For the first time in nine years I got to see my youngest daughter on Christmas; this is the first Christmas in nine years she didn't have to work. Great Christmas present!
And the second to last pre-publication copies came Christmas eve eve. I finished going through it this morning, and the book itself is ready. What wasn't was the cover; I fixed it and ordered another copy, so Mars, Ho! should be online in a couple of weeks.
And if it has "People's" there's an implied "A small number of " before it.
Funny how they fail to get the behaviour part, isn't it? Most of the things that'd get you an ASBO in the UK would get you at least a misdemeanor conviction in the US.
Unless you're black, in which case they shoot you.
We are not challenging our bones with enough loading,
I do. That's why I still use a Compaq Portable for my "laptop". It weighs about 28 lbs. (Joking aside, I actually had one of these - or something really, really similar - at the first company I worked for in the late 1980s.)
Ignorance and/or poor education? People, corporations, politicians trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator?
So you're saying that the various people in say...san fran which is a mecha of sjw's are ignorant and/or have bad education? These aren't folks with a lack of education, many if not all are university grads. I believe the problem stems from a lack of real world experience.
You and I actually agree... There's book learning and learning. Having a degree doesn't make one educated in all, or even many, things. One can know a lot about one or several things and not really know much at all. For the enlightened, this means: The more I know, the more I realize what I don't know. Sadly, many people are not that enlightened and many take what they hear on outlets like Fox News (to name *one* egregious source - don't get bent out of shape Fox News fanbois) as gospel w/o any further serious thought or research.
Most people on the planet range from ignorant to very ignorant (in the non-derogatory sense of simply not knowing) including myself.
Really? Could you explain then why there's a sudden up swing in said "social justice warriors" trying to ban media, video games they disagree with, speech they disagree with, and censor content. I get that "feelings" are easier to make an argument with, but I don't live in a world of feels vs reality.
Ignorance and/or poor education? People, corporations, politicians trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator?
Same as the US. Obscene is illegal. Obscene is illegal because it's offensive. So "rude" is illegal in the US, same as the UK. But it's funny to see all the Americans assert they have more rights than those in the UK, when the rights are roughly equal, but exercised slightly differently.
What this guy tweeted would, in no way, be illegal in the US. It's not obscene (no swearing, nudity, or violence); it's not threatening or even, I would argue, "offensive" (in the general sense); it's just rude and insensitive. Obviously, some with thinner skins may disagree, but it certainly should not be an arrestable act anywhere.
There's a reason why Eastern territories of Russia are sparsely populated. The chief reason is that it simply makes no sense to live there.
Presumably that wasn't case until fairly recently, or there'd be one hut instead of a few hundred.
Are these sparsely populated areas of Canada (which we all knew about, thanks) full of formerly thriving ghost towns? Outside of areas where there were gold rushes the answer is "no".
Did you actually read my post before replying?
As England goes, so too shall America go.
Funnily enough, we see it the other way round.
We never really had McCarthyism but I'm sure we'll get our version of the Patriot Act soon enough.
The writing style looks more like Fry.
Clarkson, in a bookshop?
Sadly they seem to have taken 1984 to be an instruction manual vs. a work of fiction.
My, that's original!
Street Fighter II lacked symmetric starting positions. This was rectified in Street Fighter II' Champion Edition and later Street Fighter games.
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde
