You don't sound nutty. I know many Christians who take that perspective. There are certainly reasonable arguments from both sides...

You are entirely right, which makes it a little more convoluted. It isn't explicitly done away with in the New Testament the way the food laws are, but it isn't explicitly reaffirmed the way laws on murder, adultery, lying, etc. are so its certainly not 100% cut and dry whether and in what way it still needs to be…

I find it ironic that the only thing you know about me is that I am religious and for some reason that makes me a nut job...

I know many atheists; some are nut jobs, some are very reasonable.
I know many Christians; some are nut jobs, some are very reasonable.

The fact you would jump to the assumption that as…

For me, I had two primary reasons to want to have kids:
First, I am a Christian. The Biblical command from the beginning was to be fruitful, fill the earth, and subdue it. thus, for me having kids is part of my religion. I know many people don't share this conviction, but I couldn't honestly express my reasons without…

Regardless of which you choose realize that you were once a kid, and since everyone put up with you as a kid, you have to put up with kids in society.

I realize there are places that kids shouldn't be, and have no problem with the fact that I often skip fancy restaurants, and find a sitter when I go to the theater, but…

It sounds like you knew well what you were getting into. Condos are good if you want to stay there a long time and don't want to deal with maintenance. The difficulty is getting rid of them when you want to sell. If you keep it for 10-20 years you'll certainly come out ahead regardless, but if you are mobile and plan…

All of those are good, but I think they left off the #1 - Location.

A good piece of land may be worth more than the house on it, and hold its value despite moderate home issues. Conversely, a perfect house in a bad neighborhood isn't worth much. A friend of ours sold their house at a loss after having a shooting on…

State is useful, but city matters a lot too. I am pretty much at the median there and live in California where it looks like I should be coming up 20K/ year short, but I live in a less expensive city - for example my house cost more than 30% less than my brother-in-law's who lives in LA despite me having an extra…

Amazon does 2 other things I find useful:
1. They highlight top reviewers. Its kind of a shortcut for being sure the reviewer isn't giving their first review.
2. They give a special tag to people who have actually purchased the product. Sadly, this doesn't rule out unethical sellers who buy one of their own product from…

You do make a good point, and I think my advice applies a little more to test drives than negotiating since you can probably get a better price from an internet sales department than you will ever negotiate down to on the lot, and given the fact this guy has had difficulty especially getting to test drive more…

I'm not saying its the way I wish it was, but if we're stuck playing the game play it as best you can. For me, buying a car is primarily about getting the car I need (or want) for the best price. If I have to wear long pants on the weekend for a little more negotiating power I'll do it.

One important thing they…

To be honest I didn't do it to get them to talk to me, I did it to control the conversation.

Coming in looking like I could buy any car made it their job to sell me the way I wanted to be sold (ie no pressure), while coming in looking like I couldn't afford a car would have put me in a lesser negotiating situation.

Another tip - dress professionally. Either dressing well, or if you work for a locally known company and have a shirt with their logo wear that.

I went to the dealer across the freeway from where I work told them I was looking to buy in the next couple months but didn't want to buy today. Wearing my employer's shirt…

Wall mount.

I got one at Costco.com for ~$100 that is big and strong enough for my 60" TV to be turned even 90 degrees from the wall, and then just needed a little (ventilated) cabinet below to store a couple boxes rather than having a huge TV stand for the huge TV. Added bonus, it folds flat to the wall so when my…

Wall mount.

I got one at Costco.com for ~$100 that is big and strong enough for my 60" TV to be turned even 90…

You make a good point. For some fields this is feasible. The difficulty in the life sciences is that most student researches are worthless as researchers. Hear me out - I am saying this economically, not to belittle them. I was once in their shoes.

I could ask a student to wash glassware and that would be worth me…

About the first one, did people just forget that a random password generator will eventually spit out the password m0nkey at random? Why use a random password generator and then use the least random passwords? Probably won't end up hurting you as bad as if you made up your own, but don't think intentionally choosing…

Or just don't.

I use LastPass (there are good alternatives) to generate and store all my passwords. I had it make one really nasty password. I memorized it. Yeah that wasn't easy, but now every password I have is super secure. I wrote it down in a code that is obvious to me, put it in my firesafe, and taught my wife…

You are right that this solution doesn't work for everyone, but there are far more students who could do this but don't than students who truly cannot do this, and those who can't afford it are often the ones eligible for paid internships. In the end, I see too many students who are spending $100k on a college…

One more - a well thought out internship or research experience in college that prevents you from taking a $2000-3000 summer job will pay for itself 10 fold or more...

As a professor, I can't tell you how many students have take a year off or struggled to find even entry level work in the sciences when they graduate…

A finding that would be worth looking into, but not necessarily one ready for primetime. At bare minimum the hypothesis would need to be applied to an independent sample set. There is something weird with every set of data, so unless it can apply to an independent set of data it isn't ready for any reporting.

Even…