Surenas

Already today we accept 24.000 dead by famine worldwide daily - and the number is bulging. Hunger is a cruel political weapon in the 3rd world and bloody conflicts are the order of the day. The future number of dead by lack of drinking water will be even much higher, experts say. Sadly, both parameters of scarcity are caused by our modern health care in the involved regions that has led to a reduction of infant mortality. When the land doesn't feed its people any more, they leave their agricultural land to populate the cities, vast slums and wasteland are the result. It's a spiral of horror and we tend to look away not to get sick of it. Tears of charity are still the privilege of the elderly people that donate money as much as they can - drops in the bucket... Though in the end we can't feed them all, give water to all of them, I fear. And what happens then I really don't wanna see in my crystal ball. Moreover, I guess that a shift in the "pill policy" of the Vatican would just cause a very short delay of the probably not to be handled problems. In a world full of hate humanity dies first...

It is not a hypothetic question of assumed knowledge of an acronym on both sides of the line but of the ability to spell the meaning. If this ability gets lost the true meaning follows and in the end one is lost as well... in a linguistic vacuum. Perfect grammar is step two of the operation called language, not the first. Watch a baby. Without a commonly understandable vocabulary grammar is absolutely useless. Now, reduced ability to write should be the last silly thing to teach the folks cos that leads downright to Babylonian confusion with known outcome - the communication breakdown between different groups and generations of one and the same society, each equipped with her own cryptic slang. INT QJK v INT QRL ? Have a nice week ;)

Exactly that's the problem imo - to use acronyms before one can spell what they actually stand for or even instead of per se. In this way the involved language gets corrupted within just a single generation. Acronyms are thus always to be handled with care in the communication. Often a simple label does nicely as well. Anyway, that's all from here. Keep it up!

Well said. This'd be the 1st step to stop the pandemic acronymania and to increase the common spelling skills.

Radio Cockroach-Free Wasteland on 88.3 MHz - where the drum beats roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paHZJCCd9QE Germany [ New Age ] - Album Apurimac II: Return to Ancient America 1994; Cover Art Gold plate from Tiwanaku, Bolivia, approx. 1.500 CE, late Inca period, so to speak - end of the season - http://www.abload.de/img/anne9hol.gif me 'earties, yo ho!

Coq au vin a French braise of chicken cooked with Burgundy wine, lardons, mushrooms and lots of secret stuff. That's deadly http://www.greensmilies.com/smile/smiley_emoticons_hexe4.gif

The interesting theme has inspired me to order the following contemporary works from amazon: _ Inca Garcilaso de la Vega - The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and the General History of Peru, Lisbon 1609 / Univ of Texas 1987 _ Pedro de Cieza de Leon - The Discovery and Conquest of Peru (Chronicles of the New World Encounter), Sevilla 1550 / Duke Univ Press 1998 Hope they're worth the money :unsure: NB The pre-Columbian Tiwanaku ("stone in the center"?) and Puma Punku ("gate of the puma"/cougar) are located at the Bolivian border to today Peru. The empire of Tiwanaku has once covered larger parts of today Chile, Bolivia and Peru. It collapsed around 1100 CE, some 400 years before the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire

Similar to most of us when we have a new house built they lived in the old residence or temple, usually in a different place within range. Gotta live in the construction area like the ancient builders wouldn't be divine or lifted up but dirty, thus less impressive for the people and even lesser safe for an elite that was out of touch with any manual labor that has no relation to the exercise of the cult or to warfare.

It's due to the "horizon of the gods" - the eternity, manifested and hailed in everlasting polished stone to impress the eye of the beholder and to lift up the divine owner for many generations and not for just a few months as it would be the case if cardboard boxes as grave goods were ever used. The understanding of time has fundamentally changed over the ages and thus of the time of existence of a product that belongs to the upper class as well. You and me, we'd have used fragile clay in those days, for sure, because we don't stay in the divine limelight, miles above the masses. Our horizon, the "horizon of the simple ones" covers just a few years and everything we hold today will hardly survive our grandchildren cos we're made from clay and not from diorite. Regarding the ancient techniques to sculpture diorite the scholarly opinions differ, though not widely. Core drilling hmt.prj and grinding hmwt materials play a role in ancient Egypt - and time as the function of both quality and final product prize, and the latter is quite decisive today but not for an ancient royal house or the ruling priest class. Moreover, to keep power over the people the ancient kept their special knowledge secret, handed over only to the chosen ones, the adepts, merely randomly under torture to the conquerer. A howto build a pyramid we'd thus never dig out. NB The invulnerable fortress wasn't yet built, it's just a myth to calm down the fears of the folks on the eve of the siege.

witch-hunt

granny, Yes. And that's why I hold some of Greene's works :thumbsup: No doubt, Graham Greene was a great novelist with sophisticated insights and is always worth reading.

The Quiet American (2002) based on a novel by Graham Greene "In war, the most powerful weapon is seduction" Oh, how true! http://www.abload.de/img/anne9hol.gif

The largest famine of the 20th century and almost certainly of all time was the 1958–61 Great Leap Forward famine in China with some 30-45 million fatalities. That was one of the main reasons for the introduction of what Chinese officials euphemistically call "family planning policy" - the attempt to control the rapid population growth in China and to avoid a dire remake, in particular by political reasons cos the credibility of the communist system under Deng Xiaoping was at stake at the eve of the trial against the "Gang of Four", among them the infamous Mao widow Jiang Qing. Today, one generation after its introduction the problem of too many lone male singles, often equipped with crippled skills in human interaction caused by a growth as pampered only child, is at hand and thus in the debate (something one could have imagined already at start).

The most negative effect of the 79er one-child policy to avoid overpopulation was the sudden omnipresence of the oldfashioned son and heir concept, deeply rooted in all forms of feudalism and especially in the Chinese patriarchalism. And that's the background of the strange shift in the newborn to males we're talking about. Chinese people want to have a male heir, and that's why induced abortion comes into play to satisfy the questionable needs of the parents. Sex determination per ultrasound is already or will be soon prohibited in China to come back to a balance of nature in the sexes. The exact commencement of the sex act is an utter stranger to me though.

Radio Cockroach-Free Wasteland on 88.3 MHz - where the drum beats roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6nQ3dhMrz0 Belgium [ Acid House ] - Album Farstucker 2000; Cover Art The acid mouse is in da house... http://www.abload.de/img/anne9hol.gif me 'earties, yo ho!

Advanced Western Riding by Kara L. Stewart I have to score some sliding stops, I was told lately. Yippee ki-yay - I always wanted to fall off the horse.

The often foolish ancestors that were still rooted to the soil and their local small-scale destructions of the land and its resources are hardly responsible for the large-scale ecocide by the ravaging industrial age. The early man and his strange hunting techniques are not the cause for the today extinction of big game in the wild like the Chinese Père David's Deer two years ago, the upcoming one of the Siberian tiger or the ongoing wastening of the Subtropics with emphasis on Africa. The argument is thus one from silence. But what have Mayan corn monoculture and the limited resources of an isolated object like the Easter Island to do with the Chinese government of today? Actually nothing.

Guess you've eventually meant "do WE, the consuming nations, possess enough resources?" I agree to all those who understand the Chinese birth control as a positive mechanism, in the first place to avoid starvations like those we know from Africa and the incredible social differences we find in India and Pakistan. Though the political reason behind is the old Maoist idea of a better to be controlled working capacity of the Chinese women as a whole with a short and one-time temporary disability caused by having children. It is thus just partly a woman-friendly directive in a traditionally patriarchal aligned Han society where women have almost nothing to say if they aren't member of the politbureau or somethin'.

Nice tunes :) http://www.abload.de/img/anne9hol.gif me 'earties, yo ho!

Radio Cockroach-Free Wasteland on 88.3 MHz - where the drum beats roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5p5fLsTnSI Australia [ Hard Rock ] - Album Black in Black 1980; Cover Art Somewhere the bucks for the new V8 have to come from... http://www.abload.de/img/anne9hol.gif me 'earties, yo ho!

Thanks, I'm at one with myself, granny ;) ___________________________________ Radio Cockroach-Free Wasteland on 88.3 MHz - where the drum beats roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABgpkcgsgV8 Jamaica [ Reggae Fusion ] - Single Gimme Gimme 2008; Cover Art Beenie Man was signed as replacement act for Snoop Dogg for the Parkpop festival in the Netherlands to be held in 2010, but was dropped after protests from gay rights groups. http://www.abload.de/img/anne9hol.gif me 'earties, yo ho!

Sometimes censored images look indeed much better... http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/Zahgon/MonaLisa.jpg Anyway, we shouldn't go from one extreme to the other, simply not to lose all credibility.

Radio Cockroach-Free Wasteland on 88.3 MHz - where the drum beats roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxH4mL8p5j0 Sweden [ Electronic Mixtape Pop ] - Album Sarah 2010; Cover Art Frukost på svenska / breakfast in Swedish back on 9/26 http://www.abload.de/img/anne9hol.gif skål

Radio Cockroach-Free Wasteland on 88.3 MHz - where the drum beats roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXIKXxuuVGc France [ Pop ] - Album Gourmandises 2001; Cover Oblivion (mine) Alizée's 1st album Gourmandises received Platinum certification within three months of re- lease and was a success both in France and abroad after it had its international launch in 2001 earning Alizée the distinction of being the highest selling female French singer in 2001. The album featured her most successful single "Moi... Lolita" which reached number one in several countries in Europe and East Asia. back on 9/26 http://www.abload.de/img/anne9hol.gif skål

Radio Cockroach-Free Wasteland on 88.3 MHz - where the drum beats roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDXC_VMdymY Germany [ Rap ] - Album Fish 'n' Chips mit Sauerkraut 2009; Cover Oblivion (mine) Song about the primeval fear of all big boys since paradise - the demoniac man huntress. back on 9/26 http://www.abload.de/img/anne9hol.gif skål