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What is the earliest known recording of the voice of President George W. Bush? Edison ( talk) 02:22, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Moved from WP Philippines:
I have a foreign friend who despewrately wants to own and operate a business in the Philippines. How does he get started? what are the requirements? Please help me and I also need a lawyer, probably a CPA lawyer. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.28.174.82 ( talk) 03:07, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Actually I have no idea how foriegners can establish businesses in the Philippines.-- Lenticel ( talk) 03:27, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
I was reading the article about State Defense Forces and was wondering about a few things. Most defense forces are unarmed but if they were federalized, would they be armed? If so, are they armed by the federal government? Could a state arm their own defense forces by themselves? (I'm strangely imagining a governor or something buying HK416's for their own forces.) How about vehicles like armored vehicles, trucks and Humvees? -- Blue387 ( talk) 04:40, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Is the youth today getting smarter or dumber?
Thank You
Always
Cardinal Raven
Cardinal Raven ( talk) 04:56, 6 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
But how can that be? How can the next generation of youth today be smarter? I have seen many children(of this day and age) whom don't pick up books, who don't want to go to school or learn, all they want to do is socialize, they don't study, they get poor grades, they have poor grammar when they should have some decent grammar especially in their teenage life, some of them write like they are texting on a cell phone; and the lack of words being used. How can our youth be smarter?
Always
Cardinal Raven
71.142.208.226 ( talk) 21:25, 6 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
Currently I live in Liverpool in Britain. But I am a floater. I hear many students, I see many people, I hear many people. Its strange this world is. The many people you see and yet the most I see is someone who has probably never picked up a book once in their life only when it is necessary. I see teenagers using the internet colloquialism and cellphone colloquialism more often now a days. I had recently been in Starbucks and I saw a boy writing his book report as if he were on the internet. Not only that, but I notice two girls in the corner copying each others work. Some kids wasn't just trying to get it done circling random answers. All though naturally all the skills I have listed aren't what makes someone more or less intelligent I see know motivation to learn. When I was their age I wanted to learn. Learning was my power. Knowledge was my power. No one had to motivate me the knowledge and the knowing and the discovering. Many of the kids in my class were exceptional great as well. They had great grades as I did. Why did the youth of today lose this? Is this really and act of rebelling? Not wanting to learn and to open. And to discover. Why don't the youth of today want to discover and learn? And why do they appear less intelligent then what test say? (Btw, to the post up there I am not a stalker. I am just more aware of what is around me. A little to much sometimes.)
Thank You
Always
Cardinal Raven
Cardinal Raven ( talk) 01:37, 7 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
Perhaps you're judging "smartness" by the wrong criteria? hotclaws 02:01, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
I might be judging smartness on the wrong criteria. I know my flaws. I live in the mindset of high class. I am very hard to please and I suffer from classic textbook syndrome. I pass out more information textbook style then any one else. My standards are set to high. I believe that people all should understand what I am saying. I know I tend to be wrong and I know I should lower the standards that I expect people to be at. Cause people aren't perfect and I am not perfect. I just want to know: Why doesn't anyone want to learn anymore? Learning is fun.
Always
Cardinal Raven
Cardinal Raven ( talk) 02:27, 7 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
Dear student you make valid points, but I wasn't generally just talking about textbook. I was talking about reading as in reading a book. Like fictional book like Lord of the Rings. I see children won't even read those kind of books anymore. Fictional books can also help you learn and help you gain powerful knowledge. I read arts of fiction because I believe in the books. Also this quote is something that inspires me a bit more: "Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."- Jessamyn West. I don't see why no one to experience a different reality of fiction. I can see sometimes why students don't want to learn. One of my classes had me read How to Kill a Mockingbird. I absolutely hate hate hated that book. It was boring. But I read it. I never ever stopped reading it or threw a fit of rebellion not to read it.
Yes I know that I spelled no as in no wrong. I tend to do that when I'm trying to make valid points. My thoughts are so racy and impatient I forget things. I get things mixed up. I am not as good at making points then writing a story.
Writing is another characteristic and I don't see them ever want to write or answer a question. Well now a days that is done on a computer, but still when there is a writing assignment no one wants to do it. I think there was a question on the reference desk of why they have those essay questions. Anyway my point is that many children don't want to think after they have read a story either. No one wants to know why. They just want to read the book and have easy questions.
But then again a lot of my knowledge comes from documentaries, textbooks, Internet, and other sources such as a magazine. I learn visually and not audibly. I don't learn from hands on. I learn from graphs, charts, textbook information, and anything on the paper. I have a hard time with audibly and hands on I cannot remember the information.
I think that may be another problem. Maybe some students are audible learners and others are visual.
I remember having a bit of a hard time this year in my class. Cause all we did was watch videos and I could never exactly remember what the video said. I answered the questions with a bit of help of my roommate on some parts I forgot.
When I am watching a video I have to write down the answer right after they said it. The teacher never understood that and kept on telling me to watch the screen and answer the questions later after the video or I was going to miss parts.
I'm going miss parts either way, I cannot remember information audibly I just cannot.
So I think that their should specific classes for each different type of learner. I know that sounds a bit stupid, but maybe that is what they need.
Always
Cardinal Raven
71.142.208.226 ( talk) 15:01, 7 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
If I am driving and fall asleep or turn the steer a couple of inches too much or slip in the bathtube that could cost my life. However, we are not scared to death from all these danger in our daily life. Do we have some mechanism that makes us ignore these things? 217.168.0.115 ( talk) 10:26, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
I think that if people worried about those things they would suffer from paranoia. What we don't realize in this world is that everything we are surrounded by can kill us. The chair in the middle of the room to the car we drive. Eventually we die by something or by natural causes. Whatever the cause we can ignore it because we wouldn't be able to live depression. We might even carry out our own lives suicide. Life, Death, and Birth is the way our world works. Its like the natural recycle life process. We can die at birth as well. Sooner or later someone faces death. I see that I live my life to the fullest and not to worry about the shower the head killing me. If I live I live. If I die I die. I accept it and continue on either in this world or the next.
Always
Cardinal Raven
Cardinal Raven ( talk) 02:02, 7 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
I will clarify what I have said. If we acknowledge everything that could kill us we would be paranoid. If we became paranoid we would not be able to live we rather commit suicide or become depressed because we could not live our lives. Cardinal Raven ( talk) 06:58, 9 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
If hyperthetivcally the tide never went out, would limptes survive or do they need exposure to air and dryness from time to time? Makey melly ( talk) 12:21, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Last year I collected two fertilized queen ants from my garden during the flying ant season and put each of them into a separate container. My understanding was that they would lay eggs and start an ant colony. However, one of the queens didn't lay any eggs, and the other laid a few but then ate them. I was instructed not to feed or give water until after the first worker ants had hatched because the queens would simply refuse to eat and it would go mouldy in the container. But since the queens hadn't any worker ants, and were looking weaker and weaker with each passing day, I decided to feed them a little honey, which they very much enjoyed. I have since moved the two queens into the same container and they get on well, and have even begun to dig and create a colony by themselves. I feed them regularly and they seem happy, but why didn't they lay eggs and start an ant colony? More importantly, how can I get them to lay some eggs? I am sure they were fertilized because they didn't have their wings anymore when I caught them, like the book said. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.194.74.154 ( talk) 13:46, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Edison ask a great question. Are you sure the queen ants were fertilized? You shouldn't trust everything a book says. Especially, since the ants began to start trying to create an ant colony after you fed them. I think what you need to do is get them some workers. I don't think a queen ant will start a colony without a few workers. The workers are the ones who bring the food to the queen and the workers are the one who protect the eggs, if I am not mistaken. Also it might have to do with the fact that there are two queens, I had always thought that there was only one queen for each colony. Cardinal Raven ( talk) 01:52, 7 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
What does Islam say about women as witness?How can we justify this question in the light of Quran and Hadith? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.102.16.67 ( talk) 14:18, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
an african american who helped in the planning of the united state's capital city?....I found wikipedia had an article on washington dc and under the palnning subcategory there werent any african americans.So If anybody knows the answer.Hola.ASAP —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.219.249.15 ( talk) 14:47, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
which is the best site to use in canada to reverse a phone number in order to get the callers details.I want a canadian site because we are using canadian customers only.oooh i'm a transcriber doing canadain voicemail transcriptions and i want to save as much time as possible when researching on callers details.We are currently using whitepages.ca but its not as effective as intelius.But on intelius you have to pay.i want a free site.And Secondly if one can reccommend a site where -if a customer mentions a name of a road or building and i have never heard of it-i want to be spelling it out phonetically and then paste it onto the site that gives me a close to answer.NOTE only canadian info.PS>>>THANKS for the tips on canadian english.Truly wikipedia has massive helpful information —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.219.249.15 ( talk) 16:00, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
given that diesel engines don't have vacuum for the power brake booster, how do diesel cars manage this? i know trucks use air brakes, but do cars have a similar system, or do they somehow adapt the regular vacuum powered booster with a pump or something? thanks. Gzuckier ( talk) 16:47, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
[4], I'm mean, this steel entry to Wadi Araba Crossing. Breckinridge ( talk) 17:18, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
What is the best method to find scientific/medical studies to volunteer for (and get paid)?-- SeizureDog ( talk) 19:14, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Today, when I was at the Helsinki Central railway station, I thought of something I've already thought of many times. I was trying to buy an InterRail pass, to be able to travel from Helsinki to Seeboden. When I got there, I took a turn number for foreign railways. According to the numbers, I was the second to be served. While waiting for my turn, I watched, of people come after me, no less than five people travelling to Russia, and eighteen people travelling within Finland, being served before me. So my question is, when there is a queue system with multiple inputs, generally, how is it decided which input is handled when? Is it a round-robin schedule, or are they prioritised by popularity, do they handle longer queues first and shorter ones later, or is it all just random? JIP | Talk 19:47, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone know where I might find a website offering these huamn hamster balls, at reasonable prices, for delivery in the UK. Its one of these or a OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator, so my time outside kind of depends upon this. I would need one that is fairly hard wearing, and easy to clean. The English Countryside usually tends to be covered in soe sort of equine/bovine detreitus.
Thanks guys. 89.242.244.144 ( talk) 21:13, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Where did the name of the band Magneto get their name from? Ericthebrainiac ( talk) 22:11, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
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What is the earliest known recording of the voice of President George W. Bush? Edison ( talk) 02:22, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Moved from WP Philippines:
I have a foreign friend who despewrately wants to own and operate a business in the Philippines. How does he get started? what are the requirements? Please help me and I also need a lawyer, probably a CPA lawyer. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.28.174.82 ( talk) 03:07, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Actually I have no idea how foriegners can establish businesses in the Philippines.-- Lenticel ( talk) 03:27, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
I was reading the article about State Defense Forces and was wondering about a few things. Most defense forces are unarmed but if they were federalized, would they be armed? If so, are they armed by the federal government? Could a state arm their own defense forces by themselves? (I'm strangely imagining a governor or something buying HK416's for their own forces.) How about vehicles like armored vehicles, trucks and Humvees? -- Blue387 ( talk) 04:40, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Is the youth today getting smarter or dumber?
Thank You
Always
Cardinal Raven
Cardinal Raven ( talk) 04:56, 6 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
But how can that be? How can the next generation of youth today be smarter? I have seen many children(of this day and age) whom don't pick up books, who don't want to go to school or learn, all they want to do is socialize, they don't study, they get poor grades, they have poor grammar when they should have some decent grammar especially in their teenage life, some of them write like they are texting on a cell phone; and the lack of words being used. How can our youth be smarter?
Always
Cardinal Raven
71.142.208.226 ( talk) 21:25, 6 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
Currently I live in Liverpool in Britain. But I am a floater. I hear many students, I see many people, I hear many people. Its strange this world is. The many people you see and yet the most I see is someone who has probably never picked up a book once in their life only when it is necessary. I see teenagers using the internet colloquialism and cellphone colloquialism more often now a days. I had recently been in Starbucks and I saw a boy writing his book report as if he were on the internet. Not only that, but I notice two girls in the corner copying each others work. Some kids wasn't just trying to get it done circling random answers. All though naturally all the skills I have listed aren't what makes someone more or less intelligent I see know motivation to learn. When I was their age I wanted to learn. Learning was my power. Knowledge was my power. No one had to motivate me the knowledge and the knowing and the discovering. Many of the kids in my class were exceptional great as well. They had great grades as I did. Why did the youth of today lose this? Is this really and act of rebelling? Not wanting to learn and to open. And to discover. Why don't the youth of today want to discover and learn? And why do they appear less intelligent then what test say? (Btw, to the post up there I am not a stalker. I am just more aware of what is around me. A little to much sometimes.)
Thank You
Always
Cardinal Raven
Cardinal Raven ( talk) 01:37, 7 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
Perhaps you're judging "smartness" by the wrong criteria? hotclaws 02:01, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
I might be judging smartness on the wrong criteria. I know my flaws. I live in the mindset of high class. I am very hard to please and I suffer from classic textbook syndrome. I pass out more information textbook style then any one else. My standards are set to high. I believe that people all should understand what I am saying. I know I tend to be wrong and I know I should lower the standards that I expect people to be at. Cause people aren't perfect and I am not perfect. I just want to know: Why doesn't anyone want to learn anymore? Learning is fun.
Always
Cardinal Raven
Cardinal Raven ( talk) 02:27, 7 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
Dear student you make valid points, but I wasn't generally just talking about textbook. I was talking about reading as in reading a book. Like fictional book like Lord of the Rings. I see children won't even read those kind of books anymore. Fictional books can also help you learn and help you gain powerful knowledge. I read arts of fiction because I believe in the books. Also this quote is something that inspires me a bit more: "Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."- Jessamyn West. I don't see why no one to experience a different reality of fiction. I can see sometimes why students don't want to learn. One of my classes had me read How to Kill a Mockingbird. I absolutely hate hate hated that book. It was boring. But I read it. I never ever stopped reading it or threw a fit of rebellion not to read it.
Yes I know that I spelled no as in no wrong. I tend to do that when I'm trying to make valid points. My thoughts are so racy and impatient I forget things. I get things mixed up. I am not as good at making points then writing a story.
Writing is another characteristic and I don't see them ever want to write or answer a question. Well now a days that is done on a computer, but still when there is a writing assignment no one wants to do it. I think there was a question on the reference desk of why they have those essay questions. Anyway my point is that many children don't want to think after they have read a story either. No one wants to know why. They just want to read the book and have easy questions.
But then again a lot of my knowledge comes from documentaries, textbooks, Internet, and other sources such as a magazine. I learn visually and not audibly. I don't learn from hands on. I learn from graphs, charts, textbook information, and anything on the paper. I have a hard time with audibly and hands on I cannot remember the information.
I think that may be another problem. Maybe some students are audible learners and others are visual.
I remember having a bit of a hard time this year in my class. Cause all we did was watch videos and I could never exactly remember what the video said. I answered the questions with a bit of help of my roommate on some parts I forgot.
When I am watching a video I have to write down the answer right after they said it. The teacher never understood that and kept on telling me to watch the screen and answer the questions later after the video or I was going to miss parts.
I'm going miss parts either way, I cannot remember information audibly I just cannot.
So I think that their should specific classes for each different type of learner. I know that sounds a bit stupid, but maybe that is what they need.
Always
Cardinal Raven
71.142.208.226 ( talk) 15:01, 7 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
If I am driving and fall asleep or turn the steer a couple of inches too much or slip in the bathtube that could cost my life. However, we are not scared to death from all these danger in our daily life. Do we have some mechanism that makes us ignore these things? 217.168.0.115 ( talk) 10:26, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
I think that if people worried about those things they would suffer from paranoia. What we don't realize in this world is that everything we are surrounded by can kill us. The chair in the middle of the room to the car we drive. Eventually we die by something or by natural causes. Whatever the cause we can ignore it because we wouldn't be able to live depression. We might even carry out our own lives suicide. Life, Death, and Birth is the way our world works. Its like the natural recycle life process. We can die at birth as well. Sooner or later someone faces death. I see that I live my life to the fullest and not to worry about the shower the head killing me. If I live I live. If I die I die. I accept it and continue on either in this world or the next.
Always
Cardinal Raven
Cardinal Raven ( talk) 02:02, 7 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
I will clarify what I have said. If we acknowledge everything that could kill us we would be paranoid. If we became paranoid we would not be able to live we rather commit suicide or become depressed because we could not live our lives. Cardinal Raven ( talk) 06:58, 9 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
If hyperthetivcally the tide never went out, would limptes survive or do they need exposure to air and dryness from time to time? Makey melly ( talk) 12:21, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Last year I collected two fertilized queen ants from my garden during the flying ant season and put each of them into a separate container. My understanding was that they would lay eggs and start an ant colony. However, one of the queens didn't lay any eggs, and the other laid a few but then ate them. I was instructed not to feed or give water until after the first worker ants had hatched because the queens would simply refuse to eat and it would go mouldy in the container. But since the queens hadn't any worker ants, and were looking weaker and weaker with each passing day, I decided to feed them a little honey, which they very much enjoyed. I have since moved the two queens into the same container and they get on well, and have even begun to dig and create a colony by themselves. I feed them regularly and they seem happy, but why didn't they lay eggs and start an ant colony? More importantly, how can I get them to lay some eggs? I am sure they were fertilized because they didn't have their wings anymore when I caught them, like the book said. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.194.74.154 ( talk) 13:46, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Edison ask a great question. Are you sure the queen ants were fertilized? You shouldn't trust everything a book says. Especially, since the ants began to start trying to create an ant colony after you fed them. I think what you need to do is get them some workers. I don't think a queen ant will start a colony without a few workers. The workers are the ones who bring the food to the queen and the workers are the one who protect the eggs, if I am not mistaken. Also it might have to do with the fact that there are two queens, I had always thought that there was only one queen for each colony. Cardinal Raven ( talk) 01:52, 7 May 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven
What does Islam say about women as witness?How can we justify this question in the light of Quran and Hadith? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.102.16.67 ( talk) 14:18, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
an african american who helped in the planning of the united state's capital city?....I found wikipedia had an article on washington dc and under the palnning subcategory there werent any african americans.So If anybody knows the answer.Hola.ASAP —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.219.249.15 ( talk) 14:47, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
which is the best site to use in canada to reverse a phone number in order to get the callers details.I want a canadian site because we are using canadian customers only.oooh i'm a transcriber doing canadain voicemail transcriptions and i want to save as much time as possible when researching on callers details.We are currently using whitepages.ca but its not as effective as intelius.But on intelius you have to pay.i want a free site.And Secondly if one can reccommend a site where -if a customer mentions a name of a road or building and i have never heard of it-i want to be spelling it out phonetically and then paste it onto the site that gives me a close to answer.NOTE only canadian info.PS>>>THANKS for the tips on canadian english.Truly wikipedia has massive helpful information —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.219.249.15 ( talk) 16:00, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
given that diesel engines don't have vacuum for the power brake booster, how do diesel cars manage this? i know trucks use air brakes, but do cars have a similar system, or do they somehow adapt the regular vacuum powered booster with a pump or something? thanks. Gzuckier ( talk) 16:47, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
[4], I'm mean, this steel entry to Wadi Araba Crossing. Breckinridge ( talk) 17:18, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
What is the best method to find scientific/medical studies to volunteer for (and get paid)?-- SeizureDog ( talk) 19:14, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Today, when I was at the Helsinki Central railway station, I thought of something I've already thought of many times. I was trying to buy an InterRail pass, to be able to travel from Helsinki to Seeboden. When I got there, I took a turn number for foreign railways. According to the numbers, I was the second to be served. While waiting for my turn, I watched, of people come after me, no less than five people travelling to Russia, and eighteen people travelling within Finland, being served before me. So my question is, when there is a queue system with multiple inputs, generally, how is it decided which input is handled when? Is it a round-robin schedule, or are they prioritised by popularity, do they handle longer queues first and shorter ones later, or is it all just random? JIP | Talk 19:47, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone know where I might find a website offering these huamn hamster balls, at reasonable prices, for delivery in the UK. Its one of these or a OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator, so my time outside kind of depends upon this. I would need one that is fairly hard wearing, and easy to clean. The English Countryside usually tends to be covered in soe sort of equine/bovine detreitus.
Thanks guys. 89.242.244.144 ( talk) 21:13, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Where did the name of the band Magneto get their name from? Ericthebrainiac ( talk) 22:11, 6 May 2008 (UTC)