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Nope. It's an irrelevant thing. They must respect their contemporaries at least.

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Not too good to be true, but the organizers would simply put their own people, so please don't waste your time.

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Many high-ranking executives are guilty of this.

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The minister has his reason for saying this.

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O boy! Corporate account registration is now very, very hard. The process is cumbersome, but what can we do? At least, it makes our business legit.

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RIP, a true mother who loves her son greatly.

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I love the question.

Firstly, I would remove menstruation. Menstruation is a cyclic process which takes place every month to prepare the uterus for pregnancy failing which the wall sheds, causing pain, wasting blood and money on tampons.

I would redesign both the male and the female reproductive system in a way that conception and pregnancy would occur only if both the male and the female partners agree to conception. This would make every child a wanted child, reduce the population, and avoid horrible situations such as pregnancies resulting from rape.

Source: https://www.quora.com/How-would-you-redesign-the-human-reproductive-system-if-given-the-opportunity


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Lost your job in a recent Layoff?

You know, I literally thought I was untouchable. I had been with Intel for 28 years. I'm not worried about losing my job, maybe a redeployment, and a new job is like a vacation right? I got to work early Tuesday morning. I had some notes and items to get cleaned up prior to an important meeting. I noticed a 10:00am meeting on my calendar with my manager. Didn't think much about it. I was happy and smiling, when I approached the conference room door I noticed the HR representative sitting with my manager. Now it doesn't take a lot of sense to know that this probably isn't about that big raise they are going to give me for being such a great employee.

The HR person got right to business and told me as of this moment I have been terminated. I said this must be some kind of a mistake or a bad joke. As the HR representative stared at me with cold dead shark eyes I realized she was not joking. My actual response was " I have things to do cant we talk about this later" she said No, I want your badge (ID) immediately. You must turn in your Laptop and any Intel property you have. It was a surreal out of body experience. I was literally on the ceiling looking down at this entire situation and I didn't like it. Now this is the pleasant most humiliating part. After helping actually build this site, I was escorted back to my office and handed a shopping bag. I dumped the contents of my backpack on the desk, picked up the pictures of my kids and grandkids and left everything else ( why would I want anything from a company that betrayed me after 28 years). I was marched down to a conference room and handed a thumb drive and told to take all the personal items off my laptop and to wipe my phone. But just prior to doing that, the technician assisting grabs the laptop out of my hand and states he has to disable the wireless so I don't send off some information or a an email warning others (Ha Ha) I have been with the company 28 years, I didn't become a criminal (like I was being treated) within the last 15 minutes. I was walked to the door and I never looked back. I kept hearing I'm sorry behind me, trust me it didn't help.

As I walked to my car my head was swimming with emotions. I was mad, I was enraged, I was literally shaking and when I got in my car I realized like I looked like I had been punched in the face. I was not in a good place and I really shouldn't have gotten behind the wheel in that condition. So I sat for a moment, but the longer I stared at the building the more upset I had become. Losing your job after 28 years is like losing your family. No I cant call them up, no I cant go to lunch and just chat, I am alone now.

This first thing I did when I got home was pick up the laptop and start looking for jobs. I whipped up a 20 minute resume thinking that I am so talented that I will have a job by tomorrow. My head was spinning. I was applying for every job I thought I would have a chance at. McDonalds, Dog walker, bus boy, landscaping (mowing lans), you get the picture. Keys pounding, resume's flying out of my mail.

Then my daughter called me. She is a very level headed woman that has held some pretty lofty positions in the entertainment industry in Hollywood. She was right on the money when she said " How many resumes did you send out today" I responded gee, I don't know 10 or 12 I can even remember the names of the companies. She said I want you to put down the laptop and listen to me.

Here is what she said. A tragic thing happened to you today. Your mind is reeling and you probably have a big case of anxiety and frustration. You picture yourself living n a box under the overpass. Your family thinks you are worthless, you think you are worthless, everyone in the world is against you. Just drive off into the desert and die somewhere, the world will be better off. All I could do was listen in amazement as she perfectly explained my state of mind. She said I know because I have been then 3 times now. Then came the words of wisdom.

She said: you are a talented individual. It is unfortunate what happened but it did and anything you say or do isn't going to change it. You cant cry over spilled milk, its gone! You need to take a couple of days or even a couple of weeks and decompress. You are not an Intel employee anymore. You do not have deadlines and commitments to meet. you don't have to sweat over all the work that was hanging over you head like an ax on a thread waiting to lop your head off. STOP, STOP and STOP. Take a breath. She asked " What do you want to do" Do you want to go back to work so bad that you are willing to accept another job that you would be miserable in or do you want to take your time, think about your skills and how they could apply to the job that you really want. This is your chance to reinvent yourself. Everyone that loses their job goes through this exact feeling of "disconnected". Take this time to reflect, don't think so hard about getting a job. Think hard about what I want to do. I don't want some job at McDonalds or Walmart. I want to work for the Forest service, or I want to have a job that allows me to be outside, I love highly technical things, I love golf, I love outdoor sports, I love target shooting, I love building motorcycles, I love wiring homes, I love technical problems that I can dig into and fix. The point is I have many skills. Those skills did not go away when I left my job of 28 years, but it sure felt that way.

No, No, No, You are what you have always been. A very talented person with skills that can be used in several areas that would accommodate exactly the job you want. Don't settle for a job that will just be a job. Go for a job that will bring you some happiness. I love sports, outdoors, meeting new people, fixing things, helping people, above all I love life regardless of what curve balls it throws at you.

Big Corporations don't care that you have a mortgage 3 kids and a car payment. Stop being a victim and start being aggressive in getting what you want for a change. Like a job you love.

Take a deep breath, relax, you are important, you are needed, you do have a place on earth and people rely on you to be strong. Above all your family and friends Love you and honestly, any job or money cant buy that.

Source: https://www./lost-your-job-recent-layoff-kim-williams


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In the past, and in recent times, Christians have been slain by religious fanatics.

Many Christians have been praying and worshipping the Lord for many years, but remain in their problems, mostly financial.

Last year, a faithful elderly Christian, who’s served the Lord for many years lost his daughter in a fatal motor accident as she was returning from a night vigil, not from a club or party.

There are other Christians who suffer one heartache or another in various ways. While many church leaders are preaching a problem-free Christian life nowadays, we know that the reality is different.

But why do Christians suffer?

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It's really quite simple to invade a country. Send a single, solitary soldier there without permission of that country's government and there you go, you've invaded. This gets a bit more difficult the more remote the country gets, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a more difficult country to invade than New Zealand by this standard.

Now, yes, that's an extremely pedantic answer to the question and if you're not satisfied with it, congratulations, neither am I. However, I did open with it for the very simple reason that it illustrates a key point: what definition of "invade" are we using here? If we mean it in its most literal sense, then the above paragraph stands. If we're attaching implications, then we can go on for a longer time.

Also, for that matter, we have to ask the question of "who's invading?" For example, if we are asking "how easy is it to conquer[1] Lesotho?"[2] the answer is "if you're the Republic of South Africa, very easy, and if you're not, then as easy as the Republic of South Africa allows it to be."

Having gotten through all of that, let's lay out some ground rules. First, we aren't looking to merely invade, but neither are we really looking to completely overrun, either. You don't need to completely overrun a country to conquer it, and once you've won, what's the point of keeping going? So what we're really looking to do here is to stage a successful invasion that beats the other country into submission. As per the question details, we will not be taking into account the current readiness of any given state's military, and instead will purely be taking geography into account - geography in this case being taken to mean "sociology, infrastructure and topography." We shall also assume that any neighbors of that state will give you free military access so that you don't have to worry so much about staging from halfway around the world.[3] And last, we won't talk about the subsequent occupation, because you're looking to successfully invade and get concessions in a peace treat, not necessarily invade and annex.

An obvious candidate from history would be Russia. Russia has a great many advantages in beating back invaders. First, it has unrivalled strategic depth, which makes invasion a logistical nightmare. Second, the weather ranges from mild to "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey,"[4] thus necessitating all sorts of winter gear to be specifically designed and supplied during the invasion. Third, the infrastructure in the middle of the country is massively underdeveloped reinforcing the logistical nightmare. And as for invasion routes - you can try going through the Caucasus, but those mountains are fairly easy to play defense on, and since the area also corresponds to Russia's oil fields, bet your bottom dollar it'll be armed to the teeth. You can try going through the Steppe, but that means your resupply costs will be through the roof before you even cross the Russian border: good luck finding the food and water needed to keep an invasion army fed in the middle of Kazakhstan or Mongolia. You can go through the Pacific Coast, but after Vladivostok, there's a lot of Siberia before you hit Russia's centers of industry.

Which means you have to take the same route Napoleon and Hitler did. So, you know, if you're willing to bet you're more clever than Napoleon or that the Russian administration at the time of your invasion is even better at hobbling the army than Stalin was, go for it. I wouldn't.

Strategic depth and few good invasion routes describes a large number of other countries. The US and Canada have already been mentioned, and China, being surrounded by the Himalayas and the Gobi Desert essentially forces invasion through Korea (or else, shudder, a gigantic amphibious assault that would make D-Day look tiny) so yes, that would also fit the bill quite nicely. You can also go the remoteness route. I haven't shut up about New Zealand yet, but Australia would also be a nightmare to invade, Here's some analysis on that: Harold Kingsberg's answer to How do I invade and conquer Australia?

But let's take a break from depth and remoteness for a second and go for a somewhat less likely candidate. Now, I wouldn't argue that the country I'm about to state is the hardest to invade (I'd rather try invading it than invading Russia or China, for example), but it certainly punches above what you might think its weight is: Japan.

The Japanese Home Islands have never been successfully invaded. Now, in the case of World War II, this is because Japan surrendered before such an invasion could take place, but we do know what the plans for that invasion looked like. It was called Operation Downfall and it came in two gigantic amphibious operations. The first, Operation Olympic, would have been the invasion of Kyushu. The second, Operation Coronet, would have been the invasion of Honshu from the Kanto Region. Here's the thing: the Japanese pretty much knew what Olympic and Coronet were going to look like. They knew where the landings were going to take place, because if you're going to land an army on the Home Islands, those two are the only good landing zones.[5] The result was that blood was very much expected: the estimates for casualties in Operation Downfall came out to about 1.2 million soldiers. This would have been more casualties than the US suffered in all the historical war.

Japanese culture has changed substantially since those days, but not entirely. Point being, I sure as hell wouldn't want to invade.

[1] Note the deliberate change in terminology here.

[2] Lesotho is a small, landlocked African country completely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa.

[3] Unless, of course, you're trying to invade New Zealand, at which point you're pretty much forced to invade from halfway around the world.

[4] Which is a great expression, but actually greatly understates just how cold Russian winter can get.

[5] Which actually means that Operation Downfall shared several elements in common with the attempted Mongol invasion six hundred years before.


Source: https://www.quora.com/Which-country-is-the-most-difficult-to-invade

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If you see police officers eating at a restaurant, is it permissible to pay for their meal (perhaps anonymously) as a way to thank them for their service?

A friend of mine is a chief of police in a small town. He has a strict "no gratuities" policy for officers, and they tend to observe it. One day, two officers finished their meal and were told by the cashier that another couple who had just left the restaurant had paid for their food. They were concerned this might be a violation of the department policy, even though they had every intention of paying for their meals. Their solution was to pay for the meal of an older couple they saw eating in the restaurant. By "paying it forward," they resolved their ethical conflict and did something nice for someone else.

That said, I think most cops would appreciate the gesture, but know that it would pose an ethical and/or procedural problem for some. I've paid the meal tabs for military service members I've seen eating in restaurants. So far as I know, they have no ethical restrictions in that regard.

Source: https://www.quora.com/If-you-see-police-officers-eating-at-a-restaurant-is-it-permissible-to-pay-for-their-meal-perhaps-anonymously-as-a-way-to-thank-them-for-their-service

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Everything you need to know about whether money makes you happy (a case study)

Introduction
It’s a cliché that “you can’t buy happiness”, but at the same time, financial security is among most people’s top career priorities.1 Moreover, when people are asked what would most improve the quality of their lives, the most common answer is more money.

What’s going on here? Who is right?

A lot of the research on this question is of remarkably low quality. But there have been some recent major studies in economics that allow us to make progress. In particular, we now finally have survey data from hundreds of thousands of people all around the world. We’ve sifted through the best studies available to figure out what’s really going on. The truth seems to lie in the middle: money does make you happy, but only a little. And this has many important implications about trade-offs you face in your life and career.

Summary of main points
Recent surveys of hundreds of thousands of people, in over 150 countries, show that richer people report being more satisfied with their lives overall, but that the richer you become, the more money you need to increase your satisfaction further. This is because people spend money on the most important things first. Someone earning $100,000 per year is only a little more satisfied than someone earning $50,000. The best available study found that each doubling of your income correlated with a life satisfaction 0.5 points higher on a scale of 1 to 10.

If you look at how ‘happy’ people say they are right now, the relationship is weaker. One large study found people in countries with average incomes of $32,000 were only 10% happier with their lives than those in countries with average incomes of just $2,000; another within the US could find no effect above a $40,000 income for a single person.
Moreover, some and maybe even most of this relationship is not causal. For example, healthier people will be both happier and capable of earning more. This means the effect of gaining extra money on your happiness is weaker than the above correlations suggest. Unfortunately, how much of the above relationships are caused by money making people happier is still not known with confidence.

Once you get to an individual income of around $40,000, other factors, such as health, relationships and a sense of purpose, seem far more important than income. So our recommendation is not to focus on earning more than this (insofar as you want to become happy, anyway).

However, you may gain from earning more than that if: you have dependents, you care about money more than other people, or you live in an area with an unusually high cost of living.

Giving money to someone living on $1,000 per year in the developing world will do far more to improve their lives than giving the same amount to someone earning $25,000. The correlations above suggest that it will be about 25 times more valuable. If you want to help people, this is a major reason to focus on international poverty rather than helping the relatively poor in richer countries.

Giving some money to charity is unlikely to make you less happy, and may well make you happier.

Are richer people more satisfied with their lives?
OK, but are richer people happier?
What can make sense of these results?
So would making more money make you happier?
Are there exceptions to this general rule?
How much does income matter relative to other factors?
What does this mean for your career choice?
What does this mean for having a positive impact on the world?
If you gave money to charity, would it make you more satisfied or less?

Are richer people more satisfied with their lives?
Thinking about it for a moment, you’d expect that the richer you are, the more extra money you need to further increase your happiness.

If you’re earning $10,000 a year, and you get an extra $1,000, you’re probably going to use it on something pretty important, like making rent, which will make a big difference to your happiness. But if you’re earning $100,000 per year, you’ll hardly notice an extra $1,000. Maybe you’ll just use it to eat out a bit more. In other words, you’d expect the relationship to be diminishing. If you draw out a graph of income against happiness, it’ll look a bit like the graph below. This is what every economist, philosopher and psychologist who works on this topic expects to see.

At some point you end up spending money on stuff that doesn’t make much difference. For example:

Toilet paper made of gold

(That’s literally a roll of toilet paper made of gold that some people bought.)

The interesting question is how fast that happens. It may be that at middle-class incomes extra money still makes you significantly happier. Or perhaps after that point extra income has no discernible impact at all.

One way to figure this out is to ask lots of people all around the world how much they earn and how satisfied they are with their lives. A typical question of this kind from the ‘World Values Survey’ is:

“All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?: 1 (dissatisfied) – 10 (very satisfied).”
In the 70s and 80s, it was widely thought by psychologists that after a certain point, there was no relationship between income and life satisfaction, at least in wealthier countries.

Today, larger and more rigorous studies haven’t borne out that result. As you get richer, you need a lot more money to make you more satisfied, but there’s no maximum level of income beyond which more seems to contribute nothing.

The best study we could find is this one by famous economists Betsy Stevenson and Justin Wolfers. It draws on polling data from hundreds of thousands of people in 166 countries and found that people in richer countries reported being more satisfied with their lives than those in poorer countries, and that within a country, richer people also reported being more satisfied than those with lower incomes.

As you can see, this survey found a clear straight-line relationship between income and happiness both within and between countries. The lines are straight rather than curved because each increment on the bottom of the axis indicates a doubling of income.

Roughly, what this means is that if you double your income, you gain about half a point on a scale of 1 to 10 of life satisfaction. More precisely, this is a called a logarithmic relationship.

Note that this is just an association at this point – we discuss whether higher income is actually causing people to become more satisfied below.

According to this survey data, a typical person with a household income of $2,000 rates their life satisfaction at around 4.2 out of 10. A typical person with a household income of $64,000 rates their life satisfaction at 7.2 out of 10.9

In the past, with only inconsistent polls available in a small number of countries, this relationship was much less clear, causing researchers to think there was no relationship between satisfaction and income. For more on the controversy about this today you can skip to Appendix I.

OK, but are richer people happier?
There’s more evidence for a maximum useful level of income if instead of asking people how their life is going overall, we ask them how they feel right now or felt yesterday.

For instance, this study by Nobel prize winners Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, relied on a phone poll that asked hundreds of thousands of Americans how they felt in the following ways:11

Positive affect – “were you happy yesterday?”
Low stress – “did you feel stressed yesterday?”
Not blue – “did you feel sad yesterday?”
Ladder – “how satisfied are you with your life overall?”
Here’s the result:

Again, the scale at the bottom doubles with each increment.

You can see that the “ladder” of life satisfaction is roughly straight all the way up, just as we found before.

However, the other three lines start to flatten around $50,000, and are completely flat by $75,000. This means that extra income had no relationship with how happy, sad and stressed people felt after this point.

Moreover, note that this is $50-75,000 of household income. That’s equivalent to an individual income of more like $26-40,000 if you’re single and not supporting kids.48

Not all studies find that money stops having any impact. For example, another enormous data analysis by Daniel Sacks, Justin Wolfers and Betsy Stevenson found that happiness continued to improve in countries with higher incomes – or at least there was no clear levelling off (see figure below).

People in richer countries were more likely to recall feeling ‘enjoyment’ or love yesterday, and less likely to experience ‘depression’, or ‘physical pain’ despite being older (see the figure below).

People in richer countries were also a bit more likely to report being consistently treated with respect, having good tasting food, smiling or laughing a lot, and being free to choose how they spend their time (see the figure below).3

But simply scanning the data you can see that these associations, while real, are quite weak considering the enormous range of income across the sample. Raising income 16-fold, from $2,000 to $32,000, moved reported happiness from 3.0/4 to 3.3/4.4 A 64-fold increase in income, from $500 to $32,000, increased the probability of recalling feeling enjoyment or eating tasty food yesterday from around 60% to 80%. A 64-fold increase in income only raised the likelihood of feeling ‘love’ yesterday from 63% to 73%. Much of our everyday human experiences are just not affected much by money. In other words:

In other studies we looked at, overall life evaluation always showed the strongest relationship with income. If you ask people how happy they feel today, or felt yesterday the relationship becomes more tenuous.42

What can make sense of these results?
We guess the key factor is the one we noted at the beginning – you take the best opportunities to invest in your happiness first, so as you get more money, it becomes harder and harder to buy more happiness. Eventually the effect of additional income of happiness becomes negligible relative to other factors.

There could be other reasons for a weak relationship. For instance, one way to earn more money is to work longer hours in a job few other people want to do. Maybe the unhappiness caused by these extra hours at work offsets whatever you gain from the extra income. It’s a case of mo’ money, mo’ problems.

There’s some evidence for this idea. This meta-analysis of over 100 studies found only a very weak relationship between pay and job satisfaction.46 Some kinds of jobs are low-paying precisely because they are satisfying. For example, if teaching weren’t fulfilling, salaries would have to be higher to convince enough people to become teachers.

Another factor is that we readily adapt to having more money. If you only have champagne once a year, it’s a special occasion. But to quote more Biggie, if “we sip champagne when we thirst-ay”, it’s no big deal. This is called the “hedonic treadmill”. This is particularly true when we spend money on material goods, like fancy clothes, which we quickly get used to.33 Moreover, we persistently underestimate how much we can adapt, so expect money to matter more than it does.34

However, there are some things we can’t adapt to, which explains why there remains some relationship between income and happiness even among the rich. One example is that long commutes make people unhappy – and they never get used to them (see the figure below).35 More money can also help you have more interesting, varied experiences and relationships, which are important too.33

How come life satisfaction seems to increase more steeply with income than day-to-day happiness? Here’s a likely explanation. If someone asks you whether you are in physical pain, it’s easy to check and give a meaningful answer. But if someone asks you on the phone how satisfied you are with your life, all things considered, on a scale of one to ten… it can be hard to say. As you don’t really know how satisfied you are on average, and you have to answer quickly, people are inclined to substitute in its place a related question that is easier to answer. A natural option is ‘how much money am I making relative to others?’, or ‘how well is my career going?’. This widely observed phenomenon is called attribute substitution by psychologists.

In this respect experience sampling is superior because it avoids a range of possible biases in people’s perception and recollection of their life.15 Nonetheless, life satisfaction passes several tests for being a good psychological measure (for example, it is stable over time and predicts future behaviour) so shouldn’t be disregarded.17

So would making more money make you happier?
So far we’ve just looked at the correlation between income and happiness, but correlation doesn’t imply causation. As Stevenson and Wolfers remark:

We should note that we have focused on establishing the magnitude of the relationship between subjective well-being and income, rather than disentangling causality from correlation. The causal impact of income on individual or national subjective well-being, and the mechanisms by which income raises subjective well-being, remain open and important questions.
It could be that there’s some other factor that causes both happiness and income. If this is true, boosting your income won’t boost your happiness. For instance, maybe healthier people are both happier and able to earn more because they have more energy. Or maybe happiness increases your income because happier people make better colleagues.

If these other connections exist, and they probably do, making an effort to earn more money won’t increase your happiness as much as you’d hope from the above correlations alone.

So, if the question is “if I earn more money, will I be happier?”, then the relationship is likely weaker than what we’ve seen above.

And the relationship above was already pretty weak: If you already earn over $40,000, then you need to gain an extra $40,000 per year just to gain 0.5 on a 10 point scale of life satisfaction. You can expect little if any noticeable effect on day-to-day happiness, stress or sadness. That’s a lot of income for a limited gain.

What about the possibility that people who earn more are happier because of their money, but this is counteracted by them having to work longer hours in less pleasant jobs? If that’s what’s going on, winning the lottery would make you happier, but choosing a higher paying job wouldn’t.

So, what about lottery winners? When people write about income and happiness they always mention this study that supposedly shows lottery winners were no happier a year or two after winning. This would be good evidence that there’s almost no relationship between income and happiness, even if you could get the money without having to do any extra work.


Source: https://80000hours.org/articles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-whether-money-makes-you-happy/


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Wikipedia says immortality is the ability to live forever or eternal life.[2] Natural selection has developed potential biological immortality in at least one species, Turritopsis dohrnii.[3]

Certain scientists, futurists, and philosophers have theorized about the immortality of the human body, and advocate that human immortality is achievable in the first few decades of the 21st century, whereas other advocates believe that life extension is a more achievable goal in the short term, with immortality awaiting further research breakthroughs into an indefinite future. The absence of aging would provide humans with biological immortality, but not invulnerability to death by physical trauma; although mind uploading could solve that issue.

Hundreds of years ago, there were many things that people thought was impossible, but which are possible with science and technology.

Given our standards of living nowadays, we looked on our ancestors with pity. Hundreds of years to come, our progeny would look at us with pity.

Scientists are doing vigorous research into immortality. Would they succeed?

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Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognized union or legal contract between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between them, between them and their children, and between them and their in-laws, as well as society in general. The definition of marriage varies according to different cultures, but it is principally an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually sexual, are acknowledged. In some cultures, marriage is recommended or considered to be compulsory before pursuing any sexual activity. When defined broadly, marriage is considered a cultural universal, says Wikipedia.

But many people aren’t interested in marriage now because of one reason or another; and they’re getting older.

Are there any advantages in late marriage?

Are there any disadvantages in early marriage?

What is better, a late marriage or early marriage?

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Dogs have long been man’s best friends — loyal companions that love you unconditionally. But sometimes, they can bite you in the butt … literally.


Reports surface every year with dog bite statistics, chronicling researchers’ different methodologies when determining what counts as a dog attack. The 2014 report “Dog attack deaths and maimings, U.S. & Canada (1982-2014),” compiled by ANIMALS 24-7 editor Merritt Clifton, is one of them.

The report aimed to structure data regarding dog breed attacks as reported in the news. Though some argue that the use of press accounts is not the most reliable approach, Clifton argues that media coverage is legitimate because it is multi-sourced, incorporating information “from police reports, animal control reports, witness accounts, victim accounts in many instances, and hospital reports.” After taking a closer look at the methodology, PetBreeds concluded that this report gave a sufficiently thoughtful and unbiased summary of dog attacks in the United States.
Methodology
We acknowledge that the data can be evaluated in a few different contexts (breed-specific behavior, bite frequency relative to frequency of severe injuries, degree of relative risk), but instead of drawing definitive conclusions, we decided to simply show the number of attacks.

We focused on the number of attacks doing bodily harm in the last 32 years, which includes fatalities, maimings (loss of limb or disfigurement) and other severe injuries that required hospital treatment. The dogs included in the statistics are only those whose breed has been clearly identified and have been kept as pets. The report also excluded police and guard dogs “at work." In an ideal world, we’d use a report that factored in the total number of attacks by each breed in the United States, but that information is not readily available.

Before we get on with the list, we wanted to make one thing very clear: Just because a dog breed has been involved in an attack does not mean that breed, as a whole, should be condemned. Every dog has a different personality and is shaped by the environment in which he grows up. We aim to present and interpret data for our readers in order to better inform their decisions, not to pass judgement.

As an aside, a man recently died in an hospital because he was attacked by two dogs that were inadvertently let loose, while he was going on a public road.

Apart from mosquitos, humans and snakes, the dog is the number 4 killer on earth. It killed 25,000 people last year.

Can you see the reason why you need to fear dog?


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The governor is correct to some extent.

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There is nothing new under heaven.

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She's not that bad with or without makeup.

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That's the truth.

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Hundreds of millions of birthdays are celebrated today... What is the big deal?

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Some of them know this already.

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The woman is attractive.

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Fayose is good in some areas... Only that I don't like how he bad-mouths the president. Yet, it's a good thing for the government t have some form of opposition.

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But poor men don't shine. Do they?



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It's an executive order.


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Yes, I have a favorite child. In fact, I have two.

I have sons, one 21, the other, 16. I'm not sure it's possible to quantify love. I do know I love both of them with my whole heart. I do, however, have situational favorites.

I love to watch movies with the little one. The big one is always asking questions about what's going on in the movie. "I love you, Son, but shut up and watch the movie. You have a brain the size of a planet. Use it."

I love talking with my firstborn about what's going on in his life. He's 21, and a Junior at UCLA. He has a long-term girlfriend. He told me that I won the cool boyfriend's parent award. He and his girlfriend enjoy dinner with me, my partner and the little brother. I don't lecture them. I treat them like the bright engaging young adults they are. Apparently, not so much with my ex or with the girlfriend's parents.

I love going out to dinner with the little one. We like the same restaurants and more often than not, we'll order the same item on the menu.

I enjoy my youngest's sense of humor. He, my partner and I have the same senses of humor. We can never go wrong with a "that's what she said" line. My beloved and I used to try to hide our TWSS thoughts until we realized that, in his mind, he'd beaten us to the punchline. Bright kid. No poker face.

I love talking with my oldest about his love life. I've been giving him (age appropriate) sex talks since he was a fetus. Now, they're bearing fruit. Because he knows my gender history, he knows that I know what it's like to be a teenage boy experiencing first love and discovering sex for the first time.

He also trusts me to speak from the woman's perspective. He tells me what he gets up to. He asks questions. He pretends to listen to my answers.

I do love both my children differently, but I also love them equally. Completely.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Do-parents-have-a-favorite-child-1


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I was a police canine handler for 8 years. My dog Bach was as gentle as a puppy unless he was provoked or he detected a threat against me. I had absolutely no problem bringing him into preschools and letting the children pet him and play with him. He was a part of our family, and with 4 sons, the house was always full of kids.

My point here is that well-trained police dogs are not vicious man-eaters. I know dogs have a bad reputation. There are many cases in which they were (and are) misused. I make no excuses for stupidity.

A well trained police dog is trained to stop you and hold you in one place until his backup arrives. If you fight him, he will fight you. If you stop and surrender, the dog is trained not to bite. He will "bark and hold" unless you run or fight him.

A police dog is trained to fight you as long as you fight him. If you stay in the fight, so will he. Keep in mind, while you are fighting the dog, the dog's police partner(s) are not far away, and are coming for you too (if they are not already on top of you).

I know you didn't ask it, but I'll give you this advice: you will not outrun a police dog. When he catches you, he will hit you with his 100 pounds of weight running at full speed. His predator mentality will kick in.

I've heard it said a German Shepherd bites with about 240 pounds of force. Add that to his teeth sinking into your skin, along with you trying to pull away, and you sort of get the picture. I've heard people say you wrap a coat or shirt around your arm, and that way you can fight the dog. I'll just say in our training we took a LOT of bites from other canines (never from our own), and we always used protective sleeves on our arms - or even complete "bite suits" on occasion - and the task was very exhausting. You could feel the dogs' jaws crushing the sleeve.

So I guess, if you think you can handle that, you might be able to fight him off for a short time. But what's the point? The dog's job is to hold you until the uniforms show up, and some of us are pretty fast too.

I would not recommend putting yourself into that situation.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Can-I-fight-off-a-police-dog


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