Sip

keep in mind that I have never been to Armenia but I think I understand what you are saying ... I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. It's just how things change I guess ... The ancient egyptians started papyrus and such and the world followed ... the chinese did a whole bunch of stuff ... then the persians, greeks, romans, etc all influenced the world in some sense ... Of course now with the age of communication and technology things happen much much faster (i.e. geography isnt' as big a factor in keeping things the same). There is NO denying that we live in a changing world and that geographical boundaries are coming down at a rapid rate. The question is, how do we adapt and move on ... no, I don't think it's a bad thing.

emmmmmm ... is that referring to my pic? did you READ what I said about the pic being completely unedited (yes and that means no photoshopping involved)? Domino, VERY FUNNY!

Here's mine ... one day I was minding my own business crawling some rocks in the jeep when a buddy of mine snapped this picture! Keep in mind this is COMPLETELY unedited except for size. http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/rubi/WTF_tn.jpg (click for bigger pic)

I love it when things just work ... even if just BARELY! Imagine this scenario ... an almost empty room with a desk and a desktop computer with 22" monitor but no modem in one corner a laptop in the middle of the room a wire completely stretched from the laptop to the phone jack a powersupply with cords stretched completely from the laptop to another wall with an electrical outlet. a network x-cover cable from the latptop fully stretched to reach the desktop ... Laptop dials out to the internet to a service provider 1000 miles away (using a calling card of course) The desktop uses the laptop as a gateway to hop on the internet!!!! WOW ... awesome surfing at amazing 30 something Kbps on a 22" monitor with full size keyboard and optical mouse! If the room was just a bit bigger, this wasn't going to work!!! Of course I would have found a way but I just love it when I don't have to.

Hey, next time we go out somewhere and we see those two together, I'll keep the second one busy while you two (Domino and Azat) try your chances with the first. It's the LEAST I can do for my buddies.

Domino, here's a Kantian style of argument against your lion analogy ... If we killed all lions, they would be extinct. Obviously that's bad. If we killed all murderers, humans would not be extinct and we would probably have a better world... well, at least the world won't be any worse. Aha!!!!!

what's so special about speaking well? Is it a requirement for "love". I say probably not!!! Deaf-mute people can "love" as well.

Net is just a communication medium. So "finding love on the net" is really no different than "finding love in person", "finding love on the phone", "finding love using telegraph", "finding love using two-way radio", "finding love using hand signals", "finding love by having a pigeon take letters back and forth", "finding love by screaming from one house to the next", etc In all of the above, there is a communication medium at work that creates a link between two brains. People seem to prefer the person-to-person kind of "love" due to traditional reasons and the fact that it's the only one that allows for physical contact as part of the communication but ANY one of those can be just as real. The physical one obviously has tremendous advantages where romantic and sexual "love" is concerned ... but not all "loves" immediately start off as sexual and I think that's what you are asking. ... on the other hand, ANY one of those can be just as fake.

Ever seen an "adult"movie? They often have more references to God than the bible.

Nice post BTac and I agree ... and I am one of those that REALLY likes what is happening here ... on top of that, I'd like to add that the social structure is much more dynamic... you are not fixed within a "class" and moving up or down in the levels with huge leaps is definitely possible, even within a single generation. I guess in a sense, it is the land of opportunity! ... so on one hand, you are not tied with the often archaic ways of your ancestors, and on the other hand, you have a much larger set of freedoms in order to position your life in the future. Combine those together, and you are in for either HUGE innovations or HUGE disasters (and failures)! But that's not a bad thing I don't think.

Ladies and gentlemen, please ... I kinda like this thread so please don't make us remove it out of public view.... and to America-hye's defense, if what he says doesn't personally offend anyone, then I think he has every right to say it. I think we are mostly adults here (I am not counting Accelerated ) and are beyond this type of thing. Granted, up there a few things were said but let's leave it at that!

hey sip, if you leave out all those "off's" then that's one lucky bastard there!!! (in terms of guy talk/perspective) of course!! Absolutely scary how your mind works!

May I suggest 10101010 ... as in I want him, I want him not, I want him, I want him not and so forth

Welcome to the forum! And don't worry ... even though you do sound like Rodney King (just kidding just kidding)

On a side note, I think moderators should get to vote as many times as they want on polls.

You have to be fairly screwed up in the head to commit the kinds of murders that would lead to death penalty ... so at that point, I don't think you can analyze the criminal mind using rational basis for analysis! So ... that throws out the entire "deter crime" etc argument. Right now, it's too expensive to carry out capital punishment ... no doubt about it and I won't argue that. However, that is not an argument for or against capital punishment in general. It just says how stupid the system is right now. Now, in general, I am totally FOR capital punishment because after a certain point, a life is more trouble that it is worth. Thus, you eliminate the loses and move on. It's simple economics ... and DON'T tell me life is infinitely valuable. Of course it is NOT.

Being a moron is not a crime last time I checked.

Domino, why would a criminal who is imprisoned for life want to work? What possible motivation could he or she have? The only way you are going to get them to work is through torture... and that, would be more inhumane than killing the bastards.

This is totally strange but it just occured to me ... Bruin, do you realize that if you dropped out of school and maybe started working at McDonalds, you will actually improve your chances of finding an acceptable husband (futuristically speaking)?!!!! Talk about ironies in life!!!!

Azat, I finally found something for you!!!! Azat's bike

... Referring to our other current topic , I am willing to guess that the guy got laid off his job, but then got rehired at a better job, but now again is laid off. Just kidding, but I couldn't resist!!!!

Oh my god it all makes sense now! Gee I tell ya .... only lawyers!!!

Well, that should be enough to shut up the locust deniers.

WTF? Nairi is attracted to money hungrey women?

You guys suck. But the pole is 2-2