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Currently in the UK, the interest rates on credit cards are something like 30 or 40 times the bank base rate. Why isnt the goverment ordering these interest rates to be lowered, so that people with cc debts are able to pay them off more easily and to spend more? And, rather than doing this "quantitative easing" by a circuitus method, wouldnt it be a lot more effective to spend the same amount of money by sending every adult in the UK a cheque for about £2000 and asking us to go and spend it? 78.146.195.92 ( talk) 01:36, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
In Britain there is a dense network of paths through the fields and woods of the countryside where you have a legal entitlement to be able to walk or ride. I imagine that nearly all of them are are hundreds of years old. I enjoy walking through them. In the USA, by contrast, I understand that there are none apart from perhaps long distance paths and the large national parks; which puts me off ever wanting to live in the US. Are there any other countries that have similar networks of public footpaths as the UK does? 78.146.195.92 ( talk) 01:52, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Although I've been surprised to see that in some US states the great majoprity of land is publically owned, am I right in thinking that (even if you live in a small US town) if you want to go walking in the US, this would typrically involve driving a considerable distance to an area where walking is allowed? Whereas in the UK the network of footpaths connects with all towns, cities, villages, so once you have cleared the suburbs you can begin walking along a footpath. Hence in the UK you have the pleasure - except if you live in the middle of an urban area - of being able to walk out of your front door and within minutes being on a footpath through the countryside, without requiring a lot of planning or preperation beforehand. Personally, I would not want to live in any country where something similar could not be done. What about Australia, New Zealand, France or Italy please? 89.243.78.197 ( talk) 11:50, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Wow, if I may say so even people living in small towns in the US must really feel trapped if they cannot walk through the adjacent countryside, but can only drive along the road. Isn't it customary to take dogs for walks as it is in the UK? I get the impression from the huge volume of US films and tv programmes we see here that it is not even possible to walk along the side of road without being stopped by the police, or having things thrown at you by drivers. Is that true or just a myth please? 89.240.206.60 ( talk) 21:11, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
I've read a bit about footpaths in England and, as a citizen of the US, I am jealous. Sure there are various kinds of public trails and walkways in the US, but if I understand the English footpath network right, there is nothing like that in the US. In some places, as pointed out above, it is considered acceptable to walk across your neighbor's private property, but in many many places there are instead signs saying "Private Property, No Trepassing", and lots of fences. This topic always reminds me of the Woodie Guthrie song This Land Is Your Land, which in some versions includes the lines As I went walking I saw a sign there, And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. Apparently when Pete Seeger sang the song at President Obama's inauguration he included those lyrics, to my delight. Pfly ( talk) 09:02, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
So is the meaning of the Woodie Guthrie song to Americans that it is wrong to have an excessive amount of private property, that there ought to be some land set aside for people to walk on and enjoy? (Some of the villages in england have areas of communally owned land called commons that originally in mediaeval times were used to graze the villagers livestock - hence expressions like the Tragedy of the commons - but which are now used for walking on, playing cricket, and being an attractive grassed area usually in the centre of the village. If I was a philanthropist then after world hunger and world peace had been solved, I would buy up land to donate to common-less villages - including small towns in the US - so that the inhabitants could enjoy the open space.) More recently, is the critique of the song not understood, that it is assumed to celebrate the huge amount of land that America has? 89.243.46.238 ( talk) 16:29, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps Americans need to do something like the Mass trespass of Kinder Scout that occurred in Britain in the 1930s, that resulted in the law being changed to give people public access to private land (if big enough etc etc). I'm not from that part of England, but I think Kinder Scout is near large cities. Before reading the article, I was not aware that even access to public footpaths had been restricted then. 89.242.111.236 ( talk) 17:00, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Movements such as the left-libertarian, right-populist and religious-fundamentalist groups, which have been facilitated by globalisation, have been argued to have in common which of the following?
a) They are concered with maintaining traditional values and lifestyles b) They are respones to new risks generated by the new global society c) A repertoire of protest and publicity for their causes d) a and b e) b and c UQ68 ( talk) 02:44, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
What makes you think “the left-libertarian, right-populist and religious-fundamentalist groups, which have been facilitated by globalisation,” as opposed to say, the world’s poor in general?
DOR (HK) (
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09:33, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
reference book written in english ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.157.21.155 ( talk) 03:34, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
I have a question. I have a roommate, and for a long time we've had a mutual best friend. However, this best friend recently fooled around (sort of, as much as possible) with a girl I had a major thing for, which was definitely my last straw in the relationship (he knew this, I introduced them).
As a result, I don't want him to ever to step foot in my house again. However, he is still best friend's with my roommate. Do I have the legal ability to tell this man to leave my property if my roommate disagrees? I do know that renters do have many of the legal rights as a normal property owner would have. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 11:09, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Having faced similar roommate problems, let me explain that it is not true that a legal right and justice are the same things. Sometimes they are but most times there is no correlation. The reality to is even if you a legal right, a judge will be so annoyed with you for wasting valuable resources that you will never ever win. Time solves these problems as in you are extremely unlikely to be in your current living arrangements in the near future. Young people tend to be transient. Jhussock ( talk) 05:12, 8 March 2009 (UTC)75Janice
This is a picture of a town in Madagascar. It wonderful in having a lot of detail to pore over. What is the name of the blue tree at the top right please? What are the names of the fruits at the bottom right and left? I can see oranges and probably mangoes, but there are others I do not recognise. In the lower middle of the photo there is someone wearing what looks like a gold suit and white hat, with hands in their pockets standing on the kerb of the road. Is there any significance in wearing gold? Thanks. 89.243.78.197 ( talk) 12:16, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
I've been doing some research for an article, but there is one thing I have been unable to find on Wikipedia, Google, or its official website, so I come here! I'm trying to find the date the motto of American Samoa, Samoa, Muamua Le Atua, was adopted, which would be the same date the Seal of American Samoa was adopted, but I can't find that year anywhere. When would it be? Thanks, Reywas92 Talk 16:33, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Do speakers(deaf or hearing) of sign languages ever find themselves noticing "signs" in meaningless gestures or random motions, just as hearing people sometimes hear words of their language in meaningless noise(such as the "Satanic messages" in music played backwards)? Can there be mondegreens in sign language as well? 69.224.37.48 ( talk) 19:11, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
How much money does the federal government spent under the Clinton adiministration, and how much under the [George Walker] Bush administration (+ comparing to the income from taxes)? Gridge ( talk) 21:50, 7 March 2009 (UTC).
WJ Clinton (1993-2000): $4.34 billion a day, and a deficit of $109.6 billion a day. GW Bush* (2001-08): $6.56 billion a day (+51%), and a deficit of $685.6 billion a day (+525.2%). Ya gotta love those fiscal conservatives! * does not include clean-up costs. DOR (HK) ( talk) 10:02, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
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Currently in the UK, the interest rates on credit cards are something like 30 or 40 times the bank base rate. Why isnt the goverment ordering these interest rates to be lowered, so that people with cc debts are able to pay them off more easily and to spend more? And, rather than doing this "quantitative easing" by a circuitus method, wouldnt it be a lot more effective to spend the same amount of money by sending every adult in the UK a cheque for about £2000 and asking us to go and spend it? 78.146.195.92 ( talk) 01:36, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
In Britain there is a dense network of paths through the fields and woods of the countryside where you have a legal entitlement to be able to walk or ride. I imagine that nearly all of them are are hundreds of years old. I enjoy walking through them. In the USA, by contrast, I understand that there are none apart from perhaps long distance paths and the large national parks; which puts me off ever wanting to live in the US. Are there any other countries that have similar networks of public footpaths as the UK does? 78.146.195.92 ( talk) 01:52, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Although I've been surprised to see that in some US states the great majoprity of land is publically owned, am I right in thinking that (even if you live in a small US town) if you want to go walking in the US, this would typrically involve driving a considerable distance to an area where walking is allowed? Whereas in the UK the network of footpaths connects with all towns, cities, villages, so once you have cleared the suburbs you can begin walking along a footpath. Hence in the UK you have the pleasure - except if you live in the middle of an urban area - of being able to walk out of your front door and within minutes being on a footpath through the countryside, without requiring a lot of planning or preperation beforehand. Personally, I would not want to live in any country where something similar could not be done. What about Australia, New Zealand, France or Italy please? 89.243.78.197 ( talk) 11:50, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Wow, if I may say so even people living in small towns in the US must really feel trapped if they cannot walk through the adjacent countryside, but can only drive along the road. Isn't it customary to take dogs for walks as it is in the UK? I get the impression from the huge volume of US films and tv programmes we see here that it is not even possible to walk along the side of road without being stopped by the police, or having things thrown at you by drivers. Is that true or just a myth please? 89.240.206.60 ( talk) 21:11, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
I've read a bit about footpaths in England and, as a citizen of the US, I am jealous. Sure there are various kinds of public trails and walkways in the US, but if I understand the English footpath network right, there is nothing like that in the US. In some places, as pointed out above, it is considered acceptable to walk across your neighbor's private property, but in many many places there are instead signs saying "Private Property, No Trepassing", and lots of fences. This topic always reminds me of the Woodie Guthrie song This Land Is Your Land, which in some versions includes the lines As I went walking I saw a sign there, And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. Apparently when Pete Seeger sang the song at President Obama's inauguration he included those lyrics, to my delight. Pfly ( talk) 09:02, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
So is the meaning of the Woodie Guthrie song to Americans that it is wrong to have an excessive amount of private property, that there ought to be some land set aside for people to walk on and enjoy? (Some of the villages in england have areas of communally owned land called commons that originally in mediaeval times were used to graze the villagers livestock - hence expressions like the Tragedy of the commons - but which are now used for walking on, playing cricket, and being an attractive grassed area usually in the centre of the village. If I was a philanthropist then after world hunger and world peace had been solved, I would buy up land to donate to common-less villages - including small towns in the US - so that the inhabitants could enjoy the open space.) More recently, is the critique of the song not understood, that it is assumed to celebrate the huge amount of land that America has? 89.243.46.238 ( talk) 16:29, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps Americans need to do something like the Mass trespass of Kinder Scout that occurred in Britain in the 1930s, that resulted in the law being changed to give people public access to private land (if big enough etc etc). I'm not from that part of England, but I think Kinder Scout is near large cities. Before reading the article, I was not aware that even access to public footpaths had been restricted then. 89.242.111.236 ( talk) 17:00, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Movements such as the left-libertarian, right-populist and religious-fundamentalist groups, which have been facilitated by globalisation, have been argued to have in common which of the following?
a) They are concered with maintaining traditional values and lifestyles b) They are respones to new risks generated by the new global society c) A repertoire of protest and publicity for their causes d) a and b e) b and c UQ68 ( talk) 02:44, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
What makes you think “the left-libertarian, right-populist and religious-fundamentalist groups, which have been facilitated by globalisation,” as opposed to say, the world’s poor in general?
DOR (HK) (
talk)
09:33, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
reference book written in english ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.157.21.155 ( talk) 03:34, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
I have a question. I have a roommate, and for a long time we've had a mutual best friend. However, this best friend recently fooled around (sort of, as much as possible) with a girl I had a major thing for, which was definitely my last straw in the relationship (he knew this, I introduced them).
As a result, I don't want him to ever to step foot in my house again. However, he is still best friend's with my roommate. Do I have the legal ability to tell this man to leave my property if my roommate disagrees? I do know that renters do have many of the legal rights as a normal property owner would have. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 11:09, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Having faced similar roommate problems, let me explain that it is not true that a legal right and justice are the same things. Sometimes they are but most times there is no correlation. The reality to is even if you a legal right, a judge will be so annoyed with you for wasting valuable resources that you will never ever win. Time solves these problems as in you are extremely unlikely to be in your current living arrangements in the near future. Young people tend to be transient. Jhussock ( talk) 05:12, 8 March 2009 (UTC)75Janice
This is a picture of a town in Madagascar. It wonderful in having a lot of detail to pore over. What is the name of the blue tree at the top right please? What are the names of the fruits at the bottom right and left? I can see oranges and probably mangoes, but there are others I do not recognise. In the lower middle of the photo there is someone wearing what looks like a gold suit and white hat, with hands in their pockets standing on the kerb of the road. Is there any significance in wearing gold? Thanks. 89.243.78.197 ( talk) 12:16, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
I've been doing some research for an article, but there is one thing I have been unable to find on Wikipedia, Google, or its official website, so I come here! I'm trying to find the date the motto of American Samoa, Samoa, Muamua Le Atua, was adopted, which would be the same date the Seal of American Samoa was adopted, but I can't find that year anywhere. When would it be? Thanks, Reywas92 Talk 16:33, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Do speakers(deaf or hearing) of sign languages ever find themselves noticing "signs" in meaningless gestures or random motions, just as hearing people sometimes hear words of their language in meaningless noise(such as the "Satanic messages" in music played backwards)? Can there be mondegreens in sign language as well? 69.224.37.48 ( talk) 19:11, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
How much money does the federal government spent under the Clinton adiministration, and how much under the [George Walker] Bush administration (+ comparing to the income from taxes)? Gridge ( talk) 21:50, 7 March 2009 (UTC).
WJ Clinton (1993-2000): $4.34 billion a day, and a deficit of $109.6 billion a day. GW Bush* (2001-08): $6.56 billion a day (+51%), and a deficit of $685.6 billion a day (+525.2%). Ya gotta love those fiscal conservatives! * does not include clean-up costs. DOR (HK) ( talk) 10:02, 9 March 2009 (UTC)