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This website allows you to read an entire Holt, Rhineheart, and Winston textbook online if you already have a keyword from a textbook you buy online. If you're into foreign languages, it has French, German, and Spanish, and aside from that,

These sites teach you basic Japanese if you study enough.

Parents just have to watch to make sure their children aren't looking at porn instead of studying and help them along.

Well, I found this map and these which seem to suggest that even spanish speakers refer to the continents as north and south america. And of course, I did limit my comment to English speakers, which should include all of /. readers.

However, Panama is part of North America as well, being up the isthmus from South America. The continental dividing line is actually within Columbia's borders. Panama was part of a country that was mostly in South America (Columbia), but this part was not in South America at all.

There are continent-straddling countries elsewhere. A main example is Turkey. An Asian nation, it has a small western part that is in Europe. This western part of Turkey is not Asian just because it is a possession of an Asian country.

I interpreted your comment as that you were trying to say that holland is just the name of the provinces. It isn't, that's why I pointed out that Holland is merely an older word for the country now know as the netherlands. Ow well, doesn't matter.

I live here by the way; in 'Roosendaal' in the south exactly between a city called 'Breda' and one called 'Bergen op Zoom'. It's a shame those maps don't include us btw because were bigger then 'Bergen op Zoom'.

I have a link that explains why litigation will NEVER work.

According to World Atlas Sweden is about the size of California (land size) and the population of 8,875,053. We have more than that in New York city alone. We are the "United States" and voting is run by each state. So every state may do things a little differently. I live in New York State and like the old fashion machines that we use. But with the size of the US and the complexity of having different states so large, you can't compare Sweden to the US. Maybe Russia or China, but not Sweden.

I'm not familiar with the way Russia votes so I can't comment about them. Do they have a better system? Atleast our system seemed better than India. If I remember, their system took weeks, but then again, India's has a lot more people than the US.

We drop you off a ship in the north atlantic with a life jacket, you're dead in an hour. Enjoy.

The "North Atlantic" contains all of the Atlantic outside the "South Atlantic". Much of it is in warm areas, where people have been known to survive more than 72 hours without a floatation device. But I'm not personally that tough.

$1.2 billion? Do you have any idea how much of an insignificant figure this is, especially when the US government is involved?

According to this google result, airline losses could top $10 billion, actual physical tamage is estimated at $25 billion, Bush is still talking about a $75 billion economic stimulus plan (tho support for this is fading fast), the arilines got a $15 billion bailout package, and that doesn't even begin to cover the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt that was cast upon this nation the instant the planes hit the towers, which I've read at I think $50 billion for maybe NYC alone. Results aren't clear of this, and it's all speculation and estimating regardless. But the Consumer Confidence Index, a widely respected barometer of how willing consumers are to actually spend money, plummet to its lowest level in seven years.

Your comparison of bin Laden to Star Wars is offbase, and I'm a bit offended by your gross underestimates. :P

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for my french class we use in conjunction with the book an interactive cd put out with the book... Alles Viens!
i find it to help (if u want 2 run it under linux u will have 2 run wine, sorry) ttfn...