bobo888

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by bobo888 15y ago
Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/605/
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by bobo888 15y ago
Swimming is a very good exercise :)
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by bobo888 15y ago
But on the other hand, people want more and more wealth. For example, I cannot imagine myself living today without a washing machine. Yet 50 years ago it would have been considered a luxury.
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by bobo888 15y ago
On the other hand, considering that humans are on top of the food chain, maybe what you describe is a good thing (and we have it in our genes): Population can not grow forever on a planet with a limited amount of resorces. So people either
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by bobo888 15y ago
Is it really the women who are avoiding marriage? Do this experiment: go to a newspaper stand and look for magazines about weddings. Look for books about marriage. I have never ever seen one addressed to men (there are ones which seem to
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by bobo888 15y ago
Sorry, but sarcasm doesn't really work over the web.
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by bobo888 15y ago
Whaaat? So are you basically saying that one shold do half of the house chores no matter how much he/she works at their job? If one spouse is unemployed, and the other spouse works 60 hrs you consider it fair only when each does 50% of the
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by bobo888 15y ago
I don't think that marriage in USA is biased against anyone. But the divorce is HEAVILY biased agains men. For example, more than 70% of divorces are initiated by women, while they also get the custody of the children 90% of the time. W
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by bobo888 15y ago
And the proof is...? How about, more crime might mean less marriage? I know it's not about Asia, but: http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/05/us-work-couples-pr... "London School of Economics sociologist Catherine Hakim's research sho
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by bobo888 15y ago
This could also mean that women avoid getting married to men who are prone to "higher death, suicide, crime, and disease rates". For example, how many women would really get married to a hobo?
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by bobo888 15y ago
It looks very very nice, but I find its features to be almost... useless. I feel like the desktop is trying to grab the spotlight, instead of focusing on the applications. For example, how many people really do use desktop widgets on a PC
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by bobo888 15y ago
I would like to remind you that there are other languages on Earth too besides English.
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by bobo888 15y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that the new design colours are somewhat bleached? I would like more contrast. I also find the "Reading List" from my Blogger account homepage to be useless. If I want to subscribe to a feed, Google Reader is a
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by bobo888 15y ago
Well, back then we didn't see it as a business. Of course there were also people who knew what they were doing, but if I remember well, my network started with three teenagers wanting to play Quake and Need for Speed. Then more and more peo
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by bobo888 15y ago
Well this is how it happend in Romania: ----------------- 2000 - 2002 There was NO regulation. We just threw UTP cables from building to building, and bought external connectivity from bulk sellers. We didn't pay any taxes. We didn't
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by bobo888 15y ago
In Romania we also have polymer banknotes since 1999 (lower value notes are printed on a cheaper support compared to higher value ones). First editions were manufactured in Australia. The ATMs don't seem to have any problems with them (but
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by bobo888 15y ago
Usually a hydro power plant is used as a "battery". When the demand is low, the electricity produced by wind/solar power plants is used to pump the water uphill. When the demand is high, the hydro power plant releases that water to produce
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by bobo888 15y ago
The city might be great, but how about the German bureaucracy? I kid you not, but a friend of mine didn't need a permit anymore because of some new regulations for EU citizens, so the German authorities asked him to obtain another permit, w