Second, it seems like everyone assumes that social constraints are generally bad things. That is wrong thinking. Social constraints exist so that we can live with each other as humans in a fashion where the amount of pain that people have to go through is lessened. Almost all situations in which these constraints are removed tend toward decay.
Rubbish. It depends entirely on the constraint.
For example a social constraint might be that you have to wear a neck tie. How does removing that constraint tend toward decay.
Okay last example was innocuous. Try this one. It was a social constraint in the southern USA that blacks and whites could not mix. They couldn't eat at the same places (or the same tables in their own homes), drink from the same fountains, sit in the same part of a public bus, or go to the same hospitals. Thank goodness that constraint was broken.
On the other hand it's a social constraint that if you commit murder you can expect to be put in jail. I'd say that's a good constraint if you want to feel safe.
Just for the record, I'm not trying to be nasty. I'd class your comments as dangerously naive rather than malicious.
The Training: $30,000 The Suit: $1,585 The Belt: $290 The Car: $2,000,000 The Cave: $24,000 The Alter Ego: $1,109,574 The Butler: $200,000
I'd love to see some rich twit spend under 32k on martial arts training, a belt, and a poor excuse for an armoured suit, then spend over 3 mill on jewelry, a car and a butler. Better yet I'd like to see the first time they take on a drug dealer and get shot in the head. This is obviously a fluff piece but what's the bet some idiot takes it seriously.
Someone's been smoking a bit too much weed and Forbes.com paid them for their rantings.
News at six: Inside the Google toilets. Did you know that Google staff are smart because they're given very nice toilets and lots of toilet breaks? This is why they are never FOS.
Yes, nice attitude. "Since 3 billion people live on $2 a day, everyone should."
How about getting these people out of the poor house and paying them what they deserve. If you have to work your butt off for long hours just so you can eat, what kind of life is that? Makes me feel sick even as I type on this computer.
Admit that starting with a map and compass is good but have you used a GPS? There's a lot you can do with one that you can't do with a map and compass.
Regarding kites, yes I should have noted that. I actually own a large kite collection and I do actively fly them from time to time. Definitely cheaper, but unless you're hand building them there's less skill involved. Still it is cheaper and certainly was my starting point. I have to admit for remote control aircraft, aside from one time, I've kept to using a simulator (which defeats the purpose of getting out and away from the computer. Although I do use a laptop if I want to go flying when people are doing the real thing. Much more pleasant out in the sun, and social, even if it is a little nerdy).
" Many of the country's 1.2 million people--a mix of French, Indian, Chinese and African descendants--are bilingual or trilingual, speaking French, English and either Chinese or Hindi. The country is democratic, peaceful and stable."
By the way I practice what I preach. Own telescopes (have an astro degree) and microscopes, play flight sims and go to airports, own a GPS, own bird books etc. Have no kids of my own though.
Absolutely. Besides have a look at the techy/geeky side of the outdoors. Here are some suggestions
1) Buy a GPS. Go geocaching. Plenty of geekiness, plenty of outdoors. Can also use this on trips and to go exploring. Also could teach them to navigate/hike. (Cheaper alternative: Map and compass).
2) Take your kids to the local airport to watch planes take off and land. Plenty of geeky stuff but they're getting out and learning. (Could preface this with showing them how hard it is to fly real aircraft ala MSFS2004).
3) Research and buy a telescope or if you can't afford a decent one good binoculars. Again plenty of outdoors adventure, and lots of learning, while still being true to the geek in you
4) Buy them a microscope and go collecting specimens with them. Some time indoors and some time outdoors. A good mix.
5) Remote control cars/boats/planes are great hobbies that get you out and about.
6) Take them out on a boat. Teach them about different aspects of steering a small craft etc.
7) Birdwatching. Buy a good birdwatcher's book and get them to identify the local birds. Then plan trips to see others.
8) Take them to your local zoo. Don't just walk around like a schmuck. Get them to learn about animal behviours, identification, classification etc. If you can't afford the zoo or a local wildlife park, even a duck pond will do.
All of these things cost money, but then since when do gadgets not cost money???
Point is if you think the real world is boring compared to the computer, you just haven't been out in the real world enough. There is SO much out there. Most of the things you had as a kid are still out there.
Generally, if something you own or that is under your control causes something that results in some form of law-breaking and/or civil problems, you are considered accountable. If your car breaks go out and you hit someone, you're almost certainly going to be considered at fault.
You're talking rubbish. If the car brakes go out after 2 years of not servicing the car, yes you're likely to wind up being found negligent. But if you were doing everything right and had it serviced days or weeks beforehand and the mechanic made a mistake the mechanic would be charged, not you.
Furthermore, there's hell raised on Slashdot about how "people should have a license to use their computer"
A few loud zealots do not "hell raised" make.
Then we come to a thread like this, and you see a number of posts suggesting that it's not their fault if they don't know how to do something on their computer./. is a varied community where individuals hold different points of view. It is a not an unforgivable authoritarian police state that will charge you first and ask questions later.
I hate child exploitation. I have no problems with putting people who make the rubbish in jail. But viewing a web site - any web site - should not result in jail time. Not if you value your freedom!
They still rape you on the print heads. eg. On my Canon multifunction I had to send it in for servicing even though I knew full well it was the print head. Why? Because they classify it as a spare part not a consumable.
Still, saved a bundle going with bulk ink. CIFS are good if there's an easy conversion for your prefered model of printer, but for some modles you'll have to cut into the case and void your warranty.
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Bottom line is the last thing I need at work is to not be able to use anyone else's computer because I'm use to a non-standard keyboard layout. I refuse to use shortcut keys on non-standard keyboards for the same reasons.
I've been working in IT for a good number of years now without needing wrist braces, all the while using QWERTY. I know a lot of other people who haven't suffered this fate. I'm not saying no one has ever had this problem but when you exaggerate risks like this its called FUD/scaremongering.
What a knucklehead thing to do: tell the graduates the degrees aren't an accomplishment and they should have dropped out instead. And to do it at graduation. That's an insult. Might as well have said "ha ha all your hard work is for nothing because I didn't get a degree and look where I am haha".
- like several people e-mailing one person but not each other, which is how some criminal networks operate.
This is how most of academia works. How many of your classmates do you email? A handful. How many of us take/took advantage of emailing a lecturer who's willing to read email?
I did an Astronomy Masters on the Internet. I emailed the handful of lecturers as much as or more than I emailed other students.
This comes across as being from the terrorist handbook of Elmer Fudd....be vewwy vewwy quieeet...I'm hwunting twerrorists hehehehehehe.
If you can't take care of your own life first, don't expect someone else to do it for you, but do expect to become bitter, and feel cheated. That's how your post comes across
If you think that read my other posts in reply to the grandparent. You're way off.
Your understanding of self centred is also way off from my useage, and I'm not sure that's entirely accidental.
I was also very specific when I said it was by my definition that a short term relationship wasn't successful. One night stands may be many things, but a good one off shag is not a relationship. (Often they're mistaken for one and become obsession but the truth is you haven't had time to get to know the person let alone relate except at the most superficial level. In fact the truth is the sex may be new and exciting but you don't even have a chance to get to know what each other like and need.)
Basically you're way off on your interpretation of what I've said, whether by accident or design.
For example, you've only addressed the article to one architect from 2 clients. That's not how it works. It's a team of architects and a team of clients. But at least you touched on that point.
You should also include something about the client never actually reading the blueprints and constantly changing their minds through the design process.
I was happier when I didn't have a girlfriend! I love my girlfriend, but she drives me crazy.
Dude, if you're serious get out while you still can. Before you marry her because its expected or get her pregnant and stick with her because its expected (or wind up alone but paying child support)
It's always going to be an effort having a relationship but if you're not getting enough out of it that you're not happier to be with her than alone, why would you bother?
I have been in several great relationships with geeky guys. I find the most successful relationships
Depends on how you define successful. If you've been in lots you've been in a lot of short and medium term relationships. The fact that you've had "several" by my definition would mean they're not so successful.
I do agree about some of what you've said, but it also betrays that you're self centred.
1) Tell a guy if his hygene bothers you. If he's a decent guy he'll adapt to your needs but don't expect him to read your mind.
2) There's a fine line between self confidence and arrogance. No one loves everything about themselves. Which brings us to...
3) Learn to listen to your lovers "complaining/whining". If he does it all the time and is focused on it its a problem. Otherwise it's an opportunity to bond by helping to improve his life (if it's a fixable problem) or just by being able to empathise
4) Imagine if you were to respond to a guy who'd do anything for you, by being willing to do anything for him. Instead of using him or allowing yourself to be turned off by him, team up with him so you can improve each others lives. You'll be amazed what it's like if you give back to someone like this.
5) Be more tolerant. Do you lead a balanced life? Do you never get obsessed with anything? Are you perfect? Don't lower your standards but do learn to accept that no one is perfect, and learn to tolerate the imperfections as well as take the good. Some of them might even be endearing.
Of course if you're happy with lots of short term relationships, you could just keep doing what you're doing. That's your choice. But in this one post you sound very demanding/high maintenance and you don't sound all that happy at all.
I put the ad in front of my fiance, and watched. Over about seven seconds, his face turned from daily-default expression to smelling-onions-and-old-celery. "They're all tubby" he said. I was crushed....and if he'd have drooled, you'd have said he was a pig, and wondered if somehow to him you're just plain, and wondered why you go to all that effort making yourself pretty. That's not a fair test and at least part of you knows that. Why do women set up tests where no matter what the guy does he fails? Do you ENJOY being miserable? This whole post is a rant and lament about how you're a wonderful person but your boyfriend might not love you if you weren't. How quickly would you lose interest if he was no longer "doting, flattering and patient"?
He is doting, and flattering, and patient, and as long as I continue to be nothing short of a full-blown goddess, he will continue to be wonderful.
Your looks will fade, granted. He'll love what you do for him, granted. But is it such a bad thing that he likes the person you are? If he actually loses interest in you as time passes then you can complain all you like but what you're describing is not a guy that's in it because you look good or you're perfect.
At least pretty-boys are low maintainance. At least jocks and players they know they're worthless, it actually turned them into better people. Nerds aren't the underdogs, they're the staple, now...and they know it.
I've never known a player that didn't think the world of themselves. They can't allow themselves for one minute to doubt their own worth because that might mean actually paying their prey some respect.
Look, if you want an excuse to go for a superficial idiot, you can make one up all you like but it sure sounds to me like you've got something great and that instead of appreciating it you're bored and looking to hunt down a meaningless fling. That's your problem but why on earth you've been modded up for it boggles the mind! In the meantime I feel sorry for your boyfriend.
Don't get your hopes up guys, girls don't like introverted single minded computergeeks. Get a different hobby, lose the ugly glasses, get some contacts. Get a skin treatment and loose some weight. Get some dental work done. Learn how to communicate and how to listen. Girls in general couldn't care less about computers, nor do they like that you spend 10 hours a day in front of the screen.
BS. Utter BS. Girls aren't interested in technology for the sake of it, I'll grant you that. They're not brought up to be. Just like most geeks couldn't give a damn about needlework or fashion. We're not brought up to be. Society really ought to change there...but that's a separate topic.
I'm speaking from experience when I tell you changing everything about yourself is not the way to go. Get the right girl with the right mindset. There's no subsitute for that.
Right at the moment I'm living with a wonderful girl. She's a black belt in Karate (no longer active after a shoulder injury that left her arm dislocating 180+ times over a 10 year period). She use to run state sports camps (archery, hiking...summer camp to you Americans). She's been a ski instructor. She 's a teacher, and has a double degree in education and sports medicine. She's gorgeous, and intelligent (though I'm biased). She's generous, and kind. She's stronger than anyone I know.
(In the last few years she's dealt with a range of medical conditions from asthma and anaphylaxis to her shoulder dislocations, to a brain tumour, associated narcolepsy and being prescribed medications that were causing seizures).
I will mention that we both are a bit overweight, since this is the real world. (She wasn't until she got sick a while ago.). She's also afraid of dogs and of flying.
We live together and we do things for each other. I've given up foods that could kill her (since kissing her or touching the wrong thing could stop her breathing). She's patient with me when I spend too long at a computer.
I've gotten her right into photography and she shares that with me. I've taught her some basic photoshop, and she'll learn to do things no a computer when it helps her achieve something she wants. I spend most holidays with her family (who are also exceptionally cool - one brother is learning to be a pilot, another has a side business building computers, and both brothers and her dad build and fly model aircraft and sail).
My last girlfriend took $10k and screwed me over then dumped me. She'd stand me up at the drop of a hat and it was a relief when she ended it.
It's all about finding the right person. Make yourself attractive to supperficial gold digging users, and you'll get just that.
Sure don't go around with poor hygene and no social skills and expect to form a relationship. Learn to listen and learn to talk about things that will interest women.
However the advice about getting a different hobby is total BS. Find someone with an overlap in interests and an interest in giving as well as taking and who finds you attractive in the first place. Otherwise you'll find you're wasting your life doing things that don't interest you with someone you don't particularly like.
Feedback from the international./ community would be great."
The dotslash community? Are we a bunch of shell scripts now?;)
We're talking about African countries. Egypt is in Africa, and the national language is Arabic which is written write to left. Therefore./ is Arabic for/.
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Second, it seems like everyone assumes that social constraints are generally bad things. That is wrong thinking. Social constraints exist so that we can live with each other as humans in a fashion where the amount of pain that people have to go through is lessened. Almost all situations in which these constraints are removed tend toward decay.
Rubbish. It depends entirely on the constraint.
For example a social constraint might be that you have to wear a neck tie. How does removing that constraint tend toward decay.
Okay last example was innocuous. Try this one. It was a social constraint in the southern USA that blacks and whites could not mix. They couldn't eat at the same places (or the same tables in their own homes), drink from the same fountains, sit in the same part of a public bus, or go to the same hospitals. Thank goodness that constraint was broken.
On the other hand it's a social constraint that if you commit murder you can expect to be put in jail. I'd say that's a good constraint if you want to feel safe.
Just for the record, I'm not trying to be nasty. I'd class your comments as dangerously naive rather than malicious.
The Training: $30,000
The Suit: $1,585
The Belt: $290
The Car: $2,000,000
The Cave: $24,000
The Alter Ego: $1,109,574
The Butler: $200,000
I'd love to see some rich twit spend under 32k on martial arts training, a belt, and a poor excuse for an armoured suit, then spend over 3 mill on jewelry, a car and a butler. Better yet I'd like to see the first time they take on a drug dealer and get shot in the head. This is obviously a fluff piece but what's the bet some idiot takes it seriously.
Someone's been smoking a bit too much weed and Forbes.com paid them for their rantings.
Also, Batman isn't real.
Yes, they left out the cost for a weekly session with a psychiatrist, straitjacket, those nice injections and the little red pills.
News at six: Inside the Google toilets. Did you know that Google staff are smart because they're given very nice toilets and lots of toilet breaks? This is why they are never FOS.
Yes, nice attitude. "Since 3 billion people live on $2 a day, everyone should."
How about getting these people out of the poor house and paying them what they deserve. If you have to work your butt off for long hours just so you can eat, what kind of life is that? Makes me feel sick even as I type on this computer.
Admit that starting with a map and compass is good but have you used a GPS? There's a lot you can do with one that you can't do with a map and compass.
Regarding kites, yes I should have noted that. I actually own a large kite collection and I do actively fly them from time to time. Definitely cheaper, but unless you're hand building them there's less skill involved. Still it is cheaper and certainly was my starting point. I have to admit for remote control aircraft, aside from one time, I've kept to using a simulator (which defeats the purpose of getting out and away from the computer. Although I do use a laptop if I want to go flying when people are doing the real thing. Much more pleasant out in the sun, and social, even if it is a little nerdy).
" Many of the country's 1.2 million people--a mix of French, Indian, Chinese and African descendants--are bilingual or trilingual, speaking French, English and either Chinese or Hindi. The country is democratic, peaceful and stable."
:-)
Well praise be to God and/or Allah and/or Buddah
The land of wireless and honey!
Good stuff here. Thanks for the post.
Thanks, and you're welcome.
By the way I practice what I preach. Own telescopes (have an astro degree) and microscopes, play flight sims and go to airports, own a GPS, own bird books etc. Have no kids of my own though.
Absolutely. Besides have a look at the techy/geeky side of the outdoors. Here are some suggestions
1) Buy a GPS. Go geocaching. Plenty of geekiness, plenty of outdoors. Can also use this on trips and to go exploring. Also could teach them to navigate/hike. (Cheaper alternative: Map and compass).
2) Take your kids to the local airport to watch planes take off and land. Plenty of geeky stuff but they're getting out and learning. (Could preface this with showing them how hard it is to fly real aircraft ala MSFS2004).
3) Research and buy a telescope or if you can't afford a decent one good binoculars. Again plenty of outdoors adventure, and lots of learning, while still being true to the geek in you
4) Buy them a microscope and go collecting specimens with them. Some time indoors and some time outdoors. A good mix.
5) Remote control cars/boats/planes are great hobbies that get you out and about.
6) Take them out on a boat. Teach them about different aspects of steering a small craft etc.
7) Birdwatching. Buy a good birdwatcher's book and get them to identify the local birds. Then plan trips to see others.
8) Take them to your local zoo. Don't just walk around like a schmuck. Get them to learn about animal behviours, identification, classification etc. If you can't afford the zoo or a local wildlife park, even a duck pond will do.
All of these things cost money, but then since when do gadgets not cost money???
Point is if you think the real world is boring compared to the computer, you just haven't been out in the real world enough. There is SO much out there. Most of the things you had as a kid are still out there.
Generally, if something you own or that is under your control causes something that results in some form of law-breaking and/or civil problems, you are considered accountable. If your car breaks go out and you hit someone, you're almost certainly going to be considered at fault.
/. is a varied community where individuals hold different points of view. It is a not an unforgivable authoritarian police state that will charge you first and ask questions later.
You're talking rubbish. If the car brakes go out after 2 years of not servicing the car, yes you're likely to wind up being found negligent. But if you were doing everything right and had it serviced days or weeks beforehand and the mechanic made a mistake the mechanic would be charged, not you.
Furthermore, there's hell raised on Slashdot about how "people should have a license to use their computer"
A few loud zealots do not "hell raised" make.
Then we come to a thread like this, and you see a number of posts suggesting that it's not their fault if they don't know how to do something on their computer.
I hate child exploitation. I have no problems with putting people who make the rubbish in jail. But viewing a web site - any web site - should not result in jail time. Not if you value your freedom!
They still rape you on the print heads. eg. On my Canon multifunction I had to send it in for servicing even though I knew full well it was the print head. Why? Because they classify it as a spare part not a consumable.
Still, saved a bundle going with bulk ink. CIFS are good if there's an easy conversion for your prefered model of printer, but for some modles you'll have to cut into the case and void your warranty.
Bottom line is the last thing I need at work is to not be able to use anyone else's computer because I'm use to a non-standard keyboard layout. I refuse to use shortcut keys on non-standard keyboards for the same reasons.
I've been working in IT for a good number of years now without needing wrist braces, all the while using QWERTY. I know a lot of other people who haven't suffered this fate. I'm not saying no one has ever had this problem but when you exaggerate risks like this its called FUD/scaremongering.
What a knucklehead thing to do: tell the graduates the degrees aren't an accomplishment and they should have dropped out instead. And to do it at graduation. That's an insult. Might as well have said "ha ha all your hard work is for nothing because I didn't get a degree and look where I am haha".
I remember seeing beta previews on the bookshelf sites in '98. Where's the news here?
- like several people e-mailing one person but not each other, which is how some criminal networks operate.
This is how most of academia works. How many of your classmates do you email? A handful. How many of us take/took advantage of emailing a lecturer who's willing to read email?
I did an Astronomy Masters on the Internet. I emailed the handful of lecturers as much as or more than I emailed other students.
This comes across as being from the terrorist handbook of Elmer Fudd....be vewwy vewwy quieeet...I'm hwunting twerrorists hehehehehehe.
If you can't take care of your own life first, don't expect someone else to do it for you, but do expect to become bitter, and feel cheated. That's how your post comes across
If you think that read my other posts in reply to the grandparent. You're way off.
Your understanding of self centred is also way off from my useage, and I'm not sure that's entirely accidental.
I was also very specific when I said it was by my definition that a short term relationship wasn't successful. One night stands may be many things, but a good one off shag is not a relationship. (Often they're mistaken for one and become obsession but the truth is you haven't had time to get to know the person let alone relate except at the most superficial level. In fact the truth is the sex may be new and exciting but you don't even have a chance to get to know what each other like and need.)
Basically you're way off on your interpretation of what I've said, whether by accident or design.
*grin* couldn't resist (yes I know I should have anyway)
Brilliant! Simply brilliant.
You could certainly add to it though.
For example, you've only addressed the article to one architect from 2 clients. That's not how it works. It's a team of architects and a team of clients. But at least you touched on that point.
You should also include something about the client never actually reading the blueprints and constantly changing their minds through the design process.
I was happier when I didn't have a girlfriend! I love my girlfriend, but she drives me crazy.
Dude, if you're serious get out while you still can. Before you marry her because its expected or get her pregnant and stick with her because its expected (or wind up alone but paying child support)
It's always going to be an effort having a relationship but if you're not getting enough out of it that you're not happier to be with her than alone, why would you bother?
I have been in several great relationships with geeky guys. I find the most successful relationships
Depends on how you define successful. If you've been in lots you've been in a lot of short and medium term relationships. The fact that you've had "several" by my definition would mean they're not so successful.
I do agree about some of what you've said, but it also betrays that you're self centred.
1) Tell a guy if his hygene bothers you. If he's a decent guy he'll adapt to your needs but don't expect him to read your mind.
2) There's a fine line between self confidence and arrogance. No one loves everything about themselves. Which brings us to...
3) Learn to listen to your lovers "complaining/whining". If he does it all the time and is focused on it its a problem. Otherwise it's an opportunity to bond by helping to improve his life (if it's a fixable problem) or just by being able to empathise
4) Imagine if you were to respond to a guy who'd do anything for you, by being willing to do anything for him. Instead of using him or allowing yourself to be turned off by him, team up with him so you can improve each others lives. You'll be amazed what it's like if you give back to someone like this.
5) Be more tolerant. Do you lead a balanced life? Do you never get obsessed with anything? Are you perfect? Don't lower your standards but do learn to accept that no one is perfect, and learn to tolerate the imperfections as well as take the good. Some of them might even be endearing.
Of course if you're happy with lots of short term relationships, you could just keep doing what you're doing. That's your choice. But in this one post you sound very demanding/high maintenance and you don't sound all that happy at all.
I put the ad in front of my fiance, and watched. Over about seven seconds, his face turned from daily-default expression to smelling-onions-and-old-celery. "They're all tubby" he said. I was crushed. ...and if he'd have drooled, you'd have said he was a pig, and wondered if somehow to him you're just plain, and wondered why you go to all that effort making yourself pretty. That's not a fair test and at least part of you knows that. Why do women set up tests where no matter what the guy does he fails? Do you ENJOY being miserable? This whole post is a rant and lament about how you're a wonderful person but your boyfriend might not love you if you weren't. How quickly would you lose interest if he was no longer "doting, flattering and patient"?
He is doting, and flattering, and patient, and as long as I continue to be nothing short of a full-blown goddess, he will continue to be wonderful.
Your looks will fade, granted. He'll love what you do for him, granted. But is it such a bad thing that he likes the person you are? If he actually loses interest in you as time passes then you can complain all you like but what you're describing is not a guy that's in it because you look good or you're perfect.
At least pretty-boys are low maintainance. At least jocks and players they know they're worthless, it actually turned them into better people. Nerds aren't the underdogs, they're the staple, now...and they know it.
I've never known a player that didn't think the world of themselves. They can't allow themselves for one minute to doubt their own worth because that might mean actually paying their prey some respect.
Look, if you want an excuse to go for a superficial idiot, you can make one up all you like but it sure sounds to me like you've got something great and that instead of appreciating it you're bored and looking to hunt down a meaningless fling. That's your problem but why on earth you've been modded up for it boggles the mind! In the meantime I feel sorry for your boyfriend.
Don't get your hopes up guys, girls don't like introverted single minded computergeeks. Get a different hobby, lose the ugly glasses, get some contacts. Get a skin treatment and loose some weight. Get some dental work done. Learn how to communicate and how to listen. Girls in general couldn't care less about computers, nor do they like that you spend 10 hours a day in front of the screen.
BS. Utter BS. Girls aren't interested in technology for the sake of it, I'll grant you that. They're not brought up to be. Just like most geeks couldn't give a damn about needlework or fashion. We're not brought up to be. Society really ought to change there...but that's a separate topic.
I'm speaking from experience when I tell you changing everything about yourself is not the way to go. Get the right girl with the right mindset. There's no subsitute for that.
Right at the moment I'm living with a wonderful girl. She's a black belt in Karate (no longer active after a shoulder injury that left her arm dislocating 180+ times over a 10 year period). She use to run state sports camps (archery, hiking...summer camp to you Americans). She's been a ski instructor. She 's a teacher, and has a double degree in education and sports medicine. She's gorgeous, and intelligent (though I'm biased). She's generous, and kind. She's stronger than anyone I know.
(In the last few years she's dealt with a range of medical conditions from asthma and anaphylaxis to her shoulder dislocations, to a brain tumour, associated narcolepsy and being prescribed medications that were causing seizures).
I will mention that we both are a bit overweight, since this is the real world. (She wasn't until she got sick a while ago.). She's also afraid of dogs and of flying.
We live together and we do things for each other. I've given up foods that could kill her (since kissing her or touching the wrong thing could stop her breathing). She's patient with me when I spend too long at a computer.
I've gotten her right into photography and she shares that with me. I've taught her some basic photoshop, and she'll learn to do things no a computer when it helps her achieve something she wants. I spend most holidays with her family (who are also exceptionally cool - one brother is learning to be a pilot, another has a side business building computers, and both brothers and her dad build and fly model aircraft and sail).
My last girlfriend took $10k and screwed me over then dumped me. She'd stand me up at the drop of a hat and it was a relief when she ended it.
It's all about finding the right person. Make yourself attractive to supperficial gold digging users, and you'll get just that.
Sure don't go around with poor hygene and no social skills and expect to form a relationship. Learn to listen and learn to talk about things that will interest women.
However the advice about getting a different hobby is total BS. Find someone with an overlap in interests and an interest in giving as well as taking and who finds you attractive in the first place. Otherwise you'll find you're wasting your life doing things that don't interest you with someone you don't particularly like.
"Our computer" (old "My computer")
"Collective" (old "Network neighbourhood")
"Contact with the masses" (old "Internet" -> MSIE)
More like:
Microsoft's Computer
Microsoft's Computers
http://www.microsoft.com/
and a new one:
billg ownz u.
right to left even, note write to left. doh!
Feedback from the international ./ community would be great."
;)
./ is Arabic for /.
The dotslash community? Are we a bunch of shell scripts now?
We're talking about African countries. Egypt is in Africa, and the national language is Arabic which is written write to left. Therefore