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In technical situations like this AI is your friend, Per Chat=GPT: To better understand the sentence, let's break it down into its components and explore the imagery and emotions involved. Components of the Sentence "Determined": This word conveys a strong sense of purpose or resolve. The speaker is committed to moving forward, indicating a focused mindset. "I move": This part showcases action, suggesting that the speaker is actively engaging with their environment or journey. "with the whisper of warm and cold winds": "the whisper" gives a gentle, almost soothing quality to the winds, suggesting subtlety and softness. "warm and cold winds" contrast with each other, symbolizing varied experiences or emotions. Warm winds could represent comfort and positivity, while cold winds might signify challenges or difficulties. Overall Interpretation The sentence illustrates someone who is resolute and taking action while feeling the gentle, contrasting influences of their surroundings. The "whisper" suggests that the speaker is paying attention to subtle cues in their environment, indicating a deep awareness of both internal and external experiences. It evokes a sense of balance between comfort and challenge as they proceed on their path. Visual Imagery Imagine a person walking forward, determined and focused, feeling the comforting warmth of a gentle breeze mixed with the sharper chill of a colder gust. This interplay of sensations might mirror the complexity of their journey—embracing the good while acknowledging the difficult moments. Emotional Undertones The sentence conveys a sense of resilience and adaptability. The speaker is not only aware of their environment but also attuned to the emotional undertones that come with each change in the wind. This can reflect a broader life experience where one must navigate varying situations with determination. By unpacking these elements, the sentence emerges as a rich metaphor for determination amidst the complexities of experience. LOL

Most are indeed running a full-time buisnesses with standard pricing strategies -- but there are two other strategies that none of us on CoM need to like, but that providers do indeed employ. One is that some provider are monetizing an occasional hobby and are motivated on;y when they feel it is worth it. The second is the strategy that luxury brands use to imply status by charging outlandish amounts. They may sell many less units, but their profit margin can be enormous. Many of their clients are not looking to buy something because it is the least expensive on the market. They are not strategizing by focusing on being competitive with the cheapest thing on the market. Prada/Louis Vuitton/Chanel/Hermes/Gucci (and MANY MANY young/hip/artisanal/cool/exclusive/limited/boutiquey/high-end brands that CoM readers don't know the names of) could sell many more of their products at substantially lower prices and still make "a profit" -- but rather they choose to limit availability, charge a lot more per unit, and achieve an enormous profit margin per unit sold.

LOVE that! Yes, it's true: a lot of people these day definitely have a problem understanding the difference between opinions and facts. 😞

Yes, it's great when a provider thinks outside the box, and just doesn't have the same ol' same ol' average standards or point of view. Vive la difference!

Why is there often a general assumption providers want "more" clients? I've known providers who want to limit the number of people that they see because they have a regular full-time job they are focused on, and seeing a few clients is just frosting on the cake. Also some wealthy men -- who subscribe to the idea that a provider who is only seeing several clients a month is statistically "healthier" than a provider who is seeing as many clients as possible -- find higher rates correlate with what they are looking for in a provider.

It pointed out to millions of devoted fans that even the people who claim they want more "useful" comments also generate some of the most useless redundant ones. CoM AND the entire internet exists to foster bonhomie, shared fun facts to broaden our appreciation of the world at large, links to the unknown so you can share better stories at the dinner table and in the locker room,, and the possibility to loosen up a bit and stop thinking that your boss is checking your CoM productivity on a daily, weekly, and quarterly basis.

And this is a useful comment how? 😉

Particularly when Meta/Facebook/Instagram and the rest of the corporate marketing ruling class have extensive files on every site you have visited, everything you have ever searched for, every place you phone has been geographically, and every call you have made/received on your cell phone. Now they want us to confirm our ID after they have all been stealing it for years without our really caring?

Unless otherwise.

TH NEW YORKER, 1928:

? Did you pay in soy beans and pork bellies? Or pre-European-Union French francs? Or Disneyland E tickets?

? Smaller than a bump, but bigger than a pimple?

The absence of evidence is not evidence of anything.

But how to reconcile with the horrible reviews in the chain that @sthrnwlrs posted above? 😞

As if it were all mutually exclusive! Think inclusive rather than segregationist. If you bring one, @Thelatin brings one, we'd have five of us already for an intimate evening on the rug in front of a roaring fire. 😉

Link?

Third time he's advertised, and third time he's not coming. I wonder if there is a trend here?

You're definitely correct. No matter how long people with too much money think about something, they always miss the truth by a mile.

I posted a very similar question last year to no response....can't find it by searching, so maybe he has changed his name slightly. Anyway, this is the third time he's advertised that he plans to spend a week or two in New York City. The other two times as they day arrived on the calendar, he simply didn't arrive in NYC.

NO. Yes!

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Or someone who suddenly figured out a weekend second job in NYC wouldn't support international North America/Africa round-trip airfare multiple times a month.

Hmmmm...My summation was intended to be about more about SOME members of CoM, rather than about any providers at all: Like a bunch of Talmudic scholars let loose by the CIA to study the connections between the dark web and ye olde Farmers Almanac, who in the absence of any actual evidence tease out lengthy and detailed "facts" and "meaning" from a few pieces of punctuation here and there or from their own interpretations of what a word "really means" or from commentary on the previous breadcrumbs left by other scholars immersed in the obsessive study of Company of Men. I really want to start seeing some of the evidence boards, guys.

And these are the exact reasons that I ask guys to send a VIDEO with an important event of national importance occurring in the background -- so I can compare it to the following day's network news. Given, no one has been able to do this yet in all the years I have been asking, I have to conclude that all providers are scam artists. Be warned.

With wait staff, cleaning people, hotel staff, barber, etc I generally tip 20%-30% -- but I tip providers the same amount I tip my lawyer, physician, medical specialists, architect, psychiatrist. business consultant, private coach, etc. Once you get an hourly rate in excess of $200 per hour, tipping is not necessary (unless you have money to burn).