[Bobboau]

'the' is a weird word

[Nico]

Originally posted by Bobboau
chineese don't use the word 'the'

"man who drops his watch in toilets will have a ****ty time."

When you translate something, you don't give a literal translation, or else you'd get absolutly nothing. The chinese "words" aren't in that order either, if you wanna be truthfull to what he said
I should talk using direct translation from french, that sure would be fun to understand ( we don't even use "the" either since we don't have neutral gender ).

[Fractux]

Agent 1: Agent Smith, why have you been staring at Fractux's download stream for the past 2 days?  Agent Smith?

Agent 2: I think we've lost another one. No one can survive for that long.

Agent 1: Damn, he must be hiding some secret information in all that Pornography.

[Drew]

Originally posted by Rictor
-We are quickly running out of oil. We use oil in pretty much everything. Plastics are made from oil, oil is used to power your car. I'm sure it doesn't bother you, you live in America and are thus reliatively wealthy. But oil shortages are seriously going to affect poorer countries. With America using 25% of the world's energy, your (your as in the U.S's) overconsumption will directly lead to their misery. Also, oil used in combustion (cars) produces copious amount of pollution. See #1.

actually, no.

http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=AB4F965E-E58D-4568-BCA4889D6E63C374&method=display#chart2

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1511/6_20/55926786/p1/article.jhtml

The Third World needs to be educated

Eh? Didn't you just say that half of America's agricultural output is rotting in warehouses? What does that have to do with the third world. The International Monetary Fond, thr World Bank and the World Trade Organization are working very, very hard to keep the Third World from every getting out of the gutter. Why do you think they're so poor to begin with? They work harder and for less money than anyone in America. So shouldn't they be richer, or atleast on a level comparable to the First World? [/B][/quote]
err? work harder? the uneplyment in those countries is more than %30-40 (ill have to ceck on that tho). Ever been to mexico? or romania? or hungary? or poland? or turkey? I have visited them all and its pretty self-apearent why they arnt out of the gutter. Its not cuz of the WTO.

[Zarax]

They have such high unemplloyement rates because of the very weak internal market...
It's akind of vicious circle...
People has no money, so they cannot sustain an high level internal market, which in turn cannot grow enough to create new jobs... Plus the fact that most third world countries resources are harvested by foreign companies, leading most of the income away from the local population...

[aldo_14]

Or that third world countries are crippled by repayments made on interest, on loans to our Governments.

[Zarax]

This one is also true, although in Europe many countries cancelled or substantially reduced many third world countries debt (until the king of morocco used the money to buy 300 Ferrari... no kidding!)

[mikhael]

Looks like Time Warner (my ISP) is getting ready to get in on this and provide backdoor access for the FBI. Joy.

[Flipside]

Time Warner are usually the first to give the government access to their back door I'm afraid

[Drew]

eh, if comcast allows the FBI to hack my computer..... there will be hell to pay.

we should all learn teh skillz and join Cyberarmy