I seem to remember most of Prototype was running around killing/eating innocent people, who would shriek and occasionally beg as you ate them, also the player (Alex Mercer) was a bioterrorist who killed millions... where was the moral outrage there?
Sometimes the player character isn't the hero. Get over it.
can't comment on the rest, but from the nook site:
"nook retains important reading rituals like bookmarking, making notes, and highlighting passages. "
not sure exactly how that's implemented, but they've at least thought of it.
this is a catastrophically bad idea, just like homeschooling, and for the same reasons.
The most important stuff you learn in school isn't what you learn from books, or the teacher, or DURING class... it's the social interaction. It's getting your ass kicked on the playground, it's learning how to cheat at dodgeball, it's stealing from a friend's locker. These are the things that you are going to need to know to be successful in the real world. AP placement scores aside, homeschooled kids consistently misunderestimate the value of sleaze and dishonesty, and it hurts them.
off the top of my head, Milo of Croton (father of weightlifting) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_of_Croton
but that was actually 300 years earlier, he was in Pythagoras' time.
you can see that women in a given weight class are usually at least 25% weaker than men in the same class, even for squats which is more about legs and back than pure upper body strength.
in the past, and so far have been pretty lucky. What I wound up doing was encrypting a partition with TrueCrypt and keeping all my personal stuff on it... that way if I ever DID get burned there's not much the company could do in terms of using said data. I realize this isn't 100% fool proof, but I think it's prolly good enough.
not really. suppressors are perfectly legal in some states, I know several people who have them. it's pretty easy, you pay for the $200 stamp from BATFE and turn in your paperwork and wait a few months, no big deal.
So I'd like to know your opinion about the other cases - when equality is not something the couple has from the very beginning.
Another question in the same context - what do you do when your levels of disposable income are not the same? Why?
1. if such a condition had existed, I wouldn't have gotten married, for the exact reasons you pointed out. Such a condition DID happen to my wife and I, I finished school earlier and was working while she was still a poor student. We talked about it and arrived at the same conclusions you have, and decided neither one of us wanted that, so we waited three years until we both had something to bring to the table. Better to do something right than to do it fast.
2. as to your multiple choice question, choice A, unhesitatingly. Who cares if disposable income is different? In my own circumstances, I suspect my wife will be making quite a bit more than me once she finishes her doctorate. Her pay increase will in no way reduce my level of disposable income. Her having more does NOT mean I'll have less. Vice versa applies as well. Each party should cover their own needs, otherwise it's sort of parasitism, isn't it? Not all people choose to view it this way, and that's their prerogative, but my wife and I have strong feeling about family members that take without giving (due to non-mutual past experiences)
Without trying to create any undue controversy, I think Rand said it best: "I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." That basically sums up the marriage my wife and I share (and enjoy). As before, this isn't for everyone, every marriage is different, ymmv, etc.
There may indeed be a way for these "defective by design" marriages to work, but I don't know how, I never saw one growing up that I had ANY interest in emulating, and neither did my wife, so we both decided to do it our own way. Hope that helps:) if not keep asking and I'll keep trying to explain.
To wit, my wife and I both had successful careers before we got married. We were both financially independent (not just coming out of school or living with parents) perhaps because we were both a little older than most folks on their first marriage.
I suppose it might not work in a relationship where one party doesn't have a career and stays at home. But neither my wife nor I had any interest in marrying a worthless person who contributes nothing. We were each interested in a PARTNER. The whole thing is built on equality.
As it happens, we make slightly different amounts of money, but that changes from year to year (as a random aside, it seems that about every 2 years we switch as to who makes more, depending on raises and job moves, etc. it's pretty even thus far) and neither of us care as long as the other party can pay their half of the bills. We also have separate cars and car payments... we keep everything separate that we can. For the mortgage and the utilities (stuff that can't be kept separate) we divide it 50/50 right down the middle.
Even if my wife did make a lot less, as in your example, I don't see how that would affect things. Each party would pay half the bills, the only difference would be the amount of disposable income each party had left at the end of the month, and then of course the party who makes more will have more disposable income.
To address your quote of some other comment that takes the opposite approach to mine... well, different strokes for different folks. My wife and I are both rabid Libertarians and we run our relationship in accordance with our principles, with emphasis on independence and personal responsibility. A family that has a more Marxist philosophy will of course run things in a manner consistent with their beliefs.
My wife and I were both successful and independent individuals before we got married, and we still are. A lot of people become very co-dependant as a result of marriage, but we talked about it before we got married, and decided we didn't want that.
Marriage isn't a set formula... it's different for each combination of two people, so the way a given marriage will work is highly influenced by the people in it. My wife and I are both the kind of people that thrive in the kind of relationship we have, but it's definitely not for everyone.
Thanks for the question, I am enjoying this discussion, feel free to ask anything you like.
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that's not really a "tech" commodity, more of a touchy-feely HR bullshit commodity.
so, so true. +1
I seem to remember most of Prototype was running around killing/eating innocent people, who would shriek and occasionally beg as you ate them, also the player (Alex Mercer) was a bioterrorist who killed millions... where was the moral outrage there?
Sometimes the player character isn't the hero. Get over it.
There are some brilliant men in the party, but they usually end up taking a back seat to the louder-speaking loonies.
Well said. Very well said, indeed.
- Annontations? can i write in margins?
can't comment on the rest, but from the nook site:
"nook retains important reading rituals like bookmarking, making notes, and highlighting passages. "
not sure exactly how that's implemented, but they've at least thought of it.
fair enough.
Call me when they have UFC-Go and I'll be the biggest fan in the world.
Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Welcome to the afterlife, Jean-Luc. You're dead.
No, I am not dead. Because I refuse to believe that the afterlife is run by you. The universe is not so badly designed.
Blasphemy! I should... cast you out, or smite you, or something.
Take someone fully new to computers and have them learn Linux or Windows and chances are they will figure out Linux faster.
Citation needed.
I'm not being a dick, I'm genuinely curious: has there been any study on this topic, beyond anecdotal posturing?
The way I've heard it told is "two obese Patties, special Ross, Lester Heath picking bunions on a Sesame Street bus"
interesting regional variant.
I'm always forgetting to check the meter on mine 'cause I store it on top of the fridge, but this would be really handy.
my shower head needs a shower.
and now that EA has grown a sense of humor, it's kind of tempting. The fake protesters idea is hilarious.
this is a catastrophically bad idea, just like homeschooling, and for the same reasons.
The most important stuff you learn in school isn't what you learn from books, or the teacher, or DURING class... it's the social interaction. It's getting your ass kicked on the playground, it's learning how to cheat at dodgeball, it's stealing from a friend's locker. These are the things that you are going to need to know to be successful in the real world. AP placement scores aside, homeschooled kids consistently misunderestimate the value of sleaze and dishonesty, and it hurts them.
i knew who milo was before pythagoras... might just be the circles i run in, though
off the top of my head, Milo of Croton (father of weightlifting) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_of_Croton but that was actually 300 years earlier, he was in Pythagoras' time.
I do hope there is a full write up posted after a few months or a year, to see how well this works.
not even close. these are the official results from last years world championships of the IPF (governing body of powerlifting)
http://www.powerlifting-ipf.com/fileadmin/data/WC_Canada_2008/men/scoresheet.htm
http://www.powerlifting-ipf.com/fileadmin/data/WC_Canada_2008/women/scoresheet.htm
you can see that women in a given weight class are usually at least 25% weaker than men in the same class, even for squats which is more about legs and back than pure upper body strength.
in the past, and so far have been pretty lucky. What I wound up doing was encrypting a partition with TrueCrypt and keeping all my personal stuff on it... that way if I ever DID get burned there's not much the company could do in terms of using said data. I realize this isn't 100% fool proof, but I think it's prolly good enough.
sounds like those 1,000 people got their just desserts.
not really. suppressors are perfectly legal in some states, I know several people who have them. it's pretty easy, you pay for the $200 stamp from BATFE and turn in your paperwork and wait a few months, no big deal.
So I'd like to know your opinion about the other cases - when equality is not something the couple has from the very beginning.
Another question in the same context - what do you do when your levels of disposable income are not the same? Why?
1. if such a condition had existed, I wouldn't have gotten married, for the exact reasons you pointed out. Such a condition DID happen to my wife and I, I finished school earlier and was working while she was still a poor student. We talked about it and arrived at the same conclusions you have, and decided neither one of us wanted that, so we waited three years until we both had something to bring to the table. Better to do something right than to do it fast.
:) if not keep asking and I'll keep trying to explain.
2. as to your multiple choice question, choice A, unhesitatingly. Who cares if disposable income is different? In my own circumstances, I suspect my wife will be making quite a bit more than me once she finishes her doctorate. Her pay increase will in no way reduce my level of disposable income. Her having more does NOT mean I'll have less. Vice versa applies as well. Each party should cover their own needs, otherwise it's sort of parasitism, isn't it? Not all people choose to view it this way, and that's their prerogative, but my wife and I have strong feeling about family members that take without giving (due to non-mutual past experiences)
Without trying to create any undue controversy, I think Rand said it best: "I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." That basically sums up the marriage my wife and I share (and enjoy). As before, this isn't for everyone, every marriage is different, ymmv, etc.
There may indeed be a way for these "defective by design" marriages to work, but I don't know how, I never saw one growing up that I had ANY interest in emulating, and neither did my wife, so we both decided to do it our own way. Hope that helps
your questions are valid and well thought out.
To wit, my wife and I both had successful careers before we got married. We were both financially independent (not just coming out of school or living with parents) perhaps because we were both a little older than most folks on their first marriage.
I suppose it might not work in a relationship where one party doesn't have a career and stays at home. But neither my wife nor I had any interest in marrying a worthless person who contributes nothing. We were each interested in a PARTNER. The whole thing is built on equality.
As it happens, we make slightly different amounts of money, but that changes from year to year (as a random aside, it seems that about every 2 years we switch as to who makes more, depending on raises and job moves, etc. it's pretty even thus far) and neither of us care as long as the other party can pay their half of the bills. We also have separate cars and car payments... we keep everything separate that we can. For the mortgage and the utilities (stuff that can't be kept separate) we divide it 50/50 right down the middle.
Even if my wife did make a lot less, as in your example, I don't see how that would affect things. Each party would pay half the bills, the only difference would be the amount of disposable income each party had left at the end of the month, and then of course the party who makes more will have more disposable income.
To address your quote of some other comment that takes the opposite approach to mine... well, different strokes for different folks. My wife and I are both rabid Libertarians and we run our relationship in accordance with our principles, with emphasis on independence and personal responsibility. A family that has a more Marxist philosophy will of course run things in a manner consistent with their beliefs.
My wife and I were both successful and independent individuals before we got married, and we still are. A lot of people become very co-dependant as a result of marriage, but we talked about it before we got married, and decided we didn't want that.
Marriage isn't a set formula... it's different for each combination of two people, so the way a given marriage will work is highly influenced by the people in it. My wife and I are both the kind of people that thrive in the kind of relationship we have, but it's definitely not for everyone.
Thanks for the question, I am enjoying this discussion, feel free to ask anything you like.
We actually do the same thing... I write all the checks/make all the online payments and then she EFTs me her half, very convenient.
can't imagine how people did this in the days when you actually had to GO TO THE BANK to move money around.