Because it's somewhat difficult to write more novels if you cannot afford a new pencil and paper, since you haven't made any money due to everybody else stealing your work and profiting off of it themselves.
And a quick look at Alexa's traffic ranking graph for Slashdot.org shows that you are wrong. While there was indeed a dip in viewing, during 2005 compared to 2004, viewing returned to 2004 levels in the beginning of 2006 and lately spiked quite high.
By looking for ways to learn a language without classes you are really setting yourself up for failure. I'm not saying it can't be done, and I'm sure a couple people throughout history have been somewhat successful, but it leaves out the best way to learn a language: Experiencing it.
Now, I'm definitely not fluent in German, but I'm getting better and better by simply talking to Germans and going to class and conversing in the language as much as possible. Watching foreign tv shows and reading foreign websites is a great way to supplement your learning, but ultimately understanding a different language (especially one as apparently difficult as Japanese. I'm scared of it, and I'm learning German) is something that will definitely not happen overnight.
It really requires lots of interaction with other people who speak various levels of whatever language one wants to learn.
Experiencing a language takes 2 forms: Class, and going to the country. At first going to the country is obviously out of the question, leaving only class.
I spent 5 months in Germany and have been speaking my broken German for about a year and a half now and am not even close to where I'd like to be with the language, but I will tell you that my 5 months in Germany helped my language more than anything else.
The Iranian mullahs are not exceptions to the rule, read the posts! They have listed a few terrorist organizations and I'm sure more will come.
Furthermore, Kuwait is a terrible example simply because that country owes its current sovereignty from Iraq to Western intervention. They simply don't have the same feelings that other people in the Middle East would about being humiliated by the US.
Then you are lucky. I, on the other hand, have received prank phone calls at 4am from people who visited my domain and were apparently quite bored. I have since gotten rid of that domain..
While I have no experience inside of German corporations (I am merely studying abroad here in Germany), I can vouch for the fact that business's really don't care about anything. Customer service lines often cost money to call, the biggest slap in the face customer service can give you...
There is a reason Americans have a huge aversion to socialism and act like it's some huge boogeyman: Because it is. It doesn't work. Take German universities or the economy as glaring examples of that fact.
The dolphins are not the weapons. The toxic dart mounted to the dolphin is the weapon. Without the toxic dart, the worst thing the dolphin can do is glare and oddly point it's head directly at you...
RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) has the NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf) which is the largest tech school for the deaf in the nation. From what I have seen in the school newspaper, there is a researcher here who has patented some ASL learning process that helps people learn ASL. (It's a very popular thing to learn at RIT)
I can't find any resources on it right now, it may not be released. I would check NTID's homepage often for more information. (Not to mention the NTID page has lots of ASL stuff anyway)
A person could never aim it correctly and adjust for the plane's movement for a constant shot. They will likely use some sort of mounted and motorized system hooked up to a computer.
The NES, the system that brought back the North American console industry, is now, in the minds of the general public, just a memory and a relic next to the shiny new 3D game systems and their less-shiny immediate predecessors
It's just a memory? Try telling that to the NES sitting in my floor's lounge right now. The replayability of NES games completely destroys that of games today. Beating Contra or Mario just never gets old, but once you've beaten the latest-greatest game for a new system you rarely go back to it.
Yeah, what a loser for looking out for his family. He should just say screw it and let his wife and child fend for themselves, for that is the true anarchist way- everyone fending for themselves!
He's not suggesting 99% have used it. He's just saying that 99% are offered it at some point and that the war on drugs effects them in that they consider the ramifications of trying the drug.
We have freedom of speech. The right to violate a company's NDA is not part of it. The journalist was in no way inhibited because they never should have had the information in the first place.
Yes, nonsensical. That's funny. You're right that the words people say mean things beyond the dictionary definitions. However, not all the time. If we constantly assign alterior meanings to phrases that are a standard part of a news report when a company declines to comment then we are going to far. The question is: What did the (previous parent) poster expect the newsman to say? "Our calls were not returned" is as unbiased as it gets. That's reporting exactly what happened. And, as that poster wishes, the determination of what that means about the company is left up to the viewer. Some viewers will say "That awful company, they show their guilt by not returning the newspapers calls!" and others will say "They are being legally prudent" and even others will disregard the phrase and say "Does anyone return phone calls from the newspaper anymore?"
And you're damn wrong. It wasn't a troll. The correct terminology is flamebait.
Wow, idiot.
"And all calls to the company requesting comments went unanswered" means just that. The calls were unanswered. The news is trying to explain why they have little to no information coming from the company explaining its position (in other words, explaining why the news story may have appeared slightly biased towards the employee in the sense that their side of the story got all the air time). That is what they should say. You then attached your own implication of guilt. To someone who is actually viewing the news from a neutral standpoint, this means just what the news caster said, that they may just not want to comment because it is a good legal thing to do. Not to mention this is heard all the time on the news. I have read hundreds of stories where a party denied to comment or never answered the reporter's requests for comment.
You are the problem with the media, because you are inventing a bias so that you can believe that your side never gets the air time it deserves.
Not to mention your story is missing all important identifiable details and probably never happened (since humans often remember what they want to remember, rather than an exact account of what acually happened)
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Because it's somewhat difficult to write more novels if you cannot afford a new pencil and paper, since you haven't made any money due to everybody else stealing your work and profiting off of it themselves.
And a quick look at Alexa's traffic ranking graph for Slashdot.org shows that you are wrong. While there was indeed a dip in viewing, during 2005 compared to 2004, viewing returned to 2004 levels in the beginning of 2006 and lately spiked quite high.
By looking for ways to learn a language without classes you are really setting yourself up for failure. I'm not saying it can't be done, and I'm sure a couple people throughout history have been somewhat successful, but it leaves out the best way to learn a language: Experiencing it.
Now, I'm definitely not fluent in German, but I'm getting better and better by simply talking to Germans and going to class and conversing in the language as much as possible. Watching foreign tv shows and reading foreign websites is a great way to supplement your learning, but ultimately understanding a different language (especially one as apparently difficult as Japanese. I'm scared of it, and I'm learning German) is something that will definitely not happen overnight. It really requires lots of interaction with other people who speak various levels of whatever language one wants to learn.
Experiencing a language takes 2 forms: Class, and going to the country. At first going to the country is obviously out of the question, leaving only class.
I spent 5 months in Germany and have been speaking my broken German for about a year and a half now and am not even close to where I'd like to be with the language, but I will tell you that my 5 months in Germany helped my language more than anything else.
The Iranian mullahs are not exceptions to the rule, read the posts! They have listed a few terrorist organizations and I'm sure more will come. Furthermore, Kuwait is a terrible example simply because that country owes its current sovereignty from Iraq to Western intervention. They simply don't have the same feelings that other people in the Middle East would about being humiliated by the US.
And the grandparent poster's argument hits a gigantic brick wall. Good post.
This doesn't change the fact that the article description is still stupid. It should have included that extra 8%.
Then you are lucky. I, on the other hand, have received prank phone calls at 4am from people who visited my domain and were apparently quite bored. I have since gotten rid of that domain..
Ding ding ding, we have a winner!
While I have no experience inside of German corporations (I am merely studying abroad here in Germany), I can vouch for the fact that business's really don't care about anything. Customer service lines often cost money to call, the biggest slap in the face customer service can give you...
There is a reason Americans have a huge aversion to socialism and act like it's some huge boogeyman: Because it is. It doesn't work. Take German universities or the economy as glaring examples of that fact.
Wow, what an amazing argument. And it must have taken you a whole two seconds to post.
Nitpick all you want, it doesn't change his argument. I mean, the best response to your entire post is: Who cares?
The dolphins are not the weapons. The toxic dart mounted to the dolphin is the weapon. Without the toxic dart, the worst thing the dolphin can do is glare and oddly point it's head directly at you...
If there is a handle that I can pull to see random clips of Walker: Texas Ranger, I won't just buy it once. I'll buy it twice.
In other words, Verizon's core business, which has been the biggest industry in the U.S. for over a century, is dying.
How can we be sure? I have not seen any confirmation from netcraft.
RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) has the NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf) which is the largest tech school for the deaf in the nation. From what I have seen in the school newspaper, there is a researcher here who has patented some ASL learning process that helps people learn ASL. (It's a very popular thing to learn at RIT)
I can't find any resources on it right now, it may not be released. I would check NTID's homepage often for more information. (Not to mention the NTID page has lots of ASL stuff anyway)
Translation: Stop using i2hub, continue using DC++. (RIT!)
A person could never aim it correctly and adjust for the plane's movement for a constant shot.
They will likely use some sort of mounted and motorized system hooked up to a computer.
Yeah, what a loser for looking out for his family. He should just say screw it and let his wife and child fend for themselves, for that is the true anarchist way- everyone fending for themselves!
There is a great open source flashcard program called Pauker. I use it to learn German and like it quite a bit.
Pauker helps teach you the words and quiz you on them. I've found it to be the best open-source flash card program available.
He's not suggesting 99% have used it. He's just saying that 99% are offered it at some point and that the war on drugs effects them in that they consider the ramifications of trying the drug.
We have freedom of speech. The right to violate a company's NDA is not part of it. The journalist was in no way inhibited because they never should have had the information in the first place.
Yes, nonsensical. That's funny. You're right that the words people say mean things beyond the dictionary definitions. However, not all the time. If we constantly assign alterior meanings to phrases that are a standard part of a news report when a company declines to comment then we are going to far. The question is: What did the (previous parent) poster expect the newsman to say? "Our calls were not returned" is as unbiased as it gets. That's reporting exactly what happened. And, as that poster wishes, the determination of what that means about the company is left up to the viewer. Some viewers will say "That awful company, they show their guilt by not returning the newspapers calls!" and others will say "They are being legally prudent" and even others will disregard the phrase and say "Does anyone return phone calls from the newspaper anymore?"
And you're damn wrong. It wasn't a troll. The correct terminology is flamebait.
Wow, idiot.
"And all calls to the company requesting comments went unanswered" means just that. The calls were unanswered. The news is trying to explain why they have little to no information coming from the company explaining its position (in other words, explaining why the news story may have appeared slightly biased towards the employee in the sense that their side of the story got all the air time). That is what they should say. You then attached your own implication of guilt. To someone who is actually viewing the news from a neutral standpoint, this means just what the news caster said, that they may just not want to comment because it is a good legal thing to do. Not to mention this is heard all the time on the news. I have read hundreds of stories where a party denied to comment or never answered the reporter's requests for comment.
You are the problem with the media, because you are inventing a bias so that you can believe that your side never gets the air time it deserves.
Not to mention your story is missing all important identifiable details and probably never happened (since humans often remember what they want to remember, rather than an exact account of what acually happened)
Right on. A donation system- The topic of this was an effective business model...