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by aestra 13y ago
Disobeying her family is an offense punishable by murder in some cultures. Don't you guys get that!!!!???? This is a cultural acceptable practice. Women aren't "adults" in this situation. They are property of men. In a
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by aestra 13y ago
She said her family is "smart" and some work at JFK. She believes they will know if she didn't actually come.
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by aestra 13y ago
Yeah friggin right. This woman is Pakistani. An Islamic marriage ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_Islam ) is between a man and the wali of a woman, who gives her to the husband to be his wife, NOT a contract be
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by aestra 13y ago
Except their marriage is probably a Pakistani one.
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by aestra 13y ago
Christian Switzerland doesn't have a history of honor killings.
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by aestra 13y ago
Seriously? You know she can die for doing this? Honor killings are real for women not obeying her family, especially in matters of sex and marriage. Sandeela Kanwal - killed by her parents for trying to leave her arranged marriage. Noor
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by aestra 13y ago
If you use your phone a real lot, Ting is expensive.
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by aestra 13y ago
>Because of this, I've always suspected a stronger mind-body link than traditional Western medicine currently admits to (obvious caveat of n = 1). It seems that whatever state my mind is in, my body follows soon after. Mental anxiet
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by aestra 13y ago
> I had never heard of canola oil. It is called different things in different places. Canola is actually a specific cultivar of Rapeseed. Canola actually stands for "Canada Oil" and the term probably isn't well known out o
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by aestra 13y ago
>Take everything "electric drivetrain" out of a Tesla and it's still far beyond $11k echelon So what? I was arguing that nobody is buying a Tesla specifically to save money and that $3k in gas an oil is absurdly high. I
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by aestra 13y ago
How much are you really spending on gas? I paid $11,000 for my now 3 year old car when it was 2 years old. I didn't finance it so I didn't pay interest. I average about 35 mpg and drive about 12,000 miles a year. If gas was $4 a g
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by aestra 13y ago
There's been some limited research on the placebo effect of alcohol. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00652249 http://www.jsad.com/jsad/article/Offspring_of_Alcoholics_Hav.
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by aestra 13y ago
>I (personally) pirate most things that I pirate because a lot of these things are not comfortably affordable to me. I wish I could buy all the books that I want, the entertainment to keep wife & me (and the kids) happy and up with c
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by aestra 13y ago
Perhaps putting money is people's hands is what is needed? http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/08/23/214210692/the-char...
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by aestra 13y ago
>It has become a trend - to go to Uganda and post statuses on facebook about how you are in Uganda helping poor, oppressed people. This was satirized in The Onion. 6-Day Visit To Rural African Village Completely Changes Woman’s Facebook
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by aestra 13y ago
My parents have a fireplace in the back yard. It has completely collapsed once. My (presumably unskilled in brick laying) dad rebuilt it but now it is falling apart again. I'm guessing the original builder wasn't skilled in brick
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by aestra 13y ago
Previous HN discussion on the matter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7214353
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by aestra 13y ago
Libraries are also community centers. They offer a lot more than just books. They can offer community programs, children's programs, and assistance on a lot of matters from librarians. They also can offer plenty of fiction that is copy
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by aestra 13y ago
It is worth noting that the Slackware homepage hasn't changed much in almost 15 years. The only changed they seemed to have made is changing it from a white text on back background design to a black text on white background design very
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by aestra 13y ago
>Psychological studies of the kind you're referring to aren't scientific. To be valid science, a study must test a theory, an explanation What the hell are you talking about? http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle
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by aestra 13y ago
Business A has an idea but needs people to invest in it to take off. Group B takes a risk and invests in Business A. Business A succeeds and Group B is now enriched. Replace Business A with Bitcoin. >I wish people wouldn't use that
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by aestra 13y ago
AirBnB pushes up housing costs for local residents. http://www.rooflines.org/3498/airbnb_way_to_make_ends_meet_o... http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/02/airb.
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by aestra 13y ago
If you like AirBnB so much then perhaps you would enjoy it if this house was across the street from you: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-airbnb-party-hou...
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by aestra 13y ago
>but like with the recent housing crisis it's important to distinguish between people who we wish had known better, and people who actually did have a moral or professional responsibility to know better. The problem I have with this
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by aestra 13y ago
>simple, minimal, and short Why!? I compose long emails for a reason! I can't get my point across in short messages sometimes! I might be explaining a long and complex story with some backstory!
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by aestra 13y ago
Customers turn violent as Zimbabwe bank runs out of cash http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/customers-tur... Riots Hit Cyprus Bank After Accounts Frozen http://www.endalldisease.com&#x2
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by aestra 13y ago
> movie and video game industries control their own content ratings which are pretty much a joke. PG is now a worthless rating http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2013/11/26/disney... The
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by aestra 13y ago
Um, no. I won't install the facebook app for example because I don't want facebook to access my SMS, location, decide to pop up annoying notifications on my phone that may or may not be able to be disabled, perhaps poll in the bac
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by aestra 13y ago
Well there are reasons I am adverse to buying ebooks. DRM - if I am going to buy it I want to actually feel like I own it. portability - will I be able to read my books in the future? sharing - when I get a good book I let all my friend bor
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by aestra 13y ago
>If he were white they probably wouldn't mention that. But if he were British you bet they would mention that. Or French, German, Slovenian, Italian, Australian, Canadian, Japanese, Icelandic... Him being a Mexican tycoon is actuall

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