What the hell is “garlic salt”? Isn’t that just garlic and salt? But how much of it is garlic then?fresh ingredients, it will taste way better! (Or deep-frozen. But not dried or heated or something. But take more if it’s fresh because of the additional water in it.) 2. If you put the seasoning *below* the skin of the chicken, with a bit of butter, it will become even greater. 3. I prefer real herbes de Provence and a bit or garlic instead. Best taste ever. (If done right.)
How this is on-topic you ask? Well it’s hacking of an open-source recipe an as an analogy for protocol hacking that ’re talking about here. Isn’t it obvious? ^^
You know what? Frankly... FUCK recognition! If you do it for the recognition, you’re no real scientist anyway, but a needy loser who tries to suck up on those who dominate him. Better poor and unknown, than a recognition whore. Here’s a nice quote that makes it clear what I don’t want to be and don’t are:
Jake Green: “There is something about yourself that you don’t know. Something that you will deny even exists, until it’s too late to do anything about it. It’s the only reason you get up in the morning. The only reason you suffer the shitty job, the blood, the sweat and the tears. This is because you want people to know how good, attractive, generous, funny, wild and clever you really are. Fear or revere me, but please, think I’m special. We share an addiction. We’re approval junkies. We’re all in it for the slap on the back and the gold watch. The hip-hip-hoo-fuckin’ rah. Look at the clever boy with the badge, polishing his trophy. Shine on you crazy diamond, because we’re just monkeys wrapped in suits, begging for the approval of others.” — Revolver (2005, Guy Richie)
Waitaminit! So the Gnome team wants to entangle with proprietary software, and KDE/QT is completely free??
Did I wake up in an alternate reality? Is today opposite day? I don’t get it...
Gnome was started because QT was not free in the first place! So WTF?
Oh well. Wanna know the best thing about open source projects: Forks! In the long run, they might spoon again, instead of ending up in a knife fight. ^^ But at least we got that freedom.
Who cares when they scream? They can scream all year long. Ain’t going to change a thing!
(Yes I know about the spineless losers who will cave in anyway, and the even worse losers who will prophesy it until it fulfills itself. I don’t care. I say it ain’t gonna happen, until my prophesy fulfills itself. Because: Which one would you rather want to come true?:)
Well, and in Cologne, Germany, we don’t have any snow at all in the winters anymore. But we’re all wayy off the point by now. ^^
I learned one thing: That PhDs or other certificates and titles more often than not, mean shit in the real world.:) (I essentially extend the views expressed in Lockhart’s Lament to everything.)
Does the spirit of scientific scepticism really require that I remain forever open-minded to denialist humbug until it's shown to be wrong?
Counter-question: How do you know that it’s “denialist humbug”? Maybe it is. But: How do you know?
See. There’s your answer.
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Truthiness (“gut feeling”) is not knowing. And that’s exactly why we forever keep open minded. (So if you are skeptical of others, by the same philosophy, you also have to always stay skeptical of your own “beliefs”. [Really “beliefs” don’t belong here at all.]) Because sometimes there is something that we call denialist humbug, and that turns out to be true. (I bet we can come up with numerous examples, where something completely contradicted the “known” beliefs of that time.)
But the nice thing is, that you can just calibrate how hard it is to accept certain new things, based on how sure you are of what you (think you) know. You can train yourself to balance it properly. And most likely that’s what you’re doing already. So something that does not fit, will have a hard time convincing you, for a good reason.
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See, with truth and knowing, we often think in a very automatic way. And not about what that all means, and what we really know. Or what is a real fact.
If you think about it, before ending up in your brain, all information went trough thousand filters, modulators, and other things that created “bias”. Else it wouldn’t even be useful to you. It all went at least trough your senses. Which themselves have a huge natual bias. And even worse: Because we are social lifeforms, most of it came from other people. So how do you know that anything of what they told you has any relationship with what you call “truth”?
What is truth / what are facts anyway? We can’t even prove, that anything except for ourselves exists at all. Or that it just is made up by the brain.
But what we know is, that we humans only accept things, if they fit into our mental model of the world. If not, even if it’s true and we know it, we can’t fit it in there. But we have to fit it in there, because humans only can know things by associating them with other things. No fitting in, no association, no knowing. Period. That’s a big problem. Because often, what would be best of us, or seen as “truth”, just does not fit. And gets dismissed. We’re all doing it constantly. At least every second comment here contains something like that.
And the worst thing: We can’t even say if things are absolute facts. Is the sun yellow? Well, depends on how you look at it. What color does it really have? You can got down that path, with logic. But it will be a looong way, until yo have linked it all back to quantum physics and mathematics. If we would try to guarantee that our beliefs are all facts, we wouldn’t get anything done at all.
But even then, we end up at some paradigms and axioms. Things that we can’t explain further. Like the big bang. Like the basic “why?” and “from where?”. (Some put a “god” behind that all, and ignore/forbid that that god also would have to come from somewhere, to prevent themselves from going crazy over that ultimate problem.)
What happens if we have multiple of those basic paradigms, which conflict, but where none of them can be proven to be right or wrong. That’s really bad. Luckily, basic physics are relatively clean from those.
You are most certainly wrong here. From what I heard, they will use nVidia Terga GPUs, for which it will be pretty easy to have a driver. Besides: What is all that talk about “software freedom”? It’s just a driver. If you really thought that to the end, you would have to only use hardware with all the specs available! And which are buildable with openly available tools, whose specs are available too, etc, etc, etc. Basically the ability do dig stuff out of the earth, to build machines with it, that build machines, that build your laptop, where you can put your free software on.
Well, your choice. $150 and slow, or $600 and fast. Or anything in between.
And nobody will argue, that having the choice is a bad thing.:)
I, for one, will just buy a dozen of those for $150, and build a Beowulf cluster and a Password Swordfish style screen out of them!:D They will *still* have a better price/performance ratio than your PC. ^^
I don’t think your argument is valid, as nobody will pay the 2000% price toll to get from a $80 smartbook with a flickering screen to a $1600 one from Apple (assuming usual Apple pricing) without that problem.
If I just have to live with flickering on startup and shutdown, and for that get a $80 smartbook... then I’ll buy a sixpack of ’em. ^^ Nobody cares about that, except Apple fanboys and art majors.
Besides: Don’t you think that when they are the manufacturer of the hardware and the software, they will get such a tiny problem fixed? ^^
Also, Linux has tons over tons of apps that run on ARM, as opposed to any other OS out there. I mean my portage repository has 13,628 packages. Nearly all of them run on ARM. And that is only the main repository! (With over 180 smaller ones.)
The thing is, that of course in reality, cops, military, and other murderers only think they are in the highest ranks, while in reality being just above gulag torturers. In Germany we call that “Kleiner Mann ganz groß” (Little man (is) really big.).
Authority only exists, because people believe in it. If they stop, it’s gone.
Hey moderator! Have you even had contact with the driver developers? Have you debugged the drivers? Have you sat for a whole week straight, trying to get pre-9.8 drivers to work with a 4800? I have!
Come here to my place! I’ll show you that every single of my statements is a fact! Don’t hide in your basement! Get here! And then you can think about moderating topics you don’t know shit about!
So don’t tell me I’m freakin’ trolling you trollerator!
Of course it doesn’t give you mod points. The FAQ clearly states, that the ones who get points, are in the middle. The very old and very new ones don’t get points anymore. It also states a half-assed reason for this.
But then again, I hope that was the point of your joke and I just wooshed myself. Or else you must have bought that account and must be new here! ^^
Well, Slashdot still is only thought halfway to the end. The idea is a trust-relationship model trough action rating. Or in other words: People rate other people’s works, which given them a karma. which then is used to determine what a moderation of that person is worth. But on Slashdot, instead it determines, who gets mod points. Which is a bit more binary, as there are no people with e.g. 10% moderation power, or anything in-between. You either have points or you don’t.
So it’s pretty close to the theoretical perfection.
The only thing it still has problems with, is that it has no concept of competency, and that meta-moderation is used. normally, one who moderates badly, would get thrown out pretty quickly, because he would lose his moderating power. But because/. does not know how competent you actually are, to moderate on a subject, that isn’t built-in.
I thought about this for a long time. But one thing remains open, even in a theoretically perfect system: The ability to abuse the system, when you can’t uniquely identify people. (The sock-puppet dilemma.) One could simply moderate one’s socks who then moderate oneself. Also social aspects mean, that this can happen even without sock puppets. (Social engineering / politics.)
Unfortunately I haven’t found a solution to that problem yet.
But that’s the POINT! A human being CAN NOT EVER focus 100% on a single thing for a prolonged time!
Listening music is like switching heavy bags from one hand to another, so you can carry them further.
There is a technique in psychology, where the goal is to constantly focus on one single subject. And you know what the usual result of that is? People going crazy and wrecking their environment, screaming in madness. Or getting otherwise very weird. If this is used in the right way, it can fix very old twists in your mind, because you finally can face them. If done wrong, it creates the worst traumata imaginable. It can totally destroy a human soul if something goes wrong.
The thing is: The more intelligent you are, the harder it is to constantly concentrate on something. If your brain is halfway disabled because of lack of sleep or caffeine abuse, or if you’re just not that bright of a light, then you can stare at the same thing all day, and think you’re using 100% of your brain. While in reality, you only got 70% to start with. But for me... I literally can’t stand the information underflow of concentrating on one thing all the time. Except for really freakin hard problems. Which is very rarely the case. And which of course exhausts me, so I have to take a mental pause afterwards. I find myself only switching off the music when I’m really tired and it actually starts to get in the way of thinking. Or and I’m at the core of a complex problem.
You are a human. You got the greatest machine ever made at your disposal. But apparently, you are very far from knowing how to use it. Let alone hack it to do really beautiful and elegant things.:( Use that machine!
That’s like telling a child not to play, but to learn. Playing IS learning, dammit! It’s the ULTIMATE learning!
Why are there still these idiots out there who think a human being could just work 8 hours straight without mental pauses and relaxation? These are the same types who think they would get more done by sleeping less! Isn’t it, like, scientific knowledge from at least 50 years ago, that the source of that mental power to do anything is that relaxation and sleep??
I once worked shortly at a software development company that only had a slow DSL connection and therefore did not allow music steams. Also the boss wanted quiet rooms. So I quit! No music, No work. Period. That’s my simple rule.
At another employer, we constantly had music playing. Which made the whole job great fun, and motivated us.
Tell your boss in private, that unless he is a real programmer himself, and starts to catch up with the last half century of psychological science, he should stop reaching outside of his competence zone and trust the people that he hired because of their competence in that area (knowing how to work best)... Or risk ridiculing himself and losing all his control/power.
It’s a classical case of tightening one’s grip so much, that it slips trough one’s fingers.
I bet he is in some financial pressure or pressure from a retard boss above him. So don’t be angry at him, but try to help him here. Because if he fucks it up, that’s going to hurt you and him. (And your coworkers.)
...a method of getting doctors (or the average Joe) to even allow themselves to think about actually preventing to fuck up their own nerves in the first place would be discovered. ^^
It’s nice and all that we can fix everything. But in the long run, what is it teaching us, when we can just ride a pony that’s 300 ft tall and covered in chainsaws, and get away without a scratch afterwards? Even asking a doc what the cause of your disease is, and how to actually prevent it from happening again, will either make him angry, or not be processed at all. They always just prescribe you “moar ignorance” (e.g. in form of painkillers) or fix the problem in your body. Which by definition only works, until you’r jumping on the pony again. If’s like running against a wall, and getting described painkillers for the headache. And it’s really depressing.
Healing means, that it won’t ever come back! And for nearly all diseases, something like that seems to be “not invented here” for all of the whole medical sector.:(
In the long run, we will just learn to never learn. And work hard to do the opposite of natural selection too. I wonder when that will break that camel’s back...
P.S.: Hmm, how do you split up long nested sentences like that in English? In German, you can write page-long sentences. But I know how to prevent them. In English I always end up with sentences that I myself have already trouble following while I’m writing them! ^^
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What the hell is “garlic salt”? Isn’t that just garlic and salt? But how much of it is garlic then?fresh ingredients, it will taste way better! (Or deep-frozen. But not dried or heated or something. But take more if it’s fresh because of the additional water in it.)
2. If you put the seasoning *below* the skin of the chicken, with a bit of butter, it will become even greater.
3. I prefer real herbes de Provence and a bit or garlic instead. Best taste ever. (If done right.)
How this is on-topic you ask? Well it’s hacking of an open-source recipe an as an analogy for protocol hacking that ’re talking about here. Isn’t it obvious? ^^
Bah. Just wait until GoatseAnalogyGuy hears about this! ^^
You know what? Frankly... FUCK recognition!
If you do it for the recognition, you’re no real scientist anyway, but a needy loser who tries to suck up on those who dominate him.
Better poor and unknown, than a recognition whore.
Here’s a nice quote that makes it clear what I don’t want to be and don’t are:
Jake Green: “There is something about yourself that you don’t know. Something that you will deny even exists, until it’s too late to do anything about it. It’s the only reason you get up in the morning. The only reason you suffer the shitty job, the blood, the sweat and the tears. This is because you want people to know how good, attractive, generous, funny, wild and clever you really are. Fear or revere me, but please, think I’m special. We share an addiction. We’re approval junkies. We’re all in it for the slap on the back and the gold watch. The hip-hip-hoo-fuckin’ rah. Look at the clever boy with the badge, polishing his trophy. Shine on you crazy diamond, because we’re just monkeys wrapped in suits, begging for the approval of others.”
— Revolver (2005, Guy Richie)
Waitaminit! So the Gnome team wants to entangle with proprietary software, and KDE/QT is completely free??
Did I wake up in an alternate reality? Is today opposite day?
I don’t get it...
Gnome was started because QT was not free in the first place! So WTF?
Oh well. Wanna know the best thing about open source projects: Forks!
In the long run, they might spoon again, instead of ending up in a knife fight. ^^
But at least we got that freedom.
What are you going to do when they do this?
Move to another country? LOL ^^
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Who cares when they scream? They can scream all year long. Ain’t going to change a thing!
(Yes I know about the spineless losers who will cave in anyway, and the even worse losers who will prophesy it until it fulfills itself. I don’t care. I say it ain’t gonna happen, until my prophesy fulfills itself. Because: Which one would you rather want to come true? :)
Well, and in Cologne, Germany, we don’t have any snow at all in the winters anymore. But we’re all wayy off the point by now. ^^
I learned one thing: That PhDs or other certificates and titles more often than not, mean shit in the real world. :)
(I essentially extend the views expressed in Lockhart’s Lament to everything.)
Does the spirit of scientific scepticism really require that I remain forever open-minded to denialist humbug until it's shown to be wrong?
Counter-question: How do you know that it’s “denialist humbug”? Maybe it is. But: How do you know ?
See. There’s your answer.
————————————————————
Truthiness (“gut feeling”) is not knowing. And that’s exactly why we forever keep open minded. (So if you are skeptical of others, by the same philosophy, you also have to always stay skeptical of your own “beliefs”. [Really “beliefs” don’t belong here at all.])
Because sometimes there is something that we call denialist humbug, and that turns out to be true. (I bet we can come up with numerous examples, where something completely contradicted the “known” beliefs of that time.)
But the nice thing is, that you can just calibrate how hard it is to accept certain new things, based on how sure you are of what you (think you) know. You can train yourself to balance it properly. And most likely that’s what you’re doing already.
So something that does not fit, will have a hard time convincing you, for a good reason.
————————————————————
See, with truth and knowing, we often think in a very automatic way. And not about what that all means, and what we really know. Or what is a real fact.
If you think about it, before ending up in your brain, all information went trough thousand filters, modulators, and other things that created “bias”. Else it wouldn’t even be useful to you.
It all went at least trough your senses. Which themselves have a huge natual bias.
And even worse: Because we are social lifeforms, most of it came from other people. So how do you know that anything of what they told you has any relationship with what you call “truth”?
What is truth / what are facts anyway? We can’t even prove, that anything except for ourselves exists at all. Or that it just is made up by the brain.
But what we know is, that we humans only accept things, if they fit into our mental model of the world. If not, even if it’s true and we know it, we can’t fit it in there. But we have to fit it in there, because humans only can know things by associating them with other things. No fitting in, no association, no knowing. Period.
That’s a big problem. Because often, what would be best of us, or seen as “truth”, just does not fit. And gets dismissed. We’re all doing it constantly. At least every second comment here contains something like that.
And the worst thing: We can’t even say if things are absolute facts. Is the sun yellow? Well, depends on how you look at it. What color does it really have?
You can got down that path, with logic. But it will be a looong way, until yo have linked it all back to quantum physics and mathematics. If we would try to guarantee that our beliefs are all facts, we wouldn’t get anything done at all.
But even then, we end up at some paradigms and axioms. Things that we can’t explain further. Like the big bang. Like the basic “why?” and “from where?”. (Some put a “god” behind that all, and ignore/forbid that that god also would have to come from somewhere, to prevent themselves from going crazy over that ultimate problem.)
What happens if we have multiple of those basic paradigms, which conflict, but where none of them can be proven to be right or wrong. That’s really bad. Luckily, basic physics are relatively clean from those.
But in practice, since we can’t walk that ro
You already got one in 2006! And you killed it! No pony for you anymore, young man!
You are most certainly wrong here. From what I heard, they will use nVidia Terga GPUs, for which it will be pretty easy to have a driver.
Besides: What is all that talk about “software freedom”? It’s just a driver. If you really thought that to the end, you would have to only use hardware with all the specs available! And which are buildable with openly available tools, whose specs are available too, etc, etc, etc. Basically the ability do dig stuff out of the earth, to build machines with it, that build machines, that build your laptop, where you can put your free software on.
Everything else is just ignorance.
Well, your choice. $150 and slow, or $600 and fast. Or anything in between.
And nobody will argue, that having the choice is a bad thing. :)
I, for one, will just buy a dozen of those for $150, and build a Beowulf cluster and a Password Swordfish style screen out of them! :D
They will *still* have a better price/performance ratio than your PC. ^^
I don’t think your argument is valid, as nobody will pay the 2000% price toll to get from a $80 smartbook with a flickering screen to a $1600 one from Apple (assuming usual Apple pricing) without that problem.
If I just have to live with flickering on startup and shutdown, and for that get a $80 smartbook... then I’ll buy a sixpack of ’em. ^^
Nobody cares about that, except Apple fanboys and art majors.
Besides: Don’t you think that when they are the manufacturer of the hardware and the software, they will get such a tiny problem fixed? ^^
Also, Linux has tons over tons of apps that run on ARM, as opposed to any other OS out there. I mean my portage repository has 13,628 packages. Nearly all of them run on ARM. And that is only the main repository! (With over 180 smaller ones.)
The thing is, that of course in reality, cops, military, and other murderers only think they are in the highest ranks, while in reality being just above gulag torturers. In Germany we call that “Kleiner Mann ganz groß” (Little man (is) really big.).
Authority only exists, because people believe in it. If they stop, it’s gone.
Interestingly, 94 is also his age. And the year he started to read Chips & Dips’ precursor. :P
Well, his fault for not adding a image embedding function and calling it 4chan. :P
And Soviet Russia looks forward to another 10 years with YOU! :D
Hey moderator! Have you even had contact with the driver developers? Have you debugged the drivers? Have you sat for a whole week straight, trying to get pre-9.8 drivers to work with a 4800? I have!
Come here to my place! I’ll show you that every single of my statements is a fact! Don’t hide in your basement! Get here! And then you can think about moderating topics you don’t know shit about!
So don’t tell me I’m freakin’ trolling you trollerator!
Sorry, but you are flat out false! :) Unintentionally, but still.
I know what you meant. But you misunderstood me.
The 4800 series did not even exist in 2007 back then. And that is what I was talking about.
Because compositing did not work before version 9.8 for those cards. That version is only some weeks old.
Of course it doesn’t give you mod points. The FAQ clearly states, that the ones who get points, are in the middle. The very old and very new ones don’t get points anymore. It also states a half-assed reason for this.
But then again, I hope that was the point of your joke and I just wooshed myself. Or else you must have bought that account and must be new here! ^^
Well, Slashdot still is only thought halfway to the end. The idea is a trust-relationship model trough action rating. Or in other words: People rate other people’s works, which given them a karma. which then is used to determine what a moderation of that person is worth.
But on Slashdot, instead it determines, who gets mod points. Which is a bit more binary, as there are no people with e.g. 10% moderation power, or anything in-between. You either have points or you don’t.
So it’s pretty close to the theoretical perfection.
The only thing it still has problems with, is that it has no concept of competency, and that meta-moderation is used. normally, one who moderates badly, would get thrown out pretty quickly, because he would lose his moderating power. But because /. does not know how competent you actually are, to moderate on a subject, that isn’t built-in.
I thought about this for a long time. But one thing remains open, even in a theoretically perfect system:
The ability to abuse the system, when you can’t uniquely identify people. (The sock-puppet dilemma.)
One could simply moderate one’s socks who then moderate oneself.
Also social aspects mean, that this can happen even without sock puppets. (Social engineering / politics.)
Unfortunately I haven’t found a solution to that problem yet.
Obligatory xkcd reference.
Don’t shock them. They have yet to learn, that the world is not a state of the USA, and that hot dogs are actually no food at all. ^^
But that’s the POINT! A human being CAN NOT EVER focus 100% on a single thing for a prolonged time!
Listening music is like switching heavy bags from one hand to another, so you can carry them further.
There is a technique in psychology, where the goal is to constantly focus on one single subject. And you know what the usual result of that is? People going crazy and wrecking their environment, screaming in madness. Or getting otherwise very weird. If this is used in the right way, it can fix very old twists in your mind, because you finally can face them.
If done wrong, it creates the worst traumata imaginable. It can totally destroy a human soul if something goes wrong.
The thing is: The more intelligent you are, the harder it is to constantly concentrate on something. If your brain is halfway disabled because of lack of sleep or caffeine abuse, or if you’re just not that bright of a light, then you can stare at the same thing all day, and think you’re using 100% of your brain. While in reality, you only got 70% to start with. But for me... I literally can’t stand the information underflow of concentrating on one thing all the time. Except for really freakin hard problems. Which is very rarely the case. And which of course exhausts me, so I have to take a mental pause afterwards.
I find myself only switching off the music when I’m really tired and it actually starts to get in the way of thinking. Or and I’m at the core of a complex problem.
You are a human. You got the greatest machine ever made at your disposal. But apparently, you are very far from knowing how to use it. Let alone hack it to do really beautiful and elegant things. :( Use that machine!
He doesn’t even know shit about psychology.
That’s like telling a child not to play, but to learn. Playing IS learning, dammit! It’s the ULTIMATE learning!
Why are there still these idiots out there who think a human being could just work 8 hours straight without mental pauses and relaxation? These are the same types who think they would get more done by sleeping less!
Isn’t it, like, scientific knowledge from at least 50 years ago, that the source of that mental power to do anything is that relaxation and sleep??
I once worked shortly at a software development company that only had a slow DSL connection and therefore did not allow music steams. Also the boss wanted quiet rooms. So I quit!
No music, No work. Period. That’s my simple rule.
At another employer, we constantly had music playing. Which made the whole job great fun, and motivated us.
Tell your boss in private, that unless he is a real programmer himself, and starts to catch up with the last half century of psychological science, he should stop reaching outside of his competence zone and trust the people that he hired because of their competence in that area (knowing how to work best)... Or risk ridiculing himself and losing all his control/power.
It’s a classical case of tightening one’s grip so much, that it slips trough one’s fingers.
I bet he is in some financial pressure or pressure from a retard boss above him. So don’t be angry at him, but try to help him here. Because if he fucks it up, that’s going to hurt you and him. (And your coworkers.)
...a method of getting doctors (or the average Joe) to even allow themselves to think about actually preventing to fuck up their own nerves in the first place would be discovered. ^^
It’s nice and all that we can fix everything. But in the long run, what is it teaching us, when we can just ride a pony that’s 300 ft tall and covered in chainsaws, and get away without a scratch afterwards?
Even asking a doc what the cause of your disease is, and how to actually prevent it from happening again, will either make him angry, or not be processed at all. They always just prescribe you “moar ignorance” (e.g. in form of painkillers) or fix the problem in your body. Which by definition only works, until you’r jumping on the pony again. If’s like running against a wall, and getting described painkillers for the headache. And it’s really depressing.
Healing means, that it won’t ever come back! And for nearly all diseases, something like that seems to be “not invented here” for all of the whole medical sector. :(
In the long run, we will just learn to never learn. And work hard to do the opposite of natural selection too.
I wonder when that will break that camel’s back...
P.S.: Hmm, how do you split up long nested sentences like that in English? In German, you can write page-long sentences. But I know how to prevent them. In English I always end up with sentences that I myself have already trouble following while I’m writing them! ^^