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Anecdotal, but my dad has an albino friend who's around 60 and his hair's just white. As someone else said, gray hair comes from your hair having less pigment, but white hair never had any pigment to lose in the first place.

The Dirk Gently books are completely unrelated to the Hitchhiker's books though (although both series are fantastic).

I don't know of it was the case Herr, but Google does have a reputation for hiring people first and then figuring out what to do with them later.

EDIT: Apparently a combination of a typo and my phone's autocorrect has resulted in silly things. Oh well.

Damn, these have aged really well. I think I actually find them funnier now than I did when I was a kid. The concept is just as hilarious but there are so many references I didn't get.

Probably too late for this, but I remember reading a discussion about the matter once where a deaf person argued that being deaf is not a disability because dead people are not communication impaired.

To me, this shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what hearing is. It implies that hearing is only about talking, that the only thing missing by being deaf is the ability to communicate in spoken languages instead of signed ones. It ignored the fact that everything makes noise. Having access to a wide range of languages may be the most practical benefit to hearing, but there's so much more to it than that, From practical cases where you can hear something dangerous to nice things like music. I'm sure a lot of people would say that the experience of being moved by a really beautiful song makes hearing worth it on its own even if you completely take language out of the discussion.

Do.you this perception exists within yhe deaf community? That hearing is little more than the ability to communicate more easily with spoken languages? Or do you think that I misinterpreted that statement (or that the person's atgumrnt doesn't represent the anti-CI community), and that people who are against CI understand that there's more to it than that but still consider the preservation of deaf culture to be.more.impirtant?