I also recall a few years ago when one of the big US ISPs blocked Skype. And not only did they block communications between Skype users, they also blocked incoming POTS calls via SkypeIn to their telephone customers.
AT&T got a largely free ride on infrastructure from the government, which means your taxes helped pay for it. So, yes, AT&T do owe you (and a lot of other US taxpayers) something in return, don't you think?
English certainly does conjugate verbs. I think you meant that English doesn't form adjective+noun compounds in the same fashion that German does. (FWIW, Swedish does this, too.)
You do realise that this "Hitler was a leftist" BS only recently became a thing when it started being pumped up by right-wingers and trolls specifically to derail American political discourse, don't you?
What'd be good for you would be a little knowledge of actual history.
Your claims regarding American politics are also highly suspect. The truth of the matter is that US Democrats would be considered "moderate right" in just any other Western country, and Republicans would be considered "far right". NO viable player on the US espouses anything like an actual leftist agenda, because, to begin with, not one of them presents any serious challenge to the 1% or the corporations. When there's a party, represented by candidates on national ballots, that has the balls to espouse things like nationalisation of industry, breakup and redistribution of large estates, universal free education at all levels, and universal free health care, then you'll know that the US has finally grown a left wing.
Placing or keeping the means of production in a few favoured private hands is a hallmark of right-wing régimes.
It's also common in some countries to write the surname first in addresses. The resident directories posted in the entrances to apartment buildings and the name plates on apartment doors here (Sweden) typically show the surname first, followed by the first initial of the given name.
The notion that a woman changes her name upon marriage is by no means universal. In my wife's home country, it's simply unheard of, and it's no longer the default or even common practise in the country where we were married and currently reside. Changing it didn't even occur to either one of us. (And it was the same when I married my ex-wife, who is also not from the US.)
Every time we visit my family in the US, she gets grilled at passport control over the fact her last name's different from mine. It's been suggested to her by members of my family that she do a deed poll and get it changed, which she thinks is bizarre: "My name is my name. What the hell does that have to do with whether I'm married, or to whom? Isn't that what the ring is for?"
It's not a matter of "legal requirements", it's simply a long-standing convention that everyone else in the English-speaking world (other than your family) doesn't have a problem understanding or following.
We'd rather salute the folks who worked so hard behind the scenes to slip systemd into distros before the users had time to realise what was going on—much less protest—with a hearty "Fuck you, assholes".
They don't do that in Guangzhou anymore, where in the last 4-5 years I've been seeing people getting ticketed for simply tossing their trash over the fence surrounding the bins and the like. (And no, not some tourist area--this is a very typical neighbourhood where there's little if any signage using Latin characters and I'm more often than not the only Caucasian in sight.) I can't speak for other areas, but the authorities in Guangdong really started cracking down on littering, etc. a few years ago, and you can readily see the difference, at least in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Zhuhai.
(They also banned most vehicles with 2-cycle motors 3-4 years ago in the cities, and the difference in the air quality--especially in Shenzhen!--is almost unbelievable.)
"A blow to X" = "something causing X trouble", so I've no idea why you insist on turning it backwards. The headline uses the idiom correctly, and you apparently know less about English than msmash does, which is... something.
Since both forms of communication work at the speed of light, that's exactly correct: it'll take about 5.5 hours for the telegram to reach New Horizons.
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There are plenty of reasons why Pai is worthy of our contempt. Not a one of them has anything to do with his ethnicity.
Bannon is a traitor to his country, to freedom, and to humanity in general.
Why on Earth would anyone want to mod up something that is, as you point out, shit?
I also recall a few years ago when one of the big US ISPs blocked Skype. And not only did they block communications between Skype users, they also blocked incoming POTS calls via SkypeIn to their telephone customers.
AT&T got a largely free ride on infrastructure from the government, which means your taxes helped pay for it. So, yes, AT&T do owe you (and a lot of other US taxpayers) something in return, don't you think?
I wouldn't have suspected you of all people of being an anarchist.
English certainly does conjugate verbs. I think you meant that English doesn't form adjective+noun compounds in the same fashion that German does. (FWIW, Swedish does this, too.)
But your analysis is otherwise spot-on.
You do realise that this "Hitler was a leftist" BS only recently became a thing when it started being pumped up by right-wingers and trolls specifically to derail American political discourse, don't you?
So Francisco Franco was a leftist?
What'd be good for you would be a little knowledge of actual history.
Your claims regarding American politics are also highly suspect. The truth of the matter is that US Democrats would be considered "moderate right" in just any other Western country, and Republicans would be considered "far right". NO viable player on the US espouses anything like an actual leftist agenda, because, to begin with, not one of them presents any serious challenge to the 1% or the corporations. When there's a party, represented by candidates on national ballots, that has the balls to espouse things like nationalisation of industry, breakup and redistribution of large estates, universal free education at all levels, and universal free health care, then you'll know that the US has finally grown a left wing.
Placing or keeping the means of production in a few favoured private hands is a hallmark of right-wing régimes.
It's also common in some countries to write the surname first in addresses. The resident directories posted in the entrances to apartment buildings and the name plates on apartment doors here (Sweden) typically show the surname first, followed by the first initial of the given name.
The notion that a woman changes her name upon marriage is by no means universal. In my wife's home country, it's simply unheard of, and it's no longer the default or even common practise in the country where we were married and currently reside. Changing it didn't even occur to either one of us. (And it was the same when I married my ex-wife, who is also not from the US.)
Every time we visit my family in the US, she gets grilled at passport control over the fact her last name's different from mine. It's been suggested to her by members of my family that she do a deed poll and get it changed, which she thinks is bizarre: "My name is my name. What the hell does that have to do with whether I'm married, or to whom? Isn't that what the ring is for?"
It's not a matter of "legal requirements", it's simply a long-standing convention that everyone else in the English-speaking world (other than your family) doesn't have a problem understanding or following.
I'm pretty sure that Narcocide != APK.
We'd rather salute the folks who worked so hard behind the scenes to slip systemd into distros before the users had time to realise what was going on—much less protest—with a hearty "Fuck you, assholes".
That's not the only cost to future generations that we need to think about--and hey, the future is already here.
They don't do that in Guangzhou anymore, where in the last 4-5 years I've been seeing people getting ticketed for simply tossing their trash over the fence surrounding the bins and the like. (And no, not some tourist area--this is a very typical neighbourhood where there's little if any signage using Latin characters and I'm more often than not the only Caucasian in sight.) I can't speak for other areas, but the authorities in Guangdong really started cracking down on littering, etc. a few years ago, and you can readily see the difference, at least in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Zhuhai.
(They also banned most vehicles with 2-cycle motors 3-4 years ago in the cities, and the difference in the air quality--especially in Shenzhen!--is almost unbelievable.)
Who needs landfills? Sweden's got along fine without them for some years now. (And we're not the only ones.)
Stalin was a Georgian. Let's nuke Atlanta.
It is quite possible to be critical of the wealthy and powerful while envying neither their wealth nor their power.
I mean, it's kind of obvious that you do, but that's by no means true of everyone, or even of most people.
Hey, buddy, it's the BEST ancient Flash game! No need to thank me, just doing my part to Make The Internet Great Again.
"A blow to X" = "something causing X trouble", so I've no idea why you insist on turning it backwards. The headline uses the idiom correctly, and you apparently know less about English than msmash does, which is ... something.
And because some hypersensitive Trumpophile thought they detected a dig in your comment, you picked up a cowardly Offtopic mod. Congratulations!
I'm going to be generous and—rather than ask for a citation I know doesn't exist—assume that you were trying to be funny.
(Don't quit your day job.)
Since both forms of communication work at the speed of light, that's exactly correct: it'll take about 5.5 hours for the telegram to reach New Horizons.
An ID requirement works *fairly* only in countries with universal/mandatory ID for all citizens.