back then soundproofing wasn't viewed as necessity(there weren't that much noise anyways).
What about the guy rolling through town with a cart shouting "Bring out your dead!" and the lady beating the cat against the wall! That's a lot of noise if you ask me!
Finally, I suspect most european governments are going to finance this simply by giving tax-breaks to people who will overhaul the sound-proofing of their flats and houses, and not tax other home owners.
What's the difference? Still, the other people are paying proportionately more tax for having bought a better home. Lowering one person's taxes is the equivalent of raising everyone else's.
There is no reason why a determined thief would prefer to remove an implanted RFID chip instead of removing an eyeball, a finger or a hand.
Well, actually, many of the biometric devices out there can detect that a finger or hand or eyeball was removed from the body or is not alive. Many work on pulse detection, amongst other things. So, biometrics is more secure than a chip, unless it's got a blood pressure monitor built in or something.
Hell, it was only put into effect in order to fund World War I. Then, the fat asses on Congress realized it was kinda nice having this constant stream of interest-bearing money coming in, so they made it permanent after the war...
The languages are visual so even when they are very different it doesn't take too long to figure out each other's signs for basic things and work from there.
It's for this same reason that I found learning ASL so easy. It's mostly pantomime. The signs make so much sense once you know the basics, that it's almost painless to learn new words in context.
As far as foreigners fingerspelling their names in English, do you mean just the ones that have come to the US, or at home too? It would seem kind of odd for 2 Japanese people to fingerspell something in English to each other.
I do speak ASL and you are correct. They are called "name signs". When talking about other people or introducing yourself, however, you need to fingerspell the name. Thereafter in the conversation, you may refer to other people that are not in the room by designating a space in the room (to the left, to the right, etc) that refers to that person in order to speed up conversation, but fingerspelling is still required. Of course, since many other signs are also different, it doesn't really matter. Thus, he'll be able to talk to American deaf people.
The obnoxious thing is that sign language suffers from the same problem. What do you do when you refer to a person by name? You fingerspell! That doesn't translate into Japanese! Never mind that there are over 40 different sign language dialects in Europe alone.
He'll be much better off if he learns ASL and doesn't travel much:-)
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What about the guy rolling through town with a cart shouting "Bring out your dead!" and the lady beating the cat against the wall! That's a lot of noise if you ask me!
What's the difference? Still, the other people are paying proportionately more tax for having bought a better home. Lowering one person's taxes is the equivalent of raising everyone else's.
Well, actually, many of the biometric devices out there can detect that a finger or hand or eyeball was removed from the body or is not alive. Many work on pulse detection, amongst other things.
So, biometrics is more secure than a chip, unless it's got a blood pressure monitor built in or something.
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It's for this same reason that I found learning ASL so easy. It's mostly pantomime. The signs make so much sense once you know the basics, that it's almost painless to learn new words in context.
As far as foreigners fingerspelling their names in English, do you mean just the ones that have come to the US, or at home too? It would seem kind of odd for 2 Japanese people to fingerspell something in English to each other.
I was just pointing out that he'll only be able to communicate with American deaf people.
So, it is the original poster that needs to know what the "A" in ASL means, because I, obviously, do.
For instance, a River in ASL is two Ws (for "W"ater) held in front of you and waved left to right while moving your hands forward.
"W" => Water... in French, Water is "eau"... so, the sign in France is not the same.
Multiply that by over 40....
He'll be much better off if he learns ASL and doesn't travel much