On the lighter side though, we now have www.cracked.com. Cracked used to be a kind of a Mad rip-off, but is now doing fantastic as an internet magazine.

on your computer. Or in something else, also on your computer. Then send your work to yourself in e-mail. Legal or not... Nobody is going to take away from me things that I wrote. To much of MY TIME and MY LIFE and effort went into it. Even if I just copied it from somewhere. I have a copy of every math homework I ever handed in during my two and a half year of study. And all the notes. Even the ones I turned in and the lecturer kept, as a part of my examination (excepting only those that I wrote with pencil in a three hour written exam).

I'm disregarding the legal question on this one. I consider this to be my personal right and there is nothing anyone can do about it, simply for the practical reason that it's already been copied, by me, into too many places.

No. The cool factor for Apple is this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EbCyibkNB0&feature=rec-fresh+div

I know what you're talking about with the overthinking, but I don't think that's the problem. Let's say you're at a social function and just about analyzed the whole thing and worked out that you had a chance with some girl with a 95% probability. Would you really DO anything about it?

The overthinking argument is a rationalization. It has more to do with being afraid. I won't offer any further analysis of the cause of that, since most of what I've come up with is bullshit anyway. But one thing with shyness or social awkwardness is that people are not as judgemental as you think they are and probably care less about you than you'd even like to admit. Being around people and gradually realizing that what you say and do matters much less than you think is the key here. And making a fool out of yourself and realizing that people just don't give a rats ass about it (and have surprisingly short memories) are the keys of getting rid of those problems.

And when you've finally learned to blend in and socialize you realize something: Normal people are boring!

Which in turn reminds me of this song, by the Klein Four Group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg

Or maybe they're out of their expertise. Really, should everyone be thinking computer-related problems through when they can ask the experts? There are a lot of problems related, for example, to finance, that I'd rather have my bank doing. I don't see them frowning on me for not knowing something I asked them.

We each have a finite amount of time for solving problems, and a finite number of abilities, each of which is at least somewhat specialised.

No one can be good at everything. And calling somebody an idiot for not being good at what YOU do is simply not fair.

I think he means: Everybody here knows that.

It's true nevertheless, and the cocaine was probably the real reason people originally started drinking so much of it.