I think he hit the main points.

Firstly - I understand the adoration of ones pet completely, but extra kudos to you for considering her needs and best interests first. A true dog owner.

Some other things:

- What sort of dog is Lucy? Smaller less active dogs are much easier in apartments

- As a earlier poster said where you're going makes a difference, culture, apartment vs house vs yard.

- How long are you staying and where will you go next? Some countries have *very long* (> 6 months) quarantine periods, especially if you've been in Asia or the Americas.

- Lastly, I would leave the dog with your friend even if you want to bring her over. Easier for you to go over first, get settled, find a place, then arrange for her to come over if you think circumstances allow it. Plus you could assess how well she's settled at your friends place.

All the best,

Blackpaw.

I don't know much about pet quarantine, but from what I understand, the pets are safe, well fed, and looked after by trained staff

Mileage varies a *lot*, it all depends on the regime and regulation, countries where the quarantine is privatised can have brutal low cost kennels. Surprisingly Britain used to be one such - back before it had pet passports dogs would spend 6 months in lowest bidder kennels with no visitors allowed. Many pets died in the atrocious conditions.

Really listening to what people are saying, and processing the result. Its a lot harder than talking, but people appreciate it. Also its one of the best ways to learn new things.

Being a know-it-all is as I'm sure you have already figured out, perilously close to being dogmatic. Listening is the key to flexibility.

If the LW is so big on trust they should use the withdrawal method.

What? she doesn't trust him to pull out in time? What kind of scumbag is she?

Get back on your meds and go back to writing school.

Presumably everyone (Female & Male) are consenting adults and as Tracy points out I'm sure the men get their own pleasure out of the act, nothing quite like being the generator of a rolling orgasm ... A lot of women gain pleasure from giving blow jobs, the reverse is true also.

Its just one more point on the infinite spread of human sexuality.

Look at it this way: what would you make of a commune dedicated to women giving guys handjobs, and that's it?

Sounds fine to me - if people want to, who cares?

Lets not forget that in 2003 Iran tried for talks and offered major concessions - full cooperation on nuclear programs, acceptance of Israel and the termination of Iranian support for Palestinian militant groups. But the bush junta pissed the opportunity away.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/17/AR2006061700727_pf.html

So while Obama's video is a big step for America, in reality its just a baby step to regaining some status amongst world nations, something Iran has already demonstrated with more class and honesty.

I have teenage daughters. I also have a shotgun, loaded with rock salt.

Glad to see you exercising your patriarchal rights of ownership over your daughters Bob, obviously being weak feeble minded women they are not to be trusted to make up their own minds. I presume you've looked into female circumcision, I hear its very good for preventing them from tempting the male sex.

If she did hit him first (which is currently unknown), she is still not responsible for the assault.

Says it all really.

You cannot defend yourself using disproportionate force. Chris Brown could have ended the situation by stopping the car and getting out of it. He could have ended it by apologizing

Ok ... so in your world rocket, if your boyfriend is upset with you and hits you the appropriate response is for you to apologise to him in the hope that will stop further blows.

Actually I'd like to apologise, I did go rather too far in that comment. I hold to my inference that you're expressing a rather patriarchal/religious feeling of ownership with regard to your daughters behaviour which would not be out of place in Afghanistan, but the rest was not appropriate or necessary. I am sorry for that.

I have to develop for Symbian S60 (Nokia), its a exercise in pure masochism. The development tools are terrible, documentation sucks and the actual SDK is appalling - more frigging classes than the windows XP Platform SDK!

Once you have an app that doesn't suck and crash on a regular basis then the process of getting it signed - necessary for it to be installed on regular phone, is a bureaucratic nightmare.

RIm Development (Blackberry) is much better - not sure why people complain about that, embedded Java on Blackberry's is quite straightforward.

I haven't actually worked from the iPhone, but from all accounts its quite easy.

So to summarise, as has been said by others, the reason developers are avoiding Nokia is because its ridiculously difficult, time consuming and expensive. Not because they're iPhone fanatics.

This may change now Nokia have acquired TrollTech. I've looked at alpha's of QT for Symbian, it looks very promising. Dunno if it will be available for all S60 phones though.

IT WASN'T FUNNY!

God that was lame. I feel stupider for having read it.

Blatant religious oppression right there. And Hasidic clothing requirements as well.

I get very depressed by many so called progressive/liberals. No different from the neocons when it comes to their pet prejudices and beliefs.

Its a delight to finally see a US president who respects peoples right to make there own decisions.

And BTW? what about the men in Iran? they're dying and being injured in far greater numbers than the women, are they not brave? are they just chopped liver?