Posts by Steve Reeves
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DFP:
so why, seeing as the UK already had .uk given to them to use, and was using .uk, did the ISO standard have .gb?
Or is this another great example of standards being a graveyard for the efforts of people with nothing better to do (speaking as aomeone who ha worked on an ISO standard, you understand :-) )?
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Incidentally .uk should be .gb
Why is that?
For example, Queens' Uni, Belfast is in .uk, as it should be since the UK is "the United Kindom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland", so if .uk should be .gb and ireland is .ie then Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, would have to have its own designation, but it isn't a different country (well, no more than England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man.... are).
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Just to add to the AKL stories...
I was coming back from Hong Kong (lovely airport, BTW, and the same city check-in as at KL amongst others...) at the same time, it seems, as at least one other large plane from SE Asia. Anyhow, probably to be helpful, the AKL "greeting" staff (usually, I'd say, people retired from their original careers, and very friendly and welcoming) were telling everyone, no matter who, to join any queue they liked, i.e. to ignore the segregation into NZ/AU/PR people and foreigners. Well, this, of course, meant that the NZers had, for example, groups of pensioners from SE Asia mixed in with them. These gorups apparently had as their sole aim making the queue go slowly... :-)
The nasty, racist mumbles (never said too loudly, of course, because we're such nice people in NZ aren't we?) made about such groups of nice old ladies were very unpleasant. I complained about this to a (probably) husband and wife couple who were near me and being very offensive in this way, and (perhaps because I have an English accent) they also opined that perhaps I was in the wrong queue too (they were very grumpy at being welcomed back home with a long wait in a queue with foreing people really quite near to them)!
Now, we were all tired and didn't enjoy standing in the queue for half an hour before being "processed", but the evidence that for quite a few people this nasty racism is only just below the surface was a bit of a shock.
But AKL really should put on more staff---after all, they presumably know when to expect these plane things to land??
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Hm!!! So I wonder what the word affirm means then? The Collins ED says:
(1) declare to be true; (2) to uphold, confirm or ratify
If they meant to say "We think this is true" why not say so?---it's much clearer. Sounds a bit equivocating, like they didn't want to say "true" in case people found they could disagree.