Really? You think he should have said "Now, I like to be at the top of lists, but this is one ranking on top of which I donâ(TM)t believe Michigan wants to be"?
This sort of awkward construction is exactly why many experts on grammar have recently dismissed the "no preposition at the end" rule as an artificial restriction introduced thoughtlessly by 19th-century grammarians. I was taught as you were--but sometimes the rules we were taught are wrong.
Yes, yes, we all should google things we don't know. But it's not really common knowledge--I just asked 5 intelligent, educated people, and none of them had any idea. But hey, now you can feel even more superior!
And was there really any reason not to say "German military"?
Actually, E# and F are enharmonically equivalent, but they're not the "same". In the key of C# major, E# is in the key (as the third), while F is not (it's the flatted fourth).
This is a pretty disappointing diatribe. For instance:
Mine is not the only work that one can charge Rowling "borrowed" from. Check out this piece from a fan site, pointing out links between Harry Potter and other previous works: http://www.geocities.com/versetrue/rowling.htm [geocities.com]. And don't forget the lawsuit by Nancy K. Stouffer, the author of a book entitled The Legend of Rah and the Muggles, whose hero was named "Larry Potter."
At that time, Rowling's lawyers called Stouffer's claim "frivolous."
Except that it's not just that they called it "frivolous", it's that Stouffer apparently manufactured evidence, and was fined $50,000 by the court for her fraud. Not really fair to use as an argument against Rowling, is it?
No conflict in gp: he says they have a misconception that it's _much_ ("infinitely") harder to use, but that in fact Linux has a lot more of a curve than a windows server guy would like. I'd agree--many do have an overblown sense of how hard Linux is to learn/work with, but in fact it is _somewhat_ harder to learn than Windows.
True, just like a President can fool a Prime Minister by replacing material evidence with a really firm handshake. Or I can fool you by replacing your coffee with Folger's Crystals.
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My argument is this: why is it somehow plausible to believe that you could find 61 million people willing to vote for the fool, but somehow incomprehensible that 62 million people could have voted for him?
Sadly, it's not incomprehensible, and you make a good argument. My concern is that 62 million didn't vote for Bush, that in fact more voted for Kerry, and even more importantly, that Kerry in fact would have won the popular vote in key states if a fair election had occurred. Personally, I've long assumed the truth will never come out. If this book is a balanced re-examination of the election, as it seems it might be, then yes, I hope against hope that those responsible are punished.
Whether at this late date Bush should be removed from office, I don't know. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing him go, but there are good arguments that he shouldn't, even if it's shown there was some election fraud. If that fraud is traceable all the way up to Bush or his inner circle, then toss the bastard out!
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He won the second time because they felt he was protecting them from danger and wanted to give him a chance to win the war.
Some people voted for him for that reason, agreed. The issue is whether enough people actually voted for him, for whatever reason, to have fairly elected him for this second term. A thoughtful and complete analysis of whether that happened is most welcome, I think. The fact that you're tired of thinking about it ("get over it") isn't really relevant, and I suspect that your own evident bias is a strong influence on your willingness to hear about it.
+1. The article talks about some pretty awful cases, but the leap that associates the worst cases with the "1 in 10" statistic is unwarranted. I hope even South Koreans don't spend THAT much time online.
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I would have figured at least 1/3 of the crowd here would be sporting a utility kilt. You can carry a netbook in those.
Surely you jest.
Yeah, he does.
+1 for Blindsight. What delicious hopelessness.
Is it that hard to distinguish between individual privacy and abusive and/or illegal secrecy in government?
Too soon, man, too soon.
Unless you actually meant "using time travel for masturbation", then I've really been doing something wrong.
Really? You think he should have said "Now, I like to be at the top of lists, but this is one ranking on top of which I donâ(TM)t believe Michigan wants to be"?
This sort of awkward construction is exactly why many experts on grammar have recently dismissed the "no preposition at the end" rule as an artificial restriction introduced thoughtlessly by 19th-century grammarians. I was taught as you were--but sometimes the rules we were taught are wrong.
Sure, it seems like a neat project now, but just wait until this guy swoops over Toronto and sounds the Panic Horn.
Decency. Took me a minute to figure that one out.
Keep your 4chan off my slashdot.
No, it's about the disastrously overproduced movie of the same name.
Yes, yes, we all should google things we don't know. But it's not really common knowledge--I just asked 5 intelligent, educated people, and none of them had any idea. But hey, now you can feel even more superior!
And was there really any reason not to say "German military"?
I'm sorry, this is a really poorly written review. It's choppy, uninsightful, and just painful to read. And then there are "sentences" like:
Good lord.
Actually, E# and F are enharmonically equivalent, but they're not the "same". In the key of C# major, E# is in the key (as the third), while F is not (it's the flatted fourth).
Except that it's not just that they called it "frivolous", it's that Stouffer apparently manufactured evidence, and was fined $50,000 by the court for her fraud. Not really fair to use as an argument against Rowling, is it?
No conflict in gp: he says they have a misconception that it's _much_ ("infinitely") harder to use, but that in fact Linux has a lot more of a curve than a windows server guy would like. I'd agree--many do have an overblown sense of how hard Linux is to learn/work with, but in fact it is _somewhat_ harder to learn than Windows.
True, just like a President can fool a Prime Minister by replacing material evidence with a really firm handshake. Or I can fool you by replacing your coffee with Folger's Crystals.
My argument is this: why is it somehow plausible to believe that you could find 61 million people willing to vote for the fool, but somehow incomprehensible that 62 million people could have voted for him?
Sadly, it's not incomprehensible, and you make a good argument. My concern is that 62 million didn't vote for Bush, that in fact more voted for Kerry, and even more importantly, that Kerry in fact would have won the popular vote in key states if a fair election had occurred. Personally, I've long assumed the truth will never come out. If this book is a balanced re-examination of the election, as it seems it might be, then yes, I hope against hope that those responsible are punished.
Whether at this late date Bush should be removed from office, I don't know. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing him go, but there are good arguments that he shouldn't, even if it's shown there was some election fraud. If that fraud is traceable all the way up to Bush or his inner circle, then toss the bastard out!
He won the second time because they felt he was protecting them from danger and wanted to give him a chance to win the war.
Some people voted for him for that reason, agreed. The issue is whether enough people actually voted for him, for whatever reason, to have fairly elected him for this second term. A thoughtful and complete analysis of whether that happened is most welcome, I think. The fact that you're tired of thinking about it ("get over it") isn't really relevant, and I suspect that your own evident bias is a strong influence on your willingness to hear about it.
One million Libertarians suddenly converged on /. to paste in their comments from last month.
Fortunately we have this tagging system to save us!
+1. The article talks about some pretty awful cases, but the leap that associates the worst cases with the "1 in 10" statistic is unwarranted. I hope even South Koreans don't spend THAT much time online.
...I now wonder, will the animated version be, you know, funny?
Is that just an ironic mistake, or some sort of karma easter egg in the post?
Actually, searching "Badnarik" on CNN gets no results, so apparently he's never been worth a mention. Shameful.
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Yes, it is.