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full disclosure: I am a happy FA customer. I do not own stock in the company, not employed by them and have no financial relationship with them other than taking their advice on where to invest.

On the other hand, my wife's dad is a busy industrialist, even he never attended anything. Her mom did though. Her view of it is completely different. She feels very very bad about her dad not being there, to the point that she forces me to attend all of our kids school events, even when I think some are not that important.

I guess it depends on your personality and how you respond to things around you.

“We are not thinking about [an IPO]. We have not settled on a business model that we can take public,”

Shouldn't the business model be validated by your Series A or max B? Flipkart has taken multiple rounds in the past, and this one looks as large as a Series C.

Edit: Firms involved also sound like series C firms - Tiger Global, DST etc.

Coffee served by McD (180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit) will give a person third-degree burns in two to seven seconds, while home-coffee brewers normally serve coffee at much lower temperatures (130 two 140 degrees) which won't immediately burn you. Yes, Starbucks and other joints do serve coffee at the hotter temperatures -- because some customers prefer it -- but then again, they get sued for it also.

Also, she attempted to settle for $20,000 at one point, and McDonald's refused

You may have heard that she got millions of dollars, when the final award was $640,000. Then from that you take out the medical bills (hint: skin grafts aren't cheap).

But she has to take some responsibility, right? She may not have been driving, but she was trying to open the lid in her lap so she could add cream and sugar. That's kind of careless, isn't it? Why couldn't the jury see that?

Well, they did. That's why the compensatory damages portion ($200,000) was reduced by 20 percent, because they ruled it was 20 percent her fault.

Specifically, the hot-coffee lawsuit for McD was IMHO a genuine lawsuit that only gets bandied about because it 'sounds frivolous'. The plaintiff sued because McD was significantly overheating the coffee to reduce costs, much more than expected, and all Liebeck was looking for was to cover her medical expenses for third degree burns. There was the usual - "ignore and be dismissive about the problem" perspective from McD officials that led to heavy punitive damages being awarded by the jury. See more details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restauran...

However, when I read your comment, I realized that I don't know that many muslims personally (maybe 1-2) and I have never bothered to raise these topics with them to see how they would respond. So, it is not right for me to assume that they wouldn't criticize these events, especially given that there is a plethora of atheist ex-muslims online, which makes it credible(and to an extent obvious) that there are many more closeted atheists or otherwise liberals within the community, all of whom would prove the parent flat out wrong

- Given that this is a simple yes/no question (would you respond vs not), its not clear whether this preference is for casual flings or long term relationships (there have been studies that show women prefer hot men for flings and bores for family/stability) OTOH, I don't know if that study was really valid

- I imagine I would use an online dating site if my local network doesn't have any leads for me. If my local network is racially homogenous (possibly true for larger america vs metros), I would look for other races to experiment/or meet different people

There have been similar results posted by okcupid[1], so there definitely seems to be some truth to what these guys are reporting.

[1]- http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-race-affects-whether-...

Either you are saying: 1. India, for example, is _exclusively_ (i.e. completely) ignoring welfare - something that is clearly wrong as the country spends a lot on subsidizing food and basic amenities - you can argue the specifics of the program but can't say that the program is absent.

or you are saying 2. India is _exclusively_ focusing on ISRO, also something wrong - ISRO is a minute fraction of the budget

Telling someone makes it likely that they will try to stop you. If you have decided to take your life, the worst thing you want (in some cases) is for someone try and prevent it from happening.

Also, depression never leaves you alone, so there will be multiple points in your life where you will think about taking your own life, and you will yourself doubt whether you will go through with it up to the point of pulling the trigger, so you don't want to tell someone and "waste their time" if you are not sure you are going to do it.

Its pretty crazy how these things work, and the best way out for me in helping such people has been to physically take them to a professional, every time, every session, until someone certifies them as no longer depressed. Nothing else has worked for me and I know I am not qualified or capable in talking someone out of a suicide attempt.

To hold him, or anyone else for that matter, hostage to what he said 120 days ago is dishonest.

Booth capturing "found primarily in India" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booth_capturing

intimidation on racial lines: http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162808/1/5847

You are plain kidding if you feel elections in India are anywhere close to being as good as US.

Of course, again, there is media acting as a watchdog, and a hope that the manipulation is statistically insignificant.

A better article would have quantified all the measurable metrics like "virtual machines are 'fast'" and talked about some of the negatives - like privacy/security concerns etc.

What I want to know is - why are they so much more expensive than linode(for example). These guys are offering a 512Mb VPS @80$/m compared to 19.95@linode. They also charge 100$ for setup - (doing everything manually?)

(Disclaimer - I am a happy linode customer)

This seems to have a number of references.

1. An Ad-Hominem argument is one where you attack the other based on their credentials to have an opinion on an issue without commenting on the argument itself. That's specifically what you did.

2. >>"Refraining from addressing someone's statement other than to label it "ad hominem" is itself an ad hominem argument, however." -- this is a weird piece of logic I must say. See definition of ad hominem above. Where did I challenge your "statement" by saying that you are not un-biased enough to have an opinion. If you still disagree, see http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html and let me know what I am missing

3. Let me respond to your main argument as well - you say that the fact she was a guy "does the opposite of dispelling any stereotypes people may harbor" - ONE - not everyone knows she was a guy. Therefore, most people would take the argument for what it is and think about it. TWO - even if people know she was a guy, why do you assume that other readers are primitive enough that they will let that be a factor? Note - they aren't seeing her in real life - they are just reading an article at their leisure.

Literally, all content from the article about crowdfunding is: "The crowd funding proposal has some merit. Companies could seek to raise up to $2 million through individual donations up to $10,000 each or 10 percent of a person's income..<snip>.. But in its current form, even the crowd funding piece is problematic because it provides little oversight of the process by letting just about anyone into the fundraising game."

I can understand why it is 'instinctively' bad to not have any oversight into the funding process, but how is letting just about anyone into the game bad? It could even have positive impacts to startups like mine who don't have valley/VC contacts but know individuals who could spare 10k.

Given that the costs of starting up have plummeted, it makes sense to allow crowdfunding while removing the auditing/legal requirements because crowdfunders would be taking lesser risk than investors of yore. Practically a certified investor (1m+) has the capability to invest in 100 startups before (s)he can invest in 1!

Actually, let me take that back - with the new 'post PC' world coming where only techies will have laptops, Linux has a greater future. OSX will fade because all hipsters will just have iOS devices

Unfortunately, I wasn't expecting this, so I missed their email and only realized the problem once my linode was offline.

I wouldn't be thrilled about either linode OR amazon