Sorry, it is not rude. It is a valid critique. You are publishing a teaching tool, thus you have a responsibility to ensure it is adequate for that purpose. That means you need to go out and find a competent editor for the English translations, a different competent editor for German, and yet another for each and every other language you are publishing in. If you don't do that, it calls into question the quality of the educational materials you are producing. Think about it, would you really want a person whose second language is X, despite being extremely smart, producing your marketing materials in that second language? If the answer is "yes" then I suggest looking up the word "hubris". A very smart person will know his or her limitations. English at the level of an educator is a limitation of whoever produced the English content for Gcompris.

I looked at the website too -- I don't think it is quite as vague as you make it out, but it is also clear to me that whoever wrote the summary and the website is either: a) not a native English speaker, or b) a very bad writer. Hopefully, there are no modules on English.

One year ago we took [^w made] the hard decision to fully rewrite GCompris in QtQuick in order to address tablet users while keeping PC compatibility. As you [can] imagine[,] it's [^w it was (*)] a daunting task and something for sure [^w^w that] could not be done alone. Thanks to the help of the many contributors who joined the project we have been able to port 86 activities of the 140 of the legacy version in a year. [clunky, especially the "of ... of" part -- maybe: Many contributors worked hard over the last year to port 86 of the 140 activities]. You can look at this page to see the status of the port. [rework: See the status report [with "status report" as the link, optionally and less desirably, append "here" and make that the link]] We can [^w] hope to complete the port in one more year ["one more year" is OK, but not really -- it feels off here, "in the coming year"]. The new version is far from perfect and we continue to polish it everyday(**) [^w every day,] but we already provide a better user experience than the legacy version. [This sentence is OK but a full rework wouldn't be a bad thing]

(*) They are still in the process of porting so "it is" could be considered correct, but everything else about this sentence is past tense. To adequately deal with the tense issue and porting stage would require a rework of that sentence.

(**) "everyday" means common. "Every day" means "each day".

Wow. I feel like a goose-stepping 3rd grade teacher. And of course, I will have made my own mistakes which will be pointed out with even more glee than I've exhibited here.

But my communications would not really be of interest to others. I am sure I may feel differently if I lived a life of politics or life of intrigue or sold bags of weed or raised money for Palestine or something ...

You actually have no idea whether your communications are of interest to the Government. If you are a member of the wrong religion compared to those in power, or no religion -- your communications might well be incredibly interesting. Or maybe it is your skin color, your sex, or any myriad seemingly mundane things. That could be very interesting, and dangerous to you, especially when you willing shrug as the only protections you have against the Government gulaging you, dissapearing you, or bankrupting you, is that Constitution you are so apathetic about.

If they aren't maintaining Consolekit, to say it should work fine on that is sort of nuts. Note the word "should" -- in other words, if you don't mind a broken Gnome setup, or one that is likely to fail as much as work in the future, than yeah, systemd isn't a dependency. That's like saying your computer should work with intermittent power outages -- sure, it'll crash when the power goes off but it will work the rest of the time. Just make sure to set your autosave timer to 10s intervals.

Yeah, sort of. Programming (or socially engineering) children to be subservient and accepting of constant surveillance. Surveillance of course, is basically 99.9999% tech.

Your thinking is what fuels the divide in punishments between the thug who mugs a person for $63, and the Wall Street bankster who mugs the nation for trillions. Your inner-chimp can understand instinctually why mugging a person is wrong, and why the law should be against it -- the complex multi-layered fancy suit wearing type of mugging however, is completely incomprehensible on that instinctual level.

Everyone knows that the Demoblican party is the only party to really care about America! Don't be such a partisan hack!

They'll vote for either the right-wing, pro-war, pro-Wall-Street, pro-surveillance party or the other right-wing, pro-war, pro-Wall-Street, pro-surveillance party based on the only issues separating the two: abortion and gay marriage.

An accountant is legally bound to believe a return is true. Only an idiot accountant would file something he/she knows is false. If the client insisted, the accountant would basically have to say, "find another accountant." The client, if he really wanted to file a false return, would then make sure the subsequent accountant was kept in the dark about the true facts.

Nice -- that's even better.

It isn't called Taco Hell for nothing you know.

Wrong. That deregulation was regulation requiring that whoever owned the wire, had to rent it out to competitors. Thus, competitors were born and prices for long distance plummeted.

From 1999:

The price war has led to speculation that long-distance phone service eventually will be "free" with a package of other communication services.

The intensifying competition reflects the continuing shake-up in the once-stodgy U.S. telephone industry, where phone companies are being forced to reduce rates because of intense competition in the long-distance market stemming from the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

http://articles.latimes.com/19...

If you read the fine print on everything you do every day, you would have about 6 hours a year left to work, sleep, eat, and go on vacation. Secondly, the stuff is such a convoluted mish mash of boilerplate from different sources, an attorney spending a week on the documents would likely only be able to tell you what it means in terms of probabilities (section XI.3.a probably means ______, but it could also mean _____ when read in conjunction with 4.e, etc. etc.).

The political reality is that the continued rightward shift of the DNC, has left liberals without any representation. Yeah, I always vote 3d party as a protest, and I understand that my views will not be represented in my lifetime, but what totally fucking galls me, is that DNC party members whose policies would make Nixon blush, have the temerity to call themselves liberals. Add to that the people who are liberal at heart, yet still vote for DNC candidates based solely on nostalgia for what the party once represented. Puke.

No, the GOP is the right wing pro-wall street pro-war party that opposes abortion and gay marriage. The DNC is the right wing pro-wall street pro-war party that supports abortion and gay marriage. That is the sum total difference between them.