that your high school English teacher was an idiot.
Just working from your original text, I can find three word clusters like "about which a," "go so far," "in addition to," "as to say," "may well be," "this is not."
Given the definition provided by your teacher I would say that "many students could be falsely accused" is a bit of an understatement. I would be surprised to find a single paper that would fail to meet these criteria.
Apparently IMDB gives the screenwriting credit to Akiva Goldsman who apparently also wrote Lost In Space, A Beautiful Mind, Practical Magic, A Time to Kill and Batman and Robin.
Talk about a hit and miss record.
Really, it's a crime that they aren't using Ellison's screenplay. Asimov himself was quite fond of that adaptation, I can't help but wonder how he'd feel about this new one.
We can just put slot machines in voting booths and rather than running on a "Republican" or "Democrat" ticket, candidates can run as "Cherry," "Gold Bar," etc.
Hey, you might even get to vote for three different candidates, or WIN a triple vote.
language is at its most useful when it is flexible. Who wants to say "I used google to search for it"?
And when the first person imagined being "zapped" with a lazer gun, I'm glad you weren't there to tell him that onomatopaeic sound descriptors could not be used as verbs.
It happens the other way to. Do you really so hate the expression "out of the blue"? Does it bother you so much to hear an adjective used as a noun?
Chill out. This is part of what makes English a strong language. Other languages do it to, and the ones that don't are less poetic.
I think you are attributing them more malice than is reasonable(i.e. than would be profitable). There is a good chance that you will see Windows running unusually smoothly next to Linux on a VPCed machine, but I would think that would be due to Windows optimization not linux sabotaging.
of course few people are producing fully standards compliant web pages. the reason is that there is little motivation to do so when the browser with the majority of market share won't display them properly.
While I don't know if it stands a chance to actually eradicate spam as you suggest, you make a solid point.
Spam is far too slippery to actually legislate, but we are already developing pretty decent methods for filtering. Perhaps spam is an arms race, but we seem to be a step or two ahead of the spammers and it is costing me no money and only a small amount of time to stay there.
I think the real trick is to make things like not putting your real e-mail address on forms (paper or electronic) and setting up a reliable filter on your in-box matters of common sense rather than just geek-common sense.
Seriously though. The bulk of spam originates in America.
Personally, I don't buy that that is true, but it's completely irrelevant to my point. Even if most spam does currently originate in America, if the U.S. somehow passes and enforces an effective anti-spam law, there is effectively zero cost involved in these spammers moving there business out of the States and still spamming Americans.
The same is true for any country that illegalizes unsolicited e-mail.
This is one reason (among many), why spam is much harder to control than telemarketing, the fact that telemarketing from another country is expensive.
of the do not spam registry that they mention in the article. But it seems like a real pipe dream considering how much trouble there has been getting the do-not-call registry up and running.
Also, most telemarketing is done from in-country because of LD charges. Not so with e-mail. It's pretty hard to enforce US laws on a Taiwan spamhaus.
Ah well, every little voice against spam warms me a little at least.
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that your high school English teacher was an idiot.
Just working from your original text, I can find three word clusters like "about which a," "go so far," "in addition to," "as to say," "may well be," "this is not."
Given the definition provided by your teacher I would say that "many students could be falsely accused" is a bit of an understatement. I would be surprised to find a single paper that would fail to meet these criteria.
wow....
you have successfully reproduced a thought conceived by almost every thirteen year old boy in the last fifty years.
Said boy then usually goes on to learn about the holocaust and decides that maybe it's best to leave things as they are after all.
i know.
they could have at least landed near a town or a beach or something.
he also wrote batman 3 (which i personally thought was better than 2)
Apparently IMDB gives the screenwriting credit to Akiva Goldsman who apparently also wrote Lost In Space, A Beautiful Mind, Practical Magic, A Time to Kill and Batman and Robin.
Talk about a hit and miss record.
Really, it's a crime that they aren't using Ellison's screenplay. Asimov himself was quite fond of that adaptation, I can't help but wonder how he'd feel about this new one.
They use the acronym WOPR in the article and i think they just might mean Weapon of Public Relations...
If I'm right, it's hilarious. If I'm wrong, then I propose this as the new expansion of whatever this acronym is supposed to actually mean.
We can just put slot machines in voting booths and rather than running on a "Republican" or "Democrat" ticket, candidates can run as "Cherry," "Gold Bar," etc.
Hey, you might even get to vote for three different candidates, or WIN a triple vote.
It's not a desk, it's a desk set: A little plaque and model.
It's not made of moon rock, it's got a resin model of a moon rock on it with TINY FLECKS from the box the rocks were brought back in attached to it.
language is at its most useful when it is flexible. Who wants to say "I used google to search for it"?
And when the first person imagined being "zapped" with a lazer gun, I'm glad you weren't there to tell him that onomatopaeic sound descriptors could not be used as verbs.
It happens the other way to. Do you really so hate the expression "out of the blue"? Does it bother you so much to hear an adjective used as a noun?
Chill out. This is part of what makes English a strong language. Other languages do it to, and the ones that don't are less poetic.
as was mine. i guess neither of us are funny enough.
Battlefield Earth wasn't Dianetics: The Movie. Although it's hard to see how even that could have been worse.
i'm betting it wasn't the kind of date you get laid after. So it should be easy.
this isn't a story about apple so much as a story about employees rights to the fruits of their labor.
I think you are attributing them more malice than is reasonable(i.e. than would be profitable). There is a good chance that you will see Windows running unusually smoothly next to Linux on a VPCed machine, but I would think that would be due to Windows optimization not linux sabotaging.
This persecution of the moon must stop.
Even the combined historical damage of tides, werewolves and lunacy cannot justify our behaviour towards our misunderstood neighbor.
Let us hear its case.
yeah, but when you know that the screen is supposed to have a 4.5 inch diagonal, you can do some simple extrapolation for yourself.
The entirety of all matter constituting the eventual univers hardly qualifies as a vacuum when highly concentrated.
of course few people are producing fully standards compliant web pages. the reason is that there is little motivation to do so when the browser with the majority of market share won't display them properly.
two things:
firstly, bipolar disorder isn't genetic as far as we can tell.
secondly: we have enough trouble successfully diagnosing that condition today with biographers trying to retroactively diagnose dead people with it.
when it can also detect incoming hammer blows and deflect them aside kung-fu style.
Also, adding further encouragement for me to throw my notebook across the room is the LAST think they need to do.
They've been doing this for years. It's a simple plan: make movies so bad no one will want to copy them.
God help us! It's developed self consciousness and it's REALLY REALLY stupid.
While I don't know if it stands a chance to actually eradicate spam as you suggest, you make a solid point.
Spam is far too slippery to actually legislate, but we are already developing pretty decent methods for filtering. Perhaps spam is an arms race, but we seem to be a step or two ahead of the spammers and it is costing me no money and only a small amount of time to stay there.
I think the real trick is to make things like not putting your real e-mail address on forms (paper or electronic) and setting up a reliable filter on your in-box matters of common sense rather than just geek-common sense.
Seriously though. The bulk of spam originates in America.
Personally, I don't buy that that is true, but it's completely irrelevant to my point. Even if most spam does currently originate in America, if the U.S. somehow passes and enforces an effective anti-spam law, there is effectively zero cost involved in these spammers moving there business out of the States and still spamming Americans.
The same is true for any country that illegalizes unsolicited e-mail.
This is one reason (among many), why spam is much harder to control than telemarketing, the fact that telemarketing from another country is expensive.
of the do not spam registry that they mention in the article. But it seems like a real pipe dream considering how much trouble there has been getting the do-not-call registry up and running.
Also, most telemarketing is done from in-country because of LD charges. Not so with e-mail. It's pretty hard to enforce US laws on a Taiwan spamhaus.
Ah well, every little voice against spam warms me a little at least.