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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition considers "to lay" as an intransitive verb nonstandard usage. So let's let the

"old computer that had been laying around" lie around instead.

Source: http://www.answers.com/lay&r=67

Just some friendly pedantry...

AC power in buildings (115V or 230V depending on region) and 12VDC power in vehicles aren't exactly portable as much as they are ubiquitous. If you always make sure to charge your PSP's Li-ion battery when you have a chance, you won't run out in practice unless say you're camping (actual tent camping, not RV pseudo-camping).

Sure you can, Just like Eddie

pass v.tr
...
10. To discharge (body waste, for example); void.

It makes a bit more sense if you read it ("Dutch discharge body waste in the form of iPod tax") that way.

"Asparagus" is what we now (mainly since the end of World War II) call "sparrow grass": apparently, sparrow grass just wasn't as trendy a name, so it got dropped.

Acronym n.
A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.

World Wrestling Federation -> WWF
World Wildlife Foundation -> WWF
World Wrestling Entertainment -> WWE
Anonymous Coward - AC

Looks like an acronym to me.

http://www.answers.com/acronym
http://www.answers.com/abbreviation

The GP has a point about the direct commonality of the cases, but the USPTO FAQ supports my uninformed suspicion that "common words" are legal trademarks.

As a final caveat, a search of USPTO did not turn up TigerDirect's registration of 'Tiger'. For that matter, TigerDirect's page mentions 'TigerDirect', but not 'Tiger'.

Acronym n.
A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.

World Wrestling Federation -> WWF
World Wildlife Foundation -> WWF
World Wrestling Entertainment -> WWE
Anonymous Coward - AC

Looks like an acronym to me.

http://www.answers.com/acronym
http://www.answers.com/abbreviation

The GP has a point about the direct commonality of the cases, but the USPTO FAQ supports my uninformed suspicion that "common words" are legal trademarks.

As a final caveat, a search of USPTO did not turn up TigerDirect's registration of 'Tiger'. For that matter, TigerDirect's page mentions 'TigerDirect', but not 'Tiger'.

Uh - "surge", according to http://www.answers.com/surge&r=67

"4. To increase suddenly"

"Too bad you don't use KDE then, or you'd have been enjoying this feature for the past 5 years."

Pffffh...

You should actually go and LOOK at automator; watch the example video, then go back to your linked page, before comparing the two.

Note the lack of needing to understand what "void refresh()" means in order to use Automator.

Honestly, a little empathy would do the average "linux-power-user" a world of good; granny don't do void

Dear sir, I would like to travel to your world. There, I could learn about how most of Europe doesn't require mandatory military service. You see, in my world, the US does not require military service and the US does, while your world seems to be the opposite. I think we could both learn greatly from each other to make both our worlds more peaceful.

http://www.answers.com/topic/conscription

As soon as I read this article, I sent it to many of my friends, because it's funny. It's an elegant, understated, hilarious demonstration of an important point. It starts perfectly reasonably and gets progressively sillier, until by the end it's way over-the-top hyperbole. This essay is a really lovely piece of writing, because at first it suckers you in with its reasonably paranoid stance, and when you realize you've been had -- I guess that's if you realize you've been had -- makes you think about diminishing returns.

Surely their innovators can create even better engine? One that is alot faster, renders better etc. etc. Why do they need KDE for it?

While interesting,

- Apple is not the government (therefore, any ridiculous cries of censorship are just a wee tad bit overboard)


Censorship is censorship

The only slack I give apple is because they aren't a major book seller and thus don't have the same stiffling effect on speech.

In short, business as usual and a BIG yawner:

"It's certainly not unprecedented for a company to protest publication of a book or article it finds unflattering.

IBM, for instance, staged a six-year advertising boycott of Fortune magazine after then-Chief Executive Louis V. Gerstner took exception to a 1997 cover story.

More recently, General Motors withdrew its ads from the Los Angeles Times in protest of an April 6 review of its Pontiac G6."


Ahh yes, major corporations bullying the media is the norm and is something I should be comfortable with. A corporation has no buisness using its advertising dollars for the purchase of advertisments to try and influence positive press outside the scope of the ad itself. I certainly hope that Fortune magazine and the LA Times didn't let that influence their writing.

Yes corporations have a legal obligation to make money however they can, just remember that we have a moral obligation to slap them in the face whenever they attempt to censor speech. I love apple and hate microsoft but I can't help that note that to my knowledge MS hasn't threatened to stop buying ads unless ./ runs more positive stories about them.

I think now I'll write a P2P application that runs on top of Triton called Tritonster. When AOL inevitably sues me for trademark infringement I'll claim that my daughter's nickname has been Tritonee for some time.

Sounds like a winning business plan to me!

Reminds me of the White House travel office firings.
Of course this is just a meeting, not someone's career.

Indeed, here is a quick link I was able to find.

The only problem I see with Nuclear power is what to do with the waste.

This problem has been solved. The waste is processed into what amount to vitrified glass blocks which have stable storage lifetimes in the thousands of years. There is no way short of intentional refinement for waste stored in this manner to re-enter the environment in the relatively short term, unlike liquid or cannister based storage mechanisms. It is perfectly reasonable to assume that in a thousand years or so, we'll have a lot better idea of what to do with the blocks themselves, if indeed anything need be done. We've only had nuclear power for half a century or so, after all.

The correct choice at this time seems to be a combination of pebble bed reactors, which are highly resistant to serious problems such as meltdown or explosive failure, and vitrified glass waste storage insofar as waste storage turns out to be required. Pebble bed reactors are somewhat different from the reactors we're used to thinking about, particularly in that they repeatedly re-process their own fuel, continually converting "waste" from the previous stage into still more energy.

The primary problem is political and environmentalist fearmongering (to the extent that it is not just ignorance, which I am perfectly will to credit both politicians and environmentalists with.) People will believe anything, especially if it comes with a nice, high energy dose of hysteria.

The secondary problem is that building nuclear power plants -- any kind -- is a long, drawn out proceedure. If we started today, money no object, the public all about supporting it, it'd still be quite a few years before the putative new plants began to benefit the infrastructure. Compound this with the fact that we're not going to start today, or at any time in the foreseeable future, and the fact that money is a severe problem, the public is in no way supportive, and the future for reasonable nuclear energy generation appears mighty bleak.

Atheism isn't a religion. Because you have a mistaken understanding of the word does not make it correct. Might try the definition of religion. Notice that the fourth definition came about because of the similarity between the activities of zealots and the religious, not because it constitutes religion.

The hategroups wanting to "protect" my marriage are, in my oppinion, are of the same ilk as neo-nazis and the klan.

Bigot free definition of marriage

It's already been done (many space probes were a lot further away). See
If a message didn't get through, usually you can't do anything about it anyway or something went significantly wrong and higher layer intervention is needed. I doubt that an automatic network level retransmit would be that useful.

the word is fork.

Check it out, jury-rigging is a correct spelling. The jerry-rigging definition just refers back to jury-rigging, so I guess the original is jury-rig.

Check it out, jury-rigging is a correct spelling. The jerry-rigging definition just refers back to jury-rigging, so I guess the original is jury-rig.

I rather doubt the Coast Guard or Navy will have any difficulty claiming jurisdiction over a vessel that is more or less permenently "anchored" within 200 miles of the U.S. coast.

http://www.answers.com/menstruation&r=67
menstruation (mn'str-'shn) pronunciation
n.

The process or an instance of discharging the menses.

http://www.answers.com/menses&r=67
menses (mn'sz) pronunciation
pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

The monthly flow of blood and cellular debris from the uterus that begins at puberty in women and the females of other primates. In women, menses ceases at menopause. Also called catamenia.

[Latin mnss, pl. of mnsis, month.]

Yes I know you were trying to be funny, but that question was just begging to be answered.

http://www.answers.com/menstruation&r=67
menstruation (mn'str-'shn) pronunciation
n.

The process or an instance of discharging the menses.

http://www.answers.com/menses&r=67
menses (mn'sz) pronunciation
pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

The monthly flow of blood and cellular debris from the uterus that begins at puberty in women and the females of other primates. In women, menses ceases at menopause. Also called catamenia.

[Latin mnss, pl. of mnsis, month.]

Yes I know you were trying to be funny, but that question was just begging to be answered.

What's worse is "waist" (http://www.answers.com/waist). It is a word but I think people mean "waste" (http://www.answers.com/waste) since they use it as a verb and refer to money...

What's worse is "waist" (http://www.answers.com/waist). It is a word but I think people mean "waste" (http://www.answers.com/waste) since they use it as a verb and refer to money...

I was hoping that atheists could get away with referring to themselves as the Supreme Being in question, but check this out:

http://www.answers.com/supreme+being&r=67

Supreme Being, especially capitalized = God.

This is really a sick surprise, though I have to assume it would be overturned if challenged.

A quick Google says that Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse and Steve Kirsch of Mouse Systems Corporation invented the optical mouse, not Microsoft.

Xerox Corp. had one of the first on their DocuTech production copiers. It needed a special mouse pad to move the cursor and there was a touch you had to have to make it move well.

But Microsoft is not a hardware company. There are manufacturers that make the stuff they brand. Microsoft doesn't innovate. They copy and call it innovation.

A quick Google says that Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse and Steve Kirsch of Mouse Systems Corporation invented the optical mouse, not Microsoft.

Xerox Corp. had one of the first on their DocuTech production copiers. It needed a special mouse pad to move the cursor and there was a touch you had to have to make it move well.

But Microsoft is not a hardware company. There are manufacturers that make the stuff they brand. Microsoft doesn't innovate. They copy and call it innovation.

Plain speed isn't one of the major factors as whether an accident will happen or not, nor is difference in speed. (And even from my experience, those comfortable with higher speeds can easily predict and maneuver those at a slower speed.) See below for more information from my quoted article.

RMFQ & RMFS-> http://www.answers.com/topic/car-accident :
* Driver distraction, including fiddling with technical devices as noted previously, talking with passengers, eating or grooming in the car, dealing with children or pets in the back seat, or attempting to retrieve dropped items.
* Driver impairment by tiredness, illness, alcohol or drugs, both legal and illegal. MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) is an organization made up of the families of the dead who were killed in car accidents caused by drunk drivers.
* Mechanical failure, including flat tires or tires blowing out, brake failure, axle failure, steering mechanism failure.
* Road conditions, including foreign obstacles or substances on the road surface; rain, ice, or snow making the roads slick; road damage including pot holes.
* Speed exceeding safe conditions, such as the speed for which the road was designed, the road condition, the weather, the speed of surrounding motorists, and so on.

I'm comfortable driving 20km/h over the posted limit and I'm sure there are some drives who are comfortable driving 20 under the limit.

Now, by comfortable, I'm referring to *safely*! My mind can safely process all the traffic information very quickly, not to mention the astute physics involved with the motion and vectors. Spotting troubles, risk and knowing when to slow down are skills I've picked up from the many years I have been driving.

quote from http://www.answers.com/topic/car-accident:Many authorities emphasise speed as an inherent cause of accidents in itself, though most experts agree that speed alone is rarely a prime cause of accidents, though naturally a mis-application of speed can be a contributing factor, and higher speed in an accident resulting from whatever cause is more likely to have serious consequences

Also:
Philadelphia - City of Brotherly Love.

May I suggest you google it :)

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"Locke made the social contract the basis of his advocacy of popular sovereignty, the idea that the monarch or government must reflect the will of the people."

Instead, consider it a 'dictatorial contract', imposed from without upon those who [a] have not asked for it, and [b] are now criticized for wanting to control such unsolicited imposition.

Consider:

" SOCIAL CONTRACT, agreement or covenant by which men are said to have abandoned the 'state of nature' to form the society in which they now live. The theory of such a contract, first formulated by the English philosophers Thomas Hobbes (in the Leviathan, 1651) and John Locke, assumes that men at first lived in a state of anarchy in which there was no society, no government, and no organized coercion of the individual by the group. Hobbes maintained that by the social contract men had surrendered their natural liberties in order to enjoy the order and safety of the organized state. Locke made the social contract the basis of his advocacy of popular sovereignty, the idea that the monarch or government must reflect the will of the people. Like Locke, the French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, in Le Contrat social (1762), found the general will a means of establishing reciprocal rights and duties, privileges, and responsibilities as a basis of the state. Similar ideas were used as a justification for both the American and the French revolutions in the 18th cent. Thomas Jefferson held that the preservation of certain natural rights was an essential part of the social contract, and that 'consent of the governed' was fundamental to any exercise of governmental power. Although historically important, the theory as a basis of society and the state has generally been discarded by modern social and political scientists."

Do we all forget the D&D animated series?

You say "nobody said it was new", and then call it 'news' toward the end. By definition things on the front page of a news site are...well, you know. ;)

Anyways, just because you and a handful of others didn't know about this feature, doesn't mean it belongs on the front page.

I mean, I'm sure there's plenty of really interesting tidbits in, say, world history that neither of us are privy to: that doesn't mean someone should submit or accept a front page post about them.

And just for future reference, in the hopes of avoiding further seperate front page posts on each of these long-implemented features: Google can also help you correct wrongly spelled words (including links to a dictionary entry), let you search through a catalogue of images, and I hear they've even got their own web-based email service.

I heartily encourage you, 'Zonk', and the rest of the Funky Bunch to give a healthy once over of the very much hidden Google features page, just chock full of similar surprises. Ciao!

I have some quips with this statement

I'm not sure what word you meant to use, but it's not quips.

Triple-tapping to repeat doesn't count as invocation of a mode?

No, that's called a Quasimode.

So, uh, you recreated Emacs?
Yes, but modeless.

You just pointed out that each person earning more and more money is paying more in more in taxes.

But that they are paying less as a percentage of their income, which is the definition of a regressive tax.

Yet you deem it regressive because you are basing the tax paid on the percentage of income earned.

Right, because that's what the term "regressive tax" means. http://www.answers.com/regressive+tax

You can't escape the reality, however, that under the national sales tax, the people with more money are paying more in taxes than those who make less.

That may or may not be true. What's certainly true is that the people who spend more money are paying more in taxes than those who spend less. But people with more money may or may not pay more in taxes than those who make less (if you could even compare how much someone has to how much someone else makes, but I think I know what you mean.

Why are you trying to couch it in terms of how much they make?

The question was raised as to whether or not it was a regressive tax. That is a term based on how much they are taxed as a percentage of how much they make.

What does it matter how much they make, as long as those with more money are paying more than those who make less?

Actually I personally think people should be taxed as a fixed percentage of how much they own, without regard to how much they make or how much they buy (though with an exception for necessities at the poverty line).

The tax is fair because they pay more, because it is a fixed tax rate, and because no one pays taxes on the basic necessities of life.

By your definition, that would be a fair tax.

dude.

There's a world of difference between coming to a common definition of what we're talking about and coming to "the ultimate conclusion".

It's fine to say something (the SCO case) is unethical. It's not fine to just say that. Think about this - morals do not exist in our three-dimensional world. The morality of any action does not lie in the action itself - the action is a-moral, but the motivation behind the action is moral. So yes, every single lawsuit is "simply" a lawsuit. The ethical and moral qualities of said lawsuit are not found in the fact that there is a lawsuit, but in the motivation of the one pressing the lawsuit. It's called situational ethics - the same action can be right in one circumstance, and wrong in another.

I know, it's complicated.

The point is that you are calling something BS based upon a false premise. Your just being silly, science has absolutely nothing to do with this "Law". Law is an overloaded word that can mean different things.

I refer you to href="http://www.answers.com/law&r=67 and more importantly to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

Moore's law is more akin to "the law of supply and demand" rather than the "law of gravity"

Reference Sokal Affair <sic>

It seems this is not the same thing:

...we have not received any reviews yet for you paper entitled: "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy". So, your paper has been accepted, as a non-reviewed paper...

They gamed the system, which assumes that submissions meeting some basic format will get accepted. Amusing none-the-less, but I don't plan to contribute to their travel fund!

In my field of work, we also have strippers some of which are pictured on the web.

Some of my coworkers even passed around a pair of dikes.

This sounds similar to how They Might Be Giants had (have?) a song on the outgoing message of a answering machine that anyone could call for a listen.

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid= 2222&dekey=Dial-A-Song&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1

Oh yeah... the Christmas lights guy...

So how do we know those are REAL hash browns!? Maybe you pre-cooked them and then placed them on the grill for the photos...

Here's some bedtime reading for Alek.

;)

As much as I hate seeing it, it is considered proper grammer to use infer to mean imply.

http://www.answers.com/infer&r=67

You are casually conflating "work for hire" and "non-free"!

And, of course, they may also decide to keep the fruits of the "work for hire" non-free.

Now on to the "real world" ...

The definition of the term antisocial

1. Shunning the society of others; not sociable.
2. Hostile to or disruptive of the established social order; marked by or engaging in behavior that violates accepted mores: gangs engaging in vandalism and other antisocial behavior.
3. Antagonistic toward or disrespectful of others; rude.

It's talk like that that keeps perpetuating the stereotype of open source being the domain of a bunch of antisocial long-haired fat smelly moms-basement-dwelling communist crunchy-granola-munching unrealistic anti-business obsessive-compulsive hippy creeps with borderline personality disorders, no sense of humour, and totally lacking in both perspective and basic social skills.

As long as we keep it up, we're just giving more ammo for the Bitch from Redmond to slap us back with.