the US is the "world leader" in economy and science, but not socially (health care, low poverty, homelessness, crime rates, etc..) because Americans work their fucking asses off. it doens't have anything to do with your hypothetical "victim attitude", which i'm guessing stems from not knowing many (or maybe just really lame) non-Americans.
one -might- guess that all the time we spend working, other countries (1st world, anyway) spend with their families and children, making sure they dont grow up to be criminals, and can generally function, socially. (ok, i admit, this doesn't make for great scientists;o)
i'm an absentee voter too, and here, in Germany, a university graduate starts with SIX weeks of vacation per year, and has a 35 HOUR WORK WEEK! compare that to America's two weeks and 40 hour (minimum) work weeks (i'm not making these numbers up, i worked in the US and know lots of people working similar jobs here). of course the US has more money - we(you) work more and make more shit. whether this is sustainable is a question that time will answer. i might point out that for at least the last year the euro/dollar exchange rate has been going to hell (for me anyway, all my money is still in the US). not a good sign.
it's on (presumably) a friend's server,
who is actively blogging on the main page.
probably was never in his basement.
pathalogical liars lie about even the
smallest things to make themselves look
better. watch out for them; and if you
find one, run away, run away!
but try reading one word at a time
on
Can You Raed Tihs?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
the mistake is in saying that the unscrambling is
done at the word level. jump you eyes randomly into
the text and try to read just one word in isolation.
as someone on cogling@ucsd pointed out, there are
also a bunch of non-scrambled key words that help
your brain figure out what the in-betweens should
be. anyhow, point being that it's not a feature of
word recognition that you can read it, but rather a
feature of higher-level reconstruction.
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the US is the "world leader" in economy and science, but not socially (health care, low poverty, homelessness, crime rates, etc..) because Americans work their fucking asses off. it doens't have anything to do with your hypothetical "victim attitude", which i'm guessing stems from not knowing many (or maybe just really lame) non-Americans.
;o)
one -might- guess that all the time we spend working, other countries (1st world, anyway) spend with their families and children, making sure they dont grow up to be criminals, and can generally function, socially. (ok, i admit, this doesn't make for great scientists
i'm an absentee voter too, and here, in Germany, a university graduate starts with SIX weeks of vacation per year, and has a 35 HOUR WORK WEEK! compare that to America's two weeks and 40 hour (minimum) work weeks (i'm not making these numbers up, i worked in the US and know lots of people working similar jobs here). of course the US has more money - we(you) work more and make more shit. whether this is sustainable is a question that time will answer. i might point out that for at least the last year the euro/dollar exchange rate has been going to hell (for me anyway, all my money is still in the US). not a good sign.
it's on (presumably) a friend's server, who is actively blogging on the main page. probably was never in his basement. pathalogical liars lie about even the smallest things to make themselves look better. watch out for them; and if you find one, run away, run away!
could be they (pubpat, eff) planned the party together... http://www.pubpat.org/Partners_and_Providers.htm
the mistake is in saying that the unscrambling is
done at the word level. jump you eyes randomly into
the text and try to read just one word in isolation.
as someone on cogling@ucsd pointed out, there are
also a bunch of non-scrambled key words that help
your brain figure out what the in-betweens should
be. anyhow, point being that it's not a feature
of word recognition that you can read it, but rather
a feature of higher-level reconstruction.
mt