Umm... From what I've seen talking to people around the world, and studies I've seen as well, British English is the most common variant. However the similarities between British and American English are small enough, explicitly learning one if you know the other is silly, you can pick up the vocabulary differences fairly quickly, and the pronunciation differences don't make any serious difficulties in understanding.
Explicitly learning British English (or any other variant) would be a waste of time, aside from a little slang, and a few words there is very little with different meanings between the language - and when a word does not have differing meaning in both languages, it's only hard to get the meaning from context if you are a language snob or a bit slow. I.E. you'll learn the other variant naturally if you work with people that use it. If either side is snobs about the differences in spelling or pronunciation, then they can just get over themselves and stop wasting time being morons.
For an ACTUAL second language, from what I've seen, Hindi, Chinese, Russian and Arabic are probably good choices. None are easy for an native English speaker, however.
More guns will solve the problem! Fewer guns will solve the problem!
When, in reality, each has it's own set of problems, and both sides are more interested in the idea of being right, and having things a certain way, than what is actually best.
Get the fuck over yourselves, people are hurt and you are using it to fucking proselytize. Enough playing devils advocate to a lot of this shit, pointing towards a more moderate view. You're all a bunch of arrogant bastards who don't give a damn who the fuck gets hurt, so long as you can twist it towards your pathetic agenda.
Self defense for people who live in dangerous neighborhoods where the people who would use guns to kill them, would not think twice about using an illegally obtained gun (and would, in fact, shy away from a legally obtained one).
It is a tool to end life, but not all ending of life is cold blooded murder, or even arguably murder. Ending life is a fact of life, unless you are a plant.
did you just stop at that point and not read the rest of my post? I pretty well made that case. I was arguing against spiffmastercow's aregument against a pretty obvious (and probably intentional) misinterpretation of krovisser's comment.
If more people had guns, then there would be more smaller incidents (loose cannons who wouldn't have had a gun otherwise, and quickly get stopped by others with guns), but fewer major incidents like this.
Not to mention, who would you want to have the guns? * The students? Yeah, that'd reduce the killings. * The teachers? They have enough distraction as it is without the added distraction of making sure the students don't get to the guns. * The administrative staff? Still a risk of the students getting to the guns - or if they are in a safe, not being anywhere near ready-enough-at-hand for use.
What, you don't like the idea of a bunch of kindergarteners with AK-47s running around?
I think the idea is more that the teachers or administrators should have had the option to be armed. Not saying that's a good idea, especially with how good kids can be at getting a hold of things they shouldn't, but if they were armed, do you think as many would have died in this incident? And there's the counter question: how many more would die because of a child managing to get one of these firearms and deciding to take a little retribution on his/her friends who were mean recently, the bully, or that mean unfair teacher that gave him/her a bad grad or stopped him/her from picking on Bobby who obviously started it.
Are you talking about the surcharges due to extra traffic, or due to the implementation of the filters?
If it's the latter, then they can, in the long run, reduce cost, by making the cum guzzlers at ccAdvertising, and similar retard squads less profitable (and hopefully move on)
I've never seen a gift card sold for less than face value, but it does work with the GPs post...
I'll take another example, a very profitable company you might have heard of... Newegg?
Yep. They actually at one time (and maybe still) took a loss on memory sales, because people would just stick on that site and buy other stuff as well, even if it was normal price.
As the GP said, they aren't there for the profit, they are there to help get people into the store and move other items (greetings cards in particular, but there's plenty of impulse aisle stuff, as well as normal purchases that might have been made elsewhere)
Actually, the state university I work for, encourages exactly that behavior. Heck, we even encourage students to take lower level major courses offered by the local community colleges, at the CCs. I've heard a few groups talk about getting us out of the lower-level course offerings, and just working with the local CCs since they tend to do it better anyway (we a a research institution, and a lot of our profs don't want to be bothered with lower level stuff).
Yeah. That degree itself doesn't say squat, how he got it shows cleverness and a desire to put effort into a goal, as well as a drive to cost effectiveness.
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Umm... From what I've seen talking to people around the world, and studies I've seen as well, British English is the most common variant. However the similarities between British and American English are small enough, explicitly learning one if you know the other is silly, you can pick up the vocabulary differences fairly quickly, and the pronunciation differences don't make any serious difficulties in understanding.
Explicitly learning British English (or any other variant) would be a waste of time, aside from a little slang, and a few words there is very little with different meanings between the language - and when a word does not have differing meaning in both languages, it's only hard to get the meaning from context if you are a language snob or a bit slow. I.E. you'll learn the other variant naturally if you work with people that use it. If either side is snobs about the differences in spelling or pronunciation, then they can just get over themselves and stop wasting time being morons.
For an ACTUAL second language, from what I've seen, Hindi, Chinese, Russian and Arabic are probably good choices. None are easy for an native English speaker, however.
Yes, but it will take time to build. It probably won't be done before the LHC comes up to full swing.
Anyway, it's probably not just for research. It's probably also a 31km particle weapon for defense against N. Korea.
Yes, they are exercising their freedom of speech. In this case, not loud, hard and vigorous enough for my liking, but... it's their choice.
Personally, I think they should dig up all the hypochristian crap that WBC does and post that...
I've not seen any comments about government intervention (not that I've looked very far, but certainly not in the post you replied too).
Seems to me you are the one who would destroy freedom by denying people the right to speak against the WBC group.
More guns will solve the problem!
Fewer guns will solve the problem!
When, in reality, each has it's own set of problems, and both sides are more interested in the idea of being right, and having things a certain way, than what is actually best.
Get the fuck over yourselves, people are hurt and you are using it to fucking proselytize. Enough playing devils advocate to a lot of this shit, pointing towards a more moderate view. You're all a bunch of arrogant bastards who don't give a damn who the fuck gets hurt, so long as you can twist it towards your pathetic agenda.
Self defense for people who live in dangerous neighborhoods where the people who would use guns to kill them, would not think twice about using an illegally obtained gun (and would, in fact, shy away from a legally obtained one).
It is a tool to end life, but not all ending of life is cold blooded murder, or even arguably murder. Ending life is a fact of life, unless you are a plant.
did you just stop at that point and not read the rest of my post? I pretty well made that case. I was arguing against spiffmastercow's aregument against a pretty obvious (and probably intentional) misinterpretation of krovisser's comment.
Bullshit.
It's a tradeoff.
If more people had guns, then there would be more smaller incidents (loose cannons who wouldn't have had a gun otherwise, and quickly get stopped by others with guns), but fewer major incidents like this.
Not to mention, who would you want to have the guns?
* The students? Yeah, that'd reduce the killings.
* The teachers? They have enough distraction as it is without the added distraction of making sure the students don't get to the guns.
* The administrative staff? Still a risk of the students getting to the guns - or if they are in a safe, not being anywhere near ready-enough-at-hand for use.
Tell that to the guy on the bus in Canada a few years ago...
Oh wait, you can't.
Yes they do.
Do guns serve a purpose other than cold blooded murderin'?
Yes they do.
What, you don't like the idea of a bunch of kindergarteners with AK-47s running around?
I think the idea is more that the teachers or administrators should have had the option to be armed. Not saying that's a good idea, especially with how good kids can be at getting a hold of things they shouldn't, but if they were armed, do you think as many would have died in this incident?
And there's the counter question: how many more would die because of a child managing to get one of these firearms and deciding to take a little retribution on his/her friends who were mean recently, the bully, or that mean unfair teacher that gave him/her a bad grad or stopped him/her from picking on Bobby who obviously started it.
Yeah, and when you rarely have to have multiple windows open, 16:10 is horrible.
Each has it's advantages. Closer to square is better IMO. I'll take 5:4
Was it real cheese, or did they decide to broaden the spectrum to include toe cheese, for RMS? That could alter the time frame significantly.
Even better IMO. A move in the right, rather than wrong, direction.
Still sucks menus of LTR or RTL text - these tend to work best with options stacked, not next to each other...
However, for users of TTB languages... This may change the interface a bit...
Hmm.. training to read the normal LTR test sideways? It'd be an interesting role reversal.
Are you talking about the surcharges due to extra traffic, or due to the implementation of the filters?
If it's the latter, then they can, in the long run, reduce cost, by making the cum guzzlers at ccAdvertising, and similar retard squads less profitable (and hopefully move on)
I've never seen a gift card sold for less than face value, but it does work with the GPs post...
I'll take another example, a very profitable company you might have heard of... Newegg?
Yep. They actually at one time (and maybe still) took a loss on memory sales, because people would just stick on that site and buy other stuff as well, even if it was normal price.
As the GP said, they aren't there for the profit, they are there to help get people into the store and move other items (greetings cards in particular, but there's plenty of impulse aisle stuff, as well as normal purchases that might have been made elsewhere)
I had smaller classes at the large university, than a friend had at the local CC (but I took honors courses). Class isn't always indicated.
What part of 'tends to' was confusing?
notice the 'quick' part, 30 years isn't quick.
Also, I said 'tends to' not 'always', so a sample size of one doesn't really even come close to countering what I'm saying.
Only if the degree itself would normally take 5 years, which typically only happens when switching majors.
Yep.
Actually, the state university I work for, encourages exactly that behavior. Heck, we even encourage students to take lower level major courses offered by the local community colleges, at the CCs. I've heard a few groups talk about getting us out of the lower-level course offerings, and just working with the local CCs since they tend to do it better anyway (we a a research institution, and a lot of our profs don't want to be bothered with lower level stuff).
Yeah. That degree itself doesn't say squat, how he got it shows cleverness and a desire to put effort into a goal, as well as a drive to cost effectiveness.
Nah. Got a full bachelors of science without debt. No parental help either. Scholarships and grants.