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Yeah maybe if you thought you had a choice. Take immigrants from Laos for example. Do you think they would rather stay in their native country and face genocide or risk moving to America where they may have to learn English, and possibly give up some of their own language? It would be nice if...

First, Hawaii's bilingual aspect originates from native Hawaiians, who were there before the English or us Americans. That's right, they had a king, a kingdom, and a military. The English came, and couldn't quite fight off the military, but could kill a lot of natives with disease, get them to...

Apparently, what science says anyhow, DNA from a black or white person looks the same. Science has been unable to find a way to discern a person's "race" from a DNA sample, although they can differentiate between human and salamander DNA :) . To give an idea of some socially constructed...

Indeed! Thanx for the reply~~ I agree about my eyesight, although I think the issue has to do with the external cues being interpreted by my brain. That interface between mind and the material as well as cosmic humor/irony strike my interest more too than world poverty levels.....:p :crazyeye:

Doesn't that contradict what you were saying earlier about how the poor in America have more than the poor everywhere else? Also, when I used Bangladesh as a comparison, the $1500 figure was a measure of purchasing power as based on GDP divided by population, which of course doesn't describe...

Just thought I should add this: at the genetic level of DNA, science has been unable to find differences between races. Which means, of course, it is a social construct. As an example, there are thousands of documented cases in the US where a person's birth certificate indicates a different...

So, Damien, what your reasoning points to is that, even though the US ranks higher in poverty than these comparable nations, the poor in the US have more material objects than the poor do in these nations? And I am sure that the 2 some odd million homeless strap that blender to their back...

I tried to avoid this aspect by using comparisons to other industrialized countries. Obviously the poverty level income in the United States is going to be much higher than the average income of Bangladesh, which is about 1500 (US dollars) per capita. However cost of living is also higher in the...

To lightly touch on the impetus of this post: has anyone read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson? I think this is the book where the circumstances involved with the Tower of Babel were postulated to derive from a type of virus passed by visual coding into DNA structures. The resultant process was the...

I have a question about pikemen in your mod, Zouave. What is the incentive to build them? They cost the same as crossbow, but have lower stats. I have a vague memory of a reference somewhere that pikes are good defenders in Civ 3 vs. mounted units, but does this actually work in the game? My...

Yes..... Consider how rich we are: Compared to Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia the United States ranks highest in child poverty (Source: Urban Institute). 16% of white children and 40% of black children live in poverty. (I wonder why France...

Speaking of Schroedinger, did anyone think about asking the cat?

I had no idea. Just another victim of history's misinformation I suppose.

I think that's a further part of the irony because I usually read before I buy, but this time I didn't, which maybe is support for the evil mind control theory. I lean towards a cosmic sense of humor as the explanation. Under some type of quantum logic, the hot chocolate existed in the...

Why not? Just kidding. Here's my real question: I bought a box of hot chocolate packets at the local discount grocery store for $1.25 so I could drink something hot at night besides coffee while playing Civ3. The box sat around my kitchen for about 2 weeks. Then I thought about those...