My highest spam count was 1170 spams/day. - in 2001 I lasted a week, if that. The only way to avoid it was to change my email domain. But for the life of me, I just don't get it! By now, who would fall for spam any more???? IMHO it's dying and going to wither away....
Yeah... me too. I was wondering which Thunderbird was in trouble! T1, T2, T3, T4, T(n)? I was going to drop Gerry Anderson an email to see if I could help, but I'm too busy watching the brand new digitally enhanced UFO boxed series which is OUT OF THIS WORLD!
You can set most email apps to download headers first. You can sort them on size and choose which email you want to download and delete the spam/crap/fw straight off the server.
A virus is 'life as we know it' yet requires a cell to duplicate. The DNA that he's using is constructed on a pattern. It is not using elements of 'live' DNA. So in effect, he is creating artificial life.
HAHAHAHA! Intelligent design? Looks like it's happening! Unless someone could prove that Venter is not intelligent, I think the Creationists win this one!
Now who said (paraphrase) "There is nothing new that hasn't been done yet."???
No. This is NOT coincidence. I believe that you've uncovered a cover-up! Well done! Now let us see Uncle Steve get out of this one!!!! Quote from Wikipedia "Darwin is composed of code developed by Apple along with code derived from NEXTSTEP"
NEXTSTEP? Is this the Next Step Uncle Steve?
There's more to this that meets intelligent design...
David Pogue is probably the most overrated and underinformed writer. He has lost all credulity for his inane opinions foisted upon us by his employers.
Idiots! What a dumb move. Geophysicist Nerd 1: "Hey let's drill a hole 2.5 miles into a known fault!" Geophysicist Nerd 2: "OK! Let's do it." drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill Nerd 2: "Now what?" Nerd 1: "Ummm... How about we put some sensors down there?" Nerd 2: "Hey! Why not!!!" Nerd 1: "Errmmm... Shit! We've only got 1000ft of wire!" Nerd 2: "Damn!" . . "Hey! What's that really hot red stuff bubbling out of the hole?"
lol Thanks for ruining the surprise! It's nice with jam too. You can make it at home (an ersatz form). Get some pre-made bread dough, bring it to room temp and slice into thin, small palm sized pieces. Flatten it and put it into fresh hot vegetable oil, maybe 2 or 3 at a time. They will expand somewhat. Keep an eye on it and flip them as they turn golden brown. Drain and place on paper kitchen towels.
Toppings: Basic Savory: Half-crush a clove of garlic and rub it over the top of a hot langos. Salt to taste. or Sweet: Any jam spread over it. Try sour cherry.
Lard: Well you can use that, but your heart won't thank you even though your stomach will.
Brilliant! I now know more about this than I thought existed! So I presume that now that langos (haven't worked out how to do the accents),is multinational, its survival is guaranteed, even if the Hungarian language disappears!
The reason why I wouldn't divulge what it was in the first place was to make the point that unless you knew the language and the culture (and in this case the diaspora), it would be lost.
Can't agree with you more. Ignore the anonymous coward. My favourite snack, when I'm in Vienna or Budapest, is 'Langos' (pron:laangawsh) You can have it with salt, garlic, jam or just plain. All I do is go up to a corner seller and ask for one. Better than pointing and making other hand gestures. And I know what it is. I understand why the Viennese have it but no other Austrian town/city has it. Translation?: I'm not telling. An Austrian pizza? No not quite. A hot dog? There's no dog in it. Pomme Frits? Nope. Some kind of pie? Not telling! Yet this piece of delicious whatever will disappear when the Viennese and Hungarians do.
On your other point and as others have commented concerning China as being a contender for a universal language, I doubt it would ever happen as their script precludes it from general acceptance.
I do understand and concur that some sort of universal language is already existant, currently being English, but it can never universally contain all the subtleties of culture of all the peoples that speak it today or in the future. Like the US dollar, it is common 'currency' around the world, especially where it matters- and that is simply business. Thanks for your insight.
You are right. Certain cultures and their histories do not promote war as they are mature peoples and have racially learned or were never disposed to that kind of conquest. I too come from a culture of ancient language (part Sumerian) that will disappear if we're not careful.
'erb and Herb? Normalicy and Normality? Damn yanks! Aluminum instead of Aluminium. Sulfur instead of Sulphur! Damn yanks!!!! And how come when I choose any other English in MS that I still get Favorites instead of Favourites!!! Damn neighbors!
Agree. Although I'm not Lithuanian, I know exactly how important language and the origins and history of languages are, and I thank you for bringing it up.
I agree also. This really is the wrong forum for the cognoscenti. The point that is being made, is that fewer languages would be spoken by more people in an effort to communicate on a day-to-day basis. This they hold is good. It does make sense having a defacto world language that English may just be, just for communicating prices, needs etc. Shopping language. I don't think that we need to lose a tongue to achieve that.
There is also the intonation that each language and dialect has. No one seems to have mentioned that as yet. Words for cuisine, music, instrumentation, poetry, song verses and rhythms cannot be 'replaced' by an all encompassing language. As for English being the dominant language? Well the Romans were an inclusive race and presumed that Latin would be spoken everywhere, yet the fall of their civilization also meant the death of Latin.
Loan words are excellent criteria of the history and origins of people and the diaspora. If we preserve languages and the people who speak them, then it can only lead to cultural enrichment for the whole world.
For example, the Ubykh language (Circassian) is no more, with the last speaker dying in 1992. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubykh_people As a culture, they had skills and methods that are now lost to us. The skills may not be important to a Chinese trying to understand an Indian speaking English on front line support, but they were damn good horse breeders and riders and could foretell the future by casting beans or looking at a shoulder blade of an animal. After a few more generations, the cuisine would be gone, their music and poetry already vanished as a performance art and their unique folk histories and knowledge of lineage gone forever.
This should never happen, but it does on a regular basis. Cultures are vanishing and we are less for it.
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My highest spam count was 1170 spams/day. - in 2001
I lasted a week, if that. The only way to avoid it was to change my email domain.
But for the life of me, I just don't get it!
By now, who would fall for spam any more????
IMHO it's dying and going to wither away....
What! You want us to die from a virulent disease from a dirty telephone????
Geez the nerve of some people!
So they sent up a moon satellite with a B&W camera?
That's pretty dumb... but at least they put a blue filter on it to make it like a movie.
Yeah... me too. I was wondering which Thunderbird was in trouble! T1, T2, T3, T4, T(n)?
I was going to drop Gerry Anderson an email to see if I could help, but I'm too busy watching the brand new digitally enhanced UFO boxed series which is OUT OF THIS WORLD!
Not all true.
Outlook uses Outlook Express's Newsreader.
You can set most email apps to download headers first. You can sort them on size and choose which email you want to download and delete the spam/crap/fw straight off the server.
Does it run Vista?
A virus is 'life as we know it' yet requires a cell to duplicate.
The DNA that he's using is constructed on a pattern. It is not using elements of 'live' DNA.
So in effect, he is creating artificial life.
HAHAHAHA! Intelligent design? Looks like it's happening!
Unless someone could prove that Venter is not intelligent, I think the Creationists win this one!
Now who said (paraphrase) "There is nothing new that hasn't been done yet."???
No. This is NOT coincidence.
I believe that you've uncovered a cover-up!
Well done!
Now let us see Uncle Steve get out of this one!!!!
Quote from Wikipedia "Darwin is composed of code developed by Apple along with code derived from NEXTSTEP"
NEXTSTEP? Is this the Next Step Uncle Steve?
There's more to this that meets intelligent design...
Australia.
Would you guys please get a decent Pres? And while you're at it, an Administration as well?
Thanks.
David Pogue is probably the most overrated and underinformed writer. He has lost all credulity for his inane opinions foisted upon us by his employers.
Idiots!
What a dumb move.
Geophysicist Nerd 1: "Hey let's drill a hole 2.5 miles into a known fault!"
Geophysicist Nerd 2: "OK! Let's do it."
drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill
Nerd 2: "Now what?"
Nerd 1: "Ummm... How about we put some sensors down there?"
Nerd 2: "Hey! Why not!!!"
Nerd 1: "Errmmm... Shit! We've only got 1000ft of wire!"
Nerd 2: "Damn!"
.
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"Hey! What's that really hot red stuff bubbling out of the hole?"
Geez! After you freeze them, you need to COOK them - http://www.audioexcellenceaz.com/audiodharmacablecooker.htm
Ermm.. Fap is the sound of masturbation?
Gee. I never listened before.....
lol
Thanks for ruining the surprise!
It's nice with jam too.
You can make it at home (an ersatz form).
Get some pre-made bread dough, bring it to room temp and slice into thin, small palm sized pieces.
Flatten it and put it into fresh hot vegetable oil, maybe 2 or 3 at a time.
They will expand somewhat. Keep an eye on it and flip them as they turn golden brown.
Drain and place on paper kitchen towels.
Toppings:
Basic Savory: Half-crush a clove of garlic and rub it over the top of a hot langos. Salt to taste.
or
Sweet: Any jam spread over it. Try sour cherry.
Lard: Well you can use that, but your heart won't thank you even though your stomach will.
Brilliant! I now know more about this than I thought existed!
So I presume that now that langos (haven't worked out how to do the accents),is multinational, its survival is guaranteed, even if the Hungarian language disappears!
The reason why I wouldn't divulge what it was in the first place was to make the point that unless you knew the language and the culture (and in this case the diaspora), it would be lost.
Perhaps now for langos it's a moot point.
Can't agree with you more. Ignore the anonymous coward.
My favourite snack, when I'm in Vienna or Budapest, is 'Langos' (pron:laangawsh)
You can have it with salt, garlic, jam or just plain. All I do is go up to a corner seller and ask for one.
Better than pointing and making other hand gestures. And I know what it is. I understand why the Viennese have it but no other Austrian town/city has it.
Translation?: I'm not telling. An Austrian pizza? No not quite. A hot dog? There's no dog in it. Pomme Frits? Nope. Some kind of pie? Not telling!
Yet this piece of delicious whatever will disappear when the Viennese and Hungarians do.
On your other point and as others have commented concerning China as being a contender for a universal language, I doubt it would ever happen as their script precludes it from general acceptance.
I do understand and concur that some sort of universal language is already existant, currently being English, but it can never universally contain all the subtleties of culture of all the peoples that speak it today or in the future.
Like the US dollar, it is common 'currency' around the world, especially where it matters- and that is simply business.
Thanks for your insight.
Just annex Mexico. Make it a state. Solve all the problems with border incursions and all that. Cheaper in the long run too!
You are right. Certain cultures and their histories do not promote war as they are mature peoples and have racially learned or were never disposed to that kind of conquest.
I too come from a culture of ancient language (part Sumerian) that will disappear if we're not careful.
'erb and Herb?
Normalicy and Normality?
Damn yanks!
Aluminum instead of Aluminium.
Sulfur instead of Sulphur!
Damn yanks!!!!
And how come when I choose any other English in MS that I still get Favorites instead of Favourites!!!
Damn neighbors!
Agree. Although I'm not Lithuanian, I know exactly how important language and the origins and history of languages are, and I thank you for bringing it up.
I agree also. This really is the wrong forum for the cognoscenti.
The point that is being made, is that fewer languages would be spoken by more people in an effort to communicate on a day-to-day basis. This they hold is good. It does make sense having a defacto world language that English may just be, just for communicating prices, needs etc. Shopping language. I don't think that we need to lose a tongue to achieve that.
There is also the intonation that each language and dialect has. No one seems to have mentioned that as yet. Words for cuisine, music, instrumentation, poetry, song verses and rhythms cannot be 'replaced' by an all encompassing language.
As for English being the dominant language? Well the Romans were an inclusive race and presumed that Latin would be spoken everywhere, yet the fall of their civilization also meant the death of Latin.
Loan words are excellent criteria of the history and origins of people and the diaspora.
If we preserve languages and the people who speak them, then it can only lead to cultural enrichment for the whole world.
For example, the Ubykh language (Circassian) is no more, with the last speaker dying in 1992. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubykh_people
As a culture, they had skills and methods that are now lost to us. The skills may not be important to a Chinese trying to understand an Indian speaking English on front line support, but they were damn good horse breeders and riders and could foretell the future by casting beans or looking at a shoulder blade of an animal. After a few more generations, the cuisine would be gone, their music and poetry already vanished as a performance art and their unique folk histories and knowledge of lineage gone forever.
This should never happen, but it does on a regular basis. Cultures are vanishing and we are less for it.