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I like IE7. I have it both on Vista and on XP. Seems to work fine.

This has reminded me that spring is here and soon I must use ant killer all around the outside of the house to keep them from coming in. :) I used to use this (Diazinon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) and it worked great but you can't use it any more.

I am. :)

Ah, okay. Somewhere I missed that. (I admit I sometimes skim or am distracted while reading.) I think NO one man could have played a huge role in the evolution of any langauge. Language lives in the people who use it. It evolves out of necessity and brevity and hopefully out of some amount...

"We may never know..." might be the key here. ;) Honestly, I'm not even sure what difference it makes.

One of your own links said this: "In 1817, Gallaudet founded the nation's first school for the deaf. It was called American Asylum and was located in Hartford, Connecticut. Clerc was the first sign language teacher in America. Though the students used Gallaudet's form of sign language, him...

If he will not accept you for who you are, he is not worthy of your love. I know that's a difficult thing to understand, but it's true. But remember, even love isn't enough in a relationship--you need common values and common goals. Can you really have a long term relationship with someone who...

I think someone with one or two CI's is still deaf, since it's not a cure for deafness, but a prosthetic device. Just as a person with a prosthetic leg that he walks hasn't cured himself of having lost a leg, but uses a tool to replace the functionality. Does a CI let someone hear? Sure...

God, I'm not even sure what point you two are debating anymore. :) Look, a CI gives someone perception of sound. If earlier enough in life, the brain seems to be able to figure out what to do with this info really well. If someone has had some hearing and the brain already knows, it also...

By the way... I asked my brother that if he someday has a deaf child, would HE consider giving it a CI at a young age? He said, "yeah, probably." Same reasons as I've stated. Just because it wasn't right for him--probably because he was too old for it even at age 9--doesn't mean it's not...

My brother has lived with a CI in his head for 20 years. Other than it being occasionally irritating (it can buzz a bit sometimes he says), most of the time he's unaware of it. It can be removed, and if an MRI is needed, most modern CI's are safe for that once the magnet is removed--something...

Thanks! Usually it's so good about parsing it into a link itself, I thought it would. :)

Thanks. By the way, my friend has some hearing loss thanks to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9ni%C3%A8re's_disease and if he loses enough, he might need a CI. :-) For him it would be fantasic. I think for some deaf people--even born deaf--it can be a blessing. Just not for everyone.

If my child were born deaf, I'd strongly consider giving him a CI early as possible so that the brain adapted well for it, if the risk to his health would be minimal. I'd also teach him sign, and talk at the same time, and foster all forms of communication. I'd also ask him, when he was...

It's a good point. I was talking to a friend today about some of the issues here and how my brother has told me if someone could wave a magic wand and give him perfect hearing, he wouldn't want it if he couldn't turn it off. My friend asked why. To demonstrate why, I lightly tapped his...

Well, less than 200 years ago we had no electricity, let alone television, radio, satillite communications, handheld music, and so on. No refridgerator/freezer, no microwave, no washer/dryer, no quartz watches, etc. etc. Think of all the things invented that would seem like MAGIC back then...

Technology will perhaps adapt, as I said in another thread. Glasses one wears that read lips for you and print text for your to read in the lenses. A watch/wrist device that learns your hand movements and interprets your sign into the spoken word... these things aren't outside the realm of...

Ah, okay. It could, eventually. No one knows what will happen in the future with technology. What if they can someday re-code someone's DNA to fix whatever goes wrong to cause deafness? It's possible. It's a beautiful language, but if people don't use it....

I understand that. And I'd have to weigh risks, talk with the future Mrs. Capmeister whomever she might be, etc.

It's not called that in the 5th, but yes. Eminent Domain: Taking Property for Public Use - Findlaw for the Public -