Fact is that the SOIL is public. That means that the SOIL is YOURS.
Mine, is it? So I can build a house in the middle of the road, can I?
One of the major roles, and most legitimate roles, of the state is to act as custodians of public spaces, allowing everyone to use them in such a way that they do not transform into de facto private property. For example, I can park in a certain spot for an hour, but then I have to move on and let someone else use it. I can sit down on a bench, but I can't sleep there. I can stand at the front of a queue in a government office when it is my turn, but when it is not my turn, I have to go away.
You don't seem to have a good grasp of this basic concept.
Most of the midwestern U.S. simply does not have the transportation network in place to make it feasible to travel w/out a car. The town I live in actually has NO public transportation.
It lacks public transport because you all drive cars.
Haven't you heard of chicken-and-egg? Something has to change. No more excuses.
I don't understand the modern viewpoint that cars are evil, and their usage should be discouraged. They are simply an update of the classic horse-and-cart that humans have used for 10,000 years
You might as well say that the H-bomb isn't evil because it's just an update on the fist.
Insightful? Hardly. The person you're criticizing used the "code" modifier to make sure his message was properly formatted. Like so: test . Otherwise his message would have looked rather messy and unreadable.
For a second, I thought the same. However:
I then remembered that Slashdot supports enough HTML to allow proper lists.
I concluded that he had therefore formatted his message thus because he is one of the following:
ignorant,
an annoying person.
I note that though you claim he used the ' "code" modifier', both you and he actually used <tt> rather than <code>.
Assuming he is just stupid and is not lying, he should just have waited until he was at his new job to grab the code from the original distributor (SourceForge, or wherever).
It's lovely, seeing with 20-20 hindsight, isn't it?
If I cross it out and move on, it looks sloppy. If I'm using a pencil, I can erase (and it still looks sloppy).
What you need to understand is that it only looks so to you because of your ignorance. To a non-ignorant person, the uncorrected blunder looks far, far, far worse than the small blemish of the correction.
Yes, Microsoft are typical evil Americans for imposing their misspellings on everyone by default. But it is really not that hard to make standard English the default language for documents.
Anyway, you should be using LaTeX and OpenOffice, like the rest of the geeks.;-)
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You'd be pretty wrong then.
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What's with the link? Bizarre.
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What you've posted is just a travesty. You have an excuse only if you are actually blind, and need to consume large amounts of text aurally.
After a few seconds, one gets used to the voice, and its incomprehensible stream of sound becomes a comprehensible but ugly stream of sound. I'm currently listening to the Arabian Nights, read by Johanna Ward, with her precise, velvety voice. Each character sounds different, emphasis is where it needs to be, etc. With your way of doing things, not only is there no emphasis, no change of pace, no different intonation for dialogue, but things such as italics are deliberately stripped out even before the text reaches the synthesiser, along with all the diacritics necessary for words to be properly spelt and uttered. Résumé will become resume.
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Hmmm, I thought 'spelt' was a variety of wheat.
I've heard (sorry, "heared") Americans saying this before. I'm never quite sure whether they are making a bad joke, or they actually are that ignorant.
Why is it so fashionable to express hatred for Clippy?
It seems to me that doing so mainly conveys stupidity. More specifically, a form of stupidity I call "defaultitis". Clippy is only the default assistant. I always changed it to a different assistant straight away, usually either the red ball or the cat. They were cute, and the suggestions sometimes helped.
After a while, I found that I'd memorised all of Word's features, and turned off the assistant. Later, I graduated to OpenOffice, and then XeLaTeX. Hatred doesn't come into it. I've just moved on.
Actually, in a random interview, asking people (in USA) a country name that begins with U, none of them could mention anyone. Ok, they live in America.
Although I want to laugh, I feel I must be fair. The country isn't "USA" but "the USA", which means that the "t" comes to mind first, even without the complication of it usually being called "America". I'm from a similarly-named country ("the UK"), and I have to say that Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Uruguay and Uganda spring to mind before countries with long official names beginning with "United", such as the United Arab Emirates and the United Mexican States.
But OK, I'll grant you that not being able to mention any at all is evidence of geographical ignorance.
Military use of Free software is in violation of the spirit of the movement. Yes, the letter of the GNU licences doesn't stop you doing immoral things with code, but it is clear that if I took the time to contribute a nice little program to the human race, it wasn't so that some bastard could come along and in use it to facilitate the blowing apart of other human beings. The fatigue-wearing bullies of some regime halfway across the world, be it in Korea, India, the US, Honduras or anywhere else, are not welcome to the fruits of my labour.
Any discussion of this matter which does not consist either of plans to stop this happening, or sighing wishes that things could be different, is completely missing the point, and a sign of a lack of civilisation.
You seem a little defensive. All I did is note that people seem to tend, ironically, to make mistakes when correcting other people. It's happened to me too. It's funny.
The excuse about an "error due to quick typing" versus ignorance is irrelevant to me. A mistake is a mistake. You even go on to admit that this is not actually a slip of the fingers in this case, so I don't know why you bothered to offer the excuse.
The "I'm not native" excuse is pretty lame too. I never use it when I write in other languages. Incidentally, I hate the "I'm dyslexic" excuse too. A mistake is a mistake. You've been corrected; it's no big deal; let's move on.
Please remember that "must of" should be "must have". [...] not meant to be disrespectfull or anything.
In accordance with some sort of cosmic law that governs such things, you corrected someone's English and inevitably made a spelling mistake as you did so.
"NASA hedges their bets"? That's strange wording. Either it's just singular ("NASA hedges its bets") or it's treated as a collective ("NASA hedge their bets"). A hybrid sounds weird, as though they were hedging others' bets.
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Fact is that the SOIL is public. That means that the SOIL is YOURS.
Mine, is it? So I can build a house in the middle of the road, can I?
One of the major roles, and most legitimate roles, of the state is to act as custodians of public spaces, allowing everyone to use them in such a way that they do not transform into de facto private property. For example, I can park in a certain spot for an hour, but then I have to move on and let someone else use it. I can sit down on a bench, but I can't sleep there. I can stand at the front of a queue in a government office when it is my turn, but when it is not my turn, I have to go away.
You don't seem to have a good grasp of this basic concept.
Most of the midwestern U.S. simply does not have the transportation network in place to make it feasible to travel w/out a car. The town I live in actually has NO public transportation.
It lacks public transport because you all drive cars.
Haven't you heard of chicken-and-egg? Something has to change. No more excuses.
I don't understand the modern viewpoint that cars are evil, and their usage should be discouraged. They are simply an update of the classic horse-and-cart that humans have used for 10,000 years
You might as well say that the H-bomb isn't evil because it's just an update on the fist.
Insightful? Hardly. The person you're criticizing used the "code" modifier to make sure his message was properly formatted. Like so: test . Otherwise his message would have looked rather messy and unreadable.
For a second, I thought the same. However:
Assuming he is just stupid and is not lying, he should just have waited until he was at his new job to grab the code from the original distributor (SourceForge, or wherever).
It's lovely, seeing with 20-20 hindsight, isn't it?
a) tell the jury that
b) how often does "but I didn't mean to steal it!" work in real-world (as opposed to academic or TV) court?
a) He doesn't need to. The defence lawyer will.
b) Quite often, in relevant cases. It is a well-established principle.
We both almost got fired from the shit-storm that followed. They didn't overreact one bit. We were wrong.
You appear to have a form of Stockholm syndrome.
If I cross it out and move on, it looks sloppy. If I'm using a pencil, I can erase (and it still looks sloppy).
What you need to understand is that it only looks so to you because of your ignorance. To a non-ignorant person, the uncorrected blunder looks far, far, far worse than the small blemish of the correction.
Yes, Microsoft are typical evil Americans for imposing their misspellings on everyone by default. But it is really not that hard to make standard English the default language for documents.
Anyway, you should be using LaTeX and OpenOffice, like the rest of the geeks.;-)
People do ask me why I cross my zeroes, Zs (zees to the Americans) and...
There, fixed that for you. The letter itself stands for its standard name.
The camp with money, in that case.
You'd be pretty wrong then.
What's with the link? Bizarre.
What you've posted is just a travesty. You have an excuse only if you are actually blind, and need to consume large amounts of text aurally.
After a few seconds, one gets used to the voice, and its incomprehensible stream of sound becomes a comprehensible but ugly stream of sound. I'm currently listening to the Arabian Nights, read by Johanna Ward, with her precise, velvety voice. Each character sounds different, emphasis is where it needs to be, etc. With your way of doing things, not only is there no emphasis, no change of pace, no different intonation for dialogue, but things such as italics are deliberately stripped out even before the text reaches the synthesiser, along with all the diacritics necessary for words to be properly spelt and uttered. Résumé will become resume.
Hmmm, I thought 'spelt' was a variety of wheat.
I've heard (sorry, "heared") Americans saying this before. I'm never quite sure whether they are making a bad joke, or they actually are that ignorant.
Why is it so fashionable to express hatred for Clippy?
It seems to me that doing so mainly conveys stupidity. More specifically, a form of stupidity I call "defaultitis". Clippy is only the default assistant. I always changed it to a different assistant straight away, usually either the red ball or the cat. They were cute, and the suggestions sometimes helped.
After a while, I found that I'd memorised all of Word's features, and turned off the assistant. Later, I graduated to OpenOffice, and then XeLaTeX. Hatred doesn't come into it. I've just moved on.
Well, you got the math right.
You are apparently the special case. "Typically" and "usually" includes all of us. I'll stand by "Usually very short, typically under a minute."
You fool. Sparr0 accepted your premise and made a separate point.
Although I basically agree with every part of that, your argument is a perfect example of argumentum ad hominem.
Actually, in a random interview, asking people (in USA) a country name that begins with U, none of them could mention anyone. Ok, they live in America.
Although I want to laugh, I feel I must be fair. The country isn't "USA" but "the USA", which means that the "t" comes to mind first, even without the complication of it usually being called "America". I'm from a similarly-named country ("the UK"), and I have to say that Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Uruguay and Uganda spring to mind before countries with long official names beginning with "United", such as the United Arab Emirates and the United Mexican States.
But OK, I'll grant you that not being able to mention any at all is evidence of geographical ignorance.
I have some karma to burn, so I'll say it.
Military use of Free software is in violation of the spirit of the movement. Yes, the letter of the GNU licences doesn't stop you doing immoral things with code, but it is clear that if I took the time to contribute a nice little program to the human race, it wasn't so that some bastard could come along and in use it to facilitate the blowing apart of other human beings. The fatigue-wearing bullies of some regime halfway across the world, be it in Korea, India, the US, Honduras or anywhere else, are not welcome to the fruits of my labour.
Any discussion of this matter which does not consist either of plans to stop this happening, or sighing wishes that things could be different, is completely missing the point, and a sign of a lack of civilisation.
You seem a little defensive. All I did is note that people seem to tend, ironically, to make mistakes when correcting other people. It's happened to me too. It's funny.
The excuse about an "error due to quick typing" versus ignorance is irrelevant to me. A mistake is a mistake. You even go on to admit that this is not actually a slip of the fingers in this case, so I don't know why you bothered to offer the excuse.
The "I'm not native" excuse is pretty lame too. I never use it when I write in other languages. Incidentally, I hate the "I'm dyslexic" excuse too. A mistake is a mistake. You've been corrected; it's no big deal; let's move on.
Please remember that "must of" should be "must have". [...] not meant to be disrespectfull or anything.
In accordance with some sort of cosmic law that governs such things, you corrected someone's English and inevitably made a spelling mistake as you did so.
Arrrrgh NO! "10x Less" is the important phrase because it renders the sentence meaningless.
If something costs $1, then "10x Less" is $-9.
I am pretty sure they are not going to pay people to take these devices.
To say that, you'd have to be a non-native speaker of English.
"NASA hedges their bets"? That's strange wording. Either it's just singular ("NASA hedges its bets") or it's treated as a collective ("NASA hedge their bets"). A hybrid sounds weird, as though they were hedging others' bets.