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March 16

How can you ensure that you can't do anything illegal on the Internet?

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Where does the "safe part" of the Internet end with regards to US "look-crime**"? Anything one click from Google? Anything on Google Images? What was the least number of clicks from Google to Silk Road? The funniest phrases on Internet Oracle oracularities*** often have like 3 results, for example. (when searched in quotation marks) Could I theoretically say yay, this is not an oracularity mirror for once, click on it, and find out that some jokester made a website with child porn on it? Even if some things are too repulsive compared to my desire to know for me to personally near the line, I'm still curious to know how far you could click from Google before you might see something illegal even to look at. **Though unlike with thought-crime such laws are at least sometimes good, you wouldn't want people watching child porn. ***A technical term that I did not make up. We don't answer (and may remove) questions that require medical diagnosis or legal advice. μηδείς (talk) 03:07, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

What do you think/how do you feel about the Vampire Subculture and the real-vampires?

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I have to make a presentation about a subculture and I've chosen Vampire. I want to ask people who are 'Real-Vampires' and people who aren't part of this culture. (I'd very much like it if some people who are part of this culture will answer me) :) My questions for people who aren't part of this culture: 1.) What do you think about this culture? 2.) How do you feel/think about the people who do it? 3.) Do you agree/disagree with them? Why or why not? 4.) How do you feel about the way they express themselves? So these are my set of questions for the people who are part of this culture: 1.) How do you view yourself? 2.) How do you view other people within your group? 3.) How do you see people who aren't part of your culture? 4.) How do you feel about expressing your identity? 5.) How/what do you feel about people who agrees/disagrees about what you do? 6.) Describe your normal day as vampire? 7.) What are the myths and facts (from movies and what people talk about) about your culture/being vampire? 8.) Do you have a religion? 9.) What's the most exciting about being a vampire? 10.)What do you think about how vampires are perceived in movies/books? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.112.24.12 (talk) 06:43, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Who all live at the White House?

Does anyone besides the president and immediate family actually live at the White House? Which other cabinet level people work there?

Executive Office of the President of the United States should help. Note that you're asking both about those who live there and who work there, which of course are two rather distinct groups of people (though slightly overlapping).--74.72.255.103 (talk) 07:16, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, yes I do know exactly what I'm asking; that's why I wrote two separate questions. My questions were prompted by the earlier topic above about the location of the vice-president's office. Basically my thought was if the President were to be woken in the middle of the night for some or other crisis, which senior people could join the meeting within minutes, because they sleep in the same building. (Yes I know teleconferencing is routine and makes physical co-location unnecessary, but that is a recent development.) BTW Please try to not presume that question posters are too stupid to understand their own questions. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:48, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Dodger, my apologies. It wasn't intended as a presumption but just an attempt to focus on the distinct issues at hand (residence vs. workplace). I'll try to be more discrete in the future. I think the desire to clarify was prompted by the heading of your question, which contained only the residence issue.--74.72.255.103 (talk) 17:08, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Well, we can rule out the 93-member[1] staff. The White House Staff: Inside the West Wing and Beyond (p. 397) states that "No staff now live in the Residence", which agrees with Executive Residence#Third floor (to which I will add the book reference). Clarityfiend (talk) 10:07, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Certainly no government officials other than the President live in the White House. If none of the White House staff live there either, then I think we can conclude that only the President and his family live in the White House. No doubt there are staff who work a night shift and are ready to meet the President's needs if he should have any at 3:00 a.m. But in an urgent situation, I think the solution would be either a teleconference or an impromptu meeting, since all Cabinet members probably live within an hour (or much less) of the White House by limousine. Marco polo (talk) 00:34, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Marian Shields Robinson, the president's mother in law lives there.--89.242.206.103 (talk) 14:39, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

What is the fertility rate of Guangzhou City?

I like to know the fertility rate of Guangzhou City, China. What is the number of children per woman for this city now? 173.33.183.141 (talk) 16:07, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

"Guangzhou's natural birth rate has remained around 6.2% per year for many years." —(Guangzhou Population 2014) — but you need to do the math to come up with your specific demographic. ~71.20.250.51 (talk) 16:43, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Remember Chinese family planning rules (aka, inaccurately, the One Child Policy since most of the Chinese people are subject to some kind of exception) are relatively strict by Chinese standards in large cities like ex-Canton, today's Guangzhou.--89.242.206.103 (talk) 15:11, 17 March 2014 (UTC)