Comments on: A Common Language?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:07:29 +0000

Hi trish, thanks for reading and for your comment. I surely didn’t know that. One of the reasons I like hanging out here and writing for Bob is, I learn alot, and often at least a smuch from the comments as from the articles themselves.

By: trish

trish — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:27:27 +0000

Hi, Dave. Churchill may have been a good orator, but he didn’t write his speeches. The famous phrase, “blood, sweat and tears” was written by a little-known speechwriter, who, to this day, is not a household name. Mrs Thatcher’s, “the lady is not for turning” phrase, was written by a male speechwriter. Dave, you’ve come up with another good article. Thanks.-trish

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:11:40 +0000

Hi Fred, thanks for reading snd for your comment. Truly I don’t know. Some power outages can be prevented by better infrastructure design, but there’s no incentive for that becuase some years ago the Philippines followed california’s lead into the disastrous process of splitting the electric sysem into three separate segments … generation, transmission and local service. Sp there’s no company with overall responsibility as there is in many parts of the US, and three separate profits have to come out of the government controled consumer rates. A recipe for business disaster.

OTOH, massive power outages are common in the US every time there’s a tropical storm, winter ice storm, etc. There’s no total solution, anywhere. Most big hotels, condo communities, shopping malls etc have their own standby generators. It’s perfectly possible to have one for you home as well … but it costs about 10 times the commercial rate to make your own using your own generator … and the commercial rate is already 5 times or more the rates people from the US are used to paying. I think in literary circles they call this a conumdrum … or is ut an impasse?

By: Fred C. Wilson III

Fred C. Wilson III — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:48:31 +0000

How can brownouts be prevented? I know how and why I experience them when
I travel to the RP but I would like to know what can be done about them.

Fred

By: Fred C. Wilson III

Fred C. Wilson III — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:46:37 +0000

Every time I visit the Philippines, I experience what are called ‘brownouts’ when all the electric devises go dead. I know how they are caused. My question is WHAT CAN MANILA DO TO PREVENT BROWNOUTS?

Fred

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:40:27 +0000

@Preben: Did you get her number … if she’s single maybe I’ll introduce her to the uncle, he’s single

By: Preben

Preben — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:23:56 +0000

You are never too old to stop learning and exploring.(Dave)
You are so right. The other day my wife and I went shopping, and in the mall I saw a lady( she must have been in her mid 80ties) using Blue-thooth for her cellphone.
I was amazed.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:49:25 +0000

@Ellen: That must have been funny, Ellen. But errors in judgement or personality quirks notwithstanding, we usually can learn a lot from Andy’s generation. My wife blogs and one day she noticed a comment from a cousin in California … a realitve who had been out of touch for some time. What closed the communications gap? Simple. The cousin’s dad, Mita’s eldest uncle, born in 1915, was also in California with a number of his offspring, and one day Tito Casto decided to leran how to use this “Google” thing he had heard about, so he typed in his own name and found himself mentioned in one of Mita’s blog posts. Few of his younger family had ever even bothered with the Internet much and certainly never thought of it for making connections to out of touch relations, but Lolo Casto showed them how. You are never too old to stop learning and exploring.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:53:53 +0000

Hi Dave – your comments on 60 minutes made me remember a 90 year old cruiser and his wife. They sailed to Mexico together. We were standing on the marina dock chatting when we saw this boat head-on-90-degrees straight towards us. OMG – our friend shouted “STOP! throw us your line, we will pull you in instead”. The 90 year-old wobbly walked to the bow, put his hand behind his ears and croaked “Whhhaaaatttt?”

Till today, I still smile thinking about him and his wife; and really admire them for how they approach life.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:03:01 +0000

@Danny: Hi Danny, thanks for dropping by and for commenting. If you are a US citzen and you father a child (and of course you a knowledege that the child is yours ) then yes, that child is an American citizen by birth. If the child’s mother is say a Filipino/former Filipino the child is also a Filipino citizen, by birth. If you want the child to have a US passport and other proof of citizenship yu must file areort of birth overseas, but any child who can prove his mother or father was a US citizen at birth has US citizenship as a birthright. There are many US citizens around the world who wre born outside the US, some who have never set foot on US soil. They are still US citizens. The only difference in rights these ‘outside US’ citzens have is, unless they themselves go to the US for some period of time, they can not pass on citizenship to their offspring … the cycle can not continue through future generations … aside from that they hold all rights.