Yeah, I can. I know where the European, mid-Eastern, Asian, African and latin American countries are too.
OTOH, I know from doing business in every one of these continents except Africa that most OTHER people haven't a clue about the US. A recent article in a major periodical had a well-known European historian asserting, with a straight face, that years of living part time in New York City plus a visit or two to San Francisco meant he knew all that one really needs to know about the nature, attitudes and politics of Americans.
Uh huh.
You guys forget that most Americans have grandparents or great-grandparents that came here from SOMEWHERE ELSE. They spoke other languages, often in our memory, visited old friends and familyh, sometimes worshipped in interestingly styled buildings and generally, brought parts of the old culture and the old Country with them.
I can and do make kipfil, pashka, pierogies, borscht, houlupki... just to name the foods from my father's Ukrainian side of the family. We worshipped in a Ukrainian Orthodox church, where I not only followed the liturgy in the old language, I learned the conventions and meanings of the icons and the church architecture. When I visit my husband's grandmother Sigrid we eat her native Norwegian foods. My mother-in-law learned to make sauerbraten as a child, speaking German in the midWest. Can you make cole slaw, fried chicken, American-style apple pie? Until you can, you really have no basis to think that Americans are less cosmopolitan than you.
-- food is the first technology
Look, I know most/.ers are RIAA-paranoid but this talk about RIAA bribing officials etc. is stupid.
-- The networks at all of the military academies are owned and operated by the Dept of Defense, which (especially these days) has good reason and authorization to monitor any and all traffic over them. Use of the networks for unauthorized purposes = misuse of government assets. Doesn't matter whether that use is "okay" "illegal" or "fair use" content-wise -- every time a cadet / midshipman logs onto the academy network they click on an acknowledgement that it is a DOD site, may be monitored and will be used only for authorized purposes.
-- Cadets/midshipmen can only connect to the Net via their academy's network unless they use a cellular modem and a private account, not my choice for high bandwidth downloading. So any music downloads were pretty likely to have occurred over those DOD networks, against the regulations the cadets/midshipment agreed to follow.
-- Cadets/midshipmen know their use can be monitored. They all take IT / intro comp sci courses -- required. They also all have at least some cybersecurity clubs -- West Point has a student SIGSAC chapter and the academies have an annual cyber security competition, judged by some fairly heavy hitters at NSA.
And yes, I teach at one of the Academies.
"America - love it or give it back!" - Cathy Moomaw, Native American weaver
Here's my strategy after 20-some moves:
1. Set aside the very essential, can't-function-without-them things in a small bag / box & put them in your car before you do anything else. Ditto with very expensive / portable items.
Set aside some cash for takeout meals on moving day.
2. Pack a few days' worth of clothes, sundries, supplies, phone, laptop etc. and put those aside too. Include towel, washcloth, sheet, blanket, pillow. Also pack a few dishes (or paper plates & bowls), a coffee cup, a pot or two, paper towels, spray cleaner some plastic bags & stuff that in your car too.
3. If you know what rooms you'll have in your new place and roughly what will go where, organize boxes by destination room... i.e. books for office vs. books for living room. Otherwise organize by existing rooms & like items. Label by destination room / contents and number them. Keep a list showing box #, room & contents. Keep a 2nd copy of the list with your essentials.
4. As boxes are loaded onto the truck / into your car (no matter by whom, or whose truck / car) check them off of the list.
5. Ditto at the other end as they come into your new place.
6. Try to have boxes placed in the new rooms somewhere away from where your main furniture will go. Usually boxes come off of the truck before the big items & it's a hassle to have to move them again to make room for a bed or couch. If you can, group boxes you're likely to need right away into one area -- you don't want to have to shift book boxes a lot to get at clothes, for instance.
6. Have a priority for unpacking. Mine is: bathroom, kitchen basics, clothing & main office stuff first. Books, room by room, second. Other stuff as I can. Totally a function of your lifestyle / situation, but you'll be glad for a shower / bath when you finally get all the boxes into your new place.
Enjoy your new place...
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Yeah, I can. I know where the European, mid-Eastern, Asian, African and latin American countries are too. OTOH, I know from doing business in every one of these continents except Africa that most OTHER people haven't a clue about the US. A recent article in a major periodical had a well-known European historian asserting, with a straight face, that years of living part time in New York City plus a visit or two to San Francisco meant he knew all that one really needs to know about the nature, attitudes and politics of Americans. Uh huh. You guys forget that most Americans have grandparents or great-grandparents that came here from SOMEWHERE ELSE. They spoke other languages, often in our memory, visited old friends and familyh, sometimes worshipped in interestingly styled buildings and generally, brought parts of the old culture and the old Country with them. I can and do make kipfil, pashka, pierogies, borscht, houlupki ... just to name the foods from my father's Ukrainian side of the family. We worshipped in a Ukrainian Orthodox church, where I not only followed the liturgy in the old language, I learned the conventions and meanings of the icons and the church architecture. When I visit my husband's grandmother Sigrid we eat her native Norwegian foods. My mother-in-law learned to make sauerbraten as a child, speaking German in the midWest. Can you make cole slaw, fried chicken, American-style apple pie? Until you can, you really have no basis to think that Americans are less cosmopolitan than you.
-- food is the first technology
It's about TIME the grrrls got equal time in movies.
I say, throw the book (COBOL manual) at them ... make them sit in cubicles and code legacy mainframe apps over a dial-up connection.
Look, I know most /.ers are RIAA-paranoid but this talk about RIAA bribing officials etc. is stupid.
-- The networks at all of the military academies are owned and operated by the Dept of Defense, which (especially these days) has good reason and authorization to monitor any and all traffic over them. Use of the networks for unauthorized purposes = misuse of government assets. Doesn't matter whether that use is "okay" "illegal" or "fair use" content-wise -- every time a cadet / midshipman logs onto the academy network they click on an acknowledgement that it is a DOD site, may be monitored and will be used only for authorized purposes.
-- Cadets/midshipmen can only connect to the Net via their academy's network unless they use a cellular modem and a private account, not my choice for high bandwidth downloading. So any music downloads were pretty likely to have occurred over those DOD networks, against the regulations the cadets/midshipment agreed to follow.
-- Cadets/midshipmen know their use can be monitored. They all take IT / intro comp sci courses -- required. They also all have at least some cybersecurity clubs -- West Point has a student SIGSAC chapter and the academies have an annual cyber security competition, judged by some fairly heavy hitters at NSA.
And yes, I teach at one of the Academies.
"America - love it or give it back!" - Cathy Moomaw, Native American weaver
Here's my strategy after 20-some moves: 1. Set aside the very essential, can't-function-without-them things in a small bag / box & put them in your car before you do anything else. Ditto with very expensive / portable items. Set aside some cash for takeout meals on moving day. 2. Pack a few days' worth of clothes, sundries, supplies, phone, laptop etc. and put those aside too. Include towel, washcloth, sheet, blanket, pillow. Also pack a few dishes (or paper plates & bowls), a coffee cup, a pot or two, paper towels, spray cleaner some plastic bags & stuff that in your car too. 3. If you know what rooms you'll have in your new place and roughly what will go where, organize boxes by destination room ... i.e. books for office vs. books for living room. Otherwise organize by existing rooms & like items. Label by destination room / contents and number them. Keep a list showing box #, room & contents. Keep a 2nd copy of the list with your essentials.
4. As boxes are loaded onto the truck / into your car (no matter by whom, or whose truck / car) check them off of the list.
5. Ditto at the other end as they come into your new place.
6. Try to have boxes placed in the new rooms somewhere away from where your main furniture will go. Usually boxes come off of the truck before the big items & it's a hassle to have to move them again to make room for a bed or couch. If you can, group boxes you're likely to need right away into one area -- you don't want to have to shift book boxes a lot to get at clothes, for instance.
6. Have a priority for unpacking. Mine is: bathroom, kitchen basics, clothing & main office stuff first. Books, room by room, second. Other stuff as I can. Totally a function of your lifestyle / situation, but you'll be glad for a shower / bath when you finally get all the boxes into your new place.
Enjoy your new place ...