The equipment to run those farms, the tractors, the parts, the fuel, the lubricating oil, the tools for the local mechanic, the petrol to drive it market, the fridges to keep it cool...
Australia could have fed herself without that, certainly when we caould make do with home made. We did in the 19th Century. My father's family was using an icebox fridge in the 40s anyway, for example. We were making our own tools, we could drill our own oil, etc. It might have been tough, but we'd never have been in danger of starving. America fought the Japanese for themselves, not us; and we provided plenty of cannon fodder into the bargain. We don't owe them.
Ahh, starts to make sense now a little bit. Too many brown people with a different religion, right next door.
I sense some criticism here. Didn't your country just invade two sovereign narions, full of "brown people with a different religion", though neither were next door, except to your oil?
Indonesia has six times the population of Australia. They have a history of invading and occupying neighbours (East Timor, West Irian, and tried for Malaysia in the 60s). They've had military dictatorships, and Muslim nationalists.
Their navy and airforce are no threat, now. But we'd be fools to trust to luck that they'll stay that way.
The fact is that Australian governments for decades have realised that having America as a friend is a good idea. They essentially kept us from starving during World War 2 and since then we've paid back the favour.
This is news to me. When, since about 1800, didn't Australia have massive agricultural exports? When were we ever in danger of "starvation"?
No, but that doesn't make it any easier to accept.
How is it that you are so familiar with Americans?
You pretty much dominate the cultural landscape. And most of those I interact with online are American. But I do know a few in real life, I work for one now (a good guy, as opposed to another I took to court for not paying my salary). I had an American girlfriend once, long ago. I know the difference between the Hollywood image and the reality.
"Humorous treatment of a grave or dire situation".
I did see that in most dictionary defnitions. Nevertheless; I do think it should refer to jokes about misfortunes affecting you and your own group. Like soldiers going into battle. Otherwise it is just schadenfreude, as you said. It's somewhat like racial jokes: there's a difference between how, say, Richard Prior can use certain terms, and a white comedian making the same joke would find a hostile reaction.
BTW, Americans are far from unique in our double standard of insensitivity.
Sure -- but it's reached new heights when they sneer at others' misfortunes, and then get offended if anyone complains, saying you have no sense of humour. Then they get even more offended if you then make a joke about something sensitive to them.
Stuffing relevant words into the page the spider reads isn't in itself evil; especially as in this case it was for basically FAQ pages, not generating any income. The reason Google defines them as evil as that the "search engine optimisers" have abused this to get links for pages entirely unrelated to the words indexed, thus the number of porn and viagra pages you find linked for quite innocent searches.
Back before these scumbags started this, it was the practice to use the meta tag "keywords". But now these are ignored since the lying scumbags generated millions of pages full of various "keywords", all with viagra, porno, toner, etc ads.
Typically a University publishing house will charge for time, materials and other assorted costs, but not significantly more. Now, when you consider that these places don't have the kind of turnover of, say, Harper-Collins, O'Reilley,
Perhaps you're American and don't realise the huge number of academic books, not just dictionaries, the OUP publishes and sells in Commonwealth countries. They're one of the world's largest publishers, academic or otherwise.
I'd like to correct the impression that the OED is a profit centre for OUP
I'm not convinced. Perhaps you're referring to "The" OED only, the 24+ volume full thing. But OUP derives many smaller dictionaries from that text: the Concise, Pocket, etc, CDROM and online versions, and many specialised ones. If the bulk of the data collection is written off against The OED, then of course it's running at a loss. But the sale of all dictionaries, I'm sure, is making a nice profit. Everyone in my family has at least one Oxford dictionary; my father had a Pocket Oxford at primary school in the 1930s.
"A long time ago in a galaxy far far away."
Archaeology is a science.
And The Lord of the Rings was in the Third Age (before the current Fourth, I believe), and Conan's Hyborian Age was about 10,000 BC. Doesn't make either SF.
Consumers Data Stolen
The data belonged to "consumers" so it should be Consumers' Data Stolen. If you don't understand this, my seven-year-old daughter can explain it to you.
ummm... Finally an application for rewriteable optical media that truly makes sense the grandparent wasn't that long.... how could you manage to not retain that part?
I understood that. My point (as it says in TFA) is that you don't need REwritable, just writable, and in fact the author recommends against CDRW, though it would work. How could you not retain that?
unless you're running Mac OS X on it, don't call it a Mac. Because it most definitely is not.
"A Mac[intosh]" is a piece of hardware. "Mac OS[X]" is software. If you buy an iMac or Mac mini, and boot to Yellow Dog, you don't have "a Yellow Dog", you have "a Mac running Yellow Dog".
There are several Mac OS emulators (mostly for OS7) I can run on my PC, even full screen, (not to mention the PearPC for OSX). I still have a PC, not a Mac.
Perhaps instead of just stating it as a fact, you could explain why the above is wrong.
Finally an application for rewriteable optical media that truly makes sense.
Actually, it's designed for CDR, not RW. The distro itself is 50 MB, and you have the rest, 600 or so MB, which is used to make up to 99 images of your personal files.
There's alot of blame to shovel around, however I think the point your quotee is trying to make is about signing up for a job that you don't have the skills for.
It's not brain surgery. No one will die if they have to repeat themselves a few times. It's simply whether the American company cares what level of service is being offered in their name. Presumably the staff have to meet some standard, pass tests, to be employed. If the bar is too low, it's hardly their fault.
I just got off the phone with an Indian providing tech support for my DSL. And it didn't sound like that horse was "fucking dead" as you so crudely put it. Instead, I had to repeat myself a dozen times, even spelling out simple words letter by letter. So how about this: I'll stop beating the dead horse when these call center employees can actually be competent on the phone
And who is at fault? The Indian, doing his job to the best of his (perhaps limited) ability, or the American company that hired the lowest cost call center with staff with minimal language skills?
It was AMERICAN CEOs who chose to outsource nad are doing it more every day. The Indians simply took the work offered. To call it stealing is just stupid xenophobia. Place the blame where it belongs. If not India, it would have been some other country; Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Poland, etc.
No, "gallows humour" refers to making jokes about your own situation. when you make "jokes" about other people being killed, it's called "being an insensitive self-centred ignorant prick".
The same thing happens every time there is some disaster not affecting Americans, eg, the bushfire in Canberra last year. Woe betide anyone who made jokes about the WTC bombing on the day it happened, but foreigners are fodder for jokes before they're cold in their graves.
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Australia could have fed herself without that, certainly when we caould make do with home made. We did in the 19th Century. My father's family was using an icebox fridge in the 40s anyway, for example. We were making our own tools, we could drill our own oil, etc. It might have been tough, but we'd never have been in danger of starving. America fought the Japanese for themselves, not us; and we provided plenty of cannon fodder into the bargain. We don't owe them.
Maybe you're talking about munitions. I couldn't say offhand about that. But originally you said "starve". Justify that.
I sense some criticism here. Didn't your country just invade two sovereign narions, full of "brown people with a different religion", though neither were next door, except to your oil?
Indonesia has six times the population of Australia. They have a history of invading and occupying neighbours (East Timor, West Irian, and tried for Malaysia in the 60s). They've had military dictatorships, and Muslim nationalists.
Their navy and airforce are no threat, now. But we'd be fools to trust to luck that they'll stay that way.
He obviously doesn't know how to format an HTML link.
Which fuckhead modded this pathetic old racist joke "informative"?
This is news to me. When, since about 1800, didn't Australia have massive agricultural exports? When were we ever in danger of "starvation"?
No, but that doesn't make it any easier to accept.
How is it that you are so familiar with Americans?
You pretty much dominate the cultural landscape. And most of those I interact with online are American. But I do know a few in real life, I work for one now (a good guy, as opposed to another I took to court for not paying my salary). I had an American girlfriend once, long ago. I know the difference between the Hollywood image and the reality.
I did see that in most dictionary defnitions. Nevertheless; I do think it should refer to jokes about misfortunes affecting you and your own group. Like soldiers going into battle. Otherwise it is just schadenfreude, as you said. It's somewhat like racial jokes: there's a difference between how, say, Richard Prior can use certain terms, and a white comedian making the same joke would find a hostile reaction.
BTW, Americans are far from unique in our double standard of insensitivity.
Sure -- but it's reached new heights when they sneer at others' misfortunes, and then get offended if anyone complains, saying you have no sense of humour. Then they get even more offended if you then make a joke about something sensitive to them.
Your boss does.
Stuffing relevant words into the page the spider reads isn't in itself evil; especially as in this case it was for basically FAQ pages, not generating any income. The reason Google defines them as evil as that the "search engine optimisers" have abused this to get links for pages entirely unrelated to the words indexed, thus the number of porn and viagra pages you find linked for quite innocent searches.
Back before these scumbags started this, it was the practice to use the meta tag "keywords". But now these are ignored since the lying scumbags generated millions of pages full of various "keywords", all with viagra, porno, toner, etc ads.
Has "Bitorrent" become a gneric meaning "P2P" in the media now?
Perhaps you're American and don't realise the huge number of academic books, not just dictionaries, the OUP publishes and sells in Commonwealth countries. They're one of the world's largest publishers, academic or otherwise.
I'm not convinced. Perhaps you're referring to "The" OED only, the 24+ volume full thing. But OUP derives many smaller dictionaries from that text: the Concise, Pocket, etc, CDROM and online versions, and many specialised ones. If the bulk of the data collection is written off against The OED, then of course it's running at a loss. But the sale of all dictionaries, I'm sure, is making a nice profit. Everyone in my family has at least one Oxford dictionary; my father had a Pocket Oxford at primary school in the 1930s.
Archaeology is a science.
And The Lord of the Rings was in the Third Age (before the current Fourth, I believe), and Conan's Hyborian Age was about 10,000 BC. Doesn't make either SF.
Google's "define:" is okay for a quick definition, but One Look is the best meta-dictionary site: "6,189,689 words in 993 dictionaries indexed".
I rarely read, and almost never reply to, AC posts, unless they've been modded up. They're mostly hit and run, it's impossible to have a dialogue.
Consumers Data Stolen
The data belonged to "consumers" so it should be Consumers' Data Stolen. If you don't understand this, my seven-year-old daughter can explain it to you.
I understood that. My point (as it says in TFA) is that you don't need REwritable, just writable, and in fact the author recommends against CDRW, though it would work. How could you not retain that?
"A Mac[intosh]" is a piece of hardware. "Mac OS[X]" is software. If you buy an iMac or Mac mini, and boot to Yellow Dog, you don't have "a Yellow Dog", you have "a Mac running Yellow Dog".
There are several Mac OS emulators (mostly for OS7) I can run on my PC, even full screen, (not to mention the PearPC for OSX). I still have a PC, not a Mac.
Perhaps instead of just stating it as a fact, you could explain why the above is wrong.
Actually, it's designed for CDR, not RW. The distro itself is 50 MB, and you have the rest, 600 or so MB, which is used to make up to 99 images of your personal files.
It's not brain surgery. No one will die if they have to repeat themselves a few times. It's simply whether the American company cares what level of service is being offered in their name. Presumably the staff have to meet some standard, pass tests, to be employed. If the bar is too low, it's hardly their fault.
Illustrating my point. Terrorism against Americans is the worst thing in history. Against third-worlders, it's just a straight line.
Have a look at the posts her after the tsunami. Quarter of a million killed. Lots of remarks about how "they" deserved it for stealing American jobs.
Or did you miss the fact that we also mock/tease ourselves?
I didn't say you were assholes all the time. Some of my best friends are American.
And who is at fault? The Indian, doing his job to the best of his (perhaps limited) ability, or the American company that hired the lowest cost call center with staff with minimal language skills?
It was AMERICAN CEOs who chose to outsource nad are doing it more every day. The Indians simply took the work offered. To call it stealing is just stupid xenophobia. Place the blame where it belongs. If not India, it would have been some other country; Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Poland, etc.
No, "gallows humour" refers to making jokes about your own situation. when you make "jokes" about other people being killed, it's called "being an insensitive self-centred ignorant prick".
The same thing happens every time there is some disaster not affecting Americans, eg, the bushfire in Canberra last year. Woe betide anyone who made jokes about the WTC bombing on the day it happened, but foreigners are fodder for jokes before they're cold in their graves.