Wrong. These jockeys were slaves; beaten, starved, forced to throw up so they'd lose weight, etc. Horse racing in this case was not a sport for pleasure; it was a business, and the child jockeys were held hostage to the financial gain of their owners.
That's actually why you're *less* likely to lose hearing - because you're not as exposed to external background noise, you're not as likely to crank it up.
This is news? Racial minorities suffer from this, the disabled suffer from this ("People First" language bugs the hell out of me... I'm disabled, not "an individual with a disability", okay?), GLBTs suffer from it... it's the reason that "Nothing About Us Without Us" has become a slogan of the disability rights movement; too many decisions "in our best interests" are made by those who know nothing about us, well-intentioned though they may be.
I think Blizzard is being stupid, but I also think I understand why they did it (not that that justifies it, just that I understand), so a bit of Devil's Advocate here. A school's job, IMO, is to prepare students for the real world; to expose them to a diversity of background, of opinion, and of identity. Blizzard's job is not that.
I've been misinterpreted here. My implication was not that power would shift so that caucasians would be the minority (or at least, not the group in power); my implication was that racial differences would perhaps begin to fade away, as we have more and more acceptance of interracial relationships and marriages.
In the case of SG1, it makes a certain amount of sense to have a General lead a team - to handle first contact, diplomacy, etc. Too, promotion isn't just by seniority or how well you do; doing well as a Colonel doesn't mean you have the skills for (or want to have) acting as a General. Different kind of job.
Literacy is very low among people whose first language is ASL. I believe the commonly quoted statistic is that much of the deaf population reads at a 5th grade level? Thus, part of the job description of an ASL interpreter can be to translate English text into ASL.
I know nothing about Japanese sign language, and practically nothing about American sign language, but I believe American sign language shares a similarity to written Japanese in that there are signs for common words most any competent signer knows (similar to kanji), and any particularly uncommon words can be signed out with the letter (or in the Japanese case, hiragana syllable) signs.
Sorta, but not quite. You can fingerspell words you don't know, and some words are derived from their associated letters (i.e., one of the possible signs for "what" looks a lot like a "W" snapped into a "T", and one of the signs for toilet looks like a shaken "T"), but some of these are frowned upon culturally (cultural baggage due to decades of surpression of sign by hearing people). Too, if you depend on fingerspelling too much, you'll find it difficult to communicate; you won't be able to receive well, and while Deaf will put up with receiving it if they know you're learning, it's not sign language, and everyone knows it. Doesn't fit in all that well with the syntax and grammar of ASL, either.
For some people, yes. For others, a recompile is all that's needed. Heck, a faster X11 would boost my productivity quite a bit. I can't think of very many non-Apple programs I use that aren't open source.
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Cornell has the hightest suicide rate among ivy leagues? I still think I was being toyed with)
I think this is true, actually. Not sure who is #2, but I think MIT is #3.
As of Tiger, Caps Lock, Control, Alt/Option, and Meta/Apple/Chyrka/Thingy can all be remapped from inside System Preferences - no need for a 3rd party app.
I am the GGP. I'd rather have captions - my hearing loss' etiology is rare enough that it will likely never be corrected. Too, my experience is that when fully hearing folks are exposed to captions by force (my family, my roommate, etc), they end up preferring captioned and subtitled media to the old, text-less way.
In fact, guess what the largest group of caption-users in the US is right now? Yup, it's not the hearing impaired and deaf - it's people trying to learn english as a second language.
My mistake. But I think the trend is still the same - lower and lower levels of hearing loss are being corrected, so the newest ITC/CIC tech isn't necessarily being used by the same people. I wear a BTE (and the superpower model at that) and it's still not all I'd like... so I guess I am closer to profound than severe.
I only hope that ENT doctors and researchers continue to find ways to repair the ear's mechanisms and perhaps develop nerve repair techniques or we're gonna have a huge population of elderly deaf people 50 years from now (with commensurate increase in volume of PA systems etc.).
I hope not. Maybe with a huge population of elderly deaf/HOH, I will finally have access to captioned movies in the theater, and the hearing aid manufacturers will finally start listening to customers' feature requests.
Hearing aids have changed from "boxes" in shirt pockets and "cords" to the ear to highly sophisticated "completely-in-the-ear canal" aids.
This is a common misconception. "In the canal" (CIC) and "in the ear" (ITE) are generally used to compensate for the kind of hearing loss that wasn't bad enough to be worth correcting in the past. Behind the ear (BTE) aids are used to compensate the kind of loss that used to be corrected by body-worn aids. Those of us with BTEs are usually severely to profoundly deaf.
Besides which, IE:Mac is already incompatible - it uses an entirely different rendering engine! IE:Win uses Trident (although I think IE7 may be using something new) while IE:Mac uses Tasmanian Devil or something like that. Even beyond issues of speed and stability and so on, IE:Mac's rendering is far worse than IE:Win's - unbelievable as that may be.
Chinese. Read it again, it's pretty clear. Especially if you recall that in "Children of the Mind" (which wasn't so great), Peter and Wang-mu visit a Japanese-colonized world.
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Wrong. These jockeys were slaves; beaten, starved, forced to throw up so they'd lose weight, etc. Horse racing in this case was not a sport for pleasure; it was a business, and the child jockeys were held hostage to the financial gain of their owners.
That's actually why you're *less* likely to lose hearing - because you're not as exposed to external background noise, you're not as likely to crank it up.
I think the complaint was that several pages include a topless woman. Of course, if I can't even find Waldo ...
Yeah, but the underlying PDF image is the same - just remove the little black rectangles in Adobe.
This is news? Racial minorities suffer from this, the disabled suffer from this ("People First" language bugs the hell out of me ... I'm disabled, not "an individual with a disability", okay?), GLBTs suffer from it ... it's the reason that "Nothing About Us Without Us" has become a slogan of the disability rights movement; too many decisions "in our best interests" are made by those who know nothing about us, well-intentioned though they may be.
I think Blizzard is being stupid, but I also think I understand why they did it (not that that justifies it, just that I understand), so a bit of Devil's Advocate here. A school's job, IMO, is to prepare students for the real world; to expose them to a diversity of background, of opinion, and of identity. Blizzard's job is not that.
And the hair ... there's just too much hair ...
Right, but they can use this information to create ... well, a vector field, I suppose, of how people travel. That's all they really need.
I've been misinterpreted here. My implication was not that power would shift so that caucasians would be the minority (or at least, not the group in power); my implication was that racial differences would perhaps begin to fade away, as we have more and more acceptance of interracial relationships and marriages.
In the case of SG1, it makes a certain amount of sense to have a General lead a team - to handle first contact, diplomacy, etc. Too, promotion isn't just by seniority or how well you do; doing well as a Colonel doesn't mean you have the skills for (or want to have) acting as a General. Different kind of job.
Them: What's a nigger, pale boy?
Literacy is very low among people whose first language is ASL. I believe the commonly quoted statistic is that much of the deaf population reads at a 5th grade level? Thus, part of the job description of an ASL interpreter can be to translate English text into ASL.
I know nothing about Japanese sign language, and practically nothing about American sign language, but I believe American sign language shares a similarity to written Japanese in that there are signs for common words most any competent signer knows (similar to kanji), and any particularly uncommon words can be signed out with the letter (or in the Japanese case, hiragana syllable) signs.
Sorta, but not quite. You can fingerspell words you don't know, and some words are derived from their associated letters (i.e., one of the possible signs for "what" looks a lot like a "W" snapped into a "T", and one of the signs for toilet looks like a shaken "T"), but some of these are frowned upon culturally (cultural baggage due to decades of surpression of sign by hearing people). Too, if you depend on fingerspelling too much, you'll find it difficult to communicate; you won't be able to receive well, and while Deaf will put up with receiving it if they know you're learning, it's not sign language, and everyone knows it. Doesn't fit in all that well with the syntax and grammar of ASL, either.
For some people, yes. For others, a recompile is all that's needed. Heck, a faster X11 would boost my productivity quite a bit. I can't think of very many non-Apple programs I use that aren't open source.
Cornell has the hightest suicide rate among ivy leagues? I still think I was being toyed with)
I think this is true, actually. Not sure who is #2, but I think MIT is #3.
As of Tiger, Caps Lock, Control, Alt/Option, and Meta/Apple/Chyrka/Thingy can all be remapped from inside System Preferences - no need for a 3rd party app.
The roof fine is now "up to $500", or it will be in February.
Yeah, 'cuz that rug tied the room together, man.
I am the GGP. I'd rather have captions - my hearing loss' etiology is rare enough that it will likely never be corrected. Too, my experience is that when fully hearing folks are exposed to captions by force (my family, my roommate, etc), they end up preferring captioned and subtitled media to the old, text-less way.
In fact, guess what the largest group of caption-users in the US is right now? Yup, it's not the hearing impaired and deaf - it's people trying to learn english as a second language.
My mistake. But I think the trend is still the same - lower and lower levels of hearing loss are being corrected, so the newest ITC/CIC tech isn't necessarily being used by the same people. I wear a BTE (and the superpower model at that) and it's still not all I'd like ... so I guess I am closer to profound than severe.
I only hope that ENT doctors and researchers continue to find ways to repair the ear's mechanisms and perhaps develop nerve repair techniques or we're gonna have a huge population of elderly deaf people 50 years from now (with commensurate increase in volume of PA systems etc.).
I hope not. Maybe with a huge population of elderly deaf/HOH, I will finally have access to captioned movies in the theater, and the hearing aid manufacturers will finally start listening to customers' feature requests.
Hearing aids have changed from "boxes" in shirt pockets and "cords" to the ear to highly sophisticated "completely-in-the-ear canal" aids.
This is a common misconception. "In the canal" (CIC) and "in the ear" (ITE) are generally used to compensate for the kind of hearing loss that wasn't bad enough to be worth correcting in the past. Behind the ear (BTE) aids are used to compensate the kind of loss that used to be corrected by body-worn aids. Those of us with BTEs are usually severely to profoundly deaf.
Besides which, IE:Mac is already incompatible - it uses an entirely different rendering engine! IE:Win uses Trident (although I think IE7 may be using something new) while IE:Mac uses Tasmanian Devil or something like that. Even beyond issues of speed and stability and so on, IE:Mac's rendering is far worse than IE:Win's - unbelievable as that may be.
Many deaf-blind live and travel alone with only occasional assistance. It's not easy, but it can be done.
Chinese. Read it again, it's pretty clear. Especially if you recall that in "Children of the Mind" (which wasn't so great), Peter and Wang-mu visit a Japanese-colonized world.