gotchange

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by gotchange 9y ago
> Vowels are an afterthought to Arabic writing, That's an orientalist claim. Vowels do exist in Arabic but some foreign learners of the language don't get the distinction between short and long vowels and how the letters "
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by gotchange 9y ago
In Arabic, some country names get the definite article "al ال" like "(The) Iraq العراق" while most don't and "Ukraine أوكرانيا" is definitely one of them.
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by gotchange 9y ago
Tech is a double-edged sword. I also could think of anti-human-targeting weapons to stop or neutralize those vehicles. Everything is possible.
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by gotchange 9y ago
Right, it's an arms race between us and the terrorists but at this point in time we need to make this weapon turn from low-tech to high-tech to operate thus raising the barrier and make it prohibitively difficult for losers to hijack o
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by gotchange 9y ago
Or better stopping vehicle-ramming terrorist attacks like the one in Stockholm last week. Just imagine a system setup on the vehicle where it detects above-average acceleration in a downtown area (GPS supplied) in addition to abnormal swerv
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by gotchange 10y ago
Kill 'em with kindness. On a more serious note, I don't see Trump's mentions in the article to be unwarranted at all. On the contrary, they're very appropriate given his divisive rhetoric about the news media, and I beli
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by gotchange 10y ago
I think that was rhetorical.
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by gotchange 10y ago
I hate to sound this much politically incorrect but women in these times of social unrest and upheaval turn into resources themselves and this clustering, as you described it, would be more of involuntary and less of at will. This doesn&#x2
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by gotchange 10y ago
You seem to conflate flicks or one-night stands and LT relationships. From my experience, women tend to choose marriage partners who are well-off and this is very understandable esp. in societies which are barely above the survival level or
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by gotchange 10y ago
Good point but there's nothing that precludes these assigned/expected roles in a LT relationship from changing or evolving in the future and for persons in the relationship to adapt to the new dynamics and realities.
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by gotchange 10y ago
Because traditional gender roles dictate that the man in the relationship to be the breadwinner and being a bum doing nothing all day long wouldn't bode well for the woman in the relationship and given that feminists are against the st
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by gotchange 10y ago
I don't think that the headline is misleading one bit. You're just making assumptions about the time of this order going in effect to be right away which can't be deduced from the headline. You'd be right if the headline
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by gotchange 10y ago
If by intelligence, you mean in aggregate terms, I am very inclined to endorse your position here that we collectively as a species are not smart enough to solve these complex problems as some of us aren't up to the task and challenge
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by gotchange 10y ago
This is just an orchestrated and sophisticated astro-turfing campaign launched by the oil and gas industry and in light of the hyper-polarized political landscape in the US, the Right had to pick the polar opposite of the Left's stance
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by gotchange 10y ago
Apparently, you're new here. So let me give you a bit of orientation here. This kind of gratuitous politically-charged commentary is frowned upon and discouraged here. You're more than welcome to express your opinion without resor
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by gotchange 10y ago
What are the externalities resulting from purchasing a Porsche besides the usual culprits such emissions etc etc? I'm genuinely curious.
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by gotchange 10y ago
> Why would it be "wasteful" to prioritize quality of life for residents over investors' profits? Fair enough but are you willing to compensate the investors/landlords for the lost income from foregoing these opportun
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by gotchange 10y ago
> Hira, who has done extensive research on the subject, points out workers at outsourcers are typically not treated as well as others. The median wage at outsourcing firms for H-1B workers was less than $70,000, while Apple, Google and M
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by gotchange 10y ago
Well, if other ride-share companies follow suit, Trump supporters will soon have no other choices through which to make a political statement.
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by gotchange 10y ago
They're referring to CAIR here and given Breitbart's journalistic integrity or the lack thereof, they went with that provocative headline to stir up their outrage-junkie audience.
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by gotchange 10y ago
It's a conspiracy theory till you produce sufficient evidence or proof for the claims in your theory to explain a particular event or development.
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by gotchange 10y ago
A far-right politician.
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by gotchange 10y ago
Kalanick spoke out against that EO and condemned it but I think people are angry at him because he was on Trump's advisors team to lobby the admin for favorable economic policies for his interests. He miscalculated and discounted all
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by gotchange 10y ago
Trump is targeting him specifically for this to silence WaPo and force it to "change its tunes" singing his praise turning into another Breitbart clone but I don't think that this is happening anytime soon.
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by gotchange 10y ago
There's no Judiciary Police in the US?
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by gotchange 10y ago
No, it was Bush who bombed and destabilized the ME, and Obama was the one who didn't do enough to save the region -- the red line controversy -- and watched idly while the Arab Spring crumbling which led indirectly to the rise of ISIS
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by gotchange 10y ago
The ball now is in the Judiciary's court. If this dept goes rogue, they should intervene and make some arrests for people violating the court orders and laws. This looks day after day like a classical far-right takeover of the govt and
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by gotchange 10y ago
Can't the press ask for a press conference to clarify these issues?
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by gotchange 10y ago
If these countries are not reciprocating as you seem to suggest, why did the US DoS issue them visas in the first place? Don't tell me that they don't reject visa applications at their diplomatic missions and for reasons related t
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by gotchange 10y ago
Would sovereign nations like Turkey accommodate such requests that hurt their sovereignty and open them to public outrage and probably civil unrest? I don't think so.

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