The Director

Well the thing is they are TV shows. Meaning that the only way they continue is to meet their quota of viewers. Now, if their investigations turn up bupkis, then they aren't going to have any viewers. It's like that with any sort of 'Paranormal Investigation' that makes money from their investigations. Their financial gain is completely dependent on them yielding 'interesting' results. No interesting results, no payday. No payday, no food or place to live. Therefor every investigation that they conduct is tainted by this little factoid. As far as the paranormal itself, I have yet to see conclusive evidence of it's existence. I've heard tons of ghost stories, seen plenty of 'real evidence' in those shows you've mentioned, and even have seen a few strange things myself. Thing is though, each and every time someone told me a story it repeated the same pattern. See, the problem here is that whenever you attempt to assist in the explanation of the supposed paranormal occurrence, you are immediately shot down with some 'evidence' that was not present in the story previously. If you keep trying, it frustrates the person telling the story and they get very defensive. Sometimes it leads to a physical confrontation. The shows I've already explained previously, and as far as what I've seen myself pretty much all of it has multiple explanations and nothing conclusive. So while I am open to the possibility of paranormal phenomena, I have yet to be convinced of it.

I think that in the question lies the answer, my good man. Most people can tell if they like someone enough to date them within the first hour of meeting that person. It taking you longer than that to determine whether a girl is interesting enough to date points to a tad bit of, well, being picky. Two things to remember when it comes to dating while in your teens: 1. While some high school relationships do end up in happy marriages, the majority of them end before graduation or during college. The reason is pretty simple. Dating during high school is simply practice for future relationships. You will not likely find your 'soul mate' in high school, or even during your teenage years, but it is good practice for when you eventually do. 2. Nobody is perfect, which means that being picky about who you date will end up in you never finding someone to date. That is not such a horrible thing, as some people are actually quite happy with only friends and no 'significant other'. The person you end up asking out will very likely have some deep character flaws, but these flaws are part of what makes them who they are. Which means they aren't as flawed as you would originally think. tl;dr there isn't as much pressure involved in dating during your teenage years as you seem to think there is. Instead of going for the 'perfect girl', try going for more available females. They will probably surprise you. Remember, this is just practice for when you are older and begin serious relationships that will fully effect your life. Usually shells from large mussels. Most freshwater 'seashells' are quite small, but mussels can get to be a decent size. Absolutely love this question. Well done. Okay, so Coulomb's Law states that the magnitude of the electrostatic force of interaction between two charges is directly proportional to the scalar multiplication of the magnitudes of charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. The force (Coulomb's Force) is along the straight line joining them. If the two charges are the same, the electrostatic force between them is repulsive but if they are different, the force between them is attractive. Now if Coulomb's Force did not exist, that would mean that magnetized objects would not attract or repel each other. SEVERAL things would stop working immediately. For instance, a compass would no longer work because the north and south poles would no longer attract the iron in the compass. Electricity would also change drastically in an unknowable fashion, likely resulting in our inability to harness and use it. These, however, would likely be the least of our worries because even atoms probably wouldn't be able to bond with each other, or even form in the first place.

A question about types of bolts used in a specific line of work that was confusing to me at the time. The questioner wanted the specific nomenclature of the bolts but didn't specify that in the question and only inferred that that was the answer he was looking for. That's probably a good example of 'the hardest question' that I've encountered.

Your question makes a couple of incorrect assumptions, so let me clear those up real quick. 1. Splitscreen doesn't have any affect on FPS values unless you are actively using it. Meaning that those who use the entirety of their screen will have the 'clean experience' that you speak of regardless of whether splitscreen is included in the game. The only time splitscreen could even have an impact on the solo screen players is during online matchmaking, and even then it's not a framerate issue. The only obvious reason that they could have to remove splitscreen is to claim that their game will run 60 fps all the time, which is a marketing ploy at best. I've seen a couple of arguments out there that since H5 is being built around 60 FPS that using splitscreen would drop the FPS down to 10-15 making it unplayable, but that argument doesn't hold up at all. There are a few multiplayer games that lock solo screen multiplayer and singleplayer at min 60 FPS and lock splitscreen (both multiplayer and co-op) at a min of 30 FPS. There is no way that 343i, with the financial backing of Microsoft and the development team that they have, could not accomplish this with Halo 5. Especially since a good chunk of those games are indie games with a budget of under 100k USD. 2. Splitscreen has always been a factor in whether or not people buy Halo, but this issue (splitscreen being removed) has never come up before because every major Halo title prior to 5 has included splitscreen. Personally, I've been involved in debates over whether or not Halo is better than Battlefield, and Halo has always nosed just ahead due to the fact that it has splitscreen. 343i and M$ seem to think that Halo's major demographics are children who have no siblings, teenagers who have no friends, and young adults who have no roommates. Either that or they are pulling the whole "we're saying that we're going to take this one thing away and then give it back at the last second so it seems like we actually listen to you guys" ploy again. 3. I genuinely do not see how the desire to play with other people on one television and with one console qualifies as incompetence, which is what your second question implies. Going by the definition of the word incompetent, I would venture to say that a mutlimillion dollar corporation expecting people to buy multiple consoles and televisions so that all of their children, siblings, roommates, or friends can play with them simultaneously is rather incompetent. It would also be incompetent to actually go out and purchase additional consoles, televisions, and games to accommodate said children, siblings, roommates, and friends. Now that's out of the way let me say this. There is literally no reason for you to be angry at those who want splitscreen in Halo 5, unless they are being abusive towards you personally. There is only one reason that a solo screen player would want splitscreen out of Halo 5, and that's the chance that they may pair up with a couple of people who are bad at Halo in matchmaking who also happen to be splitscreening. That's pretty much the only improvement you're going to see if you solo screen in Halo, but even that's not exactly the boon that it appears to be. Those same bad players will likely still be playing matchmaking, only they can't screen peek to help them boost your teams score despite their suckiness. Not to mention that you're just as likely to have those splitscreeners on the enemy team, giving you and your team a bit of an advantage. So overall it cancels itself out.

Oh probably around 200 or so. I don't mind though, because a lot of them are hilarious. Well, 'not exactly a tall person' implies that he's actually quite short. The best thing you can do for a short person is not point out how short they are. The only other thing you could possibly do for them is put aside some money for some cosmetic surgery and hope that he won't be mad when you broach the subject with him. 1. A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. 2. Well, the sun isn't exactly on fire, as you can probably tell due to it 'burning' in the vacuum of space. It's a nuclear fusion reaction that converts hydrogen into helium. Now, water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen, meaning that water would only be fuel for the sun. Now, if you had millions of years to spare this would work out. He speaks in the shoutbox a ton more than I do. So I'd have to say me.

Well, let's go over the reasons that someone who doesn't take medication prescribed to them by doctors and mental health professionals give. 1. They do not trust the doctor/mhp. Now, if this person truly wanted to get better then they would seek help from a different doctor/mhp instead of simply not taking their medication and continuing to see the same doctor/mhp. Even if that person is a minor and is seeing the doctor/mhp at their parents behest, most of them do not broach the subject of changing health care providers with their parents and instead flush the medication. This indicates that them not trusting their doctor is simply an excuse they are using to not take their medication and thereby continue to suffer their issues instead of getting better, or in other words, they do not want to get better. Now mind you, this is usually buried in LAYERS of psychological mugumbo and so very often the person doesn't even realize this is their true motive. 2. They do not believe the medication will solve their issue. When this is the case, if the person TRULY believed this to be correct they would tell their doctor/mhp how they feel about it. If they did this and their doctor disregarded their concerns, they would seek an alternate doctor/mhp. Those that claim to believe the meds won't solve their issues and simply don't take the meds and tell their doctor they are are not trying to get better. Meaning that they do not want to get better. 3. The person doesn't believe anything is wrong with them, which is why they do not take the medication. If you don't believe anything is wrong with you, then how could you possibly want to get 'better'? 4. The pills cause an adverse reaction that they dislike. Now this one is a bit odd. You see, someone who truly wanted to get better would have a conversation with their doctor about possible alternate treatments, and would likely be prescribed something else. If they aren't prescribed something else because there isn't anything else that can treat them, then they'd make a mental tally of pros and cons. If the cons of the medication (the adverse reactions) outweighed their desire to get better, then they would choose to not get better rather than take the medication. Meaning that they no longer want to get better. Of course, if they didn't ask their doctor in the first place this means that that conversation wasn't worth trying to get better. Meaning that they didn't want to get better in the first place. There are a few more, but the pattern is still there. Simply going to a doctor doesn't show the desire to get better, it just shows the desire to see a doctor.

Then the patient doesn't want to get better. The anti-anxiety medications are to keep the patient from experiencing a fatal reaction to their anxiety, so that they can 'face their fears' without having to worry about dying.

Of exactly 1000 sheets of paper? Only about 736,183 as of this post. With the help of a well trained mental health professional, as well as anti-anxiety medications.

This actually happened to me after an update with the preview program. This is how I fixed it. 1. Go to settings 2. Power & startup 3. Scroll right to 'Power Mode' and make sure that Energy-saving is selected. Once it is selected, scroll back to the left and select 'Turn Xbox off'. Wait a good 20 seconds and then turn it back on and see if MCC is working.

Okay, first you're going to want to get in your car. Then, you're gonna want to start your car. A lot of people get halfway to the lake and they realize they forgot to start their car. password Frankenzer... That's not a question... lol But anyways if you're trying to ask how to conquer your katsaridaphobia there are a couple of ways to go about doing so. The most common and effective way is Exposure Therapy. Start off by looking at pictures of cockroaches and keep looking at them until you don't feel anxious by seeing them. Then, begin watching videos with cockroaches (start with animated ones and work your way to real life ones). Once you stop feeling anxious by watching videos of them, try being around dead cockroaches. After a while you won't feel anxious about that either, and you can try to touch the dead ones. Every time you feel anxious by touching the dead ones, that just means you need to touch it again. Eventually, you'll no longer feel anxious around dead cockroaches and will be ready to be in the same room as them without jumping on a chair and screaming like a little girl. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SOMEONE WITH YOU WHILE YOU DO THIS. There is also Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Psychotherapy, and Hypnotherapy but those you will have to discuss with a mental health professional. It's slang, and it could be used as a compliment or insult. Usually it's used to say that you aren't as intelligent as you look, but it can also be used to say that you aren't as dumb as you look, mean as you look, spoiled as you look, or rude as you look. It depends entirely on the context in which it's used.

Yes! And so is... Quaker Oats Tropicana Naked Juice Gatorade and several others.

I didn't* say they did separate* research or that they were different companies lol But I realize how you came to that conclusion. I wrote it while subconsciously assuming that the reader would know that Mountain Dew and Doritos were produced and sold by Pepsico by their subsidiary* Frito Lay, which I now realize may lead the reader to come to the conclusion that they are separate* entities. To anyone who read the above message and came to that conclusion, your conclusion isn't* correct.

If you want cheap, you're going to have to build your own. Any computers that are sold premanufactured are sold for a price that includes labor, parts, and shipping costs. That on top of profits. Which means if you find a cheap computer that you don't have to put together, then it's probably nowhere near 'the best' computer available. If you are looking for quality but without taking a huge hit to your wallet, you should look into building your own. Check this out.

Used to in MW2, but I haven't played much CoD since then. Tried to quickscope in BF3 but it was a hit or miss thing. ;D Mountain Dew and Doritos did market research and realized they were the beverage of choice for the majority of gamers. When they found this out they sought partnership with publishers. The publishers agreed to their terms, and that's why it's always MD and Doritos.

Well that depends entirely on the web-based music player lol PM me a link/description and I'll let you know. Silly duck. If the end of the world comes, then the world will end I suppose. It will happen one day (if not by our hands and not by a meteor then by the sun dying) but hopefully by then we will have colonized other planets so our species will not go extinct by one planet 'ending'. Ah, the Monty Hall problem. Yes, because if I switch I have a 2/3 chance of getting the car and if I do not switch I only have a 1/3 chance of it. Loved it, and I plan on playing every scrap of DLC both free and paid for it. Took long enough to beat so that I was not bored, and it kept me interested in it with story, gameplay, and the beautiful scenery. The Final Fantasy VII remake, Fallout 4, and Half Life 3.

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I'm actually not afraid of any insects or arachnids.

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The green sea turtle.

Well in that case I prefer my hands. If my hands won't do (outnumbered or in a situation that requires range) then I prefer balanced 8 inch double edged blades. In the case of firearms, I prefer the M4A3 assault carbine. It has the range and accuracy of the M16A4 rifle with more maneuverability. It also fires 5.56 tumbler rounds, which pack quite the punch and can incapacitate rather than kill (if aimed properly).

Mount and Blade: Warband The gameplay itself wasn't that difficult, but trying to beat the game in all the possible ways to do so was. Took around four years to finally accomplish, even using cheats. A human being. In Halo my weapon of choice varies depending on the gametype. If it's SWAT, I prefer the battle rifle (unless the map is huge). Slayer, I prefer AR (again unless the map is huge). If I'm having a bad day with the BR and AR then I switch to the DMR.

Wanna hear a joke? Destiny's loot system.