Hmmm...yes, good point. I was thinking of the exception when puncuation is not part of the quote, but after further review that only applies to question marks and exclaimation points, not periods and commas.
What about a system the combines computer voting stations with optical scanning:
1) Voter uses touch screen computer voting station to select candidates 2) Voting station prints a paper ballot 3) Voter checks ballot and;
a) If correct, inserts the ballot into the slot and presses an ACCEPT BALLOT button, the ballot is fed into a storage bin, and votes are stored electronically
b) If incorrect, inserts the ballot into the slot and presses a CHANGE BALLOT button, and the ballot is shredded and process repeats from 1)
After the election a random X% of the electronic records are compared with the corresponding paper ballots and if they don't match all paper ballots are recounted.
Never before have I seen a Grammar Nazi with worse grammar.
It not gramatically correct, and that is why it is confusing as hell.
Is is a small word, but it is necessary after "It" in this case.
The reason it is not gramatically correct, is because of the the OR clause.
No comma is needed in this sentence and "the" is repeated.
Lets analize in detail..
I think you must mean analyse...I don't even want to think about detailed analizing. It's also a sentence fragment (no subject) and is followed by "..". If this was supposed to be a sentence it should end ". " or it could be linked to the following sentence with an "..." or a ":" could also be used.
First part is "When police officeres found sucpicious pakes today",
This is the worst, since it is a quote. Why not just copy and paste? Officers, suspicious, and packages are all misspelled. And the sentence should be started with "The", and end with a period since the comma make it a run-on sentence.
this means the author is talking about a perticular incident , that took place sometime today.
In this sentence "This" should be capitalized, "that" is needed after "means", particular should be spelled with an "a", and there should be no space before the comma that shouldn't be there in the first place.
But then he goes on to say "in an Airport OR a train station", This does not make gramatical sence.
Beginning a sentence with "But", while technically legal, is redundant in this case since "then" implies the continuation of the previous thought. This is also two sentences, not one, thus the comma should be a period, and sense does not have a "c".
If the author is speaking of a perticular incident, then there should be no ambiguity about where it took place. So the correct use should indeed be as the parent pointed out, in present tense.
This is pretty good, aside from the aforementioned misspelling of particular, and the need for a "the" in front of "present tense".
Please stop tarnishing the noble profession of Grammar Nazi with your drivel.
(It's funny...so laugh already...and feel free to pick apart my grammar because I'm sure I messed something up in all that.)
In most cases, brake lights are significantly brighter than the running lights, and a blinking light like a turn signal will easily catch your attention. I've never had a problem with this with other cars that run with lights on, but occasionally nearly miss seeing a smallish car without any lights on.
I think the benefit of my car being more visible all the time outweighs any deminishing of the noticability of brake lights and turn signals. Afterall, most of the time I'm driving my brake lights and turn signal are not on.
And finally, yes, my third brakelight works....all my lights are checked every oil change at the least.
"Well, she moved to a location where they are illegal."
I find this hard to believe.... Is turning on your regular headlights during the day also illegal there? I drive with my lights on 24/7. IMHO daytime running lights are one of the simplest and most effective safety options available, and it's a pity they aren't more common. What could possible be bad about your car being easier to see?
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Personally, when I see people walking around with their cell phones glued to their ears, I swerve onto the sidewalk and run them down. Why wait for them to kill themselves randomly when it can be done more quickly and efficiently?
"This will never, ever, ever happen, because people in the US for the most part believe driving is a right, not a privelege."
This statement is so true....not only for driving, but for almost everything. Americans generally seem to think that they are entitled to way more than they really deserve. It's what makes the rest of the world think Americans are arrogant bastards, and makes me embarrased to live here sometimes.
You're correct, nobody gets paid (directly) to be published scientifically, although the # of publications indirectly controls how much money you can make.
The problem is there are still too many old profs out there who want a paper journal. Once biology weeds out the paper dependent scientists, then a revolution in publishing can take place.
Better yet, why not find your local geek and get the leftover parts from two upgrades ago.... I'm sure most slashdotters could build a couple of these machines from their spare parts drawer.
Not usually. Salt deposits on earth generally form inorganically...usually because evaporation in a confined body of water causes it to become supersaturated with respect to Na+ and Cl- ions.
Another thing to consider is the eccentricity of orbit. All the main planets have relatively circular orbits, whereas objects like Pluto and Sedna have very elliptical orbits.
Not even close.... The largest moons of Jupiter and Saturn are not even twice the size of earth's moon. Ganymede (Jupiter) and Titan (Saturn) are larger that Mercury though....
The ballot was approved by both Democrat and Republican officials prior to the election...so if it was so awful they should have said something then, and not waited until it bit them in the ass.
"So, in other words, if I read this correctly, you are only allowed to vote for your registered party on election day?"
That is only the case in primary (party) elections, and only in some states. In the general election in November voters can vote for any candidate, and mix and match parties if they so desire.
The "Slippery Slope" argument is used far too often by everyone for or against anything they want to.
Morality is a continuum from "good" to "bad" and everything people do falls somewhere in between. Somewhere in the middle each society has to draw a line marking legal from illegal, or else there would be anarchy and the collapse of human civilization. Different nations may draw their line in different places, but wherever they draw it it will result in the "slippery slope" because the next worse, or better, action could be permitted/allowed if the line was moved only a little in either direction.
Now, there are some nations that draw their lines at extremes, most often leaning towards too much governmental control over private lives, but even the most free and open society imaginable would still be on a slippery slope because that's all there is.
CFC stands for Chlorofluorocarbons, which are manmade organic molecules produced at petroleum refineries for various uses. They do not exist naturally in any significant amount, and most definitely do not come from volcanos.
"Rather than distract yourself by trying to figure out why the carefully constructed consensus cosmology might be wrong, then, I think it is more useful to examine the remarkable ways in which it has been proven right in the last few years."
With this statement you prove you are not a scientist (or at least not a well trained one). The most common misperception of science is that it deals with facts, when in reality it deals with theories yet to be disproven. What scientists do is try to disprove a hypothesis, not prove one.
These new hypotheses are currently not as well supported as the dark matter/energy hypothesis, but that doesn't make them a "distraction". Where would we be today if Kepler, or Newton, or Einstein hadn't been "distracted" from the "carefully constructed consensus" of their times?
If scientists sit back and reflect on how wonderful their discoveries are there would be no progress.
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Hmmm...yes, good point. I was thinking of the exception when puncuation is not part of the quote, but after further review that only applies to question marks and exclaimation points, not periods and commas.
What about a system the combines computer voting stations with optical scanning:
1) Voter uses touch screen computer voting station to select candidates
2) Voting station prints a paper ballot
3) Voter checks ballot and;
a) If correct, inserts the ballot into the slot and presses an ACCEPT BALLOT button, the ballot is fed into a storage bin, and votes are stored electronically
b) If incorrect, inserts the ballot into the slot and presses a CHANGE BALLOT button, and the ballot is shredded and process repeats from 1)
After the election a random X% of the electronic records are compared with the corresponding paper ballots and if they don't match all paper ballots are recounted.
Never before have I seen a Grammar Nazi with worse grammar.
It not gramatically correct, and that is why it is confusing as hell.
Is is a small word, but it is necessary after "It" in this case.
The reason it is not gramatically correct, is because of the the OR clause.
No comma is needed in this sentence and "the" is repeated.
Lets analize in detail..
I think you must mean analyse...I don't even want to think about detailed analizing. It's also a sentence fragment (no subject) and is followed by "..". If this was supposed to be a sentence it should end ". " or it could be linked to the following sentence with an "..." or a ":" could also be used.
First part is "When police officeres found sucpicious pakes today",
This is the worst, since it is a quote. Why not just copy and paste? Officers, suspicious, and packages are all misspelled. And the sentence should be started with "The", and end with a period since the comma make it a run-on sentence.
this means the author is talking about a perticular incident , that took place sometime today.
In this sentence "This" should be capitalized, "that" is needed after "means", particular should be spelled with an "a", and there should be no space before the comma that shouldn't be there in the first place.
But then he goes on to say "in an Airport OR a train station", This does not make gramatical sence.
Beginning a sentence with "But", while technically legal, is redundant in this case since "then" implies the continuation of the previous thought. This is also two sentences, not one, thus the comma should be a period, and sense does not have a "c".
If the author is speaking of a perticular incident, then there should be no ambiguity about where it took place. So the correct use should indeed be as the parent pointed out, in present tense.
This is pretty good, aside from the aforementioned misspelling of particular, and the need for a "the" in front of "present tense".
Please stop tarnishing the noble profession of Grammar Nazi with your drivel.
(It's funny...so laugh already...and feel free to pick apart my grammar because I'm sure I messed something up in all that.)
"NetZero $9.95/month 56/56"
Obviously you haven't read NetZero's EULA....that thing is scary. It's worth having to pay $15/month for dial-up just to NOT have to agree with that.
In most cases, brake lights are significantly brighter than the running lights, and a blinking light like a turn signal will easily catch your attention. I've never had a problem with this with other cars that run with lights on, but occasionally nearly miss seeing a smallish car without any lights on.
I think the benefit of my car being more visible all the time outweighs any deminishing of the noticability of brake lights and turn signals. Afterall, most of the time I'm driving my brake lights and turn signal are not on.
And finally, yes, my third brakelight works....all my lights are checked every oil change at the least.
"Well, she moved to a location where they are illegal."
I find this hard to believe.... Is turning on your regular headlights during the day also illegal there? I drive with my lights on 24/7. IMHO daytime running lights are one of the simplest and most effective safety options available, and it's a pity they aren't more common. What could possible be bad about your car being easier to see?
What, you mean something like this
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WARNING: This will be offensive to anyone who has ever been offended by anything, view at your own peril. But take comfort that it's on a free geocities site, so it will be
Personally, when I see people walking around with their cell phones glued to their ears, I swerve onto the sidewalk and run them down. Why wait for them to kill themselves randomly when it can be done more quickly and efficiently?
"This will never, ever, ever happen, because people in the US for the most part believe driving is a right, not a privelege."
This statement is so true....not only for driving, but for almost everything. Americans generally seem to think that they are entitled to way more than they really deserve. It's what makes the rest of the world think Americans are arrogant bastards, and makes me embarrased to live here sometimes.
"I don't see how you could find joy in being some unseen being's pet."
Probably in the same way my dog is amazingly excited to see me whenever I come home....
You're correct, nobody gets paid (directly) to be published scientifically, although the # of publications indirectly controls how much money you can make.
The problem is there are still too many old profs out there who want a paper journal. Once biology weeds out the paper dependent scientists, then a revolution in publishing can take place.
Better yet, why not find your local geek and get the leftover parts from two upgrades ago.... I'm sure most slashdotters could build a couple of these machines from their spare parts drawer.
Insightful?!?!
I do not think you know what that word means...
Look it up in your favorite online dictionary and then mod the parent Funny, because that's what it is...
Excel's limit is 65536 lines....
Not usually. Salt deposits on earth generally form inorganically...usually because evaporation in a confined body of water causes it to become supersaturated with respect to Na+ and Cl- ions.
Another thing to consider is the eccentricity of orbit. All the main planets have relatively circular orbits, whereas objects like Pluto and Sedna have very elliptical orbits.
Not even close.... The largest moons of Jupiter and Saturn are not even twice the size of earth's moon. Ganymede (Jupiter) and Titan (Saturn) are larger that Mercury though....
It couldn't be Enterprise, since it was a stolen Klingon Bird of Prey that they used to get the whales....and that was in the 80's.
Give up on the stupid butterfly ballot already!
The ballot was approved by both Democrat and Republican officials prior to the election...so if it was so awful they should have said something then, and not waited until it bit them in the ass.
"So, in other words, if I read this correctly, you are only allowed to vote for your registered party on election day?"
That is only the case in primary (party) elections, and only in some states. In the general election in November voters can vote for any candidate, and mix and match parties if they so desire.
I'd like to mod the parent +1, Damn Right.
Killer apps are great, but not if you have to use command line to install them, and edit text files to change their settings.
Bada-bing!
Nice burn...
The "Slippery Slope" argument is used far too often by everyone for or against anything they want to.
Morality is a continuum from "good" to "bad" and everything people do falls somewhere in between. Somewhere in the middle each society has to draw a line marking legal from illegal, or else there would be anarchy and the collapse of human civilization. Different nations may draw their line in different places, but wherever they draw it it will result in the "slippery slope" because the next worse, or better, action could be permitted/allowed if the line was moved only a little in either direction.
Now, there are some nations that draw their lines at extremes, most often leaning towards too much governmental control over private lives, but even the most free and open society imaginable would still be on a slippery slope because that's all there is.
You sir, are an idiot.
CFC stands for Chlorofluorocarbons, which are manmade organic molecules produced at petroleum refineries for various uses. They do not exist naturally in any significant amount, and most definitely do not come from volcanos.
Disclaimer: I am a geologist
"Rather than distract yourself by trying to figure out why the carefully constructed consensus cosmology might be wrong, then, I think it is more useful to examine the remarkable ways in which it has been proven right in the last few years."
With this statement you prove you are not a scientist (or at least not a well trained one). The most common misperception of science is that it deals with facts, when in reality it deals with theories yet to be disproven. What scientists do is try to disprove a hypothesis, not prove one.
These new hypotheses are currently not as well supported as the dark matter/energy hypothesis, but that doesn't make them a "distraction". Where would we be today if Kepler, or Newton, or Einstein hadn't been "distracted" from the "carefully constructed consensus" of their times?
If scientists sit back and reflect on how wonderful their discoveries are there would be no progress.