No, born in the US (now I'm thinking about Bruce Springsteen:) ). Was married to a Brazilian, and am now "fluent" -- I can carry on a conversation with a native speaker, but they will know I'm not native, and I don't know all the big words, but I can "put them together" with smaller ones. One of the neatest parts about learning a foreign language is learning where one word ends, and the next begins; prior to that, fast talking was a way for my ex to "speak behind my back" in my presence; once I learned how words break up, though, no speed is too fast for me to understand. Cheers!
I'd email you if you didn't have your email hidden and restricted.
Again, thanks. I find that it's amusing the lengths we go to, to keep others from communicating with us. You can email coisauma@gmail.com, which is "Thing 1" in Portuguese, and now you (and the world) know something about me.:)
But how about dropping the marketing speech? Don't pretend that real humans are talking to real humans when on the one side it's just marketing zombies and politicians.
Gives new meaning to "Zombies vs. Plants", I suppose? (Wasn't there recently a (report of a) spy from Iran trying to assassinate someone on US soil? That would be the "plant".)
Firstly, I think as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have shown us, we (the US, collectively) have very little power to change or encourage people to think how we'd like them to.
I think the US is just another vampire squid. We say a lot about freedom, but we project force on the world, in order to obtain resources. Just as the "capitalists" of the early 20th century projected force (using gatling guns) on their employees who were attempting to unionize. "Capitalism" isn't the feel-good Republican wank-fest that we're hearing about these days; read some history (not necessarily directed at the OP).
I remember waaay back in 7th grade, a kid was trying to impress everyone on the playground by saying he could build a 'screamer' bomb. It was a special 'pulse' you could send down the phone line that would blow up computers at the other end. Untraceable too.
*sigh* Every 4 years I start wishing that kid was right...;)
Back in college, I had a computer which experienced a motherboard frying. This was determined to have been due to a lightning strike, which went through the phone line, hitting the modem which did not have protection circuitry, thus making its way to the juicy components. I'm not saying throw lightning bolts at Congress, or am I?
"Hi, I'm going to respond to your comment (which uses jargon in one area), by using jargon in another area. You know, I'm hip and all that, and cannot look up jargon I do not understand. Perhaps, by repeating the word 'jargon' often enough, I might think of it as some sort of reptile or something. You know, 'cuz I'm hip."
Use 93 octane gas. This has the fewest additives. (I know it's not a cure-all; but this fixes the breakage happening in chainsaws when fed 87, 89 or 91 gas, which generally has ethanol added.)
Well, thanks, mostly. I value the opinions of posters here higher than almost everywhere else (due to self-selection:), so I was really hoping that you would let me know what you had decided upon, after surveying the landscape at the time you decided. I prefer to avoid China for the human rights violations. I think Portugal might be a good place based on their understanding of the dangers of prohibition. (But right now the only "safe" Eurozone country is the UK, because they chose not to give up their sovereign property by moving to a currency that they could not print more of.)
I'm trying to picture a planet with intelligent pancake beings.
Read "Dragon's Egg", by Robert L. Forward. The inhabitants are on a neutron star, 67 billion times that of Earth. Wiki. The article says it has minimal characterization; I read it in my teens, and distinctly remember feeling the horror of that creature who had thought it had identified where the humans' scanning beam would be going next, which gave them a good feeling, but then it (the beam) diverted and the other creatures hoisted this one up, and deposited it on some sharp shards of glass or something, which punctured and killed the "prophet". Yeah, things like this I now know have happened throughout human history, but I didn't know that when I read it. (I.e., I definitely "felt" for that character, but perhaps because I was so young, and perhaps the article is correct in that the book lacks characterization. Have added to my list to re-read.)
VLC does this as well. I've trained my brain to be able to watch a Blockbuster rental at 20% faster, or sometimes even 30 or 40% faster (depending on the number of walking scenes). With captions on so I don't miss the dialog (I've been using captions for 15 years, ever since having a foreign girlfriend). It's great to be able to watch three movies in the time of two. And, as you mentioned, VLC keeps the pitch the same, so they don't sound like chipmunks (unless you're watching one of those movies).
FYI, since Slashdot doesn't let you know this: I friended you after reading this comment. I'm living similarly, even though you could be my dad (barely).
Um, yeah; the things that an individual has witnessed are rarely an indication of said individual's intelligence level. But please, continue with your tribalism. It's fun to watch.
Where. Please. I'm reaching the same conclusion but haven't found a decent alternative. Canada, perhaps? I like the Oceania project but it fizzled, and would have been invaded soon enough.
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No, born in the US (now I'm thinking about Bruce Springsteen :) ). Was married to a Brazilian, and am now "fluent" -- I can carry on a conversation with a native speaker, but they will know I'm not native, and I don't know all the big words, but I can "put them together" with smaller ones. One of the neatest parts about learning a foreign language is learning where one word ends, and the next begins; prior to that, fast talking was a way for my ex to "speak behind my back" in my presence; once I learned how words break up, though, no speed is too fast for me to understand. Cheers!
This sounds a lot like cooperative multitasking, and the consequent hanging problems OSes that chose that route had.
"Two men can keep a secret, if one of them is dead."
Thanks. My new signature is intentionally ambiguous, like most of my brain outputs. :)
I'd email you if you didn't have your email hidden and restricted.
Again, thanks. I find that it's amusing the lengths we go to, to keep others from communicating with us. You can email coisauma@gmail.com, which is "Thing 1" in Portuguese, and now you (and the world) know something about me. :)
But how about dropping the marketing speech? Don't pretend that real humans are talking to real humans when on the one side it's just marketing zombies and politicians.
Gives new meaning to "Zombies vs. Plants", I suppose? (Wasn't there recently a (report of a) spy from Iran trying to assassinate someone on US soil? That would be the "plant".)
Firstly, I think as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have shown us, we (the US, collectively) have very little power to change or encourage people to think how we'd like them to.
I think the US is just another vampire squid. We say a lot about freedom, but we project force on the world, in order to obtain resources. Just as the "capitalists" of the early 20th century projected force (using gatling guns) on their employees who were attempting to unionize. "Capitalism" isn't the feel-good Republican wank-fest that we're hearing about these days; read some history (not necessarily directed at the OP).
I admire your subversion.
A steel pipe also has properties that a steel pipe doesn't, but they're still the same material.
You just blew my ... parser.
Which means building the space elevator is urgent; why put more debris in LEO than we absolutely need to?
Yeah, but only because that cute chick contributed 18,000 edits...
I remember waaay back in 7th grade, a kid was trying to impress everyone on the playground by saying he could build a 'screamer' bomb. It was a special 'pulse' you could send down the phone line that would blow up computers at the other end. Untraceable too.
*sigh* Every 4 years I start wishing that kid was right... ;)
Back in college, I had a computer which experienced a motherboard frying. This was determined to have been due to a lightning strike, which went through the phone line, hitting the modem which did not have protection circuitry, thus making its way to the juicy components. I'm not saying throw lightning bolts at Congress, or am I?
"Hi, I'm going to respond to your comment (which uses jargon in one area), by using jargon in another area. You know, I'm hip and all that, and cannot look up jargon I do not understand. Perhaps, by repeating the word 'jargon' often enough, I might think of it as some sort of reptile or something. You know, 'cuz I'm hip."
Use 93 octane gas. This has the fewest additives. (I know it's not a cure-all; but this fixes the breakage happening in chainsaws when fed 87, 89 or 91 gas, which generally has ethanol added.)
Well, thanks, mostly. I value the opinions of posters here higher than almost everywhere else (due to self-selection :), so I was really hoping that you would let me know what you had decided upon, after surveying the landscape at the time you decided. I prefer to avoid China for the human rights violations. I think Portugal might be a good place based on their understanding of the dangers of prohibition. (But right now the only "safe" Eurozone country is the UK, because they chose not to give up their sovereign property by moving to a currency that they could not print more of.)
I'm trying to picture a planet with intelligent pancake beings.
Read "Dragon's Egg", by Robert L. Forward. The inhabitants are on a neutron star, 67 billion times that of Earth. Wiki. The article says it has minimal characterization; I read it in my teens, and distinctly remember feeling the horror of that creature who had thought it had identified where the humans' scanning beam would be going next, which gave them a good feeling, but then it (the beam) diverted and the other creatures hoisted this one up, and deposited it on some sharp shards of glass or something, which punctured and killed the "prophet". Yeah, things like this I now know have happened throughout human history, but I didn't know that when I read it. (I.e., I definitely "felt" for that character, but perhaps because I was so young, and perhaps the article is correct in that the book lacks characterization. Have added to my list to re-read.)
The Guns and Hitler channel.
At least that stuff was on topic.
Well, yeah it was, until someone Godwinned it...
VLC does this as well. I've trained my brain to be able to watch a Blockbuster rental at 20% faster, or sometimes even 30 or 40% faster (depending on the number of walking scenes). With captions on so I don't miss the dialog (I've been using captions for 15 years, ever since having a foreign girlfriend). It's great to be able to watch three movies in the time of two. And, as you mentioned, VLC keeps the pitch the same, so they don't sound like chipmunks (unless you're watching one of those movies).
I'm a pacifist kind of guy, so I just got residency elsewhere and moved.
Where did you get residency and move to?
FYI, since Slashdot doesn't let you know this: I friended you after reading this comment. I'm living similarly, even though you could be my dad (barely).
Um, yeah; the things that an individual has witnessed are rarely an indication of said individual's intelligence level. But please, continue with your tribalism. It's fun to watch.
(Tivoli anyone?)
Was better as just a holiday...
Not since 1923, actually. BTW, in obtaining that link, I learned that Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, has passed this Sept. 6. Sad.
Where. Please. I'm reaching the same conclusion but haven't found a decent alternative. Canada, perhaps? I like the Oceania project but it fizzled, and would have been invaded soon enough.
Well said.