Just for the record, the topic annoys me. The fact that, since I mentioned that, you have latched onto the topic repeatedly, with no content whatsover beyond saying "astrology", suggests that you are doing this specifically to annoy me. This, in turn, points that you purposedly want to be disruptive and disrespectful of me and of this site.
Therefore your complaints about the site, and specifically about the supposed lack of respect you are shown, are just a big farce.
Feel free to continue to make a fool of yourself. You mostly amuse me, now. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
If Solveig let on that she were a Virgo smoker, she would be in deep, deep, trouble...... ;-)
To me, the evening thread is when we can lighten up and have a laugh: f..k knows why I just put in a serious post - I guess it's just that people have got tired of my Diaries... "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
anyway, there's been lots of interesting news lately. I heard the Russians are thinking of moving their nuclear missiles back into Belarus.
Frankly, if the ex-soviet submarine fleet is anything to go by, I'm not sure the Russian nuclear missile fleet is in any fit state to move, let alone fly.
Still, they can say they're going to Belarus.... keep to the Fen Causeway
Their aeronautical designs are also very, very good. A lot of aeronautical equations are named after Russians, and a lot of numerical analysis techniques as well.
They may not have had the money to do maintenance, but their mechanical design is built to last, baby.
The most brilliant engineers I have worked with are Russians and Germans. And, a lot of Polish engineers I have worked with have stated the same thing, surprisingly.
So, I wouldn't discount them yet.
I thought it would be fun to suggest that she'd like a ride on the Shuttle for a birthday present.
She said "Are you crazy? You'd never get me into that thing. I've seen the plans."
New Scientist had a feature about fifteen years ago quantifying the risk of the shuttle program and predicting that there would be 2-3 catastrophic failures.
No one paid any attention. But still.
"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract."
-- Alan Shepherd Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
And how Headmaster J can possibly worry about astrology when his entire class are smoking behind the toilets while chanting eye eye, ai ai, aye aye, ey aye addio or whatever, defeats me...
Where's Deputy Head Migeru when he's needed to restore order.... "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
The kind of person who says we can speculate about anything, but when one speculates about their motives in trying to blame the Cuban government, gets upset.
The kind of person who thinks it's "inspiring" to inform us that they have perfect pitch - hard work to achieve some difficult goal is inspiring, not a natural talent.
The kind of person who thinks it is cute to go on about astrology in the hope of annoying others and getting censored so they can seem to be a victim. But Jerome was too kind - I don't find it amusing, it's just rather sad.
By the way Chris, YOU might see the open thread as a welcome opportunity to "lighten up" and I'm sure you were making an effort to lighten up the atmosphere with your comments. That's fine and clearly many others feel like you, but some of us also enjoy serious discussion and don't appreciate time-wasters like mmmm (see this thread) - and I hope Jerome and Migeru will continue to be critical of people like that.
Oh, and I'm sorry that you feel your diaries don't get the attention they deserve - a lot of us feel like that :-) Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
Then again, I could use some company in whatever work camp I'm about to be shipped off to... "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
How about Spanish or Italian? anyone know?
Leaving off German Umlauts is not a good idea either (konnte-könnte). *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I note that in ASCII times, computer-Hungarian was rather cumbersome and looked like this: ko:szo:no:m, szo"lo", ha't. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
-- ÑöŗďîĉŠŧǿřm "The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde
for the love of god
Plus, I'm on a roll with the rule breaking. Hoping he will just skip the punishment and go for instantaneous death. Hm. Maybe I'll get the "guilletine." he he he... "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
Here's the story:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-cornbleet29aug29,1,6080226.story
It's very confusing to me... "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
I think it is the State Legislature that must overturn the moratorium. I've not heard many calls for it. The Gov. who imposed it did so because a slew of people on Death Row were proven innocent or did not get fair hearings. So he said, no death penalthy until we can insure no innocent people are put to death. Which is an impossible standard and in effect abolishing the dealth penalty without having public support to do so.
I suppose it could be brought back, depending on the circumstances. But I think there is a lot of death/outrage fatigue in the country at the moment. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
The other possible reasonis that it may say in the French constityution that citizens cannot be extradfited to third party states under certain conditions. As An example of something like this look at Ronnie Biggs one of the UK's great train robbers. He fled to Brazil, and managed to avoid extradition for 16 years as he had fathered a Brazilian child, and under Brazilian law, he had to remain in Brazil to pay for the childs upkeep. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anyway, if we are to believe the claims in the article, they just don't extradite French nationals, period. "The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde
We are papthetic little adjunct state, our loyalty never even remarked upon because it's never been questioned. keep to the Fen Causeway
Wouldn't it be interesting if BAe managers were extradited over that bribery scandal that was made to go away. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aCOmPSr4ctQk&refer=latin_america "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
from Human rights watches press briefing on the Geneva conventions
POW status provides protection only for the act of taking up arms against opposing military forces, and if that is all a POW has done, then repatriation at the end of the conflict would be required. But as Article 82 of Third Geneva explains, POW status does not protect detainees from criminal offenses that are applicable to the detaining powers' soldiers as well. That is, if appropriate evidence can be collected, the United States would be perfectly entitled to charge the Guantanamo detainees with war crimes, crimes against humanity, or other violations of U.S. criminal law, whether or not they have POW status. As Article 115 of the Third Geneva Convention explains, POWs detained in connection with criminal prosecutions are entitled to be repatriated only "if the Detaining Power [that is, the United States] consents."
Either way, if Peterson ever left French soil, the U.S. then could arrest Peterson and prosecute him in Illinois, without risking double jeopardy protection, he contended.
Yeah, sure, after Guantanamo, it is clear the US has the right to arrest anyone, anywhere, except in France. Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
Social death. "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
the New Yorker magazine uses them a lot; they spell coöperate instead of cooperate.
Strictly speaking, a pair of dots is an Umlaut only if it changes the quality of a vowel. In Latin languages it is used to break a dypthong so they are not Umlauts. Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
a á b c cs d dz dzs e é f g gy h i í j k l ly m n ny o ó ö ő p q r s sz t ty u ú ü ű v w x y z zs
(The 'short alphabet' excludes the rare so-called multiple letters dz and dzs; as well as q, w, x, y: those feature only in imported words/names.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I note all but 3-4 of the vocals corresponding to the 43 letters exist in French or English. And the very first, denoted with a, I know to exist in only one other language: German, but German-speakers trying to pronounce a Hungarian a don't realise until one points them out. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
The various Finno-Ugric languages of the Finnish branch live from the Urals to Finland in the North of Russia. I note some Ukrainian nationalists want to deny that Russians are 'true' Slaws on the basis that Moscow's missionaries Christianised a lot of Finno-Ugric people and the populations merged... with present-day Udmurt etc. speaking populations as mere left-overs. No idea if there is any quantitative data on the mixing and on the modern 'Russian' gene pool, tough. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v x y z å ä ö
You might notice that "w" is absent, but we actually dropped it long before bush became president.
I believe the finnish alphabeth is written the same way but å is prounanced "ruotsalainen o", that is "swedish o". So swedish/finnish alphabeth is quite right. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
We use context to separate Noel (name) from Noel (crimble greeting) keep to the Fen Causeway
Another more archaic option dispenses with the hyphen question altogether and employs the umlaut convention common in Germanic languages where a vowel following another vowel influences the pronunciation of the second vowel. Thus the words above become coöperation, coöperative, coöp, and coöper. However, this is convention is generally not used today.
In all cases, assume that in a dispute between american and english, the american use is wrong. ;-)))) keep to the Fen Causeway
Recently I was recalling a Spanish verse that goes Qué descansada vida la del que huye del mundanal ruïdo... where ruido s correctly pronounced as rUI-dO but the poet needs three syllables to preserve the meter and so he forces rU-Ï-dO which is signalled in writing by using a dieresis. This is from the 16th century, when the preservation of meter was foremost in poetry. Nowadays, with free verse, people don't bother with meter and so they don't have a need to do violence to words with dieresis. Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
It gives diaraesis for the typographical sign ¨
directing the second of two vowels to be pronounced separately, as in naïve
