Aaaaaarrrgghhh! Not a single word of your own that I might correct in retribution! Not even a nick or sig to know you by!
You are sly. I bow to your superior strategy.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Spelling flames are lame because everybody makes mistakes.
In this case of runaway pedantery they become a surreal expression of the strange craziness of our world and our priorities.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
You probably don't mean people with 90% American ancestry.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Of course you're right. This subthread is horribly offtopic. But i find it hilarious, the subthread getting more and more out of hand. Tastes in humor differ, I find this unstoppable, escalating subthread veering off in such a crazy manner really funny. Can it ever stop?
Of course, even if spelling is often important, it's very marginal in this case. Also, lots of us don't have English as our native tongue, but should participate anyway. Dyslectics have every right to participate... I could go on...
Still, the use of "it's" instead of "its" jars me every time... Though of course this doesn't really matter.
And now... I defy anyone to try to correct me! Ha!
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Before you know it you'll find out that your camera has been infected with a virus that has posted all your nude and private pictures all over the Internet.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
The camera [...] can be used for capturing images of explosions, lightning bolts, etc.
Wouldn't it be better to make a camera that can be used for ordinary pictures?
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
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First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for the Drones, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Drone.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
(With apologies to Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945.)
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
In fact, these judges will have an unusually good grasp of technology and will make excellent decisions on technical issues. Among the candidates there are even a few who know how to turn on the light in a room.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Progress in court automation will of course continue until kR4Ck3rS juDg3 3v3rYtH1n9 4nD Ru13 tH3 w0r1D.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Why are you all so skeptical? Do you really understand their discovery? This may represent a major breakthrough in techniques for reducing the size of investor funds by 100:1.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
This expansion of the sun is such a needless bloat. I tried to tell God to use Linux instead but he just wouldn't listen.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Don't panic. To pay your caterer, just wait and have fun for 7.699 billion years. Then a million years remain to the end of the world. Then put a dollar in a bank account with 1% interest rate. In one million years it grows to a sum that is four thousand digits long (2,365e+4321 dollars).
If your caterer won't be satisfied with a four-thousand-digit sum you might consider making your parties a little more modest.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Even if it were on the near side of the moon you'd need an extremely powerful telescope to see anything.
The only way you could see something from Earth without extreme enlargement would be if we built a very large city on the near side of the moon, with lots and lots of roof windows letting through the light. Then you might perhaps discern a very faint point of light when that part of the moon is dark.
However, such a large city on the moon is quite unlikely. And if it were built, such a large number of windows are unlikely, due to technical difficulties and inherent risks.
Tastes differ. To me, such a point of light from human endeavor on our moon would be very beautiful. To me it would convey a sense of wondrous poetic beauty and awe.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
most people don't really need to control their microwave or other hosehold devices/appliances from their computer.
People do need this! They just don't realize it. And a TV has important advantages over the computer. Like this:
Put food in micro, run to TV, interrupt viewers, fumble with menus, viewers get impatient, keep fumbling, lots of arguments and gestures, finally find menu to start micro, viewers chase you away. After a while micro beeps "ready", again interrupt viewers, fumble with menus, viewers almost get violent, finally find menu to open micro door, again get chased away. Run to micro and take food.
People don't realize it, but most of us sit still far too much. This invention will help us get badly needed exercise.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
What does this new OS provide that we don't already have and are not already capable of doing?
It provides hype.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Don't worry, you may think you're in Sweden, but soone' or late' we gonna come knockin' on yo' door.
Ha! You won't find me! I'll hide in my illegal second apartment!
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
I would rather say you are too willing to sacrifice your freedom for it was you who consistently voted these people in.
No, I'm not, and no, I didn't. My fellow countrymen are and did. As in any democracy there will be things one agrees with and other things one doesn't agree with, that's unavoidable in a democracy since each individual is just one many-millionth of the voting masses. Some people don't want to accept this but you can't have democracy without it.
My post was a comment on the fascinating cultural diversity on the Internet, something I find exhilarating. What was the point of your post?
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
I'll take the bait, I don't like this view of my country being spread.
Of course you can live in any number of apartments, as long as you own them. Rented apartments are different, they are sort of rationed because of the extreme lack of apartments in the cities.
Even if it's different from the US there are some parallels. If you want economic freedom you have to pay, you have to buy things and own things. If you can't afford that, there will be limitations. That's normal!
That list is strange. Some of the things are made to look bad by the strange way they are presented. A wild idea on working hours that was discussed briefly by one minister long ago, and then quickly forgotten, is presented as if it were official government policy. The way the political opposition satirizes the government's concern about child care is presented as official government policy.
The economic decline is real and sad and unnecessary, and that makes me angry. But that strange list gives a very strange picture.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
How is this amazing or fascinating? I find it sad. We've had too many incompetent politicians.
What's your point, did you think I was USA-bashing in my post? I'm sorry if it seemed like that. I don't see the points I mentioned as negative, I find them paradoxical, they lend insight. The US is generally strongly bent on freedom and Sweden is generally over-protective. (So if this must be a competition between countries, in that case the winner here is the US.) Yet on these two particular points it's the other way round.
If we can discover and discuss such paradoxes maybe we can better understand the shackles imposed both by tradition and politics, and in the long run push our societies in ways that are more to our liking.
Some of your points about Sweden are exaggerated or misinterpreted, others are more accurate, but I won't go into a detailed discussion here, I feel it doesn't fit in with the general topic.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Fascinating, how different things can be in different countries.
"visitors try to enter UKbetting.com"
I can reach that site (I'm in Sweden) and the first page features a prominent logo saying "This site is safe for kids", "Net Nanny approved", and then a note explaining that residents of the USA will not be admitted.
Kids from around the world can enter a site where adults from the US encounter a guardian to protect them from... whatever.
Here's another example of surprising differences between countries: As a Swede I find it extremely curious that if I buy software from the US that shows human anatomy, it can be shown without genitals. It seems this is intended for children. As if children could somehow be unaware that they have genitals. I just can't imagine a Swedish parent or teacher wanting to show anatomy in such a strange, mutilated way.
Fascinating, curious differences.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
-Some filters for capitals in subject "RIGHT NOW" 8-)
Sometimes capitals in the subject are part of the joke, as in this contribution to the discussion on Qwest selling subscriber's private information.
(But that experience taught me that writing such jokes is risky. People think the message is for real and mod it down without reading it! Not recommended.)
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
I'll patent the process of executing code by clicking on attachments and sue every poor sod who infects his computer with a virus and GET RICH QUICK!
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
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Aaaaaarrrgghhh! Not a single word of your own that I might correct in retribution! Not even a nick or sig to know you by!
You are sly. I bow to your superior strategy.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Spelling flames are lame because everybody makes mistakes.
In this case of runaway pedantery they become a surreal expression of the strange craziness of our world and our priorities.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
90% of the Americans
You probably don't mean people with 90% American ancestry.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
which is in the refrigerator :-)
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
expert in electricity
:-)
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
english teachers' newsboard
:-) I'm sorry! I just couldn't resist!
Of course you're right. This subthread is horribly offtopic. But i find it hilarious, the subthread getting more and more out of hand. Tastes in humor differ, I find this unstoppable, escalating subthread veering off in such a crazy manner really funny. Can it ever stop?
Of course, even if spelling is often important, it's very marginal in this case. Also, lots of us don't have English as our native tongue, but should participate anyway. Dyslectics have every right to participate... I could go on...
Still, the use of "it's" instead of "its" jars me every time... Though of course this doesn't really matter.
And now... I defy anyone to try to correct me! Ha!
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
things that matters
Ahem...
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Before you know it you'll find out that your camera has been infected with a virus that has posted all your nude and private pictures all over the Internet.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
The camera [...] can be used for capturing images of explosions, lightning bolts, etc.
Wouldn't it be better to make a camera that can be used for ordinary pictures?
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for the Drones, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Drone.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
(With apologies to Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945.)
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
In fact, these judges will have an unusually good grasp of technology and will make excellent decisions on technical issues. Among the candidates there are even a few who know how to turn on the light in a room.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Progress in court automation will of course continue until kR4Ck3rS juDg3 3v3rYtH1n9 4nD Ru13 tH3 w0r1D.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Why are you all so skeptical? Do you really understand their discovery? This may represent a major breakthrough in techniques for reducing the size of investor funds by 100:1.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
This expansion of the sun is such a needless bloat. I tried to tell God to use Linux instead but he just wouldn't listen.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Don't panic. To pay your caterer, just wait and have fun for 7.699 billion years. Then a million years remain to the end of the world. Then put a dollar in a bank account with 1% interest rate. In one million years it grows to a sum that is four thousand digits long (2,365e+4321 dollars).
If your caterer won't be satisfied with a four-thousand-digit sum you might consider making your parties a little more modest.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Even if it were on the near side of the moon you'd need an extremely powerful telescope to see anything.
The only way you could see something from Earth without extreme enlargement would be if we built a very large city on the near side of the moon, with lots and lots of roof windows letting through the light. Then you might perhaps discern a very faint point of light when that part of the moon is dark.
However, such a large city on the moon is quite unlikely. And if it were built, such a large number of windows are unlikely, due to technical difficulties and inherent risks.
Tastes differ. To me, such a point of light from human endeavor on our moon would be very beautiful. To me it would convey a sense of wondrous poetic beauty and awe.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
most people don't really need to control their microwave or other hosehold devices/appliances from their computer.
People do need this! They just don't realize it. And a TV has important advantages over the computer. Like this:
Put food in micro, run to TV, interrupt viewers, fumble with menus, viewers get impatient, keep fumbling, lots of arguments and gestures, finally find menu to start micro, viewers chase you away. After a while micro beeps "ready", again interrupt viewers, fumble with menus, viewers almost get violent, finally find menu to open micro door, again get chased away. Run to micro and take food.
People don't realize it, but most of us sit still far too much. This invention will help us get badly needed exercise.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
What does this new OS provide that we don't already have and are not already capable of doing?
It provides hype.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Don't worry, you may think you're in Sweden, but soone' or late' we gonna come knockin' on yo' door.
Ha! You won't find me! I'll hide in my illegal second apartment!
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
I would rather say you are too willing to sacrifice your freedom for it was you who consistently voted these people in.
No, I'm not, and no, I didn't. My fellow countrymen are and did. As in any democracy there will be things one agrees with and other things one doesn't agree with, that's unavoidable in a democracy since each individual is just one many-millionth of the voting masses. Some people don't want to accept this but you can't have democracy without it.
My post was a comment on the fascinating cultural diversity on the Internet, something I find exhilarating. What was the point of your post?
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
I'll take the bait, I don't like this view of my country being spread.
Of course you can live in any number of apartments, as long as you own them. Rented apartments are different, they are sort of rationed because of the extreme lack of apartments in the cities.
Even if it's different from the US there are some parallels. If you want economic freedom you have to pay, you have to buy things and own things. If you can't afford that, there will be limitations. That's normal!
That list is strange. Some of the things are made to look bad by the strange way they are presented. A wild idea on working hours that was discussed briefly by one minister long ago, and then quickly forgotten, is presented as if it were official government policy. The way the political opposition satirizes the government's concern about child care is presented as official government policy.
The economic decline is real and sad and unnecessary, and that makes me angry. But that strange list gives a very strange picture.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
How is this amazing or fascinating? I find it sad. We've had too many incompetent politicians.
What's your point, did you think I was USA-bashing in my post? I'm sorry if it seemed like that. I don't see the points I mentioned as negative, I find them paradoxical, they lend insight. The US is generally strongly bent on freedom and Sweden is generally over-protective. (So if this must be a competition between countries, in that case the winner here is the US.) Yet on these two particular points it's the other way round.
If we can discover and discuss such paradoxes maybe we can better understand the shackles imposed both by tradition and politics, and in the long run push our societies in ways that are more to our liking.
Some of your points about Sweden are exaggerated or misinterpreted, others are more accurate, but I won't go into a detailed discussion here, I feel it doesn't fit in with the general topic.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Fascinating, how different things can be in different countries.
I can reach that site (I'm in Sweden) and the first page features a prominent logo saying "This site is safe for kids", "Net Nanny approved", and then a note explaining that residents of the USA will not be admitted.
Kids from around the world can enter a site where adults from the US encounter a guardian to protect them from ... whatever.
Here's another example of surprising differences between countries: As a Swede I find it extremely curious that if I buy software from the US that shows human anatomy, it can be shown without genitals. It seems this is intended for children. As if children could somehow be unaware that they have genitals. I just can't imagine a Swedish parent or teacher wanting to show anatomy in such a strange, mutilated way.
Fascinating, curious differences.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.-Some filters for capitals in subject "RIGHT NOW" 8-)
Sometimes capitals in the subject are part of the joke, as in this contribution to the discussion on Qwest selling subscriber's private information.
(But that experience taught me that writing such jokes is risky. People think the message is for real and mod it down without reading it! Not recommended.)
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
I'll patent the process of executing code by clicking on attachments and sue every poor sod who infects his computer with a virus and GET RICH QUICK!
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.