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When you sleep in a van the world is your living room  

40Deuce 46M
4632 posts
11/29/2017 4:53 pm

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12/2/2017 2:57 pm

When you sleep in a van the world is your living room


Something that folks talk about a lot on websites such as this are "dealbreakers" - which are like when you're petting a cat and you think things are going great and then out of nowhere the cat bites you and runs away . There's a reason that happened but you don't get to know what it is .

But in an effort to be more positive lets talk about "dealstarters" instead . What can a person do that makes you say "yes , I like that , I want to get to know this person" . And by "know" of course I mean 69 in the back of your cousin's Mercedes Maybach G 650 in the parking lot of Ruby Tuesday's at 3 AM on a Sunday .

Of course I have been unable to think of any "dealstarters" for myself so maybe it's a failure of concept . I can think of tons of dealbreakers , and I mean TONS , so maybe I'm just left with a narrow pool of women who I don't find something objectionable about with which to have bland forgettable passionless relationships with .

The Dark Knight is a fantastic movie . And I will fight anyone who says otherwise . But (remember that time when I replaced every instance of the word 'but' with a picture of a butt ? No one liked that) there is one scene that drives me kookoo bananas . Harvey and Rachel talk to each out and basically explain what the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act . This one of my biggest pet peeves with writing (which I like to pretend I know about) in that this dialog exists only to communicate something to the audience - the characters would NEVER say that because they both know what RICO is , that's their job . And it's extra annoying because it's not even important for the audience to know what RICO is for the scene .

And it's rampant even in a lot of good shows - character saying things they have no reason to say just to shortcut the storytelling . I just watched Force Awakens again this weekend and they do it several times "Your father . . . . Han Solo" . Pretty sure he knows who is dad is , that's just for the audience and I hate it . y military movie generally has a ton of this - the soldiers will be walking along doing their mission and then one guy will be like "Why are we doing this again Sarge ?" at which point things the character HAVE to already know is explained .

Blade Runner has a classic one where the job of a Blade Runner is explained to a dude who's been doing it for years . Sadly there's one in the Princess Bride too when the evil plot is explained to Tyrone , you know the guy who carried out said plot .

I would never do that in the novel I wrote about what would happen if Godzilla got turned into a human and then fell in love with a lady on the bus but then turned back into Godzilla .

Here's a fun fact , cyber-theft accounts for a "significant" portion of North Korea's GDP . One is left to wonder what significant equates to . In a way you have to hand it to North Korea - they don't have a lot going for them , but they managed to find a way to take things sidewise . The great thing about cyberwarfare is that it basically makes all nations equal - two sixteen year old in Las Cruces with a laptop can hack the Pentagon so clearly it's the great equalizer .

(Due to my new job I'm probably going to talk about IT security a lot now , sorry - better than wrestling though maybe ? )

And here's something interesting - if a state sponsors an attack on a corporation that's not considered an act of war . If you're a cell of Russian hackers operating out of a hotel in Dubai you can attack Trader Joe's all day every day and it's not even really<b> illegal </font></b>because there is no global cyber policy . And even if there was who would enforce it ?

Furthermore check this out . NASA still uses Windows 3 . Why ? Because they launched a satellite in 92 . I mean once that sucker is flying past Saturn it's not like you can update the OS you know ?

In conclusion a book I bought has this as the first review 'I continue my quest to be the most informed snob at any dinner party so I can maintain my delicate card tower of affected pretentiousness by finishing this book about America's secret war of cyber attacks.' What is the point of a review like that ?

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40Deuce 46M
5725 posts
11/29/2017 4:57 pm

There's an old military adage that the weakest part of any castle is the men inside it - sitting next to the security team I'm pretty sure that's true of IT security also . So far 100% of the security issues have been because someone fell for a phishing e-mail and gave away their credentials (often an executive amusingly) . One person fell for a phishing e-mail , reported it , and then fell for the exact same scam the very next day .

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smartasswoman 66F  
35813 posts
11/29/2017 5:27 pm

That must have been a bit embarrassing for that exec, I guess I get it now if they were angry...embarrassment often leads to lashing out.

Deal-starter, interesting concept. I guess for me it's common interests - someone who likes the same kind of books or music, or enjoys bicycling, or whatever.

Which is kind of silly in a way because it does nothing to guarantee sexual chemistry. But at least you have something to talk about when you go meet them to see if there IS chemistry.


40Deuce replies on 12/1/2017 6:59 pm:
It's too bad you've thrown in the towel - I met the perfect guy for you today . He's retiring in 2 months and his plan is to travel and get back into biking ; and his first trip ? Viking river cruise . Not bad looking either . Course he's an Iowan , so , dealbreaker

hottub41m 47M
37 posts
11/29/2017 7:16 pm

hot fun


superbjversion2 69F  
24388 posts
11/30/2017 5:03 pm

I think that's a pretty good book review. It tells me that reading the book will leave you still questing for pretentious snobbery!

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation bangs on the door forever!


40Deuce replies on 12/1/2017 7:01 pm:
That is an eternal quest

smartasswoman 66F  
35813 posts
12/1/2017 9:43 pm

his first trip ? Viking river cruise

I would guess he might be attached then. I was looking into Viking River cruises for a while and they're outrageously expensive if you're traveling alone and want a room by yourself. Like, basically you pay for two people and they take a few hundred bucks off so it ends up being $10-$12,000.

Or maybe he's rich. In that case introduce me.


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