Wouldn't it be smarter to say that people with low spatial ability need bigger screens for the same performance? Why the gender thing? Battle of the sexes?
I don't believe that the article indicated that they ever tested your hypothesis. They tested navigational ability as a function of viewing angle for both men and women. If I recall correctly, they proposed the sex-linked difference in spatial ability as a reason for their results, but they apparently never tested the effect of viewing angle on the navigational ability of people who were *known* to have poor spatial ability.
Are you sure about aspirin? Deep in the recesses of my mind is the impression that Bayer were stripped of the Aspirin trademark by the Treaty of Versailles.
What's to keep an enterprising Bush supporter from logging on and promising to vote for the Democrat in exchange for someone else voting for Nader, and then voting for Bush anyway?
That should only affect the popular vote, not the election result, as such trades were meant to get Gore voters in landslide states to vote for Nader and Nader voters in tossup states to vote for Gore.
That said, you could see Bush supporters using the existence of such a site to deprecate Gore's popular vote win (after all, Gore supporters could have been just as enterprising) or Gore supporters citing it in claiming that his plurality was even greater.
If he does not agree with the majority of people sending their short opinions then he then should explain back to them why not in great detail. If this does not happen then the congressman has a different motive beyond those in his own district or is simply supporting his parties decision and not his direct voters.
That seems fair. You don't mind, though, if the detailed explanation the congressman gives is a form letter he got from the party whip or his favorite lobbyist, do you?
Not so strange; if the troops were stationed in Germany, the fighting would likely be contained in Germany. France was not in any mood to be a battleground in yet another war, expecially since Germany, the alternative battlefield, was responsible for the whole mess. And, of course, the Soviets didn't care which part of their buffer zone got trashed, in the unlikely event that the West chose to attack them. As for current defense obligations, you might recall that it was not that long ago that Europe demanded US help in the Balkans.
Surely the reason the US didn't agree to demilitarize Germany was indeed because they would have to withdraw their forces. The Soviets could still base in Poland and Czechoslovakia those troops formerly based in East Germany. The US had nowhere else to go, and so would have been unable to meet its obligations to its Western European allies. That the US agreed in the case of Austria should win them whatever kudos the Soviets deserved for offering to leave Germany, because the reasoning was the same in both cases. The continuing US military presence in Europe is simply the predictable result of having agreed to help defend territory far from the US's national boundaries. When Nato is dissolved or the US withdraws from it, those troops will leave.
It took the Goons to teach me how "Pepys" was pronounced, by means of a recording (proof that my in-laws do really like me) of the Goon Show episode "The Flea". The Goons, of course, were what the Pythons could only aspire to be.
Part of the shared vision is a Christian world view, more evident to the casual observer in Lewis's writing than Tolkien's. It's a politically conservative vision, too, and one in which military force is seen as the solution to problems--and given epic, heroic dimensions that few have seen in real wars since World War I.
My memory must be failing me. What military force is ever mustered by Ransome in Lewis' space trilogy, or, except in response to unprovoked attack, by the protagonists in the Narnia books? In fact, "Voyage of the Dawn Treader", "The Silver Chair", and "The Magician's Nephew" contain no military action at all, while everything in the other four books is small scale.
And I DID care for the books--until I finished them. It feels like Tolkien started the fantasy tradition of having your trilogy get worse with each volume. *sigh*
Currently, my favorite parts of the book are the journey to Crickhollow and the Scouring of the Shire. The latter might explain why I can't relate with either your problem with the long denouement or your feeling that the last is worst than the first. After those bits, my favorite part is Cirith Ungol, of which more later...
Hobbit years are not human years--and even if they were, most hobbits-as-written don't grow up very much at all.
Most hobbits-as-written as long as you exclude the four in the Fellowship and all those involved in the Scouring of the Shire. As for hobbit years, a hobbit comes of age at 33 and considers 102 a "ripe, old age" at which to die. A fifty-year-old hobbit is surely equivalent to a forty-year-old human -- not the teenager portrayed in the movie.
As far as movies go, Frodo & Sam have gobs and gobs of character development.
In the book, Frodo's development is illustrated in his actions in the barrow, on Weathertop, at the Ford, and in the Scouring. In the movies, these scenes are either removed or in them Frodo is made a passive figure.
Ah, you'd prefer it if Jackson faithfuly reproduced Tolkien's sexism?
Not necessarily. I'd have written very nearly the same thing had Glorfindel done the Kevin Sorbo version of Arwen's Lucy Lawless act at the Ford. Frodo, though nearly overcome by the splinter he received at Weathertop, resisted the Nazgul on his own -- the only thing Glorfindel did was to command Frodo's horse to flee (and to help scare the Riders' horses into the flood). My point is that Jackson seems to like his hobbits clueless and helpless. That just isn't going to work at Cirith Ungol -- hence my Arwen comment.
The climax of the entire story happens less than halfway through the final book,
Yeah, don't you hate that? I especially hate it when I'm reading histories of the Second World War and they always defeat the big bad guy so soon and we have to wade through the final defeat of the minor bad guy.
and is done via the predestined actions of a minor character.
I suppose you could say that, in the same way you could say that the climax of a book that peaks with the slaying of the bad guy "was done via the predestined actions of the hero's sword."
Most of the really good parts happen off camera-; rather than actually capturing them in prose, Tolkien decided to simply suggest them--thus making each person imagine them by themself.
I think the only consistent reading of that sentence is that you don't care for the book at all, if you can believe that both that
(1) the author crafted the "really good parts" of the book
deliberately ("Tolkien decided") and (2) the book is "badly written".
Yes, it was groundbreaking. Yes, I wouldn't have either my favorite genre or my favorite game without it. But it was hardly among "the greatest literature of the 20th century." Most important maybe, but not "greatest."
I'd rate it up there. But then, I think highly enough of it to have gone back to it every couple of years in the three decades since I first read it.
"There was a lot missing in the movie from the book."
"What?"
"All the parts that sucked, for one..."
Like the Frodo's character development, in its entirety? It seems to me that Jackson missed the fact that, although Frodo retained the appearance of a hobbit just out of his tweens, he was, in fact, fifty years old. I can just imagine what he's done to Sam's character development in this installment. Does Arwen make another of her appearances, this time in Cirith Ungol?
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Really? Do you know them better than you know yourself? What if they change their mind? Nothing stops them.
Indeed. And nothing stops my wife from leaving me, but I married her anyway.
Saturday? Doesn't that discriminate against practicing Jews (and people who work on Saturday)? In any case, employers here are required to give their employees time to go vote, if they cannot do so outside of business hours. (If I had my druthers, the polls would stay open 12 hours a day for a week.)
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Isn't the winner of a parliamentary election the party with the most seats? And, since the margin of victory differs from constituency to constituency, isn't it true that there is no guarantee that that party also received the most votes (except, of course, in those countries in which one votes for a party slate, rather than for a representative)?
Oh, come on. Your best drinking buddy is mortally wounded pushing you out of the way of a bus. On his deathbed, he asks you to hoist a beer in his memory every now and then. Nope, can't do that. Can't celebrate anything about *his* life.
I beg to differ. In some societies, dung is even today used seal the floors of dwellings. The floor is then polished to a handsome -- yes, wait for it -- shine.
[Gore] couldn't possibly win those states with their overwhelming Republican leanings and so the people there never even got to hear his arguments in many cases.
What, they don't have newspapers out there? And radio and TV won't run the national news?
Always happy to help out one who is not a native speaker of English, I submit these to you these definitions:
Native, n. One born in an area or country.
"Al Gore is a native of Washington, D.C."
Native, a. indigenous.
"Sitting Bull was a Native American leader."
By the way, you have your New Amsterdam transactions mixed up. The Dutch were involved in the sale of the property, but only when they bought it from the (here's that word again) Native Americans. The English were not yet a nation of shopkeepers at the time they decided to acquire it from you, so, rather than allowing you to sell it to them, they simply took it.
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I don't suppose you can get around the port 25 block by using SSL?
Are you sure about aspirin? Deep in the recesses of my mind is the impression that Bayer were stripped of the Aspirin trademark by the Treaty of Versailles.
That should only affect the popular vote, not the election result, as such trades were meant to get Gore voters in landslide states to vote for Nader and Nader voters in tossup states to vote for Gore.
That said, you could see Bush supporters using the existence of such a site to deprecate Gore's popular vote win (after all, Gore supporters could have been just as enterprising) or Gore supporters citing it in claiming that his plurality was even greater.
That seems fair. You don't mind, though, if the detailed explanation the congressman gives is a form letter he got from the party whip or his favorite lobbyist, do you?
Not so strange; if the troops were stationed in Germany, the fighting would likely be contained in Germany. France was not in any mood to be a battleground in yet another war, expecially since Germany, the alternative battlefield, was responsible for the whole mess. And, of course, the Soviets didn't care which part of their buffer zone got trashed, in the unlikely event that the West chose to attack them.
As for current defense obligations, you might recall that it was not that long ago that Europe demanded US help in the Balkans.
Surely the reason the US didn't agree to demilitarize Germany was indeed because they would have to withdraw their forces. The Soviets could still base in Poland and Czechoslovakia those troops formerly based in East Germany. The US had nowhere else to go, and so would have been unable to meet its obligations to its Western European allies. That the US agreed in the case of Austria should win them whatever kudos the Soviets deserved for offering to leave Germany, because the reasoning was the same in both cases.
The continuing US military presence in Europe is simply the predictable result of having agreed to help defend territory far from the US's national boundaries. When Nato is dissolved or the US withdraws from it, those troops will leave.
It took the Goons to teach me how "Pepys" was pronounced, by means of a recording (proof that my in-laws do really like me) of the Goon Show episode "The Flea". The Goons, of course, were what the Pythons could only aspire to be.
My memory must be failing me. What military force is ever mustered by Ransome in Lewis' space trilogy, or, except in response to unprovoked attack, by the protagonists in the Narnia books? In fact, "Voyage of the Dawn Treader", "The Silver Chair", and "The Magician's Nephew" contain no military action at all, while everything in the other four books is small scale.
Currently, my favorite parts of the book are the journey to Crickhollow and the Scouring of the Shire. The latter might explain why I can't relate with either your problem with the long denouement or your feeling that the last is worst than the first. After those bits, my favorite part is Cirith Ungol, of which more later...
Most hobbits-as-written as long as you exclude the four in the Fellowship and all those involved in the Scouring of the Shire. As for hobbit years, a hobbit comes of age at 33 and considers 102 a "ripe, old age" at which to die. A fifty-year-old hobbit is surely equivalent to a forty-year-old human -- not the teenager portrayed in the movie.
In the book, Frodo's development is illustrated in his actions in the barrow, on Weathertop, at the Ford, and in the Scouring. In the movies, these scenes are either removed or in them Frodo is made a passive figure.
Not necessarily. I'd have written very nearly the same thing had Glorfindel done the Kevin Sorbo version of Arwen's Lucy Lawless act at the Ford. Frodo, though nearly overcome by the splinter he received at Weathertop, resisted the Nazgul on his own -- the only thing Glorfindel did was to command Frodo's horse to flee (and to help scare the Riders' horses into the flood). My point is that Jackson seems to like his hobbits clueless and helpless. That just isn't going to work at Cirith Ungol -- hence my Arwen comment.
Yeah, don't you hate that? I especially hate it when I'm reading histories of the Second World War and they always defeat the big bad guy so soon and we have to wade through the final defeat of the minor bad guy.
I suppose you could say that, in the same way you could say that the climax of a book that peaks with the slaying of the bad guy "was done via the predestined actions of the hero's sword."
I think the only consistent reading of that sentence is that you don't care for the book at all, if you can believe that both that
(1) the author crafted the "really good parts" of the book
deliberately ("Tolkien decided") and
(2) the book is "badly written".
I'd rate it up there. But then, I think highly enough of it to have gone back to it every couple of years in the three decades
since I first read it.
Like the Frodo's character development, in its entirety? It seems to me that Jackson missed the fact that, although Frodo retained the appearance of a hobbit just out of his tweens, he was, in fact, fifty years old. I can just imagine what he's done to Sam's character development in this installment. Does Arwen make another of her appearances, this time in Cirith Ungol?
Saturday? Doesn't that discriminate against practicing Jews (and people who work on Saturday)? In any case, employers here are required to give their employees time to go vote, if they cannot do so outside of business hours. (If I had my druthers, the polls would stay open 12 hours a day for a week.)
Isn't the winner of a parliamentary election the party with the most seats? And, since the margin of victory differs from constituency to constituency, isn't it true that there is no guarantee that that party also received the most votes (except, of course, in those countries in which one votes for a party slate, rather than for a representative)?
It isn't a union job; Toyota's Georgetown plant, at least, is non-union.
Oh, come on. Your best drinking buddy is mortally wounded pushing you out of the way of a bus. On his deathbed, he asks you to hoist a beer in his memory every now and then. Nope, can't do that. Can't celebrate anything about *his* life.
Indeed. Would the Pythons ever have come about without the Goons to show them the way?
Ying-tong-iddle-i-po!
Dear! Fetch another bottle of brandy!
Nah, Lynx users just have to learn to parse the URLs out of JavaScript.... ;-)
No, thanks. I'm trying to give them up.
Always happy to help out one who is not a native speaker of English, I submit these to you these definitions:
- Native, n. One born in an area or country.
- Native, a. indigenous.
By the way, you have your New Amsterdam transactions mixed up. The Dutch were involved in the sale of the property, but only when they bought it from the (here's that word again) Native Americans. The English were not yet a nation of shopkeepers at the time they decided to acquire it from you, so, rather than allowing you to sell it to them, they simply took it."Al Gore is a native of Washington, D.C."
"Sitting Bull was a Native American leader."
("Mr Smith Goes to Washington" contains the sum of all political knowledge.)