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Movies

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SlapShot|A failing ice hockey team finds success using constant fighting and violence during games
Goon|Labeled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a team of under performing misfits to semi-pro hockey glory, beating the crap out of everything that stands in his way.
Youngblood|A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town.
The Mighty Ducks Trilogy|A self-centered lawyer is sentenced to community service coaching a rag tag youth hockey team. In the second movie, leads them to the World Junior Goodwill Games. And in the third movie, the gang heads to a cake-eater private school and a different, tougher coach.
Mystery, Alaska|This comedy is about the residents of a small town who get over-excited when their hockey team gets chosen to host a televised event
Miracle|Miracle tells the true story of Herb Brooks (Russell), the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Russian squad.
Breakaway|An Indian-Canadian hockey player struggles against traditional family values and discrimination from mainstream hockey players.


###TV & Documentaries

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24/7| The road to the Winter Classic details the trials and tribulations of 2 teams each season as they head into the Winter Classic. First Season: Caps/Pens. Second Season: Flyers/Rangers
Pond Hockey|Pond Hockey examines the changing culture of sports through insightful interviews with hockey stars, experts, journalists and local rink rats alike. More than just a celebration of a beloved game, Pond Hockey searches the open ice for the true meaning of sport.
The Last Gladiators|In ice hockey, no one is tougher than the "goon". Those players have one mission: to protect the star players at any price.
Hockey: A People's History|The history of the sport of ice hockey and its impact on the founding country of Canada.
30 fo 30: A King's Ransom|Story of the Gretzky trade from Oilers to the Kings.

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The Game|Ken Dryden|Ken Dryden, a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, is recognized as one of the greatest goalies ever to play the game. More than that, he is one of hockey's most intelligent and insightful commentators. In The Game, Dryden captures the essence of the sport and what it means to all hockey fans.
The Boys of Winter|Wayne Coffey|They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered what Sports Illustrated called the greatest sports moment of the twentieth century. Their “Miracle on Ice” has become a national fairy tale, but the real Cinderella story is even more remarkable.
J.R.|Jeremy Roenick|Jeremy Roenick, one of the premier hockey players of his generation and one of the greatest American stars the NHL has ever known, shares his life story in this frank and unflinching autobiography.
Crossing the Line|Derek Sanderson|The autobiography of one of hockey’s first rebels and a beloved member of the “Big Bad Bruins,” this book shares how Derek Sanderson’s ferocious style helped lead the team to two Stanley Cup victories in the early 1970s.
Playing With Fire|Theo Fleury|Theo Fleury takes us behind the bench during his glorious days as an NHL player, and talks about growing up devastatingly poor and in chaos at home.
Jonesy: Put Your Head Down and Skate|Kieth Jones|Jonsey is the story of Keith s career in the league as well as all of the interesting stories he accumulated over the course of his career, playing with some of the leagues best players in the last 15 years, including Peter Forsberg, Joe Sakic, Mark Recchi and Eric Lindros. Forward by Ray Bourque.
Blood Feud|Adrian Dater|Blood Feud is a rollicking story of a fierce, and often violent, rivalry between the Detroit Red Wings and Colorado Avalanche.
Tough Guy|Bob Probert|Documenting his notorious career with the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks, Bob Probert details in this autobiography how he racked up points, penalty minutes, and bar bills, establishing himself as one of the most feared enforcers in the history of the NHL.
Journeyman|Sean Pronger|The many triumphs (and even more numerous defeats) of a guy who's seen just about everything in the game of hockey while playing for 11 teams in 16 years.
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber|Julian Rubenstein|The true story of a bank robbing backup goalie in Hungary who becomes a folk hero right after the fall of communism.
Breakaway|Tal Pinchevsky|The stories of the first players to defect and/or get work visas to play in the NHL from Czechoslovakia and the USSR.
Breakaway|Andrew Conte|A detailed, fascinating account of Penguins rise from bankruptcy to Stanley Cup champion that takes you inside the board rooms as well as the players dressing rooms.
Artificial Ice|David Whitson, Richard Gruneau|Artificial Ice explores how hockey has moved from popular pastime to commercial entertainment product, and one struggling to maintain its stature in the North American entertainment market.
Orr: My Story|Bobby Orr|Bobby Orr is often referred to as the greatest ever to play the game of hockey. From 1966 through the mid-seventies, he could change a game just by stepping on the ice. No defenseman had ever played the way he did, or received so many trophies, or set so many records, several of which still stand today. Now he tells of his inspirations, his motivations, and what drove him to become one of the greats. Avalable October 15

Books

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The Game|Ken Dryden|Ken Dryden, a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, is recognized as one of the greatest goalies ever to play the game. More than that, he is one of hockey's most intelligent and insightful commentators. In The Game, Dryden captures the essence of the sport and what it means to all hockey fans.
The Boys of Winter|Wayne Coffey|They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered what Sports Illustrated called the greatest sports moment of the twentieth century. Their “Miracle on Ice” has become a national fairy tale, but the real Cinderella story is even more remarkable.
J.R.|Jeremy Roenick|Jeremy Roenick, one of the premier hockey players of his generation and one of the greatest American stars the NHL has ever known, shares his life story in this frank and unflinching autobiography.
Crossing the Line|Derek Sanderson|The autobiography of one of hockey’s first rebels and a beloved member of the “Big Bad Bruins,” this book shares how Derek Sanderson’s ferocious style helped lead the team to two Stanley Cup victories in the early 1970s.
Playing With Fire|Theo Fleury|Theo Fleury takes us behind the bench during his glorious days as an NHL player, and talks about growing up devastatingly poor and in chaos at home.
Jonesy: Put Your Head Down and Skate|Kieth Jones|Jonsey is the story of Keith s career in the league as well as all of the interesting stories he accumulated over the course of his career, playing with some of the leagues best players in the last 15 years, including Peter Forsberg, Joe Sakic, Mark Recchi and Eric Lindros. Forward by Ray Bourque.
Blood Feud|Adrian Dater|Blood Feud is a rollicking story of a fierce, and often violent, rivalry between the Detroit Red Wings and Colorado Avalanche.
Tough Guy|Bob Probert|Documenting his notorious career with the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks, Bob Probert details in this autobiography how he racked up points, penalty minutes, and bar bills, establishing himself as one of the most feared enforcers in the history of the NHL.
Journeyman|Sean Pronger|The many triumphs (and even more numerous defeats) of a guy who's seen just about everything in the game of hockey while playing for 11 teams in 16 years.
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber|Julian Rubenstein|The true story of a bank robbing backup goalie in Hungary who becomes a folk hero right after the fall of communism.
Breakaway|Tal Pinchevsky|The stories of the first players to defect and/or get work visas to play in the NHL from Czechoslovakia and the USSR.
Breakaway|Andrew Conte|A detailed, fascinating account of Penguins rise from bankruptcy to Stanley Cup champion that takes you inside the board rooms as well as the players dressing rooms.
Artificial Ice|David Whitson, Richard Gruneau|Artificial Ice explores how hockey has moved from popular pastime to commercial entertainment product, and one struggling to maintain its stature in the North American entertainment market.
Orr: My Story|Bobby Orr|Bobby Orr is often referred to as the greatest ever to play the game of hockey. From 1966 through the mid-seventies, he could change a game just by stepping on the ice. No defenseman had ever played the way he did, or received so many trophies, or set so many records, several of which still stand today. Now he tells of his inspirations, his motivations, and what drove him to become one of the greats. Avalable October 15

First off: gender is a continuum, not a dimorphism. It's very important to remember that, or you may and up vacillating wildly between two extremes unwilling to find a comfortable expression somewhere in the middle.

Beyond that though, I don't think anyone can tell you where you fall on the spectrum. Almost everyone's experiences, and ways of coping, differ.

My best advice is to really open your mind to the options you have to express and embody your own personal gender, and then read a lot. Read blogs, watch videos, get some good books (I recommend Hello Cruel World or Gender Outlaw, Whipping Girl (a big heavy, but hey, you're on reddit!), and most importantly force yourself to think about it. Really think about it, without shame or fear, and see what feels right.

Find people who you can talk to, in real life or online, about it. The experience of having to explain your feelings to someone who doesn't share them is a really effective way to figure it out for yourself. A therapist would obviously be great for this of course, but if you're not in a position to find one a close and non-judgmental friend is great too.

Also, consider writing a diary, journal, blog or letter to share how you feel with a theoretical friend/confidant. Again, the process is much more important than the result.

Experiment! Try presenting as female, in big ways or small. Try imagining how everyday life would feel different as a girl. Is it "more normal" or exciting and transgressive?

It's not an easy thing to figure out, and there really don't seem to be any shortcuts. But the comfort of understanding yourself is well worth it.

A few graphic novels:

1. From Hell - Cerebral, philosophical, and fastidiously researched, this is the story of the most notorious of them all, Jack the Ripper. Masterful, somber drawings and brilliant writing, if a little too high brow for my taste.
   
2. My Friend Dahmer - You won't find gore here, nor a particularly engaging plot. What you will find is authentic autobiographical vignettes written by an actual school mate of Jeffry Dahmer's that try to shed some light on the early years of this nefarious, but fascinating serial killer, but mostly seem to be an outlet for the author to process his own emotions with regards to having known and been friends with such a monster. It's not a very compelling read, i'm afraid, but on the bright side, it's quite short and the artwork is cool.
   
3. The Green River Killer - An account of the investigation of the Green River murders, focusing on one of the lead detectives, who happens to be the author's father. Nice artwork, so-so plot.
   
4. Miss Don't Touch Me - An absolutely delightful fictional novel that takes place in early 20th century Paris. It is fast-moving, suspenseful, sexy and hugely entertaining. Great artwork and a fun story. Highly recommended!
   
   A couple more books that are on my wish list, though i haven't read them yet, are:
   
   

• Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us, written by Prof. Robert Hare, the psychologist who invented the standard test for diagnosing psychopaths.
  
  
• The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry - written by the always interesting and entertaining Ron Jonson
  
  
• Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me - A classic true crime novel about Ted Bundy written by a woman who worked beside him and knew him personally. She went on to become a prolific true crime novelist.

I second the "watch as much as you can" approach, but here are two books that might help you with the subtleties of the game.

Get Your Own Damn Beer, I'm Watching the Game!
Yes, the subtitle is "A Woman's Guide to Loving Pro Football," but give it a shot. Very casual writing style, and it got very good reviews on Amazon.

Football for Dummies
Written by Howie Long, who probably knows more about football than he does about Chevys. Also got pretty good reviews.

Congratulations on your self-discovery! It is a wonderful feeling :)

I process feelings and decisions through research too :D It's a great satisfaction to be able to name, describe, and understand how something works (including myself).

I especially enjoyed Women From Another Planet and wish there were more like it.

This is probably an unorthodox suggestion but I have a book recommendation for you. The Girls Who Went Away is a collection of first-person accounts from women who were forced by their families to give up children for adoption, in the days when pregnant teens would be whisked out of sight to a group home. In many cases this was horrifically traumatizing for both the teen mothers and the children, who subsequently grew up thinking they were unwanted by their birth mothers. It also often caused irreparable damage to the relationship between the teen and her own parent(s) who caused the adoption to happen.

I say this NOT AT ALL to dissuade you from adoption--but to highlight how important it is to try to convince your daughter that an open adoption is the way to go, if she continues to rule out abortion. If she doesn't willingly make the choice, I think there's a good chance she may never forgive you.

I really don't know who is the best person to talk to about this. I do think therapy would do both of you good--because I think you have understandable unresolved trauma surrounding your wife's death, which is now being transferred onto your daughter.

Do you think she would agree to just talk to someone at Planned Parenthood or another women's clinic, just so they can lay out her options? They will not pressure her towards or away from an abortion, but I hope they would be honest about the risks of pregnancy and the pressures of child-rearing at her age. (Just make sure you DON'T go to a so-called "Crisis Pregnancy Center" which is actually a religious organization designed to lure women seeking abortions and persuade them to go through with the pregnancy instead.)

Also, I know that there are mentoring programs for teen moms where the mentors are former teen moms themselves. If there's something like that in your area, it might be worth checking whether one of the mentors would be willing to have an honest talk with your daughter about what she would be getting herself into. Her school counselor might know about such programs, or you could call United Way's 211 help line. (Or search the directory here.)

Good luck, I really feel for you both. :/

Please say hi to your friend for me. It's important for her to stay positive, and focus on the things she can do than what she can't do. The things she can do is take action and help end polio.

She may gain inspiration from my book Better Than a Cure, One Man's Journey to Free the World of Polio! https://www.amazon.com/Better-than-Cure-Journey-World/dp/1425191037

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Please say hi to your friend for me. It's important for her to stay positive, and focus on the things she can do than what she can't do. The things she can do is take action and help end polio.

She may gain inspiration from my book Better Than a Cure, One Man's Journey to Free the World of Polio! https://www.amazon.com/Better-than-Cure-Journey-World/dp/1425191037

Congrats on your new job!

I think you would like Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath because it's an awesome book! (Plus full of nice illustrations)

I personally would like these Copic Marker Sketch Blending Trio Markers because I love using Copics to draw.

First, my partner had a similar upbringing where any strong emotion was discouraged, no matter whether it was positive or negative. He has been going to therapy for the last year and a half and it has really helped on specifically this issue (identifying, feeling and verbalizing emotions). This is something that was taught to you as a child, and it can be untaught. In fact, it could be great preparation for your own parenting experience, to re-parent yourself in this way.

Second, I too have much more muted emotions than many here. Part of that is because I miscarried last time and it's been difficult to let myself get excited, or the excitement is bittersweet. But also, while I want this child, I don't have the baby craving that many women seem to experience. It's going to change my life in a lot of overwhelming and intimidating ways, certainly not in 100% positive ways. I like my quiet house and my lazy weekends!

And yes, there are tons of kids that I know that I don't go out of my way to spend time with. That's totally fine, lots of parents report liking their kids and not other kids. It's kind of like how Marc Maron (comedian) says he's not a Cat Person, he's a My Cat Person. ;)

I read a book this past year called The M Word and it had some great stories from mothers about ambivalence (along with lots of other related experiences including loss, infertility, choosing not to have kids, being a nanny, being a grandparent, etc — super interesting stuff!).

Absolutely! The more the merrier! I'm actually a football nerd too so I can help with that one if you'd like! (Not so good at basketball though.)

I have a chick friend who is trying to get more into football to watch it with us on Sundays and I gave her this book as a bit of a gag gift last year for Christmas. Turns out it's super informative if you skip over the blatantly sexist parts! (Some of it's super cute though since it's written by a former football player's wife. She lists her favorite football butts and of course lists her husbands as her favorite.) Although it's a bit outdated.

Who's got book recommendations? Here are mine:

• I recently read Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust and it was AMAZING! It's a graphic novel/memoir (which there seem to be a lot of lately and I love it because it combines two of my favorite things) about the author's time as a young adult traveling around Italy in the 80s. It starts with her and her friend turning tricks to raise money for the trip and gets crazier from there. A lot of it was about her dealing with the fact that men are only interested in her to sleep with her, and her disillusionment with the punk/runaway society she makes herself part of.
  
• I also read Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris's new book, and it was good. I laughed. BUT it didn't recapture the hilarity I felt reading Me Talk Pretty One Day or Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. But still, I recommend it if you like Sedaris.
  
• And I just started reading The Feminine Mystique but I haven't gotten into the actual book yet because there are like 4 introductions. I'm excited to read it, though.

Interested in reading the famous Art of War by Sun Tzu? Don't!

The text is mostly useless junk, and what's salient can be summarized as follows:

• War is the greatest responsibility of the state.
  
  
• The general has a right to disobey the emperor.
  
  
• The emperor has an ethical imperative to avoid or quickly win battles.
  
  
• Spies are super important.
  
  There, I just saved you a couple of tedious evenings! Please reward with upvotes!
  
  > But MegasBasilius, what if I do want to read the text?
  
  Then purchase this edition.

From childhood: probably Tintin and National Geographic (I've been a subscriber since I was 5 years old). Both convinced my young brain that there is an extraordinarily diverse, beautiful and wonderful world out there to explore (and to photograph).

When I was a teenager, I came across Michael Palin's "Around the World in Eighty Days" series which really got my travel itch going. I still plan to "beat" Palin in my own circumnavigation at some point in the near future.

It was also at this time that I discovered Mark Twain's travel novels which opened a whole world of modern travel writing, including some of these great story-tellers:

• Dervla Murphy (she cycled from Ireland to India in the early 1960s)
  
• George Orwell
  
• Bruce Chatwin (especially In Patagonia)
  
• Peter Hessler
  
• Paul Theroux (especially The Great Railway Bazaar)
  
• Bill Bryson
  
• The Countess of Ranfurly's memoirs from WW2

I'm so very sorry that she's going through such a difficult time :( I can't imagine the pain you must feel as a mother seeing this happen, wanting to help but not knowing how.

Does she have any interest in art or writing? A lot of people who have trouble expressing themselves or dealing with pain can find an outlet in an art form. Art therapy is a specific option, but just regular art expression is very therapeutic and helped me cope with my own pain.

Art activity can also lead to finding an art community, and really, a connection to people who share a passion is the most important thing for her to find, whatever that passion is.

Anxiety medication did wonders for me, as did running regularly (despite being the opposite of athletic). I also find a lot of comfort in reading about other's experiences, because it helps the lingering loneliness of being misunderstood. Women From Another Planet was especially good, and there's many similar books on Amazon too.

One thing I wish I could have done at that age was start taking adult level classes in my areas of passion, like at a community college.

You are of course entitled to your interpretation of feminism and your political opinions, but I must respectfully disagree.

I don't think feminism is the same thing as libertarianism, it is not about celebrating that women have the chance to make choices that subordinate women to men without any consideration for how patriarchy leads both men and women to find those choices expected, natural, inevitable and therefore (by way of sour grapes and sublimation) desirable. Its about problematizing inequality and gender based hierarchy and relationships of subordination whether they are on some level chosen or not.

Feminism requires that second level of analysis rather than subsuming all politics into the mantra of choice without consideration for how those choices impact society and are shaped by patriarchal ideology and social necessities.

The position that all choices are equally desirable and there can be no further inquiry into the political desirability of a relationship, regardless of power dynamics, as long as it can be understood as 'chosen' on some level, is not a feminist view of society. Thats a libertarian view of society.

I would encourage you (and other people following this thread) to read The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique if you haven't already.

I highly, highly recommend a hilarious book, The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, based on the true story of a Hungarian bank robber just after the fall of communism. It wonderfully captures life in Central Europe at that time. And this scene could have been taken straight from the book. One of the funniest books I've ever read, and even more remarkable because it's all true: http://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Whiskey-Robber-Transylvanian-Moonlighting/dp/0316010731

"When you think positive, good things happen"

What about Rejected Princesses?? They're great comics about powerful women that tend to be ignored by history. You can see some of the comics here. I think they're great.

Well, we hit the 10000 limit. Reserving this comment for the misc. section.

FREE TIME/FUN/MISC.
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
The Art of War
Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won't Tell You about the Internet
How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace
The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Casting the Net: From ARPANET to INTERNET and Beyond thanks sjhill
A Quarter Century of UNIX thanks sjhill
A Reading List For the Self-Taught Computer Scientist thanks zinver
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk thanks segamix
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable thanks AgonistAgent
Snow Crash thanks AgonistAgent
Cryptonomicon thanks Mirple

This is the only thing I too cannot figure out! I've decided that for now, its better to have my tea the way I like it and just focus on paleo foods. Tea is really important to me =)

An aside: I recently learned from reading the book Full Tilt that some cultures use salt in their black tea instead of sugar! Dont know why I've never thought of that before, but I tried it and its really good. =)

It's not the Art of Warmaidens, but I highly recommend Rejected Princesses. Lots of great stuff, bought an early copy for when my daughter is old enough to appreciate it.

I love the Mindhunter TV series, but you should really read the book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker, for the best telling of Kemper's story. I was an English teacher and I gave away at least half a dozen copies of that book to high school Seniors that were interested in forensics or law enforcement. It's a great read.

Hijacking my comment to let everyone know about a new subreddit we've launched. r/RedditCrimeCommunity is a hub for all the case specific subs and a forum for high quality self posts on crime. I'd love it if you'd join me there and help us build it.

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Mark has been verified by the mods and we've added a Verified flair.

Here's a link to his Amazon Author page

The new book, The Killer Across the Table on Amazon

Mindhunter on Amazon

Edit: The AMA is now concluded. Thanks again to everyone who came to the thread and either asked a question or lurked and read.

I hope you guys got as much out of this as I did. Thank you again to u/Mark_Olshaker for agreeing to do this. I've extended an open invitation to him to join us in the future if he so chooses.

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> I'll also watch Game Change because I haven't watched it yet.
I'll look at both sides and see what my opinion becomes after.

> Thank you for all the info! Gives me something to do today :p

Thank you!

>No I haven't. But what I've heard of people actually meeting her, they say she is really nice and will talk to people, instead of ignoring

I have never met Bill Clinton, but I know several people who have--they say he is amazing in person--warm, kind, with a charisma or charm like none they have ever seen.

What everyone says is something along the lines of "he makes you feel like you're the only person in the world, and he cares about you".

Sarah has that kind of aura or charisma too, for some people.

Ted Bundy was also "really nice".

https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Beside-Me-Ann-Rule/dp/1416559590


With a slow chill that intensifies with each heart-pounding page, Rule describes her dawning awareness that Ted Bundy, her sensitive coworker on a crisis hotline, was one of the most prolific serial killers in America.


Nice guy though!

There's a pretty good book about Grace Hopper and the history of programming (at least, the part that she was involved in). It talks a little about the challenges she faced as a woman, as well as all the technical challenges her team had to deal with. Apparently when a computer crashed in those days, it literally made a lot of noise. :)

Dis!


I LOVE finding old books/items! Then it's on to super cringe when you remembered them being awesome, and they're just not as awesome as an adult. :P

A mental mind fuck can be nice !

Check out Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground. It doesn't have the social media aspect, but still a great real life hacker story. Also, Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell is very good as well. I will also second the Mitnick book.

Ahh ok, this is the book: Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground - this guy was Max 'Vision' Butler and he had his flat searched as part of the investigation into the HL2 source code hack. It is a really great book by the way and definitely worth the read.

There is a really fabulous book that I picked up several years ago. Just pulled it off the shelf, because - as a 35 year old woman who lives in GA - I apparently need to brush up on what things were like 'before.'

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It is heart-wrenching to read, but I highly recommend it to anyone who wonders what life was like then. And why adoption isn't the panacea that it's described as by pro-lifers.

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https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Who-Went-Away-Surrendered/dp/0143038974

What most consider the original is actually titled:

• Hackers by Steven Levy
  
  More recently, there have been several excellent titles. My suggestion is stick to non fiction as it will truly scare the yell out of you.
  
  
• Kingpin by Kevin Paulsen
  
  
• Hackers and Hacking by Margaret Haerens
  
  
• Cyber War by Richard C Clarke
  
  
• Schneier on Security by Bruce Schneier ---
  Almost everything by Bruce
  
  
• The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick. He has a couple of books as you may know. The advantage is he offers the perspective of a "former" hacker.
  
  I can recommend more but these are good starting points. Fiction is fun but for pure terror, grasping what these authors are revealing is the key.

If you have strong feelings about adoption being an easy solution please read The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

There's a great book about women in chess that tackles this problem. (Big conclusion: less support for young girls learning to play top chess.) https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Bitch-Women-Ultimate-Intellectual/dp/189008509X

This is a randomly amazing contest of random amazingness.

Morthy Demands:

Posh Old Englishman in Londontown [Found on "Little Bit of Everything!"]

Oh God! [Found on "Read or GTFO!"]

So phallic right now [Found on "Little Bit of Everything!"]

Akeleie Demands:

Geektastic! [Found on "Read or GTFO!"]

Reach for the Stars! [Found on "Little Bit of Everything!"]

Deserted Island! [Found on Little Bit of Everything!]

This was hilarious to me!

Thank you for replying and answering my questions. As a non-childbearing woman myself, let me recommend you some books I've read to help me with understanding our place in this world.

Motherhood: A Novel, by Shelia Heti

Selfish, Shallow, and Self Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids by Meghan Daum

The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood by Kerry Clare

Read Kingpin https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground-ebook/dp/B004IK8Q2M/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1518731360&sr=8-4&keywords=kingpin

As well as being a great book for anyone interested in cyber security, the main guy (definitely a greyhat at the time) does this, and the fallout is one of the major factors that screws him up and sends him blackhat.

I got my nieces a copy of Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics.

They loved how the book portrayed strong, independent women throughout history.


https://www.amazon.com/Rejected-Princesses-Historys-Heroines-Hellions/dp/0062405373

I like big books and I cannot lie really... I love them.

Non-fiction:
History of your home!
Some badass women!
What did those lyrics mean?

fiction:
The Magic of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt Jr. Its a huge series, that is the first one.
Or seriously, anything by Dan Simmons. :)

Bundy also took pleasure in vicariously "investigating his crimes" through an avatar that he made up to two writers who came to interview him in prison. This person was ostensibly the "real killer" and he would give in depth analysis as to what he was feeling as he committed the crimes and explain why he engaged in certain patterns of behavior.

Though he never inserted himself into the discussion, it was obvious that Bundy took great pleasure in recounting the crimes. He just couldn't get over how clever he thought he was.

Here's the resulting book about it:

www.amazon.com/Ted-Bundy-Conversations-Hugh-Aynesworth/dp/1928704174

He also volunteered his "expertise" in investigating the "Green River Killer" Gary Ridgway...

Excellent, thank you.
I highly recommend The Stranger Beside Me, by Ann Rule, if you haven't read it already.

I really like true crime as a genre.

The Stranger Beside Me is pretty fascinating. The author, Ann Rule, worked alongside Ted Bundy while he was volunteering at a suicide hotline. Then she got assigned coincidentally to write a story on his murders, before anyone knew who it was. She is also a great writer.

If you already like true crime and are into something a bit more niche and loaded with culture war, John Safrans Murder in Missisippi I really loved. I think the subtitle: The True Story of How I Met a White Supremacist, Befriended His Black Killer and Wrote this Book, will give you a good idea of if you'll like the subject matter.

Here's some recommendations for everyone:

James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet series and Underworld USA trilogy. Gritty, intense historical fiction based in LA in the 50s-60s and then Underworld USA is 60s-70s based all over the world but deals with JFK assasination, Vietnam, the mob in vegas and a ton of other shit. Really good stuff if you're into any of that stuff.

Another one I've been reading is The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy and the author's relationship with him before and after the killings. Really good read. Also Green River, Running Red about the Green River Killer is great too if you're interested in true crime/serial killers. And Mindhunter which they based the Netflix show off of is also a good read if you're into all this shit like I am.

Love having this thread here tho.

Journeyman by Sean Pronger Very amusing, even to my non-hockey fan mother. Interesting due not only who his little brother is, but rarely do the guys who bounce in and out of the minor leagues get a platform to tell the story.

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubenstein The true story of a bank robbing backup goalie in Hungary who becomes a folk hero right after the fall of communism.

Breakaway by Tal Pinchevsky The stories of the first players to defect and/or get work visas to play in the NHL from Czechoslovakia and the USSR.

>Adult Fiction:

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Grass by Sheri Tepper

Native Tongue by Suzette Haden-Elgin

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Their Eyes Are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurtson


>Adolescent Lit:

Speak by Laurie Halse-Anderson


>Nonfiction:

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

And I agree with others, Simone de Beauvoir is a great read

I enjoyed Kingpin by Kevin Poulson it provided an excellent overview of the carder markets.

I have this edition: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081331951X/

I've very happy with it - the book is broken into two chunks. The second is the complete english translation of the text. This bit is "The Art of War" as written by Sun Tzu. The first chunk is a long historical context that leads up to the life of Sun Tzu and gives the political and military climate of the time, as well as timelines/troop movements of several of the battles Sun Tzu participated in. I thought this part was incredibly interesting for it's own sake, though if you're just looking for the bare text, then this becomes merely fluff. Both chunks are well and thoroughly footnoted both for references and tangential information.

Overall, it was a very solid buy, and if you're at all remotely interested in the China in which this text was written as opposed to just the bare text, I would definitely get it.

Rejected princesses is an AMAZING book of stories about women. Illustrated by a former Disney illustrator, written with a slightly sarcastic sense of humor.. I love it but it might be a bit much, depending on how mature your daughter is.

https://www.amazon.com/Rejected-Princesses-Historys-Heroines-Hellions/dp/0062405373

He has a website if you wanted to peruse some of the stories
http://www.rejectedprincesses.com

> "Ghost in the Wires" by Kevin Mitnick

Yes, fantastic book. I actually contracted Kevin (and his firm) to pen test my payment device, as much for the knowledge as for the celebrity tickles it sent up my spine.

Also I would recommend Kingpin

How do you interpret this quote?

" I read Betty Friedan’s book [The Feminine Mystique] because I was very curious about it, and it’s so whiny, it’s just enough to drive a modern person mad to listen to these suburban housewives from the late ’50s ensconced in their comfortable secure lives complaining about the fact that they’re bored because they don’t have enough opportunity. It’s like, Jesus get a hobby. "

I guess Bundy would be a bit of an extreme example, but reading about him wouldn't hurt. I read a book about Bundy called Ted Bundy : Conversations with a Killer and you really get a good look inside the head of a sociopath.

http://www.amazon.com/Ted-Bundy-Conversations-Hugh-Aynesworth/dp/1928704174/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408804663&sr=8-1&keywords=Ted+Bundy%3A+Conversations+with+a+Killer

I had this happen a couple of times to me in one year. I found out later that it likely originated with Target when they got hacked a few years ago and then the other was from a Wendy’s POS terminal when it came out that all of them in the area in which we lived were discovered to have malware installed which skimmed customer numbers.

I actually read a book about credit card hackers called Kingpin.

https://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground/dp/0307588696

It’s a really interesting read and it makes you realize that basically, if you ever use your card, there is a chance it will get stolen at some point.

So your advice is definitely sound. Just check every month at least. I would also turn on transaction notifications. That’s how I caught what was happening both times. I set the limit to $5 so basically any transaction except for buying a candy bar or something alerts me. Good way to keep an eye on things.

If anyone is interested, here's a really good book about homes for unwed mothers that were very common in the U.S. before Roe v. Wade: https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Who-Went-Away-Surrendered/dp/0143038974

I'd recommend starting with Grace Hopper bio.

Grace Hopper and the Information Age

Base on your comments, you might also find CODE: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software a good read.

Many of the girls actually wanted to keep their babies, but were coerced into giving them up for adoption. This was in the days before open adoption, so a good deal of women never got to meet their children, or took decades to find them. Here is a very good book about the subject!

His life has been recounted in a novel. A very good read. Recommended.

A bit off topic...I just finished reading an advance copy of Kingpin written by Kevin - one of the best written 'hacker' books i've read in a long time (good amount of technical detail). Anyway, give it a read when it comes out. He's really come a long way in establishing himself as a legitimate author IMO.

I loved her book <3

http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Bitch-Women-Ultimate-Intellectual/dp/189008509X

You sure it was YA? Sounds like it could be either a bio of Kevin Poulsen or Kevin Mitnick

Yes, it's improving, but it's not all fixed yet, hence the two frauds on my accounts within the past year. One was an actual duplicated card, complete with CCV number and magnetic stripe.

A great book on how bad things have been, up until chip cards finally started getting market acceptance, is Kingpin, about a hacker who stole thousands of credit cards, mostly from stored data. Vendors often are not in legal compliance. Restaurants were especially bad.

Debit cards didn't escape either; one year banks absorbed $2 billion in debit card fraud. They'd introduced a secret PIN in the magnetic stripe, to fend off phishing attacks, and then just didn't bother checking it.

In terms of security, crypto on a hardware wallet is light years beyond anything in mainstream finance. Even our exchanges have better security than they do; my online stock broker and my credit union offer no 2FA at all.

You could use a URL shorterner, possibly? The Amazon links are really, really long.

Ooh! Ooh!

After some googling, I learned that you can directly shorten amazon's links: See here.

So, for example:

amazon.com/The-Feminine-Mystique-Betty-Friedan/dp/0393322572/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342892808&sr=8-1&keywords=the+feminine+mystique

becomes

amzn.com/0393322572

And it doesn't even redirect to some random page. It goes straight to it. :D

Whatever dude. I can't force you to learn if you aren't willing to.

You brought up race, so if you're genuinely interested in chess and minorities maybe the best can do I just leave you some links about that topic. Most of what's been written is about gender rather than race, but a lot of the points likely overlap with race:

• https://worldchess.com/2015/12/15/the-racial-gap-for-titles-among-american-players/
  
• http://skepchick.org/2014/04/guest-post-gender-inequality-in-chess/
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Bitch-Women-Ultimate-Intellectual/dp/189008509X

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is lesser known, but a fun, brisk read. It doesn't reach the level of HS or ICB, and it's about a more amusing case, not murders. The central criminal is just too likeable to not root for, he was a pelt smuggler before he was a robbery. The writing is above average for true crime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_Ambrus

https://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Whiskey-Robber-Transylvanian-Moonlighting/dp/0316010731

I'm gonna be there! I'm currently reading this biography about her. I can't wait for Baltimore. :)

I read Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground a few months back which is all about that stuff. Really good read.

http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Who-Went-Away-DecadesBefore/dp/0143038974/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269575656&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/When-Abortion-Was-Crime-1867-1973/dp/0520216571/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269575719&sr=1-1

These will give you a lot of reference to the pre-Roe movement. As for more recent history, other folks can probably help you more than I can.

Author Ann Rule was a volunteer alongside him, and she wrote a really interesting book about it (if you're interested): The Stranger Beside Me

Sources:

John Douglas - Mindhunter. Some of his other books talk about Bundy too, but I can't remember which ones - sorry.

Robert Keppel with Stephen G. Michaud - Terrible Secrets

Keppel was the original detective that was assigned to the Bundy case. Bundy asked him to meet him once he knew he was going to be executed and a lot of the book talks about that meeting.

Check our Stephen G. Michaud's other books too. He helped co-write a number of books on Bundy with a few FBI profilers. The one contains transcripts of Michaud's interviews with Bundy.

You can also read the transcripts of Bill Hagmaier's interviews online.

Good question actually... or would you just be doubling up on Kingpin?

John Dies at the End by David Wong

Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein <- This one I actually got shushed on the subway for laughing too hard while reading it.

Edit: Links

Seconded. Just remember, if your adversary is sophisticated enough, and they get their hands on your computer while it's running, they could potentially retrieve the TrueCrypt key from your memory--that's how the government busted Iceman.

Yes, it's fairly common. Other examples are Altered Carbon, Bird box, and Mind Hunter.

It is a fact that the FBI have breached VPN's and used them as honeypots. Even acting as vpn providers. They can do that without breaking the law.

I can recommend this book for more info: http://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground/dp/0307588688

I recommend reading Kingpin

Would recommend reading this from Irish cyclist and travel writer Dervla Murphy: https://www.amazon.com/Full-Tilt-Ireland-India-Bicycle/dp/1906011419

https://www.amazon.com/Rejected-Princesses-Historys-Heroines-Hellions/dp/0062405373 this book had joan of arc. Not sure if it tells the story of any other saints. I have a copy and could go check if you're interested.

Have you seen the book Forgotten Princesses? It's got age and content ratings so you can read the most appropriate ones, and they're all historical women!

Edit: it's actually Rejected Princesses, and there are a bunch on the site of the same name for you to sift through if you like!

Agreed. Also, reading suggestion for the OP:

https://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground/dp/0307588696

This blog is exactly what you are looking for in my opinion.

http://rejectedprincesses.tumblr.com

There's also a book with illustrations.

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062405373/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_LFs1AbA99BHPS

straight out of The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

>Am I missing something?

I suspect there may be a reference or two to the plot in the book the series is based off of that might sneak in here or there.

I haven't read the book, although I do have it. It came out originally in the 1990s, so it's a bit dated, but I got the newest version and I'm going to try to get through it because I'm curious if that might be the case.

I might suggest going a different way. In order to get into the mind of a serial killer, it might be helpful to first understand some of the psychology behind the fascination. This book gives an excellent overview of not only why we as people get very interested in serial murder, but also dives into a lot of other areas that would be essential in authoring a story, in my opinion. I write as well and was glad to have discovered this book. You also might want to check out Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer, as this book offers a unique look not only into Bundy's mind, but also into the essence of serial murder in general.

Not sure if you are into security tech but some of my favorites....

• The Cucco's Egg by Cliff Stoll
  
• Kingpin by Kevin Poulsen
  
• Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick
  
• Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter
  
• Zero Day by Mark Russinovich
  
  
  Also thought I'd include some that I have purchased but not finished yet in case you'd be interested.
  
  
• Where the Wizards Stay up Late by Katie Hafner
  
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
  
• Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet by Joseph Menn

I don't use Dropbox and do not intend to disparage Dropbox by stating a recent book about hackers and those who hound them seems to indicate Dropbox is not as secure as some my think. Your mileage may vary.

Here is a book that has hockey in it but is so much more.

http://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground/dp/0307588696

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gonzalez

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/magazine/14Hacker-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

The Stranger Beside Me is a classic.

Kingpin:
https://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground-ebook/dp/B004IK8Q2M#nav-subnav

This reminded me of this book http://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground/dp/0307588696

You should read The Stranger Beside Me.

"A Stranger Beside Me" by Ann Rule.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Beside-Me-Ann-Rule/dp/1416559590

Kingpin


Ghost in the Wires


The Art of Deception

Only Living Witness

The Stranger Beside Me

This one https://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground/dp/0307588696

As of last week, it's a book too! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062405373

Assuming OP is female, sorry if that's incorrect. Here are a few relevant resources to check out:

• Women From Another Planet? (book)
  
• Spectrum Women
  
• Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN)
  
• Deciding when to disclose
  

I want to be clear : housework isn't bad. Cleaning isn't bad. Cooking isn't bad. In fact, I do all of those things.

What's bad is social norms preventing a person from doing anything else. My mother, for example, had to fight for the right to pursue an advanced degree.

The constitutional amendment banning discrimination based on gender in (among other places) schools and workplaces was passed in her lifetime. Prior to that it was perfectly legal.

The (tedious, stupid) "get back in the kitchen" jokes reference that cultural climate without challenging it.

What's more, the legacy of that cultural climate is that there are so few women participating in technology in general and (by extension) reddit specifically.

These (constant and ubiquitous) jokes maintain a boy's club atmosphere and do nothing to indicate to the few female participants we have that they're welcome here and recognized as full equal members.

I'm not trying to censor anyone. I believe that each and every person on this website has the right to say anything -- even that all women are dumb fucking cunts and that anyone who complains about that characterization just needs some deep dicking.

But I reserve the right to call people out on their dumb, lazy, misogynist bullshit. The free speech pendulum swings both ways.

If you're genuinely curious for a fuller, more intelligent explanation of why that's so bad, I will buy you this book. No joke. PM me your mailing address or make an amazon wishlist with that item and send me the link if you're concerned for your privacy and think I have nefarious intentions. If you're reading, I'm buying.

Sorry I thought of two more that are a little more political, they are "Gender Outlaw" by Kate Bornstien and "Whipping Girl" by Julia Serrano.

https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Outlaw-Men-Women-Rest/dp/0679757015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466321943&sr=8-1&keywords=gender+outlaw

https://www.amazon.com/Whipping-Girl-Transsexual-Scapegoating-Femininity/dp/1580051545/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1466321964&sr=8-2&keywords=whipping+girl

Here's my list so far. It's a mix of FTM-specific, general trans, and gender studies books, including essays, memoir, and more academic works. In no particular order:

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler


Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman


Nina Here Nor There by Nick Krieger

Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam

Nobody Passes - Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore


Whipping Girl by Julia Serano


How Sex Changed: A History of Transexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz

Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green

Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer by Riki Wilchins

PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality edited by Carol Queen

Genderqueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary edited by Joan Nestle

From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond edited by Morty Diamond

Second Son by Ryan Sallans

Why are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

and the must-read fiction:

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

I'll edit this if I can find any others, I'm probably missing a couple. Been a big non-fiction reading year for me!

EDIT: Edited to add links, and a few more on my wish list I haven't picked up yet.

Letters for my Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect edited By Megan M. Rohrer, M.Div. & Zander Keig, M.SW.

That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men by Lori B. Girshick

Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience by Matt Kailey

The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male by Max Wolf Valerio

Fiction or non-fiction?

Fiction: Special Assignments (also published as The Jack of Spades and The Decorator) by Boris Akunin does this well in the second tale (the stories are distinct but interrelated). By the same author, The Coronation does a section from the antagonist's perspective. It could also be a good choice for a book club, as it's a nod to Conan Doyle and paralells a classic Holmes story.

For non-fiction, anything by John Douglas (the original profiler. Many characters on FBI-type TV shows have been based off him). Also Riverman by Robert D. Keppel, which contains conversations with Ted Bundy about the possible motives of the Green River Killer. True crime writer Ann Rule wrote The Stranger Beside Me about her relationship with Ted Bundy.

While none of the non-fiction books are from the serial killer's perspective, they all offer insight into what makes these people tick.

How about you read this book, and then live with a mother going through that trauma untreated for 28 years and get back to me. http://www.amazon.com/The-Girls-Who-Went-Away/dp/0143038974

Ever read this? It has very little to do with Ted Bundy actually working at a suicide hotline but it's a damn good read.

Malignant narcissistic sociopaths have no conscience even for those who love them and they are masters of lying and manipulation. Moonves is a predator no matter how you slice it.


If Chen has any conscience herself, she'll be seeing a top notch lawyer soon and make him pay for it. Any woman should.

If you've never read Ann Rule's book about Bundy and how she worked alongside him, you should:

https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Beside-Me-Ann-Rule/dp/1416559590

This is the one that I have, the large page number for such a short book is a result of all the work the author did to put The Art of War itself into its correct historical context.

http://www.amazon.com/Art-War-History-Warfare/dp/081331951X/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1419351680&sr=8-10

Look at the product screenshots. Written for Windows 95 using a JET database with VB4 and Access as a backend is my guess.

What a convoluted nightmare of a UI.

Then again, People still use Aloha terminals. Some of those were key to the largest set of credit breaches in history (looking at you, Pizza Schmizza, who had their terminals on the internet and magstripe captures on-disk, as well as plenty of other vendors who did same). They still don't seem to have fixed their shit, even though a fairly high-profile book covered it years ago.

You might question the information side of things - "aw, screw you, internet guy" - as irrelevant. It is irrelevant only until it's your restaurant in the news or in a book. Then you're fucked. This is a serious concern for owners, or should be. Bad technology will screw the best of businesses if you let it. And if you're found to be out of PCI compliance, imagine running your place without being able to run Visa, Mastercard, AmEx, etc. because your contract was severed by your DPS. When even Diner's Club won't keep you, you're done - a cash-only restaurant and bar? Good luck, unless you're a dive or a kitchy place that relies on that kind of trick. Whoops.

Not sure how much time you have for your project or what kind of info you are planning to include, but these 2 books are classic, great resources for understanding Ted himself as well as his murders and victims.

The Stranger Beside Me - Ann Rule

The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History - Kevin M Sullivan

Hmm. True crime isn't often known for being well written. But check out Public Enemies by Bryan Burroughs, Columbine by Dave Cullen, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, and of course, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. T.J. English has written some supposedly good stuff, and (being from Boston) I can recommend some good books on Whitey Bulger, including Brutal, Black Mass and Rat Bastards.

If you're looking for stuff on actual murderers, it's going to be a little harder. Most of that stuff is crap. I guess the old standbys are Helter Skelter, The Stranger Beside Me, and BTK.

Ahhh yes!!! Mindhunter: Inside the FBI elite serial crime unit.
This guy is one of the 1st FBI'S profilers.He narrates his experiences and interviews with serial killers.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501191969/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_yx4zCbQECQJ5K

I don't think you can disprove an opinion. I think you can contest an opinion, however, and I think some opinions are better than others. Let's use a more straightforward example. "The world is a better place when black people are enslaved." There is no way to objectively prove this untrue, and yet I think it's a worse opinion than the inverse. And, y'know, contesting the other opinion in this case meant fighting a war. If you think that Peterson's opinion isn't that bad, that's a different matter, but it being an opinion does not itself change the value of contesting. Given that he thinks that women fighting the fact that they were forced into the role of housekeepers were just whining about being bored, and that their complaints were therefore trivial, I think his opinion is quite worth arguing.


Here's that quote, for the record: "I read Betty Friedan’s book [The Feminine Mystique] because I was very curious about it, and it’s so whiny, it’s just enough to drive a modern person mad to listen to these suburban housewives from the late ’50s ensconced in their comfortable secure lives complaining about the fact that they’re bored because they don’t have enough opportunity. It’s like, Jesus get a hobby."

I just read this for my True Crime book club. Very Dollop-esque:



Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts

Rubinstein, Julian

Someone likely got a hold of your card data. This can happen in several ways. Thieves put "skimmers" on ATMs for just this purpose, or it could be from a waitress that has a hand-held skimmer, who swipes each card she handles when the customer is out of sight. If your card has the sideways wifi-looking symbol on the back, it broadcasts its information wirelessly as well. This information can be zapped out of the air with relative ease. Certain phones that have NFC chips and/or the appropriate technology (nothing special), can download an app that sniffs CC info of cards that are within 6 inches or so of it (better technology can go further; while the theoretical limit for this technology on cards was supposed to be like 36 inches at Best, I saw a DefCON presentation where they were able to read card info from like a quarter mile with homemade equipment). All of this aside, it is Also extremely likely that your CC info was purchased online, from someone who hacked into a (usually) small mom/pops type place that is incorrectly handling CC info (it is technically illegal for them to store/maintain this info, at least unencrypted I know it is.... but it still happens a lot... usually when people use some "small business starter pro!!" software they don't know how to use).

Lastly, I'd like to point out that if I had to guess, the owner of that store is in on this ring of thieves. That, or the thief made a copy of your card and went there, a place where they don't really pay attention. The thief would want to make a clone of your card and do a test purchase before selling it, or before trying it at a large establishment (or simply taking the time to make his fake look Real, which costs him like 30$ of materials etc if he wants one that can pass inspection) (mind you the Tools/Machines costs 100s and 1000s of dollars... just once he's already got those, I'm averaging between 20-30$ of materials (metallic paint, hologram, other ink, etc, etc)).

Source: Read and recommend this book for you to read. Kingpin

I think it would be good to include some examples of subtle N abuse and break them down into why and how it is abuse. Have professional therapists explain how even though these behaviors don't seem so bad on their own as isolated incidents, when they happen repeatedly over many years, they undermine the self-confidence/-esteem of the abused parties, teaching them to deal with the abusers in certain ways that are inappropriate for dealing with normal people, which in turn sets the abused parties up for future relationship problems because they tend to try to read and deal with people the way they have had to learn to read and deal with their Ns.

"The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade," by Ann Fessler, is one of the best documentary-type books I've ever read (she also made a movie based on it, but I haven't yet seen it); she interviewed over 100 women who had been forced to give up the babies that resulted from their unintended pregnancies and used many of their real quotes throughout the text, with supporting statistics and facts in between (it's worth a read, even if you aren't part of the adoption community). I think the approach and format she used in the book would translate well to the subject of living with an N and the damage it can do, despite seeming innocuous to those who've never dealt with such people. Perhaps some dramatic reenactments of real stories of specific incidents would also help to drive the points home to those who haven't lived it.

I would definitely love to see something like this, and opportunity to contribute to it would be awesome!

Edit: Another good thing to include would be how hard it is for the victim to recognize that s/he did, in fact, live an abusive childhood - especially if all the abuse is mental/emotional and seldom witnessed by anyone outside the family and the victim has always been told what an ingrate or horrible child s/he was when rebelling against the abuse, even in subtle ways. I suppose this would fall under the isolation aspect of being raised by Ns.

The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber. By Julian Rubinstein

DESCRIPTION: Elmore Leonard meets Franz Kafka in the wild, improbably true story of the legendary outlaw of Budapest. Attila Ambrus was a gentleman thief, a sort of Cary Grant--if only Grant came from Transylvania, was a terrible professional hockey goalkeeper, and preferred women in leopard-skin hot pants. During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. Arrayed against him was perhaps the most incompetent team of crime investigators the Eastern Bloc had ever seen: a robbery chief who had learned how to be a detective by watching dubbed Columbo episodes; a forensics man who wore top hat and tails on the job; and a driver so inept he was known only by a Hungarian word that translates to Mound of Ass-Head. BALLAD OF THE WHISKEY ROBBER is the completely bizarre and hysterical story of the crime spree that made a nobody into a somebody, and told a forlorn nation that sometimes the brightest stars come from the blackest holes. Like The Professor and the Madman and The Orchid Thief, Julian Rubinsteins bizarre crime story is so odd and so wicked that it is completely irresistible.

Max “Vision” Butler is an example I use for training classes.

He was a FBI informant, told the FBI about government systems being vulnerable to an exploit that had just been made public. I mean every government system including military, they ignored him, so he created a patch and remediated the issue in thousands of government servers himself... BUT, he also left himself backdoors in his code, which is a running theme with him. He didn’t have the worst intentions, but he did some shady stuff.

Kingpin, How One Hacker Took Over The Billion Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Paulson

Edit - The book itself is more about his crime ring after he goes to prison for what I mentioned. He does do federal prison time, finds it tough to get work after, and meets a guy who has the idea for a crime ring. I actually think the above story would be more interesting for a school report.