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I don't think it's creepy, as long as you don't bring up information that might be too personal.

A rule of thumb I read was "Would this be creepy if it happened in real life?", and here you'd be analogous to "a restaurant owner asking a customer how their experience is on their opening day", which is totally normal.


Actually, they introduced the concept of private fields and restructured all their architecture to allow for profile fields to be optionally hidden...

Oh wait, they already had that.


Are you saying you should be allowed to use racial slurs because disallowing people to say them doesn't make them less racist?


Well technically you can use racial slurs all you want, the only thing stopping people, is the social circles around them's willingness to accept such behavior. Or if you are a media figure, loosing your job.

If it was me, I'd rather know they were, than have them hide it, at least I would know who I could trust. And I think once exposed, its a problem that could be better dealt with. Instead of teaching people just keep those thoughts to your self, and let your racist, sexist, ways come out more passively. Which allows people to constantly be suspicious about other peoples motives and causes a lot of tension between people.

Though admittedly, getting people to stop needing some other group to put down, so they can feel better about themselves, is not ever going to be easy. Its a shame, in the "survival of the fittest" certain members of the species, find it easier to hold people down, than excel at it themselves. But we are what we are, and have been. At some point in our history there may have been a point to all this, but not anymore. Maybe it made more sense when we were doing these things over food, because there wasn't enough? Who knows.

I think its more effect to actually talk to people about why they think this way, what caused it. It was socially acceptable when they were kids, some one picked on them, stole their girl friend, cultural conflicts, etc. Getting to the root of the problem, than just telling them, you can't say it, but keep on thinking it.


Because when they complain about being sexually harassed or uncomfortable with the attention they get by being seen as a pair of tits, men invariably say or imply that they're being unreasonable for being offended, which doesn't solve the problem itself (which is that they're offended)?


I thought the "please let me know" in lowercase while almost everything else is allcaps was a nice touch.


lulzier hunter - by bottle_of_rum

So, who's bottle_of_rum, then?


Do you have any skills?

Barring that, you could try to rob a bank or something.


haha I like the bank idea, but was thinking about doing this legally.

I am currently studying computer science and multimedia, I can currently in program c++, html, java, action script.

I am also quite fit. Have experience in gym, squash, personal training.


Prostitution? But even that isn't going to hit $2.5 mil in three years. More likely, you'll need to make all 2.5 mil in your third year, and spend the first two building yourself up.

You could try doing some tricky loophole pyramid scheme stuff using cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin? But that's also pretty scummy.


Good idea, scummy, But is it legal?


What's the top going rate for a kidney?


I don't think you can get more than 100k for one, and even that sounds high. You'd have to find 25 people with two working kidneys, which is almost definitely going to take more than three years (and a lot of ice).


0%. I don't need a discount to buy high-quality hardware that I need.

Oh, wait, do you mean "what's the minimal discount I can offer to make you impulse buy something you don't actually need and that might not be as good as the alternative"?


Would your friends not split any referral fee they got with you? I thought that was standard practice.


It's not funny if you edit the articles and remove links to force it to be true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Set_%28mathematics...


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