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quote:Originally posted by hyebruin:forgot this one!...and if the oath in the armenian marriage ceremonies is perceived as making women the "property" of their husbands... I have nooooo problem with that as long as I know my husband is being truthful and faithful to me JUST AS I AM being to him...I define that as sharing the love two people have and do not think it is anything stifling or belitteling to women... So as long as your husband is "truthful" and "faithful", you don't have a problem with being assigned as his property to him? You don't think that's a bit belitteling? I'm speechless! The version which I remember hearing at some wedding a few years ago asked the wife if she would "obey" her man and something about being "hnazand" but there were NO such words used for the husband. That I found very belitteling. Fortunately, not all seremonies are like this anymore. I see that some more "intelligent" priests are changing some of the words around and making it more PC.

quote:Originally posted by hyebruin:just to clear MY name out of this all I'm saying is people can't be wishy washy with reationships...a commitment is a commitment...and if there are problems within the relationship, they need to be worked out by the TWO people involved and not bring in outsiders to satisfy whatever sexual/lustful fantasies the parnters themselves cannot fufill OR the alternative is the dissolution of the relationship ... I respect that thought process. Actually, most traditional marriage "oaths" that are taken in Armenian ceremonies for example, do seem to make this an explicit condition of the marriage. Of course they also sound to me like they make the female a property of the male if you pay close attention, but let's ignore that one for now. But what is more important in the end ... sticking blindly to rules, regulations, values, and morals or having an open, supporting, "mutual", HAPPY relationship? Of course I am NOT an expert in any of the above and I do agree that there is a fine line between sexual pleasure and just perversion but in my opinion, that is up to the adult couple to decide and not the ancient scriptures Oh and while we are on the topic of perversion, did any of you know having any sort of anal sex is against the law in Georgia (state)? I just found this out recently!!! Some lady actually sued her husband a while back and he got thrown in jail for that, even though the act was completely consentual on both sides. The irony of this whole thing I thought was, he will probably be experiencing a whole lot of that same type of "activity" in prision which got him there to begin with

quote:Originally posted by Stormy: quote:Originally posted by Azat:hmmmmmm, I wonder if I'm gaining weight... No dude. You look awesome the way you are. Keep eating them broccolis Yah I agree with Stormy. Azat you worry too much ... you look just fine dude.

Dear Varduhi ... karogh es xndrem batsadrel vor "teman" inch e aystegh? Yes molorvats yev korats em ays ropein quote:Originally posted by Varduhi:Seaphen if you don’t think it's the right thing to do then how can you agree with it? I don't think being a medical doctor is the right thing to do for me. But I have no problem if someone wants to be a doctor. I can't live my life as a car dealer. But I have no problem if someone has the abilities and desire to live like that. So even though I may not want to lead a certain lifestyle myself, I am not stupid or arrogant enough to stand up and say NO ONE should do that! You know why? Cause a world full of geeky Sips would be a pretty horrible place if you ask me. quote:Seaphen so you’re saying that there is nothing wrong with killing as long as we are adults?NO, absolutely not.

Hey, I refuse to live in a gay-ted community. (sorry, but I have a friend that lives in a gated community and we give him a LOT of shit about that ) But I totally know what you mean. I am affraid to put up a lot of info about my car on my website because of just what you said. It will make it an easy target for anyone (although I have put in a few "surprises" for a would be theif ) ... so now I get about 2 or 3 emails a week asking me how I have done certain things and I keep explaining the same things over and over to people. I have had my cars broken into twice, stolen once (and recovered in bad shape) and I've had several other things stolen. My attitude right now is I won't get too pissed off if it does happen. Cause everytime something was stolen from me, I have found a way to replace it with something better ... Yah, cars, money, objects, valuables, etc can be stolen .... but what gives me the most comfort in life? It's that I doubt anyone can steal the investments I have made in myself too easily Any chance I get, I invest in myself (not talking about buffets but that too ).

quote:Originally posted by Accelerated:Ford? Dont tell me this beauty is badged as a 'Ford' in the States? PS. I do know Ford owns Mazda By the way, I was just kidding bud! It looks SWEEET ... Congrats!!! Oh and when you get it, send me the pics ... I'll post them for ya.

quote:Originally posted by Azat:Sip do you not seen the Java Virtual machine for applets in the browser? I thought you did, but I could be wrong. Yes ... you need some type of JVM to run any java. But it used to be that browsers came with their own JVM. Now, I am not to sure what's going on. I read somewhere that Netscape 5.0+ can use any JVM through a JNI bridge. With IE, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft is using the same JVM that comes with windows. Of course you know SUN was suing MS for not packaging the SUN JVM or something like that. It's a MESS ... there is no standard ... and I have NO idea what's going on So I have a feeling (not sure) JAVA applets can be executed using the browser built-in JVM (probably older versions) or using other JVMs on the machine through a plugin. GOOD LUCK

ahahahahahahah soosig poosig ... that's a classic. Very funny stuff. I'll try to add when I find some free time and some inspiration

But it's a F**d http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/barf.gif

DAMN! Azat that's horrible. Glad you guys are ok That totally sucks. Well, I guess driving a volvo does have it's advantages, eh? I hear they are some of the safest sedans ... what kind of car was she driving? Hope it wasn't a big ass suv. I would just about DIE if something like that happened to my blazer ...

quote:Originally posted by Varduhi: But Azat got it right. I personally would never get involved with that kind of a "relationship" (not that I could do it even if I wanted to ). But I have no problem if someone wants to (and can) live their life that way, as long as both couples agree and as long as they provide a loving, caring, and supporting atmosphere for the kids to grow up (i.e. no orgies every night at home). I just don't think in this day and age, couples having sex with other couples is going to "ruin" the kids. What will ruin the kids are couples that fight, couples that distrust each other, couples that put themselves above their kids, and of course couples that split up.

Oh and that's a HUGE picture (~330K). It would be a good idea to post things like that as a link for our "bandwidth" challenged viewers.

quote:Originally posted by Arpa:... "Let's pretend this is a hockey game, and let's get the 'puck' out of here". I know some guy in Arizona that says something similar. When we are offroading with a group, he often says: "Let's make like a fetus and head out" ... most of the time, he doesn't say the last part and the "regulars" knows what he is talking about. But the new guys often get shocked at what he means by "let's make like a fetus". What this has to do with PLUCK you ask? I don't know.

Vava, I think this thread may be interesting to you.

quote:Originally posted by Armo:Sip Jan...du el es hravirvats ... yete uzum es du el karas nvages, kam el computerneret karas beres 100 moniternerov yev 20 rope kez ke hataksnem vor show tuts tas samalyutneri .. norutyun ke lini, shat urahatuk hamadzayn es???.. "we'll be trend setters." OOOOOO! Iharke vor hamadzayn em!!!!! Ureme yes el "computor" ke nvagem http://home.earthlink.net/~Sip/images/ct14.gif ... now where did I put all my "rabiz" software

Actually, the first time I saw that phone was on the news. They had confiscated it from some french drug dealer's house along with a bunch of drugs and cash.

Nice stuff! Love that cell phone I was just surfing around on the Japanese SONY site (cause they always have the better stuff) and I just couldn't believe how cool this thing is: http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/hf/u3.jpg http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/hf/u3-2.jpg Click here to see the japanese site.

They are thin cause after the race they can be used to cut the pizza for dinner Well, I've read ("real" 4x4 magazines of course) that the best way to get traction on snow is to have tires that get packed with snow since snow-snow traction is excellent. From there, I would guess that having a FAT tire that can pack fresh snow in the thread may actually be good. But ICE is a different story. I am thinking that when you have a "narrow" surface, you have more weight concentrated on a smaller area which can melt the ice much easier and get traction than if you had a wider surface ... pretty much the same concept as having sharp "blades" for hockey players. Good question dude ... looking forward to "the answer" [ February 15, 2003, 06:53 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by Arpa:Seap, I have no idea what you are talking about. So! What else is new!! Even then I like the way you say it. Thanks Arpa! Glad you enjoy my "nonsense" quote:Originally posted by Arpa:Wait till I crystallize my "bazhakajar" about you on HyeKhorum. This is the "dumbest" you have ever done. Where is your most "clever" one? Well, I think that is a constant in the UNIVERSE. Which means I don't necessarily have to be the one to balance things out. Seems like we have the Arpas, Vavas, Haruts, and Mosjans to balance the Sips, Azats, and Accelerateds of this Universe! By the way, nice vocab lesson. I love "avanakian" Sounds to me like it'll make a good last name too. Vava: I fricking had ADMIN priviledges and I still couldn't talk to a parallel port directly. I couldn't even find out what ADDRESS the port was at Not only did my hardware have to pretend it's a printer, I had to pretend I was a "printer" But the way I solved that problem was awesome! I ended up installing Win 98 SE as a VMWARE guest OS under Win 2K, and let VMWARE map my 2 new parallel ports (PCMCIA card) as standard LPT ports in the guest OS. Then, from the guest machine, I could do whatever since can do whatever you want in Win 98!!! But XP/2000 are a totally different story. Everything is protected and wrapped with drivers and crap. This was all to get a couple of my prototypes (light sensor appliance/compass) to work for a demo for some talks I have to give (also probably for my PhD thing). So now I got 2 bulky 800MHz/1GHz laptops networked and running 3 operating systems to talk to 2 fricking parallel ports for a stupid demo!!! I mean a simple 8086/XT box could do the same thing But the demo is going to be COOL as hell! I got 3D visualization with lighting and shadowing, real-time graphs and everything (OpenGL). [ February 15, 2003, 06:44 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

I am starting to believe that the amount of "smartness" is a constant in the universe. Thus, for every clever action, there is an equal and opposite dumb action. After coming up with this ingenious way of getting around some tight security and layers of drivers and hardware abstractions in windows 2000 to directly access some hardware ports, I spent the last 5 hours tracing down a problem which even a 5-year old could easily figure out! You just can't expect to fit 500 things into 256 places On a side note, I find it fascinating that something that used to take 3 lines of code and 30 seconds to do back in the 80s and 90s now requires hours and hours of "system engineering" and about 1000 lines of code! However, I am hoping that this "dumbassity" is somehow balanced by something very amazing. What that is, I still don't know. [ February 15, 2003, 01:05 AM: Message edited by: Sip ]

BAN DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE! Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death. Dihydrogen monoxide: is also known as hydroxl acid, and is the major component of acid rain. contributes to the "greenhouse effect." may cause severe burns. contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape. accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals. may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes. has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients. Contamination is reaching epidemic proportions! Quantities of dihydrogen monoxide have been found in almost every stream, lake, and reservoir in America today. But the pollution is global, and the contaminant has even been found in Antarctic ice. DHMO has caused millions of dollars of property damage in the midwest, and recently California. Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used: as an industrial solvent and coolant. in nuclear power plants. in the production of styrofoam. as a fire retardant. in many forms of cruel animal research. in the distribution of pesticides. Even after washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical. as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products. Companies dump waste DHMO into rivers and the ocean, and nothing can be done to stop them because this practice is still legal. The impact on wildlife is extreme, and we cannot afford to ignore it any longer! The American government has refused to ban the production, distribution, or use of this damaging chemical due to its "importance to the economic health of this nation." In fact, the navy and other military organizations are conducting experiments with DHMO, and designing multi-billion dollar devices to control and utilize it during warfare situations. Hundreds of military research facilities receive tons of it through a highly sophisticated underground distribution network. Many store large quantities for later use. I know what this chemical is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . it's water. Did it have you fooled? [ February 14, 2003, 07:44 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by Armo:MosJan yes aykan ke hrtzevem ete du im harsanikin nvages...bayts mi miayn mi paymanov... duduk piti nvages, yev haket petk e lini Haykakan taraz...I got hookups for both ... Wooo Hooo ... sounds to me like we got a "harsanik" coming up!!!!

quote:Originally posted by nairi:... I have three myself We WANT PICTURES! Of course only to objectively see the tatoos and appreciate the "art".

Well, it always gives you a good excuse to check out things ... and you just say: "Oh, don't mind me. I am only looking at the TATOO" He he he he

quote:Originally posted by hyebruin:... ~~~ahhh, tzaveh danehm! The way you put "tzaveh danehm" (abbr. td) after every Tata (td) reference, reminds me of how muslims put "pbuh" after every Muhammad (pbuh) reference (Peace Be Upon Him) I also don't think Tata (td) is Rabiz. He has his own unique style most of the time. [ February 13, 2003, 06:10 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]