Stop and think, people. How would it have helped to not include North Korea in the Axis of Evil? Does being nice to dictators make them more cooperative? Are dictators more likely to compromise when their opponents show weakness or when they show strength? This isn't a tea party. This isn't like solving a dispute with co-workers or in-laws.
The object, when facing war or possible war, is to crush the enemy's hopes. You have to sap their morale and make them racked with fear. Nice-guy diplomacy gives them hope and optimism that the international community doesn't have the guts to stop them. You want to make all their hostile options appear utterly bleak, so that their only hope will be to surrender and beg for mercy. Most of the Iraqi army surrendered immediately because we took away their hope that they could win in battle. Libya, which has nukes, has essentially preemptively surrendered after seeing what we did in Iraq. We need to make NK feel just as desperate. We want Kim Jong Il to surrender without a fight, but we won't induce a surrender if we can't even show him that we have the guts to say that his regime is evil. If we were too cowardly and scared to call it evil, NK could rest easy knowing that we would never muster the gumption to employ military action. Pussyfooting-diplomacy wouldn't work, because we wouldn't be carrying our "big stick," to use a term of FDR (a Democrat president, btw).
Ronald Reagan called the USSR "the Evil Empire," and it began collapsing before his second term was out. North Korea is a much smaller threat. I wouldn't be surprised if Bush solves the NK problem before his second term is finished. I know the NK problem seems unsolvable, but so did the USSR problem. They had lots of nukes and ICBMs. Most people thought we would have to cope with the Soviet threat forever. A solution wasn't even imaginable. But miracles happen, and Bush believes in miracles. In less than four years, Bush has already toppled two dictatorships, empowering the liberated people to form peaceful democracies. I think Iran and North Korea are the next two to go in the next four-year term.
I don't see anything alarming in that list. Every item is either a half truth, a misrepresentation, or a non-story to most people. These people are just mad that their top propaganda items aren't getting wall-to-wall coverage except on their extremist kook web sites.
I like miniT, which lets you rearrange the tabs. There's an improved version of the original.
miniT (drag+indicator) is a modification of Dorando's miniT (drag) which adds an indicator to where the tab will be inserted when you drop it. Installing it will replace the original miniT (drag).
I've tried to make corrections, but they were undone very quickly. It seems that certain pages have self-appointed Guardians that don't let people change anything.
The problem is that all the most-attractive women are their most-attractive *right now*. And most people seem to look back on their late-teens/early 20s most-fondly where sex is concerned. Those are the years for which I've *already* missed out, completely. I can't have those years back, no matter how hard I wish or how much money I spend
Hey, I'm in the same boat. I'm right where you are. But put yourself in the place of a 47-year-old virgin. Can you imagine the feelings of missed sexual opportunities? This man wrote an essay on singles and sexuality that I think you should read. He also wrote one for help on handling the pressures of being single. He writes as a Christian, but his experiences are common to people of all stripes. His writings are very down-to-earth and helpful.
Perhaps even more than sex, that's who I'm after -- somebody who genuinely cares about me and thinks the world of me. I've never, in my entire life, had that experience, not even for a moment.
When I read this, it almost made me tear up. I think there are many people in your situation. My heart breaks for you, MfN. I pray very sincerely that God will send someone into your life who "thinks the world of you." Someone who looks into your soul and sees all your faults and mistakes; who sees you in all your geeky awkwardness; and still has hearts glittering in her eyes at the thought of being with you. Also, I pray that you should have friends, besides the one you have, who genuinely care about you.
It's said that you can choose your friends (or spouse), but you can't choose your family. There's something really special about a stranger who didn't grow up in your household coming to love you more than they love anyone else. The best feeling in the world is to be loved!
How will you know when it's love?
Love is patient - calmly enduring problems
Love is kind - considering others first
Love is not jealous - not upset when date gives attention to others
Love does not brag - does not try to impress others
Love is not arrogant - not conceited or cocky
Love does not act unbecomingly - not rude or disrespectful
Love does not seek its own - not selfish
Love cannot be provoked - does not get angry or lose one's temper
Love keeps no record of wrongs - not resentful, forgives easily and sincerely
Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness - does not have fun doing wrong
Love rejoices in truth - has fun doing right
Love bears all things - supportive, encouraging during troubles
(Based on 1st Corinthians 13)
MfN, you should go to places and groups where the people seem to care about each other. And then, make yourself be someone who shows concern for other people. Relationships have to be nurtured. The best way to pique someone's interest in you is for you to demonstrate that you care about them. Some things you can do: Give compliments or affirmations, make a point of spending regular time with them, buy gifts, and do things for them without expectation of anything in return. You may want to check out the popular books The Five Love Languages or The Love Languages of God by Gary Chapman.
'Do as I say, not as I do' -- I guarantee that applies here.
You are wrong. I've never been drunk. I'm single and happily a virgin by choice.
rooshlog.com is dead. Most of seductionbb.com is unavailable to non-registered users. What were we supposed to learn there? That fornication is fun? I have no doubt that it is. I'm talking about the long term.
The nail file can sometimes be used as a flat head screwdriver. On my regular Swiss army knife, the end edge is slightly rounded, so it's not great for that use, but it can be used in a pinch for small screws.
I agree with you, though. How many guys are giving themselves manicures with these little knives? They should replace the nail file with a real screwdriver or something else useful.
I... am still a virgin.... I might as well be a hardcore loony-bin Christian straight-edger waiting until marriage for sex, so far as I count, statistically.
Don't panic, man. You should thank God you've been saved from all the hassles, fights, distractions, embarassment, emotional trauma, guilt, regret, diseases, pregnancy, financial burden, and other ripple effects that could have totally wrecked your life.
I have discovered after years of soul-searching that money isn't everything.
Perhaps, in a few more years of soul-searching, you will discover that sex isn't everything.
Patience... There is a time for everything.
There is a time to have sex,
there is a time to not have sex.
Life will reward you for waiting for the right person and the right time. It will curse you for acting foolishly. That's why it's so important to remain sober-minded - so you can make decisions that are truly in your best interest. Consequences, my friend. One stupid move could ruin your life.
Don't bring 6 computers, two monitors/keyboards/mice, two PDAs, a PS2 + dreamcast + gba, a stereo, two TVs, a dvd player, a few old hardware for "conversation pieces" and your laptop.
Six computers and two TVs...? I don't know if even the most modern dorms are designed to handle that many electrical devices being plugged in, even if every device isn't switched on at the same time and you're using proper surge protectors/extensions.
You should note that many old colleges still have some dorms in use that were built over fifty years ago. Each two-person room might have only three electrical outlets, and that's it. Also, don't count on the sockets having the third hole for grounding. Since surge protectors have three-prong plugs, you might have to pick up an adapter at Radio Shack or Wal-Mart.
But not as literature or mythology; they want it to be included as science. Which it's not; it starts from the Bible and demands specific beliefs.
There is no separation between philosophy and science. Notice how the Ph in Ph.D. stands for philosophy. This was discussed on Slashdot with regard to Isaac Newton, who interspersed "religious" ideas within his "scientific" writings. He wrote more about Biblical prophecy than anything else.
Today's science seeks to quarantine certain ideas and realms of thought from "pure science." Today's science starts from materialism and does absolutely demand specific beliefs. Dissenters are summarily scoffed at and dismissed. Creationists want to liberate the mind and the disciplines of exploration from this materialist/naturalist Iron Curtain.
Real science doesn't force its members to declare for any religious beliefs;
According to Dr. Michael Ruse, who, ironically, had denounced creationism because it was religious, has said that your "real science" does have "metaphysical assumptions.".
Look also at what Lewontin says:
"We take the side of science
in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." (emphasis in original) -- Professor/Geneticist Richard Lewontin
it merely asks that they engage in a search for truth as shown through the natural world.
It may ask that, but that's not what happens. Human nature takes over. Boyce Rensberger, an ardently anti-creationist science writer, writes in How the World Works:
"At this point, it is necessary to reveal a little inside information about how scientists work, something the textbooks don't usually tell you. The fact is that scientists are not really as objective and dispassionate in their work as they would like you to think. Most scientists first get their ideas about how the world works not through rigorously logical processes but through hunches and wild guesses. As individuals they often come to believe something to be true long before they assemble the hard evidence that will convince somebody else that it is. Motivated by faith in his own ideas and a desire for acceptance by his peers, a scientist will labor for years knowing in his heart that his theory is correct but devising experiment after experiment whose results he hopes will support his position."
If scientists were engaged "in a search for truth as shown through the natural world," they would admit that fossils have formed around man-made objects within a few decades; fossilization is a rapid process. They would admit that mutations do not produce new genetic material. They wouldn't try to invent a new stage of "hominids" based on a solitary jawbone that turned about to be from a known primate spe
I don't think any serious activist is trying to have the teaching of evolution banned. They just want the Biblical viewpoint of creation, which is actually the most popular among Americans, to be included in the teaching curriculum.
Christians want daily prayer sessions to be allowed if they are initiated and run by the students. Prayers of the students, by the students, for the students should not be squashed by Soviet-style policies, as if Atheism were mandated by the state. The so-called separation of church and state is about protecting the free expression of religion from the threat of obstruction by the state, not protecting the state from the "threat" of religious expression (especially Christian, which was the focus of both the Danbury Baptist letter and today's critics), as the fanatical God haters see it and would have us believe.
Government institutions are meant to serve the citizens, not to silence them. Public schools belong to the people they are serving (parents and students). The people are not meant to be under the boot of the schools, or worse, of some unelected, no-name bureaucrats in the Dept. of Education shoving their poisonous beliefs of materialism, humanism, and goo-to-you evolution down the nation's throat.
By the way, this is one reason that the federal Dept. of Education should be abolished. States and localities can better represent the desires of the people they serve. If D.C. and San Francisco want to teach lessons like "Exploring Lifestyles (and orifices): Sodomy for kids" or "Living Wild: Our monkey roots" in the classroom, let 'em have it. But don't let them drag the rest of America down to their putrid gutter, too.
Yeah, that explains why the Bible is essentially banned from schools.
Remember that this is the U.S., which was settled by fanatical Christian sects.
You are talking about the 1600s when some states were almost theocracies. Today's education establishment in the U.S. (at the national level and in many states) is run by fanatical atheists who hate everything Christianity stands for. The leftist social agenda, from condom cheerleading to enviro-communism, is promulgated in the public schools. You could bring a Playboy magazine to school and get extra credit for sex ed, but dare to smuggle in a Holy Bible and they'd throw you out on your head for being an "intolerant bigot."
Also keep in mind that Christians are generally white folks like us
Not true. Most Christians are not white. Let me clue you in.
I heard about an international pastors conference at which there was a special session only for pastors with congregations of 100,000 or more members. Thus, the Western (white) pastors were all shut out. Even the so-called megachurches in America are no match for the massive churches of "colored" peoples. Christianity may have plateaued in the West, but it's spreading like wildfire in the East.
It used to be that the Western churches sent missionaries to establish and help struggling Christian communities in third world countries. Now, those churches in Africa and other parts of the world are sending missionaries to America and Europe to help us! Yes, we are struggling, even in America. Our numbers are quite many, but our spiritual living is shallow and sparse.
It has already been scientifically proven that colored people are genetically inferior
There is only one skin color: melanin. Some people have more of it than others. There are no races, in the evolutionary sense. We all descended from one man. "From one man (Adam) He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth..." (Acts 17:26)
The notion of "civilized war" is propagated by the mighty to enslave the weak; knowing full well that an ill-equipped but determined peasant militia is unable to afford smart bombs and missles, but quite capable of buying fertilizer, we create a set of baseless rules that make his methods of warfare barbaric and ours humane.
First, I reject your premise that terrorist regimes are poor. Bin Laden is a billionaire. The governments of the Arab oil countries have extreme wealth. The citizens may be poor, but there is plenty of money for arms. Yassir Arafat is a multimillionaire, possibly a billionaire. The PLO gets millions of dollars every year from dozens of foreign governments (including Israel) and sympathetic groups. Arafat keeps his people poor intentionally in order to attract international sympathy for the Palestinist "plight."
You have it exactly backwards that the "rules of war" favor the weak regimes. Read this piece by Alan Dershowitz. Here's the condensed version of what he says.
The Geneva Conventions are so outdated and are written so broadly that they have become a sword used by terrorists to kill civilians, rather than a shield to protect civilians from terrorists.
Terrorists who do not care about the laws of warfare target innocent noncombatants. Indeed, their goal is to maximize the number of deaths and injuries among vulnerable civilians. The terrorist leaders - who do not wear military uniforms - deliberately hide among noncombatants. They have also used ambulances, women pretending to be sick or pregnant, and even children as carriers of lethal explosives.
By employing these tactics, terrorists put the democracies to difficult choices: Either allow those who plan and coordinate terrorist attacks to escape justice and continue their victimization of civilians, or attack them in their enclaves, thereby risking death or injury to the civilians they are using as human shields.
Whenever a civilian is accidentally killed or an ambulance is held up at a checkpoint, the terrorist leaders, and those who support them, have exploited the post-World War II laws of warfare to condemn the democracies for violating the letter of the law. This only encourages more terrorism, since the terrorists receive a double benefit from their actions. First they benefit from killing "enemy" civilians. Second, they benefit from the condemnation heaped on their enemies. Human rights are thus being used to promote human wrongs.
Democracies must be legally empowered to attack terrorists who hide among civilians, so long as proportional force is employed. Civilians who are killed while being used as human shields by terrorists must be deemed the victims of the terrorists who have chosen to hide among them.
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Be honest and trustworthy.
Avoid harm to others.
Do not steal.
Do not use unregistered/unauthorized software.
Do not bite the hands that feed you. Respect the wishes of developers.
Respect the property and rights of others.
Piracy is completely unacceptable.
In that frame of thinking, you could say that price causes theft.
And law causes crime.
The object, when facing war or possible war, is to crush the enemy's hopes. You have to sap their morale and make them racked with fear. Nice-guy diplomacy gives them hope and optimism that the international community doesn't have the guts to stop them. You want to make all their hostile options appear utterly bleak, so that their only hope will be to surrender and beg for mercy. Most of the Iraqi army surrendered immediately because we took away their hope that they could win in battle. Libya, which has nukes, has essentially preemptively surrendered after seeing what we did in Iraq. We need to make NK feel just as desperate. We want Kim Jong Il to surrender without a fight, but we won't induce a surrender if we can't even show him that we have the guts to say that his regime is evil. If we were too cowardly and scared to call it evil, NK could rest easy knowing that we would never muster the gumption to employ military action. Pussyfooting-diplomacy wouldn't work, because we wouldn't be carrying our "big stick," to use a term of FDR (a Democrat president, btw).
Ronald Reagan called the USSR "the Evil Empire," and it began collapsing before his second term was out. North Korea is a much smaller threat. I wouldn't be surprised if Bush solves the NK problem before his second term is finished. I know the NK problem seems unsolvable, but so did the USSR problem. They had lots of nukes and ICBMs. Most people thought we would have to cope with the Soviet threat forever. A solution wasn't even imaginable. But miracles happen, and Bush believes in miracles. In less than four years, Bush has already toppled two dictatorships, empowering the liberated people to form peaceful democracies. I think Iran and North Korea are the next two to go in the next four-year term.
I wish some politician back in the '80s had suggested we build some kind of "Star Wars" defense system. We could surely use it now.
Neuron-R media could store sensitive information which could be transmitted through the Mouth port or Hand printer.
I don't see anything alarming in that list. Every item is either a half truth, a misrepresentation, or a non-story to most people. These people are just mad that their top propaganda items aren't getting wall-to-wall coverage except on their extremist kook web sites.
I've tried to make corrections, but they were undone very quickly. It seems that certain pages have self-appointed Guardians that don't let people change anything.
it's a joke
Anyway, I'll answer your call for evidence that fossils have formed around man-made objects: Fascinating fossil fence-wire
Hey, I'm in the same boat. I'm right where you are. But put yourself in the place of a 47-year-old virgin. Can you imagine the feelings of missed sexual opportunities? This man wrote an essay on singles and sexuality that I think you should read. He also wrote one for help on handling the pressures of being single. He writes as a Christian, but his experiences are common to people of all stripes. His writings are very down-to-earth and helpful.
Perhaps even more than sex, that's who I'm after -- somebody who genuinely cares about me and thinks the world of me. I've never, in my entire life, had that experience, not even for a moment.
When I read this, it almost made me tear up. I think there are many people in your situation. My heart breaks for you, MfN. I pray very sincerely that God will send someone into your life who "thinks the world of you." Someone who looks into your soul and sees all your faults and mistakes; who sees you in all your geeky awkwardness; and still has hearts glittering in her eyes at the thought of being with you. Also, I pray that you should have friends, besides the one you have, who genuinely care about you.
It's said that you can choose your friends (or spouse), but you can't choose your family. There's something really special about a stranger who didn't grow up in your household coming to love you more than they love anyone else. The best feeling in the world is to be loved!
How will you know when it's love?
- Love is patient - calmly enduring problems
- Love is kind - considering others first
- Love is not jealous - not upset when date gives attention to others
- Love does not brag - does not try to impress others
- Love is not arrogant - not conceited or cocky
- Love does not act unbecomingly - not rude or disrespectful
- Love does not seek its own - not selfish
- Love cannot be provoked - does not get angry or lose one's temper
- Love keeps no record of wrongs - not resentful, forgives easily and sincerely
- Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness - does not have fun doing wrong
- Love rejoices in truth - has fun doing right
- Love bears all things - supportive, encouraging during troubles
(Based on 1st Corinthians 13)MfN, you should go to places and groups where the people seem to care about each other. And then, make yourself be someone who shows concern for other people. Relationships have to be nurtured. The best way to pique someone's interest in you is for you to demonstrate that you care about them. Some things you can do: Give compliments or affirmations, make a point of spending regular time with them, buy gifts, and do things for them without expectation of anything in return. You may want to check out the popular books The Five Love Languages or The Love Languages of God by Gary Chapman.
MfN, may God bless you and show you love.
You are wrong. I've never been drunk. I'm single and happily a virgin by choice.
rooshlog.com is dead. Most of seductionbb.com is unavailable to non-registered users. What were we supposed to learn there? That fornication is fun? I have no doubt that it is. I'm talking about the long term.
I agree with you, though. How many guys are giving themselves manicures with these little knives? They should replace the nail file with a real screwdriver or something else useful.
Don't panic, man. You should thank God you've been saved from all the hassles, fights, distractions, embarassment, emotional trauma, guilt, regret, diseases, pregnancy, financial burden, and other ripple effects that could have totally wrecked your life.
I have discovered after years of soul-searching that money isn't everything.
Perhaps, in a few more years of soul-searching, you will discover that sex isn't everything.
Patience... There is a time for everything.
There is a time to have sex,
there is a time to not have sex.
Life will reward you for waiting for the right person and the right time. It will curse you for acting foolishly. That's why it's so important to remain sober-minded - so you can make decisions that are truly in your best interest. Consequences, my friend. One stupid move could ruin your life.
Six computers and two TVs ...? I don't know if even the most modern dorms are designed to handle that many electrical devices being plugged in, even if every device isn't switched on at the same time and you're using proper surge protectors/extensions.
You should note that many old colleges still have some dorms in use that were built over fifty years ago. Each two-person room might have only three electrical outlets, and that's it. Also, don't count on the sockets having the third hole for grounding. Since surge protectors have three-prong plugs, you might have to pick up an adapter at Radio Shack or Wal-Mart.
He must've changed his sig, because it's not there now.
That's right, kids. Don't conform to anybody's rules. And that's an order!
There is no separation between philosophy and science. Notice how the Ph in Ph.D. stands for philosophy. This was discussed on Slashdot with regard to Isaac Newton, who interspersed "religious" ideas within his "scientific" writings. He wrote more about Biblical prophecy than anything else.
Today's science seeks to quarantine certain ideas and realms of thought from "pure science." Today's science starts from materialism and does absolutely demand specific beliefs. Dissenters are summarily scoffed at and dismissed. Creationists want to liberate the mind and the disciplines of exploration from this materialist/naturalist Iron Curtain.
Real science doesn't force its members to declare for any religious beliefs;
According to Dr. Michael Ruse, who, ironically, had denounced creationism because it was religious, has said that your "real science" does have "metaphysical assumptions.". Look also at what Lewontin says:
Read more scientists in their own words.
- Evolution as Religion -- Not Science
- Evolution As Religion
it merely asks that they engage in a search for truth as shown through the natural world.
It may ask that, but that's not what happens. Human nature takes over. Boyce Rensberger, an ardently anti-creationist science writer, writes in How the World Works:
If scientists were engaged "in a search for truth as shown through the natural world," they would admit that fossils have formed around man-made objects within a few decades; fossilization is a rapid process. They would admit that mutations do not produce new genetic material. They wouldn't try to invent a new stage of "hominids" based on a solitary jawbone that turned about to be from a known primate spe
Christians want daily prayer sessions to be allowed if they are initiated and run by the students. Prayers of the students, by the students, for the students should not be squashed by Soviet-style policies, as if Atheism were mandated by the state. The so-called separation of church and state is about protecting the free expression of religion from the threat of obstruction by the state, not protecting the state from the "threat" of religious expression (especially Christian, which was the focus of both the Danbury Baptist letter and today's critics), as the fanatical God haters see it and would have us believe.
Government institutions are meant to serve the citizens, not to silence them. Public schools belong to the people they are serving (parents and students). The people are not meant to be under the boot of the schools, or worse, of some unelected, no-name bureaucrats in the Dept. of Education shoving their poisonous beliefs of materialism, humanism, and goo-to-you evolution down the nation's throat.
By the way, this is one reason that the federal Dept. of Education should be abolished. States and localities can better represent the desires of the people they serve. If D.C. and San Francisco want to teach lessons like "Exploring Lifestyles (and orifices): Sodomy for kids" or "Living Wild: Our monkey roots" in the classroom, let 'em have it. But don't let them drag the rest of America down to their putrid gutter, too.
Remember that this is the U.S., which was settled by fanatical Christian sects.
You are talking about the 1600s when some states were almost theocracies. Today's education establishment in the U.S. (at the national level and in many states) is run by fanatical atheists who hate everything Christianity stands for. The leftist social agenda, from condom cheerleading to enviro-communism, is promulgated in the public schools. You could bring a Playboy magazine to school and get extra credit for sex ed, but dare to smuggle in a Holy Bible and they'd throw you out on your head for being an "intolerant bigot."
Not true. Most Christians are not white. Let me clue you in.
I heard about an international pastors conference at which there was a special session only for pastors with congregations of 100,000 or more members. Thus, the Western (white) pastors were all shut out. Even the so-called megachurches in America are no match for the massive churches of "colored" peoples. Christianity may have plateaued in the West, but it's spreading like wildfire in the East.
It used to be that the Western churches sent missionaries to establish and help struggling Christian communities in third world countries. Now, those churches in Africa and other parts of the world are sending missionaries to America and Europe to help us! Yes, we are struggling, even in America. Our numbers are quite many, but our spiritual living is shallow and sparse.
It has already been scientifically proven that colored people are genetically inferior
There is only one skin color: melanin. Some people have more of it than others. There are no races, in the evolutionary sense. We all descended from one man. "From one man (Adam) He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth..." (Acts 17:26)
Examples bug comment
It was checked into the trunk codebase after Firefox had branched, so it won't show up in Firefox until the 1.1 builds.
And Saddam Hussein put "Allahu Akhbar" on the Iraqi flag. It's a trick to get support from the masses. Nothing more.
First, I reject your premise that terrorist regimes are poor. Bin Laden is a billionaire. The governments of the Arab oil countries have extreme wealth. The citizens may be poor, but there is plenty of money for arms. Yassir Arafat is a multimillionaire, possibly a billionaire. The PLO gets millions of dollars every year from dozens of foreign governments (including Israel) and sympathetic groups. Arafat keeps his people poor intentionally in order to attract international sympathy for the Palestinist "plight."
You have it exactly backwards that the "rules of war" favor the weak regimes. Read this piece by Alan Dershowitz. Here's the condensed version of what he says.
Ha. That's nothing. Check out my army of hamsters. (The dodedo song won't play if you don't use IE or maybe an old Netscape.)