Lol, those were the days we played in the forest behind our house because even the closest grocery store was near eighty miles away and the town connected to our forest service station (we lived on forest service grounds) was two miles away on the log truck-choked freeway. Ahh... in the winter, though, we'd be wetting down the trail going from our yard to the compound street (with the garden hose)... after building a ramp on it, of course. We'd get so much air...
This has been a nice discussion to read but the concerned parent was looking for a parenting tool. As for a solution, the only thing I know off the top of my head (it's free, as well) is the firefox plugin that's a child-safe browser. It may not allow minecraft since that isn't completely child-safe due to no one policing the chat and/or no child-safe chat controls. I know of a perfect solution for an android smartphone so I'm sure there's something out there. You could bite the bullet at $40 a year per computer that one of the first respondants mentioned (they were modded to a 2- insightful, I believe, so only a portion of their message shows on its own)
There's also many janitorial cleaners that have acid in them. I remember when I owned a janitorial business, there was this one toilet bowl cleaner we had. This was our last-ditch effort to clean a toilet. Basically, if it wasn't coming clean for anything else, we used it. The top two ingredients were hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acid. The warning on the bottle told you not to put it in a metal container, due to risk of explosion. What the cleaner basically did was etch off a few layers of porcelain from the toilet. Any stain on said porcelain was gone, with the porcelain.
Anyone can walk into a janitorial supply place... they typically sell to both businesses and the public (heck especially nowadays, with the way the economy has gone). Just another suggestion of where to get acid, is all... Make sure to read the warnings on the label of whatever you choose... I'm sure they've done the idiot tests so you don't have to.
And the audience for Garfield thought it was great. Its just that the target audience was a lot younger than you. In fact, my son, who is 6, thought the Garfield movie was fantastic and forced me to watch it over, and over, and over, and over, and...
There is a reason why children's movies are aimed at children.
Hey, at least he didn't stop at certain parts of the movie and rewind to watch them again a billion times in a row...
I have a girlfriend, and no, it's not enough to get you out of an MMO addiction. It can be added incentive. Usually, you have to wait until it starts hurting their job and their wallet. If that doesn't do it, good luck!
Yeah, you somehow have to stop the money that goes into the game (if at all) and possibly offer a safe alternative to occupy their time, like a browser game where the building or working times gets up to 8 hours or more. If there's 8 hours where they can't do anything, it leaves them time to get up and do stuff, at least... and perhaps it'll keep them from going back to the MMO when the cash for it comes back. Nile Online, Evony and Gladiatus all can take a bunch of time where you do nothing at all.
I rarely drink anything like this. First off, there's a lot of sugar in it and too much sugar at once will either give me a migraine or put me to sleep. I can never drink one can of soda in one day because of that. Secondly, I don't like carbonation. It gets trapped in my stomach too often. Even if I get a soda to drink I have to de-carbonate it before I can drink it. Third, the caffeine puts me to sleep. If I want something that will put me to sleep, I'd rather drink hot chocolate. It at least tastes better. Most of the time, I drink water. Sometimes, I drink milk, homemade smoothies or a tea. When I have a craving or need to sleep easier, I drink hot chocolate made out of cocoa powder. I think the largest consumption of caffeine I have is green tea.
Of course automakers are "on board"! They're now pawns of the government, just like the banks. Do you think they could really go against anything the administration wants?
Basically now Obama can do whatever he wants. He's playing all the hands himself.
I didn't vote him in... too bad others did. Granted, it's good to get better gas mileage vehicles but we really need to focus on alternative fuels. Better gas mileage only lengthens the time we can run on gas rather than actually finding a resource we can use that's better for the planet and won't run out or won't run out so quickly. Likewise, having alternative fuels means we have the ability to use more than one or two kinds. We just have to figure out the specifics... like how to store enough of the different fuels at gas stations without it being a fiasco.
I think Mythbusters found that 45 m/h was the cut-off point where AC was more efficient but I think it was something not noticeable for, say, one trip... I forget, though. However, on the air circulation thing... I really liked how the vents were in my old Honda Civic Wagon (1981). You opened those puppies up and you got a good air flow and the air was colder than the air I got out of other vehicles (when put on vent or something similar and all three: the middle heat setting, cold setting and well, on the hot, it was about as warm or a little warmer). Likewise, in my 1979 Jimmy, I had an electric back window. I'd roll that puppy down either halfway or more, then crack open the driver side window (the other two door windows weren't powered and were the only other two that could be rolled down). I'm sure that probably created some drag but you couldn't even have loose papers or anything without seeing a paper tornado inside the truck. Yeah, I had a few light items in there loose, once, when I did that... strange thing is they never exited the vehicle. I think the out was probably the driver window? With it cracked, they wouldn't be able to get out (I did have to pull over and re-situate things because I couldn't likely bat at papers flying in my face while driving). This tornado started up around 35 m/h, if I remember right. That system worked on every day except the very hottest of days in the summer... then, I'd turn on the AC.
My 91 Honda Civic gets 45 consistantly, and up to 50 mpg. I always laugh when the new car commercials claim "Amazing 32 mpg!" for a economy sedan.
Lol and you think you had a reason to laugh... my old 81 Honda Civic Wagon averaged 45 mpg. My brother's 83 Honda Civic (not wagon style) averaged 40 mpg. These are both still in the carburetor days! Now, the difference between the two? My brother's was automatic and mine was manual tranny, so my Civic got the slightly larger engine, which meant more efficiency. Not to mention the fact that I could fit a full oak table (leaves and all) into the back of the thing and even easily go up steep hills with that in the back (helped someone move... the next trip was the eight oak chairs).
I was merely stating that you cut a piece out of a part of my reply to someone's statement, which WASN'T saying my reasons were better than a celebrity's. You, sir, are probably just here to get the flaming going on the board. That's cool, though... not something I'm into but I'm sure you'll have an audience. Go on, I'm sure they're waiting.
Personally, as a friend, I'm willing to go hard drive shopping with them, refer them to places or whatever it takes but I won't buy the thing for them (maybe good friends but not friends I'm not so close to) because most likely, I won't get re-imbursed even for the hard drive. Yeah, I trust my close friends but others have to prove themselves to me... been duped in the past. However, I'd be happy to refer them or go with them. For most, I can refer. I know enough places of varying qualities that I can assuredly fit a product/customer service of a place to the people I know. If the person is an idiot, I would at least refer them to a place where the people who work there know what they're doing, realize they're an idiot and are nice enough to make sure they get what they want and need. If the service leaves them to make some choices where something can go wrong, I'll definitely help them shop.
I'd like to just mention this... Geek Squad has despoiled the holy sanctuary of the geek and brought in preppies- possibly what I call yuppie larvae. (Those who are going to grow up to be yuppies or otherwise of the persuasion that views what the popular stations- radio, tv or internet- websites, etc. as the holy grail of society.)
My grandmother gave her old computer to my uncle and bought a new one because it was "full". By "Full" - her email inbox was full. My uncle got a 2 year old computer for free.
Lmao, that's good... even my dad isn't that bad. Granted, he doesn't know how to say he wants to attach an image to an email and send it to someone but- well, he's too penny-pinching to buy a brand new computer, anyway. If he wasn't, he might do something like this. He did set his browser settings so that he was "secure", once. Of course, he couldn't even see anything on the internet but I guess you can't get much more secure than that. My mom is better off- at least she can viably use a computer. She, of course, takes a nose-dive when it comes to keeping the thing clean. I delete EVERY email from her that has an attachment... for the safety of my computer. She looks at anything and everything on the internet and likely, gets all the malware, viruses, etc. out there. Hmm.. I don't know many people out there who know enough about computers to actually think about building their own. I'm considering it for my next one. This one was built by someone who probably shouldn't have built it but I did get it working properly. It was a good learning experience- much like my first car.
Why do people still think knives are instruments of beauty? Can you show me anyone who looked better one year after their surgery than they did before?
That's beyond beauty, though. I bet she also can breathe better now and otherwise physically function better. I think what most people are talking about with reconstructive surgery are the people who do it that are obsessed with having the D-cup boobs or whatever.
With 25,000 of work, she could probably look like a movie star.
Why do people still think knives are instruments of beauty? Can you show me anyone who looked better one year after their surgery than they did before?
Seriously. I would never go under the knife in my entire life- for anything. However, with family females that don't start going gray/white until about 60 and don't wrinkle, either (hooray for olive skin!) I won't "need" it until it doesn't matter. Granted, I don't care enough to go to those extremes. Sure, I'll moisturize but that's part of keeping my skin healthy.
I call bullshit. This sounds like something the nerd in the basement figured out by reading a bunch of magazines found under his daddy's mattress. If a man says his wife if more attractive than some popular tart on the television screen, I believe him. My wife is. As for the "celebs" - phhht. There aren't very many of them who ARE better than trailer trash.
Here's the statement of the year! I'd NEVER want to date or marry... heck, or LIVE with any supermodel, singer, actor or any other celebrity. I wouldn't want to be around that if I was just friends with them. With all the backstabbing and cheating and indecision they generally have... ugh! So what about their pretty faces? Who cares that they have loads of cash? Seriously... I hate trailer trash and I hate it when people think they're better than someone else just because they're in the limelight of society or have something someone else doesn't have...
The chances of your wife being 'deeply beautiful' are almost nil.
If that's true, you fucked up. Why the hell do you marry someone in the first place?
And no men don't gradually find girls they live with to be more and more attractive over time.
Bullshit.
On the other hand, women find men they like to be more attractive than they really are.
So now you know attractiveness better than the people whose opinion actually matters to each other? How is this crap Insightful?
Heh... I can add to this, especially as one of the FEMALE slashdotters. Beauty, for one, is in the eye of the beholder. I'm sure he thinks his wife is beautiful in more than one way. Personally, I couldn't imagine marrying someone who annoyed me every second of their life or who made me cringe every time they opened their mouth. For me, beauty is in knowledge... but there are physical features I like, as well. Eyes... and it's not just color but liveliness and character. Eyes are the windows to the soul and for most people, that's right. So many out there are an open book when you look into their eyes, face, body posture. Morals is a big one for me. I won't ever stay with someone who does things that are against my morals. Why would I want to feel bad all the time about who I'm with? There's more but that's some of them. Attractiveness as the popular society sees it isn't how I see it. Anyone can be made to look beautiful on the outside but it takes much more effort to look beautiful on the inside. Furthermore, it's easier to live with someone with a good personality than to live with someone who looks good on the outside. Looks aren't everything. Well, onto the other stuff! Who you marry, you have to live with, so there needs to be a balance of personality along with the other positives. As for the gradually finding someone more attractive... that goes with the personality thing. The longer you're living with someone, the more you learn about them. Living with someone means you REALLY learn about them and not just learn what they want you to learn. This tends to be why I've gradually learned I don't really love someone... or if I did, then it still wasn't worth the torture they were putting me through. (My previous choices in men weren't good, I suppose but I think I have the right one now.) Also, there's the fact that we're generally always growing and changing. Someone you found mildly annoying you could later really like- either because they changed, you changed or both. As for the last comment by the first quote, that isn't always true. Granted, sometimes, a woman will focus on a few traits and believe she has a catch (whether she does or doesn't) but I think that probably goes for some men as well. We're all human and we all came from Earth, so there will be at least some similarities in our behaviors. Furthermore, every person is their own thinking, reasoning, hopefully rational being. Beyond the drive of society, we still have choices to make. Some of us don't even follow what most believe are societal patterns. Heck, if you look at everything that the popular society says is normal or good, I'm sure the whole adds up to a lot of people not following at least something.
If you were an emailaholic you'd be drinking a fifth of emailahol a day - not showing up for work, getting fired, ruining your relationships, having an email in the morning to get going, just one big fucking nightmare of a life.
Zomg, this description fits my mother to a T!- wait... she does still have a job... but she stays up about four hours past her bedtime to do email...
Mine don't... I email at 6am to 7am all the time. If I don't get it done then (the wasted time while yelling at my daughter to get ready for school... aka, if I do much for myself, she won't get ready in time) then I don't do it. I figure too much emailing is frivolous but that could be because I have a mother who emails so freaking much that I end up getting each thing she sends about five times- one from each email addy she has. I'd like to put her on my spam mail list but she'd know...
That doesn't make any sense. When I needed a new power supply for my old T21 Thinkpad, I just called IBM and ordered one. They didn't ask why I wanted it, or ask me to prove I hadn't stolen my laptop. Why would they? It's a spare part. They have no reason to care what I do with it.
The same seems to apply to this case, from what I can tell. The guy wanted a spare part. He called Alienware to order it. Why did they even ask what he wanted it for? If he were going to use it as a paper weight, or as a weird kind of sex toy, what difference does that make to them? It's a spare part.
You're talking IBM while the story here is talking Dell. Think, man. IBM is about customer service. Why? IBM is primarily for businesses. Any service provided to businesses has MUCH better customer service than a service provided to the normal Joe out there. Case in point: Sprint. I knew a lady who worked for Sprint customer service. Sometimes, she answered normal consumer calls but usually, she was in the business call center. She said that the customer service for the average customer literally sucked, while the service for businesses was great. The same goes pretty much for any industry out there. The difference here is that IBM/Dell is selling computers/parts, while Sprint is selling cellular phones/service. The moral of this story is: while businesses mean big money, the average Joe doesn't. Bigger money is a bigger motivation for companies to roll out the tea service. Is this smart? I say no. Am I them? I also say no. If I had a business that provided people with something, my customer service would be impeccable. However, any business I would have would most likely be within the small business purview of business types. I actually HAVE had a business before... janitorial. My customers were the happiest alive and they ALWAYS came back to me- including the government.
It sounds like the machine is supposed to have a plate on it with a warranty number. Alienware has reasonably asked for that information,
Reasonably?
In the automotive world, tampering with or removing the VIN before selling the car is a crime all by itself:...
Another totally irrelevant car analogy. WTF is it with people here that they can't think about anything -- software, laptops, relationships -- unless they can put it "in the automotive world"?
Dunno... BUT... cars are REALLY easy to fix... or doctor up... or "fix up" to look like normal but really make it so it'll break down about five minutes after hitting the freeway, pissing off your ex-whatever- er, I mean... Personally... I've never seen a VIN on a computer- wait, would that be CIN? Would you pronounce that sin or kin? Wait, irrelevant yet again. I guess that's too easy to do... (J/K)
alas...my point was that the big companies don't make any profit of a second hand laptop, so they make life difficult for end user. Whether it was stolen or not it beside the point. You can't assume something was stolen just because it was bought second hand.
Dude, you got a Dell (pretty much)! I don't think Dell EVER had customer service, unless in the description of the word, you found the phrases: badgering the customer, harassing the customer, accusing the customer of theft, etc. I'm surprised that Dell is still around... but then again... Dude, my mom got a Dell! I suppose it could be worse... she could have problems with the thing and actually NEED customer service. Trust me... with Dell, the ACTUAL customers don't get very good service. What do you think the second-hand buyers will get? Personally, I'd expect nothing good.
Before I say anything else... I'd like to know why you're talking about the Philippines and Mindanao. Are you from there?
As for the Electoral College... the way they set it up was great when we (the states) were small and had populations centered in a few areas, compared to the sprawl we have now. I know of a city in Oregon that contains, I think, still six people. I bet they don't get a voice- just the same as you. The Electoral College should have been changed, I think, before Hawaii and Alaska became states. Even then, we probably had the population and sprawl that needed the change. When the Interstates were built, we definitely needed the change. So many people get drowned out in the roar of other cities in the country, with the way the system is. There are even some states that are drowned out in the system as it is! I think a system that has proven it can change (i.e. the people have actually changed key points to grow with the country) is the best possibility. However, there's more than just the Electoral College that's from history that makes a difference in life. Scientists have discovered there's a pattern in earthquakes and volcanoes- the either of which can create a tsunami with disasterous effects. (They even found the parent for the orphan tsunami in Japan, with the parent being located in the PacNW of the US.) There's also looking at cultural history or religious history... anything can make an impact on peoples' lives. I don't understand people who discount anything in history. Gaming trends can either be an indicator on other things or coupled with another trend can say something important. Yes, one thing may seem small but it's the smallest things that can make the most surprising impacts on daily lives.
(By the way, sorry I didn't quote you but it was getting long enough as it is... I know there's some Slashdotters who don't like to sit here reading some long excerpt on the page. Likewise, some of the longer ones are really important to read because they have a lot of relevant information and I'd rather someone not skip over something like that because of something I wrote.)
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Lol, those were the days we played in the forest behind our house because even the closest grocery store was near eighty miles away and the town connected to our forest service station (we lived on forest service grounds) was two miles away on the log truck-choked freeway. Ahh... in the winter, though, we'd be wetting down the trail going from our yard to the compound street (with the garden hose)... after building a ramp on it, of course. We'd get so much air...
This has been a nice discussion to read but the concerned parent was looking for a parenting tool. As for a solution, the only thing I know off the top of my head (it's free, as well) is the firefox plugin that's a child-safe browser. It may not allow minecraft since that isn't completely child-safe due to no one policing the chat and/or no child-safe chat controls. I know of a perfect solution for an android smartphone so I'm sure there's something out there. You could bite the bullet at $40 a year per computer that one of the first respondants mentioned (they were modded to a 2- insightful, I believe, so only a portion of their message shows on its own)
There's also many janitorial cleaners that have acid in them. I remember when I owned a janitorial business, there was this one toilet bowl cleaner we had. This was our last-ditch effort to clean a toilet. Basically, if it wasn't coming clean for anything else, we used it. The top two ingredients were hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acid. The warning on the bottle told you not to put it in a metal container, due to risk of explosion. What the cleaner basically did was etch off a few layers of porcelain from the toilet. Any stain on said porcelain was gone, with the porcelain. Anyone can walk into a janitorial supply place... they typically sell to both businesses and the public (heck especially nowadays, with the way the economy has gone). Just another suggestion of where to get acid, is all... Make sure to read the warnings on the label of whatever you choose... I'm sure they've done the idiot tests so you don't have to.
Are you above making a big fat paycheck?
And the audience for Garfield thought it was great. Its just that the target audience was a lot younger than you. In fact, my son, who is 6, thought the Garfield movie was fantastic and forced me to watch it over, and over, and over, and over, and...
There is a reason why children's movies are aimed at children.
Hey, at least he didn't stop at certain parts of the movie and rewind to watch them again a billion times in a row...
I have a girlfriend, and no, it's not enough to get you out of an MMO addiction. It can be added incentive. Usually, you have to wait until it starts hurting their job and their wallet. If that doesn't do it, good luck!
Yeah, you somehow have to stop the money that goes into the game (if at all) and possibly offer a safe alternative to occupy their time, like a browser game where the building or working times gets up to 8 hours or more. If there's 8 hours where they can't do anything, it leaves them time to get up and do stuff, at least... and perhaps it'll keep them from going back to the MMO when the cash for it comes back. Nile Online, Evony and Gladiatus all can take a bunch of time where you do nothing at all.
I rarely drink anything like this. First off, there's a lot of sugar in it and too much sugar at once will either give me a migraine or put me to sleep. I can never drink one can of soda in one day because of that. Secondly, I don't like carbonation. It gets trapped in my stomach too often. Even if I get a soda to drink I have to de-carbonate it before I can drink it. Third, the caffeine puts me to sleep. If I want something that will put me to sleep, I'd rather drink hot chocolate. It at least tastes better. Most of the time, I drink water. Sometimes, I drink milk, homemade smoothies or a tea. When I have a craving or need to sleep easier, I drink hot chocolate made out of cocoa powder. I think the largest consumption of caffeine I have is green tea.
Of course automakers are "on board"! They're now pawns of the government, just like the banks. Do you think they could really go against anything the administration wants?
Basically now Obama can do whatever he wants. He's playing all the hands himself.
I didn't vote him in... too bad others did. Granted, it's good to get better gas mileage vehicles but we really need to focus on alternative fuels. Better gas mileage only lengthens the time we can run on gas rather than actually finding a resource we can use that's better for the planet and won't run out or won't run out so quickly. Likewise, having alternative fuels means we have the ability to use more than one or two kinds. We just have to figure out the specifics... like how to store enough of the different fuels at gas stations without it being a fiasco.
I think Mythbusters found that 45 m/h was the cut-off point where AC was more efficient but I think it was something not noticeable for, say, one trip... I forget, though. However, on the air circulation thing... I really liked how the vents were in my old Honda Civic Wagon (1981). You opened those puppies up and you got a good air flow and the air was colder than the air I got out of other vehicles (when put on vent or something similar and all three: the middle heat setting, cold setting and well, on the hot, it was about as warm or a little warmer). Likewise, in my 1979 Jimmy, I had an electric back window. I'd roll that puppy down either halfway or more, then crack open the driver side window (the other two door windows weren't powered and were the only other two that could be rolled down). I'm sure that probably created some drag but you couldn't even have loose papers or anything without seeing a paper tornado inside the truck. Yeah, I had a few light items in there loose, once, when I did that... strange thing is they never exited the vehicle. I think the out was probably the driver window? With it cracked, they wouldn't be able to get out (I did have to pull over and re-situate things because I couldn't likely bat at papers flying in my face while driving). This tornado started up around 35 m/h, if I remember right. That system worked on every day except the very hottest of days in the summer... then, I'd turn on the AC.
My 91 Honda Civic gets 45 consistantly, and up to 50 mpg. I always laugh when the new car commercials claim "Amazing 32 mpg!" for a economy sedan.
Lol and you think you had a reason to laugh... my old 81 Honda Civic Wagon averaged 45 mpg. My brother's 83 Honda Civic (not wagon style) averaged 40 mpg. These are both still in the carburetor days! Now, the difference between the two? My brother's was automatic and mine was manual tranny, so my Civic got the slightly larger engine, which meant more efficiency. Not to mention the fact that I could fit a full oak table (leaves and all) into the back of the thing and even easily go up steep hills with that in the back (helped someone move... the next trip was the eight oak chairs).
I was merely stating that you cut a piece out of a part of my reply to someone's statement, which WASN'T saying my reasons were better than a celebrity's. You, sir, are probably just here to get the flaming going on the board. That's cool, though... not something I'm into but I'm sure you'll have an audience. Go on, I'm sure they're waiting.
That's pretty funny.
Yeah, especially the fact that you cut out the rest of the meaning to that comment.
Personally, as a friend, I'm willing to go hard drive shopping with them, refer them to places or whatever it takes but I won't buy the thing for them (maybe good friends but not friends I'm not so close to) because most likely, I won't get re-imbursed even for the hard drive. Yeah, I trust my close friends but others have to prove themselves to me... been duped in the past. However, I'd be happy to refer them or go with them. For most, I can refer. I know enough places of varying qualities that I can assuredly fit a product/customer service of a place to the people I know. If the person is an idiot, I would at least refer them to a place where the people who work there know what they're doing, realize they're an idiot and are nice enough to make sure they get what they want and need. If the service leaves them to make some choices where something can go wrong, I'll definitely help them shop.
I'd like to just mention this... Geek Squad has despoiled the holy sanctuary of the geek and brought in preppies- possibly what I call yuppie larvae. (Those who are going to grow up to be yuppies or otherwise of the persuasion that views what the popular stations- radio, tv or internet- websites, etc. as the holy grail of society.)
Just get a new case for it.
My grandmother gave her old computer to my uncle and bought a new one because it was "full". By "Full" - her email inbox was full. My uncle got a 2 year old computer for free.
Lmao, that's good... even my dad isn't that bad. Granted, he doesn't know how to say he wants to attach an image to an email and send it to someone but- well, he's too penny-pinching to buy a brand new computer, anyway. If he wasn't, he might do something like this. He did set his browser settings so that he was "secure", once. Of course, he couldn't even see anything on the internet but I guess you can't get much more secure than that. My mom is better off- at least she can viably use a computer. She, of course, takes a nose-dive when it comes to keeping the thing clean. I delete EVERY email from her that has an attachment... for the safety of my computer. She looks at anything and everything on the internet and likely, gets all the malware, viruses, etc. out there. Hmm.. I don't know many people out there who know enough about computers to actually think about building their own. I'm considering it for my next one. This one was built by someone who probably shouldn't have built it but I did get it working properly. It was a good learning experience- much like my first car.
Why do people still think knives are instruments of beauty? Can you show me anyone who looked better one year after their surgery than they did before?
Yes:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30586321/
That's beyond beauty, though. I bet she also can breathe better now and otherwise physically function better. I think what most people are talking about with reconstructive surgery are the people who do it that are obsessed with having the D-cup boobs or whatever.
With 25,000 of work, she could probably look like a movie star.
Why do people still think knives are instruments of beauty? Can you show me anyone who looked better one year after their surgery than they did before?
Seriously. I would never go under the knife in my entire life- for anything. However, with family females that don't start going gray/white until about 60 and don't wrinkle, either (hooray for olive skin!) I won't "need" it until it doesn't matter. Granted, I don't care enough to go to those extremes. Sure, I'll moisturize but that's part of keeping my skin healthy.
I call bullshit. This sounds like something the nerd in the basement figured out by reading a bunch of magazines found under his daddy's mattress. If a man says his wife if more attractive than some popular tart on the television screen, I believe him. My wife is. As for the "celebs" - phhht. There aren't very many of them who ARE better than trailer trash.
Here's the statement of the year! I'd NEVER want to date or marry... heck, or LIVE with any supermodel, singer, actor or any other celebrity. I wouldn't want to be around that if I was just friends with them. With all the backstabbing and cheating and indecision they generally have... ugh! So what about their pretty faces? Who cares that they have loads of cash? Seriously... I hate trailer trash and I hate it when people think they're better than someone else just because they're in the limelight of society or have something someone else doesn't have...
The chances of your wife being 'deeply beautiful' are almost nil.
If that's true, you fucked up. Why the hell do you marry someone in the first place?
And no men don't gradually find girls they live with to be more and more attractive over time.
Bullshit.
On the other hand, women find men they like to be more attractive than they really are.
So now you know attractiveness better than the people whose opinion actually matters to each other? How is this crap Insightful?
Heh... I can add to this, especially as one of the FEMALE slashdotters. Beauty, for one, is in the eye of the beholder. I'm sure he thinks his wife is beautiful in more than one way. Personally, I couldn't imagine marrying someone who annoyed me every second of their life or who made me cringe every time they opened their mouth. For me, beauty is in knowledge... but there are physical features I like, as well. Eyes... and it's not just color but liveliness and character. Eyes are the windows to the soul and for most people, that's right. So many out there are an open book when you look into their eyes, face, body posture. Morals is a big one for me. I won't ever stay with someone who does things that are against my morals. Why would I want to feel bad all the time about who I'm with? There's more but that's some of them. Attractiveness as the popular society sees it isn't how I see it. Anyone can be made to look beautiful on the outside but it takes much more effort to look beautiful on the inside. Furthermore, it's easier to live with someone with a good personality than to live with someone who looks good on the outside. Looks aren't everything. Well, onto the other stuff! Who you marry, you have to live with, so there needs to be a balance of personality along with the other positives. As for the gradually finding someone more attractive... that goes with the personality thing. The longer you're living with someone, the more you learn about them. Living with someone means you REALLY learn about them and not just learn what they want you to learn. This tends to be why I've gradually learned I don't really love someone... or if I did, then it still wasn't worth the torture they were putting me through. (My previous choices in men weren't good, I suppose but I think I have the right one now.) Also, there's the fact that we're generally always growing and changing. Someone you found mildly annoying you could later really like- either because they changed, you changed or both. As for the last comment by the first quote, that isn't always true. Granted, sometimes, a woman will focus on a few traits and believe she has a catch (whether she does or doesn't) but I think that probably goes for some men as well. We're all human and we all came from Earth, so there will be at least some similarities in our behaviors. Furthermore, every person is their own thinking, reasoning, hopefully rational being. Beyond the drive of society, we still have choices to make. Some of us don't even follow what most believe are societal patterns. Heck, if you look at everything that the popular society says is normal or good, I'm sure the whole adds up to a lot of people not following at least something.
Is the "aholic" suffix really any worse than "-gate" for any scandal?
So... is that why Bill's last name starts with gate? Hmm... certainly explains what he's doing with Microsoft, I suppose...
If you were an emailaholic you'd be drinking a fifth of emailahol a day - not showing up for work, getting fired, ruining your relationships, having an email in the morning to get going, just one big fucking nightmare of a life.
Zomg, this description fits my mother to a T!- wait... she does still have a job... but she stays up about four hours past her bedtime to do email...
Mine don't... I email at 6am to 7am all the time. If I don't get it done then (the wasted time while yelling at my daughter to get ready for school... aka, if I do much for myself, she won't get ready in time) then I don't do it. I figure too much emailing is frivolous but that could be because I have a mother who emails so freaking much that I end up getting each thing she sends about five times- one from each email addy she has. I'd like to put her on my spam mail list but she'd know...
That doesn't make any sense. When I needed a new power supply for my old T21 Thinkpad, I just called IBM and ordered one. They didn't ask why I wanted it, or ask me to prove I hadn't stolen my laptop. Why would they? It's a spare part. They have no reason to care what I do with it. The same seems to apply to this case, from what I can tell. The guy wanted a spare part. He called Alienware to order it. Why did they even ask what he wanted it for? If he were going to use it as a paper weight, or as a weird kind of sex toy, what difference does that make to them? It's a spare part.
You're talking IBM while the story here is talking Dell. Think, man. IBM is about customer service. Why? IBM is primarily for businesses. Any service provided to businesses has MUCH better customer service than a service provided to the normal Joe out there. Case in point: Sprint. I knew a lady who worked for Sprint customer service. Sometimes, she answered normal consumer calls but usually, she was in the business call center. She said that the customer service for the average customer literally sucked, while the service for businesses was great. The same goes pretty much for any industry out there. The difference here is that IBM/Dell is selling computers/parts, while Sprint is selling cellular phones/service. The moral of this story is: while businesses mean big money, the average Joe doesn't. Bigger money is a bigger motivation for companies to roll out the tea service. Is this smart? I say no. Am I them? I also say no. If I had a business that provided people with something, my customer service would be impeccable. However, any business I would have would most likely be within the small business purview of business types. I actually HAVE had a business before... janitorial. My customers were the happiest alive and they ALWAYS came back to me- including the government.
It sounds like the machine is supposed to have a plate on it with a warranty number. Alienware has reasonably asked for that information,
Reasonably?
In the automotive world, tampering with or removing the VIN before selling the car is a crime all by itself:...
Another totally irrelevant car analogy. WTF is it with people here that they can't think about anything -- software, laptops, relationships -- unless they can put it "in the automotive world"?
Dunno... BUT... cars are REALLY easy to fix... or doctor up... or "fix up" to look like normal but really make it so it'll break down about five minutes after hitting the freeway, pissing off your ex-whatever- er, I mean... Personally... I've never seen a VIN on a computer- wait, would that be CIN? Would you pronounce that sin or kin? Wait, irrelevant yet again. I guess that's too easy to do... (J/K)
alas...my point was that the big companies don't make any profit of a second hand laptop, so they make life difficult for end user. Whether it was stolen or not it beside the point. You can't assume something was stolen just because it was bought second hand.
Dude, you got a Dell (pretty much)! I don't think Dell EVER had customer service, unless in the description of the word, you found the phrases: badgering the customer, harassing the customer, accusing the customer of theft, etc. I'm surprised that Dell is still around... but then again... Dude, my mom got a Dell! I suppose it could be worse... she could have problems with the thing and actually NEED customer service. Trust me... with Dell, the ACTUAL customers don't get very good service. What do you think the second-hand buyers will get? Personally, I'd expect nothing good.
Before I say anything else... I'd like to know why you're talking about the Philippines and Mindanao. Are you from there? As for the Electoral College... the way they set it up was great when we (the states) were small and had populations centered in a few areas, compared to the sprawl we have now. I know of a city in Oregon that contains, I think, still six people. I bet they don't get a voice- just the same as you. The Electoral College should have been changed, I think, before Hawaii and Alaska became states. Even then, we probably had the population and sprawl that needed the change. When the Interstates were built, we definitely needed the change. So many people get drowned out in the roar of other cities in the country, with the way the system is. There are even some states that are drowned out in the system as it is! I think a system that has proven it can change (i.e. the people have actually changed key points to grow with the country) is the best possibility. However, there's more than just the Electoral College that's from history that makes a difference in life. Scientists have discovered there's a pattern in earthquakes and volcanoes- the either of which can create a tsunami with disasterous effects. (They even found the parent for the orphan tsunami in Japan, with the parent being located in the PacNW of the US.) There's also looking at cultural history or religious history... anything can make an impact on peoples' lives. I don't understand people who discount anything in history. Gaming trends can either be an indicator on other things or coupled with another trend can say something important. Yes, one thing may seem small but it's the smallest things that can make the most surprising impacts on daily lives. (By the way, sorry I didn't quote you but it was getting long enough as it is... I know there's some Slashdotters who don't like to sit here reading some long excerpt on the page. Likewise, some of the longer ones are really important to read because they have a lot of relevant information and I'd rather someone not skip over something like that because of something I wrote.)