but if you choose selfishly or badly, I will divorce him (and mean it) -- you should allow me to be part of this choice if you don't want this to happen. \n\nThe woman you are today will be nothing like the woman you are in twenty years. There is a decent chance you will find yourself thinking like your parents when you reach their age.\n\nTruth be told, marriage for love fails often. Parents have the benefit of many years behind them. There might be less divorces if children leaned on their parents for advice on who to marry.\n\n\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I don't think its that bad? Can you at least meet/screen who the guys are yourself as well? As a guy I would not have minded a pre arranged marriage. At least the person I would be married to, would be \"marriage minded\" So I know that they are willing to make it work. \n\nI think its ok, I was married on my own choice before and it was a terrible mistake. I think Prearranged marriage is great", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I understand what you are going through. My friend is Puerto Rican and dated an Islamic guy. Regardless of how she treated his family and how good she was to him there was always this \"grudge\" or \"judgement\" passed on her from his family because they want him married to one of his own. It is understandable but not something you should stand for as an individual in this time.\n\nMeeting him could be a good idea but don't forget, it is still arranged. You don't want the person your going to spend your life with to be someone you didn't meet on your own in this fantastic way which made it \"meant to be\". Maybe try to meet guys within your race but do it on your own you know? If these just aren't the guys you are into you need to consider having a talk with your family to express what your happiness means to them and to have them accept that. No parent who truly cares about their child would disown them for making their own adult decision. You are still young yet and you will be judged because of that. As a 17 year old, a parent will not trust your judgement entirely, regardless of race.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'm kinda in the same boat you are.I'm an 18 year old guy born in raised in the U.S and though I'm not forced to have an arranged marriage, it's kinda expected. And this isn't just you must marry a hindu type deal, it's more of a \"It would be nice if you marry a south Indian tamil/telugu Iyengar girl\". Oddly though, I'm ok with it mainly because of the lack of pressure they put on me. Both my parents were born andraised in India but they understand how the American society runs and they don't want me to be deprived of it. That said, they did tell me why they would perfer I marry a South Indian Iyengar and still assured me I had a choice with whatever I pick.\n\nI think the Western view of arranged marriages is very flawed in that they feel that we (meaning people who are going to get married) don't have a say in who we want to marry, and from what I see that is far from the case. It's more like one's parents would recommend someone to his/her daughter/son and said kid would see if he/she likes the person. Why do they do it? Because the families would be known, therefore the parents would know if their kid is gonna marry into a good family or not. Along with this the culture/values will mostly be similar (which is very hard to find especially in India). For example considering - just looking in India- there are groups of people who are only vegan, people are vegitarian but not vegan, people who eat only white meat, people who only eat fish, and people who eat anything but cow, and people who eat anything. Now this is just food and just India, we can look into the religious aspect of it. Yeah everyone may be 'Hindu' but that is extremely broad. Within in south India there are the Vaishnavites, Shavites, Samartha's, Krishna bakthas, Rama baktha's etc. We haven't even gotten started on North India and again, this is just religion, then comes language, culture, food, and just how the family and boy/girl is . Yeah of course you should like the guy your about to marry and ultimately it should be your choice, but I (though it may not be a popular choice, especially among kids my age growing up in America), am ok with arranged marriages. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "* This was the biggest thing for me-- having a lettuce-based salad at every lunch and dinner, that's 2-4 servings of vegetables each time. Learn to love it, use the dressings you will like. I use a lot of different colors and add nuts or seeds and beans to mine. \n* Saute baby bok choi in sesame oil with walnuts and soy sauce, could add water chestnuts and snow peas or sugar snap peas\n* lightly steam broccoli and/or cauliflower, drizzle with olive oil, red wine vinegar, salt, and pepper\n* saute collards, kale, or turnip greens in olive oil with onions, garlic, red pepper flakes, and pineapple, some people like to add a few drops of liquid smoke\n* vegan spanakopita for spinach, could also use beet greens or chard\n* Steam carrots, beets, and sweet potatoes. use an orange juice-based sauce\n* Asparagus with red bell peppers, corn, and add fresh Italian parsley after cooking.\n* Soup with red cabbage, carrot, celery, sweet potato, spinach, and corn.\n* I like to have 6 cups of lettuce, 2 cups of other nonleafy raw vegetables, 2 cups of cooked green leaves, and 2 servings of starchy cooked vegetables every day. If I miss a day, I feel it.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Sounds like you are going pretty heavy on the carbs. I am right there with you; I absolutely love carbs. You definitely need to balance that out with more green stuff.\n\nFor snacks or a light meal, I suggest romaine with some raw veggies you like. Romaine is super sweet on its own and doesn't need dressing. If you like sweet veggies, go with thinly sliced carrots, green or red peppers, snow peas, sugar snap peas, etc. I like to throw in some walnuts for omega 3 and blackberries or raspberries.\n\nFor cooking, I love me some greens. Collard greens, swiss chard, mustard greens, and kale, my favorite, are all great slightly sauteed in a pan with some oil and garlic. All can be roasted, too, with a little bit of oil and sea salt. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I turn to macrobiotics to help remind me to be a \"good\" vegan (eating my veggies and all that!) The diet itself suggests eating...\n\na grain (usually brown rice, since it is a whole grain and isn't depleted of nutrients the way white rice is) \n\na bean (black beans are my favorite, but when kidney beans are done right they can be AMAZING)\n\na dark green leafy veggie (I don't think KALE can be said enough! I just boil it for 2 minutes or less and dress it with fresh lemon juice, a tap of gomaishao, and maybe a bit of tamari) \n\nand then other roots or veggies. \n\nIt focuses a lot on things that are in season, so it's a very ecological way to eat. \n\nIt also leads you away from pretty much all processed foods and sugary goods, so if you're looking for healthy, this is a good place to start.\n\nMacrobiotics does allow for the occasional consumption of fish, but it is otherwise a vegan diet. Just do what I do- when looking at macrobiotic cook books or checking into restaurants, do the same ol' vegan song and dance and ask what's in the food. Macrobiotic people LOVE to talk about everything that's in their food. : )\n\nHere's a decent info on macrobiotics:\n\nhttp://www.macrobiotics.co.uk/foodlist.htm#occasional\n\nThis is my all time favorite Macrobiotic cook book. It's mainly sauces, spreads, or dressings, but it's really the perfect companion when all you need is something to dress up rice, carrots, broccoli, kale, etc.\n\nhttp://www.casadeluz.org/cookbook.htm\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Raw beef is as safe as fully cooked beef, with one exception: the exterior of the cut. This is where bacterial contamination from fecal sources (the cow's or the butcher's) can get you. The interior of beef is sterile (and pork too, now that the intramuscular trichinosis parasite is basically eliminated from industrially-produced pork, at least in the US).\n\nThe safest thing to do is buy a large piece of meat with minimal surface area (i.e. something that looks as much like a cube as possible), quickly sear the meat's exterior in a very hot pan, and then use a sharp knife to carefully remove the cooked outer layer (you can eat this too, maybe over rice or in a sandwich with cheese).\n\nYou've then got a clean piece of raw meat to be processed how you wish.", "score": 16 }, { "body": "This is an extremely common dish in Italy - you can literally find it in just about any restaurant in the country.\n\nI have never had anything comparable in the US, as with many dishes even restaurants that claim to be authentic have their own versions of a classic dish.\n\nIn Italy, it is served thinly sliced, with arugola, parmiggiano shavings, a drizzling of olive oil and a lemon on the side with salt and fresh ground pepper.\n\nYou should be able to get appropriate meat from your butcher without too much risk - just tell him you want to eat it raw, and he/she should be able to accommodate you - especially in San Francisco.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Most of the raw steak I have had has the outside very quickly seared and the inside still cold to the touch. Last weekend I had a take on Wagyu Steak au poivre that was very, very raw and it was delicious. \n\nTry taking a fillet Mignon, and hammering some peppercorns on the outside, searing it quickly and calling it a day.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "It's called Carpaccio? Named after the Italian Rennisance painter.\n\nThe best way I can recommend I get a sealed PISMO tenderloin and butcher and trim it yourself. Alton Brown has a great pair of Good Eats about it. Go to YouTube and search for \"Good Eats tender is the loin\". It'll be there.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "There's nothing inherently wrong with raw anything; it's the bacteria and other microorganisms that cause it to be unsafe. Assuming you had a healthy cow, there'd be nothing unsafe about cutting off, say, a hunk of its flesh and eating it right then and there. Leave it around, though, and you'll probably get germs all over the meat.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I have never had this, but I am a barbarian of sorts who likes to eat my meat very very very very rare (as in, walking the cow past the stove constitutes 'done enough'), and until I went to France, where enough other people like meat cooked that rare that they have a name for it (bleu), I have had to basically resort to eating beef only at home, as no restaurants will cook it to my liking. To think that there are American establishments that will serve a joy like this... I have to find one. I have to have this. I have to have this NOW.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I recommend Enfuse for anyone who wants to get into HDR. Mostly because it actually achieves what HDR is supposed to do (Create a higher dynamic range image!)\n\nI haven't had much success with enblend myself though, as good as people say it is..", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "[Is this what you are looking for perhaps? Closest fit I could find.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_Brave)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Onions, tony chachero's, shredded lunch meat( I prefer roast beef), or garlic powder. Mix and match to taste. I've heard in jails they make ramen with a can of coke. Never been brave enough to try it myself.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I was there -- the street was partially closed off but there was still through-traffic. I'd say there were about 100 people watching the proposal take place; I took a few pictures but it was mostly of the bride's ass and breasts, as they looked VERY plump. I can post those for them, if they want them. I probably have around 300-400 pictures of the proposal, as I ran out of film through Series 2: Breasts (Series 1 was Ass). Very annoying.", "score": 290 }, { "body": "I tried searching twitter as someone else suggested, using various different keywords. Here's what I found: http://twitpic.com/w5fqw \n\nMaybe that's them?", "score": 198 }, { "body": "http://www.techpin.com/wp-content/times-square-jumbotron-to-display-new-year-s-eve-text-messages-verizon-wireless-2.jpg\n\nno idea if this could them, but a couple alone on a blocked off street? looks proposal like to me.", "score": 49 }, { "body": "You should have done it in front of CCTV and got it via FOIA. [for example](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1938076/The-Get-Out-Clause-Manchesters-stars-of-CCTV-cameras.html)", "score": 46 }, { "body": ">125 up votes 5 down votes\n\nThis has to be the most favorable upvote to downvote ratio ever.\n\nNice to see Reddit cares.", "score": 29 }, { "body": "Look for [geotagged photos](http://www.flickr.com/map?&fLat=40.756&fLon=-73.9869&zl=1) on Flickr.", "score": 27 }, { "body": "I'll check the traffic cams in the area. We can use our facial recognition program for any matches in the area. ", "score": 21 }, { "body": "Unless their names are Steve and Candy, I don't think this is it..\n\nhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/60152467@N00/4232985796/\n\n(Edit: Grammar)", "score": 18 }, { "body": "Give it a few hours, everyone is probably too hungover to upload photos right now. Also, if you know what they were wearing last night it'd really help with combing through thumbnails.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Give it another day or two - then go onto flickr. I've found photos of myself at events by doing this, I'd be surprised if no one put one up of them. It'll hopefully be better than the twitpic.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "The most awesome time to propose is after taking your fiancee to TGI Friday's in NYC on new year's eve. No one would expect a diamond after that, for sure.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Just as a social experiment, you should go up on 4chan's /b/ and make the same request. Bet you'd get a whole different set of \"ball dropping\" photos.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I tried to find a webcam still of it but looks like it faces to the main street (not closed).\n\nThis is a replay from last night right in front of TGI Fridays.\n\nhttp://newyears.earthcam.com/ts2009/", "score": 6 }, { "body": "would have been cool if they'd asked one of the 100s of people taking pictures to email it to them or something.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "i was actually at that EXACT locations by TGIF and the comedy club. The stage was on the left and a little passage in the audience. i have pictures of me and my friend on my iphone and NICE shots of where i was standing, but no pictures of the couple.\n\nplease let me know if yal want to see the pics. thinking it over i have video too.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "This has to have the highest upvote percentage I've ever seen. Most front page posts are only about 70% at the most, and this is currently 93%. I guess people do have good will. Except for the 7% who are just assholes.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Maybe you could find the gps coordinates for the TGI fridays or the street, and then search the gps data of photos online, somehow?", "score": 4 }, { "body": ">and a cop let them into a street that was closed off to everyone else so he could propose\n\nnote to terrorists?", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I saw a man try to give another man a lap dance. T'was rejected. Was hanging out with some mexicans and my friends said \"Whenever I see something brown I flush it. hahah", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "By far the best thing that happened was getting married in May. Other highlights include making a good friend (I'm a loner, so this was a big deal) and buying my first home (I take possession in two weeks).", "score": 9 }, { "body": "When Bernie Madoff had the shit kicked out of him in prison and then, the subsequent cover-up:\n\nhttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BN25V20091224", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Last year I devoted a lot of time to myself. Explored a lot of new music, new books, and new philosophies. I think I matured more in the last year than I have in many previous. I feel like a new person, which is why I'm very optimistic about this new year.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Without a doubt watching my daughter being born was far and away the best memory I could have in any year.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "For a single event: Having sex with my boyfriend (who I was completely head over heels in love with) in a cabana/tent thing that we snuck into in the Flamingo Hotel's pool area in Vegas. That was ridiculously fun haha.\n\nMore generally: taking more control of both my mental and physical health - I'm much happier and in much better shape than I was at the start of 2009.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "A boy I had been keen on since the beginning of university (that'd be three years) invited me to a zombie warehouse party...we went, and afterwards while listening to Michael Nesmith and with him still wearing zombie make up, he asked to kiss me. \nAfter some spectacular secks, he said \"that's three years of pent up angst!\" \n\nApart from that, I made the most amazing friends at uni and they've contributed to a whole heap of spectacular 2009 memories. Friends that honestly don't mind that I'm a little strange sometimes, and who have the same interests as me. As a result, I'm infinitely more confident than I was during high school. Hooray!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Couldn't possibly agree more. Conservatism, whether you agree with it or not, makes cogent, reasoned arguments and has valid perspectives. It's just that you never hear them because the loudest conservatives get the most coverage and they're usually the least qualified to speak to genuine conservatives. I'm a liberal, but I hate the fact that Fox is seen as the conservative voice because it makes for lazy liberals: it's too easy to dismiss the nonsensical ravings of a Fox \"analyst\" instead of a reasoned counter to a liberal argument. Fox is the *stupid* conservatives' voice. What seems to be the new reasoned debate is \"Lincoln-Douglas SMACKDOWN with your host Glenn Beck!\"", "score": 457 }, { "body": "\"Moderate\" is the term that irks me. Joe Lieberman is in no way a moderate, yet he's described as such, as though he's a paragon of unbiased non-partisanship.", "score": 112 }, { "body": ">Conservatism as a political philosophy is about preserving traditional rights and institutions -- chief among them, liberty\n\nThe problem with this is that our original American/conservative values were not always about liberty. There was still tons of oppression back in the day. Liberty hundreds of years ago was slaughtering native people, keeping slaves, and denying woman the right to vote/be educated. The economic system wasn't perfect either. Conservative liberty, and the liberty that people believed in back in the day is kind of a joke to how far we have come now...and some people still believe it's best if we go backwards. There are a lot of Bush conservatives that actually do believe in a much more traditional sense of \"liberty\" then us. \n\nJust because ideas are traditional doesn't mean they were right. To me, conservatism is kind of the same as when old people over glorify the past. \"In my day, there were never any problems\", etc. \n\n\nI understand the basic idea behind conservative logic, and I understand that being a conservative doesn't make you a psycho fundie, but I disagree with the philosophy in general, and think that even without the fundamentalism, it's not always the best idea. In regards to calling Bush conservatives \"conservative\", I think despite their desire for \"one nation under god\" It would be unfair *not* to call them conservatives, because much of what they believe is alined with conservative thought. ", "score": 47 }, { "body": "I totally agree, one of the most distasteful things over the last few years has been the capture of Christianity by the religious right. As if Christians have to be conservatives, and only conservative Christians count. \n\nI find the religious right to be heading down the track of an abhorrent version of Christianity, that is mostly twisted by politics and has nothing to do with the principles and teaching of Jesus. \n\nMy disgust with the religious right grows every day, I wish they would just rename their ideology as something else and stop embarrassing the rest of us. ", "score": 24 }, { "body": "I hear what you are saying. But American complacency allowed the neocons to redefine what it means to be both liberal and conservative in the United States. Middle class Americans on both sides of the aisle sold their political soul to the devil for some tax breaks that went by-and-large to the wealthiest Americans and never \"trickled down\" to anyone else.\n\nNow, however idealist libertarians may rail against it; to be conservative is to maintain that redefinition, and not what went before. It is already well burned into the psyche of a hopelessly propagandized public; even the once revered Barry Goldwater has been reduced to some old nut-job like \"Dr. No,\" and that quitter Ross Perot. And to be liberal now is merely staying only just left (but never left enough to do any good) of the republicans, no matter how far right they slide. Thanks to the neocons; the US is effectively a one party state with two faces; both and neither conservative.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "I call them *social* conservatives. It is an important distinction since most social conservatives don't seem to be fiscally conservative so long as tax money is spent on death and oppression.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "If the party (GOP) has been at some point in time \"hijacked\", it's because true conservatives had to ally with the rabid, religiously-afflicted, neo-know-nothings, or disappear. They simply couldn't win an election on a true conservative platform.\n\nThey've made their bed, so to speak. As my mother used to say: \"Lay down with dogs, then don't be surprised if you have fleas!\"\n\nJust remember. The GOP has aligned itself with these inbreed idiots, and for a long time have been successful in getting the former middle class to vote against their own economic interests through conscious fear and manipulation.\n\nIf the GOP ever got their way, there wouldn't be any safety net at all, not even the threadbare one we supposedly have now.\n\nNo Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Welfare, Aid to Dependent Children, State funded health-care for the children of the working poor...nothing...nothing at all, if the GOP (the real conservatives) ever got their way.\n\nDon't put off the misfortunes of the party on it's nut-case base. ", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Just as extremist Christians draw their legitimacy from the reasonable and peaceful majority of Christian folk, the radical right dress themselves in the robes of the esteemed thinkers of the conservative tradition, like fat,spoiled pigs dressed in drag. \nIt is not Left va Right folks, it's ignorance vs reason. ", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I look at conservatism as more of an economic policy, which is true for modern conservatives to be economically conservative. I think you are under the supposition that the word conservative stands for something closer to libertarian, which is freedom of both the economy *and* personal life.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "I just had a long conversation about this today with my wife. I am reading Bertrand Russel's \"History of Western Philosophy.\" In it, he describes a conservative society as one that is held together by national and religious interests, by dogma. As societies become more liberal, centered around the rights of the individual, they become less cohesive. These less cohesive societies are prone to being invaded and taken over. This cycle has repeated itself through history. \n\nHe goes on to say that the purpose of liberalism is to strip away the otherworldliness of morality, and to institute views which do not rely on speculative beliefs. Liberalism is actually based more on utilitarianism than on dogma. \n\nSo, when our constitution was written, people felt compelled to go to churches and town halls. There was less of an idea of the life of the individual. Our constitution took that head on, it was (and still is) a very LIBERAL document. Life, liberty and the pursuit of individual happiness was a radical idea at the time. The word \"God\" or anything like it, does not appear in the constitution. This is not by accident. ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I consider myself a conservative and I agree completely with the OP. As someone that is socially liberal and fiscally conservative, it makes me sick that the word conservative is completely tied to religious nutballs. Not to mention 8 years of living under the fiscally liberal and socially conservative Bush.\r\n \r\nMy personal political philosophy can be summed up with, \"Spend your own money, mind your own business.\" The closest political party that I have found that matches my beliefs is the Modern Whig party (www.modernwhig.com). They seem to embody the spirit of allowing people to succeed while at the same time not thinking it's their job to legislate morality.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\n\n[neoliberal is accurate!](http://www.google.com/search?q=neoliberal&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)\nplease google \"neoliberalism\" if link doesn't work", "score": 7 }, { "body": "*Conservatism as a political philosophy is about preserving tradition*\n\nI agree with this.\n\nHistory is our laboratory; tradition is eternal truths.\n\nHowever, American Republicans are mostly liberal.\n\nYou'd have to go to a [New Right](http://www.reddit.com/r/new_right) source for real conservatism.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "There are two school of thoughts on this one. #1 Reclaim the word conservative. and #2 drop the word all together and just use the word libertarian. I mostly choose #2, althought most people don't know this word and only hear the \"liberal\" in libertarian and so they don't understand.\n\nI am a Christian. And the fascism was so bad when bush was in charge that when I said I hated bush I might as well have said that I wasn't a Christian. ( To some people ) Same thing went for my hatred for fox news. Because Christians are supposed to be conservative because conservatives don't kill babies. And the republican party represents conservatism. And fox news is the mouth piece for the republican party (ok, so that last one is true) and bush was the head Republican. So to say you hated bush was almost as bad as saying you were not a christian. And so if you wanted to be a good little Christian you had to be pro death ( pro unjust war ), anti personal liberties / freedom and pro mass government spending. These are all things that God would want right?\n\nI was some tricked tho. I started to gain some respect for liberal media. Because they were, at the time, the bringers of truth. Not afraid to speak it boldly and give bush the tongue lashing that he had coming. But now, sadly, that their man is in power, they have become just as retarded as the republicans were when bush was in charge. Doing everything to they can to make fun of the other side just to try to make their side look better and do everything they can to justify the actions of their man. \n\nThe only thing I know for sure is 1984 is closer every day and both parties are taking turns tag team raping our asses with out lube.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "How about we just admit that the word \"conservative\" means almost nothing? Same with \"liberal\". The words are just very simplistic categories.\n\nPeople are always complaining that the parties have lost sight of their principles, but the reality is that the political ideology is ever shifting. Look back a decade or two and the, so called, \"core values\" of American political movements will seem very different.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I am a strong Christian who believes the Bible in full and I assure you that these \"conservatives\" are NOT christians and put us in a VERY BAD LIGHT.\n\nPlease don't point out the stupid and evil things they do as pushing Christianity.\n\nwhat about what they do is Biblical Sound?(A true christian actually follows his creed)\n\nTorture isn't biblical\n\nthe Iraq war isn't biblical\n\nAlmost everything that Sara Palin does is not biblicaly sound", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Dude, you haven't got a clue what conservatism is.\n\nConservatism is a political philosophy opposing the radical standpoint, meaning they are AGAINST the ideals of the French revolution of late 18th century, liberty and equality. They believe that a monarch should rule the people, and that the state should be built not on secular, but on christian values. Above all they strive to maintain, or restore the order that was in place before the time of the great revolutions.\n\nWhat you're talking about is liberal conservatism, which is a completely different political philosophy that finds its origin in Radicalism, which opposed the conservatives by being PRO-french revolution. Liberal Conservatives strive to restore or maintain the original liberal values (namely, liberty and equality, with emphasis on liberty) in politics. In this they cut themselves off from socialists, communists and social-democrats with whom the main differences are economic differences (Cons. Liberals believe in an absolute free market in which the government functions as a nightwatcher, and oppose the social-welfare system)\n\nAs you can see, there is a big difference between the conservatives and the liberal-conservatives. The first one opposing reform of any kind, believing in traditional statesystems and values, the second one believing in setting up a traditional liberal state.\n\nbig. fucking. difference.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "What they are trying to \"conserve\" is the wealth structure of our country. They want to make sure that big corporations can continue to extract a huge portion of our taxes, and GDP and funnel it into the hands of a few sick, power hungry families. The more of our nations wealth they have, the more draconian our laws and political structure will become in order to preserve that wealth, and the more our democracy will be undermined. Its not about conservatism for the masses, its about conservatism for the power elite. imho", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I admit I'm no PoliSci professor, but I'm pretty sure you are dead wrong on the point of liberty. Classic Liberalism, as you'll note by the root liber which meant \"free\" in Latin, had the emphasis on liberty. You'll also note the two words share that root.\n\nI think the NeoCons have definitely trashed modern Conservatism, but in some superficial ways, the movement is sort of a harkening back to the traditional form of Conservatism which emphasized institutions over freedom as well as the importance of religion.\n\nAll that said, I think the NeoCons are a far cry from understanding the subtleties of Edmund Burke and applying them in any sort of benevolent fashion. It's a movement now of cheap demagogues and fueled by a mass of idiots and zealots. Of course, the Liberals are walking that line too. I'd much rather see a new party/doctrine of Rationalism spring up.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "You can say the same thing about liberals. I agree with the ideology of liberalism but I won't identify with them because liberals have been hijacked by statists.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "What really needs to happen is the distinction between conservatives and republicans, liberals and democrats.\n\nI consider myself a conservative and want nothing to do with the current Republican party. I know of some very conservative democrats, and even some liberal Republicans.\n\nConservatism and liberalism are ideals. Democrats and Republicans are antiquated political parties.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Thank you! I'm a true conservative. I want liberty. I want a fair interpretation of the Constitution. I want a small government that doesn't interfere too much with our lives. Which is why I support pro-choice and less regulation. \n\nI don't want no regulation, Christian based laws, outlawing of abortion, destroying liberals, etc. etc. \n\nI think we need to respect others' choices. I have liberal friends. I disagree with their stances, but I don't decry them as idiots. I merely debate with them. If they present a stronger argument then mine, I often change my stance. If I don't change, I just say, \"Ok, that's your idea. I'll stick with mine for now.\"\n\nI also believe in global warming. It's manmade. Obama isn't a Muslim, nor was he born in Kenya. I'm anti-war. The WTC may not be as we've been told. Fox News is idiotic.\n\nAlthough I'm Christian, I believe in evolution and the big bang. The Bible shouldn't be taken literally. In fact, I feel that God withheld that information from us at the time because it was too much for us. The Earth is over 4 billion years old, not 6000. There is a midpoint where religion and science can agree. God is the source of the scientific source. At least, that's what I believe. If you think something different, cool. Go ahead, be atheist, jewish, muslim, agnostic, anything.\n\nCongratulations Reddit. You just met a sensible conservative.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "It seems like the only liberty the Republican Party cares about is corporate liberty. They like to trample on individual freedom every chance they can get. \n\n**CIRCLE JERK TIME**", "score": 5 }, { "body": "What a load of bollocks. That \"definition\" of conservatism is appalling in its intellectual dishonesty.\n\nConservatism as a political ethos is only concerned with one issue: the preservation of traditional power structures. All else is secondary, even if it means return to a power structure which negates freedom or democracy. You can throw all the hissy fits you want, but the only reason why some of you conservatives are getting your panties twisted is because the hubris that has been visited by conservatism upon our society... is so obvious, that your political brand is damaged beyond repair.\n\nYou may not like to associate with the insane conservative Christian right, but you guys were rather silent when you were getting their votes. \n\nSame shit goes for the libertarians and hard core capitalists, it is never their \"fault\" it is always someone else's. It could not possibly be that their political, social, and economic theories are completely batty... of course not. \n\nFor such a contingent so hell bent in shoveling \"personal responsibility\" down other people's throats, I always find the speed with which conservatives try to pass the buck for their own fuck ups... amusing to say the least. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I totally agree and while we're at it can we stop calling the left \"liberals\"? As someone who leans pretty far left I find it annoying because it's a total misuse of the actual meaning of the word. Whenever people talk about liberals here in the US they are talking about big government when really the word should mean small government with more individual LIBERties. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "The jig was up on the whole \"limited government\" thing with Terry Schiavo.\n\nIf there is *one time* where you do not want the government butting into your affairs, that would be it.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Radical, as I always understood it, was a term for politics of the far left... The term for the far right is reactionary.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "100% the truth. As a conservative myself, I can not stand 98% of congress. And saying 2% is being generous. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I am a conservative. I am a Christian. So, naturally, you'd expect me to disagree with you. I do, but only to a point. we conservatives are really conservatives, but I agree with your view of Fox. In the past, Fox was the only news outlet that wasn't so far left. But, now they aren't as objective as they once were. I like people to be on my side. But, I'd like the media, no matter who it is, to be UNBIASED. That's what the media is supposed to be. Both sides are guilty, but now I have to agree with some opponents of Fox. They're pushn' it.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I'm not calling them conservatives. That's what they are calling themselves! \n\nI call them nutjobs.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Couldn't possibly agree more. Conservatism, whether you agree with it or not, makes cogent, reasoned arguments and has valid perspectives. It's just that you never hear them because the loudest conservatives get the most coverage and they're usually the least qualified to speak to genuine conservatives. I'm a liberal, but I hate the fact that Fox is seen as the conservative voice because it makes for lazy liberals: it's too easy to dismiss the nonsensical ravings of a Fox \"analyst\" instead of a reasoned counter to a liberal argument. Fox is the stupid conservatives' voice. What seems to be the new reasoned debate is \"Lincoln-Douglas SMACKDOWN with your host Glenn Beck!", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Actually, it has nothing to do with \"preserving traditional rights and institutions\". Conservatism refers only to [fiscal conservatism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_conservatism).", "score": 4 }, { "body": "The meanings of words evolved and the Republican Right has hijacked \"conservative\" You've gotta call yourself a \"Goldwater conservative\" or a \"libertarian conservative.\"\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Actually \"conservative\" and \"liberal\" refer to the application of government. Conservatives prefer to apply government conservatively and liberals like to apply it in liberal quantities.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Let's not kid ourselves. A lot of political discussion is meaningless. Most of us are either wired up to be conservative or liberal, and there is little we can do about it.\n\nMy wiring is liberal and it totally affects how I think and act and view the world. I sometimes like to think I am weighing up the arguments but what I am really doing is filtering out the bits that are less interesting to me and less likely to support my prejudices.\n\nIn other words I'm an automaton. \n\nI'm happy to accept that because fundamentally liberals are well meaning and decent people, while what I see on the other side in many cases (but thankfully not always) is people who are mean-spirited and vindictive.\n\nFor me the two classic examples of this contrast are Dennis Kucinich, a thoughtful, intelligent, caring sage, and Rush Limbaugh, a sad, poisonous, hate-peddling clown.\n\nIt must be down to wiring. How else could you explain people listening to Limbaugh's disgusting hatred and not feeling their souls melt.\n\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "This comes across to me as poor amero-centric attempt at apologizing for the Republic Party. \n\nBush and Sara Palin can reasonably be lumped into neo-conservatism which is basically the (now dead) ideology that you plucky chaps have been attempting to export to the world for the last decade or so. Calling them the 'radical right' is a transparent attempt to pretend that the U.S has a meaningful range of political philosophy in its politics. What you would call 'centrist' is actually right wing for pretty much every other country in the western world. \n\nAnarchists are radical, Leninists could be called radical, Maoists are radical. Only in America can a political philosophy that informed your TWO TERM elected president be called 'radical'. \n\nAmericans need to get over themselves and start taking responsibility for themselves and consider themselves outside of their narrow, sordid, corrupt and morally bankrupt political system they call the greatest democracy in the world. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": ">In 2010, stop referring to these people as conservatives and call them what they are -- the Radical Right.|\n\nRadical has positive conotations. Lets call them Assholes, instead.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Not sure I like \"The Radical Right\" much better. It's a bit melodramatic (that'd be the caps,) and the word \"right\" is either another word for \"conservative\" or has no meaning in this context.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "This first step in having any meaningful discourse is to agree on the definitions of the terms used. So much of the discourse, as much as one may call it that, on reddit is nothing more than an argument over the definitions of various broad-brush labels. I agree with (what I think is) the spirit of the OP, but it does not do much to address the problem. My suggestion is to give as narrow a definition as you can of conservatism ... and you should be able to do that without naming individuals whom you either adore or despise.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "They are the [right-wing authoritarians](http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/).\n\nIf you haven't read this book, I highly recommend it. And it's free.\n\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "barry goldwater was a conservative. most of the people in america that label themselves conservatives these days would make him turn in his grave... ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Obama can restore habeas corpus with the stroke of a pen anytime he wants to. It's time to stop blaming Bush for all of our problems and look to the man to campaigned as the antithesis of the Bush agenda. Obama has had a year, which is more than enough time to restore this important civil liberty, among many others that we lost under Bush. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "How do you intend to use the machine?\n\nCoding?\nJust browsing?\nDigital media stuff?\n\nAll of the above?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If you want to have a glimpse into the command line, you can start at [LinuxCommand.org](http://www.linuxcommand.org/).", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I started with automating things and writing bash scripts. Try figuring out how to start pidgin when your network is connected. That was fun figuring out how to do.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I got these [gloves](http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/184-8898986-3496356?ASIN=B002B7LUYA&AFID=Froogle&LNM=B002B7LUYA|Mossimo_Supply_Co._Glove_With_Small_Button_-_Green&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=B002B7LUYA&ref=tgt_adv_XSG10001) from Target.\n\nThey have buttons on the index finger and thumb, and I've found that's all I really need to manipulate a variety of objects. Keeps my hands really warm too. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "[Nike soccer gloves designed for the field player not the goalie.](http://www.footlocker.com/catalog/productdetail/model_nbr--98208/sku--213015&SID=8732&inceptor=1&cm_mmc=SEO-_-Feeds-_-Froogle-_-null#sku=213015&size=XL)\n>Heat up the pitch with the Nike Field Player's Glove. These soccer gloves offer a water-resistant design with a fleece lining to keep your hands dry and warm in all types of weather. Textured leather fingertips offer enhanced grip for throw-ins and the elastic grip provides a secure fit.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "What I do is wear two layers: a thin glove (almost a liner) made of polypropylene, and then a regular glove over that. When I need to fiddle with my camera, I can take off the outer glove for a moment and my hands don't freeze instantly.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I find my thumb to be very useful in adjusting the camera. Mittens that convert to shooters gloves (by freeing your fingers only) are not all that useful. I use finger- & thumbless gloves over a polypro liner glove. If it's really cold, put a big mitten over that, so you can reveal your semi-functional hand only when necessary. If it's not terribly cold, framer's gloves are good. They are thumbless and two forefingerless, so you can adjust your camera easily.\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "yeah. and reddit takes up too much of this time. damn you reddit you addictive bastard.\n\ni was just thinking moments ago how it would be really great if i could clean my house while being on the computer somehow. of course it makes no sense. damn computers have stolen my life.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "[Anhedonia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhedonia) is a psychological symptom that can stem from depression, or other, more common things. This sounds like what you are experiencing, and it does not require depression or unhappiness.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Speaking as someone who recently asked out a cute girl at a coffee shop (Christmas Eve):\n\nThe situation:\nIt was Christmas Eve Last year, and I woke up early in the morning to go to a company social club breakfast, arrived there and had about a bottle and a half of cheap sparkling white wine (like champagne). \n\nThen after that was over we decided to walk to work, and accidentally went to the casino to drink for a couple of hours, when we stumbled out to make the quarterly meeting (with the general manager of out division) and we got caught up at a restaurant with more beer, so I left there because I was going to be late for the meeting.\n\nI wanted a coffee - so I got talking to the girl at the coffee shop and she was by herself because it was a slow day - we chatted for a little while about our lives and then i asked if she wanted to come ice skating with me then *bam* I had her phone number and a date etc\n\nSo the key was being really, really drunk instead of going to work and letting out your repressed inner pimp with alcohol.\n\n", "score": 27 }, { "body": "I know how that its harder than it sounds, but just ask her if she would like to go to the museum (if she seems classy) or out to lunch or something. If she politely refuses, then accept that as an answer and don't press it. She'll likely be flattered more than anything. If she accepts, then there ya go.\n\nFor me, I was able to start asking girls out like this once I realized that if I'm a nice guy, and she is anything worth my time, she's not going to be mad or irritated if I ask her out. ", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\"Hey, wanna go get some coffee?\" \n \nSeriously though, you could just ask her \"are you seeing anyone\" and if not if you could take her out sometime. \nEither way you don't need to feel so embarrassed as to lose a nice coffee hangout spot. ", "score": 13 }, { "body": "My friend, you're over-thinking it. You need to ask the girl out already. Just start a conversation with her like you normally would and then say \"would you like to get dinner tonight?\" Have a particular time and place in mind. If she's taken she'll politely tell you. If she's simply not interested, she'll say she's busy and change her body language. It is possible that she's flirting with you to be friendly with customers, but there's no way to know until you try. The worst case scenario is that she turns you down. In that case, you shouldn't take it personally, exit with grace, order your coffee and go right back to your homework.\n\nYou really have nothing to lose. That is, unless you don't ask her out.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Make it simple and tell her (somewhat privately if you can manage it)\r\n\"Hey, I'd love to take you out to dinner sometime. What do you think?\"\r\n\r\nIf she says yes, great. If not, you'll know where you stand, at least. You don't need to lose your hangout if she says no, by the way. Go anyway, and act like the asking out never happened. Be friendly and non-stalkerish and she won't hate you because you asked her out. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Just order a grande extra hot soy with extra foam, split shot with a half squirt of sugar-free vanilla and a half squirt of sugar-free cinnamon, your phone number, a half packet of splenda, oh and put that in a venti cup and fill up the \"room\" with extra whipped cream with carmel and chocolate sauce drizzled on top.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "After you have received your order and visually confirmed that she is not busy at work/ her supervisor is not looming over her shoulder:\n\nAsk her out, but not for coffee. If she's like me when I work with food/beverages she hates the smell of it by now, and you don't want to associate with her job more than you already are. Plan two options, be specific. Lead with the first option \"would you like to go to the botanical gardens with me on Saturday at noon?\" if she says no go with option 2 \"how about the zoo?\" if she says no then you have been turned down. say: \"ok, I understand\" leave with your drink (this is why you get the drink first) and feel free to keep going back, continue to be nice, but don't expect anything. If she agrees/makes an alternate suggestion then exchange phone numbers, ask when is a good time to call her and do so to finalize plans. \n\nBotanical gardens/zoo/museum are great first date options because they are public and generally done in the daytime so if she wants to test you out it's less like a date and more like hanging out. Movies/nighttime events are characterized by physical contact, which may be a deterrent if she doesn't know you that well yet. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Start a real conversation with her and see if you 2 have anything in common - if so then see if she would like to join you to do that thing.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "In some coffee shop somewhere, there is the world's cutest, most perfect nerdy girl ever, wondering why the nerdy boy of her dreams comes to her shop repeatedly but never asks her out.\n\nIronically, she will die a spinster with 17 cats, and it's all your fault!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Heed my warning; if you do what I did here, you will not succeed:\n\nThis was a year ago or so, probably more. The in-between has been something of a haze, that's just the style in which I live.\n\nThe girl was a very, very cute - indeed, beautiful - barista in my favourite coffee shop. Like you we usually struck up a conversation and she knew what I wanted, yadda yadda. I was there with a friend playing chess for awhile and then on my way out, after he'd exited I asked her if she wanted to go out for a pizza that night.\n\nHere is where I fuck up severely. I go to my buddy's house, who's having a party that night. I'm there, I have several drinks etc. etc. SHE picks ME up, AT my friends house (not that I don't have a car, merely that I insisted that she pick me up. Why? I dunno). Head the pizza place, which I recommend is good because it has a badass BBQ chicken 'za.\n\nOops, you're vegetarian! I totally forgot.\nOkay, cheese pizza it is...?\n\nSo that's okay, mild conversation, some VERY light bad vibes going on for whatever reason. Okay. \n\nMe: \"Want to head out to my buddy's? He's having a party tonight.\" Her: \"Sure.\"\n\nAt the friend's house. I don't think she had a single drink iIrc. I on the other hand... well. We're sitting around a campfire in a circle in the backyard.\nExtremely cliche. Oh, a guitar? Cool I love playing guitar. Sure. Uhmm... what should I play... \"Needle & the Damage Done\" yeah I love that melody. (Oops. Her brother died of a FUCKING HEROIN OVERDOSE)\n\nI walk her to her car. We hug. I feel awkward whenever she's on shift at my favourite coffee house.\n\ntl;dnr - Tread softly, friendo. Play it cool. For that night I'd recommend you stay away from copious amounts of liquor, illicit substances and guitars. And if she's a vegetarian, get a cool-ass veggie pizza, not cheese.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I just hope, one day, that the OP of one of these totally redundant posts finally does an \"IAMA person who asked that girl out that I had been afraid to ask out and it went fine. AMAA\" so that we can get some legitimate feedback instead of idle pratter.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "* Pack *light* - over 15 kilograms of gear is **too much**. This may seem obvious, but you'd be amazed at how little you can get out of 10Kg... [This is an example of too much.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reiserad-beladen.jpg)\n* Get good paniers, a strong rack, a patch kit, a couple spare tubes, a few handy tools (allen keys, screwdriver, chain repairer can be obtained in one specialised bike tool. May want to get a spanner for the pedals if you want to take it on a plane.) for repairs. Tools are important. Stuff **will** break. You don't need to necessarily know the ins and outs of bike maintenance though, because you should be able to figure it out by yourself under the heat of the moment.\n* Always know where the nearest bike store is!! This can make a terrible fucking I'm-Seriously-Going-To-Kill-The-Shemano-Company terrorist-making day into simply a bad day\n* Get a tent! You aren't always going to make it to the town. If your bike breaks down, you can also chill out for the night and deal with the problem in the morning instead of going berserk. If you can get them in USA, get one of the 2 second tents. Some outdoorsy people bag them out, but I found them great for a no-hassle option when it's pitch black.\n* Wear a god-damn helmet or I'll come over there and strangle you, if you are one of those bike riders who doesn't. Your skull isn't as thick as you think, mate! You are also going to be near some traffic moving a whole lot faster than suburban traffic.\n* You aren't going to be riding more than 80km/50m per day (Do you guys use 'm' as an abbrev. of miles?). Slow down and take in the sights.\n* If you get stuck, don't be afraid to knock on someone's door and ask for help. I've broken down before and ended up staying in a home with random refugees as well as camping on a cop's lawn. In both instances they fed me and offered me a shower, etc. etc. The worst someone can say is 'no'. It's complete bullshit that you can't do this sort of thing in cities, too. People are not a majority of complete fuckwits; it's just the fuckwits have had vocal training, and can therefore project their voices really well.\n* Maps are shithouse. Use them, but don't trust them.\n* If it's cold where you are going, you won't need as much warm clothing as you might think. I've ridden in 0°C with a shirt on, and I'm used to Australian weather. It's when you stop you get cold.\n* I'll think up some more stuff for you if I remember...", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "Are you interested only in portfolio (e.g original work) samples or would articles on artists be of help. For example I recently wrote an article on an Italian Architect with a showcase of his work. \n\nIs your project more like abduzeedo or more like ffffound? \n\nEDIT\n\nIt seems I've once again only skimmed a post. Sorry for that. The question remains the same though, would you be interested in articles on contemporary artists, designers, architects etc? Maybe some dated work. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "If you are carrying a balance on your credit card, you already display the symptoms of being out of control when it comes to your finances.\n\nSorry -- but it's the truth.\n\nDo whatever you need to do to get those cards paid off (a transfer is a temporary measure only). \n\nDO NOT CARRY CREDIT CARD DEBT.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Step 1. Open new credit card.\nStep 2. Call B of A and ask for an interest rate reduction.\nStep 3. When they say no, ask to talk to a supervisor.\nStep 4. If the supervisor says no, tell them you'd like to close your account.\n\nThey will lower your interest rate, or you'll be using a new card. (If the new card has a special offer for balance transfers, that's even more of a win.)\n\nEither way, BofA won't be as much of a problem.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "BOA is evil. They caused $500 to go missing from my account (their error) and they were not apologetic about fixing it. I left them for a better bank. I suggest you do the same if possible.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "First thing I would suggest is close that card and make arrangements to pay it off. Reason I suggest this is because starting today there are no more over limit fees and you have 60 days to make payments before they are late. A new card will not be able to hit you with those crazy penalties. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Perhaps people post things that support their opinions, but those opinions are diverse. What **you** see depends on what you look at. That's your decision.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "There are different types of [communication styles](http://www.drbackman.com/print-communication-styles.htm). When someone \"doesn't understand how conversations work\" it usually means that they have a different default conversation style. Whether someone is aware of such, and/or makes the effort to compromise or accommodate a different style is a different matter however. The best communicators do this naturally and without thought. Unfortunately, for the rest of us we have to learn about it first and put some thought into it.\n\nTry switching to a different style of conversation, and you may find that these impossible conversationalists respond and engage much differently and often the conversation will then become effortless. And yes, \"asking them questions\" is *one* specific conversation approach, there are others. Some people will feel as though they are getting interrogated in such a situation and clam up even more. \n\nWhen faced with such a case, experiment with focusing on yourself and relate a funny story or anecdote instead - if they're narrative or experience-based, chances are they'll reciprocate with one of their own. A concept-oriented person will respond with observations or ideas prompted by it. A listener or relater will in turn ask *you* questions after getting more info about you, etc. \n\nSurfing different conversational styles can be fun once you objectively realize the variety and possibilities out there and get a sense about what makes them tick.\n\ntl;dr: I used to hate it, till I learned there's more to it, now it doesn't bother me at all.", "score": 20 }, { "body": "DAE hate it when someone starts talking to you, but you have no interest in talking to them, yet they continue to badger you with questions?", "score": 8 }, { "body": "What pisses me off is people who interrupt when I talk to them. Then if I interrupt them (to get my \"spot\" back in the conversation) suddenly Ive committed the worst crime ever. If I get cut off or interrupted to much in one day by the same person I just stop talking to them for the rest of the day. \n\n\nEdit - my GF is pretty bad at just cutting me off so she can ask a question and I cant talk over her and just continue. About 95% of the time Im going to answerer her question if she would just give me a few seconds more. So on top of talking over her I have to wait and then say it again.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I hate it when I want to say something but get cut off because the other person sounds like they finished but haven't really. Then they change the topic to something else and I can't say what I wanted because I'll sound like a bore by changing the subject back.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "[Here](http://imgur.com/CVyXS.png)'s my verision, based on your vision of it, if you like it I'll send you the original files :p\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I made one real quick, don't know if it's good enough for you:\nhttp://dev.jivewise.com:81/imgs/moon_in_hat.png\n\nhere's the svg in case anyone wants to play around with it:\nhttp://dev.jivewise.com:81/imgs/moon_in_hat.svg\n\nEdit: I didn't put in an anthropomorphic moon because I always felt they were a little too creepy...", "score": 3 }, { "body": "[Here's my contribution.](http://imgur.com/1Irem.png) If you need any of the source files pm me. Feel free to make any changes.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I was home all day, and my girlfriend was at work, so I did what any rational man with 2 dogs does. I challenged them to battle. I spent an hour running around like a fool with my pitbull and my chihuahua.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I'm willing to join the fight, I was jsut laid off, and I've got nothing to do but collect EI. Add me up \n\n V_Rion23_V", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Updated 03/01/2010, 5:20PM \n[Spreadsheet for a list of all the PSN names submitted so far](http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=teNpaCzrPqoCgtQ3yJslCrQ&output=html)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I'd be up for it. I could play after 7pm EST weekdays and any time during the weekend if I don't have any plans that day. My PSN ID is LNB613 ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Count me in. I can play nights (PST)\n\nPSN ID: hbsmiley7\n\nIf you add me as a friend, put your Reddit name in the text so I know who it is.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "familyorfriends\n\nI have similar availability. I have a mike too, but probably won't be able to get on for the next week.\n\nI actually just bought the ps3 and mw2, so I don't know the maps intimately (takes me about 4-5 hours of play time to be honest, im kinda slow). I take direction well, and I'd figure it out a lot faster that way anyways. I won't be able to make it on for a while.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I guess I just missed tonight's party, but here's my info anyway. I make no claim to skill and don't have a headset yet (will buy one soon).\n\nPSN ID: Epigonic", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My grandson's friend has a 12-year-old brother who routinely scores 25 kill streaks at which point you get [a tactical nuke](http://www.mw2blog.com/modern-warfare-2-killstreak-rewards/). ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I had really good sex with my wife and my puppy has not crapped on the floor all day. Just opened a bottle of bubbly and I am on reddit. Life is good so far.\n\nps. I may try and get lucky again after we drink the bubbly", "score": 3 } ]