"I can see you're the kind of person who will take any advantage in an argument." said Roger Bergerson, a former friend of mine, to someone he -- a journalist then -- wanted to drag over the coals of lucidity. He was in reference to what the great classical rhetoricians called "The Straw Man Argument", where the attacking debater [1.] finds some small, irrelevant, but some manner 'person-er', sorry) of immaterial slip in metaphorical or other fittingness -- or a minor blur in a key (or not-key) premises's merely peripheral fact -- then [2.] pretends with feigned conviction that there (the inconsequential speck of goof lint) is the one, the only true thrust of the opponent's argument (the eponymous straw man, set up specifically in order to enable easy take-down, regardless of the true path to method in pursuit of wisdom); then endgame [3.] florid take down with much cosmetic significance (and even satisfaction in severe self-deluded cases). Yes, there is a New 5th Columnists Co-Opted Party Red Slop (see: Sophist) Rhetoric usurping communication and reason, most problematically in the abuse of democratic principals [such as dirty dealing against white heterosexual males co-opting, as I've especially, with no bias at all, noticed; with some amount of nausea at two cities in the U.S.A., specifically (the first letter of which is an 'S'. 'Pacific' refers to a large ocean extremely/way off the left coast -- you may not usurp the unofficial but necessary national language, either.) One of these sophistry-as-capital cities is San Francisco.]

But: Jorge Louis Borges writes of "Every event [having] a thousand accomplices." [nature - nurture - beast - human - nature - nurture...(--Ed.)]

Suggestion: Can we please recognize that all this stupidity, hatred and, yes, crack and rap-gansta hate "music" (my good friend, Art Ruler, calls it "Urban Poetry" -- hmm, so then...what did Hart Crane and John Berryman write then, please? A visiting Nigerian racist in Memphis told me that Lully - Josquin - Bach - Beethoven - Brahms - Mahler - Bartok - Prokofiev - Glass, etc. [the music they wrote is] "White Man's Music" [do the great African-American serious art musicians know this? -- //SIDEBAR: please, do mean only classical when referring to "classical" music -- Bach was from the Baroque period (not classical), Mahler from the Romantic period, Lully and Josquin were of the Medieval, Bartok -- Modern, Glass -- Post Modern. That music is not classical, it is serious or art music; with apologies to the jazz artists, whom I also enjoy and learn from. Your NPR/other f.m. broadcasters and J-School grads who say 'classical' when they don't mean it are stridently wrong. Sloppy Orwellian blur-thinking** is one example of the tricks of the 5th Columnist Co-Opters. **Read as: Take away their language (communications). "Word falling -- photo falling, towers open fire!" [-- the great W.S. Burroughs, who warned us and warned us again and over again. (N.B.: W.S.B. is not for very young or delicate readers. Try the biographies of him, other secondary sources -- critical works -- maybe, first. Ask your favorite librarian, if in doubt.).]././.

Recognize Ebonics, recognize murder and rape as also of the same nearly ubiquitous character lack: mistaken unassignable fear and extreme and unspoken resentment regarding The Grim Reaper; and since (it seems all) people can't find the locus of their true uncontrolled hate object, Death, they must find a substitute. They must. That bully can't be allowed on the playground, and he also cannot, they presume momentarily or only for an instant, be personally addressed. Result: you and I get to stand-in for him. It's really stupid behavior, it is bigotry, war and divorce; honestly you people, while we're alive, we should know better. After they "thin out" (--Woody Allen), they will know better, but the difficulty obtains here and now, all around me -- on a bad day. Please let me smell the flowers. If you're (naturally) afraid of becoming one, be self-aware, be fragrant, don't disturb the others.

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I have until recently almost always, at the voting booth, been, a Democrat. I don't know what I am
now, other than nauseated and enraged! I do know this: grotesque super-tolerant ultra-liberals have done an intolerable job of ruining the city in which I currently reside... Gentle Reader, the filth, the human filth!  The sounds of animals coming out of human mouths! That is supposed to be communication in English -- or is it not, rather, a seditious weapon?  No! I can't stand this all together in one W.S. Burroughs-ian Interzone: 
Ebonics. The foreign deluge. All ex-convicts wildly welcomed here. You can now get married to your pet iguana -- why, that's fine; and don't you dare get caught doing the unthinkable: Viz. looking askance at the happy couple, White Male Heterosexual Christian stranger! And the arrogant  ignorance of even the so-called  rofessional people, the hideous night-mare Lovecraftian "perfection of the hideous" -- yes, right at the public library, too:
con artist hero-filth near-worship, the super-protected illegal immigrant usurpers and their excess greed capitalist vurt-slave owners... No, I'm
out of this horror story sans pop-corn. I have to say 'bye-bye', ultra-severe-liberal-filth-ruined city. It's a travesty x 1000 what they did to you, geo-area _____________. 
It was certainly not the fault of your own beautiful pristine nature. I'm so sorry for the degradation upon the founding fathers and that you, too, have to abide as equitable fundament! O! The B.S.-spouting and [c]rapping -- called "Urban Poetry"? What
should one call Charles Manson's wildest
dreams, then? Oratorios? The filth -- the filth -- they've made of this once wondrous place! Dear land and sky and forced-to-wed-with-humans and other animals who so far have escaped this behavioral post-Babylon sewer. I am just so sorry, land and sky and all the natural good once here, inviolate, sweet. After what they (who know well who they are, and like it) have done here, I think the aboriginal Americans would not have it back. If a way occurs to me to make it all, or even most of this, significantly better, then I'll come back, and at once. Hang in there, defiled locus,
once hope itself, and in sight for so many.
---Hollywood, stay the F out of this, A.-H.s!
Usurping, lying "Fool In A Trance" Studio Terrorist Nursery-landers! Make your own celluloid country of which to make a moral and Nicomacheam Ethics ruin of a cess[ation of nation]pool! I won't have your delusions that were to only have been salubrious illusions. Not an inarticulate string of loudly mouthed Holly-Toe-Sis!  

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A Personal View of Portugal

Official - Portugal is one of the safest places to live

A United Nations survey on crime rates throughout the world has identified Portugal as being one of the safest countries in the world in which to live.

The UN Crime and Justice Research Institute carried out the study in 2000. Ignoring police figures, which vary widely in method and reliability, the UN interviewed random samples of 2,000 men and women in each country surveyed.

Top of the non-violent crime league were England and Wales where 58 out of every 100 people interviewed had been a victim. Portugal proved to be the fourth safest country in the world with a 27 to 100 ratio.

Australia had the second highest level with 57 out of every 100 people interviewed being a victim. Holland was third with a 51 to 100 ratio. Scotland and the USA shared fifth position in the league table with 43 out of every 100 people having suffered as a result of non-violent crime.

The study was carried out in fourteen countries including Japan, which proved to be the safest country in which to live. Canada was the seventh most dangerous country with 42 out of every 100 people interviewed having been victims.

The Institute’s findings regarding `Violent Contact Crime´ revealed that after Japan, Portugal is the safest country. Only 1.4 percent of Portuguese interviewed had suffered as a result of street muggings, physical assault or rape.

Australia was top of the violent crime league registering a level of 4.1 percent of citizens who had been victims of physical assault, sexual or otherwise. England and Wales were in second place with 3.6 percent of those interviewed having been physically assaulted.

Since the first UN survey carried out in 1989 the USA is the only country to have seen a reduction in crime rates. The report attributes this to the ``zero tolerance´´ policy adopted by the country‘s police forces.

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(From Various surfers)

Ans:) Following companies offer certification exams relevant to C and C++
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Please check out MS' MCSD program. We have covered this in detail in many
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