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Endemic. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Morone

Time to look up defuse and diffuse.

Time to look up defuse and diffuse.

A few people are sloppy and let couple refer to the "few", meaning, but most people prefer the definition referring to a pair.

Not at all. In phrases such as "a couple of dollars" or "a couple of minutes", the "few" meaning is clearly meant by the majority of speakers. The page you link to has a good usage note from the American Heritage Dictionary:

Although the phrase a couple of has been well established in English since before the Renaissance, modern critics have sometimes maintained that a couple of is too inexact to be appropriate in formal writing. But the inexactitude of a couple of may serve a useful purpose, suggesting that the writer is indifferent to the precise number of items involved. Thus the sentence She lives only a couple of miles away implies not only that the distance is short but that its exact measure is unimportant. This usage should be considered unobjectionable on all levels of style.

It was the best me-me this side of "All Your Base".

The air scooter is an ultralight, not a "car". That's a pretty big difference. Move on there's nothing to see here. The flying car still hasn't arrived. When it does you will likely be able to credit this guy.

Towns expand and grow into cities.

It depends on the definition you use, but the typical political US definition doesn't care about size. A town is "a territorial and political unit governed by a town meeting, especially in New England," while a city is "an incorporated municipality in the United States with definite boundaries and legal powers set forth in a charter granted by the state." The that extent, I grew up in a city of 3600 people, but 5 miles north was a town of 20,000 people and growing.

Towns expand and grow into cities.

It depends on the definition you use, but the typical political US definition doesn't care about size. A town is "a territorial and political unit governed by a town meeting, especially in New England," while a city is "an incorporated municipality in the United States with definite boundaries and legal powers set forth in a charter granted by the state." The that extent, I grew up in a city of 3600 people, but 5 miles north was a town of 20,000 people and growing.

No, it's named after the god Mercury. From dictionary.com: Having the characteristics of eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, and thievishness attributed to the god Mercury.

You acknowledge that a system based on fear keeps you in line, yet you applaud it. There's a word for people like you. Hey, here's another. Wouldja look at this, seems there's a whole bunch!

I sincerely hope your children manage to escape your influence and grow up to be decent human beings.

You acknowledge that a system based on fear keeps you in line, yet you applaud it. There's a word for people like you. Hey, here's another. Wouldja look at this, seems there's a whole bunch!

I sincerely hope your children manage to escape your influence and grow up to be decent human beings.

target rendezvous target, a Pentagon satelite
Can anyone say redundant? Can anyone say redundant?
And WTF is a "satelite ?"

Spyware, N.: Spyware may be Slowing t3h yu0r PC down!!!1 Downl0ad t3h 0u|2 5py-5w33p3r t0d4Y!

Please do not misinterpret my statement. I was not arguing for evolution, against pansperma, creationism or any of the other ideas that you have mentioned. I was merely pointing out that faith as a concept defies rational evidence, that's what faith is, after all see entry two. Faith defies evidence. That is not in question. The validity of such evidence is a completeley different matter for debate.

He's right

Right now my filter has entries like:

http://*.ru4.*/*
http://*.2o7.net/*
http://*.dou bleclick.net/*

I've never actually visited those sites--I don't see why I have to receive images from them, especially if they are offensive. (That's offensive as in "Of, relating to, or designed for attack." I still see Google Ads, I still see the ads on Penny Arcade. They aren't presented in a manner that obtrudes. That's what matters.

Be careful who you call a moron.

You might want to be more careful yourself.

dictionary

captain learning brings you your Word of the Day! (patent pending)

sycophant Audio pronunciation of "sycophantic" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (sk-fnt, sk-)
n.

A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people.

1. a. Information about recent events or happenings, especially as reported by newspapers, periodicals, radio, or television.
b. A presentation of such information, as in a newspaper or on a newscast.
2. New information of any kind: The requirement was news to him.
3. Newsworthy material: "a public figure on a scale unimaginable in America; whatever he did was news" (James Atlas).

Patenting congress.

Fine with me. Just don't patent sexual congress.

In particular, note the definition given here at the bottom: 5. A generalization based on consistent experience or results.

I think you mean tsk tsk.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=speed 8 entries found for speed. speed ( P ) Pronunciation Key (spd) n. 1. Physics. The rate or a measure of the rate of motion, especially: Distance traveled divided by the time of travel. The limit of this quotient as the time of travel becomes vanishingly small; the first derivative of distance with respect to time. The magnitude of a velocity. 2. Swiftness of action.

otherwise we'd have "words" like "ain't" and "cuz" in the dictionary
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

At Dictionary.com antisocial: 1. Shunning the society of others; not sociable.

Also, Shunning: To avoid deliberately; keep away from.

Now if noone is interested in seeing the code then I wouldn't label it deliberately avoiding. However, releasing in non-Free manner would preclude the interest so might still be considered deliberate avoidance. In a society that that uses code to express some ideas to the point the code is considered Free Speech, I absolutely think this definition fits with releasing a program but keeping the code to yourself. I'm not saying it's destructive behavior but it does fit the definition.

Note: For this definition you don't have to be bucking a social norm to be antisocial.

Even writing software for yourself that you will never release to anyone else ever is not antisocial.

Certainly, just keeping something to yourself is not antisocial. But if all you did is code and kept it all to yourself would that be antisocial? That might get you "marked for behavior deviating sharply from the social norms" (from webster.com). That might be a different definition of antisocial but the word still applies. I don't care about this definition because it will just devolve into a debate about what the "social norm" is. For the definition I refer to it's not required.

At Dictionary.com antisocial: 1. Shunning the society of others; not sociable.

Also, Shunning: To avoid deliberately; keep away from.

Now if noone is interested in seeing the code then I wouldn't label it deliberately avoiding. However, releasing in non-Free manner would preclude the interest so might still be considered deliberate avoidance. In a society that that uses code to express some ideas to the point the code is considered Free Speech, I absolutely think this definition fits with releasing a program but keeping the code to yourself. I'm not saying it's destructive behavior but it does fit the definition.

Note: For this definition you don't have to be bucking a social norm to be antisocial.

Even writing software for yourself that you will never release to anyone else ever is not antisocial.

Certainly, just keeping something to yourself is not antisocial. But if all you did is code and kept it all to yourself would that be antisocial? That might get you "marked for behavior deviating sharply from the social norms" (from webster.com). That might be a different definition of antisocial but the word still applies. I don't care about this definition because it will just devolve into a debate about what the "social norm" is. For the definition I refer to it's not required.

Well, teach me! It actually _is_ a word. . .

performant (n): a performer (Etymology: based on informant, etc.)

Source: Webster's New Millennium(TM) Dictionary of English

I just hope that you're mounting a scratch monkey during testing.

After Steve sues you, you'd be making minimum wage after getting one of them Mc.Jobs

• jam: A preserve made from whole fruit boiled to a pulp with sugar.
• jelly: A soft, semisolid food substance with a resilient consistency, made by the setting of a liquid containing pectin or gelatin or by the addition of gelatin to a liquid, especially such a substance made of fruit juice containing pectin boiled with sugar.
• marmalade: A clear, jellylike preserve made from the pulp and rind of fruits, especially citrus fruits.
• preserves: Fruit cooked with sugar to protect against decay or fermentation.

class fruit_derived_topping { /* etc. */ }
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• jam: A preserve made from whole fruit boiled to a pulp with sugar.
• jelly: A soft, semisolid food substance with a resilient consistency, made by the setting of a liquid containing pectin or gelatin or by the addition of gelatin to a liquid, especially such a substance made of fruit juice containing pectin boiled with sugar.
• marmalade: A clear, jellylike preserve made from the pulp and rind of fruits, especially citrus fruits.
• preserves: Fruit cooked with sugar to protect against decay or fermentation.

class fruit_derived_topping { /* etc. */ }
class jelly : fruit_derived_topping { /* etc. */ }
class preserves : fruit_derived_topping { /* etc. */ }
class jam : preserves { /* etc. */ }
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class fruit_derived_topping:
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• jam: A preserve made from whole fruit boiled to a pulp with sugar.
• jelly: A soft, semisolid food substance with a resilient consistency, made by the setting of a liquid containing pectin or gelatin or by the addition of gelatin to a liquid, especially such a substance made of fruit juice containing pectin boiled with sugar.
• marmalade: A clear, jellylike preserve made from the pulp and rind of fruits, especially citrus fruits.
• preserves: Fruit cooked with sugar to protect against decay or fermentation.

class fruit_derived_topping { /* etc. */ }
class jelly : fruit_derived_topping { /* etc. */ }
class preserves : fruit_derived_topping { /* etc. */ }
class jam : preserves { /* etc. */ }
class jelly : preserves { /* etc. */ }

class fruit_derived_topping:
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class jelly(fruit_derived_topping):
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class preserves(fruit_derived_topping):
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class jam(preserves):
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class jelly(preserves):
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• jam: A preserve made from whole fruit boiled to a pulp with sugar.
• jelly: A soft, semisolid food substance with a resilient consistency, made by the setting of a liquid containing pectin or gelatin or by the addition of gelatin to a liquid, especially such a substance made of fruit juice containing pectin boiled with sugar.
• marmalade: A clear, jellylike preserve made from the pulp and rind of fruits, especially citrus fruits.
• preserves: Fruit cooked with sugar to protect against decay or fermentation.

class fruit_derived_topping { /* etc. */ }
class jelly : fruit_derived_topping { /* etc. */ }
class preserves : fruit_derived_topping { /* etc. */ }
class jam : preserves { /* etc. */ }
class jelly : preserves { /* etc. */ }

class fruit_derived_topping:
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class jelly(fruit_derived_topping):
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From Dictionary.com:

Loose:

(def. 9)Lacking conventional moral restraint in sexual behavior.

Lose:

To be unsuccessful in retaining possession of; mislay: He's always losing his car keys.

From Dictionary.com:

Loose:

(def. 9)Lacking conventional moral restraint in sexual behavior.

Lose:

To be unsuccessful in retaining possession of; mislay: He's always losing his car keys.

Either way making up juvinile insulting variations on the name doesn't help your cause, it just makes you look immature.

Not true. Marketers and politicians know how important language is - it literally defines the terms of the debate. Use you're opponent's terms and you've already lost the debate, as this article discusses.

M$ would love it if everybody compared open source with M$Windows as a simple short-term TCO business decision, not as a long-term political decision. They'd love if it people ignored the long term, lockin and democracy compromising results of a private, unaccountable vendor monoculture and control. They'd love it if people continued to be good little consumers paying their $35,000,000,000+ per year for a dozen programs mostly written more than a decade ago with the most complicated bits, the device drivers, being written by third parties.

Sorry, but I for one am not going to play their game. If that alienates some people then so be it - at least it encourages people to think about why M$ has so many enemies and about the M$ market manipulation e.g. bullshit like the pre-install contracts, icon management, deliberate incompatibility, keyboard keys, stickers, oh-sorry security problems and "accidental" web redirects. There's good reasons why people hate M$. M$ strategy has changed in emphasis now they are an established monopoly but they're still hugely benefiting from the legal but unethical tactics they've been pulling for decades now.

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Specify
(1) To state explicitly or in detail.

If they state only "Licensed under the GNU General Public License", then they have not specified a version. The fact that they distributed a copy of version 2 with the code is irrelevant.

When it comes to things like licences or contracts, what is "strongly implied" does not matter. What matters is what is actually said. So if you wish to release your code under version 2, simply say "Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2". Don't beat around the bush.

...and those bastards who write the dictionaries are in on it too. It's a conspiracy I tell you, a conspiracy! Why I bet all the documents that were published before the RIAA was even created that used these terms are plants!

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=theft
Theft:
n.

1. The act or an instance of stealing; larceny.
2. Obsolete. Something stolen.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=steal
Steal:
v. stole, (stl) stolen, (stln) stealing, steals
v. tr.

1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
2. To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully: steal a kiss; stole the ball from an opponent.
3. To move, carry, or place surreptitiously.
4. To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer: The magician's assistant stole the show with her comic antics.
5. Baseball. To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a base hit, walk, passed ball, or wild pitch.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=property
Property:
n. pl. properties

1.
1. Something owned; a possession.
2. A piece of real estate: has a swimming pool on the property.
3. Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title: properties such as copyrights and trademarks.
4. Possessions considered as a group.
2. The right of ownership; title.
3. An article, except costumes and scenery, that appears on the stage or on screen during a dramatic performance.
4.
1. A characteristic trait or peculiarity, especially one serving to define or describe its possessor.
2. A characteristic attribute possessed by all members of a class. See Synonyms at quality.
5. A special capability or power; a virtue: the chemical properties of a metal.

According to the arguments that you have given, it is perfectly alright for me to come over to your house at night, break into your car, take it for a drive, and then return it, since you haven't lost anything. It really isn't "stealing" industrial secrets, and I shouldn't be put in jail for releasing chemical weapons information to hostile countries?

Please note:
Theft = Stealing (by your comments)
Stealing = To take (the property of another) without right or permission. (definition 1)
Property = Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title: properties such as copyrights and trademarks. (definition 1, sub 3)

If you do not like the laws, get the laws changed. Otherwise, live by them. This is not a right, this is a responsibility.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=theft
Theft:
n.

1. The act or an instance of stealing; larceny.
2. Obsolete. Something stolen.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=steal
Steal:
v. stole, (stl) stolen, (stln) stealing, steals
v. tr.

1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
2. To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully: steal a kiss; stole the ball from an opponent.
3. To move, carry, or place surreptitiously.
4. To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer: The magician's assistant stole the show with her comic antics.
5. Baseball. To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a base hit, walk, passed ball, or wild pitch.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=property
Property:
n. pl. properties

1.
1. Something owned; a possession.
2. A piece of real estate: has a swimming pool on the property.
3. Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title: properties such as copyrights and trademarks.
4. Possessions considered as a group.
2. The right of ownership; title.
3. An article, except costumes and scenery, that appears on the stage or on screen during a dramatic performance.
4.
1. A characteristic trait or peculiarity, especially one serving to define or describe its possessor.
2. A characteristic attribute possessed by all members of a class. See Synonyms at quality.
5. A special capability or power; a virtue: the chemical properties of a metal.

According to the arguments that you have given, it is perfectly alright for me to come over to your house at night, break into your car, take it for a drive, and then return it, since you haven't lost anything. It really isn't "stealing" industrial secrets, and I shouldn't be put in jail for releasing chemical weapons information to hostile countries?

Please note:
Theft = Stealing (by your comments)
Stealing = To take (the property of another) without right or permission. (definition 1)
Property = Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title: properties such as copyrights and trademarks. (definition 1, sub 3)

If you do not like the laws, get the laws changed. Otherwise, live by them. This is not a right, this is a responsibility.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=theft
Theft:
n.

1. The act or an instance of stealing; larceny.
2. Obsolete. Something stolen.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=steal
Steal:
v. stole, (stl) stolen, (stln) stealing, steals
v. tr.

1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
2. To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully: steal a kiss; stole the ball from an opponent.
3. To move, carry, or place surreptitiously.
4. To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer: The magician's assistant stole the show with her comic antics.
5. Baseball. To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a base hit, walk, passed ball, or wild pitch.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=property
Property:
n. pl. properties

1.
1. Something owned; a possession.
2. A piece of real estate: has a swimming pool on the property.
3. Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title: properties such as copyrights and trademarks.
4. Possessions considered as a group.
2. The right of ownership; title.
3. An article, except costumes and scenery, that appears on the stage or on screen during a dramatic performance.
4.
1. A characteristic trait or peculiarity, especially one serving to define or describe its possessor.
2. A characteristic attribute possessed by all members of a class. See Synonyms at quality.
5. A special capability or power; a virtue: the chemical properties of a metal.

According to the arguments that you have given, it is perfectly alright for me to come over to your house at night, break into your car, take it for a drive, and then return it, since you haven't lost anything. It really isn't "stealing" industrial secrets, and I shouldn't be put in jail for releasing chemical weapons information to hostile countries?

Please note:
Theft = Stealing (by your comments)
Stealing = To take (the property of another) without right or permission. (definition 1)
Property = Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title: properties such as copyrights and trademarks. (definition 1, sub 3)

If you do not like the laws, get the laws changed. Otherwise, live by them. This is not a right, this is a responsibility.

You're confusing, intentionally or not, conservatism's multiple definitions. Republicans (who call themselves conservatives) today do not want the status quo - that's why they passed the USA PATRION Act, appoint privacy advocates who don't believe in privacy, etc. Another case in point: Terry Schiavo. The status quo said that it was up to the state courts. Most of today's conservatives thought otherwise (mad props to Republican Christopher Shays for standing up to them, at least on this issue).

Come again?

It got modded down because its not even mildly funny.

It made me chuckle. Remember, "funny" is not an absolute; just look at Pauly Shore! (On second thoughts, don't; it might make you ill.)

It is, in the strictest sense, Redundant.

Tell me, which sense of redundant means "not funny"? Granted, none of the mod options really express the notion of "unfunny", and I suppose you could stretch a point by saying the comment wasn't needed, but that applies equally to 99.999% of the comments on /.

I'd always assumed "Redundant" was to be used when someone's repeated a comment that's already been made; as the comment in question was the first reply to the first post it in no way matches the criteria.

I thought a geek was someone who bit the heads off of live chickens at carnivals?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=worm, usage 2.

"At the time of this post, most of the sections of the site are unavailable with a 'coming soon' sign on them."

You can find more information on this topic here.

Here's the definition of qualitative http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=qualitati ve

Here's the definition of quantitive http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=quantitiv e
I hope this doesn't exceed your fourth grade reading level.

Here's the definition of qualitative http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=qualitati ve

Here's the definition of quantitive http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=quantitiv e
I hope this doesn't exceed your fourth grade reading level.