Don't anybody look! Just think how the children in these images will feel when they grow up and see that they have been objectified in front of the entire world!
Besides which, that's really not something the guy's wife should be saying to the kid even if she was kidding. We tend to internalize what is "normal" in a relationship at a pretty young age. That can change, but it's an uphill battle. Having the chance that the kid might grow up to think that's the way relationships should work would be a disservice to the child.
This is true, and, setting the whole money-grubbing thing aside, won't somebody please think of the children! That sounds sarcastic, I know, but I am actually serious - so many people have no idea how much of what goes on in a child's life is absorbed and later may come back to haunt them.
Still - back to my original point - people do joke about those things all the time - sometimes to hide a slight bitterness. That is (realising that the original post was meant as a joke, and we may be taking it all too seriously), in the original post, the wife may have been unhappy that she doesn't see her husband very often, so she jokes about it, "finding the silver lining"... Bear in mind, however, that I am not a psychologist, and she may, indeed, be after him for his money, for all I know. I just like to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Yeah - I guess what I did was read your post, decide to reply to it, then read the other replies and get pissed off, then go back to your post - sorry...
And I agree that these relationships do exist and shouldn't, I just think that being cynical is not going to help anyone.
I believe that the original post was talking about a JOKE his wife made. To me it sounded like it was possibly an injoke, which they would both make use of from time to time, but even if it wasn't, if she was just after him for his money (which, sure, a few women are), she would hardly say so in front of a child.
and to the reply to this stating that romance is dead - what kind of women do you know? Most women I know (myself included) are delighted with guys that are funny, intelligent, good at cunnilingus etc. Money is a minor part of the package - you know, women realise that they can earn too - they don't HAVE to rely on the man. Enough money to live on is enough money to be happy with the man you love.
I wasn't, in fact complaining about bully - I was saying that in bully, one is a kid standing up to the bullies (and the school board is against this), and in this game, one is a big kid beating up little kids (and it wins an award). So - I was just commenting that this is a little strange, and, if anything, things should be vice versa.
True, but if they mean "a type of bacteria", then that is what they should say. I know I am being pedantic, but if you can't be pedantic about science and vocabulary on slashdot, where can you?
I find it interesting and endlessly annoying that people who know enough about bacteria to know what a spirochete is don't know that the word "bacteria" is a plural, and thus if you are going to use the word "a" in front of it, it should be "bacterium". My father, who teaches university biology actually marks people down for doing this. An action that I completely agree with. It's like saying "this loci".
The parent and all the replies so far are guilty of the bacterium transgression. Shame on you all.
"The Okamura Fossil Laboratory," by Earle Spamer.
During the 1970s and 1980s Japanese paleontologist Chonusuke Okamura
published a profusion of microphotographs. These documented the fossils
of previously unknown "minicreatures" -- minireptiles, minibirds,
minidinosaurs, minidragons and minivertebrates. All of these creatures
were 1.0-1.5 milimeters in size. [This report includes photomicrographs
of a minibrontosaurus (Brontosaurus excelsus miniorientalis), a
miniwoman (Homo sapiens miniorientalis), a Silurian miniduck (Archaeoanus
japonica), and other specimens.
--see: AIR, vol. 1, no. 4, July/August 1995, pp. 4-9.
NOTE: The following US institutions hold copies of the
original "Reports of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory.
We urge you to visit them:
Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia);
Colorado School of Mines
Cornell University
Denver Public Library
Field Museum of Natural History
Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
Kent State University
Pell Marine Science Library (Naragansett RI)
Smithsonian Institution
US Geological Survey (Reston VA)
UC Los Angeles
UC San Diego
University of Houston
University of Texas at Austin
University of Wyoming
Readers from outside the US are urged to help us compile
a complete international list of Okamura sites.
(Please e-mail the info to spamer@say.acnatsci.org)
i believe this is a fabulous example of fossil science gone horribly wrong...:)
In New Zealand text messages cost 20 cents, and one minute of calling costs (off peak) 49 cents or (on peak) $1.29. You must live in one of the lucky countries where calling is cheaper than texting. Plus there are many plans which give huge numbers of "free" texts, and not many "free" minutes.
from TFA: "If your forearms and hands start to hurt, stop."
Seems to be similar to that old doctor, doctor joke "doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this" "well stop doing it then".
Common sense, really. Who doesn't know this?
there is a forum-based role-playing game online called santharia - my best friend is nuts about it. It is pretty much like tabletop, except it consists of mainly roleplaying and very little actual statistics, eg no dice rolling for damage etc. Actually, it's more like co-authoring a book, almost. I realise this is probably not what you mean, but is pretty cool all the same. (they have designed a whole world)
Am just thinking off the top of my head about this, but this study kind of works with the theory of use it or lose it. Neurogenesis (the building of new brain cells) is stimulated by learning new things, being in novel surroundings, etc, so if you are activly learning, your brain is building new cells to deal with the new input. However (and this is where I am speculating), if you are highly educated, you have learning new things down pat, and it is not such a struggle, even if you are exposed to novel stimuli, to get used to them. Therefore, your brain may be happy with existing pathways, and not have the urge to build new neurons. Thus, when these start breaking down, it happens faster. Does this theory work? (I am afraid I didn't RTFA...)
The fact that it is only prostitutes complaining (and noone else) does not take away their right to complain. If they feel as though they're being threatened, they have the right to say something about it - as do cops or any other targetted groups. Just because they haven't as a group condemned the game, does not necessarily mean they like it, or are okay with it. Using that justification is like Tony Blair saying that just because only a million people marched against the war with Iraq, the rest of London really liked the war. Sorry if I misunderstood your point, but that is how I read it.
My brother and I got an Amstrad (may have to hand in my geek card, as I don't remember any more detail than that) for christmas 1986. He learnt how to program games in basic - I learnt how to program knock knock jokes in basic. Guess which one of us is richer now.:(
New Zealand has been doing this for several years now - the only difference being that we don't get to look over the completed forms, which I have always been a bit leery about. But if you get to see what they have done, I think that this is a Good Thing.
Do homosexuals have more mental health problems as well?
Yes. Various research studies have found that homosexuals have higher rates of:
Alcohol abuse
Drug abuse
Nicotine dependence
Depression
Suicide
Don't you think it's possible that the higher instance of these (all depression-associated) diseases could be a result of persecution and non-acceptance, rather than purely associated with being gay?
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Don't anybody look! Just think how the children in these images will feel when they grow up and see that they have been objectified in front of the entire world!
Besides which, that's really not something the guy's wife should be saying to the kid even if she was kidding. We tend to internalize what is "normal" in a relationship at a pretty young age. That can change, but it's an uphill battle. Having the chance that the kid might grow up to think that's the way relationships should work would be a disservice to the child.
This is true, and, setting the whole money-grubbing thing aside, won't somebody please think of the children! That sounds sarcastic, I know, but I am actually serious - so many people have no idea how much of what goes on in a child's life is absorbed and later may come back to haunt them.
Still - back to my original point - people do joke about those things all the time - sometimes to hide a slight bitterness. That is (realising that the original post was meant as a joke, and we may be taking it all too seriously), in the original post, the wife may have been unhappy that she doesn't see her husband very often, so she jokes about it, "finding the silver lining"... Bear in mind, however, that I am not a psychologist, and she may, indeed, be after him for his money, for all I know. I just like to give people the benefit of the doubt.Yeah - I guess what I did was read your post, decide to reply to it, then read the other replies and get pissed off, then go back to your post - sorry...
And I agree that these relationships do exist and shouldn't, I just think that being cynical is not going to help anyone.... - cynical much?
I believe that the original post was talking about a JOKE his wife made. To me it sounded like it was possibly an injoke, which they would both make use of from time to time, but even if it wasn't, if she was just after him for his money (which, sure, a few women are), she would hardly say so in front of a child.
and to the reply to this stating that romance is dead - what kind of women do you know? Most women I know (myself included) are delighted with guys that are funny, intelligent, good at cunnilingus etc. Money is a minor part of the package - you know, women realise that they can earn too - they don't HAVE to rely on the man. Enough money to live on is enough money to be happy with the man you love.I wasn't, in fact complaining about bully - I was saying that in bully, one is a kid standing up to the bullies (and the school board is against this), and in this game, one is a big kid beating up little kids (and it wins an award). So - I was just commenting that this is a little strange, and, if anything, things should be vice versa.
... that if anything it should be the other way around... from what I've heard about both games.
... and bully (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/14 /1622258) gets shat on by the school board?
True, but if they mean "a type of bacteria", then that is what they should say. I know I am being pedantic, but if you can't be pedantic about science and vocabulary on slashdot, where can you?
I find it interesting and endlessly annoying that people who know enough about bacteria to know what a spirochete is don't know that the word "bacteria" is a plural, and thus if you are going to use the word "a" in front of it, it should be "bacterium". My father, who teaches university biology actually marks people down for doing this. An action that I completely agree with. It's like saying "this loci".
The parent and all the replies so far are guilty of the bacterium transgression. Shame on you all.
from the annals of improbable research:
"The Okamura Fossil Laboratory," by Earle Spamer. During the 1970s and 1980s Japanese paleontologist Chonusuke Okamura published a profusion of microphotographs. These documented the fossils of previously unknown "minicreatures" -- minireptiles, minibirds, minidinosaurs, minidragons and minivertebrates. All of these creatures were 1.0-1.5 milimeters in size. [This report includes photomicrographs of a minibrontosaurus (Brontosaurus excelsus miniorientalis), a miniwoman (Homo sapiens miniorientalis), a Silurian miniduck (Archaeoanus japonica), and other specimens. --see: AIR, vol. 1, no. 4, July/August 1995, pp. 4-9. NOTE: The following US institutions hold copies of the original "Reports of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory. We urge you to visit them: Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia); Colorado School of Mines Cornell University Denver Public Library Field Museum of Natural History Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Kent State University Pell Marine Science Library (Naragansett RI) Smithsonian Institution US Geological Survey (Reston VA) UC Los Angeles UC San Diego University of Houston University of Texas at Austin University of Wyoming Readers from outside the US are urged to help us compile a complete international list of Okamura sites. (Please e-mail the info to spamer@say.acnatsci.org)
i believe this is a fabulous example of fossil science gone horribly wrong...In New Zealand text messages cost 20 cents, and one minute of calling costs (off peak) 49 cents or (on peak) $1.29. You must live in one of the lucky countries where calling is cheaper than texting. Plus there are many plans which give huge numbers of "free" texts, and not many "free" minutes.
from TFA: "If your forearms and hands start to hurt, stop." Seems to be similar to that old doctor, doctor joke "doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this" "well stop doing it then". Common sense, really. Who doesn't know this?
there is a forum-based role-playing game online called santharia - my best friend is nuts about it. It is pretty much like tabletop, except it consists of mainly roleplaying and very little actual statistics, eg no dice rolling for damage etc. Actually, it's more like co-authoring a book, almost. I realise this is probably not what you mean, but is pretty cool all the same. (they have designed a whole world)
Am just thinking off the top of my head about this, but this study kind of works with the theory of use it or lose it. Neurogenesis (the building of new brain cells) is stimulated by learning new things, being in novel surroundings, etc, so if you are activly learning, your brain is building new cells to deal with the new input. However (and this is where I am speculating), if you are highly educated, you have learning new things down pat, and it is not such a struggle, even if you are exposed to novel stimuli, to get used to them. Therefore, your brain may be happy with existing pathways, and not have the urge to build new neurons. Thus, when these start breaking down, it happens faster. Does this theory work? (I am afraid I didn't RTFA...)
The fact that it is only prostitutes complaining (and noone else) does not take away their right to complain. If they feel as though they're being threatened, they have the right to say something about it - as do cops or any other targetted groups. Just because they haven't as a group condemned the game, does not necessarily mean they like it, or are okay with it. Using that justification is like Tony Blair saying that just because only a million people marched against the war with Iraq, the rest of London really liked the war. Sorry if I misunderstood your point, but that is how I read it.
My brother and I got an Amstrad (may have to hand in my geek card, as I don't remember any more detail than that) for christmas 1986. He learnt how to program games in basic - I learnt how to program knock knock jokes in basic. Guess which one of us is richer now. :(
rob schneider is no baboon!
I like that this was modded up as "informative".
New Zealand has been doing this for several years now - the only difference being that we don't get to look over the completed forms, which I have always been a bit leery about. But if you get to see what they have done, I think that this is a Good Thing.
In more ways than one.
Don't you think it's possible that the higher instance of these (all depression-associated) diseases could be a result of persecution and non-acceptance, rather than purely associated with being gay?