Yup, coffee makes you assault little old ladies and kick children. That video was pretty funny. It is true though, sometimes you drink coffee because it is readily available and not desired and then you get used to that schedule and you get used to the caffeine. Sometimes I wonder what would happened if there were mass internet outages and coffee was also taken away, a portion of the world would crash or go completely ape shit haywire.:) I remember when I was working in an office I religiously had coffee at 4 PM almost every day, now I don't drink it at all because I am not working in an office.
Frontal cortex dysfunction has been linked with antisocial and violent behavior, but emotion comes along with it, and his severe anger. There was no emotional connection to him and his mother and father except anger and disconnection. This case seems to me that there was no connection between parent and child. He obviously tried to off his parents, and it was probably a culmination of a lot of things going on there, not just the video game, that was the catalyst obviously though, maybe it was the breaking point. He is a psychopath. I don't think games completely changed him, but it set the guy off unfortunately and if there was a gun that could be easily obtained, this is the sad thing that happens. I don't know what they should do with people like this. Most psychologist think they should be studied. He will probably sit in a jail cell for the rest of his life. Do they let you play video games in jail?
Well you do have some stories that are very sad. But the same thing happened to me, my husband died suddenly, and I was left all alone and you didn't see me jumping off a bridge or drinking myself to death, etc. I put my life back together. It was the hardest thing I had to do in my life, well so far.:)
Maybe there was something in your friends personalities that lead them to ending their lives that way. I was not going to do that to myself, no way. And it was really hard not to drink and cry and sleep all day, etc. Anyway, you have to have hope. I really feel sad that you think all women are just ornaments or someone to use a man though. In fact, I always get the opposite side of it, so I don't get involved either. I would like to keep what I have! LOL Anyway, I do have hope, I would like to have a child before I get too old. My mother said to buy a dog. LMAO
The point is, there are just as many lonely women as there are men out there. And no, they are not socially awkward or unattractive. Sometimes it takes awhile to find a compatible person. The point is don't give up hope.:) But I do understand what you are saying as I get older, especially in my thirties you just try less. I get what you are saying there. If you have been in a few relationships that did not work out, I can see it get harder and harder to invest in a new person.
Well I was born in the 70's and most of my girlfriends I have were actually born in the mid 80's. They really are looking for love with someone that cares for them. In fact they cry to me every week about these bums they cater to, they are all pretty decent looking women, they are still trying to figure out who they are though. We have Applebees and Chipotle here too. Try Olive Garden!:) And I can give you and example of a woman in your life that probably wasn't mercenary, how about your Mom?:)
Well for me, a man that plays games for hours and is socially awkward might not be a nerd, but it would not be someone I would feel inclined to start a relationship with, that is my personal preference.
Playing games online for hours every night is not a good thing. Everything in moderation is great. I am not saying that playing the games is a bad thing, playing twice a week would be my threshold to even consider dating someone that gamed. I have been through that stuff before, and I would not go through that again with another guy. To me it is a very immature trait.
I just think playing incessantly where you lose your girlfriend over it because she wants to take a walk or have a cup of coffee with you or go out on a date or a movie or do something non computer related etc. If you are playing every night that person needs to go to Gamers Anonymous, seriously.:(
I completely agree with you. Nerds need to go out there, try things and experience life, so what if it doesn't work out, try something else.:) I also agree with you about the normality complex. What is normal? I would rather be as happy as I could be than fit in with some impossible ideal or change intrinsic parts of myself to cater to someone that doesn't love you for you. That's insanity. Great post.
Not all women are mercenary, even the very beautiful ones. Despite all of the said points above, I think men and women in general are looking for someone that is there for them in times of trouble and someone they have a lot in common with and like as a friend and can respect and love and count on.
Values and morals do still have a place in the dating world, LOL. My favorite part of your rant was the weed thing, priceless. LMAO
I am sure I am going to maybe offend some of the men on here. I have mostly dated nerds or a variation of a nerd, like the art nerd, etc. I also dated two people that didn't even like computers. We went out clubbing, out to the movies, restaurants or a play, out hiking, biking, etc. We had many more conversations about a wide range of subjects. I liked the non nerd men in certain ways, but they weren't as caring as the nerdy ones though.
I am not much of a gamer, and that was a big big problem in my nerd relationships. I mean I work predominately in IT, do you think I would want to spend my remaining free time on a computer? Hell no, I like living life.:) My last boyfriend was a hopeless nerd, god love him, but I can't be with someone that is socially awkward, a weeper to boot and spends his life playing games online.
I think the problem with nerdy men is that they feel comfy in their little boxed in life, which I think is a tad bit sad. I would rather experience life than be afraid of it. I am not saying that the nerdy ones are all like this, but nerds take a loooong time to grow into themselves. I am a notorious reformer. I have stopped that at this point, I gave up on nerds. Just my two cents.
What a Zen approach to money. I definitely agree with you though, it is an interesting observation. I wish some money would flow over here in the low spots of the Eastern U.S.
A 30K max out on salary for an assembly job is not what I would call living in luxury. Especially if you have a wife and two kids and rely on a steady income. If you are single, it is hard to live on that kind of salary also.
There are some "great" assembly jobs here in the US. The Sony plant near here (Pittsburgh) I think hires people in at $9.75 an hour, yuppers that is some high living. You can definitely cover everything on that salary, pfft.
I doubt they will pay the Polish workers a "living wage" either.
I agree with you partially about economic development, but honestly it is about greed, corporate greed. And I have nothing against Dell. I use bought a new Inspiron. I have had great luck with Dell, so I stuck with those laptops. The only two computers that I ever bought that didn't go to shit after two years were Dell and Apple products.
And it isn't even that much of a savings or profit for Dell, what a couple percentage points to move their operations and exploit Polish workers instead of Irish workers? Honest hard working people will give what three to five to seven years of their lives and scrape by on a 30K max out? Yeah!!!!
When I read stories like this, all I think is, I better hold onto the potatoes I have, meh.
-It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.- Irish saying
I don't completely agree with that. It depends on your bills and your lifestyle. If you need to pay them, you will be taking a part time job to supplement your unemployment. Heck, I know people that work under the table and make 400 bucks a week delivering pizza or they tend bar.
I live well below my means now, I didn't in the the past, but I set up my life to now because I had an opportunity to pay off my debts and I damn well was not going to incur debt again, it is the consumer cycle and well I am not much of a consumer. I am on unemployment now. I have been since last April. The government has given me close to a year's worth UC. I took that time and finished my college degree in December.
Right now I have about two months left on UC. I am lucky because I set up my life to live very frugally. I don't have a new car, or a mortgage payment anymore, even though I want a new car and a townhouse. My apartment is nice, but it isn't mine, I can't have pets which sucks. But, the thing is, that is the way it had to be for me to finish college. I have investments that I wish I could live off of, but I can't, I need a job for living expenses. Pennsylvania's site always works, no problems there. I am hoping to find a job in the next two months, I have only had one call in the past week and I am considering taking it even though it is not ideal. But that is the way things are, so I guess I should be grateful.
My point is well, you have to do what you have to do to pay your bills, but there is a ton of part time work in PA. Part time means you don't have health care though. I don't feel guilty about being on UC so long, I have worked for fifteen years and I have been on UC twice. This time it is a lot worse though and I am scared I am not going to find something that great, but hey you have to be optimistic. I will start worrying in about a month if nothing changes, LOL
Well I guess the written word will last a little longer.:) Which is funny you said that, I am sitting here trying to get my printer to work. I installed the drivers about two minutes ago and I am firing it up after about six years of sitting dormant. It works, LOL
I didn't make it up, the "biggest" green monkeys from Boing Boing made up four as a superlative of three dealie. I understand superlatives in language, not mathematics.:(
Guaranteed they are probably both hermits, even though I have never heard of either one of these people before reading about them on this site, most programmers seem to be or eventually want to be hermits. I might be a little unfair on that though. I don't know.
Regardless they are probably don't realize how lucky they are, I wish I had a kick ass job where I could work out of my house.
I knew Alan Cox the DJ from Pittsburgh. He is in Chicago now I think. I guess the computer guru Alan Cox is in Wales. Maybe they will want to switch lives and see what happens.:)
I have a fairly common name too and sometimes wonder if the other people with my name are having a better time with their lives than I am, maybe both Alan's should stay where they are, LOL
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Yup, coffee makes you assault little old ladies and kick children. That video was pretty funny. It is true though, sometimes you drink coffee because it is readily available and not desired and then you get used to that schedule and you get used to the caffeine. Sometimes I wonder what would happened if there were mass internet outages and coffee was also taken away, a portion of the world would crash or go completely ape shit haywire. :) I remember when I was working in an office I religiously had coffee at 4 PM almost every day, now I don't drink it at all because I am not working in an office.
I think they are confusing coffee with pot, jmtc...
The opposite effect, LOL Video Games in Jail
Frontal cortex dysfunction has been linked with antisocial and violent behavior, but emotion comes along with it, and his severe anger. There was no emotional connection to him and his mother and father except anger and disconnection. This case seems to me that there was no connection between parent and child. He obviously tried to off his parents, and it was probably a culmination of a lot of things going on there, not just the video game, that was the catalyst obviously though, maybe it was the breaking point. He is a psychopath. I don't think games completely changed him, but it set the guy off unfortunately and if there was a gun that could be easily obtained, this is the sad thing that happens. I don't know what they should do with people like this. Most psychologist think they should be studied. He will probably sit in a jail cell for the rest of his life. Do they let you play video games in jail?
Well you do have some stories that are very sad. But the same thing happened to me, my husband died suddenly, and I was left all alone and you didn't see me jumping off a bridge or drinking myself to death, etc. I put my life back together. It was the hardest thing I had to do in my life, well so far. :)
:) But I do understand what you are saying as I get older, especially in my thirties you just try less. I get what you are saying there. If you have been in a few relationships that did not work out, I can see it get harder and harder to invest in a new person.
Maybe there was something in your friends personalities that lead them to ending their lives that way. I was not going to do that to myself, no way. And it was really hard not to drink and cry and sleep all day, etc. Anyway, you have to have hope. I really feel sad that you think all women are just ornaments or someone to use a man though. In fact, I always get the opposite side of it, so I don't get involved either. I would like to keep what I have! LOL Anyway, I do have hope, I would like to have a child before I get too old. My mother said to buy a dog. LMAO
The point is, there are just as many lonely women as there are men out there. And no, they are not socially awkward or unattractive. Sometimes it takes awhile to find a compatible person. The point is don't give up hope.
Well the attractive poor guy could be a jerk and the rich ugly guy could be very caring. So it isn't that cut and dry.
Well I was born in the 70's and most of my girlfriends I have were actually born in the mid 80's. They really are looking for love with someone that cares for them. In fact they cry to me every week about these bums they cater to, they are all pretty decent looking women, they are still trying to figure out who they are though. We have Applebees and Chipotle here too. Try Olive Garden! :) And I can give you and example of a woman in your life that probably wasn't mercenary, how about your Mom? :)
Well for me, a man that plays games for hours and is socially awkward might not be a nerd, but it would not be someone I would feel inclined to start a relationship with, that is my personal preference.
:(
Playing games online for hours every night is not a good thing. Everything in moderation is great. I am not saying that playing the games is a bad thing, playing twice a week would be my threshold to even consider dating someone that gamed. I have been through that stuff before, and I would not go through that again with another guy. To me it is a very immature trait.
I just think playing incessantly where you lose your girlfriend over it because she wants to take a walk or have a cup of coffee with you or go out on a date or a movie or do something non computer related etc. If you are playing every night that person needs to go to Gamers Anonymous, seriously.
I completely agree with you. Nerds need to go out there, try things and experience life, so what if it doesn't work out, try something else. :) I also agree with you about the normality complex. What is normal? I would rather be as happy as I could be than fit in with some impossible ideal or change intrinsic parts of myself to cater to someone that doesn't love you for you. That's insanity. Great post.
Not all women are mercenary, even the very beautiful ones. Despite all of the said points above, I think men and women in general are looking for someone that is there for them in times of trouble and someone they have a lot in common with and like as a friend and can respect and love and count on.
Values and morals do still have a place in the dating world, LOL. My favorite part of your rant was the weed thing, priceless. LMAO
I am sure I am going to maybe offend some of the men on here. I have mostly dated nerds or a variation of a nerd, like the art nerd, etc. I also dated two people that didn't even like computers. We went out clubbing, out to the movies, restaurants or a play, out hiking, biking, etc. We had many more conversations about a wide range of subjects. I liked the non nerd men in certain ways, but they weren't as caring as the nerdy ones though.
:) My last boyfriend was a hopeless nerd, god love him, but I can't be with someone that is socially awkward, a weeper to boot and spends his life playing games online.
I am not much of a gamer, and that was a big big problem in my nerd relationships. I mean I work predominately in IT, do you think I would want to spend my remaining free time on a computer? Hell no, I like living life.
I think the problem with nerdy men is that they feel comfy in their little boxed in life, which I think is a tad bit sad. I would rather experience life than be afraid of it. I am not saying that the nerdy ones are all like this, but nerds take a loooong time to grow into themselves. I am a notorious reformer. I have stopped that at this point, I gave up on nerds. Just my two cents.
It is like a possum and pinocchio had a love child.
What a Zen approach to money. I definitely agree with you though, it is an interesting observation. I wish some money would flow over here in the low spots of the Eastern U.S.
A 30K max out on salary for an assembly job is not what I would call living in luxury. Especially if you have a wife and two kids and rely on a steady income. If you are single, it is hard to live on that kind of salary also.
There are some "great" assembly jobs here in the US. The Sony plant near here (Pittsburgh) I think hires people in at $9.75 an hour, yuppers that is some high living. You can definitely cover everything on that salary, pfft.
I doubt they will pay the Polish workers a "living wage" either.
I agree with you partially about economic development, but honestly it is about greed, corporate greed. And I have nothing against Dell. I use bought a new Inspiron. I have had great luck with Dell, so I stuck with those laptops. The only two computers that I ever bought that didn't go to shit after two years were Dell and Apple products.
And it isn't even that much of a savings or profit for Dell, what a couple percentage points to move their operations and exploit Polish workers instead of Irish workers? Honest hard working people will give what three to five to seven years of their lives and scrape by on a 30K max out? Yeah!!!!
When I read stories like this, all I think is, I better hold onto the potatoes I have, meh.
-It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.- Irish saying
I don't completely agree with that. It depends on your bills and your lifestyle. If you need to pay them, you will be taking a part time job to supplement your unemployment. Heck, I know people that work under the table and make 400 bucks a week delivering pizza or they tend bar.
I live well below my means now, I didn't in the the past, but I set up my life to now because I had an opportunity to pay off my debts and I damn well was not going to incur debt again, it is the consumer cycle and well I am not much of a consumer. I am on unemployment now. I have been since last April. The government has given me close to a year's worth UC. I took that time and finished my college degree in December.
Right now I have about two months left on UC. I am lucky because I set up my life to live very frugally. I don't have a new car, or a mortgage payment anymore, even though I want a new car and a townhouse. My apartment is nice, but it isn't mine, I can't have pets which sucks. But, the thing is, that is the way it had to be for me to finish college. I have investments that I wish I could live off of, but I can't, I need a job for living expenses. Pennsylvania's site always works, no problems there. I am hoping to find a job in the next two months, I have only had one call in the past week and I am considering taking it even though it is not ideal. But that is the way things are, so I guess I should be grateful.
My point is well, you have to do what you have to do to pay your bills, but there is a ton of part time work in PA. Part time means you don't have health care though. I don't feel guilty about being on UC so long, I have worked for fifteen years and I have been on UC twice. This time it is a lot worse though and I am scared I am not going to find something that great, but hey you have to be optimistic. I will start worrying in about a month if nothing changes, LOL
Well I guess the written word will last a little longer. :) Which is funny you said that, I am sitting here trying to get my printer to work. I installed the drivers about two minutes ago and I am firing it up after about six years of sitting dormant. It works, LOL
The sad part is it was the first medium to be reproduced and copied easily. Heck 100 years is a good run. :)
I personally think this is kind of awesome, but I am a dork. I love when they say shanti, which means ace in English.
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If you are into ads, these are a trip. I vaguely remember the Honeywell ones, that's about it.
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I didn't make it up, the "biggest" green monkeys from Boing Boing made up four as a superlative of three dealie. I understand superlatives in language, not mathematics. :(
Variants include /3 for a broken heart, $ to convey a financial motive for love, and 4 as the superlative of 3.
Guaranteed they are probably both hermits, even though I have never heard of either one of these people before reading about them on this site, most programmers seem to be or eventually want to be hermits. I might be a little unfair on that though. I don't know.
Regardless they are probably don't realize how lucky they are, I wish I had a kick ass job where I could work out of my house.
Yeah, porn star, because computers and porn are synonymous. Pfft....
:)
Ten years is a long time to dedicate yourself to something. I think someone that decides on a new endeavor and new challenges is commendable.
I knew Alan Cox the DJ from Pittsburgh. He is in Chicago now I think. I guess the computer guru Alan Cox is in Wales. Maybe they will want to switch lives and see what happens. :)
I have a fairly common name too and sometimes wonder if the other people with my name are having a better time with their lives than I am, maybe both Alan's should stay where they are, LOL