Personally, I'd much rather see an international body in charge than a country that's become a byword for throwing its weight about, extending its legal tentacles into all corners of the globe, bullying and coercing other countries, and going to war for specious reasons.
I'm so cheesed off with HP (and other makes that want to lock you in to buying genuine replacement cartridges) that I'm switching to an Epson L655 'ink tank' printer. The purchase cost is high, but the economy (and convenience) of ink tanks more than offset this for me.
Wild rats are pests and a blight on much of the developing world. They breed rapidly, consume huge amounts of farm produce, and spread disease. Perhaps your pets are not rats, but Siberian hamsters.
'energistically create market positioning benefits in order to monotonectally cultivate maintainable imperatives and progressively evolve synergistic methods of empowerment for credibly synergizing accurate strategic theme areas!'
The Chinese government's reaction to the delay could be construed as rather hypocritical, in view of its present action in claiming territorial rights over almost the whole of the South China Sea - in flagrant disregard of international law.
The British government is, in my opinion, quite right to pause and consider the full ramifications of the Hinkley Point project, including the reliance on Chinese investment on such a massive scale. Britain must not make itself a hostage to fortune.
"By blocking the only remaining avenue for content creators to earn a living from their extremely hard work, you are helping put them out of business"
I'm more than happy to put sites that depend solely on advertising derived from third-party ad-feed companies out of business. These, more than any other cause, are the monstrosities that have ruined the web experience for so many people and given any form of advertising a bad name.
' Imagine a future where people fondly reminisce about the school-days and the fun they had in the classroom'
There's a wonderful short story written by Isaac Asimov in 1951 called 'The Fun They Had', set in the far future when all education is home-based and completely computerised. It's just as relevant today as it was then.
'"Yes, cheating bots are annoying. And yes, they can be seen as a problem." Can you write a worse, more confusing, AND grammatically incorrect summary?'
You are wrong. The sentence structure may be muddled, but the grammar is quite correct.
The AP Stylebook is an American product, written by and for American journalists. Saying that the Internet should henceforth be 'internet' is a parochial decision without global authority.
In Britain the standard is set by the Oxford University Press, which has a rather longer and more illustrious history than the AP Stylebook. When the OUP and the Oxford English Dictionary declare that the word should not be capitalised, I shall accept their authority. Until then, it's the Internet for me.
"Why would he be considered more than an editor at best?"
Take the works of Shakespeare. Each play is, in its original version, copyright free; but you, as an editor, provide the modern reader with updated punctuation, consistent spelling, explanations of archaic words and expressions, historical notes on the characters and settings - and so on. What is copyrighted here is the contribution the editor has made - because he or she has created a new edition of the play.
Personally I think that the Anne Frank copyright renewal finagle stinks to high heaven - but the underlying principle is well-established, at least in English law.
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'giving away government property'
I am mystified by this snippet from the summary. What is the property referred to, and on what grounds does the government claim to 'own' it?
'I love Oreos, but I stopped eating them when I realized that the delicious white filling was whipped lard and sugar. It says so right on the labels'
This comment takes the biscuit!
'Nobody thought the Brexit campaign could possibly win'
- except for the clear majority who thought that it could (and would) win.
An overrated comment, in my opinion.
Personally, I'd much rather see an international body in charge than a country that's become a byword for throwing its weight about, extending its legal tentacles into all corners of the globe, bullying and coercing other countries, and going to war for specious reasons.
I'm so cheesed off with HP (and other makes that want to lock you in to buying genuine replacement cartridges) that I'm switching to an Epson L655 'ink tank' printer. The purchase cost is high, but the economy (and convenience) of ink tanks more than offset this for me.
'jobs to be impacted'
Slashdot's use of English gets worse by the day. Are there no proofreaders available?
Wild rats are pests and a blight on much of the developing world. They breed rapidly, consume huge amounts of farm produce, and spread disease. Perhaps your pets are not rats, but Siberian hamsters.
'energistically create market positioning benefits in order to monotonectally cultivate maintainable imperatives and progressively evolve synergistic methods of empowerment for credibly synergizing accurate strategic theme areas!'
Is that you, Sir Humphrey?
"Noblesse Obleach"
'It's Niantic's fault! Lets sue the carp out of them!' Sounds fishy to me.
'Stop exploiting women and get a fucking job.'
- But isn't that precisely what they've already got?
The Chinese government's reaction to the delay could be construed as rather hypocritical, in view of its present action in claiming territorial rights over almost the whole of the South China Sea - in flagrant disregard of international law.
The British government is, in my opinion, quite right to pause and consider the full ramifications of the Hinkley Point project, including the reliance on Chinese investment on such a massive scale. Britain must not make itself a hostage to fortune.
"By blocking the only remaining avenue for content creators to earn a living from their extremely hard work, you are helping put them out of business"
I'm more than happy to put sites that depend solely on advertising derived from third-party ad-feed companies out of business. These, more than any other cause, are the monstrosities that have ruined the web experience for so many people and given any form of advertising a bad name.
"I was thinking it's a crow about to damage my crops!"
Just turn the logic round, and here's the obvious use for a bird-drone - a scarecrow.
' Imagine a future where people fondly reminisce about the school-days and the fun they had in the classroom'
There's a wonderful short story written by Isaac Asimov in 1951 called 'The Fun They Had', set in the far future when all education is home-based and completely computerised. It's just as relevant today as it was then.
'"Yes, cheating bots are annoying. And yes, they can be seen as a problem."
Can you write a worse, more confusing, AND grammatically incorrect summary?'
You are wrong. The sentence structure may be muddled, but the grammar is quite correct.
'Citigroup *is*, not *are*.'
Both are correct. It's a collective noun that can refer to a single entity or a group of individuals - cf. 'government' and 'team'.
The AP Stylebook is an American product, written by and for American journalists. Saying that the Internet should henceforth be 'internet' is a parochial decision without global authority.
In Britain the standard is set by the Oxford University Press, which has a rather longer and more illustrious history than the AP Stylebook. When the OUP and the Oxford English Dictionary declare that the word should not be capitalised, I shall accept their authority. Until then, it's the Internet for me.
"Apps are countable, so it's number not amount."
You're quite right, but the incorrect use of 'amount' has gathered such momentum that it's now unstoppable.
"You really have to wonder about a culture that refers to little girls as "it."
Gender (grammatical) has nothing to do with gender (sex), as any fule kno.
'It's two words, mkay?'
Originally two words, but in about the thirteenth century usage split between 'a while' and 'awhile'. Both mean much the same thing, but note -
awhile (adverb) = for a short time (e.g. he rested awhile)
a while (noun) = for some time (e.g. once in a while)
Whoops, that should be Sarajevo.
The Sarevo Airport incident, for a start.
"140 characters is more than enough to express a complete thought!"
Indeed. Parkinson's Law: 'rubbish expands to fill the available space'.
"Why would he be considered more than an editor at best?"
Take the works of Shakespeare. Each play is, in its original version, copyright free; but you, as an editor, provide the modern reader with updated punctuation, consistent spelling, explanations of archaic words and expressions, historical notes on the characters and settings - and so on. What is copyrighted here is the contribution the editor has made - because he or she has created a new edition of the play.
Personally I think that the Anne Frank copyright renewal finagle stinks to high heaven - but the underlying principle is well-established, at least in English law.