I was just throwing it out there, as an option to rival going to the pub to pick up women. The Gym I go to (with my wife) has plenty of other women at it (especially the belly dance and pilates classes) and here (Ireland) there are plenty of other sports that are attended by both genders. I just picked them as examples from my life where you can find some nice partners, and bonus points to you if you are also interested in sport.
The point is that if you have hobbies that attract groups, have competitions, conventions etc, then those are good places to meet people. Work can sometimes be a terrible place to find a partner, as if it ends badly, you may be forced to continue social interaction (awkward).
I have known people who met playing WoW, and got married some years later. Same with playing MUDs before that.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not listing these things because I feel that someone should try ANYTHING to avoid using a dating website. You are 100% correct, they are not solely for freaks, but it could be argued that it does contain a higher probability of bumping into undesirables via this medium.
I suppose like any tool, it's there to be used, but can be abused. The problem is that we are hardwired to emphasise the bad, to protect ourselves from it. Guns, drugs, fire, Skrillex all need to be managed with caution, so too online dating. Doesn't mean it's all bad (well perhaps Skrillex is)
I don't want to sound snarky, but you complain that all your class were male, all your co-workers were male and then go on to say that they were already married. So all the male workers in your male dominated work environment were married... except you. How did they meet single women to get married to in the first place?
Working on the premise that all your co-workers are in the same situation as you, but managed to find partners regardless, seems to indicate that the situation itself is not at fault.
I agree with you regarding bar/club, it's a terrible, poorly lit environment to try to find a companion. Have you tried at the gym or other sporting events? What about hobby related conventions? It would be a good place to try find people with similar interests.
I'm waiting for all the big content to be taken off the net, all music, hollywood movies, books, and images of works of art. When all that is left is Porn, it will make finding it so much easier, w/o the need to trawl through all the trash that's on the net.
Being from Ireland I don't know who I could write to with the following point, but it is would I'd love to make to a US Senator:
Since when has passing an Act prevented anyone from doing something Illegal? You banned drink once and that failed, you have banned drugs, smuggling, murder etc and still people who want to do these things will continue to do them. All that has happened is that those who succeed at it become fabulously wealthy. While you will catch some/many/most, you will never catch all.
Now it looks likely that some time soon individual states will legalise Marijuana, at which point it will become legal to take drugs but illegal to get access to works of art (music, books & movies) for free. This reminds me of a situation in the UK when it was (at may still be) illegal to sell cigarettes to people under the age of 18, but people could partake of intercourse by the age of 16, thus leading to the joke that you could have sex, but not smoke a cigarette afterwards.
If marijuana is legalised, then you won't be arrested for possession, sale or use of it, but you could be arrested for listening to music.
What you really need to do is pass an Act that forces content developers away from locking down the content they produce to a closed format, or from holding onto the rights to the content beyond a reasonable length of time. I just found out the other day that the famous speech by Martin Luther King "I have a Dream" which was given IN PUBLIC is copyrighted! Who in their right mind thinks that something like this should be in copyright now, or ever?
My wife recently got a new mobile phone (Sony Experia Ray) and is unable to use the music she purchased on iTunes on it, as the only way you can play music purchased on iTunes is by using an Apple device. If I were to go online and download replacement copies of the music that play on her new device, I woudl be breaking the law, but what other option, other than buying it again, do I have?
Please stand up for the people you represent, not the companies that pay you and reject utterly and publicly a policy that will do so much harm to your constituents.
My ribbon printer (Image writer 2) for my old old Apple Mac used to do that when you asked it to print draft. Never figured out why, but now you make me think of it, it seems like the right reason.
Oh BS. The world will still turn if little johnny can't upgrade his HD to keep more porn on. Any serious business users will have plenty of drives in store anyway.
There you go, doing the exact same thing. What if it was your wife/gf/mother/father's hard drive that needed replacing? You take such a dispassionate viewpoint. It's all well and good when the hard drives that need replacing belong to some faceless corporation, but it's totally different when you bring it closer to home.
Agent Smith: Dr_Barnowl (yes he can pronounce an underscore) of slashdot? We're here to ask you a few questions about your recent attempt to divide by 0 Dr_Barnowl: BLLuueeggthss *shows bowl containing brain* Agent Smith: Not again. Jones, get the funnel.
You hang them in the air using a rope that binds their wrists together behind their back. Ask them repeatedly if they serve the [Evil Deity] until they admit it. The [Good Deity] will give them power to resist all torture. If they can hold out indefinitely, then they are true believers.
I don't know what worries me most, that politicians in America really believe this is good for the country, or that politicians in America are so deep in the pockets of the corporations to push this through.
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I was just throwing it out there, as an option to rival going to the pub to pick up women. The Gym I go to (with my wife) has plenty of other women at it (especially the belly dance and pilates classes) and here (Ireland) there are plenty of other sports that are attended by both genders. I just picked them as examples from my life where you can find some nice partners, and bonus points to you if you are also interested in sport.
The point is that if you have hobbies that attract groups, have competitions, conventions etc, then those are good places to meet people. Work can sometimes be a terrible place to find a partner, as if it ends badly, you may be forced to continue social interaction (awkward).
I have known people who met playing WoW, and got married some years later. Same with playing MUDs before that.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not listing these things because I feel that someone should try ANYTHING to avoid using a dating website. You are 100% correct, they are not solely for freaks, but it could be argued that it does contain a higher probability of bumping into undesirables via this medium.
I suppose like any tool, it's there to be used, but can be abused. The problem is that we are hardwired to emphasise the bad, to protect ourselves from it. Guns, drugs, fire, Skrillex all need to be managed with caution, so too online dating. Doesn't mean it's all bad (well perhaps Skrillex is)
I came here for Hitchhikers Guide references, left disappointed.
I don't want to sound snarky, but you complain that all your class were male, all your co-workers were male and then go on to say that they were already married. So all the male workers in your male dominated work environment were married ... except you. How did they meet single women to get married to in the first place?
Working on the premise that all your co-workers are in the same situation as you, but managed to find partners regardless, seems to indicate that the situation itself is not at fault.
I agree with you regarding bar/club, it's a terrible, poorly lit environment to try to find a companion. Have you tried at the gym or other sporting events? What about hobby related conventions? It would be a good place to try find people with similar interests.
You have a 3-sided coin?
How can you call a movie from 1982 a classic? That's only 30 years ago.
Get off my lawn!
I'm waiting for all the big content to be taken off the net, all music, hollywood movies, books, and images of works of art. When all that is left is Porn, it will make finding it so much easier, w/o the need to trawl through all the trash that's on the net.
Thank you SOPA for making my life easier!
Before, or after, the sentence is carried out?
And all these people drinking water for free are not buying and drinking your scotch. You should sue for lost earnings.
Being from Ireland I don't know who I could write to with the following point, but it is would I'd love to make to a US Senator:
Since when has passing an Act prevented anyone from doing something Illegal? You banned drink once and that failed, you have banned drugs, smuggling, murder etc and still people who want to do these things will continue to do them. All that has happened is that those who succeed at it become fabulously wealthy. While you will catch some/many/most, you will never catch all.
Now it looks likely that some time soon individual states will legalise Marijuana, at which point it will become legal to take drugs but illegal to get access to works of art (music, books & movies) for free. This reminds me of a situation in the UK when it was (at may still be) illegal to sell cigarettes to people under the age of 18, but people could partake of intercourse by the age of 16, thus leading to the joke that you could have sex, but not smoke a cigarette afterwards.
If marijuana is legalised, then you won't be arrested for possession, sale or use of it, but you could be arrested for listening to music.
What you really need to do is pass an Act that forces content developers away from locking down the content they produce to a closed format, or from holding onto the rights to the content beyond a reasonable length of time. I just found out the other day that the famous speech by Martin Luther King "I have a Dream" which was given IN PUBLIC is copyrighted! Who in their right mind thinks that something like this should be in copyright now, or ever?
My wife recently got a new mobile phone (Sony Experia Ray) and is unable to use the music she purchased on iTunes on it, as the only way you can play music purchased on iTunes is by using an Apple device. If I were to go online and download replacement copies of the music that play on her new device, I woudl be breaking the law, but what other option, other than buying it again, do I have?
Please stand up for the people you represent, not the companies that pay you and reject utterly and publicly a policy that will do so much harm to your constituents.
Regards
A concerned Irishman.
Why? You don't even have to dig!
Don't they mean that local companies must host their webpage locally? Not that their webpages can only be viewed locally?
Also outshone by your gibbous moon.
But everyone knows that pirates STEAL movies because they don't want to pay for them. Renting a VPS would go against this.
My ribbon printer (Image writer 2) for my old old Apple Mac used to do that when you asked it to print draft. Never figured out why, but now you make me think of it, it seems like the right reason.
Oh BS. The world will still turn if little johnny can't upgrade his HD to keep more porn on. Any serious business users will have plenty of drives in store anyway.
There you go, doing the exact same thing. What if it was your wife/gf/mother/father's hard drive that needed replacing? You take such a dispassionate viewpoint. It's all well and good when the hard drives that need replacing belong to some faceless corporation, but it's totally different when you bring it closer to home.
*knock on door*
Agent Smith: Dr_Barnowl (yes he can pronounce an underscore) of slashdot? We're here to ask you a few questions about your recent attempt to divide by 0
Dr_Barnowl: BLLuueeggthss *shows bowl containing brain*
Agent Smith: Not again. Jones, get the funnel.
Not found will probably be it's common state around Christmas of the year of it's release.
You hang them in the air using a rope that binds their wrists together behind their back. Ask them repeatedly if they serve the [Evil Deity] until they admit it. The [Good Deity] will give them power to resist all torture. If they can hold out indefinitely, then they are true believers.
Can it be said then that Hubbard won the bet? Dune is a great book, but Hubbard actually went and made a religion.
Well that's only fair I guess, if the cosmetics companies are still allowed to put make-up on the magazines.
10,000 FPS should be enough for anyone.
Who's to say this isn't being done by Anonymous?
I don't know what worries me most, that politicians in America really believe this is good for the country, or that politicians in America are so deep in the pockets of the corporations to push this through.
"Give me a home, where predator drones roam..."
NASA is taking a leaf out of De Beers book, keeping Moon Rocks artificially scarce, stockpiling them in orbit, just to keep the value of them high.