LMAO, oh my god...Kissinger. Anyway, "you know what I'm saying?" makes me stop listening to the person speaking and immediately fantasize about strangling every last bit of life out of them. It is hard to pay attention when you are in that mode of thought. One could certainly do a doctoral thesis on that statement insertion.
I try to avoid contractions anymore. Being a pedant I take task with using words that were developed to save time and money when printing a newspaper several hundred years ago. I' have had professors clock on people for using contractions and I wish their use was disallowed in school. Not because they are incorrect, but to make people think about words and what they really mean. When people do not use purposeful speech, irregardless of the color and flavor, it shows that they do not think about what they do or say, everything is a reaction. I find it almost a herculean discipline to filter contractions from my speech, but it does me good in many respects.
"Words are like clothes, you mix and match and there isn't any right answer."
Huh? Improperly matched clothes are like pornography; I don't want to see it at work. I recall an observation in "The Peter Principle" when the author was talking about how to not get promoted without getting fired. I think clothing anomalies was one of them, next to missing a spot while shaving.
"If anything, it would be canadians becuase we were closer to the brits historically. Americans would have wanted to differentiate their speech, what with the wars and all that."
Having a stupid accent is a conscious decision. Having a certain skin color is not, unless you tan too much. If faced with this girl in real life I would simply walk away. If I was a unionized teacher, I would throw her out of my class as well.
I concur with your analysis except the prediction of time for leaving a start system is inherently flawed. The mastery of energy transferrance will be a flash in the kettle type of event that is not a function of progression over time. After that (gravity theory) we will need time to employ that technology to travel effectively but the time to accomplish that is very small after the initial discovery which is not dependent on time.
"except that book called the Bible actually says he does"
It never "said" anything of the sort. You are allowed to read and interpret the bible yourself you know. God may be mentioned but the "God" referenced was from paths of stories strung together into a collective narrative and the actions are never specifically attributed to any one "person" or entity.
Tasked with deploying and managing Windows 7 I stopped using the GUI for control panel operations almost instantly. It is much too cluttered and anything of substance is hidden behind little 10 point text links. Just hit the stupid windows key and type the.cpl name. Plus the users think your some type of god for not clicking through to the control panel. They see the panels apps pop out of nowhere...ooohhh, wow! Seriously.
Reminds of my college trig class, all the tests were take home. People brought their tests back as unfinished scribbled messes, very few were finished. I remember people hovered around me with their tests before the teacher got in asking about the problems which I gladly helped them with. I didn't give the answers but I TRIED to help them through the process. Usually they just gave up, because unless you get it on your own through study you are not going to be able to do it. At that level we were all heading towards engineering so to cheat (have someone else do it) didn't do you any good at all. I view take-home math tests as further study and I have become a big proponent of them. Now getting faculty to allow it do to their "old school" reasoning is another story. I wouldn't recommend it for algebra level because A LOT of people would cheat since they stop at that point do to the degree requirements. This is unfortunate, because all the people who "hate math" miss on the good stuff that comes after the boring and abstract algebra.
Analogous to most teachers definition of cheating I equate pre-test cramming (studying to the test, forgetting everything afterwards) as equally cheating, they just can't catch that kind.
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For them to be a TA and not be able to see the correct but different answer is an embarrassment to the professor.
OK, so you have a PhD. Don't touch anything!
Congratulations! You get a double block of "reading comprehension" instruction assigned.
Kids have had their right to work suppressed for far too long!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wleJmrlbsMc
like...you know what I mean?
How much croaking can you listen too before ending the study? Just sayin..
You can't talk to us that way, your ID# isn't low enough. Go fuck yourself.
LMAO, oh my god...Kissinger. Anyway, "you know what I'm saying?" makes me stop listening to the person speaking and immediately fantasize about strangling every last bit of life out of them. It is hard to pay attention when you are in that mode of thought. One could certainly do a doctoral thesis on that statement insertion.
I try to avoid contractions anymore. Being a pedant I take task with using words that were developed to save time and money when printing a newspaper several hundred years ago. I' have had professors clock on people for using contractions and I wish their use was disallowed in school. Not because they are incorrect, but to make people think about words and what they really mean. When people do not use purposeful speech, irregardless of the color and flavor, it shows that they do not think about what they do or say, everything is a reaction. I find it almost a herculean discipline to filter contractions from my speech, but it does me good in many respects.
"Words are like clothes, you mix and match and there isn't any right answer."
Huh? Improperly matched clothes are like pornography; I don't want to see it at work. I recall an observation in "The Peter Principle" when the author was talking about how to not get promoted without getting fired. I think clothing anomalies was one of them, next to missing a spot while shaving.
"If anything, it would be canadians becuase we were closer to the brits historically. Americans would have wanted to differentiate their speech, what with the wars and all that."
[again, citation needed]
Having a stupid accent is a conscious decision. Having a certain skin color is not, unless you tan too much. If faced with this girl in real life I would simply walk away. If I was a unionized teacher, I would throw her out of my class as well.
Brooklyn accent....now THAT is annoying.
People? I thought it was only my wife.
I concur with your analysis except the prediction of time for leaving a start system is inherently flawed. The mastery of energy transferrance will be a flash in the kettle type of event that is not a function of progression over time. After that (gravity theory) we will need time to employ that technology to travel effectively but the time to accomplish that is very small after the initial discovery which is not dependent on time.
"except that book called the Bible actually says he does"
It never "said" anything of the sort. You are allowed to read and interpret the bible yourself you know. God may be mentioned but the "God" referenced was from paths of stories strung together into a collective narrative and the actions are never specifically attributed to any one "person" or entity.
Why are religious people here? I see them as devil's advocates. Real religious people do not hang out here. It is anti-geek.
Quick! Your straw man is on fire!!
It started a cultural holiday and has refixed as one. There, fixed that for ya.
No, we are taking advice from someone who uses a browser that doesn't have spell checking. Equally alarming.
Tasked with deploying and managing Windows 7 I stopped using the GUI for control panel operations almost instantly. It is much too cluttered and anything of substance is hidden behind little 10 point text links. Just hit the stupid windows key and type the .cpl name. Plus the users think your some type of god for not clicking through to the control panel. They see the panels apps pop out of nowhere...ooohhh, wow! Seriously.
Reminds of my college trig class, all the tests were take home. People brought their tests back as unfinished scribbled messes, very few were finished. I remember people hovered around me with their tests before the teacher got in asking about the problems which I gladly helped them with. I didn't give the answers but I TRIED to help them through the process. Usually they just gave up, because unless you get it on your own through study you are not going to be able to do it. At that level we were all heading towards engineering so to cheat (have someone else do it) didn't do you any good at all. I view take-home math tests as further study and I have become a big proponent of them. Now getting faculty to allow it do to their "old school" reasoning is another story. I wouldn't recommend it for algebra level because A LOT of people would cheat since they stop at that point do to the degree requirements. This is unfortunate, because all the people who "hate math" miss on the good stuff that comes after the boring and abstract algebra.
Analogous to most teachers definition of cheating I equate pre-test cramming (studying to the test, forgetting everything afterwards) as equally cheating, they just can't catch that kind.
shut up!....[quickly throws katana under bed]
Not everyone who has read five rings cares to spout about it at every opportunity.
I hope he writes a book about game design.