Probably due to most people not being interested in any of the authors or genres on offer here, and paying more just gets you more of the same. At least with the games budles there is usually a variety of different genres so there is typically something for everyone in the bundle. Here, unless your preferences are strongly waited towards Science Fiction and Fantasy there is no interest - why not throw in a geeky non-fiction book?
This humble ebook bundle is a matter of too little or too late for bibliophiles.
Really? So any book-lover will have got/read most of the things here? I consider myself a reasonably avid reader and have no interest in any of these books - and I read a fairly varied range of genres and subjects (see my profile at http://www.shelfari.com/irglover). I realise that one data point isn't statistically significant, but niether is a sweeping generalisation.
From the same wikipedia page "In the United States, both the novel and the film were called Tight Little Island, as a ban existed at the time on using the names of alcoholic drinks in titles."
I also think the original title is much better and "Tight Little Island" sounds like a Disney film to me (probably part of their 'Disney Nights' series for the more discerning viewer)
His previous victory in proving ownership of the Try in Tripe (with the caveat that only when the word is spoken) has seemingly encouraged this attempt.
Racism, censorship, homophobia, totalitarianism, anarchy, genocide, etc...these are really hard things to discuss with a group of high-school kids
For that reason I would add 'A Scanner Darkly' by Philip k. Dick. Themes related to drugs and identity are very relevant to today's teenagers. The book is rooted in the present, so is recognisable and there is little moralising. It is being told by someone who lived through and survived drug abuse and the final dedication to friends that didn't survive is particularly moving.
I see what you are intending here, but it doesn't work. The original bit refers to high proces for bullets, with the assumption that a bullet can only be fired once. A knife can be used multiple times, so you might hate 5000 people and decide to use it on each of them - 1 pound each is probably a bargain.
Well, bearing in mind that the 'rural north' (taking north in the sense that many Londoners seem to - i.e. North of Luton) comprises all of the large traditionally industrial towns and cities (with the exception of Bristol), then I hardly think it is fair to call the area Rural. Yes, there are countryside areas, but there are in the south and east (Norfolk in the east, the Cotswolds and Dartmoor areas in the south and south west for example).
The fact is that British wealth was built in the North of England, Scotland and (in a lesser part) Wales during the Victorian period. London had its industry too, but the balance in the last 50 years has shifted away from heavy industry and manufacture towards service industry (including Financial service) this has led to a concentration of companies in and around the City of London. London may now be the economic centre of the UK, but it got its start by siphoning off wealth that was being generated in other parts of the country.
Someone else on this board has pointed out that London has the starkest disparity between rich and poor in the UK. I accept completely that some of the most blighted areas of Blighty are in London, but money spent on high cost, prestige projects within the M25 (Wembley, Millenium Dome, City Hall, and the Olympics) doesn't help the people living in poverty within the city. Impressive new stadia isn't going to help anyone living hand to mouth, especially when ticket prices will likely be quite high in order to pay off the debts run up in building these white elephants.
The olympics encourage people to take up sports and get fit
Anything to back up that claim, it seems very unlikely. If it is true, what about the strain that sports related injuries would place on the NHS?
They promote tourism
Agreed, they promote tourism - to London, the place where most tourists go and only a small proportion actually get out and look at the rest of the country.
It's developing an area of London that has been run down for decade
Fine, but I suspect that what this run down area really needs isn't unused stadia. Other cities have used the Olympics as a way of improving infrastructure (e.g. Athens built a new cross-city public transport system), what comparable projects are going on in London? And this Northerner (living on the edge of the M25) agrees that London gets too much money spent on it, the fact that it is unfairly distributed is beside the point.
Finally, you can pump as much money as you want into schools and research and it tends to dissapear into a black hole
Part of the reason why the NHS introduced a new layer of middle managers was that this is what was recommended by the 'Management Consultants' who were brought in to look at it. I can't see any hint of vested interest there, can you? Using the NHS as an example for not funding public services isn't a good idea, it was the reduction in investment during the 80's and 90's that allowed it get into the state it is in. A constantly fully-funded NHS would likely have been cheaper in the long-term than allowing it to run down and then build it back up again.
It seems that they will soon be asking for donations - just when I was looking to get rid of my old consoles and computers (Atari 2600, speccy, Master System, NES, Game Gear, some Binatone thing from the early/mid 70's, etc.)
Perfect timing! unless someone wants to buy them from me;-)
Well, if it is a written rule it is either not in the British Book of Journalistic Style, or UK newspapers just ignore the rule (maybe they're not into the whole brevity thing!).
I certainly used to find it odd when reading US news sources (by which I just mean the Onion, all other news outlets have too much bias - and I mean ALL, not just the US ones).
I always assumed that "windows tax" was also a reference to the tax on windows in 17th-19th century Britain, imaginatively called the "window tax". Perhaps it is just coincidental though.
Your quest begins in the folder options dialog, where you'll need to expose a double hidden/system folder, buried in the depths of your Application Data.
Or you could just right click the quick launch area and select 'Open Folder'. You're choice really.
At the (UK) university where I work we subscribe to Lexis Nexis (http://www.lexisnexis.com/). This gives full text from loads of newspapers around the world - there are no images (i think) and you can't see the contemporary ephemera such as adverts, but it's great for stories.
A search for '9/11' (as an example of a massively covered event worlwide) gives thousands of results and with the first thousand English language hits there are newspapers such as: Cobourg Daily Star (Ontario); The Independent (London); The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia); The Scotsman & Scotland on Sunday; Seattle Post-Intelligencer; South Bend Tribune; New Straits Times (Malaysia); The Japan Times.
Unless google is planning on doing like-for-like digitisations and/or giving free access to everyone I don't see that they are offering anything that doesn't already exist (admittedly as a [probably] expensive research tool).
I don't think that is what I stated and, if it was, I actually meant that it is an element of speech that makes me think that the user is from the US. If it can then be used to narrow down to a particularly community, fair enough.
I was talking in broad strokes, and so an African American vernacular is, by definition, something that relates to the US.
So, in my conclusion, some citizens of the United States speak African American Vernacular English. I don't think that you can disagree with that;-)
Kind of makes your closing comment a bit ironic doesn't it...
(on a side note, as soon as I see the use of 'then' in place of 'than' I immediately think of the US as it seems to be fairly common mistake for USians (much like 'axe'/'ax' instead of 'ask'). So my initial thoughts about your first point were a little doubtful.)
The situation is probably worse in the UK because all of these issues are condensed into a much smaller area and dialects began to develop prior to even a reasonably standard form of English. It is often the case that people can have real difficulty understanding others from only 20-50 miles away. Add to this the fact that UK English incorporates loan words from most other countries, particularly those from the former empire, and it should all be an unmanagable mess.
However, it is this great diversity of the language with all of the homonyms, synonyms, slang, etc. that gives the language character and humour and allows English writing to be hugely creative compared to other, more rigid languages. What would Shakespeare be without his puns and where would British comedy be without innuendo and the double entendre?
(I expect at least half of the words used in this post derive from languages not related to Old English or Anglo-Saxon/Norse!)
and TV stands for TeleVision.
The GP didn't state that CC meant City or County Council, just that those are the likely owners rather than the police. Whether that is true or not, I don't know. Some of the cameras could be owned by private companies, such as shops and security firms.
I completely agree. You might as well do something for yourself and get paid for it, read some books, write something, learn something new. As long as you help out when asked there should be no problem - you have played by the rules and should be respected for that.
The previous employers have no reason to lie. What would be the point in lying to help a crap former employee to get another new job? It could leave them open to being sued, or may damage their reputation.
Whereas, the current employer has the incentive of being able to off-load poor employees onto someone else.
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This humble ebook bundle is a matter of too little or too late for bibliophiles.
Really? So any book-lover will have got/read most of the things here? I consider myself a reasonably avid reader and have no interest in any of these books - and I read a fairly varied range of genres and subjects (see my profile at http://www.shelfari.com/irglover). I realise that one data point isn't statistically significant, but niether is a sweeping generalisation.
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Bought this DVD of Vienna's Kunsthistoriches Museum in 2005. It is a 3D reproduction of the picture galleries with all of the pictures in the correct locations with text and audio info and several tours: http://ecomm.khm.at/cgi-bin/khmmuseumsshop.storefront/4d4aa01d0156ab252717c1aad8420688/Product/View/20000 So, not a new idea. But still a good one.
From the same wikipedia page "In the United States, both the novel and the film were called Tight Little Island, as a ban existed at the time on using the names of alcoholic drinks in titles." I also think the original title is much better and "Tight Little Island" sounds like a Disney film to me (probably part of their 'Disney Nights' series for the more discerning viewer)
His previous victory in proving ownership of the Try in Tripe (with the caveat that only when the word is spoken) has seemingly encouraged this attempt.
I'm surprised that no-one responded to this more Swiftly.
I would mod ths funny if I had the points (though I do hope it is a literary joke and not a comment in support of the GP's idea)
Racism, censorship, homophobia, totalitarianism, anarchy, genocide, etc...these are really hard things to discuss with a group of high-school kids
For that reason I would add 'A Scanner Darkly' by Philip k. Dick. Themes related to drugs and identity are very relevant to today's teenagers. The book is rooted in the present, so is recognisable and there is little moralising. It is being told by someone who lived through and survived drug abuse and the final dedication to friends that didn't survive is particularly moving.
I see what you are intending here, but it doesn't work. The original bit refers to high proces for bullets, with the assumption that a bullet can only be fired once. A knife can be used multiple times, so you might hate 5000 people and decide to use it on each of them - 1 pound each is probably a bargain.
But what can you expect from an Innocent White Lamb?
I thought the joke was pretty good anyway.
Well, bearing in mind that the 'rural north' (taking north in the sense that many Londoners seem to - i.e. North of Luton) comprises all of the large traditionally industrial towns and cities (with the exception of Bristol), then I hardly think it is fair to call the area Rural. Yes, there are countryside areas, but there are in the south and east (Norfolk in the east, the Cotswolds and Dartmoor areas in the south and south west for example).
The fact is that British wealth was built in the North of England, Scotland and (in a lesser part) Wales during the Victorian period. London had its industry too, but the balance in the last 50 years has shifted away from heavy industry and manufacture towards service industry (including Financial service) this has led to a concentration of companies in and around the City of London. London may now be the economic centre of the UK, but it got its start by siphoning off wealth that was being generated in other parts of the country.
Someone else on this board has pointed out that London has the starkest disparity between rich and poor in the UK. I accept completely that some of the most blighted areas of Blighty are in London, but money spent on high cost, prestige projects within the M25 (Wembley, Millenium Dome, City Hall, and the Olympics) doesn't help the people living in poverty within the city. Impressive new stadia isn't going to help anyone living hand to mouth, especially when ticket prices will likely be quite high in order to pay off the debts run up in building these white elephants.
The olympics encourage people to take up sports and get fit
Anything to back up that claim, it seems very unlikely. If it is true, what about the strain that sports related injuries would place on the NHS?
They promote tourism
Agreed, they promote tourism - to London, the place where most tourists go and only a small proportion actually get out and look at the rest of the country.
It's developing an area of London that has been run down for decade
Fine, but I suspect that what this run down area really needs isn't unused stadia. Other cities have used the Olympics as a way of improving infrastructure (e.g. Athens built a new cross-city public transport system), what comparable projects are going on in London? And this Northerner (living on the edge of the M25) agrees that London gets too much money spent on it, the fact that it is unfairly distributed is beside the point.
Finally, you can pump as much money as you want into schools and research and it tends to dissapear into a black hole
Part of the reason why the NHS introduced a new layer of middle managers was that this is what was recommended by the 'Management Consultants' who were brought in to look at it. I can't see any hint of vested interest there, can you? Using the NHS as an example for not funding public services isn't a good idea, it was the reduction in investment during the 80's and 90's that allowed it get into the state it is in. A constantly fully-funded NHS would likely have been cheaper in the long-term than allowing it to run down and then build it back up again.
It seems that they will soon be asking for donations - just when I was looking to get rid of my old consoles and computers (Atari 2600, speccy, Master System, NES, Game Gear, some Binatone thing from the early/mid 70's, etc.)
Perfect timing! unless someone wants to buy them from me ;-)
Well, if it is a written rule it is either not in the British Book of Journalistic Style, or UK newspapers just ignore the rule (maybe they're not into the whole brevity thing!).
I certainly used to find it odd when reading US news sources (by which I just mean the Onion, all other news outlets have too much bias - and I mean ALL, not just the US ones).
I always assumed that "windows tax" was also a reference to the tax on windows in 17th-19th century Britain, imaginatively called the "window tax". Perhaps it is just coincidental though.
Your quest begins in the folder options dialog, where you'll need to expose a double hidden/system folder, buried in the depths of your Application Data.
Or you could just right click the quick launch area and select 'Open Folder'. You're choice really.
I know who's "Anonymous"! It's Ted Danson!
At the (UK) university where I work we subscribe to Lexis Nexis (http://www.lexisnexis.com/). This gives full text from loads of newspapers around the world - there are no images (i think) and you can't see the contemporary ephemera such as adverts, but it's great for stories.
A search for '9/11' (as an example of a massively covered event worlwide) gives thousands of results and with the first thousand English language hits there are newspapers such as: Cobourg Daily Star (Ontario); The Independent (London); The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia); The Scotsman & Scotland on Sunday; Seattle Post-Intelligencer; South Bend Tribune; New Straits Times (Malaysia); The Japan Times.
Unless google is planning on doing like-for-like digitisations and/or giving free access to everyone I don't see that they are offering anything that doesn't already exist (admittedly as a [probably] expensive research tool).
I don't think that is what I stated and, if it was, I actually meant that it is an element of speech that makes me think that the user is from the US. If it can then be used to narrow down to a particularly community, fair enough.
I was talking in broad strokes, and so an African American vernacular is, by definition, something that relates to the US.
So, in my conclusion, some citizens of the United States speak African American Vernacular English. I don't think that you can disagree with that ;-)
1) Fair point
2) check the sig
3) goto 2
Kind of makes your closing comment a bit ironic doesn't it...
(on a side note, as soon as I see the use of 'then' in place of 'than' I immediately think of the US as it seems to be fairly common mistake for USians (much like 'axe'/'ax' instead of 'ask'). So my initial thoughts about your first point were a little doubtful.)
The situation is probably worse in the UK because all of these issues are condensed into a much smaller area and dialects began to develop prior to even a reasonably standard form of English. It is often the case that people can have real difficulty understanding others from only 20-50 miles away. Add to this the fact that UK English incorporates loan words from most other countries, particularly those from the former empire, and it should all be an unmanagable mess. However, it is this great diversity of the language with all of the homonyms, synonyms, slang, etc. that gives the language character and humour and allows English writing to be hugely creative compared to other, more rigid languages. What would Shakespeare be without his puns and where would British comedy be without innuendo and the double entendre? (I expect at least half of the words used in this post derive from languages not related to Old English or Anglo-Saxon/Norse!)
I bet UK productivity rocketed this afternoon then ;-)
and TV stands for TeleVision. The GP didn't state that CC meant City or County Council, just that those are the likely owners rather than the police. Whether that is true or not, I don't know. Some of the cameras could be owned by private companies, such as shops and security firms.
I completely agree. You might as well do something for yourself and get paid for it, read some books, write something, learn something new. As long as you help out when asked there should be no problem - you have played by the rules and should be respected for that.
The previous employers have no reason to lie. What would be the point in lying to help a crap former employee to get another new job? It could leave them open to being sued, or may damage their reputation. Whereas, the current employer has the incentive of being able to off-load poor employees onto someone else.