Maybe they've located an alien structure and are going to send a million Chinese "volunteers" inside to figure it out.
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I figured it had to be a troll, because how could anyone talking about knowing a specific word then screw up the spelling? (in bold and italics, no less)
If that's not begging for a link to that goat sex guy, then nothing is.
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Don't you find it silly that to avoid the problem you have to change the message? If there were a singular genderless pronoun that wouldn't be necessary. There is not. English is deficient. QED.
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Can't spell
Can't conjugate
Can't proofread
Maybe not, but they can tell the difference between left and right.
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Oh look, English can handle it.
Sheesh - I didn't say the idea couldn't possibly be expressed. Do you really dispute that it would be better to have genderless pronoun? A carpenter is only as good as his tools, after all... oh wait, I mean a carpenter is only as good as the tools owned by said carpenter. There - that's much better.
"A lot" is two words. You wouldn't say "alittle", would you?
No, but only because having said alittle I'd have to say belittle, and what would be the sense in that?
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So I take it that in this passage you are just trying to make it absolutely clear that programming is a man's job
It's just that English is deficient. There's no genderless pronoun that suits. And don't even try to pass that "one" crap off. Nothing makes a sentence stop dead in its tracks faster than that.
Other languages don't have this problem. Spanish, for instance, has su. As a bonus, it also doesn't have the "free" ambiguity.
Give me a call. I can build a relatively inexpensive team here to do it. Lower wages, easy and desirable travel, and fiber-optic to the US. Intel has a large presence here.
If the consumer had to shoulder the full cost of television then your typical cable package would cost so much only the wealthiest would have it.
Who do you think pays for it now? It's just less noticeable. Except now even the people who don't watch TV help pay for it in the form of higher prices.
What Apple should do is update their code to detect and eject any non-compliant CD.
I think they don't want to mitigate the problems this protection is causing. I think they'd rather it be a larger problem for Sony & Co. Lots and lots of entertainment industry people use Macs. If these disks fuck up their computers there will be a backlash. This is good for consumers and bad for Sony.
I wasn't trolling - I was reading along, appreciating what you were saying and that you were saying it well, and then you just stopped. Sure, I inferred your conclusion, but I wanted you to say it, as you'd spent all that time constructing the foundation.
As far as there being a large number of fakers among scientists, I think it's pretty much true of any field - it's just more easily measured in science. Science is the big leagues, and only the elite of the elite can make a serious, meaningful long-term contribution.
Of course the fakers can pose and pontificate as is done in other fields, and for a time it can succeed, but in the end the data tell the tale, and no amount of rhetoric can change that.
As for finding out if you're not one of the elite, well, almost nobody is. So what do you do if you realize you're Salieri instead of Mozart, and you are this close to being great but instead have only the still rare ability to fully appreciate the game, but are not allowed to play? You face the fact and you realize that that's the hand you were dealt, and you're stuck with it, and you won't get a second chance, so all you can do is make the best of it and make your life as comfortable as you can while you coast along towards obscurity, like almost everyone else. You're just one of the ones with the power to see your fate, instead of one of the oblivious teeming millions.
Car dealerships are prohibited from selling cars to persons under 18 (no right to contract)
I don't know where you're posting from, but in the U.S. minors have greater contract rights than adults. They can back out of most deals, but the adult on the other side cannot. Dealers don't sell to them because it tends not to work to very well, not because they can't.
Good point. BTW, in case anybody comes up with anti-gravity, I thought of that years ago. I also thought of Pop-Tarts, but then I found out someone else beat me to it.
Bzzzt. Try again. This is true for Trademarks but not Patents or Copyright.
Why would you tell him to try again, and then in the next breath tell him the answer? Was it because you wanted to use that so-annoying-you-want-to-slug-the-guy Bzzzt thing?
Imagine the gyroscope starts to fall to one side. That side becomes lower than the other side. But then that side spins around to the high side, and so now the gyroscope starts leaning the other way. This continuous counter-balancing keeps it level.
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Maybe they've located an alien structure and are going to send a million Chinese "volunteers" inside to figure it out.
I figured it had to be a troll, because how could anyone talking about knowing a specific word then screw up the spelling? (in bold and italics, no less)
If that's not begging for a link to that goat sex guy, then nothing is.
Don't you find it silly that to avoid the problem you have to change the message? If there were a singular genderless pronoun that wouldn't be necessary. There is not. English is deficient. QED.
Just what are you trying to say?
Can't spell Can't conjugate Can't proofread
Maybe not, but they can tell the difference between left and right.
Sheesh - I didn't say the idea couldn't possibly be expressed. Do you really dispute that it would be better to have genderless pronoun? A carpenter is only as good as his tools, after all... oh wait, I mean a carpenter is only as good as the tools owned by said carpenter. There - that's much better.
No, but only because having said alittle I'd have to say belittle, and what would be the sense in that?
It's just that English is deficient. There's no genderless pronoun that suits. And don't even try to pass that "one" crap off. Nothing makes a sentence stop dead in its tracks faster than that.
Other languages don't have this problem. Spanish, for instance, has su. As a bonus, it also doesn't have the "free" ambiguity.
If you're a bird
be an early bird
and catch the worm for your breakfast plate
If you're a bird
be an early early bird...
But if you're a worm, sleep late.
Shel Silverstein
Well shucks. Y'all are gonna make me blush :-)
Give me a call. I can build a relatively inexpensive team here to do it. Lower wages, easy and desirable travel, and fiber-optic to the US. Intel has a large presence here.
They should release an X Box OS X.
That's Ten, not X. No, the other one. That one's an X.
And I'll take to go. There - let them try writing anything meaningful without those two verbs.
Who do you think pays for it now? It's just less noticeable. Except now even the people who don't watch TV help pay for it in the form of higher prices.
I think they don't want to mitigate the problems this protection is causing. I think they'd rather it be a larger problem for Sony & Co. Lots and lots of entertainment industry people use Macs. If these disks fuck up their computers there will be a backlash. This is good for consumers and bad for Sony.
As far as there being a large number of fakers among scientists, I think it's pretty much true of any field - it's just more easily measured in science. Science is the big leagues, and only the elite of the elite can make a serious, meaningful long-term contribution. Of course the fakers can pose and pontificate as is done in other fields, and for a time it can succeed, but in the end the data tell the tale, and no amount of rhetoric can change that.
As for finding out if you're not one of the elite, well, almost nobody is. So what do you do if you realize you're Salieri instead of Mozart, and you are this close to being great but instead have only the still rare ability to fully appreciate the game, but are not allowed to play? You face the fact and you realize that that's the hand you were dealt, and you're stuck with it, and you won't get a second chance, so all you can do is make the best of it and make your life as comfortable as you can while you coast along towards obscurity, like almost everyone else. You're just one of the ones with the power to see your fate, instead of one of the oblivious teeming millions.
Boy, you'd think you'd be done by now.
I don't know where you're posting from, but in the U.S. minors have greater contract rights than adults. They can back out of most deals, but the adult on the other side cannot. Dealers don't sell to them because it tends not to work to very well, not because they can't.
Good point. BTW, in case anybody comes up with anti-gravity, I thought of that years ago. I also thought of Pop-Tarts, but then I found out someone else beat me to it.
Punwise, That doesn't parse.
Why would you tell him to try again, and then in the next breath tell him the answer? Was it because you wanted to use that so-annoying-you-want-to-slug-the-guy Bzzzt thing?
No, and generally not. It's just an agreement between the two parties. There's no "registrar" of contracts, and they're not public documents.
Let's see...how do I shut this thing down? Oh I know! I'll click the Start menu!
Imagine the gyroscope starts to fall to one side. That side becomes lower than the other side. But then that side spins around to the high side, and so now the gyroscope starts leaning the other way. This continuous counter-balancing keeps it level.