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No. Just that temperate rain forest on the west coast of North America that ranges from the panhandle of Alaska, right through all of coastal British Columbia down to top of California. It's a small bit of geography, so it's not hard to miss us....
Norway, on the other hand may or may not be temperate rainforest. I could look it up, but can't be bothered. However it is (geographically speaking) quite near Scotland. And if you've ever been Scotland then you'll know that in that part of the world the question is not "Is it going to rain today?" but "Is it going to stop raining today?" Which, ironically, is the same question we've asking ourselves for several months now out here in the Salish Sea. Also, I'm going to hazard a guess that if there is any kind of desert at all in Norway, it's way up north and is an arctic desert.
But, they do call it Junuary here.....
And boy, I'll bet my iPad would have been totally flooded by now if I'd left it out. I might have needed to get a new iPad 2.... I wonder if I could do it on purpose and fool myself?
From September through March, there's a lot of rain in the western part of Norway, especially in the city of Bergen because of the mountains which surround the city. We have no deserts, but we have three glaciers - plus we have tundra in the north. In summer, it's usually sunny in most parts of the country, but it has become unstable lately. Especially the eastern region (including Oslo) seems to suddenly get abnormal amounts of rain from time to time during this season.
I know I am late to the party, but if my boyfriend/husband EVER tried that with me (and he does things like that all day in his line of work) not only would I have a good laugh, I'd go out and buy myself and all of my friends new ipads.
Seriously dude, you would consider doing that to someone you love? How cold and condescending are you?
I would never consider doing that to my wife, and she would never even think of leaving an iPad in the rain so as to get an excuse for buying a new one (which btw OP has written that he thinks has happened here). I'm not even sure myself how cold I am, but I'm never condescending to people I love.
Most of the posters believe that OP was joking about the excuse-line, which is certainly not to be ignored. But there are no indicators of joking or sarcasm (which is what smileys are for) and I'm not familiar with OP's style of writing either, which is why I have taken it literally.
I didn't think he was being sarcastic either- but even if he was - there's always some truth in sarcasm. He knows his wife better than we do and there must have been some previous talk of her wanting an ipad2 or else OP wouldn't have thought that.
I do believe it is highly irresponsible to leave an ipad out in the rain, but don't believe an interrogation is in order.
Military gig? Or scientific?
Found this on Wikipedia, about Attu....
Also that Attu was one of the few places where Japanese forces occupied American territory during the 2nd WW.
Agreed! Actually, the thought occurred to me that perhaps the law enforcement agencies in Florida should have used torbjoern to "interrogate" Casey Anthony!
lame way to do it.
if you two are that much into the technology, there would have been no reason not to sell it to upgrade...
Military. To compound my short-sightedness I also passed on an assignment to break ice to both poles. Oh, the decisions of youth; what population of the planet will see one pole, not to mention both poles, in their lifetime? The silver-lining is that I ended up in SF instead which led to my LE career there. It all worked out but to a degree regret not having those experiences.
Okay, I diverted us off topic...OP I used the bag of rice trick on my first iPhone. I don't know it was the rice or just coincidence, but my iPhone recovered.
Lol, but seriously from what I saw, the Florida detectives did the best they could under the circumstances. You won't get a confession from everyone, particularly a narcissistic mythomaniac. Here you document the lies and behaviors and disprove them. They are then trapped within their own web limiting and undermining their defense.
I can agree with you on that, to the extent that the interrogation should not (under any circumstance) be experienced as such by the SO. You may then ask what makes it an int if the other doesn't even know s/he is being int'ed, but that is a philosophical question which is off-topic. I'd be happy to discuss it in the PRSI forum.
Thanks, but I strongly doubt that I would be able to extract a confession from Casey Anthony. If not anything else, she might have deliberately forgotten that she killed her own daughter. There are many perpetrators who do this in a murder-case, which is why they don't confess nor show any remorse; they neutralize the remorse by convincing themselves that they never did it.
I totally agree, but you might have missed a point. If one doesn't get a satisfactory price for the old iPad, it can sometimes be easier to justify the purchase of a new one by letting the old one "accidentally" be ruined. This is absolutely irrational, though.
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Much love for a Killsey Anthony reference. Been following that case since day one, and still can't believe the trial is not only here, but days away from closing arguments. oh what a frabjous day it will be when she is found guilty.
Just more wow. It's not philosophical whatsoever. Then using your logic a theft (or an embezzlement) is never committed unless the crime has been discovered. If you seriously hold some of these world views, respectfully, it's time you reevaluate yourself.
If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it, did it happen? That is a question which philosophers have been discussing (believe it or not) for ages. I can't really understand why that is something to discuss, but it's obviously a philosophical question.
For the record (no pun intended), my stance is that it did happen anyway, and this should be obvious according to previous postings of mine. The same goes for theft, embezzlement, et cetera. Or leaving the iPad in the rain on purpose, for that matter. Even if nobody found it out, it certainly happened.
I can't believe you thought that I would say it didn't, just because I keep the options open for other people's views.
I haven't followed along closely enough to predict which charges she might be found guilty. I do see the overtone of jury nullification. The key will probably when the two sides argue over inclusion or exclusion of certain jury instructions.
No crap.
I will be the first to admit I'm terribly scatterbrained. I've left books outside in the rain, I've accidentally put my iPhone through the washer, and the only reason my iPad hasn't been misplaced yet is because I always leave it on top of our upright piano, so the kids can't mess with it. It does not make me a stupid person ... it makes me a scatterbrained person.
My husband knew I was like this when he married me, and if he ever DREAMED of making me feel like crap or accused me of doing something deliberately in order to get an upgrade, he'd be in the doghouse for a month. Sure, he might say, "I'm sorry, honey, we just can't afford to replace it right now" -- but he wouldn't be playing "The Closer," either.
So I guess your husband wouldn't think that you deliberately left it out in the rain then. Your case seems to differ from OP, as OP obviously has some reason to think that she did it on purpose to justify buying a newer model. Now that would be stupidity - being scatterbrained isn't.
In such a case, playing "The Closer" (if it means what I think it does) would be a reason for you to file for divorce, even, I'm not in doubt about that. EDIT: I'm not saying that I think you should do so, only that people have split up for lesser reasons than that.
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I assume you are a nonnative speaker who missed a nuance or, for whatever reason, your brain takes everything literally. Either way, I think this is a quality post and hope to see more like it.
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Oh yes, miamialley, I do see it as a compliment. After all, I take it literally like I did with OP. The first interpretation of any text is literal, then one can set it in a pattern or context which puts the text into a different perspective. "The spirit is strong but the flesh is weak" vs "The vodka is good but the steak is rotten" is a classic example of how a biblical passage turns into a customer complaint instead.
Status quo is that OP did mean it literally, i.e. the way his thoughts are written in plain text: "I think that..." Now - give me one good, legitimate reason to NOT take OP's excuse-line literally. You won't find any (and if you do, you'll be the first in this thread), since these are just pointless speculations. Oh, and one more thing: the argument "everyone else thinks it was a figure of speech" is neither good nor legitimate in this context.
It's just like when you have a naughty chat with a 19-year-old decoy who says she's 13. You will need a good reason to not take it literally, or you won't have any excuse upon confrontation with the Law.
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Oh yes, miamialley, I do see it as a compliment. After all, I take it literally like I did with OP. The first interpretation of any text is literal, then one can set it in a pattern or context which puts the text into a different perspective. "The spirit is strong but the flesh is weak" vs "The vodka is good but the steak is rotten" is a classic example of how a biblical passage turns into a customer complaint instead.
Status quo is that OP did mean it literally, i.e. the way his thoughts are written in plain text: "I think that..." Now - give me one good, legitimate reason to NOT take OP's excuse-line literally. You won't find any (and if you do, you'll be the first in this thread), since these are just pointless speculations. Oh, and one more thing: the argument "everyone else thinks it was a figure of speech" is neither good nor legitimate in this context.
It's just like when you have a naughty chat with a 19-year-old decoy who says she's 13. You will need a good reason to not take it literally, or you won't have any excuse upon confrontation with the Law.
The Bible talks about Vodka???
Cool!Ok - just kidding.....
I wonder if vodka was involved just before the iPad was left out in the rain. Would explain a few things, eh?
I left the ipad on a dry, sunny (but not direct sun lit area).. and it seems like the blotches are going away... hoorah!
