Wow, I have the one shown in the posting pic, except in black rather than red. My dad brought it back from a business trip to Japan. I'll have to dig it up somewhere....
If you look at the guy's blog, there are lots of phot examples given. Fair enough... If you examine these, though, you'll see many of the letters suffer from misused case. You'll see a small "i" in the middle of a bunch of upper case words, and capital "A" amongst lower case letters. And there are others... The "L" is hardly the only victim. It does look worse (IMO), though as the lowercase L should read as an "I".
What a lot of crap. No wonder kids today are so ill-educated when they have such diversions from real learning pushed to the schools as avenues for creative thinking.
Non-profit of not, somebody is attempting to make a bunch of cash off of this sham -- soaking taxpayers for state and local funds to run it. Take a look at the 826LA website -- one of the big job requirements is grant writing.
What a silly field trip to take the kids on. Take the kids to a real museum or historical site.
Another example: Compare moronic Toyota TV advertising ("Toyotathon Sales Event!!!!!!!") with that of Honda.
I guess it depends on who your market is. If it's a big purchses, I do a lot of research, which includes looking at ads and box labels. If the company does a crappy job explaining their product features, I'll probably buy from their competitor(s).
Wow, Nathan, good thoughts and the reference to Mr. Pearson's comments is a good one. While well meaning, all these sorts of "apologies for sins of past generations" do is:
1. Give the present day descendents of the oppressed an excuse for malingering and poor success in life. It does no one any good. The Chinese were abused like hell in the Western USA in the 19th century, but they just keep working hard every generation and forever improving their success each generation. Contrast with some other varied groups that raise their young with a spirit of defeatism and reliance on the the government for even meager subsistence. 2. Open up the gates for a flood of lawsuits where descendants of the "oppressed" sue descendants of the "oppressors". This isn't just and all it does is forever divide a nation and cause both groups to retain prejudices and resentment.
--> Yes, in the past, people were treated badly all through history. Nearly every one of us surely has ancestors on BOTH sides if you go back far enough. The Aborigines were not a single cohesive group of people, but rather HUNDREDS of such groups! You can bet some of these groups oppressed each other rather badly at times. Will their respective descendants apologize to each otehr as well? It never ends.
Never forget the past. Study the past. Learn from the past. But, get on with life today.
@S-r-ex- As with everything else NASA puts out, the vid will probably be an artist's animation instead (complete with non-realistic colors). Even when they have actual footage (and stills) NASA loves to do wild illustrations and animations in spectacular colors, because the public loves it and in turn tells Congress to keep funding them on future projects.
Geez, people like to paint things really black and white!
Sure Edison was a ruthless businessman, but he was *extraordinarily* creative as well over many DECADES. He hired smart people and set them to work on problems he thought had promise. In the early years, he had to do most of the inventing himself, but as his success grew, he was able to hire an increasingly large research staff. The say that he stole his inventions is a pretty unjust characterization.
Tesla was unquestionably brilliant and ultimately proven correct over Edison as far "the battle of the currents" (A.C. v. D.C.) goes. But he was really eccentric to the degree of being a tad wacky, especially in his later years. That doesn't disparage the tremendous work he did (especially regarding power generation and transmission), but Edison was no slouch either.
Finally, the concrete houses (look at the model and the pic of one under construction) were actually pretty nice -- they were not featureless monoliths like one might imagine. Still, people were not quite ready for mass produced houses then, so the project eventually tanked. Fast forward to the late 1940s, when post-War America embraced the rows of identical crap thrown up (like the famous Levittown, Long Island) on the cheap during the housing boom. By the way, most of those Edison cast concrete houses are still standing -- I think 10 remain. They are holding up pretty well and most of the owners really like them.
The study sounds like it would be susceptible to a LOT of cross-correlation error risk. It's difficult to separate exactly what causes what -- Here's an example: Do these "kissing cousins" also tend to have lower levels of income or lower levels of education? I'm betting they might. Then you are in a quandary -- are they poor because they are stupid? Or have lots of kids because they are i---educated (and maybe had more time)? Or married their cousin because their grandparents and great-grandparents each had lots of kids and thus the odds of them being in a "high cousin area" is higher? Or are poor because they have lots of kids? It goes on and on.... Just because two factors have positive correlation (when one happens, the other often does as well) doesn't imply causality in one direction or the other. People who smoke tend to drink more and vice versa, but that doesn't imply that nicotine increases the appetite for alcohol...
Jeremy- It's a good question. Whilst almost people in Scotland and Ireland are able to speak English, that was only the result of a few hundred years of "gentle persuasion" on the part of the English.
The native languages of Ireland and Scotland are *completely* different from English and generally not very mutually intelligible. Scotland actually has 2 native languages, "Scots" (or "Lowland Scots") and "Scottish Gaelic", which is more highland in origin. Scots is distantly related to English on a very ancient basis and is thus a Germanic language as well. Scottish Gaelic, in contrast, is related to "Irish" (or "Irish Gaelic", often confusingly called just "Gaelic" ) and also Manx, another Gaelic language from the Isle of Man. All are in the Celtic branch, as the diagram shows, and are rather removed from English, German, Dutch, and other Germanic langauges.
If you google around you can find some sound bites (even internet radio stations) of people speaking Irish Gaelic. If you've never heard it, it's probably completely unrecognizable (and very cool). I applaud the efforts for Irish speakers to continue to promote the recovery of their language -- losing it would be a tremendous loss of their history and culture. It's but a minority of the Irish population that speaks Irish daily, but there are pockets of the country where it is the #1 language (although they can speak English also). The situation is a lot worse for Scottish Gaelic and Manx unfortunately...
Non-profit of not, somebody is attempting to make a bunch of cash off of this sham -- soaking taxpayers for state and local funds to run it. Take a look at the 826LA website -- one of the big job requirements is grant writing.
What a silly field trip to take the kids on. Take the kids to a real museum or historical site.
I guess it depends on who your market is. If it's a big purchses, I do a lot of research, which includes looking at ads and box labels. If the company does a crappy job explaining their product features, I'll probably buy from their competitor(s).
Ever think about leaving?
1. Give the present day descendents of the oppressed an excuse for malingering and poor success in life. It does no one any good. The Chinese were abused like hell in the Western USA in the 19th century, but they just keep working hard every generation and forever improving their success each generation. Contrast with some other varied groups that raise their young with a spirit of defeatism and reliance on the the government for even meager subsistence.
2. Open up the gates for a flood of lawsuits where descendants of the "oppressed" sue descendants of the "oppressors". This isn't just and all it does is forever divide a nation and cause both groups to retain prejudices and resentment.
--> Yes, in the past, people were treated badly all through history. Nearly every one of us surely has ancestors on BOTH sides if you go back far enough. The Aborigines were not a single cohesive group of people, but rather HUNDREDS of such groups! You can bet some of these groups oppressed each other rather badly at times. Will their respective descendants apologize to each otehr as well? It never ends.
Never forget the past. Study the past. Learn from the past. But, get on with life today.
As with everything else NASA puts out, the vid will probably be an artist's animation instead (complete with non-realistic colors). Even when they have actual footage (and stills) NASA loves to do wild illustrations and animations in spectacular colors, because the public loves it and in turn tells Congress to keep funding them on future projects.
Sure Edison was a ruthless businessman, but he was *extraordinarily* creative as well over many DECADES. He hired smart people and set them to work on problems he thought had promise. In the early years, he had to do most of the inventing himself, but as his success grew, he was able to hire an increasingly large research staff. The say that he stole his inventions is a pretty unjust characterization.
Tesla was unquestionably brilliant and ultimately proven correct over Edison as far "the battle of the currents" (A.C. v. D.C.) goes. But he was really eccentric to the degree of being a tad wacky, especially in his later years. That doesn't disparage the tremendous work he did (especially regarding power generation and transmission), but Edison was no slouch either.
Finally, the concrete houses (look at the model and the pic of one under construction) were actually pretty nice -- they were not featureless monoliths like one might imagine. Still, people were not quite ready for mass produced houses then, so the project eventually tanked. Fast forward to the late 1940s, when post-War America embraced the rows of identical crap thrown up (like the famous Levittown, Long Island) on the cheap during the housing boom. By the way, most of those Edison cast concrete houses are still standing -- I think 10 remain. They are holding up pretty well and most of the owners really like them.
Oh, for what it's worth, the Aston-Martin in the early Bond films is a DB5 as well -- the DB6 came out later in the 1960s.
It's a good question. Whilst almost people in Scotland and Ireland are able to speak English, that was only the result of a few hundred years of "gentle persuasion" on the part of the English.
The native languages of Ireland and Scotland are *completely* different from English and generally not very mutually intelligible. Scotland actually has 2 native languages, "Scots" (or "Lowland Scots") and "Scottish Gaelic", which is more highland in origin. Scots is distantly related to English on a very ancient basis and is thus a Germanic language as well. Scottish Gaelic, in contrast, is related to "Irish" (or "Irish Gaelic", often confusingly called just "Gaelic" ) and also Manx, another Gaelic language from the Isle of Man. All are in the Celtic branch, as the diagram shows, and are rather removed from English, German, Dutch, and other Germanic langauges.
If you google around you can find some sound bites (even internet radio stations) of people speaking Irish Gaelic. If you've never heard it, it's probably completely unrecognizable (and very cool). I applaud the efforts for Irish speakers to continue to promote the recovery of their language -- losing it would be a tremendous loss of their history and culture. It's but a minority of the Irish population that speaks Irish daily, but there are pockets of the country where it is the #1 language (although they can speak English also). The situation is a lot worse for Scottish Gaelic and Manx unfortunately...
Sid "9/32 Irish" Morrison