Comment Re:Tired of this shit (Score 2) 448
Then you're probably not going into an establishment where the only drinkable beverages are laced with sugar and milk to disguise how bad the coffee is.
No, it cannot be said.
Certainly not about English, because it would mean that a majority of English speaking population would usually talk mostly using words from a closely related language - that would be what, Frisian? - with English accent and grammar.
That might maybe happen in Scotland, where English and Scots might intermix in this way, but this kind of speaking is far from majority.
It certainly is not the way here in Germany, people won't, for example, speak Dutch using German grammar and accent. They either speak Niederdeutsch or standard German. They might speak more or less in a dialect, but a dialect is not a language, Ukrainian is certainly not just a Russian dialect, they are several grammatical differences like the vocative case which Russian lost half a century ago.
It doesn't work for Russian at all, Russians don't usually mix their language with other closely related languages. Only when they try to learn that closely related language as a foreign language this might happen.
It can come out this way in former Yugoslavia, because the language there is mostly a dialect continuum and the languages are really only separated for political reasons - with the exception of Slovenian (which lies between South and West Slavic languages, that is between, say, Slovak, and Croatian) and Macedonian (which is closer to Bulgarian).
Slavic languages are a hobby of mine so I do know a lot about them and can speak several.
Economic theories are not falsifiable, economic theories assume a human model (homo oeconomicus) that has nothing in common with real humans. Economists don't use scientific methods for experiments. Either you can't see it because you are an economist and was brainwashed to believe that economics is a science or you are misguided by applied mathematics used by them.
The implications are far further reaching than whether you can wash your dirty tax laundry somewhere offshore. This is about a country wanting to reach into the jurisdiction of another country and dictating them how to behave. That is unacceptable, especially from a country that is considered friendly. How do you think the US would react if Ireland told them to hand over documents from the branch of an Irish company 'cause they think that they try to harbor documents belonging to the IRA there.
Just in case anyone comes in and says "but terrorism"...
Well, if the US get their way in this case, who in their sane mind would host it with a US company?
That's the main reason why the others side with MS in this one. If the US get their way, no company on this planet would touch a data center that is remotely in league with a US based company with a 10 foot pole.
The US can bite my shiny metal ass with a court order. I'm neither there nor in a country that would send me over.
The US cannot force a sovereign foreign company? The US can force (or "persuade") entire countries and groups of countries to dance when they play the pipe, you think this would change anything?
TTIP, anyone? So far I cannot see anything in there that is NOT exclusively beneficial to the US and puts everyone else at a severe disadvantage, but do you see any kind of protest against it from inside governments?
Well, that depends on what you consider a guaranteed secure future. Having everything you ever want forever? Nope. Mostly because we do not have unlimited resources (yet, let's wait for energy-matter conversion). Basically that's why we're in the current economic crisis, because we noticed that it's impossible for us to maintain a luxury living standard for everyone, so to secure the luxury living standard of the upper crust the plebs have to be pushed back down.
True, true. With ADHD it's easy to get sidetracked when you
I thought that was evident from the text, but allow me to clarify it: Of course I do not copy content (unless the license agreement actually allows it). I had to do with a lot of games that I really wanted to have. Which in hindsight has more often than not actually saved me from some grief, anger and disappointment (from Sim City to Assassin's Creed).
It's a matter of principle. I can do without their content. The question is only if they can do without my money. Because lost sales actually hurt by as much as you'd pay for it, considering that there is near zero proportional costs in content, and fixed costs have to be recovered by fewer units being sold.
Give me what I want and I'll buy. Don't and watch how I'll survive without it, and without too much of a dent in my quality of life.
Windows 7, Cyberlink PowerDVD 13.
Theres a few small upstarts arround too but they tend to have negligable coverage areas.
BT is required to allow third parties to install equipment in the exchanges ('local loop unbundling'), and while most of the companies that take advantage of this are small local affairs, TalkTalk has quite a lot of coverage on LLU exchanges. Since BT won't sell naked ADSL lines, they've priced themselves completely out of the market in areas with Virgin Media coverage.
The English say yes, the French oui, the Germans ja, the Spanish si, the Russians da, the Japanese hai, the Portugese sim, the Polish tak... is there a value to this?
In fact there is. Because the apparently simple concepts you have listed are not quite the same. Polish "tak" comes, in fact, from the same protoslavic word that means "so (it is)" which exists in every Slavic language in the same or nearly the same form (tak, tako, taka), so a Croat or a Russian or a Czech would understand it as a kind of a confirmation, but other Slavic languages use a different word for a simple affirmation. Czech and Slovak use "ano", which comes, I think, from the protoslavic "that one" and all the rest uses a form of "da", which comes from a protoslavic word meaning something like "in order to". Matter of fact, ancient Czech and Polish had "da" as well, it just fell out of use.
You can already see, I love Slavic languages.
Japanese "hai" doesn't necessarily mean "yes". It often means "I hear you" or "I understand what you are saying".
Well, a lot of experts took classes about economics. And still these experts fail to predict economic downturns and after that fail to do anything substantial about them.
Economics is a science about the same way astrology is a science. It uses math, sure, but at its core there is just a set of beliefs.
Just yesterday I've tried to watch a Pink Floyd "The Endless River" bluray I've bought the other day on my PC - I don't have a TV or a stand alone bluray player. I was not able to get it to work thanks to the bloody DRM.
This crap encourages pirating instead of buying.
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. -- Plato
