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An alternative to all these popular DNS servers is the Swiss Privacy Foundation
http://www.privacyfoundation.ch/de/service/server.html
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‘Leader’ and „Leiter” share the same etymology, „Führer” does not.
You're not being pedantic, you're introducing an unnecessary element. The etymology of a word isn't relevant in determining its current meaning. Führer is usually translated as leader and there is nothing wrong with that translation.
In German, yes. In English, the first association is Hitler.
httpswitchboard looks like a very interesting extension. I haven't payed attention to what's happening with Chrome the last couple of years, but does this mean that you can finally genuinely block requests with Chrome extensions (something that has long been a problem with Chrome's Adblock extensions)?
Seems a reasonable title to me
To you it might, but to any linguist this is as ridiculous of a title as saying "English people originated in Africa". You will imediatelly think "wait, but the actual ethnogenesis happened nowhere close to Africa, so why would one say 'English people'? it's not useful to reference it".
It's the same with this title. It's as useful as saying that Farsi originated in Turkey. Or any language descended from PIE, for that matter.
Not even the separation into IE families like Germanic, Balto-Slavic, etc. happened at that time. Not even Anatolian had separated from IE. Yet the title references the ''English'' language.
Obviously other languages originated there
No, the thing is, they didn't. Nor did English.
What originated there is an ancestor of a group of languages.
If the typical American isn't prospering, what good is it?
Well, neither is the typical Swede. They have an astronomical housing bubble that's just waiting to burst, the average household has a debt around twice the income, while the gap between rich and poor has been widening for a long time now.
It's not all roses and relative to where they are, most seem to be preparing for worse days ahead, rather than better ones.
This is like the browser saying "Starbucks" rather than "Starbucks, 3-1202 21st E, Falseville BC".
Is it? What if "Starbucks" were your bank? What if you knew that apart from your bank there's non-bank entities mimicking your bank's looks in an effort to get your personal information? Would location still be irrelevant?
The link went from being #3 on the frontpage to below #20 in a matter of minutes.
Wikipedia currently has a Beta feature name Hovercards
You can enable it here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...
"A web and software developer in Africa earns from $10,000 to $20,000 dollars per annum whereas their colleagues in Europe and the US earns at least $100,000 dollars per year."
Either he doesn't consider Eastern European softwware developers as colleagues or he thinks all of Europe is London, which it certainly isn't. The upper limit he gave is more than most Eastern European developers make.
Not saying you're wrong but there are many issues with "democracy" in states under Russian control. Yanukovych's main opponent during his first stint as a presidential candidate was "miraculously" poisoned. Federal units within Russia that are clearly against Russian rule regularly give 100% of all their votes to Putin during "democratic" elections (with turnouts reaching above 100%), and so on and so on.
Because
No. Russians had already become by far the largest ethnic group in Crimea before any deportation had taken place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea#Demographics
The deportation happened in 1944, the 1939 census shows Russians at 49,6%. Crimean Tatars were down to 19,4%.
That still doesn't excuse Russian intervention the last few days, though.
Genocide works.
Genocide and deportations or ethnic cleansing are distinct things. Deporting hundreds of thousands of people is already bad enough, no need to use terms that don't apply to it.
Can I play content from a Linux machine on the Apple TV?
Put in perspective, this absolutely nothing.
Put in perspective, it absolutely is something. It's the biggest public outcry Google's faced thus far.
The Polish minority in Lithuania is autochtone, as far as I know (unlike Cyrillic in Germany). Furthermore, it's not merely a matter of not using the Polish letters - as the link that I provided says, their names get Lithuanized. (Mickiewicz > Mickevičius)
Since I assume you're Serbian (your handle + the mention of ć and Cyrillic), here's an example.
Imagine that the Hungarians in North of Serbia weren't allowed to write their name as Szabo Lajos (or Lajos Szabo) and instead they were forced to use Lajoš Sabić.
The Polish minority in Lithuania doesn't have the right to use the Polish orthography and/or letters of the Polish alphabet when writing their names.
http://www.nouvelle-europe.eu/en/polish-national-minority-li...
As long as Gmail itself remains minimalistic
Unless you're using the basic HTML view for Gmail, I don't see how Gmail is minimalistic.
The option seems to have been enabled by default at least on some Google accounts.
Bradley will spend rest of his life in jail.
Are you sure about that? Jeffrey Carney, an American who worked for the US Air Force and spied for the DDR, was sentenced to 38 years in prison, but only ended up serving 11 years.
It's hyperbole, a pretty common tool when expressing yourself.
It's not a long way from Google's motto "Don't be evil" to "Be evil" and it doesn't take that much imagination to figure out what he meant.
On the other hand, acting obtuse is rarely funny.
The rather little-known SilverReader
Although I'm pretty satisfied with my current reader, and wasn't looking for a replacement, this looks really nice. It didn't require linking my Google account, OPML import worked instantly unlike on some other readers, the interface is nice, editing folders and feeds works through the main interface (rather than requiring a special menu)
whether society should value descriptive over prescriptive policies on its language is a huge debate among linguists
There's no such debate at all, whoever told you that is not a linguist.
Linguistics is a science and it is inherently descriptive. It describes what it sees in natural language. It doesn't make judgment as to the worthiness or corectness of something. That's what laymen do, but they cannot reinforce their views through linguistics, only through distortion of linguistics.
So it’s okay to use literally to mean figuratively as long as you really, really, really need to do so? Hmph.
No need for the "hmph". It's how language works. Yes, a word can indeed have not only multiple meanings but also contrasting meanings. And there's nothing wrong with that nor is there a need to be judgmental about it.
It's not a particularly new meaning either
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002611.h...
Since there's no proof of this "positive", this claim sits in doubt.
...and since there's no proof of his story, his story sits in doubt. Right?
Is that the modus operandi?
I was commenting under the assumption that his experiences were conveyed truthfully and that the explosive alert actually happened and wasn't bogus.
Is there reason for me to automatically doubt the sincerity of those who tested him?
Is there reason to believe that they didn't want to tell him what exactly the machine told them because they were lying to him? Or is it a more reasonable explanation that they're not allowed to?
Racial profiling is bad. They acted differently towards him than they'd do to other people, but that doesn't mean we have to ignore everything and assume that every single person there was out to get him and put an innocent person through hell.
where false positives happen often and are explained away with lesser screening
Can you offer an alternative scenario of how you would have reacted if you were one of the officers?
There are far more efficient ways to flag people that fit a certain profile. They should have checked all of his belongings and let him go, and not focused at all on his "attitude".
Did you miss the part where the machines gave him a positive for explosives?
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It's probably much more likely that google translate did a literal translation of the city's name.
Running the article through GT shows that GT doesn't translate the name of the city. It keeps it in its original French form, both as an isolated word (just running Trois-Rivières through the translator) as well as part of the whole article.
The length of his sentence is similar to that of Jeffrey Carney, who was sentenced to 38 years for
espionage, conspiracy, and desertion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Carney
While working at the Marienfelde Field Site in Berlin, Carney began copying classified documents which he then provided to the East German Ministry for State Security (MfS) by repeatedly crossing back and forth into East Germany. In 1984 he was involuntarily transferred to Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas to work as a technical instructor. Unfortunately, Carney believed, Goodfellow AFB was a training base with no real-world intelligence of any interest to the MfS. He soon discovered that he had been very wrong. He continued providing the MfS with documents, meeting his handlers in Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro In 1985.
Carney spent 11 years in prison.