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You raise, a good point. The evidence suggests that to some extent criminals lack of education is caused by other variables that lead to both to criminality and make completing school more difficult. In particular, criminals have on average lower intelligence, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201006/why-criminals-are-less-intelligent-non-criminals poor impulse control,http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleID=101809 and extremely high self-esteem ,http://www.emotionalcompetency.com/papers/baumeistersmartboden1996%5B1%5D.pdf, all of which are associated with doing poorly in school.

However, there's also evidence that some amount of criminal behavior is due to lower education reducing work opportunities. The most successful programs at reducing recidivism are those which educate the convicts. https://www.stcloudstate.edu/continuingstudies/distance/documents/CollegeEducationandRecidivismEducatingCriminalsisMeritorious1997.pdf although the exact causes of this are unclear http://www.bop.gov/news/research_projects/published_reports/recidivism/orepredprg.pdf. So, while there is a correlation v. causation issue, it does look like education genuinely helps.

In a list like this the writer upgrades the commas in the names to semicolons. You do respect the comma and use them in their more important role as list separators. It's not pretty, but it's right. It's not easy being an English Major.

I call shenanigans. Yeah, I have a writing degree too, and what you're saying contradicts Strunk and White, and just about every other style guide I've ever read. And it contradicts every English textbook I've ever read. I can't find a decent copy of The Elements of Style online -- the only versions I can find are the original written by William Strunk, before E. B. White jumped in and expanded the book. However, I found plenty of other grammar-related sites online that agree with me:

• Wikipedia (yes, I know, but bear with me): Use a semicolon between items in a series containing internal punctuation: "There are several Waffle Houses in Atlanta, Georgia; Greenville, South Carolina; Gainesville, Florida; and Mobile, Alabama."
• From Grammar Monster's English Grammar Lessons: "Items in lists are usually separated with commas (as in the first example below). However, if the list items themselves contain commas, then semicolons can be used as separators."
  Interestingly enough, this article does discuss "promoting" commas to semicolons, but indicates clearly that the commas being promoted are the ones in between the list items and not the ones inside the list items themselves.
• Grammar Girl's blog: "I don't want to confuse you, but there is one situation where you use semicolons with coordinating conjunctions, and that's when you are writing a list of items and commas just don't do the job of separating them all. Here's an example: 'This week's book winners are Herbie in Milligan College, Tennessee; Matt in Irvine, California; and Jan in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.' Those are the real winners in this week's special Scott Sigler book giveaway, and they've each won a copy of his novel Earthcore, but the list also provides a great example of using semicolons in a list. Because each item in the list requires a comma to separate the city from the state, you have to use a semicolon to separate the items themselves."
• How to use the semicolon properly: "When you have a series of three or more items that normally would be separated by commas except that each individual item already has a comma in it, you use the semicolon between items."
• The University Writing Center at UCF: "Semicolons also separate elements of a list, if those elements contain internal commas. Semicolons replace commas in a list if using commas would make the list more ambiguous."
• And finally, this terse guide from LEO at St. Cloud State University.

So since you're hiding behind Anonymous Coward, either (a) you're not really an English Major, or (b) you are one, but apparently lack the conviction of certitude in your answer to sign your "name" to it. And that list I gave above isn't even comprehensive, it's just what I managed to find after a few minutes of searching with Google. I will, however, point out that at least two of the citations I gave are from respected educational institutions.

You, on the other hand, indirectly claim to be an authority when it's not at all clear whether you're truly an expert or not.

Wait, what? Are you implying that he failed, and that a lot should be one word?

Or that he should spell a lot that way, to experience failure?

In the latter case, clever, but you need a little work on clarity.
In the former, I hope you learned a lot from this post, because it was an utter failure.

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I found this photo of the robot.

Yeah, you did.

The story itself collected the U.S. bank of genetic materials?

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Ah... the vagaries of grammar and antecedent pronouns.

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/pronante.html

I think the original poster was joking for what it's worth.

Of course, "for what it's worth" is an idiom so the rules are probably thrown out there.

"Their" is a plural possessive adjective and should not (in my opinion) be used to refer to a singular antecedent, in this case "copyeditor." Some people have pressed for various neuter singular possessives. None of these have caught on, with the exception of singular they, common in colloquial English. As you point out, it has been common for quite some time.

From a stylistic standpoint, I think using a singular pronoun emphasizes the individuality of the antecedent. I picked feminine because I like women. :-)

From my investigation of the problem locally, it seems to be that the problem is with browsers that don't handle the "302 Moved Temporarily" header returned by your domain forwarding web server properly. It appears that most command line clients also don't handle "302 Moved Temporarily" properly.This seems to be what is expected to happen:

1. User requests / from your server because they were directed there by a DNS identification of http://family.cabanela.com/ pointing to your server.
2. GoDaddy Server redirects to /?ABCDEFGH ("302 Moved Temporarily")
3. User requests /?ABCDEFGH
4. GoDaddy Server prepares new version of /, and redirects user back to /
5. User requests / again from GoDaddy servers.
6. this time, the page loads with the Location redirect properly set tohttp://iparrizar.stcloudstate.edu/~juan/family/

The reason this doesn't work in my command line browsers is that they give up at step 2. When they get the "302 Moved Temporarily" HTTP response, they don't load the URL to which the server reports the page has moved.The reason this works in Firefox is that Firefox continues to step 3, loading the URL to which the server reports the page has moved.The reason this works in my command line browsers after you try it in Firefox is that Firefox has already gone through steps 1-4, so your server apparently already has the "real" / ready to go. So this appears to be an issue due to the fact that you must cache the URLs to be forwarded on your server and once in the cache, they play friendly with any browser (on any client, I suspect). [snip]

Thank you for contacting customer support. We are aware of the issue being experienced with forwarding. There is a problem with the connection between several ISP's and our servers. Unfortunately, as the problem is not with our servers, we are not able to fix it ourselves, nor do we have an ETA for when the problem will be resolved. Your sites are currently forwarding correctly. You should be able to verify this with and . Your ISP may be able to give you more information.

The term "freedom loving" has many non-obvious interpretations these days.

My Credo, is a speech by Albert Einstein to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin, in the autumn of 1932. I think it is the most eloquent intrepretation of "freedom loving" I have ever read.

BTW: "the perils of democracy" he spoke of in the speech was a direct jab at Hitler's recent election win. Considering he was "Jewish" I would say he left the target range with bravery and dignity.

Exactly what "conclusion" have I jumped to?

And just to get this out there: I dont use Opera. I used to, but switched to firefox when Opera starting crashing every five seconds (this is not a problem I've heard anyone else complain of)

It depends on what version. Pretty much every major release of Opera is somewhat buggy, but after a few point releases it gets stable. Right now, the current version (8.00) has some, uh, issues, but the previous version (7.54) is pretty solid.

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Some pages on the topic of Einstein's statements about god and religon:

http://condor.stcloudstate.edu/~lesikar/einstein/p ersonal.html
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/quotes_einstei n.html
http://www.skeptic.com/archives50.html
http://www.2think.org/einstein.shtml

Honestly you're right - but I've found CRT monitors more effective at producing heat. Older, larger CRT monitors are basically small space heaters. A multi-monitor setup with old IBM 'powerdisplay' model CRTs will heat a dorm room VERY quickly.

You mean like this?

Yes, they are all functional, and there is even one more screen you can't see in this picture.

No, grammatically it means that you may not use the service for any transfer (downloading or uploading or streaming) of three things: movies, music, or games. If "music" and "games" were verbs, then it would mean grammatically what you claim, but as nouns, syntax requires that the verbs apply to all three nouns to prevent the list from being unbalanced. See the final "simple parallelism" example on the LEO: Parallelism page for more proof. The LEO example is constructed so that most people would agree the unbalanced version sounds incorrect, though it is incorrect whether it sounds good to you or not.

Note, this means you can't visit any webpage with sound (not that I'd want to) or movies, (including flash advertisements) and you can't download free games (eg from sourceforge). As a side effect, you must not download any linux distribution that includes something such as "solitaire" (eg knoppix comes with both games AND separate music). You can't use the connection to buy (and download) music from itunes or retreive music from any free source, nor can you listen to internet radio (that plays music; pure speaking is fine). You can't update many types of software (such as getting an update to a game you already own, if the update includes a new level with new music or movies).

If their service is an "unlimited web browsing and email checking service" it should be called that, rather than an "unlimited internet service" which implies that the full range of internet capabilities are permitted.

Plus, he didn't do his research - Einstein firmly did not believe in god.

Plus, he didn't do his research - Einstein firmly did not believe in god.

Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Dirac, Faraday, Planck, Kelvin, Maxwell and Einstein beleived in God. So do I.

Much fewer scientists are religious -- if you compare to the general population.

It's an old observation that if you cherrypick examples from a large data set, you can get good statistics for any thesis. Of course, that is the reason it is considered less than intellectually honest...

Besides, "religious" is hardly a good description of Einstein. Also, Newton was a nut I wouldn't want to mention regarding anything but math... Ah never mind.

(The references are just Googles for things I read years ago and wanted pointers to. Original source is Nature.)

Einstein certainly never believed in the christian god or any other personal god.

This is a pet peeve of mine: the use (utilisation?) of the word utilise/utilize where the word 'use' would do. Though not technically incorrect, it is usually a byproduct either of a misguided desire to appear educated or of too much exposure to management-speak...or both.

Normally I'm not picky about this sort of thing on Slashdot, but in the context of this thread and this particular comment I think it appropriate to observe that grammar and spelling are (not is) utilised. Subject-verb agreement is a very important concept, and should be taught as a very early part of any grammar curriculum. If I were* a genuinely cruel copy editor, I would also note that the last sentence of the parent post is egregiously comma spliced.

I fear now that I've racked up sufficient bad karma from this little rant to ensure a spelling or grammar error will creep into this post....

*Kudos to you for studying German. I learned more about English grammer through my studies in French, Spanish, and German than I ever did in my English classes. The starred phrase above represents a correct use of the subjunctive--a concept I first saw clearly defined in Spanish 101.

Marx did not believe that "a single nation should have a single leader "; nevertheless, he became a leader singled out.

"Animals have a variety of emotions similar to human's" (Erikson 990).

.".

For example: "Blah blah blah .".

"The effect affected him such that it effected his defection from his affection toward her defective affectation for reflective detective stories".

The period goes before the end quotation, you dumbass!

For a detailed explanation see the Dome News.

The article is a popular treatment without equations, but anyone who has completed a course in Modern Physics should be able to write down the equations.

M. Residents must be a member of the "ResNet" Workgroup when appearing or sharing on the Network Neighborhood or AppleTalk zones. All shares (including text files) must be password protected. Passwords must not be empty. Shares will not be available from off campus or outside of the Residence Halls. Computer names may not be offensive or contain vulgar language.

"The accuracy of this comparison [ground-based clocks to satellite clocks] is limited mainly because atomic clocks change frequencies by small, semi-random amounts (of order 1 ns/day) at unpredictable times for reasons that are not fully understood."

Sounds pretty unscientific to me. Here's one researcher's papers on the subject, which conclude that the GPS systems aren't following relativity. http://www.stcloudstate.edu/~ruwang/

If you're interested in some other 3D software for Linux (some GPL, some not), there's 3dom, 3dpm, Behemot, G3D, Giram, 3delight, AC3D, and of course Blender as mentioned above.

Come on Karma, don't fail me now! The Linux Pimp

Mirrors of the screenshots are here, here, here, and here.

...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.

Mirrors of the screenshots are here, here, here, and here.

...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.

Mirrors of the screenshots are here, here, here, and here.

...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.

Mirrors of the screenshots are here, here, here, and here.

...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.