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Absolutely. As mentioned above, I turned my financial situation around. I even own my own house, now. I just wish my wife would go through the boxes in the garage so I could actually put the cars in it. She doesn't want them put in the storage thingy until she goes through them... well then go...

CS for the cash money.

* I play and design RPGs (as a hobby, no career has been launched form it, yet). My current project is a VisBas RPG I'm calling "Bad RPG". It sucks, hence the name. * I play vidja games, but don't get enough time at them to be considered a "hard core" gamer. It's not a title I'd really care to...

When you lead others, you sometimes have to explain things you understand fully, and we lack patience for that. Also, details, checking blocks, etc.

My feelings are pretty neutral on the topic, frankly. While I won't claim the government does a great job of communicating it's goals or methods, I do think our presence in the middle east is just, if not justified. Our presence in South Korea is probably the noblest alliance I have had any...

I am not a Brony, but of the shows my daughter has watched, MLP:FiM is among the better. My favorite pony is probably Rainbow Dash. I have no favorite MLP song.

a) I'd guess upwards of 50%. b) Probably about 20%. c) Maybe some guys in the special forces, who kinda are. a) In addition to the raw number, you've gotta consider how the military functions. If you join right out of high-school, you're probably not going to have any real-world experience...

I can't claim there's an objectively best way to cook them, but I'd probably use a dry rub (brown sugar, salt, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, pepper, in descending order of quantity, add some others for playfulness (I suggest coffee, cinnamon, ginger, or mustard powder to start), then I'd...

That's kind of a tricky question. Not because it's difficult to justify, but because it's not so much that I have a "belief in the scientific method". I mean, I do believe it exists, and I also believe it's the greatest method we have for understanding the universe, but that's from observing it...

Okay, I don't know why anyone would want to ask me questions, but here's the deal: I'll answer any and any questions ask, as fully as I currently can with no further research. This may prompt some research, and I may later edit a post based on new information, but the game is that I'll answer...

Last time I tried to find literal flat-Earthers, all I could find was a joke site. Is this actually for realz?

Maybe, and I'm just throwing the idea out there, but maybe you're not as rational as you think you are, and you simply don't understand people's argument, or disagree with them for less than rational reasons yourself. Just throwing that out there.

Haven't read the whole thread, but since they're my hates I guess it doesn't matter if I repeat something. * I hate busy-bodies who think they have the right to suggest how I should live my life. I'm a simple man, and understand what I want. I could stay home a large part of the week and be...

We've played again a dew times, the last time being tonight. Not counting some tired-induced poor choices on my son's part, he's learning a lot, and quickly. His strategies are generally sub-par, but I've been playing for almost 20 years. He's probably doing much better than I would have...

That's just plane untrue, though. The evolution of viruses is a huge part of, at the very least, viral infections in humans and, has been noted, some major pieces of our genes come from endogenous retroviruses. You're making a sweeping assumption that because viruses don't incidentally carry the...

No True Scottsman doesn't apply, as we're discussing (now, it was unintentional, I meant only to elucidate that one minor detail) the very definition of the thing. The NTS fallacy doesn't apply, for example, if I say something doesn't count as a cup if it's flat and, thus, doesn't hold liquids...

^ Boom. The reason for the checklist of requirements for life are used so that you know things have those qualities when you say they're "alive". Just like there's a checklist of qualities which makes something a planet, so when you use the word "planet" people know you're talking about...

Whelp... starting to bring the nutters out...

The freefall thing is BS, you know. So the USA is Nazi Germany?

You might also remember that it was over 40 years ago. Everyone who had their position at the time has retired or quit or somehow moved on. While new blood doesn't guarantee innocence, you can't blame the current people who are in positions for the mistakes or outright horrible tendencies of the...

Yes, but it does not meet the requisite checks currently used by biology, thus does not count. In biology.

Viruses are not alive.

While this certainly outlines the capability and willingness for some people with political power to do such a thing, the fact if the matter was that it wasn't actually passed. It was proposed and turned down. Here, I can simply say you're under-estimating Bin Laden. I mean, there's a...

Who are you? No, jk. I just have a lot of crap to do in my real life and am not on too much.

Maybe, but the fact that there doesn't seem to have been a "gay gene" discovered seems to indicate that it's not genetic anyhow. Maybe it is, but it's probably a combination of factors, not just a simple gene.

The gene which aids not reproducing will not be selected for.

Go Insider Job, because they're far too goofy for me to try to argue seriously.

9/11 attacks were an inside job. Debate.

Bah, that's what we have kidneys and livers for. "Natural" food, "chemicals", you sound like one of those organic-only moms who have no understanding how your body actually works, what a GMO is, what it means when something's a "chemical", or basically any understanding of nutrition, yet are out...

Do you always take the same test? Last I checked, which has been quite some time, admittedly, there were three big tests, distributed by bodies of actual psychologists and others who spend their lives studying intelligence. These three tests operate on different scales. On one, a test of 150...

It's a class involving VB, but the subject is problem solving. For college, woo GI Bill! Thanks!

I get that, but I'm imagining just reading, no doing. I'm probably wrong about that.

You learn how to program by reading, not by programming? I'm sorry, but that's kind of like saying you're learning to sculpt by reading, or how to build a house by reading. I'm sure you're gleaning some information, sure. I know basic carpentry, but I couldn't build a house. Not on my own. The...

So, since I'm taking a Visual Basics class, I've been messing around with some programs just to help myself understand stuff a bit more. Two big things I desire to do are to have subroutines which, instead of being object based, are only called to from other routines, and I'm not sure how to set...

I drown in sociel interaction. Lonely would be a nice change of pace.

Too bad. Stay home.

Visual Basic, bro! Nah, jk.

I'm interested in eating good food, which is zen.

I expected to come in here and see a request for nude selfies that were getting posted, or something, with a title like "hey babes". Well, have fun in college. It's dumb for the first while. Oh, but you're an art major. Have fun with that.

Meh, that's a misleading statistic, as many are. Right away we can eliminate women who aren't in your age-range. If he's about my age, he wants to date neither a 50-year-old or a girl younger than 18. That's still a huge range and will cut his search in half-ish. Let's say 24-38 is his range...

Anywhere. Chicks are everywhere. If you're at the store, flirt with one. If you're at the gas station, flirt with one. It's the same anywhere except home. If you're not home, chances are there's going to be someone you can flirt with, especially in a city. Just do it. Edit; Clubs are the worst...

The camera didn't make an image of a gold and white dress. The problem is our perception, not the photograph, though the photograph's features are why we have a hard time perceiving it properly. Specifically, the very bright background convinces us it's getting lit from the back and the shadow...

Nope. It's actually a blue and black dress. The slight bronzing of the dark material comes from light reflecting off of something, then hitting the silky black part, which then reflects the light again. Because there's not actually black dye, it's just a very, very dark red, hence having more...

The problem is that you're worried about doors getting shut. You have to realize they're already shut. You have to put effort into getting some of them open. Like with your major, choose something you'd be okay doing for money. People tell you to aim for the moon and reach for your dreams, and...

Don't stop thinking. Learn to focus it, learn to become more critical, but never stop.

Subtractive dayvision human error. I already looked at it in PSP. It's blue, albeit a dim blue (Red 100-150ish, Green 110-160ish, Blue 125-175ish), and a very dark goldenish color (Red 90-130ish, Green 70-120ish, Blue 40-75ish). Everybody's right, but exactly which colors seem more potent...

That happens to me when I've been studying/homeworking all day. Or when I just wake up. Or when I talk to feelers.

Um... I never even considered this might be a real problem. Just... change what you do. I mean, you come at us with the "I don't change", so "then change" is insufficient. You've identified the problem... take the next step. I'm a far different person than I was twenty, or even ten, years ago...

People say I have no feelings and do not support their feelings enough. Well, I do have feelings, they're just mine. I won't burden others with them, and how am I supposed to support your feelings? If you can't do it, what makes you think someone else can?