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Since the ternary op represents a near perfect conflation of statement/expression syntax, it represents a near perfect violation of this philosophy also, and hence should be considered strongly anti-Pythonic.
(1) Trying hanging out with women, not girls, for a change.
(2) And forget "dating" in the hopelessly broken American sense.
And finally:
(3) it's interesting that basically all of the analogies he draws are to frameworks, and not to programing, or more specifically hacking. Yes, women are different (in some ways very different) from men. But rather than thinking of the "object" of your desire as some horribly convoluted framework or buggy consumer app, a better analogy might be to a deep programming problem, or some area of mathematics you just need to wrap your head around a little bit to understand (on its own terms, not yours).
But once you do, everything will make a lot more sense. And trust me, you'll be getting laid a lot more often, too.
If killing people and breaking things is your bag, then maybe you should go join a motorcycle gang or something. Or move to Somalia, and become a pirate. Just don't expect us to bankroll your activities, and to allow you to keep doing them in our name.
And this doesn't seem to be a very effective line of discussion, either.
That's fine for you. Other people have different priorities in their lives. And elevating the sanctity these abstract entities known as "institutions" to the point where they feel miserable, trapped, and unfulfilled do not count particularly high among them.
If one is "sexually incompatible" with his/her spouse, they should talk about it, recognize the issues, make compromises, and move forward.
That's fine for you, if those are your priorities. But what's fine for you isn't necessarily fine for other people.
They should also recognize that while sex is meaningful and important, it can't be a deal-breaker for a marriage ...
Again, maybe not a deal-breaker for you. But for other people... I think you see what I'm getting at here.
Oh, and the fact some stuffed shirt from a major bank can basically order the local police department to go and arrest this guy. Like you or I might order a pizza.
Just wondering who, exactly, will be going to jail, and how much time they'll be serving to account for the various mortgage fraud & other abusive practices BoA has been engaged in systematically over the years, e.g.:
- http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/10/24/bank...
- http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/bank-of-america-forec...
The answer, of course, is almost certainly no one.
Not saying it's proven -- but there's nothing terribly ideological about it either.
Kind of like listening to bad music (or pretty much any kind of music over and over again) can stunt your musical development... or eating too much junk food can leave you with a taste for more and more of the same... it wouldn't surprise me that too much bad porn leaves some people with bad, or just immature sexual tastes.
And to the production of... lots and lots and lots of bad, nasty and just shockingly dull commercial porn.
At the 2003 American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers meeting, two-thirds of lawyers reported that compulsive Internet use played a significant role in divorces over that year, and 56 percent of those divorce cases included a partner who had an obsessive interest in pornographic websites.
i.e. one of the partners was using porn as a band-aid to ease the pain of a much deeper problem -- which typically takes one of 3 forms: (1) both partners love each other and are doing "everything right" but one has discovered, before the other it would seem, that they just aren't really compatible sexually; (2) they're still hot for each other, but other distractions (fighting, money, kids) are getting in the way; or (3) one of the other parts has "discovered" that they have a different chromosomal preference.
Nasty and potentially intractable issues, indeed. But porn watching by itself -- even excessively so? In comparison, not so much.
Mind you, I'm not saying it's a good thing, or that it's without its downsides.
I just mean we should look at these things in perspective: if our dating culture (with all the head games) is so broken that some people have to go through years and years of phases where they just can't find a relationship that's both gratifying and sustainable over any length of time -- and btw this includes many people I know, even some very attractive people with plenty of sexual options on the table -- then maybe we should start talking about that, and how people can learn to do better for themselves (and their potential mates).
And not so much about the rather crude (if temporarily effective) medicines some people feel forced to use to get them through the darker stretches of depression and anxiety that they can't seem to help falling into, again and again. As a reward, it would would seem, of just wanting to find someone they can love, and be loved by in return.
PS, re: anti-depressants -- having worked in the pharma industry for a while, I'd recommend healthy, sex-positive, consensual amateur porn over these insidious, soul-numbing and possibly long-term toxic concoctions they market as "cures" to well, more or less the basic human condition, any day.
At Brigham Young University in 2007, 21 percent of male college students reported watching porn "every day or almost every day."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Afghanistan#Covert_action
If you want to go after liars, go after people who pretend to believe that unnecessary solitary confinement (military or civilian) isn't torture. Or that drone (and vanilla) airstrikes aren't killing civilians in large numbers.
"Treed."
Not dead or in solitary confinement. But constraint to very narrow resources and living circumstances, indeed.
But if the situation does not improve soon I'll definitely take your advice into account.
Thanks for the detailed response.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalya_Estemirova(1) Just file a request with FEMA, DHS, or the FBI.
(2) Presto! Doing so will mark you as suspicious, and subject to surveillance, questioning, and/or internment during times of national crisis.
Thing is, fixed-budget projects have a lot of psychological advantages for people making these kinds of decisions, in addition to just providing very pragmatic ass coverage on their part. And in the end, if the money (and stress / time) tradeoffs work out for you, that should be all that matters.
Also, once you're above the $50 an hour range it's better to bill daily or weekly anyway. There was a nice long thread about this issue a couple of weeks ago, I believe.