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Folks around the world have been producing antiparticles for quite some time. They're also created by natural processes, but don't last long in high matter density environments.

"Shall" is, I believe, still used for the future first person, singular or plural.

From The American Heritage® Book of English Usage:

...you can use will with a subject in the first person and shall with a subject in the second or third person to express determination, promise, obligation, or permission, depending on the context. Thus I will leave tomorrow indicates that the speaker is determined to leave. You shall leave tomorrow has the ring of a command. The sentence You shall have your money expresses a promise ("I will see that you get your money"), whereas You will have your money makes a simple prediction.

Presumably, Churchill was using "will" with a subject in the first person to express determination.

Actually, it's "will":

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.

You may have passed English comp, but you still got your ass kicked on the playground.

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Yes, I am, but it's vice versa

i can't think of a single thing to date the chinese have ever created that has benifited humans

• movable type
• the printing press
• paper (as well as paper money)
• meritocratic civil service
• 'gaussian' elimination
• so-called 'arabic' numerals and the base-10 number system
• gunpowder and rocketry
• the post office
• restaurants
• umbrellas
• porcelain (also called, simply, 'china' or 'china-ware')
• ketsup
• silk
• rice
• and soybean (including tofu and soy-sauce)

Affect and effect are two different verbs, with related but quite different meanings.

Affect is the more common. To affect something is to alter it, usually but not always in a harmful way.

Effect is less common. To effect something is to cause it to happen. I noticed people starting to use this more commonly about eight years ago. Soon afterwards, people started to use the verb "to effect" instead of the verb "to affect", unaware of the difference in meaning. The difference is so strong that these people often end up saying the opposite of what they mean.

here is a good reference.

Well, the American Heritage Book of English Usage and I believe the MLA as well both say it's not grammatically correct. However, as the link above notes it is becoming more acceptable.

And you're correct as far as the origin of the rule goes.

I contel whole beatiously. It's uncognifilous that one should enfrapilate when it comes to linugatious elumifaction! I'm absolutely anmaliosis - excuse me - *en*maliosis - with regards to protrap interactions.

http://www.bartleby.com/61/81/V0118100.html
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definiti on/english/Vi/Virus.html

There are, of course, other delitative enumerts but I'm simply to fratnickled to envisiate.

I'm an idiot--I don't get it. Can anybody help?

Flensing means to remove the skin from something.

Firstly, you're wrong (although the grandparent's usage of "jury-rig" is not really correct).

Secondly, your logic is a bit wacky. The Germans are renowned for their good, solid engineering, hardly something that would be associated with something that was "shoddily done".

Ah, Beavis... you just can't admit defeat, can you...

It's just so SAD.

Pathetic is overused... I think a better term to describe your actions on this thread might be

"wretched"
-or-
"servile".

So, the question of the day is this: Has Beavis learned that he's been trounced?

I doubt it. As evidence, I submit to the rest of you Slashdot readers that Beavis will not be able to stand *not* having the last word. He will just *HAVE* to make another comment to demonstrate his "superiority".

("superiority" of course is antithetical in this instance, but I'm sure you'll see what I mean)

And now that I've just written the above comment, I've demonstrated that, again, I *own* this kid. He doesn't DARE post again, because he'll prove me right (*AGAIN*), but he doesn't dare NOT post, because he needs to have the last word to shore up his self-doubts about his own worth as a human being.

Exquisite agony, isn't it? Let's watch him squirm together.

One more thing, Beavis - you might want to look up http://www.bartleby.com/61/53/W0025375.html for an excellent description of who you are, and how you've been played.

Bye, kid.

Apple manages to deal with developers on a 1:1 basis without their costs skyrocketing.

Ok, I'm going to have to go on a tangent for a minute and ask, "What the hell are you talking about?" Apple is not a bottleneck for developers. They provide an OS and tools, and the developers find their own pipeline. If Apple treated every developer as a consulting company producing software directly for Apple, then their costs would definitely skyrocket!

Also, I thought you were talking about automating the relationship management. Not the importing of albums and songs.

I am talking about business relationships. Someone has to work out the details of how those songs will get delivered to Apple, on what timeframe they have to be delivered, and if Apple has the facilities to support their methodology.

I'm sure they're using "lots of automation" there now

I'm sure they do. That doesn't prevent Apple from having to review and organize the materials and data being delivered. I have several "automated feeds" that I currently manage at my company. I'd dread the idea of having to manage thousands of those feeds.

Basically, what I'm referring to is the law of diminishing returns. If Apple adds a large number of low profit relationships to their platform, they're going to see less and less return, and hidden costs will creep in. Here's the modern variant of the law that pertains to this situation.

The article states that this doesn't effect free software at all.

Assuming that you mean "...this doesn't change anything related to free software at all", rather than "...this doesn't create any free software at all", you wanted to use "affect" here instead of "effect".

Remember: If Bob effects chocolate cake, he is making serviceable chocolate cake. If Bob affects chocolate cake, he is causing change in the cake. (Time to check Strunk and White...)

http://www.bartleby.com/64/C003/0123.html/

Specifically, the Democrats in Congress wanted revenge on Texas for electing two Republican Senators. SSC and ISS were "Texas" projects.

It had very little to do with the budget and everything to do with the pettiness of the Democrat Party.

(I expect to be modded down for this observation due to the pettiness of leftist moderators)

descend the full length of the Marinara trench

Get this man some food! He's starting to hallucinate. After you've plumbed the depths of your spaghetti sauce, read about the Marianas trench.

</smartass>

But seriously, good post. +1, Informative, as well as +1, Funny.

Apart from the stunningly obvious fact that the titles "Fahrenheit 451" and "Fahrenheit 911" are not the same and a copyright on the former would be of absolutely no use to Bradbury, I find it humorous that Bradbury himself has a history of, shall we say, borrowing titles. For example, the title of the book "Something Wicked This Way Comes" comes from Act 4, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's MacBeth and "I Sing The Body Electric" was the title of a chapter in Walt Whitman's book, Leaves of Grass.

I'm reminded of Disney at this point. Here we have someone who plunders the public domain, adapts and creates something new from what they found there and then complains when others do the same to their own creations.

Totalitarianism has a real habit of working against itself...

How does one account for the popularity and prominence of the Communists in Finland after World War?

Althought recently in decline, in the last parliamentary elections, the Left Alliance, the successor to the Communist Party, got close to 10% of the vote. It had three members of the cabinets of the recent governments of Paavo Lipponen (1995-2003).

There have been ample alternatives on the left to a party so closely associated with a foreign invader. I suppose it's possible to get 10% of the voters to support any marginal party but the fact the Communists got positions in the government seems truly strange.

It seems as likely as Quisling getting a cabinet position in Norway.

That was certainly the response I intended to illicit.

"The condemned man received a jeweled dagger from the emperor. He selected as his second a faithful friend, received official witnesses, and plunged the dagger into the left side of his abdomen, drew it across to the right, and made a slight cut upward; his second then beheaded him with one stroke of a sword, and the dagger was returned to the emperor."

http://www.bartleby.com/65/ha/harakiri.html

Yep your spot on here and I did make that point that when it comes to business I didn't think that working with canadians would matter. What I think I was trying to point out was that despite the geographic closeness the cultures of North America and Canadian are pretty different. I can't help smirking as I eat my Strong & Bitey cheese and vegemite sandwich that if you where from Canada we would be swapping monty python cheese shop sketch jibes :)

more like 'taking the piss' out of the comment americans are like canadians and have a lot in common. ps: read the link carefully to see what I mean.

now for this I'd agree. In Diamond Age there's a line that really rings true here ... something about people are the same the whole world over but cultures are totally different.

Ahhh number 2 business as it's called. I'll give you an example of this from and Indian mate who fronted customs in India and was told in no uncertain terms ...this is not your face on you pasport as he was to board a plane. The inference being I'll let you board if you pay me. Charming. But guess what it's there culture and if they don't want to play the Marquess of Queensberry of business in their country so be it; Not much you can do about it.

outsourcing is a serious problem for technical staff this side of the pacific,across the Atlantic in the UK and back in the US. Ff you read tofler for instance you will see that in his powershift ~ knowledge, wealth at the edge of the 21st century you can see that he proposes that less workers will be able to do more. This is a trend is likely to continue. So more to use the ugly phrase *e-workers* (knowledge, meta, creative, digilog workers). Outsourcing could be seen as a way for business to be more efficeint. But why isn't business offshoring to cheap, easy to understand Canada, taking advantage of the stable, legal economy for instance? .... (though I think the revenge of English Raj was the fluency of Indians with english.) The time difference is minimal (maybe whey take advantage of 24 day processing) or is it for some kind of tax minimisation reasons? Have you any opinion on this?

Heh. I beg to differ, on the basis that the usage you propose is illogical. The word being quoted is "Nazi". The comma is not part of what was being quoted (it's not the "Nazi, Party"), therefore it should not be inside the quotes. I know most style guides would agree with you, but they are wrong! Fowler agrees with me, although he notes that it was not then (1908) the generally accepted style. (I believe the "new" Fowler goes the other way.) Also, I'm a history student, so I am concerned with accurate quotation; but anybody coming from a mathematical or programming background ought to be able to see the logic in this. The meaning changes when you move quote marks (or brackets etc) around.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201 407515/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0122 264517/

http://www.bartleby.com/108/40/

Example: I was awarded my degree at commencement, but I had to wait a few weeks for my diploma to arrive in the mail.

Example: I was awarded my degree at commencement, but I had to wait a few weeks for my diploma to arrive in the mail.

"Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach" is a satirical quote from Oscar Wilde.

The quote appears to be from Shaw's "Maxims for Revolutionists" (line 36, "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."), which is an appendix to the play "Man and Superman".

It's doubtful that any of the aphorisms in the work reflect Shaw's own opinion outside of playful skepticism.

Acclimatize is in the dictionary (or at least several I could find on quick notice):

• Merriam-Webster
• Dictionary.com
• Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
• American Heritage Dictionary

LOL, I actually hadn't ever heard of a malapropism before... so I hit up google: Malaprop. Good stuff :-)

Caleb

p.s., sed 'Subject s/pineapple/pinnacle/g'

Europe too.

Anthropology tends to be tied to Sociology over here...

As Archaeology is a discipline within Anthropology, Sociology is a specialization of Anthropology. Anthropology is incomplete without the study of cultural context. An accurate simplification would be that as siblings, Archaeology and Sociology study the same things, but at different times. One in the present, the other in the past. One relies on remnants of civilization to learn about its subject via recontruction, the other studies it live. Of course, this is a simplification, and in actuality most of the disciplines within the larger science of Anthropology (the study of man) borrow from one another or overlap.

...whilst Archaeology tends to be associated with History or even Classics, hence the disparaging 'Archaeology is the handmaiden of History' quote often trotted out.

You may be confusing various subsets of Archaeology, with the discipline itself. Sub-fields of Archaeology include Classical and Historical Archeaology. The science remains the same, despite the specialization.

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Europe too.

Anthropology tends to be tied to Sociology over here...

As Archaeology is a discipline within Anthropology, Sociology is a specialization of Anthropology. Anthropology is incomplete without the study of cultural context. An accurate simplification would be that as siblings, Archaeology and Sociology study the same things, but at different times. One in the present, the other in the past. One relies on remnants of civilization to learn about its subject via recontruction, the other studies it live. Of course, this is a simplification, and in actuality most of the disciplines within the larger science of Anthropology (the study of man) borrow from one another or overlap.

...whilst Archaeology tends to be associated with History or even Classics, hence the disparaging 'Archaeology is the handmaiden of History' quote often trotted out.

You may be confusing various subsets of Archaeology, with the discipline itself. Sub-fields of Archaeology include Classical and Historical Archeaology. The science remains the same, despite the specialization.

= 9J =

Europe too.

Anthropology tends to be tied to Sociology over here...

As Archaeology is a discipline within Anthropology, Sociology is a specialization of Anthropology. Anthropology is incomplete without the study of cultural context. An accurate simplification would be that as siblings, Archaeology and Sociology study the same things, but at different times. One in the present, the other in the past. One relies on remnants of civilization to learn about its subject via recontruction, the other studies it live. Of course, this is a simplification, and in actuality most of the disciplines within the larger science of Anthropology (the study of man) borrow from one another or overlap.

...whilst Archaeology tends to be associated with History or even Classics, hence the disparaging 'Archaeology is the handmaiden of History' quote often trotted out.

You may be confusing various subsets of Archaeology, with the discipline itself. Sub-fields of Archaeology include Classical and Historical Archeaology. The science remains the same, despite the specialization.

= 9J =

It would appear that the first use of the word boycott would have been the last if it hadn't been successful.
see for instance this dictonary

I haven't yet seen anyone comment on AdTI's namesake. Alexis de Tocqueville was the 19th century French author of Democracy in America , an influential examination of American government, politics, and society. Highly educated, he deeply valued truth, knowledge, and freedom.

A hypocrite, according to Webster, is someone who "puts on a false appearance of virtue." Kenneth Brown, by naming his organization after Alexis de Tocqueville, does exactly that: he's trying to pass off his loathesome tripe as scholarly research. It's obvious to anyone who cares to look beneath the surface that AdTI is a sham, but it's still a crime against that which de Tocqueville loved that Brown insists on dragging the name Alexis de Tocqueville through the mud.

English is English

At least one guy agrees with you. He considered the American language sufficiently different from the mother tongue* to have written a scholarly work on the subject (also available in dead tree form).

And don't forget George Bernard Shaw's declaration that "England and America are two countries divided by a common language."

* So called because Father never gets a chance to use it.

Irregardless originated in dialectal American speech in the early 20th century. Its fairly widespread use in speech called it to the attention of usage commentators as early as 1927. The most frequently repeated remark about it is that "there is no such word." There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead.

Thank you for playing. How about you go back and read the rules sometime though - the dictionary, a grammar guide and a reading primer should be just the thing for you.

You mean like this one?

http://www.bartleby.com/64/C003/078.html

Sorry to nitpick, but that's herd mentality.

AC: Comcast IS proposing... Damn illiterate fuck.
saforrest: Maybe ey's British.

The AC IS provincial and ignorant.

As you (saforrest) point out, collective nouns in British English are usually treated as plurals.

If the question mark's good enough for Carl Sandburg, and a hundred other eminent authors, it's good enough for me. Perhaps you need an education in English.

And when you're done with that, maybe *you* should work on recognizing tongue-in-cheek comments.

Perhaps when you try to be humorous you should not say "someone mark this story as redundant". That only makes you look sound petulant.

gerrymander

T-shirts have sleeves ?!

That's actually the definition of a t-shirt. What kind of t-shirts have you been wearing?

Idiot.

Widening the rift between covert collusion in transnational organizations is good for everyone (except the inhuman spooks who sell us out for each other). A constructive EU/US competition will keep us all freer, fighting to attract the more mobile and constructive elements of one another's populations with offers of better lives.

"Good fences make good neighbors."
- Robert Frost, "Mending Wall"

ASS posted ...If you were a bus driver, this would be equivilent to saying you want to go on vacation, without being subject to a car/bus/whatever-can-be-driven.

That's exactly his point. Good example you gave BTW. That's why it's called a Busman's Holiday.

what's kph? klicks per hour? in SI it's km/h if that's what you were after [*] :-)

[*] as the american military slang (klick) is not really used outside US.

It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -Winston Churchill

Are you claiming that the Nazis were normal people except the part about rounding up Jewish people???

Yes. Milgram Experiment. Stanford Prison Experiment.

This was perhaps best summed up by Lord Acton: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

What screws it up is that the States use the same names - pound, ton - but they have different values and hence metric conversion rates. So it seems the Americans really do have to do things their own way!

Here's some links from Google, so that I can be a karmawhore.

Columbia Encylcopedia entry

World History Wiki entry

Cooking unit conversions (I always wondered what the hell a 'cup' was)