# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=268 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 269 --- ## [Critter Cam advice?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critter-cam-advice/938045)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critter-cam-advice/938045 "2021-03-17T16:29:11Z")
We have a lot of wildlife. I’ve seen, over a few years, foxes (red and gray), raccoons, skunks, a fisher, a bobcat, groundhogs, a 'possum, deer, and endless squirrels (mostly gray, but sometimes red), chipmunks, and rabb… --- ## [Urinary urgency and volume](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinary-urgency-and-volume/937757)
**Author:** [@phs3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phs3)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2021, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinary-urgency-and-volume/937757 "2021-03-17T02:36:14Z")
Hoping this is the right quadrant to post this. I’ve tried to research this, asked a couple of doctors, and have yet to get any useful info. We’ve all woken up having to pee badly. What I’ve observed (blearily!) is that… --- ## [Software licensing made illegal, a hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-licensing-made-illegal-a-hypothetical/937917)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2021, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-licensing-made-illegal-a-hypothetical/937917 "2021-03-17T00:48:24Z")
Having recently switched from android to iphone, the idea of software licenses has been on my mind. When we buy a computing device, we own the hardware, but not the software that runs and controls it. In a sense, we on… --- ## [Heating water](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heating-water/938032)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heating-water/938032 "2021-03-16T23:22:15Z")
I have a fascination with distilling and follow some of the distiller groups. My question is this. If I had a holding tank for the mash and right next to the holding tank at the same level I had something like a condense… --- ## [More attacks on education for advanced students](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-attacks-on-education-for-advanced-students/933948)
**Author:** [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2021, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-attacks-on-education-for-advanced-students/933948 "2021-03-16T08:03:56Z")
We’ve already seen proposals in multiple areas to switch to lotteries to determine entry to specialised schools. Now Boston is suspending entry to its advanced learning program. https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/2021/… --- ## [What counts as a “lap?”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-counts-as-a-lap/937732)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-counts-as-a-lap/937732 "2021-03-15T21:22:48Z")
Usually I think of a lap as something that exists only when I’m sitting down. But it could be clinically described as the anterior surface of the legs between the hips and the knees, when perpendicular to the dominant di… --- ## [Has anyone yet figured out how to deliver custom IT projects successfully?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-yet-figured-out-how-to-deliver-custom-it-projects-successfully/937373)
**Author:** [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-yet-figured-out-how-to-deliver-custom-it-projects-successfully/937373 "2021-03-15T18:23:43Z")
Over the course of the past 25 years, I’ve been involved in the delivery of all sorts of “bespoke” IT solutions. By which I mean usually some one-off project for a specific company to address some specific problem. i.e… --- ## [General Electric: The Next Enron?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-electric-the-next-enron/838755)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2021, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-electric-the-next-enron/838755 "2021-03-15T13:14:39Z")
Yesterday, forensic accountant and investor Harry Markopolis dropped a bombshell report which argues over the course of 170 pages that accounting fraud at General Electric is larger in scale than we saw with Enron, that … --- ## [How Does the News Get Hold of Offbeat Stories?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-news-get-hold-of-offbeat-stories/937874)
**Author:** [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-news-get-hold-of-offbeat-stories/937874 "2021-03-14T23:22:41Z")
With so much news being bad news, I am aware the news gets feedback like “why don’t you run any good news stories?” As such, you may have noticed an uptick in the news trying to run at least one “warm fuzzy” story usuall… --- ## [Floor Finishing Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-finishing-question/937526)
**Author:** [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2021, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floor-finishing-question/937526 "2021-03-14T05:59:24Z")
Hi Everyone. I’m wondering if anyone has any experience with this, given the impressive range of knowledge here. I just put in a NEW unfinished hardwood floor, and I’m getting ready to finish it. As it’s maple, and I wa… --- ## [Native American geographical names](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/native-american-geographical-names/937827)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2021, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/native-american-geographical-names/937827 "2021-03-14T05:00:59Z")
1-12-21 Final Jeopardy answer brought me here. Strange how so many states, counties, cities, streets and other geographical things were given Native America names, considering how despised NA peoples were throughout Amer… --- ## [Dopers with swimming pools, I have a pool now...What do I need to buy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-swimming-pools-i-have-a-pool-now-what-do-i-need-to-buy/937415)
**Author:** [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2021, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-swimming-pools-i-have-a-pool-now-what-do-i-need-to-buy/937415 "2021-03-13T07:06:16Z")
I’m slightly hesitant to make this post because there are things that can still go wrong and I’m a worrywart, but whatever. Me and Mrs. Cups have defied the odds and signed a contract on a home, and lucky me it has a po… --- ## [What woman in history do you dislike the most?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 117\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2021, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379 "2021-03-13T06:32:46Z")
Pretty simple, pick one woman from history that you dislike the most. If at all possible, pick someone who’s deceased. I’ll go with Queen Boudicca, probably because I’ve been reading about Londonium lately. --- ## [I need to forge an opinion on BTI (an insecticide)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-forge-an-opinion-on-bti-an-insecticide/937722)
**Author:** [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-forge-an-opinion-on-bti-an-insecticide/937722 "2021-03-13T02:23:26Z")
I live in a wooded area of my village. There are LOTS of mosquitoes in this forest. As in, you can’t stay outdoors without moving for more than 2 minutes without a sting. The rest of the village is not affected, it’s mos… --- ## [A Google Nightmare That Happened & What If It Happened Again?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-google-nightmare-that-happened-what-if-it-happened-again/937559)
**Author:** [@shh1313](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shh1313)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-google-nightmare-that-happened-what-if-it-happened-again/937559 "2021-03-13T00:01:10Z")
@Google my account has now been disabled for over 3 weeks. I still have no idea why, and after using every resource I have to get this resolved you have done nothing but given me the runaround. — Andrew Spinks (@Demilog… --- ## [Trump or the Royals?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-or-the-royals/937665)
**Author:** [@chasole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chasole)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-or-the-royals/937665 "2021-03-12T20:05:46Z")
I can’t decide who I detest hearing about more in the news these days, Trump BS or Royal family BS. --- ## [The emoji polls thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-emoji-polls-thread/937673)
**Author:** [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2021, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-emoji-polls-thread/937673 "2021-03-12T04:31:49Z")
At least one poll per thread. All polls emoji only, though poll titles are probably fine. poll poll --- ## [AAA Car Buying Service](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaa-car-buying-service/937638)
**Author:** [@RunSilent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RunSilent)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aaa-car-buying-service/937638 "2021-03-12T02:45:40Z")
Has anyone here used AAA Car Buying Service? I would like to hear the pros and cons. Thanks. --- ## [Your experience scanning large quantities of random papers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-experience-scanning-large-quantities-of-random-papers/937718)
**Author:** [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2021, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-experience-scanning-large-quantities-of-random-papers/937718 "2021-03-11T20:02:08Z")
My wife and I will soon be moving to a much smaller house, and are therefore divesting ourselves of lots of our stuff. Among the things we’d love to not have to move are many boxes of old papers, from her career as a tea… --- ## [What do you intend/think when you say/hear "I'm disabled"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-intend-think-when-you-say-hear-im-disabled/937268)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-intend-think-when-you-say-hear-im-disabled/937268 "2021-03-11T19:15:13Z")
Basically what the title says. I am not “disabled”, but my job involves working w/ people who claim they are, and I’m hard pressed to think of any specific way to give any meaning to that utterance. I put disabled in q… --- ## [What is the new site for looking for new IT job. Monster has apparently gone to full Shit now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-new-site-for-looking-for-new-it-job-monster-has-apparently-gone-to-full-shit-now/937496)
**Author:** [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-new-site-for-looking-for-new-it-job-monster-has-apparently-gone-to-full-shit-now/937496 "2021-03-11T18:13:04Z")
Lost my shit job job in shit conditions, shitingly. And found out that Monster is utterly useless. What is the new Job site? --- ## [Do other countries have the gushy "Who's a good boy?" attitude towards their dogs?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-have-the-gushy-whos-a-good-boy-attitude-towards-their-dogs/937538)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2021, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-have-the-gushy-whos-a-good-boy-attitude-towards-their-dogs/937538 "2021-03-11T02:48:07Z")
A lot of Americans have the gushy “Who’s a good boy???..You’re a good boy!!” beaming attitude of approval towards their dog as their dog wags their tail furiously. Just wondered if this is common in non-American nations… --- ## [Why didn’t I get a stimulus payment in December?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didn-t-i-get-a-stimulus-payment-in-december/937407)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didn-t-i-get-a-stimulus-payment-in-december/937407 "2021-03-11T01:51:04Z")
I got the first stimulus in April, based on my 2018 tax filing of married, filing jointly, and less than $150K AGI. I filed my 2019 taxes the same way (still coming beneath the $150K cutoff for married couples), but som… --- ## [Have you tried Piracetam? Are you any smarter?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-piracetam-are-you-any-smarter/481297)
**Author:** [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-piracetam-are-you-any-smarter/481297 "2021-03-11T01:49:12Z")
From Wikipedia: “Piracetam (brand name: Nootropil, Qropi, Myocalm, Dinagen, Synaptine) is a nootropic. It is a drug which is claimed to enhance cognition and memory, slow down brain aging, increase blood flow and oxygen… --- ## [International Space Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-space-law/937618)
**Author:** [@shh1313](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shh1313)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-space-law/937618 "2021-03-10T23:45:53Z")
I not sure if this topic should be here or in general. Please move if appropriate. Last summer I read the treaty and thought that the international space treaty sounds very noble. In 1967 The General Assembly of The Un… --- ## [Current/former college students: what did you do on spring break(s)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-former-college-students-what-did-you-do-on-spring-break-s/937536)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-former-college-students-what-did-you-do-on-spring-break-s/937536 "2021-03-10T16:56:57Z")
About a year ago, and again now, the news is reporting on crowds of students descending on destinations in Florida to enjoy a bacchanalian spring break. Thinking back to my own college days, I had friends who did this s… --- ## [Q for experienced Tracfone users](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-for-experienced-tracfone-users/934206)
**Author:** [@LynnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LynnM)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-for-experienced-tracfone-users/934206 "2021-03-10T14:26:58Z")
I’ve read that when you buy a new Tracfone to replace a previous one, you can transfer the cellphone number, unused minutes, and service expiration date, from your old Tracfone to the new one. But for the new cellphone,… --- ## [Clown Murder Museum!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2021, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308 "2021-03-10T01:02:12Z")
When you saw the title of this thread, what first came to mind? poll --- ## [Tell me about your self cleaning litter box please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-self-cleaning-litter-box-please/596615)
**Author:** [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-self-cleaning-litter-box-please/596615 "2021-03-10T00:35:23Z")
Anyone have any experience with the Cat litter robot or other such litter boxes? I’ve always had a cat, but they’ve always been primarily indoor/outdoor pets. Well, we just recently rescued a second kitty as a companio… --- ## [Good gift ideas for a 14 year old girl who is into alternative culture](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gift-ideas-for-a-14-year-old-girl-who-is-into-alternative-culture/937349)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2021, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gift-ideas-for-a-14-year-old-girl-who-is-into-alternative-culture/937349 "2021-03-10T00:07:05Z")
My niece turns 15 soon, I’m wondering whats a good gift. I can always just go with money, but wonder if something more personalized is better. I don’t know the correct term for what she is, maybe counterculture. Dyed ha… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=267) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=269)