You might as well ask why people celebrate birthdays or other annual holidays. People love to celebrate and party. Weddings existed before taxes did. They're meant to be a celebration of union. A symbol of commitment. Though that's obviously becoming a bit of a joke these days.
They're not always based purely on love, depending on the culture, of course. But even if there were no tax advantages or whatever, people would still get married.
Why do you assume he's not afraid of making a mistake? He's possibly terrified and sickened of the idea of giving in to temptation, and therefore just doesn't let any situation develop.
Even when I'm single I tend to get disgusted by women that come onto guys too quickly, because I get the feeling that they are like that with everyone, and therefore any type of relationship with them would be short lived (which isn't what I'm into). When in a relationship I'm even less likely to be open to that type of behaviour. I think the only way I'd remotely be able to get into a compromising situation would be if I'm comforting someone and they get the wrong idea. Then I'd have to apologise and explain that I didn't mean things the way they have taken them. Or if it happened that I'd developed feelings myself, and they were stronger than those for my partner, I'd end the first relationship before "cheating".
You've mentioned being "flattered" twice now. That's not a reason to cheat. If you're willing to have sex with someone just because you're getting attention from them, that pretty much is being a whore. Or there must be something wrong with the relationship that is making you want out, like the other guy said.
Being drunk is not a reason to cheat. I still have self control even when drunk. Even when I'm single and have some random hitting on me I still have pretty good self control. There has to be willingness to even put yourself into that sort of situation, and the drink just makes you feel less guilty about indulging.
FFS that sort of weasely attitude is making me want to throw up.. and I'm usually not squeamish. If someone clearly wants to be more than friends when they know you're in a relationship, you make it clear that it's not an option. Doing anything else is cheating. If you want to cheat then fine, but stop trying to make it sound reasonable. It's pathetic.
"And suddenly your chatting up an ex, and keeping it secret because your spouse would be pissed"
What? "Chatting up" an ex is already cheating. Chatting to an ex is okay. Meeting up for coffee when you know they have feelings - and you apparently are someone with no respect for your partner and/or no self control - is just going full blown retard.
Nintendo targets a different demographic than the one MSFT is after
Riiiight.. MS want money, no matter who it's from. Nintendo did target a different demographic to the 360 and PS3, but now everyone wants a piece of that pie. That's why we have Kinect and Move. Didn't you notice those? And all the shitty, awful games that generally come along with them?
Not to mention that graphics for most game types have been "good enough" for quite a few years now. A small percentage of people are always dumb enough to choose their games purely on how pretty they are (ie what will show off their e-penis the most), but more experienced gamers know that it's better to read a variety of reviews or try a demo rather than just look at screenshots.
Microsoft can afford to release a incontestably best-specced console, and it would be the end of PlayStation if they did.
That's not true at all. Did you completely miss the part where the Wii raped both the Xbox and PS3 last generation? Duh.
Besides, most Xbox games seem to come out for Windows eventually. Even other consoles when it comes to the indie games. I basically got my Xbox just to play games like Limbo, but now they're available all over the place.
Halo is pretty shit as FPSes go. The only other Xbox exclusive I've seen that might be remotely worth it is the Fable series.
And ultimately, there are a few exclusive series that it would make it worthwhile for me to get a PlayStation 4: Gran Turismo, LittleBigPlanet, and Uncharted. I don't care if the Xbox has better graphics. My PC kicks my PS3's ass in graphics terms, but I'm still happy with the graphics on PS3. Sure I'm going to play any Elder Scrolls games on PC from now on because they're so demanding, but for stuff like Assassin's Creed, I actually prefer playing on my PS3. I haven't used my 360 or Wii for years, because there aren't any exclusive games out for them that really interest me.
it is possible to "decrypt" out of the ciphertext any message whatsoever with the same number of characters, simply by using a different key, and there is no information in the ciphertext which will allow [the reader] to choose among the various possible readings of the ciphertext.
Yes, and I could get to work every day by walking if I wanted. That doesn't mean that taking the bus or a car isn't a more efficient use of my time most days.
You should maybe try "intermittent fasting". I guess you could call it the fad of the moment, and different people do it differently, but it's worth trying as a way of eating if you are having trouble losing fat. You eat every day, and eat the same amount as normal, but you squeeze your eating into a 6-8 hour window each day (I usually start eating around midday), to give your body more time to run off of fat each day.That should make you more efficient at burning off fat. If you eat all through the day, then you could be in fat storage mode most of the time rather than burning it. I think it would be more similar to how our bodies have evolved to eat too if we eat less often but in larger amounts.. modern humans eat allll the time, but nobody has done much study into the possible biological benefits of the body regularly fasting.
I used Visual Studio in the early 2000s and I liked it, but I like other IDEs too. Delphi was what I used for developing GUIs for ages. The options for doing so in Visual Studio back then were a lot more complicated, either that or I just didn't know where they were. I find Eclipse a bit annoying, but I tried Netbeans recently and I like it. I also started using Emacs a few years ago for things like C, scripting and web page editing, and I like it a lot.
So yeah, Visual Studio is one of the few decent products that MS produce (or at least it was 10 years ago), but it's pretty silly to suggest that people won't like the alternatives available to them.
And that would be different.. how? Apart from being less reliable, resilient and convenient of course.
The passage these morons are using to justify not taking the card talks about a mark on the forehead or hand, and one that applies to everyone, not just school students, etc. It's a pretty bizarre interpretation even if you do believe in governing your life via fairytales..
What "right" is this taking away, exactly? The right to not have your teachers know that you attended class, even though they would notice anyway if they were doing role calls? It's not really doing much other than making everything more efficient and modern. It's like how in some cars now the doors will unlock for you and the engine will start as long as you have your keys in your pocket. I think that type of thing is great. It saves pointless steps.
Ah okay. Well, I was buying wholemeal pizzas at first, but recently I've been trying normal ones again. They're valuable as a source of calories to stop me from losing weight at least. I've been having pizza maybe 3 or 4 times a week for dinner, 2 or 3 sandwiches during the day, sometimes porridge too..
I have friends who train some pretty advanced Parkour and freerunning while high.. and in fact I still have decent balance these days even when I'm drunk (I can still balance fine along a half-inch wide railing after having say the equivalent of 5 beers), likewise from all the Parkour training.. so testing people's balance and such isn't a very precise measure IMO.
It's really interesting that pot is being legalised. It actually makes me think that the US political system is working as it should in some regards, ie the public are actually being listened to. I bet 10% of my friends will want to move to the US when they hear this news:)
I'm not from the US, but it's interesting to notice how out in the middle of nowhere, there were a lot of Romney voters. In areas with denser population, there were a lot more Obama voters.
How does it not benefit the students? Would you really prefer to sit through a role call every class? In my school we only had a roll call first thing in the morning. If the US schools are doing it every class, it must be incredibly annoying for both students and teachers, not to mention a waste of something like 30 minutes of every day.
The GPL isn't enforced via patents, it's enforced via copyright.
So you can copy software concepts in most countries if you want - but if you copy someone else's actual source code, that's illegal by default. They have to make the code available under an open license before you are allowed to copy/distribute it.
It's not quite so simple though. Your metabolism varies by how much you eat, hence after sugar you go hyper for a while, and then around 4 hours later you get sleepy (well, I do). Apparently if you fast your body switches into a more efficient mode where it is more likely to try to repair/sustain body cells than create new ones by division, as this is more energy efficient. Don't really have any references for that though so I'm not sure how true it is. It would be one explanation for why people who eat less tend to live longer though, and that is one that has been proven.
So there will probably be a range where you can eat the same and stay the same weight. Also if you eat either very large amounts of food, or a lot of sugary food, it pushes your blood sugar up to the point where you are storing fat rather than simply running hotter, as it were. You can also be more or less efficient at burning fat depending on how often you let your body run in that mode. A lot of people just eat frequently and don't do any exercise, so their body rarely has to burn fat for energy..
Maybe you have the wrong idea about what is healthy and unhealthy. Do you drink "diet" drinks? I consider them unhealthy in general. Total calories doesn't matter much, look more at the amount of carbs you eat, and when you eat them. You don't even need a whole lots of vitamins. When I tried eating low fat, my weight stayed exactly the same. I tried cutting out carbs, and the pounds were falling off despite me being at a low weight already, so I worked some "good" carbs back in pretty quickly. The level of carbs you eat do affect your water weight basically overnight, but I was definitely losing weight too.
My flatmate has a very similar body type to yours by the sounds of it, low carb helps him to lose weight. Though he also is literally addicted to diet coke and I think that seriously hampers things.
I already had to change my eating habits around 4 years ago to stop from getting fat. Now I just know a lot more about food. As long as I stick to "good" foods I have to eat loads to stay healthy, so I've been experimenting with slightly higher GI foods. I mostly stick with low GI for the sake of my mood though, rather than weight.
What's crap about cheese? Lots of good protein and fat in there. When you say "crap", do you mean "high calorie", or "unhealthy", or what?
If you have a look at something like the Atkins diet, you'll see that luck has little to do with it. People just have the wrong idea that it's fat that makes them fat. Someone else also pointed out something about gut flora/fauna, and I'm pretty sure that has an effect too. If you have a lot of candida then it releases small amounts of a poison into you, which makes you feel like crap. I was eating really low GI foods for a while which would help to kill candida off, but recently I've tried switching to a more "normal" diet, while taking probiotic yoghurt and apple cider vinegar to keep gut flora in check. Seems to be working okay so far..
I'm 29. I can control my weight pretty easily by adjusting carb intake it seems. I was losing far too much weight when I tried a low carb diet. Low fat diet did diddly squat though. The common ideas about eating to lose weight are pretty much on their head. "Low fat" foods are all higher in sugar than their normal fat equivalents..
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You might as well ask why people celebrate birthdays or other annual holidays. People love to celebrate and party. Weddings existed before taxes did. They're meant to be a celebration of union. A symbol of commitment. Though that's obviously becoming a bit of a joke these days.
They're not always based purely on love, depending on the culture, of course. But even if there were no tax advantages or whatever, people would still get married.
Why do you assume he's not afraid of making a mistake? He's possibly terrified and sickened of the idea of giving in to temptation, and therefore just doesn't let any situation develop.
Even when I'm single I tend to get disgusted by women that come onto guys too quickly, because I get the feeling that they are like that with everyone, and therefore any type of relationship with them would be short lived (which isn't what I'm into). When in a relationship I'm even less likely to be open to that type of behaviour. I think the only way I'd remotely be able to get into a compromising situation would be if I'm comforting someone and they get the wrong idea. Then I'd have to apologise and explain that I didn't mean things the way they have taken them. Or if it happened that I'd developed feelings myself, and they were stronger than those for my partner, I'd end the first relationship before "cheating".
You've mentioned being "flattered" twice now. That's not a reason to cheat. If you're willing to have sex with someone just because you're getting attention from them, that pretty much is being a whore. Or there must be something wrong with the relationship that is making you want out, like the other guy said.
Being drunk is not a reason to cheat. I still have self control even when drunk. Even when I'm single and have some random hitting on me I still have pretty good self control. There has to be willingness to even put yourself into that sort of situation, and the drink just makes you feel less guilty about indulging.
FFS that sort of weasely attitude is making me want to throw up.. and I'm usually not squeamish. If someone clearly wants to be more than friends when they know you're in a relationship, you make it clear that it's not an option. Doing anything else is cheating. If you want to cheat then fine, but stop trying to make it sound reasonable. It's pathetic.
"And suddenly your chatting up an ex, and keeping it secret because your spouse would be pissed"
What? "Chatting up" an ex is already cheating. Chatting to an ex is okay. Meeting up for coffee when you know they have feelings - and you apparently are someone with no respect for your partner and/or no self control - is just going full blown retard.
Nintendo targets a different demographic than the one MSFT is after
Riiiight.. MS want money, no matter who it's from. Nintendo did target a different demographic to the 360 and PS3, but now everyone wants a piece of that pie. That's why we have Kinect and Move. Didn't you notice those? And all the shitty, awful games that generally come along with them?
Not to mention that graphics for most game types have been "good enough" for quite a few years now. A small percentage of people are always dumb enough to choose their games purely on how pretty they are (ie what will show off their e-penis the most), but more experienced gamers know that it's better to read a variety of reviews or try a demo rather than just look at screenshots.
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The fact that you think you have to commit crimes to have fun is.. strange.
Microsoft can afford to release a incontestably best-specced console, and it would be the end of PlayStation if they did.
That's not true at all. Did you completely miss the part where the Wii raped both the Xbox and PS3 last generation? Duh.
Besides, most Xbox games seem to come out for Windows eventually. Even other consoles when it comes to the indie games. I basically got my Xbox just to play games like Limbo, but now they're available all over the place.
Halo is pretty shit as FPSes go. The only other Xbox exclusive I've seen that might be remotely worth it is the Fable series.
And ultimately, there are a few exclusive series that it would make it worthwhile for me to get a PlayStation 4: Gran Turismo, LittleBigPlanet, and Uncharted. I don't care if the Xbox has better graphics. My PC kicks my PS3's ass in graphics terms, but I'm still happy with the graphics on PS3. Sure I'm going to play any Elder Scrolls games on PC from now on because they're so demanding, but for stuff like Assassin's Creed, I actually prefer playing on my PS3. I haven't used my 360 or Wii for years, because there aren't any exclusive games out for them that really interest me.
Nope..
it is possible to "decrypt" out of the ciphertext any message whatsoever with the same number of characters, simply by using a different key, and there is no information in the ciphertext which will allow [the reader] to choose among the various possible readings of the ciphertext.
Got that from this . It's an interesting read. In a message encrypted by a one time pad, even two letters right next to each other may not represent the same letter in the original plaintext..
Yes, and I could get to work every day by walking if I wanted. That doesn't mean that taking the bus or a car isn't a more efficient use of my time most days.
You should maybe try "intermittent fasting". I guess you could call it the fad of the moment, and different people do it differently, but it's worth trying as a way of eating if you are having trouble losing fat. You eat every day, and eat the same amount as normal, but you squeeze your eating into a 6-8 hour window each day (I usually start eating around midday), to give your body more time to run off of fat each day.That should make you more efficient at burning off fat. If you eat all through the day, then you could be in fat storage mode most of the time rather than burning it. I think it would be more similar to how our bodies have evolved to eat too if we eat less often but in larger amounts.. modern humans eat allll the time, but nobody has done much study into the possible biological benefits of the body regularly fasting.
I used Visual Studio in the early 2000s and I liked it, but I like other IDEs too. Delphi was what I used for developing GUIs for ages. The options for doing so in Visual Studio back then were a lot more complicated, either that or I just didn't know where they were. I find Eclipse a bit annoying, but I tried Netbeans recently and I like it. I also started using Emacs a few years ago for things like C, scripting and web page editing, and I like it a lot.
So yeah, Visual Studio is one of the few decent products that MS produce (or at least it was 10 years ago), but it's pretty silly to suggest that people won't like the alternatives available to them.
And that would be different.. how? Apart from being less reliable, resilient and convenient of course.
The passage these morons are using to justify not taking the card talks about a mark on the forehead or hand, and one that applies to everyone, not just school students, etc. It's a pretty bizarre interpretation even if you do believe in governing your life via fairytales..
Eating all oatmeal would be very carb heavy and make you fat :p
Eating all bacon, eggs, steak and gravy is what will keep you thin :)
What "right" is this taking away, exactly? The right to not have your teachers know that you attended class, even though they would notice anyway if they were doing role calls? It's not really doing much other than making everything more efficient and modern. It's like how in some cars now the doors will unlock for you and the engine will start as long as you have your keys in your pocket. I think that type of thing is great. It saves pointless steps.
Ah okay. Well, I was buying wholemeal pizzas at first, but recently I've been trying normal ones again. They're valuable as a source of calories to stop me from losing weight at least. I've been having pizza maybe 3 or 4 times a week for dinner, 2 or 3 sandwiches during the day, sometimes porridge too..
I have friends who train some pretty advanced Parkour and freerunning while high.. and in fact I still have decent balance these days even when I'm drunk (I can still balance fine along a half-inch wide railing after having say the equivalent of 5 beers), likewise from all the Parkour training.. so testing people's balance and such isn't a very precise measure IMO.
It's really interesting that pot is being legalised. It actually makes me think that the US political system is working as it should in some regards, ie the public are actually being listened to. I bet 10% of my friends will want to move to the US when they hear this news :)
I take it you meant "dissenters"?
I'm not from the US, but it's interesting to notice how out in the middle of nowhere, there were a lot of Romney voters. In areas with denser population, there were a lot more Obama voters.
How does it not benefit the students? Would you really prefer to sit through a role call every class? In my school we only had a roll call first thing in the morning. If the US schools are doing it every class, it must be incredibly annoying for both students and teachers, not to mention a waste of something like 30 minutes of every day.
If you're going to have to be together in person anyway, why not just generate/swap keys then..?
The GPL isn't enforced via patents, it's enforced via copyright.
So you can copy software concepts in most countries if you want - but if you copy someone else's actual source code, that's illegal by default. They have to make the code available under an open license before you are allowed to copy/distribute it.
It's not quite so simple though. Your metabolism varies by how much you eat, hence after sugar you go hyper for a while, and then around 4 hours later you get sleepy (well, I do). Apparently if you fast your body switches into a more efficient mode where it is more likely to try to repair/sustain body cells than create new ones by division, as this is more energy efficient. Don't really have any references for that though so I'm not sure how true it is. It would be one explanation for why people who eat less tend to live longer though, and that is one that has been proven.
So there will probably be a range where you can eat the same and stay the same weight. Also if you eat either very large amounts of food, or a lot of sugary food, it pushes your blood sugar up to the point where you are storing fat rather than simply running hotter, as it were. You can also be more or less efficient at burning fat depending on how often you let your body run in that mode. A lot of people just eat frequently and don't do any exercise, so their body rarely has to burn fat for energy..
Maybe you have the wrong idea about what is healthy and unhealthy. Do you drink "diet" drinks? I consider them unhealthy in general. Total calories doesn't matter much, look more at the amount of carbs you eat, and when you eat them. You don't even need a whole lots of vitamins. When I tried eating low fat, my weight stayed exactly the same. I tried cutting out carbs, and the pounds were falling off despite me being at a low weight already, so I worked some "good" carbs back in pretty quickly. The level of carbs you eat do affect your water weight basically overnight, but I was definitely losing weight too.
My flatmate has a very similar body type to yours by the sounds of it, low carb helps him to lose weight. Though he also is literally addicted to diet coke and I think that seriously hampers things.
I already had to change my eating habits around 4 years ago to stop from getting fat. Now I just know a lot more about food. As long as I stick to "good" foods I have to eat loads to stay healthy, so I've been experimenting with slightly higher GI foods. I mostly stick with low GI for the sake of my mood though, rather than weight.
What's crap about cheese? Lots of good protein and fat in there. When you say "crap", do you mean "high calorie", or "unhealthy", or what?
If you have a look at something like the Atkins diet, you'll see that luck has little to do with it. People just have the wrong idea that it's fat that makes them fat. Someone else also pointed out something about gut flora/fauna, and I'm pretty sure that has an effect too. If you have a lot of candida then it releases small amounts of a poison into you, which makes you feel like crap. I was eating really low GI foods for a while which would help to kill candida off, but recently I've tried switching to a more "normal" diet, while taking probiotic yoghurt and apple cider vinegar to keep gut flora in check. Seems to be working okay so far..
I'm 29. I can control my weight pretty easily by adjusting carb intake it seems. I was losing far too much weight when I tried a low carb diet. Low fat diet did diddly squat though. The common ideas about eating to lose weight are pretty much on their head. "Low fat" foods are all higher in sugar than their normal fat equivalents..