Eh Steve

There is a kindness and sensitivity lacking in your messages Gotzen. I don't entirely disagree with the content but your approach was not appropriate in this context. When you are giving someone advice to improve their social skills and reception they are receiving from others...it doesn't make sense to do it in a way which isn't well received. It is unfortunate your post was sort of hijacked Ivan. I think he made some statements I agree with regarding your smile appearing not genuine in this photo and your hair appearing non-fashionable. The smile would be more important than the hair in my opinion, Einstein didn't have fashionable hair either. It is odd but I believe you want a photo to be how you would look when interacting with the person you intend to date, which is difficult because you have to pretend that is happening when it isn't. If you have a social circle it might be useful to get a candid photograph of yourself genuinely smiling. Was your plan to talk with women for a long time online or were you arranging dates in person? I'm certainly not an expert in dating or online dating, but perhaps someone here is or knows of a quality resource you can look into. (by that I mean advice) As well my understanding was that plentyoffish is more of a hookup website, you may do better on an alternative like match.com which seems more monogamous. Best of luck Ivan, I hope this was helpful. I can share more thoughts if you would enjoy that.

If anyone has children I always wondered about this with good parents: Do you consider your kid to own their room? The only consequence of this I can see is they might draw on the walls or cut up the carpeting.

I'm wondering why this thread is about archery and not about your wife screaming at your kid. Kudos to you for being a good example but you need to seriously consider getting your wife to change her behavior.

Delightful coincidence. I'm not the listener to wrote to Stef, maybe it is due to the gift giving season. But he gives a response in his latest video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTw-zIIGpSU&feature=youtube_gdata The reason I posted this question is I found it bizarre looking backward. In a lot of families children literally do not own anything until they buy it themselves. And that is sometimes not even respected. It is interesting to look back at it as an adult owning many things.

Just something I'm pondering. What do you folks think about children owning property? It seems to me a very common punishment to take away certain things like video games or television viewing by parents. Is this a breach of property rights or are children's toys etc. more like privileges? Aside from their person what is it exactly children own? Maybe their clothes, maybe? At what age do you think kids really start to own property? Anyone know a good author on the subject?

Assassination and Anarchism don't blend well. Don't really think this merits serious discussion. Bernanke is just one guy within a corrupt system, assassinations never solve problems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipogenesis I can't tell if you are being sincere or not.

People without marketable skills often are paid very little. It is hardly exclusive to Walmart. Trying to feed children (especially multiple) or pay for a house without sufficient income or projected income to do so is ill advised. Having children with men who may be sent to jail is also ill advised. I'm glad they are able to help each other out in their time of need. I also found them keeping the request in the back of their office interesting. On the one hand it is a private matter. On the other they could get a mountain of food by putting the barrel up front. I guess it is better to leave that for the larger charities. I don't think Dayton will miss Walmart too much while they strike. Meijer and Kroger will probably welcome the increased business. I am from Dayton originally and find it kind of funny when people talk about Walmart having a monopoly. That particular town has numerous superstores and grocery stores to choose from, in fact the Walmart near my college was pretty shoddy and non-busy compared to the alternatives. You might as well call McDonalds a monopoly. Everyone likes to pick on the biggest of the bunch. I'm not sure if there was any time in history where non-skilled labor could be expected to support a family comfortably.

Personally I think the Insulin/Carb hypothesis was well reviewed by Stefan Guyenet at http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/ I believe he may have done a seven article assesses the hypothesis. Here is one article on it. http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/carbohydrate-hypothesis-of-obesity.html He is also part of the paleo scene. He has articles on a few cultures who are lean but eat predominantly carbohydrates (Kitavans etc.). He also has articles on people who eat mostly fat and are lean (Tokelau, Massai etc.) Side note, the Tokelau eat an enormous amount of saturated fat from coconuts and have zero heart disease. Based on studies showing that basically all diets produce about the same amount of weight loss I don't think carbohydrates and insulin is the root cause of the problem. And high fat intake certainly isn't either (that's just silly). Increased protein intake seems to have some consistent weight loss results. Eating a high fat diet does tend to increase protein intake for most people over eating a high carb diet. Guyenet points to the Food Reward hypothesis as another hypothesis worth considering. A Ketogenic diet would be superior to a mixed diet under this theory. As would a very low fat diet. I personally think a high fat / ketogenic diet is much more enjoyable and flexible. The effects of increased reward, palatability, and variety are well demonstrated on rodents and there are a few convincing studies on humans. However, I've lost 60+ pounds this year eating 90% junk food (literally I go to 7-11 2-3 times a day and eat a can of tuna). So I'm not sure any one theory of obesity is completely solid yet. Obesity is a complex beast. I did this simply by not having food around me and walking down the street to 7-11 for every meal. This past week I've eaten almost exclusively ice cream. I've been in the dieting scene for over 10 years now and have read and tried basically everything around. (Vegan, Vegetarian, Raw Vegan, Paleo, Low Carb, Ketogenic, Low Reward, and Junk Food diet). Personally I didn't find my results or mood etc. to be any different on any of the diets. I find eating junk food and supplementing with protein has worked pretty well for me this year. However with the caveat that I completely restrict having food in my apartment aside from tuna. If anyone is going to read the China Study I think it would be wise to read it's critique by Denise Minger: http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/07/07/the-china-study-fact-or-fallac/ That was the only part that bugged me about the interview. The China study is cherry-picked for biased conclusions. Just my opinion but after 10 years of study here are my conclusions: Being overweight is bad for you. (Diabetes is often cured just by losing weight) Eat less by modifying your diet in some way. (Low fat, Low carb, Less food..whatever) Increase your muscle mass with weight lifting. Get atleast 60 grams of protein daily. Everything else is unconfirmed or unnecessary IMO.

I hope someone tries the Rice experiment. It really should be nonsense. Or we have to rewrite everything we know about the universe and accept the Secret as our lord and Savior.

I find I have no ability to discern the difference in quality of anything I consume. I'd probably take a hotdog over a gordon ramsay beef wellington (certainly if I had to pay for either). I think the point of starbucks to me is that I take dates there sometimes. Otherwise I just go with things like nescafe. I am interested by this machine. Perhaps I skimmed two quickly but I didn't figure out two key pieces of information: How much will the coffee cost compared to starbucks. And how much does the Machine cost vs. a starbucks franchise. And how do you pick up your coffee when you order it from a distance. If you say you are 15 minutes away and it takes you 17 minutes can someone just swipe your coffee? Is the ordering more efficient than a barista? I assume it involves people navigating the machine and pushing buttons like the jetsons. I imagine the kind of people who take forever to decide on their drink order at starbucks, combining that with having to actually push buttons sounds like a real problem. Side note: I looooove self-checkouts. I don't like standing around with nothing to do while someone scans my groceries. Sometimes pleasant conversation works but often I'm stuck twiddling my thumbs.