Miss Canada: "Uncle Sam, Don't prod your nose where it don't go. Three times before I tossed you out in the snow. If you keep hacking, you'll
get a darned good whacking"
Uncle Sam: "Oooohhhh - I like being whacked! Whack me here, Whack me there. Whack me on the bed, and under the chair. Whack me by whip, Whack me by stick. Whack me in Nam, Whack me in Iruq. Now I'll get whacked from little miss Canuck!
Physicists have completed a study comparing the randomness in Darl Mcbride's brainwaves to that produced by 30 typing rats. After conducting several tests, they have found that while sequences of digits from Darl are indeed an acceptable source for randomness, Darl's digit string does not always produce randomness as effectively as rats if the rats are using unixware.
In some ways your frustration is understandable, because you thought that an "English Only" forum was a normal and acceptable thing. But the idea of calling something "English Only" is objectionable to those of us who are non-English first. It is akin to saying "Americans Only","British Only","WASP Only" or some-such nonsense.
In a few years the American economy will be destroyed by the Bushite's rampant spending program and bizarre wars, plus an ever-growing need for every American to buy toys made in China
and software written in India. Over 1 billion dollars more in the red every day - the US economy is an unsupportable bubble waiting to burst.
When it does burst, China/India (and Brazil:-) will take over the remnants, and you're going to feel rather put out when the first "Chinese/etc only" signs come up. But since you've accepted this kind of treatment already for Brazilians on Orkut, you won't have any grounds to complain when it happens to you next. And it will within in our lifetimes.
Also, if English speakers hadn't made such a point of being rude to the Brazilians on Orkut, they wouldn't have started retailiating. There were a truckload of "I hate Brazilians" lists being started up by American and other yobs. What's the point? It's not going to stop a global trend. It just makes the Americans look silly.
Which gets back to Orkut being at least partialy responsible for the mess it is. They should have made it be unable to specify languages on the list in the first place.
In the end, it's hooray for Brazilians for fighting back what they've had to put up with for so long. And it's time for a few more uni-lingual Americans and British and so on to learn a few other languages as well.
Orkut tries to maintain an air of "exclusivity" by having reference-only membership. People then think that they have the right to say anything because they were "invited". Lack of any overall moderation lets people become extremists.
I was in Orkut for a short while and found the anti-Brazilian hate-mongering to be too much to put up with. Some Americans seemed to be the worst of the bunch - they thought they had more "rights" to be on Orkut than anyone else
since Orkut was "American" (although written largely by a Turk), and objected to the Brazilian language being used.
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Miss Canada: "Uncle Sam, Don't prod your nose where it don't go. Three times before I tossed you out in the snow. If you keep hacking, you'll get a darned good whacking"
Uncle Sam: "Oooohhhh - I like being whacked! Whack me here, Whack me there. Whack me on the bed, and under the chair. Whack me by whip, Whack me by stick. Whack me in Nam, Whack me in Iruq. Now I'll get whacked from little miss Canuck!
Physicists have completed a study comparing the randomness in Darl Mcbride's brainwaves to that produced by 30 typing rats. After conducting several tests, they have found that while sequences of digits from Darl are indeed an acceptable source for randomness, Darl's digit string does not always produce randomness as effectively as rats if the rats are using unixware.
Shirley and Spinoza have been doing this for at least a couple of years:
205.188.234.67:8004
Sun colapsing into itself - the creation of a black hole within our own galexy!
Investors on the event horizon won't know if they're falling in or not.
I look at a Chinese site, and an hour later I'm hungry again.
They should save it up. At 2% interest, they'll double their money by the next release.
Anyone who starts out saying "Your opinion doesn't count" shouldn't be anywhere a "Score 4, Insightful" regardless of what the topic is.
In some ways your frustration is understandable, because you thought that an "English Only" forum was a normal and acceptable thing. But the idea of calling something "English Only" is objectionable to those of us who are non-English first. It is akin to saying "Americans Only","British Only","WASP Only" or some-such nonsense.
In a few years the American economy will be destroyed by the Bushite's rampant spending program and bizarre wars, plus an ever-growing need for every American to buy toys made in China and software written in India. Over 1 billion dollars more in the red every day - the US economy is an unsupportable bubble waiting to burst.
When it does burst, China/India (and Brazil :-) will take over the remnants, and you're going to feel rather put out when the first "Chinese/etc only" signs come up. But since you've accepted this kind of treatment already for Brazilians on Orkut, you won't have any grounds to complain when it happens to you next. And it will within in our lifetimes.
Also, if English speakers hadn't made such a point of being rude to the Brazilians on Orkut, they wouldn't have started retailiating. There were a truckload of "I hate Brazilians" lists being started up by American and other yobs. What's the point? It's not going to stop a global trend. It just makes the Americans look silly.
Which gets back to Orkut being at least partialy responsible for the mess it is. They should have made it be unable to specify languages on the list in the first place.
In the end, it's hooray for Brazilians for fighting back what they've had to put up with for so long. And it's time for a few more uni-lingual Americans and British and so on to learn a few other languages as well.
Orkut tries to maintain an air of "exclusivity" by having reference-only membership. People then think that they have the right to say anything because they were "invited". Lack of any overall moderation lets people become extremists. I was in Orkut for a short while and found the anti-Brazilian hate-mongering to be too much to put up with. Some Americans seemed to be the worst of the bunch - they thought they had more "rights" to be on Orkut than anyone else since Orkut was "American" (although written largely by a Turk), and objected to the Brazilian language being used.