Oh definately. They're all contributing factors. Cancer is prominent on one branch of my family (luckily for me, more common among the female side). It doesn't mean an assured chance that any one person will have cancer, but it does mean somewhat of an increased risk.
Smoking/tobacco would increase that risk per an individual even more, and I wonder about people who smoke and then have children (regardless of whether the smoke during the incubational/infancy stages, but even prior to pregnancy) and whether or not that can lead to a higher risk in offspring.
Some bloodlines, however, are prone to cancer - at least certain forms of it. My family in particular has a history of cancer on the female side... which is one of the odd things I look at when choosing a prospective longterm significant other... whether both bloodlines can increase the risk of children having cancer.
And cancer is, nowadays, far from being an old person's disease... unless you count being over 30 as "old." Even some people in their 20's or less have to worry about it too. Regardless, the cancer itself need not manifest prior to breeding for it to be passed along the bloodline.
By technology, I assume that the general target was computers? Well, first of all I think that in many computer situations physical stress is definately not that uncommon.
Given the assortment of odd chairs, desks, keyboard, mice, etc etc that one has to use... somewhere along the line most people don't exactly work in an ergonomic environment.
And of course, there's always mental stress. Computers allow you to - in many situations - do more (in less time). Often this can mean more work. Computers are also not always 100% reliable... and Murphy's Law basically says that it will demonstrate this at the worst of all times.
But remember, technology is in many ways tied to knowledge. You can do more, you can learn more. And remember, sometimes ignorance is bliss. Got a computer, got internet? Read SLASHDOT?? Well, now you may know a fair bit more about the world around you... but is what you know more worrysome or less? Evil corporations, evil politicians, your grandma who never reads news or enters discussion boards online doesn't have to worry about these things.
And of course the last things is that complexity in design leads to complexity in repair. If your old typewriter got a stuck key, you could perhaps unjam it with some pliers, a screwdriver, maybe some oil. Try unjamming your hard-drive after it seizes... not so easy.
Of course, technology also brings us PR0N, so I suppose that as a matter of "stress relief" there is some equivilence in things.
Though I hate to say it, this statement is partially true. No, we wouldn't completely eliminate cancer by stopping treatment, but by sustaining bloodlines wherein cancer is common - we are increasing the rate at which it can spread.
The same thing applies to many gene-related defects/diseases though. Nowadays we have the technology to allow people with said condition to live and produce offspring which may inherit it. In latter days, they would die and thus not pass on the possibly defective genetic material.
Not argueing that it's a good thing that people can live... but until an actual cure is found or perhaps gene-therapy for such things (which is scary in itself) we are actually making ourselves as a race more succeptible to such things by creating survivors.
So, Mr. Smith. You were in an automobile accident at approx 23:00h on the day of April 2nd, this is correct?
yes
And according to the records we have here, you bought a 12-pack of beer at about 21:00h on the same date, is this correct?
yes
And yet you claim that alcohol was not a factor in this accident. Why then, Mr. Smith, did you buy the beer.
For a party the next day
But why, Mr. Smith, would you be out buying alcohol at a late 21:00h the day prior when you had ample time to buy them the next day. Were you not, in fact, drinking on the night of April 2nd.
Ummm
No, this arguement wouldn't really hold up, but it's enough to raise suspicious or speculation that might not otherwise be there had somebody not been tracking Mr. Smith's beer purchase.
We don't need more tracking. The existing systems are abused enough as it is, there's no reason to further invade our lives.
I was gifted an Mp3 player that came from China. Unfortunately, it also came with Chinese instructions (though the unit had English on the display and buttons) and a 200-240V adaptor (5V 600mA output).
This was a fairly sensitive unit, so I wanted to be careful about the voltage. A decent step-up transformer for 110-220V is around $70 here. It's also not as easy as one things to find a decent priced 5V/600mA adaptor (most are about 300mA, and not all that "stable").
I eventually came to the bright conclusion that computer power leads have a 5V connector, so I made an adaptor for the front of my PC. I then removed the original 200V adaptor and simply connected the power lead to a plug that fits in the PC. Viola, my MP3 player now charges nicely and plays tunes while I'm on the go.
Unless the LCD is made in a way that lets it avoid being captured on camera, how is this any more secure than a pinpad. The camera will be recording the numbers onscreen and what you hit, regardless of where the numbers were positioned.
I reported it to the local police station, and they said it happens all the time, but it wasn't actually a crime until they withdrew money (!!!).
You know... that just doesn't make sense to me. It seems that we a crime here:
a) Vandalism: In however they screwed up the machine in order to make it get your card stuck
b) Attempted theft: Is there something here to cover this. We have attempted murder, or even conspiracy to commit... wouldn't there be something similar to cover defraudment or theft?
Why do you think that MS brought out a 64-bit version in the first place? Probably because if they didn't, the only ones who could claim the power of X86 64-bit compatability would be linux/unix/etc systems. Not good for Microsoft
Now if Intel released their own 64-bit instruction set... again everyone would be harranging how other OS's run it, but windows doesn't, and they'd probably have to add support to save face.
RAID-1 is what you'd want. RAID-0 is for combining the capacity of disks, RAID-1 is for redundant mirroring.
And really, RAID is a good idea for almost any major business with important data. You're more likely to have a hard drive frag itself than the FBI raid you anyways, but it's useful in either occasion I suppose.
Apparently sometime before I moved here (small town), the son of a rather prominent citizen here died in a farm accident or something similar. People found him, but when they dialed 9-1-1 there was no local service and apparently they got rather confused... the last thing you want to have to do is dig into the drawers and find a phone-book for "Ambulance" when somebody is lying around bleeding.
Afterwards, the father being influential and all, 9-1-1 service was instated locally.
At the end of the game, did you tell them you were actually a guy? It would have been pretty fun to see the reaction, provided you weren't planning on coming back to that particular server (with that handle) anytime too soon.
which are available to the average person on a completely voluntary, elective basis
You think you have choice..., but the problem is that big companies often either misuse a monopolistic position to crush competing companies, or big amount of $$$ to enact laws limiting customer choice.
Look at the writable-media tax in Canada. Every CDR you buy puts $$$ in the pockets of a corporation that in many instances has very little to do with the product being purchased (I generally buy my CD's for data, or failing that the music I buy is freely/legally distributed anyways).
Sounds about a decent analogy, presidents are like diet food... Half the stupidity, but having him in government still leaves a bad taste in one's mouth?
Terrorists and suicide bombers really seem concerned about the fact that the US military technology is so much more advanced than theirs, that they will decide that their bomb-in-shoe capable of killing a few dozen isn't worth setting off...
You can hear my sarcasm, right? Not everybody's "military" consists of stealth bombers and bigass tanks. Whom do you think is more afraid of getting killed right now in Iraq: American soldiery, suicidial fanatics, or innocent citizens?
Better weapons might help win a battle, but they don't prevent them... they only make the enemy decide to get more creative.
I'll let you all in on a little secret... it seems that it's not really any better in the rest of the world. Those who have power will use it, and sometimes they will abuse it.
I've got tons of stories from friends and some of my own. From personal account, I've been accused of a few things but never found guilty (because I wasn't) - but definately had to go a ways to prove it.
The best one:
I was dating a girl in a nearby town about 1h away (city X). While back at home (city Y) I received a call from the local RCMP (Canadian police) in which the officer accused me of stealing from a Roger's video in city X a week earlier. Now, I asked how this could be, and he said that somebody had pulled my plates as I drove off, and that there was a recording on a surveillance camera. Though I denied taking any video the officer told me several times to "turn myself in and return it so I just got fined instead of a record."
I'd been at the Roger's the prior week, so I thought maybe there was a mistake of some sort, and I volunteered to come in and he could see if I was the one really the one in the video. At that point he balked a bit, stating that he didn't have it, just a printout that it was in city X.
So that little part annoyed me a bit, he was strongly accusing me stating there was "evidence," but all he'd ever seen was a piece of paper with my name.
Now we go a little further... I called the video store in city X and got to speak to the owner. I explained the situation and asked if she could (please) check if the tape was in fact on-shelf, and maybe had been misplaced. She checked the computers... and found that no such tape existed (not checked out/stolen, but never stocked). I told her about my conversation with the overzealous officer and she told me something else, there are no security tapes, just monitoring cameras.
The owner was quite helpful, I got her to contact the local police with my casefile and let them no that not only was I innocent of the "theft," but that no theft had in fact occurred.
The case just went away after that... no more annoying police phonecalls, and no apologies.
A few weird things that came up though:
a) If somebody tagged my plates while I drove away after the alleged incident, why didn't they call me or pull me over somewhere earlier than a week post?
b) The officer stated that it was somebody "matching my description, wearing a trenchcoat and etc etc." At the time I was prone to wearing trenchcoats, but the weekend of the alleged incident I had recently been gifted a new jacket and was not wearing trench. Odd?
The only good that came from this case. My mother was stopped for doing a rolling stop at a sign. The officer was the same one that had harrassed/accused me over the phone and recognised the last name on her ID. When he asked her about the case, she said that the video store owner had helped clear things up as it was a mistake. He mumbled something about "having heard something like that" and let her off without a ticket.
But really, if I hadn't called the store owner - how far would this have gone? Sounds like a crank call implicating me was made.... so how well exactly did they call and verify that an illegal act was committed much less that I was involved? Nowadays you trust yourself first, and it seems that you have to do your own legwork to get the police off your back.
Do I distrust police? Yes. Do they make me nervous? Yes. Would I just give out my ID to anyone? Probably no.
Ya know... if I were treated like that I would probably want to be sent to Canada. Who wants to live in a company that sticks your rights down the crapper?
Seriously, when I think about it Canada has been somewhat of a haven in the US, from those trying to escape black persecution to those trying to avoid being drafted into a useless war.
As per the citizen/officer deadly force issue, what happens when a citizen is killed VS a police officer?
Many places will make killing a cop (especially if said cop is in the line of duty) a more serious crime than murder of an average person. Why, murder is murder, but the police officer by defination may be putting his life on the line for the general citizenry.
Even when the law doesn't make a distinction, a cold-blooded cop killer is often more looked down upon than your average psycho in court etc. Yes, there seem to be quite a few overpuffed officers out there, but there are quite a few that follow the dream of protection society and doing good for their fellow men/women.
Email addresses aren't as strongly fixed as say, a mailing address (and even those change). Your friend may get a new address and neglect to inform everyone. Or, he may email you from his new address and it doesn't fall in the 50% because it is unknown.
Another possibility is that somebody new contacts you that doesn't know your friends, or somebody whom you haven't talked to in a long time. I have some friends that I am in/out of contact with for year periods. What if somebody pulled your email off a business card... you'd want them to be able to contact that email. This is where whitelists are a pain, and thankfully I have a website where if I ever do implement one, I can put a responder that says "your address is unknown, please send initial email using page X on my website" for initial confirmation.
The love one is a tough bite... you can love many people in many different ways, so often the statement can be a partial truth (yes, you can love a friend). You can also be lying to yourself... people often want to be in love, want to have that movie-esque feeling that often eludes many of us, at least in the longterm. Part of the trap of a lie is many things can be interpreted differently depending on person, situation, etc.
I have a friend who's had a tough time lately. I've let her know in honest words that I love her and that I'll be there for her. She feels that same, but both of us are aware that it doesn't mean I love her in the way that corresponds to an intimate relationship etc. In fact, sometimes the love between myself and friends seems purer, certainly at times it can be more reliable. How do you classify that? When you tell your girlfriend you love her... is it the same as telling your mom/best-friend... and does she interpret it that way.
The other catch-22 is the self-deception. Does a person at 13-15 who is "in love" often have the same depth of feeling as a person who is 25? Hell, half the time I think I was more "in love" when I was younger because I was more able to say to hell to the consequences and fully persue my feelings, whereas now I'm more careful of both my person and the chance of damaging my own feelings should I get too attached... I guess it's being jaded and for me it's been the death of a few relationships.
On the other hand, at this age (22) I can expect more of the other party. Love becomes less of the fact that somebody got me chocolates for valentine's day and more the day-to-day things that make life meaningful between two people that care about and support each other. Chocolates for a fixed occasion are nice but not as good as when somebody senses my need for support etc and supplies it
Obviously I've used love as a prime example, there are others but love/feelings/sexuality are often some of the more complicated lies as they are very subjective. SCO's claims are a little bit less so, but still subjective to the knowledge of the parties involved and a lot of other things. In the ends, you have the court as a final arbiter of the legal issues... and I doubt they'll support SCO. Darl and co are scary though, because the most frightening lyers are the ones who strongly believe their own claims, even as the escalate to outrageousness.
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Oh definately. They're all contributing factors. Cancer is prominent on one branch of my family (luckily for me, more common among the female side). It doesn't mean an assured chance that any one person will have cancer, but it does mean somewhat of an increased risk.
Smoking/tobacco would increase that risk per an individual even more, and I wonder about people who smoke and then have children (regardless of whether the smoke during the incubational/infancy stages, but even prior to pregnancy) and whether or not that can lead to a higher risk in offspring.
Some bloodlines, however, are prone to cancer - at least certain forms of it. My family in particular has a history of cancer on the female side... which is one of the odd things I look at when choosing a prospective longterm significant other... whether both bloodlines can increase the risk of children having cancer.
And cancer is, nowadays, far from being an old person's disease... unless you count being over 30 as "old." Even some people in their 20's or less have to worry about it too. Regardless, the cancer itself need not manifest prior to breeding for it to be passed along the bloodline.
By technology, I assume that the general target was computers? Well, first of all I think that in many computer situations physical stress is definately not that uncommon.
Given the assortment of odd chairs, desks, keyboard, mice, etc etc that one has to use... somewhere along the line most people don't exactly work in an ergonomic environment.
And of course, there's always mental stress. Computers allow you to - in many situations - do more (in less time). Often this can mean more work. Computers are also not always 100% reliable... and Murphy's Law basically says that it will demonstrate this at the worst of all times.
But remember, technology is in many ways tied to knowledge. You can do more, you can learn more. And remember, sometimes ignorance is bliss. Got a computer, got internet? Read SLASHDOT?? Well, now you may know a fair bit more about the world around you... but is what you know more worrysome or less? Evil corporations, evil politicians, your grandma who never reads news or enters discussion boards online doesn't have to worry about these things.
And of course the last things is that complexity in design leads to complexity in repair. If your old typewriter got a stuck key, you could perhaps unjam it with some pliers, a screwdriver, maybe some oil. Try unjamming your hard-drive after it seizes... not so easy.
Of course, technology also brings us PR0N, so I suppose that as a matter of "stress relief" there is some equivilence in things.
Though I hate to say it, this statement is partially true. No, we wouldn't completely eliminate cancer by stopping treatment, but by sustaining bloodlines wherein cancer is common - we are increasing the rate at which it can spread.
The same thing applies to many gene-related defects/diseases though. Nowadays we have the technology to allow people with said condition to live and produce offspring which may inherit it. In latter days, they would die and thus not pass on the possibly defective genetic material.
Not argueing that it's a good thing that people can live... but until an actual cure is found or perhaps gene-therapy for such things (which is scary in itself) we are actually making ourselves as a race more succeptible to such things by creating survivors.
But it seems 2.2 is still being maintained. There was a slashdot article on it just recently:
2.2 is not dead
Part of the upgrades include security fixes. So yes... even with later versions of the kernel out, the old versions still get fixed up as need be.
And BTW, WHO is using a 2.0.x kernel? Not anyone I know.
So, Mr. Smith. You were in an automobile accident at approx 23:00h on the day of April 2nd, this is correct?
yes
And according to the records we have here, you bought a 12-pack of beer at about 21:00h on the same date, is this correct?
yes
And yet you claim that alcohol was not a factor in this accident. Why then, Mr. Smith, did you buy the beer.
For a party the next day
But why, Mr. Smith, would you be out buying alcohol at a late 21:00h the day prior when you had ample time to buy them the next day. Were you not, in fact, drinking on the night of April 2nd.
Ummm
No, this arguement wouldn't really hold up, but it's enough to raise suspicious or speculation that might not otherwise be there had somebody not been tracking Mr. Smith's beer purchase.
We don't need more tracking. The existing systems are abused enough as it is, there's no reason to further invade our lives.
References
DVD Association (DVDA)
www.dvda.org
Sorry if you don't get it, watch the movie "Orgazmo"
Possibly, though it seems you might need a bigger tool for this job, or so I've heard...
I was gifted an Mp3 player that came from China. Unfortunately, it also came with Chinese instructions (though the unit had English on the display and buttons) and a 200-240V adaptor (5V 600mA output).
This was a fairly sensitive unit, so I wanted to be careful about the voltage. A decent step-up transformer for 110-220V is around $70 here. It's also not as easy as one things to find a decent priced 5V/600mA adaptor (most are about 300mA, and not all that "stable").
I eventually came to the bright conclusion that computer power leads have a 5V connector, so I made an adaptor for the front of my PC. I then removed the original 200V adaptor and simply connected the power lead to a plug that fits in the PC. Viola, my MP3 player now charges nicely and plays tunes while I'm on the go.
Unless the LCD is made in a way that lets it avoid being captured on camera, how is this any more secure than a pinpad. The camera will be recording the numbers onscreen and what you hit, regardless of where the numbers were positioned.
I reported it to the local police station, and they said it happens all the time, but it wasn't actually a crime until they withdrew money (!!!).
You know... that just doesn't make sense to me. It seems that we a crime here:
a) Vandalism: In however they screwed up the machine in order to make it get your card stuck
b) Attempted theft: Is there something here to cover this. We have attempted murder, or even conspiracy to commit... wouldn't there be something similar to cover defraudment or theft?
Why do you think that MS brought out a 64-bit version in the first place? Probably because if they didn't, the only ones who could claim the power of X86 64-bit compatability would be linux/unix/etc systems. Not good for Microsoft
Now if Intel released their own 64-bit instruction set... again everyone would be harranging how other OS's run it, but windows doesn't, and they'd probably have to add support to save face.
FYI
RAID-1 is what you'd want. RAID-0 is for combining the capacity of disks, RAID-1 is for redundant mirroring.
And really, RAID is a good idea for almost any major business with important data. You're more likely to have a hard drive frag itself than the FBI raid you anyways, but it's useful in either occasion I suppose.
Apparently sometime before I moved here (small town), the son of a rather prominent citizen here died in a farm accident or something similar. People found him, but when they dialed 9-1-1 there was no local service and apparently they got rather confused... the last thing you want to have to do is dig into the drawers and find a phone-book for "Ambulance" when somebody is lying around bleeding.
Afterwards, the father being influential and all, 9-1-1 service was instated locally.
At the end of the game, did you tell them you were actually a guy? It would have been pretty fun to see the reaction, provided you weren't planning on coming back to that particular server (with that handle) anytime too soon.
which are available to the average person on a completely voluntary, elective basis
You think you have choice..., but the problem is that big companies often either misuse a monopolistic position to crush competing companies, or big amount of $$$ to enact laws limiting customer choice.
Look at the writable-media tax in Canada. Every CDR you buy puts $$$ in the pockets of a corporation that in many instances has very little to do with the product being purchased (I generally buy my CD's for data, or failing that the music I buy is freely/legally distributed anyways).
Sounds about a decent analogy, presidents are like diet food... Half the stupidity, but having him in government still leaves a bad taste in one's mouth?
Terrorists and suicide bombers really seem concerned about the fact that the US military technology is so much more advanced than theirs, that they will decide that their bomb-in-shoe capable of killing a few dozen isn't worth setting off...
You can hear my sarcasm, right? Not everybody's "military" consists of stealth bombers and bigass tanks. Whom do you think is more afraid of getting killed right now in Iraq: American soldiery, suicidial fanatics, or innocent citizens?
Better weapons might help win a battle, but they don't prevent them... they only make the enemy decide to get more creative.
Country yes, company no... and of course I should probably not read articles and post at the same time.. it gets confusing
I'll let you all in on a little secret... it seems that it's not really any better in the rest of the world. Those who have power will use it, and sometimes they will abuse it.
I've got tons of stories from friends and some of my own. From personal account, I've been accused of a few things but never found guilty (because I wasn't) - but definately had to go a ways to prove it.
The best one:
I was dating a girl in a nearby town about 1h away (city X). While back at home (city Y) I received a call from the local RCMP (Canadian police) in which the officer accused me of stealing from a Roger's video in city X a week earlier. Now, I asked how this could be, and he said that somebody had pulled my plates as I drove off, and that there was a recording on a surveillance camera. Though I denied taking any video the officer told me several times to "turn myself in and return it so I just got fined instead of a record."
I'd been at the Roger's the prior week, so I thought maybe there was a mistake of some sort, and I volunteered to come in and he could see if I was the one really the one in the video. At that point he balked a bit, stating that he didn't have it, just a printout that it was in city X.
So that little part annoyed me a bit, he was strongly accusing me stating there was "evidence," but all he'd ever seen was a piece of paper with my name.
Now we go a little further... I called the video store in city X and got to speak to the owner. I explained the situation and asked if she could (please) check if the tape was in fact on-shelf, and maybe had been misplaced. She checked the computers... and found that no such tape existed (not checked out/stolen, but never stocked). I told her about my conversation with the overzealous officer and she told me something else, there are no security tapes, just monitoring cameras.
The owner was quite helpful, I got her to contact the local police with my casefile and let them no that not only was I innocent of the "theft," but that no theft had in fact occurred.
The case just went away after that... no more annoying police phonecalls, and no apologies.
A few weird things that came up though:
a) If somebody tagged my plates while I drove away after the alleged incident, why didn't they call me or pull me over somewhere earlier than a week post?
b) The officer stated that it was somebody "matching my description, wearing a trenchcoat and etc etc." At the time I was prone to wearing trenchcoats, but the weekend of the alleged incident I had recently been gifted a new jacket and was not wearing trench. Odd?
The only good that came from this case. My mother was stopped for doing a rolling stop at a sign. The officer was the same one that had harrassed/accused me over the phone and recognised the last name on her ID. When he asked her about the case, she said that the video store owner had helped clear things up as it was a mistake. He mumbled something about "having heard something like that" and let her off without a ticket.
But really, if I hadn't called the store owner - how far would this have gone? Sounds like a crank call implicating me was made.... so how well exactly did they call and verify that an illegal act was committed much less that I was involved? Nowadays you trust yourself first, and it seems that you have to do your own legwork to get the police off your back.
Do I distrust police? Yes. Do they make me nervous? Yes. Would I just give out my ID to anyone? Probably no.
Ya know... if I were treated like that I would probably want to be sent to Canada. Who wants to live in a company that sticks your rights down the crapper?
Seriously, when I think about it Canada has been somewhat of a haven in the US, from those trying to escape black persecution to those trying to avoid being drafted into a useless war.
As per the citizen/officer deadly force issue, what happens when a citizen is killed VS a police officer?
Many places will make killing a cop (especially if said cop is in the line of duty) a more serious crime than murder of an average person. Why, murder is murder, but the police officer by defination may be putting his life on the line for the general citizenry.
Even when the law doesn't make a distinction, a cold-blooded cop killer is often more looked down upon than your average psycho in court etc. Yes, there seem to be quite a few overpuffed officers out there, but there are quite a few that follow the dream of protection society and doing good for their fellow men/women.
Email addresses aren't as strongly fixed as say, a mailing address (and even those change). Your friend may get a new address and neglect to inform everyone. Or, he may email you from his new address and it doesn't fall in the 50% because it is unknown.
Another possibility is that somebody new contacts you that doesn't know your friends, or somebody whom you haven't talked to in a long time. I have some friends that I am in/out of contact with for year periods. What if somebody pulled your email off a business card... you'd want them to be able to contact that email. This is where whitelists are a pain, and thankfully I have a website where if I ever do implement one, I can put a responder that says "your address is unknown, please send initial email using page X on my website" for initial confirmation.
I have a friend who had the last four digits of her phone number as "7676" - we've always memorized it as xxx-PORN.
I know that she moved a few times but always tried to keep the number, just for the hell of it.
The love one is a tough bite... you can love many people in many different ways, so often the statement can be a partial truth (yes, you can love a friend). You can also be lying to yourself... people often want to be in love, want to have that movie-esque feeling that often eludes many of us, at least in the longterm. Part of the trap of a lie is many things can be interpreted differently depending on person, situation, etc.
I have a friend who's had a tough time lately. I've let her know in honest words that I love her and that I'll be there for her. She feels that same, but both of us are aware that it doesn't mean I love her in the way that corresponds to an intimate relationship etc. In fact, sometimes the love between myself and friends seems purer, certainly at times it can be more reliable. How do you classify that? When you tell your girlfriend you love her... is it the same as telling your mom/best-friend... and does she interpret it that way.
The other catch-22 is the self-deception. Does a person at 13-15 who is "in love" often have the same depth of feeling as a person who is 25? Hell, half the time I think I was more "in love" when I was younger because I was more able to say to hell to the consequences and fully persue my feelings, whereas now I'm more careful of both my person and the chance of damaging my own feelings should I get too attached... I guess it's being jaded and for me it's been the death of a few relationships.
On the other hand, at this age (22) I can expect more of the other party. Love becomes less of the fact that somebody got me chocolates for valentine's day and more the day-to-day things that make life meaningful between two people that care about and support each other. Chocolates for a fixed occasion are nice but not as good as when somebody senses my need for support etc and supplies it
Obviously I've used love as a prime example, there are others but love/feelings/sexuality are often some of the more complicated lies as they are very subjective. SCO's claims are a little bit less so, but still subjective to the knowledge of the parties involved and a lot of other things. In the ends, you have the court as a final arbiter of the legal issues... and I doubt they'll support SCO. Darl and co are scary though, because the most frightening lyers are the ones who strongly believe their own claims, even as the escalate to outrageousness.