This is actually pretty cool, they've recognised that a marriage is just something silly you agree upon and if to them being married on facebook is as important as to some people is that a random stranger who happens to be a priest says you're married... why not?
Around here (Slovenia) it was rural areas who got FTTH first because it's cheaper to put in the ground since there are no streets and infrastructure in the way.
It takes an hour to download a 720p movie. You don't usually _need_ a 1080p movie. And more importantly, with the technological marvel that is streaming you can start watching after 15 minutes (unless you're downloading.mkv or something) and the playtime will not catch up to the download time.
But then again, some people don't have FTTH like most of us in developed countries do.:)
Personally I carry both a watch and a cell phone at all times and always end up checking the phone for time instead of the watch. When I'm not on the move I usually just check the computer because it's much closer to hand than either the watch or the phone.
but I'm wondering what the actual useful applications might be.
Quite simple actually, they tell you when you need to start closing stuff. See my computers often get laggy because I'm doing many things at once and it's useful to know who the culprit is. Did I forget to shut down a tab with flash in it, or did something hang in the background and made everything crap. Often with two cores you'll get a hung app and not notice for a few days before you tax the other core enough to start problems.
Oh I understand that trust and whatnot are very important, don't worry, parents taught me that well enough. Like if you don't display yourself as trustworthy then people won't trust you and it will be much more difficult to get them to do stuff for you... just an example.
Perhaps I just learned at too young an age that trust can be gamed and manipulated and that even if people momentarily lose their trust in you it's relatively easy to regain that trust at will. And if you don't want htem losing trust you simply make certain you aren't caught doing whatever it was you did.
There isn't really, why wouldn't I want to brag in front of my parents? If I deem a behaviour brag worthy then parents obviously aren't excluded from that since they're just people too.
I hate to be a kill joy, but I still have jobs flying my own way without anyone asking them and whenever I do poke my nose out and ask if anyone needs some work done there are offers coming in literally within minutes.
It's not the state of the job market that's the problem, it's people's attitude that is.
Sorry for duplicate reply, but, just why do parents think the "I lost a lot of respect in you and quite a bit of trust" line works? Now maybe I was just special, but whenever my parents tried to pull that shit on me I just laughed about it and did the exact same wrong thing next time, often simply because they would get 'upset' about it. Seriously, there is nothing more amusing in the world than making your parents snap at ya. It's funny, they're so powerless to do anything they just end up shouting and making themselves feel strong.
Oops. I'm sorry, I made the above comment with the presumption that I was responding to a mature adult. This laughable statement proves me wrong.
I'm a, to put it lightly, heavy twitter user. Just how much do you think I would have kept from my parents if it wasn't out of pure spite of not telling them because they ask too much?
If they accepted non-specific info then they allowed you that privacy as a privilege for you out of their own free choice, which is different from you having a right to that privacy.
As for flat out lying, that's misbehavior, and prone to result in the grounding response when eventually discovered by parents either by asking around, or by covert tracking (covertly following you, or sending someone to covertly follow you and report on your whereabouts to the parents).
Yeah it was probably a covert social contract that they allowed me to give nonspecific info, but my info was very broad. I basically told them I wouldn't leave the city or go anywhere that requires money to take a ride... which I don't consider very useful info at all.
And about flat out lying, yes it's misbehaviour and yet I was never grounded, not even when I was constantly coming in 2+ hours late. It's very difficult to punish someone who simply doesn't give two shits. In fact if they were to call me while I was out and ask where I am, I'd usually just tell them despite having flat out lied beforehand, this naturally increased their "aw he can't lie to us" reflex and I could lie much more easily about the big things:)
So what about that, what if you have a child whom lets you catch them on small lies, but never on big ones?
If you think 13 is a magic age where children suddenly deserve privacy of their whereabouts, heck no.
That privilege is @ the parents' discretion. Usually people under age 17 must at all times tell their parents where exactly they are going, at what times.
Typically parents just have to believe them, because it would be too inconvenient to have them watched at every moment, and well-behaved teens don't need it.
Why would people under the age of 17 have to have little locational privacy? Personally when I was 13-ish I simply stopped telling my parents where I am, usually through either flat out lying or through giving nonspecific information, simply felt I didn't want them quite knowing where I am. Besides, if there was any sort of trouble, I always had my cell phone with me so it wasn't like I magically vanished out of sight... having to know where children are was, imho, important only before the age of mobile communication.
However, nowadays, when I'm 21-ish my parents still keep pestering me about where I am and I _still_ don't tell them. Just goes to show parents never learn, ever.
Hey I'm sexually disgusted by my own gender so clearly I'm not bisexual.
But that still doesn't mean it isn't incredibly useful to study what women like in men. What IS it about Johnny Depp that makes most straight women in the age group I'm after drool and weak at the knees? What can I do to become more like that? What IS it about that women like, can I acquire some of those attributes?
Really, it's not being bisexual, it's showing horrible signs of being a social "scientist" at heart *shudders*
The whole topic of gay and not gay has always been interesting to me because the line of thought is alien to me. I consider myself hyper-straight in the sense that I have been sexually attracted to women since before the age of 4... I always knew I liked looking at women... I liked the way their pants fit:) just didn't actually know why until I was 8 or so. But the notion of seeing men sexually has always been fascinating to me because I stretch my mind and still cannot see it. What do women see in men? I don't know. What do men see in men? I don't know. But as a man of the U.S. I have always believed that being gay was an identity based on what you do. A recent NPR show was discussing being gay in the middle east. There they did not so much identify gay as what you do but as who you are. That's a tough thing to wrap one's mind around... identity not based on what one does. Just about every kind of identity in the U.S. seems wrapped around what one does, what one has or his position.
So given this new mind-twister, the MIT Gaydar makes assumptions based on what? I'd be interested to know. Surely it can't be based on associations alone. If all my friends were black, would that indicate that I am also black? My tendency to burn in the sunlight would tend to disagree with that. I'd be interested to know how MIT defines gay to better understand how it makes determinations.
If you don't know what features women look for in men, how can you make yourself attractive to them? If you don't know the system, how can you game the system to work for you?
Maybe you can't see what's sexually attractive in men, but you'd still recognise an attractive man - every human in the world has the ability to recognise attractive humans regardless of gender.
Now take that consideration and apply attractive==sexy and you know what it's like to be gay. Bravo.
Fuck. Me. I sometimes wonder what it must be like to be a person with no moral fibre at all. I can't imagine it, must be weird.
My wife's a psychologist and we have discussed such people. The answer to what it's like to be one is depressingly simple. They have no morals to trouble them at all; no conscience, no guilt. They're happy as if they had ethics and compassion.
There are people who are simply not like us; just not the same.
Well to be honest, morals and ethics are just trivial rules communally agrees upon by a society. We find it unethical, perhaps even immoral, to have sex with a 14 year old. But even our own society less than 200 years ago saw nothing unusual in 40 year old men marrying 14 year old girls.
Are you saying that if I have sex with my girlfriend's friend she'll have more sex with me? Seems like a fairly interesting notion.
What if I have sex with a bunch of my girlfriend's friends, will that make my girlfriend's whole social circle all want to have sex with me at the same time? 'Cause I could totally live with that.
Seriously though, how can you browse the web *without* adblock? I've shoulder surfed people doing it, and I'd rather eat my own hand.
You can't have a problem when you don't know any better.
It's also not a problem if you simply don't browse anywhere there's too many ads. See ads you don't like? Just close the fucking website, it's a worthless piece of shit anyway if it puts ads first and content later.
with the size of USB drives you can buy for under $20, I would dare to say that the same experiment would probably have the same results over here in the states (at least with cable and DSL). If I strapped just an 8GB USB drive to a pigeon's leg and had it fly the same distance in around an hour, there's no way my internet connection could beat ~8GB/hr, or approximately 18Mbps (if I calculated correctly).
Yes, but over here in the real world (Europe), we can get FTTH cheaply and so many of us are perfectly capable of uploading at 20Mbps if only the other end is capable of doing it. Hell, the only reason it takes so long to download stuff via p2p (somewhat legal stuff like TV episodes in HD) is that there aren't enough uploaders to saturate my connection and so such a download can take up to 30 minutes. A real drag.
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This is actually pretty cool, they've recognised that a marriage is just something silly you agree upon and if to them being married on facebook is as important as to some people is that a random stranger who happens to be a priest says you're married ... why not?
Around here (Slovenia) it was rural areas who got FTTH first because it's cheaper to put in the ground since there are no streets and infrastructure in the way.
When you've got FTTH at home you get used to certain levels of image quality ...
It takes an hour to download a 720p movie. You don't usually _need_ a 1080p movie. And more importantly, with the technological marvel that is streaming you can start watching after 15 minutes (unless you're downloading .mkv or something) and the playtime will not catch up to the download time.
:)
But then again, some people don't have FTTH like most of us in developed countries do.
whooosh ...
Because I like mechanical things and am utterly fascinated by proper clockwork. None of that quartz shit.
Personally I carry both a watch and a cell phone at all times and always end up checking the phone for time instead of the watch. When I'm not on the move I usually just check the computer because it's much closer to hand than either the watch or the phone.
but I'm wondering what the actual useful applications might be.
Quite simple actually, they tell you when you need to start closing stuff. See my computers often get laggy because I'm doing many things at once and it's useful to know who the culprit is. Did I forget to shut down a tab with flash in it, or did something hang in the background and made everything crap. Often with two cores you'll get a hung app and not notice for a few days before you tax the other core enough to start problems.
Oh I understand that trust and whatnot are very important, don't worry, parents taught me that well enough. Like if you don't display yourself as trustworthy then people won't trust you and it will be much more difficult to get them to do stuff for you ... just an example.
Perhaps I just learned at too young an age that trust can be gamed and manipulated and that even if people momentarily lose their trust in you it's relatively easy to regain that trust at will. And if you don't want htem losing trust you simply make certain you aren't caught doing whatever it was you did.
There isn't really, why wouldn't I want to brag in front of my parents? If I deem a behaviour brag worthy then parents obviously aren't excluded from that since they're just people too.
I hate to be a kill joy, but I still have jobs flying my own way without anyone asking them and whenever I do poke my nose out and ask if anyone needs some work done there are offers coming in literally within minutes.
It's not the state of the job market that's the problem, it's people's attitude that is.
Sorry for duplicate reply, but, just why do parents think the "I lost a lot of respect in you and quite a bit of trust" line works? Now maybe I was just special, but whenever my parents tried to pull that shit on me I just laughed about it and did the exact same wrong thing next time, often simply because they would get 'upset' about it. Seriously, there is nothing more amusing in the world than making your parents snap at ya. It's funny, they're so powerless to do anything they just end up shouting and making themselves feel strong.
Oops. I'm sorry, I made the above comment with the presumption that I was responding to a mature adult. This laughable statement proves me wrong.
I'm a, to put it lightly, heavy twitter user. Just how much do you think I would have kept from my parents if it wasn't out of pure spite of not telling them because they ask too much?
So what about that, what if you have a child whom lets you catch them on small lies, but never on big ones?
Then you wonder why the hell your son is lying all the time and why you can't trust each other. I guess.
And the simple answer is that you're obviously sticking your nose in other people's (your son in this case) business.
Seriously, if my parents weren't so nosy they'd probably know a lot more about what I do day to day.
Over 80? How archaically slow, real men type at 120+ wpm at 98+% accuracy!
If they accepted non-specific info then they allowed you that privacy as a privilege for you out of their own free choice, which is different from you having a right to that privacy.
As for flat out lying, that's misbehavior, and prone to result in the grounding response when eventually discovered by parents either by asking around, or by covert tracking (covertly following you, or sending someone to covertly follow you and report on your whereabouts to the parents).
Yeah it was probably a covert social contract that they allowed me to give nonspecific info, but my info was very broad. I basically told them I wouldn't leave the city or go anywhere that requires money to take a ride ... which I don't consider very useful info at all.
:)
And about flat out lying, yes it's misbehaviour and yet I was never grounded, not even when I was constantly coming in 2+ hours late. It's very difficult to punish someone who simply doesn't give two shits. In fact if they were to call me while I was out and ask where I am, I'd usually just tell them despite having flat out lied beforehand, this naturally increased their "aw he can't lie to us" reflex and I could lie much more easily about the big things
So what about that, what if you have a child whom lets you catch them on small lies, but never on big ones?
If you think 13 is a magic age where children suddenly deserve privacy of their whereabouts, heck no.
That privilege is @ the parents' discretion. Usually people under age 17 must at all times tell their parents where exactly they are going, at what times. Typically parents just have to believe them, because it would be too inconvenient to have them watched at every moment, and well-behaved teens don't need it.
Why would people under the age of 17 have to have little locational privacy? Personally when I was 13-ish I simply stopped telling my parents where I am, usually through either flat out lying or through giving nonspecific information, simply felt I didn't want them quite knowing where I am. Besides, if there was any sort of trouble, I always had my cell phone with me so it wasn't like I magically vanished out of sight ... having to know where children are was, imho, important only before the age of mobile communication.
However, nowadays, when I'm 21-ish my parents still keep pestering me about where I am and I _still_ don't tell them. Just goes to show parents never learn, ever.
Hey I'm sexually disgusted by my own gender so clearly I'm not bisexual.
But that still doesn't mean it isn't incredibly useful to study what women like in men. What IS it about Johnny Depp that makes most straight women in the age group I'm after drool and weak at the knees? What can I do to become more like that? What IS it about that women like, can I acquire some of those attributes?
Really, it's not being bisexual, it's showing horrible signs of being a social "scientist" at heart *shudders*
a nerdy yet busty chick (I'm thinking Abby from NCIS)
You need to get out of the basement more, she's pretty much the definition of not busty.
The whole topic of gay and not gay has always been interesting to me because the line of thought is alien to me. I consider myself hyper-straight in the sense that I have been sexually attracted to women since before the age of 4... I always knew I liked looking at women... I liked the way their pants fit :) just didn't actually know why until I was 8 or so. But the notion of seeing men sexually has always been fascinating to me because I stretch my mind and still cannot see it. What do women see in men? I don't know. What do men see in men? I don't know. But as a man of the U.S. I have always believed that being gay was an identity based on what you do. A recent NPR show was discussing being gay in the middle east. There they did not so much identify gay as what you do but as who you are. That's a tough thing to wrap one's mind around... identity not based on what one does. Just about every kind of identity in the U.S. seems wrapped around what one does, what one has or his position.
So given this new mind-twister, the MIT Gaydar makes assumptions based on what? I'd be interested to know. Surely it can't be based on associations alone. If all my friends were black, would that indicate that I am also black? My tendency to burn in the sunlight would tend to disagree with that. I'd be interested to know how MIT defines gay to better understand how it makes determinations.
If you don't know what features women look for in men, how can you make yourself attractive to them? If you don't know the system, how can you game the system to work for you?
Maybe you can't see what's sexually attractive in men, but you'd still recognise an attractive man - every human in the world has the ability to recognise attractive humans regardless of gender.
Now take that consideration and apply attractive==sexy and you know what it's like to be gay. Bravo.
Damn SMS and IM is killing all languages all over the planet.
Damned SMS and IM are killing all languages all over the planet.
When you are playing grammar nazi at least do it properly.
Damn in that sentence is clearly a verb and "SMS and IM killing all languages all over the planet" is the verb's object.
Fuck. Me. I sometimes wonder what it must be like to be a person with no moral fibre at all. I can't imagine it, must be weird.
My wife's a psychologist and we have discussed such people. The answer to what it's like to be one is depressingly simple. They have no morals to trouble them at all; no conscience, no guilt. They're happy as if they had ethics and compassion.
There are people who are simply not like us; just not the same.
Well to be honest, morals and ethics are just trivial rules communally agrees upon by a society. We find it unethical, perhaps even immoral, to have sex with a 14 year old. But even our own society less than 200 years ago saw nothing unusual in 40 year old men marrying 14 year old girls.
Are you saying that if I have sex with my girlfriend's friend she'll have more sex with me? Seems like a fairly interesting notion.
What if I have sex with a bunch of my girlfriend's friends, will that make my girlfriend's whole social circle all want to have sex with me at the same time? 'Cause I could totally live with that.
You can't have a problem when you don't know any better.
It's also not a problem if you simply don't browse anywhere there's too many ads. See ads you don't like? Just close the fucking website, it's a worthless piece of shit anyway if it puts ads first and content later.
with the size of USB drives you can buy for under $20, I would dare to say that the same experiment would probably have the same results over here in the states (at least with cable and DSL). If I strapped just an 8GB USB drive to a pigeon's leg and had it fly the same distance in around an hour, there's no way my internet connection could beat ~8GB/hr, or approximately 18Mbps (if I calculated correctly).
Yes, but over here in the real world (Europe), we can get FTTH cheaply and so many of us are perfectly capable of uploading at 20Mbps if only the other end is capable of doing it. Hell, the only reason it takes so long to download stuff via p2p (somewhat legal stuff like TV episodes in HD) is that there aren't enough uploaders to saturate my connection and so such a download can take up to 30 minutes. A real drag.