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Re:Grammar Troll by tommy_teardrop · 2003-09-06 22:16 · Score: 1 · on Data From Infrared Telescope Exceeds Expectations

While in the strictest sense, data is the pluralised form of datum, following a running battle with my boss (a grammer whore), I've found many examples in which data is allowed as a 'single mass entity'. eg dictionary.com

Re:Opcode depreciation by Natalie's+Hot+Grits · 2003-09-06 18:37 · Score: 1 · on AMD64 Preview

from dictionary.com....

deprecated

The words are the same, and I used it correctly wrt US English rules... In other countries, this might be different.

no public schools by alienhazard · 2003-09-06 16:05 · Score: 1 · on New Hampshire to Follow Maine's Lead

Although not constitutional, it is commonly accepted that there is to be a seperation of church and state. This means that there shouldn't be a religion/church which is funded by taxes. Wether you like it or not, secular humanism is a religion(def.4), and it is being taught in schools. Also, to a degree, atheism is taught in public schools, and this too is a religion (although perhaps not "established"). There is no reason my taxes should be paying for a muslim/christian/hindu/linus based school, so why should they be paying for a secular humanist school? Taxes shouldn't pay for it, hence the reason there should be no public schools. The solution is this: if you want your kids to go to school, pay their way. if you cant afford to, maybe some other people from your religion will help you out.

Fuck you, Jacques! by HookedOnPhonics · 2003-09-06 08:57 · Score: 0 · on RIAA Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn'

Fuck you, you wannabe French asshole. Stop trying to spell shit (explicite) as if you're fucking French. It's as bad as Madonna and her fake British accent. She's a dirty cunt and so are you.

While I'm at it, you misspelled bizarre, you shitmonkey.

Re:About time by cK-Gunslinger · 2003-09-04 07:34 · Score: 1 · on Joss Whedon's Firefly Coming To The Big Screen

What? Read the article? That would break Slashdot edicate.

As would spellcheck. =)

Re:You moron by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-04 05:40 · Score: 0 · on Universal Music To Cut CD Prices

Read a dictionary.
You should do the same. And since you're too fucking stupid to look the word up, let me help you.

nigger
n. Offensive Slang

1.
1. Used as a disparaging term for a Black person: "You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls a nigger" (James Baldwin).
2. Used as a disparaging term for a member of any dark-skinned people.
2. Used as a disparaging term for a member of any socially, economically, or politically deprived group of people: "Gun owners are the new niggers... of society" (John Aquilino).

[Alteration of dialectal neger, black person, from French negre, from Spanish negro. See Negro.]

Source: The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

nigger

\Nig"ger\, n. A negro; -- in vulgar derision or depreciation.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

nigger

n : ethnic slur; offensive name for Black person [syn: spade, coon, jigaboo, nigra]

Source: WordNet (R) 1.6, (C) 1997 Princeton University

Now, would you please shut the fuck up, dumbass?

Re:right-wing whiner strategy? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-03 22:57 · Score: 0 · on Ian Clarke, Ernie Miller On Free Speech, Privacy

Pictures of partial birth abortions and clinic horror stories are common propaganda for anti-choicers to scare people with.

It is about Christianity. A quick google for abortion wrong shows that most of the links are to Christian sites. If it's not about Christianity, then it's certainly about religion. I don't dislike lobbyists, but I do dislike the system that encourages politicians to pay more attention to special interests, as opposed to voters, of which lobbyists are a symptom.

Every human being hatched from an egg. It proves nothing, because nothing can be empirically proven if you are willing to question your senses, but it does make you look a little hypocritical if you've ever eaten scrambled eggs. I didn't that a human embryo was a chicken embryo, I said that it was indistinguishable from one, which means that it does not feel any more or less torment than any other embryo does when "murdered". Unless of course, it had a soul . But of course, this isn't about religion.

Compatability?! by aasm · 2003-09-02 22:00 · Score: 1 · on MS vs. Open Source Office Suite Compatibility

Compatability

"nano-componentry"? by Fourier · 2003-09-02 17:16 · Score: 3, Funny · on Reinventing The Transistor For Molecular Computing

"Componentry?" Er, what? I'm going to label this one a bullshit buzzword. It does not seem to appear in the dictionary, and the obligatory GoogleFight would seem to confirm that "components" is the accepted term.

Timothy, perhaps you are confused by standard English usage patterns. You see,

toilet -> toiletry and
bigot -> bigotry,
but
apple -> apples and
component -> components.