So many comments here imply that anyone who fights is an idiot. I take offense to this. As a martial artist who's wife and young daughters also train martial arts I find it offensive that people just assume we are all idiots. Learning to fight and defend yourself and your family is something I see as my responsiblity as a father. My girls need to have these tools, and they enjoy it very much. Unlike many of the bastardized, watered down martial arts training gyms (National Karate, ATA TKD, etc) would have you believe, in order to learn to fight/defend yourself you actually need to fight...my girls don't go in the ring and try to knock each others block off, it's light and fun, but some of us adults do and we shake hands afterwards.
I also train with mixed martial arts cage fighters, myself and some of these people are far from idiots...IT guys, programmers, stock traders, real estate professionals, teachers, police officers.
Granted, a few of them have a screw or two loose upstairs, but please, don't assume that we are all idiots, cuz we are not. But, whether idiots or not, we are all well conditioned, strong and healthy people.
It is quite apparant you know literally nothing about fighting, and I am not saying that as a bad thing or good thing, just a fact. I am 39 years old and train mixed martial arts 4 times a week, hard-spar on a semi-regular basis and train with a few MMA cage fighters. One thing is certain in a fight, whether sparring or street fighting, you WILL take a couple shots to your body. Taking shots does not mean you lost the fight, it means you are in one. I have only seen one or two fights where one of the fighters literally took no hits.
Yeah, bodily damage is possible, it happens, I take damage from time to time, but nothing horrible, nothing that doesn't heal, and it does no more long term damage than other people give themselves living off McDonalds and Coca Cola.
I have found my training to be a great divertion from the rest of my life, for a few hours a week I can go take out frustration on a heavy bag, thai pads or a classmate. We punch, kick and grapple, shake hands afterwards and enjoy it very much. Nobody is trying to live up to Chuck Norris idolization, we just enjoy learning the martial arts.
My wife trains, my kids train...it's all good.
I beta test software and hardware for a few companies, I am continually stunned at the point many manfucaturers say their product is good enough for release. Especially in the realm of PC hardware, sound and video cards for example, often have serious issues..."we'll fix it in driver revisions later"...and in the process piss off loads of customers while they are waiting for it.
it's all about meeting a deadline, very little about product quality. The PM doesn't want a project of his/hers behind schedule, the marketing is ready, and pretty boxes and manuals are all printed..."ya the product has a couple bugs, but so what, look at the cool box, and besides, I met the deadline."
I was 15 at the time, even then a movie needed some sort of point to keep my attention, and Tron had none...cool effects only keeps one's attention so long.
I agree with the other response, War Games was a much better film.
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HEY, who the heck marked me a troll? Is what I am saying not a valid opinion? I'd like to hear a reason for that from the 30-something tinfoil hat wearing geeks that likely lives in hismom's basement.
Come on now, seriously, the movie was horrendous, one can hardly argue that point...
"It was like we put LSD in the punch at the school prom and it was just way more than they can handle."
Oh please...if that makes him continue feeling good about his effort and all that, well, that's cool, but seriously, the film sucked, I remember leaving that movie (as a young kid) totally disappointed...the game rocked, but the movie had no point, direction or acting...kinda hard to make a movie without those things.
I like to lay down on couch with a book and read, not sit at a desk glued to a monitor for yet more hours...and I'll be damned if I buy a tablet PC or something like that for just reading ebooks...
"if have first hand experience of software vendors sending me patches which appear to be completey untested and break more than they fix"
yeah, Oracle is a pretty good one for that in my experience...and thats likely up among the most costly of apps...
Yeah, thats a fair point, I guess not being in a management/decision making type position myself I don't think about it that way...fair point though, you pay for somewhere to pass the buck to...thats kinda sad, paying for a fallguy...
More often than not, I get quicker, and more helpful responses from the user communities of any piece of software I need...message forums, newsgroups, etc...wether open or closed...and in the world of supportive user communities, OSS wins hands down, some of those user communities run on a cultish level of support and cheerleading and it's very easy to get the answers I need.
A company acalled AdZone (ticker: ADZR) has this technology and also uses this kind of spying to find online predators...check into it, cool stuff, and a good investment for the ol' 401k...
I have on occassion taken small pay cuts just to get out of a stupidly boring job to have a bit more mentally engaging work...as long as the money patys the bills and feeds the family, I should at least have the side benefit of enjoying what I am doing...
OK, isn't that what "System Works" is? I stopped using Norton stuff a while ago because it got so big and bulky...I like the idea of a one stop shop, but, not if it's simply taking all their existing software and putting a mass installer around it and installing 4-5 different apps at once.
If somebody could come up (or WOULD come up) with a single application that looks for viruses, spyware and spam in one app, rather than one service doing virus hunting, one service doing spyware hunting, etc...no wonder these packages slow a PC down so much.
Now, I am no software developer, just a web developer, but, isn't it possible, since one service is already scanning inboard data, to have it scan for everything, rather than a service for each type of threat?
It's all BS, the environment runs in cycles, the earth warms over a few decades, ice melts, storms grow in intensity and frequency, it's the whole life cycle, then it will start on it's way down again...
Just a great excuse for envirnmentalists to have something to bitch about to raise money so they don't have to take showers and go get real jobs like the rest of us and actually contribute to society...
Oh boy, yet another damn OMD, what an original, insightful concept...
Big friggin deal...for every iTunes mock that works there are about a hundred that fall off the planet in a year...while Microsoft has the money to make it work and these little indie "stick it to the man" OMD's don't...but either way, so what?
And Justin Timberlake, couldn't Bill do better and higher profile than that?
I am so bored and tired of this whole thing I just plain don't give a crap anymore...I don't play in cover bands (their next targets I am sure) I don't distribute lyrics of tabs, I don't pirate music and I don't buy CD's anymore cuz the industry sucks. I listen to indie music and the radio...
it doesn't affect me so screw it...subjects been beat to death...support the indie musicians they LOVE to have their music downloaded and it actually has some heart...
Jerry was a gifted person with a great musical vision. Don't let his spoiled band members screw-ups wreck that memory, don't dis the band, dis the members that did it...
yeah, you're right, it has nothing to do with a couple of members of the band stepping on Jerry's vision and attitude, it's the FANS fault...let me guess...democrat?
Hell, the Grateful Dead were one of the originals with that attitude...it's not until Jerry died that a couple members, who had little-to-nothing to due with the actual songwriting, decided to get greedy...
Pisses me off as a long time fan that they would drag Jerry's name and vision under the bus like that. They should be ashamed.
Much like Metallica and any other band that stuck their nose into this whole issue, they have every right to try to control their music any way they want to. It's their intellectual property.
That saidm as the Grateful Dead has always stood in favor of tape trading, going so far as to set up special areas at shows for "tapers", they really should have seen the backlash and shut their mouths. I am a life long deadhead, with many tapes of shows...the unique thing that set them apart from the pack is the fact they were not a studio band, they were a live band. No recording, audio or video, will ever capture the moment of a show. I have seen many, the vibe in the room, among the people and the band, the long shows, long free for all jams inspired by the moment can be replayed and replayed again, but those same notes, same chords, same jams on tape will never match standing there, beer (or whatever) in hand, watching it unfold live.
It's not the music with the Grateful Dead, it's the experience.
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So many comments here imply that anyone who fights is an idiot. I take offense to this. As a martial artist who's wife and young daughters also train martial arts I find it offensive that people just assume we are all idiots. Learning to fight and defend yourself and your family is something I see as my responsiblity as a father. My girls need to have these tools, and they enjoy it very much. Unlike many of the bastardized, watered down martial arts training gyms (National Karate, ATA TKD, etc) would have you believe, in order to learn to fight/defend yourself you actually need to fight...my girls don't go in the ring and try to knock each others block off, it's light and fun, but some of us adults do and we shake hands afterwards. I also train with mixed martial arts cage fighters, myself and some of these people are far from idiots...IT guys, programmers, stock traders, real estate professionals, teachers, police officers. Granted, a few of them have a screw or two loose upstairs, but please, don't assume that we are all idiots, cuz we are not. But, whether idiots or not, we are all well conditioned, strong and healthy people.
It is quite apparant you know literally nothing about fighting, and I am not saying that as a bad thing or good thing, just a fact. I am 39 years old and train mixed martial arts 4 times a week, hard-spar on a semi-regular basis and train with a few MMA cage fighters. One thing is certain in a fight, whether sparring or street fighting, you WILL take a couple shots to your body. Taking shots does not mean you lost the fight, it means you are in one. I have only seen one or two fights where one of the fighters literally took no hits. Yeah, bodily damage is possible, it happens, I take damage from time to time, but nothing horrible, nothing that doesn't heal, and it does no more long term damage than other people give themselves living off McDonalds and Coca Cola. I have found my training to be a great divertion from the rest of my life, for a few hours a week I can go take out frustration on a heavy bag, thai pads or a classmate. We punch, kick and grapple, shake hands afterwards and enjoy it very much. Nobody is trying to live up to Chuck Norris idolization, we just enjoy learning the martial arts. My wife trains, my kids train...it's all good.
I beta test software and hardware for a few companies, I am continually stunned at the point many manfucaturers say their product is good enough for release. Especially in the realm of PC hardware, sound and video cards for example, often have serious issues..."we'll fix it in driver revisions later"...and in the process piss off loads of customers while they are waiting for it.
it's all about meeting a deadline, very little about product quality. The PM doesn't want a project of his/hers behind schedule, the marketing is ready, and pretty boxes and manuals are all printed..."ya the product has a couple bugs, but so what, look at the cool box, and besides, I met the deadline."
I was 15 at the time, even then a movie needed some sort of point to keep my attention, and Tron had none...cool effects only keeps one's attention so long. I agree with the other response, War Games was a much better film.
HEY, who the heck marked me a troll? Is what I am saying not a valid opinion? I'd like to hear a reason for that from the 30-something tinfoil hat wearing geeks that likely lives in hismom's basement. Come on now, seriously, the movie was horrendous, one can hardly argue that point...
eBay is full of this stuff, why doesn't this BSA group target these auction sites and take action for all it's sponsors...
"It was like we put LSD in the punch at the school prom and it was just way more than they can handle." Oh please...if that makes him continue feeling good about his effort and all that, well, that's cool, but seriously, the film sucked, I remember leaving that movie (as a young kid) totally disappointed...the game rocked, but the movie had no point, direction or acting...kinda hard to make a movie without those things.
I like to lay down on couch with a book and read, not sit at a desk glued to a monitor for yet more hours...and I'll be damned if I buy a tablet PC or something like that for just reading ebooks...
"if have first hand experience of software vendors sending me patches which appear to be completey untested and break more than they fix" yeah, Oracle is a pretty good one for that in my experience...and thats likely up among the most costly of apps...
Yeah, thats a fair point, I guess not being in a management/decision making type position myself I don't think about it that way...fair point though, you pay for somewhere to pass the buck to...thats kinda sad, paying for a fallguy...
More often than not, I get quicker, and more helpful responses from the user communities of any piece of software I need...message forums, newsgroups, etc...wether open or closed...and in the world of supportive user communities, OSS wins hands down, some of those user communities run on a cultish level of support and cheerleading and it's very easy to get the answers I need.
It's just like the L.A. Riots years back, just an excuse for a bunch of hate-filled thugs to raise hell. It's very sad and very stupid
A company acalled AdZone (ticker: ADZR) has this technology and also uses this kind of spying to find online predators...check into it, cool stuff, and a good investment for the ol' 401k...
I have on occassion taken small pay cuts just to get out of a stupidly boring job to have a bit more mentally engaging work...as long as the money patys the bills and feeds the family, I should at least have the side benefit of enjoying what I am doing...
OK, isn't that what "System Works" is? I stopped using Norton stuff a while ago because it got so big and bulky...I like the idea of a one stop shop, but, not if it's simply taking all their existing software and putting a mass installer around it and installing 4-5 different apps at once. If somebody could come up (or WOULD come up) with a single application that looks for viruses, spyware and spam in one app, rather than one service doing virus hunting, one service doing spyware hunting, etc...no wonder these packages slow a PC down so much. Now, I am no software developer, just a web developer, but, isn't it possible, since one service is already scanning inboard data, to have it scan for everything, rather than a service for each type of threat?
"I am going to sue you because I am an idiot" lawsuits are really starting to get old...
It's all BS, the environment runs in cycles, the earth warms over a few decades, ice melts, storms grow in intensity and frequency, it's the whole life cycle, then it will start on it's way down again...
Just a great excuse for envirnmentalists to have something to bitch about to raise money so they don't have to take showers and go get real jobs like the rest of us and actually contribute to society...
Oh boy, yet another damn OMD, what an original, insightful concept... Big friggin deal...for every iTunes mock that works there are about a hundred that fall off the planet in a year...while Microsoft has the money to make it work and these little indie "stick it to the man" OMD's don't...but either way, so what? And Justin Timberlake, couldn't Bill do better and higher profile than that?
WOW, you can search lyrics I am sure the MPA is gonna be real happy about that...
I am so bored and tired of this whole thing I just plain don't give a crap anymore...I don't play in cover bands (their next targets I am sure) I don't distribute lyrics of tabs, I don't pirate music and I don't buy CD's anymore cuz the industry sucks. I listen to indie music and the radio... it doesn't affect me so screw it...subjects been beat to death...support the indie musicians they LOVE to have their music downloaded and it actually has some heart...
Jerry was a gifted person with a great musical vision. Don't let his spoiled band members screw-ups wreck that memory, don't dis the band, dis the members that did it...
yeah, you're right, it has nothing to do with a couple of members of the band stepping on Jerry's vision and attitude, it's the FANS fault...let me guess...democrat?
Hell, the Grateful Dead were one of the originals with that attitude...it's not until Jerry died that a couple members, who had little-to-nothing to due with the actual songwriting, decided to get greedy...
Pisses me off as a long time fan that they would drag Jerry's name and vision under the bus like that. They should be ashamed.
Much like Metallica and any other band that stuck their nose into this whole issue, they have every right to try to control their music any way they want to. It's their intellectual property.
That saidm as the Grateful Dead has always stood in favor of tape trading, going so far as to set up special areas at shows for "tapers", they really should have seen the backlash and shut their mouths. I am a life long deadhead, with many tapes of shows...the unique thing that set them apart from the pack is the fact they were not a studio band, they were a live band. No recording, audio or video, will ever capture the moment of a show. I have seen many, the vibe in the room, among the people and the band, the long shows, long free for all jams inspired by the moment can be replayed and replayed again, but those same notes, same chords, same jams on tape will never match standing there, beer (or whatever) in hand, watching it unfold live.
It's not the music with the Grateful Dead, it's the experience.
oh boy, that is both clever AND original...for a 3 year old...