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At least he didn't spell it "wala". :)

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/voila
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/viola

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I don't see kicked out... I see "Force or Drive out" but then again we are assuming that the reported was not trying to sell a story.

I still don't believe it was a boot out of the house...I suspect it was his making her life miserable and her saying ... I can't take this any more...

Also note...that it ended up that way... as in during or after the trial.... so it's not like he was interfering in her life when he wasn't part of it.

"Both the one- and two-syllable pronunciations of forte are now considered standard."
Forte

Language changes - deal with it.

It seems that you've missed George Carlin's point. It wasn't that he was lamenting that language changes - we was pissed off at people trying to change language on purpose to obscure reality so as to affect the public's perception (i.e. shell shock vs PTSD).

And if you say popular usage has changed that, I say, fuck popular usage!

Don we now our gay apparrel
Tra la la
Tra la la
la la la

"Is deck the Halls about a transvestite, Grandpa?"

celibate does not mean not having sex

Only if "hacker" doesn't mean "cyburgler"

You wouldn't say, "as welcome as a turd in the proverbial punchbowl

You would if the phrase had become a cliche'.

proverbial
3. of the nature of or resembling a proverb: proverbial sayings.
4. having been made the subject of a proverb: the proverbial barn door which is closed too late.
5. having become an object of common mention or reference: your proverbial inability to get anywhere on time.

Momentarily means for a moment, not in a moment.

momentarily
1. For a moment or an instant.
2. In a moment; very soon.
3. Moment by moment; progressively.

Healthy does not mean "healthful." Healthy is a condition, healthful is a property. Vegetable aren't healthy, they're dead. No food is healthy. Unlesss you have an eggplant that's doing push-ups. Push-ups are healthful.

1. possessing or enjoying good health or a sound and vigorous mentality: a healthy body; a healthy mind.
2. pertaining to or characteristic of good health, or a sound and vigorous mind: a healthy appearance; healthy attitudes.
3. conducive to good health; healthful: healthy recreations.

Race, creed, or color is wrong. Race and color, as used in this phrase, describe the same property. And "creed" is a stilted, outmoded way of saying "religion."

So in other words, it's perfectly literate buit don't say it because religion pisses the bar code guy off?

Don't you just hate it when you show your ignorance when ranting about other peoples' ignorance? Sorry, but I'll take the dictionary's word over yours any day.

And if you say popular usage has changed that, I say, fuck popular usage!

Don we now our gay apparrel
Tra la la
Tra la la
la la la

"Is deck the Halls about a transvestite, Grandpa?"

celibate does not mean not having sex

Only if "hacker" doesn't mean "cyburgler"

You wouldn't say, "as welcome as a turd in the proverbial punchbowl

You would if the phrase had become a cliche'.

proverbial
3. of the nature of or resembling a proverb: proverbial sayings.
4. having been made the subject of a proverb: the proverbial barn door which is closed too late.
5. having become an object of common mention or reference: your proverbial inability to get anywhere on time.

Momentarily means for a moment, not in a moment.

momentarily
1. For a moment or an instant.
2. In a moment; very soon.
3. Moment by moment; progressively.

Healthy does not mean "healthful." Healthy is a condition, healthful is a property. Vegetable aren't healthy, they're dead. No food is healthy. Unlesss you have an eggplant that's doing push-ups. Push-ups are healthful.

1. possessing or enjoying good health or a sound and vigorous mentality: a healthy body; a healthy mind.
2. pertaining to or characteristic of good health, or a sound and vigorous mind: a healthy appearance; healthy attitudes.
3. conducive to good health; healthful: healthy recreations.

Race, creed, or color is wrong. Race and color, as used in this phrase, describe the same property. And "creed" is a stilted, outmoded way of saying "religion."

So in other words, it's perfectly literate buit don't say it because religion pisses the bar code guy off?

Don't you just hate it when you show your ignorance when ranting about other peoples' ignorance? Sorry, but I'll take the dictionary's word over yours any day.

And I am in agreement with you. I said antithesis , not epitome.

See prior art at

http://dictionary.reference.com/

Look up every single word you used. You didn't invent or create any one of them. You copied the creations of others.

steal
      Audio Help /stil/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[steel] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, verb, stole, stolen, stealing, noun
-verb (used with object)
1. to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
2. to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
3. to take, get, or win insidiously, surreptitiously, subtly, or by chance: He stole my girlfriend.
4. to move, bring, convey, or put secretly or quietly; smuggle (usually fol. by away, from, in, into, etc.): They stole the bicycle into the bedroom to surprise the child.
5. Baseball. (of a base runner) to gain (a base) without the help of a walk or batted ball, as by running to it during the delivery of a pitch.
6. Games. to gain (a point, advantage, etc.) by strategy, chance, or luck.
7. to gain or seize more than one's share of attention in, as by giving a superior performance: The comedian stole the show.
-verb (used without object)
8. to commit or practice theft.
9. to move, go, or come secretly, quietly, or unobserved: She stole out of the house at midnight.
10. to pass, happen, etc., imperceptibly, gently, or gradually: The years steal by.
11. Baseball. (of a base runner) to advance a base without the help of a walk or batted ball.
-noun
12. Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
13. Informal. the thing stolen; booty.
14. Informal. something acquired at a cost far below its real value; bargain: This dress is a steal at $40.
15. Baseball. the act of advancing a base by stealing.
--Idiom16. steal someone's thunder, to appropriate or use another's idea, plan, words, etc.

There's a "plain text option; your comment would be far more readable if you used paragraphs. But I'll try to wade through it.

Somehow I think you are lying. The first time in 56 years over some criminals stashed away in cuba this make you ashamed?

They're not criminals; not until they have been tried in a court of law and convicted. Never before in my lifetime were people imprisoned by my government without council, without habeus corpus, without trial.

Never before (that I am aware of) has my government sanctioned torture.

If you are an American you are part of the government you are just as much to blame as any functionary.

If I had voted for Bush, or not voted at all, then I would have culpability. But I voted against him, and did so twice. How am I to blame? What would you have me do, take up arms?

Does the government do what you want it to do?

No, it doesn't. It does what Sony and Shell and BP tell it to do.

If it doesn't does that make you blameless?

Yes, it does make me blameless.

is it bush's fault that sirhan killed kennedy because he was pro israel?

Dude, you just keep getting less and less coherent with each sentence. Bush was in the Texas National Guard when Kennedy was shot; he was only 22 years old!

"we" want to blame "them" and then exonerate ourselves so we can feel good about ourselves

If I do something wrong it's on my head. If you do something wrong it's not.

Liberals seem to be especially good at blaming everyone but themselves for the mess we are in.

I've voted for as many Republicans as I have Democrats. So what does "liberal" and "conservative" have to do with it?

I think that most people do the try to do the right thing no matter what their politics, religion, ethnicity, or any other category you want to name

Normal people do, but Bush isn't "normal people". As another commentor said, he's a psychopath, or at best a sociopath.

You are guilty of pressuring the government, corporations, and yes probably even your own family into doing things so that you can continue to live the way that you want to.

You've never met me, yet you think you know all about me. I'll bet you can't even tell me my last name, despite the fact that I've posted it here at slashdot.

So lets all find a straw man to blame friggin everything on and dream up all kinds of rationalizations as to why they and those around them are evil.

You seem to not know what a "straw man" is. Have a look at the wikipedia entry. Know what a term is before you use it.

You sir are a hypocrite unless you are living in a field growing your own food and of coarse [sic] not eating any meat

You also don't seem to know the deficintion of Hypocrite. I never spoke against agriculture or carnivorousness.

Your spare time should be spent volunteering for the poor

You have no idea how much I do for he poor. The possessions of five homeless people are stored in my basement for them as I write this. What have YOU done for the poor?

I have nothing but contempt for your ilk's spoiled whiny self righteousness.

And I have nothing but pity for you and your apparent medical condition. I urge you to get professional help.

Web developers supporting HTML and CSS standards? That's just crazy:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/idealism

teach Audio Help /tit/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[teech] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation verb, taught, teaching, noun
-verb (used with object)
1. to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics.
2. to impart knowledge or skill to; give instruction to: He teaches a large class.
-verb (used without object)
3. to impart knowledge or skill; give instruction.
-noun
4. Informal. teacher.

look Audio Help (lk) Pronunciation Key
v. looked, looking, looks
v. intr.
To employ one's sight, especially in a given direction or on a given object: looking out the window; looked at the floor.
To search: We looked all afternoon but could not find it.
To turn one's glance or gaze: looked to the right.
To turn one's attention; attend: looked to his neglected guitar during vacation; looked at the evidence.
To turn one's expectations: looked to us for a solution.

To turn one's glance or gaze: looked to the right.
To turn one's attention; attend: looked to his neglected guitar during vacation; looked at the evidence.
To turn one's expectations: looked to us for a solution.
To seem or appear to be: look morose. See Synonyms at seem.
To face in a specified direction: The cottage looks on the river.

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, natural and supernatural phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts. Subjects for anthropomorphism commonly include animals depicted as creatures with human motivation able to reason and converse, forces of nature such as winds or the sun, components in games, unseen or unknown sources of chance, etc. Almost anything can be subject to anthropomorphism. The term derives from a combination of Greek (anthrpos), human and (morph), shape or form.

Humans seem to have an innate capacity to project human characteristics in this way. Evidence from art and artefacts suggests it is a long-held propensity that can be dated back to earliest times. It is strongly associated with the art of storytelling where it also appears to have ancient roots. Most cultures possess a long-standing fable tradition with anthropomorphised animals as characters that can stand as commonly recognised types of human behaviour. The use of such literature to draw moral conclusions can be highly complex.[1]

Within these terms, humans have more recently been identified as having an equivalent opposite propensity to deny common traits with other species - most particularly apes - as part of a feeling that humans are unique and "special." This tendency has been referred to as Anthropodenial by primatologist Frans de Waal.

teach Audio Help /tit/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[teech] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation verb, taught, teaching, noun
-verb (used with object)
1. to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics.
2. to impart knowledge or skill to; give instruction to: He teaches a large class.
-verb (used without object)
3. to impart knowledge or skill; give instruction.
-noun
4. Informal. teacher.

look Audio Help (lk) Pronunciation Key
v. looked, looking, looks
v. intr.
To employ one's sight, especially in a given direction or on a given object: looking out the window; looked at the floor.
To search: We looked all afternoon but could not find it.
To turn one's glance or gaze: looked to the right.
To turn one's attention; attend: looked to his neglected guitar during vacation; looked at the evidence.
To turn one's expectations: looked to us for a solution.

To turn one's glance or gaze: looked to the right.
To turn one's attention; attend: looked to his neglected guitar during vacation; looked at the evidence.
To turn one's expectations: looked to us for a solution.
To seem or appear to be: look morose. See Synonyms at seem.
To face in a specified direction: The cottage looks on the river.

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, natural and supernatural phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts. Subjects for anthropomorphism commonly include animals depicted as creatures with human motivation able to reason and converse, forces of nature such as winds or the sun, components in games, unseen or unknown sources of chance, etc. Almost anything can be subject to anthropomorphism. The term derives from a combination of Greek (anthrpos), human and (morph), shape or form.

Humans seem to have an innate capacity to project human characteristics in this way. Evidence from art and artefacts suggests it is a long-held propensity that can be dated back to earliest times. It is strongly associated with the art of storytelling where it also appears to have ancient roots. Most cultures possess a long-standing fable tradition with anthropomorphised animals as characters that can stand as commonly recognised types of human behaviour. The use of such literature to draw moral conclusions can be highly complex.[1]

Within these terms, humans have more recently been identified as having an equivalent opposite propensity to deny common traits with other species - most particularly apes - as part of a feeling that humans are unique and "special." This tendency has been referred to as Anthropodenial by primatologist Frans de Waal.

anger:
1. a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
2. Chiefly British Dialect. pain or smart, as of a sore.
3. Obsolete. grief; trouble.
-verb (used with object) 4. to arouse anger or wrath in.
5. Chiefly British Dialect. to cause to smart; inflame.
-verb (used without object) 6. to become angry: He angers with little provocation.

Rage
noun 1. angry fury; violent anger.
2. a fit of violent anger.
3. fury or violence of wind, waves, fire, disease, etc.
4. violence of feeling, desire, or appetite: the rage of thirst.
5. a violent desire or passion.
6. ardor; fervor; enthusiasm: poetic rage.
7. the object of widespread enthusiasm, as for being popular or fashionable: Raccoon coats were the rage on campus.
8. Archaic. insanity.
-verb (used without object) 9. to act or speak with fury; show or feel violent anger; fulminate.
10. to move, rush, dash, or surge furiously.
11. to proceed, continue, or prevail with great violence: The battle raged ten days.
12. (of feelings, opinions, etc.) to hold sway with unabated violence.
--Idiom13. all the rage, widely popular or in style.

Rage=anger, but anger !=rage. Horse=4 legged animal, 4 legged animal!=horse.

I think the operative words in your definition is "between". Otherwise the dictionary is at odds with itself.

If complaining that something should be different is the same thing as forcing someone to change it, then your own complaint is a forceful suppression of free speech, and I should call the police to have you arrested.

Moderators, the insightful mod is for non-fallacious reasoning, not for "I like his conclusion even though his argument is idiotic." The parent post is just a troll.

Lewis was a victim of a system called "fagging" in which the older, stronger boys at the school were not only permitted, but encouraged, to boss around the younger ones.

A Blood could corner a younger boy and make him do odd jobs - tea-making, boot-blacking, cleaning his sports kit or his study. This was called 'fagging' and Jack said it made his life miserable, coming as it did on top of a heavy load of schoolwork.

fagging, noun
-verb (used with object)
1. to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often fol. by out): The long climb fagged us out.
2. British. to require (a younger public-school pupil) to do menial chores.
3. Nautical. to fray or unlay the end of (a rope).
-verb (used without object)
4. Chiefly British. to work until wearied; work hard: to fag away at French.
5. British Informal. to do menial chores for an older public-school pupil.
-noun
6. Slang. a cigarette.
7. a fag end, as of cloth.
8. a rough or defective spot in a woven fabric; blemish; flaw.
9. Chiefly British. drudgery; toil.
10. British Informal. a younger pupil in a British public school required to perform certain menial tasks for, and submit to the hazing of, an older pupil.
11. a drudge.

Wikipedia has a claim "Bullying and even sexual abuse were also sometimes associated with it" but I was unable to discern the origin of it, possibly the Encyclopædia Britannica which is listed as a source for the article.

Do you have any evidence other than the Lewis's use of the word "fagging" in describing his activities at school to substantiate your claim that he was a homosexual rapist? If it is solely that, it is insufficient evidence as it was not the primary meaning of the word.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony

Especially when, you know, you have no idea what you're talking about.

You know, PV solar panels could repay their energy cost within seven years (on average) back in the seventies. It's probably much less for thin-film, today - at least, that was supposed to be the point of thin film (besides lower weight, and higher flexibility, of course.)

Anyway, not understanding this system is some kind of deliberate obtuseness, whether conscious or not: being in control of a limited resource of strategic value gives you power. The nation's energy resources are controlled by the existing entrenched energy companies, most notably the oil/gas companies. If people are making all the power they need and then some on their rooftops and such, then what do we need all those big ugly stinky coal and oil burning power plants for? Hint: we don't. The power company becomes an intermediary responsible for maintaining infrastructure, which still gives them a certain amount of power - but nothing like what they enjoy today.

In a capitalism it is easy to see who is responsible for almost any given situation - just follow the money. Look at where the money is coming from, and who is profiting. It's really not very complicated, and any attempt to make it so is disingenuous at best. Yes, it is possible to use this tendency of capitalism to frame someone; it usually takes big piles of money and a hell of a lot of complicity on the part of financial institutions and often governments. Guess how many people at or near the top of the Bush administration profit heavily from investment or direct involvement in big oil? No really, guess. Then go look it up. It will have more impact than if I tell you. Hint: even their now-dismissed token black man is part of the big oil posse.

Put simply: Your thinly disguised ad hominem attack on my easily understandable viewpoint on what is or is not a subsidy (which, by the way, does not include any official government definition laid out in the US Code - I like to use a dictionary (or several.) The definition I like best (as usual) comes from the American Heritage edition. (No OED for me, thanks. At least, not here.) 1. Monetary assistance granted by a government to a person or group in support of an enterprise regarded as being in the public interest. 2. Financial assistance given by one person or government to another. Both examples pretty clearly fit these definitions. And frankly, I think we all understand that when some special interest is benefiting based on some bullshit pretext, the people are being robbed.

Of course, we don't all agree that we are being robbed. It's okay if you don't feel like we are. I love to drive too, and find it to be empowering. Unfortunately, I think that trains would be better for the world and thus for people in general. The automobile thing just isn't sustainable, at least the way we're doing it. In particular we should terminate all use of fossil fuels as rapidly as possible. The alternatives are there, and there is no reason we shouldn't be using them except the inertia of the rich. They are making money on the current way of doing business, there is no sign that they will ever be held accountable for their offenses against everything which depends on Earth's biosphere and thus there is no reason for them to do anything but what they are doing now: raping the land and robbing the populace in the name of profit.

To suggest that our government is not complicit in all of these activities is at best extremely naive and more likely to my mind, intentionally disingenuous. But perhaps you're just a fool.

"Would you be kind enough to explain how compulsory (but not necessarily universal) healthcare implies losing property rights?"

Correction: it does not imply losing those rights, but having them violated. I work, and as a reward my productivity is converted into money that can be exchanged for others' productivity. I freely agreed to work for a given compensation to be paid by my employer. I exchange my productivity for property. To take away my property by force, against my will, is an unjustifiable, immoral violation of my right to my property (i.e. the right to the "sweat of my own brow" if you're a fan of Bioshock).

"publicly funded healthcare == socialism."

Well, going by a dictionary definition, socialism "advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole", which is commonly seen as "the government controls a service involved in the trade of money or property". Are you suggesting that insurance companies are somehow a special case that does not fit the definition of a "service", which when controlled by the government, would imply socialism? If so, how does it not fit that definition?

"What Obama is suggesting is having the state act like a big insurance company to which everyone is registered, while actual delivery of the service ("means of production") can and will remain in private hands."

Your argument only makes sense with your definition of socialism. If I take a dictionary definition, which includes "ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc.", then your whole argument vanishes, because insurance companies provide a service, and under your system, the government would do that service instead.

"the only difference is that the refund check for medical services is cut by the government rather than by an HMO"

But where does the government get the money from? That is the other difference. The money is taken by force, violating everyone's rights, rather than freely given by willing individuals.

And before you say that this is also true of some superstitions, those that do have a ritual element are usually hang-overs from pagan religions (e.g. touching wood invokes Odin's protection, throwing salt over one's shoulder and carrying brides into their new home were Roman religious practices).

If you're going to define things like that there is no superstition at all, and your definition won't be shared by the rest of the world.
Regardless of whether or not those things are associated with religions, they are superstitious, just as prayer is.

Superstition is all about pattern matching going awry, whether it involves inevitable bad (or good) luck or rituals to change said luck.

Buddhism is a major modern religion of great antiquity which says it's wrong to kill unbelievers too, and makes no active attempt to convert others.

Spreading the teaching of the Buddha has always been an integral part of Buddhism, and regarding the killing of unbelievers, without even getting into the issue of the Sohei and orders like the Shaolin, whether or not a religion supports killing unbelievers isn't as important to its survival as that it prohibits killing believers, in most circumstances.

Religion survives for two reasons: 1) Followers _believe_ that it is beneficial to them (whether it's actually beneficial is irrelevant). 2) It provides a common societal framework that allows people from one community to integrate with other communities that follow the same religion.

In future you may be able to use such a device all by yourself without posting inane comments on /.

What difference does it make if something is "likely" to get shut down by a government agency?

It matters if something is actually shut down. The answers on this "likely" poll are just a measure of the prejudice (in the dictionary sense of the word prejudice) of the people answering the question.

Where's the answer for "none of them should be shut down, but I prefer to keep an open mind and deal with reality rather than wallow in my own preconceptions about things that haven't happened yet"?

For those who are unclear on the definition of "hyperbole", please read the above quoted sentence.

For those who are unclear on the definition of bullshit, please read the linked bullshit.

The summary is not, in fact, hyperbole. You should consult a dictionary. This is the 21st century. Today we use the internet as our medium of speech, press, and assembly. There is no exageration whatever when the GP says that the ISP owns the one wire that delivers those three freedoms to us.

There is no other way besides the internet to make my views known to more than a few people. Until the internet, freedom of the press was restricted to those with the money to buy a press. Your freedom of assembly was restricted to physicality.

Now that I and my fellow peons have freedom of the press, speech, and assembly, that the rich bastards who have owned knowedge, its dissimination, and indeed freedom itself have always had, they're scared shitless.

Well, not quite shitless, as the bullshit I'm responding to can attest. But drowning us normal people (peons) in bullshit is what the rich have always done. The ionternet gives US a shovel.

• Liquid water - water in liquid state .
• Solid water - ice
• Gaseous state - water vapor

• Liquid water - water in liquid state .
• Solid water - ice
• Gaseous state - water vapor

• Liquid water - water in liquid state .
• Solid water - ice
• Gaseous state - water vapor

methods of causing massive harm before you can be prevented are literally without limit

That word doesn't mean what you think it means. I can't leap outside and kick the planet into the sun, no matter how willing I am to ride down with it. I can't even kill you with my brain.

Words can have different meanings. Film at 11.

Words can have different meanings. Film at 11.

I know you are all trying to be funny (some actually succeeding), but I find it odd that in two days no one mentioned that there is, indeed, a squirrelfish.

And it's not just a Wikipedia quirk, it appears even in the dictionaries.

by the 2020s we'll be adding computers to our brains and building machines as smart as ourselves

As a cyborg myself, I don't see any sane person adding a computer to his brain for non-medical uses.

I was going to say that sane people don't undergo surgery for trivial reasons, then I thought of liposuction and botox for rich morons, and LASIK for baseball players without myopia. I don't see any ethical surgeons doing something as dangerous as brain surgery for anything but the most profound medical reasons, like blindness or deafness.

As to the "as smart as ourselves", the word "smart" has so many meanings that you could say they already are and have been since at least the 1940s: "1. to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound." Drop ENIAC on your foot ans see how it smarts. "7. quick or prompt in action, as persons." By that definition a pocket calculater is smarter than a human.

Kurtzwiel has been saying this since the 1970s, only then it was "by the year 2000".

We don't even know what consciousness is. How can you build a machine that can produce something you don't understand?

by the 2020s we'll be adding computers to our brains and building machines as smart as ourselves

As a cyborg myself, I don't see any sane person adding a computer to his brain for non-medical uses.

I was going to say that sane people don't undergo surgery for trivial reasons, then I thought of liposuction and botox for rich morons, and LASIK for baseball players without myopia. I don't see any ethical surgeons doing something as dangerous as brain surgery for anything but the most profound medical reasons, like blindness or deafness.

As to the "as smart as ourselves", the word "smart" has so many meanings that you could say they already are and have been since at least the 1940s: "1. to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound." Drop ENIAC on your foot ans see how it smarts. "7. quick or prompt in action, as persons." By that definition a pocket calculater is smarter than a human.

Kurtzwiel has been saying this since the 1970s, only then it was "by the year 2000".

We don't even know what consciousness is. How can you build a machine that can produce something you don't understand?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=enjoin
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gaol
Moron. You can't pick the right words to express what you mean and other people are "misinterpreting" you. You should check a dictionary before telling me about incorrect spelling, you retard.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=enjoin
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gaol
Moron. You can't pick the right words to express what you mean and other people are "misinterpreting" you. You should check a dictionary before telling me about incorrect spelling, you retard.

Claiming something is not worth discussion is the equivalent of saying that you dont have a valid point.

and thus makes sense.

I will repeat that, even though I am typing it, because you have issue with.

If you start this concept, the next step is that your family is also responsible, since they must known as well.

You wont find an accountant to admit that he or she knowingly stayed in a position where they knowingly had to act unethically, nevermind illegally.

If I knew that I would be personally responsible for what my employees did, I would not be able to afford to hire anyone that I could trust to never make mistakes.

Claiming something is not worth discussion is the equivalent of saying that you dont have a valid point.

and thus makes sense.

I will repeat that, even though I am typing it, because you have issue with.

If you start this concept, the next step is that your family is also responsible, since they must known as well.

You wont find an accountant to admit that he or she knowingly stayed in a position where they knowingly had to act unethically, nevermind illegally.

If I knew that I would be personally responsible for what my employees did, I would not be able to afford to hire anyone that I could trust to never make mistakes.

Yes, free (AND gratis - which only has one definition).

Stop trying to redefine English you frigging Nazis. Free means whatever every English dictionary in the world says it means.

Well, http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ignorance agrees with you (except for a theological reference), but "ignore" still seems to me to be the base of that word. Your example of not knowing about organic chemistry: you haven't learned it yet because you have decided not to (presuming that you are capable of at least learning more by doing some reading). You are correct that you are ignorant of it, but that's not shameful as I was saying unless you have some obligation to have learned it.

It seems likely that ignorance is one of those words that has changed meaning through the common incorrect use by people (ignorant people?). So I concede that you are correct about the meaning, but that meaning seems to me to have come about through the deterioration of the language.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to secure my computer against attack by hackers.

See my sig; I have "augmented reality" via a CrystaLens implant. I am a cyborg. You will be assimilated. resistance is futile. We already have the Vice President of the US in our clutches!

BTW, your link is wrong; it leads back to this article. I believe this is the link you are looking for. However, a better link is here (a dictionary lookup of the word "cyborg").

No, he's not a vampire, he's a Cyborg. For that matter so am I. Neither garlic nor stakes will suffice. In fact, a steak through the heart is the likely cause of Cheney's becoming a cyborg in the first place!

You will be assimilated. Resistance is not only futile, when the time comes you will beg to join us.

Disclaimer: By "us" I mean cyborg, not Republican. I didn't vote for that particular cyborg and never would; I consider him and Bush to be traitors to my country. See what happens when you elect an alcoholic to the Presidency and Vice Presidency?

-mcgrew
PS- did I tell you that you would be assimilated? In fact you may already be a winner!

Person who does not like the US != insurgent.

Thank you. There seem to be so many people who have bought the propaganda to the point that they no longer understand what some words mean, or perhaps they never knew so the definitions have been defined by propaganda.

Insurgents rebel against legal authority, they are individuals within a group that rebel against the group. People from one country who attack another are generally invaders, aggressors or terrorists depending on the scale, government involvement and nature of the attacks.

The US has not experienced an insurgency in Iraq. The Iraqi government has, but that government is of dubious standing in Iraq given that it has been installed by an illegal invader. Hypothetically reverse the conflict and ask yourself if someone invaded the US and installed the government they wanted, would you fight against it or simply accept it? If you would answer the former, you could well be labelled a "terrorist insurgent", or "resistance fighter" depending on the political standpoint of the labeler.

Not many monitors or practitioners of international law consider the invasion of Iraq legal, close to zero. There was no UN mandate to support it, there were mandates supporting the use of force but they were irrelevant to the situation at the time. The only people who argue that it was legal are American neo-cons, hardly known for their understanding or respect of international law, their cronies and idiots who buy the propaganda.

Please re-read the dictionary because while the definition of terrorist has changed recently, the definition of insurgent has not yet been corrupted in the good book.

Well that's news to me. I thought that the term kill was related to the subject dying; i.e. (A) kills (B) then (B) is dead. Whereas a thread that is in an infinite loop or is dead-locked waiting on a lock to be released, lives forever. So basically, in your view of the English language, the word kill does not mean "to cause the death of" but the exact opposite, "to make immortal."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/schizophrenia

From Wikipedia

Memorial Day is a United States Federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (in 2008 on May 26). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who perished while in military service to their country.

From Dictionary .com Fallen 7. dead: fallen troops.

Keep trying, but either Obama was seeing dead people, or a we have a Presidential Candidate Who Doesn't Know What Memorial Day Is

Finally!! A moderator who really understands what redundant really means.

Seriously, language nazis, can you GET OVER THIS? Yes, the technical definition is 'to destroy 1/10th', but that's an archaic definition now. Decimate now means to destroy in vast quantities.