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Indian Rocket Blasts into Space
Quacking Duck writes "Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched it's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C7) rocket from the Srikharikota launch-pad. The rocket carried 4 satellites into space, 2 Indian and one each from Argentina and Indonesia. Interestingly, one of ISRO's payloads, Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1), expected to return to Earth 13 days after launch, will be the first test of its re-entry mechanism. This is a step towards ISRO's ambitious goal of designing and building a cheap reusable launch vehicle. ISRO is also planning a manned mission to the moon, Chandrayan-1, which is expected to use a modified PSLV rocket which was used for this launch. This successful launch comes close on the heels of the failed July 2006 GSLV lauch which had ended in an expensive fireworks display over the Bay of Bengal. Another GSLV launch is planned for later this year."
Crap, I misread the title, sorry :/
This is the sig that says NI (again)
That's the most agressive agreement with someone i've ever seen.
Stupid people think it's cool. Smart people thinks it's a joke; also cool.
>It's the idea, not the delivery
But if the delivery isn't clear because the author can't construct a meaningful sentence, the idea is kind of lost.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
Yes. My father was in at least one of the battles of Cable Street (there were several). An amazing number of Londoners of that generation go a bit misty eyed over their days throwing bricks at Fasicsts. We seem to have lost the art of political protest in this country.
Pining for the fjords
Whether it's okay to be pedantic about grammar or not, your analysis is flawed. There is no justification in English for forming possessive pronouns with an apostrophe. You are arguing to make "it" the lone exception to this rule by extrapolating a pattern from a different class of words. While tempting and perhaps even natural, it does not stand up to a basic examination of the underlying pronoun grammar.
Uh, no. Spelling matters in science. If you don't believe me, go ahead and freely interchange nitrates and nitrites and see how well that turns out.
The World's Worst Webcomic!
Yes, and of course compilers don't care about syntax; there's all that flexibility and no arbitrary rule at all.
It's all about what you care about. Care about things? You get code syntax right. Care about people, and making yourself understood? You spend a half a freakin' hour figuring out the difference between "its" and "it's".
Now shut the fuck up about elitist this and "wah wah wah I can't learn the parts of speech." Go back to thumbing "ru hawt?" on your fucking cellphone.