Like double negatives, split infinitives, or dangling prepositions?
Here, I must disagree.
There is certainly a logical reason for the prohibition of double negatives.
Take the following sentence. "I am tall." Let's express that this way... I_am(tall) == true;
If we negate this "I am not tall."; We get I_am(!tall) == true;
When we add a double negative to the situation "I ain't not tall." We get !I_am(!tall) == true; Which is the exact opposite of the intent of the speaker of the line.
"I ain't not tall." actually has the same meaning as "I am tall." but in the mind of the speaker, "I am not tall" and "I ain't not tall." have the same meaning. Logically we have I_am(!tall) == !I_am(!tall) == true; which is completely nonsensical.
The entire point of language is to give us the ability to share our thoughts with one another. Without rules (even arbitrary or sometimes capricious ones), it is no longer possible to do that.
Also, potential employers would not be allowed to view an applicant's profile at Facebook or any other social network that hasn't actually been made for this purpose.
How would they go about enforcing this? Couldn't an employer argue that any content on a social networking profile that someone makes available to the public, was made for everyone to see? Failing that, how do you prove when an employer looks at a public profile?
Nah. Y'all just need to get to Texas. The gun to person ratio is about 1:2;-)
I think you have that backwards. The gun to person ratio for the entire US is about 1:1. When you consider huge swaths of land like NYC, California and Chicago that would indicate that Texas is probably more like 2:1.
I have a greater than 2:1 gun to person ratio in my house.
If he made Bnetd because of how hard it was to connect when at our LAN parties, it had a fully legitimate purpose.
Even if it was made with commercial aspirations, as long as he didn't steal anything from Blizzard, it's fully legitimate.
As much as I hate to stoop to the car metaphor again, if GM started to sue people who made aftermarket accessories for their vehicles, they'd be laughed out of court.
If she's able to do it, spend as much time as you can doing things as a family. My father died when I was 4. I couldn't tell you his approximate height or weight, but I can tell you that he taught me how to play chess. I can tell you that he carried me around on his shoulders.
Pictures are OK. Video is OK. There is just no substitute for making new memories with someone.
Sad as it may be, even if she weren't ill, one day she would die. One day you will die. One day I will die. Nothing we can do will change that, but we can spend time with the people we love and who love us and make as many good memories as we can. You don't want all of your children's memories to be about preparing for mommy's death. Give your children the chance to keep their mother alive in their memories. Good memories. When I'm long gone, I hope that my kids will tell their grandchildren about all of the fun that we had together.
You'd be better off just making the car completely burn the fuel in the first place.
There are problems with that. To get the most efficient combustion, you want the highest practical compression and temperature. The problem with that is you create more nitrogen oxides when you increase the production temperature. Why's that important? Because it will mix with other atmospheric pollutants and become smog.
The other option is to do something that GM used to do back in the 80s, they pumped fresh air into the exhaust manifold to allow unburnt hydrocarbons to burn up before and in the catalytic converter. Better emissions, no additional smog, but low gas mileage. We always have to make a tradeoff.
They only allow open source tools that have been "audited" by corporate security. They managed to get them to review and approve the perl executables (though they didn't tell me which ones).
Don't be so sure of that. FUD is alive and well. Last summer I interviewed with a bank about a three month contract to move some data. When I asked them about the requirements for the platform/environment. I was told, flatly, that I could use anything that I wanted, as long as it wasn't open source. Open source means that anyone can see the flaws in the software and exploit them. I had two choices, I could keep my mouth shut and take the contract or I could speak the truth and blow my chances. I spoke up.
Last year, I worked on a migration of a huge legacy system written in FORTRAN.
I have personal knowledge of how entrenched some of that code is. Just because it's old doesn't mean that any company wants to spend half a million dollars to replace it.
You may know. I may know. Most of us may know. There are still a lot of people out there who don't understand how any of this works. To them it's just like magic.
Just a couple of weeks ago, I bought an older game. Just Cause. When I installed it, the DRM wasn't compatible with Windows 7 and there were no patches available, I had to go download a NOCD crack to play a game that I legitimately purchased.
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Like double negatives, split infinitives, or dangling prepositions?
Here, I must disagree.
There is certainly a logical reason for the prohibition of double negatives.
Take the following sentence. "I am tall."
Let's express that this way... I_am(tall) == true;
If we negate this "I am not tall.";
We get I_am(!tall) == true;
When we add a double negative to the situation "I ain't not tall."
We get !I_am(!tall) == true;
Which is the exact opposite of the intent of the speaker of the line.
"I ain't not tall." actually has the same meaning as "I am tall." but in the mind of the speaker, "I am not tall" and "I ain't not tall." have the same meaning.
Logically we have I_am(!tall) == !I_am(!tall) == true; which is completely nonsensical.
The entire point of language is to give us the ability to share our thoughts with one another. Without rules (even arbitrary or sometimes capricious ones), it is no longer possible to do that.
LK
If your privacy settings are correct, you can deny having a Facebook account when they ask.
LK
Also, potential employers would not be allowed to view an applicant's profile at Facebook or any other social network that hasn't actually been made for this purpose.
How would they go about enforcing this? Couldn't an employer argue that any content on a social networking profile that someone makes available to the public, was made for everyone to see? Failing that, how do you prove when an employer looks at a public profile?
LK
I have plenty of karma. Chrome is a horrible application.
LK
Hey, there is no -1 Disagree moderation.
LK
Let me know when they figure out how to add a menu bar.
LK
Nah. Y'all just need to get to Texas. The gun to person ratio is about 1:2 ;-)
I think you have that backwards. The gun to person ratio for the entire US is about 1:1. When you consider huge swaths of land like NYC, California and Chicago that would indicate that Texas is probably more like 2:1.
I have a greater than 2:1 gun to person ratio in my house.
LK
If he made Bnetd because of how hard it was to connect when at our LAN parties, it had a fully legitimate purpose.
Even if it was made with commercial aspirations, as long as he didn't steal anything from Blizzard, it's fully legitimate.
As much as I hate to stoop to the car metaphor again, if GM started to sue people who made aftermarket accessories for their vehicles, they'd be laughed out of court.
LK
Im sure they are against them.. but only bother suing profiteers
You are mistaken.
LK
If she's able to do it, spend as much time as you can doing things as a family. My father died when I was 4. I couldn't tell you his approximate height or weight, but I can tell you that he taught me how to play chess. I can tell you that he carried me around on his shoulders.
Pictures are OK. Video is OK. There is just no substitute for making new memories with someone.
Sad as it may be, even if she weren't ill, one day she would die. One day you will die. One day I will die. Nothing we can do will change that, but we can spend time with the people we love and who love us and make as many good memories as we can. You don't want all of your children's memories to be about preparing for mommy's death. Give your children the chance to keep their mother alive in their memories. Good memories. When I'm long gone, I hope that my kids will tell their grandchildren about all of the fun that we had together.
LK
I can't abide by this...Someone needs to get to the bottom of this *zilla-gate!
LK
Is that an underwear design flaw?
Well, kinda. That's why I don't use them.
LK
You'd be better off just making the car completely burn the fuel in the first place.
There are problems with that. To get the most efficient combustion, you want the highest practical compression and temperature. The problem with that is you create more nitrogen oxides when you increase the production temperature. Why's that important? Because it will mix with other atmospheric pollutants and become smog.
The other option is to do something that GM used to do back in the 80s, they pumped fresh air into the exhaust manifold to allow unburnt hydrocarbons to burn up before and in the catalytic converter. Better emissions, no additional smog, but low gas mileage. We always have to make a tradeoff.
LK
You seem to have misunderstood my point. I wasn't implying "Slashdotters don't get laid", I was saying "HE doesn't get laid."
LK
What if he's using WINE to run WinRAR?
LK
it frightens me that the term "living" is needed here.
I had to weed out the imaginary ones.
LK
I find it curious that you felt it necessary to qualify that in three separate ways: "living", "female", and "human".
You must be new here.
LK
Untrue.
How many times have you had sex with a living female human being this week?
Thought so.
They only allow open source tools that have been "audited" by corporate security. They managed to get them to review and approve the perl executables (though they didn't tell me which ones).
LK
I got another job. Jobs come and go, but my ethics are not for sale.
LK
Don't be so sure of that. FUD is alive and well. Last summer I interviewed with a bank about a three month contract to move some data. When I asked them about the requirements for the platform/environment. I was told, flatly, that I could use anything that I wanted, as long as it wasn't open source. Open source means that anyone can see the flaws in the software and exploit them. I had two choices, I could keep my mouth shut and take the contract or I could speak the truth and blow my chances. I spoke up.
LK
Last year, I worked on a migration of a huge legacy system written in FORTRAN.
I have personal knowledge of how entrenched some of that code is. Just because it's old doesn't mean that any company wants to spend half a million dollars to replace it.
LK
You may know. I may know. Most of us may know. There are still a lot of people out there who don't understand how any of this works. To them it's just like magic.
LK
Let me know when they manage to fix all of their fuck-ups from the 3.5.x to 4.0 transition.
LK
Just a couple of weeks ago, I bought an older game. Just Cause. When I installed it, the DRM wasn't compatible with Windows 7 and there were no patches available, I had to go download a NOCD crack to play a game that I legitimately purchased.
LK