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Old 12-17-2010, 12:18 PM   #14101
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I remember once being told by a woman to whom I'd given no provocation that she wouldn't sleep with me. I replied, "That hurt my feelings. I thought you'd sleep with anybody."
Sounds like the old joke about the philosopher talking to a woman at a party:

"Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?"

"Sure!"

"Would you sleep with me for five dollars?"

"What kind of woman to you think I am!"

"We've already settled that. Now we're dickering about the price."

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Old 12-17-2010, 12:23 PM   #14102
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Sounds like the old joke about the philosopher talking to a woman at a party:

"Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?"

"Sure!"

"Would you sleep with me for five dollars?"

"What kind of woman to you think I am!"

"We've already settled that. Now we're dickering about the price."

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Old 12-17-2010, 02:03 PM   #14103
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Sounds like the old joke about the philosopher talking to a woman at a party:

"Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?"

"Sure!"

"Would you sleep with me for five dollars?"

"What kind of woman to you think I am!"

"We've already settled that. Now we're dickering about the price."

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That sounds suspiciously Mark Twain.
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Old 12-17-2010, 02:09 PM   #14104
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It's the other way around here! It was never a common practice to hold doors for people in old Japan. It's wasn't a male/female thing. It's a 'strangers are enemies,' idea of Confucian ideology. It's only the younger folks who are doing it now. Today's younger people have learned the custom from TV and movies, while the old folks let the door slam on each other.


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I took my 89 year old mother to the Korean market with me the other day for the first time. I gave her a shopping cart to push and told her to not let herself get pushed around in there, and if she needed to get close to something just push on in. I wouldn't normally say, or do, that but in there you have to be fairly aggressive to get your shopping done!
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Old 12-17-2010, 02:57 PM   #14105
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That's a common situation. There are ways around it; an entire industry full of them in fact. For instance, check out VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/); there's an open-source edition and one for "Personal Use & Evaluation" (meaning "it has proprietary code in it"). I run my web server and Jabber server on separate Linux installs, along with my copy of Win7 for my postgrad stuff (which I take as seriously as you take your job, I surmise). All of it works like a charm and doesn't require a locomotive's horsepower to run well.
Of the three "big" software solutions we have, one is nothing but a SQL database that runs well on a virtual computer.

The other two control security hardware and absolutely will not run on a virtual computer. I very rarely set them up on my personal computer along with the hardware. But sometimes I do.


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I don't understand why folks put up with all that trouble.

Get a separate drive (not a partition on your C drive) for ALL saved data. Put nothing on your C drive other than the operating system and applications. Every time you save something it should be to that external dive/drives. (I have five externals connected.) Absolutely NO DATA gets saved to the C drive.

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Even separate data disks and backups aren't foolproof. You can have a virus long before you notice it and you'll back it up with the rest of your stuff.


Back in the 90s I was using McAfee. That was the first time (as far as I know) that a virus turned off an antivirus program, not just bypassed it.
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Old 12-17-2010, 03:03 PM   #14106
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O, Betty, you must be so proud of her to be so old and still getting around. Enjoy yourselves!
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Old 12-17-2010, 03:26 PM   #14107
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Yeah and assaulting Koreans with shopping carts as well!
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Old 12-17-2010, 03:29 PM   #14108
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Old 12-17-2010, 03:46 PM   #14109
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I hold doors open.

I try not to ram too many people with my shopping cart. Easy, since I rarely shop (that's a man's job at my house).

I've never told anyone I wouldn't sleep with them... never told anyone I would, either. My decisions are rarely pre-ordained.

Window's schmindows. I have a mac.

Did I cover it all? Oh, forgot my vent:

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Old 12-17-2010, 05:16 PM   #14110
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Sounds like the old joke about the philosopher talking to a woman at a party:

"Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?"

"Sure!"

"Would you sleep with me for five dollars?"

"What kind of woman to you think I am!"

"We've already settled that. Now we're dickering about the price."

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Old 12-17-2010, 05:30 PM   #14111
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That sounds suspiciously Mark Twain.
Or Ambrose Bierce. Might have been Twain in origin. I don't have a citation one way or the other.
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Old 12-17-2010, 05:31 PM   #14112
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I took my 89 year old mother to the Korean market with me the other day for the first time. I gave her a shopping cart to push and told her to not let herself get pushed around in there, and if she needed to get close to something just push on in. I wouldn't normally say, or do, that but in there you have to be fairly aggressive to get your shopping done!
One needs battering rams to shop in Korean markets. Just as bad as in Chinese shops! No lines or queues for anything, just huge mob scenes surging towards the goods, especially when there is a sale. It can actually be dangerous!

The British rule in Hong Kong created a slight bit of order, as far as groups in shopping situations, but it's still China, and when a sale is on, it's 'no holds barred!'


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