"Exposure to testosterone in the womb is said to promote development of areas of the brain often associated with spatial and mathematical skills, he said. That hormone makes the ring finger longer. Estrogen exposure does the same for areas of the brain associated with verbal ability and tends to lengthen the index finger relative to the ring finger."
Sure, insult a place that you've never even been to (statistically speaking of course).
I live in Birmingham, Al (a place in between Huntsville and Montgomery) and I find everything quite agreeable. I worked in the tech section of the fourth largest private insurance company in the nation. It was based in Birmingham with offices in Atlanta, Dallas, London, and when I left, one was opening in California. Now I work for an Advertising agency (much lower in the list of "largest in the nation") it's a wonderful place to work that pays quite well. Many other big names have Birmingham as their home.
Housing is cheap, utilities are cheap, education is good (a school downtown recently was ranked 4th best in the nation). Sure you have to drive to get anywhere but gas is cheaper than it is most places in the country as well.
This wasn't the most coherent post I've ever made but the point is this, Alabama is a great place to live/work. Okay, I'll amend that. The larger cities in Alabama (Birmingham, Huntsville, Montgomery, and Mobile) are great places to live/work. When you get to Elba, Arab, or Pell City, it get's a little less so. Plenty to do, plenty to see, plenty of money to spend.
It really bothers me that most people who bash Real latest software do so without even trying the thing.
You're right, of course. I'll go install it right now. It's been a while since I've had some good spyware on my machine anyway! It'll give AdAware something to do now!
(And actually I think it is installed somewhere on my machine. Every month or so I see "realsched" suddenly runing and I have to disable it once again.)
You go out and buy a tree, plant it in your yard, watch it grow and make things beautiful for many (this was a 20-ft tree) many years, and see if you don't get upset when three twelve year olds come by and start ripping off branches. Trees take time to grow and I can understand if people get upset when they are damanged.
Insert "loggers" for "children" and "forest" for "cherry tree" and see how the public opinion would turn. Sure, more trees are harmed but many more human lives are harmed as well. Seems to have a few things in common.
And police die everyday to protect people so these people can be called corrupt pigs.
I find it ironic that the company is called "double" click when the internet is comprised of "single" clicks. Whenever I see someone doubleclick a link on the internet, I admit, I judge them and assume they aren't very good with computers.
If they had "a music file on your computer" as a definition for "MP3" and "how fast your computer is" as a definition for "megaherz" then I bet many more people would have understood. Most people learn things in real language and not tech-ease. You might know what HTML stood for but does it matter? do you know what it does?
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"Exposure to testosterone in the womb is said to promote development of areas of the brain often associated with spatial and mathematical skills, he said. That hormone makes the ring finger longer. Estrogen exposure does the same for areas of the brain associated with verbal ability and tends to lengthen the index finger relative to the ring finger."
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Dark energy? the mysterious force? Oh, I get it, we found the death star!
That was funny right? *nudge**nudge*
Ahh! Why did you bring that up... now I can't get the image out of my head. Large... gaping... butt... ug!
Sure, insult a place that you've never even been to (statistically speaking of course).
I live in Birmingham, Al (a place in between Huntsville and Montgomery) and I find everything quite agreeable. I worked in the tech section of the fourth largest private insurance company in the nation. It was based in Birmingham with offices in Atlanta, Dallas, London, and when I left, one was opening in California. Now I work for an Advertising agency (much lower in the list of "largest in the nation") it's a wonderful place to work that pays quite well. Many other big names have Birmingham as their home.
Housing is cheap, utilities are cheap, education is good (a school downtown recently was ranked 4th best in the nation). Sure you have to drive to get anywhere but gas is cheaper than it is most places in the country as well.
This wasn't the most coherent post I've ever made but the point is this, Alabama is a great place to live/work. Okay, I'll amend that. The larger cities in Alabama (Birmingham, Huntsville, Montgomery, and Mobile) are great places to live/work. When you get to Elba, Arab, or Pell City, it get's a little less so. Plenty to do, plenty to see, plenty of money to spend.
You're right, of course. I'll go install it right now. It's been a while since I've had some good spyware on my machine anyway! It'll give AdAware something to do now!
(And actually I think it is installed somewhere on my machine. Every month or so I see "realsched" suddenly runing and I have to disable it once again.)
You go out and buy a tree, plant it in your yard, watch it grow and make things beautiful for many (this was a 20-ft tree) many years, and see if you don't get upset when three twelve year olds come by and start ripping off branches. Trees take time to grow and I can understand if people get upset when they are damanged.
Insert "loggers" for "children" and "forest" for "cherry tree" and see how the public opinion would turn. Sure, more trees are harmed but many more human lives are harmed as well. Seems to have a few things in common.
And police die everyday to protect people so these people can be called corrupt pigs.
</rant>It's a good thing the Arctic Monkeys are RIAA free. They belong to the "Domino" label which doesn't subscribe to the RIAA's foolishness.
I find it ironic that the company is called "double" click when the internet is comprised of "single" clicks. Whenever I see someone doubleclick a link on the internet, I admit, I judge them and assume they aren't very good with computers.
If they had "a music file on your computer" as a definition for "MP3" and "how fast your computer is" as a definition for "megaherz" then I bet many more people would have understood. Most people learn things in real language and not tech-ease. You might know what HTML stood for but does it matter? do you know what it does?