"It's almost as if people who can't write are copying people who can't write."
Why not? Those who write well learned to do so by reading others who wrote well. Although nowadays I should probably say that those who were able to write well learned to do so by having read others who wrote well.
Don't know about past 10 years, but M. J. Engh wrote a book called "Arslan (a.k.a. A Wind from Bukhara)" back in '76 which was pretty much a downer. Think "Red Dawn", but the troops are Islamic and the American civilians aren't as resourceful or well-enough organized.
The thing about Romney's "I like to fire people" comment is that he was using it in a context where anybody else would have said something about being able to take their business elsewhere.
I mean, I'm sure there must have been something like an ad for drain cleaner where someone says "I fired my plumber" or something along those lines, but in normal real life firing is what you do to employees, not to suppliers.
If he'd said "I like being able to take my business to someone who gives me a great product or service at a great price, and if they don't, I like to be able to take my business elsewhere.", well, who could disagree with that.
But the way he did say it gives off an entirely different vibe.
The relatively recent rise of "hone in on", "tow the line", "for all intensive purposes", and others suggests that "bold-faced lie" is just another example of people hearing phrases they've never taken notice of in print and getting them wrong.
The article to which you link mentions nothing about stock market speculation.
Allow me to recommend something which does, Galbraith's "The Great Crash, 1929".
In it you'll find things like companies whose sole asset was stock in another company whose sole asset was stock in yet another company whose sole asset was...until you get to the bottom of the pyramid and find that there's nothing of value there.
Umm... not only that, but I know of NO such described incident with regard to the US Navy.
I DO know of such an incident in the UK, which occurred while they were experimenting with attempts to interfere with aircraft engines using radio waves. It was this that started Thomas Watson-Watt and the other UK scientists off on their eventual invention of Radar.
The US had nothing like this, and did not do any research in the field. I think that this item is just transposing something that happened in the UK and claiming that it happened in the US - something the Americans frequently do....
Allow me to recommend "Man of High Fidelity: Edwin Howard Armstrong" by Lawrence Lessing, and specifically direct your attention to the part that covers Major Armstrong's service in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War I.
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My MP3s will sound like The Chipmunks and God knows what my porn will look like!...
All of the breasts will be inflated.
It's not like they're going to specifically be made to be compatible with TiVo drive controllers.
The OP AC confused the name "Marshall" with the law enforcement officer "Marshal".
There was no viable joke in their post.
Way to go, Kirk McKusick!
And does this mean I have a shot at being a US Marshall?
Almost as big a one as being a U.S. Martial.
It's not about linking to Wikipedia, or anywhere else.
It's about knowing to which thing to link, and when the situation calls for it.
Are you sure it's new enough to be ATA?
It's probably MFM or RLL instead of IDE.
...On a serious note, exactly how is one supposed to purchase a drive if we cant trust anything on the product page? Just guess?
Welcome to the world of the "wishing to upgrade to more drive space" TiVo owner.
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"It's almost as if people who can't write are copying people who can't write."
Why not? Those who write well learned to do so by reading others who wrote well. Although nowadays I should probably say that those who were able to write well learned to do so by having read others who wrote well.
All the data gets loose from the drive, that's why you lose it...
All the data will get loose from the drive, that's why you lose them.
(singular is only correct if talking of one datum)
It leaves me wondering what "Vesta Heads" is.
Apparently a Vesta head is one that's incapable of using commas.
Long enough to see how it all turns out.
Maybe he achieved re-unification while we weren't looking, and now it's on to the next project over there.
Probably Israel.
Not sure where you'd put it, but the current location just isn't working out.
Don't know why anyone ever thought it would.
Oh, you meant what's the best place to which to relocate one's self?
Never mind.
Don't know about past 10 years, but M. J. Engh wrote a book called "Arslan (a.k.a. A Wind from Bukhara)" back in '76 which was pretty much a downer. Think "Red Dawn", but the troops are Islamic and the American civilians aren't as resourceful or well-enough organized.
See my other reply first.
Of course if it had happened January 1st, 2000, we'd never have heard the end of it.
I ain't sayin' it didn't happen, I just don't happen to remember it.
Of course if it happened around May of 2000 I might easily never have seen it.
The thing about Romney's "I like to fire people" comment is that he was using it in a context where anybody else would have said something about being able to take their business elsewhere.
I mean, I'm sure there must have been something like an ad for drain cleaner where someone says "I fired my plumber" or something along those lines, but in normal real life firing is what you do to employees, not to suppliers.
If he'd said "I like being able to take my business to someone who gives me a great product or service at a great price, and if they don't, I like to be able to take my business elsewhere.", well, who could disagree with that.
But the way he did say it gives off an entirely different vibe.
The relatively recent rise of "hone in on", "tow the line", "for all intensive purposes", and others suggests that "bold-faced lie" is just another example of people hearing phrases they've never taken notice of in print and getting them wrong.
2012 plus two terms of a Republican president...
Yeah, that ought to just about do it.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
Auric Goldfinger
(I think it sounds better with "happenstance")
You are attempting to use logic to explain things to a supply-sider. Good luck with that one.
The article to which you link mentions nothing about stock market speculation.
Allow me to recommend something which does, Galbraith's "The Great Crash, 1929".
In it you'll find things like companies whose sole asset was stock in another company whose sole asset was stock in yet another company whose sole asset was...until you get to the bottom of the pyramid and find that there's nothing of value there.
Umm... not only that, but I know of NO such described incident with regard to the US Navy.
I DO know of such an incident in the UK, which occurred while they were experimenting with attempts to interfere with aircraft engines using radio waves. It was this that started Thomas Watson-Watt and the other UK scientists off on their eventual invention of Radar.
The US had nothing like this, and did not do any research in the field. I think that this item is just transposing something that happened in the UK and claiming that it happened in the US - something the Americans frequently do....
Allow me to recommend "Man of High Fidelity: Edwin Howard Armstrong" by Lawrence Lessing, and specifically direct your attention to the part that covers Major Armstrong's service in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War I.
Ok, it can be used to detect if you are about to be attacked by zombies or RIAA agents.
How does one tell the difference?
Zombies do less damage and have more respect for individual rights?
Thank you.