the very thought of linux or bsd trying to install itself on a VIDEO CAMERA just makes me laugh.
Linux has finally become sentient. It decided that if everybody and his brother wants to install it on a video GAME, then a video CAMERA would be the next logical step. It's just trying to be helpful and save you some time.
It's bad enough when stories get duped, but this is the second "+5,Funny" comment I've seen in this story that is duped from a comment in the last story on this subject.
they'll have to get around Supreme Court decisions that say states can't collect taxes on residents in other states
If I drive across the border into the next state, can I pick up a plasma TV at Circuit City and not pay sales tax on it, if I show them my out-of-state driver's license?
This could not be interpreted to outlaw public libraries. Fair Use provides an exclusion to the prohibition of *copying*, and therefore allows you to do things that would otherwise be illegal under copyright law. Libraries don't copy books, they lend them. No part of copyright law disallows this, and libraries therefore don't rely on Fair Use to enable them to do it.
> No state has a law prohibiting anyone from reciting the pledge voluntarily, whenever they want to. [...] Oh, and you ended your sentence with a preposition.
No, he didn't. He ended it with the introductory "to" that begins an infinitive mood verb. I.e. "...whenever they want to [recite the pledge]"
Whenever I buy something online from a vendor in the same state I live in (or more accurately, have it shipped to), The web form adds the state tax for our common state. So, in my experience, it already works like mail order. Am I missing something?
And why not make this whole thing a vendor-pays-tax-to-their-own-state thing, and pass the cost transparently on to the buyer, regardless of the buyer's state? Isn't that pretty much how it is anyway with brick-and-mortar? If I drive to another state, and buy a pair of jeans, I don't get to say to the sales clerk, "No taxes please, I live in another state. I'll take care of it on my end." They tax me unconditionally based on where they are.
Pumping the nuclei? Stimulated emission? Are we talking about a gamma ray bomb here, or are they really contemplating a gamma ray laser? Are there any mirrors that can reflect gamma rays?
English is pretty open into importing/incorporating any words (even abbreviations like WMD) in the language, but I don't believe most other languages on Earth are.
FYI: "If I were a spammer", not was. Expressing doubt.
Yes, that's an example of the subjunctive mood. But it doesn't express doubt. It expresses a hypothetical situation that is not, in fact, the case. The other two cases are examples of the imperative mood, not the subjunctive mood.
As for whether "If I was xxx" is correct, the answer is that it depends. If it's not expressing a hypothetical situation known not to be the case, it can be correct.
The most likely meaning for the adverb week, would be: having to do with a week, or weeks. And since our names for the week-days come from ancient gods, he was probably likening the one time pad to the unbeatable thunder god Thor.
Well, then I definitely wouldn't be able to break it. I never could get the hang of Thor's Days.
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the very thought of linux or bsd trying to install itself on a VIDEO CAMERA just makes me laugh.
Linux has finally become sentient. It decided that if everybody and his brother wants to install it on a video GAME, then a video CAMERA would be the next logical step. It's just trying to be helpful and save you some time.
...but "Seinfeld" was cancelled several years ago.
It's bad enough when stories get duped, but this is the second "+5,Funny" comment I've seen in this story that is duped from a comment in the last story on this subject.
they'll have to get around Supreme Court decisions that say states can't collect taxes on residents in other states
If I drive across the border into the next state, can I pick up a plasma TV at Circuit City and not pay sales tax on it, if I show them my out-of-state driver's license?
This could not be interpreted to outlaw public libraries. Fair Use provides an exclusion to the prohibition of *copying*, and therefore allows you to do things that would otherwise be illegal under copyright law. Libraries don't copy books, they lend them. No part of copyright law disallows this, and libraries therefore don't rely on Fair Use to enable them to do it.
ObDisclaimer: IANAL.
> No state has a law prohibiting anyone from reciting the pledge voluntarily, whenever they want to.
[...]
Oh, and you ended your sentence with a preposition.
No, he didn't. He ended it with the introductory "to" that begins an infinitive mood verb. I.e. "...whenever they want to [recite the pledge]"
... my Rock'em Sock'em Robots?
Whenever I buy something online from a vendor in the same state I live in (or more accurately, have it shipped to), The web form adds the state tax for our common state. So, in my experience, it already works like mail order. Am I missing something?
And why not make this whole thing a vendor-pays-tax-to-their-own-state thing, and pass the cost transparently on to the buyer, regardless of the buyer's state? Isn't that pretty much how it is anyway with brick-and-mortar? If I drive to another state, and buy a pair of jeans, I don't get to say to the sales clerk, "No taxes please, I live in another state. I'll take care of it on my end." They tax me unconditionally based on where they are.
Uh oh...
He didn't say "nukyular"
So... William Shatner uses Linux?
I predict that if/when such a technology becomes prevalent, it will greatly reduce the human ability to make decisions.
I, for one, welcome our new decision-making overlords.
Pumping the nuclei? Stimulated emission? Are we talking about a gamma ray bomb here, or are they really contemplating a gamma ray laser? Are there any mirrors that can reflect gamma rays?
VRML smoke signals
For those people who think that a calculator watch just isn't quite geeky enough.
Uh huh. And the rest of us look like James Bond with our tri-corders clipped to our belts, right?
who likes to say "dvd plus arr"??
I don't even know how to pronounce that first word. Or did you mean to say "dee vee dee plus arr"?
English is pretty open into importing/incorporating any words (even abbreviations like WMD) in the language, but I don't believe most other languages on Earth are.
It's been done in French, too.
Statistician: "Oh that's pi, of course". Friend: "You mean the ratio of the diameter of a circle to the radius?" Statistician: "Sure".
Where I come from, we call that value "two".
Why are you being interviewed on Slashdot, as opposed to, say, my uncle Simon?
You think Dave should be interviewed on your uncle Simon?
FYI:
"If I were a spammer", not was. Expressing doubt.
Yes, that's an example of the subjunctive mood. But it doesn't express doubt. It expresses a hypothetical situation that is not, in fact, the case.
The other two cases are examples of the imperative mood, not the subjunctive mood.
As for whether "If I was xxx" is correct, the answer is that it depends. If it's not expressing a hypothetical situation known not to be the case, it can be correct.
I wasnt aware that toners were digital media.
And I wasn't aware that "DM" stood for "digital media".
Photoshop is a trademarked proper noun, not a verb
Any noun can be verbed.
Go Republicans!!!!
And don't come back too soon, now.
Don't dip your hand in lead.
Don't put liquid nitrogen or dry ice in your mouth.
[etc]
I think you've just written the script for "Jackass II".
The most likely meaning for the adverb week, would be: having to do with a week, or weeks. And since our names for the week-days come from ancient gods, he was probably likening the one time pad to the unbeatable thunder god Thor.
Well, then I definitely wouldn't be able to break it. I never could get the hang of Thor's Days.