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Tough one that.

Ohh look, the #1 definition:

Not imprisoned or enslaved; being at liberty.

How is that hard to comprehend? The source code is not imprisoned or enslaved It is at liberty.

I kept hoping no one would do this.

They have a word for that, its called appeasement.

They tried it with Hitler before World War II. It didn't work.

Try Latin. 'Common usage' is 'mea culpa', usually taken to mean 'my fault'. Def'n

Terraforming isn't the right word. Terraforming is forming planets to make them more like Earth (Terra). Purposefully altering humans/human physiology does not yet have a word accosiated with it, I think.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Capitol is the building, Capital is the city it is in. Capital is also money, you got that right. And your definition of Capitalism, can't argue with that.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Capitol is the building, Capital is the city it is in. Capital is also money, you got that right. And your definition of Capitalism, can't argue with that.

So what you're saying is that if you are seeking private gain you cannot also be doing good? The two are not mutually exclusive.

Maybe you should go look up arrogant.

That's not (just) communism - that's what happens in all authoritarian governments.

Kinda funny what the USA is supposed to be "the land of the free" and "built on the ideals of freedom".

And it's not very difficult to confirm - all you have to do is compare your rights to what they are in other "civilised" countries. Sure, if you compare yourself with dictatorships etc, then you're fairly well off.

The scary part is when you start to notice, that many of the lost freedoms are not because of the government as such, but due to extremely ignorant people ... like being labled all kinds of things, just because you're critical of the government, while the country is at war.

Is canada allowing emigration from the US yet?

How is a desire to leave your country jingoistic? It kinda goes against the whole "extreme nationalism" idea.

Or are you just stereotyping Americans? We enjoy it when people lump us all together like that, and then call us narrow minded. Irony is fun.

Of course, most morons don't know how to spell moron either. ;)

Nope, I think he meant Affect

Usage Note: Thanks to the vagaries of English spelling, bear has two past participles: born and borne. Traditionally, born is used only in passive constructions referring to birth: I was born in Chicago. For all other uses, including active constructions referring to birth, borne is the standard form: She has borne both her children at home. I have borne his insolence with the patience of a saint.

Actually...

\Par`a*noi"a\, n. (Med.) A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by delusious of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency. In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well-marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called ``cranks.'' Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration, and many have hallucinations, esp. of sight and hearing.

Sorry Just had to look up the definition for Hagiographic.

Sounds like they are using the second meaning of the word here

Yay for me! You people have more spare time than I do 8^)

and yes Yay is a real word.

if you spell it right.

Don't try to sound all artsy and exotic with your usage of "maximise", because you will look stupid when people tell you that it isn't even a real word

Why is it that earthquakes are refered to as temblors and not tremblers? I mean really! The earth TREMBLES during a TEMBLOR!?

I'm tembling with fear over the answers or moderation this post may get.

Why is it that earthquakes are refered to as temblors and not tremblers? I mean really! The earth TREMBLES during a TEMBLOR!?

I'm tembling with fear over the answers or moderation this post may get.

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Note the pronunciation key.

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fun

Note the pronunciation key.

The character in the Best Buy commercial is not a puppet. It is a marionette.

marionette
puppet

The character in the Best Buy commercial is not a puppet. It is a marionette.

marionette
puppet

So in other words Al gore is responsible for the current ad infested version of the internet that has approximately reversed the signal/noise ratio from when he started getting involved. I'm not sure that I would want to take credit for taking a profitable( wordnet definition 2) tool and making it profitable (definition 1).

I notice you posted that AC. Is that because you can't really put belief in your own words?

Says somebody whose only identifying information is the nym "SuperKendall"? Give me a break you stupid hypocrite.

I don't care how much you try to explain the quote away as "metaphor", it's simply not appropriate to craft a metaphor for information loss from real people dying

That's your opinion, and it's not shared by many people. Somebody else posted examples, but Dave Winer himself actually referred to people as "Standards Nazis" a few days ago. Christ, metaphors involving people dying are part of our fucking language. Look up the etymology of the word decimate for example.

The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. The study of these activities.

In one definition and:

A system of principles and methods employed in the performance of a set of activities: the art of building. And, A trade or craft that applies such a system of principles and methods: the art of the lexicographer. Nothing about it needing to be useless. Have you ever considered learning what you're writing about before posting?

Of course, "flammable" is a word (as a quick check in a dictionary would tell you). What "The Elements of Style" says is that "flammable", though a word, is a poor (though clearer) synonym for "inflammable".

AIM was often sited as a rare example of a large company offering up a free service...

And Internet users often cite AIM as a site at which to enjoy the sight of cute and fuzzy emoticons wielded by fellow lonely chat buddies.

The beginnings of many romances have been sited in the virtual space between AIM's colorful chat windows; and many rueful addicts cite AIM as a site at which to waste inordinate amounts of time sighting and sizing up new candidates for "companionship".

A/S/L??? (Anybody??)

AIM was often sited as a rare example of a large company offering up a free service...

And Internet users often cite AIM as a site at which to enjoy the sight of cute and fuzzy emoticons wielded by fellow lonely chat buddies.

The beginnings of many romances have been sited in the virtual space between AIM's colorful chat windows; and many rueful addicts cite AIM as a site at which to waste inordinate amounts of time sighting and sizing up new candidates for "companionship".

A/S/L??? (Anybody??)

AIM was often sited as a rare example of a large company offering up a free service...

And Internet users often cite AIM as a site at which to enjoy the sight of cute and fuzzy emoticons wielded by fellow lonely chat buddies.

The beginnings of many romances have been sited in the virtual space between AIM's colorful chat windows; and many rueful addicts cite AIM as a site at which to waste inordinate amounts of time sighting and sizing up new candidates for "companionship".

A/S/L??? (Anybody??)

Europe tends to de-genericise geographical indicators such as CHEDDAR(tm) cheese for cheese made in Cheddar, England.

I don't know about the Cheddar cheese example, but I don't really care because the topic is "Pilsner" and not cheese.Similar problems can carry different circumstaincail backgrounds, you know... But if you truly want to go via the way of examples from different industries, let me give you one term: Velcro - everyone says "velcro" as if that was a general term and yet the noun is a _brand name_ - it is an american simplification to take brand names for generic terms.

And by the way, I would bet my own cash that 80% of Americans would swear to whatever is dear to them that velcro is an American invention even though it's Swiss, but that's a different topic altogether, let's not get into that...

Otherwise, how could SABMiller, which makes MILLER LITE(tm) beer, get away with claiming [xpressmart.com] that MILLER LITE beer is a "true pilsner"?

Based on the only piece of evidence you included, it is not SABMiller directly who claims Miller Lite is a "true pilsner" - it is "Biros Merchandising" who manages the online store xpressmart.com and confidently sells those kind of patches.

When a language such as English does not have a formal codification, it doesn't matter that both "Velcro" and "Pilsner" have a capitalized and non-capitalized version of the two in the "American Heritage" dictionary, because in the end, this kind of ignorance of proper usage of such words is practiced only by less than 5% of the world population.

Europe tends to de-genericise geographical indicators such as CHEDDAR(tm) cheese for cheese made in Cheddar, England.

I don't know about the Cheddar cheese example, but I don't really care because the topic is "Pilsner" and not cheese.Similar problems can carry different circumstaincail backgrounds, you know... But if you truly want to go via the way of examples from different industries, let me give you one term: Velcro - everyone says "velcro" as if that was a general term and yet the noun is a _brand name_ - it is an american simplification to take brand names for generic terms.

And by the way, I would bet my own cash that 80% of Americans would swear to whatever is dear to them that velcro is an American invention even though it's Swiss, but that's a different topic altogether, let's not get into that...

Otherwise, how could SABMiller, which makes MILLER LITE(tm) beer, get away with claiming [xpressmart.com] that MILLER LITE beer is a "true pilsner"?

Based on the only piece of evidence you included, it is not SABMiller directly who claims Miller Lite is a "true pilsner" - it is "Biros Merchandising" who manages the online store xpressmart.com and confidently sells those kind of patches.

When a language such as English does not have a formal codification, it doesn't matter that both "Velcro" and "Pilsner" have a capitalized and non-capitalized version of the two in the "American Heritage" dictionary, because in the end, this kind of ignorance of proper usage of such words is practiced only by less than 5% of the world population.

aka: We're including this non-word in the dictionary in case some jackass uses it and you don't know wtf they're trying to say.

Also included on the wonderful site you referenced:

aint

phattest

Aint my sticktoitiveness be the phattest in proving proper words?

aka: We're including this non-word in the dictionary in case some jackass uses it and you don't know wtf they're trying to say.

Also included on the wonderful site you referenced:

aint

phattest

Aint my sticktoitiveness be the phattest in proving proper words?

Bzzt!

-PS

Pilsner may be czech, but humor is universal. I'll read up on yours if you read up on mine.

One of the most infamous charlatans was Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Courts of law all over the globe are well aware of this quack and his barratrous miscreants.

The educated world has zero tolerance for proven charlatans.

ATTN: anyone who claimed tha i was being racist should look up the defintion of being a racist and a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dis criminate">discriminating. notice that there is nothing wrong with discriminating as long as it has basis. every day you discriminate, what suit looks better, what car you want to drive. discriminating is: To perceive the distinguishing features of; recognize as distinct; To distinguish by noting differences.

there is nothing wrong with anything i said, except maybe that he was being arrogant for being even slightly racist. also, just because you dont like what i have to say, doesnt mean its wrong. moreover what it probably means is that its something that you dont want to hear, you may identify with what im saying. and if so, you probably codone it (quite wrongly, because racism is wrong). but alas its the TRUTH, and the truth hurts. america at large acts (especially politicians) too diplomatic, instead of facing problems , they accomidate to them.

if everyone faced the truth, faced the problems, we could start to fix all the things wrong in this country

first off being racist and discriminating in the literal sense(not the typical), are two diffrent things. i never said he diddnt love her, he might indeed be racist, if you think that japanese are cutest, that is being racist. i dont know that he is taking advantage of her. but i would like that you think about what i write a little more.

first off being racist and discriminating in the literal sense(not the typical), are two diffrent things. i never said he diddnt love her, he might indeed be racist, if you think that japanese are cutest, that is being racist. i dont know that he is taking advantage of her. but i would like that you think about what i write a little more.

> Why is this obligatory?

It's a joke.

The God of Freemasonry does not belong to any particular creed. Anyone can join the Freemasons, as long as they are a man of good character and believe in a supreme being. Deism is the belief in a higher being without revelation.

Here is the relevant passage of the Declaration of Independece you linked to:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

As stated in my previous link, these are hardly the words of a devout Protestant.

A Protestant is:
# A member of a Western Christian church whose faith and practice are founded on the principles of the Reformation, especially in the acceptance of the Bible as the sole source of revelation, in justification by faith alone, and in the universal priesthood of all the believers.
# A member of a Western Christian church adhering to the theologies of Luther, Calvin, or Zwingli.
(link)

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

Unless software is properly designed from the starting moment and implemented with great care in terms of security we still don't have much of a chance when it comes to patches. Sure they'll fix problems for a while, they may even buy us more time, but we can never expect the extra-ordinary from a patch -- by it's very definition ("A piece of code added to software in order to fix a bug, especially as a temporary correction between two releases." from Dictionary.com). Just like in clothing, if a patch doesn't work we can lose more than we were bargaining for -- if the patch on clothing gets ripped off some of the clothing it that connected together will go with it.

"whatever happened to the old "constible on patrol"? "

Uhh, they were all gunned down in the 1930's by Tommy Guns. What century and city do you live in? We're not talking about Smalltown, Indiana here. We're talking about a major metropolis only a 30 minute drive from the murder capitol of the country. Do you have even the slightest idea as to how many cops died in Baltimore alone last year trying to protect the public safety?

Then again, maybe you're right. We could do it like China did with Hong Kong and have an officer armed with a shotgun or uzi at every street corner. That will definitely make people feel safe and no one would ever think of the words "police state" as they walked by trying to use the farthest point on the sidewalk away from the guy with the sub-automatic weapon.

Seriously people, we as americans put up cameras at our homes and our stores and arm ourselves and call it our patriotic right to protect ourselves from evil. But the moment the good folks hired by your CITY to protect the PUBLIC from evil decide to do the same thing in PUBLIC areas, it's "1984" and "Police State" and "Where will this invasion of PRIVACY end?". Everyone on slashdot right now go to dictionary.com and look up the words PUBLIC and PRIVATE. Apparently most of you will be shocked to learn that that expecting PRIVACY in a PUBLIC place is about as retarded as Caffiene Free Mountain Dew.

Send me an email when the police demand to install cameras in your home or business, then the concept of a public entity invading a private one will actually be real. This is just the public officials trying to keep your public places safe for you to use at your own free will. Of course, if your intended use is for criminal purposes, then I guess YOUR safety was just decreased....too f*cking bad!

"whatever happened to the old "constible on patrol"? "

Uhh, they were all gunned down in the 1930's by Tommy Guns. What century and city do you live in? We're not talking about Smalltown, Indiana here. We're talking about a major metropolis only a 30 minute drive from the murder capitol of the country. Do you have even the slightest idea as to how many cops died in Baltimore alone last year trying to protect the public safety?

Then again, maybe you're right. We could do it like China did with Hong Kong and have an officer armed with a shotgun or uzi at every street corner. That will definitely make people feel safe and no one would ever think of the words "police state" as they walked by trying to use the farthest point on the sidewalk away from the guy with the sub-automatic weapon.

Seriously people, we as americans put up cameras at our homes and our stores and arm ourselves and call it our patriotic right to protect ourselves from evil. But the moment the good folks hired by your CITY to protect the PUBLIC from evil decide to do the same thing in PUBLIC areas, it's "1984" and "Police State" and "Where will this invasion of PRIVACY end?". Everyone on slashdot right now go to dictionary.com and look up the words PUBLIC and PRIVATE. Apparently most of you will be shocked to learn that that expecting PRIVACY in a PUBLIC place is about as retarded as Caffiene Free Mountain Dew.

Send me an email when the police demand to install cameras in your home or business, then the concept of a public entity invading a private one will actually be real. This is just the public officials trying to keep your public places safe for you to use at your own free will. Of course, if your intended use is for criminal purposes, then I guess YOUR safety was just decreased....too f*cking bad!

Plaaaays Hhalp!

Actually, as racist as you were... yes, in a way, it is.

From Dictionary.com: "1 entry found for nigritude.

nigritude

\Nig"ri*tude\, n. [L. nigritudo, fr. niger black.] Blackness; the state of being black. --Lamb."

In the spirit of the parent,
Operating System: Software designed to control the hardware of a specific data-processing system in order to allow users and application programs to make use of it.

So, MS Dos IS an operating system. Is it crappy? yes it is. But it's still an operating system. ;-)

Restaurant: A place where meals are served to the public.

Pray tell, how does McD not fit that definition? Is the food crappy? yes it is. But it's still a restaurant.