It's a game of chance, and awareness off the odds allows you to make judgement calls and improve your chances. "Skill" is a strong word.
Not in Texas Hold'em... Annette Obrestad won a tournament looking at her cards only once and playing position the rest of the tournament
In July 2007, Obrestad won a $4 buy-in 180 person online sit-and-go where she claims to have played almost the entire tournament without looking at her cards. She claims she peeked at her cards once during the tournament, when she was faced with an all-in bet. She did this to show "just how important it is to play position and to pay attention to the players at the table."
Although simplified and traditional share a large number of similar characters, I don't agree that they're mutually intelligible. I know people that can read traditional but can't understand everything said in simplified. It seems to be even more so going the other way around. You can kind of figure out some simplified characters if you read traditional but it seems to be harder the other way around.
Actually, people in China DO occasionally draw characters in the air with their fingers to disambiguate spoken homonyms
Although this may be true, I've NEVER seen this done. Typically what they do if there is confusion over a word is use the word in another context that would clarify the definition of the word.
Written Chinese is pretty much the same regardless of dialect.
Not quite... the majority of the spoken portion of canto and mandarin are different. Some words sound similar, but for the most party, they're completely different. When you factor in the written language, that's when it gets even more interesting. As far as I can tell, there are only two dialects of written Chinese: simplified and traditional. Pretty much anyone that speaks any form of Chinese in China, except the Cantonese areas, use simplified Chinese. The Cantonese speakers and every Mandarin speaker in most other countries, Taiwan for example, use the traditional form. The two written forms share many similar words, but there are enough words that aren't the same that being fluent in only one means reading in the other is almost unintelligible.
I'd believe that Iran would plot against the US. I mean, Syria is it's ally, after all. I wouldn't say that the intelligence community has zero credibility, btw. I think the intelligence community is putting out legitimate information. It's the people at the top receiving the intelligence that are either ignoring it or misconstruing it.
hey listen here you asshole. i don't want to go because i don't agree with invading any damn country for the whim of it and you shouldn't either. if that's the mentality you have, you're probably the god damn shit bag. you're probably the kind of person that thinks acting aggressive and obnoxious is ok and giving the rest of us a bad name. and to call me a shit bag... i'd probably outscore you on a pt test, at the range, and i bet my nco evaluations are better than yours. and if my brothers in arms are going anywhere, you can damn well bet i'd stand side by side with them and lead my soldiers from the front. so pipe down there mr. badass.
Who said I was a weak link? Just because I don't want to go there doesn't mean I won't do it and I won't do it to the best of my ability. I'd lead my soldiers from the front and I'd take a bullet for any of them. You're full of shit if you say you enjoyed everything you did in the military.
I don't hate America. I'm very proud to say I'm American. I 100% believe the concepts of freedom we were founded on are amongst the best in the world. I just hate our hypocritical, corrupt, piece of shit politicians.
I signed up on my own will to kill people that want to harm my friends and family. Attacking a country in the midst of a civil war so we can push our politicians agendas is not what I signed up for.
If Iran does order attacks on US elements and/or attacks Israel, the US will almost certainly get involved, which likely means I'll get my contract extended or get recalled and get sent to another crappy country we don't belong in.
As a US service member, I really don't want this to happen because I'll probably get sent there if this flares up and I've got less than 5 months left in the military. However, I think the US fully deserves it if they do carry out this attack on Syria.
Which is exactly the point. They can't tax the federal government. So they decided to create a law that allows for a loophole that taxes the power company and the law also allows the power company to pass the additional costs on to the federal government
"We don’t tax the federal government," Mayfield explained to a Utah Senate committee March 7. "So what this bill does is tax Rocky Mountain Power and then gives them the ability to pass that on as an increase in their energy bills. So we collect an equivalent of what would have been a tax on the federal government."
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That's what you get MPAA
He probably didn't know he had affluenza. Otherwise, he would have realized he was pretty much going to get an A anyways... http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/3/grade-inflation-mode-a/
all the various investment markets jump or decline well over 1% on a regular basis. there's your change, go get em.
Within an hour, it had jumped more than $1, from $110.40 to $111.50.
it jumped 1%. that's hardly significant. in fact, that's just pretty regular. this is a stupid article. who the hell approves this crap?
It's a game of chance, and awareness off the odds allows you to make judgement calls and improve your chances. "Skill" is a strong word.
Not in Texas Hold'em... Annette Obrestad won a tournament looking at her cards only once and playing position the rest of the tournament
In July 2007, Obrestad won a $4 buy-in 180 person online sit-and-go where she claims to have played almost the entire tournament without looking at her cards. She claims she peeked at her cards once during the tournament, when she was faced with an all-in bet. She did this to show "just how important it is to play position and to pay attention to the players at the table."
I get what you're saying and totally understand.
Although simplified and traditional share a large number of similar characters, I don't agree that they're mutually intelligible. I know people that can read traditional but can't understand everything said in simplified. It seems to be even more so going the other way around. You can kind of figure out some simplified characters if you read traditional but it seems to be harder the other way around.
I would routinely run into people that couldn't speak any Chinese
Just to be pedantic... Cantonese is still a dialect of Chinese.
Actually, people in China DO occasionally draw characters in the air with their fingers to disambiguate spoken homonyms
Although this may be true, I've NEVER seen this done. Typically what they do if there is confusion over a word is use the word in another context that would clarify the definition of the word.
I don't use the wubi keyboards. I use a pinyin keyboard just fine.
the use of characters allows most of them to share a single written form
Almost, but not quite... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Chinese#Simplified_and_traditional_Chinese
Written Chinese is pretty much the same regardless of dialect.
Not quite... the majority of the spoken portion of canto and mandarin are different. Some words sound similar, but for the most party, they're completely different. When you factor in the written language, that's when it gets even more interesting. As far as I can tell, there are only two dialects of written Chinese: simplified and traditional. Pretty much anyone that speaks any form of Chinese in China, except the Cantonese areas, use simplified Chinese. The Cantonese speakers and every Mandarin speaker in most other countries, Taiwan for example, use the traditional form. The two written forms share many similar words, but there are enough words that aren't the same that being fluent in only one means reading in the other is almost unintelligible.
I'd believe that Iran would plot against the US. I mean, Syria is it's ally, after all. I wouldn't say that the intelligence community has zero credibility, btw. I think the intelligence community is putting out legitimate information. It's the people at the top receiving the intelligence that are either ignoring it or misconstruing it.
hey listen here you asshole. i don't want to go because i don't agree with invading any damn country for the whim of it and you shouldn't either. if that's the mentality you have, you're probably the god damn shit bag. you're probably the kind of person that thinks acting aggressive and obnoxious is ok and giving the rest of us a bad name. and to call me a shit bag... i'd probably outscore you on a pt test, at the range, and i bet my nco evaluations are better than yours. and if my brothers in arms are going anywhere, you can damn well bet i'd stand side by side with them and lead my soldiers from the front. so pipe down there mr. badass.
Who said I was a weak link? Just because I don't want to go there doesn't mean I won't do it and I won't do it to the best of my ability. I'd lead my soldiers from the front and I'd take a bullet for any of them. You're full of shit if you say you enjoyed everything you did in the military.
I don't hate America. I'm very proud to say I'm American. I 100% believe the concepts of freedom we were founded on are amongst the best in the world. I just hate our hypocritical, corrupt, piece of shit politicians.
You're a fucking idiot.
I signed up on my own will to kill people that want to harm my friends and family. Attacking a country in the midst of a civil war so we can push our politicians agendas is not what I signed up for.
If things escalated, and they needed to deploy more people, they could extend contracts and/or recall people.
If Iran does order attacks on US elements and/or attacks Israel, the US will almost certainly get involved, which likely means I'll get my contract extended or get recalled and get sent to another crappy country we don't belong in.
How is this a troll?
As a US service member, I really don't want this to happen because I'll probably get sent there if this flares up and I've got less than 5 months left in the military. However, I think the US fully deserves it if they do carry out this attack on Syria.
If there are dozens of cunning linguists
ok, I need to grow up
"We don’t tax the federal government," Mayfield explained to a Utah Senate committee March 7. "So what this bill does is tax Rocky Mountain Power and then gives them the ability to pass that on as an increase in their energy bills. So we collect an equivalent of what would have been a tax on the federal government."