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Hmmm.... not sure what happened to my attempt at putting html into my commment. Let's try that again (and hit preview before submit this time...)

For chrissake look the phrase up in a dictionary.

Okay, that time it worked.

I wish I could stab you in the face, you fucking rube.

I work in the game industry and I'm a Linux veteran from 1991. I use Windows on my desktop because I need to test games.

If this is what you mean by 'rube'
http://www.merriam-webster.com...

I'm not getting it. Try stabbing your screen harder.

The difference is only a matter of degree of automation.

Yes, of course. And the degree of automation is exactly what we're talking about here. The question is, "What degree of automation in the work place will make the most people's lives better?"

http://www.merriam-webster.com...

robot

  robot \r-bät
: a real or imaginary machine that is controlled by a computer and is often made to look like a human or animal

: a machine that can do the work of a person and that works automatically or is controlled by a computer

Webster defines terrorism (emphasis mine) as "the use of violent acts to frighten the people in an area as a way of trying to achieve a political goal"

The FBI also requires a political bent: "Appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping"

Swatting is not terrorism, at least in this instance. Not by the definition of the word or as it is commonly applied by western law enforcement agencies. *shrug* Sometimes an asshat is just that, an asshat, with no deeper motivation than the desire to be a dickhead.

Today, a majority of Americans *are morons* - FTFY

I think "idiots" is the better word. According to this site,

...the word idiot originates from the Greek word idiwtes (idiotes), which refers to a person disinterested in participating in democracy and public life. These people were viewed as selfish, contemptable and stupid as they were more concerned with their daily personal affairs than they were of the good of the society.

Here is the Webster's definition. The Greek origin is mentioned at the end.

You're confusing the study of beliefs with the beliefs themselves.

I'm afraid I'm not confused in the slightest. Theology is by definition "the study of religious faith, practice, and experience; especially : the study of God and of God's relation to the world ". Since god(s) existence and relation to the world (if any) are by definition not known or falsifiable, any "study of their nature" is in essence a study of a work of fiction and most definitely not science. You can study other sciences as they relate to the effects of theology (including beliefs) but theology is not a science itself.

You have a deep misunderstanding of the subject, which is probably why your reaction here is visceral and not rational.

I described what a science is and what it isn't and how theology does not fit the definition of a science. If that isn't rational I'm afraid you do not understand the meaning of the word. If you understand the topic then by all means show me how theology fits the definition of a science. Show me what predictive value it has in describing the world. Show me testable and repeatable hypothesis theology has ever made that have been shown to be true by objective evidence.

it's an usb ethernet dongle.

like, woah!

An usb?

An? I recognize that English can be tricky even for folks born in such countries, but sheeshL

Again: "an usb"?

Is there any pronunciation of USB that does elicits an "an"? Or have I been saying U S B wrong all of these years by spelling it out, and should be instead saying "uhsbah"?

Because Webster calls it \ËOEyü-(ËOE)es-ËbÄ"\, and I can't argue with that. (Fucking /. Unicode ruining linguistics yet again, but the link is good.)

Say it out-loud: "A USB," vs. "An USB.": (IE, "A yoo-ess-bee," vs "An yoo-ess-bee")

If the former still sounds more-wrong than the latter, then good luckl with my language!

Is that like an Apple II GS?

the term has been around a bit longer than that.

http://www.merriam-webster.com...

photog
noun photog \f-täg\
Definition of PHOTOG

: one who takes photographs : photographer
Examples of PHOTOG

Origin of PHOTOG

short for photographer
First Known Use: circa 1906

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Definition of PRECAUTIOUS

: using precaution : precautionary

— precautiously adverb

— precautiousness noun

Barratry: "the persistent incitement of litigation".

Ah, moving the goalposts I see. Good sophistry. Recall you stated it was the "expected norm" not "allowed by law"

Agreed - Now finish the quote and put those goalposts back where you found them: "...as opposed to a transgression of allowed powers".

Transgression: infringement or violation of a law, command, or duty.

In fairness, though, you may not have gotten the reference to an obscure portion of US law, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." So I'll give you a pass on that one. ;)


And the NSA is the best known, most well funded and apparently most thorough spy agency in the world.

That the NSA does its job better than SIS has no bearing on the situation - It does, however, matter than the NSA got spanked for doing what SIS had - and still has - explicit permission to do.

You are a fucking idiot.

Atheism is exactly the belief that there is no god(s).

http://www.oxforddictionaries....
http://www.merriam-webster.com...
http://dictionary.reference.co...

Try learning something, you stupid little shit.

None of the rifles you linked to are assault rifles

I guess it's a good thing I didn't claim they were (I was joking in my OP)

and the definition of what an assault rifle is is most definitely settled.

Among the military and gun enthusiasts, perhaps. Perhaps even by legal standards. Settled among the general population? Not so much. If you care to look at how some online dictionaries define "assault rifle", take a look hereand here and here.

The reality is this: if I were to walk down the street with my AR-15 slung over my shoulder, a good chunk of onlookers will think "that's an assault rifle" (even here in Texas!).

This vendor has absolutely no idea of what an assault rifle is

I seriously doubt that. BTW, it's not just Grab a Gun calling these weapons assault rifles. There are many vendors doing so.

or is attempting to capitalize on idiots who think they're buying a rifle capable of select fire.

No, they're capitalizing on people who think that a *semi auto* rifle IS an assault rifle if it looks scary enough - and look...even the dictionary says so!

Tell that to all the major dictionaries of the English language, you fucking moron.

From Merriam-Webster:

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.

(emphasis mine)

You're right of course about the sentiment regarding ads versus paying for the service. And yes, cable companies are scum. Can't say I agree with TV being more addictive than heroin, however:

It's not fucking entitlement, it's recognizing what you're paying for

It is *precisely* an entitlement, by definition:

http://www.merriam-webster.com...

"the condition of having a right to have, do, or get something"

You are using the "so-and-so has a sense of entitlement" definition of the word, and with the same negative connotation as some use when describing various social programs. Like those social programs, you paid for the service and therefore are entitled to it.

I did, and here is the definition they came up with:

http://www.merriam-webster.com...
http://www.merriam-webster.com...

Didn't see your (inaccurate) definition there, so maybe they already fixed it.

I did, and here is the definition they came up with:

http://www.merriam-webster.com...
http://www.merriam-webster.com...

Didn't see your (inaccurate) definition there, so maybe they already fixed it.

No. Well, not according to my app that is called TheSage which has very good definitions. I looked because I have seen a picture of an item that was circumnavigated being called a panorama. I figured I would get a more authoritative source and went to the MW source:

http://www.merriam-webster.com...

Colloquially I would agree with you BUT reality says otherwise. I personally only use it to describe what you think is the definition. However it is not as strict as I use it and you believe it actually is. To offer you some support, Oxford Dictionary has the very first definition as being what you describe and what I use it for. You can see that here:

http://www.oxforddictionaries....

However, even Oxford goes on to list additional definitions that negate the strictness of it having to be the area surrounding the viewer/camera/photographer.

http://www.merriam-webster.com...

First Known Use of INCENTIVIZE
1970

Whether or not I post from an account, you can choose to ignore what I say. It's your loss, and makes no difference to me.

If you take nothing else from my comment, though, please learn what the word "exhortation" means so you don't look foolish next time you use it. It is most definitely not a synonym of "exoneration." Again, ignore me if you want, but I am trying to help you.

From the very beginning, serviscope_minor's position has been clear and consistent: Any human-run justice system, no matter how good, is doomed to be imperfect. Given that reality, imprisonment is always preferable to execution because if we discover that a convict is innocent, there might still be a chance to give at least some of his/her life back and compensate him/her in some way. With execution, it is impossible to do anything. And, in case you still don't get it: Yes, imprisoning innocent people is also bad; no, we can't give them back their incarcerated years, but we might be able to at least give them some of their life back. With executions, that is never an option.

Your insistence that serviscope_minor know how to reform the judicial system to reduce false convictions is completely, utterly irrelevant to that argument. Even if he/she knew how to make the system better, it wouldn't change the argument against executions at all, because the system can never be perfect, as you seem to agree. I doubt that you are really too stupid to see that. So far, though, you seem unable to grasp serviscope_minor's argument, and in all this time, you've never managed to offer any real counterargument. Instead, you just demand over and over again that serviscope_minor must know how to improve the false conviction rate, and your obsession with this makes you look so bloody incompetent that I feel embarrassed for you.

Even more amusingly, serviscope_minor has suggested a reform to improve the U.S. justice system -- get rid of capital punishment. And he/she has made a convincing argument for why that would be an improvement. Obviously, though, that is a reform you are unable to accept, for ideological reasons, I guess, because you certainly haven't given any rational reasoning for your opposition.

Finally, you keep using the word "exhortation", but your use of this term makes absolutely no sense. Please, learn what words mean before you use them. This just makes you look even more incompetent.

I am fairly certain that your response to this will just be more of the same. You will continue to ignore logic and claim that if serviscope_minor can't "fix" the justice system, it somehow defeats his/her argument against capital punishment. I assure you, it doesn't.

Fun fact, words can have more than one spelling, and rigamarole is a perfectly acceptable spelling:

http://www.merriam-webster.com...

Also, it's a bit stupid to declare "rigmarole" as the proper spelling over "rigamarole" when the term itself is a colloquial bastardization of "ragman roll."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

Fun fact: the word is "rigmarole," not "rigamarole."

I know nobody cares. Further evidence for this: nearly everyone gets that wrong.

You do realise that you are being fairly pendantic about that.
American Heritage dictionary defines antisocial as:
antisocial antisocial (nt-sshl, nt-) adj. Shunning the society of others; not sociable. 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. Antagonistic toward or disrespectful of others; rude.
Violent is defined:
1: marked by extreme force or sudden intense activity
2
a : notably furious or vehement
b : extreme, intense
3: caused by force : not natural
4
a : emotionally agitated to the point of loss of self-control
b : prone to commit acts of violence
and antisocial is:
http://www.merriam-webster.com...
violent and harmful to people.
Even Oxford English dictionary defines it as harmful or annoying to other people, or to society in general

All of this to show you I'm not incorrect, society's handing of it is. http://www.oxforddictionaries....

words have meaning, meaning is important. you even spout that proudly on your own sig.

I am really glad that you read my sig (Antisthenes: "Wisdom begins by examining the words/names.") - it is because of my sig that i wrote to you: "O.K, you are right, this "pirate" term is stupid - YOU ARE A THIEF".

http://www.merriam-webster.com...

Full Definition of THEFT 1a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it

You are in the right path for wisdom - glory to Antisthenes!

so since i'm not depriving anyone of anything, not even 'loss of rightful revenue" because there never was any to begin with, what i do can harldy be theft, no matter how much you want to put it in bold letters and ... well, twist the meaning of words to misrepresent it. catch the irony, troll.

In the right path, but far away from wisdom... yet!

Since in my sig i also write "excuse my English, i am (slightly...) better with my Greek!", can you help me find the right word (not phrase) for a person who uses the product of someone else's work without the producer's permission?

Keep Calm - Keep Walking...

words have meaning, meaning is important. you even spout that proudly on your own sig.

http://www.merriam-webster.com...

Full Definition of THEFT
1a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it

so since i'm not depriving anyone of anything, not even 'loss of rightful revenue" because there never was any to begin with, what i do can harldy be theft, no matter how much you want to put it in bold letters and ... well, twist the meaning of words to misrepresent it. catch the irony, troll.

Social relating to or involving activities in which people spend time talking to each other or doing enjoyable things with each other

Justice the process or result of using laws to fairly judge and punish crimes and criminals

Warrior a person who fights in battles and is known for having courage and skill

No contempt or disapproval in any of these, nor even in:

Warrior a person who has very strong feelings about something (such as religion or politics) and who wants other people to have those feelings : a zealous person

However, just for you:

Pedant a person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details

Note that a pedant's corrections aren't necessarily correct, just minor and annoying.

And again: "The reason why the term SJW is becoming pejorative is precisely due to reactions like yours from people who see no common ground". It is because SJW is being used to describe your zealotry and over-reactions that a descriptive acronym is becoming pejorative & not the other way around.

Social relating to or involving activities in which people spend time talking to each other or doing enjoyable things with each other

Justice the process or result of using laws to fairly judge and punish crimes and criminals

Warrior a person who fights in battles and is known for having courage and skill

No contempt or disapproval in any of these, nor even in:

Warrior a person who has very strong feelings about something (such as religion or politics) and who wants other people to have those feelings : a zealous person

However, just for you:

Pedant a person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details

Note that a pedant's corrections aren't necessarily correct, just minor and annoying.

And again: "The reason why the term SJW is becoming pejorative is precisely due to reactions like yours from people who see no common ground". It is because SJW is being used to describe your zealotry and over-reactions that a descriptive acronym is becoming pejorative & not the other way around.

Social relating to or involving activities in which people spend time talking to each other or doing enjoyable things with each other

Justice the process or result of using laws to fairly judge and punish crimes and criminals

Warrior a person who fights in battles and is known for having courage and skill

No contempt or disapproval in any of these, nor even in:

Warrior a person who has very strong feelings about something (such as religion or politics) and who wants other people to have those feelings : a zealous person

However, just for you:

Pedant a person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details

Note that a pedant's corrections aren't necessarily correct, just minor and annoying.

And again: "The reason why the term SJW is becoming pejorative is precisely due to reactions like yours from people who see no common ground". It is because SJW is being used to describe your zealotry and over-reactions that a descriptive acronym is becoming pejorative & not the other way around.

Social relating to or involving activities in which people spend time talking to each other or doing enjoyable things with each other

Justice the process or result of using laws to fairly judge and punish crimes and criminals

Warrior a person who fights in battles and is known for having courage and skill

No contempt or disapproval in any of these, nor even in:

Warrior a person who has very strong feelings about something (such as religion or politics) and who wants other people to have those feelings : a zealous person

However, just for you:

Pedant a person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details

Note that a pedant's corrections aren't necessarily correct, just minor and annoying.

And again: "The reason why the term SJW is becoming pejorative is precisely due to reactions like yours from people who see no common ground". It is because SJW is being used to describe your zealotry and over-reactions that a descriptive acronym is becoming pejorative & not the other way around.

Social relating to or involving activities in which people spend time talking to each other or doing enjoyable things with each other

Justice the process or result of using laws to fairly judge and punish crimes and criminals

Warrior a person who fights in battles and is known for having courage and skill

No contempt or disapproval in any of these, nor even in:

Warrior a person who has very strong feelings about something (such as religion or politics) and who wants other people to have those feelings : a zealous person

However, just for you:

Pedant a person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details

Note that a pedant's corrections aren't necessarily correct, just minor and annoying.

And again: "The reason why the term SJW is becoming pejorative is precisely due to reactions like yours from people who see no common ground". It is because SJW is being used to describe your zealotry and over-reactions that a descriptive acronym is becoming pejorative & not the other way around.

adjective: 1.not lawful; contrary to law; illegal.

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masculinist first known use 1918. That's only 23 years after "feminist" was coined. :-P

According to Dictionary.com, it can be a verb.
also
here

Why hello there, AC.

> "Tech", they speak like Scientologists.

What? http://www.merriam-webster.com...

> He thinks a thermonuclear weapon is a compact power source

If it's not a source of power, then what is it a source of? Rainbows?

> much like a dam, a battery, or a tank full of gas.

I never compared thermonuclear weapons with dams or batteries. You're a shallow-thinking fool if you that's all you interpreted from what I said.

> What, exactly, about life on the Earth is so unbearable is never quite clear with these people.

Actually I think life on Earth is quite dandy. I wouldn't personally want to leave. But all these people ranting about 'new energy sources' or 'better rockets' are fooling themselves; we do not need a new scientific breakthrough to reach the stars if that's what we wish to do. Moreover, a new scientific breakthrough would not even help that much, probably, as we already know the limits pretty well.

Who's the ranting moron here?

I do believe it is as simple, and obvious, as that, caps or not ,chimpanzees, aren't persons. I abide Merriam Webster's definition of person. Chimpanzees, may be self aware and possess a modicum of language yet this does not make them persons.

While, I would assert, that all persons are humans, I would not assert that all persons are strictly Homo sapiens but in fact contain a fair bit of Homo neanderthalensis.

One day may come and one day we may be visited by extraterrestrials and knowing humans, it may well be a mortal insult to call them persons. On That Day(tm) the question can be revisited and some will choose to expand the definition of person, others will want to refer to them as what they are, or create and define a new noun.

I didn't say "Jews control Hollywood"

You claimed that no movies are made about other genocides done by the Nazis because the Jews want the term "Holocaust" to only refer to that aspect of it. It is not possible for the to happen if the Jews don't actually control Hollywood. Merely producing a few movies won't stop others from producing other movies.

Also, I cannot help but point out that while you emphatically deny that you said that, you did not deny that that is what you believe. Quite the contrary, you tried to bring support to precisely the same point of view you deny expressing (albeit from the only person in history who can be said to have murdered even more people than Hitler himself).

Anti-Semite? I don't recognize Jewish "ownership" of this term

It should be fairly obvious at this point that I have zero control over what you do or do not do. In terms of what the term means, however, you are wrong. See wikipedia, Merriam-Webster and the Oxford dictionary.

is the quick insult that's guaranteed to kill the conversation

Which is strange, because after I called you that, I went on to address your argument. Now why would I do that if all I want to do is kill the conversation?

While I completely agree that the label "anti-semite" is used too quickly on people who do not deserve it, in your case, given that you repeat a well known anti-semite story, it seems warranted.

Shachar

I completely agree... but what defines a scholarly work?

The dictionary.

http://www.merriam-webster.com...

http://www.oxforddictionaries....

Do you see the word "profit" in either of those?

1 : formal religious veneration : worship
2 : a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
3 : a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents
4 : a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator
5a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad
5b : the object of such devotion
5c : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

Yes, they are. The problem isn't that Mitch is wrong (because he's correct), it's that you're an AC who doesn't have the basic knowledge of what a word means, and you are adamant about making sure everyone knows you're ignorant. Take a quarter and go buy a dictionary.

"disbursed"?

http://www.merriam-webster.com...

Oh, unless you were making some kind of obscure reference to the origins of the word "salary"?

Like the shake guarding his well in the arabian desert, you can't have. Unless you ~PAY~!

Do fries come with that sheik?

English words do tend to have alternate definitions which can be confusing to non-native speakers. As the AC said below:

[Percentage is] an accepted euphemism for "advantage", stemming from gambling and loansharking.

Not to be confused with mook:

noun: A person who posts an explanation of something that everybody (even tribes deep in the Amazon jungle and Japanese who think WW2 is still going on) knows, in the hope of getting modded up.

Bullshit.Seeing as you don't even know the meaning of the word

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: the state or condition of people who are able to act and speak freely

: the power to do or choose what you want to

: a political right

You want to tell me how forcing anyone to provide service is compatible with that ?

When you say freedom and liberty, you mean certain people have a license to force people to participate in activities they find repulsive.

and yet you don't even grasp that businesses having the ability to deny service to a particular group of people because the business owner does not like that person's sex or race or other fundamental part of their being is precisely denying those people their right in choosing what they want to do?

be self aware for at least ONE SECOND in your life. liberty is a TWO WAY STREET.

Bullshit.Seeing as you don't even know the meaning of the word

http://www.merriam-webster.com...

: the state or condition of people who are able to act and speak freely

: the power to do or choose what you want to

: a political right

You want to tell me how forcing anyone to provide service is compatible with that ?

When you say freedom and liberty, you mean certain people have a license to force people to participate in activities they find repulsive.

so here's the cool thing about heat. creating heat is one of the few things that we can actually do with amazing efficiency, nearly 100% in fact.

so i'm not sure what you think thermodynamics has to do with this, but even a 7th grader could tell you that running a computer is actually a very effective and efficient way to generate heat from electricity.

now, when sending servers out to a bunch of different locations and keeping track of them, i would say that a logistics manager is pretty darn useful. here's the definition, in case you aren't clear: http://www.merriam-webster.com...

when it comes to creating a distributed system of servers that handle programming tasks and then report their findings back to a central source, i'd probably want a hot-dog vendor to plan that out for me. wait, no, i'd want a programmer, that's right.

what are your qualifications, oh anonymous coward?

don't use "lowercase" without quotes since it isn't actually a verb

(2) lowercase verb lowercased lowercas-ing Definition of LOWERCASE transitive verb : to print or set in lowercase letters First Known Use of LOWERCASE 1908

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com...

No.

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In the French Law, it is defined as: " une entreprise individuelle ou collective ayant pour but de troubler gravement l’ordre public par l’intimidation ou la terreur ."

You don't make a terrorist just by calling somebody a terrorist (although that's a useful tool for politicians...)

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