When I lived in Africa, people there thought it was rather funny to hear volunteers and consultants from the U.S.A. call themselves "African-American."
As far as they were concerned, these foreigners weren't African at all; they just had dark skin. Internally, they were as non-African as me.
Or how about that high school student earlier this year in the U.S. who was suspended for running a campaign for the "Distinguished African American Student Award."
The only problem was that he was South African. White South African.
Foreigners (especially Indians for some reason) are obsessed with superficial symbols of status [...] So, while we Americans are on the job building experience and making money
Making money so that you can buy superficial symbols of status? There's something funny here, but I can't quite put my finger on it....:-)
First, I would be very suspicious of anything the RIAA says about money. The entertainment industry has such a solid track record of trying to (and usually succeeding at) defrauding artists of their rightful payments, that any numbers can be assumed to be false.
Second, even if most albums don't break even, it doesn't come out of the labels' pockets. They front the money to the groups, who are then on the hook. Some of them probably default on the loan, but rest of the money is paid back to the labels, no doubt with hefty interest.
I have a standard ATAPI CD-ROM burner with a DVD reader and two IDE hard drives, running Fedora Core 2. I can't burn unless I first insert a (written) data CD. The system simply doesn't detect the burner.
Honestly, if you're not going to edit, why call yourselves editors?
You're new around here, aren't you?
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"... to prove that your really truly one of the cognoscenti."
When all you really have to do is use "your" and "you're" in the wrong places!
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Actually, my intent was to point out that something in orbit would be continuously moving, not perfectly still. It is impossible to "hang in one spot in space."
Of course, they can (and probably do) stabilize things so that they always point in the same direction, but that's not the same thing.
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Hubble, on the other hand, could just hang in one spot in space
Then you realize that some people in Africa have cell phones and DVD players, and performed the first heart transplant; others have basic electricity; others know about those things but don't have them; and a very small fraction are as simple-minded as you describe.
Score another point for people who don't understand that other parts of the world are far more varied than North America/Western Europe.
Probably the vast majority of Africans would appreciate the value of both livestock AND other forms of wealth.
In Lesotho, where I used to live, it was quite acceptable to pay the 21-cow lobolla (bride price) in cash instead. Installments, even.
Actually, as I re-read my comment, I see that I was ambiguous. I meant to say that von Braun was the leading rocket scientist for the Nazis and then the Americans. I have no idea whether he was ideologically a Nazi. I also have no idea about his godlike stature, although obviously he was brilliant.
I think that we're talking about an intelligence gap here, not a "generational" one.
Okay, gratuitous insults aside, if you AND your parents don't recognize almost everyone in that (admittedly lame) story, you may want to move to the U.S., or at least read more newspapers. Here is an explanation:
Momma Cass - singer for the Mamas and the Papas in the '60s (actually "Mama" Cass) Teddy Kennedy - Senator from Massachussets ('60s until now) Mick Jagger - Rolling Stones frontman (eternal/undying) Frank Zappa - avant-garde musician/composer ('60s-'90s) William Shatner - Captain Kirk J. Edgar Hoover - Head of the FBI for decades The SmothersBrothers or Sonny&Cher - '60s/'70s entertainers (I use the term loosely) Jerry Garcia - Leader of the Grateful Dead Tiny Tim - Oddity from the '60s Timothy Leary - LSD Guru from the '60s Attorney Gen. John Mitchell - from the Watergate era Eric Idle, Michael Palin - two members of Monty Python James Brown - the Godfather of Soul ('60s - now) Meat Loaf - Chunky singer best known for his '70s album "Bat out of Hell" Mister T - "The A-Team" Lorne Greene - TV cowboy and leader of the Canadian Conspiracy Werner Von Braun - leading Nazi and then U.S. rocket scientist L.Ron Hubbard - Hack SF writer and founder of Scientology
Or the PL show in Osaka, Japan. A Japanese friend was complaining about the small (20-minute) fireworks display we had on Victoria Day last month. She is used to 1-2 HOURS of monster fireworks, costing millions of dollars. Check out this. PL is about 2/3 of the way down.
When I was in engineering school, a good part of one of our first-year courses was taken up with doing unit conversions.
Okay, force is measured in pounds (force), written lbf. Mass is measured in lbm. One pound of force is equal to one pound of mass, but only when measured at sea level.
Honest to God, when you are working with force, pressure, momentum and things like that, the easiest thing to do is convert all the input into metric, do the calculations, then convert back to Imperial at the end.
I'm old enough (40) to have been in high school when Canada made the switch, so I straddle both worlds. Basically, I have no problem for measurements that are in metric in my everyday life. There are a few holdovers (I tend to think of car efficiency in terms of miles per gallon rather than litres/100 km), but it really does make things much easier.
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When I lived in Africa, people there thought it was rather funny to hear volunteers and consultants from the U.S.A. call themselves "African-American."
As far as they were concerned, these foreigners weren't African at all; they just had dark skin. Internally, they were as non-African as me.
Or how about that high school student earlier this year in the U.S. who was suspended for running a campaign for the "Distinguished African American Student Award."
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The only problem was that he was South African. White South African.
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Foreigners (especially Indians for some reason) are obsessed with superficial symbols of status [...] So, while we Americans are on the job building experience and making money
:-)
Making money so that you can buy superficial symbols of status? There's something funny here, but I can't quite put my finger on it....
That would be as inconceivable as not permitting Indians to make their own salt!
First, I would be very suspicious of anything the RIAA says about money. The entertainment industry has such a solid track record of trying to (and usually succeeding at) defrauding artists of their rightful payments, that any numbers can be assumed to be false.
Second, even if most albums don't break even, it doesn't come out of the labels' pockets. They front the money to the groups, who are then on the hook. Some of them probably default on the loan, but rest of the money is paid back to the labels, no doubt with hefty interest.
Okay, I'll spell it out for you:
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man (i.e. Man A by man B).
Communism is the expolitation of man by man (i.e. Man B by Man A, hence the reverse).
It's a cynical way of saying that people are exploited by either system.
Here's a simple rule of thumb:
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man.
Communism is the reverse.
I have a standard ATAPI CD-ROM burner with a DVD reader and two IDE hard drives, running Fedora Core 2. I can't burn unless I first insert a (written) data CD. The system simply doesn't detect the burner.
So this problem isn't limited to FC3.
Honestly, if you're not going to edit, why call yourselves editors?
You're new around here, aren't you?
"... to prove that your really truly one of the cognoscenti."
When all you really have to do is use "your" and "you're" in the wrong places!
Actually, my intent was to point out that something in orbit would be continuously moving, not perfectly still. It is impossible to "hang in one spot in space."
Of course, they can (and probably do) stabilize things so that they always point in the same direction, but that's not the same thing.
Hubble, on the other hand, could just hang in one spot in space
You mean, like in orbit?
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Then you realize that some people in Africa have cell phones and DVD players, and performed the first heart transplant; others have basic electricity; others know about those things but don't have them; and a very small fraction are as simple-minded as you describe.
Score another point for people who don't understand that other parts of the world are far more varied than North America/Western Europe.
Probably the vast majority of Africans would appreciate the value of both livestock AND other forms of wealth.
In Lesotho, where I used to live, it was quite acceptable to pay the 21-cow lobolla (bride price) in cash instead. Installments, even.
Or the possessive:
The U.S. roots of spam.
(where "U.S." is used as an adjective of "roots")
Actually, as I re-read my comment, I see that I was ambiguous. I meant to say that von Braun was the leading rocket scientist for the Nazis and then the Americans. I have no idea whether he was ideologically a Nazi. I also have no idea about his godlike stature, although obviously he was brilliant.
I think that we're talking about an intelligence gap here, not a "generational" one.
Okay, gratuitous insults aside, if you AND your parents don't recognize almost everyone in that (admittedly lame) story, you may want to move to the U.S., or at least read more newspapers. Here is an explanation:
Momma Cass - singer for the Mamas and the Papas in the '60s (actually "Mama" Cass)
Teddy Kennedy - Senator from Massachussets ('60s until now)
Mick Jagger - Rolling Stones frontman (eternal/undying)
Frank Zappa - avant-garde musician/composer ('60s-'90s)
William Shatner - Captain Kirk
J. Edgar Hoover - Head of the FBI for decades
The SmothersBrothers or Sonny&Cher - '60s/'70s entertainers (I use the term loosely)
Jerry Garcia - Leader of the Grateful Dead
Tiny Tim - Oddity from the '60s
Timothy Leary - LSD Guru from the '60s
Attorney Gen. John Mitchell - from the Watergate era
Eric Idle, Michael Palin - two members of Monty Python
James Brown - the Godfather of Soul ('60s - now)
Meat Loaf - Chunky singer best known for his '70s album "Bat out of Hell"
Mister T - "The A-Team"
Lorne Greene - TV cowboy and leader of the Canadian Conspiracy
Werner Von Braun - leading Nazi and then U.S. rocket scientist
L.Ron Hubbard - Hack SF writer and founder of Scientology
Surely that's not too hard!
Note, though, that it can easily be configured to run using the https protocol.
I find Webmin indispensable. There are plugins for almost any application/daemon imaginable!
As others have stated, we only have one selection to make.
I'd just like to point out with pride that in my riding, a city councillor (Don Rogers) received fewer votes than "Rosie the Clown."
Of course, they were both an order of magnitude below the front-runners.
Delphi is currently at version 8 (.NET support only), with version 9 (.NET and Win32 targets) expected by the end of the year.
90% of my work is done in Delphi, and it's painful to have to switch to another environment.
Or the PL show in Osaka, Japan. A Japanese friend was complaining about the small (20-minute) fireworks display we had on Victoria Day last month. She is used to 1-2 HOURS of monster fireworks, costing millions of dollars. Check out this. PL is about 2/3 of the way down.
Do you mean Regan, the little girl in The Exorcist? Or do you mean Ronald Reagan, late POTUS?
When I was in engineering school, a good part of one of our first-year courses was taken up with doing unit conversions.
Okay, force is measured in pounds (force), written lbf. Mass is measured in lbm. One pound of force is equal to one pound of mass, but only when measured at sea level.
Honest to God, when you are working with force, pressure, momentum and things like that, the easiest thing to do is convert all the input into metric, do the calculations, then convert back to Imperial at the end.
I'm old enough (40) to have been in high school when Canada made the switch, so I straddle both worlds. Basically, I have no problem for measurements that are in metric in my everyday life. There are a few holdovers (I tend to think of car efficiency in terms of miles per gallon rather than litres/100 km), but it really does make things much easier.
I really, really don't want to know why you know that about your grandmother.