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  1. Re:Anonymous because its real... by 3seas · · Score: 1 · on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami

    http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/Efforting

    Besides I got it from the Movie Armegeddon with Bruce Willis... Its from Hollywod, it must be real...shrug...

  2. Re:Great medieval diagnosis by msobkow · · Score: 2 · on Oxford Professor Taken To Task For Linking Internet Use To Autism

    From Webster's Online Dictionary:

    1: The removing of a bone disc from the skull for limited intracranial exploration

  3. Re:"Seeing a cell directly without dying" by toastar · · Score: 1 · on World's Most Powerful Optical Microscope

    Isn't that dyeing?

  4. Re:Greenland eh? by PyroMosh · · Score: 1 · on 40 Years Ago, the US Lost a Nuclear Bomb

    See 3.
    See 1.
    See 1.
    See 2.

    Stop trying to be pedantic. It's obnoxious when you're right, and you're not anyway.

    "America" has been an acceptable shortened name for "The United States of America" for well over 200 years. On the other hand, I've never heard anyone collectively refer to North America and South America as "America", even though this too would probably be correct.

    Words can have more than one meaning. Would you make the same argument about Australia?

  5. Re:You are confused. Re:Application? by Dr.Opveter · · Score: 1 · on Jerk-O-Meter to Meter Jerks

    Surely you don't need a lie detector to detect someone's tress.

    I know...sorry

  6. Re:Yes, I am going to hell for this... by APDent · · Score: 1 · on Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85

    Seems silly to argue, but, no it isn't.

    I looked for a more official source, but those are the best I could come up with.

  7. Re:bush judges by Jhon · · Score: 1 · on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized
    Are you incorrectly implying the word is not a legitimate one?
    No, I am correctly implying that.
    Before you start using words like correctly , you should fully be aware of their meaning.

    Unshocked is a 'legitamate' word. As are many adjectives in the dictionary to which you add the "UN" prefix. Those are the rules of our language. English 101 stuff. Actually, more like high-school grammer.

    English is a rich language and unless you want to review the 20 some odd volume Oxford Unabridged Dictionary (retails around $3000), you can review "websters" or "dictionary.com" (VERY abridged dictionaries) and get the root word and apply the prefix/suffix yourself and FOLLOW THE RULES.

    With regards to the issues germane to the topic, it's difficult to follow your reasoning or take you seriously when you allow yourself to get caught up in some silly minutia over "word legitimacy". Especially when you show that you don't know what you are talking about.
  8. Re:bush judges by Jhon · · Score: 1 · on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized
    Are you incorrectly implying the word is not a legitimate one?
    No, I am correctly implying that.
    Before you start using words like correctly , you should fully be aware of their meaning.

    Unshocked is a 'legitamate' word. As are many adjectives in the dictionary to which you add the "UN" prefix. Those are the rules of our language. English 101 stuff. Actually, more like high-school grammer.

    English is a rich language and unless you want to review the 20 some odd volume Oxford Unabridged Dictionary (retails around $3000), you can review "websters" or "dictionary.com" (VERY abridged dictionaries) and get the root word and apply the prefix/suffix yourself and FOLLOW THE RULES.

    With regards to the issues germane to the topic, it's difficult to follow your reasoning or take you seriously when you allow yourself to get caught up in some silly minutia over "word legitimacy". Especially when you show that you don't know what you are talking about.
  9. Celeron - false advertising by rkischuk · · Score: 1 · on AMD Plants Turion Line of Mobile Chips
    "Celeron, the name of which is derived from the latin word, 'celer', meaning 'fast' or 'swift'"

    'fast' and 'swift' are NOT words I often hear associated with Celerons. Perhaps they should have gone with insumption or vilion. Is implying that Celerons are fast some sort of cruel joke?

  10. Celeron - false advertising by rkischuk · · Score: 1 · on AMD Plants Turion Line of Mobile Chips
    "Celeron, the name of which is derived from the latin word, 'celer', meaning 'fast' or 'swift'"

    'fast' and 'swift' are NOT words I often hear associated with Celerons. Perhaps they should have gone with insumption or vilion. Is implying that Celerons are fast some sort of cruel joke?

  11. Re:future uses? by untaken_name · · Score: 1 · on World's First Single-Atom-Thick Fabric

    You're wrong.
    Not just about the correct spelling, but about 'only in America'. In fact, Canada uses that spelling as well. Of course, I am not correcting your spelling of aluminum, as I realize that in other parts of the world, that is the accepted spelling. Wow, funny how that works, isn't it? Realizing that other parts of the world might do things differently? What a fucking concept! Or do you insist that Americans spell curb 'kerb' and tire 'tyre' as well? To-MAY-to or To-MAH-to? Oh fuck, let's call the whole thing off.

  12. Re:If it's open source... by Fishstick · · Score: 1 · on SCO Files for Stay of Execution

    I thought it was the chalice from the palace?

    googles... ah, so it would seem:

    The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! (The Court Jester; writing credit: Melvin Frank and Norman Panama.)

    http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definiti on/english/br/brew.html

    God I love Danny Kay movies!

  13. Re:Modern usage of viruses and virii, and "hacker" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on The Death of the Floppy Disk

    I contel whole beatiously. It's uncognifilous that one should enfrapilate when it comes to linugatious elumifaction! I'm absolutely anmaliosis - excuse me - *en*maliosis - with regards to protrap interactions.

    http://www.bartleby.com/61/81/V0118100.html
    http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definiti on/english/Vi/Virus.html

    There are, of course, other delitative enumerts but I'm simply to fratnickled to envisiate.

  14. Re:Non-issue by ron_ivi · · Score: 1 · on GoboLinux Compile -- A Scalable Portage?
    "Is there ever a case in code for having to terms indentical except for capitalization?"

    Of course. How else do you write

    int calories = 1000 * Calories;

    Calorie vs calorie

    Nutritionists, when describing the energy content of food, typically refer to Calories (capitalized and abbreviated as C or kcalcal); one Calorie equals 1000 15 °C calories,