Marriage is the worst thing that can happen to you. Worse than a car accident, in most cases.
Heh, no kidding. My last car accident resulted in no injuries, wasn't my fault, and the insurance paid to have my car fixed. But even if I had to pay it myself, it was only a couple $1000. My wife can easily spend that much on herself in a month.:-(
Err... I *was* married. Me? I'm an animal. Which, honestly, is why I *was* married. I wouldn't tell someone not to do something like getting married unless, of course, I'd already tried it. I have faith, someday you'll probably be in the same boat as I, statistically it is quite likely that you'll be divorced too.
I'm still married, and I don't doubt your assertion. In my (cynical) view, the main reason I see for marriage is to provide a stable home for kids when they're most vulnerable. It's probably why so many marriages either end or become stressed at around the 5-year mark.
One thing I remember about the 50's and 60's is that affluent (but not wealthy) people didn't live that differently than average wage-earners. In other words, a doctor's house might be somewhat bigger than a plumber's, and he might have a somewhat nicer car; but he didn't have a McMansion in a gated community with a 3-car garage packed with BMW's. Taxes were relatively higher, and so were communal benefits like education. For example, when I went to UCLA in the 70's, tuition was about $280/quarter. And this was at the time when zillions of baby-boomers were in college, with a relatively small older generation paying taxes to support them.
In other words, the culture in the US was more communal than it currently appears to be. Perhaps having the Communists as our percieved enemies was a good thing?
Very true. So if they see that you're carrying on an affair, they not only can send you advertising for "discrete" hotels, but they can give your spouse ads for private investigators.
Another point is that you can leave a book unattended for a few minutes in public and not worry about someone walking off with it (especially if it's "Bleak House":-)).
I agree with you. I'd been using Taxcut for several years, and it was always a headache. There were bugs with installation; and no matter when I bought the package, it insisted on downloading a huge update before it would run.
Last year, I tried one of the online services (forgot the name), and I'll never go back to boxed software. It was cheaper, included online filing (without any of the stupid rebates that the others required for their 'free' filing); I never had to deal with updates; and I could use it at home or work. And it performed just fine in Firefox on Linux.
I think you're being paranoid. The feds will just sell this information to advertisers, who can then give us mid-eastern food lovers targeted ads. It's a win-win-win situation: 1. The government makes money. 2. The advertisers save money by not trying to sell me stuff I don't use. 3. I get less junk mail, and maybe some good coupons for hummus.
Go with a prepaid plan like Virgin Mobile. I pay $5/month for about 25 minutes, and 5 cents/text. Plus, the money in my account just accumulates when I don't use it all. Of course, this is only a good deal if you don't chat a lot on your phone.
Or, in smaller cities, there's Cricket Wireless, which gives you unlimited voice and text for $45/month. This works great for my daughter, who's going to school in a town that has their coverage. But it wouldn't be good for someone who travels a lot (roaming fees).
Science tells you that you should love your wife because doing so will help keep the two of you together to produce kids and protect them until they reach adulthood. Science can also get into the specifics of this, such as the hormones your body produces when you fall in love, or the actions you each should take to keep your partner happy.
Religion just orders you to love your wife. That's fine if you have a good wife, but not so great if she, say, yells at you all the time, neglects the children, or sits around watching TV all day.
You're correct, but "out of the box" are the key words here. At work, my PC came with Redhat Enterprise 4 Linux (love this place!). But, none of the audio players handle MP3's. For me, it wasn't much of a problem downloading mplayer and xmms sources and building my own local versions that play everything, but it isn't something your average user is able to do.
A hundred years ago, most college students were male, so, obviously, this was due to biological differences. Many men believed women weren't suited for the demands of academia.
Today, a majority of college students are women.
What I find odd is that it seems like there are more women doing police work than writing software.
...Work for a company that goes bankrupt. Then, all your former coworkers and managers (which I assume you were on good terms with) will spread out to a variety of different companies, and you'll now have loads of contacts.
Under real working conditions, you simply search the internet for things you don't know or remember. For example, when I forget my name, I just google myself.
Hey! Are you my manager? When I interviewed for my current position (a software engineer in the EDA industry), the interview 'test' was to write a simple singly-linked-list implementation in C on a white-board. When I asked if anyone ever failed this, the reply was that quite a few do, even though their resumes showed several years experience.
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Ribbon? This is new? My typewriter had a ribbon, so I hope they're not trying to patent the idea!
Marriage is the worst thing that can happen to you. Worse than a car accident, in most cases.
Heh, no kidding. My last car accident resulted in no injuries, wasn't my fault, and the insurance paid to have my car fixed. But even if I had to pay it myself, it was only a couple $1000. My wife can easily spend that much on herself in a month.:-(
Err... I *was* married. Me? I'm an animal. Which, honestly, is why I *was* married. I wouldn't tell someone not to do something like getting married unless, of course, I'd already tried it. I have faith, someday you'll probably be in the same boat as I, statistically it is quite likely that you'll be divorced too.
I'm still married, and I don't doubt your assertion. In my (cynical) view, the main reason I see for marriage is to provide a stable home for kids when they're most vulnerable. It's probably why so many marriages either end or become stressed at around the 5-year mark.
You don't really live longer. It just seems longer.
That's what I did when I was a kid doing long trips
When I was a kid, we used to count out-of-state license plates. And there were only about 30 of them!
Aarrhh! I still haven't seen "Shawshank Redemption", and now you've spoiled it for me!
One thing I remember about the 50's and 60's is that affluent (but not wealthy) people didn't live that differently than average wage-earners. In other words, a doctor's house might be somewhat bigger than a plumber's, and he might have a somewhat nicer car; but he didn't have a McMansion in a gated community with a 3-car garage packed with BMW's. Taxes were relatively higher, and so were communal benefits like education. For example, when I went to UCLA in the 70's, tuition was about $280/quarter. And this was at the time when zillions of baby-boomers were in college, with a relatively small older generation paying taxes to support them.
In other words, the culture in the US was more communal than it currently appears to be. Perhaps having the Communists as our percieved enemies was a good thing?
True, but you could probably get the same attention simply wearing a "Linux" tee-shirt or carrying around a Tux stuffed-animal.
Yes, but those cheap cables don't have the "Designed for Windows" slogan on them.:-)
Very true. So if they see that you're carrying on an affair, they not only can send you advertising for "discrete" hotels, but they can give your spouse ads for private investigators.
Another point is that you can leave a book unattended for a few minutes in public and not worry about someone walking off with it (especially if it's "Bleak House":-)).
I agree with you. I'd been using Taxcut for several years, and it was always a headache. There were bugs with installation; and no matter when I bought the package, it insisted on downloading a huge update before it would run.
Last year, I tried one of the online services (forgot the name), and I'll never go back to boxed software. It was cheaper, included online filing (without any of the stupid rebates that the others required for their 'free' filing); I never had to deal with updates; and I could use it at home or work. And it performed just fine in Firefox on Linux.
I think you're being paranoid. The feds will just sell this information to advertisers, who can then give us mid-eastern food lovers targeted ads. It's a win-win-win situation:
1. The government makes money.
2. The advertisers save money by not trying to sell me stuff I don't use.
3. I get less junk mail, and maybe some good coupons for hummus.
There are a couple possibilities:
Go with a prepaid plan like Virgin Mobile. I pay $5/month for about 25 minutes, and 5 cents/text. Plus, the money in my account just accumulates when I don't use it all. Of course, this is only a good deal if you don't chat a lot on your phone.
Or, in smaller cities, there's Cricket Wireless, which gives you unlimited voice and text for $45/month. This works great for my daughter, who's going to school in a town that has their coverage. But it wouldn't be good for someone who travels a lot (roaming fees).
No, I don't think they should be banned. A Powerpoint presentation is the best sleep-aide that I know of.
The flu early this century...
I hate to tell you, but that century ended 7 years ago.:-)
Science tells you that you should love your wife because doing so will help keep the two of you together to produce kids and protect them until they reach adulthood. Science can also get into the specifics of this, such as the hormones your body produces when you fall in love, or the actions you each should take to keep your partner happy.
Religion just orders you to love your wife. That's fine if you have a good wife, but not so great if she, say, yells at you all the time, neglects the children, or sits around watching TV all day.
You're correct, but "out of the box" are the key words here. At work, my PC came with Redhat Enterprise 4 Linux (love this place!). But, none of the audio players handle MP3's. For me, it wasn't much of a problem downloading mplayer and xmms sources and building my own local versions that play everything, but it isn't something your average user is able to do.
She might be nuts, but this will surely get her membership in the 'stupid male geek culture'.
I also don't get it, as I've been employed as a software engineer for almost 30 years, and have never written a paper.
A hundred years ago, most college students were male, so, obviously, this was due to biological differences. Many men believed women weren't suited for the demands of academia.
Today, a majority of college students are women.
What I find odd is that it seems like there are more women doing police work than writing software.
...Work for a company that goes bankrupt. Then, all your former coworkers and managers (which I assume you were on good terms with) will spread out to a variety of different companies, and you'll now have loads of contacts.
Under real working conditions, you simply search the internet for things you don't know or remember. For example, when I forget my name, I just google myself.
Hey! Are you my manager? When I interviewed for my current position (a software engineer in the EDA industry), the interview 'test' was to write a simple singly-linked-list implementation in C on a white-board. When I asked if anyone ever failed this, the reply was that quite a few do, even though their resumes showed several years experience.
That's because Yoda is German, and we're getting the Babelfish translation of what he says.