That would be lovely. (Maybe.) In fact, the winner always acts as if s/he got 100% of the vote and represents the unalloyed Will of the People. Even if s/he won 40%/30%/30%. (See Alaska, where it might end up breaking down like that.) If the R's retake the House they won't give two holy shits about the overall vote totals.
just because you have a dream within a dream doesn't mean you have a brain within a brain
Yes, perfect summary of what I consider a big conceptual confusion in the film. It seemed to me that they had dragged in the concept of "simulators upon emulators" and called it "dream within a dream". I don't even think there's such a thing; there's just more dreaming. (Oh, but these are magic dreams!)
Yeah, but the things they're talking about are either ludicrously false, or they're bizarre overreactions to trivia, or combinations thereof. Whereas the "US citizens on CIA hitlists" thing is a war-on-terror move, involving people (who are indeed American citizens) with foreign-sounding names, who are currently in foreign countries, so the right is totally down with it.
No, you've completely missed the point. This decision applies to ballot petitions only, which are used to force a question onto the general election ballot. You can sign any petition you want that isn't part of the election process, and nobody's going to force the list to be public -- although it's going to be a damn useless petition, if all the organizers can say is "we got 1 million signatures, and no, you can't see it."
I don't trade stocks, but I do have a 401(k). With a 100% employer match up to 6%, I'd be RETARDED not to. With a 100% match, the market could drop 50% and I still wouldn't be out any of my OWN money. Go ahead, try to tell me I'm crazy for taking that deal.
But those are two different questions! Surely your 401(k) investment options include some fund that's "as good as cash". It won't appreciate much, but you can get the employer match without having to be in equities at all.
Actually, I remember how some stuff looked on color TV in the 1960s, and it was super-wacky color land. That's when the Batman show was out, and when Bewitched (for instance) went to color..I think current prints don't look the way they did then, but the shows weren't just in color, they were IN COLOR DAMMIT.
You never know. I worked with a woman from India, late 20s, very good (to this American) English, who had never heard of The Wizard of Oz. Not "never seen" it; never heard of it.
If they do one brain surgery a day for 50 weeks a year, that $100K is $400 extra for each one. For a procedure that costs tens of thousands of dollars. I don't think the malpractice insurance is driving that cost.
To review: the proposition is "With a graphics program or word processor, for an end user to see an error message is inexcusable."
Your defense is that the program should, instead, in a dialog box, note that it can't do something that was requested.
I don't see why this is materially different. Either way, the user tries to do something, and the program refuses. Now, in your example, there's information about why it failed, which is good. That's an argument against cryptic error messages, not an argument against error messages.
you can file suit against the insurance company for breach of contract
Surprise! Your health insurance may well have boilerplate in it where you gave up the right to sue, and agreed to binding arbitration, said arbitrator being paid by the insurance company. Good luck.
"Geese" is already plural, the singular being "goose", so it doesn't match your other examples. Actually, then maybe you bring back "goose"? It seems like in the hunting context, the rule might be "use the singular as a mass noun". Same with serving it as dinner -- we eat "chicken", not "chickens".
And I'll believe that you drink "some beer" rather than "some beers" -- although "some beers" doesn't sound totally wrong to me either -- but I don't believe you "have a few beer". (Unless you're speaking in some non-USAan dialect, I suppose.)
Not in non-mathematical English it doesn't. Which is, I admit, confusing. So perhaps "implies" is best avoided in English discussions among math types, after all.
At least a home-plate-shaped pentagon with windows and a door on it means "home" throughout the developed world.
Really? To me it means "house". Tens of millions of people in the USA alone have homes (apartments) that are not houses.
(And beyond that, I'm not sure the metaphor of "home" for "Web page that appears in your browser when you first open it" is so great anyway, but it seems to be popular.)
That’s legally wrong on so many levels: Short words and phrases can’t be protected by federal copyright law; common law copyright has been almost entirely preempted by federal copyright law, and in any event was applicable only to unpublished works; copyright of any sort would only apply to your own creative work, and Ted Klaudt’s name wasn’t created by him (unless it’s an assumed name); fair use would in any event allow people to use the name to refer to him, if there was a copyright claim to begin with, which there isn’t; and trademark law doesn’t preclude uses of a trademark in an article to refer to the trademarked item.
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That would be lovely. (Maybe.) In fact, the winner always acts as if s/he got 100% of the vote and represents the unalloyed Will of the People. Even if s/he won 40%/30%/30%. (See Alaska, where it might end up breaking down like that.) If the R's retake the House they won't give two holy shits about the overall vote totals.
Why do we need spanish voting machines?
Citizenship is requitred to vote, and English profiency is required for Citizenship.
Sometimes, spelling flames are the way to go.
Only because this is the grammar thread: you want "sic", not "sick".
just because you have a dream within a dream doesn't mean you have a brain within a brain
Yes, perfect summary of what I consider a big conceptual confusion in the film. It seemed to me that they had dragged in the concept of
"simulators upon emulators" and called it "dream within a dream". I don't even think there's such a thing; there's just more dreaming. (Oh, but these are magic dreams!)
Yeah, but the things they're talking about are either ludicrously false, or they're bizarre overreactions to trivia, or combinations thereof. Whereas the "US citizens on CIA hitlists" thing is a war-on-terror move, involving people (who are indeed American citizens) with foreign-sounding names, who are currently in foreign countries, so the right is totally down with it.
No, you've completely missed the point. This decision applies to ballot petitions only, which are used to force a question onto the general election ballot. You can sign any petition you want that isn't part of the election process, and nobody's going to force the list to be public -- although it's going to be a damn useless petition, if all the organizers can say is "we got 1 million signatures, and no, you can't see it."
If you all agree on some hashtag, you can get the effect of an ad-hoc chat room.
I don't trade stocks, but I do have a 401(k). With a 100% employer match up to 6%, I'd be RETARDED not to. With a 100% match, the market could drop 50% and I still wouldn't be out any of my OWN money. Go ahead, try to tell me I'm crazy for taking that deal.
But those are two different questions! Surely your 401(k) investment options include some fund that's "as good as cash". It won't appreciate much, but you can get the employer match without having to be in equities at all.
Actually, I remember how some stuff looked on color TV in the 1960s, and it was super-wacky color land. That's when the Batman show was out, and when Bewitched (for instance) went to color..I think current prints don't look the way they did then, but the shows weren't just in color, they were IN COLOR DAMMIT.
Wow, my mileage varied a lot. I loved the 3D in UP, much more so than the 3D in Avatar.
You never know. I worked with a woman from India, late 20s, very good (to this American) English, who had never heard of The Wizard of Oz. Not "never seen" it; never heard of it.
It's normal industry-speak for the person who Runs the Show, and has been for a decade.
If they do one brain surgery a day for 50 weeks a year, that $100K is $400 extra for each one. For a procedure that costs tens of thousands of dollars. I don't think the malpractice insurance is driving that cost.
In this case, it's a reference to an old pre-Internet computing meme, most famously seen in the paper "Go To Statement Considered Harmful". See here.
The word "example" does not mean "non-functioning". Even when printed at an angle across the image.
To review: the proposition is "With a graphics program or word processor, for an end user to see an error message is inexcusable."
Your defense is that the program should, instead, in a dialog box, note that it can't do something that was requested.
I don't see why this is materially different. Either way, the user tries to do something, and the program refuses. Now, in your example, there's information about why it failed, which is good. That's an argument against cryptic error messages, not an argument against error messages.
My 2005 Toyota Camry does have such a grommet. Perhaps coincidentally, it's not been recalled.
Surprise! Your health insurance may well have boilerplate in it where you gave up the right to sue, and agreed to binding arbitration, said arbitrator being paid by the insurance company. Good luck.
"Geese" is already plural, the singular being "goose", so it doesn't match your other examples. Actually, then maybe you bring back "goose"? It seems like in the hunting context, the rule might be "use the singular as a mass noun". Same with serving it as dinner -- we eat "chicken", not "chickens".
And I'll believe that you drink "some beer" rather than "some beers" -- although "some beers" doesn't sound totally wrong to me either -- but I don't believe you "have a few beer". (Unless you're speaking in some non-USAan dialect, I suppose.)
On the other hand, my four dollar Gamecube copy of Metroid Prime, from Gamestop, that I just (almost) finished, was pretty good value for money.
Not in non-mathematical English it doesn't. Which is, I admit, confusing. So perhaps "implies" is best avoided in English discussions among math types, after all.
At least a home-plate-shaped pentagon with windows and a door on it means "home" throughout the developed world.
Really? To me it means "house". Tens of millions of people in the USA alone have homes (apartments) that are not houses.
(And beyond that, I'm not sure the metaphor of "home" for "Web page that appears in your browser when you first open it" is so great anyway, but it seems to be popular.)
According to Eugene Volokh at his well-known (conservative) legal blog:
The hyphen being so everyone doesn't call it "The O-need-er", as in That Thing You Do.