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Playboy? Buy? That's sooooooo last century dude. Don't you know porn is VERY abundant and completely free on the web? Plus, now there's this thing called peer-to-peer file sharing. MP3's aint the only thing peers are sharing these days, ya know

Yah good idea ... I probably need to put my disclaimer up to. I am also a lot like vava and my opinion in this case is based mostly on what I have read, what I have been told, and what I am guessing based on several years of internet usage. Of course any "successful" dot com always grabs my attention and some of these online matchmaking sites seem to be doing well.

Azat, seriously LMAO at ALL of them (including my newly discovered ones!!!!)

Hey, that's not fair. You have seen me in real life.

Ok, now you tell me which of the following three is the real one. http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/hf/sip_fake1.jpg http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/hf/sip_fake2.jpg http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/hf/sip_fake3.jpg

Maybe the Nigerians are really sarcastic?

This started off as a reply to Accelerated's thread but it seemed like a good topic for a new thread. At this point, I maintain that even though internet match making and online dating sites are BOOMING and growing like crazy (one of the fastest growing segments, if not the fastest), people in general still haven't made that mental shift to the idea. The web still seems to attract relatively large portions from the following categories: 1) the most losery kind that have no chance of anything in real life 2) those who have waaaaaaaay too high of expectations (dreaming) 3) those who are simply experimenting and aren't serious 4) those who are really wacco (i.e. NOT sane) 5) just plain wierdos 6) Spam and scams I was reading a while back about all the trouble yahoo personals was having with porn sites putting up ads disguised as personal ads. As soon as someone replied, they had a "live" contact they could spam. That's when their service was completely free which prompted them to start charging for some parts of it but I suspect it's still a major problem ... and probably not just restricted to yahoo. On top of that, once in a while when a "good" candidate (esp female) happens to show up, she tends to get sooooo bombarded with attention that there is no way in hell she can make any sense of anything (most the above would reply to her ... in addition to the laaaaarge majority that only browse these things). Once when you get over 300 messages a day, filtering through them becomes a chore that no one will bother with. So in essence, the sheer vastness of the net will make this impractical unless there are proper filtering measures put in place. So any opinions on the subject?

Hey Jugs ... one thing I've meaning to say but keep forgetting ... in this case, I don't think the internet will be much help in your search. Yah! You heard me. It was ME who said it ... EDITED ... decided to post this as a new topic HERE.

Ah yes ... the "fuzzy monitor syndrome" ... I always get a kick out of it when people that don't know me misread my name and type it as "Seapalm" ... makes me sound like a psychic tarot card reader.

Interesting ... Will your job move to India? I didn't see house painter on the list so Azat your backup plan is still safe.

Must have been the cheap Asian pirated knock off version ... I preferred "Twelve Monkeys" much more. Those extra few monkeys REALLY add to the movie!!!! It's one of the most thought provoking movies I have ever seen!

Just wanted to see what the hyeforum perspective is on this ... all the recent data published anywhere seems to indicate that music sales are "down" ... down by a lot. And almost always the "down" sentence seems to be followed by something along the lines of "internet", "file sharing", "music downloads", "cd burning" etc. But is it just that people have figured out a way to pirate music or is it also that most new music just SUCKS that are hurting record sales? I mean take a look at Britney, Aguilerra and all the other supposedly top "artists". It's all the same old boring stuff ... same formula ... same voice and body undulations with the same tired old lyrics over and over with a slight change in the background beat here and there. Is it just me (getting old?) or do you also think that the "pop music industry" (US anyway) is seriously suffering from a lot more than just people getting their stuff for free?

No but some dumbass brother of mine who shall remain nameless already revealed to me what happens in it

Can you imagine how exciting life would seem if you only had like a 30 second memory capacity? It sounds aweful to us but to be in that state would truelly be awesome I am picturing. You're bored? Just wait 30 seconds !!!!

Wow Thoth ... so I'm guessing it took almost no time for you to get to second base with her?

Azat jan ... I can't wait for the day I grow up and everything just falls into place I'm sure a lot of things will change in me when I get older ... hopefully for the "better".

Interestingly enough, no! It's funny now that you mention it ... I can't remember the last time they wanted something from me. I have almost always been on the receiving end of stuff so far (or giving completely voluntarily).

I'll let you know when I find out but I doubt it's going to be her philosophies on deep water migration habits of sea bass. Nah, call me shallow, call me superficial, call me whatever you want ... but my guess is that my first impression is either going to be boobs or butt.

The reason I haven't responded to this question (very interesting one by the way) is that I wanted to think about it for a while. I think this is my only main driving force in life. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be where I am today (sounds trivially stupid but read on). Don't misunderstand ... I am not saying they put me where I am today. No. I am saying if it weren't for my huge sense of "debt" to my parents, I wouldn't have done jack crap in the last decade or so and I don't think I would have accomplished anthing. It's a paralyzing feeling ... knowing I can never "repay" them for what they lost (their own comfort, security, youth, etc). Doesn't matter what I do ... it's just humanly impossible to repay something like that. ... and now I am left to bear this huge sense of "burden" for the rest of my life. Doesn't matter if they will be alive to see it or not. In my heart, everything I do will always be based on choices to make small repayment to what they gave me. Unfortunately, this goes against their wishes! They wish to see me happy. They wish to see me doing what I want to do and live how I really want to live. But ironically, this sense of "debt" will prevent me from trully doing that till I die.

The other point to make here is that in terms of evolutionary time scales, the difference between Serb and Chinese is VERY tiney compared to the difference between humanoid and fish.

Yah I agree with Steve that although genetics do play roles in how one's brain functions, up bringing, training, and learning to think has a lot to do with how one develops into an "intelligent" adult human. And as you know, I have often maintained that children are pretty damn stupid... of course this excludes any children of any forum members here. See I have to say that last part to avoid a confrontation with the always present parent of the "above average" child. But of course, no matter how much I trained as a child, chances of me being an NBA basketball player or a horse jockey would be very very slim. Genetic differences are present and combined with the right training can make huge differences in terms of relatives abilities of the select few humans that end up being extremes ... but in terms of averages, I don't think it's so clear cut.

Yah, but it sure as hell beats having a country named after a bird that gets stuffed through the rear on Thanksgiving every year

AHA! So Thoth is resorting to the use of subliminal messages, eh? Well, I can email you my fax number and you, being synthetic, can fax yourself over here!!!

English is my fourth language and I can VERY comfortably say it is the one which I have mastered the most (by HUGE margins) ... of course not counting any computer languages. So I guess I don't agree with that statement.

Well, at least your English skill be good.