Friday, February 28, 2014

Dating someone from a different country?

Dating someone from a different country?
i started dating this guy in high school. he's my best friend and we've done everything together for the last three years. i don't know what i'm going to do without him. he just left today so all i'm doing right now is crying. he's going back home (to south korea) this summer. any tips on how to survive an international relationship? it's different than just a long distance relationship. we can't text or call much at all because it's so expensive and we don't have much money. and the timing is 14 hours off... so when i'm awake, he's sleeping. and when i'm sleeping, he's awake. any tips of advice on how to make this work? please help...
Other - Family & Relationships - 5 Answers
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It won't work. You can be friends and keep in contact but nothing more as you will grow apart and find other people. If your ment to be something will happen in the furture to help. Stay strong and stay positive
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If you love him that much why can`t you go with him, and if he really love you why can`t he sty here with you and marry you? That`s what i did with my wife. and we ve been married for 12 years now. Good Luck
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You are too young to get yourself in a long distance relationship, just forget about him and move on. There are plenty of fish in the sea.
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It won't work i'm sorry. answer mine? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aq_ROvAMbK6q7zhHkH_oQl_sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100610203512AACaoj3
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You have not told me how old you are which makes the situation quite different because then you could probably take a holiday to South Korea and see him at least once and you have also only told me me that he has gone back for the summer so that it could indicate that he comes back once the summer is finished.. I do condole with you.. Other than writing to him a letter every day and talking to him on skype, it does not cost anything to download skype and get chatting him to him as if he was next door, you may just have to bear the absence of his physical presence until he is old enough to either marry you if he is that way inclined. He would certainly oblige if you send him a letter giving him your skpe address as soon as it is installed. In the meantime, please make sure that you continue to maintain the way you look so that he does not find a haggard girlfriend when he does talk to you:). Also find yourself a part time job so that you can find the finance for that visit to South Korea. You must become more sensible and work towards your goals, i.e. meeting him agian. Good luck:).





Friday, February 14, 2014

option on my plan to save America?

option on my plan to save America?
all poiticians do is debate and try to stab each other in the back without getting anything done. here is a list i assemled that i think covers what this country needs to do to get back on the right track. please take a little time to comment on how it could be changed and what party it (or pieces of it) are most like. •Cut down on the deficit; create a budget with no more than 100bil in debt in 25 years. oDo not increase taxes but decrease loopholes oCut spending on wasteful projects •Cut back on government agencies either by consolidation or elimination. •Create laws or a separate agency/entity that removes pork from bills oCreate government “watchdog” campaign composed of members from all parties •Stop all tax breaks for US companies that have ½ or more of either personnel or assets overseas. •Invest in America’s future by providing subsidies to clean and renewable energy, this decreases our spending on foreign oil •Legalize hemp. The production will have many uses commercially and all products can be taxed to further reduce the deficit •Create more jobs by repairing roads and revamping transportation systems. •Create more positions to monitor energy such as well inspectors to keep environmental tragedies to a minimum •Limit our stake in international wars. oStop promoting dictators that are “US friendly” •Create more regulation on “big companies” such as large banks and multibillion dollar corporations to keep them honest •Restrict credit card companies from high interest rates. •Reworking or replacement of No Child Left Behind •Rework the immigration laws to more forcibly enforce no illegal immigrants but make the process of becoming a legal immigrant easier. •Raise the retirement age to 68 or 70 and repay the “borrowed” money from the fund with some budget < 50 years. •Decrease (not elimination!) spending on low yield science applications such as NASA •Decrease imports from countries such as china •Increase exports and create beneficial trade agreements such as with South Korea these are kinda like "planks" that i think should be goals for the govenment, not all are easy but i think that they will be the easiest in the long run. the tax system we have now would work and even decrease the deficit if it were all enforced. many companies are able to get outrageous governemt subsidies to offset taxes or hire lawyers to find loopholes. if we made them pay the full rate of thier taxes it would make a considerable dent. to my knowledge no company taxes exports, just imports. and because of our trade agreements, (such as Nafta) we cant even impose those. china, our main importer (and our main loan source) would not be too keen if we were to put a tarif on thier goods so just decreasing what we buy from them is the only solution.
Government - 3 Answers
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not bad a lot of good points
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All of your ideas are much easier said than done, for example, cutting the deficit that low without increasing taxes would probably require reforming medicade and medicare. The raising of the retirement age would help but probably not be enough. Also, wasteful projects probably only make up several billions of the budget which is less that half of 1 percent of our deficit. Also, you can't export products that are not being made, you need to encourage more manufacturing in the U.S. And regulation for "big companies" is a vague concept because a large company is not always a bad one. Your idea's are not bad but they are not specific enough. Simply saying things like, "stop importing stuff" isn't easy to do. Even american brands are partially made oversees now. All in all, the government is working on this, and they probably won't agree on 95% of it.
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The problem is some of that interferes with international treaties, and trade agreements. The problem is the government started getting tangled in international laws, so some things we can do to benefit our economy, may be a Casus belli to another country who is on the raw end of the deal. For example, there is an international law against selling pot, no country is without a law against Marijuana. Some just have very weak restrictions, or they have exceptions to the law, and it's enforcement in place. Another is the tariff, some countries by treaty have a set Tariff on their exports. And some countries by treaty have a mandatory trade with the US The best thing to do, is decrease spending, and replace the income tax with a Flat Tax. ---------------------------------------------- Also it is hard decreasing spending, because the country is so divided on what should and should not be cut.



Friday, February 7, 2014

Can a book "receive" the Nobel Prize, or does the recipient have to be the person who wrote it?

Can a book "receive" the Nobel Prize, or does the recipient have to be the person who wrote it?
I work as an English teacher at high school in South Korea. Recently for the midterm exams there was a question asking students to unscramble the words Korean / occurred / me / in / no / it / ever received / to / the / has / that / Nobel Prize / Literature The correct answer was supposed to have been "it occurred to me that no Korean has ever received the Nobel Prize in Literature" However, some students wrote "it occurred to me that no Literature in Korean has ever received the Nobel Prize" Some of the other English teachers here (non-native speakers) think that the 2nd answer is wrong and asked me (native speaker) for my opinion. The 2nd answer seems a little strange because I don't think of books as receiving prizes; I think of their authors as the recipients. However, I would say that a book "received criticism" in the same way that an author "receives criticism". Other combinations of nouns also work fine with receive, such as "the school receives money from the government" ... so why can't a book receive a prize? My basic feeling just because an answer seems a little strange or non-standard doesn't make it wrong. Grammatically, I see nothing wrong with the 2nd answer, and the meaning is clear so I suggested giving full marks for it. The confusion comes from the fact that "Korean" can either mean the language or a Korean national. If we wanted the phrase "Nobel Prize in Literature", "in" should have been grouped with one of those two nouns ... our mistake, not the kids'. Thoughts?
Standards & Testing - 1 Answers
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The author receives the Nobel Prize for writing the book.



Saturday, February 1, 2014

Is this marriage fraud, and what can I do about it?

Is this marriage fraud, and what can I do about it?
I was living with my girlfriend at the time, she said that she wanted to marry someone in the military, who she had never met in person, only online (only to have a legal document, for extra benefits on both sides....blah blah blah) anyway, we had been together for a year and a half, i moved away from family and friends just to be with her, worked two jobs so i could give her extra money to spend (10 hour night shifts sunday through wednesday and 8 hours a day at my other job monday through friday...sunday through wednesday was 18 hours per day total at least) and she said that if i didnt let her marry this person then she would leave me and that would have screwed me over because i was far from family and had no where to go, plus, i really wanted to stay with her. So she went and did the documentation and all that, was legally married. Came back to our house and continued to live with me for several months (We were sexually active before and after she was married to someone else) anyway, he wouldnt quit trying to convince her that i was not the person for her and slowly ruined our relationship because i couldnt stand that she let him say all of these hurtful things about me. We eventually broke up after constant arguing over the matter and i was forced to move away and work my butt off to make a living.... as a 19 year old kid paying rent and living on my own.... worst couple months of my life. He was shipped out to South Korea and they are both gaining benefits while she is still "cheating" on him, and on top of all this she has porn videos on the internet, and she is a cam girl basically full time. I am wondering if there is anyway to gain reparations for all of this BS and end their marriage. It has brought great hardship to me and i have several witnesses and proof that she never lived with him the whole time, she lived with me until she moved in with her sister in a different state. Someone please help me out here, If it is possible to take legal action and get payment for all of the things they have put me through, i would like to know as soon as possible. The husband in question is 29 years old, and told my 19 year old girlfriend that he tried to get a previous gf of his to go through with this same exact thing. Why did all of this have to happen to me? She wasnt entirely using me, as everyone knows, duh i was a moron and let things slide, but only because i felt there was still hope to stay with her. We supported each other throughout our stay together, so i cant say it was "using." I just dont feel it is right for her to pull this off when i warned her about marriage fraud, and they both said it wouldnt be more than a slap on the wrist. Our aruements were always fueled by her "husband." He would always try and convince her to become his real wife and leave me. During our relationship i wanted to report marriage fraud during our relationship but i had no idea how, and i still don't, i am not to concerned with getting money back, i just want to see that someone with his sort of morality is punished legally for committing such an unjust act. once again, i know i was an idiot, but everyone here has to understand there is more to it than that. I want to live independently without parental help, therefor i was scared to go back under thei As for anyone thinking that she didn't lie to me, she kept it from me, and lied about things they conversed about, lied about her cheating, and whenever she broke promises to me she said deal with it, all of this happened within a couple months, so i did get out because i knew i couldnt take it anymore, once again, i dont want money, but i would love to see him discharged, and to see her have to pay back the government for the money that was basically stolen, i pay taxes too you know Another thing, they never even slept together, he watches her on cam from korea, and the married only to get BAH from the military, and planned to end the marriage when he returns, it sounds like fraud to me. It isn't a legal marriage, i just dont know how to get in contact with a military law enforcement that deals with this type of fraud.
Law & Ethics - 7 Answers
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It all happened to you because YOU ARE AN IDIOT. Why did you stay with her? HELLO MCFLY she MARRIED another man. Time to pack up and move on, she was USING YOU the entire time. Oh I worked my butt off so that she could have more money? She married another guy? She said she'd leave me if I didn't let her? Seriously reread this and don't think about it being YOU and you'll realize how stupid you were being. OK fine thinking you are in love makes people do stupid things, but in the end she left you anyway. All you did was screw yourself over, and NOW you are holding it against her. Let her be with that loser. Chalk it up to stupid mistake and MOVE ON.
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dude bail now go back home , take all your stuff and leave her she aint worth it
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Sounds like marriage fraud to me. But that's not going to help you one little bit. If both of them are convicted of something, that's not going to compensate you for anything. Witnesses about her whereabouts won't help you. If they lied on documents for the military, that's between them and the military. OK, if you find an attorney who'll sue her for some sort of "emotional damage," you can try. but I think it'll cost you more for the attorney than you'll get from a girl whose income is limited. Listen to others- get out! She used you. That's enough. Never mind the details of what your two jobs' hours were, or what she said on the pillow. Time to get away.
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google "marriage fraud reporting"
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"Seriously reread this and don't think about it being YOU and you'll realize how stupid you were being." Hahahahaha!! Wise Words!! Although it does sound like marriage fraud, you would not benefit from it. Just get out and Thank God this girl will be someone else's problem. You obviously let all this happen, so consider it a lesson you really needed to learn. Stop thinking of yourself as a victim. In fact, the only thing you didn't write that this girl did was lie to YOU.... so can you really blame her?
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I really doubt if you will ever find someone "official" who will bother to take your accusations of criminal fraud seriously, but say you did. Think about how the couple would respond to questions based on accusations from a heart broken 20 year old ex-boyfriend. Even if every word you said was the truth they would still make you look like a fool. They are married. It may be an unconventional marriage,but in the eyes of the law, it's just another half-ass crazy marriage. Even if the benefits were the reason they married, there has been no crime committed. They have slept together, presented themselves to others as married--- they are legally, lawfully, awfully married. Some battles can't be won, and this is one of them. She screwed you over and it hurt a lot, I know. But it's time to stop putting yourself through this, you're only causing yourself more pain and distress. Let it go. Just let them go. Instead of focusing on how to make them miserable, put that energy into finding ways to make yourself happy.
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Why does this happen to you? Because you let it happen. You let this lying, cheating webcam girl walk all over you. I don't feel sorry for you.