I didn't realize Lucas was so Prophetic. Which he would have to be to support your theory as tPM came out in 1999 before Bush was even the Republican nominee for President. ATotK was in 2002 meaning it was mostly filmed prior to 9/11 and the start of the War on Terror. RotS is the one that was made mostly during the early stages of the war, and could thus be seen as making commentary on it.
If you know your phonetical rules, very few words cannot be spelled out correctly when sounded out. Your attempt at an example demonstrates many flaws in your premise.
"Larg" does not sound like large, if you had spelled larj maybe.
"Porton" does not equal portion, similarly "speld" "agre" and "mens" all fail in your example.
Learning the rules of english phonetics is much more accurate and encompassing than word memorization. That system was tried and faile in the late 80s and early 90s.
Some schools still try to teach the "Whole Word" method though they often change the names of the programs to fool semi-concerned parents. But kids who learn phonetics can read words they've never heard or seen before. They may not understand the meaning but they can usually say the word correctly.
There is no mass transit between my home and my work. There is very little traffic along that route, thus making it impossible. Whe it snows I drive a truck because a car has difficulty getting through the drifts (I occasionally get to pull cars out of said drifts.) I live within a small city (50,000) but my place of work is outside the city. It's not a matter of waiting a little longer, there are no busses or taxis or any mass transit systems capable of getting me to my workplace.
Were I working in one of the neighboring cities I could take transit, but I don't And similarly millions of working americans simply CANNOT take transit because it does not exist where they live, work or both.
Only someone who has never lived or worked outside a metropolitan area would think that mandatory mass transit would be at all feasible for most of the country.
Look at how easy it is to enforce the Law. Utah has had such a law for a year now. but when I put a little research into it I found that in order to be cited for talking while driving, the officer has to observe you committing two moving infractions while driving, it's not just "That person has a phone to their ear, pull them over." But the officer will have to actively follow the person for at least a short distance, in order to be able to legally stop them for the crime.
Meanwhile fifty other drivers will pass the officer who are also talking or texting on their phones.
Now our texting law has a little more strength, but it doesn't really come into play until after the accident has occured.
Personally I think police cruisers should have jammers to disrupt and block all calls within a 10 meter range. But there are plenty of problems with that fix as well.
It is having your hands correctly positioned at the 10 o'clock and two o'clock points of the steering wheel (supposedly this gives you the best control of the wheel) and the eyes sweeping part deals with you eyes actively sweeping around you, not just focused on the tail of the vehicle in front of you.
But Netflix won't buy as many copies if by the time they get it, everybody who was absolutely dying to rent it (not buy it but rent it) has already done so at their corner Redbox, which avoided the delay by buying the disks at full retail from the 24 hr Wal-mart when the disks are released for sale.
The only way to hurt Redbox would to delay all retail releases for another 28 days in which case nothing is changed, so it wouldn't work.
Or you can just go to a redbox location since they regularly buy retail releases to stock their machines with and yet still manage to make a profit without any studio discounts.
So impose the limits studios, Redbox won't be affected.
The clue is in the part of your own post starting "because" - even then, its debatable as to whether that trademark would apply to anything other than plush R2D2 toys.
R2D2 Novelty Phone This looks like a trademark application for something very close to the devices in the article.
Oh but their tech support reps were guru's. Of course they had to be to deal with the many problems a Packard Hell could have.
My fav that I had to try to trouble-shoot, while working tech support at AOL, is still the combo sound card and modem that had a conflict with itself.
Interesting, the only CFL I've had burn out on me in the eight years I've been using them was the one with a cheap ballast system that struggled with the cold which I had out in the garage.
I've broken a couple when I moved, but otherwise I have only tossed one burned out CFL so far.
Having an SUV does not make it easier to drive in the snow.
Try dealing with snow drifts in a car and tell me that.
Okay driving an SUV per se does not make it easier, but the 4WD capabilities of one does make it easier, it makes it easier to start out, easier to push through deep snow, easier to go up hills. It does not make turning, or as you pointed out, most critically stopping any easier. And that is where people get into trouble.
I live in Ut, drive a fullsized pickup and every winter I see and occasionally pull little cars, little trucks and even big trucks out of the ditch.
Would have pulled out a full sized truck just last week but he'd already called a tow truck.
That said, I've never put any of my trucks or cars into a ditch. And given the nature of my route to work (a rural back road with open fields and usually with high winds out of a canyon), that is an accomplishment. The truck is often needed to push through the drifts. And to pull out the cars and trucks that don't/can't make it.
A 4WD truck or SUV is the way to go in snow, but you have to be careful and know what you are doing. Too many idiots think they have 4WD or even AWD and try to drive as if the roads were dry and clear, which results in accidents, or going into the ditches/medians.
True, however they were often considered to be acting for the French Government in exile.
The point is that they did have ties to a government, even though it was in disolution and only tied via their fight against the invaders and the vichy puppet government installed by the invaders. But who do we tie Al Qaeda to?
Al Qaeda is and was a non-state organization. There is no single nation they claim loyalty to, they are not acting in defense of any nation, and they show no loyalty to or control by any nation.
One man's terrorist is anothers freedom fighter, but who is Al Qaeda fighting to free or defend? They attack Western Christian nations as well as Middle Eastern Muslim nations and Eastern Oriental nations with equal hatred and malice.
I think the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland might question that stat. Many Western European countries have decades of leftist/communist terrorists to add in, and the Japanese can toss in Aum Shiriko and the JRA to the numbers as well. Sendaro Luminoso, FARC, ELN, Tamil Tigers, ELF, ALF... need I go on?
Just because islamic terrorists are making most the news right now does not make them the 99% majority of terrorists. They may have the majority but it isn't 99%.
The USS Cole bombing is considered a terrorist attack mostly because it was not performed by a Nation state we can conduct diplomatic discussions with or place sanctions against or go to war with.
Al Qaeda is a non-state terrorist group, therefore their targets qualify as terrorist attacks as they are not conducted in accordance with the internationally accepted rules of war. They wear no uniforms, they give no allegience to a country we can penalize or apologize (if we felt like doing so).
Had it been Yemeni or Saudi or any other governments soldiers who conducted the attack it would not qualify for that designation.
On the whole, other than the expected anger I don't like considering military targets as terrorist targets for just the reasons you expressed. But how else do we classify these non-state acts?
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What happened to Obama's Spending freeze? Now they want to create a new bureaucratic government agency with all sorts of high paid administrators?
I didn't realize Lucas was so Prophetic. Which he would have to be to support your theory as tPM came out in 1999 before Bush was even the Republican nominee for President. ATotK was in 2002 meaning it was mostly filmed prior to 9/11 and the start of the War on Terror. RotS is the one that was made mostly during the early stages of the war, and could thus be seen as making commentary on it.
Don't forget Wireless ISP's (not 3G), There are three in my area I could get service from, and the speeds are competitive.
Hmm, when I saw it the flight was DL1820 not AA, the rest was the same.
Perhaps they targeted the markets, I do live near a major Delta Hub.
Actually it was Apple who lowered the interface. Then M$ copied it and pushed the lowered interface out to as many idiots as possible.
If you know your phonetical rules, very few words cannot be spelled out correctly when sounded out. Your attempt at an example demonstrates many flaws in your premise.
"Larg" does not sound like large, if you had spelled larj maybe.
"Porton" does not equal portion, similarly "speld" "agre" and "mens" all fail in your example.
Learning the rules of english phonetics is much more accurate and encompassing than word memorization. That system was tried and faile in the late 80s and early 90s.
Some schools still try to teach the "Whole Word" method though they often change the names of the programs to fool semi-concerned parents. But kids who learn phonetics can read words they've never heard or seen before. They may not understand the meaning but they can usually say the word correctly.
There is no mass transit between my home and my work. There is very little traffic along that route, thus making it impossible. Whe it snows I drive a truck because a car has difficulty getting through the drifts (I occasionally get to pull cars out of said drifts.) I live within a small city (50,000) but my place of work is outside the city. It's not a matter of waiting a little longer, there are no busses or taxis or any mass transit systems capable of getting me to my workplace.
Were I working in one of the neighboring cities I could take transit, but I don't And similarly millions of working americans simply CANNOT take transit because it does not exist where they live, work or both.
Only someone who has never lived or worked outside a metropolitan area would think that mandatory mass transit would be at all feasible for most of the country.
Because public transportation does not go everywhere. Most of this country is not designed and crammed together like you find in a major city.
Look at how easy it is to enforce the Law. Utah has had such a law for a year now. but when I put a little research into it I found that in order to be cited for talking while driving, the officer has to observe you committing two moving infractions while driving, it's not just "That person has a phone to their ear, pull them over." But the officer will have to actively follow the person for at least a short distance, in order to be able to legally stop them for the crime.
Meanwhile fifty other drivers will pass the officer who are also talking or texting on their phones.
Now our texting law has a little more strength, but it doesn't really come into play until after the accident has occured.
Personally I think police cruisers should have jammers to disrupt and block all calls within a 10 meter range. But there are plenty of problems with that fix as well.
It is having your hands correctly positioned at the 10 o'clock and two o'clock points of the steering wheel (supposedly this gives you the best control of the wheel) and the eyes sweeping part deals with you eyes actively sweeping around you, not just focused on the tail of the vehicle in front of you.
Or more likely, what if that was the family ISP when they were laid off/downsized and lost their work address.
Are they supposed to get another email service simply to apply for a job?
But Netflix won't buy as many copies if by the time they get it, everybody who was absolutely dying to rent it (not buy it but rent it) has already done so at their corner Redbox, which avoided the delay by buying the disks at full retail from the 24 hr Wal-mart when the disks are released for sale.
The only way to hurt Redbox would to delay all retail releases for another 28 days in which case nothing is changed, so it wouldn't work.
Who can and already DO go to walmart at midnight on release day and buy sufficient copies to stock their boxes.
Or you can just go to a redbox location since they regularly buy retail releases to stock their machines with and yet still manage to make a profit without any studio discounts.
So impose the limits studios, Redbox won't be affected.
The clue is in the part of your own post starting "because" - even then, its debatable as to whether that trademark would apply to anything other than plush R2D2 toys.
R2D2 Novelty Phone This looks like a trademark application for something very close to the devices in the article.
Did you even glance at TFA (I know, nobody RTFA), Commodore and Amiga are both addressed in it as the first company name dealt with.
Go to Europe, they are quite respected there, or so I've been told.
Oh but their tech support reps were guru's. Of course they had to be to deal with the many problems a Packard Hell could have. My fav that I had to try to trouble-shoot, while working tech support at AOL, is still the combo sound card and modem that had a conflict with itself.
Interesting, the only CFL I've had burn out on me in the eight years I've been using them was the one with a cheap ballast system that struggled with the cold which I had out in the garage.
I've broken a couple when I moved, but otherwise I have only tossed one burned out CFL so far.
Having an SUV does not make it easier to drive in the snow.
Try dealing with snow drifts in a car and tell me that.
Okay driving an SUV per se does not make it easier, but the 4WD capabilities of one does make it easier, it makes it easier to start out, easier to push through deep snow, easier to go up hills. It does not make turning, or as you pointed out, most critically stopping any easier. And that is where people get into trouble.
I live in Ut, drive a fullsized pickup and every winter I see and occasionally pull little cars, little trucks and even big trucks out of the ditch.
Would have pulled out a full sized truck just last week but he'd already called a tow truck.
That said, I've never put any of my trucks or cars into a ditch. And given the nature of my route to work (a rural back road with open fields and usually with high winds out of a canyon), that is an accomplishment. The truck is often needed to push through the drifts. And to pull out the cars and trucks that don't/can't make it.
A 4WD truck or SUV is the way to go in snow, but you have to be careful and know what you are doing. Too many idiots think they have 4WD or even AWD and try to drive as if the roads were dry and clear, which results in accidents, or going into the ditches/medians.
True, however they were often considered to be acting for the French Government in exile.
The point is that they did have ties to a government, even though it was in disolution and only tied via their fight against the invaders and the vichy puppet government installed by the invaders. But who do we tie Al Qaeda to?
Al Qaeda is and was a non-state organization. There is no single nation they claim loyalty to, they are not acting in defense of any nation, and they show no loyalty to or control by any nation.
One man's terrorist is anothers freedom fighter, but who is Al Qaeda fighting to free or defend? They attack Western Christian nations as well as Middle Eastern Muslim nations and Eastern Oriental nations with equal hatred and malice.
Yeah, but nearly 99.9% of terrorists are Muslim.
I think the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland might question that stat. Many Western European countries have decades of leftist/communist terrorists to add in, and the Japanese can toss in Aum Shiriko and the JRA to the numbers as well. Sendaro Luminoso, FARC, ELN, Tamil Tigers, ELF, ALF... need I go on?
Just because islamic terrorists are making most the news right now does not make them the 99% majority of terrorists. They may have the majority but it isn't 99%.
Better yet use the dull plasticware from coach. It'll hurt Worse.
The USS Cole bombing is considered a terrorist attack mostly because it was not performed by a Nation state we can conduct diplomatic discussions with or place sanctions against or go to war with.
Al Qaeda is a non-state terrorist group, therefore their targets qualify as terrorist attacks as they are not conducted in accordance with the internationally accepted rules of war. They wear no uniforms, they give no allegience to a country we can penalize or apologize (if we felt like doing so).
Had it been Yemeni or Saudi or any other governments soldiers who conducted the attack it would not qualify for that designation.
On the whole, other than the expected anger I don't like considering military targets as terrorist targets for just the reasons you expressed. But how else do we classify these non-state acts?