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In this context it means: "To detain (a person) in conversation against their will." http://www.allwords.com/word-buttonhole.html

Right, you intentionally used an archaic word that nobody uses in that sense and which only definition comes from the Webster of 1913 and that most dictionaries don't even list. Even the Meriam-Webster doesn't list it anymore. Not to mention that the definition you found doesn't make any sense for the word in the sentence you said.

Good trolling, but here's what really happened : http://lol.i.trollyou.com/LOL-I-TROLL-YOU.png

Or to put it into words, you said idiocracy when you meant idiocy because of the movie, I laughed at you, so you went looking for a rare and obscure definition that would make you look less like a moron, you had a good laugh thinking you'd get away with it. Yeah, nice try, honestly, but you're still the moron who confuses such a common word as idiocy with a neologism from a movie.

1. The disposal of the waste is not done in an environmentally responsible way.

Much of what we consider "waste" could be reprocessed into perfectly good nuclear fuel. We don't do it because... Well, I don't know why, but other countries like Japan and France do.

No, making an area too radioactive to support life for the next 10,000 years is NOT environmentally responsible.

Think it through. First, reprocessing reduces the amount of actual "waste" to a fraction of the original. Second, the most radioactive elements have the shortest half-lives. So that the high-level radioactive "waste" is going to be virtually gone after 500 to 600 years, not 10,000 years. A significant amount of time but nowhere near 10,000 years.

Yeah, the low-level stuff is going to take longer, but after 500 to 600 years the "waste" is going to be about as radioactive as the ore it was mined from. Do you compulsively worry about Uranium mines in the US and Canada?

Heck, if you really want to get rid of it, just glassify it and dump it in a subduction zone and return it to the earth's core.

2. The current market cost of nuclear energy does not reflect the cost environmentally responsible waste disposal.

Reprocess the "waste", which significantly reduces the amount of actual "waste", and sell the fuel back to the utilities.

3. Nuclear energy is inherently dangerous, and even a small accident/sabotage can become a major catastrophe.

Three Mile Island was the worst disaster in a commercial nuclear power plant in US history, where almost everything that could go wrong did go wrong, and the release of radioactive material into the environment was virtually negligible. And we have safer designs now.

4. Nuclear energy is not sustainable. When the fuel supplies are gone, so is the energy.

First, we can extend our nuclear fuel supply by reprocessing our nuclear "waste". Second, Thorium is about 4 times as abundent as Uranium and can be used with Uranium as fuel. Third, there are breeder reactors that produce more fuel than they consume so we never have to run out.

One thing that always struck me about nuclear power proponents was the myopia of the larger issues.

One thing that always struck me about nuclear power opponents is that they don't want to find solutions to larger issues.

The title of TFA is:

Workplace web bludging 'good for productivity'

allwords.com tells me that "to bludge" is to avoid responsibility. What a great word. Is it used outside Australia?

No. It is a word that is peculiar to Australia. It's part of the "Strine" (Australian language for you uneducated clods!) vocabulary, although, given the number of Aussies in London, you would probably have heard it there. IIRC, it was also used in the "Dundee" movies which were released in the US and the UK some years ago.

Workplace web bludging 'good for productivity'

allwords.com tells me that "to bludge" is to avoid responsibility. What a great word. Is it used outside Australia?

Strange, for me "Turbo" always meant "whilwind"... because that's where it comes from . Of course, I did have Latin in high school...

Perhaps 'inhuman' is a better term, though. http://www.allwords.com/word-inhuman,%20inhumane.h tml

I only watched the intro for the first one because it's a long vid, but I did learn that the history of failed UN resolutions goes back much further than I was aware.

The Galloway video... Well, I don't agree with Mr. Galloway on much of anything, but he does make monkeys out of talking heads who try to act like they "know stuff" when they don't have that "stuff" scripted out for them to read. Whenever I watch an unscripted interview with him, I think of the old joke about a tragedy ocurring when the TV news anchors held a conference and took questions from the public -- someone in the audience asked them a math question and all their heads exploded. Unfortunately, in this case, the tragedy is that because the interviewer is just a talking head, Mr. Galloway is allowed to get away with painting Israeli as a big bully in the region, when one only has to look at a map to see how absurd that idea really is. Galloway never mentions that Israel has been constantly attacked from Lebanese territory, or that the "illegal prisoners" held by the Israelis are those brave freedom fighters who sneak into Israel and kill sleeping families (and not by mistake).

The Iranian Prime Minister doesn't believe that the holocaust took place, and that all the scholars who say it did occur are lying because they will be imprisoned if they say it didn't. I guess I'll have to tell my old engineering professor (now emeritus) that the Nazis didn't really put that tattoo on his arm, and that camp they called Auschwitz was really a vacation resort. If my professor's parents were alive, I'm sure they'd like to know this, too -- but the "activity director" at Auschwitz put them into the left line, and not the right. So yes, Ahmadinejad sounds crazy, and dangerous. I wonder if he knows how the modern name "Iran" came into use. I'll go further and say that a nuclear armed Iran is a bad idea.

Those 911 links are something. I'm really going to take the word of an archaeometrist over the architects and engineers at this site. If the World Trade Center towers were brought down by precisely placed demolition charges, do you think the placements were selected by an archaeometrist, or an architect? And who set them off... Elvis?

Good grief, man. If you hurry, you might still be able to catch the "mother ship" flying behind the Hale-Bopp comet.

If you can point me to a document or documents standardizing terms like "Web 2.0", "enterprise", "solution", "mission-critical", "partner", etc.,

Most business terms can be found in the reference section of a library in a book called a dictionary. For the morons and utterly ignorant out there, I can provide some simple definitions.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 generally refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that let people collaborate, and share information online.

enterprise

A business firm.

solution

1. The process of finding an answer to a problem or puzzle.

2. The answer sought or found.)

mission-critical

This is "hard" because it uses something called a hyphen to form a compound word. mission(Someone's chosen, designated or assumed purpose in life or vocation) + critical (Relating to a crisis; decisive; crucial) = the crucial part of a purpose

partner

One of two or more people who jointly own or run a business or other enterprise on an equal footing.

Most of the responses are akin to asking exactly how many are in a few? Do you jump on your coworker who says he has a computer that needs 1G RAM? I mean, there is DIPP, SIPP, SIMM, DIMM, Rambus, SRAM, SDRAM, ECC-DRAM, etc. Language exists in context.

The problem being described is not really worrying about a person leveraging skills or another person seeking an enterprise solution. The real problem is when someone "exploits mission-critical skill sets to achieve synergies across the enterprise" and it means they agreed with their counterpart in CA not to edit the DNS zone file at the same time.

If you can point me to a document or documents standardizing terms like "Web 2.0", "enterprise", "solution", "mission-critical", "partner", etc.,

Most business terms can be found in the reference section of a library in a book called a dictionary. For the morons and utterly ignorant out there, I can provide some simple definitions.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 generally refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that let people collaborate, and share information online.

enterprise

A business firm.

solution

1. The process of finding an answer to a problem or puzzle.

2. The answer sought or found.)

mission-critical

This is "hard" because it uses something called a hyphen to form a compound word. mission(Someone's chosen, designated or assumed purpose in life or vocation) + critical (Relating to a crisis; decisive; crucial) = the crucial part of a purpose

partner

One of two or more people who jointly own or run a business or other enterprise on an equal footing.

Most of the responses are akin to asking exactly how many are in a few? Do you jump on your coworker who says he has a computer that needs 1G RAM? I mean, there is DIPP, SIPP, SIMM, DIMM, Rambus, SRAM, SDRAM, ECC-DRAM, etc. Language exists in context.

The problem being described is not really worrying about a person leveraging skills or another person seeking an enterprise solution. The real problem is when someone "exploits mission-critical skill sets to achieve synergies across the enterprise" and it means they agreed with their counterpart in CA not to edit the DNS zone file at the same time.

If you can point me to a document or documents standardizing terms like "Web 2.0", "enterprise", "solution", "mission-critical", "partner", etc.,

Most business terms can be found in the reference section of a library in a book called a dictionary. For the morons and utterly ignorant out there, I can provide some simple definitions.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 generally refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that let people collaborate, and share information online.

enterprise

A business firm.

solution

1. The process of finding an answer to a problem or puzzle.

2. The answer sought or found.)

mission-critical

This is "hard" because it uses something called a hyphen to form a compound word. mission(Someone's chosen, designated or assumed purpose in life or vocation) + critical (Relating to a crisis; decisive; crucial) = the crucial part of a purpose

partner

One of two or more people who jointly own or run a business or other enterprise on an equal footing.

Most of the responses are akin to asking exactly how many are in a few? Do you jump on your coworker who says he has a computer that needs 1G RAM? I mean, there is DIPP, SIPP, SIMM, DIMM, Rambus, SRAM, SDRAM, ECC-DRAM, etc. Language exists in context.

The problem being described is not really worrying about a person leveraging skills or another person seeking an enterprise solution. The real problem is when someone "exploits mission-critical skill sets to achieve synergies across the enterprise" and it means they agreed with their counterpart in CA not to edit the DNS zone file at the same time.

If you can point me to a document or documents standardizing terms like "Web 2.0", "enterprise", "solution", "mission-critical", "partner", etc.,

Most business terms can be found in the reference section of a library in a book called a dictionary. For the morons and utterly ignorant out there, I can provide some simple definitions.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 generally refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that let people collaborate, and share information online.

enterprise

A business firm.

solution

1. The process of finding an answer to a problem or puzzle.

2. The answer sought or found.)

mission-critical

This is "hard" because it uses something called a hyphen to form a compound word. mission(Someone's chosen, designated or assumed purpose in life or vocation) + critical (Relating to a crisis; decisive; crucial) = the crucial part of a purpose

partner

One of two or more people who jointly own or run a business or other enterprise on an equal footing.

Most of the responses are akin to asking exactly how many are in a few? Do you jump on your coworker who says he has a computer that needs 1G RAM? I mean, there is DIPP, SIPP, SIMM, DIMM, Rambus, SRAM, SDRAM, ECC-DRAM, etc. Language exists in context.

The problem being described is not really worrying about a person leveraging skills or another person seeking an enterprise solution. The real problem is when someone "exploits mission-critical skill sets to achieve synergies across the enterprise" and it means they agreed with their counterpart in CA not to edit the DNS zone file at the same time.

If you can point me to a document or documents standardizing terms like "Web 2.0", "enterprise", "solution", "mission-critical", "partner", etc.,

Most business terms can be found in the reference section of a library in a book called a dictionary. For the morons and utterly ignorant out there, I can provide some simple definitions.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 generally refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that let people collaborate, and share information online.

enterprise

A business firm.

solution

1. The process of finding an answer to a problem or puzzle.

2. The answer sought or found.)

mission-critical

This is "hard" because it uses something called a hyphen to form a compound word. mission(Someone's chosen, designated or assumed purpose in life or vocation) + critical (Relating to a crisis; decisive; crucial) = the crucial part of a purpose

partner

One of two or more people who jointly own or run a business or other enterprise on an equal footing.

Most of the responses are akin to asking exactly how many are in a few? Do you jump on your coworker who says he has a computer that needs 1G RAM? I mean, there is DIPP, SIPP, SIMM, DIMM, Rambus, SRAM, SDRAM, ECC-DRAM, etc. Language exists in context.

The problem being described is not really worrying about a person leveraging skills or another person seeking an enterprise solution. The real problem is when someone "exploits mission-critical skill sets to achieve synergies across the enterprise" and it means they agreed with their counterpart in CA not to edit the DNS zone file at the same time.

Machinations fits to a tee what DRM is.

http://www.allwords.com/query.php?SearchType=3&Key word=Machination&goquery=Find+it!&Language=ENG

http://www.allwords.com/word-Queen's%20English.htm l

The only reference I have heard made to the queen growing up in the United States was when adults would try to instill a sense of nonchalance in children who giggled at flatulence. "Even the Queen of England farts!", is what they would say.

Just to nitpick - freeness (look right at the bottom of the first 'free' entry) is a word. (Also here and here.)

expansibility

So sorry, you fail it.

Did you just sleep through the day in elementary school when all the other kids learned how to make adjectives? Or do you maybe need a GUI with shiny buttons and help text before you can figure out basic rules of the English language?

Yuk you sick person!!! There's a word for people like you... :-)

By the way, 'gobsmacked' does have to do with punching people in the face.

gobsmacked adj
1. colloq Astonished; dumbfounded.
Etymology: From the action of clapping a hand to one's mouth in surprise.

Umm, freedom (liberty) and France is not as far fetched as it seems recently.

liberte, egalite, fraternite, ...

So much to learn, isn't there? Such as a well known factoid about the Statue of Liberty. They didn't ask for that back, did they?

1. 1 To get into one's possession by force, skill, or artifice, especially:
2. 
   a. To capture physically; seize: take an enemy fortress.
   b. To seize with authority; confiscate.

If I capture, seize, or confiscate your property, I have control and possession of your property while you lose it. That is the point you cannot see. If I don't take, or remove your property there is no theft. There might be copyright infringment, forgery or plagerism, but there is no theft without a transfer of possession.

But if that's not good enough for you, perhapse you'd like a few more. While you're noting the complete absence of any copying of so called "intellectual property" from any of those, check out how many specifically say "taking and removing". Thats because theft is concrete. I've either stolen your car from your garage or I haven't. I've either removed some stereos after breaking into Radio Shack or I haven't. That doesn't apply to downloading a copy of Office XP without paying for it, because there is no guarantee that I would have bought it in the first place. And even if it was guaranteed, MS has only "lo

Chinaman (n., pl.) Chinaman

1. Usually Offensive. a Chinese or a person of Chinese descent.

2. (l.c.) a person who imports or sells china.

3. (often l.c.) Political Slang. a person regarded as one's benefactor, sponsor, or protector: Example: to see one's chinaman about a favor.

4. "a Chinaman's chance,"Usually Offensive. the slightest chance: Example: He hasn't a Chinaman's chance of getting that job.

Just FYI, I wouldn't have immediately thought of it as being derogatory either.

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Patrick Doyle