This implies that the plane shot down by a russian missile in Ukraine was destroyed on purpose, since the missile could have exploded before hitting its target.
I don't think anyone was in much doubt that it was deliberately shot down. What they thought they were shooting down is another matter.
Surprise! More Than Twice As Much Mercury In Environment As Thought
Here are a couple more Slashdot headlines in this new style:
Fuck's sake! Facebook's Auto-Play Videos Chew Up Expensive Data Plans About Bloody Time! 3 Decades Later, Finnair Pilots Report Dramatic Close Encounter With a Missile
Apparently, Disney was [...] hosting a video containing a remix of music which Zimmerman claims ownership of. Not only that, but the Deadmau5 logo was prominently displayed next to said video. [...] As it turns out, Disney is hosting a Deadmau5 video on their website, without permission.
if (a = b) assigns the contents of b to a and executes the code following if b 0.
It makes sense to me. The statement inside the () gets evaluated, and = is the assignment operator only (which is better than forcing it to double up as comparison operator, isn't it?). For return value, what else could it return?
The funny part is that you clearly didn't realize this
What's funnier is that you didn't stop to think that the AC may well have deliberately worded it in such a way* so as to comically exaggerate the disparaging light in which he's painting the research.
* I'm not saying he definitely did. But he probably did.
Or are they really are landfilling babies at the experimental mushroom farm???
Oh well.
As for the sentence in question, while there is an amusing ambiguity if one wishes to look for it, I don't think most people are going to have a problem parsing it.
As for Bernadette, think about this... Wolowitz's never seen mother screams all the time, and what do you know? So does Bernadette, when she gets mad... Can you say "Mother-complex"?????
Just because something is using memory (it's there to be used, after all), it does not automatically follow that it is leaking memory, either in your sense (poor memory management) or the sense developers use it (broken memory management).
I've got mysqld running at home. The only DB on it is a few megabytes of data, and yet mysqld uses 1.5Gb. Why? Because it's available. It doesn't harm the system, as far as I can tell.
I don't know for certain that he did say anything about them. And even if he did, we don't understand their position in relation to the investigation at that time. If he did mention the books, he might have let that bit of information slip because he thought it wasn't relevant - "the guy has a couple of aliases, he's even written some books under one of them" - and then the media did the rest. The guy's written some books, dig them out, see what they're about - school shootings?! That must be the (only) reason! Scoop!
Why is it obviously their fault? I've yet to hear exactly what's been officially stated. Are you sure it's not the fault of whoever wrote:
but according to Dorchester Sheriff James Phillips, McLaw is also the author of two books: "The Insurrectionist" and its sequel, "Lillith's Heir."
Note that this is not a quote. It's entirely possible that the sheriff said a whole lot of other stuff about this guy which didn't seem as interesting to whoever wrote the above. It's even possible that he only mentioned the guy's alias, and didn't mention the books at all, but that these were later connected.
So far, a lot of what's being talked about is seems to be little more than inference to me. For example:
Those books are what caught the attention of police and school board officials in Dorchester County.
How can we be sure that really is what caught their attention? Can we be sure that this isn't just WBOC16 playing up the only sliver of fact they have?
It would be useful to know if McLaw is under investigation for behavior other than writing two novels
Yes, it would be very useful to know that before people go writing articles about how this guy has been locked up (if that) for (and only for, seems to be the implication) writing two novels. Oop, too late.
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This implies that the plane shot down by a russian missile in Ukraine was destroyed on purpose, since the missile could have exploded before hitting its target.
I don't think anyone was in much doubt that it was deliberately shot down. What they thought they were shooting down is another matter.
Surprise! More Than Twice As Much Mercury In Environment As Thought
Here are a couple more Slashdot headlines in this new style:
Fuck's sake! Facebook's Auto-Play Videos Chew Up Expensive Data Plans
About Bloody Time! 3 Decades Later, Finnair Pilots Report Dramatic Close Encounter With a Missile
What has being British got to do with anything?
Go away! There ain't no monorail and there never was!
"...causing about ten million dollars worth of improvements."
"...have been hit by a meteor."
Apparently, Disney was [...] hosting a video containing a remix of music which Zimmerman claims ownership of. Not only that, but the Deadmau5 logo was prominently displayed next to said video. [...] As it turns out, Disney is hosting a Deadmau5 video on their website, without permission.
So is there one video, or two?
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest (and this is just a hunch) that you don't know what you're talking about.
if (a = b) assigns the contents of b to a and executes the code following if b 0.
It makes sense to me. The statement inside the () gets evaluated, and = is the assignment operator only (which is better than forcing it to double up as comparison operator, isn't it?). For return value, what else could it return?
The funny part is that you clearly didn't realize this
What's funnier is that you didn't stop to think that the AC may well have deliberately worded it in such a way* so as to comically exaggerate the disparaging light in which he's painting the research.
* I'm not saying he definitely did. But he probably did.
Geostationary Orbit Sunday
I've only just recovered from Near Equatorial Tuesday!
the average baby will work their way through 8,000 of them before they end up in landfill
It's only as ambiguous as you want to make it.
one could hope for a bare minimum of literacy.
Yes, one could hope.
Or are they really are landfilling babies at the experimental mushroom farm???
Oh well.
As for the sentence in question, while there is an amusing ambiguity if one wishes to look for it, I don't think most people are going to have a problem parsing it.
Google further went on to say that they'd have to wait until it went to the bank on Monday, because "we don't carry small change."
since actual smart people / nerds don't like it or watch it?
Don't they? Did you ask all of them?
As for Bernadette, think about this... Wolowitz's never seen mother screams all the time, and what do you know? So does Bernadette, when she gets mad... Can you say "Mother-complex"?????
<McBain>That's the joke.</McBain>
LGPL naughty bits FTW.
They hope their technique will lead to low-cost diagnostic tests in developing countries.
What is this I don't even
Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers
Aren't all cell towers phone-y?
Just because something is using memory (it's there to be used, after all), it does not automatically follow that it is leaking memory, either in your sense (poor memory management) or the sense developers use it (broken memory management).
I've got mysqld running at home. The only DB on it is a few megabytes of data, and yet mysqld uses 1.5Gb. Why? Because it's available. It doesn't harm the system, as far as I can tell.
Why would he have said anything about them
I don't know for certain that he did say anything about them. And even if he did, we don't understand their position in relation to the investigation at that time. If he did mention the books, he might have let that bit of information slip because he thought it wasn't relevant - "the guy has a couple of aliases, he's even written some books under one of them" - and then the media did the rest. The guy's written some books, dig them out, see what they're about - school shootings?! That must be the (only) reason! Scoop!
it's obviously the police's fault I think that.
Why is it obviously their fault? I've yet to hear exactly what's been officially stated. Are you sure it's not the fault of whoever wrote:
but according to Dorchester Sheriff James Phillips, McLaw is also the author of two books: "The Insurrectionist" and its sequel, "Lillith's Heir."
Note that this is not a quote. It's entirely possible that the sheriff said a whole lot of other stuff about this guy which didn't seem as interesting to whoever wrote the above. It's even possible that he only mentioned the guy's alias, and didn't mention the books at all, but that these were later connected.
So far, a lot of what's being talked about is seems to be little more than inference to me. For example:
Those books are what caught the attention of police and school board officials in Dorchester County.
How can we be sure that really is what caught their attention? Can we be sure that this isn't just WBOC16 playing up the only sliver of fact they have?
Since all the authorities have apparently chosen to share is that he had the temerity to write scary fiction while teaching
Is that what they've shared? What's the source for that? Is there a verbatim quote from the authorities?
It would be useful to know if McLaw is under investigation for behavior other than writing two novels
Yes, it would be very useful to know that before people go writing articles about how this guy has been locked up (if that) for (and only for, seems to be the implication) writing two novels. Oop, too late.