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What makes you think that? If their computer came with an OS preinstalled, with Mongolian, for example, as the language, they would not have to ever see any English anywhere. A flag might be more universally recognized way of selecting the right language.

I think the question was, why does changing "girl" to "woman" make it sexist by definition?

It's not like you would just automatically get more money because you speak another language; you have to go work somewhere where they need you to do so.

Not really. They're not creating a new standard, but forcing everyone to use the same one; whether it's the best one or not.

It does if the player can only play as one of the factions. Especially if the factions are really called "Germans" and "Russians". The war was fought between the Axis and the Soviet Union, which included plenty of nations besides Germany and Russia. Also, "Germans" and "Russians" are not the same as "Germany" and "Russia" (there were Germans, for example, who fought against Germany too).

But the article doesn't say much about the game, so I don't know if this was the case.

It seems like in the USA, gifts to a spouse are exempted from the gift tax[1]. I don't know about USA, but here (Finland) any unusually large gifts given just prior to death are considered a part of inheritance.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_tax_in_the_United_States#N...

Maybe it's precicely because of the abstract nature of music that people need to judge it based on something more concrete.

The question is "which country is the richest and most powerful". If we use the per capita statistics, Luxembourg is. That doesn't sound quite right, does it? If we look at the totals instead, the top ranks are USA, China, Japan and Germany. If you ask me, that seems more like what we're looking for.

We're talking about nations, not people, so I don't think "GDP per capita" is relevant. USA has by far the highest total GDP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin...

US military budget is, what, ~$700 billion? I don't think a $100 million is going to improve anyones odds of survival if spent on equipment/research/something else, but it can have a big effect on morale if the soldiers know they wont be just abandoned and forgotten if things go badly.

I would actually welcome a unifed interface across all devices I use. I'm not sure if Windows is the one I would use, but the idea itself sounds pretty good to me. I haven't used anything from Microsoft since Vista was released.

I guess I was lucky in that respect. My university taught cs in two different cities (out of the three where they had a campus), and many advanced/optional classes only had a teacher in one of the cities (with an assistant in the other). Our classrooms were equipped with video conference gear, and since lectures were already going to be through the video system for half of the class, putting recordings online was sort of an automatic bonus.

Most of the time most students attending live lectures are there to just listen. At least that was my experience when I was still studying. I found video recordings to be just as good as, or even better than, attending lectures. With recordings you can study things at your own pace, while doing exercises/experiments. You can also review the lectures later when preparing for an exam, or when you just want a refresher on some topic. And they obviously help when you have overlapping classes. You can always email/talk to the teacher if you have a question about something.

No idea. I was just correcting the notion that there is only one "Russian republic".

More than half of the 21 actually. Russia is a federation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_of_Russia

The point is that games require you to spend 100 hours for "ridiculous grind" for no other reason than to motivate you to pay to not grind. If paying was not an option, the game would be designed to not require any non-enjoyable grinding/waiting (even if there is grinding, it would be an enjoyable part of the gameplay, not just "wait 5 minutes and you can click something again").

Imagine a game where you build a village. You need gold to build something. The game gives you X gold every 5 minutes, and you can pay to get more. Sounds reasonable, right? Except that there is no gameplay reason for you to wait 5 minutes to get more gold. They could just as well give you more every 30 seconds and the gameplay would became 10 times faster and more enjoyable.

If there is no option to pay with money, there would not be any need to pay with time either.

I doubt there would be games like that (same as now, but where spending time is the only option). The whole mechanic of spending a long time waiting is there to encourage paying to not wait.

But yes, it would not be abusive if there is no way to pay. If the mechanic exists solely for gameplay reasons, rather than for manipulating the player, it's not taking advantage of anyone.

I understand that it's difficult, but it should be possible by using individual overlay images for each timezone, rather than just highlighting the whole sector. I suppose one might have to tweak the map projection too. As it is right now, it isn't really that usefull as a tool (it's a neat looking toy in any case though).

Edit: Also, it has "business hours 9-5" on it. 9-5 isn't correct in all countries (Finland 8-4).

The time zones don't quite match the map. Finland (where I am) for example should be in GMT+2, but it is drawn in GMT+1 on that map.

Didn't hurt? Perhaps, but it didn't do much good to them either. Just look at Nokia who had a touch only phone in 2004 (7710) and a tablet in 2005 (770). Those techs only succeeded years later with iPhone (2007) and iPad (2010).

I think the problem is more likely to be that people here are so predisposed against PHP that they only see the potential problems, and ignore the benefits.

"Currency being used to trade" :o

Maybe not anymore (at least in the west), but the bible does have that stuff in it too.

http://www.openbible.info/topics/menstruation

You seem certain that the truth would favor Ukraine ;) If we hypothetically assume the population ends up celebrating their liberation, how is Ukraine ever going to have any credibility demanding the region back?

How so? Doesn't Crimea have any power plants? I would imagine there was enough power available for all the critical infastructure. Besides, wouldn't it be just the civilians suffering from that anyway? The Russian military must have plenty of generators for their own use with them.

You know you can make things warm again with a microwave oven, right? ;)

Seriously though, there are people who will gladly eat pizza every day. Just because you don't like it (or maybe you just don't have any quality pizza restaurants nearby), doesn't mean it's a bad idea.

Not to mention that the population of Crimea is over 50% ethnic Russians.

Indeed. According to wikipedia (source was written in ukrainian, so can't checĸ), Putin said in 2008 that Russia would attempt to annex Crimea and East Ukraine if they were to join NATO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relations#...

>In the case of bomb threat or shooting, I am damn sure a 911 call is enough to get 100 county officers from MP and nearby county. A single officer will not help much.

A single officer in the right place is far more usefull than 100 in a nearby county. Breivik was just one man. He could have been easily stopped by a single officer.

Are you arguing that it would be a good thing to limit the best education to the richest elite? Coming from a free education country this sounds like a very strange idea...