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viola

Did you mean: voila?

Damn you and your improper nomenclature! You don't enumerate singular atoms in inorganic molecules. The proper term is dihydrogen oxide.

Um, carbon monoxide?

This is an interesting word. I wonder if you have heard it before.

Disclaimer: I am neither American or Canadian and I don't care much about your stupid rivalries. But I still think you got pwn3d by GP's links.

Overlooking the laughable application of you being a total waste of skin, you might want to examine this:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=marathon

Broaden your mind. If you can.

You'd make less of a fool of yourself if you didn't waffle about subjects that you clearly know nothing about.

These types of activities are specifically excluded from Australian Goods and Services Tax (GST). If you're selling something privately, its not your usual business, etc, etc, then you don't have to provide a tax invoice, collect GST, etc. If you're selling to a business, then that business is required by law to withhold 48.5% of their payment to you in lieu of your providing them with a Tax Invoice and an Australian Business Number (ABN) unless you supply them with a receipt and a copy of the Statement by a supplier (reason for not quoting an ABN to an enterprise) form.

This isn't rocket science, its a standard and accepted way of operating privately within the tax system. I do it every time I provide a one-off service to a business in my capacity as a private individual, and I've never had a problem, nor has anyone come after me for GST.

Tax system here is a goddamn joke.

No, it's not. It actually works pretty well if you RTFM. It's certainly a damn sight better than the old system.

(It's worse for land. You're charged income tax on the money you use to buy the land, stamp duty when you buy, land tax every year by the state government, and land rates by the local council every quarter. Then when you sell the property there's a vendor tax. If you've made any money by renting it out that's more income tax you've got to pay.).

Now you're trying desperately to support a weak argument with a total non sequitur. Property taxes in Australia, particularly the ones you describe, are state matters, and have absolutely nothing to do with the Federal tax system that the article is about.

Not really.

Grammatical gender is one definition, but gender-for-people is a well accepted definition, and is useful not only times when you're too squeemish to say sex, but also for transsexuals, where biological sex and sexual identity don't overlap.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=organisat ion

Maybe you used a shark's head to spell, but definitely looks better when it's spelled properly.

Also, whenever you can, please keep correcting people who regard this as "piracy", "stealing" or "theft". It is nothing of the sort. It is "copyright infringement", plain and simple.

Use of the word "piracy" in place of "copyright infringement" has been commonplace for decades, if not longer. See for example here and here.

No, it isn't accurate. Yes, it was almost certainly started by content producers to try to provoke a negative emotional response in people. But just like the "hacker vs cracker" debate, you've already lost. There's not generally any point to fighting a battle you can't win.

Trying to persuade people to stop calling it piracy is just going to confuse and distract from the real argument.

Then is not the same word as than .

Of course, what can you expect from people who think "different" instead of "differently".

Then is not the same word as than .

Of course, what can you expect from people who think "different" instead of "differently".

transhuman

\Trans*hu"man\, a. [Pref. trans- + human.] More than human; superhuman. [R.]

Well, they wouldn't be baby murderers. Murder is defined as the unlawful killing of another person. A doctor performing an abortion is (generally) not breaking the law by doing so.

So, baby killer may be accurate, but then again protestors like to spit venom, and the best way to do that is to have a split tongue. Wow. I just derailed that imagery.

You need to read this

"If you'd learn some synonyms..."

Or, instead of learning, he could call it those by copying and pasting straight from reference.com like you did?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=harbinger Definition of Harbinger
But humdinger could fit too!

doctors go to jail for proscribing pain medication?

doctors go to jail for proscribing pain medication?

Actually, laws have nothing to do with furries or otherkin; the word you're looking for is draconian.

Both Merriam Websters and Dictionary.com disagree with you.

Draconic is the same as draconian.

It's disappointing to see how meme has devolved from a real word coined by Richard Dawkins, to a generic term meaning little more than "thing".

Sorry to nitpick, but it's a pet hate.

Perverse != Perverted

They do have similar meanings, granted, but "perverse" means more "bloody minded/against good", whereas "perverted" means "deviant/sexually deviant".

And yeah, dictionaries (generally American) often offer perverse as a synonym for some senses of perverted, but that doesn't mean (for example) that a guy covered in trifle with his dick in a chicken is perverse. He's perverted.

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Sorry to nitpick, but it's a pet hate.

Perverse != Perverted

They do have similar meanings, granted, but "perverse" means more "bloody minded/against good", whereas "perverted" means "deviant/sexually deviant".

And yeah, dictionaries (generally American) often offer perverse as a synonym for some senses of perverted, but that doesn't mean (for example) that a guy covered in trifle with his dick in a chicken is perverse. He's perverted.

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"You will see wireless headsets that can be used with iPod before you see convergence."

Exactly. I find it far more likely that Jobs will bring us a cell phone killer than that Gates will bring us an iPod killer.

People are overimpressed with Microsoft. They have three profitable divisions: business software, desktop OS, and server OS. They have three not as bad as they used to be businesses: small device windows, internet access, and gaming.

If they take out Palm, AOL, and PlayStation, then maybe I will take them seriously as a threat against iPod. The more likely effect of this is to prevent other people from competing. Apple will be the initial player and Microsoft will become the number two. Apple will set prices with their economies of scale; Microsoft will match those prices and lose money (just as they do vs. AOL and Sony).

People view Microsoft as this awesome force (2a. The power to inspire dread.). In truth, they got lucky once (IBM basically forced them to purchase DOS for IBM's computers) and did a smart thing once (we may think of them as being behind Apple in regards to GUIs, but they were ahead of WordPerfect and Lotus...what really mattered). Most everything else has been skiing down hill.

There are so many things wrong with that sentence that I wouldn't know where to start. And no, I don't use Marjaunna either. What do people do with it anyway, spread it on bread?

There are so many things wrong with that sentence that I wouldn't know where to start. And no, I don't use Marjaunna either. What do people do with it anyway, spread it on bread?

I will show courtesy to you in the expectation that it'll be reciprocated, yes.

I'll do my best.

That would be broadly accurate and fits in with, for example, the fact that one of the largest nations on earth, China, doesn't give a damn about human rights.

Citing examples where rights are supressed is irrelevant to my main points. I earlier stated that I was well aware of regimes where such rights are not respected. The rights themselves continue to exist.

As a Brit, and thus a subject of a monarchy with a long and bloody past, I'm aware that pretty much the only thing that stops the government oppressing me is the fact that it would be more trouble than it's worth.

Without providing an answer, I'd just like to invite you to think about why it is currently more trouble than it's worth. What would make it "worth it"? Are things heading in that direction?

I never said inalienable rights weren't a damn useful illusion to maintain. The fact that it's a good idea to act like they exist doesn't mean that they do.

If inalienable rights are a lie, then they would not be a good thing -- at least in the sense that they would incourage an ignorant and delusional population. If I can ascribe to one illusion, what else can I accept as truth that is false? Where does it stop?

You can cut out his tongue or kill him

I actually considered that you might mention mutilation in response to what I had said, but hoped that you would understand the larger concept I was driving at. If you cut out my toungue, you still don't have my willful obedience. I still have a free nature. You have failed to take that away.

I'd also note that any argument that applies to the ability to speak freely also applies to the ability to hit your neighbour over the head with a mallet

Allow me then, to clarify. My freedom to act stops when such action violates the freedoms of others to do likewise.

It's called the IRA and, as far as I can tell, the part of man's true nature that it expresses is his enjoyment of blowing up other men. And women and, for the hat trick, children and puppies. Again, if these rights you speak of are so inalienable, how come they're not easily differentiable

Actually, they're very easily differentiable. See my paragraph above about stepping on the rights of others. The IRA blowing up puppies would probably fall into such a category.

I'd suggest that, if what the master intended was for you to be an example pour encourager les autres, he has in fact succeeded.

In a fearful population that is used to thinking of themselves as slaves, you're probably right. Among a population that understands its' true strength and the nature of freedom -- one that is willing to whatever is necessary to defend it -- things might not be so clear-cut. I would suggest that the aforementioned torture and death could create a martyr-figure -- just what might be needed to convince an informed population to respond decisively to such tyrrany, at which point, I have, in fact, succeeded, to the extent that the tyrant is defeated.

On a side note: it's trivial to show that there are no inalienable rights - show me a right and I'll give you an example of when and where it's been alienated. What I think you mean is "rights that shouldn't be alienated".

We're fighting over semantics. My working definition of inalienable is still incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred, but to that I think I would add "without dire consequences" to the party that's trying to do the alienation. You can try to alienate the rig

, but just because it doesn't jive with the slashdot "groupthink"

I believe you meant to use jibe meaning "To be in accord; agree: Your figures jibe with mine."

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=paragraph

definition 1)
"A distinct division of written or printed matter that begins on a new, usually indented line, consists of one or more sentences, and typically deals with a single thought or topic or quotes one speaker's continuous words"

Hopefully that source meets with your approval.

Aparently some of the above posters are Americans, and hence too dense to grasp sarcasm.

And that special olympics in space is a national shame.

Um, NO.

It's O-G-L-E.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ogle

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=outmost

Farthest out; outermost.

Perhaps the submitter meant "utmost".

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=oxymoron .....Enough said

just because someone doesn't agree with your agenda doesn't mean they are "apologists" for group/company/etc XYZ.

Apologist: A person who argues in defense or justification of something, such as a doctrine, policy, or institution.

So you're right, disagreeing with someone does not make you an apologist. However, defending something (in argument) does. Being an apologist is not a bad thing.

"...investors are weary to put too much faith in to a company..."

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=weary

is not remotely the same as

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=leery

"...investors are weary to put too much faith in to a company..."

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=weary

is not remotely the same as

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=leery

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=piqued

One doesn't need a penis to perform oral sex on a boy

No, one wouldn't. However, no one is suggesting removing the penis. The suggestion is to remove the *testicles*, since they produce the hormones associated with lust. Yes, it would still be physically possible to engage in sex acts with minors. However, most won't feel the urge to do so. Castration is an option now. Some offenders do in fact opt for it (and a shorter sentence).

Second, what would you remove in the case of a female offender?

Who cares? If there is a hormonal cause, remove the equivalent hormone producer. If not, then leave her in jail. Note that the link defines the ovaries as the equivalent of the testicles (i.e. a women can be castrated).

He can always be released from prison, but what do you do if you've castrated the wrong fellow?

Can you take back the years in prison? I didn't think so. The only punishment that is reversible is a fine. Chemical castration is as cancellable as prison (i.e. you can stop it). Physical castration is partially cancellable (hormone supplements are available -- just ask someone who had testicular cancer).

Flipping through the eleven-hundred pages, you notice the gratuitous inclusion of mathematical formulae...

Might I suggest dictionary.com?

To have as a quality; exhibit: "A thousand different shapes it bears"

The title is a little jarring when I read it. I think thisis why.

Let me help you out, brother! :-)

To my recollection, "terror" can be defined as immense fear.

Looking to dictionary.com for terror;
1. Intense, overpowering fear. See Synonyms at fear.
2. One that instills intense fear: a rabid dog that became the terror of the neighborhood.
3. The ability to instill intense fear: the terror of jackboots pounding down the street.
4. Violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes.
5. Informal. An annoying or intolerable pest: that little terror of a child.
Looking to dictionary.com for terrorism (noun);

One that engages in acts or an act of terrorism.

Terror has no basis on monetary value; it's a state of mind; evenly applicable is someone with a personality disorder and intentionaly scares a populous with legislation to re-classify small-claims actions into immediate unwarranted searches and seizures of property. There are no limits on terrorists, because both You and Me can turn terrorist by the blink of an eye. Contemplate how unlicensed pharmacists with natural ill-health remedies could terrorize licensed drug-dealers (HMOs). I confess on my bad faith in one matter; I have honored the Royal Highness of Saint Breadpincher the fastest bread pincher in the west. Saint Breadpincher was a man that caused no less than USD 5000 by pinching loaves of bread over a five month period and no store manager could capture untill surveilance cameras were installed. I remember that day Saint Breadpincher was caught; bless his soles that he could run, and bless his wifes soul for reciting that legitimate explanation to newscasters on his capture, "He was only looking for the best bread for his family." In remembrance of Saint Breadpincher, I always pinch one loaf of bread and buy a loaf of non-pinched bread, when I walk through the aisle of bread: I'm a terrorist to bread-bakers because not many people buy damaged bread. Bring on that title of nobility: terrorist (noun). Bring it on, and this thirteenth amendment warrior will slay that BAR attorney! Har! MPAA and RIAA wants to say I'm a pirate; I already was a pirate upon appearing to buy the copyright audio, and they will be ashamed that the clause in the DMCA act explicitly says they aren't allowed to sell to a pirate. Well, I already was a pirate...and they sold copyright audio to a pirate: there liability, not mine. Har!

I have a terrorist Quest: to boldly go where no man has gone before: out of prison America and into prison United States!

Let me help you out, brother! :-)

To my recollection, "terror" can be defined as immense fear.

Looking to dictionary.com for terror;
1. Intense, overpowering fear. See Synonyms at fear.
2. One that instills intense fear: a rabid dog that became the terror of the neighborhood.
3. The ability to instill intense fear: the terror of jackboots pounding down the street.
4. Violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes.
5. Informal. An annoying or intolerable pest: that little terror of a child.
Looking to dictionary.com for terrorism (noun);

One that engages in acts or an act of terrorism.

Terror has no basis on monetary value; it's a state of mind; evenly applicable is someone with a personality disorder and intentionaly scares a populous with legislation to re-classify small-claims actions into immediate unwarranted searches and seizures of property. There are no limits on terrorists, because both You and Me can turn terrorist by the blink of an eye. Contemplate how unlicensed pharmacists with natural ill-health remedies could terrorize licensed drug-dealers (HMOs). I confess on my bad faith in one matter; I have honored the Royal Highness of Saint Breadpincher the fastest bread pincher in the west. Saint Breadpincher was a man that caused no less than USD 5000 by pinching loaves of bread over a five month period and no store manager could capture untill surveilance cameras were installed. I remember that day Saint Breadpincher was caught; bless his soles that he could run, and bless his wifes soul for reciting that legitimate explanation to newscasters on his capture, "He was only looking for the best bread for his family." In remembrance of Saint Breadpincher, I always pinch one loaf of bread and buy a loaf of non-pinched bread, when I walk through the aisle of bread: I'm a terrorist to bread-bakers because not many people buy damaged bread. Bring on that title of nobility: terrorist (noun). Bring it on, and this thirteenth amendment warrior will slay that BAR attorney! Har! MPAA and RIAA wants to say I'm a pirate; I already was a pirate upon appearing to buy the copyright audio, and they will be ashamed that the clause in the DMCA act explicitly says they aren't allowed to sell to a pirate. Well, I already was a pirate...and they sold copyright audio to a pirate: there liability, not mine. Har!

I have a terrorist Quest: to boldly go where no man has gone before: out of prison America and into prison United States!

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=implanted
You are incorrect read the definition or implanted for medicine. Don't flame something before you look up the definition.

You had me doubting myself there, but it's a valid synonym for "linguistic" apparently :

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=linguisti cal

Thanks.. Chickpeas are funny enough I guess, but it didn't really make sense.

CNN is running an article featuring Gates' prediction that the iPod is on the way out.

Bill has really got to learn the difference between prediction and predilection.

CNN is running an article featuring Gates' prediction that the iPod is on the way out.

Bill has really got to learn the difference between prediction and predilection.

Just because a court says it does not mean it is true. It is unfortunately common, for example, for the guilty to be declared innocent by the court, and for the innocent to get declared guilty.

Luna is the goddess of the moon according to the Romans (see http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=luna for reference). So that gives you Lune in French and Luna in Spanish/Italian.