As far as I know, the 'History' section of each article does just that.
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I have. Cruzer Titanium. It was a big, bulky thing. Far too big. It also failed after about 1 month of usage; no way to get the data off of it, so I lost a few weeks' work (I know, I should've backed it up). However, it could still stay in one piece of you ran over it with a steamroller.
Why is it that they say devices on standby (TV being the obvious example) use so much power? I'd have thought standby took virtually no power; just an LED and an infrared receiver. What's suck up the rest? Anyone know?
Mozilla browsers are opensource, and as such can never be hijacked by any one company to change what standards they support, in order to try and extinguish or majorly harm opposition. That fact alone is a great reason to use eg. Firefox over anything else, as long as it's a good functional browser (which it is). If *ONLY* the general public could be made to understand that...
My motive, if there was one, was to highlight the possibility that an average person or family in Lebanon doesn't have to [be] an extremist to view the destruction in his country as something more than the abstract interplay of geopolitical forces, or the calculated military maneuverings of their respective militaries.
OK, I'm genuinely interested; what possible incentive would Israel have to kill more Lebanese civilians than necessary? They can't annex southern Lebanon because the world and rest of the Middle East wouldn't let them. They can't exterminate all of Lebanon, because ditto. The only possible reason I can think of is that they get a perverse pleasure out of killing civilians, which I somehow doubt. The PR of this has been disasterous for Israel. What is the argument that says they killed civilians on purpose?
If Canada bombed some US towns because they said there were evil terrorists operating there that threatened Canada (suspend your disbelief), I'd think it was a huge PR mistake... the wrong way to deal with it... an idiotic leadership that made the decision. But the last thing I'd think was that they were trying to occupy or exterminate the US. It's just not gonna happen. The same seems to be true of the Israel/Lebanon thing.
Even that Wikipedia link says that English is the de facto official language of the United States
Right, not the actual official language.
don't know how other countries define their official language
By law?
But the same rules that define English as the official language here are those which define English and Hindi as the official languages of India, and would seem to work the same for other countries as well.
Until you get a government that doesn't care about this 'language' thing, like in the UK (can you tell that I hate Labour?).
Maybe things work differently in the UK's Parliament, but over here the names of bills and stated reasons for passing them bear little resemblance to the contents and effects
Yeah, that is retarded. There should be something to stop that.
There is no need to pass a law making English the official language because it already is and it would have no effect.
It would stop English usage being reduced through the backdoor (immigrants not speaking it, or doing business between each other in it).
By the way what is the problem with there being translations?
You talk about a manual for a product being translated; that's because it's being distributed in many different countries, which is fine. Governmental documents aren't, and should only be published in the official language of a country.
I mean does it really hurt you that other people might get a chance to understand something because it's printed in their language?
Indirectly, yes. It encourages the speaking of more than one language in a country, or at least fails to encourage a single language; this I dislike a lot.
You do want them to understand what their society is asking of them don't you?
No! Unless they speak the official language. If not, they shouldn't be allowed to live in the country. In fact it'd be a good way of finding illegal immigrants. You're simply illegal if you can't speak the official language half-decently. You should need to speak it to get in in the first place.
And people *can* conduct business in other languages here if they want. They can have signs in another language (like little athens or chinatown or little russia or whatever ethnic haunt you like) and they can have menus in other languages. But that's ok. Their culture is contributing to ours. Trust me. They understand the need to learn english, and will gladly speak it in order to do business with you.
Not so. There are many ghettoized areas in the UK, I dunno about the US, where no English is spoken. You're treated as a second-class customer unless you speak Arabic or Urdu, that's if you can figure out what the place actually sells from the non-English sign.
Even in their own countries, people all over the world know they need to learn to speak English
Not so in many countries. I don't think most Chinese, Japanese, French, Russians, etc. can speak English. I dunno why this myth perpetuates.
I think that it scares some people to see people who are different from them who speak another language they don't understand.
It doesn't so much scare me as irritate me. I dunno why, it's like loud, noisy music. I can't explain why it irritates me, it just does.
Let them have their language and culture. Let them keep their heritage. They will be assimilated and we will become stronger because of the diversity.
I think this is wishy-washy nonsense, frequently given by supporters of multiculturalism. It doesn't hold up in reality. These two things clash, you can't both keep your culture and heritage and assimilate into a country (ie. adopt that country's culture and heritage).
A big reason more people came to this country is that we have far more lax restrictions historically on immigrants.
Maybe some of us don't want mass immigration into our country. We're already overcrowded here.
Of course I wasn't talking about stopping parents teaching children stuff. I was referring to sending them to private (probably religious) schools where they wouldn't have to follow a curriculum set by society at large. I don't really think putting them through a few tests guarantees they'll have a rich education, it just shows they've learnt the facts necessary for the tests. Not the same thing.
Human beings are not machines, and our attachment to our ancestors, including their culture and traditions, is very important for our sense of belonging. This is one reason multiculturalism has failed. Well, or one thing I disagree with the first part; I only really have an attachment to my immediate family and have never understood this obsession to hunt down your family tree. I find the whole idea boring as hell. I think this is purely cultural.
As for multiculturalism; that's all about letting people keep their cultures, traditions, and attachment to ancestors. It seems to back up your first point, so why would you say that's caused it to fail?
The official language of the United States is English Wikipedia disagrees with you.
All of our laws and signs are written in English and it remains the primary medium of instruction in our schools. Yet politicians want to get people riled up over the issue and try to pass laws declaring this and make speeches as though we might have to speak another language than English. Well, frankly, I have a lot of sympathy with this. Why the hell shouldn't English be passed as the official language?
You say you'd never have to speak another language. Maybe. But, at some point, you might get a government like the one here in the UK that has virtually no respect for its own country's culture and lets people speak, and conduct business, in what the hell they want. That publishes everything in about 50 different languages so that nobody has to integrate properly. Then the communities become ghettoized. No, don't complain about them passing it as an official language. I only wish our politicians had the balls to do the same.
French politicians who try to scare their constituents into thinking that they might be made to speak Arabic as a new primary language just because there are so many (French-speaking, mind!) immigrants from places like Algeria. Maybe the looked over here. Many of our immigrants DON'T speak English, and most of the problem has occurred over the small space of 10 years. It's a great case study in how not to handle immigration.
Except that you can still call Pluto a planet, implying either a dwarf or regular one, can't you? Wasn't that why the kept the 'planet' term for Pluto, for backwards-compatibility, so to speak?
Nope, I agree with the GP poster. Child abuse doesn't have to be physical at all. This is mental child abuse.
It may very well put them at a PERMENANT disadvantage, not just a temporary one. What a child learns has an enormous impact on their adult life, in fact it almost completely defines it. Moreover, it may well put society at a disadvantage because these communities may well become 'mentally inbred' and backward, with their children learning only a very narrow range of opinions on the World, and Life in general. I believe that this is a Bad Thing, and if you don't, I have a problem with you I'm afraid.
Most of society believe that children have certain rights that trump the rights of parents. I draw the line beyond the right to have a decent, rich, balanced education. Parents should NOT have the right to deprive their children of that. No no no.
Are you actually saying it's a good idea that public money be used to fund kids' education in private schools? What if it's a heavily religious school that teaches virtually no useful information? The child would go to church #1 on Sunday, and church #2 for the rest of the week. Would they likely become a productive member of society in adulthood? They sure wouldn't become a scientist.
I think there's a strong argument that this 'private' education shouldn't exist, because a single curriculum is extremely important, unless you want a ghettoized society, many sections of which are backward and rather extreme in their views (not to be racist, but in all actuality, look at Saudi Arabia or Iran).
How can you support homeschooling at all when you have no idea what the child is really being taught? It's much more behind-the-scenes. You're not really gonna just walk into the house and monitor them. I think homeschooling should be illegal.
This is one of the best posts I've seen on the debate. I think this kind of viewpoint, which the US was largely founded upon, needs to be much more enthusiastically aired in public. It stands up well against the argument for religious teaching in public schools.
Actually, we're having a rather heated immigration debate in the UK too, at the moment. Actually, there's a stronger argument against it in the UK because this island is incredibly overpopulated already, whereas the US isn't. However, my main problem is the language barrier. I'm of the strong belief that it's a good thing for everyone in a country to speak one language; ideally, i'd have everyone in the world speaking one language. Immigrants coming in and speaking Spanish in the US sounds like a bad idea. The language barrier is, IMHO, the biggest barrier to human interaction and telling most Americans to learn Spanish is a really stupid way to solve the problem rather than vice versa.
Don't believe everything PETA tells you. But do continue to eat lots of meat, so we can continue to see ads containing the apparently disproportionately high number of very attractive women in PETA stark naked...
No, it's against hackers trying to connect to your system and exploit OS holes. My Sygate firewall is CONSTANTLY blocking hundreds of port probes to my IP address. At least, its logs say so. That's why I sort of laugh when I see reports that Microsoft's latest patch to an OS hole introduces an OS hole.
I've probably been owned by a piece of malware or something instead, though.
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As far as I know, the 'History' section of each article does just that.
I have. Cruzer Titanium. It was a big, bulky thing. Far too big. It also failed after about 1 month of usage; no way to get the data off of it, so I lost a few weeks' work (I know, I should've backed it up). However, it could still stay in one piece of you ran over it with a steamroller.
Avoid these things like the plague.
Why is it that they say devices on standby (TV being the obvious example) use so much power? I'd have thought standby took virtually no power; just an LED and an infrared receiver. What's suck up the rest? Anyone know?
Mozilla browsers are opensource, and as such can never be hijacked by any one company to change what standards they support, in order to try and extinguish or majorly harm opposition. That fact alone is a great reason to use eg. Firefox over anything else, as long as it's a good functional browser (which it is). If *ONLY* the general public could be made to understand that...
... or smoke a plant.
How are you going to keep the flow of oil from Iran to stop oil prices skyrocketing and the eventual world-wide depression?
Well, to play the devil's advocate: How about occupy Iran and run the infrastructure yourself? I think the US have the knowhow.
My motive, if there was one, was to highlight the possibility that an average person or family in Lebanon doesn't have to [be] an extremist to view the destruction in his country as something more than the abstract interplay of geopolitical forces, or the calculated military maneuverings of their respective militaries.
OK, I'm genuinely interested; what possible incentive would Israel have to kill more Lebanese civilians than necessary? They can't annex southern Lebanon because the world and rest of the Middle East wouldn't let them. They can't exterminate all of Lebanon, because ditto. The only possible reason I can think of is that they get a perverse pleasure out of killing civilians, which I somehow doubt. The PR of this has been disasterous for Israel. What is the argument that says they killed civilians on purpose?
If Canada bombed some US towns because they said there were evil terrorists operating there that threatened Canada (suspend your disbelief), I'd think it was a huge PR mistake... the wrong way to deal with it... an idiotic leadership that made the decision. But the last thing I'd think was that they were trying to occupy or exterminate the US. It's just not gonna happen. The same seems to be true of the Israel/Lebanon thing.
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Fry: This snow is beautiful. I'm glad global warming never happened.
Leela: Actually, it did. But thank God nuclear winter cancelled it out.
The BBC/Gilligan thing was a UK affair; did Gibson comment on this? What did he say? I thought he only cared about the US.
Even that Wikipedia link says that English is the de facto official language of the United States
Right, not the actual official language.
don't know how other countries define their official language
By law?
But the same rules that define English as the official language here are those which define English and Hindi as the official languages of India, and would seem to work the same for other countries as well.
Until you get a government that doesn't care about this 'language' thing, like in the UK (can you tell that I hate Labour?).
Maybe things work differently in the UK's Parliament, but over here the names of bills and stated reasons for passing them bear little resemblance to the contents and effects
Yeah, that is retarded. There should be something to stop that.
There is no need to pass a law making English the official language because it already is and it would have no effect.
It would stop English usage being reduced through the backdoor (immigrants not speaking it, or doing business between each other in it).
By the way what is the problem with there being translations?
You talk about a manual for a product being translated; that's because it's being distributed in many different countries, which is fine. Governmental documents aren't, and should only be published in the official language of a country.
I mean does it really hurt you that other people might get a chance to understand something because it's printed in their language?
Indirectly, yes. It encourages the speaking of more than one language in a country, or at least fails to encourage a single language; this I dislike a lot.
You do want them to understand what their society is asking of them don't you?
No! Unless they speak the official language. If not, they shouldn't be allowed to live in the country. In fact it'd be a good way of finding illegal immigrants. You're simply illegal if you can't speak the official language half-decently. You should need to speak it to get in in the first place.
And people *can* conduct business in other languages here if they want. They can have signs in another language (like little athens or chinatown or little russia or whatever ethnic haunt you like) and they can have menus in other languages. But that's ok. Their culture is contributing to ours. Trust me. They understand the need to learn english, and will gladly speak it in order to do business with you.
Not so. There are many ghettoized areas in the UK, I dunno about the US, where no English is spoken. You're treated as a second-class customer unless you speak Arabic or Urdu, that's if you can figure out what the place actually sells from the non-English sign.
Even in their own countries, people all over the world know they need to learn to speak English
Not so in many countries. I don't think most Chinese, Japanese, French, Russians, etc. can speak English. I dunno why this myth perpetuates.
I think that it scares some people to see people who are different from them who speak another language they don't understand.
It doesn't so much scare me as irritate me. I dunno why, it's like loud, noisy music. I can't explain why it irritates me, it just does.
Let them have their language and culture. Let them keep their heritage. They will be assimilated and we will become stronger because of the diversity.
I think this is wishy-washy nonsense, frequently given by supporters of multiculturalism. It doesn't hold up in reality. These two things clash, you can't both keep your culture and heritage and assimilate into a country (ie. adopt that country's culture and heritage).
A big reason more people came to this country is that we have far more lax restrictions historically on immigrants.
Maybe some of us don't want mass immigration into our country. We're already overcrowded here.
Of course I wasn't talking about stopping parents teaching children stuff. I was referring to sending them to private (probably religious) schools where they wouldn't have to follow a curriculum set by society at large. I don't really think putting them through a few tests guarantees they'll have a rich education, it just shows they've learnt the facts necessary for the tests. Not the same thing.
Human beings are not machines, and our attachment to our ancestors, including their culture and traditions, is very important for our sense of belonging. This is one reason multiculturalism has failed.
Well, or one thing I disagree with the first part; I only really have an attachment to my immediate family and have never understood this obsession to hunt down your family tree. I find the whole idea boring as hell. I think this is purely cultural.
As for multiculturalism; that's all about letting people keep their cultures, traditions, and attachment to ancestors. It seems to back up your first point, so why would you say that's caused it to fail?
The official language of the United States is English
Wikipedia disagrees with you.
All of our laws and signs are written in English and it remains the primary medium of instruction in our schools. Yet politicians want to get people riled up over the issue and try to pass laws declaring this and make speeches as though we might have to speak another language than English.
Well, frankly, I have a lot of sympathy with this. Why the hell shouldn't English be passed as the official language?
You say you'd never have to speak another language. Maybe. But, at some point, you might get a government like the one here in the UK that has virtually no respect for its own country's culture and lets people speak, and conduct business, in what the hell they want. That publishes everything in about 50 different languages so that nobody has to integrate properly. Then the communities become ghettoized. No, don't complain about them passing it as an official language. I only wish our politicians had the balls to do the same.
French politicians who try to scare their constituents into thinking that they might be made to speak Arabic as a new primary language just because there are so many (French-speaking, mind!) immigrants from places like Algeria.
Maybe the looked over here. Many of our immigrants DON'T speak English, and most of the problem has occurred over the small space of 10 years. It's a great case study in how not to handle immigration.
http://www.theodora.com/maps/new9/usa_population_d ensity.jpg
The western USA outside California is very, very far from 'full', in fact it's sparsely populated. Shut up.
Except that you can still call Pluto a planet, implying either a dwarf or regular one, can't you? Wasn't that why the kept the 'planet' term for Pluto, for backwards-compatibility, so to speak?
Nope, I agree with the GP poster. Child abuse doesn't have to be physical at all. This is mental child abuse.
It may very well put them at a PERMENANT disadvantage, not just a temporary one. What a child learns has an enormous impact on their adult life, in fact it almost completely defines it. Moreover, it may well put society at a disadvantage because these communities may well become 'mentally inbred' and backward, with their children learning only a very narrow range of opinions on the World, and Life in general. I believe that this is a Bad Thing, and if you don't, I have a problem with you I'm afraid.
Most of society believe that children have certain rights that trump the rights of parents. I draw the line beyond the right to have a decent, rich, balanced education. Parents should NOT have the right to deprive their children of that. No no no.
Are you actually saying it's a good idea that public money be used to fund kids' education in private schools? What if it's a heavily religious school that teaches virtually no useful information? The child would go to church #1 on Sunday, and church #2 for the rest of the week. Would they likely become a productive member of society in adulthood? They sure wouldn't become a scientist.
I think there's a strong argument that this 'private' education shouldn't exist, because a single curriculum is extremely important, unless you want a ghettoized society, many sections of which are backward and rather extreme in their views (not to be racist, but in all actuality, look at Saudi Arabia or Iran).
How can you support homeschooling at all when you have no idea what the child is really being taught? It's much more behind-the-scenes. You're not really gonna just walk into the house and monitor them. I think homeschooling should be illegal.
This is one of the best posts I've seen on the debate. I think this kind of viewpoint, which the US was largely founded upon, needs to be much more enthusiastically aired in public. It stands up well against the argument for religious teaching in public schools.
Actually, we're having a rather heated immigration debate in the UK too, at the moment. Actually, there's a stronger argument against it in the UK because this island is incredibly overpopulated already, whereas the US isn't. However, my main problem is the language barrier. I'm of the strong belief that it's a good thing for everyone in a country to speak one language; ideally, i'd have everyone in the world speaking one language. Immigrants coming in and speaking Spanish in the US sounds like a bad idea. The language barrier is, IMHO, the biggest barrier to human interaction and telling most Americans to learn Spanish is a really stupid way to solve the problem rather than vice versa.
Good, pure vegetable dishes
Such as?
Who's American, and why does he have multiple waists?
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Don't believe everything PETA tells you.
But do continue to eat lots of meat, so we can continue to see ads containing the apparently disproportionately high number of very attractive women in PETA stark naked...
Is a cow's average quality of life proportionate to the number of cows alive??
No, it's against hackers trying to connect to your system and exploit OS holes. My Sygate firewall is CONSTANTLY blocking hundreds of port probes to my IP address. At least, its logs say so. That's why I sort of laugh when I see reports that Microsoft's latest patch to an OS hole introduces an OS hole.
I've probably been owned by a piece of malware or something instead, though.