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Comment Re:Words with Friends Live! (Score 1) 550

More seriously, try board games! My wife isn't much of a video gamer, but board games were a huge hit with her. Look at things like Agricola, Ticket to Ride, Pandemic, Carcassonne, and Settlers of Catan. They reward analytical thinking like video games do, so you won't be bored, I promise.

This is exactly what I did with my wife. I couldn't get her to play video games with me so I started playing board games with her instead. I like playing games and I like spending time with her so it was win-win.

Comment Re:active vs. passive? (Score 1) 243

Civil disobedience can be active or passive; the defining trait is that it is done with the intention of forcing a change. It generally involves being ready to accept the repercussions of one's actions as well. Rosa Parks is the best example I can come up with right now. She knew what what happen if she refused to give up her seat but she chose to take a stand anyway.

Comment Re:Brilliant idea (Score 0) 480

Just generate them algorithmically. For example, your base password could be 12345 and you would just append the name of the site to it. Slashdot’s password would become 12345slashdot, your email password would become 12345email, etc. As long as you don't share your base password or the particulars of your algorithm there’s much less to remember and you benefit from having unique passwords across all the sites you visit.

Comment Re:Maybe it's a better example of true worth (Score 1) 250

That probably was written by an adult. Maybe every generation goes through this but I swear the people I knew in high school never grew into adults. I can't help but wonder whether Instagram is suffering from a similar condition, that they're simply incapable of existing outside the current moment.

Comment Re:Obvious answer.. (Score 1) 514

You may lack grammatical skills but the idea would come across with some consistency.

Let's eat people! Let's eat, people!

Admittedly a smaller risk in a spoken language, but spoken proficiency alone doesn't cut it.

You're right, but context usually mitigates all but the worst grammatical errors. For example, unless your friend was wearing a bloody butcher's apron and carrying a cleaver you'd likely assume he meant the latter rather than the former. ;)

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