Gramatically? Yes. Colloquially? No. At least not where I'm at in Pennsylvania. When you're talking about how someone first responded to an indictment, it's pleaded. Every other use? Plead.
I thought it kind of odd too for Verizon to support this. The weirdest part is the summary, saying that wireless carriers would be less likely to innovate. The only carrier branded phone I had was an AT&T Tilt, and that was actually just a HTC TyTN II. So I don't know what they're going on about.
In reality, they just don't want to lose control over what goes on their phones, and that's why they support this. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd bet that Verizon doesn't have more "exclusive" or quality phones is because they want to have too much control over what goes on them. My iPhone is pretty easy to jailbreak, the Tilt never even cared (and for that matter, was completely and utterly unlocked - not just SIM card, but radio software and all - in minutes), and AFAIK, I was always free to run my own BREW apps on AT&T's selection of just-phone phones. Verizon? Not so much. My girl uses VZW can't even get a Spanish dictionary for free, and I've got one on my iPhone, my PC, pretty much anywhere I need one.
Wha? I pay $2.55/gal for 93 Octane (95 RON) gas. Of that, 18.4 cents is a federal tax, and my state charges me 31.1 cents. That pays for my shit roads and the plows in the winter, and certainly doesn't sound like a subsidy to me!
The little pissant guard up at my (student housing) apartment complex is a PA constable. He makes it his job to make everyone up here's life a living hell.
Technically, his job description says he's supposed to prevent physical damage to the property, not bust up kids for drinking. Guess what he does? Busts kids for drinking. Those kids then just move to another apartment, and then go outside and destroy the property.
Well, I've put up with his shit for nine months. Tried to show him "respect", but it doesn't stop him from emptying out a pretty chill gathering, even with my input. See, at night, I'm in charge. I've worked at this complex for three years as the resident director, and I really am technically his boss, despite being about 40 years his junior.
Yet this man can't show me any respect. He treats the kids up here with nothing but contempt. A constable is the lowest rung in the LEO ladder, and he can't even show respect to workers up here who try and make his job easier.
So no, don't expect something like "respect" to someone who thinks they have power to win you anything except disrespect in return. You have shown weakness, and expect someone in a position like that to abuse it.
Wait, what? I need to let Dell know I bought a used laptop?
Naw, no thanks. I don't want those morons trying to keep track of who owns MY stuff.
If you think their little idea is good, why don't the dumbasses do it the old-fashioned way and hand out a PIECE OF PAPER?! Hell, let the gummint do it.
I can think of only two things more valuable in my house than my PC: The house itself, and my car. I can't sell either one without letting the government know! I dunno about a house (I'm a damn college student, own a house? yeah right.), but my car has a pretty little blue piece of paper with its VIN and my name and address on it. I can sell my car to you, you can pay me cash, hell, I can write you a bill of sale, but you don't own it until a notary witnesses me write your name on that piece of paper and sign it. PERIOD.
And I'm kind of fine with that. I don't want someone taking my multi-thousand dollar machine from me and then having to prove I own it. However, until the day that states start to require titling of PCs, FUCK OFF. If I call to order an accessory for a machine, it's none of your business who actually owns it. You're in the business of selling PCs, not in determining ownership. That's kind of the government's job, and I'd rather they butt out of it unless I ask for their intervention. In the case of my multi-thousand dollar machine thats only purpose is to move, I'll gladly let them intervene. My laptop? Not so much. Protected by Remington.
Isn't the poster talking about a laptop? I always kinda figured a DIY laptop was more of a pain-in-the-ass than it was worth, or has that changed? I haven't built a PC in a while, I use a laptop. Building your own isn't feasible these days is it?
I'm no teen, but the grandparent is right. When you learned to write, it was in a handwritten or typewritten letter, right? Did your grammar book have a section on proper text messaging?
No, it didn't, and mine didn't in 1991, either. So neither you or I get to define the rules on proper texting etiquette. For those who spent their formative years with a tiny little multi-tap keyboard, processing a message like that takes no longer than processing the fully typed message.
The swine flu program has almost ruined my graduation. I was supposed to travel abroad to Mexico for my final two classes, and *poof* out the window.
Yet again, us poor Americans are suffering the consequences of our own blind greed. Drug cartel violence is spilling over our border because we're too stupid to put them out of business by legalizing a pretty harmless plant. Instead, we continue to legitimize their business by making illegal something that over half the adult population has tried.
Now, we have an infulenza epidemic. Where did it start? A commercial pig farm called Granjas Carrol in Veracruz. Wanna take a guess at the owner? Smithfield Farms. And why, pray tell, does Smithfield have a commercial pig farm in Mexico? Think about it! Cheap labor, cheap animal drugs, and above all, no USDA. Just stuff the pigs in a room, let em wallow in their own waste, and call it a day!
Smithfield, of course, says it's not their fault. Fuck 'em. Americans as a whole need to stop buying products from companies that exploit other countries. You're tellin' me that American farmers can't raise enough fucking pigs for all of us at a decent price? Christ, they'll eat anything you give em! Build a big pen, throw in... well, anything for them to eat, and bam, a year later, BACON!
So fuck you, fellow Americans. Thanks for being selfish and ruining my study abroad. I'll continue to smoke my made-in-America mota and, well, eating pork from my local fucking Pennsylvanian farm.
I was a real early reader/writer and by middle school, I had just given up on putting any effort into school because it was a waste of time. According to those standardized tests (back in the day they weren't tied to funding) that they gave us, I was reading and writing on a "college level" by then but yet, my A+ could be tied by 10 pages of garbage written by the druggies in the back row because it was an "A+ Effort" for them.
And it didn't get any better in college. Freshman year they make the duds take remedial reading/writing/math classes and if you can't manage to pass the test to take the 100-level courses, the credits and grades don't count. After that, though, it's back to the same old thing.
Hard sciences and maths are a bit different in that respect though, as far as I've seen. I'm no prodigy in maths, but my entrance exam said "You can start at Calc I". Big mistake. I dropped the class, and the teacher put a "Withdrew while failing" on my transcript even after discussing the fact that I was just trying to challenge myself - I only needed a statistics class for my major.
I'm with ya there, too, actually. I went on a rant about turnitin.com getting those fair use rights.
Some teachers take it too far. Last year, my school had a new professor who in his first year turned in double the number of academic violations for plagiarism than the rest of the major's faculty combined. He has since quit, but his stance was that if you paraphrased something, you had to cite it PERIOD. That is, if I were to have a paragraph contrasting multiple papers, I couldn't just put a parenthetical citation with all of them at the end of it, I'd have to cite each paper (perhaps more than once) directly after my contrast, even if it was my original thought!
He failed half the class for plagiarism on that paper, and told me at first that the "11% plagiarized" on my paper could be cause for alarm. The offending sentence fragment? "Most social scientists believe that"... combined with the Works Cited page that, hello, anyone that ever cited a paper I used is going to have the EXACT SAME wording on that page.
My point is that a 500GB disc is pretty useless, especially if it costs $50. I can buy a 1TB hard drive for not much more than that and it's going to be more reliable, faster, etc. When I need to transfer that data, I can do so over the 'net. No need to spend $50 on a disc plus another dollar or two to mail it!
In my school, it ranges from an "XF" grade (Failed because of cheating, says so on your transcript) to being expelled.
And I think it's warranted. It's very easy not to plagiarize. Rephrase what the paper says, put in a little citation. You must be able to comprehend what you're reading to do so however.
If some moron gets an A because he cheated and the teach didn't catch him, it devalues the A that I earned. There's people in my writing classes that have the same grade as me and cannot even write in the proper tone for an academic paper. That's just not fair.
Then: 640k aught to be enough for anybody. Nobody will ever need any more. We could probably do better, but nah, you don't need it. Now: 500GB isn't even close to enough for anybody. Indeed, 500GB isn't even close, furthermore, by the time this product comes into its prime, we're going to have an Internet that negates any usefulness of it.
Oh, and while I'm on a rant, OTHER teachers need to start being a little more strict, case in point:
Two years ago in a beginner's level Spanish class, we had to write a paper on what we were going to do the day we died. Now, we hadn't been taught simple future tense yet (I WILL go, He/She/It WILL go, etc), but that's OK, we knew the future progressive tense (I'm going to go, He/She/It is going to go).
Some girl waltzes into class, a real winner here. Four years of Spanish in high school and didn't know a word, so I proofread her paper for her. I had no clue what half of it said - we hadn't been taught how to say things like that yet! I told her she was sure to fail, future tense was 3 chapters ahead! Turns out, she had a friend write it for her (major no-no. I shouldn't have even really proofread it for her.)
She got the same grade as me on the paper, and the prof wrote on the paper "Good job, Jane Doe! Wow, you knew the simple future tense, way to go!". FML
And if they're gonna rely on that turnitin.com bullshit, they better live by it.
A professor just tried to tell my girl that despite the "one percent plagiarized" that turnitin rated her, she still was going to fail the paper for plagiarism anyway.
I got half a mind to drive the 30 miles to that professor's campus and make my girl beat Broca's area right out of that professor's head. Think she wrote the paper on it now? Whats that, can't come up with the words? Aw, damn. Guess she knew her shit.
Oh, and if that damn website tries to tell me I plagiarized off of a paper a community college student 1500 miles away wrote ten years ago again, I'm gonna go apeshit.
Is there any way to just feed stuff to turnitin.com? Can I just start feeding it garbage? $x has been found to cause $y in most cases. Most $x say that &y is a factor in &z.
Administrators and professors who think this is a good idea, piss off. I would be doing a disservice to myself to copy the work of another undergraduate or hell, most doctorate-holding warm bodies around. They just can't write as good as me. I never have and never will cheat on a paper, and if some bullshit professor that I PAY tells me I did because of a computer program, I'm gonna lose my sanity. Quick.
Damn dude, A+ argument right there. Never really thought about WHY region protection was a big part of DRM, I always just rip it out ASAP, but your explanation sure makes sense!
Also the Tesla Sedan will cost a lot less in repairs in the long run due to a very simple, all electric drive train.
Are you sure?
My VW has generally been very reliable. It was engineered very well, and was built to last - spend more now, pay less in warranty costs as a company later. That's kind of a bitch, because when something DOES go wrong, it's not as easy (or cheap) to: A. figure out whats wrong, because the American car companies generally conform to OBD-II standards. VW chooses not to. Is Tesla? or B. get it repaired. Any monkey with a wrench can work on an American car. Anecdotal example: My VW's alternator? A good two hours. Never had to touch it. My buddy's Ford? About 20 minutes to remove and replace. It's only four years old, and Ford had to pay for it.
Now, I could take my VW to that random monkey with a wrench and have him do the work, but it's going to take him 4 hours, and the work probably won't be done correctly. I've got three choices: Either do it myself (and 2 hours is kind of a bitch for an alternator), pay the dealer (that costs much MUCH more than the Ford dealer), or find a mechanic that specializes in vdubs.
VW has been around for decades, and my mechanic has never owned a vehicle that didn't come from the Fatherland. Where does one take their Tesla for repairs?
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Huh? I have AT&T and I spent $0.00 per incoming and $0.50 per outgoing in Spain. Either way it doesnt equal out to $0.20/msg.
Gramatically? Yes. Colloquially? No. At least not where I'm at in Pennsylvania. When you're talking about how someone first responded to an indictment, it's pleaded. Every other use? Plead.
That asshat lives in a house that lost "2.5 homes-I-grew-up-in" in value since 2002.
Burn in hell... or state prison.
I thought it kind of odd too for Verizon to support this. The weirdest part is the summary, saying that wireless carriers would be less likely to innovate. The only carrier branded phone I had was an AT&T Tilt, and that was actually just a HTC TyTN II. So I don't know what they're going on about.
In reality, they just don't want to lose control over what goes on their phones, and that's why they support this. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd bet that Verizon doesn't have more "exclusive" or quality phones is because they want to have too much control over what goes on them. My iPhone is pretty easy to jailbreak, the Tilt never even cared (and for that matter, was completely and utterly unlocked - not just SIM card, but radio software and all - in minutes), and AFAIK, I was always free to run my own BREW apps on AT&T's selection of just-phone phones. Verizon? Not so much. My girl uses VZW can't even get a Spanish dictionary for free, and I've got one on my iPhone, my PC, pretty much anywhere I need one.
You don't have the tethering plan. The tethering plan is limited to 5GB/mo. Do you use the isp.cingular APN or wap.cingular?
Not that it doesn't work fine, but you're really breaking your agreement.
Ken Lay was convicted! He died before sentencing of a heart attack.
Wha? I pay $2.55/gal for 93 Octane (95 RON) gas. Of that, 18.4 cents is a federal tax, and my state charges me 31.1 cents. That pays for my shit roads and the plows in the winter, and certainly doesn't sound like a subsidy to me!
Respect goes nowhere.
The little pissant guard up at my (student housing) apartment complex is a PA constable. He makes it his job to make everyone up here's life a living hell.
Technically, his job description says he's supposed to prevent physical damage to the property, not bust up kids for drinking. Guess what he does? Busts kids for drinking. Those kids then just move to another apartment, and then go outside and destroy the property.
Well, I've put up with his shit for nine months. Tried to show him "respect", but it doesn't stop him from emptying out a pretty chill gathering, even with my input. See, at night, I'm in charge. I've worked at this complex for three years as the resident director, and I really am technically his boss, despite being about 40 years his junior.
Yet this man can't show me any respect. He treats the kids up here with nothing but contempt. A constable is the lowest rung in the LEO ladder, and he can't even show respect to workers up here who try and make his job easier.
So no, don't expect something like "respect" to someone who thinks they have power to win you anything except disrespect in return. You have shown weakness, and expect someone in a position like that to abuse it.
Ya know, the cops told me the same thing about a gas station I stole gas from when I was a teen, but they told me I was banned "for life".
Still go there every day to buy cigs (and gas, that I actually pay for now). Nobody has ever stopped me.
Sounds like an idle threat from someone who doesn't get laid enough, just par for the course.
Wait, what? I need to let Dell know I bought a used laptop?
Naw, no thanks. I don't want those morons trying to keep track of who owns MY stuff.
If you think their little idea is good, why don't the dumbasses do it the old-fashioned way and hand out a PIECE OF PAPER?! Hell, let the gummint do it.
I can think of only two things more valuable in my house than my PC: The house itself, and my car. I can't sell either one without letting the government know! I dunno about a house (I'm a damn college student, own a house? yeah right.), but my car has a pretty little blue piece of paper with its VIN and my name and address on it. I can sell my car to you, you can pay me cash, hell, I can write you a bill of sale, but you don't own it until a notary witnesses me write your name on that piece of paper and sign it. PERIOD.
And I'm kind of fine with that. I don't want someone taking my multi-thousand dollar machine from me and then having to prove I own it. However, until the day that states start to require titling of PCs, FUCK OFF. If I call to order an accessory for a machine, it's none of your business who actually owns it. You're in the business of selling PCs, not in determining ownership. That's kind of the government's job, and I'd rather they butt out of it unless I ask for their intervention. In the case of my multi-thousand dollar machine thats only purpose is to move, I'll gladly let them intervene. My laptop? Not so much. Protected by Remington.
Isn't the poster talking about a laptop? I always kinda figured a DIY laptop was more of a pain-in-the-ass than it was worth, or has that changed? I haven't built a PC in a while, I use a laptop. Building your own isn't feasible these days is it?
I'm no teen, but the grandparent is right. When you learned to write, it was in a handwritten or typewritten letter, right? Did your grammar book have a section on proper text messaging?
No, it didn't, and mine didn't in 1991, either. So neither you or I get to define the rules on proper texting etiquette. For those who spent their formative years with a tiny little multi-tap keyboard, processing a message like that takes no longer than processing the fully typed message.
The swine flu program has almost ruined my graduation. I was supposed to travel abroad to Mexico for my final two classes, and *poof* out the window.
Yet again, us poor Americans are suffering the consequences of our own blind greed. Drug cartel violence is spilling over our border because we're too stupid to put them out of business by legalizing a pretty harmless plant. Instead, we continue to legitimize their business by making illegal something that over half the adult population has tried.
Now, we have an infulenza epidemic. Where did it start? A commercial pig farm called Granjas Carrol in Veracruz. Wanna take a guess at the owner? Smithfield Farms. And why, pray tell, does Smithfield have a commercial pig farm in Mexico? Think about it! Cheap labor, cheap animal drugs, and above all, no USDA. Just stuff the pigs in a room, let em wallow in their own waste, and call it a day!
Smithfield, of course, says it's not their fault. Fuck 'em. Americans as a whole need to stop buying products from companies that exploit other countries. You're tellin' me that American farmers can't raise enough fucking pigs for all of us at a decent price? Christ, they'll eat anything you give em! Build a big pen, throw in... well, anything for them to eat, and bam, a year later, BACON!
So fuck you, fellow Americans. Thanks for being selfish and ruining my study abroad. I'll continue to smoke my made-in-America mota and, well, eating pork from my local fucking Pennsylvanian farm.
Grade inflation pisses me off too!
I was a real early reader/writer and by middle school, I had just given up on putting any effort into school because it was a waste of time. According to those standardized tests (back in the day they weren't tied to funding) that they gave us, I was reading and writing on a "college level" by then but yet, my A+ could be tied by 10 pages of garbage written by the druggies in the back row because it was an "A+ Effort" for them.
And it didn't get any better in college. Freshman year they make the duds take remedial reading/writing/math classes and if you can't manage to pass the test to take the 100-level courses, the credits and grades don't count. After that, though, it's back to the same old thing.
Hard sciences and maths are a bit different in that respect though, as far as I've seen. I'm no prodigy in maths, but my entrance exam said "You can start at Calc I". Big mistake. I dropped the class, and the teacher put a "Withdrew while failing" on my transcript even after discussing the fact that I was just trying to challenge myself - I only needed a statistics class for my major.
Oh well. Graduation's in a week.
I'm with ya there, too, actually. I went on a rant about turnitin.com getting those fair use rights.
Some teachers take it too far. Last year, my school had a new professor who in his first year turned in double the number of academic violations for plagiarism than the rest of the major's faculty combined. He has since quit, but his stance was that if you paraphrased something, you had to cite it PERIOD. That is, if I were to have a paragraph contrasting multiple papers, I couldn't just put a parenthetical citation with all of them at the end of it, I'd have to cite each paper (perhaps more than once) directly after my contrast, even if it was my original thought!
He failed half the class for plagiarism on that paper, and told me at first that the "11% plagiarized" on my paper could be cause for alarm. The offending sentence fragment? "Most social scientists believe that"... combined with the Works Cited page that, hello, anyone that ever cited a paper I used is going to have the EXACT SAME wording on that page.
/dev/random man! It's in there somewhere.
My point is that a 500GB disc is pretty useless, especially if it costs $50. I can buy a 1TB hard drive for not much more than that and it's going to be more reliable, faster, etc. When I need to transfer that data, I can do so over the 'net. No need to spend $50 on a disc plus another dollar or two to mail it!
In my school, it ranges from an "XF" grade (Failed because of cheating, says so on your transcript) to being expelled.
And I think it's warranted. It's very easy not to plagiarize. Rephrase what the paper says, put in a little citation. You must be able to comprehend what you're reading to do so however.
If some moron gets an A because he cheated and the teach didn't catch him, it devalues the A that I earned. There's people in my writing classes that have the same grade as me and cannot even write in the proper tone for an academic paper. That's just not fair.
Err, not so much.
Then: 640k aught to be enough for anybody. Nobody will ever need any more. We could probably do better, but nah, you don't need it.
Now: 500GB isn't even close to enough for anybody. Indeed, 500GB isn't even close, furthermore, by the time this product comes into its prime, we're going to have an Internet that negates any usefulness of it.
Oddly Enough, HTML tags
No BLINK tag though :(
How is "snap-like" any better than "slippery"?
Oh, and while I'm on a rant, OTHER teachers need to start being a little more strict, case in point:
Two years ago in a beginner's level Spanish class, we had to write a paper on what we were going to do the day we died. Now, we hadn't been taught simple future tense yet (I WILL go, He/She/It WILL go, etc), but that's OK, we knew the future progressive tense (I'm going to go, He/She/It is going to go).
Some girl waltzes into class, a real winner here. Four years of Spanish in high school and didn't know a word, so I proofread her paper for her. I had no clue what half of it said - we hadn't been taught how to say things like that yet! I told her she was sure to fail, future tense was 3 chapters ahead! Turns out, she had a friend write it for her (major no-no. I shouldn't have even really proofread it for her.)
She got the same grade as me on the paper, and the prof wrote on the paper "Good job, Jane Doe! Wow, you knew the simple future tense, way to go!". FML
And if they're gonna rely on that turnitin.com bullshit, they better live by it.
A professor just tried to tell my girl that despite the "one percent plagiarized" that turnitin rated her, she still was going to fail the paper for plagiarism anyway.
I got half a mind to drive the 30 miles to that professor's campus and make my girl beat Broca's area right out of that professor's head. Think she wrote the paper on it now? Whats that, can't come up with the words? Aw, damn. Guess she knew her shit.
Oh, and if that damn website tries to tell me I plagiarized off of a paper a community college student 1500 miles away wrote ten years ago again, I'm gonna go apeshit.
Is there any way to just feed stuff to turnitin.com? Can I just start feeding it garbage? $x has been found to cause $y in most cases. Most $x say that &y is a factor in &z.
Administrators and professors who think this is a good idea, piss off. I would be doing a disservice to myself to copy the work of another undergraduate or hell, most doctorate-holding warm bodies around. They just can't write as good as me. I never have and never will cheat on a paper, and if some bullshit professor that I PAY tells me I did because of a computer program, I'm gonna lose my sanity. Quick.
Damn dude, A+ argument right there. Never really thought about WHY region protection was a big part of DRM, I always just rip it out ASAP, but your explanation sure makes sense!
Real Life should have a google search box.
Are you sure?
My VW has generally been very reliable. It was engineered very well, and was built to last - spend more now, pay less in warranty costs as a company later. That's kind of a bitch, because when something DOES go wrong, it's not as easy (or cheap) to:
A. figure out whats wrong, because the American car companies generally conform to OBD-II standards. VW chooses not to. Is Tesla? or
B. get it repaired. Any monkey with a wrench can work on an American car. Anecdotal example: My VW's alternator? A good two hours. Never had to touch it. My buddy's Ford? About 20 minutes to remove and replace. It's only four years old, and Ford had to pay for it.
Now, I could take my VW to that random monkey with a wrench and have him do the work, but it's going to take him 4 hours, and the work probably won't be done correctly. I've got three choices: Either do it myself (and 2 hours is kind of a bitch for an alternator), pay the dealer (that costs much MUCH more than the Ford dealer), or find a mechanic that specializes in vdubs.
VW has been around for decades, and my mechanic has never owned a vehicle that didn't come from the Fatherland. Where does one take their Tesla for repairs?