This is with the same woman. I had sex with my wife at least a thousand times before marriage. once or twice a day every day. Once we were married, it dropped dramatically. In fact, there was a period of 3 years where we had sex twice. Overall we've maybe done it 100 times in 5.5 years at the absolute most. If you extrapolate, it would take me 55 years in this sexless marriage to achieve that goal. Many women lose all sexual interest after marriage, no matter how hard the guy tries.
Do you have kids yet? Nothing takes sex to 0 faster. If not, have some and see what I mean. If you do, lucky bastard. I am lucky to get it more than once a month, sometimes once every two months if she feels bitchy. Ahhh, love. How stupid I was.
And I'm only 28 and want it every day, all day long. What a freaking waste!
And for any guy on here actually engaged, remember this:
If you put a quarter in a jar every time you have sex before marriage, and then take one out every time you have sex after marriage,
you will never empty the jar, no matter how long you are married.
You are kidding, right? Once you get out into the real world, if your company uses a proxy, you will see web censorship like you wouldn't believe. I am blocked from even sites like youtube or myspace because they are 'mature content', proxy avoidance sites are blocked obviously, music sharing sites, etc... We are at work just to work, and we had better not forget that. I'm sure tomorrow slashdot will end up on that list too. Sites are really added almost daily and things safe yesterday are suddenly not today.
Also, in corporations you are just a number and apparently also a capital asset to be expensed (as I just learned today). Stay off that Internet thingy, or else!
C'mon, don't you know anything? It is obviously where their staff of 10,000 monkeys press buttons randomly on keyboards of pcs running Vista. This is how they test for their bugs. If the monkeys can't find it, Joe Sixpack should be safe and secure.
That is amazing! I just wonder how something like that could have formed. Was it from a massive asteriod impact or something else?
When I first saw it I thought back to Star Wars and the sand pits, but this is much, much bigger. How cool would it be if people could actually be there checking that out close up? I mean, any geek or aspiring space pioneer without a wife/husband and kids would probably gladly accept a one way ticket to see these things close up and to be the first human on Mars.
I like the T42 from IBM (I guess now Lenovo makes them). They vent the heat out the side through a little air vent so you can have it in your lap and it doesn't get hot. I know there is still the danger of the battery exploding, but it is a nice touch, plus it makes for a great handwarmer in the winter.
For anyone who reads the parent, just skip his other steps and go right to his last step, you will never regret it.
If you are lucky enough to marry one, you can play with them as much as you want unless she has PMS.;)
I do my best to play with and worship them (and her) every wonderful day.
I like that idea too. Basically, this bill is about adding additional funds for Katrina and the troops in Iraq. So only related legislation should be in that bill, rather than pet projects across the country. Otherwise, when people vote against it they are considered anti-Katrina victims or anti-troops rather than anti-pork. Isn't that how the Bridge to Nowhere got funding, from being attached to something important and completely unrelated?
I really liked the idea of the line-item veto, personally. I think there should be a pork-item veto personally. Presidents would have the power to trim the fat off the budget. I know that people only vote for these bills nowadays when their pork gets added to it (basically bribes to vote for it) but I would support the pork-item veto!
I miss those Final Fantasy games, but any good RPG sucks me in too much, and then I don't work on my house, pay attention to my kids or my wife. I was hooked on Ultima Online for a long time, that was hard to quit. And the stories on the Final Fantasy games kept me wanting to play to find out more, they were so addictive, like Chrono Trigger too. I also loved the GTA series just for the sheer amount of what you could do. I don't get to play games as much as I want anymore, but sometimes that is a good thing.
I'd love to play Thief, I heard that is really good. I played Quake 3 but it wasn't very interesting to me. And sometime I'll have to try Half-Life 2, I have heard plenty of good things about that game. If only I could get an extra 4-6 hours a day, that would make it a little easier to play games again.:) But I wouldn't give up having my wife, kids and a house. They are more important.
What is wrong with Doom 3? I bought it off ebay a few months back and play it for a few hours in the early morning on weekends since I have a wife, 50+ hour/week job, house to repair and two toddlers. I'm 28 and play in the dark, alone with the sound up on my headphones and when I'm attacked by imps or maggots or other creatures who come from places I don't expect, it scares me. Maybe for younger players it is boring, but I love it. I also loved the first Doom, it had a quality to scare me that I really enjoyed when you stepped in a room and it sealed and then you were attacked by hordes of monsters from every side.
Doom 3 recreates it, just with very big levels and lots of detail that I enjoy watching. It may not seal you in a room very often, but dodging very fast lost souls and imps attacking me at the same time is pretty intense. I've just gotten to the end of the EnPro level and will be working on the Communications part next. I know it will probably take me until Christmas to finish this game, but I am certainly not going to complain like the article author. I like not having to buy another game until then.
Also, I don't know why people use War & Peace for an example of a long book. Yes it is long, but I've read it several times and it is a very good book that really makes you want to read more. Plenty of other authors such as John Jakes have longer books than this. Or what about Robert Jordan. He spends pages just describing a room or a person sometimes to fill up his volumes.
But you know, I'd like to see that. I'd love to see these citizen journalists go out there, doing real journalism and competing with the big boys. I'd love to see them invading the press boxes, asking the tough questions and getting thrown out when nobody else will ask. That is how things change, when people get the balls to take a chance, do something they aren't supposed to, step outside the box and make the others think for a second about why they became journalists in the first place.
It makes me mad when bloggers pretend to be journalists, but won't even make an effort. I'm not even talking about Iraq, how about in the reasonably safe USA, get out there and work at it! I think the secret prisons was a pretty good scoop that freaked out the white house when it was released by big media. Yes, they had to get approval to run with it, and the administration said no, but they finally did it anyway. Or how about the warrentless wiretapping (spying) on Americans? Those are good stories and can't have been that easy to get.
Seriously, when I think about an internet journalist (blogger) I think about someone who is sitting at home, doesn't go out and look for stories but just looks them up online and posts whatever he/she finds with their own added (probably made up) info. They probably wanted to be a real journalist but couldn't get hired. The truth can hurt, you know.
When you think about a journalist for the New York Times, or Washington Post, etc... you think of people who go out, find the story, interview important people, meet with sources in dark alleys or secluded areas. Maybe I'm wrong to think that way, but how credible do you think you are on your couch, half-naked in front of your computer?
Now, how do you change that? I'd like to see you at the press conference, jockeying with the other people trying to get Bush or whoever to answer your questions. Or I'd like to see you downtown during the protest, filming it and interviewing people about why they are protesting. Get the idea? Maybe some of you do that, but I sure don't think so when I think of internet journalists.
I agree with that, my wife and I used to always shop at Walmart Supercenters because we thought it was cheaper. We had been shopping at Kroger and going to Walmart just for items we couldn't get at Kroger. But I started to notice that Walmart's prices were different for the same items every time we came. We buy diapers, wipes, and we used to buy formula. On those three items the prices would vary by a few cents to 1.00 with each visit, almost randomly. Sometimes higher, sometimes lower. I started looking around the rest of the store on visits and noticed it was happening to many items we bought and sometimes our visits were more expensive than if we just went to Kroger and a nearby Target for the rest. Also, items marked 'Rolled back' are sometimes more expensive than they were the last week. Weird, isn't it?
Target seems a little higher priced, but their prices stay the same, rather than changing from day to day, or they don't do it as frequently and I don't notice it. Now we just shop at our Kroger and Target and we buy only diapers and nothing else from Walmart because you can't trust their prices.
I also don't like them strongarming companies like this or how badly they pay their workers. I also know people who work there or who have and the managers will fire you if you don't check enough people per hour, or don't do various other things as fast as you can, and they pay so low the workers have to take Medicare because they can't afford the prices on the more expensive policies. Walmart is definitely wrong for America. Their low prices gimmick is a sham and at some point this company will have to act more ethical, I hope.
Shame on you, Walmart!
Actually, we can never validate one way or the other if these elections are valid because you can't do recounts in Diebold elections. There is just a memory card, some votes on it, and that is all you know. You don't know how anyone voted. There have been articles on a programmer who was paid to write a program to change the votes to 51-49 without being detected, you can do viruses now to steal the election, etc...
All I meant with my post was that polls show Republicans should get trounced this November. If they don't, and if exit polls are wrong for the 3RD election in a row, then our election system is officially rigged and we have no easy way to stop it.
Maybe we need another part of Congress, the law auditors. They go back through all of the laws that are still active and see which ones really need to be. If they don't, the laws are repealed. I doubt the regular politicians would want that job, though. But I would vote for a lawremover. The old Republicans used to be for smaller government. I would think law removing would be part of it.
I forgot sometimes we are a republic, considering what has been happening lately. We really do seem like more of a democracy now than a republic, since the Constitution is just a worthless piece of paper according to our own president.
Maybe it is, but if you consider the scenario that we are witnessing the fall of our democracy, it won't matter who you vote for now, the party in power will stay in power. Democrats are no better, but if Democrats took control of the House and Senate, Bush would get NOTHING done for the last two years he is in office. Is that a good thing, I don't know. But I'd like to see Democrats get their spines back and repeal some of these evil laws that have been passed to 'protect' us.
Remember how Saddam Hussein got 100% of the vote in every election he held. We will be there soon enough if this isn't stopped. And a third party won't help because the first two parties wrote rules to make it impossible for them to get a foothold in the door. They can't even be in a debate unless they got 5% in the last election.
How can they lose, researchers have already shown how easy it is to inject a virus to steal the elections. My guess is Republicans will gain an even STRONGER control over both the House and Senate this fall. Checkmate.
Yesterday, when McCain and the other holdouts gave in to Bush. He will have final say on what constitutes torture so the secret prisons can keep operating. The House had already passed the version the President wanted. What is wrong with our country?
I don't think we are a democracy any longer, more of a pseudo-monarchy. Bush can generally get what he wants. It may take him a little work, but only because there are still democrats in office. And I know some things didn't work, like privatising social security. But if you invoke terrorism or child porn, almost any change can be passed now, or you are for child porn or against protecting america.
The part that I am waiting for is to see how this 2006 election plays out. If republicans keep their seats with 51-49
margins all over the country, we will know our democratic process no longer works and we have no control over who gets in office. It will all be decided covertly by the party who can write the best 'virus' to steal the no-recount elections. The republicans could in theory take over every single seat across the nation, and then pack the supreme court. If they could pull this off, our checks and balances will be over. I bet the media's freedom would end very quickly after that. We would then move officially into a non-democratic police state. Bush may tell the Middle East that they should become Democratic, but he is pretty hypocritical when it comes to our own country.
There are also some conspiracy theory people out there who feel that close to the end of Bush's final term, 'something' will happen and he will have to keep control of the country to keep America safe. He will invoke some kind of wartime power or new power to permanently take control of this country. If this happened, who could stop him? He would rule both houses of congress, the supreme court and in theory the military.
These are only theories, nothing may come of it. But seeing at how the government is taking all of these 1984 steps in such a short time to protect us from 'terrorism', it seems like anything bad is possible now. And for all of those who say this could never happen, just look at how gradually it is being done, one right at a time. It is like cooking a lobster or frog, you don't put it to boiling at once, you put them in warm water and turn it up so they don't notice until it is too late.
This is false. In your first scenario, that would be true in the winter, but you would have higher a/c costs in the summer trying to cool your house from the high temperatures.
Plus it is easier to add another layer to keep warm on your bed or put on a sweater. But you can't take off more clothing once you are naked to stay cool in the summer.
In the second scenario, if greenhouse gas effect dropped, you would need to heat more in the winter, but cool less in the summer from cooler summer temperatures.
So you left off half of each scenario. Dropping the greenhouse effect is much better, plus more species will stay alive and we will all live happier (in theory).
If the temperatures were always 90+ in the winter and 120+ in the summer, I think everyone would be pretty unhappy.
The saddest part to me is that regular Americans can't change much on their own.
Unless you are part of a corporation with big $$$ campaign contributions you can't sway them much.
And until we go back to paper trail voting things are only going to get worse.
I wonder what happens if polls show a Republican losing by 15% margin, exit polls show them losing by 25% margin, and then
the results end up being 51-49 for that Republican. Since there are no recounts with Diebold machines,
I wonder what they would do, just say it must be fine and live with it?
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This is with the same woman. I had sex with my wife at least a thousand times before marriage. once or twice a day every day. Once we were married, it dropped dramatically. In fact, there was a period of 3 years where we had sex twice. Overall we've maybe done it 100 times in 5.5 years at the absolute most. If you extrapolate, it would take me 55 years in this sexless marriage to achieve that goal. Many women lose all sexual interest after marriage, no matter how hard the guy tries.
Do you have kids yet? Nothing takes sex to 0 faster. If not, have some and see what I mean. If you do, lucky bastard. I am lucky to get it more than once a month, sometimes once every two months if she feels bitchy. Ahhh, love. How stupid I was.
And I'm only 28 and want it every day, all day long. What a freaking waste!
I so know how this guy is going to die. Wow, that will hurt to get crushed to death by a 10,000+ pound concrete block.
I get it, you mean a wife.
And for any guy on here actually engaged, remember this:
If you put a quarter in a jar every time you have sex before marriage, and then take one out every time you have sex after marriage,
you will never empty the jar, no matter how long you are married.
Oh, how true it is!
You are kidding, right? Once you get out into the real world, if your company uses a proxy, you will see web censorship like you wouldn't believe. I am blocked from even sites like youtube or myspace because they are 'mature content', proxy avoidance sites are blocked obviously, music sharing sites, etc... We are at work just to work, and we had better not forget that. I'm sure tomorrow slashdot will end up on that list too. Sites are really added almost daily and things safe yesterday are suddenly not today.
Also, in corporations you are just a number and apparently also a capital asset to be expensed (as I just learned today). Stay off that Internet thingy, or else!
C'mon, don't you know anything? It is obviously where their staff of 10,000 monkeys press buttons randomly on keyboards of pcs running Vista. This is how they test for their bugs. If the monkeys can't find it, Joe Sixpack should be safe and secure.
That is amazing! I just wonder how something like that could have formed. Was it from a massive asteriod impact or something else?
When I first saw it I thought back to Star Wars and the sand pits, but this is much, much bigger. How cool would it be if people could actually be there checking that out close up? I mean, any geek or aspiring space pioneer without a wife/husband and kids would probably gladly accept a one way ticket to see these things close up and to be the first human on Mars.
I like the T42 from IBM (I guess now Lenovo makes them). They vent the heat out the side through a little air vent so you can have it in your lap and it doesn't get hot. I know there is still the danger of the battery exploding, but it is a nice touch, plus it makes for a great handwarmer in the winter.
For anyone who reads the parent, just skip his other steps and go right to his last step, you will never regret it. ;)
If you are lucky enough to marry one, you can play with them as much as you want unless she has PMS.
I do my best to play with and worship them (and her) every wonderful day.
Thanks! I'll have to check it out.
I like that idea too. Basically, this bill is about adding additional funds for Katrina and the troops in Iraq. So only related legislation should be in that bill, rather than pet projects across the country. Otherwise, when people vote against it they are considered anti-Katrina victims or anti-troops rather than anti-pork. Isn't that how the Bridge to Nowhere got funding, from being attached to something important and completely unrelated?
I really liked the idea of the line-item veto, personally. I think there should be a pork-item veto personally. Presidents would have the power to trim the fat off the budget. I know that people only vote for these bills nowadays when their pork gets added to it (basically bribes to vote for it) but I would support the pork-item veto!
I miss those Final Fantasy games, but any good RPG sucks me in too much, and then I don't work on my house, pay attention to my kids or my wife. I was hooked on Ultima Online for a long time, that was hard to quit. And the stories on the Final Fantasy games kept me wanting to play to find out more, they were so addictive, like Chrono Trigger too. I also loved the GTA series just for the sheer amount of what you could do. I don't get to play games as much as I want anymore, but sometimes that is a good thing.
:) But I wouldn't give up having my wife, kids and a house. They are more important.
I'd love to play Thief, I heard that is really good. I played Quake 3 but it wasn't very interesting to me. And sometime I'll have to try Half-Life 2, I have heard plenty of good things about that game. If only I could get an extra 4-6 hours a day, that would make it a little easier to play games again.
What is wrong with Doom 3? I bought it off ebay a few months back and play it for a few hours in the early morning on weekends since I have a wife, 50+ hour/week job, house to repair and two toddlers. I'm 28 and play in the dark, alone with the sound up on my headphones and when I'm attacked by imps or maggots or other creatures who come from places I don't expect, it scares me. Maybe for younger players it is boring, but I love it. I also loved the first Doom, it had a quality to scare me that I really enjoyed when you stepped in a room and it sealed and then you were attacked by hordes of monsters from every side.
Doom 3 recreates it, just with very big levels and lots of detail that I enjoy watching. It may not seal you in a room very often, but dodging very fast lost souls and imps attacking me at the same time is pretty intense. I've just gotten to the end of the EnPro level and will be working on the Communications part next. I know it will probably take me until Christmas to finish this game, but I am certainly not going to complain like the article author. I like not having to buy another game until then.
Also, I don't know why people use War & Peace for an example of a long book. Yes it is long, but I've read it several times and it is a very good book that really makes you want to read more. Plenty of other authors such as John Jakes have longer books than this. Or what about Robert Jordan. He spends pages just describing a room or a person sometimes to fill up his volumes.
I like your answer, they should put a disclaimer on their blogs: "I am not a journalist, I do not go outside, my only source is cnn or reuters".
I'd check out your blog but my company blocks myspace due to mature content? *sigh* I'd like to see an example where somebody makes a little effort.
But you know, I'd like to see that. I'd love to see these citizen journalists go out there, doing real journalism and competing with the big boys. I'd love to see them invading the press boxes, asking the tough questions and getting thrown out when nobody else will ask. That is how things change, when people get the balls to take a chance, do something they aren't supposed to, step outside the box and make the others think for a second about why they became journalists in the first place.
It makes me mad when bloggers pretend to be journalists, but won't even make an effort. I'm not even talking about Iraq, how about in the reasonably safe USA, get out there and work at it! I think the secret prisons was a pretty good scoop that freaked out the white house when it was released by big media. Yes, they had to get approval to run with it, and the administration said no, but they finally did it anyway. Or how about the warrentless wiretapping (spying) on Americans? Those are good stories and can't have been that easy to get.
Get hired by the corporate media?
Seriously, when I think about an internet journalist (blogger) I think about someone who is sitting at home, doesn't go out and look for stories but just looks them up online and posts whatever he/she finds with their own added (probably made up) info. They probably wanted to be a real journalist but couldn't get hired. The truth can hurt, you know.
When you think about a journalist for the New York Times, or Washington Post, etc... you think of people who go out, find the story, interview important people, meet with sources in dark alleys or secluded areas. Maybe I'm wrong to think that way, but how credible do you think you are on your couch, half-naked in front of your computer?
Now, how do you change that? I'd like to see you at the press conference, jockeying with the other people trying to get Bush or whoever to answer your questions. Or I'd like to see you downtown during the protest, filming it and interviewing people about why they are protesting. Get the idea? Maybe some of you do that, but I sure don't think so when I think of internet journalists.
I agree with that, my wife and I used to always shop at Walmart Supercenters because we thought it was cheaper. We had been shopping at Kroger and going to Walmart just for items we couldn't get at Kroger. But I started to notice that Walmart's prices were different for the same items every time we came. We buy diapers, wipes, and we used to buy formula. On those three items the prices would vary by a few cents to 1.00 with each visit, almost randomly. Sometimes higher, sometimes lower. I started looking around the rest of the store on visits and noticed it was happening to many items we bought and sometimes our visits were more expensive than if we just went to Kroger and a nearby Target for the rest. Also, items marked 'Rolled back' are sometimes more expensive than they were the last week. Weird, isn't it?
Target seems a little higher priced, but their prices stay the same, rather than changing from day to day, or they don't do it as frequently and I don't notice it. Now we just shop at our Kroger and Target and we buy only diapers and nothing else from Walmart because you can't trust their prices.
I also don't like them strongarming companies like this or how badly they pay their workers. I also know people who work there or who have and the managers will fire you if you don't check enough people per hour, or don't do various other things as fast as you can, and they pay so low the workers have to take Medicare because they can't afford the prices on the more expensive policies. Walmart is definitely wrong for America. Their low prices gimmick is a sham and at some point this company will have to act more ethical, I hope. Shame on you, Walmart!
Actually, we can never validate one way or the other if these elections are valid because you can't do recounts in Diebold elections. There is just a memory card, some votes on it, and that is all you know. You don't know how anyone voted. There have been articles on a programmer who was paid to write a program to change the votes to 51-49 without being detected, you can do viruses now to steal the election, etc...
All I meant with my post was that polls show Republicans should get trounced this November. If they don't, and if exit polls are wrong for the 3RD election in a row, then our election system is officially rigged and we have no easy way to stop it.
Maybe we need another part of Congress, the law auditors. They go back through all of the laws that are still active and see which ones really need to be. If they don't, the laws are repealed. I doubt the regular politicians would want that job, though. But I would vote for a lawremover. The old Republicans used to be for smaller government. I would think law removing would be part of it.
I forgot sometimes we are a republic, considering what has been happening lately. We really do seem like more of a democracy now than a republic, since the Constitution is just a worthless piece of paper according to our own president.
Maybe it is, but if you consider the scenario that we are witnessing the fall of our democracy, it won't matter who you vote for now, the party in power will stay in power. Democrats are no better, but if Democrats took control of the House and Senate, Bush would get NOTHING done for the last two years he is in office. Is that a good thing, I don't know. But I'd like to see Democrats get their spines back and repeal some of these evil laws that have been passed to 'protect' us.
Remember how Saddam Hussein got 100% of the vote in every election he held. We will be there soon enough if this isn't stopped. And a third party won't help because the first two parties wrote rules to make it impossible for them to get a foothold in the door. They can't even be in a debate unless they got 5% in the last election.
How can they lose, researchers have already shown how easy it is to inject a virus to steal the elections. My guess is Republicans will gain an even STRONGER control over both the House and Senate this fall. Checkmate.
Yesterday, when McCain and the other holdouts gave in to Bush. He will have final say on what constitutes torture so the secret prisons can keep operating. The House had already passed the version the President wanted. What is wrong with our country?
I don't think we are a democracy any longer, more of a pseudo-monarchy.
Bush can generally get what he wants. It may take him a little work, but only because there are still democrats in office. And I know some things didn't work, like privatising social security. But if you invoke terrorism or child porn, almost any change can be passed now, or you are for child porn or against protecting america.
The part that I am waiting for is to see how this 2006 election plays out. If republicans keep their seats with 51-49 margins all over the country, we will know our democratic process no longer works and we have no control over who gets in office. It will all be decided covertly by the party who can write the best 'virus' to steal the no-recount elections. The republicans could in theory take over every single seat across the nation, and then pack the supreme court. If they could pull this off, our checks and balances will be over. I bet the media's freedom would end very quickly after that. We would then move officially into a non-democratic police state. Bush may tell the Middle East that they should become Democratic, but he is pretty hypocritical when it comes to our own country.
There are also some conspiracy theory people out there who feel that close to the end of Bush's final term, 'something' will happen and he will have to keep control of the country to keep America safe. He will invoke some kind of wartime power or new power to permanently take control of this country. If this happened, who could stop him? He would rule both houses of congress, the supreme court and in theory the military.
These are only theories, nothing may come of it. But seeing at how the government is taking all of these 1984 steps in such a short time to protect us from 'terrorism', it seems like anything bad is possible now. And for all of those who say this could never happen, just look at how gradually it is being done, one right at a time. It is like cooking a lobster or frog, you don't put it to boiling at once, you put them in warm water and turn it up so they don't notice until it is too late.
This is false. In your first scenario, that would be true in the winter, but you would have higher a/c costs in the summer trying to cool your house from the high temperatures. Plus it is easier to add another layer to keep warm on your bed or put on a sweater. But you can't take off more clothing once you are naked to stay cool in the summer.
In the second scenario, if greenhouse gas effect dropped, you would need to heat more in the winter, but cool less in the summer from cooler summer temperatures.
So you left off half of each scenario. Dropping the greenhouse effect is much better, plus more species will stay alive and we will all live happier (in theory).
If the temperatures were always 90+ in the winter and 120+ in the summer, I think everyone would be pretty unhappy.
The saddest part to me is that regular Americans can't change much on their own.
Unless you are part of a corporation with big $$$ campaign contributions you can't sway them much.
And until we go back to paper trail voting things are only going to get worse.
I wonder what happens if polls show a Republican losing by 15% margin, exit polls show them losing by 25% margin, and then
the results end up being 51-49 for that Republican. Since there are no recounts with Diebold machines,
I wonder what they would do, just say it must be fine and live with it?