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zenmachado @zenmachado (1617) • United States 26 Jan 08

Truth be told, I dont feel that L.O. is awful. But at the same time, I dont feel he should be paid so much. He is deserving of a 3rd option salary.. The lakers treat him as a number two, when his whole career he has...

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skivveez Lamar's real problem is his inconsistency. He's a phenomenally talented player, and is a triple-double threat on his good nights. However, on his bad nights he can be very bad. I feel Lamar's role is much better suited to him when Bynum is on the floor. Maybe...

27 Jan 08

MachSchell @MachSchell (35) • United States 25 Jan 08

I don't feel like artists make cohesive albums anymore. The industry's so set on selling three minute radio spots that the art has been stripped away. Not that there aren't good artists out there, or that there aren't some great...

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skivveez Bands like Pink Floyd don't exactly come around every day. They've survived the test of time and continued to be very popular, with people today listening songs that they wrote decades ago. It's not like there were fewer bands back in the day than there are...

26 Jan 08

thrwbckjay67 @thrwbckjay67 (2870) • United States 25 Jan 08

Being a Grad school student with a full-time job is pretty tough, so I tend to study whenever I can. I like staying up late at night when my wife has gone to bed and studying in the quiet of the house every night, but it's not...

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skivveez I actually turned down the offer of an office at my university, because I prefer to study in the lab room where there are students/postdocs/professors coming through and toying with experiments, conversing, etc, because I study so much better in that...

26 Jan 08

indywahm @indywahm (808) • United States 8 Feb 07

I do laundry for us every single day!! I am doing 1 to 2 loads a day for the 5 of us. Well my kids still complain in the morning getting ready for school that they have nothing clean to wear and that "Mom, never does laundry!"...

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skivveez Wow. I would never even think of just yelling at my mom to get me a drink. By the time I was 13, my parents (jokingly) told me that part of the reason they had me was so they wouldn't have to handle all the chores by themselves. Good luck with handling...

8 Feb 07

GergOnline @GergOnline (399) • United States 8 Feb 07

I know I can't wait! I loved transformers when i was a kid. I heard a rumor a long time ago that comedian Dane Cook was going to be in this movie, but I checked on the cast list on Yahoo and he wasnt there. So I don't know... What...

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skivveez Dude, I'm definitely going to see transformers, I loved this show as a kid. How could it not be worth 8 bucks to watch giant robots slug it out and turn into things. awesome.

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GergOnline @GergOnline (399) • United States 8 Feb 07

I know I can't wait! I loved transformers when i was a kid. I heard a rumor a long time ago that comedian Dane Cook was going to be in this movie, but I checked on the cast list on Yahoo and he wasnt there. So I don't know... What...

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skivveez Heeeeeeellllll yeah I'm going to see transformers.

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kopitalisme @kopitalisme (152) • Indonesia 21 Jan 07

Can anyone give me some opinions?

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skivveez It's an interesting question. I think the environment in America has been slowly changing over the past hundred years so that this has become more and more likely, and now we can actually speak of it as a real possibility. The first woman in congress was in...

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skivveez @skivveez (38) • United States 8 Feb 07

I'm asking for tips on how to make myself a better drummer. Note - I play hand drums, tabla, cajon, doumbek, etc.. not the set drums. Still, I think the rhythm exercises would still be helpful. Also, I'm fairly good already,...

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tarun05 @tarun05 (92) 8 Feb 07

hi actually i gained weight for the last one year and if i try for that weight lossing program means ,its expensive for me...can u tell me tips for weight loss...please...

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skivveez There are a lot of things you can do. 1 - Watch what you eat, eat out less (restaurant food tends to be higher in calories and much larger servings than you would make for yourself at home). Make your own food, and don't eat to get full, just eat until you...

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g_aileen09 @g_aileen09 (1354) • Philippines 5 Feb 07

Have you experienced yawning too when you see somebody yawn? Is yawning contagious?

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skivveez Good callout. I love the show mythbusters, but they will sometimes declare a myth busted way too prematurely. Especially myth's like "is it possible to do ....", the result will sometimes be, well we couldn't do it, so it must not be possible. Still, the...

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aerogal_ind @aerogal_ind (419) • India 8 Feb 07

Does students be taught their subjects mainly by theoritical or practical manner??My view is that they should be taught mainly by practical way,which makes them easy to understand what they are learning and that they never forget...

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skivveez I think both are appropriate in their own right. I think practical results are much more useful and easy to understand when one already has a grasp of the theory behind it, and a theoretical understanding is what allows a person to come up with new practical...

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Rittings @Rittings (673) 5 Feb 07

I realy think mine would be Boston, MA because of my love of the Red Sox, and I have never been there and I want to watch a live game at Fenway Park. I think I would actually cry at the first pitch and would die if I got to see...

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skivveez I'm planning a trip to India this winter, and I think it will be absolutely mind-blowing. My tabla teacher (who teaches in the US for part of the year and goes to India for the rest) is going to allow me and some other students to stay with him, and will...

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g_aileen09 @g_aileen09 (1354) • Philippines 5 Feb 07

Have you experienced yawning too when you see somebody yawn? Is yawning contagious?

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skivveez I don't know why it is contagious, but it definitely is. There have been studies done on both humans and chimpanzees apparently, and both species will usually yawn soon after they see another one yawn. I think there are a lot of social behaviors like this....

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skivveez @skivveez (38) • United States 8 Feb 07

Kind of a long story, but this is interesting. I'm a student at MIT, and right now there is a junior professor who is on a hunger strike, to protest what he sees as personal and institutional racism in the school. He has been...

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skivveez Thanks for the response, this is exactly how I feel about it. On one side, there is the truth that it is just very hard to get tenure here, and many prospects, both white and minority, are denied tenure; even if there was racism involved, there's still a good...

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astromama @astromama (1221) • United States 8 Feb 07

I hope this isn't opening up a big ugly can of worms, but i have to be honest here... one of the things that has turned me off about certain religions is that they pray to a gender-specific God. I myself am into equal rights,...

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skivveez I guess that while it doesn't make sense to me to assign god a physical gender, there are many qualities that are traditionally associated with masculinity or femininity, i.e. aggression, empathy, etc. I guess historically, in a hostile world, there are...

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livvy @livvy092002 (1032) • Philippines 31 Jan 07

I am a filipino and planning to work in a foreign country like canada.. I've heard people coming from their work abroad that racial discrimination really exist and is rampant in the work place. They further said that if i'm...

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skivveez I sympathize with you livvy, and wish you the best of luck. I think that the majority of the people you will encounter are not racist, and will judge you based on the type of person you are, not your skin, but there will always be some jerks, and the rest of...

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astromama @astromama (1221) • United States 8 Feb 07

I hope this isn't opening up a big ugly can of worms, but i have to be honest here... one of the things that has turned me off about certain religions is that they pray to a gender-specific God. I myself am into equal rights,...

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skivveez It doesn't really bother me that much, being an atheist, but my opinion on the topic is that it really stems from the fact that the world's major monotheistic religions all share common sources in the same patriarchal cultures. Often the holy texts of these...

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addy4all @addy4all (638) • India 8 Feb 07

my people in today`s world are still facing racial discrimination in one way or the other...let it be directly or indirectly....so what do u think about it???according to me its a bad thing and shud be banned everywhere.....

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skivveez I think racial discrimination and racism are terrible, and hope that we will eventually not even have to have this discussion because racism is such an absurd belief. For an interesting current event related to this issue, check out a discussion I...

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