I used google earth for directions around moscow, and they were exactly as accurate as the directions I got from muscovites. Then someone told me to just flag down someone with a car and get in... I thought they were joking... (but hey, it's cheaper than a cab!)
Still in Beta. Gmail users can try it free after signing in to their accounts. (don't have gmail? sign up from your mobile device!) Looks like I'll have to use a little more discrimination when I send out those invites...
How about hand to hand combat.. tried it lately.. or just calling your self brave by killing people who have nothing to do with anything with missile (who is the terrorist). Well, actually, yes, we have tried hand-to-hand combat recently... when we... uhh... fought the Romans. Yea. The Romans. About a year ago. Don't you read the news? We kicked their asses too, and we might just do it again real soon if Caesar can't get his crap together. But that whole conflict was really just a little demo for the Mongolians (if Ghengis doesn't stop oppressin' the people, we'll be all over them too) and the Babylonians (stop tradin' slaves, yo!). But when we're fighting the nation of Terrorism (who are a notoriously crafty people), it's better safe than sorry, hence the missles.
I thought the ports were going to the United Arab Emrates, not China. Or maybe I'm mistaken. Or maybe they're both the same place?... These days, what's the point of geography... or the news for that matter.
One would expect that someone with Jacques Derrida's name in their handle would have something to say about the shortcomings of the written word, and the detrimental effect it has on communication in general. I have to appologize, but that's not what this is about. This will, instead, be a post about how it is the hand of the ignorant through means of the written word - but not the writing in and of itself - that is responsible for the miscommunication of the thought. Somebody above used an example (something about hanging) that I though summed up our problem beautifully. Grammar is the tool by which we structure our words in order to express what the words alone cannot say. Misused, we get the literary equivilant of a lopsided house. It becomes ugly and unfunctional. Sentences (complete thoughts - not just a set of letters and spaces and puctuation between a capital letter and a period) rely on a standard set of rules to be understandable. This isn't so much a of problem in english as it is in agglutinative languages (think japanese, turkish, latin, etc.) as word order isn't quite static and improperly conjugated words can be the difference between a coherent thought and a useless collection of symbols arranged into a line that sort mean something to the one person who wrote them and mean nothing to any other poor fellow trying to decipher them ([imperative you] enjoy my many dependant clauses!)
I believe that the final solution actually has to do with some sort of social cleansing... maybe that's what's implied? interesting diction... wonder what Freud would say...
I remember reading a few years ago in Discover... this... (this was just the first link google turned up, but it looks like a similar story...) matter attaches, yada yada yada, photons slow, yada yada, still about 186,282 mps through a vacuum, yada yada... also interesting, if not related, try googling "loop quantum gravity"... neat little idea there...
*Note the use of elipses; I don't care much to finish a thought when I'm already workin' on a new one...
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I used google earth for directions around moscow, and they were exactly as accurate as the directions I got from muscovites. Then someone told me to just flag down someone with a car and get in... I thought they were joking... (but hey, it's cheaper than a cab!)
Still in Beta. Gmail users can try it free after signing in to their accounts. (don't have gmail? sign up from your mobile device!)
Looks like I'll have to use a little more discrimination when I send out those invites...
How about hand to hand combat .. tried it lately.. or just calling your self brave by killing people who have nothing to do with anything with missile (who is the terrorist).
Well, actually, yes, we have tried hand-to-hand combat recently... when we... uhh... fought the Romans. Yea. The Romans. About a year ago. Don't you read the news? We kicked their asses too, and we might just do it again real soon if Caesar can't get his crap together. But that whole conflict was really just a little demo for the Mongolians (if Ghengis doesn't stop oppressin' the people, we'll be all over them too) and the Babylonians (stop tradin' slaves, yo!).
But when we're fighting the nation of Terrorism (who are a notoriously crafty people), it's better safe than sorry, hence the missles.
I thought the ports were going to the United Arab Emrates, not China. Or maybe I'm mistaken. Or maybe they're both the same place?... These days, what's the point of geography... or the news for that matter.
So now I can get dial-up for the same low price as broadband? Wait...
One would expect that someone with Jacques Derrida's name in their handle would have something to say about the shortcomings of the written word, and the detrimental effect it has on communication in general. I have to appologize, but that's not what this is about. This will, instead, be a post about how it is the hand of the ignorant through means of the written word - but not the writing in and of itself - that is responsible for the miscommunication of the thought.
Somebody above used an example (something about hanging) that I though summed up our problem beautifully. Grammar is the tool by which we structure our words in order to express what the words alone cannot say. Misused, we get the literary equivilant of a lopsided house. It becomes ugly and unfunctional. Sentences (complete thoughts - not just a set of letters and spaces and puctuation between a capital letter and a period) rely on a standard set of rules to be understandable. This isn't so much a of problem in english as it is in agglutinative languages (think japanese, turkish, latin, etc.) as word order isn't quite static and improperly conjugated words can be the difference between a coherent thought and a useless collection of symbols arranged into a line that sort mean something to the one person who wrote them and mean nothing to any other poor fellow trying to decipher them ([imperative you] enjoy my many dependant clauses!)
I believe that the final solution actually has to do with some sort of social cleansing... maybe that's what's implied? interesting diction... wonder what Freud would say...
I remember reading a few years ago in Discover... this ... (this was just the first link google turned up, but it looks like a similar story...) matter attaches, yada yada yada, photons slow, yada yada, still about 186,282 mps through a vacuum, yada yada...
also interesting, if not related, try googling "loop quantum gravity"... neat little idea there...
*Note the use of elipses; I don't care much to finish a thought when I'm already workin' on a new one...