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Perhaps McNearly should lobby for a decent textbook on how to use apostrophes.

There's already a good resource available.

Mod this one down. I disagree with it's sentiment.

I disagree with whatever you have to say simply because you're pissing off Bob :)

If the author's [sic] are so sure they retain "digital rights," why doesn't one of them post a book the publisher still has the rights to, in its entirety, on a website and see what happened.

Cory Doctorow did, and it got him on the New York Times best seller list.

BTW, since you're an illiterate, why are you concerned about books?

Greenpeace: Minning companies altered it's orbit so as to get their hands on the minerals.

Grammar Nazis: stuff asteroids, apostrophes are the real threat.

"Mining companies..." Spelling Nazis are no so amused either. Bob the Angry Flower is not so amused either.

Yes, trolling slashdot nerds to install silverlight to view the image out of uncontrollable curiousity.

Someone at M$ is now chuckling while you sell your soul clicking "install silverlight plugin": trolled hard.

It already worked on me when Microsoft put a series of Richard Feynman lectures online. Alas, Moonlight is too "advanced" to load the app. T_T

And I'm not getting trolled all the way into installing a MS operating system!

It won't be veiwed as 'legal fee's [sic]', it'll be viewed as 'public awareness fee's [sic]', part of the campaign to 'show the public the evil's [sic] of illegal file sharing'

Sorry, dude, I'm going to have to sic Bob on you; your misuse of apostrophes slows down reading and impairs comprehension. If you haven't mastered fourth grade English skills, unless you're not a native English speaker I don't see how I can take anything you write seriously.

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I believe this put's us right about here:

Okay, seriously? Taco made one glaring error with his apostrophe's in one post. But that's a joke that's been done for way too long regardless. Give it up.

Unless, of course, you actually ARE an illiterate moron...

Supreme's Throw Out Bilski Patent

How many time's [sic] do I have to sic Bob on you?

may have cost them some American's

Here in America, we Americans don't put apostrophes in "American's" unless it's possessive. i.e. "Scientific American's in-depth article on electronic Vuvezeula noise filtering". It's possible apostrophe rules are different where you live, such as England or South Africa, but I doubt it :)
 
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Nice plan you have there.

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Those chips go good with beer!

Q: Did bob steal this car?

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A: No, but he's being a dick.

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IT'S = IT IS

that radio signal's degrade over distance and become's undetectable from background radiation after a few light year's. with our nearest neighbor star about 10 light year's away i would not be surprised if there were any signal's out there but by the time they reach us they are just part of the background radiation. same goe's for our's that we send out.

FTFY (not)

BTW, your repeated misuse of the apostrophe, which I just mercilessly ridiculed, and your broken shift key aren't the only things wrong with your comment; Alpha Proxima is roughly 4 light years away, less than half the distance you cite.

You might want to see Bob for an apostrophe education; your comment is painful for an adult to read.

But the question scientists are asking is, "Is there any beer in the fridge?

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I believe this is relevant.

Here's a visual representation:
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Screw that, I want a beer!

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Bob has a few things to say about apostrophes. And "plural's" as well.

Abuse of apostrophes makes one look like an illiterate. I don't even know if they had apostrophes in ancient Araimic or Hebrew.

Bob has a few things to say about apostrophes. And "plural's" as well.

Abuse of apostrophes makes one look like an illiterate. I don't even know if they had apostrophes in ancient Araimic or Hebrew.

Bob has a few things to say about apostrophes. And "plural's" as well.

Abuse of apostrophes makes one look like an illiterate. I don't even know if they had apostrophes in ancient Araimic or Hebrew.

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I know it's off-topic and all, but please check out Bob the Angry Flower's take on Atlas Shrugged.

"These lumivores reject the safety of darkness and appear to seek out light. Sickening !"

It's annoying to me, but I can see where it could be considered a contraction of sorts; dropping the "e". Stupid as well as ignorant. What gets me is people using an apostrophe in a non-possessive plural, "she get's her eggs early". I usually send those people here.

Naw, this is the internet. There shouldn't be an apostrophe at all! Worse than that, they didn't even misspell anything. What is this internet coming to? If this keeps up, people may become literate!

I guess I'd assumed most people had seen it before, but it's actually here:

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Quoth Strong Bad's fantastic ``Rhythm N' Grammar'' album: ``Ooooh! If you want it to be possessive it's just I-T-S, but if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's I-T-apostrophe-S... scalawag.''

Or you can ask Bob the Angry Flower for grammar advice. (*)

*: Warning. Angry flower may be angry and sneer at you. Or worse.

That depends. Are we talking about actual beers?

In a less huumorous vein, how many of these refrigerators does it take to cool a can of beer? It would be nice to have cold beer with a built in refrigerator in every can. Provided it could be done cheaply enough.

Speaking of light switches, all I can think of is the case of a cell phone company that put up a new tower, and all the advanced folks in the neighborhood by it complained that the tower was irritating their EM allergies and giving them headaches and whatnot.

The company's response to their complaints? "Gee, we can only imagine how bad it's going to get when we actually turn the tower on!"

I'm not calling you out or anything, but do you have any sort of cite for that story? Its a good story and a useful link to have in the back pocket. :-)

Many allergic reactions (like my own seasonal allergies) don't come and go like a light switch in the presence or absence of the allergen.

Right, because your immune system is actually being agitated by the actual allergic response to the actual allergens, and it takes time to come down, plus there are probably still actual allergens like pollen stuck in your sinuses and continuing to irritate you.

Speaking of light switches, all I can think of is the case of a cell phone company that put up a new tower, and all the advanced folks in the neighborhood by it complained that the tower was irritating their EM allergies and giving them headaches and whatnot.

The company's response to their complaints? "Gee, we can only imagine how bad it's going to get when we actually turn the tower on!"

The tower wasn't on. There was no EM radiation that could have provoked any hypothetical allergy response. It was all in their extremely advanced heads.

The ultimate kicker to this story would be if the neighbor had actually turned off their wi-fi weeks ago but told the guy they hadn't just to keep cheesing them off and to show how the "allergy" only exists as long as they think there's evil wi-fi. Unfortunately I'm sure that's not true, because the neighbor probably finds their wi-fi useful and why the hell would you stop using a useful and harmless tool because the nutjob next door thinks it's bad for them?

As far as the "weird unexplained things happen!" reasoning... Yeah, weird things do happen, but it's not like wi-fi itself is some unexplained phenomenon. We know what the power densities of it are at any given range, and unless you believe in homeopathic E-M radiation, there's no way it's having the effects people claim. High voltage power lines? Maybe there's something to that. Wi-fi? Yeah fucking right.

I'm sure you understand that only works for cats in boxes.

And beer in fridges.

What the fuck is it that you american's live in such state of paranoia?

It's good to know that Americans aren't the only ones who don't know how to properly capitalize or use an apostrophe!

If we had cameras everywhere (yeah, we're working on it) and no right to bear arms, I'm sure the idiots who feel threatened at every turn wouldn't act like such wimps all the time.

The world sure is changing. If I'd been in Junior High now instead of the 1960s I'd probably have gone to jail and certainly would have been expelled. Hell, when I was in college you could smoke in class!

Who knows?

There are really 42 quarks.The LHC should probably be able to test this...

(God but I love that guy's cartoons!)

There are really 42 quarks.The LHC should probably be able to test this...

(God but I love that guy's cartoons!)

No, they started calling it "climate change" because they knew advanced thinkers like you couldn't wrap your heads around non-monotonic behaviors, and would actually think "if the globe is warming, why was it so cold this winter?" is a legitimate criticism.

PS, it may or may not also kill cats!

Or drink beer

Anyone who things that any form of reading cannot help just due to it's content is just being prejudicial against the material.

You might try this Bob the Angry Flower comic sometime.

I, for one, welcome our new mothters.

Damn you, Quantum Physics!!

I hope English isn't your first language.

Yes the camera's that are built into laptops are usally pretty piss poor quality, but theres nothing stopping someone

Why the apostrophe in "camera's" but not in "Laptops"? Perhaps you need to visit Bob

Quantum sex you say?

Does the Double slit experiment count? (and no, I'm not affiliated with Bob either, I just love the nerdy cartoons).

Well, the only two places I see it is the New York Times (but no other newspaper, magazine, or book) and in internet messageboards by the same people who type "Their going to loose there shirts".

The apostrophe has two uses -- to show a posessive, and a contraction. Now, look at CEO pay.

The CEOs are all well paid. This CEO's pay is not like other CEOs' pay.

If you put an apostrophe in the plural "CEO's", how do you show a plural possessive? CEO's is a singular possessive, CEOs' is a plural possessive. The apostrophe is an important tool in written communication, and if allowed to "evolve" in such an illiterate, illogical way it loses it utility. If you use my screwdriver as a prybar, it will be ruined for driving screws.

Aren't we supposed to be intelligent, rational, logical, and literate here?

This is what happens when there are no apostrophes, which are incredibly simple to understand. You have to remember that there are a lot of kids on the internet who aren't paying attention in school, and have been raised on empty-V, cartoons, and action movies who never have read a book for pleasure. That's where this so-called "evolution of language" is comng from.

Well, the only two places I see it is the New York Times (but no other newspaper, magazine, or book) and in internet messageboards by the same people who type "Their going to loose there shirts".

The apostrophe has two uses -- to show a posessive, and a contraction. Now, look at CEO pay.

The CEOs are all well paid. This CEO's pay is not like other CEOs' pay.

If you put an apostrophe in the plural "CEO's", how do you show a plural possessive? CEO's is a singular possessive, CEOs' is a plural possessive. The apostrophe is an important tool in written communication, and if allowed to "evolve" in such an illiterate, illogical way it loses it utility. If you use my screwdriver as a prybar, it will be ruined for driving screws.

Aren't we supposed to be intelligent, rational, logical, and literate here?

This is what happens when there are no apostrophes, which are incredibly simple to understand. You have to remember that there are a lot of kids on the internet who aren't paying attention in school, and have been raised on empty-V, cartoons, and action movies who never have read a book for pleasure. That's where this so-called "evolution of language" is comng from.

What is very sad is that so many illiterates have logged into slashdot today. I've been ignoring it all day, damn it, but I've got the flu and I'm cranky. Are you in the second grade or something?

This decreases the abuse from police where they would use those device's without a good reason.

Soppsa (and the other illiterates here), meet Bob. Terry Pratchett also had fun with you bozos in Going Postal, which I'm about to do today. Please explain why you think that apostrophe belongs there? It's annoying as hell.

Sorry about the rant, but illiteracy in a supposedly nerd site is annoying, and like I said, I've seen way too much of it today. Log off the computer and read a book, woudja?

I feel a sweet thousand years of peace coming on!