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  1. Never mind the comma on Maine Dairy Company Settles Lawsuit Over Oxford Comma (bostonmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    What is that colon doing between "distribution of" and "agricultural produce"?
    And why are there commas in the first list and semicolons in the second?

    The best way to end the argument once and for all is to always use a bulleted list.

  2. Re:Why is this on Slashdot? on Apple Launches Free Repair Program For 'No Service' IPhone 7 Bug (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Because this repair is FREE! Imagine that!

  3. I can't see the gov't surviving this.

  4. I actually meant a symbol that looks exactly like a £ but has Unicode 20A4 (the € sign minus 8).
    The unicode siteummything calls it a lira but I tried to keep it simple, so it naturally got got sodslawed.

  5. Let's check that out with some katakana:
    If it works you should see something like a smiley face after the colon, the Tu character. I can see it in the text box I'm typing in so let's look at the preview....
     
    ...hmmm nothing.

    So let's see if it supports other codes up to the €; here's the character eight steps down from 20AC:
    Nope, there should have been a pound sign after the colon.

      The Unicode support seems to be extremely selective.

  6. Re:Over the last 10000 years... on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    What I like best is when Venus is perfectly aligned with a crescent moon and you see it nestling between the horns.

  7. Re: Sometimes weird problems DO have solutions on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If he asked each person including himself, then either he, or his wife, or indeed any combination of people that includes him and/or his wife lied about the number of hands they'd shaken.

  8. Re:Nice try ivan on Facebook Really Wants You To Come Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How does it feel to be less successful ... to someone you think is a moron?

    I'm pretty sure that to Donald Trump, everyone is a failure; but his opinion isn't important to them.

  9. Re:Who is at fault? on Two More Gamers May Be Charged in Fatal Kansas 'SWAT' Shooting (kansas.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't the whole point of having police to enable law abiding people to live peacefully?
    And a man who asked for no more than to live peacefully is fucking dead.

    Go ahead, defend that.

    Do we have to accept the occasional error whereby somebody who has absolutely no idea what is going on is killed, or the occasional error whereby someone in an armed force who know exactly what is gong on is killed?

    Do we or do we not send soldiers to places in the full knowledge a good number of them won't come back?

  10. Re:And shit like this on Jack White Bans Cellphones At Concerts For '100% Human Experience' (nme.com) · · Score: 1

    He does something you don't do. He gives big concerts. His concerts, his rules. Don't like them, don't go.
    Then when you do something he doesn't do, you can set your rules too.

  11. Re:Don't tell me what to do on Jack White Bans Cellphones At Concerts For '100% Human Experience' (nme.com) · · Score: 1

    This post heartens me. I hope all the other people welded to their phones join you in this movement.

  12. Re:Where's the edge of the earth? on Flat Earther Plans New Rocket Launch, Predicts Super Bowl-Sized Ratings (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's poor intelligent design. If it had been a prolate spheroid, many more people could have enjoyed living in the tropics.

  13. Re:I've been up 3/8th of a mile on Flat Earther Plans New Rocket Launch, Predicts Super Bowl-Sized Ratings (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    I've hiked up to an altitude of 5000 metres in the Himalayas, but all I saw below me was 4999m high ground.

  14. Re:obligatory Game of Thrones callback on Less Than 1 in 10 Gmail Users Enable Two-Factor Authentication (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "Hypercorrection."

  15. Re: Replace CEO on 'Text Bomb' Is Latest Apple Bug (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Their apostrophes were better in the olden days too.

  16. Re:Perfect replacement for Windows XP on Wine 3.0 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I for one would really like to run XP. Unfortunately some essential programs don't want anything more to do with it.
    There's not one single piece of functionality added in later versions that is useful to me.

  17. Re:Emulator on Wine 3.0 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    A retcon is exactly what it was.
    When Wine began life it was explicitly an abbreviation of windows emulator.
    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windo...
    Then the naming fairy did a 180 turn and WineHQ started pretending "windows emulator" never happened.

  18. Re:Names are Important on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the Apollo mission computers did a lot more computing than ordinating in the days when computers were computers.
    Calculateur is French for a computer that computes.

  19. Re:They're dictating how people should talk? on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The most common word for the object by a long, long way is "portable".
    Even when it's smart.

  20. Re:Does this actually work? Part deux on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    As for casual gamer, "joueur ponctuel" conveys the precise meaning without taking a whole line up.

  21. Re:Does this actually work? on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The Académie française ridiculed themselves big time with "mot diese". Not only is it a double "abus de langage" (the # symbol is not a musical sharp and a tag is not a word), but the word hash is already basically French, from "hachure", which means .., um ... a crosshatch pattern.

  22. Re:Does this actually work? on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I have decades of experience speaking with the French on a daily basis and in that time I've never heard anyone use a single one of the AF's prescribed words. But hey, let 'em keep on prescribing if it makes them feel useful. Thank you to the French people for demonstrating in the best possible way that language exists to be descriptive, not prescriptive.

  23. Re:All french everywhere on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    We're talking about the French being protective in this article, not the Québecois.
    Not the French people but their crusty old language institutions. The people themselves realize that French for French's sake is total bollocks.

  24. Re:These guys demonstrate it best on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nearly every Beatles song contains a chord trap somewhere. You're playing along nicely la-la-la then suddenly WTF? A diminished 7th?

  25. Re:12 bar blues on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    More chords (major 8ths).

    Music nerd here. A major 8th is just a major chord. But I'll bet that's a typo.

    Nope, fellow music nerd here. They discovered octaves.