Video chat is probably the most effective.
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I'm pretty sure that these fancy tactics can be found in The Art of Deception, which was released in 2002. Social engineering is nothing new.
But yes, if somebody makes a failed suicide attempt, and doesn't follow up on that, I'd say that they wish to live (except for those who are left physically incapacitated due to their attempt, obviously).
One possible justification: Asking for credit card info can act as a means of verification, preventing people from repeatedly creating new accounts to obtain a virtually limitless trial.
Because if you search for "Debian 6 foo", you should only be seeing results that contain that exact phrase (on Google, anyways).
I used Kiva during one of their "Free $25 Loan" promos. Unfortunately, several months before "my" borrower was able to finish repaying her loan, I received an E-mail saying that she had passed away. The thing is, Kiva still shows the final few months' repayment as having been received.
This made me question the numbers that I was seeing; while it's definitely possible that her family paid everything off, I'm not sure that I trust them.
I don't believe that anything malicious is going here, just misrepresentation.
For this reason I'd much rather support the microfinance institutions themselves (even though Kiva doesn't take a cut).
Maybe if you stick to the default subreddits that are composed entirely of memes.
The main reason that I use Reddit is for the discussion; I highly, highly doubt that you're going to find /r/askscience-calibre conversations on Facebook.
To be clear, I'm not singling out people with mental illnesses; as a person with a physical illness, I would have considered it to be one of my "character flaws".
No, I wouldn't, and that's exactly why I think that more time, money, and effort should be spent on improving America's (mental) health care system, and why effort should be made to break down the social stigma of mental illness. We should look at cases like this as an example of what can happen when people don't have access to an adequate support network.
I edited my post because after rereading it I realized that it could be taken in ways that I hadn't intended it to. What I meant to emphasize was that suicide is predominantly motivated by the individual; that's who we should be focusing on helping. Fixing the judicial system is great, but I don't believe the judicial system was the principal factor behind Aaron's death; it was only a contributing circumstance.
The comment that I replied to was framing the situation as just another example of the big, bad, authoritarian government flexing its muscle. Saying that Swartz was "murdered by the state" only obscures what, in my eyes, is the real tragedy here: that a man dealing with incredible stress, pressure, and mental/emotional strain felt as if suicide was his only option.
Are you asserting that suicide is the most reasonable option in a situation like this?
I've noticed this sentiment a lot lately (you hear it all the time in discussions about youths who commit suicide after having been bullied excessively); as if outside forces are overwhelmingly responsible for when a person takes their own life, and any personal culpability that that person might have had is thrown out the window.
I'm not saying that the events that contribute towards a suicide should be ignored, but it's important to remember that suicide, by definition, is always a personal choice. We should be doing more to assist, or even empower, those who feel as if they have to make that choice.
Instead of doing the easy thing and blaming a scapegoat (to say that "[Aaron] was practically murdered by the state" is ludicrous, and not at all productive), why don't we look at the root of the problem - what really caused Swartz to do what he did (i.e., a poor state of mental health, something that currently affects millions of Americans) - and work towards preventing it from happening to others?
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Overpopulation is not a threat[0]; if you really want to prevent further damage to the planet, start working towards things like sustainable energy, or better yet, improve the system that rewards irresponsible exploitation of the environment. What do you need to solve these types of problems? Education.
The only thing that I can think of would be a phone bill.
If you type for even an hour each day, you owe it to yourself to try out a mechanical keyboard...I'd never go back.
Not true at all. Maybe if you're using old or unsupported hardware.
At most you'll need to set your BIOS to Optimized Defaults.
Their recommended builds are excellent, even if you were only to use them for Windows.
The average person can only maintain 150 relationships; how is popular culture (which is composed of thousands or even millions of people) closer to nature than isolationism?
I'm pretty much always enrolled in a couple of MOOCS and have been thinking about using a method like this to improve my retention.