Other - Society & Culture - 28 July 2006

2006-07-28 05:25:22 · 11 answers · asked by Enough 4

Does the kind of underwear a guy wears tell you anything about him.??????? And what kind do you hate your guy to wear???

2006-07-28 05:24:05 · 9 answers · asked by b_sav510 3

2006-07-28 05:23:53 · 18 answers · asked by minti kaur 1

i'm cooking with cavenders greek seasoning!!!!!!!

2006-07-28 05:14:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-28 05:11:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have a couple of questions actually...
1. how come black people can keep a beat to not only our music but to everyone elses while white people don't seem to keep a beat to their own music let alone ours??

2. why does everyone want to be black now??

3. does anyone else notice that al the shows taht are on for a long time have no black people such as....friends(i love that show), will and grace, frasier, seinfeild??

4. do white people really think that black people have the same chances that they have. do they really not realize that we could be just as qualified as they are and stillhave to work ten times harder just for being black?

5. do white people believe that we do get pulled over or stopped for no reason at all sometimes??

im not tryna offend anyone if i did i apolozize!!

2006-07-28 05:10:58 · 60 answers · asked by Anonymous

my friends boyfriend finished with her for eating a tomato on the way back from the supermarket

2006-07-28 05:10:41 · 14 answers · asked by rachel 2

2006-07-28 05:09:34 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you have low self-esteem?

If I say the word gay as I way to refer to them I offend the homosexual community, If I say the word retard I offend the mentally challenged, if I say "You laugh like a witch", I offend the pagans, If I say simply say "fool" I offend certain group of people.

Whats up with people here. They use every little word against you. Not only do I have to check the spelling of my words I also have to *carefully* express the sentence in the less *harmful* way possible to avoid offending these sensitive souls when the reality is that is impossible for me not to offend anyone and I don't even try it on purpose.

2006-07-28 05:07:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-28 05:07:36 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-28 05:04:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

what the heck are sophomores and seniors or what ever they are called, what is the whole system is in a america cause i dont have a clue and its confusing.

2006-07-28 05:00:37 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

In this world,it seems to me that peace is way beyond.As we watch news everyday,we wonder how the world climate could change.And how the effect of this world and it's dangers could increase throughout life.How can peace come and happen?Is it possible?How does one resolve conflicts with fights but not peace?We were told that peace can develop,but when,and how,if possible?I thank you for your time.

2006-07-28 04:56:54 · 3 answers · asked by Sophia 4

i would say angelina jolie

2006-07-28 04:56:46 · 23 answers · asked by rachel 2

Does it seem that men are getting wimpier? What happened to the strong, rugged, capable, chivalrous type of men? I don't like this new "metro-sexual" thing at all!

2006-07-28 04:54:30 · 10 answers · asked by Sephra 5

2006-07-28 04:52:02 · 3 answers · asked by amyryam21 1

I am required to wear the same dress pants five day a week eight hours a day.
My employeer states they should last me two years.
Is this realistic?

2006-07-28 04:50:59 · 3 answers · asked by greelyman 2

be considered cruel and unusual punishment? Curious as to what public opinion is.

2006-07-28 04:50:16 · 6 answers · asked by Jess 3

I want to know about the thinking of Non-Indians about India?

2006-07-28 04:47:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-28 04:44:58 · 14 answers · asked by kura 1

what i mean by the question is what do you think your status is in the north american society, do u feel to be the minority or majority and stuff like that.

2006-07-28 04:43:11 · 10 answers · asked by **??** 2

2006-07-28 04:40:40 · 17 answers · asked by Sunshine 2

Anybody doing anything exciting and unusual? It's my first weekend off in ages!!!! So i'm going to the west coast of scotland for some quiet time. . .

2006-07-28 04:35:15 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

i'm an asian living in a non-asian country. I've lived here for almost 2 years. During my 20th birthday, my mates were telling me to get my @rse off my parents house and get my own flat, as i am already too old to live with them. In our culture, however, it is perfectly ok to stay and live with your family until you are already capable to support yourself. With that in mind, i decided to stay, but i told my mum that i'm gonna pay rent, and she was like "are you crazy??? you're still young, and studying and...." I don't know which to follow. I think that by this time I should be living by myself, and giving my parents a break, but my parents have their own beliefs and are guided by our culture and principles, which i also respect. which should i follow? I NEED YOUR HELP.

2006-07-28 04:34:34 · 11 answers · asked by jose 4

Now before you all say that I am racist you must know that (I AM A WHITE MAN MYSELF) And I have many friends from different cultures, backgrounds and different races. But one thing I have notice is that even though I have many friends of different races, I always feel like I don't belong. For Example: once I was walking through a predominately black and mexican community, and the people there were looking and treating me like I was not welcome. I know my ancestors did horrible things to people of color, but are the white race now being punished for the sins of their forefathers. Because honestly, I get the feeling that because I am white people of color, do not like me because of my fore fathers.

2006-07-28 04:31:29 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

i know i am not spanish but why do people, as the retired english who live here (as in spain i mean ) also people who own holiday homes who come only on holidays cause so much aggro for people who live here permanently and for the spanish people.

2006-07-28 04:26:30 · 12 answers · asked by caroline anne 1

Steven Hawking won't write. Says he is too busy unraveling the mysteries of the universe. Suze Orman did not get back to me. Says she is financially ruined and can't afford her Yahoo account. Even the Ednas ignore me. This time I am really going to do it. I am going to jump off this couch. Here I gooooooooooooooooooo.

2006-07-28 04:24:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Easter Island is comprised of an area of 64 square miles and is located in a remote area of the Pacific Ocean 2000 miles west of Chile. The climate is subtropical.

ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT - Archeologists surmise that the island was originally settled by Polynesians in around 400 A.D. The Polynesians, when they arrived, found an island made up largely of sub-tropical forest of trees and woody bushes. The Easter Island palm grew to up to 80 feet tall with a 6-foot diameter and could be used to make canoes as well as yielding nuts, and sap for syrups, sugar, and wine. Underneath the trees and bushes was other vegetation such as shrubs, herbs, ferns, and grasses. They found the island was home to many varieties of seabirds and land birds as well. The surrounding oceans were loaded with fish and porpoise-dolphins. The island was a pacific paradise.

THE GOOD YEARS ON EASTER ISLAND - From 400 to 800 A.D. were the good years for the people on Easter Island. Food was plentiful and living went well. They used the large palm trees for canoes and fished offshore for porpoise-dolphins. They raised the chickens, which they had brought with them; but sea birds provided additional fowl for their diet. The natural fruit was plentiful and the sap from the palm trees yielded syrups, sugar and wine. They had sufficient wood for their dwellings and winter fires. These were good years on Easter Island. Their numbers grew, but the environment sustained them and more importantly they sustained the environment.

THE YEARS OF SPLENDOR AND DRAWDOWN - From 800 to 1300 A.D. were the years for the people on Easter Island in which they became numerous and prosperous. The islanders possessed the only written language in Oceania, the Rongorongo Script. They erected the large rock carvings, called petroglyphs or monoliths, or Moai by the islanders. These are the huge crude statues, busts of stone with long faces and long pointed noses, for which Easter Island is most noted. In a very labor-intensive effort, these huge statues were quarried, carved and then transported, by being rolled on logs, to the coastal areas for display.

During this period the population increased substantially and was approaching the highest level to be reached on the island, estimated by archeologists to be seven thousand.

But also during this period the drawdown had begun. Drawdown is when the dominant species in the ecosystem begins to uses resources faster than they can be replaced. The islanders were using up the forests, for their canoes, houses, and the transporting of their statues, much faster than they were being re-grown.

If they had realized what they were doing to their environment and how it would impact their future, and if they would have had the will to make the necessary life style adjustments, they could have prevented what followed.

THE OVERSHOOT-From 1300 to1700 AD - Overshoot is when, environmentally, the point of no return has been reached, where the depletion of resources has reached that level where they cannot be regenerated to sustainable levels.

The islander's population continued to grow and the forests disappeared at increasing rates. With the disappearing forests, springs and steams dried up and those plants and animals for which the forests provided cover, also disappeared. Land birds, snails, and many seabirds disappeared. Even the gardens suffered as deforestation allowed the winds and rains to erode the valuable topsoil.

In the 1400's all the large palms were cut down and the palm became extinct. The consequences were terrible. Without the large palms, the fishing fleets of canoes were depleted. By 1500, porpoise-dolphins were no longer in the Islander's diet and they soon ran completely out of all wood.

Politically chaos set in. In the 1600's tribal warriors displaced the centralized government. Tribal wars and cannibalism became prevalent, as humans were the largest remaining meat source.

THE CRASH - 1700 and 1800 A.D. - The crash is the inevitable meltdown of the population that follows an overshoot.

In the early 1700's, intense tribal warfare and cannibalism drove people into the caves. When the Island was discovered on Easter, April 15, 1773, by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, he found a small population of poor, impoverished people. When Captain Cook voyaged to Easter Island in 1775 there were only 600 Islanders left.

One hundred years later, 1885, only 155 Islanders remained. In less than 500 years the population of the Islanders went from 7000 to near extinction.

THUS PLANET EARTH - Globally, overall, although specific nations and areas may vary, planet earth is in the withdrawal stage, like Easter Island was between 800 and 1300 A.D. More trees from forests, more fish from fisheries, more fresh water from aquifers, and more area from grasslands are being consumed than are being replenished. All this is complicated by problems of waste disposal, pollution, global warming and related weather complications, and a growing world population, which will go from 6,000,000 to 9,000,000 in the next 50 years.

As there was with the Easter Islanders, within the withdrawal stage, there is a window of opportunity for us recover, to bring about ways of living that will sustain the world's resources. If we do not make that recovery, the other stages as experienced by the Easter Islanders will surely follow, as night follows day.

REFERENCES - Easter Island Internet Home Page. Easter's End by Jared Diamond.

2006-07-28 04:21:25 · 4 answers · asked by E K 1

Also would you send me 50 cents? I want to make a donation to an organization, but i am not sure which one yet.

2006-07-28 04:21:02 · 7 answers · asked by Pobedy S 2

Easter Island is comprised of an area of 64 square miles and is located in a remote area of the Pacific Ocean 2000 miles west of Chile. The climate is subtropical.

ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT - Archeologists surmise that the island was originally settled by Polynesians in around 400 A.D. The Polynesians, when they arrived, found an island made up largely of sub-tropical forest of trees and woody bushes. The Easter Island palm grew to up to 80 feet tall with a 6-foot diameter and could be used to make canoes as well as yielding nuts, and sap for syrups, sugar, and wine. Underneath the trees and bushes was other vegetation such as shrubs, herbs, ferns, and grasses. They found the island was home to many varieties of seabirds and land birds as well. The surrounding oceans were loaded with fish and porpoise-dolphins. The island was a pacific paradise.

THE GOOD YEARS ON EASTER ISLAND - From 400 to 800 A.D. were the good years for the people on Easter Island. Food was plentiful and living went well. They used the large palm trees for canoes and fished offshore for porpoise-dolphins. They raised the chickens, which they had brought with them; but sea birds provided additional fowl for their diet. The natural fruit was plentiful and the sap from the palm trees yielded syrups, sugar and wine. They had sufficient wood for their dwellings and winter fires. These were good years on Easter Island. Their numbers grew, but the environment sustained them and more importantly they sustained the environment.

THE YEARS OF SPLENDOR AND DRAWDOWN - From 800 to 1300 A.D. were the years for the people on Easter Island in which they became numerous and prosperous. The islanders possessed the only written language in Oceania, the Rongorongo Script. They erected the large rock carvings, called petroglyphs or monoliths, or Moai by the islanders. These are the huge crude statues, busts of stone with long faces and long pointed noses, for which Easter Island is most noted. In a very labor-intensive effort, these huge statues were quarried, carved and then transported, by being rolled on logs, to the coastal areas for display.

During this period the population increased substantially and was approaching the highest level to be reached on the island, estimated by archeologists to be seven thousand.

But also during this period the drawdown had begun. Drawdown is when the dominant species in the ecosystem begins to uses resources faster than they can be replaced. The islanders were using up the forests, for their canoes, houses, and the transporting of their statues, much faster than they were being re-grown.

If they had realized what they were doing to their environment and how it would impact their future, and if they would have had the will to make the necessary life style adjustments, they could have prevented what followed.

THE OVERSHOOT-From 1300 to1700 AD - Overshoot is when, environmentally, the point of no return has been reached, where the depletion of resources has reached that level where they cannot be regenerated to sustainable levels.

The islander's population continued to grow and the forests disappeared at increasing rates. With the disappearing forests, springs and steams dried up and those plants and animals for which the forests provided cover, also disappeared. Land birds, snails, and many seabirds disappeared. Even the gardens suffered as deforestation allowed the winds and rains to erode the valuable topsoil.

In the 1400's all the large palms were cut down and the palm became extinct. The consequences were terrible. Without the large palms, the fishing fleets of canoes were depleted. By 1500, porpoise-dolphins were no longer in the Islander's diet and they soon ran completely out of all wood.

Politically chaos set in. In the 1600's tribal warriors displaced the centralized government. Tribal wars and cannibalism became prevalent, as humans were the largest remaining meat source.

THE CRASH - 1700 and 1800 A.D. - The crash is the inevitable meltdown of the population that follows an overshoot.

In the early 1700's, intense tribal warfare and cannibalism drove people into the caves. When the Island was discovered on Easter, April 15, 1773, by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, he found a small population of poor, impoverished people. When Captain Cook voyaged to Easter Island in 1775 there were only 600 Islanders left.

One hundred years later, 1885, only 155 Islanders remained. In less than 500 years the population of the Islanders went from 7000 to near extinction.

THUS PLANET EARTH - Globally, overall, although specific nations and areas may vary, planet earth is in the withdrawal stage, like Easter Island was between 800 and 1300 A.D. More trees from forests, more fish from fisheries, more fresh water from aquifers, and more area from grasslands are being consumed than are being replenished. All this is complicated by problems of waste disposal, pollution, global warming and related weather complications, and a growing world population, which will go from 6,000,000 to 9,000,000 in the next 50 years.

As there was with the Easter Islanders, within the withdrawal stage, there is a window of opportunity for us recover, to bring about ways of living that will sustain the world's resources. If we do not make that recovery, the other stages as experienced by the Easter Islanders will surely follow, as night follows day.

REFERENCES - Easter Island Internet Home Page. Easter's End by Jared Diamond.

2006-07-28 04:20:17 · 2 answers · asked by E K 1