There is no controversy. There are a bunch of rumors and nonsense and a smear campaign and a bunch of hysterical idiots
That's a controversy alright.
Look up controversy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A controversy is a dispute, argument, discussion or debate featuring strong disagreements and opposing, contrary, or sharply contrasting opinions about an idea, subject, group or person.
It's manufactured and inconsequential, but it exists.
If there really was something to Obama's birth certificate, John McCain would have told the world immediately. The only reason he wouldn't have told the world is because Hillary Clinton beat him to the punch.
As far as wasting time... well, we gotta have something to comment on, don't we?
And I don't often say this of avowed republicans;-)
But I'd just like to say that this is one of the most interesting "ask slashdot" questions in a long time, and I look forward to replies from my more knowledgeable peers!:D
Ok, small contribution: The dad obviously doesn't need much power, so maybe this would be a good time to make him switch from windows to a bare-bones open source solution which will be most likely to still be supported in 10-15 years, as opposed to the much shorter upgrade-and-obsolescence cycle of Redmond.
What about the rich dissidents, the ones that can actually do something about the whole mess? The ones with the most power AND some conscience. Not all the rich are equal.
Then it becomes of question of who has the most money, the dissenters or the others. The purpose is not to have a police force that is open to the highest bidder of course, but to maintain the status of those who are affluent.
This info comes directly from 2 videotheques in Antwerpen (Flemish part of Belgium) and one in Tournai (The French part of Belgium). If this is incorrect you're always welcome to correct me wherever needed to finally fix this problem for us Belgians forever.
The French distribution market is using exclusive licensing which forbids those subtitles from being used on multi-language DVD's.
I'm sure this doesn't apply to all movies, like for example "De Zaak Alzheimer" which is a pure Belgian production but STILL lacking French subtitles...
Oh, sorry, I totally spazed when I replied to your comment:( I actually thought I was replying to someone else's comment. Dang.
Thanks for correcting me, I needed it!
So, back on track: Ah, it's the French protectionist habit that's screwing over Belgians then. Sucks. That means it's not going to correct itself anytime in the foreseeable future. I was wondering if that was something internal to Belgium, but if it's because of a bigger country with a clear intent to keep going in that direction, you'll have to suffer through it.
If you publish the fact that you have evidence of a crime, but you don't offer that evidence to law enforcement -- and especially if you name the criminal -- you've committed a crime yourself.
FTFA: The search warrant lists âoepetty theftâ and âoecomputer tampering with the intent to harassâ as probable causes.
Why are you making up reasons that could be valid for arresting him that are not the reasons the police gave?
However, in America giving too much power to the government is dangerous because control shifts and such expansions of power can come back and bite you in the ass.
*sigh* So many things wrong with that thought, where to begin?
Do you speak the Queen's English, or do you sound "crude" and "yokel-like" to natives of the old country?
In fact, most modern Brits would sound more ridiculous to their ancestors than many of us Americans would... at least, based purely on accent. In particular the way the letters "A" and "R" are now pronounced is much more true to the original in American English.
Same with French:)
And then there's regional differences inside the countries themselves.
The whole "the original country denigrates how the colonies talk" argument is bullshit, and that's the point I'm trying to get across.
Did I say I cared about that? Sorry if I gave you that impression, my point was that Quebec's "parent" country's language elite tends to consider it as a backwards child (linguistically). Maybe I have to provide a cite for that to you
No need for a cite on that, I need a cite on why that matters and why you would bring it up.
ESPECIALLY if you do not speak English in a manner befitting the most eloquent citizen of the kingdom from whence said language came. Since this state of being should provide you with all necessary insight into why an opinion of that kind would be inconsequential.
In Belgium we're having 3 major languages ; French and Dutch are the two most used in this country.
While there are problems inbetween those two factions, the movie industry keeps making money on selling two types of DVD's to Belgians: (1) The French edition and (2) the English/Dutch/With all languages you can imagine except French!
Whoa, that's unpleasant. What's the excuse given not to have one DVD with all languages?
It is still a stupid idea. People won't wait. Many will go across province to one of their neighbours and pick it up there. Others will turn to the likes of amazon.ca and such to just order it in. In general, it will just hurt Quebec retailers, and have no real impact on language.
You are probably right. People who don't need the French version won't wait for it to become available if there is a delay. The only way this would work is if the industry steps up and provides the dub at the same time as the original, as it is done with the movies.
If you accept that it is a valid thing for Quebec to promote and protect the French language, then the law makes a lot of sense. Just like mandating that restaurants provide both English and French on their menus, this helps prevent the English language from squeezing French out of usage.
I've never had a strong opinion on whether it is a valid thing or not, but perhaps Americans can understand it better by considering how threatened people feel by rapid growth of the Spanish language in the Americas, and efforts to prevent/slow that.
Except that in the US they want to forbid bilingual usage, not enforce it.
I have nothing against being part of a country and support transfer payments to provinces that are less fortunate. I strongly believe in being a unified country but Quebec has an arrogance that never fails to anger me. They have the gall to consider themselves a separate part of Canada but won't hesitate to suck us dry.
"I have nothing against people of other races, but those niggers sure are lazy!"
You can fool some people sometime, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
The last part of game testing usually involves all sorts of fun localization issues
I drove developpers NUTS with my very large streams of Dutch-language bugs back in the day... the whole language seems to be a collection of portmanteaus, it kept going out of bounds in the dialogue. IIRC, the devs gave up and replaced everything with ideograms in the end:)
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Kinda answered your own question there, huh?
There is no controversy. There are a bunch of rumors and nonsense and a smear campaign and a bunch of hysterical idiots
That's a controversy alright.
Look up controversy in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A controversy is a dispute, argument, discussion or debate featuring strong disagreements and opposing, contrary, or sharply contrasting opinions about an idea, subject, group or person.
It's manufactured and inconsequential, but it exists.
If there really was something to Obama's birth certificate, John McCain would have told the world immediately. The only reason he wouldn't have told the world is because Hillary Clinton beat him to the punch.
As far as wasting time ... well, we gotta have something to comment on, don't we?
And I don't often say this of avowed republicans ;-)
But I'd just like to say that this is one of the most interesting "ask slashdot" questions in a long time, and I look forward to replies from my more knowledgeable peers! :D
Ok, small contribution: The dad obviously doesn't need much power, so maybe this would be a good time to make him switch from windows to a bare-bones open source solution which will be most likely to still be supported in 10-15 years, as opposed to the much shorter upgrade-and-obsolescence cycle of Redmond.
What about the rich dissidents, the ones that can actually do something about the whole mess? The ones with the most power AND some conscience. Not all the rich are equal.
Then it becomes of question of who has the most money, the dissenters or the others.
The purpose is not to have a police force that is open to the highest bidder of course, but to maintain the status of those who are affluent.
This info comes directly from 2 videotheques in Antwerpen (Flemish part of Belgium) and one in Tournai (The French part of Belgium). If this is incorrect you're always welcome to correct me wherever needed to finally fix this problem for us Belgians forever.
The French distribution market is using exclusive licensing which forbids those subtitles from being used on multi-language DVD's.
I'm sure this doesn't apply to all movies, like for example "De Zaak Alzheimer" which is a pure Belgian production but STILL lacking French subtitles...
Oh, sorry, I totally spazed when I replied to your comment :(
I actually thought I was replying to someone else's comment. Dang.
Thanks for correcting me, I needed it!
So, back on track: Ah, it's the French protectionist habit that's screwing over Belgians then. Sucks. That means it's not going to correct itself anytime in the foreseeable future. I was wondering if that was something internal to Belgium, but if it's because of a bigger country with a clear intent to keep going in that direction, you'll have to suffer through it.
The excuse lies in the distribution market ; the French distribution market forbids other languages but French...
It does not; I don't know where you get your disinformation from.
If you publish the fact that you have evidence of a crime, but you don't offer that evidence to law enforcement -- and especially if you name the criminal -- you've committed a crime yourself.
FTFA: The search warrant lists âoepetty theftâ and âoecomputer tampering with the intent to harassâ as probable causes.
Why are you making up reasons that could be valid for arresting him that are not the reasons the police gave?
It's hard for me to imagine that both the cops and a judge in a large metropolitan area would do something this egregious.
Why?
Would it be hard for you to imagine that a guy like Madoff would be running a multibillion ponzy scheme?
Would it be hard for you to imagine that the President of the United States would have anything to do with a break-in at a hotel?
However, in America giving too much power to the government is dangerous because control shifts and such expansions of power can come back and bite you in the ass.
*sigh* So many things wrong with that thought, where to begin?
When the Police came for the bloggers,
I remained silent;
I was not a blogger.
Then they locked up the rich,
I remained silent;
LOL!
The police locking up the rich is a very ironic concept, considering that their purpose is to protect the rich.
Do you speak the Queen's English, or do you sound "crude" and "yokel-like" to natives of the old country?
In fact, most modern Brits would sound more ridiculous to their ancestors than many of us Americans would... at least, based purely on accent. In particular the way the letters "A" and "R" are now pronounced is much more true to the original in American English.
Same with French :)
And then there's regional differences inside the countries themselves.
The whole "the original country denigrates how the colonies talk" argument is bullshit, and that's the point I'm trying to get across.
That's a commercial decision, not government saying they can't. Big difference.
No. U fail @ reading comprehension.
Did I say I cared about that? Sorry if I gave you that impression, my point was that Quebec's "parent" country's language elite tends to consider it as a backwards child (linguistically). Maybe I have to provide a cite for that to you
No need for a cite on that, I need a cite on why that matters and why you would bring it up.
ESPECIALLY if you do not speak English in a manner befitting the most eloquent citizen of the kingdom from whence said language came. Since this state of being should provide you with all necessary insight into why an opinion of that kind would be inconsequential.
I don't work for them, but my former employer (a major IC maker) used them all the time. $200 gets it published and printed in a journal.
But that's 200 bucks he could use to buy toasts! It's hard being a broke inventor.
I don't really care and never even thought about it. Maybe the Brits, Scots and Irish *do* think I sound like a rube, who cares?
You should apply the same level of caring (very little to none) towards how people in Paris think about how people in Québec sound.
In Belgium we're having 3 major languages ; French and Dutch are the two most used in this country.
While there are problems inbetween those two factions, the movie industry keeps making money on selling two types of DVD's to Belgians:
(1) The French edition and
(2) the English/Dutch/With all languages you can imagine except French!
Whoa, that's unpleasant. What's the excuse given not to have one DVD with all languages?
It is still a stupid idea. People won't wait. Many will go across province to one of their neighbours and pick it up there. Others will turn to the likes of amazon.ca and such to just order it in. In general, it will just hurt Quebec retailers, and have no real impact on language.
You are probably right. People who don't need the French version won't wait for it to become available if there is a delay. The only way this would work is if the industry steps up and provides the dub at the same time as the original, as it is done with the movies.
If you accept that it is a valid thing for Quebec to promote and protect the French language, then the law makes a lot of sense. Just like mandating that restaurants provide both English and French on their menus, this helps prevent the English language from squeezing French out of usage.
I've never had a strong opinion on whether it is a valid thing or not, but perhaps Americans can understand it better by considering how threatened people feel by rapid growth of the Spanish language in the Americas, and efforts to prevent/slow that.
Except that in the US they want to forbid bilingual usage, not enforce it.
It's absolutely reverse discrimination because we'd never get away with pulling the opposite in the rest of Canada.
You see a lot of games only available in French in the rest of Canada?
No? Didn't think so.
multilingual versions are uncommon in the industry.
You misspelled "in the U.S.A."... either that, or you know nothing of the industry.
I have nothing against being part of a country and support transfer payments to provinces that are less fortunate. I strongly believe in being a unified country but Quebec has an arrogance that never fails to anger me. They have the gall to consider themselves a separate part of Canada but won't hesitate to suck us dry.
"I have nothing against people of other races, but those niggers sure are lazy!"
You can fool some people sometime, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
The last part of game testing usually involves all sorts of fun localization issues
I drove developpers NUTS with my very large streams of Dutch-language bugs back in the day... the whole language seems to be a collection of portmanteaus, it kept going out of bounds in the dialogue. :)
IIRC, the devs gave up and replaced everything with ideograms in the end
Does this make sense to anyone? If it is english only, then it would seem to me that french is unavailable by definition.
In-game is English only, instructions provided in both (they shrink wrap a cheap translated copy of the manual with the game box).
Cause the Quebec French apparently don't think just localizing into French French is good enough.
Open up a dictionary and go read up the definition of that word.