The indirect object (cock) is irrelevant. The verb, likewise is unimportant.
* "go X, whomever you are!"
This ought to be equivalent to
* "Whomever you are, go X" and
* "Whomever you are, X"
I.e. it's the "you" person who is to be going and doing X, i.e. takes the role of the subject of the verb. The term I used, the "assumed subject" I don't think is a universally accepted one, but it makes sense in context, which is good enough.
Anyway, we conclude it's "whoever" not "whomever".
However, there's an easier way to see it's the subject not the direct object (or indirect) - because there's a gap in the sentence for a direct object just waiting to be filled:
"Go choke yourself on a cock, whoever you are!"
Whereby it's obvious from the contrast in roles that the original "you" could not have been a direct object.
The above isn't funny. It's sad. The truly sad thing is that no matter how bad a Nokia is, it's still better than all other manufacturers' garbage. We always used to say "Friends don't let friends do Ericsson", for example.
Yup. What the user sees has bugger all to do with Unices of any type. However, I know that a certain Finnish telecommunications company that do infrastructural products as well as mobiles, certainly do a fair amount of development for their embedded code using HP-UX and Solaris systems for these infrastructural products. You're not a real hacker until you've built a 2.5GB binary (unstripped of course) on a fuck-off Solaris machine.
From the look of their UIs, the mobile phone division does development using an abacus and a poorly trained monkey.
Doom is still a great game. I don't think its gameplay has really been beaten by other FPSs since. Sure, the graphics aren't as good, but by the time you've got glowing red floaty things firing fireballs at you suspension of disbelief is already engaged, who cares if it's got jaggy edges. 4 floppies.
Just press TAB twice to see all the files, no need for this bloated 'echo' nonsense!:-) It even _pages_ the output if there's more than a screenful of files
THL.
Re:And I can't get up!!!
on
Lego Segway
·
· Score: 1
Can't the thing do wheelies? Sheesh, the kids round here pull wheelies on their crappy 35cc scooters. Build a better one with more torque.
"Spokespeople for the big three cite disproportionate costs of in-warranty service vs. rate of failure..."
Boycott the cheap bastards. I won't buy a disk with less than 3 years warrantee. My data is more valuable than any hardware.
Backups, sure, but why rub salt into the wound by having to buy a replacement? I want the manufacturer to _bet_ me that his hard disk won't fail (which is what a warranty is).
If they aren't prepared to put their money where hteir mouth is I'm not prepared to part with my money.
It's not fair to compare C++ to Pascal. You may only have been compiling 49000 lines of your own code, but you probably compiled five times that in standard and not-so-standard headers. Or more!
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Assuming the force is proportional to 1/r^2, scaling constants and units are ignored to simplify things. Let your toes be closer to the hole, and at distance r. Force_t = 1/r^2. Let your head be distance eps further away, at distance r+eps. Force_h = 1/(r+eps)^2.
Now we wave our hands and say that eps is negligible compared to r, and when added to r leaves you with basically r still. Difference in force = 2*eps/r^3
Now if you think the force grows quickly as r decreases, having a growth 1/r^2, then the _difference_ in force grows like 1/r^3 which grows far quicker as r decreases.
Now the difference in force will be felt as a stretching force on your body. You will be pulled to bits as r decreases.
Looks like to fuckwits don't know the difference between a web form and an email. It also appears as if it takes 40 hours to propagate a single IP packet's worth of data from one part of their network to the other.
But notice that they process it within 2 minutes of receiving it, that's how efficient they are!
Not. Bunch of lamers.
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Nothing wrong with Funk. It's the "Don" I find odd for a female. All the Donnas I've known have not felt teh need to shorten their name to Don, for example.
So we've simply got to prove to them that you're not ignoring it to run salt into their wounds.
They do have a website feedback page, and they promise a response within 24 hours. It's been 12 hours so far since they received this from me: {{{ Why did you remove the "switch" testimonial?
The story about that female writer (with the unfortunate name Don Funk according to that dialog box demonstrating how easy it was for her to do things in XP) who switched from Mac to XP was most interesting, but magically disappeared when I was half-way through reading it (I was going 'back' and 'forward' in the browser, which seemed to cause the page to reload)? }}}
If they do reply, I'll post it here, and if they don't I'll write another one, asking why they also break promises about reply times.
Burger King have had campaigns that explicitly mentioned MaccyDs.
Two I remember are: a) x% more meat in a whopper than a big-mac. b) y% of people said they prefered whoppers to big macs. (dunno what x or y were tho' - not small IIRC)
These were in the UK, both between 5 and 2 years ago (I remember where I was living, but not exactly when it was).
I went there OK; I read here; I saw the post which indicated that the photo was a stock image from an agency, and that the popup box has a man's name in it; I pointed my gf to the story; She went there; It 404'd. I went there; It 404'd.
Have they pulled the page?
Anyone got a cached copy, so we can check to see what they change if they put it up again?
Wasn't he on non-prescription medication for ?migraines? at the time?
Didn't actually _pick up the wrong piece_ (i.e. a mechanical error) during one game?
So yes, he was below par.
However, _not_ letting GK have access to DB's prior games was an asymmetric condition, which breaks the typical protocol for such competitions, and if you force me to use the word 'unfair' for that condition than yes, it was unfair.
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Worst thing is that I explained it badly.
* "Go choke on a cock, whomever you are!"
The indirect object (cock) is irrelevant.
The verb, likewise is unimportant.
* "go X, whomever you are!"
This ought to be equivalent to
* "Whomever you are, go X"
and
* "Whomever you are, X"
I.e. it's the "you" person who is to be going and doing X, i.e. takes the role of the subject of the verb. The term I used, the "assumed subject" I don't think is a universally accepted one, but it makes sense in context, which is good enough.
Anyway, we conclude it's "whoever" not "whomever".
However, there's an easier way to see it's the subject not the direct object (or indirect) - because there's a gap in the sentence for a direct object just waiting to be filled:
"Go choke yourself on a cock, whoever you are!"
Whereby it's obvious from the contrast in roles that the original "you" could not have been a direct object.
I do hope tingly isn't a bad thing!
THL.
The above isn't funny. It's sad.
The truly sad thing is that no matter how bad a Nokia is, it's still better than all other manufacturers' garbage.
We always used to say "Friends don't let friends do Ericsson", for example.
THL.
Yup. What the user sees has bugger all to do with Unices of any type. However, I know that a certain Finnish telecommunications company that do infrastructural products as well as mobiles, certainly do a fair amount of development for their embedded code using HP-UX and Solaris systems for these infrastructural products.
You're not a real hacker until you've built a 2.5GB binary (unstripped of course) on a fuck-off Solaris machine.
From the look of their UIs, the mobile phone division does development using an abacus and a poorly trained monkey.
THL.
Have posted to thread already, woud someone do the upmod honurs for me please?
Note - with CSS, this kind of thing is possible. (I'd hope, I'm no expert, but surely classes corresponding to voices would do the business?)
THL.
The pronoun takes the role of what is called an "understood subject" to the imperative verb. i.e. you don't want "whomever", you want "whoever".
THL.
"""
Earth starts to pull it forward, giving it energy. This makes the moonlet go faster, "raising" the orbit further from the Sun.
"""
That's got to be misleading wording:
Faster == lower orbit
THL.
The correct question is of course
"Why did they so _clumsily_ photoshop out the banners?"
THL.
A cookie is cooked once.
A biscuit is 'bis' 'cuire', twice cooked (same route as 'cuisine, obviously)
Old French, me lad.
Our 'biscuits' are dry (and get soggier over time, bletch). Your cookies are moist (and get drier over time).
It all makes sense, trust me, I'm a philolinguologist.
THL.
Doom is still a great game. I don't think its gameplay has really been beaten by other FPSs since. Sure, the graphics aren't as good, but by the time you've got glowing red floaty things firing fireballs at you suspension of disbelief is already engaged, who cares if it's got jaggy edges. 4 floppies.
THL.
Just press TAB twice to see all the files, no need for this bloated 'echo' nonsense! :-)
It even _pages_ the output if there's more than a screenful of files
THL.
Can't the thing do wheelies? Sheesh, the kids round here pull wheelies on their crappy 35cc scooters. Build a better one with more torque.
THL.
"Spokespeople for the big three cite disproportionate costs of in-warranty service vs. rate of failure..."
Boycott the cheap bastards. I won't buy a disk with less than 3 years warrantee. My data is more valuable than any hardware.
Backups, sure, but why rub salt into the wound by having to buy a replacement? I want the manufacturer to _bet_ me that his hard disk won't fail (which is what a warranty is).
If they aren't prepared to put their money where hteir mouth is I'm not prepared to part with my money.
THL.
It's not fair to compare C++ to Pascal.
You may only have been compiling 49000 lines of your own code, but you probably compiled five times that in standard and not-so-standard headers. Or more!
THL.
Bunch of fucking muppets:
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:21:19 -0700
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Some saliva to help the chewing:
Assuming the force is proportional to 1/r^2, scaling constants and units are ignored to simplify things.
Let your toes be closer to the hole, and at distance r. Force_t = 1/r^2.
Let your head be distance eps further away, at distance r+eps. Force_h = 1/(r+eps)^2.
Difference in forces = 1/r^2 - 1/(r+eps)^2
= (2*eps*r + eps^2)
-----------------
r^2(r+eps)^2
Now we wave our hands and say that eps is negligible compared to r, and when added to r leaves you with basically r still.
Difference in force = 2*eps/r^3
Now if you think the force grows quickly as r decreases, having a growth 1/r^2, then the _difference_ in force grows like 1/r^3 which grows far quicker as r decreases.
Now the difference in force will be felt as a stretching force on your body. You will be pulled to bits as r decreases.
THL.
Ooooh!
a ult.asp .
Looks like to fuckwits don't know the difference between a web form and an email. It also appears as if it takes 40 hours to propagate a single IP packet's worth of data from one part of their network to the other.
But notice that they process it within 2 minutes of receiving it, that's how efficient they are!
Not. Bunch of lamers.
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Nothing wrong with Funk. It's the "Don" I find odd for a female. All the Donnas I've known have not felt teh need to shorten their name to Don, for example.
THL.
I couldn't read the source in teh patch, there must be some problem with it, is it encrypted or something? Here's all I got:
/hfe/fep/rkpyhqr yvahk.20cer1/nepu/v386/xreary/gencf.p yvahk.20cer1-np1/nepu/v386/xreary/gencf.p0 6 15:42:19.000000000 +0100
/* Znfx bhg fchevbhf qroht gencf qhr gb ynml QE7 frggvat */
qvss -h --arj-svyr --erphefvir --rkpyhqr-sebz
--- yvahk.20cer1/nepu/v386/xreary/gencf.p2002-08-06 15:40:50.000000000 +0100
+++ yvahk.20cer1-np1/nepu/v386/xreary/gencf.p2002-08-
@@ -305,8 +319,13 @@
fgngvp ibvq vayvar qb_genc(vag gencae, vag fvtae, pune *fge, vag iz86,
fgehpg cg_ertf * ertf, ybat reebe_pbqr, fvtvasb_g *vasb)
{
-vs (iz86 && ertf->rsyntf & IZ_ZNFX)
-tbgb iz86_genc;
+vs (ertf->rsyntf & IZ_ZNFX) {
+vs (iz86)
+tbgb iz86_genc;
+ryfr
+tbgb genc_fvtany;
+}
+
vs (!(ertf->kpf & 3))
tbgb xreary_genc;
@@ -514,10 +533,15 @@
{
hafvtarq vag pbaqvgvba;
fgehpg gnfx_fgehpg *gfx = pheerag;
+hafvtarq ybat rvc = ertf->rvc;
fvtvasb_g vasb;
__nfz__ __ibyngvyr__("zbiy %%qo6,%0" : "=e" (pbaqvgvba));
+/* Vs gur hfre frg GS, vg'f fvzcyrfg gb pyrne vg evtug njnl. */
+vs ((rvc >=CNTR_BSSFRG) && (ertf->rsyntf & GS_ZNFX))
+tbgb pyrne_GS;
+
vs (pbaqvgvba & (QE_GENC0|QE_GENC1|QE_GENC2|QE_GENC3)) {
vs (!gfx->guernq.qrohtert[7])
Oh lordy, I'm probably in contravention of the QZPN?
(Christ, I can't believe how lame I am! Whatever, it made me laugh!)
THL.
Indeed. No reply. Lying scumbags.
Hands up who's surprised...
THL.
So we've simply got to prove to them that you're not ignoring it to run salt into their wounds.
They do have a website feedback page, and they promise a response within 24 hours.
It's been 12 hours so far since they received this from me:
{{{
Why did you remove the "switch" testimonial?
The story about that female writer (with the unfortunate name Don Funk according to that dialog box demonstrating how easy it was for her to do things in XP) who switched from Mac to XP was most interesting, but magically disappeared when I was half-way through reading it (I was going 'back' and 'forward' in the browser, which seemed to cause the page to reload)?
}}}
If they do reply, I'll post it here, and if they don't I'll write another one, asking why they also break promises about reply times.
THL.
Stupid question - goog's got a cache.
"Windows XP gives me more choices and flexibility"
found it uniquely.
THL.
Burger King have had campaigns that explicitly mentioned MaccyDs.
Two I remember are:
a) x% more meat in a whopper than a big-mac.
b) y% of people said they prefered whoppers to big macs.
(dunno what x or y were tho' - not small IIRC)
These were in the UK, both between 5 and 2 years ago (I remember where I was living, but not exactly when it was).
THL.
I went there OK;
I read here;
I saw the post which indicated that the photo was a stock image from an agency, and that the popup box has a man's name in it;
I pointed my gf to the story;
She went there;
It 404'd.
I went there;
It 404'd.
Have they pulled the page?
Anyone got a cached copy, so we can check to see what they change if they put it up again?
THL.
Fritz post?
Alexander Fritz was a German chess master in the 1800s. I'm guessing Fritz is named after him.
THL.
Wasn't he on non-prescription medication for ?migraines? at the time?
Didn't actually _pick up the wrong piece_ (i.e. a mechanical error) during one game?
So yes, he was below par.
However, _not_ letting GK have access to DB's prior games was an asymmetric condition, which breaks the typical protocol for such competitions, and if you force me to use the word 'unfair' for that condition than yes, it was unfair.
THL.