The ITU itself has pledged not to put disputed issued to a majority vote, leaving it just four working days to try to find a common text all sides can agree on.
The humor ends when you realize the common practice of text walking is getting a lot of people hurt and sometimes killed.
Common microvolunteering projects include translating text, writing text for brochures and other marketing materials, and helping a group grow its Twitter and Facebook followings.
"We've had people who are walking and they just needed to get out of their house because they had an argument with their parent, so they're texting us as they're calming down, " said Jennifer James, who supervises chat and text outreach for Common Ground, which also serves adults from its base in southeastern Michigan.
In the Middle East, for example, unsolicited text messages are quite common, and do not prompt many complaints.
And of course, they hope to save money over competitors by being the first to use common wireless services--calling, text messaging, Internet access and so on.
Yet, at least in the calm, superficially courteous world of Western academia, debating the precise text of the Koran is increasingly common as at a conference hosted by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), part of the University of London, in November.
While an illustrated alphabet in rhyme, the shorter catechism, and selections of prayers and Bible verses remained the unchanging core of The New-England Primer, variations in the text from edition to edition were common and became a barometer of changing cultural codes and priorities.
His films appealed around the world partly because, in text and texture, they eloquently spoke the common language of film.
Even common reverse engineering tools merely render malware as thousands of lines of garbled text more legible to machine than man.
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Another possible reason people seek to share these types of experiences is that as technology disconnects people -- with social networking sites, e-mail, text and instant message replacing face time -- those with common interests look for opportunities to be together, Yarrow said.
Soldiers in the field can text GPS coordinates, send pictures of their surroundings, or file common reports directly from their phone.
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If the convention had to agree on a single text, they reason, it would probably come down to the lowest common denominator of the rival ideas.
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Speaking of calls, your options when receiving one are to to pick up, hang up, or reject with a text message -- with a slide-up menu offering you the most common apologetic missives to send out.
Text input gets a fairly significant overhaul as well, representing a notable departure from common standards of controller-based typing.
And the image didn't blur--a common problem when contrast controls are set to extremes--meaning that the in-game text remained crisp and readable.
From a text book perspective, Basel III requires banks to hold 4.5% of common equity, Basel II requires 6% of Tier I capital of risk-weighted assets.
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