Syria used chemical weapons on its own people. Obama asserts that this is a violation of international law. (Syria didn't sign the Chemical Weapons Convention
Lemme stop you right there. IANAL and I get the ethical argument, but--legally--we're really going to hold them responsible for abiding by the terms of something they never signed? Really?!
While this might be an ordinary somewhat accurate viewpoint, until WWII Liberia was one of only two (the other being Ethiopia, which got conquered in said war by Italy) African countries that had never been colonies.
Cf. white people saying at the World Cup that vuvuzelas being fucking annoying was called imperialist racist bias.
Because everybody knows English grammar and spelling rules sprang fully-formed from the first speaker of the language. You know they didn't even have standardized spelling for a long time?
So what is the purpose of the apostrophe in e.g. don't?
Maybe this is their attempt to put an accent mark over the e, like in old poems where for the meter to work, you pronounce the suffix as "er-ed" (2 syllables) instead of "erd" (1 syllable)?
...What point are you trying to make, exactly? I seriously don't know.
If you're interpreting GP to mean "we don't deserve this but the Jews did", I'm sure that's not what he was going for. In both cases we're talking about a (more or less) democratically-elected government that went off the rails.
As The Man makes it harder and harder for the average person to get stuff off the Internet, you're always going to have some number of people who find a way to do it anyway, and damn the inconvenience, specifically *because* they (The Man) have shoved it up their (the people's) asses so far.
Plus there's the whole "wait until the very very end of the sentence until you find out what the hell is going on" problem with complicated sentences:) And that most parts of speech (subjects, verbs, adverbs, direct objects...indirect objects...prepositions.....) are conjugated for some reason.
MDY makes me think of optional parameters. If you say "May 8th" people are going to assume you mean the current year...if you require more information, you just tack it on the end. If you use YMD, you're just expressing (sort of) redundant information up front every time.
Well this was back in the Golden Age of No Security, right? And supposedly a couple of the phone freakers had perfect pitch. Even today, we have all kinds of things that should be secure stupidly hooked up to the Internet, so is that really so implausible?
I find that The Oatmeal is even worse than xkcd at talking down at me, and takes weird viewpoints on stuff and then expects everyone to agree as it's "a universal truth."
Well if he had planned everything in advance and they found out about any part of it, he wouldn't have gotten away, would he? Keep in mind who he was working for...
I would have no problem whatsoever with that. The article, however, is talking about having to opt IN to porn if you want it. I like my Internet uncensored, thankyouverymuch.
Sup dawg, I heard you like redundancies so I posted on Slashdot complaining about your redundancy and didn't bother to put any other worthwhile content in my post...so you can be redundant while you're redundant.
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Syria used chemical weapons on its own people. Obama asserts that this is a violation of international law. (Syria didn't sign the Chemical Weapons Convention
Lemme stop you right there. IANAL and I get the ethical argument, but--legally--we're really going to hold them responsible for abiding by the terms of something they never signed? Really?!
While this might be an ordinary somewhat accurate viewpoint, until WWII Liberia was one of only two (the other being Ethiopia, which got conquered in said war by Italy) African countries that had never been colonies.
Cf. white people saying at the World Cup that vuvuzelas being fucking annoying was called imperialist racist bias.
Call me crazy, but the idea of only filling out half the exam being a better idea than doing the whole damn thing seems fundamentally wrong to me...
If I hadn't already posted, you would get my mod point. Yay pragmatism :)
Perhaps in this context "munge" could alternately be used?
Having been an actual ME user back in the day, I have to say it would have been an interesting choice between using
a) ME, which I knew how to use but could be depended on to crash all over the place, or
b) Linux, which I didn't know how to use at all.
Because everybody knows English grammar and spelling rules sprang fully-formed from the first speaker of the language. You know they didn't even have standardized spelling for a long time?
So what is the purpose of the apostrophe in e.g. don't?
The coolest part is if you C-g, you can reverse and start going the other direction with the same keystroke; there is no "redo" function.
Maybe this is their attempt to put an accent mark over the e, like in old poems where for the meter to work, you pronounce the suffix as "er-ed" (2 syllables) instead of "erd" (1 syllable)?
Ctrl+Shift+Delete (clears your history so you can't use Ctrl+Shift+T to bring back tabs)
In other news, Internet browser users sometimes actually know how to use their browser. Story at 11.
...What point are you trying to make, exactly? I seriously don't know.
If you're interpreting GP to mean "we don't deserve this but the Jews did", I'm sure that's not what he was going for. In both cases we're talking about a (more or less) democratically-elected government that went off the rails.
So if we can't block all surveillance programs everywhere simultaneously, we should just throw up our hands and give up?
As The Man makes it harder and harder for the average person to get stuff off the Internet, you're always going to have some number of people who find a way to do it anyway, and damn the inconvenience, specifically *because* they (The Man) have shoved it up their (the people's) asses so far.
Plus there's the whole "wait until the very very end of the sentence until you find out what the hell is going on" problem with complicated sentences :) And that most parts of speech (subjects, verbs, adverbs, direct objects...indirect objects...prepositions.....) are conjugated for some reason.
Counterpoint: German is awesome because umlauts.
MDY makes me think of optional parameters. If you say "May 8th" people are going to assume you mean the current year...if you require more information, you just tack it on the end. If you use YMD, you're just expressing (sort of) redundant information up front every time.
But yes, YMD does sort much better :)
Well this was back in the Golden Age of No Security, right? And supposedly a couple of the phone freakers had perfect pitch. Even today, we have all kinds of things that should be secure stupidly hooked up to the Internet, so is that really so implausible?
This is coming from the guy who has several clauses lacking verbs in his response...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_Law
I find that The Oatmeal is even worse than xkcd at talking down at me, and takes weird viewpoints on stuff and then expects everyone to agree as it's "a universal truth."
Because you could memorize 10+ strings of completely random, 16+-characters? And presumably you'd want to change them all once a month, right?
Well if he had planned everything in advance and they found out about any part of it, he wouldn't have gotten away, would he? Keep in mind who he was working for...
For fuck's sake, NOBODY SAID ANYTHING ABOUT BUSH!
(filter text: yes, I'm purposely yelling!)
Maybe not millions of dead, but the whole "drone U.S. citizens" thing is at least a couple.
You used the word "amendment" in both clauses of your claim that the word "amendment" is too unclear...
I would have no problem whatsoever with that. The article, however, is talking about having to opt IN to porn if you want it. I like my Internet uncensored, thankyouverymuch.
Sup dawg, I heard you like redundancies so I posted on Slashdot complaining about your redundancy and didn't bother to put any other worthwhile content in my post...so you can be redundant while you're redundant.