Global warming is an observable phenomenon not just on a terrestrial level. Venus is the hottest planet due to a thick atmosphere of ingredients like citric acid and there is irrefutable evidence that Venus's atmosphere is the reason it's very, very hot. Yes, maybe a global warming scare can be abused but that's not to say that global warming is completely baseless.

Mad-made is a different matter though. Volcanoes spewing out a lot of very bad material has a much larger affect than the daily total carbon output of humanity's commuters and such. Natural events affect our planet much more than we could ever hope in most situations. We do contribute, certainly, but our affect on the Earth's climate is meagre and minimal.

Latin isn't a hard language to learn it merely requires dedication. There's nothing difficult to get your head around, all you have to do is hammer the facts into your head until they're memorised. It's an incredibly systematic language with nice organisation, once you know all of the foundations (like accidence, where the end of the word changes depending on its use) they apply to everything and there are very few exceptions. Not to mention, Latin is ideal for an English speaker because of the distinct relation and the etymological role Latin has played in the formation of Modern English.

However,there's honestly not much you can do career-wise with qualifications in Latin unless you plan to go into a linguistical career, take the classical languages further (Ancient Greek is a horrible language which you'll be forced to do alongside Latin on your Classics course) or law and even then Latin is not a massive requirement.

Chinese would probably be the best option if you're willing to entirely devote yourself to education. It's an ugly language to learn for English speakers, the alphabet, syntax and grammar are incredibly different and evolved in a very alien fashion. I know that Asian languages like Thai rely heavily on phoneticisms and pronounciation of pitch, whereas Latin has very familiar alphabetical sounds, the plosive, liquid and fricative sounds, for example. Asian languages demand much more from your oratorical clarity, so it's necessary that you give Chinese the time and patience it needs.

Chinese is the best qualification once you've gone through the hardships though. Latin is long since dead and only really studied by classicists and ancient historians. Chinese will serve you well when conversing with immigrants which is helpful in any job like retail. It will help you get by with business and life in a lot of Asian countries. I think Chinese is the most beneficial choice if those are your options.

In Britain we don't have GameStop and from the incessant complaints they get (and some of the stories in this thread) I'm glad we do not. Even without them I shop at little second-hand game stores because they tend to have a wider range of games (larger corporations stock what will sell) and the people behind the desk handling the retail have lots of experience with video games and know what they're talking about.

The Constitution took an amenity and turned it into a necessity. Irrespective of whose side you take in this case, the shopkeeper is responsible for the death of three people. Forget their intent and whether their actions were the stimulus for these shootings, justice should see this man in front of a court or, even better, with a prison sentence.

The rest of the world keeps on running on a sophisticated system of justice: wait until the criminal has done everything they want to do (hence no one gets hurt) and then report all the details to law enforcement at a later date. Meanwhile American almost relies on the use of firearms, it's a prerequisite to every insident—why? Injuring or killing someone else should get you time, regardless of who it was and the conditions that instigated the firing.

The fact they used Windows Movie Maker to teleport the word "Acceptance" around the screen, in a generic default font was the icing on the cake for me.

How do you leave even low-end education and still have the incompetence to create something like that . . . How?

I bought it for £1.75 for the treasure hunt sales (along with Left For Dead 2 for a massively decremented price) and it is an excellent game. I checked out the videos and it didn't look like it would interest me, but I was so wrong . . .

This kind of thing makes me want to check the rear view more often while driving. Link

What do you guys think about this and how would you have tried to avoid an accident like this?

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2 kids and at least one of their parents died in that crash. How do you stop it? By not putting dozy bellends at the wheel; how you can possibly zoom down one of those tunnels, especially when it's crowded, and only stop because of the resistance of other vehicles I do not know.

Yeah Yeah, Creasian. I don't know what country you're from, but in America, children are supposed to have great childhoods. Unfortunately, my old man killed it because he refused to change controlling ways and be lenient and easygoing like my mother. He's got no one to blame for himself if I never call him on his birthday or on Christmas. It's been 2 years in a row now and tomorrow I'll wake up and it'll be 20 and I'll feel bad for just a split second and then I'll remember that it's something he has to live with cause he's the one who pushed me away from him. derekjeter2005

Stop being so ridiculously idealistic. Childhood is something to look back on fondly but it is common that there is a blackmark or unfavourable few years over the massive span that is childhood. If what Creasian says is true he's had a far more damaging experience, higher up the spectrum of extremism than yours but certainly of the same nature, and knows what he's talking about. You came to the forum for advice and that's going to be positive and negative, so stop being so prejudicial towards reconciling and consider what is being said irrespective of whether it's contra to what you want to be said.

I am going through the same kind of thing, maybe not with any large level of abuse from my step-father but I certainly dislike him quite strongly. If I were to disconnect myself entirely from him and he, years down the line, started to show interest in reaffirming a relationship then I would take the opportunity while it's still available. I fully see where your perspective and standpoint on this matter comes from but you've got to stop dismissing everything that suggests you should get back in contact with him: you might as well give it a shot.

If it fails than you can finally say that you've tried and that he's really not willing — and probably that you're not willing — to accept each other's disciplinary methods and philosophies but there's no reason to not agree upon taking the benefits of trying and seeing where it goes. If it succeeds then it will be quite an accomplishment and act, almost of courage, that you will look back on.

I'm falling into conniptions laughing, are you having us on? He was lying through his teeth, the book never mentions anything even remotely similar to the story he conjured. You've written a 3.5 page essay on a story he pulled out of his ass in five minutes. :lol: (OK, maybe he didn't pull it out of his ass, but it's not the story to Moth Smoke.)

The actual book is a fictional story detailing the hardships of life in Pakistan. A man gets permanently fired from his job and is unable to fix the issues in his life. The book ends with the main character addicted to narcotic pharmaceutics and his life spiralling out of control.

In excess ellipses deprive posts of credibility but otherwise I really don't mind, it's just a bit of grammar. If it's being used appropriately there should be no issues.