I'd heard that the consoles are going to be priced in the neighborhood of $500 or more,
If you can't afford to drop $500 for a toy here and there...I'd dare say your time would be better spend studying or doing whatever to get a better paying job so that you have the disposable cash to buy some 'big boy' toys.....
I'm separated, and I can't think of any good reasons to be in a relationship again.
Regular sex?
What in the world makes you think you need a relationship to get regular sex?
Getting laid is NOT as hard as people make it out to be...you just have to have confidence and know how to talk to women (most of the times, just means have them to talk about themselves)...go out a couple times and you're laid.
Run 2-3 women like this at a time...and sex is as regular as you wish.
If your talking about sex with the SAME woman all the time (boring)...well, then yes, I guess the relationship thing is needed, otherwise, you're just lying to her and yourself to keep having sex with her all the time.
As less and less cultural importance gets placed on marriage in the US, I think the divorce rates will continue to fall as fewer and fewer people rush into marriage imagining it will solve all of their problems.
I've dodged marriage a few times (*whew*), and I don't plan to do it ever. Unless you are going to procreate, I can't think of a single good reason to tie myself down with one woman 'for life'....or risk having to give half of everything I own to her, in case I want to trade to a "newer model"...or if she does.
I happen to know someone who has 5 kids to 5 different guys and would be raking in the child support
We call them "Welfare Moms" over here....and you can see them quite readily sitting on the porches in the summer in the projects if your route takes you by them in my city (New Orleans).
I've often felt that people with children should NOT have tax breaks, they should actually have to pay more in taxes..since they use more public services.....
And no, the old argument about the govt giving tax breaks for kids because they want higher child birth doesn't hold water.
People will fuck, people will have kids...and I dare say there has never been a moment in the heat of passion where the couple said, HELL, take off the rubber, if we have a kid, we'll get a tax break!!
Ever heard women saying men have it so good, they live their sweet patriarchical lives with obedient housewives, dinners every day, sex every evening and whatnot, yet whining that there are no good men willing to marry on the horizon? The truth is the marriage is an increasingly lousy deal for men. Due to decades of lobbying based on 'will somebody please think of the women', the law is heavily stacked against men, when they marry they are literally at the mercy of their wives.
Hear, hear!!!
Unless you want kids...there really is NO reason to get married. While it doesn't have to be the Pump and Dump relationship with all women....you certainly do not have it in your best interest to confine yourself to one forever, again, unless you plan to procreate.
Most I ever do, is live with them for awhile...kind of like leasing with an option to buy, but I am aware of the laws for common law marriage in the states I've lived in, and don't let it go that far along ever.
I've had some GREAT pussy in my life, but none if it worth giving up half of everything I own.
But I want to be in "a relationship", that's something I need.
I appreciate your post...but this stood out at me.
Why?
Relationships get messy real quick...and breakups, etc...well,that's all quite painful as you have seen from your marriage story.
Why not just find girls, bang'em, and move on...sure seems to be the easier way to go. Have friends, but avoid relationships....they can lead to another marriage, and do you want to lose half the shit you own again?
Have you considered that they may not be turned on by the woman as such, but by the power they have over her.
Speaking as a guy...not.
Power does not get your penis erect....sexual thoughts do, and quite readily.
From your alias, I'm guessing your a girl....and in this aspect, sex...we two sexes think and react very differently for the most part.
Women can seemed to get turned on and pleasured by a lot of different stimulation...feelings, emotion, etc.
With guys, it is largely visual and pure lust feelings, emotions don't even have to enter into the equation for the most part, it is just lust that gets us hard.
Trouble is, last lenovo thinkpad I bought...was kinda flimsy and plastic when compared to a real IBM one from a few years ago....that and the docking station was a bit flaky when trying to keep hooked to a DELL u2700...freaking thing brand new if tapped would get out of sync and is a major PITA to get back to normal view.
I think lenovo has already hurt the Thinkpad, it does not look, feel or act like the robust 'tank' of old...
My macbook pro feels more solid than the lenovo which is only about 1 year old now. And I put 16GB into the macbook, so, not that big a deal to load up other laptops with more RAM (I do video work which can get pretty RAM intensive)...
That's fabulous for you. Probably would be okay for me too. But if you're a family of four, That comes out to ~$800/month. If you're at the median income (~$44,000/year), that means you take home about $2600/month. I'll let you do the math.
They do give family rates you know....it isn't going to be $220/person/month. That rate, like I mentioned was for an older adult with some pretty scary pre-existing conditions...it would be less for kids and wife. It would be less if all the family was younger and in good health too....when starting out, doing this can allow the family to save a TON of medical dollars pre-tax since HSA's are not use it or lose it...they just keep building year after year, and in the end, if you don't have to use them...that money turns into retirement funds.
No, not a troll....hell, you heard it in the presidental election, that something has to be done to keep those systems from going bankrupt.
Not to mention in the past year you can easily read about all the corruption and outright fraud that those systems (mostly medicaid I believe) know about, yet can't seem to stop.
Doesn't seem like a well run set of systems to me....and I fear that my medical coverage will soon be sucked into the same black hole.
I shudder at horror at some day having to wait in a DMV like line for hours waiting to get some minor or major medical help....
Rape is not a sex act, it is an act of hatred and violence
You know...I hear this all the time, but I have a hard time buying it..at least in most cases.
Sure if you shove something else in a woman besides a hard dick....I can see that it isn't a sex act for the most part (although some people get off on that).
But if it is a male fucking a female, well, he has to be sexually aroused in order to perform the act, no?
Sure there may be some other thoughts going on there too...fantasy, anger, etc...but it is fundamentally a sexual act and could not be performed with a limp dick if the male in question was not sexually aroused.
And I think we're also seeing more these days...women who were willing at the time...who either right near the end, or even after the act yell "rape"....which isn't fair to the guy, especially after it is done and over with, yet he is still in a world of shit legally.
But if a true rapist doesn't get turned on by women, then I cannot see how he could physically complete the act if not sexually aroused, by definition, making it a sex act/ sex crime.
When I'm doing 1099 work through my own company....in the recent past, I've bought a high deductible insurance policy (and yes, I have pre-existing conditions and am not that young) which was only about $210/mo...with a $1200 deductible.
Again...harkening back to when medical insurance was called "Major Medical"....something to be used for catastrophic emergencies.
I do, however, make good money, and managed to sock away about $3K max, pre-tax into my HSA which I used for routine medical care (office visits, meds, a MRI I had one year...etc). But if you are young and save your money...this will not break the bank.
This in fact *can* be done, and I'm upset that the govt doesn't promote this type of medical care construct rather than taking all my money, deciding how best to spend it when that should be between my Dr and myself.....
You are aware that Medicare (a government program) has administrative (non-patient related) costs of about 3%, while the administrative costs of private insurers are generally at least an order of magnitude higher, right?
And yet Medicaide/Medicare are going broke quickly why.....?
Now, you're talking about close to $3000 dollars of software, but for professional use, that's pretty small change. And Adobe is, in general, going for the professional market.
Or if you have a college student in the family, and buy it through them for the hefty discount!!! Only about $450 for the suite with school discount.
IANAL, but I thought that as long as the police had no active hand in the illegal gathering of evidence, then it's still legal for them to use it. I'm sure it's considerably more complicated than that, and perhaps a real lawyer will chime in.
It likely could be thrown out of court by the defense...I forget the term but something like "Chain of authority" in the handling of evidence.
Not to mention the source being Anonymous...defense would posit that the evidence could have been tampered with by a rogue hacker group, and would be extremely likely to be tainted.
If you're working in this manner how...why not go ahead and do the contracting thing?
You can bill for a LOT more money, have even more freedom, and be more in control of your own destiny.
Sounds like you're doing the right things in this days work environment, except you need to trade the W2 for the 1099. Aside from that, you shouldn't notice much change...except for more $$$ and freedom.
Sure is nice to write off so much for you 'work' needs..mileage to from work site alone adds up over a year, etc...
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If you can't afford to drop $500 for a toy here and there...I'd dare say your time would be better spend studying or doing whatever to get a better paying job so that you have the disposable cash to buy some 'big boy' toys.....
Statistically....yes.
Anecdotally from myself and most friends I know of...yes.
Women go crazy on your at some point.
What in the world makes you think you need a relationship to get regular sex?
Getting laid is NOT as hard as people make it out to be...you just have to have confidence and know how to talk to women (most of the times, just means have them to talk about themselves)...go out a couple times and you're laid.
Run 2-3 women like this at a time...and sex is as regular as you wish.
If your talking about sex with the SAME woman all the time (boring)...well, then yes, I guess the relationship thing is needed, otherwise, you're just lying to her and yourself to keep having sex with her all the time.
I've dodged marriage a few times (*whew*), and I don't plan to do it ever. Unless you are going to procreate, I can't think of a single good reason to tie myself down with one woman 'for life'....or risk having to give half of everything I own to her, in case I want to trade to a "newer model"...or if she does.
That certainly has NOT been my experience with women born after 1965.....
Money/Fiscal Potential are still VERY high on the lists.
We call them "Welfare Moms" over here....and you can see them quite readily sitting on the porches in the summer in the projects if your route takes you by them in my city (New Orleans).
And no, the old argument about the govt giving tax breaks for kids because they want higher child birth doesn't hold water.
People will fuck, people will have kids...and I dare say there has never been a moment in the heat of passion where the couple said, HELL, take off the rubber, if we have a kid, we'll get a tax break!!
Hear, hear!!!
Unless you want kids...there really is NO reason to get married. While it doesn't have to be the Pump and Dump relationship with all women....you certainly do not have it in your best interest to confine yourself to one forever, again, unless you plan to procreate.
Most I ever do, is live with them for awhile...kind of like leasing with an option to buy, but I am aware of the laws for common law marriage in the states I've lived in, and don't let it go that far along ever.
I've had some GREAT pussy in my life, but none if it worth giving up half of everything I own.
I appreciate your post...but this stood out at me.
Why?
Relationships get messy real quick...and breakups, etc...well,that's all quite painful as you have seen from your marriage story.
Why not just find girls, bang'em, and move on...sure seems to be the easier way to go. Have friends, but avoid relationships....they can lead to another marriage, and do you want to lose half the shit you own again?
Apparently that's the reason the Feds are turning a blind eye to all the illegal Mexicans coming across the border.
KInda like fucking with a condom...is like eating a steak with one one your tongue.
Sure, you know you're going through the act....but well....if you can't enjoy it, what's the point?
Speaking as a guy...not.
Power does not get your penis erect....sexual thoughts do, and quite readily.
From your alias, I'm guessing your a girl....and in this aspect, sex...we two sexes think and react very differently for the most part.
Women can seemed to get turned on and pleasured by a lot of different stimulation...feelings, emotion, etc.
With guys, it is largely visual and pure lust feelings, emotions don't even have to enter into the equation for the most part, it is just lust that gets us hard.
Generally speaking of course.
I think lenovo has already hurt the Thinkpad, it does not look, feel or act like the robust 'tank' of old...
My macbook pro feels more solid than the lenovo which is only about 1 year old now. And I put 16GB into the macbook, so, not that big a deal to load up other laptops with more RAM (I do video work which can get pretty RAM intensive)...
They do give family rates you know....it isn't going to be $220/person/month. That rate, like I mentioned was for an older adult with some pretty scary pre-existing conditions...it would be less for kids and wife. It would be less if all the family was younger and in good health too....when starting out, doing this can allow the family to save a TON of medical dollars pre-tax since HSA's are not use it or lose it...they just keep building year after year, and in the end, if you don't have to use them...that money turns into retirement funds.
Not to mention in the past year you can easily read about all the corruption and outright fraud that those systems (mostly medicaid I believe) know about, yet can't seem to stop.
Doesn't seem like a well run set of systems to me....and I fear that my medical coverage will soon be sucked into the same black hole.
I shudder at horror at some day having to wait in a DMV like line for hours waiting to get some minor or major medical help....
You know...I hear this all the time, but I have a hard time buying it..at least in most cases.
Sure if you shove something else in a woman besides a hard dick....I can see that it isn't a sex act for the most part (although some people get off on that).
But if it is a male fucking a female, well, he has to be sexually aroused in order to perform the act, no?
Sure there may be some other thoughts going on there too...fantasy, anger, etc...but it is fundamentally a sexual act and could not be performed with a limp dick if the male in question was not sexually aroused.
And I think we're also seeing more these days...women who were willing at the time...who either right near the end, or even after the act yell "rape"....which isn't fair to the guy, especially after it is done and over with, yet he is still in a world of shit legally.
But if a true rapist doesn't get turned on by women, then I cannot see how he could physically complete the act if not sexually aroused, by definition, making it a sex act/ sex crime.
But...will it run Linux?
When I'm doing 1099 work through my own company....in the recent past, I've bought a high deductible insurance policy (and yes, I have pre-existing conditions and am not that young) which was only about $210/mo...with a $1200 deductible.
Again...harkening back to when medical insurance was called "Major Medical"....something to be used for catastrophic emergencies.
I do, however, make good money, and managed to sock away about $3K max, pre-tax into my HSA which I used for routine medical care (office visits, meds, a MRI I had one year...etc). But if you are young and save your money...this will not break the bank.
This in fact *can* be done, and I'm upset that the govt doesn't promote this type of medical care construct rather than taking all my money, deciding how best to spend it when that should be between my Dr and myself.....
And yet Medicaide/Medicare are going broke quickly why.....?
Or if you have a college student in the family, and buy it through them for the hefty discount!!! Only about $450 for the suite with school discount.
I've been trying to figure out the hate for GIMP by pros...I've often wondered if it is the UI or lack of functionality in GIMP that Photoshop has.
Sounds like from your point of view..it is the UI?
If not, what functionality lacking in GIMP is demanded by Pros using Photoshop?
Wondering if the win version would work on a mac running windows on VMWare?
It likely could be thrown out of court by the defense...I forget the term but something like "Chain of authority" in the handling of evidence.
Not to mention the source being Anonymous...defense would posit that the evidence could have been tampered with by a rogue hacker group, and would be extremely likely to be tainted.
Really?
I'd always heard no dick...no rape.
A fingering isn't as bad as a fucking....can't get pregnant from a finger.
You can bill for a LOT more money, have even more freedom, and be more in control of your own destiny.
Sounds like you're doing the right things in this days work environment, except you need to trade the W2 for the 1099. Aside from that, you shouldn't notice much change...except for more $$$ and freedom.
Sure is nice to write off so much for you 'work' needs..mileage to from work site alone adds up over a year, etc...