I wasn't that worried about outside appearance as much as inside attitudes about certain bits of religion and politics, so it worked for me.
Of course, I also had to put in a good deal to make sure the match was more correct.
Then again, I expected the girls to be on the heavy side. Skinny girls have cheaper ways to get dates.
Nope, never used the remaining 31 introductions, and my local office of Together got sold to something called Relationships NW, which went bankrupt a few months later.
That was 8 years ago.
So the only thing I got out of it was a very satisfying marriage and a little boy with CP who is happy all the time (in fact, that was his first word- happy- amazing that his mother and I, both of whom are very pessimistic people, have a child who is so happy).
I'm not even sure my contract is still valid. I tried to sell them once (pre-E-bay and craigslist though) in a local classified add and only ended up getting myself a coffee date with a gay guy who didn't want to buy.
That seems like a lot of money spent to find someone. But as long as your happy with what you bought, then it was a good buy.
Yes, in the end, I believe it was worth it. My little 5 year old is pretty happy to be alive too. Of course, had I known then what I know now about these dating sites, I would have argued with them and purchased a smaller block.
Guess the bonus for a female using the site, is that your going ot find a guy who has $3600 of disposable income. So, he should be able to blow some cash on you. lol.
That's assuming that the competition since then (it's been 10 years for me) hasn't drastically lowered the price.
Nope. In fact, if they still operate the same way, you get a phone # and a first name and a hint for what to talk about. And that's it. Meeting in person is up to you.
However, I'm not sure they still operate the same way- this was ~11 years ago. And they closed their office in Oregon soon afterward.
Ok, here's a negative- they took me for $3100 for introductions contracted for that I never used because they required guys to buy in blocks of 36 introductions where they only required women to buy in blocks of 6.
Of course, I haven't had contact since they closed their Oregon office a year after I got married....
$3600 actually, and that's where the somewhat comes in. It came to prepaying $100 for each introduction, used or unused, in blocks of 36. I only needed 5- so you could look at it that I was taken for $3100.
Women were charged significantly less- my wife bought in blocks of 6 instead of 36, and I was her 12th introduction.
The cost included at that time "therapy sessions" which allowed you to discover and refine what you wanted in a mate. Given the gals I was introduced to- I was either confused or they weren't using that part correctly.
Well, his research led to the very company that introduced me to my wife in 1998...though this seems like a better marketing method than what they were using back then, which was psychobabble about psychological testing combined with direct-mail postcards.
Has been around since long before the web- this is just their latest marketing technique. I'm actually a somewhat satisfied customer- turned out to be a great way for a geek to get a family, just faxed them my commute map and they introduced me to a gal who became my wife two years later. It helped greatly that her apartment was halfway home on my commute.
For this purpose, I'd go dual interface, and not bother coding on the phone itself.
WAP (a cut-down version of HTML) works on all small-format web browsers, and should be your *high end* phone interface. But also, you should have a secondary interface, based on a voice modem, that is audio/keypress, and which would work with all phones hands down full stop.
It gets worse. ACORN has been registering dead people, homeless people, Mickey Mouse, you name it. What was even more sickening is that Democrats on Huffington Post claimed Republicans were trying to "steal the election" by shutting down the "legitimate operations" of ACORN.
Actually, you've got a half story there. The rest of the story was on PBS last weekend. Turns out it was a contractor for ACORN that ACORN was paying per voter registration card. None of the fake registration cards actually made it to the registrar's office.
I can only hope that they refused to pay for those registration cards as well.
I can't trust either one of these fucking political parties.
Ah, then that might have been what really did the trick- I told the last lady who called that Christopher couldn't vote, my wife has chosen to vote for Obama, and I'm fed up with both parties so I'm voting for Chuck Baldwin.
Well, Visual Studio should take care of that on the Windows Side- 2005 and 2008 seem to both be missing autoincrement minor version number.
I ended up just appending the date onto the back.
Yep, especially as near as I can tell, if you're just going on numbered products released to the public, it should be someplace between Version 10 and Version 15 by now.
(we're talking about Windows 2009, if somebody is still in the dark).
Now to hang my more on-topic discussion into this reply near the top.
MAJOR VERSION NUMBERS MEAN SQUAT. Major version numbers are just marketing for the customers. What really counts from a technical perspective is the minor version number, the build number, and the modified date on the binary. From these three pieces of information, you can decide whether or not to upgrade to get rid of that fiddling little bug. That's the only REAL use version numbers have ever had.
I'd use Truecrypt on a USB key of some sort, and use rental computers on the plane and at the destination rather than your own machine, which you leave safely at home.
Use certain Linux distros, and you can literally have your own "computer on a stick" this way.
"misconduct" could be just about anything. In my case, I was only making five figures, and "misconduct" was telling the truth in a blog about the lack of scientific knowledge in FEMA.
I wish I had felt like I was in a position to do exactly this- and it would certainly be WORTH going to jail for, though I think instead I would have e-mailed the passwords to the associated press.
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I wasn't that worried about outside appearance as much as inside attitudes about certain bits of religion and politics, so it worked for me. Of course, I also had to put in a good deal to make sure the match was more correct. Then again, I expected the girls to be on the heavy side. Skinny girls have cheaper ways to get dates.
I think she's worth the full $3600, plus the wasted dates with the 4 other women I met.
Nope, never used the remaining 31 introductions, and my local office of Together got sold to something called Relationships NW, which went bankrupt a few months later.
That was 8 years ago.
So the only thing I got out of it was a very satisfying marriage and a little boy with CP who is happy all the time (in fact, that was his first word- happy- amazing that his mother and I, both of whom are very pessimistic people, have a child who is so happy).
I'm not even sure my contract is still valid. I tried to sell them once (pre-E-bay and craigslist though) in a local classified add and only ended up getting myself a coffee date with a gay guy who didn't want to buy.
That seems like a lot of money spent to find someone. But as long as your happy with what you bought, then it was a good buy.
Yes, in the end, I believe it was worth it. My little 5 year old is pretty happy to be alive too. Of course, had I known then what I know now about these dating sites, I would have argued with them and purchased a smaller block.
Guess the bonus for a female using the site, is that your going ot find a guy who has $3600 of disposable income. So, he should be able to blow some cash on you. lol.
That's assuming that the competition since then (it's been 10 years for me) hasn't drastically lowered the price.
$3600. About $3100 of that was wasted, as I purchased a block of 36 introductions and only used 5.
Nope. In fact, if they still operate the same way, you get a phone # and a first name and a hint for what to talk about. And that's it. Meeting in person is up to you.
However, I'm not sure they still operate the same way- this was ~11 years ago. And they closed their office in Oregon soon afterward.
Ok, here's a negative- they took me for $3100 for introductions contracted for that I never used because they required guys to buy in blocks of 36 introductions where they only required women to buy in blocks of 6.
Of course, I haven't had contact since they closed their Oregon office a year after I got married....
$3600 actually, and that's where the somewhat comes in. It came to prepaying $100 for each introduction, used or unused, in blocks of 36. I only needed 5- so you could look at it that I was taken for $3100.
Women were charged significantly less- my wife bought in blocks of 6 instead of 36, and I was her 12th introduction.
The cost included at that time "therapy sessions" which allowed you to discover and refine what you wanted in a mate. Given the gals I was introduced to- I was either confused or they weren't using that part correctly.
Well, his research led to the very company that introduced me to my wife in 1998...though this seems like a better marketing method than what they were using back then, which was psychobabble about psychological testing combined with direct-mail postcards.
Has been around since long before the web- this is just their latest marketing technique. I'm actually a somewhat satisfied customer- turned out to be a great way for a geek to get a family, just faxed them my commute map and they introduced me to a gal who became my wife two years later. It helped greatly that her apartment was halfway home on my commute.
Incredibly old? As in grandfather status in human terms, white hair and beard?
For this purpose, I'd go dual interface, and not bother coding on the phone itself.
WAP (a cut-down version of HTML) works on all small-format web browsers, and should be your *high end* phone interface. But also, you should have a secondary interface, based on a voice modem, that is audio/keypress, and which would work with all phones hands down full stop.
It gets worse. ACORN has been registering dead people, homeless people, Mickey Mouse, you name it. What was even more sickening is that Democrats on Huffington Post claimed Republicans were trying to "steal the election" by shutting down the "legitimate operations" of ACORN.
Actually, you've got a half story there. The rest of the story was on PBS last weekend. Turns out it was a contractor for ACORN that ACORN was paying per voter registration card. None of the fake registration cards actually made it to the registrar's office.
I can only hope that they refused to pay for those registration cards as well.
I can't trust either one of these fucking political parties.
Which is why I'm voting for Chuck Baldwin.
Ah, then that might have been what really did the trick- I told the last lady who called that Christopher couldn't vote, my wife has chosen to vote for Obama, and I'm fed up with both parties so I'm voting for Chuck Baldwin.
Yep- mentioned it to them and all 5 of the callers. The calls have stopped, so I guess they've finally got the hint.
No, Christopher doesn't. My name is on the phone line in question.
Has been push-polling my 5 year old son, so why not a goldfish?
Well, Visual Studio should take care of that on the Windows Side- 2005 and 2008 seem to both be missing autoincrement minor version number. I ended up just appending the date onto the back.
Yep, especially as near as I can tell, if you're just going on numbered products released to the public, it should be someplace between Version 10 and Version 15 by now. (we're talking about Windows 2009, if somebody is still in the dark). Now to hang my more on-topic discussion into this reply near the top. MAJOR VERSION NUMBERS MEAN SQUAT. Major version numbers are just marketing for the customers. What really counts from a technical perspective is the minor version number, the build number, and the modified date on the binary. From these three pieces of information, you can decide whether or not to upgrade to get rid of that fiddling little bug. That's the only REAL use version numbers have ever had.
I'd use Truecrypt on a USB key of some sort, and use rental computers on the plane and at the destination rather than your own machine, which you leave safely at home.
Use certain Linux distros, and you can literally have your own "computer on a stick" this way.
Same as the difference between 10baseT, 100BaseT, 1000BaseT- same shit, different clock speed
The MSDN documents on the System.Threading object tree are pretty good.
Well, done right there's lots of boring bits- it does take 25 years after all, to fully finish the job of creating a new human being.
"misconduct" could be just about anything. In my case, I was only making five figures, and "misconduct" was telling the truth in a blog about the lack of scientific knowledge in FEMA.
I wish I had felt like I was in a position to do exactly this- and it would certainly be WORTH going to jail for, though I think instead I would have e-mailed the passwords to the associated press.