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Patent Troll Bill Clears House With Huge Majority
snydeq writes "The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Innovation Act, dealing trolls a severe blow despite opposition from universities looking to protect patents, InfoWorld's Simon Phipps reports. The act cleared the House of Representatives with an overwhelming majority of 325 to 91 despite opposition from the organizations most likely to feed new patents to the trolls. 'So bravo to the Innovation Act. It's far from perfect, as the EFF documents and as I commented before the holiday. But it's a step in the right direction, and the tidal surge of support it's seeing suggests legislators' appetite for proper patent reform is finally growing strong enough for them to contemplate substantial change.'"
I distinctly remember a bad ass sniper on the Battlefield 3 servers with the gamer tag, "M4ND1BA69". You don't think...
You are welcome on my lawn.
"Fanny Bottom" and "then".
Don't you love it when someone tries to be the Grammar Nazi and makes a grammatical error of their own?
Especially when they are an AC!
Punctuation is applied within the quotation marks, so this should be written as "then." This is about as trivial an error as the semicolon misuse that you cite in the original post -- but you seem to care!
Actually, punctuation is applied within quotation marks except when the quotation marks are used to highlight a lexical object, such as a single letter or number. In that case, they go outside.
BUT... this is just as far as AP and Chicago style guides go; if you leave the US, the rest of the English-writing world does the logical thing and places the period (or comma) as they would a question mark or exclamation point -- inside if it's being quoted, outside if it isn't.
An interesting thing about the English language is that you can usually find a use case/region for any "obvious" grammatical exception or faux pas. Of course, most of the world either follows Oxford or Chicago's lead.