As an American who was raised overseas I have had the chance to see both sides of the coin. I can state from being in "my" country for 25 years now that I have yet to see anything but blatant rigid intolerance for any differences so often as to color my own support of "my" country.
I may not agree with Springer but I think that he is being persecuted. Guards,locked class rooms and an concealed office. How would you feel if you were in his shoes?
I am a true bi-lingual and my wife also studied this in college. Here is the gist of it, bi-lingual brains are wired differrently (makes me a mutant ). The brain forms pair-words of equivalent words. so if you say house in my brain house-haus or haus-house is accessed. Based on the aural input I then strip off the other language construct. Since I parse English/German it is actually easier since they are linguistically close. I dont envy people that have say English/Japanese or Chinese. And yes I can generally think in both languages but mostly when I am alone. The best way to describe that is that when I am alone I can here the words of the language(s) in my head but not when I am around other people. I suspect that I use the internal symbolic language when around other people in order for it to be my translator. Oh yeah, until I met my wife I didnt know any of this I just did it. Until here I didnt realize what a fun toy I had between my ears.
Based on the following statement from ESR: "I am.... implacably hostile to all forms of Marxism and socialism (which I regard as coequal in evil with Naziism)." I attempted to have a discourse with ESR about his mis-perceptions about poltical systems. I am an American that grew up in Europe and was thus exposed to various systems. His response was simply: "So am I. I stand by my statement." That was in response to my statement about growing up in Europe. I actually was honored to hear from such a "notable", hell I use fetchmail all the time but then I realized that he more or less said " here I am and here I stand" w/o even being willing to enter in any kind of debate. In Germany there are people who have been friends for 20 years who disagree furiously about politics but whose turn is it to buy the beer? Anyway, I have learned that I must re-evaluate this man in light of the fact that he has a problem with criticism. I dont need another "my way or the highway" person.
In simple terms I know I can be tracked, tagged, bagged, categorized whatever. I personally believe that if you cant tell someone something to their face then step away from the keyboard.
At the end of the day I have to be able to look myself in the mirror, nothing else, nothing less.
"Root(Deity) hates cowards" Unknown (Substitute your favority deity}
PS I love the put down the chalupa option on the latest poll.
Again and again, America is not the sum and be all of the Internet. The Internet is color-blind. If racism is an issue it is only in America, think of all the other non-white countries that are on the Internet. I started out as poor, white Euro-trash and I got on the Internet.
India is on the Internet (non-white) Africa is on the Internet (non-white) Asia is on the Internet (non-white) Europe is on the Internet (mixed races) South America is on the Internet (mixed races)
And what does that leave? America has a race problem.
Get a grip, these problems are the results of the sublte ontinuation of racist policies that American society pursues. It is not the fault of the Internet. Handle it!
1.) I can design a better web page than theirs (stock quotes update every 15-20 minutes, accounts once a day, hunhh?)
2.) Their C/S people are largely clueless (I have done T/S and C/S before)
3.) I went thru all their hoops and whistles and apparently still didnt get any shares after all.
4.) Barring some miracle tomorrow, I will do whatever it take to close down the etrade account, will file as many complaints as legally possible with whomever including SEC, Redhat, and any media source that is available and will actively consider starting a boycott etrade campaign. (no stupidity should go unpunished.)
I wanted to buy these shares for the future to have a voice/ownership in a product I use and support. The long term profit would have been an extra perk.
Hmmmm..... wonder how many shares Microsoft bought.
Sorry, but do I smell trolling? Sniff sniff yup trolling. I aint a Lie-nuts rabbit maroon but methinks though art trolling for some flambe. Nice try, now go away before the real rabid Linux morons find you.
Ohhh yahhh! Wont be bad ar all, what with Janet Reno chairing, the FBI and the DEA in the group. We know where they stand on these issues. When will America realize that it doesnt control the Internet anymore? Not that the other governments are any better, but they will likely rip us to shreds while trying to "impose order".
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I liked the article even if it did ramble a bit.
As an American who was raised overseas I have had
the chance to see both sides of the coin. I can
state from being in "my" country for 25 years
now that I have yet to see anything but blatant
rigid intolerance for any differences so often
as to color my own support of "my" country.
I may not agree with Springer but I think that
he is being persecuted. Guards,locked class rooms
and an concealed office. How would you feel if
you were in his shoes?
Change is bad and we dont want to have to think!
I am a true bi-lingual and my wife also studied this in college. Here is the gist of it, bi-lingual brains are wired differrently (makes me a mutant ). The brain forms pair-words of equivalent words. so if you say house in my brain house-haus or haus-house is accessed. Based on the aural input I then strip off the other language construct. Since I parse English/German it is actually easier since they are linguistically close. I dont envy people that have say English/Japanese or Chinese. And yes I can generally think in both languages but mostly when I am alone. The best way to describe that is that when I am alone I can here the words of the language(s) in my head but not when I am around other people. I suspect that I use the internal symbolic language when around other people in order for it to be my translator. Oh yeah, until I met my wife I didnt know any of this I just did it. Until here I didnt realize what a fun toy I had between my ears.
Based on the following statement from ESR: .... implacably hostile to all forms of Marxism and socialism (which I regard as coequal in evil with Naziism)."
"I am
I attempted to have a discourse with ESR about
his mis-perceptions about poltical systems.
I am an American that grew up in Europe and was
thus exposed to various systems.
His response was simply:
"So am I. I stand by my statement." That was in response to my statement about growing up in Europe.
I actually was honored to hear from such a
"notable", hell I use fetchmail all the time but
then I realized that he more or less said "
here I am and here I stand" w/o even being willing
to enter in any kind of debate. In Germany there
are people who have been friends for 20 years who
disagree furiously about politics but whose turn
is it to buy the beer? Anyway, I have learned that
I must re-evaluate this man in light of the fact that he has a problem with criticism.
I dont need another "my way or the highway" person.
In simple terms I know I can be tracked, tagged,
bagged, categorized whatever. I personally
believe that if you cant tell someone something
to their face then step away from the keyboard.
At the end of the day I have to be able to look
myself in the mirror, nothing else, nothing less.
"Root(Deity) hates cowards" Unknown
(Substitute your favority deity}
PS I love the put down the chalupa option on the
latest poll.
Actually to be fair idiots are everywhere!
Again and again, America is not the sum and be
all of the Internet. The Internet is color-blind.
If racism is an issue it is only in America, think
of all the other non-white countries that are on
the Internet. I started out as poor, white
Euro-trash and I got on the Internet.
India is on the Internet (non-white)
Africa is on the Internet (non-white)
Asia is on the Internet (non-white)
Europe is on the Internet (mixed races)
South America is on the Internet (mixed races)
And what does that leave?
America has a race problem.
Get a grip, these problems are the results of
the sublte ontinuation of racist policies that
American society pursues. It is not the fault
of the Internet. Handle it!
Euro-trash American Geezer Geek!
The number one reason is that work is evil and
a four letter word.
I was a an invitee and this is what I learned:
1.) I can design a better web page than theirs
(stock quotes update every 15-20 minutes, accounts
once a day, hunhh?)
2.) Their C/S people are largely clueless
(I have done T/S and C/S before)
3.) I went thru all their hoops and whistles and
apparently still didnt get any shares after all.
4.) Barring some miracle tomorrow, I will do
whatever it take to close down the etrade account,
will file as many complaints as legally possible
with whomever including SEC, Redhat, and any
media source that is available and will actively
consider starting a boycott etrade campaign.
(no stupidity should go unpunished.)
I wanted to buy these shares for the future to
have a voice/ownership in a product I use and support. The long term profit would have been an
extra perk.
Hmmmm..... wonder how many shares Microsoft bought.
Sorry, but do I smell trolling? Sniff sniff
yup trolling. I aint a Lie-nuts rabbit maroon but methinks though art trolling for some flambe.
Nice try, now go away before the real rabid
Linux morons find you.
Ohhh yahhh! Wont be bad ar all, what with Janet Reno chairing, the FBI and the DEA in the group. We know where they stand on these issues. When will America realize that it doesnt control the Internet anymore? Not that the other governments are any better, but they will likely rip us to shreds while trying to "impose order".