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[ { "body": "It'll work fine with an unmodified camera, but you'll need to work past the hot mirror with much longer exposure times. A typical 720nm filter eats about 15 stops on my Nikon D40x.\n\nImage results will vary depending on camera and filter mix too... while the Hoya R72 is by far the most popular filter for false color, eBay filters are cheap enough that you can experiment with the different off-brands. I have one filter that I adore for its unusual false color results, and another that bleeds so much red it's only good for B&W work.\n\nHope that helps!", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Reddit is a lot like a Jam Band concert. There are a lot of guys! There are some cute girls, but they're usually there with their boyfriends, or not really looking to hook up there. There are occasionally some girls looking to hook up, but something is always amiss, for instance they're tripping balls, they're hideous, or crazy. The counter-examples are too few to justify a dating service, and the girls who will inevitably say \"but I'm cute and single\" ignored the part where I stated that they probably fall in the category of \"not looking to hook up through reddit.\"", "score": 125 }, { "body": "I'm wayyy too old and too fat to get laid.\n\nBut....\n\nI think this is a great idea for young'ns who are wayyy to geeky and nice to girls to get laid.\n\nSome of these wee kiddies will marry the first girl that gives them a hand-job unless steps are taken.\n\nI think this is a great idea. \nAnd for the geeky girls,how about lov'n a harmless,highly motivated geek as opposed to that indifferent neandrafuck jerk you would normaly do?", "score": 59 }, { "body": "> As a guy who slept with four women, multiple times in 2009\r\n\r\nHOLY FUCKING SHITBALLS. HAVE YOU CONTACTED GUINNESS? HOW BOUT A PENIS DOCTOR TO MAKE SURE HUMANS SHOULD HAVE THAT MUCH SEX ALL IN ONE YEAR? IT'S KING FUCKIN SOLOMAN, IN THE FLESH, RIGHT HERE ON REDDIT. HIDE YOUR GIRLFRIENDS...", "score": 52 }, { "body": "i say we just try fund raise enough money to pay one really easy redditor to sleep with the entire community. ", "score": 36 }, { "body": "This is a great idea. Until you realize that there's only like 10 girls on reddit. \n\nOh well. Some girl is going to post in here and get hit with like 100 private messages. \n\nOkcupid isn't doing shit for me. I think I get more guys looking at my profile these days than girls. WTF?\n\nNote on that: this fucking sucks. So I login to my Okcupid account and you can see who visited your profile. Bam. Look who saw me? My fucking ex. And nobody ever looks at my profile, so now whenever I login, there's this thing, \"YourFuckingExGF has looked at your profile!\" with her picture right there trying to be all sexy and I want to fucking cry. :( ", "score": 28 }, { "body": "Eh, I'll play devil's advocate and call this a bad idea.\n\nAt the very least, your opening statement of...\n\n\"You guys already created a great Secret Santa, why can't we help get reddit laid.\"\n\n...does nothing but turn this into some sleazy sex-based hookup shindig. While sex is great and all, hookup services don't need to be based around that, and I'd go so far as to say that doing it for a geek-filled website does nothing to help the overall image of geeks everywhere.\n\nIt's 3:30 in the morning, so I may seem like I'm rambling. Feel free to tell me to shut the fuck up or something.", "score": 20 }, { "body": "Maybe not for the express purpose of getting laid, but just for meeting some fellow redditors, that would be cool.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\"Cool geeks\" aren't the ones having problems getting laid. There was a theme in that thread, boys around 18-19 years old. Well, I'm not a guy, and I'm not a teenager anymore, but I have a feeling it is normal. ", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Don't have to sound sleazy if you simply have it as an official Reddit meeting service rather than COME FUCK ME NOW PRETTIES. \n\nI'm more than happy to both be in, and help run, such a thing. I'm not particularly computer literate in the sense most of Reddit is but I'm more than willing to do what I can.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Reddit Secret Santa, Bacon Bits, what's next, Narwhal Numbers or Hook-a-Narwhal? \n\nGive it a few hours, a site *will* be set up.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "It could make for some very hilariously awkward and personal comments if all the redditors started dating each other....lets do it.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "there's sort of a [subreddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/lookingforlove/), but it's not doing so well. I guess we'd need something with structure? Oh also [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/WouldLikeToMeet/)", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I'm 51 y.o. and 2009 was the best year ever, in terms of quantity and quality. Sure wish I'd met her back in 1975!", "score": 5 }, { "body": "If you're not getting laid, maybe you should spend a little less time on reddit and a little more time in the real world. Sorry, I just think it's ironic to be complaining about this on a website when you could be out there doing something about it. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Oh man. Imagine the drama that would result from this. Guy doesn't get laid for an entire year. Guy hooks up for a one night stand with some reddit girl. Guy falls in love with girl because she paid him a nights worth of attention. Guy obsesses over girl. Girl get's really creeped out. \n\nAnother scenario. Guy is very attractive. He lies and says he did not get laid in 2009. Guy meet's up with girl. They have amazing sex because the guy get's a lot of practice. Girl falls in love with him only because he is attractive. Guy moves on and girl is devastated. \n\nThere are more bad scenarios then good scenarios in this idea. If hookups are going to happen via reddit, it's going to happen because they meet in a natural sense, not because there is a \"get laid\" subreddit. That's just dangerous.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "ITT: Horny men and reluctant girls\n\nThere are more sausages in this thread than the contents of the 2009 Nationalenallmächtigenparteiwurst in Berlin. Seriously", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I got laid lots this past year before the ex moved away, but it was all during the early summer....no action since.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "As much as I'd love to support this in my little fantasy world where everything works out wonderfully, I'm going to have to agree with you and say that this is generally a horrible idea.\n\nDarn shame, too.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Well, I think \"Reddit-Dating\" will probably fail due to the all the points mentioned by others, however some kind of geo-clustering mode for comments might be nice. Just so that it's easier to find and start threads to those who are geographically closer.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'd love to hook up with a hot geeky reddit chick... but probably not this way. Where do geeky chicks hang out anyways? At home on their laptops? Dammit! Paradoxical!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "As other people in this thread have said, those hook-up services work fine with the types of people who usually use them--it seems to me that the Reddit community generally thinks of themselves as geeks or socially awkward or whatever else, and so would probably behave differently in a hook-up service. As a girl who recently posted a pic and got OVERWHELMING response (I was seriously surprised), I would be scared shitless to attend one of these hookups. My experience with trying to befriend \"geeky\" guys irl has proved to me that 9/10 of them act like they've fallen in love with me on the spot. Not meaning to brag at all, but it's just what happens with me. I've discussed this in other posts.\n\nMaybe for others, it would work, but for the actually cute girls? Sorry guys, but you kinda go nuts over them generally, and it's intimidating...", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Why is it that you people keep saying that all redditors are nerdy, ugly pathetic people? I happen to know plenty of both male and female redditors who are extremely good-looking, outgoing, intelligent and social people who get laid all the time and aren't what people would call a \"nerd\".\r\n\r\n ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I've never been anywhere near normal socially and I probably never will be. I'm cool with it. Just wish more people were cool with it too.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "In response to my own question, I will share my own story of this so it can be responded/voted separately of the question.\n\nLast night, New Year's Eve, I found myself annoyed with the whole idea of celebration. I felt at odds with a lot of the people at this party who weren't my immediate group of friends. Then when a large group of my good friends DID show up I felt so satisfied to see them and had such a good time talking with them, but I feel like it wasn't just because I knew them already. The conversations were more interesting, spontaneous and exciting. The previous conversations were boring and topical to our immediate surroundings and out of the blue comments were frowned upon. New Year's, the loudness of the party, alcohol seemed to be the only conversations going on.\n\nI can't help but feel like it wasn't JUST these people though. I feel like a lot of other people are like this. So I suppose I'm implying that if you are not \"normal\" you find people who are \"normal\" boring. Or am I just completely overanalyzing a shallow topic? ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Well, party conversations are always pretty superficial, but I'm sure the conversations you had with your friends when you hardly knew them were too. Maybe you were just so annoyed by certain elements of the party and that's why you were more short with the other people there.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I think it's pretty much human nature to feel out of place or awkward in social situations where we don't really know the other people very well. The best thing to do in those situations is to realize everyone else is feeling the same way you are and, just like you, are trying to show that they aren't feeling oddly.\n\nPro-tip: drinking heavily helps alleviate this problem.\nPro-pro-tip: drinking way too heavily exacerbates this problem.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I have a wife, son, job with 40 hours a week, car, house, house payment, car payment. Is that normal? Oh im only 23.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I haven't tried it yet, but it has something to do with shutting the fucking soul sucking box off and going the fuck outside. And shut your phones internet off too.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "same here. My internet wasn't working for 2 days and I became very depressed. I was so happy when the comcast guy came and fixed it. I was sitting there with the biggest grin on my face. Disgusting...", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Recognizing voices is different to recognizing phrases. Phrases comes under ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition), voices (i.e. who is speaker) is called Automatic Speaker Recognition or Speaker Verification. \r\n\r\nThe first thing to learn would be feature extraction (getting the important info, discarding everything else from the speech signal). LPCs (linear prediction coefficients) would be a good start, MFCCs (Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients) work much better.\r\n\r\nYou can get a pretty damn good results in clean conditions using a GMM (Gaussian Mixture Model) with MFCC features as far as Speaker Recognition goes. GMMs would be a very important concept to learn for both speaker and speech recognition.\r\n\r\nHMMs (Hidden Markov Models) are the current state of the art for speech recognition. They add time-dependency to GMMs, and are generally used to recognize phonemes, which are then stuck together into higher level units such as words and phrases.\r\n\r\nThe important thing to note is that it is pretty much all done statistically. You calculate the most likely (highest probability) person given the features based on a statistical model (the GMM).\r\n\r\nI can try and clarify anything if you want.", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "First off there aren't any good ones, especially if you are looking for a relationship. \n\nConnexion.org would be the best, but not too many people are on it. It's so non sexual it doesnt even have a checkbox for your position preference...not that you have one at this point. \n\nAdam4adam seems to have the largest userbase. I've found a lot of people on it are pretty douchy tho. \n\nI've met a lot of cool people and a few boyfriends on gay.com chat.\n\nAs an aside, the fact that you've never had sex and you're searching for a relationship could be construed as a turn off to those who are looking for one as well. I need to know what people like and mutual sexual satisfication is extremely important to me in a relationship.\n\nYou might want to start with the whole \"friends first\" thing and branch out sexually before you attempt to settle yourself down in anything. Most internet sites are extremely good for meaningless sex but not much else. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I've had really good luck going to the traditional gay hookup websites (craigslist, manhunt, adam4adam, etc.) with the subject line of \"Fuck it--let's go on a date\"...I've gone on probably a dozen or so dates from those venues, a couple of which have turned out to be really good.\n\nWith that said, all my boyfriends have come from friends of friends, so you might want to go that route too!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I'm pretty sure that's what happened to the Mayans when they disappeared. The Mayan god/s were the truth apparently.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "If it were to happen that's how it would happen. The wicked would go. The Bible even says that God does not rule over Earth during this Age. Man does not yet rule. Who does that leave? Ding ding ding. The devil's greatest trick... social engineering!\r\n\r\nSuper crazy social engineering and evolution of humans by aliens is the other possible explanation. \r\n\r\nIn either case, free the petri dish!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Being on the toilet and taking a shit, but then realizing I have to throw up. I'm not sure what I'd choose, but I know it'd be awful either way.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I'm terrified of bees. \n\nAlso I have this fear of elevators, although that one's easier for me to handle. It's just that every time I am in one, I can't help thinking about how I'm standing in a metal box, hanging a hundred feet above the ground.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I would have to say that my ultimate fear would to become incredibly impaired. My family would have to support me 24/7, and I would become a burden to them. If that were to happen, I cannot describe how sad I would become. It wouldn't seem right to me that they would have to stop their lives and constantly take care of me.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Two things: growing apart/falling out of love with my wife (where we go eat dinner together and have nothing to say) and, becoming old AND invalid and not being ably to do anything for myself. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Indeed, life is too short; I've lost a lot of loved ones, and it's not that I'm only afraid of mine but those left that are close to me. As much as an atheist that I am, I always wish I could see everyone again in the future but I don't want to dwell on what may come but to see who I can in the present. \n\nBut there are also things to look forward to as you grow older as well - even with the new responsibilities. Many want to start families or travel the world, and I'm sure I can't do 90% of the things I want to right now because of many circumstances. So you should tell your future self how much of a dope you are now, and compare you to your awesome adventures that you'll have had a decade from now.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Heights. I know some people would say it's the fall I'm afraid of, but I'm confident that it's the height. And I don't really have to be high up either. My depth perception is pretty bad so I can just stand on a step ladder, look down, and become dizzy.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Not reaching my goals in life. I don't want to be that person who ends up doing something dumb or boring with their life just cause it was easier. It really scares me :( ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Lightning. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor three reasons I think: \n\n* When I was 8, I was almost struck by lightning, it hit about 10 ft from where I was and I couldn't see for about 2 minutes. \n\n* I'm tall, 6'5\". \n\n* I don't believe in God and he might be wanting to smite me. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Simple. They call it faith because it requires belief without proof. You don't have that faith. At least not in the Christian God. \n\nThere's no need to feel guilty about it. You've likely been raised with the idea that faith is one of the values that good people have. Faith, family,loyalty, love.. etc etc. It's one of those rote values that by name alone people just tend to nod and agree.\n\nNo need to be confrontational about it, just understand that you don't have it and there's nothing wrong with that.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "Ask her if she finds it a little fishy that religion promotes the concept of \"faith\", which means to stop questioning something that obviously does not bear up under the weight of scrutiny. ", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Just because the word \"faith\" exists doesn't mean it's a favorable trait. You have no \"faith\" in the existence of a supernatural being just as you have no \"faith\" that Mars is made out of cottage cheese; neither of those assertions have any empirical evidence to support them. To me, blind faith is undesirable.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Ask her what other vital and important matters she takes on faith, with absolutely no evidence to support her decisions, and then ask her why this is different. \n\nIt isn't necessarily commendable to take something on faith alone. If someone wishes to do so, that is their right. But to suggest others should do the same thing is going too far. Certainly, you could ask her why she isn't jewish, muslim or hindu if faith is all that is required. What makes her guess more valid?", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Do you now have carte blanc (sp?) to end all arguments with that?\n\n\"You never gave me back the $10\" - \"Yes I did\" - \"No, you didn't\" - \"Well, it's my faith that I did, so there\".\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Playing video games won't pay off. In Fable I have a wife, a nice house, several hundred thousand dollars and everyone loves me.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I explain an instance where I screwed up, and then point out the moral/lesson i learned from it. \nThe person listening will start lecturing on exactly what I said, all the while acting as though it was his idea in the first place, and that I had come to them for advice...", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "[The Moosewood Cookbook, by Mollie Katzen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moosewood_Cookbook), or really, ANYTHING by Mollie Katzen is simple, fun, delicious, fast, unique, and super healthy! You'll be able to find a copy of this book cheap, too, but it's an absolutely essential classic. \n\nI have a copy of \"The Enchanted Broccoli Forest\" in my apartment, but I send Mollie's cookbooks out to meat eaters and vegans alike as inexpensive gifts, and I've NEVER regretted it yet! ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "[The New Best Recipe](http://www.amazon.com/New-Best-Recipe-All-New/dp/0936184744/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262442970&sr=8-1)", "score": 5 }, { "body": "There are many cookbooks out there that contain recipes that have only a limited number of ingredients (just go to Amazon and run a search on the words \"ingredients cookbook\" -- you'll find cookbooks with recipes that contain only 4, 5, or 6 ingredients). Unfortunately, I can't vouch for any of them. \n\nMartha Stewart's magazine \"Real Simple\" often contains recipes that require few ingredients and are simple to make. An Amazon search revealed a number of cookbooks generated from that magazine; just search in Books for \"real simple.\"\n\nIf you live in a major metropolitan area, my best suggestion is to look online for cookbooks that might be useful, then check to see if they're available in the local public library. I used to buy cookbooks without checking the library first, and I can't tell you how often I'd discover that a cookbook that looked good on the internet only had 4 or 5 recipes I'd ever make.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Since you're a college student on a limited budget, I would recommend *not* purchasing a cookbook and simply cruise the chef & foodie blogs. \n\nFoodbuzz.com is a good place to start. Some of them even have step by step video recipes, so it's kinda like Food Network on demand. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I know all of her cookbook titles sound like what you need, but please when it comes to Rachel Ray just say no!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Probably weak LSD or no LSD at all.\n\nI had unrealistic expectations too, then I took enough and it was every bit as intense I had hoped.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I'm guessing this is blotter? I have had some blotter that was really inconsistent. Some hits were mind-melting, others were barely noticeable - very frustrating. Try to get liquid, or something like window pane, which tend to be very consistent in potency. Also, make sure you get it from someone who knows how to store it properly, as LSD will break down quickly when exposed to heat/light. There is always a possibility that it is just weak blotter and taking more will work, but be careful.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The best thing you can do for these kids is this one assignment:\n\nPrint out a list of all the kids in the classroom. Make a copy of that list for each kid. Hand out the lists, and tell the students that their assignment is to write one nice thing about each person on the list, next to their names. (nothing negative allowed).\n\nThen collect the lists, and compile them so that each student will get a copy of all the nice things that the other kids said about them.\n\n---\n\nI read an essay from a guy who's teacher did this for his class in elementary school, and 30 years later, he still kept that list with him. Apparently it permanently helped the self-esteem of a lot of the kids in the class. What a powerful thing that is.", "score": 19 }, { "body": "Play instrumental music in the background. \n\nFor jazz, I would suggest Kind of Blue (Miles Davis), Blue Train (John Coltrane), Take Five (Dave Brubeck), Blues & Roots (Charles Mingus), Straight No Chaser (Thelonious Monk), Takin' Off (Herbie Hancock), Head Hunters (Herbie Hancock), Buena Vista Social Club (Buena Vista Social Club), and a Django Reinhardt album with Nuages on it. \n\nFor classical music, I would suggest Mozart, Edvard Grieg, Rachmaninoff, Glenn Gould's rendition of Bach's *Goldberg Variations*, Holst's *The Planets Suite*, Maurice Ravel, Stravinsky, and Steve Reich's *Music for 18 Musicians*.\n\nFor groovier music, I would suggest Green Onions (Brooker T and the MGs), The Meters (The Meters), Pick A Dub (Keith Hudson, 70s dub reggae artist. All the feel, no words)\n\nIf they're responding well and you're feeling adventurous, try out Ravi Shankar, or *Poitier Meets Plato*, an album of Sidney Poitier reading Plato with jazz in the background. If it is possible for them to tolerate it, and you are allowed to keep doing it, it will make them appreciate some of the instrumental aspects of music, which imo is rather important.", "score": 17 }, { "body": "Show how to rig up some really simple stuff using dry cell batteries, motors, small lights, buzzers, switches, fans, electromagnets. I remember we did this in 4th grade and it felt really great to \"control electricity\", because it was such a mysterious thing.\n\nYes, this isn't the easiest or most straightforward suggestion, I know... but there's probably some workbooks out there with pre-made examples? Morse code signalers, instruments with a few keys, etc.\n\nPlus, with electrification of cars on the horizon, it might behoove them to learn just a little about how it works.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I remember when my teachers would show us cool YouTube videos of scientific experiments, or neat music and art from different cultures. We watched Bill Nye the Science guy. I also enjoyed learning about culture and beliefs of different societies. I think it's extremely important at that age to get exposed to stuff like that. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Curse out Edison, and teach them about Tesla.\n\nZoology. Lots of it. Holy shit mantis shrimp are cool. Hell, even theoretical biology. Teach them why things work the way they do, and ask how they think aliens would do it.\n\nIt's never too early for differential calculus.\n\nBILL BILL BILL BILL BILL. Bill Nye the Science Guy.\n\nMy grade 5 teacher always had us read the news and discuss current events. My parents hated it but the class sure as hell loved him.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "In grade 3, For 30 minutes a day, twice a week, our grey-haired old teacher in our country school read us Robert Louis Stevenson's \"Treasure Island\". With my head down on the desk, I listened and fell down the rabbit hole. I was in the story, and it was then that I decided I wanted to read big-kid books, so I started and within 6 months was reading voraciously. It began a life long love of reading for me.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I was in a gifted class at that age, that did very unconventional stuff. \n\nBox City: We took cardboard appliance boxes, and built a functioning city out them. Each pair of kids were some essential city function (telephone, gas company, power plant, grocery store, etc.)... We learned all about commerce and how a city works. It was awesome.\n\nDig: We divided into 2 teams. The topic was archeology. Each team had to plan a civilization, then make relics from that civilization. The relics were buried at a construction site. We had to dig up the other teams relics, and then infer the nature of the culture that created them.\n\nIt was really fun, really educational, and taught us a lot about how to think, which is the real goal of teaching, in my opinion.\n\nOh, and kudos for you for choosing a life of service to others. Teaching is the most vastly underrated job in the modern world. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Don't be in the middle of a divorce situation and take it out on your students. All jokes aside... this happened.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "One huge request: when the smart kids are finished with their assignment, *please* let them read quietly or work on their homework. In my child's school, the rule is they have to put their head down and wait for the rest of the class to finish. I complained to the principal repeatedly to get this overturned. Now they can read, but they still can't work on their homework. So now my kids average 1.5-2.5 hours of homework a night, but they sure get a hell of a lot of reading done during the day. So it's a partial win. Sigh.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Teach them the base 2 way of counting with their hands, and integrate it in the class so they completely forget how to use their hands for counting in base 10. Then they'll be able to count up to 2^10 -1 on both their hands, making them excel at math.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "* My favorite books around that age were the \"Sideways Stories From Wayside School\" and \"Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark\".\n* We had assigned reading in class and every few chapters we had to draw a scene from the book (either teacher's choice or the student's choice). The best pictures were hung on the wall and first place got a candy bar.\n* It has already been suggested, but have a lounging (reading) area with comfy couches and chairs. It can be used for class meetings or reading time.\n* Present more than one way for children to learn their Multiplication table. The finger trick is great but I never got it, and I had to devise my own system.\n* Bill Nye the Science Guy and The Magic School-bus! \n* Optional puzzles. We had pretty hard ones where we had to associate a person, with a piece of clothing, and a color based on 14 or so clues. Very Hard and fun.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "When do kids usually learn about planets?\nI think it would've been humbling to learn how big the universe is when I was that age. Maybe make them watch the [powers of ten video](http://vimeo.com/6150677)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "* Individual attention. Some kids sadly don't get it at home, and just a few words from you can mean the world to them.\n\n* Find the smart kids, call their parents, and (quietly) give them extra work so that they don't get bored. Find the dumb ones and make sure their parents are involved with their education.\n\n* Ask them what their favorite books are, or have them bring them from home for the library.\n\n* If the curriculum allows it, do a big project that they can save for the rest of their life. Everyone in my 4th grade class planned and sewed their own personalized quilt, which I now have framed.\n\n* Tell them about your family; don't make the relationship all \"professional.\" Tell stories; I still remember by 4th grade teacher's ghost story.\n\n* The more you do these things, the more I think they will like you and respect you, leading to better conduct and learning.\n\n* Some other ideas that are new: find neat Youtube videos of science experiments or puzzles. Give them brain-twisters. I remember learning about siphons by having one operated, and then having the teacher asked us how it worked, instead of just telling us.\n\n* Maybe find a few short plays, and then have the kids read them aloud in class, making sure you divy up the parts?\n\nThose are my ideas. It's hard to distinguish one grade from another, so these might not be age-appropriate, but good luck!\n\nEDIT: Formatting", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I used to be a teacher's assistant for an elementary school and something that the students used to love doing was random brain teasers. The teacher would have a new one up everyday and would allow the students to answer it within the first 5 minutes of class.\n\nMaybe you should educate the class on certain types of classical composers. Just toss in a Chopin or Mozart every now and again; get students cultured!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I always loved word puzzles. Like the types that say \"agebeauty\" and the answer is \"age before beauty.\" I used to make my mom go to the teacher store to buy books for teachers filled with empty puzzles I could love. \n\nI guess I'm really just saying that you should challenge them but perhaps in a way without making the slower ones seem stupid or vulnerable to bullying from the rest of the class.\n\nEDIT: That should definitely say \"solve\" instead of \"love\" but I'll keep it there because it's hilarious and is the largest Freudian slip I've had in a while.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Whatever you do, don't base your entire curriculum on [The Voyage of the Mimi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_the_Mimi). That shit ruined my fourth grade year. \n\nI remember quite fondly a project I did in third grade that involved us kids separating into groups and creating our own countries. We had to draw a map and make a travel brochure. At the end of the project we put all the countries together to make one big continent and they displayed it out in the hallway. \n\nAs far as books go, I was a fairly voracious reader at that age. I think I read anything and everything that won a Newbery Award. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Julie of the Wolves, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Hatchet. I was also a big fan of the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary and, a little later, the Redwall series by Brian Jacques and the Chronicles of Narnia. If there's a kid in your class who seems to be into reading, encourage them individually and recommend/give books to them. I used to love it when teachers asked me what I was reading and gave suggestions, and that lasted through high school as well. \n\nedit: should I be ashamed that I caught the Duck Tales reference in your username?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Environmentalism (Our teacher was a Green Party member and it was 2000), and reading/writing poetry. That shit changed my life. \n\nDon't give them *only* Shell Silverstein. Let it rip with every single poet you can think of that they'll relate to (somewhat). Then give them pens, etc. and MAKE THEM WRITE. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Let me start by saying that as a trans woman I've found a minimal amount of transphobia here recently. I might've missed it, of course (I'm thinking over the last couple of weeks).\n\nOver the longer term and in some of the bigger trans-related threads I've seen here... there has been some transphobia for sure. But to the credit of r/LGBT the stupidity often gets downvoted, directly confronted and debated with (I've done my share of that).\n\nThere are supportive people here and I consider this a relatively trans-positive space on Reddit. Certainly one is a lot less likely to get legions of people making asinine South Park references with a smugness that suggests they're under the misapprehension that either their joke or suggestion is original.\n\nStill, this thread should serve as a reminder of a very real problem in the LGBT community at large where trans people are often most viscerally attacked by the gay and lesbian community. I would advise any new trans person to subject the LGBT community to exactly the same scrutiny as you would anyone else. I wanted to believe so bad when I came out that the LGBT movement would be a collection of understanding allies.\n\nI was quickly disabused of this notion.\n\nBut on the flip side I've also had great interactions with the movement and I proudly support all of its initiatives. Ours is a shared fight.\n\nAs Dareao points out, the *exact* arguments used against GLB people are used against trans people:\n\n* \"It's a sin.\"\n* \"Respecting you is politically correct and therefore bad.\"\n* \"Fag/tranny isn't offensive, you're just sensitive.\"\n* \"It's a choice, you're not 'born like that.'\"\n* \"It's unnatural.\" (Insert asinine evo psych arguments here).\n* \"It's a threat to the wimminz and the children.\" ('Gays are all sex offenders, trans women will rape in washrooms').\n\nDo I need to go on?\n\nAll of that bullshit is connected and part of the same continuum. We're in this together against exactly the same kinds of forces. The problem is that while LGB people have made headway in shattering those misconceptions about them in the broader public, we're still further behind. It's socially acceptable still to debate a trans person's gender or to see us as mentally disordered.\n\nWe have to fight this together, and it's especially damaging when a gay person doesn't see the parallels between how they're attacked and how we're attacked. Lest we also forget, the line isn't very clear between us. I'm a lesbian as well. The fight for marriage equality is my fight too.\n\nAs LGBT people we are infinitely diverse. Sometimes all that links us is *being* LGBT. Division is natural. But at the same time we have to remember what it is that unites us.\n\nDo not sell yourself out by claiming an immutability to your sexual orientation but denying it to my gender identity.\n\nWorking for the Religious Right doesn't pay well.", "score": 19 }, { "body": "Excellent Question. I get negative attention from every minority, having other people from the LGBT add to that just doesn't make sense. I don't understand why being trans means everybody has the right to question my decision to try to be happy in my life. I certainly don't do the same, I want everybody to be equal.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "I think too many people look at the increased rates of suicide and depression in transsexuals as evidence that many transsexuals are just mentally ill, instead of seeing it as a symptom of being trans in a society where many people don't accept it.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "there's all kinds of phobia on the LGBT reddit.. biphobia, transphobia... and not just on this reddit but in the LGBT community itself. No one gets along. We tell ourselves we should because we should understand how hard it is to face discrimination.. hoping and deluding ourselves into thinking compassion and sympathy exist from other members because we share an alternate sexuality or identity. It's simply not true. people are so different and anyone can find a reason to hate anyone else and no one in the LGBT group is safe from it. Nothing links us in religious views, political views, or personal biases. I don't know how we can expect understanding from the rest of the world if we can't even achieve it within our own community... ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I know this is gonna be unpopular but there are approximately 11 million 9-11 calls a day in the US, and we get 1-2 in inappropriate tazerings a month. The sky isn't exactly falling. (note I'm not condoning these tazerings)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I use this: http://userstyles.org/styles/19459\n\nThere are others, but this one seems to work. You need firefox and the addon: Stylish (or Greasemonkey)", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "> I've got no motivation, beliefs, logic, or interests to keep me going.\n\nIntellectually, this is actually idealized by the eastern religions. It is the self-killing of the ego. It has been studied and handed down for thousands of years.\n\nOf course, done as you seem to - without intention, it isn't the same. Yet, it may help for you to study the concept and those who practice it to get some perspective. one place to read: http://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "[Galapagos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galápagos_(novel) is a good one about people marooned at the end of the world, by Kurt Vonnegut. One of my favorite novels.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "*Life of Pi* by Yann Martel. While not stranded on an island, a boy is stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with an assortment of animals. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "[Wikipedia to the rescue.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_island#In_literature_and_popular_culture)\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Also, since you brought up the genre, if you want a good laugh, look for The Mighty Boosh [Legend of Milky Joe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ5yTZ1mDCM&feature=related).", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "George Bush. He's a well educated yuppie who somehow managed to fool a large percentage of a country that he was just a \"good ol' boy\".", "score": 34 }, { "body": "I'm an idiot disguised as a smart person. Seriously. I graduated at the top of my class in high school, then got into a good college and got terrible grades. I'm not a smart person and I keep getting endless opportunities because people think I'm smart and want to take the gamble on me.\n\nIt's sad really considering how many people deserve to be in my position but can't.", "score": 25 }, { "body": "Seeing 50 Cent like that is just...weird.\nIt just goes against the whole image that he has had built up around him over the years. But yea, theres a very intelligent man behind all the hip-hop gangsta looks, which is why he rose to the top.", "score": 21 }, { "body": "I used to assume a lot of people were idiots, and then I got over myself. Never underestimate anyone. Perhaps their limitations are only what you're allowed to see.", "score": 20 }, { "body": "[Dolph Lundgren.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_lundgren#Biography) Check out the Personal life section as well.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "You forgot Paris Hilton. She acts dumb to attract dumb journos to cover her for dumb celebrity news viewers. But she gets brilliant, hard cash for that. ", "score": 18 }, { "body": "No offense to the man, but 50 Cent didn't strike me as all that intelligent. He didn't really say anything insightful, and if that's eloquent and articulative, then your standards are low.\n\nYeah, he did much better in that interview than I would have expected- but still... I think the only reason he was impressive is because my expectations were so low.\n\n", "score": 14 }, { "body": "> Stefani Germanotta: Lady Gaga\n\ncheck out [this Lady Gaga interview](http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80651466/). i like her sarcasm about what she looks for in a man. funny how everyone takes her seriously.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Why is this sad? They have successful careers...\n\nIt makes me sad when idiots are disguised as smart people. That list is like, way longer.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I've been told (scarily, more than once) that I'm a lot smarter than I look. Is that considered a compliment?", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Imagine if everyone you talked to everyday was dumber than you are already.\n\nI think Mike Judge made a movie about this.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Some of my coworkers at my new job actually said to me, \"Your not as dumb as you act, are you?\" I told them not to tell anyone because I don't want to fix their computers =P", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Yeah but we all do this. How many of you go into a BestBuy (or somewhere) and ask the reps there about laptops or cameras and pretend to know nothing and are interested in what they have to say even though you've done like weeks of research on the item and know more than they do?\r\n\r\nJust me? ok...", "score": 4 }, { "body": "50 Cent is a well spoken and an eloquent man. \n\nI bet he never imagined he would be on CNBC while he was dealing crack on the streets.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Monica Crowley is another one. To watch her on McLaughlin Group is borderline embarrassing, but then you find out she has a PhD from Columbia in International Relations.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "My buddy picks up all responsibilities for my Xbox Live Account, as well as he is to make sure that no matter what that \"So long as Thanks for all the fish\" is played at my funeral. I also have a deal that if I ever have the plug pulled on me he has to play me out with Keyboard Cat.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "He knows all my secret crushes, so his job is to go over and tell them about it, in case I never get around to doing so.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "TO make a total ass of himself at my funeral, his shenanigans always make people burst into laughter and it would lighten the mood.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If he cares, he'll wear a bright neon-green cocktail dress to your funeral:\n\nhttp://www.zimbio.com/Barry+Delaney/articles/UvcdXA7rVdm/Scottish+Mourner+Barry+Delaney+Wears+Green", "score": 3 }, { "body": "No one is allowed to enter my death-party without taking a shot and slamming a beer. \n\nYou too, granny.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "This question reminds me of the 'porn buddies' scene from Coupling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9gnexnnIDc", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I've paid for sex. I got the girls from craiglist too. There was this one blonde russian lady with amazing tits that I had incredible sex with. I still remember the times we spent together. She would casually stare at her naked body in the mirror for about a minute after she took a shower and was getting ready to get dressed. It was a beautiful moment. You could tell she loved her body and it was with good reason.\n\nThere was another girl who mocked her other whore friends who she said would get feelings for some of their johns. \"Just be a whore. No big deal\" she would say. There was a special gleam in her eyes while we did it. You could tell she enjoyed it.\n\nBut sometimes it's horrible. There was the one that stank of cigarettes and asked me to listen to her sing and play the guitar before we went at it. I *suffered* through one song and when she asked me if I wanted to hear another I instantly yelled \"NO!\" before regaining my composure and finishing with \"ehm sorry It's getting late for me.\" The look on her face was so sad. Really killed me inside. Felt like a scumbag, but I still stayed for the sex as I had already paid. \n\nThere was another time where I actually had to wash my mouth with soap after giving oral to this one girl. I swear she tasted like those extra-sour candies, except it never got sweet. She was the one that made me feel the most like a scumbag, because at some point I realized she was too young and naive to be doing this. I don't really think she was underage, but still, I stopped very soon after her.\n\nLike I said, many times you end up feeling like a scumbag afterwards, despite rationalizations. And then you realize you are paying to do this to your psyche. Plus with STDs and sketchy people out there...", "score": 10 }, { "body": "I have. Twice so far.\n\nI frequent a chatroom for people in my area. About two weeks ago I got a private message from a girl. She told me what she did for a living and asked if I was interested. I was interested but worried it was some kind of scam but the thought of finally getting laid won out in the end. Up until that point I was a 34 year old virgin, I'm not hideous just very shy and socially useless. Yes, Im a loser. I've seen her twice now and will do so again.\n\nAfter the first time I felt a little ashamed that it had come to me visiting a prostitute and I felt bad for her that this is what she does for a living. However I've talked to her and she seems to be a perfectly nice, well adjusted human being and she's totally at ease with it. Which made me feel better. I think I'm trying to justify it to myself.\n\nThe ironic thing is that I'm bisexual and I also hooked up with a guy the same week so had my first guy on guy experience too (not for money by the way). So in the last two weeks of 09 I got laid four times. Four times more than ever before.\n\nI'd still rather have a girlfriend, someone who actually cares but I guess you get what you can. I've discovered that sex without feelings and affection is rather hollow and has kind of left me wanting something more, something real. Not what I expected at all and all rather depressing.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Never in the pro sense.\n\nI have no problem dating or getting girls within my \"acceptable\" range, which has widened with age. I actually know a girl who is hot as hell, who is a high class escort, who has let me know she'd be game for some fun times, and I can't bring myself to go along.\n\nA major dealbreaker is that I love going down on women, and with a pro, it's a no-no. I know that with any woman who is not a prude, there is some risk, but with a pro? Also, I like foreplay, and waking up with a woman at my side, breakfast and silly shit like that. Just plain sex is not that much fun for me, I like the little things too.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I'm a bit confused here; you seem to be saying two different things. This:\n\n> Basically, I've been contemplating meeting a girl from an ad on Craigslist for a while. Usually they end up being spam or fat, ugly trolls. This is a good-looking 21 year old and I found out she lives about 3 minutes away.\n\n...makes it sound like you're talking about the \"Casual Encounters\" section of Craigslist. They don't actually charge for sex there (unless it's explicitly mentioned, in which case it almost always gets flagged as spam immediately.) Instead, it's just a heavily competitive environment where you have a slim-to-nil chance of actually getting any response to your ads/emails (if you're a guy.)\n\nSo, on the assumption that it's really just some horny girl, and you're confused about how things work: I *have* actually had a good experience with Casual Encounters. In fact, I met my girlfriend (of a year, so far) that way. Great sex, and we're both nerds who hang out on Reddit. I'd suggest you do it.\n\nHowever, if it really is paying for sex—well, I don't see why not. Most of the girls posting outside the \"designated areas\" of Craigslist are non-pro and have only had sex as many times as an average girl that age. You're not really asking \"has anyone here ever paid for sex *with a prostitute*\" in this case; just \"has anyone ever gave some slacker girl her rent money for the month in exchange for a night of lukewarm, unpracticed lovin'.\"\n\nNow, on the third hand, if you *are* asking if you should go pick up a prostitute (and your Craigslist story is a lie) then reply, and I'll tell you the experience I've had with that...", "score": 6 }, { "body": " I have. I don't see what the big deal is, as paying for it is not indicative of an inability to get laid; just that you want to get laid with a minimum of fuss. I never used Craigs, though. I used to live down the street from a notorious strip club where the girls gladly went down for the right price. I don't care what Chris Rock says - if the place is low-rent enough there *is* sex in the champagne room. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "My friends philosphy is that paying for sex and sex with a gf is pretty much the same, as you spend the same if not more on ur gf.. he also says that when you pay for it your not so much paying for the sex more so paying for them to leave", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Personally, (and as a feminist!) I do not think prostitution is morally wrong - as long as everyone is treated fairly and with respect, and the woman (or I suppose man) is choosing the trade because it's what s/he wants. Basically the way a dominatrix works, actually. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Hi,\n\nThe best thing you can do is be prepared. Do a little research first. Try this website: \nhttp://bitchesofcraigslist.com/blog/top-10-craigslist-escorts/\n\nAnd also become familiar with the slang the girls use in their ads. \nhttp://bitchesofcraigslist.com/blog/need-a-key-for-acronyms/\n\nFigure out how much you are able to pay, any special requests you might have, and most importantly, be polite and have good hygiene. Treat the girl with respect and you will have a good experience. \n\nNo, this does not make you a freak. People have a basic need for sex. Have a good time! ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I've never done it personally but if I knew you in real life and knew what you did, I wouldn't care one bit.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "We all pay for sex in one way or another. Through marriage or through your local redlight district...two things in life are certain: Death and Poon Tax.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "One of the guys that used to work with the husband developed a brain tumor... there are so many different types.\n\nBut the one his friend had was like a huge, liquid filled balloon... it was about the size of a cantaloupe, and had squished his brain down to where it was about the size and shape of a banana. The odd thing was, he had no pain... just didn't feel different in any way from when he was young (as far as his head goes). In his case, they opened up his head, poked a lot of holes into the tumor... and let it drain out, his brain got to stretch a little. In just a few months, the little holes they poked in the tumor sealed up, and the thing began to fill again. So the next time they went to do surgery, they inserted a shunt that basically routed through his eustachian tubes, and drained right into his stomach. It was large enough diameter that it couldn't plug up, and because it was a foreign object, it couldn't grow closed. \n\nAfter his surgeries, he usually had a pretty good bit of pain, but nothing that could not be controlled. One time he had gotten an infection, and was in the worst kind of pain imaginable, but he did manage to recover from that, as well. It is horrifying to see someone in that kind of pain, but then when you see them alive and well 2-3-4 years later, you realize that even then... it was worth it.\n\nOh. And he had his tumor back in 96. He is still alive today. :)\n\n(oh, and edit - the reason they even found his tumor originally was that someone had t-boned his truck when they ran a stop sign. They took him into the hospital for treatment of the accident injuries, when they ran an MRI. They found it accidentally)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You can't modify the list that you're currently iterating over. Use the following for the for loop, which makes a copy of fib and iterates over the copy, thereby allowing you to freely modify fib itself.\n\n for item in fib[:]:", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Totally untested, fixing both your bug and some style issues. (I'm sure some Pythonistas out there will fix additional style issues, as well.)\n\n fib = [1,2]\n while fib[-1] <= 6000: fib.append(fib[-1] + fib[-2])\n print fib\n fib = [i for i in fib if i % 2 == 0]\n print fib", "score": 6 }, { "body": "You should look have a look at [generator functions](http://docs.python.org/tutorial/classes.html#generators) and [list comprehensions / generator expressions](http://docs.python.org/tutorial/classes.html#generator-expressions).\n\nI was working on this problem last night too, and this is what I came up with, though there are better solutions that don't put the conditional in the function itself out there.\n\n def series(a,b):\n while a < 4000000:\n yield a\n a,b = b, a+b\n \n print sum((i for i in series(1,2) if i % 2 is 0))", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Independent of the programming language, deleting things from a sequence you are iterating over is always a bad thing because weird stuff happens to the iterator index then. Try this version:\n\n fib = [0,1]\n while fib[-1] + fib[-2] <= 6000:\n fib.append(fib[-1]+fib[-2])\n print(fib)\n \n i = 0\n while i < len(fib):\n if fib[i]%2 != 0:\n del fib[i]\n else:\n i += 1\n print(fib)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "ok, I have examined the code and know a [little python](http://lh3.ggpht.com/__p2VYkpoR9w/Rp-NzsSdIbI/AAAAAAAABOo/TrvTrNOoRLA/018+Austin+101906-04.jpg), does that work out?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "No need to keep the whole list, just add as you go:\n\n evensum = 0\n pprev, prev = 1, 1\n while prev <= 6000:\n pprev, prev = prev, pprev + prev\n evensum += prev if prev % 2 == 0 else 0\n\n print evensum", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I find [MediaWiki](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki) is a good one. It is what Wikipedia runs on. \n\nTheres an extension for MediaWiki called [AuthJoomla](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AuthJoomla) that bridges the two CMS.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I personally go to a few websites for my fashion inspiration which are superfuture.com lookbook.nu and thesartorialist.blogspot.com I like to make similiar looks but for way cheaper by finding gems in the local goodwill, salvation army, buffalo exchange, h&m, zara ect.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I agree.\n\nBut also: men building choppers, men jumping on top of alligators or men building some insanely large building. It's not interesting and putting 'XZtREmE!' in front of every goddamn title is helping. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I liked the first season. \n \nI was like *\"Surely they can't drag that out* ***ANY*** *longer, could they?\"*", "score": 3 }, { "body": "> The job really isn't the most dangerous in the world\n\nThis job certainly ranks on the list of 'Most Dangerous Jobs'. It may not be the top of the list, but it is all kinds of bad ass.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Happens to me too. Sometimes I can't remember if they're from last night's dream or from previous dreams. Sometimes it feels like I've had a dream the night before that's taken place in a location I've dreamt about more than a couple of years ago. Weird.\n\nKind of makes you wonder if when we fall asleep, we actually wake up in another dimension and forget this world as if it were a dream while we're there, and then transition back and forth.\n\nAnd don't call that stupid, I can't think of a way to 100% disprove that theory.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "* elisp (simply writing any functionality you need in you current buffer and only having to hit ctrl-x ctrl-e)\n* gnus (reading usenet)\n* mew (reading mail from multiple accounts, POP3, IMAP, ...)\n* org-mode (organize and outline tasks, documentation, agenda, ...)\n* slime (Common Lisp IDE)\n* paredit.el (editing S-EXP)\n* nxhtml (html/css/javascript/php programming mode)\n* all the other programming-modes (C, C++, java, ...)\n* auctex (writing LaTeX)\n* eshell (shell written in elisp)\n* erc (IRC client)\n* w3m frontend (webbrowser, especially to read documentation)\n* simple macros ctrl-x ( \n* color-theme.el (different colorthemes)\n* pretty lambdas (stolen somewhere from comp.lang.lisp)\n \n (defun pretty-lambdas ()\n (font-lock-add-keywords\n nil `((\"(\\\\(lambda\\\\>\\\\)\"\n (0 (progn (compose-region (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)\n ,(make-char 'greek-iso8859-7 107))\n nil))))))\n \n* to much I don't think of at the moment\n* and finally: alt-x tetris :)\n\nEdit: Elisp-Code\n", "score": 26 }, { "body": "typing.\n\ntyping seems like a really big one for me. 99.99% of the time, I can just type in emacs and know that what I type will go into the buffer.", "score": 21 }, { "body": "org-mode. I switched to emacs from VIM because of it. I use emacs for everything now, but org-mode is incredible.", "score": 21 }, { "body": "Keyboard macros. With a basic knowledge of the movement features (including isearch) you can do some absurd text transformations in a matter of seconds.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "It's all text, all the time. You can use the search function in any mode, including customize mode, which is highly helpful to find parameters you want to change. When's the last time you could search through a series of checkboxes in a \"normal\" GUI application?", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Emacs lisp. The fact that it's a live interpreter that can be easily reprogrammed on the fly (and that most of the C-h commands automatically reflect the changes.)\n\nEvery now and then, I'll add a new snippet of elisp to my init.el file and it feels like Emacs comes that much closer to being able to read my mind and do what I mean. Making Emacs a tiny bit smarter is a very satisfying feeling.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "* auto-indent for pretty much any programming language or config file format out there.\n* keyboard macros\n* hooks and advice to insert your own elisp code in all kinds of places\n* built-in documentation on pretty much anything\n* multi-tty mode (with emacsclient -t in EDITOR I get an editor right where I type e.g. git commit but it is of the same emacs as my graphical emacs)", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Foremost, the text editing and keybindings. I swap ctrl and caps-lock so I have my ctrl key on the home row and I can never go back. It's the first thing I do whenever I set up a new computer.\n\nOther things:\n\n* macros\n* eshell\n* tramp\n* org-mode\n* flyspell-mode (on the fly spellchecking)\n* incremental search (very useful for navigating the buffer quickly)\n* temporary, throw-away buffers for notes.\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Splitting windows. C-x 3 to split vertically C-x 2 for horizontal. Then you can save these configurations into a register. M-x window-configuration-to-register and jump-to-register to load the window configuration back. \n\nThis can be very nice when you have a specific configuration you look at often, for example one window being a log file and the other window a shell to restart your webserver.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "* `org-mode`, as others have mentioned\n* `join-line`. Emacs has a lot of simple commands that improve life drastically. I bind this to `C-x C-j`\n* Indentation. Not only does it do the right thing in most instances, but it also indents wrongly when you mess up parentheses or braces\n* Emacs client/server. Open up external documents in a running Emacs instance.\n* Transposition commands. You'd be amazed how often this comes in handy\n* `color-theme` mode.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Luckily for you, I have this handy reference guide that will help you in this very situation.\n\n\n I like you if you like me please check this box [ ]\n ", "score": 16 }, { "body": "Holy crap that's too much...dude, go up to her and ask her \"Do you like me or not?\" and if she says yes, then proceed cautiously. If anything other than yes, get out of that meatgrinder of whiny brats.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Do this:\n\nCall her, invite her to your house.\n\nWatch a dvd.\n\nMake out with her some more. Put your finger down her pants.\n\nThank me when you lose your v-card", "score": 6 }, { "body": "You seem like a good kid, just rise above high school bullshit. If some girls ask you if you like someone, tell them its none of their business. Deal with the girl directly. You'll be like the fonz.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I originally read your username as \"Confused A Shell\" and I was wondering why you would do a thing like that. Poor shell.\n\n\nThis is highschool. Do not let it weigh so heavily on your mind. My only advice is to ask the girl frankly if she likes you, and would like to continue seeing you. Ask straight questions = get straight answers. ", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "WTF, is it common for a guy to have a cute female friend sleep in his bed with purely platonic intentions?", "score": 20 }, { "body": "Wha? How did she get past me and find time to pose without my noticing?\n\nNow, the times I had a female guest stay over, arranging the couch or spare bedroom for her, and then lay there for hours, hoping, wishing, praying that she'd tiptoe shyly into my room, and slip herself softly into bed with me, mumbling something about how she couldn't sleep....\n\nNope, that never happened. Not once. Nothing.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "I'm a guy who hung around with a girl I knew a long time. It was high school. I playfully grabbed her boobs a lot. I was flirty. I'm sure she was having none of it. I was in her room a lot because that's where we hung out. I was laying on her bed once watching tv and she mounted me and it was fucking sexy. I grabbed under-bra boob and she was shocked. But she did say \"Just one little kiss, who's gonna know?\" I think she thought I was gay or something and was testing me but she had a BF at the time and I didn't kiss her. Which is strange because I grabbed her boob. I think this is less intimate actually.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Haha. I've been dating a friend of my roommate. The second time I saw her, I was in bed, asleep, she had been out with my roommate and came in to wake me up with sex. Best night ever. Was late for work the next day, but who cares!!", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Once, after a house party I walked into my room and found a girl 'waiting' on my bed. She wasn't even remotely cute (fat hippie with natty dreads) and was probably about the last person that I wanted to see there. \n\nI kicked her out and made her sleep on the couch. She awkwardly protested with some excuse like it was too cold in the living room, and I probably did some irrevocable damage to her self-esteem, but I don't regret it for a second. I still feel kind of gypped though....*so close*.... there was at least a dozen other girls at that party that I'd have jumped on in a second, but no, it couldn't have been one of them, could it? It'd be breaking the laws of physics or something...", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy (starting with *Heir to the Empire*) were the first in the expanded universe, and among the best.", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "I feel like I haven't been getting items either.\r\n\r\nThat's just the thing, though: I *feel* like I'm not getting any drops. In reality, I might still be getting the same amount I did before the update.\r\n\r\nThe only thing that's changed now is the ability to craft. So now I'm looking forward to my next drop like a kid in august looking forward to his next summer vacation.\r\n\r\nBut hey, maybe there is a statistical basis for all this item drop worrying.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I got a shit-ton of items during the first hour of the update, and then between then and now I've gotten only two: the ambassador and the huntsman. Just this week alone, I've played 13.3 hours.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Historically, beer has been flavoured with many things other than hops, such as myrica gale or juniper, and there are still some traditional beer styles which don't use hops, such as Russian kvass and Finnish sahti. (Sahti uses juniper.) However, these beer styles are so different from straight modern ale that a meaningful comparison isn't really very helpful.\r\n\r\nWhat you will need if you are going to try this is something that counters the sweetness of the malts. Bitterness does that very well, but something sour might help, too. Some beers, like Swedish \"svagdricka\" have barely any hops, and the result is too sweet for many people.\r\n\r\nAnother thing you'll need is something that provides the anti-bacterial effects of hops, or you will have a very short-llved drink. Finnish sahti, for example, doesn't keep for very long, and must be stored in a fridge.\r\n\r\nIt's not easy to find a good substitute for hops (which, I guess, is why hops are nearly universally used today), but Martyn Cornell's Amber, Black, and Gold has an excellent chapter on herbs and spices historically used in beer and their various properties. Per Kølster's Alle Tiders Øl also goes into this a fair bit, but it's in Danish only.\r\n\r\nInterestingly, a few centuries ago \"ale\" meant unhopped beer, whereas \"beer\" meant hopped beer. That usage has long since faded, of course, but it's kind of ironic given your title. :)", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "Something else just struck me. Rassilon spoke of *two* dissenting votes when the Time Lords chose to follow through with their plan. One was presumably the Doctor's mother/granddaughter/whomever, but any clues as to who the second was?\n\nEdit - The full quote was something along the lines of \"...and only two stand against, and will stand as monument of their shame, as the weeping angels of old\". Maybe an origin of the Blink angels? Doubtful, but a possibility. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Well, you were \"dead\" for 14 billion years before you were born. It wasn't so bad, right? Don't worry about it.", "score": 51 }, { "body": "You know how you lose consciousness every night when you fall asleep? It's kinda like that, only forever.", "score": 7 }, { "body": ">I can not fathom how my consciousness cant exist\n\nThis is because the only thing you will ever knowingly experience is being alive. If you approach the question as \"how can I understand what it's like to experience the inability to experience\" you know you're not going to get the answer you want. It's like asking what it feels like to run while standing still.\n\nAt the level that it can be understood you probably understand it well enough though. You can also look up certain mental illnesses and see what humans are like when certain aspects of our consciousness we take for granted disappear. Clive Wearing who lost the ability to create memories, or the split brain experiments, where information that someone was once consciously aware of is only processed unconsciously. I guess it's possible to experience some of these things after all. \n\nLet's see: sleep with your head on your arm for one night and then bang it against the wall before it regains any feeling... and uh, close your eyes and plug your ears and nose while doing this. Don't eat anything while you're doing this. The sleep will provide you with a moment of no thoughts or sense of self. When you're not dreaming. Don't dream. You know what not experiencing is. It's that empty space in time you forget you exist for moments every night. Maybe understanding what it's like to be without your very sense of self just involves going to sleep and acting like an idiot for a few moments after you wake up.\n\ng'night\n\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "> I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit. - **Mark Twain**\r\n\r\nIn other words, for the vast majority of the history of all time, your consciousness didn't exist. It'll be just like that again.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\nOne thing that comforts me:\n\n I believe we affect many things through the course of our lives which we aren't aware of. Those subtle changes to reality which we create have a huge ripple effect over our reality, long after we die.\n\nThinking about that, and hearing someone's testimony on how the 23rd Psalm brings comfort to people, I wrote this yesterday:\n\n\n\nUpon my BIKE and with deep breath, I rid myself of all complaint and desire.\n\nI glide down along the grassy summer hillside,\nthe mountains stand upended in the lake's quiet reflection,\n\nI close my eyes.\nAnd before me lies a map of the wilderness of all possible futures.\n\nLike a dragonfly, I weave\ndown the ancient cathedral of the forest trail,\nmy instinct guides me through paths unseen,\ndeep into the darkness of the forests,\nand you travel with me,\nand comfort me.\n\nIn the brightness of the kitchen table we all sit together\nfriends, family and enemies alike.\nWe all raise a glass to our mysterious forest;\noutside, in the moonlight, the ocean glistens.\n\nSurely peace and love will follow us\nas the forest hides its trails\nand we will dwell in the darkness of the FORESTS\nforever.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "You don't experience being dead, because when you're dead, you don't experience.\n\nYou're likely hung up thinking \"how will it feel to be dead?\", but the fact of the matter is, it won't feel like anything. It's like asking what color the number 3 is - it's a nonsensical question.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I've been thinking about this lately, too. It's really nothing to be alarmed at, except that as humans we're probably the only organisms that are capable of realizing our own mortality. I'm not saying a stray dog being dragged to the back room at the pound doesn't have an inkling of what's in store, but for us the knowledge of our death is much more elaborate.\n\nWell, what's the difference between our brains and that of that stray dog and other animals? Really it's just that we have a temporal lobe that comes equipped with all sorts of tools that allow us to imagine, be creative and everything else. There are some other subtle differences for sure, but basically we're only self-aware and capable of critical thought simply because we have an extra handful of gray matter in our skulls. \n\nEvery day millions of animals die and just cease to exist. Why should we be any different? Why should the presence of some extra brain matter suddenly make us able to cheat death? Why should it mean that there is a heaven and a hell, or that we're reincarnated, or that there are such things as angels and demons and gods and fairies and so forth? What is so significant about having this extra serving of brains that means we also have souls and will live forever? \n\nI'm not trying to comfort you as much as just remind you of the rules of the game. If there's anything you should be hopeful for, it's knowing that you live in a time when it's possible most people will live well past the average age of death (late 70s). It could be that most young people today will live well into their 80s or 90s and above with the advances in medical technology. And who knows where things will be then. It could be that in the near future, death will be delayed almost indefinitely. But remember that as we age and our bodies wear down and pain begins to overwhelm us, death perhaps becomes preferable to us, if even at the subconscious level. It could be that your subconscious is what chooses death ultimately, even if it seems like it's against your \"will.\" \n\n ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I was once in a bike accident where I blacked out for 5-10 minutes. I imagine that death is like that. Only, you know, forever.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "To paraphrase Sam Harris. You aren't in Paris right now (if you are please substitute New York) when you die you will exist everywhere in the same way you currently exist in Paris (or New York.)\n\nAs for nothingness I remember having a talk with someone once where he was saying that the Universe has to be infinite because nothingness is empty space and so if you flew to the edge of the Universe there would have to be somewhere to go. I responded that our brains did not evolve to properly understand things such as infinity and true nothingness because there is no environmental incentive for them to. Space is a volume that can contain matter and energy, empty space is when that volume contains no matter or energy, nothingness is not just the absence of matter and energy but also the absence of space.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Well,\n\nIt's a huge amount of overkill,\n\nBut if you really want to get death on a truly gut level, then you need to stop thinking of your mind as a single thing moving through time, and start thinking in terms of observer-moments that just exist.\n\nTo do this you would read [this sequence on Less Wrong](http://lesswrong.com/lw/r9/quantum_mechanics_and_personal_identity/) until you get to [Timeless Identity](http://lesswrong.com/lw/qx/timeless_identity/).\n\nLike I said, huge overkill, but if you want to understand how minds are made of parts on a gut level, it'll get the job done.\n\nOr you could just read [this XKCD](http://xkcd.com/659/).", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'd imagine that the afterlife is very similar to the prelife. Dying is most likely gonna suck, considering your brain still works a few seconds after you're \"dead\" (don't know how to make a link, but Wikipedia-\"guillotine\" and scroll down to \"living heads\")", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Start working on one of [these](http://hurtyelbow.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d0c7d53ef010536c2e74c970b-800wi) and that'll show her you're not a wuss.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The list of movies that I've found out about and loved by way of r/Scifi:\n\nThe Man From Earth\n\nMoon\n\nPrimer\n\nDistrict Nine\n\nSunshine\n\nAll of the above are easily worth your time, by my assessment. ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "This movie is one of my favorites. The music is amazing, it always reminds me of [Explosions in the Sky](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzj-ksNOMfU#t=4m27s).", "score": 3 }, { "body": "You know, I really enjoyed this movie until it turned into a horror flick mildly familiar to Event Horizon. The derelict ship + crazy killer detracted from the movie slightly.\n\nOther than that I really enjoyed the descent into madness everyone suffered. Especially the psychologists obsession with exposing himself to the sun in that observation pod.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I like all of those... But much prefer the classic girls version.\n\nEDIT: Here's Team [Busey](http://i.imgur.com/6YS8Y.jpg).", "score": 17 }, { "body": ">Amazing clay rendition \n\nFrom the creator's description:\n>These were constructed using bargain bin $8 Soldiers of the World dolls at a local KB Toys along with a lot of cheap materials. ", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Anthony Bourdain - No reservations. Basically travels the world experiencing different cultures, religions, (of course food). But what differentiates his show from other \"travel\" shows is that he's actually funny, not afraid to be crude or make sexual references which is great fun. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "The IT crowd. It's a British sitcom sort of like Office Space meets Penny Arcade meets It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "* Peep Show (British comedy, about two men living together and everything they go through. Really, really funny)\n* The Big Bang Theory (geeky. This is reddit after all :D)\n* The Life and Times of Tim (animated comedy)\n* Top Gear (no explanation needed)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff is about polygamy in America. It has two story lines. One is a fictionalized version of the life of Ann Eliza Young, one of Brigham Young's ~57 wives. The other story line is about a gay man who was kicked out of a polygamist cult when he was 14. \n\nThe book is quite long, and the historical portions can be tough to get through, but I think the book is worth reading for the modern gay-centric storyline. (The historical storyline gets pretty good too.)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Christopher Isherwood's *A Single Man* is a great Pre-Stonewall novel, and was recently adapted into an equally great film by Tom Ford.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Try this:\n\n <body>\n <form name=\"myform\" action=\".\" method=\"GET\" onSubmit=\"testResults(this);\">\n Enter something in the box: <br />\n <input type=\"text\" name=\"inputbox\" /><br />\n <input type=\"submit\" name=\"button\" value=\"Click\" />\n </form>\n\n <script type=\"text/javascript\">\n function testResults(form) {\n var TestVar = form.inputbox.value;\n document.write('You typed: ' + TestVar);\n return false;\n };\n </script>\n </body>\n\nI made several adjustments:\n\n* Tags and attributes are lowercase and the self-closing nodes have had their closing slashes added.\n* Form submit triggers script so you can hit return and still have things work.\n* Input type changed from \"button\" to \"submit\" as there really isn't a \"button\" type. There is, however, the `<button>Click!</button>` tag.\n* Form submits to current page.\n* Function returns false to override default submission action.\n* Removed spaces between function names and function parameters. That's not generally recommended.\n\nTested and working in the major browsers, including Firefox. :D", "score": 5 }, { "body": "You have to close the document.\n\n document.write(\"whatever\");\n document.close();\n\ndo that every time you use document.write() or it will show as always loading.\n\ndocument.write is not the best way to output to your page, but it works for when you're learning.", "score": 4 }, { "body": " <!DOCTYPE html>\n <html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" lang=\"en-us\" xml:lang=\"en-us\" ><head>\n <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=UTF-8\" />\n <title>Test Slug</title>\n </head><body>\n <form id=\"myform\" name=\"myform\" action=\"\" method=\"GET\">\n \t<label for=\"inputbox\">Input</label>: <input type=\"text\" id=\"inputbox\" name=\"inputbox\" /><br />\n \t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Test\" />\n </form>\n \n <div id=\"iditis\"></div>\n \n <script type=\"text/javascript\">\n function testResults(e){\n \tvar inputString = document.getElementById(\"inputbox\").value;\n \tdocument.getElementById(\"iditis\").innerHTML = \"You typed: \" + inputString;\n \te.preventDefault();\n \t}\n \n formSubmitted = document.getElementById(\"myform\");\n if(formSubmitted.addEventListener){formSubmitted.addEventListener('submit', testResults, false);}\n else if(formSubmitted.attachEvent){formSubmitted.attachEvent('submit', testResults);}\n </script>\n </body></html>", "score": 4 }, { "body": "One other thing... for running javascript under Firefox, if you don't have it, you **really** should get the FireBug addon, which allows you to set breakpoints, see errors, etc.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The Presonus firepod (or fp10, whatever they're calling it these days) may not quite be 'pro-level,' but it's still a solid piece of gear that plays nice with mac and pc. Not super fancy, but I like mine lots ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I think they're viewed as less corrupt and more competent, but that's not why they get less attention. They get less attention because for the most part, we do not elect them. And in a sense, they should not be responding to our wants. The judiciary is the wall against mob rule or tyranny of the majority.\n\nImagine the justices who were about to rule on important civil rights cases having to fear getting re-elected, or recalled. That'd be some fucked up shit.\n\nThey aren't perfect by any means and the system isn't perfect, but . . .", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Additionally, the judiciary is **re**-active, not **pro**-active. And, this is by design and is an extremely good thing.\n\nRecently, I took my daughter down to the local courthouse and we took a tour. Afterwards, we had a discussion as to why the courthouse is one of the pillars of our civilization. Neutral third-party judges determining the merits of a dispute - absolutely key.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "The judiciary is generally free of the theater that is the rest of the government tht runs on elections. There is no cult of personality, mud-slinging, or other drama as associated with representatives. Judgges tend to be dispassionate and motivated by the letter of the law. Even if it were possible, to introduce elections to, say, the Supreme Court would be a nightmare as cases would be tried via poliotical ideology and accountability vs cold Constitutional wisdom.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "As a resident of Baltimore, I can assure you: When people down the street start yelling 'Omar!' I run for my life.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "I'm African American and from the inner city. I'm currently watching the wire myself, for the third time. A lot of what I see in this series is an accurate depiction of what goes on in some of the more seedy areas of where im from. (e.g waking up to see dead bodies, empty crack viles, police corruption, etc) Actually, it's probably the best non reality show you will find out there that's portraying inner city life in America. Now I'm not saying all inner city life is exactly like what's being portrayed in The Wire, but for life on the \"other side of the track\", The Wire is a dead ringer. If you would like a reference point to guage The Wire by, try watching \"The First 48.\" It's a docu-drama the comes on the American Cable Television channel \"Arts & Entertainment\"(A&E)", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Fun fact - McNulty is actually from Sheffield in real life.. that's a damn good accent. Type *Dominic West* into youtube and check out his real accent.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "For the sake of the language:\r\n\r\n> I'm currently watching the 4th season (the one with the young boy quitting school, where you see his home life and such) and I can't stop thinking \"Fuck! It must be hard, if it's real. Why aren't these people rioting or something?\"\r\n> I live in France, and we definitely *cannot* give advice on how handle poverty. Our solution is this: \"Oh, your're poor? Go with your poor friends to the suburbs and die quietly.\")\r\n> That said, it's an honest question (I'm not trolling) I just want to chat a little bit with you about this subject.\r\n\r\nFrom what I hear, The Wire is very realistic. Baltimore has one of the highest murder rates in the U.S. Shit's pretty much fucked.\r\n\r\nAnyway, it's an awesome show, we hope you enjoy it as much as we do.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Many of the incidences depicted in the Wire are based off of real events and people. So much of the show reflects events that happened from the mid seventies up to the new millennium. Bare in mind there are extremely rich neighborhoods in the city that in no way reflect what those of the Wire are dealing with. 90% of the entire show takes place outside the affluent areas. Most everyone answering on this thread, who is from Baltimore, does not live on the west side or in truly depressed districts. That is not to say they don't live close, or drive though regularly, but but still.. As long as you don't owe any drug dealers money, you are not going to be murdered in Baltimore. \n\nCheck out this street in Baltimore, Perlman Street, it is literally one of the worst most violent streets in America. Notice the entire block is vacant, and the family... :( the dad is sweeping the front stoop, there are three kids (one with a batman shirt) and two puppies. \n\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=baltimore+md&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=50.956929,114.169922&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Baltimore,+Maryland&ll=39.313349,-76.586823&spn=0.001534,0.003484&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=39.313241,-76.586815&panoid=4ruWjtCEDCDF3imbvw6PYA&cbp=12,31.05,,0,9.71", "score": 5 }, { "body": "You should check out \"The Corner.\" It's a dramatization of true stories from the Baltimore ghetto made by the same people as The Wire. Unlike The Wire, it actually asserts to be true, so it should give you a good idea.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I used to have severe panic attacks. One lasted two days I believe. I don't have them as much anymore, but I hope I can help.\n\nBreathe into a bag when one does come on. You're getting too much oxygen, and you need to do this until you feel like you can breathe normally. Don't do it too long, or else you'll pass out.\n\nDo anything to take your mind off of what is making you panic. Take a bath, go for a walk, listen to music, talk to a friend. *Anything*.\n\nAlso, if you feel one coming on, try not to think \"Oh my god, I'm going to die.\" You're not going to die from this. Just breathe into the bag, and count back from ten. It really does help.\n\nI hope you feel better. I know it was fucking hell for me.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "The mechanism of panic attacks has to do with getting too much oxygen, which is causing the physical symptoms you are experiencing. It's a kind of feedback loop. This is why breathing into a bag is sometimes used as a quick fix. InterruptedGirl has given good advice on this.\n\nYou mention that you can \"sense when they come on\" is a big tell, because as soon as you feel like this you are entering the feedback loop. You need to get your breathing sorted immediately when this happens by taking in as little air as you can bear. You'll really feel as if you're not getting enough air, but that's a false impression. Pull this trick off a couple of times and you'll halt the onset of a attack, and once you've done that the fear of having an attack will start to diminish and in time you can \"learn\" your way out of the whole syndrome.\n\nI used to suffer most awfully, and I had no idea what was happening to me and, rather stupidly, could not talk about it to anyone.\n\nI fixed myself in the end.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I can't give you any real advice but this: However you decide to deal with the current episode of panic attacks, you should seek medical help for the \"long term\". There is a range of treatment possibilities available.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This is so sad. You guys actually wait at home with an open wound to avoid a trip to the hospital because it would cost too much. \nIf i got a wound that needed stitching i probably would go right at the same moment to the doctor pay the 25€ or so that it would cost, and be done with it.\nYou guys have such a crazy country.", "score": 24 }, { "body": "If movies have taught me anything, it's that you can stitch yourself up using hard liquor as both a sterilizing and painkilling agent.\n\nI don't know what country you're in, but if you're in the US, an ER visit will probably cost upwards of $1000. I have to pay $100, and I'm on really good insurance.\n\nYou might try one of those urgent care places. Or maybe try calling around to get quotes?", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Ok dude, I'm not a Doc either. I am however a paramedic with years of ED experience.\n\nThe poster below was correct, most EDs will not suture you after six hours post injury. This is because by then bacteria may have already colonized in the wound.\n\nIt is going to cost between $500 and $1,500 dollars depending on the hospital you go to, the Dr. service charges (most doctors don't work for the hospital, but for a contracted medical group like EmCare), and what you actually get done (i.e. 5 sutures cost more than 2 sutures).\n\nI would go to an urgent care, not an ER as it is probably cheaper.\n\nBut who knows, post a pic. of the injury, maybe you don't even need to get it closed.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Had a bad gash on my knee once. I heated up a sewing needle over the stove and bent it into a curve. then I unbraided some poly filament nylon to get some mono filament thread. The stitched it up myself. Interestingly, and unexpectedly, it didn't hurt at all, but I was surprised at how tough skin really is, poking the needle up through the skin from underneath took a lot of force.\n\nIt healed up fine, and never got infected. $1k saved.\n\n\"Suture self\" is my motto. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Easy - competition. Anyone not satisfied with possible effects of nuclear war will be free to choose to live on another planet, where nuclear technologies have not yet been developed. The Free Market (TM), unhindered by harmful government regulations, will be sure to develop spaceships very quickly.", "score": 16 }, { "body": "> I posted this a few months ago in some other sub-reddits and never got a serious reply...\n\nProbably because anarcho-capitalism isn't a subject most people can (nor should) take seriously. It's mostly just advocated by people who have a personal problem with authority.\n\nFrankly I think nuclear proliferation is the least of anarcho-capitalism's problems. Trying to have an orderly society without any law-enforcement is kinda stupid. To anyone who disagrees, please point out a time/place in history where it's ever resulted in anything but a society dominated by gangs/tribes/warlords.\n\n- - - - - -\nEDIT:\n\n> It's kind of like economic sci-fi to me.\n\nThat's a good way to think about it. The nuclear-proliferation question is sorta like asking a Star Trek fan exactly how a warp-drive works. They don't know, because it isn't real, and wouldn't work.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I think the theory is that once every private defense company and any gun nuts that want them have them, MAD will work perfectly because anarcho-capitalism presupposes that everyone is always perfectly rational, reasonably intelligent and motivated by self interest. Idiots, would-be martyrs and aging sociopaths with nothing to loose, for example, get bitch-slapped by the invisible hand and dragged kicking and screaming out of the fantasy world.", "score": 5 }, { "body": ">I understand that insurance companies will protect people's property, but I just don't see how they can protect against nukes. \n\nI'm curious, are you asking under the assumption that we're protected from nukes now? \n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I wouldn't call it sci fi. The insurance companies described by anarcho capitalists do exist in real life - the mafia, and other organizations like it do step up to provide security when nation-states fail. When you buy \"protection\" you are actually often buying police-style protection.\n\nThe only time it gets a bit sci fi is when ancaps try to explain how the insurance companies/gangs would not constantly be fighting turf wars. I heard one guy explain with a straight face that they would peaceably work out \"laws\" between them in much the same way that browser makers worked out a standard for HTML. Heh.\n\nAs for NPT, of course, an ancap society would be the absolute worst thing to happen for that, as you probably would guess.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "if the free market wants to ensure the survival of the planet, then multiple private companies will compete over the creation of a magical nuke seeking device(the free market is magical, remember that) and then the day will be saved, and we will pray towards mecca(wall street) and make a sacrifice to the altar of ayn rand in new york as to not anger the free market further", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Looks like you just need a couple of long work benches. Maybe one with drawers under it. Put the big stuff like the air compressor under the benches. Add a few shelves and peg boards over the work benches to keep them at arm's length while you work. Get the tool box to put hand tools in so you don't have to have those plastic tool kits taking up table space while you work. \n\nI organize my stuff like this. Two tall craftsman tool boxes on wheels. One tool box for metric sockets with a drawer each for 0.25\", one for 0.5\", and 0.75\" drive. This box also holds drill bits and punches too. Another tool box for standard sockets set up the same way. This box also holds pliers and crescent/pipe wrenches. A craftsman work bench with drawers under it for screwdrivers, hammers, and air tools. Another metal workbench with a vice and air hose reel mounted to it. I keep different types of fuels under it. On the walls over that I have peg boards for metric wrenches and standard wrenches, hack saws, staple guns, cutting wheels. Battery chargers mounted under the peg boards. Over the peg boards I have cabinets. One for all my car fluids, one for books, manuals, bearing grease, safety equipment and stuff I can't find a place for. A cabinet for tune up stuff like spark plugs, oil filters, light bulbs, belts. This all on one wall.\n\nThe other two walls are less dense. One just has a metal cabinet for spray cans/chemicals. A set of bins for screws, nuts, and bolts. A cutting torch and MIG welder. The other wall has a metal bench with a half build engine on it. A chop saw and cabinet full of car painting supplies. Down the middle I have a woodworking bench and a table saw. Everything but the craftsman boxes is hand built. None of it organized really well but there is a place for almost every thing.\n\n\n\n\n", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Make a pegboard organizer. Super cheap, easy, space saving and visually pleasing.\n\nhttp://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/workshop/4261542.html\nhttp://www.diynetwork.com/how-to/how-to-install-a-pegboard/index.html\n\nFor the electric stuff, you can either hang or keep stored in the original boxes (assuming they came with the custom storage box) under your bench.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "Hey! \nFirst, ignore the other posts. You're so thin (you are more than 'a little' underweight - but this is okay!!) and such a noob (sorry) that doing things with bodyweight and some household stuff should get you seriously on the right track. Maybe in about a year you'll need a gym membership though. \n \nFirst, you want to be eating. A lot. You should be eating like a guy who's 180 lbs, not like one who's 120. And you should be eating pretty healthy/clean (aim for 85% of what you eat to be 'clean'). Here goes: lots of eggs, red meat (don't worry about leanness), chicken, turkey, pork, anything with a face and/or parents, lots of olive oil, flax oil, milk (!! whole, please), grainy-breads would probably be great for you! Cheeses, olives, as many fruits and veggies (fresh, thanks) as your body can allow. Plain greek yogurt (Not the sugar stuff!), cottage cheese. Aim to be eating 250ish grams of protein/each day, and track your calories. Don't worry too much about making mark, but start with 3500 calories/day, and adjust as necessary (you can post back here for clarification). \nUse protein shakes to supplement. Eat a lot of peanut butter, too (not the stuff in a jar, I mean take some peanuts and grind the shit out of 'em). 2 cups whole milk + 2 heaping scoops protein + 1 tbs pbutter = tasty fuckin' meal. Honest. \n \n \nSecond, you should be looking up body weight exercises. This will help you develop some muscle. You should NOT be doing cardio -- please avoid it like the plague(!). You are, as is termed in the business, a \"hard gainer,\" and cardio will likely burn away your progress. \n \nThird, **get creative**. Get some 50 lb sandbags at home depot, or kitty litter, or whatever. Squat with them. Do pushups with them. Bench press them. Pick up the heaviest shit you can see and do it repeatedly (seriously - some dudes get big tires and keep them in their backyard to push around). A gym membership or plateset (check on craigslist, plates usually pop up for <100 bucks/set, which is a steal) will make a big difference. \n \nAlso, at some point you should look up GOMAD (online). A lot of /r/fitness folks have had great luck with it. \n \nPM me if you want clarification or help; I posted a lot of info here. You're on the right track -- you should probably aim for about a 20 lb gain on your first go-around. Cheers!", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Here's an idea: hold 'v' and say \"hey, <name of demo>, got a minute to take out that sentry?\". If the response is \"no, I'm busy slicing heads off\", uber someone else.", "score": 50 }, { "body": "I knew I wasn't the only one! It's especially annoying when you're the only medic on the team, the only thing holding your team back is a level 3 SG, and every other person in the opposing team is trying to get you. After spending so much time building up your precious uber, its frustrating to have to search for a demo with stickies.\n\nI actually think that in some ways this update benefited the engies, seeing as how their worst counter, demos with stickies, were given a high incentive to switch to a set of weapons that are completely useless against sentries.", "score": 44 }, { "body": "Just uber a direct hit soldier. They can take down a level 3 sentry easily, even with the engineer repairing it.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "As a soldier foremost and demo second, I prefer the sticky & bottle usually instead of using the targe & eyelander. I find a 'vanilla' demo loadout to be more useful, probably because I switch to that class to fulfill a specific purpose. If I've been ubered my melee will only comes out after 4 pills and 8+ stickies -- in other words: a last resort.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "i think some of it is oh shit why'd he uber me. Also please dont uber me while i'm reloading both the grenade launcher and scottish resistance. Nothing pisses me off like getting ubered and having to reload.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "I'm just curious why people are hating on the grenade launcher. Sure, it sucks to have to reload after four shots, but if you've got any aim at all with the thing, you can take sentries down just about anywhere with it. This is especially true if you've got the added bonus of being immune to damage.\n\nLike someone else was saying: a demo who knows his ass from his elbow should be able to take out any sentry with the grenade launcher with just regular healing. Build your uber on the demo, but unleash it on someone else.\n\nAll this being said, I'm not the demo you're complaining about. If I get ubered, I go straight for sentries.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Think that's bad? What about when you uber a soldier and the soldier whips out his equalizer to move faster thus nullifying the uber and the healing leaving you in the dust.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Call me crazy, but isn't it the Chargin' Targe that replaces the sticky launcher, not the Eyelander? I demo all the time with the sticky launcher and the Eyelander. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Uber a pyro, those players are better than demos. Atleast you know what you get with pyro and they won't go crazy over some dumb melee weapon.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I generally call on mic or in chat with 'I need a demo with a sticky launcher for an uber' and if there is one (s)he usually speaks up.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "if a demoman pulls out his sword and rushes in he is dreaming if he thinks I'm going to follow him. my life is to valuable to expose myself so he can get some worthless(to the team) kills.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I get the news weapons, but back to stick bombs. When I see a medic with ubber ready, I switch to sticks to show \"I am a REAL Demoman\".", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I play medic 90% of the time as well. I've said in other threads that regardless of my opinions on the new weapons (in terms of balance and whatnot) both the Eyelander/Targe and the Equalizer result in the majority of my team **running the fuck away from me.** The new unlocks mean that there are several classes (in addition to scout) which now have the ability to flank medics and run past the front lines.\n\nMore often than not what happens is that all the Demos and Soldiers rush in, leaving only a handfull of us in a group. Then the enemy team's soldiers, demos, and scouts, rush in leaving me to try and save my own ass with support from classes like spies and snipers. The result: The majority of the time I get a pickaxe in the brain and I'm lucky to live long enough to get a full kritz charge ready, much less a full uber.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I'm adopted and have even less info on my biological parents than you do. I've thought about looking for them but mainly to satisfy my curiousity, I love my parents very much and we too are very different, but they raised me better than 90% of biological families I know, and I can't help but feel like I'd be doing them a disrespect by finding my bio parents. \n\nPlus I hear stories about bio parents wanting to start a relationship with their kids they gave up for adoption and I really don't need MORE parents in my life.\n\nI have a daughter who will be born any day and she will be the first person in my life who I am biologically related to. Can't wait to meet her! \n\n", "score": 156 }, { "body": "It's 6:00 AM here in Texas and I can't sleep because the fact that I don't know anyone that is biologically related to me is driving me crazy. My parents have always told me that I was adopted, they never held that information from me, and it never really bothered me too much as a kid, but ever since the end of high school and upon my turning 18 I began to feel alienated because I feel like I can't relate to my adoptive parents anymore. They are very different from me, despite their raising me. I suppose I will fill out an application for the Texas Central Adoption Registry, but that will only put my face and name out there in the pool of people looking for their relatives, and will only work if I have brothers or sisters or parents looking for me too. I would really like to simply get more information about them. I received a Christmas card from my mother, Jan. This is it in its frustrating simplicity: http://imgur.com/tS4GOl.jpg Front. http://imgur.com/iFcLVl.jpg Inside.", "score": 51 }, { "body": "I've had quite the opposite problem. My birth mother contacted me, initially through the adoption agency. I responded and let her know that I was happy and healthy, but told her that as much as I appreciated her reaching out, I was not looking for a relationship with her at this time. (I don't have any hard feelings towards her; I appreciate that she gave me up. But we have very different world views, and I can't be her best friend, which is what she wants.) Anyway, that wasn't good enough for her, so she talked to the little old lady at the adoption center and found out enough info to stalk me on MySpace (several years ago). Now she constantly sends me messages trying to be my friend and wishing me a blessed this or that holiday.\nGood luck finding your birth parents, but just be prepared that they might not be the kind of people you're going to relate to.", "score": 46 }, { "body": "Well your dad teaches at Stanford University, so that helped find him. His address is 816 LATHROP DR. STANFORD, CA 94305. Here is his [wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Wolff) ", "score": 39 }, { "body": "I think that the fact that she's sending you Christmas cards means that she's interested in you (how you're doing, meeting you, etc) too. I would suggest talking to the adoption agency, maybe they can send her a message that you're wanting to have contact, even if it's just sending her a letter in return. She knows your location (knows where to send the card), why can't you know hers?\n\nGood luck!", "score": 29 }, { "body": "I don't have any sort of investigative skills, so I can't help.\n\nBut please tread lightly.\n\nYou say you feel alienated now, and this is something you're doing to feel connected. I get that -- I'm adopted too. But the people who gave you up for adoption may be shocked (and not in a happy way) if you come calling. They're nearly two decades behind their decision; you might go into this looking for a connection, and come out of it hurting perfect strangers and feeling even more alienated.\n\nOf course, it could go the other way too -- hugs all around, feeling connected, etc. \n\nBottom line is that a search like this is always, at the heart of it, a selfish act. That doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't pursue it; it just means that you should be ready for the potential of very real negative consequences, not just positive ones.\n\n", "score": 18 }, { "body": "I was adopted in 1970 in Escondido California. I went on a fishing trip in Moosehead lake a few years back and there was guy there named George who was about 18-20 years older than me and we were talking about hereditary diseases. I mentioned that I had no idea what my medical history was since I was adopted. He asked about it, and I mentioned that I had been put up for adoption near San Diego.\n\nAwkward pause. He asks how old I am. Even longer awkward pause. It turns out HE had put up a baby for adoption in 1969 in San Diego California, I was born in 1970, so he wasn't my dad but for just a second there we had to do the math. I had never been so relieved and disappointed at the same time. It was a truly weird experience. I felt like a Shrodinger's cat just before my box got opened.\n\nSide note, if anyone has any information on how to find out about your parents in a closed adoption in the State of California, I am all ears. Also, if you happen to BE my parents. All I really want to do is find you to say \"Thanks\" Having your parents picked out by professionals is awesome and I have had a great life.", "score": 17 }, { "body": "I have some information that may help you. It will be your responsibility to narrow them down - I would start by calling those phone numbers and going from there.\n \n(415) 495-6955 \n \n\nTOBIAS WOLFF \n816 LATHROP DR Record Created: 09/2005 \nSTANFORD, CA 94305 \n\n\nTOBIAS WOLFF Born Feb 1978 \n2635 JASMINE ST Record Created: 04/2001 \nDENVER, CO 80222 \n\n\nTOBIAS WOLFF \n1540 LA SALLE DR Record Created: Unknown \nCHICAGO, IL 60610 (312) 643-8474 \n\n\nTOBIAS WOLFF Born Feb 1978 \n1329 KNOB HILL ST Record Created: 01/2002 \nSPRINGFIELD, MO 65804 \n\n\nTOBIAS B WOLFF \n1915 CURSON AVE Record Created: 04/2001 \nLOS ANGELES, CA 90046 \n \n\nTOBIAS B WOLFF \n761 CLARK WAY Record Created: 07/2004 \nPALO ALTO, CA 94304 \n \n\nTOBIAS B WOLFF \n767 BRYANT ST Record Created: 09/2005 \nSAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107 \n \n\nTOBIAS B WOLFF Born Feb 1970 \n828 GEORGIA ST Record Created: 06/2004 \nVALLEJO, CA 94590 (707) 647-3193 \n \n\nTOBIAS B WOLFF \n1285 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS Record Created: 03/2002 \nNEW YORK, NY 10019 \n \n\nTOBIAS B WOLFF \n69 8TH AVE Record Created: Unknown \nNEW YORK, NY 10014 (212) 627-3995 \n \n\nTOBIAS B WOLFF \n69 8TH ST Record Created: 08/2002 \nNEW YORK, NY 10003 (212) 627-3995 \n \n\nTOBIAS B WOLFF Born Feb 1970 \n1705 SUMMIT AVE Record Created: 11/1999 \nSEATTLE, WA 98122 (206) 329-5807 \n \n", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I'm confused about the Tobias Wolff angle. Your have evidence that your father is named that? Or you have some data points that are similar to the writer Tobias Wolff, ie, your father is also an award winning writer? How do you know this information? \n\nAlso, did you actually try to talk to the agency, or you are just assuming they won't give you any information? \n\nAlso, the only contact with your mom is just the one Christmas card? No other Christmas cards before that? No postmark on any of the cards? Was the card sent to your house? If so, then she has **your** address, correct?", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Oh... whoops. I guess I should have posted this in NeedAdvice. I'm guessing thats what the downvotes are for?", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Go to your parents first. They more likely than not, know more about your birth parents than you do. If for nothing other than health background information it can be something that is beneficial. Be prepared to find out things that may chagrin or be hurtful. Just the fact that you were given up for adoption means they did not have their act together at that time, for whatever reason. Try to get birth records for that city/hospital to correlate your birth with one of those. She is referring to your parents by their first names. That may be significant.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I am adopted and found both of my biological parents.\n\nI knew my bio-Mom's name and found her in 1991. She, her husband, and my younger half brother remain close to this day. It was the best decision I ever made.\n\nI found my bio-Dad in 2007. It was a profoundly tragic experience.\n\nMy adopti-family grew increasingly distant after I found my Bio-Mom, and I have had to work very hard to maintain a connection with them. After 10 years, it started to pay off, although to 2 of my 3 brothers I may as well be a stranger. [EDIT] At this stage of my life, with a child of my own, I look back and think about what my adoptive parents did for me, and I am immensely grateful. \n\nIn my case I would do it all again. If you [EDIT] *want* me to help you, send me a message.\n\n\n\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Why don't you ask your adoptive parents for more? Generally (I think) the birth parent cannot contact the adoptive family or the child without the permission of the adoptive parents, so did they give her their address? Do they welcome the cards? Do *they* know how to get in touch with her?\n\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "You may use http://pipl.com to trace the man. I think that this is a bit too personal subject to be discussed publicly. Especially that it relates to people who are not aware that they are being mentioned by their name and with their home address etc. Anyway, good luck.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "i am not adopted but i did not know my father. just a name and birthplace. when i was 45 i hired a private investigator for $200.\ntwo days later i had all the info i needed.\ntwo more sisters and two brothers plus all the extended.\nit was well worth it.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "why not just accept that the people who raised you are your parents, just because someone out there has the same blood as you doesn't mean your going to relate to them any better.", "score": 4 }, { "body": ">...they have so many restrictions that unless my birth parents are deliberately trying to find me as well, theres no way.\n\nMaybe they don't want to be found. Why not let them be?", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Couldn't your father also be the esteemed Joe Haldeman, or Tim O'Brien?\n\nTotally off topic, but Tobias Wolff, man, what a writer.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "My heart goes out to you lockwood, basically I'm in the reverse of ur situation. I started looking for my son ten years ago and I'm still looking. I've found If ur not able/willing to spend a LOT of money on it, it's almost imposable, that said I should confess my computer skills are very limited.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Have you discussed this with your parents? In some cases, the adoptive parents know information about the biological parents. I know in one friends case, her and her boyfriend met the adoptive parents before agreeing to allow them to adopt their unborn son and those adoptive parents know their names and where they live. \n\nOtherwise, your best bet is probably to go through the agency. They might be able to facilitate some sort of contact for you depending on the agreement that was signed by your biological parents in regards to their privacy.\n\nedit: I should add that for a second your story was a little close to home. For the friend I know is my sister and she gave up a son at birth in 90 or 91 in central Texas but her boyfriend at the time was not as you described.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Think long and hard about meeting them. Do you want to find out you were completely unwanted and they still don't want you? Do you want to find out that you were conceived because of an alchohol related orgy? Do you want them to slam the door in your face and say they never want to see you again?\n\nThese things may never happen, but similar things could. It could be your biological mother wrote the card in a moment of melancholy and regrets it. Expect the best, but be prepared for the worst.\n\nNow that said, I truly hope that I am completely wrong and that the reunion happens and that it's very happy. I just felt like somebody had to play devil's advocate.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "How long have you been aware of this going on and have you sought any professional help outside of Reddit?\n\nIs your family aware of this situation and how do they feel about it?\n\nHave you ever thought about posting to /r/gonewild?", "score": 190 }, { "body": "My favourite excuse is the, \"I'm really tired and am going to bed now, I'll reply in the morning.\"\n.... They never seem to realise that reddit is international, and its 10am and I want my answers now, damnit!", "score": 36 }, { "body": "And don't say \"I didn't expect anyone to reply\" after you haven't responded all day. If you really don't expect anyone to reply, don't post it!", "score": 18 }, { "body": "I've only seen one IAMA where the OP didn't answer any of the questions, and since the questions were all something along the lines of \"fuck you you worthless piece of human scum I wish you were dead\" that's probably fair enough.", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "http://www.turbosquid.com/ may have what you need. A lot of the models are free and pre-textured for you. I've used some in the past and been very pleased with the results.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "> You do not see this movement with men...\n\nHave you not seen the number of tv shows starring fat guys with hot wives?", "score": 15 }, { "body": "Duude. Women are all sensitive and shit. Apparently... It has been scientifically proven that it's healthier to be slightly overweight than underweight. I think a woman looks lovely if she has some curves. If you look at any runway model they have the body of ten year old boy. It's true. The media impose a rule on us that women have to weigh nothing. It's ridiculous. To be honest no female celebrity is normal sized. Beyoncé is sort of normal size with a bit of curve, but she is still faaacking skinny. I've just scared myself because I don't know where I'm going with this. Fat chicks need love too?", "score": 13 }, { "body": "It's a reaction to to decades of portraying rail thin bony waifs as the idealized epitome of beauty. Sorry, but a bunch of gay fashion industry honchos wanted to use female models as surrogates for what they really believe is the epitome of beauty: slender youthful boys. They market it, package it, and people buy into it. However that standard of beauty is socialized, it's not natural or ingrained in our evolution. Women who are too thin have historically been thought to have difficulty in getting pregnant. I don't know if this is an actual fact, but that's been the view since our caveman ancestors (Fertility goddesses have always had big breasts and big hips)\n\nWhen judging beauty, just remember, a hundred years ago bigger women were considered beautiful, rich and affluent and waifs where considered poor and unhealthy.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Because losing weight is difficult and harder for women. So we do the American thing and normalize being fat. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Sometimes a woman's belly comes from childbirth, not excess weight. My ex's girlfriend is incredibly fit, runs daily, works out but no matter what she can't get rid of her tummy - something she didn't have until she had a baby. Her BMI is in the low 20's. The only way would be surgery. \n\nNote that I said sometimes. There are a lot of younger women who insist on wearing jeans that are so tight around the waist their flab hangs over the top (muffin top). I see a lot of teenage girls dressing like this and it's gross. Wearing the wrong clothes can make ten excess pounds look like a lot more. \n\nThere is tremendous pressure on women to be model skinny. Open up any women's magazine, look at billboards, television etc. Size zeros. Good God. It's scary. Going \"back to the cave\" women are genetically programmed to do everything to seek out a mate so it's easy to get sucked into this crazy \"skinny is sexy\". As a woman I think there's nothing more unattractive than a size zero woman with arms and legs like sticks and unnaturally huge breasts courtesy of implants. It's gross. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Because fat chicks buy stuff that is advertised by other fat chicks who claim to be normal chicks because that makes the fat chicks think that they are normal chicks and that skinny chicks (who are a minority) are anorexic.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "This may or may not address what you (OP) consider as \"excess\" belly fat, but I just wanted to point out that normal healthy women generally do not have perfectly flat bellies.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Historically, bigger women have been considered the epitome of beauty. It's only been recently that the \"rail thin model\" phenomenon has presented itself.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Care to join me for a smoke outside to ring in good tidings and good cheer? That's where I'm headed right now...", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I stopped smoking a few months ago. My new next-door(I live in an apartment) neighbors are both in their early fifties and both of them look and sound like they're dying of lung cancer. \r\n\r\nChain-smoking and coughing, all day long. You've never heard a cough like this, I assure you. Like they're in agonizing pain. After a few weeks I remember telling myself \"that's not gonna be me\". \r\n\r\nThose guys probably saved my life. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Emperor Palpatine planted explosives in the Death Star and make it look like a rebel attack.\n\nCome on, do you actually think one x-wing could have done that?!\n\nYOU\"RE ALL A BUNCH OF MINDLESS DROIDS.", "score": 506 }, { "body": "You do realize that if the government were 100% forthcoming and correct about 9/11 it would be the first time in history they've been 100% forthcoming and correct about anything, right?", "score": 91 }, { "body": "Is there any part of a 9/11 conspiracy theories that you do agree with? Or anything at all you find suspicious about the 9/11 story?", "score": 69 }, { "body": "Have you ever converted a truther? I tried my hand at debunking 9/11 conspiracies when I was a teenager and I found it about as pointful as debating a brick wall. \n\nThe problem is, that unlike other conspiracies such as JFK or the moon landing, the scale of the 9/11 incident was so staggeringly large - there were 4 planes, 3 locations and 4 buildings involved, thousands of witnesses, and reams upon reams of documents, videos and photographs to pore over. No matter how many questions you answer, there's always going to be a hundred others that the theorist will come back with, 'but what about *this* document blah blah blah'. In their minds, unless you answer every single question to 100% of their satisfaction, they are right, and you are wrong. Not to mention there is so much circumstantial evidence, coincidences and such (which you would expect to find in a case so vast) which is basically impossible to 'debunk', that they will never actually change their belief.\n\nHow do you have the stamina? Have you ever managed to convince a hardcore truther that they were wrong?", "score": 56 }, { "body": "Out of all [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_advance-knowledge_debate), I understand that you can't explain every single one, please explain Insider Trading. That article screams Pearl Harbor to me.", "score": 44 }, { "body": "Riemann's Zeroes (incidentally, are there two of them followed by a seven?), I am a Russian girl and your pithy, grammatically perfect responses lead me to believe that you are a government agent. Shall we meet for what you believe to be sex but that ends in my trying to strangle you with my thighs?", "score": 41 }, { "body": "Do you see *any resemblance at all* to a controlled demolition in the way building 7 fell?\n\nWhat kind of evidence would it take for you to change your mind on this subject?", "score": 40 }, { "body": "I have a mate who's a structural engineer for steel and concrete clad factory units ( not dissimilar to the construction of The World Trade Centre ) \n\nI remember watching the news footage with him a couple of days after it happened in our local pub and he was absolutely adamant then that the planes would not have been enough to bring those buildings down. To the point where he was getting so wouned up about it, screaming bullshit at the TV, that we were asked to leave because he was upsetting the customers. \n\nNow when a good friend, who's usually quiet as a mouse and who's been in that game for over twenty years is screaming foul. Then you have to start asking yourself the odd question or two. \n\n", "score": 37 }, { "body": "What's the wildest theory you've seen thus far?\n\nWhat's your motivation for debunking the theories?\n\nHave you found anything that you can't come up with an answer for yet regarding the attacks?", "score": 37 }, { "body": "After taking down the twin towers bin laden would have easily had a 25 kill streak and could call in a tactical nuke. Why would he not have that enabled as a killstreak reward? Do you think he's some kind of idiot?", "score": 35 }, { "body": "What's your take on the hijacker passport that was found on sidewalk around the trade centers within an hour of the plane striking the first tower? I remember it was reported by the media that day. My Mom saw it too, and we talked about how unlikely that seemed.\n\nI did some Googling a few weeks ago and found that its never been denied. I always wondered why it never got much attention from the truthers.\n\n\n", "score": 29 }, { "body": "It really is depressing how many differently people have crazy theories about this stuff. I just spent the last 30 minutes reading most of this thread and I can't remember one person conceding they were wrong when presented with proof.\n\nHow often do people actually give ground riemannszeros? I admire your infinite patience, I would go nuts talking to a wall for hours.", "score": 28 }, { "body": "Why, at the pentagon fiasco, were all of the cameras in the immediate area confiscated? Why go to all the trouble of getting all of that film and then only release 3 frames of fireballs? OBVIOUSLY, they could have produced better shots of the plane coming in. The Pentagon's surveillance is no doubt one of the top in the world but you are satisfied with some fire.\n\nLook, do you people realize that lawsuits had to be filed just to see the shitty gas station cams? http://www.judicialwatch.org/printer_5965.shtml No, you don't. I don't know what happened, but I know one thing, if you believe the official story is true then you should be able to answer answer this; Why aren't we in Saudi Arabia considering that most of the alleged hijackers were from there? And, why is Bin Laden not wanted for the 9/11 crimes? http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm\n", "score": 27 }, { "body": "WTF? I posted a comment here, but it disappeared, even though it's in my comment history. When I clicked the permalink, [this is what showed up.](http://i.imgur.com/BjvOr.jpg)\n\n**\"You broke Reddit. 911 Changed Everything.\"**\n\nEDIT:\n\nThe original comment was,\n\n>As a fellow 9/11 amateur debunker, I applaud you for your efforts in achieving in a field in which I, from time to time, merely dabble in.\n\n>So my question to you is, why do you debunk these theories? Is it a hobby, or do you view it as a service? And have you ever \"converted\" anyone?\n\n>Also, what are your favorite 9/11 debunking resources? ScrewLooseChange, Debunking911, 911Myths, etc.\n\n", "score": 22 }, { "body": "Where was NORAD on 9/11? Gulf of Tonkin? Really, 9/11 is old news. Everyone can agree it helped them complete a goal,( Patriot Act/Destruction of fundamental civil liberties) regardless of if your a conspiracy theorist or a coincidence theorist.\n\nWho helped the underwear bomber get on a plane without a passport? Who was the man on that plane who video taped the entire flight and the incident? Why was a man reported by his father to be planning a terrorist attack not on a no fly list? Why is the FBI visiting private citizens who witnessed the events at the Amsterdam airport? http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_kurt_hask.html\n\nhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121983246\n\nMost of all why did this conveniently happen 9 days after they decide to delay the vote on renewing the Patriot Act?\n\n ", "score": 21 }, { "body": "Why didnt the pentagon defense systems (assuming they exist) work?\n\nWhy would the government not show videos of the bad terrorists flying into the pentagon to convince everybody they did it and we must invade their (and other) countries?\n\nWhy would they only show a video showing NO airplane (unless you are Glen Beck who sees an airplane)?\n\nWhy does the government go to great lengths to NOT investogate all the questions and mysteries?\n\nWhy did the airplane hot such a convenient spot in the pentagon (where for Bush&pals inconvenient files were kept) and why did WTC7 that contained so inconvenient (stock fraud files) files conveniently evaporate? Ok i give you ... you gotta be lucky sometimes...\n\n", "score": 19 }, { "body": "No question, just wanted to say \"hi\" - I'm a guy who fought tooth and nail with Ian Goddard about TWA Flight 800 for over a year. \r\n\r\nSince he subsequently recanted, I call it a \"win\"", "score": 16 }, { "body": "How is it that passports were found and not any of the black boxes?\n\nIf I'm not mistaken, those black boxes are made to withstand burning jet fuel, the passports on the other hand probably catch on fire faster due to plastic covers.", "score": 16 }, { "body": "One thing is clear enough: Mr. Riemann is willing to fight. There is nothing wrong with this, in my view, but I wish to warn fellow Redditors that this is not at all the way to appeal to someone's reasoning skills. He professes to enlighten, but attacks the emotions. When emotional centers of the brain are activated, reason is deterred. \n\nThis is certainly arguable, but it isn't a dark region of unstudied psychology, either. The tendency, in an object of psychological review, is often either to escalate in a conflict, or to defuse. I've compiled some quotes from RiemannZeros' comment history to help others decide. \n\n>You have eyes and a brain, sir, use them.\n\n>Delusions of grandeur are not uncommon in conspiracy theorists. Before you take over the world, would you mind becoming functionally literate in the sciences? \n\n>Truthers are too stupid to realize this.\n\n>You are too dumb to actually bother reading. \n\n>This is a terrifyingly stupid \"solution\" to a problem that doesn't require such absurd reaction. \n\n>You have absolutely no idea what the fuck you are talking about. You should stop talking.\n\n>Wow. You clearly don't read well. ...Does that help you out?\n\n>Wrong. A conspiracy theory is not any theory that contains a conspiracy. You idiots never stop, do you?\n\n>The entire truth movement is a bunch of cabals of idiots \n\n>It's all the same bullshit wrapped up in different clothes. Either you believe in evidence-based conclusions, or you are willing to ignore the evidence based on your preconceived ideology.\n\n>You don't seem to understand how it works.\n\n>Show me where it's wrong, scientifically, or shut the fuck up with your psuedoscience attack on it.\n\n>I guess this is your way of surrendering. I accept. Let me know when you are ready to talk issues.\n\n>So you surrender? Fair enough. Let me know when you are ready to dispute the facts:\n\n>I proved you to be a liar and you just ignored it. Amazing.\n\n>I guess you were lying about that, huh?\n\n>OH NO, YOU ARE DONE WITH ME???\n\n>Let's recap, then:\n\n > 1. You lied.\n >2. You got called out, and were presented with the facts.\n >3. You ignored all of the facts.\n >4. You accused me of being paid to lie.\n\n>Am I missing anything?\n\n>Good luck with that, liar. So no further questions?\n\n>Are you fucking stupid?\n\n>Owned. You can kindly shut the fuck up now.\n\n>Any questions, idiot?\n\n>*Stop lying. ... Stop lying. ... Stop lying.*\n\n>In my opinion, you are a fucking moron.\n\n>A bunch of dumbass conspiracy theorists pissing on graves got some in my coffee.\n\n>Is that what you call paranoid throwing of bullshit against a wall to see what sticks and matches with your preconceived notions of how the world works?\n\n>What answer do you nutters expect? \n\n>You need to look up ad hominem and stop proving how ignorant you are. \n\n>Or are you really that daft? \n\n>Ignoring the points while being called ignorant...\n\n>This isn't fucking rocketscience. \n\n>Downmod away, little dumbfuck.\n\n>Are you fucking braindead?\n\n>Gibberish nonsense you've apparently made up.\n\n>And, as if he/she knows his/her own priority set, at some level:\n\n>Show me a valid criticism. ...Or just shut the fuck up.\n\n>It's like the dark ages all over again.\n\n>This is called \"appeal to ignorance\". In this case, it is your ignorance. It is a logical fallacy. Just because you are insufficiently clever to figure out how something could have happened does not mean it didn't.\n\n>That's not ad hominem, ignoramus. Neither is that. Stop being smugly ignorant. Neither is that.\n\n>You need to look up ad hominem and stop proving how ignorant you are. Name calling is a necessary but insufficient condition to commit an ad hominem fallacy.\n\nIn the above, I see what is positively a circus of *ad hominem* frustration. Nevertheless, one ought to be willing to admit that both sides of the arguments at hand are subject to logical fallacies, and that both sides have these kinds of characters choosing to fight, rather than change.\n", "score": 15 }, { "body": "Building 7 is the biggest mystery of the whole thing. It did NOT get hit by a jet with spilled jet fuel. It did, however, fall straight to the ground in the style of a controlled demolition. I have seen many buildings after they have had catastrophic fires. I have never seen one fall straight down. \r\nIf for some reason you havent checked this out, here is one site of many regarding what is, at minimum, a very strange collapse of WTC building 7. \r\n [http://wtc7.net/](http://wtc7.net/)\r\n", "score": 15 }, { "body": "I would like to know if the World Trade Center collapse was not a controlled demolition then why was there traces of Nano-Thermite found in the debris.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i2Iha76XMY\n\nIm not a 911 truther, i'm just looking for a reasonable explanation.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "What's your opinion of the term \"truther\" itself?\n\nIsn't it oddly Orwellian to call the people you're trying to debunk **truth**ers?", "score": 14 }, { "body": "Your calling folks trolls really bugs me, but I would like a serious answer as to how you justify calling the following statments of unquestioned fact, a conspiracy theory:\n\nThe co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission (Thomas Keane and Lee Hamilton) [said](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02kean.html?ref=opinion) that the CIA (and likely the White House) “obstructed our investigation”. *Source: NY Times*\n\nThe co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission also said that [the 9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials misrepresented the facts to the Commission, and the Commission considered recommending criminal charges for such false statements, yet didn’t bother to tell the American people](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300.html?sub=new). *Source: Washington Post*\n\nIndeed, the co-chairs of the Commission now [admit that the Commission largely operated based upon political considerations](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/08/04/national/w124141D43.DTL&type=printable). *Source: SFGate*\n\n9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton says “[I don’t believe for a minute we got everything right”, that the Commission was set up to fail, that people should keep asking questions about 9/11, that the 9/11 debate should continue, and that the 9/11 Commission report was only “the first draft” of history](http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911hamilton.html). *Source: CBC.ca*\n\n9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey said that “[There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didn’t have access . . . .](http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2006/06/27/911_conspiracies/index4.html)” *Source: Salon.com*\n\n9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer said “[We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting](http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/02/9-11panel.pentagon/index.html)” *Source: CNN*\n\nFormer 9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: “[It is a national scandal](http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/11/21/cleland/index.html?pn=1)”; “[This investigation is now compromised](http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/13/911_panel_to_get_access_to_withheld_data/)”; and “[One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up](http://www.democracynow.org/2004/3/23/the_white_house_has_played_cover)”. *Sources: Salon.com, The Boston Globe, Interview with Sen. Cleland on DemocracyNow.org*\n\n9/11 Commissioner John Lehman said that “[We purposely put together a staff that had - in a way - conflicts of interest](http://rawstory.com/news/2007/911_Commissioner_We_had_to_go_0203.html)”. *Source: NBC Nightly News, video found on RawStory.com, Quote occurs at 3:48*\n\nThe Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) who led the 9/11 staff’s inquiry, said “[I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described …. The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years…. This is not spin. This is not true.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300.html)” *Source: Washington Post*\n\nThe members of the commission were:\n\n1. **Thomas Kean** (Chairman) - Republican, former Governor of New Jersey\n2. **Lee H. Hamilton** (Vice Chairman) - Democrat, former U.S. Representative from the 9th District of Indiana\n3. Richard Ben-Veniste - Democrat, attorney, former chief of the Watergate Task Force of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office\n4. **Max Cleland** - Democrat, former U.S. Senator from Georgia. Resigned December 2003, stating that the \"the White House has played cover-up\"\n5. Fred F. Fielding - Republican, attorney and former White House Counsel\n6. Jamie Gorelick - Democrat, former Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton Administration\n7. Slade Gorton - Republican, former U.S. Senator from Washington\n8. **Bob Kerrey** - Democrat, President of the New School University and former U.S. Senator from Nebraska\n9. **John F. Lehman** - Republican, former Secretary of the Navy\n10. **Timothy J. Roemer** - Democrat, former U.S. Representative from the 3rd District of Indiana\n11. James R. Thompson - Republican, former Governor of Illinois\n\nOf those 11 Members, 6 (marked in bold) are quoted and sourced here by very reputable main stream news organizations, implying that the official version of events is nothing more than fiction. That is 55% of the commission, more than half, that have publicly stated or implied that the official version is false.\n\nCare to debunk and bash those of us that are simply calling for a real investigation that isn't hampered by political bullshit?", "score": 14 }, { "body": "What is your explanation of the 5 \"dancing Israelis\" who were seen celebrating, high-fiving, and taking pictures of the Towers as they burned and collapsed?\n\nSince you claim to be well-versed in the subject, you're surely familiar with the *Bergen Record* story on this topic? Not to mention the numerous follow-up stories that connected the 5 Israelis to a moving company that was reasonably believed to be a Mossad front operation. \n\nAdditionally, as you surely know, one of the 5 Israelis stated, on Israeli television, after they were released, that they were there to \"document the event.\" How did they know in advance that there would be an event and know what it was?\n\nFor extra credit, please address the hundreds of Israeli \"art students\" who penetrated the DEA and other federal offices; and the four-part Carl Cameron series on Fox which ties in with these themes.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Forgive me for being pedantic but you are not properly a skeptic since you make your judgments beforehand and then go about finding your evidence. I'm not saying you should give every crazy theory credit, but you can't be a \"debunker\" and a skeptic at the same time.\n\n>Since \"skepticism\" properly refers to doubt rather than denial--nonbelief rather than belief--critics who take the negative rather than an agnostic position but still call themselves \"skeptics\" are actually pseudo-skeptics and have, I believed, gained a false advantage by usurping that label. \n~Marcello Truzzi", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I just want to say that all this business of controlled demolitions, a missile hitting the pentagon, have absolutely nothing to do with whether or not 9/11 was an inside job. People in power either made it happen or let it happen because it furthered their agenda, which is stated quite clearly in their founding document... establish a permanent military presence in the middle east... but absent a pearl harbor like event the process of transformation is likely to be a slow one. \n\n\nIf a group of people has no problem starting a preemptive war based on known lies that will assuredly result in the death of thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, regardless of their motives, why should they have any problem with the death of a few thousand American civilians? And if the terrorists wanted to kill Americans, why wouldn't they fly the planes into the buildings a couple hours later, when the buildings would be full?", "score": 12 }, { "body": "I don't really have any questions, but I just wanted to say thanks. I've lived in Manhattan my whole life. On September 11th, I was 12, and at my 5th day at a new school in Brooklyn. They completely sealed off Manhattan--no way in or out, and so I ended up having to go home with a teacher. Since then I've had a lot of various anxieties and phobias that really have only recently began going away. For some reason, all of the conspiracy theories tend to upset me, to the point that I've cut off a friendship with someone who took them seriously (I know it may sound harsh-ish, but I just really couldn't deal with it).\n\nAnyway, my point is, thank you. Your answers are well-written, informative, and polite, and do a public service. So, yeah.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Reading these comments, I am shocked at how many conspiracy defenders there seem to be here. I guess Occam's razor is not as commonly accepted as I thought. \n\nQuestion: Do you ever find people who accept and defend the pseudo-science explanations for 9/11, but simultaneously criticize the same behavior on other topics (evolution, global warming)? ", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I don't have a question but would like to say thank you for being a rational individual who believes in facts and not fantasy. ", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I'm not a truther by any means, but I saw a video awhile back that made me think a little more critically about what I was seeing. The link below is to a video claiming that the Flight 93 crash site was faked. At 2:18 in the video, it lines up a 1994 surveyor's overhead shot of the crash site with footage of the crash site on 9/11. The claim is that the scar in the earth made from the \"wings\" was actually there before 9/11, and that the crater in the center was made by a missile or an air-to-ground bomb of some sort. \n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUzrHHDu96U&feature=related\n\n\nDebunk this please. I genuinely want to put my mind at ease.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "How can George Bush have said he watched the first plane hit the WTC the moment it happened, thinking it was some sort of Hollywood movie? Even though footage of the first plane wasn't public until about a month after?", "score": 10 }, { "body": "The fact that the Gulf of Tonkin incident never happened and resulted in\nmillion of deaths in Vietnam make govt. involvement in 9/11 small potatoes.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "What do you make of the fact that the strain of anthrax used in the anthrax attacks came from a government laboratory?", "score": 9 }, { "body": "The only two things that I am not sure about when it comes to 911 is the testimony of that [janitor](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIZtqKiidlo) who was the last out of the building and the testimony of [Norman Manetta](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDfdOwt2v3Y).\n\nCan you put my mind at ease? It's entirely possible that Rodriguez is lying for the publicity, but Manetta's testimony that Cheney was in the bunker and the stand down order was not even included in the official report (it says that cheney showed up at 10 instead of 930 when Manetta said), but maybe that's immaterial.\n\nAbout the pentagon, I have heard some people say that it would not be possible for a jet to fly so close to a roadway without sending cars flying, is this true? (I would not have thought of this had I not just watched a mythbusters where they flipped a car with a jet engine from 100 ft. away). The other thing that is a bit fishy about the pentagon are the security cameras that the CIA confiscated and never returned, what are your thoughts on that.\n\nDo you think that the Pop. Mech. explanation of building 7 is convincing, I guess I can believe that shoddy engineering + fire = collapse, but it's still a bit troubling.\n\nWhat are your thoughts on Mike Ruppert? He says that 911 is an inside job, but believes that the collapses are possible without planted explosives. Personally, I believe that ignorance on the part of the security agencies and gov. officials is much more likely, but it's not impossible...\n\nSorry this started out as two questions and turned into 5.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "9/11 seems like a transparent [Operation Northwoods](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods) to me. The only beneficiaries of the operation were oil companies raking in record profits, and budget surplus magically changing into a multi trillion dollar deficit. As for my question, do you remember why we went to war in Iraq? ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Is it true that the EPA knew that the air at ground zero was harmful but didn't tell the public so that they could get the stock market up and running quickly?\n\nTo me, all the 9/11 conspiracies started *after* the planes hit the buildings", "score": 8 }, { "body": "How do you explain a bunch of people with minimal flying experience in light aircraft could fly and then precisely hit both towers and the Pentagon with commercial passenger jets?", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I'm not a 9/11 truther, but as most people should be, I'm still skeptical. I simply think we don't have the full story. Would you agree? Secondly, would you agree that Bush couldn't have justified the wars and etc. without 9/11? Finally, do country songs designed only to emotionally invest people in the war make you want to strangle someone as well?", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I saw recently that the FBI admitted that the phone calls from the planes were fake and that there is no evidence of the terrorists using box cutters. What say ye?", "score": 7 }, { "body": "It's easy to debunk those that are clearly crazy. Reading your responses it looks like you only challenge those with theories that anyone would say are half cocked. (the nuclear attack, space weapon) However i would like for you to take a shot at mrmoney's questions. He shouldn't be hard to find since he is at the top of your ama. I would like to add one of my own that has bothered me and may not be a good argument. It has been said that the metal in the buildings could not have heated up enough to melt from jet fuel. How is it possible that a fire that had black smoke (meaning not very hot and about to go out) was hot enough to melt steel? Jet fuel alone does not burn hot enough to do this. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "* Nearly all of the concrete in the building became a fine crystallized powder. There's not enough energy in the pancake collapse explanation of things to turn most of the concrete into powder. It takes a large amount of heat and explosive force to do that and fires were not present on most floors of the buildings and pancake collapse theorists deny explosions or controlled demolition. Neither dropping the concrete from high altitude or the floors smashing together could cause this so how did it happen?\n\n* The tower that got hit first falls second, why is it that one of them burns for 50 some odd minutes and the other for nearly 2 hours and they both collapse in the same fashion. Wouldn't they fall in sequence of being hit? The properties of the buildings were relatively the same correct?\n\n* Nearly free fall speed of the collapse, that boggles my mind. I covered this in physics class and a billiard ball dropped from the top floor would have fallen at nearly the same speed. All floors would've needed to collapse simultaneously for this to happen. The pancake theory, allowing for even minimal friction would take 20-30 seconds for a collapse but each tower fell in roughly 13 seconds. How did this manage to take place?\n\n* Molten steel in the basement. The fires I agree would weaken the steel but the melting point for the type of refined steel used in the towers was between 2500 and 2750 degrees while the hottest jet fuel can burn for a period of time is about 1500 degrees. Though the collapse due to the weakening of the steel is plausible, the molten steel is beyond logical reason. Why was there so much molten steel present during the excavation of the towers post-collapse?", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I am one of the \"rational\" folks who think flight 93 may have been shot down. \n\nThe flight ran 45 minutes or so behind the others because of delay.\n\nThere may have been a call made from a bathroom indicating an explosion. See this article written by a federal law clerk at the time:\nhttp://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/1001/1001flight93.htm\nThis story was initially reported and later disappeared.\n\nIt would have been the right thing to do, but wouldn't have gone over well. Much like flying Bush to Nebraska instead of back to DC. And when that happened, the white house initially floated a ridiculous story that plausible threats had been made against Air Force One.\n\nRumsfeld's strange slip of the tongue saying the terrorists \"shot down\" 93:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Xoxaf1Al0\n\nEvidence that makes me doubt 93 was shot down:\n\nThey did finally play the black box recordings to the relatives and release the transcripts.\n\nPop Mechanics says that seismographs indicated the plane was in tact when it hit the ground.\n\nIn Summary, I think that it is possible if the plane was shot down and the calls were made that \"THEY\" ;) would have been willing to take advantage of the calls' existence to float a more palatable story.\n\nThe black box gives me pause, though it is strange it took so long to release its contents.\n\nI don't know if the seismograph refutes a shoot down. I think a jet liner could be damaged by a fighter enough to crash without breaking up. In fact, if the call from the bathroom is real, there was definitely some time between the explosion and losing contact-- so I think it is still plausible.\n\nIn the end I think it is about 50/50. I think even a rationalist with a strong skeptical bent should give the theory at least a 5-10% chance of being true. If you give it less than that, you may be blinded by your own biases as much as the \"truthers.\"", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I have just watched the Dutch tv show that you cited about it being possible that a plane flew into the pentagon. This seems to be a credible source for you. However, I would like to point at the fact that in the last 5 minutes the expert says that WTC7 was brought down with controlled demolition. How do you respond to that?\r\n\r\nedit: [this](http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=6624447947169635420&q=zembla&total=42&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=7#) is the video you cited.\r\n\r\nedit 2: why the fuck does this get downvoted?", "score": 7 }, { "body": "You strike me as a pompous ass. \n\n\"hey everyone, I am the supreme authority on 911. AMA\"\n\nPish posh.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "* Why was the boxcutter myth propagated by senator Ted Olson based on a phone call from his wife that never existed?\n* Why was all the crime scene evidence removed and sold off so quickly?\n* Why was all electricity cut the weekend prior to 9/11 for 36 hours including security cameras?\n* Why was a FEMA command post set up 1 day prior to 9/11 right near WTC.\n* Why does the 9/11 report not even mention building 7?\n* What happened to Barry Jennings ( key witness that was in build 7)?\n* Why is Kurt Sonnenfield, the only official government photographer at ground zero now living in exile and has so far not released any of his footage?\n* Why are there numerous reports from maintenance workers in the sub floor basement levels about explosions going off before the first plane struck?\n* Was it a coincidence John P. O'Neill was in WTC and died ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/)\n* Why was the Able Danger project ( 2.5 terabytes!! of al-quada U.S operations -April/2000) suddenly confiscated by Unknown federal agents and then later supposedly destroyed?\n* Why is the no reports that several hijackers visited FBI informer Abdussattar Shaikh in San Diego ( DEC 200)\n* Why was Mahmud Ahmed the head of Pakistani ISI having breakfast with 2 senators THAT LATER HEADED THE 9/11 REPORT ( Gross and Graham) the morning of 9/11, later he is accused of wiring one of the hijackers ( Atta) 100k$.\n* Why was a CIA front company called Air Caribe also operating out of the very same hangar at Venice airport where some of the hijackers trained?\n* Why did military lawyers stop Able Danger from supplying information to the FBI prior to 9/11.\n* Just who is part of Able danger?\n* Who is this Able Danger guy talking about \"Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer later says that an unnamed two-star general above him is “very adamant” about not looking further at Atta. “I was directed several times [to ignore Atta], to the point where he had to remind me he was a general and I was not… [and] I would essentially be fired\".\n* Why did the FBI intimidate Florida residents that knew the hijackers including Mohamed Attas girlfriend Amanda Keller to change her story?\n* Why was the data from Acxiom and ChoicePoint not included in the 9/11 report?\n* Why did D.Cheney press that hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi agent in Prague before 9/11 to Bush as a reason to go to Iraq when the story reaks of fabricated bullshit.\n* What happened to Attas luggage and the rather silly \"how-to\" letter?\n* Who and why were Israeli spy's literally living within a few blocks of 19 of the 9/11 hijackers for weeks prior to the attack?\n* Who owns the $2.5 million of the put options that still remain unclaimed?\n* Why was there a 90 times jump ( not 90%, 90 x!)above normal in put option for United Airlines just before 9/11?\n* Why was the bush/cheney 9/11 meeting off the books?\n\nThere's plenty more..\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "No really, just a clever rouse to clean up karma-wise. no one could be that dense to believe our Americans wouldn't do something like this to there own, for gods sake we market keystone ice (putrid swill) to our own public, i mean after that a deadly false flag attack is a godsend because at least it distracts us from our deadly light beer conundrum (still unsolved everyone).", "score": 6 }, { "body": "After considering your and my comments I see the problem that neither you nor me has real proof for anything.\n\nMe: Why isnt there video footage of a plane (where you can acutally SEE a plane) hitting the pentagon, since I assume the pentagon is riddled in cameras. I watched the doubletree video and still cant see what looks to me like a PLANE)\n\nYou: There were no cameras, proof that there were.\n\nSo here is the problem. You cant proof there were no cameras and I cant proof there were cameras. The only people able proofing either way will not do it. The fact that there is no footage available does not proof such footage does not exist.\n\nThe fact that there is no such footage currently exists for the public is probably the only fact we can agree upon. What can be speculated on are the reasons for that fact and speculating is the only thing since neither of us has proof (real proof) either way.\n\nThe only thing we can do is ask: How likely is it that there are no cameras on the pentagon? I say it is not likely which then raises the question where is the footage and if it was indeed likely then it raises the question Why are people so retarded and dont put cameras on the #1 military structure of the world? Give me answers to this so I can sleep better. Either answer I come up with is very disturbing to me.\n\nThe real issue with all the proof and counterproof that was debated here is that hardly any of it is objective proof.\n\nI.e. There are people (credible or not) that claim they found microthermite and thus its a conspiracy. There are other people claiming it was paint. The average credibility of all those people is maybe the same. So in the end we arent any smarter and the folowing causes present themselfes:\n- It was paint, no more comments needed\n- It was tested as microthermite because, the analysis was wrong, the sample was conaminated, the results were manipulated or interpreted (intensionally or unintensionally) into believing it was microhermite, it was in fact microthermite that was there from the construction of the place (maybe it was used to weld beams or make repairs (legally or not).\n\nMore examples where both parties leave proof to be desired. For example there is the theory that the building pancaked, which I find believable considering that 1/3 of the building dropped onto the rest which the momentum would continue to just rip through. The top 3rd would NOT stop on each floor and wait to fall, rather it would just rip right through and much appear like close to free fall speed.\n\nThe problem: NIST (or whoever) did a computersimulaton showing pancaking floors but then they dont model the center columns. WTF? Why not? When this is brought up the reasonable thing to do is saying:\n\nWe actually looked at that and the columns being there or not does not change the result because [insert science here] and also here is an updated cumputer animation and now STFU. Problem?\n\nInstead people questioning their model are (supposedly, again no evidence for or against) pressured into STFUing. WTF why? Why not shut all truthers up by showing a model with beams/columns?\n\nAnother example is the Purdue (?) university simulation of the plane hitting the tower. But those people forget to model the engines on the plane. WTF? The engines have the highest density and weiht on the plane. Why not model those or update the model once this is pointed out?\n\nIn the end there is a shocking array of incompetence around many details of the events and the investigation that is so puzzling.\n\nI.e. Good 'ol Larry states on TV that They pulled the building. WTF? is he senile? Give the truthers morte ammo? I give him that any conspirator worth their weight would have prevented that from being aired IF he truly meant they blew it up. But WTF, why say such things? \n\nI.e. Good 'ol Larry takes out a terrorism insurance on his asbestos riddled not so occupied scrapers 3-6 month before they succumb to terrorism. Lets give him an extrordinary foresight of risk (which other people didnt have) but it adds another after taste together with the unproofable suspicion that those buildings were worth more money destroyed than standing. Did Larry just luck out while so many others didnt?\n\nThen there is Condy Rice claiming that nobody could have predicted that bad guys fly planes in buildings if its \"supposedly prooven\" that there are reports claiming otherwise, besides the fact that its not that hard to anticipate for the top national security buffs. Again is that sign of incompetence, cover up of incompetence or conspiracy?\n\nMany events (see the 2000 posts above) can be explained through incompetence or conspiracy and quiet honestly I wonder which would be worse :(\n\nThe answer might be in this fact that when the commander in chief is told that planes are flying into buildings that he decides to freeze and do less than the 5 year olds that were around him. \n\nAnother point for incompetence is the fact that someone who has dark skin, was reported as a threat, has a cash paid one way ticket and NO passport can walk onto a plane just by saying. Eyh, dude. Us in Dubai do that all the time, problem? IN 12/2009 !!!! I cant WTF that enough? This hurts.\n\nLastly, I am not a truther and dont want to be called one. I would however like to have hard facts for some of the questions I have. And no, what I have seen so far (from the governemnt, truthers and OP) does not answer all of my questions, which again doesnt mean its a conspiracy. Peace to you if you have all the answers.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Debunker implies that you have some sort of official license and or skill set for doing what you do. Sounds to me that you just offer a slew of apologetics and you're nothing more than skeptical yet educated laymen. I myself doubt most of the evidence behind many conspiracy theories, but I don't really think you're in a position to \"debunk\" all of them. That being said, I think you've definitely done your research and I respect the opinions that you have surmised from the evidence you have gone over. For the record, I do agree with much of the reasoning behind your opinions and I do not believe you are a paid government agent. I can safely say that none of us really understand what really happened on 911 and although we should strive to find out none of us are really in a position to spout facts and half baked theories in either direction. Downvoted for logic I'm sure; ignorance breeds misinformation and ignorance is the root of all evil. My personal opinion is that at least a few people in power must have had some warning about 9-11 before it happened especially if you look at the evidence of those in power wanting some sort of catastrophic \"Pearl Harbor\" type event to galvanize the nation and rally the people behind the government more from fear than anything else. It is certainly possible, and in my opinion not too far fetched that our own government may have had a hand in orchestrating the events of 911. But I myself am not in a position to state that this definitely happened, or conversely that it definitely isn't possible. We should definitely question our own government, but we should also question the moral apathy and belligerent ignorance of our own people.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "So you're saying that we were attacked by a middle-eastern villager/farmer, and that the US army has been there for around 6 years now, trying to capture this sneaky farmer? \n\nNice story, bro.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "for anyone who doesn't get his questions answered, here is a collection of debunking links from the James Randi Educational Foundation forums:\n\n[click me](http://forums.randi.org/local_links.php?catid=18)\n\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I haven't looked that much into 9/11 conspiracies, but the one that seemed most plausible to me is that the Bush Administration just ignored the signs of a possible terrorist attack and saw that it might do them some good to have America scared out of its mind. [This video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ri1i6nAGOE) in particular highlights their inaction, but Rice pulls an Alberto Gonzales and just say they forgot everything (but she can remember the title of the PDB). \n\nAlso, I saw a documentary a few years ago called [On Native Soil](http://onnativesoil.com/) and in that documentary there were multiple times when the terrorists were given a free pass to board the planes. It's been awhile since I watched it, but I remember that at least one of them didn't have an ID, and at least two set off the metal detectors but were allowed to go on. You can say \"Well, that was before we knew what we did, and before we were so afraid of everything,\" but one of the guys commentating on the situation in the documentary said that on 9/11 even he (a white American) couldn't board a plane without an ID. So, why were these guys allowed to? Heck, even when I was 10 years old and was flying to my dad's house in CO, my mom or my dad would have to show some form of ID to get my tickets. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "heres a non 9/11 question for you. are you a fan of the [SGU](http://www.theskepticsguide.org/)? If not I suggest going to check them out. Its the best skeptical podcast out there. keep up the good work, Its good to see a fellow skeptic doing the work of science. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Please visit this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacy\n\nAnyone can win a debate if they use fallacies. Please help shut down the illogical statements in this debate by nipping the illogical thinking in the bud--the actual fallacy itself.\n\nEveryone who is interested in truth and honest debates: Please learn the fallacies. You can spot them in so many of the posts by riemannszeros. I should not be the only one pointing them out--these are being used by both sides of the debate, which is quite sad. If you don't know the fallacies, you can easily say TRUE things AND YET be illogical. If only riemannszeros had known that before starting this sad thread.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Why do you continue presenting the NIST preliminary report as evidence of WTC 7's collapse when they won't even consider thermite charges as a cause for the building's collapse?\n\nThey rule out thermite simply because they don't see how somebody could have gotten the quantities necessary and place them by the columns unseen.\n\nThat isn't their call to make. NIST stands for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, not the National Institute of Sneakiness and Terrorism.\n\nSo what we can take from their report is that thermite explains _everything_ about how WTC 7 went down, but that they are under pressure to not consider it as a cause, because of course, that would point a finger away from \"Al Qaeda\".", "score": 5 }, { "body": "why was the collapse of WTC7 - the third tower - not mentioned in the 911 official report. Not a word about it.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Hello,\n\nWhat is the take on the Mossad (Israel's Intelligence agency) personal arrested in NY on 911 video taping the towers hours after the crash? Were they Mossad agents, or was it made up as well?\n\nNot a conspiracy theorist, just interested.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "My question is about the psychology of those that believe in conspiracy.\n\nWhy do you think such a large number of people believe this? What's their motivation? What does this mean for society as a whole?", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Seeing one informed person take on dozens of willingly ignorant people reminds me of all that is wrong with the world.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "@riemannszeros\r\n\r\n\"I'm not going to answer questions just to get downvoted\" this comes with the territory & has no corralation between how factual your points really are. Frankly, get over it & participate in this debate.\r\n\r\nOK. I just read this entire thread. You have not debunked anything. You demand that reddit users site factual evidence to support their claims. Yet, your claims are all \"factual\" without any citations.\r\n\r\nThis is hardly a debate. Like another user said, by taking this on you have the responsibility to back up your counter claims. Which you have not been able to do. At all. \r\n\r\nLack of evidence is not the evidence of absence.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Without getting into the whole evidence vs inconsistencies, I have only one argument that for me proves the attacks were real:\n\nHow many people would have been required to plan and execute this attacks if they were plotted by the government? Of all this people, why hasn't one of them come forward and tell the truth on the internet, and provide us with verifiable data? The internet provides the anonymity required to do this without fearing for their lives. Seriously, none of them? This also applies to the moon landing deniers.\n\nWhat does OP think about this argument?", "score": 4 }, { "body": "How do you explain this?\n\n[http://imgur.com/avjrI](http://imgur.com/avjrI)\n\nCoincidence? I think not.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Do you get frustrated by the fact that it's much easier and much less time intensive to invent new questions and theories than it is to do real research and to organize and point out the real facts?", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Show me videos of tall buildings falling down at free fall speed that AREN'T a result of controlled demolition.\n\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "What about the hijackers that are still alive? And where is the plane that crashed in Penn? What happened to the wreckage from that crash?", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Can you explain how 13 people all saw Flt.77 on the North side of the Citgo gas station (now the Navy Exchange gas station) and the Gov't supplied data, Radar data, black box data, all show something totally different. Please explain how these 13 witnesses all say the same thing, but are incorrect in their views. \n\nYou'll be the first to \"debunk\" this as the two Pentagon Police officers at the gas station that day have a lot more experience than anyone sitting behind their computer.\n\n[Good luck](http://www.citizeninvestigationteam.com/nsa.html)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "It's amazing how redditors, who as a bunch pride themselves on their rationality can become so irrational when it comes to conspiracy theories like 9/11.\n\nI imagine that there are several explanations for this - The most likely explanation is probably that this is a very emotive subject which makes people loose their cool. Nonetheless riemannszeros has done a great job of answering questions, thanks dude. Don't vote him down if you disagree with what he's saying, argue the point.\n\nTo throw a little fuel on the fire, some peoples comments in this story sound slightly fanatical and not dissimilar to crazy in the coconut creationists or scientologists.\n\nRiemann, why do you spend so much effort fighting this hysteria? If people believe something as strongly as some conspiracy theorists do, do you believe that your effort is well spent arguing with them? Do you ever feel like you are banging your head against a brick wall? Also, have you had any experiences where you feel that you have completely made someone turn a corner and stop believing something nuts?", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I still haven't seen a good response for this question from a fellow redditor:\n\n\"What do have to say about the black boxes? The government claims that all 4 were not recovered even though there has been eyewitness accounts of some of them being recovered. But even if you remove the human accounts just the fact that there has never been an instance where a black box haven't been recoverd in the history of black boxes (even deep ocean crashes) yet all 4 in this case were 'not recovered'. Statistically impossible.\"\n\nI watched the Conspiracy Theory episode and was curious about that as I still haven't heard that debunked by anyone, as well as the claim by people who have supposedly listened to the black boxes that the planes were hijacked WHILE THEY WERE STILL AT THE AIRPORT. Also, what about the explosions that are shown in various parts of WTC on Loose Change? I'm not an engineer by any means but it seemed odd there were explosions going off so far from where each plane hit. Lastly, what about the insider trading and the huge insurance policy taken out on WTC shortly before 9/11? I'm sure there's a lot more unanswered questions but that's all I can think of off the top of my head that you haven't debunked already.\n\nEdit: What about the wreckage clean-up after the attacks? On the CT episode they said it was sealed off with the wreckage hauled out to be destroyed immediately so it couldn't be analyzed, but I read somewhere else that it took a very long time to clean up. Is there some sort of middle ground for what actually happened?\n\nRelated question, what do you think of Conspiracy Theory (the show with Jesse Ventura)? I find it interesting although a lot of it seems pretty far-fetched and sometimes downright ridiculous.\n\nReally appreciate you taking the time to answer all these questions, this is the first time I've ever actually felt the need make an account and post on reddit.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Also, right after the attacks happened, but before they knew who was allgedly responsible, a list of the vicitms on each plane was released but the hijackers names were not on them. Why?\n\nAnd if these guys were not on anyone's radar enough to watch them as they go through airports, attend flying lesson, etc then how would anyone know they were responsible for the attacks? How would they know to single out those particular names when researching who could have done this?", "score": 4 }, { "body": "The most unfortunate aspect of this entire debate is how it draws attention away from the cold facts of life in a perpetual war. The war in Iraq was planned well before 9/11 and the Afghanistan \"conflict\" seems to have already become a tragic footnote that might grow into a real nightmare. The true tragedy is not the how or why or even who of 9/11 but the wave of bloodshed, corruption, and loss of liberty that has been unleashed. The apathy and cynicism of Generation X meets the self-love and social-spam of Generation Me in a pissing match over how a hole in the ground was made. Go ask any of the hundreds of thousand of mutilated survivors of our War on Terror if they give two shits about the 9/11 conspiracy. Preemptive war is just a politically correct term for a war of aggression which is a crime against all humanity. That's what the Nuremberg (Nazi) Trials were all about (not who burned the Reichstag, and that's what Bush, Blair and Company should be charged with in an international court of law. So enjoy your little pissing match of 'my link versus your link\" and try not to think about anything productive anytime soon.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "1. The federal income tax is both illegal and unconstitutional. \n2. The 16th amendment was passed unlawfully.\n3. The federal income tax is voluntary (meaning you don't have to pay federal income tax, but can volunteer to do so if and only if you choose.)\n4. There is no law actually requiring citizens to pay federal income tax.\n\nShoot.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I get the feeling that you want to believe conspiracy theories but you find the lack of evidence overwhelming and you go debunking around to get people to bring convincing evidence to you. What do you think about this?\n\nI am saying this because so far your debunking has been something like \"show me your evidence\" or \"how can you claim that?\". This means that either you don't really have arguments against conspiracy theories (but who can blame you, they barely hold together) or have been extremely lazy to make a strong argument against conspiracy theories.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I heard that 9/11 was planned and executed by black jewish muslim fascists that have infiltrated the white house. Is this true?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I haven't seen this question addressed here yet...I remember when 9/11 first happened tons of \"it was a conspiracy!\" videos were all over the web, and one in particular showed a picture of the hole in the pentagon that was completely round...do you have an explanation/clarification for this? I'm not a hater, this is just one element I always wanted to know more about.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Two planes brought down 3 skyscrapers? The one that was hit 2nd fell first? All 3 fell into their footprint? ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "This doesn't really proove a consipracy, but it does raise some eyebrows. The owner of the WTC's asked for double his insurance policy of 3.6 Billion because each tower constituted a seperate instance, he won the money in court. He also recieved 800 million for his WTC7, when it is estimated to be only worth 350 million, he got that money. \r\n\r\n\"Larry Silverstein, age 70, already controlled more than 8 million square feet of New York City real estate. WTC 7 and the nearby Equitable Building were prime among these prior holdings. Larry Silverstein also owned Runway 69, a nightclub in Queens that was alleged 9 years ago to be laundering money made through sales of Laotian heroin\" -Reinsurance Companies Wait to Sort Out Cost of Damage, New York Times, 9/12/01, page C6", "score": 3 }, { "body": "you can convince me of anything about 9/11 but for sure i know there were explosives on the wtc 1,2 and 7. since the government says that they fall on their own, then the government must be part of the plot\n\ni am no expert but i been around gravity, cement, steel and fire for a while, and there maybe be a houndred suspicious things that may be false about 9/11 but those buildings could not have fallen on its own", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Heh, you got this one all figured out too right?\r\n\r\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_advance-knowledge_debate", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Actually, the whole recent debate about global warming was a strong argument for me that also the official version of 9/11 is significantly more likely to be mostly true than mostly false. Many arguments against global warming sound very logical to someone who doesn't know much about it, but since I do, I know that and why they are wrong. In case of 9/11 I do not know that, but it I can see that the shape of the arguments against the official 9/11 is essentially the same as the ones against global warming. \r\n\r\nIf you don't know enough about a certain subject, one simply has to be honest with oneself, and look at where the scientific consensus is, which is pretty clear in case of things like global warming, evolution, but also things like nuclear power and what not.\r\n\r\nWhich brings me to a few questions:\r\n\r\n- There are several official sources about 9/11, but I feel like there is lack of independent sources. How many independent (and reviewed by more independent people), scientific investigations are there, proving (or disproving) the official version?\r\n\r\n- In short, what is your opinion about nuclear power and gene technology?\r\n\r\n- Are there any other subjects where, in your opinion, many people fall in the conspiracy (or similar) trap? ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "What about the fact that Osama bin Laden has never been wanted in connection with 9/11? http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm - and even DENIED involvement in 9/11- http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.binladen.denial/ - no matter how patriotic you might be, you can't deny that the case against Osama bin Laden rests on a poor quality video of a man who appears to take responsibility. I doubt you can be a critical thinker if it isn't obvious to you that the US government has FAILED to make it's case. And that's why conspiracy theories will always have a place.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Why did the media suddenly stop covering \"The bomb in the basement\"?\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwhU15UY3Fc\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egIrVyM3FGY&feature=related\n\nAnd the fact the towers went straight down faster than the speed of gravity?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "WTC7 falling is the one thing that pushed me over the top into thinking that the theories may have truth to them. I've read your comments in this thread and done as much of my own research on the subject as I could. It's still crazy or even impossible to me that that building fell due to the crash into the two main towers.\n\nHonestly all that I really wish if for those theories to get their day in court. Even if they prove to be false, I just want them to have a chance to make their case.\n\nEdit: changed WTF7 to WTC7 (Freudian slip?)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Just explain the WTC 7 building collapse - no jets hit it - it had some debris impact damage and some scattered fires - but it was 2 MILLION square feet and 47 STORIES, \"Scattered fires\" have no where near the thermal calories to drop that enormous structure. \n\nAlso I'd like to point out that broad 9/11 posts like this rarely discuss the WTC7 building and go off on dozens of goose chases - \n\nI ask about WTC7 ONLY and want to hear how you explain it by \"debunking\" it. You posted this and I'd like your answer. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Believing (all) of the OFFICIAL 9/11 \"facts\" is in itself a complete act of stupidity ; when NOTHING WAS DONE TO STOP THE HIJACKED PLANES, and there are literally too many holes in the official story for one to debunk. Take the hijackers whom are still alive and well, mystery terrorist passport, no 'real' photos / videos of the plane hitting the pentagon / or wing span marks on the Pentagon, the impossibility of cell phone calls made in mid-flight ; thermate / thermite evidence etc..\n\nI challenge you to research Dr. Steven Jones' work on the WTC 7 collapse and his evidence of molten iron 'balls' found in the WTC dust. WTF are the trace elements of an explosive reaction which melts steel like better doing in the dust? I'm sure you'll try to explain that one away with wall board or something unworthy. \n\n Countries stage terror attacks on their own populations as a pretext for going to war. It happened to us NUMEROUS times throughout history ; and you aren't doing your fellow Americans any service here by blindly supporting the official story. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "So, what would you say happened with WTC 7? I was a longtime skeptic who researched this a lot, and came to the conclusion that no one really knows what happened, and the government is lying in their reports about it. \n\nI don't think that the government lying implicates them, nor do I think questioning the official story means we should jump to the 'inside job' conclusion. But I'm really curious if you think you can debunk the criticism of the official story for WTC 7, because many have tried and failed. \n\nI've read the final report, and many of the other reports. I've also been responsible for clearing up some of the misinformation thats floating around by getting the Wikipedia article changed in a few places, and will be doing more of that. \n\nSo, if you're up to the challenge and have an open mind let the discussion begin. If however, you simply want to push an agenda and aren't interested in finding truth, just say so now before we waste each others' time. \n\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Is there an explanation on why the steel frames looked like they were cut with [shaped charges](http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/wtc_charges.html)?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "chrajohn is correct, but they're not interchangeable. naughties with the 'a' has the added connotation of something 'disobedient' or 'bad'. this is because the -ies sounds like -ys in pronunciation.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "They're [variants of the same word](http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=naught&searchmode=none). *aught* is too.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "1. No. 250k+ for a fixer upper in that area. I live in east austin in what a lot of people would call a fixer upper and I could probably get 150k for it. I like this area but if you're after so-co/hyde park this is not it.\n\n2. property tax is high because we dont have a state income tax.\nhttp://www.ehow.com/how_2038449_calculate-texas-property-tax.html", "score": 6 }, { "body": "1. No the lot values are over 200K. Go check out the [Travis Central Appraisal District](http://www.traviscad.org/).\n\n2. Not that I know of other than the standard homestead and over 65 (in some counties). ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I was going to move down south to an apartment but found a 1700sqft 3br house with a big yard for the kids in Wells Branch for the same rent. Depending on what your licit situation is like, I wouldn't discount North Austin. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I can only help you out on the first question. In regards to cheaper homes that are still nice and local, I would highly recommend you check out the 78745 area code.\r\n\r\nLots of older, but still nice homes and all at a good price.\r\n\r\nGood luck!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Regarding #1, if you could get a house in Hyde Park for around $150K, I'd be living there right now. However, some people have very loose definitions of \"Hyde Park\" that include a lot of other areas vaguely nearby. You might be able to get something kinda close in and near Hyde Park for $200K to $250K. You can always look around on trulia.com to see what people are asking and (to a lesser extent) what they've sold for. Trulia actually does show a house that sold for under $150K in Hyde Park recently, but it's tiny, it's 1 block away from the freeway, and it's directly across the street from a giant four-story public storage building.\n\nRegarding #2, there are a few breaks, but not many. Here's [some info](http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/proptax/exmptns.html) on exemptions. Obviously, you can control your tax bill by fighting it when they try to raise the appraised value of your house too much, if you can convince them that they're wrong.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "QQ? Sob story? No way mate, life isn't easy. You're not alone, there are always people who care for you. Even strangers on reddit :)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I'm 43. Been through my share of hell on earth. it's never to late to start a life. It can be your life now. Screw traveling... make it happen where you are. Let go of all your stories that everyone has told you and only see them as metaphors and others self-reflections... you are you... an amazing and sensitive individula that need only say, \" I AM!... and now what shall I do?", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I have lived in Florida all of my life and I am quite sick of it, I also suffer from depression because of the way this state runs and how rude the people are here.\n\nIf there is one piece of advice that I can give you that I know will save you from more years of suffering is GET THE HELL OUT OF FLORIDA.\nYou don't have a wife or kids to hold you back, pack your belongings and get out of here, I totally feel your pain.\n\nMy wife and I want to move to North Carolina and just live a quiet simple life, you really don't have to move to Tibet to get some peace in this world.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "There's a saying, \"Wherever you go, there you are\". Meaning, running will get you farther away from the flashpoint of your problems but it will never get you away from you.\n\nWhat are you other ideas for getting out of this hole? ", "score": 3 }, { "body": ">I fear that staying home alone is starting to deteriorate my mental state.\n\nIt certainly is. Get social.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I occasionally wear a shirt to some of the fetish parties I attend:\n\nSadist: /sa·dist/ n:\nOne who cares enough to inflict the very best. \n\nWhat areas of BDSM do you specialize in?\n\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Explain to me a scene in which bones were broken. Please make it sound as hot to me as it was to you at the time.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "What if the people who want you to hurt them do so because of the way they were treated as children, abused children often crave the same abuse as an adult, so whilst it may seem like they are consenting, do you not find it sad that you are continuing their misery? ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Are you saying her parents were insane because you needed to fuck like rabbits for months and they only let you do it at weekends?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Someone's probably already asked this, but in case nobody has... Have you ever/how often have you been on the receiving end? Do you enjoy it, feel indifferent or is it a real turn off? I imagine it'd take a real special someone for a sadist to enjoy any masochism?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Isn't this the problem with open relationships? That one side usually feels some jealousy, which erodes the marriage? I may be a prude here, but these kind of relationships seem like \"have my cake and eat it, too\" arrangements (have fun, punsters).\n\nIn my opinion, the basis of a good marriage is trust. I think this trust manifests itself most prominently in the act of fidelity. I'm not really sure what the foundation of your marriage rests on, it seems very \"self-interested.\"\n\nFrom the perspective of an outsider, it seems like you are being used here, that you are giving your girl permission to \"test drive\" other relationships, until she finds a better one.\n\nMore power to you if I've got it all wrong. Certainly not my intention to preach here, but as other have said, you sound unhappy about the imbalance you perceive here. \n\nI see a few options for you:\n\n1) Tell your girl to cool it a little.\n2) Up your game to balance the books.\n3) Determine if you really ARE cool with this arrangement, or if it sounded a lot better in the beginning than the reality is.\n\nI'd like to close with a question: What was the catalyst for this open relationship? Your suggestion, hers?", "score": 40 }, { "body": "You may love this woman very much, but facts are facts, and the facts here say that you're getting played like a fiddle. If the only way to keep a woman is by letting her fuck anybody, while you get no pussy whatsoever, is ridiculous. Maybe part of the problem with meeting no new women is that you use the marriage as an excuse to not approach them. \r\n\r\nGet that ring off your finger, and leave the chick who clearly doesn't think as highly of you as you of her. Then, re-claim your nutsack by walking up to the first cute girl you see in a bar, act confidant, eventually bring up your profession, and enjoy the insane bliss that comes with chicks over-rating men based on military service (I've lost girls to dudes specifically b/c they could claim to wear that uniform. I would use this angle with every woman I meet if I were you).", "score": 12 }, { "body": "An IAMA about open relationships without Tobias Funke? How has this occurred?\n\nTobias: You know, Lindsay, as a therapist, I have advised a number of couples to explore an open relationship where the couple remains emotionally committed, but free to explore extra-marital encounters.\n\nLindsay: Well, did it work for those people?\n\nTobias: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but...but it might work for us.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I am 'friends' with girl who's in a much similar relationship. All I can tell you, is that (as a guy in her life) I think of her as dirty and an emotional bulldozer.\n\nTHAT BEING SAID\n\nThe guy\n\n* Does it to himself by consenting while knowing he won't do the same\n\n* Is not able to please her BECAUSE he's a loser who can't get laid on his own without giving the girl a really really long leash and working his way into her life with her only half-heartedly interested", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I am a little confused as to why the fact that this woman gets laid more than him in a consensual agreement makes her a whore, and him a victim. It's not her fault he can't get laid.\n\n\n\nAnyway dude, just adding on here that if you are/ever become unhappy, don't hesitate to leave. Open relationships are risky things, and while some people believe they can handle them, most of those people really can't.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I think it's hard to really have equality in this because it is so much easier for a woman to pick up than for a man. Even a fat ugly woman can walk into a bar and volunteer to suck some guys dick and there will be takers. Men view women as sexual prizes (9/10 won't turn a woman down when she's offerred on a platter) and women view men as an optional buffet, that gives the female side of this more power. I think you have to figure out if your feelings are a result of subconscious resentment for your wife, or of genuine self-image issues that makes you feel incapable of pursuing your fair share. If you resent her activities, and she's not willing to rein herself in for you then the relationship is in question. Of course from what you've said, it doesn't sound like you've made much of an issue of her behavior apart from asking her to ease up a bit. I would suggest a serious discussion in which you are completely honest with her and yourself. If you have no problem with her activities but feel shitty because you can't get laid, you need to work on yourself. Put more effort into your looks, hygene... study the behavior of the average looking guys who never miss with women because of their charm and confidence. Get therapy to help find a direction for yourself that will make you happy and therefore confident. Confidence is a pussy magnet regardless of looks.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "at the risk of sounding like and MCP, I have found that women take the emotional qualities of sex very seriously. Does this not concern you in the long run? ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Don't worry, man. Guys like us had the bad luck of getting idiotic, unqualified parents. Loser parents. We kids had to fend for ourselves, mentally and emotionally. Most kids in this situation turn out like you; insecure, dull, lack drive and motivation. Basically, losers (like you say yourself.)\n\nFor me, my real life is just beginning, and I will do everything in my power to NOT be like you. Thanks for showing me what I would have been had I stopped thinking for myself and started listening to the people around me.\n\nI don't feel sorry for you because I know you could change if you wanted to. Truth is, you're content with what you are, with how your life is. I once was (when I was very young).\n\nDon't tell me you won't change if a guy put a gun to your face. You can change. You want to change, I imagine. But you won't. Because you feel you don't NEED to change.\n\nFor me, being someone like you IS life-threatening to me. \n\nStill, good luck to you. And I really mean that.\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I think a lot of people commenting here lack perspective on military deployments. You get deployed, your spouse is left behind, it's a high-risk situation for your relationship. It's a running joke in the military: who's she fucking while you're gone?\n\nIt's still a high-risk situation even when you're honest about it. Whether it's *higher* (because she's more likely to form an emotional attachment to somebody than if she weren't trying) or *lower* (because you're honest about it, so you don't develop a cancer of lies in the middle of the relationship) is hard to guess.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You have to immediately take control of the situation. When they ask for Mr. X, ask who's calling. Make them identify themselves before the discussion goes further. Tell them it is your legal right to have them identify themselves.\n\nWhen they say they are calling from ABC, make them say what ABC stands for. Then ask them whether they work for ABC, or for some company that was hired to call on behalf of ABC. Let's say they then say they work for company XYX.\n\nWhen you have this information tell them the following:\n\n1. Nobody in this household has a business relationship with either ABC or XYZ.\n\n2. They are therefore in violation of the federal Do Not Call list, and you will report them.\n\n3. They are to \"cease and desist\" calling on behalf of ABC or on behalf of and current or future clients of XYZ. The cease and desist should stop future calls from \"charities\" or from bill collection agencies.\n\n4. Report them to the Do Not Call list.\n\nIt is none of their business whatsoever whether Mr. X is a member of your household, and you should not give them that information. It's your phone, and they are using it without your consent.\n\nIf you are in a really ornery mood, string them along, while googling up the information they gave you. Most of the time, Google will show you that a lot of the police or fire charities are pure scammers and you can ask them to explain why various Attorneys General have sued them for fraud.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Nope. Use the tag filtering thingy, set it to \"do not include\", add increased\\_maxplayers and/or respawn\\_times.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Quick way to find a few is to scan for 'vanilla' or 'stock' in the name. Use game-monitor.com:\n\nhttp://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?search=vanilla&game=tf2", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Good \"vanilla\" servers (that are in my favorites at least) are the OSF server, Baron's Pub, and Vanilla Gaming (sadly short on activity since all the regulars are playing MW2 8 hours a day). dodgyc's recommendation is good too, although not all servers put vanilla in the title. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "i just use the filter to the best of its abilities.\n\nPut in respawn increased and choose not include and that helps a tonne.\n\nAlthough favorites is the best way, when you find one favorite it.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Wash the sheets, forget about it. \n\nSometimes when you're at a party it gets to the point were you're too drunk and it's too late to get yourself home, so you sleep where you can, collect yourself in the morning, and go home. \n\nIt'll happen to you one day at some point, and you'll be glad of the bed. \n\nIt's really not a big deal. \n", "score": 34 }, { "body": "You need to talk to him and find out what happened first. Tell him its unacceptable and that you aren't happy. Now change your sheets and move on. If you've just moved in you don't wanna make a huge scene. Let it slide this once, but definitely make it be known that you aren't happy. ", "score": 31 }, { "body": "Is it possible that at the end of the night one of his drunk friends just forgot about the \"don't go into Larsenmur's room\" rule and ended up in your bed? If your roommate thought they'd made this clear they may not even have realized it happened. Other than confronting your roomie about this (when you can get hold of him at least), the only thing you can really do is clean your sheets and move on. ", "score": 22 }, { "body": "Did he actually let them?\n\nOr did they just go ahead and do it when he wasn't paying attention/was asleep/was passed out?", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Tell him, you're upset by this, and give him real (reasonable) actionable solutions to help you not be pissed off. Tell him you want him to wash your sheets and (one suggestion) do an extra load of dishes/clean bathrooms, and if he does that, then you'll let it go. I'm sure he didn't mean to let people sleep in your bed, or at least he had no malicious intent. The people who snuck into your room did that. But holding a grudge, or pulling a fucked up prank will make your living situation much worse. Just talk it out and offer him a solution that shows if he takes risks by throwing a party he is accountable for ALL of his mess. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I had the same thing happen once, except whoever it was that crawled into my bed had their muddy boots on.\n\nI wasn't happy when I got home, but after mulling it over I decided that if they were drunk enough to crawl into a strangers bed with their muddy boots on, I'd rather have them in my bed then leaving and getting into God knows what kind of trouble. \n\nIf you're going to sleep in a dorm like situation with roommates, especially ones that party, you have to be prepared for this kind of thing once in a while. If you're not up for this type of stuff occurring occasionally (and in no way would I blame you) then you should find somewhere quieter to live.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Eat his food, drink his wine: since he treats your things as community property, respond in kind.\n\nStart looking for a new place.", "score": 3 }, { "body": ">Let me tell you one thing, i've been living in WG's ( thats what we call it here )\n\nWhat do we call a WG?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Nice example of what feminists always want: simultaneously having and eating their cake. They want to be strong and independent and yet constantly victimized; they want to be equal and yet special.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "> Feminism greatly expanded the concept of the damsel in distress, remolding it into female victimization.\n\nI can actually see your point there (didn't think of this before) how the 'victimization' was an extension of the damsel in distress theme and the 'white knight in shining armor' became the man who has to take the woman out of patriarchy. \nWhile I see that past and current gender roles are still enforcing this theme it is vital we are starting to break out of those roles and re-evaluate each persons personal style of living their lives: women are not entitled to be rescued and men do not have to do any sort of rescuing regardless of the personal risk they are taking. So men would not have to feel shame or the need to defend an action not taken and women can take responsibility for their lives and actions.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "That video is really annoying, with the music and whatnot.\r\n\r\nOnto the topic: I don't think all that many feminists (save a few radicals linked on this subreddit) actually believe that all women are _damsels in distress._ They don't want men to be chivalrous; just to be as courteous to women as they are to men. Ultimately, it seems like chivalry causes the problem. Can we really blame feminists for mens' chivalry?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Mind you I'm jaded from a horrible coming out... I'd be wary, people can turn on you. One minute they may ask for help, another they could blame you for brainwashing (which my parents did with my therapist).\nI'd offer information to the parents, resources such as a local therapist and support groups, but I wouldn't talk to the kid until they got that worked out. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "If you feel like you have something meaningful to tell this kid, then by all means go for it, but if your coworker is looking for a diagnosis i really dont think you are qualified to give that", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Try talking to the kid. They probably don't have any idea that changing sex is even possible. Once the possibility is raised, I think it would become very apparent if the kid is actually trans - they will grab onto the idea and not let go.\n\nAlso point your co-worker to the story of Kim Petras, as that's an illustration of a young transition (and a reassuring result!).", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "BMI's are not accurate. \n\nDo not start eating very unhealthy foods just to gain weight. It will not help your health in the long run. Try talking to your doctor about it, I'm sure he/she will give you the best advice. ", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Find a doctor. Get tested for allergies and intolerances, including gluten, lactose, eggs.... If there's anything you tend to eat a bunch of, add that to the list. Also get your thyroid checked. Anything else the doctor can think of. \n\nSecond, throw BMI calculators out the window. They give a rough estimate, but if your muscle mass is even a little above or below average, it's useless. If your bone mass is off a little-- useless. Etc. \n\nNow-- Do you feel healthy?? The throwing up isn't a good sign. But do you tend to feel faint when you forget to eat? Mood swings? Do the bottoms of your feet hurt? If you're a woman, do you have consistent menstrual cycles? Do you have a positive body image? All of those things matter a lot more than a number.\n\nIf you (and your doctor) think there's a problem, you still don't want to try to gain weight fast, because that's not healthy either. The key for you is to have small nutritionally dense meals throughout the day. Think powerbars (experiment until you find a brand you like). Granola, nuts, protein shakes.... These are the kinds of things you can throw in a bag, locker, or desk, come in a wide variety of flavors, are packed with nutrients, and you don't have to prepare them. \n\nObviously finding lots of other foods you like will help. But in the short term, find foods that will count.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Ignore all the joke posts, this is a serious issue! \n\nFor context, I was 5'10/135lbs when I was in 12th grade. I gained about 40lbs in the 16 months following graduation by following very simple principles. Additionally, I was in much better shape -- not only stronger, but also leaner in addition to being more muscular. It's not difficult, you just have to follow a few steps. \n\n1) Figure out your daily required calories to maintain your current weight (also known as your resting metabolic rate - RMR). Google Harrison-Benedict formula for a pretty decent approximation of this. \n\n2) Add 500-1000 calories to that, and that is what you need to consume to gain 1-2lbs per week. \n\n3) Use [Fitday](http://www.fitday.com) to track your normal daily calories for a few days to get a sense of how many you eat right now and how much more you'll need to eat your target goal. \n\n4) Fill this with GOOD FOOD. People will tell you to eat whatever you have to in order to gain weight -- chips, soda, chocolate, weight gainers, etc. This will gain you predominantly fat, and while at 105lbs you could probably use some, why not just gain muscle instead? You'd have a much better physique at a lean 135 than a doughy 150. \n\n5) Work out \n\n6) Repeat for several months. \n\nPsychologically getting over your appetite is going to be the hardest part. For a while it will feel like you're stuffing yourself sick, but you'll habituate to that feeling within a few days.\n\n ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "This make take a few tries to get into it:\n\nStep 1: Some weed to stimulate your appetite. It works for people on chemo and people with painful terminal illnesses.\n\nStep 2: When the weed makes you hungry, eat Denny's, nachos, frozen pizzas, pizza rolls, cheese steaks, pizza bagels, chinese buffet, pizza buffet, go to an all you can eat fish fry, doritos, ice cream sandwiches, creamsicles, egg sandwich on a bagel with cheese and bacon, any fast food dollar menu, etc.\n\nStep 3: Enjoy the weight gain.\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Ideally, what you'd want to do is increase your caloric intake while improving strength, stamina, and general health.\n\nYou could start eating fatty and unhealthy food, but you don't want to instill bad eating habits. My recommendation would be protein supplements, strength training, and eat hearty and healthy food more often. Red meat is good for this, just make sure you keep a handle on what you eat, also eat more often during the day: snacks between meals, pre-bed snack, etc. \n\nBut consult a professional though, its possible to gain muscle mass, and not just a chunky ass. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I would also like to know how to gain some weight, I'm not quite as bad as OP but I'm still 175cm and 57kg (sorry I don't know in imperial), and people always tell me to eat more (it doesn't help that half my family are from a Mediterranean background where the culture is eat eat eat) but I'm just not hungry enough to eat as much as other people.\n\nI saw a BBC documentary once where they took a bunch of skinny people and made them eat about 2500 calories a day for a month. While most put on a few kg, a month after the experiment was over almost all of them had returned to their original weight. \n\nI think the best way is to hit the gym regularly and drink protein shakes, so that you build muscle mass, which is obviously far more healthy than munching junk food just for the sake of gaining weight. Before Christmas I was doing this and I plan to resume once the whole festive season has died down. The best thing about this is that working out makes you feel amazing. If you live near a gym join up and explain that you want to gain weight and they will give you a plan to follow. I was nervous and self conscious about going to a gym but nobody cares as much as you think they do. Hope this helps!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Working out may stimulate your appetite, as well as building muscle. So if your not already lifting weights, you might try that.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Bacon and Beer. Save the bacon grease and cook other stuff with it. But don't gain weight... you can *never* be too thin. You'll get paid more, get laid more, etc.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "do the 5x5 weights routine at stronglifts.com and starting eating clean and healthy\nYou'll soon bulk up (not huge, it takes time)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "When I was dating my wife, I made an origami rose for her (including a stem with \"thorns\"). I put a drop of scented oil on it too.\n\nIf you go this route and and want them for a special date/event, give yourself a ton of time. I had planned on making her a bouquet of 12 but it took me forever and I only had enough time to finish 1. And buy extra paper if it's your first time folding paper, you'll make a ton of mistakes.\n\nedit: here'a a [pic](http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/4616464/HowtoMakeYourOwnRoseOrigami-main_Full.jpg) of one, mine looked similar to this. \n\nP.S. Oh, and I did use a piece of wire as the base to the stem. Some purists would say that's cheating.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "They best things I've ever gotten from a guy were sadly the simplest. After working a 14 hour shift, tired as hell I came home to a hot bubble bath, candle lit rooms, and a nice handmade dinner. he ended the night with a massage, and eventually candle wax...", "score": 6 }, { "body": "My now-wife has an unhealthy obsession with the Japanese guy from Heroes (I don't watch the show so I have no idea what his name is).\n\nAnyway, about 5 seconds after we \"officially\" started dating, she left to go on a mission trip to China. A few days after she left, I was reading a magazine and saw [this ad](http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/news/00010865.jpg). I cut it out, made a dialogue balloon out of a sticky note that said \"Welcome back!\", and taped it to her monitor at work, so she would see it when she came back to the office about a week later.\n\nShe thought it was great. The trick is, when you see something or think of something that you believe your GF would appreciate, just do it. It's the little things that blow their mind the most.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Ah... this thread sucks especially after the whole virgin thread post which brings me a lot of angst...\n\nI have a couple things:\n\nOne year, during the winter, I drove up north 2 hours and looked for a great view of the lake. She always lamented about not seeing stars in the city, so I wanted to take her to a remote place. Eventually, I found a perfect vantage point, where there was a clear overview of both the sky and frozen lake.\n\nI picked her up from her apartment and took her to get sushi (best meal to have when you can't eat it then and there). Only, I said to get take out. As I drove up north, she was perplexed as to where we were going, but I was keeping it a surprise.\n\nAs I drove through dark and abandoned roads, she was getting scared, but I assured her it would be worth the wait. I finally got there, opened the sun roof and we sat there eating sushi in my warm car looking at a clear moonlit sky and frozen lake listening to some mixtapes I had asked her to make. She was getting cold, so I revealed some comfy blankets I made sure to bring. \n\nI playfully said, \"oh shit, I think I heard some clinking while driving up here beneath your seat.\" When she checked, she found some nice plates and a gourmet cheesecake that I bought.\n\nAnyways, she didn't like the experience so I took her home early.\n\nAnother time, she was hosting her first art exhibition in the city. At that point, I had moved because of business, but I said good luck and wished her all the best. However, I was really planning on surprising her. I couldn't afford buying plane tickets back, but I decided to take a bus ride. The exhibition was on a weekend and a bus ride was 24 hours in total. I got there and she was sort of happy to see me, but I had to go back on the bus in only a few hours because it was the only way I'd make it back to work for Monday. Her reaction was I guess less enthusiastic than I thought... so it was a very long bus ride back. It was literally the last time I've taken a Greyhound... as I always think about how bad that experience was. My friends still think I was insane to do that.\n\nBack in high school, I had made a portrait of a girl using about five thousand pill bottles, as she was the \"perfect drug\" for me. (I know, cheesy, but it was high school!) \n\nI hope the 2010's are a little more... fruitful.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Maybe not the most awesome, but the most awesome one I can remember: She was gone for an extended trip home. I had been watching over her animals in the mean time, so I had a key.\n\nThe day she was set to return, I told her that I would meet her at her house when she got home. That day, I bought a bunch of Hershey's Kisses and arranged them into directional arrows leading to the living room of the house. The last message said \"Welcome back!\" and in front of that was a life-sized cutout of one of her favorite actors. \n\nWhen she called to say she was a few minutes away, I lied and told her that I wasn't going to be able to make it there. I almost scared her to death when she found out someone was in her house, but she really appreciated the gesture once that wore off.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "A physical thing: a painting he made for me overnight, featuring a heart with wings and a poem written in French at the top\n\nAn abstract thing: for me this is the day to day stuff -> making me coffee before I wake up, washing the dishes if he knew I had a long/hard day, post-it notes planted around the house with inside-jokes, opening the car door (this is very gentlemanly), screensavers with funny messages, a single flower left on my windshield with a note/drawing\n\nLittle surprises are the best, IMO. I especially enjoy finding special knickknacks left around. Whatever you do, she'll love it. The only thing women cannot tolerate is indifference. You're obviously one step ahead of that.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I like to build [videogame sprites](http://www.flickr.com/photos/conradoplg/sets/72157622637190807/)\n\nI was thinking on building a Epoch too... yours is neat, but *please* wash your LEGO D:", "score": 22 }, { "body": "[this guy made a whole house](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214729/James-May-size-Lego-house-wants.html)", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Hello, CaspianX2. I want to play a game. You can see that you are shackled to the floor.\n\nFor years you have tinkered with Lego. Now it is time for the Lego to toy with you. When you lifted your head from the floor, you simultaneously played this recording and activated my trap. Carbon monoxide is slowly being released into this room, and you will only have enough oxygen to breath for ten minutes.\n\nIn the box to your right, there are many pieces of Lego and several razor blades. You must find the longer pieces of Lego and connect them in order to reach the key at the end of the room. Once you have released yourself, you can deactivate the trap. You will then be free to go. Now it is time to see if you have indeed earned your right to live as a Lego master...", "score": 8 }, { "body": "[Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njirypwroDs) is my Lego NXT 2.0 Robot \n\nIt plays the Mario tune... \n\nThis was done for AI class...\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I've never made anything cool. One cool thing made of lego that I have seen (*which I did not make*) is an [automated lego car factory that really works](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ3AcPEPbH0).\n\nAnyone know of anything else like this?", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I made a rubber mold of a car stereo dial. I used the Legos to build a rectangular frame, and poured the liquid rubber into it.\n\nDoes that count?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Throw a jacket or something on top of that. Blazer for class, zip-up for casualish. Wearing a t-shirt by itself seems a little... bare.", "score": 14 } ]

[ { "body": "Your map function is very similar to the traditional 'xargs' command:\n\necho yahoo.com reddit.com google.com wikipedia.org | xargs -n1 ping -c1\n\nXargs takes words or lines of input, makes each into a command, runs it, then continues. I use it mostly for processing >1000 files in a huge tree of directories. Another perk of xargs is you can do things in parallel with the -P option, and it can handle filenames with spaces.\n\nThanks for posting, I hadn't seen a Bash Map function before.\n\nhttp://man.cx/?page=xargs", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "My ex-girlfriend's mother's husband. I'd kill him given the opportunity, regardless of whether I'd get caught.\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Is there a numerical limit? Is there some reason I can get away with killing only one person, or can I start working my way down my list?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "These were all taken with a cell phone, for my ex. She effed up pretty bad, though, so you benefit. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Brave New World is an amazing book although the way it's portrayed in that cartoon isn't exactly what the book is like or about. I would highly recommend every American citizen read this book.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The closest I've ever been to an insight is when I knew/realized/understood/saw that what I am doing is just what I'm doing, and I don't need to think about it at all. Not only that, but I'm already BEING without having to do anything. Thought is just something that I have added to the moment. I was on the same level as everyone else in the world, and the trees, and the cicadas singing their hearts out in the trees outside the zendo.\n\nThen I started thinking about it. :-/", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Please tell more about the experience you had.\n\n\nThere have been insights and experiences for me. None on drugs and none while meditating. Most of them were complete bullshit (I'm not trying to imply that yours was though!). But a couple of them were 'important' so to speak. Important enough to remember anyway. The first one was realizing that noone was going to 'hand me' the truth. It was something I'd have to go after and verify completely for myself (whatever that is ;-)) At the same time the realization that *there is truth* and I could never be separate from it. So to find *truth*, I'd have to find out what this thing called 'me' was. \n\nThen... years where \"todays insights are tomorrows mistakes\" as it is said. Studying Zen, Advaita, buddhism in general, went to see a couple of teachers, etc. And also flashes of complete clarity followed by episodes of being totally submerged in the dream state we normally call life. But always the question \"who am I\". Then one day walking home from work I passed someone on the street and I just 'recognized' myself. It was pretty intense actually. I remember thinking \"if I am 'me', and there is *one reality*... who are all those other people?\" Bam. Like someone hit me over the head with the pure, simple truth. Then I looked around and recognized myself in *everything*. Seriously. That was some weird shit I tell you. That never went away. Now whenever I look at something, it is like that 'something' is looking at itself. Actually... it's not *like* that. It is exactly that. Now I'm not claiming to be an enlightened guy or anything btw. It's the reality itself that is 'enlightened' (that is simply its nature) not this particular, aparent form. \n\nThis is actually only the second time I've ever told anyone this. It took quite some time (about three years) to get to grips with it.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "It seems that most spiritual experiences tend to be non-verbal, and attempts to fit them into words have a tendency to lessen the overall value and use of the experience.\n\nThen there is the question of validity. If a person were to describe some type of experience, we are left with three choices . . . he/she is telling the truth, is lying, or is self-deceived. The very fact that the listener cannot help but be distracted from what is being said to the person who is saying it.\n\nAll in all, it would appear that when discussing important things, it is probably best to leave one's self out of the discussion.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I *heard* that someone asked the Dalai Lama if it was possible to attain enlightenment on LSD. He supposedly replied: \"I hope so\".\n\nAnd yes/yes.\n\n\"Tomorrow Never Knows\": Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream,\nIt is not dying, it is not dying\nLay down all thought, surrender to the void,\nIs it shining? Is it shining?\nThat you may see the meaning of within\nIt is being, it is being\nLove is all and love is everyone\nIs it knowing? Is it knowing?\nThat ignorance and hate may mourn the dead\nIt is believing, it is believing\nBut listen to the colour of your dreams\nIs it not living, is it not living\nOr play the game \"Existence\" to the end\nOf the beginning, of the beginning", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Since it's children I assume this is during the day? I'd have to say during the day, all's fair. Earplugs.\n\nIf it's at night however, that's different entirely.", "score": 29 }, { "body": "Sonic war. Get yourself an 800-watt bass head and a 4x12 cabinet, plug that sucker into your ipod, and blast gangsta rap at them whenever they start bashing on the piano.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "I'm assuming you share a wall? You could offer to help them move it to an interior wall (a wall to one of their rooms, etc.) or buy some foam to put between the wall and the piano. We have a piano on an interior wall and put some foam (like you would use for a seat cushion) behind the piano - no complains! It helps that my neighbors are A) never home OR B) really really old.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Earplugs, white noise with noise-cancelling earbuds for naps, loud music in general.\n\nIf none of these are options, you'll have to put up with it, be more direct with your complaints, or go to another location when you need your non-nap quiet time.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Go over and slam the piano lid on their fingers. \r\n\r\nKidding. \r\n\r\nI'd have asked the neighbors to re-arrange the practice times.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I think you have to look at it from their point of view as well. Kids, want to learn to play the piano, so they will practice. What you could try to agree with them is a time for practice - maybe 6 pm to 8 pm and nothing after that.\n\nIf they are considerate neighbors they will listen to you and try to work things out, try talking to them 4 to 5 times. If, all else fails, play fire with fire and as [this guy](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aktbr/dear_reddit_my_neighbor_has_a_piano_and_kids/c0i3cig) says play rap whenever they play the piano.\n\nAlso if you want to get real perfect record the noise from your house, in case the police are called you can show how noisy they are and you have hard proof.\n\nBut I would suggest that you first talk to them. They should understand you. Remember, if you are nice to them you will have the upper hand.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Curtains and furniture can help as the can absorb some of the sound waves. You can't really do much to prevent it other than asking your neighbor to try and work out a schedule. I assume you're not going to go soundproof your house. In most areas they have laws about noise after a certain time, usually 10p.m.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You should read **Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman.** Richard Feynman is so awesome; Because of him, physics is my favorite subject.", "score": 199 }, { "body": "Louis C.K. dealt with the same issue of [answering \"why\" questions](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u2ZsoYWwJA#t=7m).", "score": 61 }, { "body": ">He says basically \"I can't explain it in terms of anything you're familiar with, because I'm not familiar enough with anything else you're familiar with to explain it.\"\n\nNo he doesn't. \n\nHe says \"I can't explain it in terms of anything you're familiar with, because I don't understand it in terms of anything else you're more familiar with.\"\n\nThink about that for a minute... there's a BIG difference between those statements.\n\n", "score": 57 }, { "body": "Feynman just could have skipped to the part where he says the electrons are all spinning in the same direction, which amplifies the normal effect that keeps us from falling through the floor.\n\nI think he got frustrated because he thought the interviewer was asking for an answer that required something more fundamental to explain it. Still, this is one of my favorite videos because it finally answered my longtime question of how magnets exert such a noticeable force. I never realized it was so fundamental. ", "score": 17 }, { "body": "> I learned from this that I wasn't stupid, but I lacked the background to understand in-depth explanations for complex topics.\n\nMore accurately, what was missing was context. The human brain likes to make connections--that what it does. Learning is a process of associating what you already know with new concepts and material.\n\nI had the same experience my self!\n\nThat said, it blows my mind that there are people on Reddit who don't know who Richard Feynman was. It like saying you don't know who Einstein was in my book!\n\nWe're a fairly technical bunch of folks here...everyone please commence Wikipedia'ing.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "Feynman is such a great intellect, yet so accessible. It is astounding. \n\nIn addition to reading his books, you should check out [Feynman Online](http://www.feynmanonline.com). Although the site is a bit underwhelming, considering the 'greatness' of Feynman himself, it does have some good tidbits. \n\nFor instance, check out the anecdotes section. One of my personal favorites is the James Randi story (he's another hero of mine). ", "score": 14 }, { "body": "Your examples reminded me of an essential communication problem, the \"curse of knowledge.\" If you know something, it's difficult to explain it to someone who doesn't because concepts have informational baggage that comes along with it. I can't really explain what the concept is or why it's important, but the book [Made to Stick](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_to_Stick) does a great job and is required reading.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "What he essentially says here (minus the reasoning) is, *\"I will now not answer your question, and yet when you are done listening to me, you will still be wiser from having done so\"*.\n\nAnd he's absolutely correct.", "score": 7 }, { "body": ">Why when explaining electronics (I was a hobbyist at the time - making simple circuits) do they start with 'people in a bus', 'water in a pipe', and other very simplified illustrations, then they go immediately to explanations that are very complicated?\n\nI would say that the ability to learn a given subject, and the ability to explain that subject (once you've learned it) to someone else rarely go together. The sort of people you are looking for to explain things to you are the intersection of two small sets.\n\nAnother thing going on is that different people have different tripping points (things they need explained in some depth which act as road blocks to further progress) in any given subject.\n\nI think that as you get to higher level classes the teachers are not teaching to a general audience. Instead, they assume that if you are taking their class, you are as naturally good at it as they are (have a small number of tripping points compared to the average person).\n\nOne mathematician that I think does an excellent job of addressing a much larger number of tripping points (aiming his texts at people who are not naturally good at math but are interested and willing to work) is Gilbert Strang.\n\nI think the middle ground you talk about does exist, but very few experts are interested in spending their time exploring it., The internet is also helping this by allowing people with similar questions about technical subjects to exchange notes and index them. A graduate student that has recently struggled to understand a point in math or physics that you are struggling with is in a position to give you a much better explanation than a seasoned professional would (who has forgotten what it was like to not understand something).\n\nI think that vast middle ground is virgin territory and mapping it out in the years to come it going to advance the education of the average person beyond anything that has been achieved before. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Richard Feynman also said that if we (physicists) can't explain a concept in simple language, then we just don't know enough about it...yet.\r\n\r\nIt was in one of Feynman's interviews on youtube.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Dr. Feynman actually gave an incorrect explanation of why ice is slippery. I don't think scientists fully understand the \"slipperiness\" of ice, as simple of a question as it may seem. They know it is caused by a layer of water, albeit this layer is not formed via the exertion of pressure on the surface. In reality it is believed that the layer of water is more likely formed by heat generated via friction. \n\nJust goes to show you, question everything even if it comes out of the mouth of one of the most prolific thinkers of our generation (or parents). I think Feynman would agree with this.\n\nMore information can be found here\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/science/21ice.html", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Feynman was a master of explaining things without dumbing them down, yet still managing to make them understandable. If he could see that an illustration would give you a false impression of the way something actually worked, he wouldn't use that illustration.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I love YouTube Comments\n\n\n\n>klegger (2 weeks ago) Show Hide\n\n>+3\n\n>Marked as spam\n\n>Reply | Spam\n\n>Actually, JodaYodaOda, the interviewer is ChristopherJSykes, who >produced this documentary. If you read the \"more info\" part above, \n\n>you can see that the interviewer is most appreciative of Feynman's \n\n>intellect. Not everything boils down to who \"owns\" whom, the pursuit \n\n>of knowledge is not an adversarial one.\n \n>JodaYodaOda (3 weeks ago) Show Hide\n\n> +6\n\n>Marked as spam\n\n>Reply | Spam\n\n>Feynman just owned the interviewer.\n\n>\n\n>The interviewer sounded like a dick too.\n\n\n\n\nlooks like kleeger owned JodaYodaOda\n\nedit: formatting", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'm just going through these videos now. At the end of the first one he says\n> I think we should just have fun... There's no teacher gonna ask you questions at the end.\nOh, my... he's right! I'm free!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "You might also want to have a listen to the Feynman Lectures that Microsoft Research has graciously made available online for free:\n\nhttp://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'm a big fan of Feynman, and it's hilarious to me how aggravated he gets with the \"why\" questions. I didn't know about him either before Reddit. \n\nReddit also turned me on to a book called [GEB](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach). It's a 800 page rant about how the consciousness is just a pattern that semi-accurately reflects reality and itself. I'm only on page 82 though. You can find a copy at Borders for $25.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I saw an interview with Feynman several months ago. During that interview he mentioned how his father one day was in the wild with him when they saw a crow. The father then started telling him the name of crows in many languages. At the end, he told the young Feynman something to this effect \"You can know the name of the crow in all the languages of the world and still know nothing more about the crow\".\n\nIt made me think about how our education systems are devoted to developing verbose circumlocutions to explain topics in uselessly detailed – but vacuous – ways (which are nonetheless easy to test to a standard), while remaining oblivious to the big 'Whys' that fundamental and 'real' learning is made of (which are nearly impossible to subdue to uniformed testing).", "score": 3 }, { "body": "It's taken me years, but I can now see that \"water in a pipe\" is an *extremely* good analogy for electricity, with pressure/elevation an excellent analogue for voltage, and current an excellent analogue for, well, current.\n\nHowever, it's not a particularly useful analogy, as having an intuitive understanding of energy, resistance, current and valves is just as complicated with water as it is with electricity.\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "*Here is a bit of a copy, paste, and edit from an earlier discussion...*\n\n**Match.com** : The site is filled large selection of 'compatible' women, at least according to matches statistics. I've used this service for a year, with 6 free months thanks to the match guarantee. In this time I've had maybe 10 women actually communicate with me beyond a couple of e-mails. Most just stopped responding after my reply to their initial reply, if even that. Probably around ninety-five percent don't even respond to a well thought out few sentence e-mail that indirectly acknowledges the fact that I've read their profile. Many of those who do respond respond in a 'thanks but no thanks' manner, but hey that's better than no response. I've met one woman in person, but I think it may have just been because she was new to town and need to meet new people. After the date I got the “lets just be friends e-mail.” We met once again afterwards and she stopped responding to me.\n\n**eHarmony.com** : I 6 months total during two separate three month membership here. Despite the experience of many others who have tried to sign up as atheists or agnostics I had no problem, and my account was not rejected. The people it matched me up with were for the most part interesting. I went out with five women, two from the first membership period three from the other. Two of the dates qualify for the two worst dates I had. I think this site had the highest percentage of 'compatible women' for me, but there was a much smaller pool of women to start with. \n\n**OKCupid**: I've been on OKCupid for the longest. In general, women here are more responsive to contact when compared to other sites. Only more recently does there seem to more compatible women. The fact that it is free means there are more non-serious people on the site. Unlike other dating sites the women have actually make an effort and have initiated contact. In some cases though, because of the nature of the site, it is difficult to tell initially if someone is interested in romance, friendship, or something else entirely. I've met one woman in person from OKCupid, I thought we had a fun first date, she accepted a second but stood me up and didn't return any calls.\n\nI was not impressed with **Plenty of Fish**, and didn't correspond with anyone from that service.\n\nAs an added bonus I tried to try out speed dating offered though **Cupid.com**. The event was canceled twice and I never made it.\n\n**tl;dr;** Gave online dating shot, hadn't had much luck but haven't given up on it yet.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I've been using OkCupid and just had a most amazing date from it. Fellow redditor, and will probably see this.\n\nI've been on the site for a while, and met a lot of decent people, but just didn't hit it off with any of them until now. I'd say for at least that much, the site has been a success for me. \n\nI am a woman, by the way. A lot of men complain about not having as much luck with it. It is free, so worth a try.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Remember a second job means the Government will take more tax from you. Sell dope it helps the environment.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "You'll have to avoid paying the enormous amount of tax if you want a second job. You may consider options where you (illegally) to evade tax known as \"cash in hand\" jobs.\n\nYou may seek to make yourself valuable to your company then ask for a pay rise or look elsewhere.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "First, Stop smoking, drinking, gambling, eating takeaway, buying coffee and any other non-permanent items (movies, bowling etc). I eat indofoods noodles for lunch with vegetables added; fifty cents a weekday for lunches. Food in Australia is significantly overpriced, be aware of this. I would start a decent food garden, but not everyone wants to.\n\nSecond, look at the permanent items you buy. Are they disposable? Are they plastic? Do they become obsolete in two years?\n\nThird, monitor /r/frugal.\n\nYou didn't say how much the mortgage is or how much the payments are, or what your interest rate is. Review the contract, make sure you understand how much the early exit fee is (~$800 is common, two grand means you went with a shonky agent or broker) and be aware of when it expires. When that time comes, carefully consider moving your mortgage, and how much that costs, to a credit union or union bank (eg Ford Employee's Credit union, or Member's Equity).\n\nDo not refinance the loan upwards to pay down consumer debt, or buy a car, or improve the house, because if you do then there's nothing to stop you doing the same thing again in three years, and as you go through your career, your debt and repayments will rise in line with your salary and you'll always be living on the last 5-10% of your income.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I used to buy all kinds of popular scientific magazines. \n\"Kijk\", \"EOS\", \"Natuur en Techniek\", \"Aarde en Kosmos\"... in dutch. \n\"Science et Vie\", in french. \n\"Scientific American\", \"Popular Science\", \"Sky and Telescope\",... in english. \nAnd there's even a few more. \nNowadays, apart from when I'm in a transit zone of an airport, or in a railway station, generally when I'm bored and away from home, I don't buy *any* magazine anymore. \nThere's only one (quasi-global) source of information for me. \nIt\"s called: *the internet*. \nBiased, I know. But so is most printed matter. \nThere's too much of it, I know. But can you have *too much* of a good thing? \nAnd with the coming flood of *e-paper e-bookreaders*, which is quite a mouthful, printed magazines are in for a basic review of their reason for being. \nEdit: \"biassed\" > \"biased\". Damn!", "score": 5 }, { "body": "This is an awesome magazine:\n\nhttp://www.americanheritage.com/inventionandtechnology/\n\nIt's filled with articles on how different things were invented.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I love Scientific American MIND. Of course it's not something that I can cite in a journal but what's great about it, is that they have brilliant scientists write about a topic in a colloquial manner. It's nice to hear their opinions and speculations free from the sterility of peer-reviewed journals. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I liked [iX](http://www.heise.de/ix/), but they don't publish the magazine in dutch anymore.. and my german is a bit rusty.\nA more scientific one is [EOS](http://www.eosmagazine.eu/language/nl-BE/home.aspx) but unless you can speak dutch, you won't be able to read it ;).. however they are, if I'm correct, partners with [scientific american](http://www.scientificamerican.com/)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I like the Journal of Physics (http://journals.iop.org/) -- order all of them especially \"Condensed Matter\". The AIP journals are also very good but perhaps a little in-depth for toilet reading (http://journals.aip.org/). ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I have not seen the show, but I would suggest the book [Paris 1919](http://www.amazon.com/Paris-1919-Months-Changed-World/dp/0375760520/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262453266&sr=8-1) by Margaret MacMillan to anyone who is interested. It was a great read.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "The last day of WWI was awful, too. Eager commanders ordering charges against machine guns just hours before the end of the war, when everyone knew it would end at 11 AM.\n\nGeneral Pershing said it was wrong to end the war, he wanted to go to Berlin. He said \"if we don't go to Berlin now, we'll have to do all this again in a few years.\" Should have elected him President.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "pretty awesome to know she's capable of this - i think a lot people would be blown away if she did some mtv unplugged thing", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Every time we try it falls apart due to lack of leadership/organization... take charge and we'll follow.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "For those of you who might not know, this is the same woman who wrote [My Enemy, My Love](http://www.amazon.com/My-Enemy-Love-Masculinity-Dilemmas/dp/1560255684/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_3), one of the most hateful books I have ever read.\n\n>The author supports her theory that virtually all women hate men. She does not, however, condemn their misandry, but rather justifies their prejudice.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Let her cry it out. I know how hard it is (we have 2 boys 16 months apart, both were sleeping through the night on their own by 3 months, and they were sharing the room) but you have got to *not* pick her up. If she has her own room, that might make it easier because she won't wake the other kid up as often, but if not, that kid will learn from it, too. They won't be mad about it or anything, it might just be easier on you.\nAnyway, first, make sure she's actually *tired*. We were told by several people that sometimes, babies just need less sleep. You might have to manually adjust her sleep schedule. Keep her up and engaged, even if she turns cranky. Cranky for a few hours for a week or two is better than months of being up at night. That's it as far as the sleep goes, make sure she's on *your* schedule.\n\nAs far as her apparent need for attention, you have to not give it to her. Is she crawling or rolling over or anything, or still pretty non-mobile? Anyway, you have to cut her off from your attention. Believe me, I *know* how hard that is. They are skilled when they cry, it goes right to your core, but it's for the good of everybody. You can tell if she's hurt or not, but she doesn't need you to be there for her to be comfortable.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "I feel your pain. We follow a parenting method called Attachment Parenting. It sounds like you might have a high-needs/\"spirited\" child on your hands. I highly recommend babywearing. Your daughter can still get a lot of that touch time but you or your wife can still do many activities. My daughter is 2.5 and it was great for this.\n\nAs far as the sleep is concerned, it really depends on the kid. There's no one size fits all mechanic for children. My daughter sleeps maybe 9 to 10 hours a night and has a 2 hour nap during the day. The No Cry Sleep Solution is a GREAT book to at least learn about tips and tricks that aren't cruel and unusual (like cry it out techniques) punishment but I don't necessarily agree with her conclusion about the amount of sleep kids require. \n\nMy daughter cosleeps and breastfeeds, so I'm used to waking up frequently. It is normal for children to wake frequently up to about 5 years of age. My daughter still wakes up 4-5 times a night, but because we cosleep I can just nurse her and we both fall back asleep pretty quickly.\n\nThe doctor can't really help in this situation, and that's something I've learned. If you think there's something physically wrong, then check things out like food sensitivities/allergies. If mom is still nursing then she may have to remove them from her diet too while you try it out. The most common sensitivity is dairy (I don't know if you're giving her formula or solids yet or, like I said, if mom is nursing and eats/drinks dairy). It can cause reflux type symptoms which could explain the nighttime crying. \n\nIf she sleeps in a crib, then maybe she's waking up crying because she's lacking a closeness to her mother/parents. Check out [Dr. Sears's website](http://www.askdrsears.com) for more information. And feel free to ask me any questions.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "what my wife and i used to do was see who could pretend to be asleep the longest and hope that the other person would get annoyed first and go take care of the kid.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "You have my sympathy. I would make very sure that there is no medical reason for her behavior. If there is none, there is nothing I can say other than good luck trooper. I have children and have a very good idea of how frustrated you must be. There are bound to be support groups on the net with parents who have dealt with a similar problem. Have you looked for those?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Hey, Sleep Doula here... \nI need some background first. Does she sleep in her own room? Do you leave the light on in said room? Is your wife nursing or is she bottle fed? What are her sleep habits during the day? What is the temperature in her room when she goes to bed? Also, she seems to like being held, babies at six months should be allowed to play on the ground by themselves to explore and gain independence. She should be starting to crawl by now... Answer these questions and I will see how I can help you. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I'll be there. Although I think someone should bring a helium filled balloon and tie it to the back of a chair, in case people have difficulty finding us like all the previous times.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Not able to make it this month but *fingers crossed * I'll be moved in downtown and checking out the 2nd Reddit meetup of the year! Have a good time guys! ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Ah very cool, I typed in /r/toronto just for the hell of it and found this! I've only been a redditor for a couple months (I tend to lurk).\n\nMay or may not make it, but I'll definitely keep this in mind for the future!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "hey guys, i havent been on reddit long, but was told about this meetup.. wondering if i'll be able to come.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Sounds like a temperature problem to me. Try running realtemp and rivatuner to get an idea of how hot your equipment is running. Post the temps here and we will let you know if it's overheating. If you have already checked this I don't know what to tell you...\n\nhttp://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner\n\nhttp://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "OpenOffice is better than Word, free, and has an application that will do this.\n\nWhen I used it, it was a little cumbersome to use, but that was over a year ago but since OpenOffice is open-source, someone may have improved it by now.\n\nI have a Master's degree, but my writing still looks like I am in first grade.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "the only reason he might give out the isk is because if you do that and make it a paid account he gets a free month and thats about how much a plex costs. On the other hand eve is a game were scamming not only allowed its encouraged by some including the devs. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It's kind of the same mentality as not picking up the phone right after it rings. You don't want to appear like you're not doing something ... then you forget to respond at all. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Some things I would consider:\n\n- Anything you stream can be recorded by whoever is watching. Make sure you are comfortable with this, theoretically anyone you know could end up seeing any of your videos. If at all possible, disguise or don't show your face. You might try specific fetishes to avoid doing more overtly sexual stuff (e.g. foot fetish, crushing stuff with your feet, there's lots of goofy shit out there).\n\n- Try to find a reputable site, a lot of that stuff seems really shady. Don't do anything illegal, the risk could ruin your life.\n\n- Decide beforehand what you will and will not do. Guys will try and get you to do all kinds of stuff you might not be comfortable with.\n\n- Don't let any personal info out (real name, phone number, address). \n\n- There were a couple IAMAs awhile back you might want to read over. One was from a regular cam girl and another was from a cam girl who sold her used panties for cash. There's also a couple IAMA posts from girls who went into stripping or escorting to make extra cash temporarily.\n\nDo you have any other options? Maybe withdraw from classes this semester until you've got some money saved up. Or next semester take less than a full-time load so you don't have to pay as much, etc. Do you have any family/friends you can reach out to?", "score": 35 }, { "body": "How much $$$ do you need to get by? I'd be willing to pay a little to watch you study and do well in school. Your graduation and earning of a degree would be the climactic money shot. Do this, start a website where people pay to watch you keep your clothes on and do well in school. I bet it would work. ", "score": 27 }, { "body": "Wow, funny you mention this. My coworkers and I just found one of our friends in an adult film. Albeit somewhat different from being on a webcam, it broke her. All of her friends are disgusted in her and her fiance pretty much was about to kick her to the curb. She was only paid $1500 even though the website said she would get $10,000. If you REALLY must use your body to make money, do something in which your naked body will have a small chance of making it to the internet. Strip clubs, while not exactly always classy, are a pretty protected environment for that kind of thing. Bouncers will generally break someone's camera if they bring it in there and you get cash up front.", "score": 24 }, { "body": "An acquaintance does **Phone Sex** as a full time job. She does quite well for herself. The benefits of Phone Sex work is that your likeness is not public. In other words: she sleeps well knowing her mother won't see her pic on YouTube; she has some assurance that a \"client\" won't see her in public and attempt to engage; she is able to turn off her business phone at the end of \"shift\" and be herself at home. -- She works via an agency that takes care of the logistics and accounting for her. Of course the agency gets a big cut, but she says the money is still very good.\n\nIf you are gregarious, have an imagination, understand male sexual fantasies and fetishes, then the job might be for you.\n", "score": 19 }, { "body": "Alot of people will try to talk you out of this. One thing...look up a blog by a women called college-call girl. She provides a real life account of her situation, and what happened...both good and bad. Of course, she chose the escort route where you're looking at web cams...My personal advice would be to try for phone sex operation. Anonymous, and you make good money.\n\nI'm a girl too, and I understand how you must be feeling. Stay strong, you'll make it, and don't let mean people get you down.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Make sure you control your own stage name. If at all possible get your own site. You might want to practice on /r/Gonewild. Don't show your face just your bod to see how you feel after doing it. You might want to read some comments to see what people want to see. If you want real money and a bit more privacy then being a Domme might be a better option. You need to learn a bit more than a cam girl before you can pull it off.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "> The only thing that worries me is someone I know finding me. That is probably bound to happen right?\n\nThe odds are against it, actually. It's a big world, and a big internet. As long as you're careful not to use your real name, email address, or screen name you use elsewhere, the odds that someone you know would randomly stumble across you and recognize you is pretty marginal.\n\nBut that said, you do have to consider what would happen should someone find out. Despite what I said, the risk isn't zero, and only you can decide if the risk is worth it balanced against the potential consequences. ie, will it simply be embarrassing? Or will your family disown you?\n\nPerhaps the biggest question is simply what you'll think of yourself for having done it. The way you describe it as \"use your body for cash\" gives me pause. If you think it's demeaning to yourself, or something to be ashamed of, then I might say not to do it, or at least develop a more sex positive attitude before venturing into any kind of sex work. On the other hand, if I'm reading too much into it and you already have a sex positive attitude, and it's something you'll enjoy and personally be proud of, then you're probably good to go.\n\nA friend of mine does it and rather enjoys it, her boyfriend approves and her family has no knowledge. I can't say that I personally see anything wrong with it.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "If you actually want to do it then drop me a message here. I promoted webcams for years and was extremely successful. I've also helped girls get started / make $2000 to $4000 per week but this was years ago and they were pretty dedicated. Because the way I promoted involved interacting with many, many webcam girls I've learned enough about the business to feel confident giving advice.\n\nAnyhow, I know all the tricks. I can show you how to immediately do better than 99% of the girls on those sites. The only thing I can't tell you is what the average income is now as it's been awhile. Should still be some quick / easy money if you are up for it.\n\nAs for someone that knows you, there are sites that will let you block out regions but that's not 100% foolproof.\n\nCheers", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If I was a girl, I'd do it.\n\nI was actually thinking about it the other day. Life's a short existential exhibition.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "i'd also look into phone sex. you need to pay for your own land line, but if you google \"chat line usa\" it's all independent contractor stuff. You call up, log on, and then your phone rings a special ring everytime you get a call. you get a recording telling you what kind of phone line the caller dialed (like, \"hardcore sex\" or \"barely legal\" stuff like that) or you get an operater who tells you what the caller wants, (likes blondes, anal play, etc etc). Then you get the caller, and go. the longer you keep them on the line, the better.\n\nI did it for about a month, but I live in a small apartment with thin walls. I always was worried my neighbors could hear what I was doing. but I was surprised how easy it was to talk dirty to complete strangers. Now that I'm somewhere new I might pick it up again.\n\nthe biggest plus side to this is that you're anonymous. no one can see you, and you're not using any info that could track you. Chat Line USA is totally legit and they pay weekly.\n\n***also, my screenname is also my aim username. you can private message me there if you want to talk more. I've had lots of friends who have done webcam stuff too, just was too risky for me because I have lots of tattoos and stuff that make me highly recognizable.***", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I know someone already suggested it, but working as a domme might be better if you're at all worried about your face being all over the internet (which is likely). You get more anonymity as a domme; you pick your own clients. \n\nI do some seconding for a few friends who are dommes and it's a great way to make some extra cash. As a second, I get less money (still GREAT for an hour or 2 of work!) but don't have to do anything that would make me feel uncomfortable (such as golden showers, forced enemas, etc.). ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Have you taken the [PAST](http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/airforcejoin/a/parapast.htm) yet? It's a gauntlet of exercises, one after another. Underwater swim, surface swim, 1.5 mile run, chin-ups, flutter kicks (learn to love those), pushups, and situps. \n\nMight want to try to do that first if you haven't. If you don't/can't pass that, you're not going to get in as a PJ.\n\nMy advice is to work out 5 days a week to make sure you can do it. Also, [Indoc](http://www.specialtactics.com/warningorder.shtml) is no fucking joke. There's something like a 80% drop-out rate within the first two weeks. [It's ridiculous.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Flutters_Kicks_at_Pararescue_Indoctrination_Training_Center,_Lackland_AFB,_2006.JPG) [They do NOT fuck around.](http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/web/060421-F-3177P-103.jpg) Their motto is 'That Others May Live,' and they make damn sure to weed out the weak before they invest any more time in them. If you so much as say 'I can't do this,' you're out. No questions asked.\n\nHere's a [whole shebang](http://www.specialtactics.com/ol-h.shtml) of information if you haven't seen it already.\n\nGood luck to you from this USAF aircraft maintainer.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I'm not an ex-PJ, and I'm not in the NYC area (so no free beer for me), but I have noticed that no one's mentioned the mental aspects of PJ Indoc yet.\n\nYeah, the physical part is crazy hard, but don't forget what you're trying to become here - a superior combat medic, who also happens to be a special forces operator. It's quite mentally taxing too - just think of all the medical knowledge and anatomy you need to have crammed into your skull, on top of all the \"normal\" special forces knowledge.\n\nSo, IMO, it would be a good idea not to neglect exercising your brain while you're whipping your body into shape. You'll washout just as easily if your mental faculties aren't up to the task as you will if your body's not up to the task.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Good luck to you, future officer. Stay motivated, and be damn proud of yourself for not only joining during a time of conflict, but for pursuing one of the most noble military professions in this country.\n\nOoh-rah from this Marine. Semper Fidelis and God speed.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Have you considered getting a basic EMT certification to see if EMS type stuff is for you? It's not rocket science, but the basic EMT course I took had a two out of three wash out rate, and that was a basic civilian oriented course. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Ah superman school. I can't give you any advice except to wish you the best of luck. As a military nerd I have always had a big fascination with PJ's. They are the real gangsters, even more so than seals. The ridiculous 1.5 years of training makes bud/s seem short and sweet. Plus, Only pararescue go into the thick of it (to save someone else none the less) when people are fully expecting them to be coming. Thats my personal definition of a badass.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This is what I would do.\n\n1) Get a decent apartment in a large metropolitan city and pay each months rent with cash and on time. Be a good quiet neighbor.\n\n2) Take up photography (it's a fun hobby)\n\n3) Buy a **ton** of those black and white composition notebooks and some decent shelving\n\n4) Journal writing is a fun hobby. Did I mention that?\n\n5) Change your name to John something. \n\n6) Get to know your new city and I mean really get to know it and its citizens. Frequent the sketchy areas because that's where the real color is.\n\n7) Get a library card.\n\n8) You know those car air-fresheners in the shape of little trees? Do you like them? A lot??\n\n9) Burn / cut your fingerprints off.\n", "score": 11 }, { "body": "When i was in elementary school they had a `thumbbuddy`program. I think that was the name. They finger printed our entire school.\nThis was also in a small Canadian town.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Aside from chemically burning them off there isn't much you can do. Although, and I may not be 100% correct on this, but the prints should not have been uploaded to any \"national database\", but instead contained within the local police department. This is usually the case when prints are obtained through means not in connection with a violation. And depending on how long ago this was, there is a good chance they are not even on record anymore.\n\nFirst, I would recommend trying to track down the court order that gave the authority to the police to print all the children in a given area. DNA swap/finger print sweeps -always- require a judges approval. You will be able to aquire this from the archives department at the court house where the approval would have been given. \n\nOnce you obtain this information, search the document for the amount of alloted time the police department was given to keep the prints on file. Whether it was 30 days, until the perp was caught, or indefinitely, there will be a clear timeline allowed for the PD to keep these on record.\n\nIf you are lucky, they have already been destroyed. If not, then I would recommend the former option of chemically removing them. Just make sure you burn them all the way the first time...it hurts like a son of a bitch. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": ">easier to prosecute them for petty crimes\n\nWell, I really really doubt a police department is going to go through the trouble of going through fingerprinting a 'crime scene' for a petty crime. Most smaller departments only have a couple on staff at any given time and to go this deep into an investigation for something like a lawn sign theft or simple graffiti probably wouldn't happen.", "score": 4 }, { "body": ">make it easier to prosecute them for petty crimes.\n\nIsn't that the point?\n\nAnd yes, your fingerprints stay the same.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "[Make your own!](http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-diy-10-macro-photo-studio.html) It's the results that count, right?\n\nYou can use normal lights but as you have a flash you may as well use it instead. You'll ought to shoot RAW so you can adjust the white balance and learn to shoot 1-2 stops 'overexposed' against what your camera thinks so the backgrounds look white and not grey.\n\nHave fun :)", "score": 11 }, { "body": "What you're looking for isn't a softbox, its a \"light box\".\n(this is a softbox: http://www.teamworkphoto.com/images/bowens/wafer75softbox.jpg)\n\ndepending on the size, you can just use a plastic bag over the object, collapsible cardboard painted white, so you can fold it up, etc.\n\nyour sb400 should be fine", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "If you encase it entirely in snow, it will stay a degree or so above freezing if you start with a half-warm keg. The higher keg temp. will melt off some of the snow, forming an \"igloo\", a temp. regulator. \n\nCaution: beer will be *wicked* cold.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "Well, it's simply using the notation for a footnote* to denote a spelling mistake. Obviously you can only have the footnote part though, as you don't know which word you'll misspell, so the asterisk won't appear in the text.\n\n*And the footnote (or spelling correction) goes here.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "It's just common sense. Do you see any other character on the keyboard that would indicate that a word is not intended to be a regular addition to the conversation?\n\nEven in its normal use, an asterisk basically means \"hey, pay attention, there's something about this you should know.\"", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Some programmers do:\n\ns/mistake/fix\n\nAnd I used to be in an old java chat thing where we did:\n\n<user> Blahhahahaha I want to mistake my monitor\n\n<user> mistake=fix", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I'll throw up a tinychat, I was the guy who did that last time. It's up to you guys to find working streams tho.", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "Patch 3.3 released a Random Dungeon Finder. It allows you to group for instances with individuals from other servers. You should be able to find groups for LBRS, UBRS, etc with little difficulty. If you are planning on leveling together, I would suggest that one of you is a healer and another is a tank/DPS such as a Warrior or Pally or Druid. Having a Tank/Healer when using the dungeon finder should drastically reduce the wait time (all thats left is DPS which are very common).\n\nLeveling time has been drastically reduced since Vanilla WoW. You will probably do each of those instances only a few times before leveling too high for the instance. \n\nI would highly recommend RAF. It is a great way to get a free month of WoW, and the added benefits (300% exp gain, group summoning, level granting, etc.. ) are extremely beneficial. \n", "score": 10 }, { "body": "One of you needs to buy an account and then recruit the other friend. When the two of you level together, you will get 3x xp up to level 60. This makes it possible and easy to get to 60 in a week. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "It's still a good game for newcomers - especially if you are pairing up with someone else.\nOne of you buy the game, then do refer a friend for the other and then you can get triple XP up to level 60 when you level together, and you can gift a free level for every 2 you get to your alts, plus summon each other once an hour.\n\nAs for getting groups for the lower level content, that all really depends on the server you play on.\nSome have more lower level players than others. It can also depend on what kind of guild you join if any - don't forget there are US and EU guilds for Reddit users if you fancy joining.\n\nEven though you may not get a group for some of the lower level content all of the time, you should do for a good amount of it - and even if you don't there's all the fun at 70-80 which always seems to be busy enough.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "LBRS, UBRS, BRM, Stratholme, and Scholomance don't get much action on my server these days - last I checked. But there is a new LFG system that groups people from different servers for dungeons, so your chances of getting a group are much better.\r\n\r\nYes, Wow is definitely still a good game for someone who hasn't ever played it. They'll hear a lot of chatter about things they don't understand and probably run into people who expect them to know more than they do, but there are plenty of new players out there who are experiencing things for the first time.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'll be a bit of a dissenter here, because I just did this.\n\nI joined WoW a month ago and am playing it very casually. I'd say I have around a dozen characters all between level 10 and 20 (I've never played before so I kept trying different combinations).\n\nI've found it very hard to meet people because most of them were powerleveling. \n\nI got very frustrated with my human priest at one point -- I'd kill a guy, wait for my mana to recover, kill another guy, wait for my mana to recover. At one point I'd hang around the castle trying to find noobs to protect. Felt kinda pathetic really...\n\nMy main character is an Undead Warlock. The reason I like it so much is because it's really easy to solo.\n\nSo here I am at level 25 or so and I have very little experience with groups and dungeons. \n\nYet despite not being able to find groups and do instances, I'm enjoying the game very much. I like doing quests and skilling, and managing my inventory, and exploring. But I'm a big fan of plain-old RPG games, so I don't really mind doing stuff solo.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "One of the biggest reasons WoW is so popular is because Blizzard made a game that has an easier learning curve, but still ramps up so people can still get pretty damn hardcore and still compete both in pve (player vs computers) and pvp (player vs player).", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I wouldn't.\r\n\r\nYou saw the movie. Changing the past changes the present.\r\n\r\nThen I'd have no DeLorean.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Hah. Good luck. You will travel back to time where you don't speak the langauge. You don't know how to interact with people. They will think your prophecies are crazy. You will be a peasant, not even, the olden days are harsh. if you time travel you better bring some guns or you will be fucked.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Two words: Digital camera. \r\n\r\nWith plenty of memory cards to fill, I would photograph as many documents, carvings, monuments, buildings, etc. as I could. I'd have a field day at the library of Alexandria.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "You would have to correctly identify the actual cause of the Dark Ages.\n\nThere is reasonable evidence that the Dark Ages were in some ways literally dark, as a result of a volcanic explosion (Krakatoa) causing an apparent dimming of the sun, with widespread crop failures causing migrations of many tribes into \"civilized\" areas.\n\nhttp://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/history/535ad.htm\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/html/e1-about.html\n\nKinda hard to put a stop on that sort of thing.\n\nthe solution would be to have a long standing prophecy in the culture with a specific date so that everyone stocks up on food, with appropriate curses so that nobody runs around raiding.\n\nGood luck with that.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "here's this- http://www.reddit.com/r/secretsanta/comments/ajmh0/please_read_redditgifts_prewarning/ people will be able to confirm receiving or not receiving. but he is sick right now and our kids aren't off winter break yet, etc. but honestly after one person emailed us and actually said he wasn't going to send a gift and we started the list everyone got pissed at us even though the sign up clearly stated there would be a naughty list (i am totally not about to get into an argument about this situation due to other people seeing differently- i just can't). so i am hesitant. i really don't feel like having orangereds full of cussing and complaints. i have actually developed anxiety when i see my envelope is not gray. i said somewhere before that i need to be paid a lot more than nothing to get cussed at. i left retail a decade ago. we have been discussing a public list- pros and cons. the biggest con is that i get sad when people yell at me on the internet. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": ":( \n\nMy gift shipped the 10th, I have confirmation it left America the 15th but it has never been received at its final destination as far as I know, no updates after the 15th. :\\", "score": 7 }, { "body": "A couple of years ago someone shipped something to me from Canada (I am in Latin America). I waited for it for months and eventually gave up on it, assuming it got lost along the way. I did receive it though, A WHOLE YEAR LATER. I kid you not, It was shipped in September and I got it in October of the following year. So maybe you will get it eventually :( ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "It's not going to happen. The shaming isn't going to take place anymore. All that will happen now is that those who didn't gift will be banned from participating next year.\n\nIt was decided that the naming/shaming was too vigilante.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "[Reddit: r/SecretSanta: *PLEASE READ - RedditGifts Pre-Warning* by kickme444](http://www.reddit.com/r/secretsanta/comments/ajmh0/please_read_redditgifts_prewarning/) addressed this.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I'm hoping I don't get named/shamed as I did ship it and marked it as shipped but my santee has yet to confirm it. I even messages them last week but haven't received a response :(", "score": 3 } ]