Not necessarily, as quotes can also mean a paraphrase, as someone else pointed out here, e.g., what we're doing when we make quote marks with our fingers during a conversation.:) In any case, I think the parent's "outrage" was misplaced.
Well, taking his famous, ah, 'performance' into account, this might not be too far from the truth, if one takes 'stomp' to be in the sense of Godzilla trying to 'stomp' Tokyo.
Check out my last journal entry, with a link to get the Canadian holidays. Also, I put together NHL season schedules for each team for download, also linked there.:)
Re:may god forgive him for what he has unleashed
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Then they started making them *backward*.
Lefties do that, left-handed people that is. *Sinister* people, so to speak. I say let 'em have their fun; God knows they deal with so much crap in this life.;) or, in solidarity with my leftist brethern (;
Erm, I think that's what he was saying, echoing Brown's comments about there being no bad food. Portions are too big, but what's in them isn't necessarily bad in moderation.
For those who are number-impaired, here's one reason that's so funny. Enter 10 into the calculator and then scroll down to the base-12 number on the resultant page.:)
Ahem: This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
Frink: Well, it should be obvious to even the most dimwitted individual who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology, n'gee, that Homer Simpson has stumbled into...[the lights go off] the third dimension.
Lisa: [flips the light switch back] Sorry.
Frink: [drawing on a blackboard] Here is an ordinary square....
Wiggum: Whoa, whoa - slow down, egghead!
Frink:... but suppose we extend the square beyond the two dimensions of our universe, along the hypothetical z-axis, there.
Everyone: [gasps]
Frink: This forms a three-dimensional object known as a "cube," or a "Frinkahedron" in honor of its discoverer, n'hey, n'hey.
Homer's voice: Help me! Are you helping me, or are you going on and on?
Frink: Oh, right. And, of course, within, we find the doomed individual.''
[waves hand] This isn't the Grail you're looking for.
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Why is it that there seem to be many Americans that believe that the USA invented the concepts of democracy, freedom and liberty?
We didn't invent it, and I don't think anybody here of any reasonable nature would say that. What's taught here, though, is exactly what you said: the Republic/Democracy is a direct descendent of the Greeks.
The American ideal is just that, a grand conception that quite often is not lived up to and is interpreted differently by different folks. Is the American ideal wrong because it is sometimes ignored by its own citizens? No, no more than any ideal should be discarded because some of its adherents forget what it's all about.
We can debate and talk about those Americans who forgot or are forgetting, but please don't set up straw men in order to make derisive comments with no basis in reality.
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Not necessarily, as quotes can also mean a paraphrase, as someone else pointed out here, e.g., what we're doing when we make quote marks with our fingers during a conversation. :) In any case, I think the parent's "outrage" was misplaced.
(Hunkering down for an offtopic mod.)
Erm, how about CNet's title: 'Ballmer: United, we'll stomp on Linux'
Well, taking his famous, ah, 'performance' into account, this might not be too far from the truth, if one takes 'stomp' to be in the sense of Godzilla trying to 'stomp' Tokyo.
Speaking on behalf of long-suffering Mac users everywhere:
;)
W00t!
(sets timer for first post by the curmudgeonly, crass, crackpot physics naysayer from last time around)
Speaking of dinosaurs... ;)
Check out my last journal entry, with a link to get the Canadian holidays. Also, I put together NHL season schedules for each team for download, also linked there. :)
Then they started making them *backward*.
;) or, in solidarity with my leftist brethern (;
Lefties do that, left-handed people that is. *Sinister* people, so to speak. I say let 'em have their fun; God knows they deal with so much crap in this life.
Erm, I think that's what he was saying, echoing Brown's comments about there being no bad food. Portions are too big, but what's in them isn't necessarily bad in moderation.
For those who are number-impaired, here's one reason that's so funny. Enter 10 into the calculator and then scroll down to the base-12 number on the resultant page. :)
Well played!
They'd be amazed that real girls exist.
;)
Yes, and her name is Liza Richardson.
Ahem: This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
I just happen to have a chance cube here. Blue, I won't see the movie on Imax. Red, I'll queue up early.
(Roll cube and wave my own hand over it.)
Blue! What a surprise!
LOL, gotcha. See my sig for implied agreement. :)
Now back to my iCal Library subscriptions...
...hell, to port QuickTime to Windows, they're gonna need a team of Windows programmers
Erm, you do know that QuickTime has been released on Windows for years now, right? Perhaps I'm confused, but it seems like that's what you're saying.
Lisa: Well, where's my dad?
... but suppose we extend the square beyond the two dimensions of our universe, along the hypothetical z-axis, there.
Frink: Well, it should be obvious to even the most dimwitted individual who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology, n'gee, that Homer Simpson has stumbled into...[the lights go off] the third dimension.
Lisa: [flips the light switch back] Sorry.
Frink: [drawing on a blackboard] Here is an ordinary square....
Wiggum: Whoa, whoa - slow down, egghead!
Frink:
Everyone: [gasps]
Frink: This forms a three-dimensional object known as a "cube," or a "Frinkahedron" in honor of its discoverer, n'hey, n'hey.
Homer's voice: Help me! Are you helping me, or are you going on and on?
Frink: Oh, right. And, of course, within, we find the doomed individual.''
Eisner: What kind of consumer is he?
Ghost of Disney: He's not any kind of consumer, Eisner. He's a geek.
Eisner: A geek?!
GoD: What's the matter, Eisner? You look nervous.
Eisner: Geeks... well, I mean... geeks wrote us. A geek even wrote you!
GoD: No one geek wrote me! I'm worth millions of their geek-years!
[waves hand] This isn't the Grail you're looking for.
Why is it that there seem to be many Americans that believe that the USA invented the concepts of democracy, freedom and liberty?
We didn't invent it, and I don't think anybody here of any reasonable nature would say that. What's taught here, though, is exactly what you said: the Republic/Democracy is a direct descendent of the Greeks.
The American ideal is just that, a grand conception that quite often is not lived up to and is interpreted differently by different folks. Is the American ideal wrong because it is sometimes ignored by its own citizens? No, no more than any ideal should be discarded because some of its adherents forget what it's all about.
We can debate and talk about those Americans who forgot or are forgetting, but please don't set up straw men in order to make derisive comments with no basis in reality.
What the fuck are you talking about? ;)
Folks, Louis Savain is a famous crank who's been pestering folks on the Usenet for years with his whacked ideas.
;)
How exactly is this possible if he doesn't move in time?
I'd venture a guess that the universe is revolving around him, thus making the concept of time-movement and, ah, physics rather moot for him.
In any case, the egocentric are so cute when they're indignant, aren't they?
Well, at least he seems to be proving that story from a while back that using a Mac makes you smarter. ;)
Or perhaps a Mac user was poking him with a sharp stick while he posted, making him scream APPLE!
Perhaps I should have added a class="spammer" to that nelson tag, since that's who I was talking about. :)
Ha-ha!
Spam is not paper
But can we not recycle
Bits by deleting?