Only the North American subsidiary is based in NJ. The company is based in France. From 2.5 seconds of fact-finding:
Arc International employs 12,200 people worldwide including 8000 in France. The group, whose head office is located in Arques, in the French Pas-de-Calais region...
But you are correct that the glasses were manufactured in NJ.
Especially since we 'own our comments'. Not really sure how they define ownership. "Hey congrats on paying off your house and becoming an true homeowner! Oh, you accidentally painted your house numbers in the wrong order? Bummer, looks like your stuck with it now...forever."
And the best part is there will always be some knob discrediting everything you said because of a misspelling.
Kind of OT, but Yahoo Answers comment system is wonked out too. My favorite part is how I can edit my answer after it's been modded up (or down). I can say something like 'To fix your WAP you need to reset to factory defaults and reconfigure', and get modded very high. Questions come in very fast and most are off the main page withing a few minutes, so I can go back 10 minutes later and change my answer to something like 'Call the company at 202-456-1414 and complain. they will give you the runaround, but the secret word is 'potus'. Demand to talk to potus and you will be fine.'
Not dealing with reality in second sentence. Dealing with perception. The reality is present tense, the perception is past tense. Nonlinear thought is key in these difficult times.
Actually the people in the Southern US do speak with a more proper form of English. And they were recognized as such in the antebellum days. Just because post Civil War pop-culture has consistently depicted Southerners are dopes and idiots does not make it so.
Don't ask me. It's called the 'Queen's English' for a reason;)
But I see this thread is evolving into a (so far civil) flame war. So I am going to quietly back out of the room.... But real quick:
Nouns don't generally have an "-ing" form, so they wouldn't be in a dictionary.
Are you whooshing me now? The verbing of a noun is called, well, verbification (or conversion). It can be done with nearly any noun. Just a few examples that are likely listed in the OED.
The whoosh was regarding the 'no'.
And I never said it was common. I only said it was 'proper/correct'.
And the OED is not, even remotely, the 'best' dictionary in the world. Just the most respected. Like calling Oxford or Harvard the 'best' schools. I would recommend a unabridged dictionary, which the OED is not.
But I doubt you would specifically find 'sinked' in any of them, anymore than you would find an -ing version of every noun. Just the way it's said/written in proper English conversation or correspondence.
First of all...whoosh.
Secondly, I would recommend a real (e.g. physical), unabridged dictionary. However if you want you want to use an online dictionary I would recommend thefreedictionary.com as it is far more expansive on pronunciation.
The -ed in past tense verbs becomes more common in ares that have been speaking English for a longer period of time. For example, in the Southern US (where they have been speaking English for a long time), and in England (where English was invented) many verbs are in the -ed format: swimmed, runned, stinged, waked, sinked, etc. I think NPR did a bit about this a few years back.
Actually 'sinked' is more proper/correct, though I no it sounds weird. Kind of like the last line in To Kill a Mockingbird: "[Atticus] would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning"
This video is less than 2 seconds long! If you want to actually see anything...you will need to loop it. Not sure why the posted video wasn't looped already.
I swing that way as well and did not mean to sound as if I were endorsing armed revolution at all. But just a look into history shows that governmental change has never occurred without lots and lots of death. There are bloodless coups once in a while, but often (always?) they are just replacing one corrupt governmental system with another, equally corrupt (and imperceptibly different) governmental system. I do not think governments are extensions of the hoi polloi, but rather extensions of the ruling class(es). For example the US government was not constructed by regular folks (the 'farmers, framers, and fishermen' sort of speak) but by the wealthy, male, land-owners of the day.
My personal spiritual studies have taught me that soon all world governments will consume (or at least attempt to) all religions, and then, be consumed (and destroyed) by God. But, as you said, that is a discussion for another time.
Mobile Phone: a device that can make telephone calls and can be easily transported in a pocket or purse.
Supercomputer: a computing device that people call 'super'.
One is a quantitative definition, and one is a qualitative definition. I will let you decide which is which!
Non-violent means can bring about a social change (e.g. letting people of all colors drink from the same water fountain), but not a government change (e.g. going from a monarchy to a republic). The government in the US is broken and cannot (IMO) be legislated back together. A government change is needed. And government only changes when people revolt (or perhaps with Divine intervention, if you swing that way).
Many States (maybe yours) all 'one party consent'. Which means that only one of the people being recorded has to consent to being recorded (presumably the person making the recording). In a non-OPC State, i think one may have problems with recording conversations....
The only action that would have any effect is collective, armed revolution by a measurable amount of the populace. All I can do is live by my principles and do all I can to refrain from the bread and circuses offered by the King.
...the 12 states in which all parties must consent for a recording to be legal unless, as with TV news crews, it is obvious to all that recording is underway.
So it seem one can avoid prosecution (persecution?) by setting up a tripod and a few lights and making it real clear they are recording?
Slashdot Mirror
I man stepped into the boxing ring
His name was Sock'em Dazer
He took a look around and said...
Where's my Occam's Razor?
Only the North American subsidiary is based in NJ. The company is based in France. From 2.5 seconds of fact-finding:
Arc International employs 12,200 people worldwide including 8000 in France. The group, whose head office is located in Arques, in the French Pas-de-Calais region...
But you are correct that the glasses were manufactured in NJ.
Write Jen a letter asking who the other tipster was.... Jennifer Taggart
2317 Warmouth St.
San Pedro, California 90732
United States
Especially since we 'own our comments'. Not really sure how they define ownership. "Hey congrats on paying off your house and becoming an true homeowner! Oh, you accidentally painted your house numbers in the wrong order? Bummer, looks like your stuck with it now...forever."
And the best part is there will always be some knob discrediting everything you said because of a misspelling.
Kind of OT, but Yahoo Answers comment system is wonked out too. My favorite part is how I can edit my answer after it's been modded up (or down). I can say something like 'To fix your WAP you need to reset to factory defaults and reconfigure', and get modded very high. Questions come in very fast and most are off the main page withing a few minutes, so I can go back 10 minutes later and change my answer to something like 'Call the company at 202-456-1414 and complain. they will give you the runaround, but the secret word is 'potus'. Demand to talk to potus and you will be fine.'
Is not every fantasy-based MMORPG essentially LoTR Online?
I guess it was just destiny for this to happen.
Not dealing with reality in second sentence. Dealing with perception. The reality is present tense, the perception is past tense. Nonlinear thought is key in these difficult times.
Actually the people in the Southern US do speak with a more proper form of English. And they were recognized as such in the antebellum days. Just because post Civil War pop-culture has consistently depicted Southerners are dopes and idiots does not make it so.
As the Borg Queen said (paraphrased): 'Small minded modding from small beings, trying to attack what they don't understand' ;)
I kid, I kid
But I see this thread is evolving into a (so far civil) flame war. So I am going to quietly back out of the room....
But real quick:
Are you whooshing me now? The verbing of a noun is called, well, verbification (or conversion). It can be done with nearly any noun. Just a few examples that are likely listed in the OED.
Batting
Phoning
Emailing
Mousing
Inking
And a few that may not listed:
Incesting
Bookending
Tasing
incentivizing
That is all. As you were.
The whoosh was regarding the 'no'.
And I never said it was common. I only said it was 'proper/correct'.
And the OED is not, even remotely, the 'best' dictionary in the world. Just the most respected. Like calling Oxford or Harvard the 'best' schools. I would recommend a unabridged dictionary, which the OED is not.
But I doubt you would specifically find 'sinked' in any of them, anymore than you would find an -ing version of every noun. Just the way it's said/written in proper English conversation or correspondence.
First of all...whoosh.
Secondly, I would recommend a real (e.g. physical), unabridged dictionary. However if you want you want to use an online dictionary I would recommend thefreedictionary.com as it is far more expansive on pronunciation.
The -ed in past tense verbs becomes more common in ares that have been speaking English for a longer period of time. For example, in the Southern US (where they have been speaking English for a long time), and in England (where English was invented) many verbs are in the -ed format: swimmed, runned, stinged, waked, sinked, etc. I think NPR did a bit about this a few years back.
Actually 'sinked' is more proper/correct, though I no it sounds weird. Kind of like the last line in To Kill a Mockingbird: "[Atticus] would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning"
I had no idea that 'sinkhole' had such a specific definition. I thought was just a hole where the ground has sinked.
This video is less than 2 seconds long! If you want to actually see anything...you will need to loop it. Not sure why the posted video wasn't looped already.
I swing that way as well and did not mean to sound as if I were endorsing armed revolution at all. But just a look into history shows that governmental change has never occurred without lots and lots of death. There are bloodless coups once in a while, but often (always?) they are just replacing one corrupt governmental system with another, equally corrupt (and imperceptibly different) governmental system. I do not think governments are extensions of the hoi polloi, but rather extensions of the ruling class(es). For example the US government was not constructed by regular folks (the 'farmers, framers, and fishermen' sort of speak) but by the wealthy, male, land-owners of the day.
My personal spiritual studies have taught me that soon all world governments will consume (or at least attempt to) all religions, and then, be consumed (and destroyed) by God. But, as you said, that is a discussion for another time.
Mobile Phone: a device that can make telephone calls and can be easily transported in a pocket or purse.
Supercomputer: a computing device that people call 'super'.
One is a quantitative definition, and one is a qualitative definition. I will let you decide which is which!
Non-violent means can bring about a social change (e.g. letting people of all colors drink from the same water fountain), but not a government change (e.g. going from a monarchy to a republic). The government in the US is broken and cannot (IMO) be legislated back together. A government change is needed. And government only changes when people revolt (or perhaps with Divine intervention, if you swing that way).
Many States (maybe yours) all 'one party consent'. Which means that only one of the people being recorded has to consent to being recorded (presumably the person making the recording). In a non-OPC State, i think one may have problems with recording conversations....
Well, that's a matter of much debate.
Usually it's only voice recording that will get you in trouble. Most (all?) store surveillance cameras do not record sound for that very reason.
You mean 99% of the 0.00001% you have actually seen?
The only action that would have any effect is collective, armed revolution by a measurable amount of the populace. All I can do is live by my principles and do all I can to refrain from the bread and circuses offered by the King.
So it seem one can avoid prosecution (persecution?) by setting up a tripod and a few lights and making it real clear they are recording?