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Or, to put it another way, absolutely correct.

Churchill's daughter, Lady Soames, exclames the story is 'Too tiresome for words'. Presumably while sipping sloe gin and pressing the back of one gloved hand to her forehead. Aristocracy gets easily bored, who’d have thought it? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3417353.stm

Hmm. A variety of directions and methods might be the way to go. People could pick the format that they preferred, and it would lead to the section of the site written in that particular format. It would have to introduce the text formatting slowly and simply at first, in the style of children’s books, to allow the reader opportunity to adjust before dismissing the formatting. I may chuck in an option to flick the text of your choosing to the desired direction. It might be helpful to, say, followers of Islam or people studying the Torah to get used to reading any text in that direction. The more I think about it, the more likely it seems that the most efficient method of reading text probably isn’t left to right for everyone, that's just the way we do it so right handed people didn’t smudge the ink when writing. Not the best way pick a format.

Excellent. Looking good so far, firm commited decisions are the way to go.

So, I had a thought. What if there is a population contingent whose natural preference to a typeface would be from right to left and not left to right? Like the torah, there are examples of literature that read the opposite way to the norm. I propose an experiment, out here in the intermawebby, where a website is set up with the axis flipped to produce a left to right with some reading material and a vote/comments area. Just for fun, see? Is this just me being overtired and stoopid, or a remarkably cunning experiment that will break the conformities of literature, as we know it? You decide.

There is a quite famous samurai ideal in bushido ‘Even if your head is separated from your body, a samurai should retain enough composure to strike down his enemy’ which indicates that the Samurai believed that is was a matter of willpower to continue past the point of rather serious injury. Of course, the Hagakure also tells of a Samurai who’s head was left attached to the neck with only a strip of skin, and it swung free of the body, who was left up to his neck in rice and healed up quite nicely. So perhaps not altogether a realistic bunch of chaps. BTW YT, isn't watching people getting shot a bit disturbing?

Well, I just had a coffee and perked up a bit. Then so did the server o_O

They were girls? Jesus. That explains the bite marks then.

Funny, the same thing happened in Leeds last night.

I assumed it was just me. I'm tired, I didn't notice it was slow at both work and home.

I don't. I'm really quite busy, my project is on critical path and I....oh crap

How so? An image via vocal inclination?

I see the detractions now, cheers. At least it's a step in the right direction, it just need not punish the school in such a suprisingly random way. There is a Norwegian who came up with a super method of standardized testing. It involves looking at the core skills that make you a succesful person and not just core syllabus. So it looks at practical skills as well as mental, and a third I forget. I'll have to dig out the paper at some point and post it. The thory is quite good, an child with acting ability could have terrible SAT results yet still be the most talanted person in the school by far with the most scope for success (if its properly identified). The test are designed to pick up as many of the diverse abilitys that a successfull person needs in specific areas of work.

Pah, organisations in the US also sponsored the IRA and PLO. We don't really hold that against the country. Everyone need the oil, and trust me when I say the US will welcome it. I don't think that any country can afford to turn down cordial relations within the Middle East, no matter how dodgy they appear. The US especially needs all the support it can garner in that area. It's not as if we will get punished for exploring the possibility.

Not really. It's a comparison that's overused when anyone mutters about banning anything.

Scepticism, perhaps and perhaps not, caution and trepidation probably. Can't hurt anyone to send in the diplomats, otherwise they just sit around and get drunk.

Seems fine, provide appropriate levels of eductaion depending on the needs of the students. What's the problem? Tax payers don't want to invest in effective education?

Greece

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I have yet to understand what people think they will gain from knowing your name. It's not the voodoweb. What's the worst someone can do with your address, sign you up for junk mail? Thousands of people know where I live, that a homeless guy in west Gubuta finds it out does not worry me. Even if they could be bothered dragging themselves to your door, ignoring the legal issues, they are going to be a bit surprised when you turn out not to be a 12 year old troglodyte. They'll be even more surprised when you don't capitulate in their mere presence

Ha ha. I don't have quicktime you evil green boxheaded elf. A pox on you.

Yes, the reputations damaged. I cite Fox news as my example.

Hmmm, as half of us don't live in the US could you explain/linkage the bill?

It does indeed. It was endemic during the period, Rameses V certainly show evidence he contracted it. Died around 1150 BC, from whatever caused the markings. It had/has a low mortality rate, but was a real danger.