"Who's the more fool - the fool or the fool who follows him?" - Ben Kenobi

They should really read up on the US media, which knows that most stories aren't worth following after a week and no story, no matter how important, is worth more than two weeks' attention, unless, and only unless it involves a court trial, violence (preferably interracial) and systematically-reinforced emotion.

Our leaders, the smartest of the smart, have judged this formula to be good for society.

If this thing works, it's going to be a new Turing Test, judging by the number of posts here that simply state: "Whoosh!"

Hmm. If the south had won, then yes, the two newly formed countries would have had their clocks reset.

The North won, which maintained the line of governance, so the US of A has lasted since 1776 or whenever. The CSA lasted for a few years.

At least the chicken chain is probably less likely to lawyer up than the fiction author.

Wrong (very wrong (indeed it is as wrong as that incident last week (last week being in June)))

Thanks.

I don't have a ton of experience with native English speakers outside of Americans so I didn't want to claim that problem for anyone else.

The lack of third person plural is an interesting thing. The funny thing is in some places in the USA y'all wont do it either. Y'all has become second person singular and "all y'all" is the plural.

Of course every language has it's oddities. I do think getting a functional command of English is pretty easy. I think that part of this is that English speakers are used to hearing it used in so many different ways. I'm trying to learn Hungarian and let me tell you, aside from being intrinsically difficult, native speakers are not used to hearing it from any one but other native speakers who all use it in pretty much identical fashion. (There is one small group that have an 'accent' sort of but I think that's pretty uncommon.)

The really nice thing about having more than one language at your disposal is that you can use the one that works better for the situation. When I'm talking with a Hungarian in English and I'm not sure if they are saying 15 or 50, I just switch to Hungarian numbers and there's not an issue any more.

Feel free to knock yourself out with wxPython - but I really recommend taking a good look at PyQT if you haven't already. It is a joy to work with and just a very, very nice way to build good Python guis.

They have great tools for building the interface if you want to go that route. Though of course you don't have to, you could code it all. And there are a ton of really good guides out there to help show you how to get started. The new Python plugin for KDevelop includes a nice template that will give you everything you need to get started right out of the box.

Anyway - just a thought.

The naming was to make people think it was like the old Republic serials and nobody younger than Lucas is really going to get the reference any more. While I've been told this I don't really "get it" since I didn't grow up seeing those things in smoky cinemas and waiting for the "next exciting episode" to come out.

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." --Mel Brooks.

they've mainly demonstrated that they AREN'T a popular choice

Yet 99.995% of the population will never read this article or hear about this.

It's hard for me to understand why the state department even cares if people visit their page or not.

Propaganda always sells itself as the popular choice.