How did I know Hurt was gonna be in the OP... like always...

I could've linked tons of other songs, but this cover is amazing.

Here's stuff that isn't from the 1960's.

Johnny Cash's America albums were released around 2000, and is some of the best country out there.

The stuff you linked is fine, but I'm not huge on country rock. I prefer wizened old dudes singing about loss. Folk country's where it's at

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Well, not really, since America didn't exist then, but the ye-olde British accent sounded a lot closer to the current American accent than it does to the modern accent.

I made this thread because Gatsby pointed out how funny a southern American accent sounds, even though that accent originates from Southern English speakers several hundred years ago. And the old British accent was much closer to a current American accent (which makes sense, because the country was originally a colony of Britain), and that the current British accent was a result of de-emphasizing r's, sort of the way southern accents slur letters.

The example the article use is this: "Park your car in the Harvard Yard".

In the past, the Brits had a 'rhotic' accent which pronounced the r's: “paRk youR caR in HaRvaRd YaRd”.

In the last few hundred years, the Brits moved away from r's after vowels: "pahk youh cah in Hahvahd Yahd". Or, removing the h's for accent, you get the more phonetic "pak you ca in havad yad".

Incidentally, the Great British De-Rhoticization (a term I just made up) also explains why Australian, New Zealand, and South African English are all non-rhotic, because these areas were settled after the British switched off their Rs, while Canada and the USA were first settled while everyone was still R-full.

http://the-toast.net/2014/03/19/a-linguist-explains-british-accents-of-yore/

tl;dr Brits used to speak with an accent closer to American or Scottish than their current accent.

I hear cannabis can help you with that.

I'm on board with cannabis as a treatment when it's investigated in a legitimate, peer-reviewed study on humans.

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hemp which literally cures cancer

bruh

It does.

nuh uh

Having a background in industrial engineering, I'm all for optimizing politics, but there's also a great degree of complexity in this system that has been shown to deter the general population. A lot of this is also negated by primary elections, though those assume that a voter will still stick with their party even if their preferred candidate wins.

Cut the hours of loyal employees who have been working there for years.  I work no hours next week and have worked only 25 this week.  And Walmart is STILL hiring temps.  Why?  Because they're cheap labor and Walmart could keep a huge amount of their own profits.

Regardless of the fairness of hiring temps (though I think it's a perfectly valid tactic when minimum wage and the ACA are strangling entry-level employers from both sides of the issue -- hours and wage), profits don't really have anything to do with salary. Basically nobody offers profit-sharing or bonuses for entry-level positions.

P.S. you should quit Walmart and go to Kroger. I had over four years of experience with them and they're a pretty good employer with lots of room for advancement.

Contrary to popular belief, most of Texas isn't the irredeemable shithole that its often portrayed as.

How much does it pay?

Halo Wars

They're unworthy.

Quote from: E̲n̲ga̲ge̲d̲T̲u̲r̲k̲e̲y on October 26, 2014, 03:26:45 AM

Is there any word on interconnectivity between the DS and Wii versions?

You mean 3DS & Wii U? You can use the 3DS as a controller when playing on the Wii u

How does that connection work?

OP pls

What's sad is that probably has a better and deeper story than what Destiny has.

Hey, Destiny's story is so deep that it transcends the game; instead, it's in the Grimoire Cards and Reddit.

We'd like to believe the memory is stored in neuron cells, but there simply isn't any place in the cell where that would happen.

The individual neurons send a unique signal that, in series with other neurons, produce a unique combination resulting in memory recall.

What specifically does quantum mechanics have to do with any of it?