Surenas
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Outside of the Anglo-American world nobody on earth is interested in the outdated imperial system. So you better stay in with such antiquated traditions not to get laughed at by chance.
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I love to play custom figures instead of off the rack stuff, and this one was probably the most important of
all. Its a random shot made in 2002 in my siegelet to Dungeon Siege called Steelsworld, and I still remember
Viet Minh and the two guys from France and Germany next to her as if it happened yesterday.
http://www.abload.de/img/ds_sw2.032ia.jpg
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I use either, what ticks me off is when the EU rules result in the prosecution of greengrocers who insist on selling their apples in pounds and ounces because that's what the customers want. And the latest insanity about having to buy eggs by the gramme rather than by the unit, ie egg.
Eggs are sold by unit and grade (even in Jack London's novels) - dunno what strange kind of fowls you have out there ^^
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Spent years working in the UK building trade, so that piece of timber is 2 metres & 6 inches long :biggrin:
Well, that are four cubits according to the prophet Ezekiel - much easier to remember, eh? ^^
Forget what once you've learned and start with the metric system, it simplifies the communication, really.
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I used to work in a machine shop that my uncle owns, and this is pretty much ground zero of where something like a change in measuring systems will impact most. Although its simple arithmetic to convert from standard to metric, standard X 25.4 = metric, divide to convert metric to standard. I think metric is simpler because it works in increments of 10s, while standard works in fractions of an inch, and thousandths. Also the shop I worked at worked with both metric and standard blueprints, so everyone needed to be familiar with both.
Most people don't call it Imperial, its referred to as standard.
The rest of the world refers to it as obsolete. The Brits have an exceptional permission to run the old stuff parallel to the metric system. Dunno where the problem is, cos according to Josephus (1st c. CE, contemporary of Jesus Christ) one simply has to do 400 cubits of 6 palms or 600 feet of 4 palms to make a stadion... and 150 stadia ôr 360.000 palms was the average day's march of a Roman legion... ^^
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Please don't mistake apples for oranges. Taken by itself gaming doesn't lead to education, reading does. This includes e.g. chess strategy books as well, cos nothing comes from nothing. Back to topic. Make your partner happy, for only a happy partner loves to share. Selfishness is the privilege of a classical single (in a shared flat) and not that of a workable relationship.
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Hell yeah - the metric systen isn't that successful!
The remaining three countries that use a no metric system
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Metric_system.png/350px-Metric_system.png
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Not exactly, ghosts don't have to exsist because of denial of death. If your a believer like me, remember that they can visit from whatever afterlife they've gone to away from Earth such as heaven.
The belief in an afterlife isn't contradictory to to the denial of death as a final stage - it is one and the same :)
So, once afterlife is understood as a myth based upon hope there will be no more ghosts from the afterlife hovering on earth either. What more could one want?
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Um, well, I didn't ask for a self-justification... nor for a semi-philosophical discourse.
I don't belong to the theoretikoi in the field; or in other words: we're neither alone, nor unique, more likely replaceable in a relationship with defined behavior patterns that are known since long. And whatever relationship is - it is no combat sport...
Howbeit, thank you :)
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I wouldn't reduce the other sex to a single role just to please me now and then. That's in its last consequence nothing but the inversion of the beloved old role allocation of possession, now the emancipated woman in the former dominant role of the man calling for body service. "As you command!" A kinky one-night stand is actually a relationship only in the world of the day-flies, btw., nice but irrelevant here.
The first step in the right direction in the real world is the to be trained ability to see the opposite in the first place as unisex and equal to come to friendship on the horizon of conversations, i.e. not to think exclusively with the private parts. "Hello boys!" Once you have found a friend your perhaps outlandish hobbies are no problem at all, for otherwise the friend is none! If you have to face problems in a relationship these problems get manifest and finally destructive when you both do not talk about your needs and the needs of the other. And friendship dies first in the war of the roses.
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I don't even believe that people have a soul.
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That's not stupid, just . . .
... philosophical. Guess I've already point to the soul as a parameter of (higher) life, it's vital breath, located in the blood circulation for the ancient. Once the blood stops circulating and the last breath is made, the living turns into the dead. Now, the idea of ghosts directly starts in the very moment of death, when life ends in smoke ... and that's why ghosts are understood as "incorporeal-smoky", half-visible and bloodless afterlife manifestation of the Hebrew ruach, the breath of the once souled living. Actually the ghost idea is nothing but another religious denial of death and final fading away of all living - a popular backdoor of folk religions.
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An 11 year old relationship is almost definitionally a relationship of habit and custom. I am not surprised that neither is bothered by the actions of the other. After 11 years of the same person, taking a break from that person isn't a big deal.
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Not per se. I know of one exclusively based upon sex - a long-term affair, collapsed and/or dried out in its 12th year. She's back to her husband and he to his wife, both to their grown-up children and both are looking back at a big hole in time now, I guess ... ^^
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The profile pages still start with the 'recent status updates' instead of the to be expected 'about me' part. Only the latter is of public interest imo. Moreover, the media tag doesn't start automatically as it was before. Dunno if this is on purpose or not.
In the meantime I come to grips with the upgrade. Good job.
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I don't see that the platform (or the cultural axiom, if you prefer that) is already realized here in the debate - the type of civilization.
As long as this is not the case everythin' sounds outlandish, Ptolemaic centered on the West where most of us are living. Unfortunately, in toto we're everythin' but most... we're the few...*lol*
The age of high adventure of Western colonialism (thus of the export of systems as well) is over, the time of the East has come together with a diligent patriarchal ant statehood without anarchy (sounds Bakunin, eh?)...
Would be not that bad to have already read Samuel P. Huntingtons' Clash of Civilizations.
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The rudimentary profile pages - will they return to the beauty of the status quo ante?
The number of images there is reduced in the moment, for the rest I've to make a roadmap first, I guess :blink:
The white background is always an advantage in its simplicity on text pages, though it's ugly for any color illustration, btw.
Somehow I feel myself at the moment as being taken back to the DOS mode of old *g*
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If Everything is In Progress
Set Luck to Good
@echo off
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Outside the Nexus there is no public discussion in the West on a definition that is at hand for all that have left primary school, if not already much, much earlier. If one really doesn't know what nudity is how is it that one loves to upload precisely this, eh? :teehee:
Wonder why people try to question decisions when e.g. in Germany one has to blanken all sexual characteristics of TES figures already since a year! And over there there was no discussion, if memory serves, not even to some extent... no debate that aimed to water down administrative decisions on the matter... and no such language problems in the likewise multi-cultural game societies... ^^
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I hope rules are not generally set just to provoke a disciplinary treatment.
But anyway, this is another story. Me suggested a newsletter and I still love the idea :biggrin:
Rules are not set to be broken by provocateurs. Actually this is somethin' we all learn already in kindergarten....
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Those hooked on public approval after having tasted its sweetness already - they will do the kowtow.
Which they have to do anyway - after they got banned :D
just kidding.^^
(The TOS is neither an Emperor, nor a Chinese.)
... and the show goes on afterwards as if nothing had ever happened? Naaa - this'd be no disciplinary measure at all, and thus no learning process.
Well, imagery is not everyone's cup of tea, np ^^
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Hmm, I'm not really shure if it would be a kowtow.
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Those hooked on public approval after having tasted its sweetness already - they will do the kowtow.
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@ Vagrant0
:thumbsup: no further comment needed.
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Why ? Some like nudity, some don't, it fits, also meaning you like nudity means you have no tastes ? So you mean Michelangelo had no tastes for making nude sculptures or paintings ?
To compare Michelangelo with the local Muppet Show is rather too-too ... :wacko:
No, the fine art is not what we're talking about here, unfortunately :thumbsup:
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In a virtual world that is very fond of 'thumb sucking' the loss of a measurable, hurting amount of thumbs or AP in the case of breaking the rules would probably be answered by a deep kowtow for the rest of the user existence, I guess
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Activity is no measurement for intelligence. Already realized? So, what is understandable in the case of a rookie that has signed in last month is somewhat problematic in the case of a " he does us all good" ... when he doesn't, consciously, or has he won his credits of old in a lottery where there is just one rule?
I'm guessing you're talking about the fact that I mentioned A TYPE2's rank. I just felt like throwing that in since it's a new thing; I wasn't trying to justify anything by it. Thanks for the reply though; I always enjoy your input.
My pleasure. It's not the first time that someone that has reached a minor peak starts with a mental hovering... always followed by a crash landing.
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