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To start with, Russia is not part of the EU, so its a completely separate issue, plus, you have to learn crylic so its not much use outside russia and some former soviet states.
Germany is the most populous nation of the EU at about 80 million out of 500, thats quite a shot in the dark if you are travelling randomly.
If you want to learn a language, learn the one of the country you want to work in, otherwise a romance language in Europe is your ticket, they are all similar and they comprise a large portion of the EU.. especially when weighted by GDP (thank you rome! too bad varus stopped the germans speaking latin).
Anyhow, you are in luck speaking English in the world currently, other languages are a luxury.. that's why no English speaking countries I know of require foreign language study, like most other countries do.
Because they, like a lot of countries learn to speak English from a young age.
A lot of chinas large works are designed and managed by western countries. The best universities in the world are still in America, they just have to ensure that enough money is invested in research to keep students in the country rather than going home.
Latin is structured, too structured, its so dull no one wanted to keep speaking it. Its like talking in equations.
Latin lives on through the romance languages, many words exist verbatim other with integration. English is probably the least respectful to Latin, it is created from so many other languages that it is extremely hard to master. Why teachers try to teach you rules to English grammar is beyond me, i before e except after c... and except in many other words! You have to learn by rote each word, rules are useless. Its a beautiful language:p
Studying Japanese at school was a breath of fresh air, its so nice having a single way of pronouncing a word... now if they could only use one alphabet instead of three:p
They want to speak your language as much as you want to speak theirs, its give and take.
Speaking each others non native language to each other (with feedback) is a good way to go about it.
Germany is somewhat different.. they are more insular, but a lot of euro countries play english tv shows undubbed (with subtitles.. depending on where you are, the netherlands tends not to).
Like most Europeans, two, three or more languages are very common. Most non English Europeans jump at the chance to talk to a native English speaker to help their English.
A lot of Americans seem to becoming somewhat bilingual with Spanish now, but they are a long ways behind the average European.
Unless china makes the world love it more than Elvis did, we are going to be speaking English as the world language for a LONG time. Its probably going to be bent some what towards foreign grammar, as most English speakers are secondary language speakers.
Knowing that Swiss don't speak Swedish is modded insightful? Wow, talk about setting the bar low! Most swiss speak either... frech, german or italian... by the way. All that neutrality has a price:p
Lets start a 3 strikes system for theifs. We can then cut off their hands when they commit the 3rd offence.
Sure, hands are fundemental a humans quality of life. The internet is heading towards that, and growing year by year.
Its nice to see we are going back to the days where it make sense to cut off someones hands for stealing some bread, hear hear!
If the people who didnt push these laws through didnt have money, means and power I would most likely support them. You could probably check their home computer 3 times in a year and 3 times they would be breaking some law, they can enjoy the fruit of their labour then.
If you think not typing S and down arrow not meaning slashdot (throught a happensake, its not ment to be that, its just because you dont visit enough S domains) is the same as a completely new keyboard layout, then you are never going to like anything that changes.
Also, what nerd cant type slashdot in under 1 second anyhow, and thats not using any smarts. This feature is good for when you often DONT know the url verbatim, if you argue that you only use 5 web sites so you dont need it, then use links on the toolbar or something, jeez!
In what world is dos'ing a company which leads to someone dying equal pre-meditated murder???
Even doing something to someone which kills them, and is something that was at least likely to kill them, but you are shown to have not intended them to die is only manslaughter.
Dos'ing someone which inderectly leads to someones death is nothing of the sort, there is no intent, and you can argue just as easily that who ever you dos'ed is just as responsable for allowing such a thing to lead to someones death.
What situation is going to cause this anyhow, are they going to hook a router onto someones pacemaker or something?
Sounds a bit like the mafias business model, pay us this smaller amount or we will make you pay more than you can imagine.
When you are being sued for something that might not even be legally sound, and are too small to mount a defence, its hard to see the difference between the two.
Things that interest us cause us to learn or create, thats amazing. Its almost like why production line workers dont win phds or dont come up with the theory of relativity!
Its almost the opposite to what school does, maybe its time to rethink learning, learning should be about finding our passions, not learning 10 topics we couldnt give two shits about
They do not *require* gps. They use it when available.
Wiki: "JDAM equipped bombs are guided to their target by an integrated inertial guidance system coupled with a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver for enhanced accuracy"
Its the same as ICBMs, sure, no gps removes an advantage, but you can sure as hell go to war without gps, and the US barely uses GPS in the way the public might believe. Special ops guys painting targets with lasers is still far more common, cheaper and more accurate in most cases.
The US GPS system would be the first target in any major war with any major state from now on, the US military is well aware of this, no weapon will be GPS only, ever... if you cant bomb a target you can see, thats pretty stupid
Umm, lets start at the top. I assume you live in America. If you think France, Germany or the UK is going to invade Pakistan, well, that is honestly funny.
Also... should they decide to invade Pakistan, are you seriously suggesting without gps they cannot do it? We aren't christopher columbus, we can find countries without gps.
Further, do you realise not even US weapons use (or better put, require) gps. Scuds dont use gps + google maps to navigate. They use carefully tuned preprogrammed flight paths. More impressivly (or scarily) is ICBMS.. they have no guidance, they are shot into orbit and fall onto their targets in the km/s range with simple point and shoot logic.
I could even point out the number 3 and most relevant point... no one can seriously choose to invade pakistan. They have the bomb, the same reason as no gps / anything will cause America to be invaded, you can wipe out the earth without gps with your nukes. Its called MAD, you might have heard of it. Its americas collapse via ecconomic reasons that is the real threat... just ask the soviet union. Why does history seem to have so many lessons?:p
Its a case where you know their aren't lying but they simply don't remember the truth. I think one thing that puts it in perspective with abductions is that everyone has almost the same experience and it only happened since stories of aliens spread. If it had been happening exactly the same since 1200 AD then you could perhaps look at it more, but its clearly some human phenomena that is shaped by a modern social context
Look how small it is, it must be a bomb. I personally would try to make something larger to hold a bomb, but hey thats just me. Steve jobs is the only one trying to make bombs smaller and sexier.
Humm, and I going to go to jail for that last comment, its hard to tell what's a crime any more...
This is a comparison of drivers, if there were consistent performance difference between the os's, you could claim one OS is faster than the other. This isn't the case at all, the scores are all over the place. Sure, some difference is OS based, but when the results are such a small sample with not much of a clear trend, its only useful to compare which OS is better for this particular hardware / driver combo.
Huge portions of the electromagnetic spectrum are absorbed by our atmosphere, for instance infra-red. These spectra are totally unobservable from earth and space based telescopes will always be needed.
Other technical issues include how long you can sit observing a target, the earth is constantly rotating and while earth based telescopes can track an object it can only do it for a small portion of the day. A space based telescope can (depending on its location) observe a target uninterrupted for days, weeks, months or as long as needed.
Now binocular telescopes with a few huge telescopes on earth and a few huge ones on the moon... or even Mars. Now that id like to see... but not so much fund:)
Sxactly, all you people who have the feeling nothing in life is for you and nothing good can happen and you are always miserable. Just go out and have fun! Simple, jeez.
Its funny how when someone takes no joy in anything finds it hard to do things they enjoy.
Of course if you dispear constantly you wont cope so well, but it depends on case by case. Depression is a growing issue that seems related to living in cities. Its not hard to see the enourmous gap between our lives today and how we used to live. People don't get motivated, driven, angry, horny just to sit at a desk all day quietly and do the same thing all day every day... well, a good net porn day can turn it all around.
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Learn Spanish, Italian, German, French or Russian?
To start with, Russia is not part of the EU, so its a completely separate issue, plus, you have to learn crylic so its not much use outside russia and some former soviet states.
Germany is the most populous nation of the EU at about 80 million out of 500, thats quite a shot in the dark if you are travelling randomly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Union_member_states_by_population
If you want to learn a language, learn the one of the country you want to work in, otherwise a romance language in Europe is your ticket, they are all similar and they comprise a large portion of the EU.. especially when weighted by GDP (thank you rome! too bad varus stopped the germans speaking latin).
Anyhow, you are in luck speaking English in the world currently, other languages are a luxury.. that's why no English speaking countries I know of require foreign language study, like most other countries do.
Because they, like a lot of countries learn to speak English from a young age.
A lot of chinas large works are designed and managed by western countries. The best universities in the world are still in America, they just have to ensure that enough money is invested in research to keep students in the country rather than going home.
Latin is structured, too structured, its so dull no one wanted to keep speaking it. Its like talking in equations.
Latin lives on through the romance languages, many words exist verbatim other with integration. English is probably the least respectful to Latin, it is created from so many other languages that it is extremely hard to master. Why teachers try to teach you rules to English grammar is beyond me, i before e except after c... and except in many other words! You have to learn by rote each word, rules are useless. Its a beautiful language :p
Studying Japanese at school was a breath of fresh air, its so nice having a single way of pronouncing a word... now if they could only use one alphabet instead of three :p
They want to speak your language as much as you want to speak theirs, its give and take.
Speaking each others non native language to each other (with feedback) is a good way to go about it.
Germany is somewhat different.. they are more insular, but a lot of euro countries play english tv shows undubbed (with subtitles.. depending on where you are, the netherlands tends not to).
Like most Europeans, two, three or more languages are very common. Most non English Europeans jump at the chance to talk to a native English speaker to help their English.
A lot of Americans seem to becoming somewhat bilingual with Spanish now, but they are a long ways behind the average European.
Unless china makes the world love it more than Elvis did, we are going to be speaking English as the world language for a LONG time. Its probably going to be bent some what towards foreign grammar, as most English speakers are secondary language speakers.
Welcome pig inglish :p
Germans had two chances of making us speak german, dont give them another!
Knowing that Swiss don't speak Swedish is modded insightful? Wow, talk about setting the bar low! Most swiss speak either... frech, german or italian... by the way. All that neutrality has a price :p
Am I going to be modded god now or? :p
*brag* My Brazilian gf has been teaching me Portuguese the past few months. */brag*
Not sure why I needed to mention that, just had an overwhelming urge to do so *shrugs* :)
Tudo bem :)
Its quite simple, the current US goverment doesn't see why the constitution should always getting in the way of the goverment. It can be quite a pain!
Lets start a 3 strikes system for theifs. We can then cut off their hands when they commit the 3rd offence.
Sure, hands are fundemental a humans quality of life. The internet is heading towards that, and growing year by year.
Its nice to see we are going back to the days where it make sense to cut off someones hands for stealing some bread, hear hear!
If the people who didnt push these laws through didnt have money, means and power I would most likely support them. You could probably check their home computer 3 times in a year and 3 times they would be breaking some law, they can enjoy the fruit of their labour then.
If you think not typing S and down arrow not meaning slashdot (throught a happensake, its not ment to be that, its just because you dont visit enough S domains) is the same as a completely new keyboard layout, then you are never going to like anything that changes.
Also, what nerd cant type slashdot in under 1 second anyhow, and thats not using any smarts. This feature is good for when you often DONT know the url verbatim, if you argue that you only use 5 web sites so you dont need it, then use links on the toolbar or something, jeez!
In what world is dos'ing a company which leads to someone dying equal pre-meditated murder??? Even doing something to someone which kills them, and is something that was at least likely to kill them, but you are shown to have not intended them to die is only manslaughter. Dos'ing someone which inderectly leads to someones death is nothing of the sort, there is no intent, and you can argue just as easily that who ever you dos'ed is just as responsable for allowing such a thing to lead to someones death. What situation is going to cause this anyhow, are they going to hook a router onto someones pacemaker or something?
Sounds a bit like the mafias business model, pay us this smaller amount or we will make you pay more than you can imagine. When you are being sued for something that might not even be legally sound, and are too small to mount a defence, its hard to see the difference between the two.
Intel has already said that future versions will be built into the cpu, id love to see these people on the internets replace that.. :)
Things that interest us cause us to learn or create, thats amazing. Its almost like why production line workers dont win phds or dont come up with the theory of relativity! Its almost the opposite to what school does, maybe its time to rethink learning, learning should be about finding our passions, not learning 10 topics we couldnt give two shits about
You can imagine govememnts using it matrix style "What good is a phone call if you can't speak, mr anderson?"
They do not *require* gps. They use it when available. Wiki: "JDAM equipped bombs are guided to their target by an integrated inertial guidance system coupled with a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver for enhanced accuracy" Its the same as ICBMs, sure, no gps removes an advantage, but you can sure as hell go to war without gps, and the US barely uses GPS in the way the public might believe. Special ops guys painting targets with lasers is still far more common, cheaper and more accurate in most cases. The US GPS system would be the first target in any major war with any major state from now on, the US military is well aware of this, no weapon will be GPS only, ever... if you cant bomb a target you can see, thats pretty stupid
Umm, lets start at the top. I assume you live in America. If you think France, Germany or the UK is going to invade Pakistan, well, that is honestly funny. Also... should they decide to invade Pakistan, are you seriously suggesting without gps they cannot do it? We aren't christopher columbus, we can find countries without gps. Further, do you realise not even US weapons use (or better put, require) gps. Scuds dont use gps + google maps to navigate. They use carefully tuned preprogrammed flight paths. More impressivly (or scarily) is ICBMS.. they have no guidance, they are shot into orbit and fall onto their targets in the km/s range with simple point and shoot logic. I could even point out the number 3 and most relevant point... no one can seriously choose to invade pakistan. They have the bomb, the same reason as no gps / anything will cause America to be invaded, you can wipe out the earth without gps with your nukes. Its called MAD, you might have heard of it. Its americas collapse via ecconomic reasons that is the real threat... just ask the soviet union. Why does history seem to have so many lessons? :p
Its a case where you know their aren't lying but they simply don't remember the truth. I think one thing that puts it in perspective with abductions is that everyone has almost the same experience and it only happened since stories of aliens spread. If it had been happening exactly the same since 1200 AD then you could perhaps look at it more, but its clearly some human phenomena that is shaped by a modern social context
Look how small it is, it must be a bomb. I personally would try to make something larger to hold a bomb, but hey thats just me. Steve jobs is the only one trying to make bombs smaller and sexier.
Humm, and I going to go to jail for that last comment, its hard to tell what's a crime any more...
This is a comparison of drivers, if there were consistent performance difference between the os's, you could claim one OS is faster than the other. This isn't the case at all, the scores are all over the place. Sure, some difference is OS based, but when the results are such a small sample with not much of a clear trend, its only useful to compare which OS is better for this particular hardware / driver combo.
Huge portions of the electromagnetic spectrum are absorbed by our atmosphere, for instance infra-red. These spectra are totally unobservable from earth and space based telescopes will always be needed. Other technical issues include how long you can sit observing a target, the earth is constantly rotating and while earth based telescopes can track an object it can only do it for a small portion of the day. A space based telescope can (depending on its location) observe a target uninterrupted for days, weeks, months or as long as needed. Now binocular telescopes with a few huge telescopes on earth and a few huge ones on the moon... or even Mars. Now that id like to see... but not so much fund :)
hang on, something feels wrong.. eh, pepsi time
Sxactly, all you people who have the feeling nothing in life is for you and nothing good can happen and you are always miserable. Just go out and have fun! Simple, jeez. Its funny how when someone takes no joy in anything finds it hard to do things they enjoy. Of course if you dispear constantly you wont cope so well, but it depends on case by case. Depression is a growing issue that seems related to living in cities. Its not hard to see the enourmous gap between our lives today and how we used to live. People don't get motivated, driven, angry, horny just to sit at a desk all day quietly and do the same thing all day every day... well, a good net porn day can turn it all around.