This is what happens in socialist society!!!

[SassyLady]

It's little things like this that make me cringe when the government says they know what is best for you and society!!!



ICELANDIC GIRL FIGHTS FOR RIGHT TO HER OWN NAME

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- Call her the girl with no name.


A 15-year-old is suing the Icelandic state for the right to legally use the name given to her by her mother. The problem? Blaer, which means "light breeze" in Icelandic, is not on a list approved by the government.


Like a handful of other countries, including Germany and Denmark, Iceland has official rules about what a baby can be named. In a country comfortable with a firm state role, most people don't question the Personal Names Register, a list of 1,712 male names and 1,853 female names that fit Icelandic grammar and pronunciation rules and that officials maintain will protect children from embarrassment. Parents can take from the list or apply to a special committee that has the power to say yea or nay.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_ICELAND_GIRL_WITH_NO_NAME?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-01-03-03-48-24

[CSM]

Awww, cmon, that would never happen in the US. They would never tell you what to name your kid, how much of what you can eat or drink or try to regulate ... oh, never mind ....

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Awww, cmon, that would never happen in the US. They would never tell you what to name your kid, how much of what you can eat or drink or try to regulate ... oh, never mind ....

Or how many kids you may have. As does China, the same China that the leftists/dems and obama admire and brag about so damn much.-Tyr

[mundame]

Or how many kids you may have. As does China, the same China that the leftists/dems and obama admire and brag about so damn much.-Tyr



Yeahbut............................

Restricting the gross overpopulation they were so impoverished by is how China became so strong and powerful lately.

Very smart people, the Chinese. They do what it takes.

Can't say that of us.

[fj1200]

They weren't impoverished by overpopulation, they were/are? impoverished by socialist policies.

https://www.google.com/chart?cht=lxy&chd=s:ABCDEFHIJKLNOPQRTUVWXZabcdfghijlmnoprstuvxyz 01345679,babbcddefghijjkllmmnnoppqqrsstuuvvwwxyyyz z0001111222&chds=0.0,1.0&chs=160x101&chco=287bf5ff&chls=2.0,1.0,0.0&chxt=x,r,x,r&chxs=0,333333,0,0,tl,333333%7C1,333333,0,-1,tl,333333%7C2,000000,11.5,-1,tl,333333%7C3,000000,11.5,-1,tl,333333&chxtc=0,2%7C1,2%7C2,0%7C3,0&chm=h,cccccc,0,1,1,1%7Ch,cccccc,0,0.5,1,-1&chxp=2,0,82%7C3,5,50,95&chxl=0:%7C1960%7C2011%7C1:%7C0%7C0.75B%7C1.5B%7C2: %7C1960%7C2011%7C3:%7C0%7C0.75B%7C1.5B

[Kathianne]

They weren't impoverished by overpopulation, they were/are? impoverished by socialist policies.

https://www.google.com/chart?cht=lxy&chd=s:ABCDEFHIJKLNOPQRTUVWXZabcdfghijlmnoprstuvxyz 01345679,babbcddefghijjkllmmnnoppqqrsstuuvvwwxyyyz z0001111222&chds=0.0,1.0&chs=160x101&chco=287bf5ff&chls=2.0,1.0,0.0&chxt=x,r,x,r&chxs=0,333333,0,0,tl,333333%7C1,333333,0,-1,tl,333333%7C2,000000,11.5,-1,tl,333333%7C3,000000,11.5,-1,tl,333333&chxtc=0,2%7C1,2%7C2,0%7C3,0&chm=h,cccccc,0,1,1,1%7Ch,cccccc,0,0.5,1,-1&chxp=2,0,82%7C3,5,50,95&chxl=0:%7C1960%7C2011%7C1:%7C0%7C0.75B%7C1.5B%7C2: %7C1960%7C2011%7C3:%7C0%7C0.75B%7C1.5B

Very correct. They began to 'rise' when the implemented a Chinese version of capitalism in certain realms of economy. The fact they could control both workers and salaries, with no qualms of free markets helped propel them.

Their 'control' of numbers of births led to a glut of young males without jobs or possibility of partners. Chaos, suicides, violence ensued.

[fj1200]

^And the "importation" of brides from overseas.

[mundame]

I read it's generally agreed that the determined Chinese response to out-of-control population growth underlies their amazing rise in the world. After all, look at India, which did some things against births, but not nearly enough and certainly not the one-family/one-child policy China had and still has. India is a mess. China isn't.

As for the "bare branches," which is the Chinese term for the excess males (fully 14%, maybe more now!) --- hey, they make a GREAT 3-million-man army. The "Red Dawn" remake cast the Chinese as the invaders through Mexico, as it was the only enemies who could actually do that now existing. Because that was true, the State Department got at them and they had to change it to North Korea, which couldn't do it.

Also, they are using the excess males to take over Africa. They don't use native labor, which ......has problems, as we all know. They bring their own labor for mining and construction and get the job done.


Verrrrrrrrrrrry smart people, the Chinese.

Anyone who thinks the excess males issue was an accident has not thought it through: the Chinese planners knew their culture would prefer males and this was factored in as a multiplier effect.

After all, demographics ignores males of every species, since only females actually reproduce. The fewer females, the less population.

[fj1200]

I read it's generally agreed that the determined Chinese response to out-of-control population growth underlies their amazing rise in the world. After all, look at India, which did some things against births, but not nearly enough and certainly not the one-family/one-child policy China had and still has. India is a mess. China isn't.

Two points, 1. Chinese population still increases, and 2. all of China is not prosperous. It doesn't take much for a backwoods economy to make extraordinary gains for some when they are able to make the moves that can make it happen. Yes, China has been successful at that.

[tailfins]

My wife had a similar problem. "y" was not legally a letter in the Portuguese alphabet. However, a well placed bribe fixed everything.


The letters K, W and Y were included in the alphabet used in Brazil, East Timor, Macau, Portugal and five countries in Africa when the 1990 Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Portuguese_Language_Orthographic_Agreement) went into legal effect, since January 1, 2009.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_alphabet#cite_note-1) However, they were used before 1911 (see the article on spelling reform in Portugal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_reforms_of_Portuguese#A_timeline_of_spell ing_reforms)).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_alphabet

[gabosaurus]

a well placed bribe fixed everything.


It usually does. You would make a good lobbyist.

[mundame]

ICELANDIC GIRL FIGHTS FOR RIGHT TO HER OWN NAME

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- Call her the girl with no name.


A 15-year-old is suing the Icelandic state for the right to legally use the name given to her by her mother. The problem? Blaer, which means "light breeze" in Icelandic, is not on a list approved by the government.


Like a handful of other countries, including Germany and Denmark, Iceland has official rules about what a baby can be named. In a country comfortable with a firm state role, most people don't question the Personal Names Register, a list of 1,712 male names and 1,853 female names that fit Icelandic grammar and pronunciation rules and that officials maintain will protect children from embarrassment. Parents can take from the list or apply to a special committee that has the power to say yea or nay.



I would like to visit Iceland. It's culturally and geologically fascinating and its incredible literary history is a lot of why they are trying to defend their language, I'm guessing. They started off the modern sex and violence novel with a bang by writing a whole lot of sagas around 1000--1200. Njal's saga is the most popular: unforgettable. My favorite is Grettir the Strong; I've read it several times. These works are surprisingly modern in flavor; Grettir, for instance, is pretty clearly "on the spectrum," moderately autistic.

But big. Very, very big. That became a problem.

Highly realistic. Well, except when they throw in the occasional barrow wight.

[tailfins]

It usually does. You would make a good lobbyist.

You mean my father-in-law would make a good lobbyist. Corruption is a needed fail-safe in a socialist nation. Brazil is only an eyelash less socialist than Venezuela.