Not everything in this world follows logic. Too many maps will show Europe and Asia as two continents.
By the way, if the maps you've seen come from the US, not identifying America as a single continent is not just for the sake of logic, it's didactics; there, the country is consistently called America after all!
We were teached differently where I live. In the school, the textbooks listed Central America as a continent on its own. We also were thought different divisions of the greater land masses: Old World, New World, The Newest Wold and the Cold Continent.
The Americas could be considered a single continent: America.
By the way, the distinction between the continents is somewhat arbitrary: why is Europe a continent of its own and not a part of Eurasia? Or why is Europe a continent, while India is a subcontinent?
Not to mention that they included "America" in the list. Despite America being the name of a continent (or up to 3, depending on the criteria, or lack thereof) there is only one nation that commonly goes by the name "America".
When I looked up "homossexuality" (sic), I got 2 results and an ad for a gay dating website full of porn. Are they supposing that all children will have proper spelling?
Guns are dangerous and everyone knows it. Pools are even more dangerous but too few people seem to care. That's why far more children drown to death in the US every year than in accidents with weapons.
All the gun nuts always bring up the "swimming pool argument" whenever someone brings up gun control. Here is why this argument is stupid:
1) There is actually a lot of regulation for having a swimming pool. In Europe at least there are building regulations that require among other things that private swimming pools be elevated from the ground specially so that young children don't fall in.
I'm not advocating against gun control and I was talking about the US. Anyway, even with regulations in place, there are still more accidents with pools than with guns, because responsible parents don't let their guns at a kid's reach. They know that guns were created for killing and they don't want any killing to happen near their children.
2) You can't fly the swimming pool or stick it in your pocket when going outside. It is restricted to a certain location. Usually private.
3) Swimming pools actually have a valid purpose. They are used for swimming lessons and are not designed to kill people. you might argue that they are dangerous when used for recreation, but then you always have to option of choosing of not going to a swimming pool. With guns you can't do that.
That's why people tend to consider swimming pools as completely innocuous, and because of that, a parent may not see a problem in leaving children unattended near a swimming pool for a short while, whereas the same person would never get a kid near a fire arm for even a second. Drones can be seem as a toy, and there lies the danger. There is no problem if drone regulation comes before gun regulation in the US.
Guns are dangerous and everyone knows it. Pools are even more dangerous but too few people seem to care. That's why far more children drown to death in the US every year than in accidents with weapons. A 2 kilo drone seems too much like a toy, so, many people may fly them carelessly, thence the need for regulations. I'm not advocating against gun regulation, but some drone must be put in place.
Baidu is the Chinese "Google", the biggest Chinese search engine provider. According to Alexa, it's one of the five most visited web sites in the world. Would you like fries with your ignorance?
Who cares about the Alexa rank of site? Yahoo.com is also one of the five most visited websites in the world and people here keep saying it's not relevant anymore.
Where I live, many times I try to spend a BRL $100 bill, the cashier person seems in trouble because of the awkwardness of providing change for so large a bill. It's the highest denomination, yet it is worth less than US $25. EUR $100 seems a bit too awkward, and I wonder why the EUR $500 exist anyway.
No, it's more like people from England and France are all the same... (in the historical and linguistic sense...)
Not in the linguistic sense, at all! English and French have been proven to be related, with high confidence. The same cannot be said about Japanese and Korean; nor do either of them even seem to be related to Chinese.
Your post got modded "Informative," so it must be information. Thank you for that. Is that all that there is to know about this Kanye West person? I'm not kidding. That name sounds very familiar, but I don't know who such a person is or why he or she is relevant.
I imagine this like more like a grad student researching for a thesis in a library and then finding out a matter that happened the be not yet methodically proven. Then he or she resolves to do the boring work to get his or her doctorate.
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Not everything in this world follows logic. Too many maps will show Europe and Asia as two continents. By the way, if the maps you've seen come from the US, not identifying America as a single continent is not just for the sake of logic, it's didactics; there, the country is consistently called America after all!
I think that what the OP meant was that the same people that flunk in calculus and algebra will flunk in statistics and combinatorics as well.
It's also useful to detect how someone's data is misrepresented. Can anyone lie with statistics to a statistician?
I wonder how can one develop the proper reasoning need for a philosopher without the formal Logic training that is algebra.
There is a continent called 'America': https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
We were teached differently where I live. In the school, the textbooks listed Central America as a continent on its own. We also were thought different divisions of the greater land masses: Old World, New World, The Newest Wold and the Cold Continent. The Americas could be considered a single continent: America. By the way, the distinction between the continents is somewhat arbitrary: why is Europe a continent of its own and not a part of Eurasia? Or why is Europe a continent, while India is a subcontinent?
Not to mention that they included "America" in the list. Despite America being the name of a continent (or up to 3, depending on the criteria, or lack thereof) there is only one nation that commonly goes by the name "America".
Because, as yet, nobody noted that 'heterosexuality' is also listed as a 'bad word'.
When I looked up "homossexuality" (sic), I got 2 results and an ad for a gay dating website full of porn. Are they supposing that all children will have proper spelling?
There are no exceptions to rule 34!
If racism was a problem, he would not have been elected to begin with.
Guns are dangerous and everyone knows it. Pools are even more dangerous but too few people seem to care. That's why far more children drown to death in the US every year than in accidents with weapons.
All the gun nuts always bring up the "swimming pool argument" whenever someone brings up gun control. Here is why this argument is stupid:
1) There is actually a lot of regulation for having a swimming pool. In Europe at least there are building regulations that require among other things that private swimming pools be elevated from the ground specially so that young children don't fall in.
I'm not advocating against gun control and I was talking about the US. Anyway, even with regulations in place, there are still more accidents with pools than with guns, because responsible parents don't let their guns at a kid's reach. They know that guns were created for killing and they don't want any killing to happen near their children.
2) You can't fly the swimming pool or stick it in your pocket when going outside. It is restricted to a certain location. Usually private. 3) Swimming pools actually have a valid purpose. They are used for swimming lessons and are not designed to kill people. you might argue that they are dangerous when used for recreation, but then you always have to option of choosing of not going to a swimming pool. With guns you can't do that.
That's why people tend to consider swimming pools as completely innocuous, and because of that, a parent may not see a problem in leaving children unattended near a swimming pool for a short while, whereas the same person would never get a kid near a fire arm for even a second. Drones can be seem as a toy, and there lies the danger. There is no problem if drone regulation comes before gun regulation in the US.
Guns are dangerous and everyone knows it. Pools are even more dangerous but too few people seem to care. That's why far more children drown to death in the US every year than in accidents with weapons. A 2 kilo drone seems too much like a toy, so, many people may fly them carelessly, thence the need for regulations. I'm not advocating against gun regulation, but some drone must be put in place.
(...) and the problem that there's a total lack of customisation.
I was about to start writing a big application in MFC, but Microsoft are headed to destruction so I'm now instead learning Qt. (...)
It seems like you really enjoy customisation!
Baidu is the Chinese "Google", the biggest Chinese search engine provider. According to Alexa, it's one of the five most visited web sites in the world. Would you like fries with your ignorance?
Who cares about the Alexa rank of site? Yahoo.com is also one of the five most visited websites in the world and people here keep saying it's not relevant anymore.
Where I live, many times I try to spend a BRL $100 bill, the cashier person seems in trouble because of the awkwardness of providing change for so large a bill. It's the highest denomination, yet it is worth less than US $25. EUR $100 seems a bit too awkward, and I wonder why the EUR $500 exist anyway.
WHAT? How can someone take a selfie of someone else's picture? It is not how selfies work!
No, it's more like people from England and France are all the same... (in the historical and linguistic sense...)
Not in the linguistic sense, at all! English and French have been proven to be related, with high confidence. The same cannot be said about Japanese and Korean; nor do either of them even seem to be related to Chinese.
Yes, they are. Didn't you read the word "jailbroken"?
Also, they can try every username to find the ones whose password is '123456' or the like.
Your post got modded "Informative," so it must be information. Thank you for that.
Is that all that there is to know about this Kanye West person? I'm not kidding. That name sounds very familiar, but I don't know who such a person is or why he or she is relevant.
If that was a movie set, it would have been destructed by a Kaiju before he left.
(...) radiation all around us, and we do know how to detect and manage radiation risks.
Wrong! Most people still refuse to wear sunscreen.
(...) and Fukushima did actually melt down, yet Japan was still there when I visited last year.
Good to know, thanks!
I imagine this like more like a grad student researching for a thesis in a library and then finding out a matter that happened the be not yet methodically proven. Then he or she resolves to do the boring work to get his or her doctorate.
The Eurodisney is in EU.