Yeah, except that money is tied to providing rural service through the Phone Bank for a specific purpose. You don't get to add additional qualifiers on top of that to get them to do whatever.
I pay $30 per month to AT&T. For that insanely high price, my wife, our two kids, and I can all send unlimited text messages, including MMS messages with attached pics. Each of us sends an average of about 1000 messages per month; that works out to 0.75 per message. Not 75, 0.75. I honestly don't get where the hate on SMS charges comes from.
My guess would be the midwife kept the child elevated more in this case than the other two, avoiding the problem of excess red blood cells entering the child. Did she lay the baby on your wife's breast or anything like that?
You said "repopulate", not "rebuild". The former is used when talking about human populations, the latter when talking about buildings and infrastructure. If you don't want to be misunderstood, work on having a better command of the language.
Economics FAIL again. You don't go by the cost of an item, you go by the cost to replace that item exactly. In the case of a human being, you have to factor in how much it would cost to produce someone with the same production capability, and how much production they would've been capable of for the rest of their natural lives.
This stuff is so simple 8-year olds can get it. Why can't you people?
I actually prefer the variant "vulcanism" because it shows the roots of the word going back to the god Vulcan. "Volcanism" just doesn't seem as poetic to me.
No, you really don't understand anything about the culture (or should I say "cultures") in the US. There's a broader swath of competing cultures in this country than there are in Europe. Trying to lump me into a shoebox you've read about somewhere only shows you to be the ignorant fool I've assumed you are.
You also seem to miss the complete point of what I've been saying: there's no reason to get so upset when people refer to other people (or themselves) who happen to be from the US as "American". It's not nationalistic, it's not bigoted, it's simply an accepted form of address. You going around "correcting" people shows yourself to be exactly the kind of bigoted asshole you claim to abhor.
If you want to refer to Americans as "US-Americans" or "USians" or some other nonsense, fine (though as I've said, it's monumentally stupid to refer to people by their form of government...do people call you a "Republican"?). But don't expect everyone else to follow suit and don't you dare get offended when we don't play along.
I've met many Germans, and not one has ever referred to "Americans" as people from the Western Hemisphere. I've been to more than 40 countries, and ONLY the ones in South and Central America get bent out of shape about calling people from the US "American". Everyone else just goes with it. You're not entitled to tell the rest of the world what to call other people just because you feel like it.
"German", "Deutsch", and "Aleman" are not the same word in different languages, they are different words related to different tribes in ancient Germania. "German" comes from Latin "Germania", which has zero relation to what the natives called themselves; "Deutsch" comes from the Proto-Germanic word for "people"; "Aleman" refers to the Alemanni, a specific tribe in Germania. Completely distinct etymologies. Saying they all mean "German" is a tautology, since they are all used by different groups to refer to the modern Germans.
Calling a "Texan" a "Californian" is about the best way to get your ass kicked I can think of. You clearly know nothing of the culture in the US if you think you can confuse those two. It would be like calling a German a "Frenchmen", only worse since we've only had one war to get our frustrations out on each other.
Somehow I doubt it. Vulcanism is a completely different natural process than plate tectonics. If anything, a massive earthquake like this, even if its energy did reach that far away, would, at most, shift the location of the hotspot where the future eruption is likely to take place. Which means that a section of thin earth (the hotspot) would be pushed away and replaced with a section of thicker earth that hadn't been warmed to the same degree yet. This should minimize the chance for a new eruption, not increase it.
Those sneaky bastards! Putting "British" into their name to try to throw us off the fact that they're Belgian! Thank Xenu we have Hognoxious here to set the record straight.
Not if we can reinforce the existing structures sufficiently enough to survive that level of destruction. I have no idea how much it would cost to do so, but I am very sure that, we being human beings, once we know about a problem, we can sure as hell find a solution to it.
Was going to say vulcanism, but then there's Hawaii. And you can't forget about the Yellowstone Supercaldera, which is sure to wipe our civilization off the face of the earth. So yeah, we're boned.
Do you know what people in South America call Americans? Norteamericanos. Seems exclusionary of Canadians, doesn't it?
Know why "USians" makes no sense? The term "United States" refers to our political system, which is very similar to Mexico's...whose longform is the United States of Mexico (Estados Unidos de Mexico). But I don't see anyone pressing the Mexicans to call themselves "estadosunidians" or whatever. Besides, would you call Germans in Germany "Federal Republicans", since their nation is a federal republic? No, that would be absurd, you'd be confusing the political type of the government with the people themselves. Only a fool would do that, wouldn't you agree?
What's more, "Germans" don't call themselves that. They call themselves "Deutsch"; if you're from South America, you probably call them "Alemans". Guess what? That's fine, as long as everyone you're talking with knows what you mean when you say that. You wouldn't try to convince the Germans to call themselves "Alemans", would you? That would also be foolish.
Face it, "American", in English, has referred to the people of the USA for centuries, and it's going to continue to refer to them in the future. In espanol de sud america it might not make sense, but we're not speaking South American Spanish, are we?
The correct term is "American". Has been for centuries. Or do you think when the barbarians in the Middle East chant "death to America" they're talking about you?
Why should ISPs be held to a higher standard than automobile manufacturers, banks, insurance companies, the health care system, defense contractors, oil companies, mortgage brokers, Wall St financiers, and "family" farmers like ADM?
I tell girls that boys will drag them as far down in the gutter as they will allow. Its up to the girl to thank them when they're done and then go make a sammich.
FTFY.
Oh I'm sorry, was that incredibly sexist? I thought you wouldn't mind since yours was just as bad.
I just came back in time thanks to my personal time machine to let everyone know that Thanshin was one of those assholes who bought Long Life when it first came out in 2041. So the guy's effectively immortal now; you might as well go ahead and read his post now.
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Yeah, except that money is tied to providing rural service through the Phone Bank for a specific purpose. You don't get to add additional qualifiers on top of that to get them to do whatever.
"Government subsidized telcos"? Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! Good one. There hasn't been a government subsidized telco in the US since, well, ever.
I pay $30 per month to AT&T. For that insanely high price, my wife, our two kids, and I can all send unlimited text messages, including MMS messages with attached pics. Each of us sends an average of about 1000 messages per month; that works out to 0.75 per message. Not 75, 0.75. I honestly don't get where the hate on SMS charges comes from.
I wonder if there's a way to handle creatures like that from far away? Like, in orbit. You know, just to be sure.
My guess would be the midwife kept the child elevated more in this case than the other two, avoiding the problem of excess red blood cells entering the child. Did she lay the baby on your wife's breast or anything like that?
You said "repopulate", not "rebuild". The former is used when talking about human populations, the latter when talking about buildings and infrastructure. If you don't want to be misunderstood, work on having a better command of the language.
Economics FAIL again. You don't go by the cost of an item, you go by the cost to replace that item exactly. In the case of a human being, you have to factor in how much it would cost to produce someone with the same production capability, and how much production they would've been capable of for the rest of their natural lives.
This stuff is so simple 8-year olds can get it. Why can't you people?
Economics FAIL. If you pay someone $100 to destroy a Ming vase that cost you $100,000, said vase doesn't become worth $100.
I actually prefer the variant "vulcanism" because it shows the roots of the word going back to the god Vulcan. "Volcanism" just doesn't seem as poetic to me.
Really? How much is one human life worth?
No, you really don't understand anything about the culture (or should I say "cultures") in the US. There's a broader swath of competing cultures in this country than there are in Europe. Trying to lump me into a shoebox you've read about somewhere only shows you to be the ignorant fool I've assumed you are.
You also seem to miss the complete point of what I've been saying: there's no reason to get so upset when people refer to other people (or themselves) who happen to be from the US as "American". It's not nationalistic, it's not bigoted, it's simply an accepted form of address. You going around "correcting" people shows yourself to be exactly the kind of bigoted asshole you claim to abhor.
If you want to refer to Americans as "US-Americans" or "USians" or some other nonsense, fine (though as I've said, it's monumentally stupid to refer to people by their form of government...do people call you a "Republican"?). But don't expect everyone else to follow suit and don't you dare get offended when we don't play along.
I've met many Germans, and not one has ever referred to "Americans" as people from the Western Hemisphere. I've been to more than 40 countries, and ONLY the ones in South and Central America get bent out of shape about calling people from the US "American". Everyone else just goes with it. You're not entitled to tell the rest of the world what to call other people just because you feel like it.
"German", "Deutsch", and "Aleman" are not the same word in different languages, they are different words related to different tribes in ancient Germania. "German" comes from Latin "Germania", which has zero relation to what the natives called themselves; "Deutsch" comes from the Proto-Germanic word for "people"; "Aleman" refers to the Alemanni, a specific tribe in Germania. Completely distinct etymologies. Saying they all mean "German" is a tautology, since they are all used by different groups to refer to the modern Germans.
Calling a "Texan" a "Californian" is about the best way to get your ass kicked I can think of. You clearly know nothing of the culture in the US if you think you can confuse those two. It would be like calling a German a "Frenchmen", only worse since we've only had one war to get our frustrations out on each other.
Somehow I doubt it. Vulcanism is a completely different natural process than plate tectonics. If anything, a massive earthquake like this, even if its energy did reach that far away, would, at most, shift the location of the hotspot where the future eruption is likely to take place. Which means that a section of thin earth (the hotspot) would be pushed away and replaced with a section of thicker earth that hadn't been warmed to the same degree yet. This should minimize the chance for a new eruption, not increase it.
Those sneaky bastards! Putting "British" into their name to try to throw us off the fact that they're Belgian! Thank Xenu we have Hognoxious here to set the record straight.
Not if we can reinforce the existing structures sufficiently enough to survive that level of destruction. I have no idea how much it would cost to do so, but I am very sure that, we being human beings, once we know about a problem, we can sure as hell find a solution to it.
Was going to say vulcanism, but then there's Hawaii. And you can't forget about the Yellowstone Supercaldera, which is sure to wipe our civilization off the face of the earth. So yeah, we're boned.
Or Europe, for that matter.
Do you know what people in South America call Americans? Norteamericanos. Seems exclusionary of Canadians, doesn't it?
Know why "USians" makes no sense? The term "United States" refers to our political system, which is very similar to Mexico's...whose longform is the United States of Mexico (Estados Unidos de Mexico). But I don't see anyone pressing the Mexicans to call themselves "estadosunidians" or whatever. Besides, would you call Germans in Germany "Federal Republicans", since their nation is a federal republic? No, that would be absurd, you'd be confusing the political type of the government with the people themselves. Only a fool would do that, wouldn't you agree?
What's more, "Germans" don't call themselves that. They call themselves "Deutsch"; if you're from South America, you probably call them "Alemans". Guess what? That's fine, as long as everyone you're talking with knows what you mean when you say that. You wouldn't try to convince the Germans to call themselves "Alemans", would you? That would also be foolish.
Face it, "American", in English, has referred to the people of the USA for centuries, and it's going to continue to refer to them in the future. In espanol de sud america it might not make sense, but we're not speaking South American Spanish, are we?
I was being ironic. I actually agree with you.
The correct term is "American". Has been for centuries. Or do you think when the barbarians in the Middle East chant "death to America" they're talking about you?
Why should ISPs be held to a higher standard than automobile manufacturers, banks, insurance companies, the health care system, defense contractors, oil companies, mortgage brokers, Wall St financiers, and "family" farmers like ADM?
I tell girls that boys will drag them as far down in the gutter as they will allow.
Its up to the girl to thank them when they're done and then go make a sammich.
FTFY.
Oh I'm sorry, was that incredibly sexist? I thought you wouldn't mind since yours was just as bad.
Doubt it would've changed anything. There were a lot of scoundrels back then, same as today.
I just came back in time thanks to my personal time machine to let everyone know that Thanshin was one of those assholes who bought Long Life when it first came out in 2041. So the guy's effectively immortal now; you might as well go ahead and read his post now.
I think a better way for authors to avoid being murdered is not to write crap novels. Dan Brown, I'm talking to you.