@simchona That's what gave him away. It could have been reasonable and arguable up until that point. But the last question is really the first, and he's just whining.
@Cerberus In one region it mean s to put on the table, in another it means to take off the table. And it may mean both in some regions, and neither on others.
so yes, lots of rivers here (the US) have areas beside them that are considered undevelopable, mostly because people have tried in the long ago past to develop there and it gets swept away every couple years.
also for humongous rivers like the mississippi, it sometimes changes course, scuts off a loop, or the loop migrates slowly. The border between Illinois and Missouri hasn't changed, but some of the areas are only reachable by road through the other state.
but you have a natural word for it, bu I can't think of such a word in English and the concept doesn''t seem that common. Im sure a civil engineer would know the technical term for the corresponding thing.
@Cerberus Oh, yeah, sure, and there's always plans to put in barriers in case of future flooding.
Wet can be used to describe being dowsed in liquids such as beer, milk, juice, urine etc. All of these, however, are water-based. Can wet be used for a liquid that has no water? Can you be wet by mercury? Or liquid nitrogen?
I know I wouldn't use it for mercury, but that may be because mercury w...
possibly (I don't know) in the engineering sense, but someone who doen't solder would never say 'look at the wet solder' or 'gosh, you just got me all wet with your solder' (yes, I know, you'd probably say in that instance 'argghhhhhh')
It's not that hard to damage your eyes. The only good thing is that it hurts like hell, so you will notice, so you can hopefully rinse them with water and go to hospital in time.
Erdogan wants to build a giant mosque on Taksim Square, which is the symbol of Turkish secularism.
A small protest was brutally dispersed by the police.
Then giant protests and riots broke out.
First near Taksim, then all over the country.
The police appeared to be retreating from the square a few hours ago.
Another factor is that construction projects, probably including demolition, are often done by the government without listening to the people who live nearby, and presumably against their best interest.
Oh, it was President Gül who ordered the police to retreat, contrary to PM Erdogan's orders (normally, the PM leads the country).
^ Turkish protests in Amsterdam against the Turkish government.
This is a few hundred metres from here, but I haven't seen them yet.
@Cerberus It's hard to see things I care about quickly on a news webpage (I just don't care for the visual layout...it doesn't lead me to things I want to read). But I feel guilty reading the paper newspaper because it is a total waste of paper. (that is I prefer reading the format of paper)
@JohanLarsson Things are politically stable, there's little worry that a change in government would cause tanks to roll down the street.
but then again,I consider CHina to be pretty stable but they had tanks rol down the street (25 years ago). and I would also have considered Turkey pretty stable. Then again, France had riots a couple years ago.
This is how ordering food in the future will be, as seen from ten years or so ago. Part of this has already become true. It's satire, but it deals with very real problems.
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