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If Pro is the opposite of Con.... what'd Congress mean?

Just 'cause I was mildly interested (I've heard that wordplay before), I read the dictionary's entries for progress, congress and con.

And it appears con (when used in pros/cons of a decision) is different to con/com (the prefix).

The gress suffix is from indo-european ghredh (to go) and pro & con have root meanings of advance/forward & to meet respectively.

Progress = Forward Go.
Congress = Meet Go.

If Pro is the opposite of Con.... what'd Congress mean?

Just 'cause I was mildly interested (I've heard that wordplay before), I read the dictionary's entries for progress, congress and con.

And it appears con (when used in pros/cons of a decision) is different to con/com (the prefix).

The gress suffix is from indo-european ghredh (to go) and pro & con have root meanings of advance/forward & to meet respectively.

Progress = Forward Go.
Congress = Meet Go.

If Pro is the opposite of Con.... what'd Congress mean?

Just 'cause I was mildly interested (I've heard that wordplay before), I read the dictionary's entries for progress, congress and con.

And it appears con (when used in pros/cons of a decision) is different to con/com (the prefix).

The gress suffix is from indo-european ghredh (to go) and pro & con have root meanings of advance/forward & to meet respectively.

Progress = Forward Go.
Congress = Meet Go.

see http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/funny

Hydrogen is a fuel, and a storage mechanism.

Not in current settings, it isn't. Hydrogen is only a fuel if it can be acquired at less energy cost than it can be used.

Does that mean that gasoline isn't a fuel, because in order to get it, we have to spend trillions of dollars, which represent energy input?

Anyway, maybe you should look up the definition of fuel which says absolutely nothing about ratio of energy input to energy output. To borrow an already liberally-used phrase, I do not think that word means what you think it means.

n America, being anti-social is not socializing, being a hermit, you know. Shyness.

"Superintendent Stuart Johnson, operations manager at Halesowen police station, said: 'I support the actions of my officers who responded to complaints from the public about "kids destroying" an ornamental cherry tree by stripping every branch from it, in an area where there have been reports of anti-social behaviour."

I understand that one of the definitions of "anti-social behaviour" is essentially vandalising things, but how does this superintendent see a group of 3 kids, playing in a tree as being vandals? The complaint made "by the public" if true is a valid complaint, however I am absolutely baffled that the arresting officers perceived these kids to be vandalising this tree.

The other thing... aren't there laws about arresting children, taking DNA, etc. etc? I am pretty sure there are some very strict rules governing the arresting procedures for juveniles, and I have a good feeling that if these parents got a good lawyer, they could sue and win very easily. I do not support the "sue or be sued" lifestyle that America has become accustom to, but children should have privacy rights and, the DNA samples and what not should not have been allowed without a guardian present. Personally... I think this Police Department went to far.

Some consider tax exemption as well (as other legal breaks/privileges) to be subsidies.

Too bad there is no Top Web results for "fucking".

What is this world coming to?

fucking Pronunciation Key (fkng) Vulgar Slang
adv. & adj.
Used as an intensive.

Never in your life have you been accused of being racist for the sole purpose of belittling you and make you an enemy in the public eye.

I have been accused of being an anti-semite. Oddly enough, I've never been accused by a Jewish person though.

I'll tell you what, we white fuckers step pretty fucking carefully cause of the bullshit pulled by the extorsionists the likes of Cochran.

Johnnie Cochran is dead. OJ was acquitted, get over it.

Black Panthers, those who followed Malcom X, Tupac, etc., all were cashing in on the racism card.

Cashing in? The Black Panther Party got its start BECAUSE of racist police, several unarmed men shot dead tends to upset some people. Malcolm X's father was lynched.

I already know the first words out of your mouth are going to be

Made up your mind already huh? That, sir is the clearest example of pre judice.

LK

The king/queen is made aware that any actions intended to reward the king/queen will result in immediate dismissal.

If the king truly does not want power, he'll simply take an action that leads to his dismissal as soon as possible, which goes on until a candidate who does want power and is smart enough to mask his self-serving actions as public good gets selected. And then you're right where you started.

You could, of course, make being dismised carry some kind of penalty; but then whoever holds the power to dismiss holds the king hostage, and can blackmail him into doing whatever he wants.

All of this, of course, assumes that the king and the who dismiss won't simply ally for their mutual benefit.

In short, some poor bastard is picked for extraordinary responsibility based solely upon their ability to lead, not upon any popularity contest, and the dictator can be overthrown in a bloodless fashion if the person turns out to be easily corruptible.

"If you keep on overthrowing leaders until I'm selected, I'll give your something good once I'm in power."

You can't stop any kind of elections from becoming popularity contests, because you can't force people to not vote based on how much they like someone. In fact any election is a popularity contest by definition; after all, one of the meanings of popular is accepted by or prevalent among the people in general .

And you can't make an incorruptible system out of corruptible humans. Power-hungry people will find ways to gain power, no matter how good the system looks on paper. After all, what forces the participants to play the parts you've written for them ?

It is unrealistic to contrive a story in hopes that it will somehow teach other people how to work out their own marital problems...

take a given problem and force it to a particular conclusion because you think that conclusion is more appropriate for people to see.

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

No entry found for affecters.

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

They had no idea it could be *this* bad.

To be fair, nobody did. The articles I've read in Science, New Scientist, etc., said this has never happened in medical research before.

I've read wavers, and I've read articles in medical journals about wavers (British Medical Journal has good articles). If a waver

They had no idea it could be *this* bad.

To be fair, nobody did. The articles I've read in Science, New Scientist, etc., said this has never happened in medical research before.

I've read wavers, and I've read articles in medical journals about wavers (British Medical Journal has good articles). If a waver

Ok, please read the definition again.

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

You seem to be hung up on the entry 1, but, look, there is also entry number 2, which says:

Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain).

The number one says:

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.

Examples do not fit this "strong" definition of irony, but that does not make them not ironic, perhaps simply weakly ironic. However, it's still irony.

You all should get off your high horses, and actually read the definition. From

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

"Irony: ...
Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs:"
"

and also:

"Incongruity: ...
n : the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
"

so, "A traffic jam when you're already late",

When one is late, and one might expect that he will drive faster. However, what actually occurs is that there is a traffic jam. Therefore, we have the quality of desagreeing with what might be expected and what actually occurs, in other words, irony.

"It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife"

When you need a knife, I guess a spoon would be unsuitable and inappropriate. Irony.

"It's a free ride when you've already paid"

When you've paid for something you expect it to be called "paid", not "free". Inconguity. You expect one, you get another. Irony.

So, how come there is not a single inory in that song???

How do you suggest handling removing items from the "desktop" metaphor? You are ejecting (throwing away) disks off the desktop when you eject a disk.

It's just another example of a word that can mean the opposite of itself.

(Another example is "Certain foods are good for you", where the dictionary definition of "certain" is "specific", but the speaker here is using it to intentionally be vague and general.)

That's a really nice insensitive.

Insensitive or nice -- make up your mind! :)

That's a really nice insensitive.

Insensitive or nice -- make up your mind! :)

At least I won't be loosing my job if no one cleans up [...]

But you might lose your job if you were too loose with your words.

...No, all right, probably not. But wouldn't it be nice to imagine that happening? */me and fellow pedants imagine it* Ahhh. :-)

At least I won't be loosing my job if no one cleans up [...]

But you might lose your job if you were too loose with your words.

...No, all right, probably not. But wouldn't it be nice to imagine that happening? */me and fellow pedants imagine it* Ahhh. :-)

"my mother bought a grille lighter .. The self-scanner at Kroger's locked itself up and paged a clerk..."

"Last week my girlfriend bought four peaches. An alert came up..."

"My video games spy on me..."

"My ISP is being strong-armed..."

"my own computer spies on me daily..."

"my bank has been compromised..."

"my phone is tapped..."

information is not power --- money is power and information is control of that power....

Computer scientists are not scientists. They are at best mathematicians, but mathematics is not science, merely a tool that some sciences use. Scientists investigate nature. Neither mathematics nor computers occur in nature.

Really?

Mathematics is a tool for apprehending reality. ("nature" is probably an erroneous concept; barring the concept of intelligent design, humans themselves are a part of nature.) While the universe doesn't operate on math, but on physical laws, we use mathematics to comprehend the universe, and to develop models of it that provide us with consistent results. At the same time, we can see mathematics everywhere, for instance in the fibonacci sequence that appears in the structure of countless plants.

Regardless, your definition of science is incorrect. It deals with phenomena, or if you like behavior, and not merely with this bogus concept of "nature". To discover the futility of trying to separate things into "natural" and "not natural" consider the fact that if you just dig an appropriate trench, in relatively short order "nature" will come along and populate it with plants that would not otherwise survive there. Is this a construction of man, or of nature? That landform might never have been formed without the influence of man.

Science comes from a word meaning "to know". It doesn't come from a word meaning "to know nature" nor does it mean that.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q= define%3Asarcasm&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q= define%3Airony&btnG=Search
Looks like it depends on exactly where you get your definition from. The majority of definitions define sarcasm as a type of verbal irony (which is why it does not work well in written word, it's verbal), many of which also specify saying the opposite of what you mean. To use your example, "The weather is far worse than Hurricane Katrina" would fall under sarcasm because the weather today is, in fact, not far worse than Hurricane Katrina. I did see at least one that defined sarcasm as exaggerating, though, rather than saying the opposite.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sarcasticAc cording to the American Heritage Dictionary, which is the source used on dictionary.com/reference.com, they are synonyms and differ in subtlety.

Interestingly, none of these sources give that definition of the word:

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

While Merriam-Webster is certainly reputable, is their definition merely the reputed one?

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

2 a. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain).

That dogmatic definition previously posted is wrong. Also review situational irony:

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

Lets just start out with a little dictionary action

The linux commands you're calling out aren't intuitive at all. You're just saying linux is faster to type in. ifup, ifdown? does that mean if = down, then eth1? Linux CLI is notorious for being confusing and unintuitive. Cisco IOS: configure terminal. interface fastethernet0/0. shutdown. it specifically states what you want to do, what interface, and what you want that interface to do. How is ifup eth1 more intuitive than that? All the commands are neatly tucked away where they should be. If it doesn't affect the system in a global manner, it's under the section that it does affect.

Oh yeah, what do you have to do to check the configuration of your ethernet card in linux?
more /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
More, an extremely obvious command to show something, and of course the config file is in the first place /I'd/ look.

Too bad Cisco made it all tough with show running-configuration interface fastethernet0/0 (or if you're concerned about WPM performance, show run int fa0/0).

Cisco IOS may not be extremely fast to type things out in like Linux. But it is very intuitive. They want to make sure you know exactly where you're working, and what you're doing. I'm not doing networking on my Pentium Pro box in my mom's basement like you are. If I'm running the risk of taking down a corporate network, I need to know that what I'm doing shouldn't affect everything else on the box. Keep access limited to whatever you need. The Cisco CLI makes perfect sense for that purpose.

Both are valid

I think I see the problem. You posted the word (and I quote) "xenophia". You thought you were posting "xenophobia". However, your misspelling looks closer to the word "xenophilia", which is actually the exact opposite.

On first reading, I thought you meant xenophilia as well.

"Xenophobia denotes a phobic attitude towards strangers or of the unknown and comes from the Greek words (xenos), meaning "foreigner", "stranger", and (phobos), meaning "fear"."

From www.reference.com

Like me who don't know what dythirambic means.

A colony is a human expansion into unused resources of water, plant and animal life, arable land, and ECONOMICALLY recoverable minerals.

Way to use one specific meaning of a word. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/colony Check out definition 2.

lol guyz, y u want 2 grow petri dish on moon kekekeke

On top of that, what is the criteria for your definition? It doesn't even make any sense.
A: The original American and African colonies had natives using the water supplies already, there's part one of the definition gone.
B: Apparantly, no non-farming urban area can be a colony. Land must be fit to be farmed; that means no urbanization!
C: Ah yes, economically recoverable minerals. No colonies for the following reasons: slaves, religion, penal (unless mining is included), farming, or even so people have somewhere to live. No mines, no colonies, forget what you heard.

Finally, as for no resources, renewable resources exist, and it is very likely that sustainable renewable resources will exist. Water and air can be cleaned, plants grow in tubes, and physical space has a value (if you disagree, please get me a free apartment). As far as cleaning, we can do that with electricity. We can make electricity with light. Light exists in space. As for food, well, check the ultimate source of near any terrestrial food chain.

As for sustaining mankind in case the Earth is wiped out, I'll admit that ones on the silly side. I'll be eating those words once the Earth is wiped out, however.

Wrong entry.

maybe my dictionary is a little dusty.... but last i checked democracy is directly appointed by the people, so you ARE responcible for the actions of your administration.... unless you became a monarchy or a dictatorship while i was in the bathroom. If you really dont like what they are doing, quit posting on /. and go out there and do something about it... or else how is anyone else to know that you are against what they are doing?

maybe my dictionary is a little dusty.... but last i checked democracy is directly appointed by the people, so you ARE responcible for the actions of your administration.... unless you became a monarchy or a dictatorship while i was in the bathroom. If you really dont like what they are doing, quit posting on /. and go out there and do something about it... or else how is anyone else to know that you are against what they are doing?

maybe my dictionary is a little dusty.... but last i checked democracy is directly appointed by the people, so you ARE responcible for the actions of your administration.... unless you became a monarchy or a dictatorship while i was in the bathroom. If you really dont like what they are doing, quit posting on /. and go out there and do something about it... or else how is anyone else to know that you are against what they are doing?

He literally had them by their balls.

Wall Street smokescreen.

"The constitution protects us from unlawful search and seizure."

No, the Bill of Rights protects us from unlawful search and seizure.

Engage in pedantry much? Let's run this down; the bill of rights is a set of amendments to the constitution. As amendments, they are incapable of functioning on their own. Thus, they are part of the constitution (look up amend in the dictionary if you still don't get it) and well, this whole conversation was pointless and stupid. Especially on your side.

Niggle: champing at the bit.

The "extra scrutiny" you refer to isn't at the whim of anti-MS zealots, it's based on the provisions of the MS/DOJ settlement, and those provisions would not preclude Microsoft bidding for contracts on the open market (as long as the bids don't relate to or depend on the "monopoly" status of the "monopoly" product in question). It sounds like you want Microsoft to be precluded from conducting business at all, without your OK (where "your OK" = "the consent of Microsoft haters").

Oh, and the "convicted of monopoly, convicted monopolist" rhetoric is so tired. "Conviction" refers to criminal cases, not civil cases.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conviction
"NOTE: Jurisdictions differ as to what constitutes conviction for various statutes (as habitual offender statutes). Conviction is rarely applied to civil cases."

Microsoft has never been "convicted" of anything, nor even accused of criminal behavior.

Idiot.

Your Latin is even rustier, the correct phrase is per se, not per say.

Maybe you should look up the meanings of THEN and THAN. I thought the meanings were common knowledge, and there are lots of articles on the subject.

All in jest, but "AV forums buzzing" does not make something "common knowledge". Simple grammar rules such as when to use than or then SHOULD be common knowledge, however that is much too optimistic for slashdot :D.