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Yes der xorovatsi yev konyaki em spasum

Yah, I'm sure you are 50 years old DUDE Did you fight in WWII against the Nazis too? Were you there when then invented the wheel and fire? Yah dude, how stupid do you think people are around here?

Instead of all this love and hate, I think we should have xhorovats.

I like them when working out.

Konyak te nuri gini + xhorovats? Indz tvuma indz, kez, yev Mosin aveli lav ksazi kants te konyak (Mosin anpayman pidi hravirenk).

Vay babam jan ... es Ashote me hat lav kotak a uzum Kotakits heto, me hat el Kotayk. (Nairi will explain the difference if you are nice to her). Arpa, that also reminds me I remember my Grandpa used to say "shash u besh" when playing Nardi with me sometimes. "Shash" could mean the act of urinating in some farsi dialetcs ... and it also can be used to refer to an idiot. A serbian friend of mine also told me it can mean a similar thing in Serbian ... I found out because his name was Sasha and there was an indian professor back in college that used to call him "shasha" by mistake (made me laugh EVERY time -- though that made me look more like the 'shasha' than anything else).

Yah but no sorryyyyy

For a second, I thought I was reading one of the many sorryyyyy emails I get these days.

Relax Ashot jan ... I can guarantee you that has been a "dialect" far longer than what you might see people now refer to as "Western" Armenian PS: With the exception of my favorite which happens to be "besh", the rest are in Farsi ... and they are purely used, as I said, while playing Nardi ... at least in my neck of the woods.

Counting normally just like Nairi. But when playing Nardi, aka "daxdak": 1 yek 2 do 3 se 4 chahar 5 panj 6 shish 1 + 1: xhal xhal 2 + 2: Joft do 3 + 3: Joft se 4 + 4: Joft chahar 5 + 5: Joft panj (sometimes do-besh) 6 + 6: Joft shish 6 + 5: Shish o besh (my favorite)

Looks like a variation of a "Smart Car" to me .. for more info you can see here. They have had them in Europe for a long time and now they are showing up in the US. Basically they are glorified (but street-legal) golf carts But I am not sure what exactly you saw as it might also just have been a modified electric golf cart? The smart car seems like will be a hit in major urban areas (like New York and San Francisco) but otherwise, we'll have to see how people overall react to them. I personally don't know if I could pass up a Toyota Prius over one of these given the prius gets better gas milage and is a lot more useful as a car (though more expensive of course).

Wisconsin had a deer overpopulation last couple of years and there was also this disease that was spreading fast among them called "chronic wasting disease". I think what they did was pay hunters for the deers they killed... it was amazing how well it worked. "Sterilizing eggs?" Dude, just give like $1 per pigeon to whoever brings them in dead. Problem will be solved in a matter of days. Hmmm ... although this is the French so I hope they don't surrender to the pigeons first.

What does it mean "laws of nature"? Does that mean within the realm in which we can perceive existence?

Why must "God" either be the creator of everything or nothing? Can't there just be some powerful God that created just us humans? Is it always true that not believing in a "creator of universe" necessarily means one must reject the notion of God? And my last question ... how can God be "super-natural?" If God exists, isn't He natural?

Hima shat hesht a hartse ... Aghchik vor desar, PAXIR!!!!

Life is great ... I can say for the first time in my life I am getting paid for something I really like doing. I knew I loved programming before but this is just taking it to the 'next level'. Best of all, it's the environment though ... completely surrounded by some really sharp (and sometimes uber geeky) people. It is a refreshing experience to not be even remotely close to being the smartest one in any given room all the time ahahahaha. My biggest problem has been not stopping for more food/desert/snacks on the way back from food. We've been making fun of one of my office mates for saying: "Oh this steak is good, but not nearly as good as the steak I had for lunch". Unfortunatley though I haven't had much of a chance to really keep up with what's going on here even though I just click to see what's new almost every day ... good to see a lot of new people and a lot of energy being put into this place again.

I still have no clue what was said or done.

Would need a bit more detail about what was done but you should always: 1. Keep up with latest updates and patches (i.e. windows update for windows) 2. Have good up to date anti virus 3. Run spy-ware / ad-ware removal tools often (like spybot) 4. Close any open holes on your computer .. like don't share any drives or folders ... password protect the login account with non trivial passwords ... stop unnecessary services ... don't run programs that open up things on your pc (such as file sharing programs) without knowing what you are doing. 5. Firewalls are good if you don't know what is going on. They close outside access to your pc. 6. Don't click on things that look suspicious ... be aware of what you are doing (this is obviously a lot harder to do than to say ) 7. When unsure, ask! Here is not a bad place to get help when something is fishy.

I guess it's because of people posting about it

That doesn't make much sense in the context of the question you are dealing with. It would help if you first define "have been" (what does it mean?) and then explain what you mean by "many, many". If "having been" means dating, then you haven't really "been" If "having been with many, many" means sex with lots of different women, then I hope all that really matters to you is looks. After all, if you are going to go through so many many women by "being with them", who the ef cares about anything else but looks? Are you reallly that worried about their "pesonality" when you're doing the horizontal hokey pokey so many, many times? Unless of course "having been with many many" while not caring about looks means you'll stick the pickle in just about ANY jar. .... YUK.

Note to self: Ashot could be a terrorist.

It's already pretty easy to track people ... the microchip may not be in your skin but it is in your pocket. Who doesn't have a cel phone these days?

7. Ban Yervant, Ashot, and Domino.

I'm just about ready to put my new HTPC together in the next few days ... and the main question I am still struggling with is to go with linux or win xp? I don't want to dual boot this machine. If anybody around here have their own htpc or similar machine setup, I'd love to hear your thoughs (Domino?)? With linux, I am having a bit trouble deciding which route to go ... full blown LinuxMCE, MythTV, or Freevo ... is there anything else that's good? I guess I could try but I would rather just focus on one from the beginning. I don't think I am going to use it to record anything (so using it as a PVR is not an issue right now). I download most of what I watch since I don't have cable or satellite so the main use of it will be playback. I do plan to eventually add a blu-ray drive to it but at this point, that's not a big issue either. Also, I have a Dlink DSM-520 media player so it would be nice to use this htpc as the media server for that on my tv in the bedroom. For now, I am leaning heavily towards linux and most of the hardware I have, I know will work fine (assuming I can get the hdmi output of the motherboard to cooperate in linux). Here's the breakdown of the main parts I have: http://www.antec.com/images/400/Fusion_new_f.jpg Case: Antec Fusion 430 (has a built in VFD display)MB: Asus m2a-vm hdmi (uAtx)RAM: Corsair XMS2 2GB DDR2 800 (cas 5)CPU: AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 Brisbane 2.1GHz 45W Dual-Core (it's a 65nm chip so that's why 45W)HD: 320 GB SATA 7200 RPM WD Caviar (16mb cache version) I think I am going to go with ubuntu for now. Any thoughts?

People always complain that taxes are hard to do ... I have actually found them to be rather trivial to do in my case since I don't have any crazy investments, rental properties, or other weird things to worry about ... especially with turbo tax. One year I made the mistake of paying HR Block and oh my god what a waste that was. They charged me $180 and took 2 hours to do something I could have done myself in about 30 minutes and for faaaaaaaar less. Of course it really depends on your situation ... if you have a lot of different investments, various capital gains and losses, your own business(es), rental and/or farm properties, or get income in various states with different laws, I can see how a pro expert can be very helpful.