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Rupert Grint, Wizard of Real Estate {Shelterpop}
Oct 6th 2009 12:07AM This is not intelligent investment. Those kinds of property bring in no income, and require large continuing expenses for upkeep. He should have bought some rental property, apartment buildings, commercial buildings, etc.
"Now what i dont understand is...how is it that my husband is overseas defending freedom in Iraq and we have a hard time paying bills on time.. but actors and actresses get paid millions and millions of dollars???"
And if we can send a man to the moon, why can't we ...? Boo hoo, Stephanie. Take your off-topic rants elsewhere.
Student sues Amazon after Kindle eats his homework {Engadget}
Aug 21st 2009 12:27AM @captain obvious: The wiping out of notes and bookmarks happens, for example, when you download a book via USB, and then later you're in Whispernet range and Amazon makes a wireless download attempt, not knowing that you already have the book loaded. So there are cases where stuff is wiped out. I can believe it happened in this case. The notetaking function is not really that reliable for other reasons besides this, so I wouldn't recommend it. I use the notes file for making backup bookmarks so I won't loose my place if the Kindle gets confused from my moving around in the book.
American Airlines flight cancelled due to booing passengers {Gadling}
Jul 9th 2008 12:03PM I think the point is that in the cramped, stressful, and perhaps dangerous environment of an airplane, any sign of things getting out of control can be very scary. Cancelling is the best thing to do. And the passengers should have been herded into a room to be questioned by security people. Passengers need to understand that behavior on a plane is different than in other contexts.
Chronic fatigue finally gets taken seriously {That's Fit}
Jul 21st 2007 7:51PM Nobody's claiming that these people are shirkers. The claim is that they are suffering from depression, but that they don't like that diagnosis, so they agitate to be classified as suffering from a "real disease." This is insulting to victims of depression.
All those symptoms beyond fatigue, the memory loss, the joint pain, are in the symptom pool of psychosomatic illness. Many depressed people have them.
You misrepresent the study you cite. It merely found a correlation between chronic fatigue syndrome and various genetic anomalies. This may well just mean that those genetic anomalies are correlated with depression.
A masked Apple employee begins to blog {TUAW.com}
Oct 10th 2006 10:43PM [Apologies for the double posting]
"colour is the proper spelling.... (well for me in england!!) My argument for 'proper english' is it was ours first, so ours must be right!!"
Spelling aside, one of the most fascinating things I learned in my historical linguistics classes at college was that linguists believe that American accents, especially some New England accents, are much closer to what was spoken in the U.K. two or three hundred years ago than the current U.K. accent.
Emigrant populations tend to be more conservative than the original populations from the standpoint of language innovation, and this has been true with other languages also.
It's really quite fascinating how they are able to reconstruct accents from periods when no sound recording existed. Besides the obvious things like looking at poetry, song lyrics, and puns, they know that vowels univerally tend to change in certain "directions" over time, and things like that.
A masked Apple employee begins to blog {TUAW.com}
Oct 10th 2006 10:41PM "colour is the proper spelling.... (well for me in england!!) My argument for 'proper english' is it was ours first, so ours must be right!!"
Spelling aside, one of the most fascinating things I learned in my historical linguistics classes at college was that linguists believe that American accents, especially some New England accents, are much closer to what was spoken in the U.K. two or three hundred years ago than the current U.K. accent.
Emigrant populations tend to be more conservative than the original populations from the standpoint of language innovation, and this has been true with other languages also.
It's really quite fascinating how they are able to reconstruct accents from periods when no sound recording existed. Besides the obvious things like looking at poetry, song lyrics, and puns, they know that vowels univerally tend to change in certain "directions" over time, and things like that.
A masked Apple employee begins to blog {TUAW.com}
Oct 10th 2006 10:37PM "colour is the proper spelling.... (well for me in england!!) My argument for 'proper english' is it was ours first, so ours must be right!!"
Spelling aside, one of the most fascinating things I learned in my historical linguistics classes at college was that linguists believe that American accents, especially some New England accents, are much closer to what was spoken in the U.K. two or three hundred years ago than the current U.K. accent.
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