But the land is rented. In the US the precedent is set by the base at Guantanamo Bay, which the US holds under lease. It's always "Guantanamo Bay, Cuba", not "Guantanamo Bay, USA" even though the US has jurisdiction and only dollars are accepted.
Plus, almost any space buff could tell you that Baikonur is in Kazakhstan, not the Russian Federation (though Russia rents the land). And the computer displays were completely ridiculous, just look at the video conference with the Secretary of whatever. I really wanted to sit back and enjoy this without nitpicking, but it's rather crap. Won't be donating, and will probably just read plot summaries of how the series goes instead of watching each episode.
Fine, you disagree with his aesthetic. Doesn't mean that the novel doesn't appeal to plenty other people and would have been remembered nonetheless. Just attend a Bloomsday celebration -- they're arranged in a surprising amount of cities, and they draw all kinds of normal, everyday people you wouldn't imagine to pursue modernist literature.
Ulysses was causing a sensation and inspiring others in the literary community when it was still only fragmentary and hadn't yet been published and banned in certain places. Major figures like Eliot, Pound and others read installments of the work and incorporated them into their general theories of literature before the sensational fight for its full publication. Because of its wide impact in the artistic world, it would definitely still be remembered today regardless of its reception by customs agents.
"Bombay" and "Mumbai" are actually two separate words, not the same word differing from transliteration principles. "Bombay" is from the Portuguese bom baia "good harbor", while "Mumbai" is from the Hindu goddess Mumba Devi, to whom a prominent temple in the city is dedicated.
What about the majority of the world's population, who use writing systems that don't reduce to ASCII (or even Latin-1)? Even English speakers might want quotations of foreign words in their texts to appear as they ought to instead of gibberish.
The burka is not part of Bangladeshi culture. Islam can be fairly critiqued on terms that apply to most of the Muslim world, but choosing a custom that is really particular only to Afghanistan and some surrounding areas and making it the symbol of the entire faith just makes one look uneducated.
Bullshit. The vast majority of people overseen by Roman Catholic charities in parts of the non-Catholic Third World like India and Sub-Saharan Africa remain adherents of the local religion all their lives, and yet they continue to receive help and support from church organizations.
What you are seeing are vestiges of characters being designed to look similar to the objects denoted by the Chinese words referring to them, but the writing system as a whole cannot be called pictographic or ideographic. DeFrancis was one of the most respected scholars of Chinese in the West, and immediately dismissing his work as "bullshit" just makes you look foolish. Merely learning Japanese doesn't make you an expert on writing systems. In any event, there are plenty of other sources out there who would tell you the same, such as The World's Writing Systems by ed. Daniels and Bright (Oxford University Press, 1996), the standard reference on writing systems in general, where we find the following:
No character ever stood for an "idea" independent of a word. Chinese characters stood, and continue to stand, for words, and only by extension for the ideas they convey.
If by "traditional Chinese characters" you mean the first writings made on oracle bones many thousands of years ago, then perhaps they can be called pictograms. However, the modern Chinese writing system is not pictographic or ideographic and Chinese characters, far from being some kind of abstract referents to things, is tightly bound to the structure of the Chinese language. See DeFrancis' classic work The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984).
Even in Finland there aren't too many Nokia N900s to be seen. I've seen iPhones all the time, and Nokia's lesser (Symbian-based) phones, but the company doesn't seem to know how or even if to market the N900. I played with one in a shop and liked it, and it's the only one of the current smartphones that would give me the hacking environment and freedom that I want, but with Maemo being phased out for something called MeeGo that might not even run on the N900, I'm too nervous that this phone is at something of a deadend support-wise. I'm holding out to see what Nokia's MeeGo device looks like.
Only sometimes. At least in the contemporary art music world, I've talked to employees of some publishers' who are happy that recordings are so widely shared now, since the more of a fanbase their composers have, the more they get programmed at concerts and thus make the publisher money.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), as its name suggests, deals with recordings. Copying of musical scores falls under the domain of music publishers, entirely separate organizations.
Space and defense are intertwined. Letting another country gain the lead in space would mean losing our ability to defend ourselves. At least, that's the traditional thinking. Ever notice how space exploration initiatives are generally closely related to a country's military plans?
Since the singularity is near, it's more likely that human expansion into space will proceed through machine bodies. Research on the effects of microgravity is worth doing, but I don't think it completely settles the debate.
I understand your argument, but the idea that ordinary hard work is a good thing is by no means universal. In fact, it seems a fairly recent innovation in parts of the West. In Greek philosophy and so much of today's non-Western world, a supreme human aim is to be free of work (handing it off to servants) in order to dedicate all one's time to the pursuit of wisdom. Granted, a lot of people on the dole are sitting in front of the television all day and making nothing of their new-found free time, but there are ways that a person can better himself without scrubbing floors. My own periods of joblessness have given me time to better familiarize myself with the arts, and while you're waiting for a call to an interview you could always travel a bit and see the world.
The scientific community also opposes the claim that organic food is any healthier. Go organic if you want to help the environment, but organic food is not going to better your health.
Most of what are now America's big towns and cities were settled in the early 20th century by farmers, or rather their children. Part of this was indeed that agricultural work did not pay enough, but a key factor was that agricultural work has always been considered rough, dirty labor and, furthermore, agriculture tends to keep people in rural areas without access to cultural offerings like large cinemas, theatre or major sporting events. People naturally want to be where the action is. You see this same thing playing out now all over the world as countries develop.
Geez, just Google "standard of living ratings". The Human Development Index, for example, consistently puts the Nordic countries at the top of the list, and there people who seek employment meeting their qualifications are not pushed into taking crap jobs just for the sake of being employed.
Jobs might not necessary lead to happiness, and correlation does not imply causation, but welfare states that are tolerant of people waiting some length of time for employment that they consider dignified and pleasurable do have higher quality of life and happier populations than states where people are pressured into working at any job possible.
People need a job that makes them happy. Better to have people receiving public assistance while they wait for a job that meets their interests and qualifications than force people to take anything they can get. Yes, your taxes are a couple of percentage points higher if you're working, but quality of life in your country goes through the roof.
The reason citizens don't want to do those jobs is that they don't pay. They don't pay because big agribusiness has succeeded in getting immigration authorities to ignore their malfeasance
People were leaving in droves from American agriculture well before illegal immigration reached major levels. Again, agriculture is simply not work that people want to do. Even if you pay high salaries, the effort required is seen as too great compared to working in, say, the service industry.
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But the land is rented. In the US the precedent is set by the base at Guantanamo Bay, which the US holds under lease. It's always "Guantanamo Bay, Cuba", not "Guantanamo Bay, USA" even though the US has jurisdiction and only dollars are accepted.
Plus, almost any space buff could tell you that Baikonur is in Kazakhstan, not the Russian Federation (though Russia rents the land). And the computer displays were completely ridiculous, just look at the video conference with the Secretary of whatever. I really wanted to sit back and enjoy this without nitpicking, but it's rather crap. Won't be donating, and will probably just read plot summaries of how the series goes instead of watching each episode.
Fine, you disagree with his aesthetic. Doesn't mean that the novel doesn't appeal to plenty other people and would have been remembered nonetheless. Just attend a Bloomsday celebration -- they're arranged in a surprising amount of cities, and they draw all kinds of normal, everyday people you wouldn't imagine to pursue modernist literature.
Ulysses was causing a sensation and inspiring others in the literary community when it was still only fragmentary and hadn't yet been published and banned in certain places. Major figures like Eliot, Pound and others read installments of the work and incorporated them into their general theories of literature before the sensational fight for its full publication. Because of its wide impact in the artistic world, it would definitely still be remembered today regardless of its reception by customs agents.
"Bombay" and "Mumbai" are actually two separate words, not the same word differing from transliteration principles. "Bombay" is from the Portuguese bom baia "good harbor", while "Mumbai" is from the Hindu goddess Mumba Devi, to whom a prominent temple in the city is dedicated.
What about the majority of the world's population, who use writing systems that don't reduce to ASCII (or even Latin-1)? Even English speakers might want quotations of foreign words in their texts to appear as they ought to instead of gibberish.
The burka is not part of Bangladeshi culture. Islam can be fairly critiqued on terms that apply to most of the Muslim world, but choosing a custom that is really particular only to Afghanistan and some surrounding areas and making it the symbol of the entire faith just makes one look uneducated.
Bullshit. The vast majority of people overseen by Roman Catholic charities in parts of the non-Catholic Third World like India and Sub-Saharan Africa remain adherents of the local religion all their lives, and yet they continue to receive help and support from church organizations.
Who do you think is running the homeless shelters and tackling social problems in much of the world?
Then why is the standard of living higher in certain states which distrust the market than in states which seek as free a market as possible?
If by "traditional Chinese characters" you mean the first writings made on oracle bones many thousands of years ago, then perhaps they can be called pictograms. However, the modern Chinese writing system is not pictographic or ideographic and Chinese characters, far from being some kind of abstract referents to things, is tightly bound to the structure of the Chinese language. See DeFrancis' classic work The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984).
Even in Finland there aren't too many Nokia N900s to be seen. I've seen iPhones all the time, and Nokia's lesser (Symbian-based) phones, but the company doesn't seem to know how or even if to market the N900. I played with one in a shop and liked it, and it's the only one of the current smartphones that would give me the hacking environment and freedom that I want, but with Maemo being phased out for something called MeeGo that might not even run on the N900, I'm too nervous that this phone is at something of a deadend support-wise. I'm holding out to see what Nokia's MeeGo device looks like.
Only sometimes. At least in the contemporary art music world, I've talked to employees of some publishers' who are happy that recordings are so widely shared now, since the more of a fanbase their composers have, the more they get programmed at concerts and thus make the publisher money.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), as its name suggests, deals with recordings. Copying of musical scores falls under the domain of music publishers, entirely separate organizations.
Space and defense are intertwined. Letting another country gain the lead in space would mean losing our ability to defend ourselves. At least, that's the traditional thinking. Ever notice how space exploration initiatives are generally closely related to a country's military plans?
Since the singularity is near, it's more likely that human expansion into space will proceed through machine bodies. Research on the effects of microgravity is worth doing, but I don't think it completely settles the debate.
I understand your argument, but the idea that ordinary hard work is a good thing is by no means universal. In fact, it seems a fairly recent innovation in parts of the West. In Greek philosophy and so much of today's non-Western world, a supreme human aim is to be free of work (handing it off to servants) in order to dedicate all one's time to the pursuit of wisdom. Granted, a lot of people on the dole are sitting in front of the television all day and making nothing of their new-found free time, but there are ways that a person can better himself without scrubbing floors. My own periods of joblessness have given me time to better familiarize myself with the arts, and while you're waiting for a call to an interview you could always travel a bit and see the world.
The scientific community also opposes the claim that organic food is any healthier. Go organic if you want to help the environment, but organic food is not going to better your health.
The product is intangible in that it can be infinitely duplicated. There is no longer any scarcity.
Most of what are now America's big towns and cities were settled in the early 20th century by farmers, or rather their children. Part of this was indeed that agricultural work did not pay enough, but a key factor was that agricultural work has always been considered rough, dirty labor and, furthermore, agriculture tends to keep people in rural areas without access to cultural offerings like large cinemas, theatre or major sporting events. People naturally want to be where the action is. You see this same thing playing out now all over the world as countries develop.
Geez, just Google "standard of living ratings". The Human Development Index, for example, consistently puts the Nordic countries at the top of the list, and there people who seek employment meeting their qualifications are not pushed into taking crap jobs just for the sake of being employed.
Jobs might not necessary lead to happiness, and correlation does not imply causation, but welfare states that are tolerant of people waiting some length of time for employment that they consider dignified and pleasurable do have higher quality of life and happier populations than states where people are pressured into working at any job possible.
People need a job that makes them happy. Better to have people receiving public assistance while they wait for a job that meets their interests and qualifications than force people to take anything they can get. Yes, your taxes are a couple of percentage points higher if you're working, but quality of life in your country goes through the roof.
People were leaving in droves from American agriculture well before illegal immigration reached major levels. Again, agriculture is simply not work that people want to do. Even if you pay high salaries, the effort required is seen as too great compared to working in, say, the service industry.