Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Love and relationships are a lot like, well, like networking... Think of a tcp connection: You send a SYN ("hey, I'd like to go out with you!") and she sends you a SYN ACK ("you'd like to go out with me? Ok, let's go out!") and you send a confirming ACK ("all right, we're going out!"). At which point, you now have an understanding between the two of you that you have a connection. Once the connection is established, that's when you send an http GET request ("let's get it on!"), to which you can get a variety of responses. Hopefully, you'll get a 200 OK response ("OK!"), but sometimes you'll get a 403 Forbidden ("fvck no, you perv!") or a 500 Service Unavailable ("Sorry, I'm on my period..") If she's kinky, you might get a 302 Redirect ("hey, this is my twin sister..")
Relationships end the same way. Sometimes gracefully, like the tcp FIN process: Either one of you sends a tcp FIN ("I don't think we should go out anymore") to which you get a FIN ACK ("You don't want to go out anymore? Ok.. let's end it.") and you send a final ACK ("We're not going out anymore.") At this point, you have an understanding that the relationship is over. Sometimes, however, it's a bit less graceful. Sometimes an error occurs and a tcp RST needs to be sent ("that's it, we over!")
You'll learn, young padewan...