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by kiiski 12y ago
I guess there may be some other cases that I can't think of, but the point remains the same; using the same pronoun for "he" and "she" (and "it" in spoken language) doesn't really cause confusion, bec
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by kiiski 12y ago
I can't speak for Spanish, but in at least in Finnish there wont be confusion, because pronouns are used to refer to the previously named/described person: "A man went missing last night. He was wearing a red shirt." &qu
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by kiiski 12y ago
That link gives a 404 page.
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by kiiski 12y ago
You don't get your face/head wet when ice swimming, I suppose?
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by kiiski 12y ago
I imagine that it would be even easier to look at European companies, as there has been lots of border changes there. According to a quick search into Finnish companies, the currently oldest one (Fiskars, founded in 1649) has survived the t
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by kiiski 12y ago
I assume it's the same in all militaries (in Finnish Defence Forces, when talking to superiors you're always supposed to begin with "sir/ma'am <his/her rank>, <my rank> <my last name>" (i
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by kiiski 12y ago
I think you're missing the point that in other parts of the world people (kids, adults, men, women) do read comic books. In those other parts of the world, where comic books are read by all sorts of people, they are not so overtly sexu
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by kiiski 12y ago
So I suppose in Finland these would be driving on ice x2, and the night driving simulator (at least in my case). Are you sure that tunnels are a part of the standard? I didn't need to do that ~5 years ago. Is the education split into t
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by kiiski 12y ago
What makes you think them being American matters? Has there been a trend of Spain banning American companies? And what makes you think the Spanish goverment is trying to promote minimal goverments, etc.? I don't really follow politics,
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by kiiski 12y ago
UK (and Canada, Australia, etc.) did declare war on Finland, and attacked a Finnish harbour[1]. While USA didn't declare war, I doubt anything would have changed if they did, since Finland was out of their reach anyway. [1]: http:&#x2
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by kiiski 12y ago
I'm not sure what discussion you mean, but the Winter War was, as the title says, in the winter 39-40. Finland and Germany only started fighting together against Soviets in 41 (Continuation War). There wasn't really anything stran
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by kiiski 12y ago
Do you live in western Finland? I live in the east, and I don't remember ever seeing that.
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by kiiski 12y ago
I don't know what American news say, but from what I've gathered from Finnish news, the Russian troubles are mostly due to oil prices, and the sanctions have had very little effect.
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by kiiski 12y ago
Perhaps they are not using the word "agent" as a CIA job title, but rather in the actual meaning of the word: An agent is one who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one entrusted with the busin
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by kiiski 12y ago
Don't left handed people usually keep the mouse on the left side of the keyboard? I've seen some people do that at least.
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by kiiski 12y ago
I didn't mean to comment on whether the war was justified or not, but simply that it was USA that attacked (and so the war doesn't quite qualify as an attack against America).
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by kiiski 12y ago
I was under the impression that in the War of 1812, USA was the agressor. Wikipedia seems to also support this view. Is that not correct, or do americans just have their own differing viewpoint?
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by kiiski 12y ago
If you go to the downloads page[1], all the files have last modified date of 21-nov-2013. I don't know if that's due to actual changes, or something else. I tried sending him a message through the contact form. [1]: http:/&#
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by kiiski 12y ago
> you should be training like you are gonna have to fight Maybe I misunderstood what you mean, but that sounds like a pretty stupid thing to do. When you practice advancing under direct/indirect fire, do you actually have machine gu
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by kiiski 12y ago
What kind of students did Harvard have back then? Was it mainly rich upper class people, or people from "the people" too?
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by kiiski 12y ago
Where I'm at, today the sunrise was at 09:10, and sunset at 14:30. Peak energy usage is in the evening.
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by kiiski 12y ago
Finland also has a secret blocklist maintained by the police. It is currently voluntary for ISPs to implement the blocks, but there has been some talk of making it mandatory "if necessary". The list is supposed to only contain for
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by kiiski 12y ago
As someone who lives there, I'm also curious about that. Should number 5 be read as "tell everyone about Finland", or "tell no one about Finland"? Why?
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by kiiski 12y ago
I think YKK is a bad example here, considering they were fined for beign part of a cartel in Europe (2007). That doesn't seem like something that benefits customers or gets them a great deal.
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by kiiski 12y ago
I think Norwegians make it from cod, while Swedes (and we Finns) use ling.
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by kiiski 12y ago
Not on a touchscreen device.
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by kiiski 12y ago
It's not just the USA. Here in Finland I was pretty much only taught how the war started and how it affected Finland (which gained independence from Russia in 1917, and then fought a civil war in 1918 with some involvement from Russia
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by kiiski 12y ago
I doubt ease of learning really has anything to do with the current popularity of English. As soon as the USA stops being the dominant power in the world, English will start losing ground as well. edit: Looking at the EF English Proficiency
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by kiiski 12y ago
But if you're going to use an IDE to generate all the ASCII, why not just use regular graphics instead?
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by kiiski 12y ago
I don't think it really matters if people describe the place in too much detail; the ambulance/whatever is already heading for the central park and the extra directions are just relayed to them on the way.

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