Have a few friends living in your house with you, and they pay some rent towards mortgage? You're the landlord, you need a schedule E. Likewise if you have a sole-individual lease and sublease out a room or two to friends/roomies...

Windows XP accounts for less than 5% of all Windows deployments. I don't think that counts as "widely used" in anyone's estimation. Yes, it's a HUGE number of boxes (simply because of the absolute market domination of Windows), but it's less than 1 out of 20 PCs running Windows. I mean, even Linux passed Windows XP in deployments...

The clicking as the dial came back to rest...

Doesn't Eric Holder, et al, provide guns to criminal types?

Read the fucking article?

READ the fucking article?

THIS

IS

SLASHDOT!

Even faster with a bomb. And trying to restrict bomb-making materials is essentially impossible - unless you want to restrict civilization advances from about 900 AD and forward...

So, you have to memorize Chinese in the first place... Meaning you need to learn two languages to make it work. That's what my wife and her friends do (type in pinyin, select from the dropdown menu). It's twice the work...

Incarceration rates by gender AND race. If you want to be blunt about it, a white man is about 7 times more likely to be incarcerated than a white woman. For blacks, the ratio is over twice that (about 17:1). And the ACTUAL total ratio is about 10:1 (not 15:1).

If you want to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's not diversity of gender that's needed, it's gender of race - at least, if you're going to talk about incarceration rates and aggression as a reason for hiring more women...

There's always a group "less represented" than you, always a smaller minority - and to them, YOU are the majority. Too bad we cannot go by the content of character, rather than the color (or gender) of the skin...

Disclaimer: I was brought up by a single mother...

The truth is, the vast, VAST majority do no such thing. They typically have others (friends, daycare, relatives) take care of the kids during the day/afternoon/evening whilst mom is working. They are "out of the picture" as much as a father who goes to work to earn money and comes home at night to spend time with the family, eat, and sleep. The concept of a "hero-mom" who works 8+ hours a day AND is home for the kids all the time is a highly-flawed one.

Gutting? You are *not* talking about the US of A, obviously. A trillion dollars spent fighting the good "war" on "poverty" and "homelessness," since the alleged "gutting." You need to get out more, seriously. Just saying. I won't even get into the fact the the taxpayers' money (based on the fact the "war" is obviously being lost) is being wasted. Simply wanted to put the "gutting" misnomer in perspective. -- the Homeless Guy

There are basically 3 possible meanings, two that are common, one that is rarely used. The common ones relate to the element Pb, or that you (or another) want to head someone/a group somewhere. The rarely used meaning relates to the last, with lead meaning a cord used with animals to guide them - but even that definition is a derivative use of the 2nd.

Xi, on the other hand, has about 15 different meanings on its own. English has a few words with double - and very few with triple, totally independent - meanings. Chinese written in pinyin has thousands with 4+ meanings, and hundreds with 6+ meanings. Writing without Chinese symbols is basically impossible. I say this as someone who's been learning Mandarin (and a touch of Shanghainese) for the last 7 years, and with a Chinese wife assisting.

Pinyin: xi. What did I mean?

Current Chinese educations requirements are such that you cannot graduate high school without 4 years of English training and showing a basic mastery. It's been that way for a little over a decade now. China's betting on English for it's own future.

What holds Chinese back isn't the flexibility of the language (it's about as flexible as English), it's the written form. Literally thousands of unique characters. Pinyin tries to avoid that, but if I type "xi", which character am I actually writing? In addition to the 4 tones, each tone has about 3 different meanings. And this is not all that unique in Chinese - it's common for the same base word to have 6+ meanings, based upon tonality and reason - and have 6+ different Chinese characters representing it.

I'd say Korean stands a better chance of becoming the dominant language over Chinese, simply because of the 23 basic characters now used. But both will never get the adoption or ubiquity of English.

Build a man a fire, you'll keep him warm for a day.

Set a man on fire, and you'll keep him warm for the rest of his life.