You couldn't be more right. Right and Left wing are terms associated with governmental interference in the economy. Totalitarian and libertarian are terms associated with governmental interference in individual rights.
There is no communist regimen up to this day that managed to be non totalitarian, and it is probably impossible to do so, but a capitalist regimen can go either way. Unfortunately USA is going into the totalitarian path for sometime. There is still a long way to go for it to become North Korea, but if it doesn't stop it will get there, eventually.
Neither Wikipedia nor the dictionary support you by any stretch of logic, however tortuous that may be, unless, of course, you don't know how to read. I guess we can add illiteracy to your list of traits.
The fact is: you were taught a single model and never decide to look up for alternative models and decided to speak about it with the attitude only someone who knows what he is speaking about should have. You don't.
Furthermore, regardless of how you see it, a continent or a set of two continents, the name 'America' can be correctly used in English to define this entity as explained by me in the thread above.
Oh my! Now you claim you know every single place where native English is spoken. Omniscience at its best!
So lets see:
- Wikipedia is wrong
- The dictionaries are wrong
- People who are not English native speaker are all wrong
- You know what all native speakers think
Here you prove not to be only stubborn and ignorant, my friend, you clearly show you are also extremely arrogant and delusional.
Language is defined by use. If something makes into a dictionary it is because it is used for sometime and thus is officially part of the language. Even if it was a relatively recent inclusion that just came into the dictionary it would still be correct. It is not though. The use of the word with this meaning in English can be traced from the start of America's colonization.
Protip: If you don't want ambiguity do not omit words when referring to things. The only meaning of America that does not require other words for disambiguate is the continent (or continent set as you prefer).
In English, "The Americas" is the correct way (correct because it's the unambiguous way) to refer to both north and south America. North America is unambiguously North America. Same for South America.
No it is not: As you seem to have been checking wikipedia, you could have looked for the relevent reference.
"America" is a word used in English to define the sum of both South and North America. It is also used (in English as well) to define each one of them by omitting the "South" and "North" words in the same way you omit "United States of" when you use America to refer to your country.
You can use "America" to classify a continent or the set of two continents, depending on how you see it. It is irrelevant. Either way the word is a synonym to "Americas" and can be used this way in correct English.
You are the one that is wrong. Saying otherwise for the first time shows ignorance. Keep insisting on it, shows stubbornness.
It is difficult to measure development. My country, not unlike US, has a lot of traits that are generally associated with a First World country, and others that are not. We have a lot of things in common, though. Both countries have a democratic government, a lot of corruption, terrible public services, lots of poor people and very few miserable people, a huge amount of natural resources, and a huge population. The main difference between us is the level of industrialization, in which US beats us hands down, but still we have a lot of base industry.
For the sake of this discussion about public health care, US and Brazil are more alike than US and any "First World" country in the world.
You are insane. There is a continent called America and you are part of it, it is sometimes called Americas in English, but both forms are correct. The name "America" can refer to either US, North and South America individually or together. Any of these 4 uses is correct.
I am pretty fine with the way you chose to call your country, you can choose to be called as you wish imo, but your saying that there is no continent with such name only shows how badly US education has become.
Cadana has less than 35 million inhabitants with the resources of a continental country. UK, South Korea, France, Germany and Spain all have higher populations with far less resources.
And yes, you can just waltz in and move to another State easily in any democratic country, and depending on the costs of the treatment it is far cheaper to rent an address in a relatively low cost area just to be treated in that state.
You are trying to defend that something that has never been done, to achieve universal quality health care paid by the government in a country of populations in the order of several hundred million people, can be done. All I can say is that although I can't really prove that it is impossible it has never been done before. It works the other way around though, you can't really prove that it isn't just your wishful thinking speaking, and chances are it is.
I am not a US citizen. I live in Brazil. We do have universal public health care, but the quality is beyond terrible. You either have a good health care plan, money to pay yourself for the treatments in good places, or you wait in line until you die. And before you say: "But Brazil is not a first world country", I would like to remind you that we have the 5th economy in the World, and we are about to pass France for the 4th place. Only Germany has a significant better GDP than we have in Europe.
Again reality says otherwise. States do not have the same resources of the Union and lack its autonomy.
Additionally states are forced to attend to any citizen of the union, which causes additional problems. Lets say a state manages to create a functional model of health care which is much better than the other states approach and actually works. People with serious issues would migrate to said state increasing the costs until the system would collapse.
To avoid that specific laws would have to be created to force people to treat themselves in the State they reside and prevent them from moving in case they need some costly medical treatment. Afaik no country in this World has managed to make laws of this nature as it is against most constitutions.
But it is very clear that those with smaller populations have better healthcare. As population rises you will almost always see a drop in quality of any public service, and health care is no exception.
There is no example of a country with hundreds of millions of citizens and even reasonably good health care. The only one that comes close is Japan, which has a population of around 125 million and whose health care is only 70% payed for the government (30% of the costs are payed by the patient).
Have you never questioned yourself why, except for US, there is no other first world country with more than a couple hundreds of million citizens.
One does not need to be an expert to contract private health care. That is an absurd exaggeration.
Yes, insurances can be tricky and sometimes companies find loopholes to screw you, but, on the other hand, governments are incapable of providing a service with similar or better quality in high population countries. The only countries where public health care really works are countries where the population is relatively small.
Furthermore nothing prevents you from saving the money and using for treatment whenever you need it. Save for extreme cases it tends even to be a cheaper approach than insurances (health insurance companies are profitable entities after all), and you have full control over it. Again I should point that you don't need to be an expert to do it either.
As soon as you can properly speak in English and use the correct terms to express your ideas we can discuss if infringing other people copyrights is so bad as you think.
On the other hand, as long as you keep using the wrong words to try and express your ideas you will be at most the target of jokes and contempt. The choice is yours, but keep in mind that being stubborn makes very little to help your cause.
Reality says otherwise. GoG is selling games without DRM even if many people pirate them. The MAFIAA earns billions of dollars a year selling goods even with 'rampant piracy'. A lot of indies have been successful selling games that have been pirated a LOT.
The term 'Theft' does not apply to IP by any law code of any country in the world. So no, you are just wrong. Using the wrong word to define something serves only the purpose of propagating lies. You may do it from ignorance or malice but either way you are to be shunned for it.
If not delivering updates in a timely fashion is really a great problem for the customers they will mgrate for Goggle phones and the other sellers will take a hit and start to update more frequently to avoid losing their market share.
If it is not a problem for most customers then there is no problem at all.
It is called online games. You give the game for free and sell services. You don't need even to sell playing time. LoL made millions of dollars and is doing very well just selling aesthetic character customizations that do not alter the game play.
But even single player games sell well without DRM. Good Old Games is doing well afaik, for example, and their games can be pirated and are indeed pirated with easy.
Sorry, but you are not taking the the time the coder spent. That resulted in a product that he can still sell even if you take for free.
That is certainly not the case with the hooker. For her the time spent is gone.
Multiple languages exist by the power of circumstances and not by design. It would be much better for us all (except maybe translators) if we had a single language in the world.
Computer languages are universal by design, there is no sense in trying to add to them all the problems to communicate we have because multiple spoken languages. As you said it is relatively simple to learn a few tokens regardless of your spoken language.
How you feel about some silly hex number pun is not my problem, it is not the coder's problem and it is not society's problem. It is your problem. Grow up and learn to deal with your fellings..
It is past time women start to leave the role of perpetual victims. I do believe you are every bit as capable as we men are, but you won't ever reach equal status if you continue willingly taking the role of victims.
The manufactures don't care in this case. In a lot of cases they do, as in Apple case, for example.
It is true that the manufactures is not always the one behind the decisions, but many times they are. And regardless of what is the force pushing for it, the right thing to do is to block the maneuver regardless.
The manufactures should be under the obligation to make user's life as easy as possible within reason, especially when there are very few (or only one of them). Oligopolies are almost as bad as monopolies.
Well, you draw the line at some point. You just make sure it is a point reasonable for the users. Here if you want to have your device homologated for commercialization you have to support all carriers, or you simply can't sell it.
There are always some loopholes, but it is still infinitely better to have some restrictions to abuse than none.
And don't worry we have a big enough market to enforce a lot and still have all new technologies without any problem. If you don't want to play by our rules, fine. Leave the huge market and the profits to someone else...
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You couldn't be more right. Right and Left wing are terms associated with governmental interference in the economy. Totalitarian and libertarian are terms associated with governmental interference in individual rights.
There is no communist regimen up to this day that managed to be non totalitarian, and it is probably impossible to do so, but a capitalist regimen can go either way. Unfortunately USA is going into the totalitarian path for sometime. There is still a long way to go for it to become North Korea, but if it doesn't stop it will get there, eventually.
Neither Wikipedia nor the dictionary support you by any stretch of logic, however tortuous that may be, unless, of course, you don't know how to read. I guess we can add illiteracy to your list of traits.
Accordingly to most countries in the World there is a continent called America:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_continents#Number_of_continents
The fact is: you were taught a single model and never decide to look up for alternative models and decided to speak about it with the attitude only someone who knows what he is speaking about should have. You don't.
Furthermore, regardless of how you see it, a continent or a set of two continents, the name 'America' can be correctly used in English to define this entity as explained by me in the thread above.
Oh my! Now you claim you know every single place where native English is spoken. Omniscience at its best!
So lets see:
- Wikipedia is wrong - The dictionaries are wrong - People who are not English native speaker are all wrong - You know what all native speakers think
Here you prove not to be only stubborn and ignorant, my friend, you clearly show you are also extremely arrogant and delusional.
Language is defined by use. If something makes into a dictionary it is because it is used for sometime and thus is officially part of the language. Even if it was a relatively recent inclusion that just came into the dictionary it would still be correct. It is not though. The use of the word with this meaning in English can be traced from the start of America's colonization.
Protip: If you don't want ambiguity do not omit words when referring to things. The only meaning of America that does not require other words for disambiguate is the continent (or continent set as you prefer).
In English, "The Americas" is the correct way (correct because it's the unambiguous way) to refer to both north and south America. North America is unambiguously North America. Same for South America.
No it is not: As you seem to have been checking wikipedia, you could have looked for the relevent reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas
Or if you need a dictionary entry, here it goes:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/america
"America" is a word used in English to define the sum of both South and North America. It is also used (in English as well) to define each one of them by omitting the "South" and "North" words in the same way you omit "United States of" when you use America to refer to your country.
You can use "America" to classify a continent or the set of two continents, depending on how you see it. It is irrelevant. Either way the word is a synonym to "Americas" and can be used this way in correct English.
You are the one that is wrong. Saying otherwise for the first time shows ignorance. Keep insisting on it, shows stubbornness.
It is difficult to measure development. My country, not unlike US, has a lot of traits that are generally associated with a First World country, and others that are not. We have a lot of things in common, though. Both countries have a democratic government, a lot of corruption, terrible public services, lots of poor people and very few miserable people, a huge amount of natural resources, and a huge population. The main difference between us is the level of industrialization, in which US beats us hands down, but still we have a lot of base industry.
For the sake of this discussion about public health care, US and Brazil are more alike than US and any "First World" country in the world.
You are insane. There is a continent called America and you are part of it, it is sometimes called Americas in English, but both forms are correct. The name "America" can refer to either US, North and South America individually or together. Any of these 4 uses is correct.
I am pretty fine with the way you chose to call your country, you can choose to be called as you wish imo, but your saying that there is no continent with such name only shows how badly US education has become.
Cadana has less than 35 million inhabitants with the resources of a continental country. UK, South Korea, France, Germany and Spain all have higher populations with far less resources.
And yes, you can just waltz in and move to another State easily in any democratic country, and depending on the costs of the treatment it is far cheaper to rent an address in a relatively low cost area just to be treated in that state.
You are trying to defend that something that has never been done, to achieve universal quality health care paid by the government in a country of populations in the order of several hundred million people, can be done. All I can say is that although I can't really prove that it is impossible it has never been done before. It works the other way around though, you can't really prove that it isn't just your wishful thinking speaking, and chances are it is.
I am not a US citizen. I live in Brazil. We do have universal public health care, but the quality is beyond terrible. You either have a good health care plan, money to pay yourself for the treatments in good places, or you wait in line until you die. And before you say: "But Brazil is not a first world country", I would like to remind you that we have the 5th economy in the World, and we are about to pass France for the 4th place. Only Germany has a significant better GDP than we have in Europe.
Again reality says otherwise. States do not have the same resources of the Union and lack its autonomy.
Additionally states are forced to attend to any citizen of the union, which causes additional problems. Lets say a state manages to create a functional model of health care which is much better than the other states approach and actually works. People with serious issues would migrate to said state increasing the costs until the system would collapse.
To avoid that specific laws would have to be created to force people to treat themselves in the State they reside and prevent them from moving in case they need some costly medical treatment. Afaik no country in this World has managed to make laws of this nature as it is against most constitutions.
But it is very clear that those with smaller populations have better healthcare. As population rises you will almost always see a drop in quality of any public service, and health care is no exception. There is no example of a country with hundreds of millions of citizens and even reasonably good health care. The only one that comes close is Japan, which has a population of around 125 million and whose health care is only 70% payed for the government (30% of the costs are payed by the patient). Have you never questioned yourself why, except for US, there is no other first world country with more than a couple hundreds of million citizens.
One does not need to be an expert to contract private health care. That is an absurd exaggeration.
Yes, insurances can be tricky and sometimes companies find loopholes to screw you, but, on the other hand, governments are incapable of providing a service with similar or better quality in high population countries. The only countries where public health care really works are countries where the population is relatively small.
Furthermore nothing prevents you from saving the money and using for treatment whenever you need it. Save for extreme cases it tends even to be a cheaper approach than insurances (health insurance companies are profitable entities after all), and you have full control over it. Again I should point that you don't need to be an expert to do it either.
As soon as you can properly speak in English and use the correct terms to express your ideas we can discuss if infringing other people copyrights is so bad as you think.
On the other hand, as long as you keep using the wrong words to try and express your ideas you will be at most the target of jokes and contempt. The choice is yours, but keep in mind that being stubborn makes very little to help your cause.
Reality says otherwise. GoG is selling games without DRM even if many people pirate them. The MAFIAA earns billions of dollars a year selling goods even with 'rampant piracy'. A lot of indies have been successful selling games that have been pirated a LOT.
The term 'Theft' does not apply to IP by any law code of any country in the world. So no, you are just wrong. Using the wrong word to define something serves only the purpose of propagating lies. You may do it from ignorance or malice but either way you are to be shunned for it.
If not delivering updates in a timely fashion is really a great problem for the customers they will mgrate for Goggle phones and the other sellers will take a hit and start to update more frequently to avoid losing their market share.
If it is not a problem for most customers then there is no problem at all.
You know what more takes the value of your product? Competition, time, technology, bad publicity, restricting laws and even luck.
Because something took the value of your product that does not mean you were entitled to have its full value from the beginning.
It is called online games. You give the game for free and sell services. You don't need even to sell playing time. LoL made millions of dollars and is doing very well just selling aesthetic character customizations that do not alter the game play.
But even single player games sell well without DRM. Good Old Games is doing well afaik, for example, and their games can be pirated and are indeed pirated with easy.
Sorry, but you are not taking the the time the coder spent. That resulted in a product that he can still sell even if you take for free. That is certainly not the case with the hooker. For her the time spent is gone.
Multiple languages exist by the power of circumstances and not by design. It would be much better for us all (except maybe translators) if we had a single language in the world.
Computer languages are universal by design, there is no sense in trying to add to them all the problems to communicate we have because multiple spoken languages. As you said it is relatively simple to learn a few tokens regardless of your spoken language.
If people are building and selling big phones it is because the consumers are saying yes to this question with their wallets.
É isso aí!
How you feel about some silly hex number pun is not my problem, it is not the coder's problem and it is not society's problem. It is your problem. Grow up and learn to deal with your fellings..
It is past time women start to leave the role of perpetual victims. I do believe you are every bit as capable as we men are, but you won't ever reach equal status if you continue willingly taking the role of victims.
For god's sake! Please lets stop translating computer languages.
The manufactures don't care in this case. In a lot of cases they do, as in Apple case, for example.
It is true that the manufactures is not always the one behind the decisions, but many times they are. And regardless of what is the force pushing for it, the right thing to do is to block the maneuver regardless.
The manufactures should be under the obligation to make user's life as easy as possible within reason, especially when there are very few (or only one of them). Oligopolies are almost as bad as monopolies.
Well, you draw the line at some point. You just make sure it is a point reasonable for the users. Here if you want to have your device homologated for commercialization you have to support all carriers, or you simply can't sell it.
There are always some loopholes, but it is still infinitely better to have some restrictions to abuse than none.
And don't worry we have a big enough market to enforce a lot and still have all new technologies without any problem. If you don't want to play by our rules, fine. Leave the huge market and the profits to someone else...
I can read well, thank you. I can also do math, which you obviously can't.