Alternatively, one could posit the hypothesis that the typical iPhone user can't spell to save their life, being more likely to be young creative types than to be older, wiser and more careful when texting.
Seriously, though, Apple have always been touted for their interface design, and it seems strange to me that iPhone text entry should be so error prone.
Perhaps they were so eager to launch the product that this aspect of the interface received limited testing?
You forget the most attractive part about using acetic acid - it's very easy (and doesn't take much energy when compared with ethanol distillation) to create a dilute solution of acetic acid, simply by fermentation and subsequent oxidation.
This process would ideally be fed by a crop of sugar beet in temperate regions, sugar cane in warmer climes - a brewery and an oxidation plant would provide the acetic acid.
No - the terrorists of the Stern Gang and Irgun were operating before 1948, during the British Mandate, and their actions after partition (e.g. the massacre at Deir Yassin) certainly go some way to characterising the modern Zionist state.
Yes, there once was a Judea, but that doesn't mean that having an apartheid state transplanted into the middle of the Arab world is a good idea.
Balfour Declaration - the worst foreign policy decision of the 20th Century.
the logical response to a long history of US support for the nasty regime of Israel
There, fixed that for ya.
The support of the Saud dynasty is a by-product of a pro-Israeli policy, much as the support of variously nasty Egyptian governments has been, with the concomitant strengthening of the Muslim Brotherhood and the coming together of Al Quaeda.
It's time the US faced facts, and realised that supporting the aggressive land thieves who currently occupy Palestine is the cause of most of the ill-will towards America in the Islamic world - other parts of the world dislike US foreign policies of the past for their own reasons (Chile, Nicaragua, Cuba, more recently Venezuela), which may be harder to fix, as the US at least had justification for feeling the need to interfere in local affairs.
They can pry the Constitution from my cold, dead, libertarian hands. If I'd mod points, you'd get my vote.
I have mod points today, but I'm British, and won't mod a discussion on US politics.
Having said that, can we borrow your Constitution, please? It, plus the Bill of Rights, provide the best basis for a civil society that the world has seen, if protected by a strong and independent judiciary.
We in the UK have (more or less) the required judiciary - all we need is a proper constitution to rein in the excesses of the elected dictatorship, and the 2nd Amendment would be a big step forward in a country where I currently can't even carry a handgun without the threat of a 5 year sentence.
Damn Colonials - you got it right two centuries ago, and I envy you your Constitution despite what you have let the Neocons do to it.
Which bloody garage is selling petrol at 90 pence a litre?
Petrol is $9.44 a gallon here in Aldershot, and it's all the fault of Gordon fucking Brown and his Bush loving chums, with their 'Papieren, Bitte' attitude to us poor voters.
Unless, of course, the US gallon is inferior to the Imperial...
Yeah, and there aren't zillions of poor Hispanic / Black / Asian single parent families suriving on the minimum wage in every city in the USA (and the UK, for that matter).
It's just a matter of luck that I get around $80,000 per year for programming - if anyone could do it, I'd be on minimum wage too.
To go back on topic - if most of the population is on minimum wage, with little or no disposable income, where are the **AA going to get their income from?
Hell, if it was me, a $20 per hour minimum wage and a properly redistributive tax system (even if it costs me more) would be the way to go.
I agree - we should target leaders instead of wars.
Unfortunately, none of our politicians would subscribe to that view, because it might lead to them looking at the wrong end of a.50 Barrett.
My personal list, in order: GWB, Blair (he's retired, but still worth killing), Musharraf, Putin, Mugabe, Mbeki (the man's an arsehole on AIDS, and millions will die because of his beliefs), Bin Laden and finally Simon Cowell.
This has absolutely fuck all to do with the European Parliament - directives come from the European Commission, which is run by corrupt and failed politicians nominated by their government cronies from each member state, plus a bureaucracy of intellectual midgets lining their pockets at the expense of every European taxpayer.
Voting against EC directives in the Parliament has no bearing on whether the directives are passed by the Commission, and member states are bound by law to implement the directives.
Here in the UK, our variously inept government departments implement every new directive with such enthusiasm that silly matters like the principles of common law, natural justice etc. are often crushed under the jackboot of EU conformity.
Other countries (I'm looking at you, Italy and France) seem to take a common-sense approach to implementing directives, and often fail to implement them at all, if implementation makes things worse for their citizens.
The EU needs to be scaled down, back to the free trade area it should be - in the era of the WTO, perhaps each nation can now work for free trade independently, and cut the EC fraudsters and control freaks out of a job.
Of course, Kryton is a reference to J M Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, a story about a shipwreck that results in the butler ascending to rule over his erstwhile 'betters'.
The 1957 film starring Kenneth More is well worth watching, and nearly as funny as Red Dwarf itself.
Not quite perjury, more terminological inexactitude - I can't count the number of times I've had to explain to my wife that 'it was only a blow job - I did not have sexual relations with that woman.', especially after office Christmas parties.
:P
I think conspiring to take your country to war based upon false premises (for your own profit and that of your friends, no less) tops a quick office gobble in the impeachment stakes - don't you agree?
Sorry, but it's not "et. al.", it's "et al.", from the Latin "et alia", meaning "and others".
Secondly, "Bush and others", or "ignorant inaccurate Grammar Nazi and others" are perfectly valid constructs, so I don't know where you get the idea that "you must name two people".
Whitworth standardised screws in 1841, and I believe Sellers did the same in the former colonies in 1864.
Whitworth also designed a rifle which fired hexagonal bullets, accurate at up to 1500 yards (pretty hardcore, even now) - I believe the Confederacy got hold of a few, and had they had more, they might have won:).
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Seriously, though, Apple have always been touted for their interface design, and it seems strange to me that iPhone text entry should be so error prone.
Perhaps they were so eager to launch the product that this aspect of the interface received limited testing?
Hey, man, you left out George and Ringo again!
Just 'cause Lenin and McCarthy got most of the songwriting credits, don't discount the contributions of the other two members of the combo...
:P
This process would ideally be fed by a crop of sugar beet in temperate regions, sugar cane in warmer climes - a brewery and an oxidation plant would provide the acetic acid.
Yes, there once was a Judea, but that doesn't mean that having an apartheid state transplanted into the middle of the Arab world is a good idea.
Balfour Declaration - the worst foreign policy decision of the 20th Century.
The reason you dropped two bombs was that one was a uranium based device, the other a plutonium device of radically different design.
You just had to try both designs out, didn't you?
I think Mr Bayes himself might have disagreed, unless by 'arguably' you mean 'arguably despite all facts to the contrary' :P
Are you trying to claim that anyone (in their right mind, of course) would run a real database server on Windows?
Nah - Oracle know their market, and Windows is and always has been a very low priority for them.
There, fixed that for ya.
The support of the Saud dynasty is a by-product of a pro-Israeli policy, much as the support of variously nasty Egyptian governments has been, with the concomitant strengthening of the Muslim Brotherhood and the coming together of Al Quaeda.
It's time the US faced facts, and realised that supporting the aggressive land thieves who currently occupy Palestine is the cause of most of the ill-will towards America in the Islamic world - other parts of the world dislike US foreign policies of the past for their own reasons (Chile, Nicaragua, Cuba, more recently Venezuela), which may be harder to fix, as the US at least had justification for feeling the need to interfere in local affairs.
Noone expects the Spanish Inquisition!
:P
I have mod points today, but I'm British, and won't mod a discussion on US politics.
Having said that, can we borrow your Constitution, please? It, plus the Bill of Rights, provide the best basis for a civil society that the world has seen, if protected by a strong and independent judiciary.
We in the UK have (more or less) the required judiciary - all we need is a proper constitution to rein in the excesses of the elected dictatorship, and the 2nd Amendment would be a big step forward in a country where I currently can't even carry a handgun without the threat of a 5 year sentence.
Damn Colonials - you got it right two centuries ago, and I envy you your Constitution despite what you have let the Neocons do to it.
:P
Which bloody garage is selling petrol at 90 pence a litre?
Petrol is $9.44 a gallon here in Aldershot, and it's all the fault of Gordon fucking Brown and his Bush loving chums, with their 'Papieren, Bitte' attitude to us poor voters.
Unless, of course, the US gallon is inferior to the Imperial...
It's just a matter of luck that I get around $80,000 per year for programming - if anyone could do it, I'd be on minimum wage too.
To go back on topic - if most of the population is on minimum wage, with little or no disposable income, where are the **AA going to get their income from?
Hell, if it was me, a $20 per hour minimum wage and a properly redistributive tax system (even if it costs me more) would be the way to go.
Unfortunately, none of our politicians would subscribe to that view, because it might lead to them looking at the wrong end of a .50 Barrett.
My personal list, in order: GWB, Blair (he's retired, but still worth killing), Musharraf, Putin, Mugabe, Mbeki (the man's an arsehole on AIDS, and millions will die because of his beliefs), Bin Laden and finally Simon Cowell.
:P
sed s/German/Amerikkkan/g | sed s/Krauts/Yanks/g | sed s/lost/lost, like Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan/g
There, fixed that for ya.
:P
Here he goes, posting an article from a Repugnican and Zionazi-friendly site, and you still criticise him!
Now I'm confused - is KDawson a liberal, or a nazi?
He'll throw in a few chairs for good measure!
(na na na na na, na na!)
Voting against EC directives in the Parliament has no bearing on whether the directives are passed by the Commission, and member states are bound by law to implement the directives.
Here in the UK, our variously inept government departments implement every new directive with such enthusiasm that silly matters like the principles of common law, natural justice etc. are often crushed under the jackboot of EU conformity.
Other countries (I'm looking at you, Italy and France) seem to take a common-sense approach to implementing directives, and often fail to implement them at all, if implementation makes things worse for their citizens.
The EU needs to be scaled down, back to the free trade area it should be - in the era of the WTO, perhaps each nation can now work for free trade independently, and cut the EC fraudsters and control freaks out of a job.
The 1957 film starring Kenneth More is well worth watching, and nearly as funny as Red Dwarf itself.
Not quite perjury, more terminological inexactitude - I can't count the number of times I've had to explain to my wife that 'it was only a blow job - I did not have sexual relations with that woman.', especially after office Christmas parties.
:P
I think conspiring to take your country to war based upon false premises (for your own profit and that of your friends, no less) tops a quick office gobble in the impeachment stakes - don't you agree?
Secondly, "Bush and others", or "ignorant inaccurate Grammar Nazi and others" are perfectly valid constructs, so I don't know where you get the idea that "you must name two people".
Double failure - please fuck off and die.
Excellent idea for livening up children's parties, and possibly a standby comfort food for deep sea divers!
Whitworth standardised screws in 1841, and I believe Sellers did the same in the former colonies in 1864.
Whitworth also designed a rifle which fired hexagonal bullets, accurate at up to 1500 yards (pretty hardcore, even now) - I believe the Confederacy got hold of a few, and had they had more, they might have won :).
It was a joy to call and be answered with the cheery 'Good morning, Siemens Staines!'
Oh happy days (though those old Siemens PBXs were a pain in the arse...).