So I clicked on the wikipedia link for supersymmetric extension and tried to read the first three paragraphs.

I encountered these: "supersymmetric partners, the weak scale, the hierarchy problem, quantum corrections, a fermionic superpartner, superparticles, squarks, gluinos, neutralinos, sleptons, R-parity, explicit soft supersymmetry breaking operators, large flavor changing neutral currents and electric dipole moments."

I always knew I wanted to be diagonal in flavor space to make the new CP violating phases vanish.

There is something deeply disturbing in the heads of physicists...

You mentioned the supposed dozens of bodies in Texas. The police didn't know the woman claimed to be psychic when she tipped them. Supposedly she had detailed knowledge of the home and property even though she was not a local. When the police arrived they found blood all over the porch and the stench of rotting meat.

The blood supposedly came from the homeowner's daughter's boyfriend who was suicidal and cut his wrist a few days prior, and the rotting meat was from (non-human) meat rotting in an unplugged deep freezer.

One of the things the psychic said when interviewed by the Chronicle was that she tipped the police about two missing children, not about murders, and she believed the two were "still alive, but hungry and thirsty. There's still time." Kinda creepy.

"They are weak people, even when they are our friends and family members, and they get what they deserve.

Maybe it's in their character;"

I must inform you that addiction is a disease. It is not a moral failing, but an incurable, progressive, and eventually deadly disease that can only be arrested, kind of like cancer.

Shame on you for judging an entire class of people.

Drug addiction is a brain disease that is recurring and devastating on the afflicted as well as their families and loved ones. I don't wish it on anyone.

I don't disavow the blame on addicts for the damage that they do; only they are responsible. But they suffer from a disease, and it is not a moral failing as you claim.

Not to mention the novel. Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws, has stated that he regrets the perception that his work created of great white sharks.

Apparently, he didn't really know anything about sharks back then. Did anybody, even scientists? No. Mr. Benchley has offered the opinion that he wouldn't have written the book if he had known anything near what we know today, 'at least not in good conscience.'

Peter Benchley became an ocean conservationist later in life. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2006.

According to Wikipedia, "Benchley was a member of the National Council of Environmental Defense and a spokesman for its Oceans Program: "[T]he shark in an updated Jaws could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim; for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors."

Just so you know.

I'm also in my early 30s and wouldn't have replied if you hadn't brought up social disorders (it's 7am here and I've been up all night again dealing with a problem related to this).

I also have Avoidant Personality Disorder (along with the usual tag-alongs: generalized anxiety disorder, substance abuse disorder, generalized depression, drug dependence) and have known (as I bet you did also) since I was young (~13 years old).

I'm only affected in certain situations; I'm fine in a gaming store, or any store, or the mall, or baseball games or something. I mean, mostly fine. I mainly have problems now like if any friends come to visit, relatives visit, if I have to use the phone for ANYTHING, if I have an appointment (dentist, etc), going on any sort of trip away, and of course I don't have a job partly because of it. It makes things very stressful; anytime I'm with anyone I'm constantly monitoring them and myself and making sure everything is "perfect" or, rather, I feel like the slightest thing will humiliate me, you know.

Just curious if you are similar. If a well-known friend (known for 17 years) comes over, I really need to self-medicate with something (joint, opiates, something) or it's fucking hard, and it shouldn't be hard at all, it should be really easy and friendly.

Alcohol hasn't helped me much; long-term use of opiates has only left me with dependency and PAWS (post-acute withdrawal syndrome) and every day is sheer agony. every hour, really, but that's just picking nits.

I'm basically a social outcast who doesn't do anything that can't be done at home. Things have been really difficult for me this year.

Maybe you might reply?

Heh. Try picking up a narcotics habit. Seriously, go take oxycontin, fentanyl or heroin for a few years. You'll find out (after the agonizing, suicidal withdrawal) that you will basically never have fun with anything else ever again (anhedonia) even from stuff you grew up with, games and people that you know you should enjoy. Not that I'm talking from bitterly personal experience, or anything.

Off-topic, I know, but I thought it was the NHK targeting us to turn us into hikikomori. To believe in anything is a step forward, I suppose...

Not that I own a Wii (or Gamecube), but what if you ARE left-handed? You just get to be confused because the on-screen Link is now right-handed (even if in all previous games it was the opposite), or does the game on the Wii allow you to change this and make Link left-handed again?

Oi, the many annoyances of being left-handed..........

If he wasn't afraid of it and did it, that's not bravery.

It's being afraid of something but doing it anyway that represents true courage.

He did what he thought was the proper thing to do for him in his position. As to his feelings on death, unless words from the man himself are forthcoming I wouldn't judge him.