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Comment Re:How about... (Score 2, Interesting) 482

LOL, my wife was actually the roommate of a girl I had dated for about 2 months. I occasionally sent her an IM to check how she was holding up (she has and continues to have a number of major health problems), and she started hinting that her roommate was single. Then one day she just randomly handed the computer over to her roommate. Point taken. So, we met up to see a band, drank, hooked up, and where I really shined was making pancakes the next morning. We've been together ever since. No programming though, she's a music teacher. If it isn't midi, she's clueless about computers.

Comment Re:yeah, ok, whatever. (Score 1) 482

I used POF. I'm not a great looking guy - but I had a lucrative job, photos in my convertible, photos in a tux, and nothing. Out of messaging scores of women who at least seemed interesting enough to ask out for a drink, I got maybe 2-3 responses, one girl was a mentally troubled asian med student, one girl was fishing for a green card, one ended up being a white trash hoodrat with a police record a mile long. The other responses were usually put downs, or nasty bitchy comments. It worked out in my favor ultimately, I met my wife the old fashioned way and couldn't be happier.

Comment Re:Why not... (Score 5, Insightful) 482

The issue is, you'll start having malevolent users filing false reports against people. "He doesn't look like an underwear model! Ugh! Gross! *complaint filed*" Any guy who doesn't look great has had to deal with this in meatspace - getting a nasty rebuke, getting ignored, getting stared down with that "how dare YOU talk to ME" look just for saying hello. For all of the stereotypes about how men are shallow, women are entirely capable of being far, far more cruel and arrogant about looks.

Comment A hearty meh. (Score 1) 385

I already compost all of my food waste, most of which goes into my garden. What little there is, anyway. I spent too many years nearly starving, so usually when we cook (which is about 98% of what we eat) it goes through 3 cycles of leftover re-hashes until it's all gone. What can't be used immediately gets frozen and used later. My wife and I live on 60$ a week for groceries, which includes all toiletries, paper products, and cleaning goods. Learn to compost and make use of your food intelligently and responsibly - life is cheaper, and better for the environment. And a proposal like this one will do exactly nothing to your life.

Comment Re:Probably a bad idea, but... (Score 1) 192

There's actually no legal way that I know of for the british to say "YOU AREN'T ALLOWED TO USE POUNDS ANYMORE! TURN THEM OVER NOW!" So, if people want to use pounds, there's not really a reason they couldn't do it. Especially since it is fiat currency, and not backed by a hard asset.

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