I think a homemade knife should probably be called a shiv. I also think owning a lettuce shiv is much cooler. Also:

Should this be an actual problem in your life, you should know this can be treated.

I think you are exactly right. I also think that the Jobs family probably is irritated that Stark made this public. Boats like this are ridiculously expensive to maintain. The 'Selling of the Boat' is almost a ritual in moneyed regions near water after someone dies.

Using tax rates to modify behavior is well-established, but it's not clear how well it works. See, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_mortgage_interest_deduction#Canada

I'm not going to cry if a raised capital gains rate drives people to invest in municipal bonds. I also agree that purchase v. invest is nowhere near as straightforward an analysis as it is sometimes made out to be. People sometimes act like money that is spent - money spent in country, even - just disappears. It…

Where else are you going to take it such that your return is taxed below the capital gains tax rate?

Ah. Thanks. I didn't think to go all physics model on the simile. I also thought combat was the weaker component of the game, although I still liked it. I found the challenge in true no-kill stealth. I also just enjoyed the environment of the game - it was a world I wanted to spend time in.

(a) I disagree with your opinion, not that that matters in any way whatsoever.

I wonder that all the time. I just can't make any sense of it. It seems like security theater. Drealmar may be right about subtly forcing you to use a different password for each account, except that I was being forced to change passwords back when the idea of being signed up for a lot of services was silly.

He seems to stop after fairly short movements. I think two things are interesting about this: (1) why not drive continuously? I think I would do that. Why doesn't he? (2) I totally expected him to do that. Why would I have expected a bird to drive in short bursts? (2) isn't rhetorical; I really wonder why one…

I say this all the time. There are people in the world who believe that I really think that the point is indeed, moo. I would correct them, but, when it comes right down to it, the point is...

I agree with every word you just wrote.

The idea behind patents, as I understand it, is that it's a deal: in exchange for intellectual property rights (the right to sue someone if they use your idea without paying you) for some period of time, you agree to openly and publicly publish the way that your patent works. This is why, for example, you can do…

You give a different reason the dimensions are "treated differently" - and point out that the way we see things is psychologically determined - but up/down is indeed treated differently than left/right in a mirror. And, since the reason we generally don't flip backwards and do a handstand to look behind us has to do…

I think you should read up on how patents work.

I am aware that what I am about to say isn't helpful to people experiencing workplace bullying; I think it is important to say in any case.

Could not possibly agree more, Che-poodle. The idea of doing this by chemical analysis only is the one that is ridiculous.

A recent review (http://jop.sagepub.com/content/22/7/792.short) suggests that there is limited evidence (primarily coming from off-label use) that bupropion (Wellbutrin), when added to an SSRI, may reduce sexual side effects. Another review (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11920-009-0076-z?LI=true)…

The majority of women do not orgasm from intercourse alone, so some additional stimulation may be required. You could, for a lark, do a quick search for the Coital Alignment Technique, but it's actually kind of hard to do and is hardly a guarantee. The best bet is to focus on finding other ways of her having an…

Yes, the sexual side effects can be mitigated through a variety of means. The most common is to switch to another antidepressant. Ones that work via mechanisms besides serotonin generally don't have sexual side effects, so Wellbutrin, for example, doesn't. You can also add Wellbutrin to an existing SSRI and that…