If your hypothesis is correct then only half of the posts here are posted by college educated individuals.
My business partner has a degree in Business Studies.
He still uses loose for lose, confuses their, there and they're, confuses your and you're, end statements with question marks such that I don't know if he is passing information on to me or requesting it such as : "you've not been answering your phone today?"
Makes him look a bit thick and I wonder what our clients think of his correspondence.
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And, for some people, a free dictionary can't come soon enough.
I hope it has a section on correct usage too.
because, off the top of my head : Dillo, Mothra, Lynx, Charon are all safe
there must be numerous other non-mainstream browsers safe
sheesh, lets whip everybody up with ridiculous claims
what I think is that "attachments are evil"
If you want to have a file, send me a URI to your FTP server.
That's the way email started, and thats the way it should have finished.
Whoever thought of MIME want's strangling with a rusty wire.
"If violence doesn't solve your problems, you aren't using enough of it"
I think that's from The Art of War but I can't remember, did a quick google but no answer in the first 3 pages
hmm, which non IE web browser had almost 10 years of >90% market penetration again ?
to probably paraphrase :
What, my dear, is the point of a new born baby ?
-- The great buffon and tinker, T. Edison
s/they have wrote/they have written/
If your hypothesis is correct then only half of the posts here are posted by college educated individuals.
My business partner has a degree in Business Studies.
He still uses loose for lose, confuses their, there and they're, confuses your and you're, end statements with question marks such that I don't know if he is passing information on to me or requesting it such as : "you've not been answering your phone today?"
Makes him look a bit thick and I wonder what our clients think of his correspondence.
Perhaps he wanted to know your anticipated lifespan.
without even reading over what they just wrote
see that button marked 'preview'
you might remember also that Linux is not an OS.
Guess what OS I'm useing.
any of these ?
Lunix, PhreeBSD, UponBSD, NehtBSD, Beeos, MakOS, planNyne, EhAyeEx, YooNix, Herd, Hamigha
sentence
Christ's sake
if you're not part of the "we" then tbh. you have no point talking at all.
It is not a debate.
It is not a debate.
"do what thou wilt" is the OpenBSD creed and the GPL is incompatible with that, what's your problem ?
do we really need a CVS clone, where the only difference is the license?
When the "we" is OpenBSD then the answer is yes.
If you are not part of that "we" then the question is pointless.
The most telling of those google entries is this one
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=virii
No entry found for virii.
The English plural for virus was decided a long long time a go; it is viruses.
The "wait, but language is fluid" argument is stupid. or elz wee kuld al tipe leik thiz und weed al undurstind eech ovver.
at least you can buy them
all swans in England are property of the Monarch
no because my partner is an adult
see
The Eudaemonic Pie
or "The Newtonian Casino" as the UK print was called
Notice the "nearly" part of your statement.
because it is a work of fiction, not a documentary.
This is a very sad possibility, but will happen eventually.
For sure, we wouldn't want to hurt any of the native flora and fauna teeming across the fertile plains of Mars now would we.
pray, what is this virii of which you speak ?
*If* there were anything living on Mars in the first place, it would die long before we ever knew it got here.
Thanks for that, there is only one sort of bacteria, and it lives in sulphuric acid at 300C. There can be NO other lifeform ergo we are all safe.