Umm, have you ever even listened to Ron Paul before, or even looked at his basic positions? Stopping overseas wars and closing overseas military bases are in his top priorities
Maybe it's not the biggest component, but college text book publishers are pulling a lot of shady tactics.
I'm in school now, and had to get a newer edition of a math book I already had. Yet when I compared the two editions the only changes were new chapter introductions and the homework problems had been rearranged in a different way for each chapter. Nothing new had been added, explanations and examples were all the same, but now you can't answer your homework correctly without buying the newest $180 edition . For that price the class, as a whole, could have contracted someone to write a damn math book for us
Then there are the "online access" classes. In which, to turn in your homework, you need to buy an additional $80 pass to the publisher's online content. Which is often looks like a third rate KhanAcademy knock off. So, especially in math, you end up paying $200+ for 1000+ year old information that is available for free.
Losing money on a product isn't a bad thing if you've got a long term strategy. By taking that $10 hit they gain much more of the market, and can eventually change their prices once they've claimed more of the market.
Not to mention with Amazon's kindle you will likely end up buying books too. At amazon's cut of 30% per book they only need to sell you, not factoring in costs to run the service, $33.33 worth of ebooks to make up the difference.
The bible didn't take any liberties, nor did it simply start the sentence with it. The bible passage you quoted used the word correctly, because "Amen!" was the sentence. "
I see what you mean with the sentence being a one word sentence that amen is actually in fact ending as well. It looks like I am the one taking liberties with the word by moving it to the beginning of the sentence. However, I did mean the word in the (so be it) sense. Looking at definitions of prayer this one best fits what I had meant: "a spiritual communion with God or an object of worship, as in supplication, thanksgiving, adoration, or confession".Huzzah just lacks the reverent stoicism I was reaching for. I believe what I had meant is to say Amen as a conclusion to the original thread. However, I wanted to be more descriptive and ended up forming the sentence in a non-standard way.
Not to make you feel silly, but an exclamation point ends a sentence just as well as a period or question mark.
In my quickness to find an exception to the usage of amen solely at the end of a conversation I've acted in error, but I am aware of the rules of grammar. I saw the sentence starting with amen, and did not process the important fact that it also ended the sentence. I suppose if I had looked deeper I would have found the Darby Bible Translation(And the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen, may Jehovah....) or the Douay-Rheims Bible Translation(And Jeremias the prophet said: Amen, the Lord do so:......). There they do use the word amen in the middle of sentences. Though I'm not sure how respected of a translation those two are.
I hope you still feel that way, as I took your response to indicate you wished to open a dialogue on the subject.
As long as things are civil I do enjoy an indulgently detailed conversation.
Huzzah just doesn't capture it for me. Too cheery rather than a nod to an innate truth. It may be an unconventional usage, but I did mean it in the first way. Check out Jeremiah 28:6,
He said, "Amen! May the LORD do so! May the LORD fulfill the words you have prophesied by bringing the articles of the LORD's house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon.
I figure if the bible can take the liberty of starting a sentence with the word amen then I'm safe to do the same. No offense taken to your pedantical nature.
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Umm, have you ever even listened to Ron Paul before, or even looked at his basic positions? Stopping overseas wars and closing overseas military bases are in his top priorities
Maybe it's not the biggest component, but college text book publishers are pulling a lot of shady tactics.
I'm in school now, and had to get a newer edition of a math book I already had. Yet when I compared the two editions the only changes were new chapter introductions and the homework problems had been rearranged in a different way for each chapter. Nothing new had been added, explanations and examples were all the same, but now you can't answer your homework correctly without buying the newest $180 edition . For that price the class, as a whole, could have contracted someone to write a damn math book for us
Then there are the "online access" classes. In which, to turn in your homework, you need to buy an additional $80 pass to the publisher's online content. Which is often looks like a third rate KhanAcademy knock off. So, especially in math, you end up paying $200+ for 1000+ year old information that is available for free.
At least in my area they aren't accepting apprentices for anything
So if two people who are drunk, or on another drug, and then have sex; then did they rape each other?
Not like a hundred other new age prog songs don't exist
Personally I find Boards of Canada much more relaxing than this
Well if Erin and the Lizard don't mind chilling out until Mass Effect 3 comes out we could just rock some multilayer maps instead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI
See? Still perfectly relevant to today's youth
Hell, and here I thought I posted weird things when I'm not sober
I was thinking more in the sense that this would further alienate their customer base as a whole
Whats with you buying or product? Stop doing that!
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If she asks for the ears; then she's getting the ears
I just feel sorry for the people that are going to get hurt with these frivolous lawsuits
Losing money on a product isn't a bad thing if you've got a long term strategy. By taking that $10 hit they gain much more of the market, and can eventually change their prices once they've claimed more of the market.
Not to mention with Amazon's kindle you will likely end up buying books too. At amazon's cut of 30% per book they only need to sell you, not factoring in costs to run the service, $33.33 worth of ebooks to make up the difference.
So is that observation based on any actual numbers? Or just things you made up that sound rightish?
Why you hatin' on analysts? It's not like Amazon's cost accountants are going to release exact figures
A $25 fee and a half hour's work acts like a magic barrier against the benignly dissatisfied
The bible didn't take any liberties, nor did it simply start the sentence with it. The bible passage you quoted used the word correctly, because "Amen!" was the sentence. "
I see what you mean with the sentence being a one word sentence that amen is actually in fact ending as well. It looks like I am the one taking liberties with the word by moving it to the beginning of the sentence. However, I did mean the word in the (so be it) sense. Looking at definitions of prayer this one best fits what I had meant: "a spiritual communion with God or an object of worship, as in supplication, thanksgiving, adoration, or confession".Huzzah just lacks the reverent stoicism I was reaching for. I believe what I had meant is to say Amen as a conclusion to the original thread. However, I wanted to be more descriptive and ended up forming the sentence in a non-standard way.
Not to make you feel silly, but an exclamation point ends a sentence just as well as a period or question mark.
In my quickness to find an exception to the usage of amen solely at the end of a conversation I've acted in error, but I am aware of the rules of grammar. I saw the sentence starting with amen, and did not process the important fact that it also ended the sentence. I suppose if I had looked deeper I would have found the Darby Bible Translation(And the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen, may Jehovah....) or the Douay-Rheims Bible Translation(And Jeremias the prophet said: Amen, the Lord do so:......). There they do use the word amen in the middle of sentences. Though I'm not sure how respected of a translation those two are.
I hope you still feel that way, as I took your response to indicate you wished to open a dialogue on the subject.
As long as things are civil I do enjoy an indulgently detailed conversation.
Huzzah just doesn't capture it for me. Too cheery rather than a nod to an innate truth. It may be an unconventional usage, but I did mean it in the first way. Check out Jeremiah 28:6,
He said, "Amen! May the LORD do so! May the LORD fulfill the words you have prophesied by bringing the articles of the LORD's house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon.
I figure if the bible can take the liberty of starting a sentence with the word amen then I'm safe to do the same. No offense taken to your pedantical nature.
Actually I'd say it's down right impossible to predict something after it's already happened
Amen to the use of Noscript and AdBlockPlus together
As soon as I log out of Facebook I deny access to their servers, and I'm good. I suggest other Facebook users do the same
I was thinking something more like this,
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hN7X5gUktas/TARzweGSccI/AAAAAAAABpc/WVUmn6QuQwE/s1600/ControllerT-Shirt.jpg
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/romjul Like this delightful retelling of Romeo and Juliet, and how it's just like the original writing?
Well you certainly have an opinion, but are you ready to try to convince those who stand to lose the most from your desired change?
It isn't a fake. It's just differently themed in character design on the Pirate's Bay version