I recently went notebook shopping with my wife for an capable business machine (no games, no video editing, you get the idea). We made a dell configuration for her is a Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, etc., for $650.
Apple does not sell any MacBook at all for under $1100.
I'm sorry, but macs are still more expensive, and as far as I'm concerned, at all price points. The reason the Dell came out so expensive for the reviewer, is that he insisted that the Dell have the exact same specs as the mac. That forced him into a way higher price point on the Dell than he probably needed.
Reminder, this for me, not for you, but I could dispense with a lot of those requirements if it meant a much cheaper machine. For instance, I don't need the integrated video camera, several of those ports, and the screen is upgraded way beyond what I need. If I were to build my "dream" notebook, it would cost way less than $2800, like the mac did.
All that being said, I think Macs are great, and OS X is great. I'd buy a mac if I could afford it.
It is true that you are not required to authorities without representation. It is false that your encryption keys are somehow protected by the 5th amendment.
If you withhold your encryption keys, you are guilty of either: obstruction of justice or contempt of court. Both of them will land you in jail, which was where you were trying to avoid going in the first place.
The 5th amendment only protects you from testifying against yourself under oath. It does not protect your property, files, notes, papers, keys, etc. Those are all evidence and you must give them up if ordered to do so by a judge.
We've always had "strong persuasion". It looks like this:
Judge: I order you to reveal the key. You: No. Judge: I'm finding you in contempt of court. You'll be going to jail now. You: For how long? Judge: Until you reveal the key.
If you don't want people seeing your junk, you don't hang your junk out your trunks when you go to the mall.
First of all, human nature dictates that sometimes it's fun to do something that you're not supposed to do. Get a little too drunk, say a little to much, dress a little too funny/provocative/whatever, break a small law here and there, etc. If you live your life as the idealized version of yourself 24/7 and never let loose, well, you are one boring person, and very unusual.
Secondly, have you never made a mistake? Let's say you are walking in the mall and your trunks accidentally rip and there, despite your best good-faith efforts, your junk is all of a sudden hanging out in the wind. People aren't robots. Maybe you never make a mistake, but as for the rest of us, we mess up from time to time.
If you don't want people seeing your junk online, don't hang your junk out on myspace where everyone can search for it and see it.
Of course people can control what they post about themselves online. But we cannot control what others post about us online. That's the point. Let's say you get drunk and do something stupid. I take a photo and post it on my website and tag it with your name. Currently, there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. And that's what the government is trying to address.
Personally, I think this will be less and less of a problem as time goes on. As more and more of us have our indiscretions and mistakes posted online, we'll be more understanding of the indiscretions and mistakes of others.
On the other hand, I did some stupid, stupid shit in college. Photos were taken, and I'd hate to be in a position were I in college today where these photos were posted online and tagged with my name. Then, every time anyone, an employer, an acquaintance, a child, anyone googled my name, their screens were covered with photos that were obviously me doing things that I don't need to get into here.
I also take issue with you implying that western democracies are impartial with regard to race or sexual orientation. Until the US elect a black gay man as president or the US senate is made up of the same balance as the general population I think this is a hard case to make.
GP expressed concern with the "treatment of sexual-orientation or ethnic minorities" in Russia, not the number of gay blacks serving in elected office.
In the US, we have civil rights laws and they are enforced. They ensure fair treatment in employment, housing, lending, education, treatment by public officials, etc.
Specific to GP's point, that the Russian police did nothing to stop a mass gay-bashing. I never like to say "never", but this would be really unlikely to happen in the US, even in the South. Given the number of gay rights rallies in the US each year, I think it's safe to say that if they were allowed to turn into gay-bashings, we'd have heard about it by now.
Personally, I see no reason that we need a gay, black president or the demographic makeup of the senate to match the general population. The idea of a representative democracy isn't that the demographic makeup of any particular branch of government must match the general population, it's that the entirety of the general population is well represented by its elected officials. I think the US does pretty well in this regard.
Of course, minorities don't get every law they want, but they do wield way more influence then their numbers indicate they ought to. Take gays, for instance. Gays represent, at most, 10% of the general population. But most elections are decided by a margin of way less than 10%. Now if a candidate can support legislation that gays like, they can count on the support of that 10% and win the election.
This is why you see issues like same-sex unions even being discussed, even when 90% of the country would not be affected by them. You've got your 10% population of gays who care, and probably 10% population of bigots who care to try to block it, and the other 80% of the population collectively yawns. But you've got the Democrats trying to win over gay voters by supporting same-sex unions, and you've got evangelical Republicans trying to rally their armies of bigots against the unions, and the rest of the country wondering why all of a sudden this became a national crisis.
I never said that if you use more than 20 that you are automatically doing something wrong, I just said that it throws up a red flag that you might be doing something wrong.
For you, you have made a reasoned case that the way you work most efficiently is with many levels of undo. I'm happy for you. For me, I've never really hit up against the 20 undo mark. For instance, if it takes me that many clicks to make a tricky selection or whatever, I'm usually going to just deselect and try a different selection/mask technique to get what I want. I've never found myself at step 35 saying, "Dang, I really wish I could go back to step 6, but darnit, there aren't enough levels of undo.":)
Admittedly, I'm not generally doing any serious cloning in my workflow. In real estate, buyers tend to get really irritated if you clone out an oil refinery here, a decaying tree there, and a few high-tension power lines for good measure.:)
In the case of the commenter that I originally replied to, however, would you honestly make a case that he was using the tool properly?
I mean, In Soviet Russia came and went, the hot grits thing came and went, but for some reason, no one around here seems to get tired of reading the same, tired, "no one on slashdot can get a date!" jokes.
Oh, hell. Who am I kidding? I haven't had a date since my first kid was born. Nevermind.
You know, it's funny. I had this very same idea in about 1995 and even put it into effect.
I do this, and no person or organisation knows of the other.
I found this not to be the case.
Some friend would send me an eVite, or forward me an article, or send me one of those god-awful online greeting cards, etc.
Next thing I knew, websites that would have gotten my "trash and spam" email address had I signed up personally were getting my "friends and family" address from my.. well.. friends and family.
I understand that you meant it as a joke but, as I'm sure you are aware, Photoshop is one of the most pirated packages ever. I just wanted to provide folks with a decent alternative that won't break the bank.
I'm glad you are happy with Paint. But someday, your needs might change. You never know.
Photoshop Elements. OEM version is $30. It does 95% of everything a non-pro user would ever want to do with Photoshop.
The advantage is that what you learn about Elements translates directly into Photoshop. This way, if you ever truly need Photoshop, you're a long way up the learning curve.
Look, I prefer free software. I use Linux. I use OOo. I use more free packages than I could ever name. The GIMP is just not an option for me.
You are, however, correct that I have not tried the GIMP for several years now. Looking at the current screenshots page, it doesn't look as awful to me as I remember it. I still hate the millions of orphaned windows paradigm, but maybe that's just my own personality defect. For all I know it's configurable. Not that it matters for me anymore.:)
One of the many important features of Photoshop is color-management. Your print shop sends you the color profile of the specific hardware that he is using, you load that profile into Photoshop, and let Photoshop handle the translation from "what appears on the calibrated monitor" to "what gets sent to the printer".
Why are you so concerned with device independence? Let Photoshop do its job and color-manage the image. Any other way, and you are delegating color-management to your print shop, who has no earthly clue what colors your client really wanted. Bad idea.
sucks for graphic designers who just want to code up some simple business logic. A ridiculous statement? Of course, just like yours was.
OK:
Perhaps you shouldn't be using Photoshop if you don't know how. There are many simpler programs for doing buttons and icons, and they are probably more appropriate for your uses.
Twenty levels of undo are more than enough for most purposes, but as others have already told you, that number is configurable.
But really, ask yourself, when do you ever wipe out 50 or more of your last changes? Sure, you often want to alter something 50 or 100 levels up the undo stack, but usually you want to leave everything below it intact. This is why we have Layers.
If you need more than 20 levels of undo, and I'm not denying that you do, but if you find yourself in that position, it is a red flag that you may be misusing the software. You should be asking yourself, "Why do I need so many levels of undo? What am I doing wrong?"
Simple things may take longer to complete, but when you are done, you have something much better than what you could have done in "Paint". Your icon, with all its layers, can be tweaked readily when the customer comes back with small requests because you still have all of your layers (remember those?). Move the scarecrow behind the pumpkin patch. Make the flag bigger. Change the time on the clock. That type of thing. What good are your 1000 levels of undo then? Anyway, you've already saved the file, so you have no levels of undo.
Think of it like Object Oriented programming vs. one big, long, honkin' nested if/then/else. Sure, there is some upfront effort to do an OO architecture, but the dividends come during new feature development, enhancements, change requests, and bugfixes.
Gimp is an alternative for photoshop in much the same way Openoffice is an alternative to MSoffice or linux is an alternative to OS X.
Actually, I don't think that that's a fair comparison at all.
OOo is not a horrible replacement for MS Office. I could, with a straight face, recommend that the average user use OOo rather than fork out $400 for Office 2007 Standard. Especially if that person is not an Excel junkie. I use OOo at home and MS Office at work, and not only am I am perfectly happy with both, I can honestly say that for my purposes, OOo is a drop-in replacement for MS Office.
If you leave that one out, then I agree with your statement, even if it's a little funny. GIMP is not a replacement for Photoshop because GIMP has a lousy interface and lacks functionality. Indeed, anything that the GIMP can do, Photoshop can do better and faster, and Photoshop can do way more than the GIMP.
Regarding "Linux is not a replacement for OS X", that is true, but for different reasons. There are some applications where I would prefer Linux to OS X and other applications where I would prefer OS X to Linux. They are both operating systems, but they are extremely different. If I had to say that one was "better than the other", that title would have to go to OS X and that's coming from a Linux user. However, there are definitely applications where I would prefer to use Linux. Oh, and Linux is free, of course.
That was rambly. Summary: OOo is a great replacement for MS Office. Linux does everything I need to do and, even though OS X is better, I'm not paying for it. Photoshop and the GIMP are not in the same league. Photoshop is truly great software and, even given the existence of the GIMP, Photoshop is definitely worth every penny it costs, and it costs a lot of pennies.
Most people who use it professionally actually purchase a license. It's not that expensive at all, given the cost of the profession.
It's only $650, and if you already have a previous version of Photoshop, the cost is a mere $199. Given all that it can do, that's practically free.
For those who are not pro, by all means don't buy Photoshop. Buy Photoshop Elements. The OEM version is $30. Are you going to load some virus-infested cracked version of CS3 to get out of spending $30?
Eh. That seems a bit of an overkill. I've seen those toilet seat latches, but never used them. Here's why:
I'd really consider keeping the bathroom door closed entirely. There are too many other dangers in the bathroom like crawling into the tub and turning on the water (burning and drowning hazard), the towel on the floor (slipping/tripping hazard), the toilet paper (irritating mess hazard), the shower curtain (climbing/falling hazard), grabbing at objects on the counter such as hairdryers (head bonking hazard), etc.
I have a hard time imagining a 1-2 year old toddler opening a toilet seat lid and crawling in without being noticed. At that age, I'd advise keeping a closer eye on the kid, or if not possible, invest in a play yard. At 2, you're thinking about potty training, anyhow.
I'm a believer in baby-proofing the kid as well as the living space. The living space should be proofed against anything that will cause immediate bodily harm or death, of course (I don't think there's any wiggle room here... if you have your kitchen knives within a toddler's reach, you are begging for blood). The kid should be proofed against other hazards. It's easy to go overboard on proofing. I like to let a kid fall down and skin his knee every now and again. It builds character.
As always, all of this depends on the kid. Only you know your kid and living situation. If your kid is especially determined and/or agile, then yeah, by all means, latch the toilet seat. If you have a baby taking your attention away from the toddler, again, you're going to have to proof more.
I guess my point is that I bristle when I hear, "You need to do <blank>". For most things, it depends on the situation.
Households with dependent children or domestic animals would be well advised to leave the lid in the down position after using the toilet.
It is well documented that domestic animals often view the toilet as a convenient source of fresh water. While they may be correct and will probably not be sickened by drinking toilet water (they do, after all, lick their own arseholes without any deleterious effect), most humans view this habit as revolting and would rather the animals drink from their designated drinking bowls.
Small children, on the other hand, are curious, enjoy climbing, and are topheavy. It is surprisingly easy for one to climb ino a toilet and drown. Are you going to be the one to write that obituary? Me, either.
Indeed, in my household, all family members leave the toilet seat and lid in the down position after using the facilities.
As someone who went to school in Wisconsin, please allow me to provide you with some free education.
50 F is not "painfully cold". In fact, I'm not sure I would describe 50 degrees as cold at all. Hell, 50 degrees won't even make me start to consider putting my shirt back on at Badger games.
The coldest temperature that I've ever been outside in is -60 F. That is air temperature. Who cares about the wind chill at that temp? At that temp, you leave your car running in the parking lot while you're shopping, you don't have a square inch of your skin covered by fewer than 3 layers, and you sure as shit better put your shirt back on while cheering on your Wisconsin Badgers.
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I was talking about notebooks, sonny boy.
That being said, does 11"x11"x2" for $519.97 work for you? link.
I recently went notebook shopping with my wife for an capable business machine (no games, no video editing, you get the idea). We made a dell configuration for her is a Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, etc., for $650.
Apple does not sell any MacBook at all for under $1100.
I'm sorry, but macs are still more expensive, and as far as I'm concerned, at all price points. The reason the Dell came out so expensive for the reviewer, is that he insisted that the Dell have the exact same specs as the mac. That forced him into a way higher price point on the Dell than he probably needed.
Reminder, this for me, not for you, but I could dispense with a lot of those requirements if it meant a much cheaper machine. For instance, I don't need the integrated video camera, several of those ports, and the screen is upgraded way beyond what I need. If I were to build my "dream" notebook, it would cost way less than $2800, like the mac did.
All that being said, I think Macs are great, and OS X is great. I'd buy a mac if I could afford it.
It is true that you are not required to authorities without representation. It is false that your encryption keys are somehow protected by the 5th amendment.
If you withhold your encryption keys, you are guilty of either: obstruction of justice or contempt of court. Both of them will land you in jail, which was where you were trying to avoid going in the first place.
The 5th amendment only protects you from testifying against yourself under oath. It does not protect your property, files, notes, papers, keys, etc. Those are all evidence and you must give them up if ordered to do so by a judge.
We've always had "strong persuasion". It looks like this:
Judge: I order you to reveal the key.
You: No.
Judge: I'm finding you in contempt of court. You'll be going to jail now.
You: For how long?
Judge: Until you reveal the key.
Destroying evidence?
Obstructing justice?
Arson?
Naughty, naughty. Those are crimes, you know.
Secondly, have you never made a mistake? Let's say you are walking in the mall and your trunks accidentally rip and there, despite your best good-faith efforts, your junk is all of a sudden hanging out in the wind. People aren't robots. Maybe you never make a mistake, but as for the rest of us, we mess up from time to time.Of course people can control what they post about themselves online. But we cannot control what others post about us online. That's the point. Let's say you get drunk and do something stupid. I take a photo and post it on my website and tag it with your name. Currently, there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. And that's what the government is trying to address.
Personally, I think this will be less and less of a problem as time goes on. As more and more of us have our indiscretions and mistakes posted online, we'll be more understanding of the indiscretions and mistakes of others.
On the other hand, I did some stupid, stupid shit in college. Photos were taken, and I'd hate to be in a position were I in college today where these photos were posted online and tagged with my name. Then, every time anyone, an employer, an acquaintance, a child, anyone googled my name, their screens were covered with photos that were obviously me doing things that I don't need to get into here.
In the US, we have civil rights laws and they are enforced. They ensure fair treatment in employment, housing, lending, education, treatment by public officials, etc.
Specific to GP's point, that the Russian police did nothing to stop a mass gay-bashing. I never like to say "never", but this would be really unlikely to happen in the US, even in the South. Given the number of gay rights rallies in the US each year, I think it's safe to say that if they were allowed to turn into gay-bashings, we'd have heard about it by now.
Personally, I see no reason that we need a gay, black president or the demographic makeup of the senate to match the general population. The idea of a representative democracy isn't that the demographic makeup of any particular branch of government must match the general population, it's that the entirety of the general population is well represented by its elected officials. I think the US does pretty well in this regard.
Of course, minorities don't get every law they want, but they do wield way more influence then their numbers indicate they ought to. Take gays, for instance. Gays represent, at most, 10% of the general population. But most elections are decided by a margin of way less than 10%. Now if a candidate can support legislation that gays like, they can count on the support of that 10% and win the election.
This is why you see issues like same-sex unions even being discussed, even when 90% of the country would not be affected by them. You've got your 10% population of gays who care, and probably 10% population of bigots who care to try to block it, and the other 80% of the population collectively yawns. But you've got the Democrats trying to win over gay voters by supporting same-sex unions, and you've got evangelical Republicans trying to rally their armies of bigots against the unions, and the rest of the country wondering why all of a sudden this became a national crisis.
Any more sensationalist disinformation you'd like to share?
I never said that if you use more than 20 that you are automatically doing something wrong, I just said that it throws up a red flag that you might be doing something wrong.
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For you, you have made a reasoned case that the way you work most efficiently is with many levels of undo. I'm happy for you. For me, I've never really hit up against the 20 undo mark. For instance, if it takes me that many clicks to make a tricky selection or whatever, I'm usually going to just deselect and try a different selection/mask technique to get what I want. I've never found myself at step 35 saying, "Dang, I really wish I could go back to step 6, but darnit, there aren't enough levels of undo."
Admittedly, I'm not generally doing any serious cloning in my workflow. In real estate, buyers tend to get really irritated if you clone out an oil refinery here, a decaying tree there, and a few high-tension power lines for good measure.
In the case of the commenter that I originally replied to, however, would you honestly make a case that he was using the tool properly?
I mean, In Soviet Russia came and went, the hot grits thing came and went, but for some reason, no one around here seems to get tired of reading the same, tired, "no one on slashdot can get a date!" jokes.
Oh, hell. Who am I kidding? I haven't had a date since my first kid was born. Nevermind.
Some friend would send me an eVite, or forward me an article, or send me one of those god-awful online greeting cards, etc.
Next thing I knew, websites that would have gotten my "trash and spam" email address had I signed up personally were getting my "friends and family" address from my.. well.. friends and family.
Oh well. It was a good idea while it lasted.
I understand that you meant it as a joke but, as I'm sure you are aware, Photoshop is one of the most pirated packages ever. I just wanted to provide folks with a decent alternative that won't break the bank.
I'm glad you are happy with Paint. But someday, your needs might change. You never know.
Photoshop Elements. OEM version is $30. It does 95% of everything a non-pro user would ever want to do with Photoshop.
:)
The advantage is that what you learn about Elements translates directly into Photoshop. This way, if you ever truly need Photoshop, you're a long way up the learning curve.
Look, I prefer free software. I use Linux. I use OOo. I use more free packages than I could ever name. The GIMP is just not an option for me.
You are, however, correct that I have not tried the GIMP for several years now. Looking at the current screenshots page, it doesn't look as awful to me as I remember it. I still hate the millions of orphaned windows paradigm, but maybe that's just my own personality defect. For all I know it's configurable. Not that it matters for me anymore.
One of the many important features of Photoshop is color-management. Your print shop sends you the color profile of the specific hardware that he is using, you load that profile into Photoshop, and let Photoshop handle the translation from "what appears on the calibrated monitor" to "what gets sent to the printer".
Why are you so concerned with device independence? Let Photoshop do its job and color-manage the image. Any other way, and you are delegating color-management to your print shop, who has no earthly clue what colors your client really wanted. Bad idea.
OK:
- Perhaps you shouldn't be using Photoshop if you don't know how. There are many simpler programs for doing buttons and icons, and they are probably more appropriate for your uses.
- Twenty levels of undo are more than enough for most purposes, but as others have already told you, that number is configurable.
- Simple things may take longer to complete, but when you are done, you have something much better than what you could have done in "Paint". Your icon, with all its layers, can be tweaked readily when the customer comes back with small requests because you still have all of your layers (remember those?). Move the scarecrow behind the pumpkin patch. Make the flag bigger. Change the time on the clock. That type of thing. What good are your 1000 levels of undo then? Anyway, you've already saved the file, so you have no levels of undo.
Think of it like Object Oriented programming vs. one big, long, honkin' nested if/then/else. Sure, there is some upfront effort to do an OO architecture, but the dividends come during new feature development, enhancements, change requests, and bugfixes.But really, ask yourself, when do you ever wipe out 50 or more of your last changes? Sure, you often want to alter something 50 or 100 levels up the undo stack, but usually you want to leave everything below it intact. This is why we have Layers.
If you need more than 20 levels of undo, and I'm not denying that you do, but if you find yourself in that position, it is a red flag that you may be misusing the software. You should be asking yourself, "Why do I need so many levels of undo? What am I doing wrong?"
OOo is not a horrible replacement for MS Office. I could, with a straight face, recommend that the average user use OOo rather than fork out $400 for Office 2007 Standard. Especially if that person is not an Excel junkie. I use OOo at home and MS Office at work, and not only am I am perfectly happy with both, I can honestly say that for my purposes, OOo is a drop-in replacement for MS Office.
If you leave that one out, then I agree with your statement, even if it's a little funny. GIMP is not a replacement for Photoshop because GIMP has a lousy interface and lacks functionality. Indeed, anything that the GIMP can do, Photoshop can do better and faster, and Photoshop can do way more than the GIMP.
Regarding "Linux is not a replacement for OS X", that is true, but for different reasons. There are some applications where I would prefer Linux to OS X and other applications where I would prefer OS X to Linux. They are both operating systems, but they are extremely different. If I had to say that one was "better than the other", that title would have to go to OS X and that's coming from a Linux user. However, there are definitely applications where I would prefer to use Linux. Oh, and Linux is free, of course.
That was rambly. Summary: OOo is a great replacement for MS Office. Linux does everything I need to do and, even though OS X is better, I'm not paying for it. Photoshop and the GIMP are not in the same league. Photoshop is truly great software and, even given the existence of the GIMP, Photoshop is definitely worth every penny it costs, and it costs a lot of pennies.
Most people who use it professionally actually purchase a license. It's not that expensive at all, given the cost of the profession.
It's only $650, and if you already have a previous version of Photoshop, the cost is a mere $199. Given all that it can do, that's practically free.
For those who are not pro, by all means don't buy Photoshop. Buy Photoshop Elements. The OEM version is $30. Are you going to load some virus-infested cracked version of CS3 to get out of spending $30?
No, I don't work for Adobe.
- I'd really consider keeping the bathroom door closed entirely. There are too many other dangers in the bathroom like crawling into the tub and turning on the water (burning and drowning hazard), the towel on the floor (slipping/tripping hazard), the toilet paper (irritating mess hazard), the shower curtain (climbing/falling hazard), grabbing at objects on the counter such as hairdryers (head bonking hazard), etc.
- I have a hard time imagining a 1-2 year old toddler opening a toilet seat lid and crawling in without being noticed. At that age, I'd advise keeping a closer eye on the kid, or if not possible, invest in a play yard. At 2, you're thinking about potty training, anyhow.
- I'm a believer in baby-proofing the kid as well as the living space. The living space should be proofed against anything that will cause immediate bodily harm or death, of course (I don't think there's any wiggle room here... if you have your kitchen knives within a toddler's reach, you are begging for blood). The kid should be proofed against other hazards. It's easy to go overboard on proofing. I like to let a kid fall down and skin his knee every now and again. It builds character.
As always, all of this depends on the kid. Only you know your kid and living situation. If your kid is especially determined and/or agile, then yeah, by all means, latch the toilet seat. If you have a baby taking your attention away from the toddler, again, you're going to have to proof more.I guess my point is that I bristle when I hear, "You need to do <blank>". For most things, it depends on the situation.
I'm sure that your kid is as brilliant as his father is proud.
Also, I'm sure that the day he falls into the drink is the day that the bed starts getting wet.
Cheers!
You have obviously never potty-trained a child.
Do you always give advice to people regarding matters with which you are completely unfamiliar? Or is this a one-time occurrence?
Eh. You might have meant it to be tongue in cheek, but it did not come across that way.
Rereading your comment with the knowledge that you meant it to be taken as tongue in cheek does not change my opinion.
If you wanted your comment to come across as tongue in cheek, you should have written it as such.
Households with dependent children or domestic animals would be well advised to leave the lid in the down position after using the toilet.
It is well documented that domestic animals often view the toilet as a convenient source of fresh water. While they may be correct and will probably not be sickened by drinking toilet water (they do, after all, lick their own arseholes without any deleterious effect), most humans view this habit as revolting and would rather the animals drink from their designated drinking bowls.
Small children, on the other hand, are curious, enjoy climbing, and are topheavy. It is surprisingly easy for one to climb ino a toilet and drown. Are you going to be the one to write that obituary? Me, either.
Indeed, in my household, all family members leave the toilet seat and lid in the down position after using the facilities.
Uhh, dude. Hello!
Where have you been for the past 50 years?
50 F is not "painfully cold". In fact, I'm not sure I would describe 50 degrees as cold at all. Hell, 50 degrees won't even make me start to consider putting my shirt back on at Badger games.
The coldest temperature that I've ever been outside in is -60 F. That is air temperature. Who cares about the wind chill at that temp? At that temp, you leave your car running in the parking lot while you're shopping, you don't have a square inch of your skin covered by fewer than 3 layers, and you sure as shit better put your shirt back on while cheering on your Wisconsin Badgers.
We called 'em freshmeat.