From the irony dept. The phrase you are looking for is not "poor over", nor is it "pour over" but in fact "pore over". PORE -verb (used without object), pored, poring.
1. to read or study with steady attention or application: a scholar poring over a rare old manuscript.
2. to gaze earnestly or steadily: to pore over a painting.
3. to meditate or ponder intently (usually fol. by over, on, or upon): He pored over the strange events of the preceding evening.
[Origin: 1250-1300; ME pouren ]
My buddy just got back from a holiday in Australia. Said he had a big hassle at the airport with the customs guys. They asked him if he had a criminal record, and he said he didn't realize it was still required.
Plato or Aristotle, I forget which, described the paradox of the perfect soldier. An ideal soldier obeys his orders instantly and without question, but at the same time needs the ability to make good decisions in the absence of orders. How can a man be a mindless robot and at the same time think independently.
My ISP is called something like $foo-net. My mail address is me@foo-net.com. About 1/3 of the people I give my email to first try to email me@foo.net. Yeah, its confusing.
Ach du Himmel! At one time there may have been spelling Nazis and etymology Nazis and even, it is rumored, punctuation Nazis. These various dissident factions were all united under the glorious banner of the National Socialist English Grammar Party, in what some still call "The Night of the Long Split Infinitive"
It works like this. Words have a meaning. You might call it the "proper" meaning. Using the word allows someone to communicate this meaning to someone else who understands this meaning. Then stupid people misuse the word, generally by using it to mean what they think it ought to mean, rather than what it actually does mean. Since stupid people vastly outnumber not-stupid people, the new wrong meaning eventually supplants the old "proper" meaning. A good clue is that dictionaries tend to list the original meaning first and the corrupted meanings will be #2 or #3 on the list.
I'll use the word "enormity" for an example. An enormity (yes, it is a noun) is a horrible crime, a crime beyond all moral boundaries. Killing your parents so you can inherit their money is an enormity. A lovely word. Now, along come the stupid people who think that enormity sounds like enormous, so it ought to mean the same thing (really big). Now we have people saying things like "He underestimated the enormity of the problem". At this point if I were to use the word enormity in its original ("proper") meaning few people would actually understand me. The original meaning is lost, and the language is poorer for it.
I am well aware that Grammar Nazi-ing is as futile as ordering the tide not to come in. Tilting at windmills in fact. Schiller said it best: "Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain." The corruption of word meanings may be inevitable, but celebrating it smacks of anti-intellectualism. I believe that the process of word corruption harms the English language. I think it destroys the elegance, precision and beauty of the language, and futile as it may be, some of us will continue to rant against it.
The level of skepticism should be adjustable to conform with the plausibility of the statement in question. If my neighbour tells me he has a new toyota corrola in his garage I'll say "thats nice" and probably believe him. If my neighbour tells me he has a new mustang shelby convertible in his garage I'll say "holy cow, lets see it" and I'll believe him when I do see it. If my neighbour tells me he has a new Bugatti Veyron in his garage I'll laugh at him and be certain he's lying.
The "unmanned" trains aren't being driven by robots or computers. They are being driven by traincrew who are on the ground (where they can throw track switches and couple/uncouple cars) and are using a beltpack locomotive remote control http://www.beltpackcorp.com/products.html .
I work in an industrial controls field that has a lot of technology in common with the big utilities like TVA. Very little of the remote control software has any sort of security on it. Some systems will have access passwords, but SCADA often has no security at all. An attacker wanting to disrupt services who was familiar with the SCADA equipment and protocols could cause all sorts of havoc by remote control. Imagine the hottest day of the year, power consumption is at its absolute peak, and somebody starts opening breakers, turning off compressors, sending in false failure alarms etc. Pick your time and place carefully and you get one of those cascading failure events and half the eastern seaboard has no lights. Repeat a week later. Maybe not as compelling as kamikaze jetliners, but not without its charms.
Linky has cool pictures! However - Sometimes bush fires can be caused by lightning strikes on dry vegetation. Sometimes bush fires can be caused by dumbasses parking motor vehicles with red hot catalytic converters in tall dry grass. Sometimes bush fires can be caused by careless cigarette smokers. Sometimes bush fires can be caused by flaming wind turbines. Which do you suppose is least likely to happen?
I almost agree. I saw "Phantom Menace" first in the theater and there was enough whiz bang special effects to keep me entertained. I figured "not as good as the first three, but more or less ok"
Then I saw it at home on a small bedroom tv. No special effects to distract me this time. Instead I got to notice the bad acting, wretched, disjointed plot full of holes, achingly awful dialog and ridiculous scenes crammed in because they were "kewl" (pod race, flight through planet, etc). This time I thought "giant mountain of suck"
Name a few significant things that science can't explain. Then ask yourself "Are these things that science will never be able to explain?" If the only room for God is in the "Gaps" in science, then where does God go when we close the gaps.
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I hope he got well paid by Take Two for all his work in publicising Grand Theft Auto.
You can stop now. Before we get to Microhoogletubaclebuntu.
From the irony dept. The phrase you are looking for is not "poor over", nor is it "pour over" but in fact "pore over".
PORE -verb (used without object), pored, poring.
1. to read or study with steady attention or application: a scholar poring over a rare old manuscript.
2. to gaze earnestly or steadily: to pore over a painting.
3. to meditate or ponder intently (usually fol. by over, on, or upon): He pored over the strange events of the preceding evening.
[Origin: 1250-1300; ME pouren ]
[Sir Bedivere] How do you know she is a girl? [/Sir Bedivere]
My buddy just got back from a holiday in Australia. Said he had a big hassle at the airport with the customs guys. They asked him if he had a criminal record, and he said he didn't realize it was still required.
Thanks, I'll be here all week.
hot female electrical engineer - individually each word makes sense, but when taken in sequence, I can discern no actual meaning.
Plato or Aristotle, I forget which, described the paradox of the perfect soldier. An ideal soldier obeys his orders instantly and without question, but at the same time needs the ability to make good decisions in the absence of orders. How can a man be a mindless robot and at the same time think independently.
My ISP is called something like $foo-net. My mail address is me@foo-net.com. About 1/3 of the people I give my email to first try to email me@foo.net. Yeah, its confusing.
the technical discipline that tells us that nine women can make a baby in one month.
Ach du Himmel! At one time there may have been spelling Nazis and etymology Nazis and even, it is rumored, punctuation Nazis. These various dissident factions were all united under the glorious banner of the National Socialist English Grammar Party, in what some still call "The Night of the Long Split Infinitive"
It works like this. Words have a meaning. You might call it the "proper" meaning. Using the word allows someone to communicate this meaning to someone else who understands this meaning. Then stupid people misuse the word, generally by using it to mean what they think it ought to mean, rather than what it actually does mean. Since stupid people vastly outnumber not-stupid people, the new wrong meaning eventually supplants the old "proper" meaning. A good clue is that dictionaries tend to list the original meaning first and the corrupted meanings will be #2 or #3 on the list.
I'll use the word "enormity" for an example. An enormity (yes, it is a noun) is a horrible crime, a crime beyond all moral boundaries. Killing your parents so you can inherit their money is an enormity. A lovely word. Now, along come the stupid people who think that enormity sounds like enormous, so it ought to mean the same thing (really big). Now we have people saying things like "He underestimated the enormity of the problem". At this point if I were to use the word enormity in its original ("proper") meaning few people would actually understand me. The original meaning is lost, and the language is poorer for it.
I am well aware that Grammar Nazi-ing is as futile as ordering the tide not to come in. Tilting at windmills in fact. Schiller said it best: "Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain." The corruption of word meanings may be inevitable, but celebrating it smacks of anti-intellectualism. I believe that the process of word corruption harms the English language. I think it destroys the elegance, precision and beauty of the language, and futile as it may be, some of us will continue to rant against it.
Your attention please!
I wish to inform you that the parent post meets with the full approval of the the Reichsgrammardienst!
You may now go about your business.
Obergrammarstandartenfuhrer Gunther Von Umlaut
"Hell Yes I'm Drunk. I'm No Stuntdriver"
The level of skepticism should be adjustable to conform with the plausibility of the statement in question. If my neighbour tells me he has a new toyota corrola in his garage I'll say "thats nice" and probably believe him. If my neighbour tells me he has a new mustang shelby convertible in his garage I'll say "holy cow, lets see it" and I'll believe him when I do see it. If my neighbour tells me he has a new Bugatti Veyron in his garage I'll laugh at him and be certain he's lying.
ride the bus.
Sorry about that. I was going to say eh at the end but I had to fend off a wolverine that was trying to steal my backbacon......eh.
No such thing. We're all totally scrupulous.
"there is no hard evidence to support the big bang either."
Not sure what you mean by hard evidence, but um.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background_radiation seems to work for most people.
The "unmanned" trains aren't being driven by robots or computers. They are being driven by traincrew who are on the ground (where they can throw track switches and couple/uncouple cars) and are using a beltpack locomotive remote control http://www.beltpackcorp.com/products.html .
I work in an industrial controls field that has a lot of technology in common with the big utilities like TVA. Very little of the remote control software has any sort of security on it. Some systems will have access passwords, but SCADA often has no security at all. An attacker wanting to disrupt services who was familiar with the SCADA equipment and protocols could cause all sorts of havoc by remote control. Imagine the hottest day of the year, power consumption is at its absolute peak, and somebody starts opening breakers, turning off compressors, sending in false failure alarms etc. Pick your time and place carefully and you get one of those cascading failure events and half the eastern seaboard has no lights. Repeat a week later. Maybe not as compelling as kamikaze jetliners, but not without its charms.
Well, we used to use big gumboots, but nowadays most folks prefer velcro mitts. And sheep.
Linky has cool pictures! However - Sometimes bush fires can be caused by lightning strikes on dry vegetation. Sometimes bush fires can be caused by dumbasses parking motor vehicles with red hot catalytic converters in tall dry grass. Sometimes bush fires can be caused by careless cigarette smokers. Sometimes bush fires can be caused by flaming wind turbines. Which do you suppose is least likely to happen?
Alien was a better than average horror movie set in space. Aliens was possibly the best action movie ever made.
I almost agree. I saw "Phantom Menace" first in the theater and there was enough whiz bang special effects to keep me entertained. I figured "not as good as the first three, but more or less ok"
Then I saw it at home on a small bedroom tv. No special effects to distract me this time. Instead I got to notice the bad acting, wretched, disjointed plot full of holes, achingly awful dialog and ridiculous scenes crammed in because they were "kewl" (pod race, flight through planet, etc). This time I thought "giant mountain of suck"
Name a few significant things that science can't explain. Then ask yourself "Are these things that science will never be able to explain?" If the only room for God is in the "Gaps" in science, then where does God go when we close the gaps.