he bought her a couple cats, and expanded into humans from there
You mind if I sell this concept to people needing a start point for a book / movie / play? I can think of at least four genres this could be turned into.
Since (like the OP) we have kids now, she doesn't play as much as she used to
A lot of the people I chat to in MMOs (rather than mindlessly killing shit without conversing, which also happens) are parents sat at home looking after the kids.
They tend to be perfectly capable at the game and if you can tolerate the occasional "oh, she's woken up - hang on, need to change/feed/cuddle/laugh at her" then you get interesting and adult people to game with.
Daytime it's mostly women, late nights it's mostly men. Often I find myself gaming with a couple, so you only lose one of them if the child needs attention, but they both appreciate having someone patient to chat to while they wait for their partner to return.
So to reply to the 'how to get my gf into gaming' question, consider MMOs. They're designed to teach you gradually how to game, they have interesting storylines, if she's always got someone alongside her then it's more social and slightly easier, and she can take a less overtly combative role on most games if that's what she prefers.
Of course, she can also build the ultimate warrior of arse-kicking doom if that's what she prefers too.
if I were struggling with suicidal tendencies, I think I would definitely try to fight against them with my reason instead of my feelings
Problem is, it's your feelings that tend to cause you to choose suicide, not your reason.
Unless you find yourself in a situation where you belly flop onto a grenade or see a dozen people around you die (which is on the whole quite a rare opportunity) then suicide is likely to be a last resort because you don't feel able to do anything else.
That's not a reasonable position. Anybody else can step back and suggest a more interesting and constructive course of action. Even if it does involve buying an automatic weapon and stalking the halls of your offices, checking under desks and in cupboards to make sure nobody escapes, before setting the building alight and playing the hero, rescuing the one person that didn't see you shooting.
So feelings are important. I think that making people think suicides deserve only compassion and sympathy makes it more societally acceptible and doesn't block the feelings that might lead to it. Making people laugh and mock the dead guy means contemplating suicide will remind you of the jokes and make you laugh.
Laughter is a great antidote to suicidal tendencies.
Ooh, can I be next? Flying to the continent is expensive, being bitch-slapped should be far cheaper.
Please, create an account and log in if you want to insult people pointlessly. Calling him sanctimonious prick may be justified, but calling him a pathetic little bitch is just trolling.
And is Microsoft in a similarly dominant market position to Google? No? Then antitrust legislation doesn't affect them. Exactly the same reason as Apple gets away with stuff that Microsoft can only dream of.
Legislating against someone for adopting standard practices within the market place had fucking well better change those practices for everybody.
Or is there some magical fucking market share at which Microsoft have to turn off their search engine functionality, where Yahoo have to get on their knees and beg, where Hotbot continues to do what it wants because it never actually gets used?
If everybody in a market place does something, the dominant player should not be penalised for doing the same thing. Especially when they happen to do it better than the rest.
Top result for a search for "maps": Google - Google Maps Bing - Google Maps Yahoo - Google Maps Hotbot - Google Maps Galaxy - Antiquariat Reinhold Berg Lycos - Google Maps Alexa - Mapquest
(search engines delegating to any of the above have been omitted, unless I didn't know they delegate)
I put it to you that Google's ownership of Google Maps is not the reason they put Google Maps at the top of their results list.
I was challenging the need for Photoshop or GIMP for professional photographers. There's relatively little that they do that requires either.
Thanks for drawing my attention to Rawtherapee though, I hadn't seen that one before. Doesn't look to be worth switching away from LR for, but probably worth friends without LR taking a look before/instead of buying LR.
I concur that frequency separation just isn't supported in Lightroom, and that it's extremely useful to a (possibly large) subset of Pros. Thank goodness I'm not a pro:)
Interesting that you assume I'm a fat slob. If someone that can dance has a similar girth to me then I can't be particularly fat or she'd be so enormous she wouldn't be able to dance. Add in the fact that I dance and your suggestion of 'slob' clearly holds no grounds.
"Slimmer than me" doesn't mean a slimmer build, it means someone that doesn't have the same waist measurement despite being a foot shorter.
I'm happy to admit that I'm overweight, but not excessively so, and women carrying a proportionately similar level of excess weight are not slim, but are slimmer than me. They also tend to be curvy in a very sexy way that's far more attractive than someone that's skinny with no hips.
While I accept your point as a generality I do feel the need to point out that I did once go out - for a few months - with a girl that weighed 32 stone.
I don't wait for the perfect partner; she exists and unfortunately I know her boyfriend too.
Anyway, luckily there are ladies out there far less superficial than me:)
I'll give you 'educated' but 'catholic' isn't a proper noun in my vocabulary, I'm happy using 'hey' in informal writing (I wouldn't use that sentence structure at all in formal writing), "I'm atheist" is legitimate and '4' instead of 'four' is lazy but acceptable.
Dating sites come with a bunch of filters. Find me a well education intelligent white catholic girl (hey, I'm atheist but catholic girls' schools seem to produce my sort of woman) who's a good cook, likes to dance, can put up with 4 hours of computer gaming on non-dance nights and has a slim or athletic build.
Or skip the dating site and find yourself with an interesting person that has few of those attributes but is great to spend time with. Bonus if it's a girl and she fancies you.
That said, I'm still reluctant to ask out the intelligent female dancer that's about my age and fancies me, purely because we have the same dress size. Sadly I appear to be sufficiently superficial to want someone slimmer than I am.
Sadly the Adobe product is a default install on the work PCs, and it took me ages to sabotage the Adobe Pro installation to stop that breaking things even more.
At home I use LibreOffice to create PDFs and Sumatra to view them. At home and work I disable PDF viewing within the browser, because.. it's just not needed.
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Indeed, while skiing, canoeing and racing all follow different rules.
Of course, the English language is joyfully versatile so if I did "oh, he's upstairs musicking" people would accept and understand.
he bought her a couple cats, and expanded into humans from there
You mind if I sell this concept to people needing a start point for a book / movie / play? I can think of at least four genres this could be turned into.
Since (like the OP) we have kids now, she doesn't play as much as she used to
A lot of the people I chat to in MMOs (rather than mindlessly killing shit without conversing, which also happens) are parents sat at home looking after the kids.
They tend to be perfectly capable at the game and if you can tolerate the occasional "oh, she's woken up - hang on, need to change/feed/cuddle/laugh at her" then you get interesting and adult people to game with.
Daytime it's mostly women, late nights it's mostly men. Often I find myself gaming with a couple, so you only lose one of them if the child needs attention, but they both appreciate having someone patient to chat to while they wait for their partner to return.
So to reply to the 'how to get my gf into gaming' question, consider MMOs. They're designed to teach you gradually how to game, they have interesting storylines, if she's always got someone alongside her then it's more social and slightly easier, and she can take a less overtly combative role on most games if that's what she prefers.
Of course, she can also build the ultimate warrior of arse-kicking doom if that's what she prefers too.
Do you have references comparing the pre-revolution Tsarist secret police to post-revolution organs?
I ask only because I'm currently reading Solzhenitsyn and he draws very clear boundaries between the two eras.
(Yes, I did have to go look up the spelling of his name)
Excuse me a minute while I enjoy watching someone called Macbeth draw attention to the option of regicide.
We don't need them, but they're good PR and make a profit. It would be daft to get rid really.
Of course, the public pomp and circumstance should be matched by utter irreverance when meeting them in private.
"Hey Liz, stick the kettle on!"
Your statement is accurate but I'd prefer "tends to and should" rather than just "tends to".
Sharing information is how we advance.
In that case, fuck the family.
People should be taught how to play safely. Autoerotic asphyxiation is not safe or sane.
Not just people that age. Even British members of parliament:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/mp-was-worried-over-tarnished-television-image-coroner-records-misadventure-verdict-on-milligan-1430950.html
I'm glad you're finding consolation in the activities of another website. If it helps any, I'm thinking of you.
if I were struggling with suicidal tendencies, I think I would definitely try to fight against them with my reason instead of my feelings
Problem is, it's your feelings that tend to cause you to choose suicide, not your reason.
Unless you find yourself in a situation where you belly flop onto a grenade or see a dozen people around you die (which is on the whole quite a rare opportunity) then suicide is likely to be a last resort because you don't feel able to do anything else.
That's not a reasonable position. Anybody else can step back and suggest a more interesting and constructive course of action. Even if it does involve buying an automatic weapon and stalking the halls of your offices, checking under desks and in cupboards to make sure nobody escapes, before setting the building alight and playing the hero, rescuing the one person that didn't see you shooting.
So feelings are important. I think that making people think suicides deserve only compassion and sympathy makes it more societally acceptible and doesn't block the feelings that might lead to it. Making people laugh and mock the dead guy means contemplating suicide will remind you of the jokes and make you laugh.
Laughter is a great antidote to suicidal tendencies.
You just made me laugh. Does that mean I'm serious about suicide?
hmm. shit.
Ooh, can I be next? Flying to the continent is expensive, being bitch-slapped should be far cheaper.
Please, create an account and log in if you want to insult people pointlessly. Calling him sanctimonious prick may be justified, but calling him a pathetic little bitch is just trolling.
And if you're the type of personality that refuses to plea bargain then you face 30 years and a prosecutor that'll demand it.
Very likely a system that'll give it too, just to punish you for not taking a plea bargain.
Fuck that system, and its suicidal outcome.
Thanks, that's the first useful response I've read.
The lack of straight URLs is a real pain, especially when the search result is a PDF document and you can't just copy the URL to send to a friend.
And is Microsoft in a similarly dominant market position to Google? No? Then antitrust legislation doesn't affect them. Exactly the same reason as Apple gets away with stuff that Microsoft can only dream of.
Legislating against someone for adopting standard practices within the market place had fucking well better change those practices for everybody.
Or is there some magical fucking market share at which Microsoft have to turn off their search engine functionality, where Yahoo have to get on their knees and beg, where Hotbot continues to do what it wants because it never actually gets used?
If everybody in a market place does something, the dominant player should not be penalised for doing the same thing. Especially when they happen to do it better than the rest.
The EU has no jurisdiction of the .uk domain. Nominet is subject to UK law.
Top result for a search for "maps":
Google - Google Maps
Bing - Google Maps
Yahoo - Google Maps
Hotbot - Google Maps
Galaxy - Antiquariat Reinhold Berg
Lycos - Google Maps
Alexa - Mapquest
(search engines delegating to any of the above have been omitted, unless I didn't know they delegate)
I put it to you that Google's ownership of Google Maps is not the reason they put Google Maps at the top of their results list.
I was challenging the need for Photoshop or GIMP for professional photographers. There's relatively little that they do that requires either.
Thanks for drawing my attention to Rawtherapee though, I hadn't seen that one before. Doesn't look to be worth switching away from LR for, but probably worth friends without LR taking a look before/instead of buying LR.
I concur that frequency separation just isn't supported in Lightroom, and that it's extremely useful to a (possibly large) subset of Pros. Thank goodness I'm not a pro :)
Interesting that you assume I'm a fat slob. If someone that can dance has a similar girth to me then I can't be particularly fat or she'd be so enormous she wouldn't be able to dance. Add in the fact that I dance and your suggestion of 'slob' clearly holds no grounds.
"Slimmer than me" doesn't mean a slimmer build, it means someone that doesn't have the same waist measurement despite being a foot shorter.
I'm happy to admit that I'm overweight, but not excessively so, and women carrying a proportionately similar level of excess weight are not slim, but are slimmer than me. They also tend to be curvy in a very sexy way that's far more attractive than someone that's skinny with no hips.
If it helps, I don't capitalise god either.
While I accept your point as a generality I do feel the need to point out that I did once go out - for a few months - with a girl that weighed 32 stone.
I don't wait for the perfect partner; she exists and unfortunately I know her boyfriend too.
Anyway, luckily there are ladies out there far less superficial than me :)
I'll give you 'educated' but 'catholic' isn't a proper noun in my vocabulary, I'm happy using 'hey' in informal writing (I wouldn't use that sentence structure at all in formal writing), "I'm atheist" is legitimate and '4' instead of 'four' is lazy but acceptable.
But thanks for the feedback :)
Dating sites come with a bunch of filters. Find me a well education intelligent white catholic girl (hey, I'm atheist but catholic girls' schools seem to produce my sort of woman) who's a good cook, likes to dance, can put up with 4 hours of computer gaming on non-dance nights and has a slim or athletic build.
Or skip the dating site and find yourself with an interesting person that has few of those attributes but is great to spend time with. Bonus if it's a girl and she fancies you.
That said, I'm still reluctant to ask out the intelligent female dancer that's about my age and fancies me, purely because we have the same dress size. Sadly I appear to be sufficiently superficial to want someone slimmer than I am.
Sadly the Adobe product is a default install on the work PCs, and it took me ages to sabotage the Adobe Pro installation to stop that breaking things even more.
At home I use LibreOffice to create PDFs and Sumatra to view them. At home and work I disable PDF viewing within the browser, because.. it's just not needed.