It's possible to think that something on the internet is unfair, untrue, irresponsible, or whatever other characteristic one might get angry at, and still not get angry at it. Even if you're quick to get angry, it's hard to do if you're half asleep, for example. That proves that you don't HAVE to feel angry, but can (at least under some circumstances) choose a different response.
In other words, it's simply not true that "not getting angry" HAS to mean "not feeling anything" or "suppressing what you really feel."
I'd like a job as a visionary. I once dreamt I would find a $20 bill on the street, and then several months later, I DID! Is that enough of a qualification? I've also had numerous hunches, premonitions, and vague senses of foreboding. I think with the passage of time that these powers will only increase, and within 5 to 10 years, I could be up to Nostradamus-level prognastication.
Not every day (i.e., from one solar crossing of the meridian to the next) is exactly the same length. (Ptolemy knew about this.) Furthermore, because of drag/perturbation/molten core/etc., not every terrestrial trip around the sun is exactly the same length. I think these latter factors contribute to the need for ad hoc leap seconds.
Yeah, I was kind of short on the details of my private association. I was thinking of a prominent first appearance in fiction of the notion of high-tech corporations having their own armed forces. Google Navy -> Maas-Neotek extraction team, blah blah blah.
The fact that my comment is in Google's index only supports the idea that I'm on to them....:)
I was one of the things you ask about. As for which word is closer to what the example is, I don't know; I was trying to show how marks of both metaphor and simile as they're usually distinguished were present in the example. As for analogy, it would be defensible, but probably over-literal, to insist that the decisive mark of an analogy is something like the phrase "as A is to B, so is C to D." Since the likeness between the relations Hasbro-Scrabulous and neighbor-horses is what is being presented, "analogy" is probably applicable, too.
So, anyway, sorry to seem to be offering a clarifying correction when in fact I was trying to muddy the waters.:)
hasboro shot that horse and then bought a crappier horse that's never going to be worth anything
Since Hasbro is depicted as doing the shooting and buying, it's a metaphor. That said, introducing the whole thing with "It's kind of like if..." makes it sound like a simile.
You know what would really clear this complex issue up for the American people? Compelling President Bartlett to testify before Congress. Put him in front of the cameras to talk about his illness so that we, as a nation, can feel safe again.
Googling "less is better" returns 138,000 results, while googling "less is worse" returns only 5,300 results. But since less, as is commonly acknowledged, is in fact more, we must conclude that worse is better, which is absurd. Therefore, Google is not google, insects are evil thoughts, and burning Sappho loved and sang and stroked the wine-dark sea, in the temple by the moonlight, wa da doo dah. Q.E.D.
This leaves us with the students who were the worst in their studies teaching. Obviously this isn't true of all teachers, it does however, seem to be a trend that is developing.
Great statistics, evidence, and argument. I'm guessing you're a teacher?
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It's possible to think that something on the internet is unfair, untrue, irresponsible, or whatever other characteristic one might get angry at, and still not get angry at it. Even if you're quick to get angry, it's hard to do if you're half asleep, for example. That proves that you don't HAVE to feel angry, but can (at least under some circumstances) choose a different response.
In other words, it's simply not true that "not getting angry" HAS to mean "not feeling anything" or "suppressing what you really feel."
How many ranks lower is a specialist than a visionary?
Fastest != best. With no software to run, a processor's clock speed is mostly useless.
Only time will tell.
I'd like a job as a visionary. I once dreamt I would find a $20 bill on the street, and then several months later, I DID! Is that enough of a qualification? I've also had numerous hunches, premonitions, and vague senses of foreboding. I think with the passage of time that these powers will only increase, and within 5 to 10 years, I could be up to Nostradamus-level prognastication.
It is a solution. But so is writing all your cited works on individual index cards and alphabetizing them.
I'd say more but I've got to get back to sorting my wires by the color of their insulators so that I'll have time to make some penny and nickel rolls.
Not every day (i.e., from one solar crossing of the meridian to the next) is exactly the same length. (Ptolemy knew about this.) Furthermore, because of drag/perturbation/molten core/etc., not every terrestrial trip around the sun is exactly the same length. I think these latter factors contribute to the need for ad hoc leap seconds.
Yeah, I was kind of short on the details of my private association. I was thinking of a prominent first appearance in fiction of the notion of high-tech corporations having their own armed forces. Google Navy -> Maas-Neotek extraction team, blah blah blah.
The fact that my comment is in Google's index only supports the idea that I'm on to them.... :)
Stephenson? Pfft!
A better reference might be to Maas-Neotek from Mona Lisa Overdrive and other books.
Mens rea?
I was one of the things you ask about. As for which word is closer to what the example is, I don't know; I was trying to show how marks of both metaphor and simile as they're usually distinguished were present in the example. As for analogy, it would be defensible, but probably over-literal, to insist that the decisive mark of an analogy is something like the phrase "as A is to B, so is C to D." Since the likeness between the relations Hasbro-Scrabulous and neighbor-horses is what is being presented, "analogy" is probably applicable, too.
So, anyway, sorry to seem to be offering a clarifying correction when in fact I was trying to muddy the waters. :)
Since Hasbro is depicted as doing the shooting and buying, it's a metaphor. That said, introducing the whole thing with "It's kind of like if..." makes it sound like a simile.
You know what would really clear this complex issue up for the American people? Compelling President Bartlett to testify before Congress. Put him in front of the cameras to talk about his illness so that we, as a nation, can feel safe again.
Since language shapes thought, perhaps there's an evolutionary advantage here: e.g., not knowing how many wives one has. :)
"Mathematics" is plural? How many mathematics did you study today? Did you find any particular mathematic more difficult than another?
OT: New Math
Since the signing of the U.S. Constitution (Article 1, Section 8)?
Yes, but did it get him any respect?
Taking a dump, will read this later.
GoogleBrainMaps, actually.
No "mashups," please!
Anyone remember TIA? That's basically what happened there, too.
Ah, but...
Googling "less is better" returns 138,000 results, while googling "less is worse" returns only 5,300 results. But since less, as is commonly acknowledged, is in fact more, we must conclude that worse is better, which is absurd. Therefore, Google is not google, insects are evil thoughts, and burning Sappho loved and sang and stroked the wine-dark sea, in the temple by the moonlight, wa da doo dah. Q.E.D.
This leaves us with the students who were the worst in their studies teaching. Obviously this isn't true of all teachers, it does however, seem to be a trend that is developing.
Great statistics, evidence, and argument. I'm guessing you're a teacher?
MB = MacBook?
Simpsons^W Mr. Show did it first.
America can, should, must, and will blow up the moon. The time is now. Children are our future.
... with American pride."
"You know you can't mess