Yes, I'm really sure. 'to which they do not have to answer' is ok. The 'to which' refers to the EU citizens. Actually, 'which' usually refers to an object, not people. Best would be 'to whom they do not have to answer'. You could also have the 'to' at the end ('whom they do not have to answer to'), but I think the former sounded best.
Unfortunately I noticed probably over 20 other little grammatical or spelling errors in the letter also.
How about #7 - the platform jumper? This poster makes a brief reply to one of the top-rated root comments in order to get their post listed early in the thread, then goes off on a tangent about the original article that belonged in a root comment.
A terrorist blows him/herself up in a crowded airport terminal, killing a few hundred people, and this wouldn't be a massive news story for many weeks? 7/7 in the UK was, and that killed under 100 people on London's public transport.
1. Far from every page on the net is indexed. 2. You probably can't remember the exact text of a page you want to visit. 3. Even if you could remember something, there's probably 100s of pages with the same kind of content. 4. You might just want a general browse of a particular category, so you can 're-discover' some sites you bookmarked a long time ago and don't remember.
1. Honorable and fair in one's dealings and actions: a just ruler. See Synonyms at fair1.
2. Consistent with what is morally right; righteous: a just cause.
3. Properly due or merited: just deserts.
4. Law. Valid within the law; lawful: just claims.
5. Suitable or proper in nature; fitting: a just touch of solemnity.
6. Based on fact or sound reason; well-founded: a just appraisal.
Which definition of 'just' is analogous to 'whatever the people in general think', exactly?
Mac hardware is proprietary and expensive. If they had MS's market share, Apple would be in an even more monopolistic position than Microsoft. Remind me again why people switching to Macs is a good thing?
They're not saying the companies don't have that right, otherwise they'd be lobbying the government to force them not to censor. They're *criticising* them, telling people how misguided and/or amoral their actions are, which is what free speech IS all about.
Hmm, I'm not an expert on this, but if they're from Taiwan, shouldn't they hold themselves up to a higher standard than mainland China? I thought they did that, and thought of themselves as more democratic. Isn't that why they want independece from China? If not, I may reconsider my support of their independence.
URGENT: PRODUCT RECALL: "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Bloomington, IN - August 3, 2005 -- Dog Condoms, Inc. is announcing a voluntary recall of its Dog Condoms® canine prophylactics, due to an unacceptable failure rate reported during preliminary release in test markets."
No shit, they couldn't permenantly monitor their dog and slip this on just before penetration.
The natural state of humans is poor health, early death, superstitious ignorance and starvation. We're hunter-gatherers naturally. Do we view our deviation from evolution as wrong?
What on earth are you talking about? The 'natural' state of humans in the West is generall good health, late (and getting later) death, and a full belly. Superstitious ignorance, whilst widespread, is neither a physiological thing (which evolution tends to deal with) nor anywhere near ubiquitous.
Unless you mean 'natural state' to be the state you're in if you do nothing and get no food, but that's a pretty dumb thing to look at; any animal would be buggered if they got no food and did nothing for a long time.
I'm afraid I missed the GPLv3 discussion that happened some time ago on Slashdot, so I'm sorry if this question is obvious but... why can't you just compile and run Tivo's code on a general purpose PC? Or hack Tivo's hardware? It looks like the only problem is that Tivo's hardware stops modified code from running on it, why is that a major problem?
What's the fuel efficiency of these things? With only 1 passenger, it sounds like the passenger-miles-per-gallon efficiency would be abysmal. This isn't an environmentally viable option for tons of people to take up, unless you're extrenely selfish and don't care about spewing pollutants into the atmosphere.
This is yet another large terrorism "bust" in the UK. Each one was originally sold to us as a massive success in the Fight For Freedom(TM).
Yeah, but I get the feeling that this time, there's more to it. They've arrested a large number of people, made a big fuss about it, and I think they know their reputation is _really_ on the line. They can't really afford to screw this one up or there really will be a problem.
first was a Brazilian guy who was running away from the police with an explosive vest on.
Yes, the CPS and police decision in this case not to prosecute or discipline any of the officers involved in this operation was, IMHO, absolutely disgusting. The officers making the decisions in this one should've been permanently banned from working in the police; 'heads should have rolled'. I dunno what the Met were thinking here, as it's been a huge PR disaster for them and they've not helped themselves at all. Probably because they were being lobbied by the gun-totin' firearms officers' union. Idiots.
The whole nation is terrified of flying.
Bleh, maybe that's good. Flying is ridiculously polluting and often unnecessary, people didn't need to travel the world several times a year even half a decade ago, and I don't. They don't need to either. Why, only the other day, I saw a news article on people who commuted into work (in London) daily, by plane, from southern Spain. This is indefensible.
Thing is, the sudden death of 3 or 4 thousand people is not good for society, at all.
I'm as anti-government intrusion as most people on here, but I'm not sure I have a major problem with the hand-luggage restrictions. You really _can_ make a bloody dangerous bomb with liquid, powder and a detonator. There really _are_ Islamic fundamentalist assholes that want to do it. If those 3 or 4 thousand died over a sustained period over several years, I might agree that privacy and liberties should be more important than government power. However, 9/11 shows you what happens when they all die at once. Mass panic in society, economic instability, chaos really. I don't know the solution, but letting terrorists bomb planes easily doesn't seem to be it.
That's a really bad example, because people get to choose (even if accidentally) whether they overdose or not. Next time, choose a comparator that involves something happening to them that they don't choose.
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It's not the same size as our enter key. Personally, US keyboards piss me off. I think your enter key is way too small.
Someone, or more likely several someones, will independantly enumerate every area of non-compliance that exists in MSIE7.
http://www.webdevout.net/browser_support_css.php
Even Bush knows that it's "fool me once, shame on you".
Why is the idea of over 50 planets so abhorent?
Because then we have to think of a 50 word mnemonic, and teach it to children!!
Yes, I'm really sure. 'to which they do not have to answer' is ok. The 'to which' refers to the EU citizens. Actually, 'which' usually refers to an object, not people. Best would be 'to whom they do not have to answer'. You could also have the 'to' at the end ('whom they do not have to answer to'), but I think the former sounded best.
Unfortunately I noticed probably over 20 other little grammatical or spelling errors in the letter also.
How about #7 - the platform jumper? This poster makes a brief reply to one of the top-rated root comments in order to get their post listed early in the thread, then goes off on a tangent about the original article that belonged in a root comment.
Actually I should shut up; I do it too.
influence millions of EU citizens (to which they do not have to answer to).
Remove the 'to' at the end. Let's get the grammar right if this is a formal letter.
A terrorist blows him/herself up in a crowded airport terminal, killing a few hundred people, and this wouldn't be a massive news story for many weeks? 7/7 in the UK was, and that killed under 100 people on London's public transport.
... until students discover they can download it for free.
1. Far from every page on the net is indexed.
2. You probably can't remember the exact text of a page you want to visit.
3. Even if you could remember something, there's probably 100s of pages with the same kind of content.
4. You might just want a general browse of a particular category, so you can 're-discover' some sites you bookmarked a long time ago and don't remember.
just1
adj.
1. Honorable and fair in one's dealings and actions: a just ruler. See Synonyms at fair1.
2. Consistent with what is morally right; righteous: a just cause.
3. Properly due or merited: just deserts.
4. Law. Valid within the law; lawful: just claims.
5. Suitable or proper in nature; fitting: a just touch of solemnity.
6. Based on fact or sound reason; well-founded: a just appraisal.
Which definition of 'just' is analogous to 'whatever the people in general think', exactly?
At least it's not as bad as US perversions of the language. 'Burglarize', anyone?
You really don't need the line breaks,
you know. We're not on Usenet now.
Of course, you'll need a ~100MB program to extract it...
Mac hardware is proprietary and expensive. If they had MS's market share, Apple would be in an even more monopolistic position than Microsoft. Remind me again why people switching to Macs is a good thing?
They're not saying the companies don't have that right, otherwise they'd be lobbying the government to force them not to censor. They're *criticising* them, telling people how misguided and/or amoral their actions are, which is what free speech IS all about.
Hmm, I'm not an expert on this, but if they're from Taiwan, shouldn't they hold themselves up to a higher standard than mainland China? I thought they did that, and thought of themselves as more democratic. Isn't that why they want independece from China? If not, I may reconsider my support of their independence.
This almost looks like a parody.
URGENT: PRODUCT RECALL:
"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Bloomington, IN - August 3, 2005 -- Dog Condoms, Inc.
is announcing a voluntary recall of its Dog Condoms® canine prophylactics, due
to an unacceptable failure rate reported during preliminary release in test
markets."
No shit, they couldn't permenantly monitor their dog and slip this on just before penetration.
The natural state of humans is poor health, early death, superstitious ignorance and starvation. We're hunter-gatherers naturally. Do we view our deviation from evolution as wrong?
What on earth are you talking about? The 'natural' state of humans in the West is generall good health, late (and getting later) death, and a full belly. Superstitious ignorance, whilst widespread, is neither a physiological thing (which evolution tends to deal with) nor anywhere near ubiquitous.
Unless you mean 'natural state' to be the state you're in if you do nothing and get no food, but that's a pretty dumb thing to look at; any animal would be buggered if they got no food and did nothing for a long time.
I'm afraid I missed the GPLv3 discussion that happened some time ago on Slashdot, so I'm sorry if this question is obvious but... why can't you just compile and run Tivo's code on a general purpose PC? Or hack Tivo's hardware? It looks like the only problem is that Tivo's hardware stops modified code from running on it, why is that a major problem?
What's the fuel efficiency of these things? With only 1 passenger, it sounds like the passenger-miles-per-gallon efficiency would be abysmal. This isn't an environmentally viable option for tons of people to take up, unless you're extrenely selfish and don't care about spewing pollutants into the atmosphere.
It's not just Amtrak in the US. Try going into the centre of London from a suburb, not using an intercity train; they're packed and horrible too.
This is yet another large terrorism "bust" in the UK. Each one was originally sold to us as a massive success in the Fight For Freedom(TM).
Yeah, but I get the feeling that this time, there's more to it. They've arrested a large number of people, made a big fuss about it, and I think they know their reputation is _really_ on the line. They can't really afford to screw this one up or there really will be a problem.
first was a Brazilian guy who was running away from the police with an explosive vest on.
Yes, the CPS and police decision in this case not to prosecute or discipline any of the officers involved in this operation was, IMHO, absolutely disgusting. The officers making the decisions in this one should've been permanently banned from working in the police; 'heads should have rolled'. I dunno what the Met were thinking here, as it's been a huge PR disaster for them and they've not helped themselves at all. Probably because they were being lobbied by the gun-totin' firearms officers' union. Idiots.
The whole nation is terrified of flying.
Bleh, maybe that's good. Flying is ridiculously polluting and often unnecessary, people didn't need to travel the world several times a year even half a decade ago, and I don't. They don't need to either. Why, only the other day, I saw a news article on people who commuted into work (in London) daily, by plane, from southern Spain. This is indefensible.
Thing is, the sudden death of 3 or 4 thousand people is not good for society, at all.
I'm as anti-government intrusion as most people on here, but I'm not sure I have a major problem with the hand-luggage restrictions. You really _can_ make a bloody dangerous bomb with liquid, powder and a detonator. There really _are_ Islamic fundamentalist assholes that want to do it. If those 3 or 4 thousand died over a sustained period over several years, I might agree that privacy and liberties should be more important than government power. However, 9/11 shows you what happens when they all die at once. Mass panic in society, economic instability, chaos really. I don't know the solution, but letting terrorists bomb planes easily doesn't seem to be it.
That's a really bad example, because people get to choose (even if accidentally) whether they overdose or not. Next time, choose a comparator that involves something happening to them that they don't choose.