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On "The Chaser" political comedy show in Australia, they took photos at a tourist location, first dressed as an American tourist (no police reaction), and then the same guy came back and took the same photos dressed as an Arab Sheik. They detained him within minutes that time. There were no visible cops etc, but there was CCTV, it was the Sydney Harbour Bridge, or something.

The moral of the story: Terrorists should dress up in American Flag Regalia (US flag t-shirts, caps etc) when planning attacks.

If it was his own private space or something, and it was actually necessary to physically force the other person out, I can kind of understand that... but again, that's an incredibly rare situation and not the sort that was relevant to discussion.

I had an ex refuse to leave my house, she jammed herself in my front door (she had broken up with me / kicked me out, then kept coming to my new house, screaming, crying etc, refusing to leave when asked, while hurling abuse at me). I wouldn't let her in that time, asked her to leave, while she's shrieking and trying to force her way into the house while and hurling abuse at me.

So this is not so unusual. Basically if you make the mistake of letting someone into your house who fits the "stalker" description.

[...]When taking the "evolutionary gender psychology approach", we both decided it was because if you say RUN while hunting for tigers, the men who say "don't order me around who do you think you are ordering me around I'm sick and tired of it and you don't have the right to" get eaten by tigers. I'll repeat that: eaten by tigers, just because it sounds awesome.

Nope, I've had males react the same way. "Do it like this" => "I'll do the opposite to what you recommend JUST BECAUSE". Personally this has been in my experience mainly with Info Tech stuff, and male computer noobs.

Female computer noobs have been more likely to actually follow the steps in my experience.

People giving her shit for spending money on makeup (hint: this is what is expected of women by society; the shit is expensive, and it's generally kind of necessary).  Calling her the "queen of rage" along with extremely unflattering photos that, unsurprisingly, make her look possessed.

That picture of Bachmann eating the sausage reminds me of Sarah Palin getting ridiculed for eating a piece of Pizza in public with a knife and fork. Can't really win, can you?

Bachmann maybe should have used a knife and fork. Maybe smarter to get the soon-forgotten written criticisms than permanent photos of yourself gorging on food like that?

I read about a child being beaten to death over several hours by her own adoptive parents in the progressive rage thread. It made me sick, literally. Its this sort of shit that helped lead to my depression. I honestly wish I could become more detached from the world around me, as bad as that sounds.

There's 7+ billion people in the world and they are having every possible experience right now from the happiest to the saddest. The broadcast media highlights the saddest tales from around the world in realtime. You can be reading nothing but sad tales continuously if you want to.

Part of the problem is we evolved to live in fairly small close knit family groups of maybe 40-200 people, where you knew everyone and could influence things that you knew were going on. This is what our empathy / social wiring is built to cope with. With worldwide mass media and especially the internet you can know about many things which you can do nothing about, leaving you with the knowledge but no power to affect what you've heard about. This could leave you with a feeling of helplessness.

This would be a case where an adaptive trait (high empathy) becomes maladaptive due to a change in the environment (knowledge of all the problems in the world).

puts only takes a single argument, you're passing two arguments. So, use printf or cout. (the error messages tell you the expected arguments for any function you're calling, in this case: const char *) printf takes variable numbers of arguments, but this behavior is rare in c++, cout uses stream operators, so it takes variable number of inputs as well

you can send multiple stuff to puts, but you have to concatenate the strings manually first then ensure they're caste to the type "const char *" from "char *" or "string". Basically it's a waste of time to do it this way

Sounds like fun now i've got the bandwidth for this kind of thing. Me and a buddy used to love "Thundering Mantis" (mainly coz of the bad dub though, but the fights and finale rock) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087145/

My other fave from that era is Shogun Assassin