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That's what you get MPAA

He probably didn't know he had affluenza. Otherwise, he would have realized he was pretty much going to get an A anyways... http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/3/grade-inflation-mode-a/

all the various investment markets jump or decline well over 1% on a regular basis. there's your change, go get em.

it jumped 1%. that's hardly significant. in fact, that's just pretty regular. this is a stupid article. who the hell approves this crap?

Not in Texas Hold'em... Annette Obrestad won a tournament looking at her cards only once and playing position the rest of the tournament

I get what you're saying and totally understand.

Although simplified and traditional share a large number of similar characters, I don't agree that they're mutually intelligible. I know people that can read traditional but can't understand everything said in simplified. It seems to be even more so going the other way around. You can kind of figure out some simplified characters if you read traditional but it seems to be harder the other way around.

Just to be pedantic... Cantonese is still a dialect of Chinese.

Although this may be true, I've NEVER seen this done. Typically what they do if there is confusion over a word is use the word in another context that would clarify the definition of the word.

I don't use the wubi keyboards. I use a pinyin keyboard just fine.

Almost, but not quite... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Chinese#Simplified_and_traditional_Chinese

Not quite... the majority of the spoken portion of canto and mandarin are different. Some words sound similar, but for the most party, they're completely different. When you factor in the written language, that's when it gets even more interesting. As far as I can tell, there are only two dialects of written Chinese: simplified and traditional. Pretty much anyone that speaks any form of Chinese in China, except the Cantonese areas, use simplified Chinese. The Cantonese speakers and every Mandarin speaker in most other countries, Taiwan for example, use the traditional form. The two written forms share many similar words, but there are enough words that aren't the same that being fluent in only one means reading in the other is almost unintelligible.

I'd believe that Iran would plot against the US. I mean, Syria is it's ally, after all. I wouldn't say that the intelligence community has zero credibility, btw. I think the intelligence community is putting out legitimate information. It's the people at the top receiving the intelligence that are either ignoring it or misconstruing it.