Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: Bullshit. **September 29, 1972:** Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka said to the people of the People's Republic of China: "The Japanese side is keenly conscious of the responsibility for the serious damage that Japan caused in the past to the Chinese people thr ....


Comment preview: Because the Alternate Reality of the newer films is precisely that an alternate reality. I know there's been some light debate on this point in Daystrom's past (primarily by pointing to the series' past time travel stories that do *not* use a branching for ....


Comment preview: Past their prime? Seriously? If anything, Spoon are maybe the most consistently impressive rock outfit in the past twenty years. They've plateaued in a *good* way. Even if their new records aren't revelations at this point, they're all sufficiently differe ....


Comment preview: There are 2 competing factors to the question. The first is your adaptive immune system. This is what provides protection from a cold after you have had it once. This part of the immune system is also primed by the mother. Anti-bodies cross into the child ....


Comment preview: This subreddit is continuously bombarded with anti-Japanese rhetoric, and I fail to see why the mods don't do more about it. "Japanese war on history" is an outrageous title, and certainly doesn't have a place here. Also, because I realise that already the ....


Comment preview: I really can't agree with this answer. You stated that there is an idea that "there is no need for Japan to apologize". Implicit in this statement is the widely-held misconception that Japanese leaders have not, in fact, apologized for the various atrociti ....


Comment preview: I had to post this not because of the stunt...(I'm delighted he did it) but that while reading The Irish Daily Mail today an author named Mary Carr wrote that and I quote "The Hollywood star even seemed willing to strip off entirely- which was a bit of a ....


Comment preview: Even though I agree the premise of using time travel to hide your murders is kind of meh, the time travel rules are actually consistent if you apply timelines as separate alternate dimensions. **The way I see it.** (By the way Major spoilers ahead) **First ....


Comment preview: public boolean isPrime() { boolean tf = false; for (int i = 2; i < prime; i++) { if (prime == i) { tf = true; } else if (prime % i == 0) { tf = false; } } return tf; } Ok, so, the issue with your program is multifold, AND there is a way easier way t ....


Comment preview: >The Japanese wont say were sorry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan **August 26, 1982**: "**The Japanese Government and the Japanese people are deeply aware of the fact that acts by our country in the past caus ....


Comment preview: "Prime Minister" sounds really important translated in English, but in reality most average Korean doesn't know the name of the prime minister. It's not that significant. I mean it is significant but not as much as it sounds when translated in English... ....


Comment preview: Bangladesh has one of the highest Muslim population in the world, their Prime Minister is a woman and no one is forced to wear the hijab there. The problem with the media and internet especially Reddit is they see a few cases of women being oppressed in M ....


Comment preview: > Further, the PM is too powerful as is - I'm increasingly worried about "one-man-shows" in the office. Harper's been a decade-long case study on it. Trudeau has actually called the others out on this, saying that the centralization of power in the PMO ....


Comment preview: > Unlike Germany, Japan refuses to acknowledge its wrongdoing That's said too many times without any evidence, are [these](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan) made up? At-least over forty times... For example Aug ....


Comment preview: Yeah the biggest piece that people fail to understand is that the Senate rarely shoots down legislation, but rather conducts studies on legislation and amends it or recommends further review. In 2003 a Canadian Senate Study found we should legalize marijua ....


Comment preview: Stories like this is exactly why I got insurance for my dog. Vet bills can be absolutely insane! I'm paying ~40 a month for insurance with 90% coverage and $100 deductible and almost no exclusions for coverage. All it takes is a single incident over the li ....


Comment preview: Getting married, buying a house, blah blah blah. What makes these things the things that you are supposed to have done by now? Because that's what other people do, sure, but that doesn't really mean anything. Maybe it means that other people expect you to ....


Comment preview: Prime factorization, i.e. the decomposition of an arbitrary number into smaller numbers that, when multiplied with each other, result in the original number, is a) assumed, but not proven, to be a computationally "difficult" problem (no polynomial time alg ....


Comment preview: Alright, here's whats going to happen. Granderson will strike out 200 times, Jeter will be almost unable to play shortstop and injury prone all year, Cano will begin his decline as he begins to exit his prime with age, Arod will continue to be by far the ....


Comment preview: Australians don't vote for the Prime Minister, they vote for local members. Whichever political party holds a majority of the seats in the House of Representatives forms the government, and the leader of that party is the Prime Minister. In 2007 Kevin Rudd ....


Comment preview: Just take a look at the past, what, 5 World champions? * 1998 France - Lizarazu aged 28 - Deschamps aged 29 - Zidane aged 25 were the focal points all in their "prime" plus "young talent" with Viera aged 21 - Henry aged 20 and Trezeguet aged 20 * 2002 Braz ....


Comment preview: Well, from the very top: The head of government in Australia is the Prime Minister, since our government uses a Westminster (British) system. This means that the Prime Minister is chosen from the leading party or coalition in the House of Representatives. ....


Comment preview: I think some younger F1 fans forget or aren't aware that R ikk nen has been racing in Formula 1 since 2001. He's old now, and with age your physical ability will go down. It varies by lifestyle choices. Some will still be in their prime when they are 35 ye ....


Comment preview: I don't know how it is elsewhere, but here in the US if you get a woman to talking, and she feels comfortable with you, she will talk all fucking day. I've also found out that the further past the wall a woman is, the slower the hamster spins and the more ....


Comment preview: If you look at the rest of your answers in this thread, it shows that you prefer CPaul. Either you really like CP3 or you really dislike Melo. I don't understand how you can think that it is a stretch that Melo could be #3. Until this year, Melo had never ....