caeron

Well, those boots are fabulous and oh so butch, and the face mask will get you into bars on S&M night. Plus now you get to write your tell all: "My Years Under Lex Luthor: What The Bald Man Did to Me" Or "Why the Riddler Riddled"

It was worse in the days of FFF when people competed, it seemed to me, to say hateful things under the guise of being clever. Now, it seems to ebb and flow, but still is there. I've been on the internet for nearly 30 years at this point, and the anonymous bitching no longer appeals. I enjoyed being 'arch' as my english friends would say in my 20s. These days, not so much.

The tone at Daddy's never appealed to me. Bitchy cruel isn't my thing. I left a few years ago as well. I read sometimes, but I no longer post.

Since the question was about the last decade, I wouldn't rate MS very highly. They haven't done much significant in the last 10 years. the 80s were the period of the rise of the PC and I think you'd have to give that decade to MS and IBM.

I don't hate apple, though apparently to you anyone who isn't in awe of them does. As I said, I own an iPhone. It's a good device. But the most impactful tech company? Seriously? They make a great smart phone. They make a great tablet computer. Cisco has been instrumental in building out the infrastructure of the internet. Amazon has taught the world the world how to use the internet to transform shopping, in the process completely transforming the publishing industry. Google has transformed the way we look for information. The list goes on. Apple isn't in that league in impacting the tech industry.

I'm in the electronics business. Apple is glitter. They do good engineering and UI, but there isn't anything fundamentally breakthrough about them. Their PCs have 3% marketshare. I have an iphone and it is good stuff, but most impactful tech company. No. They just happen to have a big consumer brand.

I was in vietnam a few years ago. Contacted one of the escorts, we met for drinks, but as I had someone with me, we couldn't use our room, and he had no alternatives to offer. Even the bar we had a few drinks at wasn't really gay at all. Good luck, but I found nothing. real wasteland.

Maybe Cisco for Infrastructure. Google for net navigation and monetization. Definitely not Apple. They have some cute devices (I carry an iphone), but nowhere in the ball park of most impact.

If I were Bi, and thought she was hot, I would have screwed her, provided I knew that we would not cross paths professionally again (no chance of her becoming a student again). She may be lying to you, but that's her business as far as I'm concerned. You don't need to project any values onto her relationship with her husband. Of course, that may be colored by the fact that I'm married to a woman and am gay. My wife has known since forever that I was a faggot. We were friends in college and finally figured out that we were soul mates, we just didn't want to fuck. So we got married, are very happy, and I look elsewhere for sex. The idea that everyone out there has these white picket fence monogamy relationships is bullshit, and I don't think it is other people's business how people attend to that part of their relationship. Take care of your own, and let other people take care of theirs.

Well, if you want Japanese men, then I would have to agree Tokyo is the best place, being such a huge city. And as others suggested, Nara, Kyoto, Nikko and other places are all very cool. Personally, I find Korean and Chinese men much hotter!

I've been to both, and I'd suggest that the Japanese are less racist than having all having a huge fear of being embarrassed. They know how to treat each other, but they don't really know what to do with you, so they pretend you don't exist. I speak (well I did then anyway, hugely rusty these days) Japanese which smoothed things a great deal, but I learned over time that there were bars for foreigners and even if I spoke Japanese, it was best if I went where people wanted to meet me, rather than to places where they just got uncomfortable.

Tokyo is boring, trust me I lived there, but there are some neat places in Japan. It may be less boring now, it's been a couple of decades since I lived there, but the trains used to shut down at midnight, so night life was limited. There isn't much history left. The allies firebombed it all into rubble. It is a city of concrete. Lots and lots of grey. Start with Kyoto, the ancient capitol. For myself, pretty much everywhere I haven't been. But Rio would be high on the list thanks to this forum!

Handsome young inmates with balls full of cum. I think it is mighty charitable of the deacon to help these young men out. Attend to their needs... repeatedly. Give them a little pocket change in exchange for a little pocket pool.

I would report them. Out there, somewhere, is a kid that didn't get into school because this guy soaked up his scholarship. The fact that you don't know their name doesn't mean there isn't a victim here.

Heathers is an awesome movie.

Define 'complicit' in this context. Goldman sold people what they wanted to buy at the prices that they were willing to pay. That they didn't think the market was rational and bet against it to cover themselves doesn't mean they did anything wrong by selling people what they wanted. It means that they were smarter than the people they were selling to. They had no obligation to act in their customers best interest. They were selling to investors who should have been sophisticated enough to understand and analyze the instrument they were buying. If they weren't that sophisticated, they shouldn't have bought. The greedy sheep were all chasing the yields of these instruments and then complained when the slaughter began. You can't legislate away stupidity and greed which were the real drivers behind all this.

I too used to be fascinated by this house. The idea of the intimacy with the water enthralled me. But after touring it, I became less fascinated. I still love the concept of the house, but it really didn't feel very liveable to me.

Thank you for this. I donated $250, hope others do as well. We live the lives we do because of the work he and his did.

I'm a marketing guy, so here's my free .02. Lots of people think that having the clever name, and that it has 'catchiness' is really important. It isn't. It helps, but the key thing in marketing is repetition. An average to crappy name or message that is frequently and consistently repeated is much better than a great name that isn't. So my advice is to leave it alone with the current name, and just keep getting your name out. Name changes are popular since they seem like the quick and easy fix, but as you've seen, usually you just end up losing the momentum you've already built.

You are arguing strawmen. No doubt it makes you feel good to thin we're all christian haters upset about sandwiches. I dislike them because they donated significant resources to the anti-gay marriage folks. WHich is what I said if you'd actually read what I wrote. I couldn't give a rat's ass about their belief in the imaginary man in the sky. I care when they give money to anti-gay rights groups.

That's your take, it isn't mine. I think the whole thing springs from hearing about their anti-gay marriage activism, and I imagine that most of us object to that rather than their giving to christian foster homes. I share the same antipathy towards the mormon church for its efforts on prop 8.

You did read the article you linked, right? "Over the years, the company’s operators, its WinShape Foundation and the Cathy family have given millions of dollars to a variety of causes and programs, including scholarships that require a pledge to follow Christian values, a string of Christian-based foster homes and groups working to defeat same-sex marriage initiatives." It's a lot more than just sandwiches for haters.

I stopped paying attention to the Academy after Brokeback lost to Crash.

Interesting. This reminds me of a friend I once had. He had _no_ social skills. He was a computer hacker that went to college at 15 I think. Brilliantly smart, socially crippled in many ways. He couldn't understand the social 'white lie' or the fact that everyone wasn't brutally truthful with everyone all the time. I always thought it was sort of a kneejerk response of his. "I can't cope with figuring out what is reasonable to say, so I'm going to decide that people who don't say everything are bad."

The news points out that the couple in question were in fact in a civil union the legal equivalent of marriage, so the "only to married couples" excuse is just a dodge.