Most gas stations have the gas grades from lowest to highest, left to right respectively. However some gas stations reverse the order from right to left, thus possibly hitting the more expensive high grade. Damn evil oil companies:)
Nah - those that did it were eventually caught (after about a 6mo to a year) and they were terminated. Besides, even if I could do it, I wouldn't know what to do with the info afterward.
My main point is that the security holes at NetSol is akin to a block of Swiss Cheese. And in most cases the security breaches and Malware placed on their system go unnoticed for long periods of time.
Give me a break! - I too worked for Network Solutions as Level II support - I know all about the bullshit story lines in order to save face. iframe exploits throughout the customers sites, issues not followed through on, the denial of New Ventures having -any- affiliation with NetSol. The ease of gaining access.
In fact while I worked there, several Tech's uploaded basic http shell emulators onto their sites and all had root level access within minutes.
Your infrastructure was and still is seriously flawed and appears that it always will be - I know first hand!
I call Bullshit, and with due reason. I worked for Network Solutions as Level II support - handling anything from programming to server issues.
I know for a fact that they do store credit cards - regardless of what they may or may not claim.
One billing application that allow you to search ALL historical purchases, what, when, card #, address, services etc...
The second for more recent purchases.
Primarily we used a single application - and that application gave you access to the entire database which included minor and major information, such as Name, Address, phone#, email, Your Challenge Question, the HINT tot eh challenge question, CC number, billing cycle and history, DNS, smtp, database passwords (if you host with NetSol), all email users and their passwords under that domain, ftp passwords, website passwords for the GUI designer and much much more!
If you have a domain with them that has other email address setup through the NetSol site, simply login and look at those accounts. Each of those users can change the oringial password you set for them once they log into their online mail. But you will always see the passwords as ****, but don't fret if you forgot one (or they changed it) and want to log into the email account of that user, pull up the source code - they are all in plain text (as of 1 year ago anyway).
They have certain "servers" that handle routing and other processes that are no more than a laptop - that's right, not a server - a laptop.
Oh and your cost of thousands of dollars to buy back your domain name - here is a little bit of info. Many users were irate about New Ventures grabbing doamins faster than anyone else when they expired, sometimes before it was to be released (grace period for renewal after it expired). All employees were told to let the customers know that we were not, nor were we affiliated with New Ventures. A month later at a financial meeting, it was announced that we've been making leaps and bounds in revenues and recently sold a domain name for nearly a million dollars!. A few of us started looking into this as NetSol is a registar supposedly with a set fee for domains. As it turns out New Ventures is in fact a part of NetSol - They're scamming everyone.
When I began working for NetSol, I was happy as a lark - until I got settled in and started digging into the processes, support and resolution chain and blatant lies were were telling people, I was so disappointed. I left not being able to stand the lies anymore. We'd tell people that their issue would have a resolution in 3 days, but they'd never hear from anyone. And in fact when someone would ask for someone higher up the chain of command, (ie: supervisor, etc) the supervisors would tell us to tell them they can't be transferred, get the number and the supervisor will call them in 5-10 minutes... would they be home? Issue is that they would never get a call back... only to call in again and be transferred to level II support once more and talk to yourself again, or a fellow Level II support person near you. We would all talk and discuss the deflection process. At that time their website were also riddled with iframe exploits, constantly being hacked and defaced for over a year and a half.
Unless anyone here actually works for NetSol - no one really knows what I know for a fact that goes on there. Given there history with customers and such, They've probably know about this for a long time.
Personally I'd like to know how to contact someone like this in regards to presenting an idea. Business plans are not somethign that is easily done, and I've always been better at a verbal pitch, but gettign the opportunity to talk or coorespond via email with someone that has the power to make a decision is neearly impossible. I've emailed every address on the planet that I could find for News Corp, initially wanting to pitch the idea to them. But you don't even get a reponse back of any kind. wtf - I mean I know there are crack-pots out there, but not evryone that has an idea is going to pitch you something absurd.
Post the story to a few high traffic forum site, let the viewers copy and paste it into other forums and email forwards.
Next drop a few anon emails to cnn, fox etc - pointing them to these articles.
Once the media grabs a hold of the story, all the website could dry up over night, but News Reports will be on it like leeches.
they only do this if you use them for DNS. Though once the domain goes inactive, the DNS automatically reverts to their local DNS until the domain is paid and active again.
They are also new ventures, even though they will deny it to the end. They've report selling domains for 100k+ - NetSol is so underhanded and full of marketing tricks and ploys that it isn't even funny.
I've been using Zoho for a while now. With six kids in school, it has been a fantastic tool for them to write, edit and print documents accessible remotely at a moments notice. So what makes live doc's so much better? Furthermore, from what I've read thus far at live-docs, it seems Zoho has also provided more features... a more thorough overall user experience. Admittedly I have nothing solid for comparison since live-docs is still by invitation only (yes, I did register). Can anyone that currently has full access to live-docs that also uses Zoho regularly care to post a comparison... [or get that invitation approved for me:) ]
I am able to relate to the "Joe Trykoski and Michelle Pignatano" story all to well.
Eight years ago I separated from my (then) wife - a marriage that soon lead to the following:
ME: What happened to you saying you would do 'this', and be 'this' way and do 'these' things...
HER: I told you exactly what you wanted to hear me say for you to marry me.
I couldn't believe it. The hell with it, I served divorce papers and within the next 30 days I decided to (for the first time) try an online dating service.
Within a week I met "Beth" on a now defunct site called kiss.com [now powered by udate.com] - They received a lot of negative press due to their options for married people seeking secretive meetings (encouraging cheating) - within a year they closed
Anyway, as I said I met "Beth", we had talked briefly at first until I myself had uploaded a photo of myself. After I uploaded my own photo, giving proof to my personal description, our conversations increased. Within a few days we started talking on the phone. Within two weeks we had met for the first time.
First date: Aug 16 2001
She had four kids, I had two
Nov 1st (3 months later) she moved 150 miles and moved in with me
July 22, 2003 we got married
The key points to this story?
"Beth" is an absolute fantasy - I couldn't image meeting someone like this in real life, nor have I even come close.
To-date, we had never fought, argued, yelled, or had any negativity by any means.
I'm now 36, and she is now 41. And our online relationships, even though short lived prior to becoming an RL relationship enabled us to speak our minds completely. I consider myself old school w/ a modern kink. Old school in that I believe the man is the MAN of the house. I am not the only word, but I AM the final word. I should be the bread winner, the person to support the entire family, I handle home finances, disciplining the kids. And I could tell her these things without repercussion - the most she could do is log of and not respond.
But what happened was amazing. Her responses were "I don't want to be in charge anymore" (single mother, etc..).
:) - ok, it gets better!
The 'kink' part in me was matched perfectly by her. Maybe it's just the nerd in me that brings the freak out in me... though she's matched it. And fully! She satisfies all desires I have - completely - from normal stuff to bringing a girlfriend home now and then to 'join' in.
It gets better -
She an information magnet, she truly interested in anything I have to explain to her in regards to the Net, UNIX, SEO/SEM, and gaming.
She actively plays EQ (lvl 68 SK & 60 CLR), LastChaos, she even started her own blog to help others have the type of a happy relationship like we have.
Online relationships ARE absolute reality, though only if you want them to be, or allow them to become a reality.
I've been on the Internet since I was 13 - that was 23 years ago. And at 13 I met my first online girlfriend on a local BBS, who lived near me and became a true RL relationship.
There is no difference between online and off line relationship as long as both parties realize this. It is the same issue if two people in RL are dating and one believes they are dating exclusively and the other believes it is more of an open relationship - the same issues will arise. I believe relationships that start online are far more superior to those that start off line because the online relationship allows people to layout everything on the table - I am 'this' way.. I like 'this'... I don't like 'this', and I 'need this' from my SO.
People focus on the online "Thomas Montgomery's" who shoot people in unjustifiable rages, when these things happen just as much, and more, in the off line scenarios. The internet is not to blame in that situation - the guy was messed up in the head. It reminds me of a cheating spouse where people blame the bar, or a certain p
My father and I used to own and operate an ISP in our region. We sold it in early 2000 and last year my father finally contacted the phone company and had a tech come out to remove the hardware on the outside of the house. The tech recommended letting it there, as he said that in the next 2 years, Verizon plans on offering an equal connection and bandwidth of a T1 for 100 per month, dedicated. I haven't check into this recently for a follow-up but that alone sounds promising.
Um, clarity would help here. This is rockwood, and my wife posted the parent, in which I am adding this comment to.
Flamebait would indicate a post of such, though the post is misunderstood for the following reasons.
The views and opinions are sincere, she and I both believe in these with absolution. Because the view point is such a controversial one, it is often (more time than not) considered to be posted by posers, radicals, or misguided information. And this is often the reaction behind most 'turning points' in society.
The masses are starting to speak up with a new age of thinking, acting and living by the 'old school' as set forth thousands of years ago.
The irony that seems to stifle this movement is that the movement itself is being lead by women themselves and not by the male gender; this creates a disbelief in its validity - but the truth is that it IS starting and it IS being lead by women.
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Even more noticeable are some the women that are behind the movement. Donna Nordone Heaney, has been an advocate for abused women and children and domestic violence issues for over 10 years. Admits to and actively promotes The Submissive Wife.
I could list numerous female sources that all admit to the best marriage they could have ever imagined. My wife and I have been married a long time and to date do not argue. Our "God" given roles are evident and therefore by fulfilling those we are able to live a happy life.
Do not get this wrong. Being near 40 years old now and having these feelings since I was a teenager may not seem odd, though I have never read the Bible - not one single page, that is until a few months ago my wife (who taught Sunday School and was in the Chior for years) starting telling them a lot of the things that are in the bible sound similar to what I was saying. Therefore since I never read the bible, and have only been to church a handful of times in my life (less weddings, etc) there was no outside influence to cause me to conform to a book of true unknown origin. My wife started blogging about this herself, the roles of a woman and a man are no longer agreeing to stay by societies conformity, and are rearing up in its defense.
The point of this, is that the debate over God and Evolution is looked at in a side-ways aspect. Yes, we did evolve and yes, there is GOD. However we did not evolve from apes. An ape IS a different species. Thousands of years from now they may look are a blue jay and a cardinal in comparison, and yes they look similar, and are apart of the same 'family' but they are two different species in time.
God does NOT have to be the omnipresences that is depicted, but there is nothing to say that he does not exist. An alien life form (which nearly all geeks here believe have factual bearing), a higher being, different level of existence that simply cannot comprehend. 2000 years ago you could not explained nuclear physics, or even the concept and impact of the Internet. There were simply too many unknown factors, learning curves and different technology to being to fathom any of it.
The movie What the Bleep do You Know, has a good comparison to ships in the sea that no one could see even though they were right there in front of them. If you've sen something, you brain does not know how to process it, therefore it will process it the best it can. - Have you ever seen
(Rockwood's wife)
I was born and raised protestant, taught Sunday School, sang in the church choir...etc. I have read the bible and since becoming an open-minded adult, have questioned the existence of God in the Christian sense. There are way too many questions and no answers to prove that a man with such Omnipotent power ever existed. Right off the bat, in Genesis ("the beginning"), He made Adam and then Eve from Adam's rib as his helpmate. Ok. That MAY have been possible I guess. Then Adam and Eve had children, most notably Cain and Able. They had daughters apparently also, but the bible rarely mentions daughters being born. Nonetheless, the world was somehow populated. Had to have been incest since they were the first 2 (and only 2) people on Earth. That, in itself, doesn't sound too good to me! Then this all-knowing, all-powerful, all-forgiving God does awful, even horrific, things to His people. Killings, human sacrifices, plagues, famines, floods... The men in the bible have lots of wives, tons of children, and many MANY concubines. The modern church (not to mention society) pretty much frowns upon all these things. This being said, do I believe in God? Absoulutely! I have never seen him or met him, but I believe that a "God" in the sense of a higher intelligence must surely exist somewhere and that we are a part of His existence.
On the opposite ends of the scales, if you DO believe in the Bible, then the world is going to Hell in a Handbasket but quick!! The bible specifically tells us that women were put on Earth to be the man's helpmate, to look up to her husband as the husband looks up to his God. To be there for your man in all that he pursues and desires...yes, ladies, that includes sex!! You are to submit to your husband and make sure he is taken care of. He, in return, knows your worth and will treat you like his queen. We were meant to be the bearer of children--he is meant to be the protector and provider of the household. Women were not meant to rule the world or take on the roles of men. Genders cannot be interchanged. We are NOT created equal in THAT way. Really stop and think about this...it all makes perfect sense!
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I've had a USB thumb controlled marble since 1998 and I'm still using the same one - it's the optical one!
I hate the use of a "Standard Mouse", and always refer anyone to subject themselves to a one week exclusive use of a track ball and they'll switch.
My thumb never gets tired - and I have a nasty habit of reading in pace with my cursor - so I'm using my thumb ALL the time. No pain or soreness ever. I also am quite proficient in PhotoShop - much better accuracy when detailing something.
I pack my marble with my laptop, I can use it anywhere regardless of surface. I take it to work with me - I see my marble wheel more than I do my wife,, eww that's sad - Time for a new profession. Seriously.. simply stated - I LOVE my marble wheel and would give them away if I could afford to do so.
After all you do know what they say - "Once you go Marble - You never go back!"
I've stood by win2k for some time now and just yesterday I saw this also. Though I am not entirely sure that this came through a windows update. Reason is that I select when updates install and I haven't done any lately - Additionally I notice this after I had my anti-virus off for the day when I needed the extra responsiveness and resources.
Has this actually been confirmed to be from the MS updates?
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There are many forms of advertising outside of commercials. The same companies that pay top dollar for the ad slots they choose, are also solicited for on-set adveritising. When you see someone drnking a Coke, I can guarantee you that it was not merely the only can or soda on the set. Companies pay large sums for actors and actresses to drink and eat the products, wear their clothing/logos, of casually have their products in plain sight on the counters, written on a bag, etc...
They're plenty of advertising avenues outside of Stay-Tuned-For-This-Commerical type breaks.
My observations are tha tthe movie industry is getting it back-wards - my cable bill continues to go up, there is less to watch (20 MTV/VH1 type channels, 15 news channels, 10 sports channels, 3 cartoon all days channels, 8 soap-opera, 25 re-runs, A&E, Sci-Fi, all that have a commercial break every 4 minutes (usually the EXACT same commercial over and over again) - the accumilated commercial breaks usually equal actual show run time... And after all that I pay $100/mo to finally end up watching Mutual of Omaha.
The only reason they are losing money is because they no longer have originality, the re-produce old movies and shows, the quality is horrible. You pay $8 to $15 to see an in-theater movie only to leave saying "God ! I paid $15 dollars to see that garbage". Some movie you want to see in theater, Twister, King Kong, etc... Movies where you want a large screen to suck-you-in, feel the boom of the base as Kong rampages through NYC - and if more movies were like this, they'd have better turn-out. Produce a movie that provides advantages of seeign it in the movie theater - maybe 30 mintues of additional HIGH quality footage that will never be released on DVD. I'd see X-Men final stand in theaters if I knew I'd get 30 more minutes of fighting.
Now, this may not be the solution, though I feel my points clearly state some of the problems quite clearly. MPAA needs to take then popcorn out of the ears and start listening to their audience if they expect to survive.
There at least 22 other net-documented places that this occurs.
Rolling Uphill Illusion . The 'local' location to my residence is Gravity Hill, PA . These locations are well documented and explained in detail. Furthermore the fifth picture from the top shows where the street has been tagged as well as the starting point.
"To put it simply, if they are heavy, it means that there is a lot more mass in the Universe than we thought there was..."
So what this means is that people are really a lot fatter than what they think they are.
How I am a going to explain to my wife tomorrow when I say "Yes" to her saying "Am I fatter today?" - I'll pack my bags now and save myself some time. ummm, I may want to book a room too!
BCC reporting this??
It's a little odd that a major news source is only now releasing this. I saw the add for this movie over a week ago... Ad oddly enough they do have a slightly resemblence to the real Simpon's - well, I don't feel that marge does, but you couldn't get her that kind of hair-do, as the realistic part would have gone straight out the window.
Has anyone else seen this preview before these news releases? Make you wonder if the news release is actually a follow-up for a mis-air preview (that was not suppose to air) and decide to confirm it so that it doesn't look like a mistake?
The earth has maintained itself against far worse things then global warming. Ozone holes have been shown to increase and decrease in size. This is most likely not from any of our efforts, but those of mother nature and earth maintaining itself like it has long before any form of human had walked the earth.
Global warming is not all about taking care of 'our earth'. It's about saving our own asses from extinction.
Earth has endured asteroid showers, meteor showers, major volcanic erruptions that produced ice ages and other effects of extreme proportion. Earth will contineu to self-maintain long after the human race died off, or nuked themselves. When a major earth shifting event happens, evolution begins again.
Leave the glabal warming, ozone holes, melting ice alone - It's evident that since we started reducing ozone depleting chemicals, introduced automobile emmission controls, and a bounty of other reversal efforts, that nothing is helping. I strongly feel that we are not causing these things - rather earth is evolving herself, and unfortunately her future plans may or may not include any of the current species. We're beating a dead horse!
In part I agree with those that complain about the 'useless' studies wasting our tax dollars for something deemed as obvious or as 'who the fuck cares anyway' topics, but I've often wondered if in fact these problem haven't always been around. The newpapers, tv's, studies, movies - all avenues of media cover these aritcle types on a daily basis - from "more storms seen in recent years", "more rapes", more school volience.. and so on. But is it really more? Or does the advancement in communications and accessiblity of world-wide media allow us to see the problems with an overall picture and not as a localized issue.
More females coming forth about rape, violence in schools? Does it make bigger news because of the gun issue? What about 75 years ago when they'd use knives or run the bullies over with their horse and carriage? Push the exgirl friend and her new boyfriend into the blade down at the ole' saw mill. And when they did this 75 years ago... how far did the word spread? Not to far in my opinion unless is was a world-wide event or major death tolls - (i.e. things like the Titantic, Black Plague, etc.)
Within hours of an abduction, a nation wide "Amber" alert is broadcasted. Even as little 15 years ago, unless you lived in the same or nearby town no one would have known if little Tiff was taken. They report more under-age crimes - in the past if you were underage, you get sent home and your parents would get the fine, or you'd get a slap on the wrist, repeat offender got sent to Juvi or sent away to boarding school. Juvi has been replaced with prison, getting sent home to parents goes un-noticed as they are never home due to their long hour, endless overtime jobs, and boarding school has been replaced with the local IU school system fille with inadequate last pick teachers that are not trained in handling the not so typical teenage highschool child.
Regardless of what it is, what has happened, or where it has happened, we now have global criminal information pounded at us from all directions 24/7 within minutes from it occurring.
So did the frequency increase? Or does it merely appear that way due to the increased accessibility to the information?
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Most gas stations have the gas grades from lowest to highest, left to right respectively. However some gas stations reverse the order from right to left, thus possibly hitting the more expensive high grade. Damn evil oil companies :)
Evil never dies
My main point is that the security holes at NetSol is akin to a block of Swiss Cheese. And in most cases the security breaches and Malware placed on their system go unnoticed for long periods of time.
Give me a break! - I too worked for Network Solutions as Level II support - I know all about the bullshit story lines in order to save face. iframe exploits throughout the customers sites, issues not followed through on, the denial of New Ventures having -any- affiliation with NetSol. The ease of gaining access.
In fact while I worked there, several Tech's uploaded basic http shell emulators onto their sites and all had root level access within minutes.
Your infrastructure was and still is seriously flawed and appears that it always will be - I know first hand!
I'll file this under TasteButDontSwallow
I know for a fact that they do store credit cards - regardless of what they may or may not claim.
One billing application that allow you to search ALL historical purchases, what, when, card #, address, services etc...
The second for more recent purchases.
Primarily we used a single application - and that application gave you access to the entire database which included minor and major information, such as Name, Address, phone#, email, Your Challenge Question, the HINT tot eh challenge question, CC number, billing cycle and history, DNS, smtp, database passwords (if you host with NetSol), all email users and their passwords under that domain, ftp passwords, website passwords for the GUI designer and much much more!
If you have a domain with them that has other email address setup through the NetSol site, simply login and look at those accounts. Each of those users can change the oringial password you set for them once they log into their online mail. But you will always see the passwords as ****, but don't fret if you forgot one (or they changed it) and want to log into the email account of that user, pull up the source code - they are all in plain text (as of 1 year ago anyway).
They have certain "servers" that handle routing and other processes that are no more than a laptop - that's right, not a server - a laptop.
Oh and your cost of thousands of dollars to buy back your domain name - here is a little bit of info. Many users were irate about New Ventures grabbing doamins faster than anyone else when they expired, sometimes before it was to be released (grace period for renewal after it expired). All employees were told to let the customers know that we were not, nor were we affiliated with New Ventures. A month later at a financial meeting, it was announced that we've been making leaps and bounds in revenues and recently sold a domain name for nearly a million dollars!. A few of us started looking into this as NetSol is a registar supposedly with a set fee for domains. As it turns out New Ventures is in fact a part of NetSol - They're scamming everyone.
When I began working for NetSol, I was happy as a lark - until I got settled in and started digging into the processes, support and resolution chain and blatant lies were were telling people, I was so disappointed. I left not being able to stand the lies anymore. We'd tell people that their issue would have a resolution in 3 days, but they'd never hear from anyone. And in fact when someone would ask for someone higher up the chain of command, (ie: supervisor, etc) the supervisors would tell us to tell them they can't be transferred, get the number and the supervisor will call them in 5-10 minutes... would they be home? Issue is that they would never get a call back... only to call in again and be transferred to level II support once more and talk to yourself again, or a fellow Level II support person near you. We would all talk and discuss the deflection process. At that time their website were also riddled with iframe exploits, constantly being hacked and defaced for over a year and a half.
Unless anyone here actually works for NetSol - no one really knows what I know for a fact that goes on there. Given there history with customers and such, They've probably know about this for a long time.
Personally I'd like to know how to contact someone like this in regards to presenting an idea. Business plans are not somethign that is easily done, and I've always been better at a verbal pitch, but gettign the opportunity to talk or coorespond via email with someone that has the power to make a decision is neearly impossible. I've emailed every address on the planet that I could find for News Corp, initially wanting to pitch the idea to them. But you don't even get a reponse back of any kind. wtf - I mean I know there are crack-pots out there, but not evryone that has an idea is going to pitch you something absurd.
Not sure what I'd say, but I'd defintely have my towel with me for the trip.
Post the story to a few high traffic forum site, let the viewers copy and paste it into other forums and email forwards. Next drop a few anon emails to cnn, fox etc - pointing them to these articles. Once the media grabs a hold of the story, all the website could dry up over night, but News Reports will be on it like leeches.
nobody to screw? Umm that's 10 hands and five mouths.. I think ONE thing would at least come up :)
they only do this if you use them for DNS. Though once the domain goes inactive, the DNS automatically reverts to their local DNS until the domain is paid and active again. They are also new ventures, even though they will deny it to the end. They've report selling domains for 100k+ - NetSol is so underhanded and full of marketing tricks and ploys that it isn't even funny.
I've been using Zoho for a while now. With six kids in school, it has been a fantastic tool for them to write, edit and print documents accessible remotely at a moments notice. So what makes live doc's so much better? Furthermore, from what I've read thus far at live-docs, it seems Zoho has also provided more features... a more thorough overall user experience. Admittedly I have nothing solid for comparison since live-docs is still by invitation only (yes, I did register). Can anyone that currently has full access to live-docs that also uses Zoho regularly care to post a comparison... [or get that invitation approved for me :) ]
Isn't it that "Demand generates Supply", though they've been amazingly capable of making Supply generate the Demand.
Eight years ago I separated from my (then) wife - a marriage that soon lead to the following:
ME: What happened to you saying you would do 'this', and be 'this' way and do 'these' things... HER: I told you exactly what you wanted to hear me say for you to marry me.
I couldn't believe it. The hell with it, I served divorce papers and within the next 30 days I decided to (for the first time) try an online dating service.
Within a week I met "Beth" on a now defunct site called kiss.com [now powered by udate.com] - They received a lot of negative press due to their options for married people seeking secretive meetings (encouraging cheating) - within a year they closed
Anyway, as I said I met "Beth", we had talked briefly at first until I myself had uploaded a photo of myself. After I uploaded my own photo, giving proof to my personal description, our conversations increased. Within a few days we started talking on the phone. Within two weeks we had met for the first time.
First date: Aug 16 2001 She had four kids, I had two Nov 1st (3 months later) she moved 150 miles and moved in with me July 22, 2003 we got married
The key points to this story?
"Beth" is an absolute fantasy - I couldn't image meeting someone like this in real life, nor have I even come close.
To-date, we had never fought, argued, yelled, or had any negativity by any means. I'm now 36, and she is now 41. And our online relationships, even though short lived prior to becoming an RL relationship enabled us to speak our minds completely. I consider myself old school w/ a modern kink. Old school in that I believe the man is the MAN of the house. I am not the only word, but I AM the final word. I should be the bread winner, the person to support the entire family, I handle home finances, disciplining the kids. And I could tell her these things without repercussion - the most she could do is log of and not respond.
But what happened was amazing. Her responses were "I don't want to be in charge anymore" (single mother, etc..).
The 'kink' part in me was matched perfectly by her. Maybe it's just the nerd in me that brings the freak out in me... though she's matched it. And fully! She satisfies all desires I have - completely - from normal stuff to bringing a girlfriend home now and then to 'join' in.
It gets better -
She an information magnet, she truly interested in anything I have to explain to her in regards to the Net, UNIX, SEO/SEM, and gaming. She actively plays EQ (lvl 68 SK & 60 CLR), LastChaos, she even started her own blog to help others have the type of a happy relationship like we have.
Online relationships ARE absolute reality, though only if you want them to be, or allow them to become a reality.
I've been on the Internet since I was 13 - that was 23 years ago. And at 13 I met my first online girlfriend on a local BBS, who lived near me and became a true RL relationship. There is no difference between online and off line relationship as long as both parties realize this. It is the same issue if two people in RL are dating and one believes they are dating exclusively and the other believes it is more of an open relationship - the same issues will arise. I believe relationships that start online are far more superior to those that start off line because the online relationship allows people to layout everything on the table - I am 'this' way.. I like 'this'... I don't like 'this', and I 'need this' from my SO.
People focus on the online "Thomas Montgomery's" who shoot people in unjustifiable rages, when these things happen just as much, and more, in the off line scenarios. The internet is not to blame in that situation - the guy was messed up in the head. It reminds me of a cheating spouse where people blame the bar, or a certain p
My father and I used to own and operate an ISP in our region. We sold it in early 2000 and last year my father finally contacted the phone company and had a tech come out to remove the hardware on the outside of the house. The tech recommended letting it there, as he said that in the next 2 years, Verizon plans on offering an equal connection and bandwidth of a T1 for 100 per month, dedicated. I haven't check into this recently for a follow-up but that alone sounds promising.
The views and opinions are sincere, she and I both believe in these with absolution. Because the view point is such a controversial one, it is often (more time than not) considered to be posted by posers, radicals, or misguided information. And this is often the reaction behind most 'turning points' in society.
The masses are starting to speak up with a new age of thinking, acting and living by the 'old school' as set forth thousands of years ago.
The irony that seems to stifle this movement is that the movement itself is being lead by women themselves and not by the male gender; this creates a disbelief in its validity - but the truth is that it IS starting and it IS being lead by women.
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Even more noticeable are some the women that are behind the movement. Donna Nordone Heaney, has been an advocate for abused women and children and domestic violence issues for over 10 years. Admits to and actively promotes The Submissive Wife.
I could list numerous female sources that all admit to the best marriage they could have ever imagined. My wife and I have been married a long time and to date do not argue. Our "God" given roles are evident and therefore by fulfilling those we are able to live a happy life.
Do not get this wrong. Being near 40 years old now and having these feelings since I was a teenager may not seem odd, though I have never read the Bible - not one single page, that is until a few months ago my wife (who taught Sunday School and was in the Chior for years) starting telling them a lot of the things that are in the bible sound similar to what I was saying. Therefore since I never read the bible, and have only been to church a handful of times in my life (less weddings, etc) there was no outside influence to cause me to conform to a book of true unknown origin. My wife started blogging about this herself, the roles of a woman and a man are no longer agreeing to stay by societies conformity, and are rearing up in its defense.
The point of this, is that the debate over God and Evolution is looked at in a side-ways aspect. Yes, we did evolve and yes, there is GOD. However we did not evolve from apes. An ape IS a different species. Thousands of years from now they may look are a blue jay and a cardinal in comparison, and yes they look similar, and are apart of the same 'family' but they are two different species in time.
God does NOT have to be the omnipresences that is depicted, but there is nothing to say that he does not exist. An alien life form (which nearly all geeks here believe have factual bearing), a higher being, different level of existence that simply cannot comprehend. 2000 years ago you could not explained nuclear physics, or even the concept and impact of the Internet. There were simply too many unknown factors, learning curves and different technology to being to fathom any of it.
The movie What the Bleep do You Know, has a good comparison to ships in the sea that no one could see even though they were right there in front of them. If you've sen something, you brain does not know how to process it, therefore it will process it the best it can. - Have you ever seen
(Rockwood's wife) I was born and raised protestant, taught Sunday School, sang in the church choir...etc. I have read the bible and since becoming an open-minded adult, have questioned the existence of God in the Christian sense. There are way too many questions and no answers to prove that a man with such Omnipotent power ever existed. Right off the bat, in Genesis ("the beginning"), He made Adam and then Eve from Adam's rib as his helpmate. Ok. That MAY have been possible I guess. Then Adam and Eve had children, most notably Cain and Able. They had daughters apparently also, but the bible rarely mentions daughters being born. Nonetheless, the world was somehow populated. Had to have been incest since they were the first 2 (and only 2) people on Earth. That, in itself, doesn't sound too good to me! Then this all-knowing, all-powerful, all-forgiving God does awful, even horrific, things to His people. Killings, human sacrifices, plagues, famines, floods... The men in the bible have lots of wives, tons of children, and many MANY concubines. The modern church (not to mention society) pretty much frowns upon all these things. This being said, do I believe in God? Absoulutely! I have never seen him or met him, but I believe that a "God" in the sense of a higher intelligence must surely exist somewhere and that we are a part of His existence. On the opposite ends of the scales, if you DO believe in the Bible, then the world is going to Hell in a Handbasket but quick!! The bible specifically tells us that women were put on Earth to be the man's helpmate, to look up to her husband as the husband looks up to his God. To be there for your man in all that he pursues and desires...yes, ladies, that includes sex!! You are to submit to your husband and make sure he is taken care of. He, in return, knows your worth and will treat you like his queen. We were meant to be the bearer of children--he is meant to be the protector and provider of the household. Women were not meant to rule the world or take on the roles of men. Genders cannot be interchanged. We are NOT created equal in THAT way. Really stop and think about this...it all makes perfect sense!
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I've had a USB thumb controlled marble since 1998 and I'm still using the same one - it's the optical one!
I hate the use of a "Standard Mouse", and always refer anyone to subject themselves to a one week exclusive use of a track ball and they'll switch.
My thumb never gets tired - and I have a nasty habit of reading in pace with my cursor - so I'm using my thumb ALL the time. No pain or soreness ever. I also am quite proficient in PhotoShop - much better accuracy when detailing something.
I pack my marble with my laptop, I can use it anywhere regardless of surface. I take it to work with me - I see my marble wheel more than I do my wife,, eww that's sad - Time for a new profession. Seriously.. simply stated - I LOVE my marble wheel and would give them away if I could afford to do so.
After all you do know what they say - "Once you go Marble - You never go back!"
Has this actually been confirmed to be from the MS updates?
There are many forms of advertising outside of commercials. The same companies that pay top dollar for the ad slots they choose, are also solicited for on-set adveritising. When you see someone drnking a Coke, I can guarantee you that it was not merely the only can or soda on the set. Companies pay large sums for actors and actresses to drink and eat the products, wear their clothing/logos, of casually have their products in plain sight on the counters, written on a bag, etc...
They're plenty of advertising avenues outside of Stay-Tuned-For-This-Commerical type breaks.
My observations are tha tthe movie industry is getting it back-wards - my cable bill continues to go up, there is less to watch (20 MTV/VH1 type channels, 15 news channels, 10 sports channels, 3 cartoon all days channels, 8 soap-opera, 25 re-runs, A&E, Sci-Fi, all that have a commercial break every 4 minutes (usually the EXACT same commercial over and over again) - the accumilated commercial breaks usually equal actual show run time... And after all that I pay $100/mo to finally end up watching Mutual of Omaha.
The only reason they are losing money is because they no longer have originality, the re-produce old movies and shows, the quality is horrible. You pay $8 to $15 to see an in-theater movie only to leave saying "God ! I paid $15 dollars to see that garbage". Some movie you want to see in theater, Twister, King Kong, etc... Movies where you want a large screen to suck-you-in, feel the boom of the base as Kong rampages through NYC - and if more movies were like this, they'd have better turn-out. Produce a movie that provides advantages of seeign it in the movie theater - maybe 30 mintues of additional HIGH quality footage that will never be released on DVD. I'd see X-Men final stand in theaters if I knew I'd get 30 more minutes of fighting.
Now, this may not be the solution, though I feel my points clearly state some of the problems quite clearly. MPAA needs to take then popcorn out of the ears and start listening to their audience if they expect to survive.
There at least 22 other net-documented places that this occurs. Rolling Uphill Illusion . The 'local' location to my residence is Gravity Hill, PA . These locations are well documented and explained in detail. Furthermore the fifth picture from the top shows where the street has been tagged as well as the starting point.
"To put it simply, if they are heavy, it means that there is a lot more mass in the Universe than we thought there was..."
So what this means is that people are really a lot fatter than what they think they are.
How I am a going to explain to my wife tomorrow when I say "Yes" to her saying "Am I fatter today?" - I'll pack my bags now and save myself some time. ummm, I may want to book a room too!
BCC reporting this?? It's a little odd that a major news source is only now releasing this. I saw the add for this movie over a week ago... Ad oddly enough they do have a slightly resemblence to the real Simpon's - well, I don't feel that marge does, but you couldn't get her that kind of hair-do, as the realistic part would have gone straight out the window. Has anyone else seen this preview before these news releases? Make you wonder if the news release is actually a follow-up for a mis-air preview (that was not suppose to air) and decide to confirm it so that it doesn't look like a mistake?
Global warming is not all about taking care of 'our earth'. It's about saving our own asses from extinction.
Earth has endured asteroid showers, meteor showers, major volcanic erruptions that produced ice ages and other effects of extreme proportion. Earth will contineu to self-maintain long after the human race died off, or nuked themselves. When a major earth shifting event happens, evolution begins again.
Leave the glabal warming, ozone holes, melting ice alone - It's evident that since we started reducing ozone depleting chemicals, introduced automobile emmission controls, and a bounty of other reversal efforts, that nothing is helping. I strongly feel that we are not causing these things - rather earth is evolving herself, and unfortunately her future plans may or may not include any of the current species. We're beating a dead horse!
Within hours of an abduction, a nation wide "Amber" alert is broadcasted. Even as little 15 years ago, unless you lived in the same or nearby town no one would have known if little Tiff was taken. They report more under-age crimes - in the past if you were underage, you get sent home and your parents would get the fine, or you'd get a slap on the wrist, repeat offender got sent to Juvi or sent away to boarding school. Juvi has been replaced with prison, getting sent home to parents goes un-noticed as they are never home due to their long hour, endless overtime jobs, and boarding school has been replaced with the local IU school system fille with inadequate last pick teachers that are not trained in handling the not so typical teenage highschool child.
Regardless of what it is, what has happened, or where it has happened, we now have global criminal information pounded at us from all directions 24/7 within minutes from it occurring.
So did the frequency increase? Or does it merely appear that way due to the increased accessibility to the information?