In the mid-70s, Bob Dylan was interviewed in Rolling Stone magazine. For no good reason, the interviewer asked Dylan's opinion about the then-pending Equal Rights Ammendment. Cryptic as ever, Dylan replied:
Short answer is, Yes, certainly. Long answer is more complicated. Long answer is, your question should have stopped before the words "on the internet." If someone doesn't believe they can fall in love on the internet, they won't. If they don't believe they can fall in love next Tuesday, they won't. If they don't believe they can fall in love...they won't.
The general concept of a "Secret Santa" is, you don't know who you will be gifting, and you don't know who will gift you. If you wish to gift someone in particular, that's up to you. Since Kaybee will be organizing this via CS email, if someone has deleted or hidden their profile, they will not be available. That's not up to you or to Kaybee.
Both good points. Some affinities are practical, others not. As for the time spent in getting to know one another...never a waste, if the object is someone worth knowing.
Why in the world do you think option #7 should be Women Only? Have you some deep-seated prejudice that says only women would be unable to describe their feelings? I can tell you myself, from reading these Forums, that that ain't so. I think that option says more about what YOU think of women than it does about any who respond.
Meeting someone on CS is just like meeting anyone anywhere: sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't.
That's the way life and love are: sometimes yea, sometimes nay. Let's not fret over who or what is to blame. Let's just give it our best, and if it's no-go, accept it and move on.
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I plan to use my matter/antimatter collider to obliterate everything in the solar system on February 15, 2013. That's the date predicted on the Phaistos Disk from Minoan Crete. It's also the day after Valentine's Day. I figure, that'll give everyone on Earth one last chance to get laid.
I'd be concerned about petrol costs in the years to come, Ali. From what I've read, the burgeoning economies in India and China will soon result in millions more privately-owned cars, driving the demand for petrol way way up. You should assess your personal needs carefully, with an eye toward the lifetime of the purchase.
You have verified, through numerous contacts in numerous avenues, that she is indeed who & where she says she is?
Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Long-time members here know I was involved with another before, from Canada, a woman of great beauty and charm. But the distance was too great, and we could not make it work. All can see now I'm involved with another, still distant, but not so much. And we've been making that work, but we're also exploring avenues to be closer.
And there's the crux of the matter. Yes, LDRs can work, but for most folk, you gotta be working together towards someone or both relocating. You're in Canada, she's in Russia. Even to meet halfway, you're both looking at airfare.
Is it really worth your emotional & financial investment, to pursue this "maybe"?
That's all well and good, Tom -- well no, it's not, not point #2 nor point #3 -- IF, IF, IF, you are ensured of getting a random (and thus representative) sample. NO poll with self-selecting respondents can ever be random, nor representative.
To answer your question, "How many responses do you need?" Surprisingly few. Out of 300 million US citizens, you need only about 1600, IF those 1600 are randomly selected. That will get you within a margin-of-error of about 4 points.
On the other hand, if you simply throw out a question -- "Who will win the presidential election?" -- and take the first 1600 people who answer, guess what? Your margin-of-error will be 50%.
All polls and surveys that rely on self-selecting respondents are invalid and meaningless. ALL of them, including those fun ones here on CS. ALL of them. All of them. ALL of them. Meaningless. Invalid. ALL of them. Like it or not.
ALL answers will be invalid, Tom my friend, because this approach has no way of ensuring a statistically-random sample. Nor even a vague attempt to do so. My answers, yours, even Jac's, ALL answers will be invalid and meaningless. No valid conclusions can be drawn, no matter how many responses PZ gets. Remember "Dewey Defeats Truman"? That's what you get with a non-representative, self-selecting sample: an invalid answer.
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RE: What men really need?
In the mid-70s, Bob Dylan was interviewed in Rolling Stone magazine. For no good reason, the interviewer asked Dylan's opinion about the then-pending Equal Rights Ammendment. Cryptic as ever, Dylan replied:Whatever that's worth.