I agree with you and I think you are touching on my point exactly. There's no reason to *require* people to learn an official language. The learning of the majority language is enough of a benefit to the individual that it should motivate them to learn it for their own interests. But if for their own personal reasons they have no need to learn the language and they are able to survive in the economy and social network they find themselves in, why is there a necessity for them to use a language which (1) they don't need to survive and (2) they don't need for any personal ambitions they do not have, including a big city new york job?
Give me one other example where people are referred to as "illegals" b/c they committed an illegal act. While I agree that I didn't completely respond to the point you were getting across, I think that the subtleties in the language we use plays an important role in the transfer of ideas.
I think fundamentally the answer is that the mexican government is so far gone that yes, those who have immigrated to the US are hoping the US will be easier to persuade to help them, than it would be to persuade a corrupt government to put some checks and balances in place, get rid of a majority of elected officials, in short - turn the whole government on its head, and hope that it lasted more than a few years before the next policitcal or extremest group took over.
As for your question about why should Mexico expect good treatment of immigrants into the US if they don't treat immigrants to mexico from other places in central america well, goes back to the same issue of corruption. Just because mexico is screwed up doesn't mean we should treat them like crap. Means we should do what we can to help them, considering that we can only give so much, we can only let so many immigrants come in, before our own infrastructure could potentially get bogged down and our economy lose the very strength which makes us attractive to immigrants.
As for forcing immigrants to prove that they know english and forcing them to pay taxes, I have a couple thoughts on that. First, most do pay taxes. And even if they didn't it wouldn't matter, because the benefit gained by our country due to their low wages is already enough in and of itself. Want to pay $5 for a tomato? Didn't think so. And learning english, if you think about it, doesn't really make much sense. What's the big deal about knowing english in the first place - if you can be a productive member of society, more specifically in the subset of society - i.e. town or neighborhood - in which you are living, then it doesn't matter. If you are able to conduct business with fellow community members, and know enough english to pay your phone bills, who cares what language you speak?
What in the world gives you the inclination to refer to a person as an "illegal"? They're people, remember - just like you and your parents and grandparents and (great^N)grandparents who were once illegal immigrants probably at one point, making you an "illegal" by the transitive property.
I think Google could probably improve the quality of radio ads by making them context sensitive, and as long as they have a really, really, really nice voice-2-text, they're in business. Even if the radio deal isn't that profitable, it's experience that will be invaluable for them, as they plan to jump into TV, which is the real goal, probably.
Video online can be quite entertaining, more so than regular TV, b/c they can push the limits a bit more (which can be bad sometimes):
http://www.smashmyipod.com/
Might be sweet to hook your source code into a google desktop index and then deliver the google desktop search results through your web interface. Leverage the power of their search speed and reliability.
--Kalen
Let's start a site that will drive consumers to local businesses, instead of amazon. would be easy to cook something up with amazon's api - but i'm sure that's against TOS, or will be soon. Kind of like http://www.delocator.net/index.php
Having not read TFA, and not knowing exactly what points of ID they intend on teaching, I'd like to point out that all you left wing whackos (for lack of a better term) rely heavily on faith as well in believing that you evolved from a piece of dust over millions of years.
And I'm almost willing to bet that 90% of you who cling to the theory of evolution could cite off hand perhaps 5% of the evolutionary theory explaining why you believe what you believe. You don't KNOW that it's true and probably haven't spent a largely significant amount of time researching the facts.
You accept the theory of evolution because it makes sense and sounds "smarter" than what the "right wing whackos" believe and since you don't have any meaningful experience of god in your life, you're just as inclined to write off the whole ID thing without putting much thought into it.
When you see a creation, an invention - a car, house, bridge, computer, does it even enter your mind that it was created by a series of random events, or does it lead you to believe that there was a creator behind it. How much more the human being.
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I agree with you and I think you are touching on my point exactly. There's no reason to *require* people to learn an official language. The learning of the majority language is enough of a benefit to the individual that it should motivate them to learn it for their own interests. But if for their own personal reasons they have no need to learn the language and they are able to survive in the economy and social network they find themselves in, why is there a necessity for them to use a language which (1) they don't need to survive and (2) they don't need for any personal ambitions they do not have, including a big city new york job?
Give me one other example where people are referred to as "illegals" b/c they committed an illegal act. While I agree that I didn't completely respond to the point you were getting across, I think that the subtleties in the language we use plays an important role in the transfer of ideas.
I think fundamentally the answer is that the mexican government is so far gone that yes, those who have immigrated to the US are hoping the US will be easier to persuade to help them, than it would be to persuade a corrupt government to put some checks and balances in place, get rid of a majority of elected officials, in short - turn the whole government on its head, and hope that it lasted more than a few years before the next policitcal or extremest group took over. As for your question about why should Mexico expect good treatment of immigrants into the US if they don't treat immigrants to mexico from other places in central america well, goes back to the same issue of corruption. Just because mexico is screwed up doesn't mean we should treat them like crap. Means we should do what we can to help them, considering that we can only give so much, we can only let so many immigrants come in, before our own infrastructure could potentially get bogged down and our economy lose the very strength which makes us attractive to immigrants. As for forcing immigrants to prove that they know english and forcing them to pay taxes, I have a couple thoughts on that. First, most do pay taxes. And even if they didn't it wouldn't matter, because the benefit gained by our country due to their low wages is already enough in and of itself. Want to pay $5 for a tomato? Didn't think so. And learning english, if you think about it, doesn't really make much sense. What's the big deal about knowing english in the first place - if you can be a productive member of society, more specifically in the subset of society - i.e. town or neighborhood - in which you are living, then it doesn't matter. If you are able to conduct business with fellow community members, and know enough english to pay your phone bills, who cares what language you speak?
What in the world gives you the inclination to refer to a person as an "illegal"? They're people, remember - just like you and your parents and grandparents and (great^N)grandparents who were once illegal immigrants probably at one point, making you an "illegal" by the transitive property.
I think Google could probably improve the quality of radio ads by making them context sensitive, and as long as they have a really, really, really nice voice-2-text, they're in business. Even if the radio deal isn't that profitable, it's experience that will be invaluable for them, as they plan to jump into TV, which is the real goal, probably.
I tried it out. Watched an episode of CIS - no complaints. It was totally awesome. Best part was the "no commercials" aspect.
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Video online can be quite entertaining, more so than regular TV, b/c they can push the limits a bit more (which can be bad sometimes): http://www.smashmyipod.com/
I'm proud to say that although I'm from the generation of gui users (24 yrs old), I'm a full time Emacs user. GUI's suck. Emacs rules.
What about firefox plugin, ieview?
Might be sweet to hook your source code into a google desktop index and then deliver the google desktop search results through your web interface. Leverage the power of their search speed and reliability. --Kalen
Let's start a site that will drive consumers to local businesses, instead of amazon. would be easy to cook something up with amazon's api - but i'm sure that's against TOS, or will be soon. Kind of like http://www.delocator.net/index.php
Having not read TFA, and not knowing exactly what points of ID they intend on teaching, I'd like to point out that all you left wing whackos (for lack of a better term) rely heavily on faith as well in believing that you evolved from a piece of dust over millions of years. And I'm almost willing to bet that 90% of you who cling to the theory of evolution could cite off hand perhaps 5% of the evolutionary theory explaining why you believe what you believe. You don't KNOW that it's true and probably haven't spent a largely significant amount of time researching the facts. You accept the theory of evolution because it makes sense and sounds "smarter" than what the "right wing whackos" believe and since you don't have any meaningful experience of god in your life, you're just as inclined to write off the whole ID thing without putting much thought into it. When you see a creation, an invention - a car, house, bridge, computer, does it even enter your mind that it was created by a series of random events, or does it lead you to believe that there was a creator behind it. How much more the human being.