No, really. If you're not in shape it will get you there. If you are, it will be that much easier. You can compete at any level. Practicing technique can happen nearly anywhere you have time. And partner practice is a great way to fill time.
That's certainly possible. I remember watching an old interview, and I thought he [Hodgson] said a coin. So on the one hand, I think my first-hand recollection is better than wikipedia. On the other hand, my first hand recollection may not be so good.;-) I'm unconvinced that coin versus keys would make a significant difference anyway! I do seem to recall the "play it backwards" bit too, though.
The foreskin is pretty damn useful. It helps the penis slide in and out. It's mechanical (as opposed to chemical) lubrication. If you remove it, you put most of the lubrication burden on the female. While I can understand why Johnson & Johnson thinks this is a great idea, nobody else should! Do you not think it's a big deal if it hurts the girl a bit sometimes? Hey, here's a great idea, let's remove boys' foreskins to make sex a little less fun for the girls!
you might be able to relocate to a civilized country.
This is the post I would have made too. Seriously, if all the IT contractors started leaving the US (or other well-paid professionals), it might be the start of a message Washington would notice.
As for the poster who said that Americans don't want the government to touch healthcare because they'll screw it up... how about y'all elect a better government? (Is the US system really so broken and corrupt as to make this impossible?)
Yes, complete agree here. The dancing was terrible. The lyrics were lame. The one thing it was NOT was raunchy (m-w: obscene, smutty), in the same way that yelling "penis" (or "vagina") is neither explicit nor sexual in every context. Sometimes it just indicates that something is wrong with you. Not to mention the hilarity in the thinking which led someone somewhere to believe that adding "or vagina" made it inclusive, and someone else to approve it! http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20120604&mode=classic
There are trusted repositories... Apple's app stores. But people complain that they're not open! You can't have it both ways. More to the point, if you go download software from torrent sites... 'ya takes your chances! Typing an admin password for something that came from a torrent site is like using a condom you bought from a streetkid in a third-world country.... It might not have been retrieved, washed, and re-sold. (I forget where I read about this practice, or I would provide a reference; the analogy stands!)
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, and moved to Canada at age 23. He may, or may not, have invented the phone. He was by no definition "US-American".
They're all down now. Bwin still works. This affects non-US players. I add my voice to those saying, keep your silly laws within your own borders and get off my poker servers.
I'm in Canada, and only ultimatebet and absolutepoker are FBI'd. Fulltilt and pokerstars work fine. BTW, check out bwin.com! Pretty good site, but needs more north american players. Only problem is the blind dude who designed their poker room colours. Very pretty from a distance, painful to the eyes to actually PLAY!:-(
I must be missing something about this... I mean, when I was in an airport overseas, and they started to go through my check luggage as part of standard security, my knee-jerk reaction at first was to be a bit freaked. But after 30 seconds of thought I realized that this was GOOD. They were HAND SEARCHING luggage! Plus scanning it. No bombs on that plane!
So why do people care about scanners? Is it some kind of weird prudish thing? Or do the scanners do some harm? I'm happy to fly nude. I'll know the chance of someone having a weapon is pretty small!
Yes! Finally! Someone gets it! The power users are going to want their own stuff, and they're picky about it. It's hard to make a mouse that all power users will like. Look at Logitech and Microsoft's offerings! And don't even start on gaming mice. It's easy, however, to design a basic mouse that a hamster can learn to use. Apple Puck notwithstanding.:-)
I'm soooo tired of the multi-versus-one-button mouse debate. Apple debuted the very first commercial, widely available mouse. They chose to have one button over however many the original Xerox PARC mouse had for a very good reason. Getting people to reach out and move a mouse and push a button was a HUGE paradigm shift. If you weren't there and don't remember this era, you don't get an opinion, BTW.:-) Anyway, it was an extremely valid design choice for the first macs. It does seem that Apple stuck to this for WAY too long, refusing to even offer a multi-button option of their own. But, there is something to be said for the design from the point of view of first-time users, even into the 90s. Remember, a lot of people were buying their FIRST computer in these decades.
Ok, so, now apple ships multi-button mice. And I will STILL replace them with 8-button logitech devices. But my grandmother won't. Lowest common denominator, people. Now, if Apple would just give me a multitouch pad for my computer....
Can we please never speak of Apple and one-button mice again? Please?
You must be at least 35 years old to have an opinion on this subject.
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Learn ballroom dance.
No, really. If you're not in shape it will get you there. If you are, it will be that much easier. You can compete at any level. Practicing technique can happen nearly anywhere you have time. And partner practice is a great way to fill time.
http://ballroomdancers.com/
Is this correlated with the fundamental interconnectedness of all things?
I'm not an expert, so please correct me: Wouldn't going from SD to HD be interpolation? Where's the extrapolation?
That's certainly possible. I remember watching an old interview, and I thought he [Hodgson] said a coin. So on the one hand, I think my first-hand recollection is better than wikipedia. On the other hand, my first hand recollection may not be so good. ;-) I'm unconvinced that coin versus keys would make a significant difference anyway! I do seem to recall the "play it backwards" bit too, though.
How could you leave out the TARDIS sound? They started with a coin and an open string on a[n upright?] piano.
The foreskin is pretty damn useful. It helps the penis slide in and out. It's mechanical (as opposed to chemical) lubrication. If you remove it, you put most of the lubrication burden on the female. While I can understand why Johnson & Johnson thinks this is a great idea, nobody else should! Do you not think it's a big deal if it hurts the girl a bit sometimes? Hey, here's a great idea, let's remove boys' foreskins to make sex a little less fun for the girls!
you might be able to relocate to a civilized country.
This is the post I would have made too. Seriously, if all the IT contractors started leaving the US (or other well-paid professionals), it might be the start of a message Washington would notice.
As for the poster who said that Americans don't want the government to touch healthcare because they'll screw it up... how about y'all elect a better government? (Is the US system really so broken and corrupt as to make this impossible?)
Post!
(sorry! RIP George!)
Yes, complete agree here. The dancing was terrible. The lyrics were lame. The one thing it was NOT was raunchy (m-w: obscene, smutty), in the same way that yelling "penis" (or "vagina") is neither explicit nor sexual in every context. Sometimes it just indicates that something is wrong with you. Not to mention the hilarity in the thinking which led someone somewhere to believe that adding "or vagina" made it inclusive, and someone else to approve it!
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20120604&mode=classic
It's, "Now the world has gone to bed"
You were thinking of the first verse,
"Now I lay me down to sleep
Try to count electric sheep
Sweet dream wishes you can keep
How I hate the night"
There are trusted repositories... Apple's app stores. But people complain that they're not open! You can't have it both ways. More to the point, if you go download software from torrent sites... 'ya takes your chances! Typing an admin password for something that came from a torrent site is like using a condom you bought from a streetkid in a third-world country.... It might not have been retrieved, washed, and re-sold. (I forget where I read about this practice, or I would provide a reference; the analogy stands!)
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, and moved to Canada at age 23. He may, or may not, have invented the phone. He was by no definition "US-American".
, HAL (If you can't see the above, multilingual posting doesn't work; ah, the irony!)
...but the meat is rotten.
Does it make "pew pew pew" noises?
They're all down now. Bwin still works. This affects non-US players. I add my voice to those saying, keep your silly laws within your own borders and get off my poker servers.
I'm in Canada, and only ultimatebet and absolutepoker are FBI'd. Fulltilt and pokerstars work fine. BTW, check out bwin.com! Pretty good site, but needs more north american players. Only problem is the blind dude who designed their poker room colours. Very pretty from a distance, painful to the eyes to actually PLAY! :-(
The powered armour in the book was way better than that in the movie!
I must be missing something about this... I mean, when I was in an airport overseas, and they started to go through my check luggage as part of standard security, my knee-jerk reaction at first was to be a bit freaked. But after 30 seconds of thought I realized that this was GOOD. They were HAND SEARCHING luggage! Plus scanning it. No bombs on that plane! So why do people care about scanners? Is it some kind of weird prudish thing? Or do the scanners do some harm? I'm happy to fly nude. I'll know the chance of someone having a weapon is pretty small!
Have you _seen_ what a unionized heavy equipment operator gets?
I don't understand... What's the difference between the heavy equipment operators with free electrons, and those without?
What about Pathways into Darkness? 1993, Mac, also by bungie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathways_into_Darkness
Yes! Finally! Someone gets it! The power users are going to want their own stuff, and they're picky about it. It's hard to make a mouse that all power users will like. Look at Logitech and Microsoft's offerings! And don't even start on gaming mice. It's easy, however, to design a basic mouse that a hamster can learn to use. Apple Puck notwithstanding. :-)
I'm soooo tired of the multi-versus-one-button mouse debate. Apple debuted the very first commercial, widely available mouse. They chose to have one button over however many the original Xerox PARC mouse had for a very good reason. Getting people to reach out and move a mouse and push a button was a HUGE paradigm shift. If you weren't there and don't remember this era, you don't get an opinion, BTW. :-) Anyway, it was an extremely valid design choice for the first macs. It does seem that Apple stuck to this for WAY too long, refusing to even offer a multi-button option of their own. But, there is something to be said for the design from the point of view of first-time users, even into the 90s. Remember, a lot of people were buying their FIRST computer in these decades.
Ok, so, now apple ships multi-button mice. And I will STILL replace them with 8-button logitech devices. But my grandmother won't. Lowest common denominator, people. Now, if Apple would just give me a multitouch pad for my computer....
Can we please never speak of Apple and one-button mice again? Please?
You must be at least 35 years old to have an opinion on this subject.
If viruses are technically not alive, then what made the RNA world 'creatures' technically alive?
well, they're not technically dead either...