Of course you don't think you look stupid, just as you thought you knew the proper word to use. The reason I'm all over your ass, as you put it, is not because of your initial mistake, however. It is because of your insistence on replying to my posts, even though you claim not to care. Apparently you do, and since I enjoy getting under the skin of anyone who not only takes things said on the internet so seriously, but who also cannot distinguish criticism from attack, I'm enjoying myself. You could, you know, just have started using 'affect' and 'effect' properly and gone about your day and let it go. However, you were apparently incapable of that. As to whether or not I look like a jackass for correcting your poor word choice, I don't care. I don't know any of you. There are people on here that I pay more attention to, because they have earned it through insightful posts. You have not. You're the one who took it personally, even though I made it perfectly clear in my original post that you were not the only one making that mistake. You decided to imagine that I was somehow out to get you. Just think of it this way: sometimes, you have a stroke of good luck. Sometimes, you have a stroke of bad luck. When I arbitrarily decided to reply to you instead of one of the other idiots, I had a stroke of good luck. You had a stroke of bad luck. That's the way the world works. At this point, I don't give a shit if you take offense or don't, but it was you who made it personal. It isn't your fault that I try to help morons learn to type, and it isn't my fault that you use words even when you don't know what they mean.
Why do you keep replying? It's none of my business? You posted it on a fucking public forum, jackass. You made it the business of anyone who wanted to reply to you. Stop making stupid mistakes that make you look like an ignorant idiot, and people will stop correcting you. (at least I will) Alternatively, you can go on looking like a fool who doesn't know the difference between 'affect' and 'effect.' Why do I care? I don't. Not about you personally; you just happened to be the fourth of fifth person I saw misusing the word effect within this thread. The decision to correct you and not each and every person who misused any word was made completely arbitrarily. However, if you keep replying to me, I'll keep replying to you. That's the way things work when you aren't in charge of who gets to talk about what.
I guess you didn't bother to check my other posts. I guess you assumed that you were so important that you must have been the victim of a vast conspiracy against you. I guess you aren't even close to the only person I've corrected, and I guess that since I didn't personally attack you, simply corrected your grammar, you might have resolved to refrain from committing that particular error in the future, but you did not. Look, when you're posting on the internet, people are going to judge you based on your usage of the language you're posting in. If you cannot even manage to post something which is grammatically correct and which has few misspellings, why should anyone take what you are posting seriously? I realize that attempting to stem the flood of bad grammar, even here on a site for 'nerds,' is quixotic at best. However, I shall tilt at this particular windmill until I die.
'There has to be a way for them to make money off of it.'
Why do so many people add redundant and unneccessary and repetitive words where they are not only unneeded, they are also unneccessary and not called for? Saying 'have got/has got' makes you sound ignorant. I'm sorry if you don't like that, it's true. You wouldn't know that you sound ignorant, however, if you *are*. It may sound weird to say 'I've to go to the store.' In that case, you might try the novel idea of not using a contraction. Then you would say, "I have to go to the store.' Of course, AOL has been perpetuating this disaster for years. What the fuck would have been so bad about making that voice actor say 'You have mail,' anyway? Arghhhhhhh. This is worse than affect/effect. Sigh.
so you want the virus makers to flash a pop-up before they infect your system? Informed before you're harmed? When the company itself apparently doesn't know? That'd be a nice trick, if you could manage it.
breech n.
1. The lower rear portion of the human trunk; the buttocks.
2.1. A breech presentation or delivery.
2. A fetus in breech presentation.
3. breeches
1. Knee breeches.
2. Informal. Trousers.
4. The part of a firearm behind the barrel.
5. The lower part of a pulley block.
breach n.
1. 1. An opening, a tear, or a rupture.
2. A gap or rift, especially in or as if in a solid structure such as a dike or fortification.
2. A violation or infraction, as of a law, a legal obligation, or a promise.
3. A breaking up or disruption of friendly relations; an estrangement.
4. A leap of a whale from the water.
5. The breaking of waves or surf.
Beware of homonyms. I would really hate to see security breeches, no matter which definition of 'breech' you use.
You mean 'affected.' To 'effect' a change is to make a change happen. When you change something, that thing is 'affected.' In other words, when you effect changes, you affect the things you're changing. Of course, perhaps you were even farther off and meant 'infected,' I don't know. I've just seen approximately 5 misuses of affect/effect in this thread alone and you're the one I responded to.
man. I wish, in my mind, a comparison was valid between a virus on websites and a time-travelling moron taken advantage of by the kind of person who not only can bring people forward in time, but who also thinks it's funny to dress them in klan gear and who happens to have said klan gear handy, as well as a handy 'Hitler is God' sign. Holy crap. It's almost like there was a spacefaring talking dog on crutches playing pachinko with m&ms. Know what I mean?
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Really? So just because I know where you/he/she got the reference from automatically makes it funny? Taking the name of an expansion and adding 'jihad' in the middle does not a joke create. You may think it is funny. You may also think people badly injuring themselves is funny. However, just because I didn't explain the joke when dismissing it, do not assume that I did not 'get it.' I did. It just sucked.
Maybe it's just where I live, but I would say that hip-hop is more popular among local IT people than any other type of music. It is kinda funny to watch a bunch of scrawny white guys noddin' to 50 while ghosting machines or coding or whatever. I like a lot of hip-hop and rap, but I also like classic metal and grunge and emo and goth music and really just about everything but tejano techno and post-1980 country (no, I didn't miss a comma between tejano and techo. I like traditional Tejano music and I can put up with most techno. I cannot stand tejano techno for even a minute.)
wake up frontin' like i ain't hung over read the paper, discover that the Germans have annexed grover, cookie, kermie, piggie and all the rest there ain't a single domestically controlled muppet left is it a plot? some kind of conspiracy? my coffee is cold there is a bitter taste to my cinnamon roll i venture forth into the bright american day my neighbor Mister Hess says "wie gehts?" and waves, I hurry away get in my chrysler (whew). oh the dismay! someone's replaced all of my Backstreet Boys with Kraftwerk tapes all right, I'm freaked out, i hope it's a joke i hear the ominous industrial churn of a two-stroke engine -- the benz on my left? the bug on my right? mein gott! a fleet of six trabants encroaching behind! At the wheel of the lead Trabi, a visage of fear! red'n'yellow eyes, black gloves gripping the steer! And it dawns upon me, what chance have I got? it's KOMPRESSOR, and he's chosen for crushing, mc frontalot
RAPPERS WE CRUSH, FINGERS TO DUST KOMPRESSOR DIGEST VOCALS AND SPIT OUT MUSH YOU TRY FRONT WITH RHYMES STOLEN FROM THE JACKSON FIVE ERASE YOUR TAPES AT NIGHT YOU COWER FROM KOMPRESSOR MIGHT
But I don't wanna be crushed! Burried in fear! Left for töt! Synthesizer might, tearing the rhymes right outta my throat! Leave my car at the light and run, I make for the park pursued by steel-toed jack-boots throwing sparks as they march. And I can hear the gnashing of the yellow teeth [DU KANNST NICHT HIDE, RAPPER GEEK] I'm dodging german shepherds playing frisbee with hippies, making hair-pin turns like horror movie heroines and slipping back on my feet, his breath on my neck it smells of baked infants and fried cheese [SCHLECHT!!] run! you'll surely suffer crushing if you sit still hop the chain-link to the abandoned wienerschnitzel What did I do to deserve this? What was my crime? Was it because I sampled Die Toten Hosen that one time? And I'm reviewing my life cowered under a grease trap the bootslap stepping ever closer with its click-clack now he's here... now he's crouching down... jaws creak open, ants start pouring out and just when my flesh is about to get devoured I wake up screaming, wrapped in the sour sweat-stained sheets, it takes a minute to get up stumble to the table, read the paper, clear my head up still hurts, whu'd I drink all that goldschlager for? business section: EM.TV bought Jim Henson Corp.
It's amazing that all of you people think Bush is somehow sitting around in the White House in a ten-gallon hat and Deputy Dawg underoos scheming to take out your favorite thing. It's just not likely, people. I doubt President Bush thinks about or cares about P2P programs these days. You know, what with tiny things like war and re-election campaigns and stuff, I'm sure he has time to make it harder for you to get Brittney Aguilerra mp3s. (Don't bother correcting me on the name I used. That's my generic term for shitpop.)
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I'm not in a predominantly Muslim area, Mr. Wo-one-verin-three. Also, 'Jihad' and 'Date' only go together in this way: "Abdul, what is the date for the start of Jihad?" Nice try.
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Obviously. Apart from my not having played the original game, I doubt such an expansion pack would do well in my neighborhood. YMMV. I imagine it'd sell really well in New Zeeland.
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How does the particular religion you create for yourself affect the population? Apart from setting their 'morals,' I mean. Do your citizens persecute heretics? Can you tell the difference between 'worshippers' of one player versus 'worshippers' of another? Or is the 'you're God' aspect merely a superficial explanation of your control over the 'citizens' and game environment like it was in Populous? Because although I haven't played the game myself, when I have seen it played and heard it explained, it seemed merely a vehicle to explain the gamer's level of control over the game world. It didn't have anything to do with real religion.
If America truly was a Nazi-run country, you wouldn't be able to anonymously post about it on a system based in the US. This trollish meme is nonsensical and stale. Nice try, though.
Like I said before, it is appearance that matters. Bobby Fischer appeared to represent the US because he was competing as a US citizen. I'm truly sorry if you don't see how that can be intentionally or unintentionally construed as representing the US. American citizenship conveys responsibilities as well as rights, and people who refuse to honor their obligations as a citizen but wish to benefit from that status make me sick.
Nope. Worldwide, it's alcohol. There are some countries where tobacco (it's not actually the nicotine, usually) kills more than alcohol, but overall, alcohol is the deadliest drug in the world, as well as the most popular. Alcohol is more addictive than heroin and does more damage to your body if you abuse it. I've always found it strange that such a horrible poison could be promoted so much while less harmful recreational substances are vilified and lied about and criminalized. It just doesn't make much sense to me.
That's fine, but you were arguing as though his freedom of speech were restricted, which it most certainly was not, and which you would know if you actually do understand the distinction. You don't have to agree with how sanctions work but it is insipid to say that not being able to represent America in a formal tournament in a sanctioned country is somehow violating your 'rights.' He could have played chess on the street or in someone's house or in a bar all day long. Bobby Fischer was trying to make the US look bad, not 'play a little chess.'
I'm fucking sick and tired of people acting like he's in trouble 'for playing chess.' You fucking idiots. It wouldn't have mattered if it was water polo or ping pong or fucking croquet. He played as a representative of America in a sanctioned country. What the fuck is the point of sanctions if a country can gain an appearance of legitimacy even with them in place? If you have a problem with the way santions work, that is one thing. To say that Bobby Fischer is 'in trouble just for playing a little chess' is ridiculous and stupid.
You are retarded. No one told Bobby Fischer he 'couldn't play chess.' He couldn't play chess as a representative of America in certain tournaments in a santioned country. If you do not grasp the essential difference there you are a fuckwit and should be shot to help slow the spread of insipid knee-jerk reactionary idiots. Dipshit. Consider that a flame.
Everything must be so simple for you in your black-and-white, clear-cut world. The government did not wish to be represented in those tournaments. he played them anyhow, as an American, even though America did not wish to be represented. He could have given up his citizenship at any time. In fact, with the comments he has made and is making, I don't understand why he didn't just renounce his citizenship many years ago. Then he wouldn't be in trouble today. I agree that after all this time, it doesn't matter much, but I also understand why he is in trouble. It's not like he didn't know exactly what he was doing and what message he was sending. I'm sorry if you don't agree, bnut he could have easily changed his situation to make his nationality a nonissue and he chose not to.
I *do* respect the first amendment. You don't seem to understand. He wanted to play as an American in a country where America did not wish to be represented. He could have given up his american citizenship and represented another country if he just wanted to play. the fact is, he *wanted* to make a statement. He did it intentionally and that is why he is in trouble. He always had the right to say whatever he wanted. He just didn't have the right to compete as an American in sanctioned tournaments in Yugoslavia, but he did it anyhow. I'm really really sorry if you cannot understand the distinction.
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Of course you don't think you look stupid, just as you thought you knew the proper word to use. The reason I'm all over your ass, as you put it, is not because of your initial mistake, however. It is because of your insistence on replying to my posts, even though you claim not to care. Apparently you do, and since I enjoy getting under the skin of anyone who not only takes things said on the internet so seriously, but who also cannot distinguish criticism from attack, I'm enjoying myself. You could, you know, just have started using 'affect' and 'effect' properly and gone about your day and let it go. However, you were apparently incapable of that. As to whether or not I look like a jackass for correcting your poor word choice, I don't care. I don't know any of you. There are people on here that I pay more attention to, because they have earned it through insightful posts. You have not. You're the one who took it personally, even though I made it perfectly clear in my original post that you were not the only one making that mistake. You decided to imagine that I was somehow out to get you. Just think of it this way: sometimes, you have a stroke of good luck. Sometimes, you have a stroke of bad luck. When I arbitrarily decided to reply to you instead of one of the other idiots, I had a stroke of good luck. You had a stroke of bad luck. That's the way the world works. At this point, I don't give a shit if you take offense or don't, but it was you who made it personal. It isn't your fault that I try to help morons learn to type, and it isn't my fault that you use words even when you don't know what they mean.
Why do you keep replying? It's none of my business? You posted it on a fucking public forum, jackass. You made it the business of anyone who wanted to reply to you. Stop making stupid mistakes that make you look like an ignorant idiot, and people will stop correcting you. (at least I will) Alternatively, you can go on looking like a fool who doesn't know the difference between 'affect' and 'effect.' Why do I care? I don't. Not about you personally; you just happened to be the fourth of fifth person I saw misusing the word effect within this thread. The decision to correct you and not each and every person who misused any word was made completely arbitrarily. However, if you keep replying to me, I'll keep replying to you. That's the way things work when you aren't in charge of who gets to talk about what.
I guess you didn't bother to check my other posts. I guess you assumed that you were so important that you must have been the victim of a vast conspiracy against you. I guess you aren't even close to the only person I've corrected, and I guess that since I didn't personally attack you, simply corrected your grammar, you might have resolved to refrain from committing that particular error in the future, but you did not. Look, when you're posting on the internet, people are going to judge you based on your usage of the language you're posting in. If you cannot even manage to post something which is grammatically correct and which has few misspellings, why should anyone take what you are posting seriously?
I realize that attempting to stem the flood of bad grammar, even here on a site for 'nerds,' is quixotic at best. However, I shall tilt at this particular windmill until I die.
Yes, yes, I'm well aware of that. I used "gay anal sex" for dramatic effect
That's what I always use it for, as well.
Sorry.
'There has to be a way for them to make money off of it.'
Why do so many people add redundant and unneccessary and repetitive words where they are not only unneeded, they are also unneccessary and not called for? Saying 'have got/has got' makes you sound ignorant. I'm sorry if you don't like that, it's true. You wouldn't know that you sound ignorant, however, if you *are*. It may sound weird to say 'I've to go to the store.' In that case, you might try the novel idea of not using a contraction. Then you would say, "I have to go to the store.' Of course, AOL has been perpetuating this disaster for years. What the fuck would have been so bad about making that voice actor say 'You have mail,' anyway? Arghhhhhhh. This is worse than affect/effect. Sigh.
so you want the virus makers to flash a pop-up before they infect your system? Informed before you're harmed? When the company itself apparently doesn't know? That'd be a nice trick, if you could manage it.
breech
n.
1. The lower rear portion of the human trunk; the buttocks.
2.1. A breech presentation or delivery.
2. A fetus in breech presentation.
3. breeches
1. Knee breeches.
2. Informal. Trousers.
4. The part of a firearm behind the barrel.
5. The lower part of a pulley block.
breach
n.
1. 1. An opening, a tear, or a rupture.
2. A gap or rift, especially in or as if in a solid structure such as a dike or fortification.
2. A violation or infraction, as of a law, a legal obligation, or a promise.
3. A breaking up or disruption of friendly relations; an estrangement.
4. A leap of a whale from the water.
5. The breaking of waves or surf.
Beware of homonyms. I would really hate to see security breeches, no matter which definition of 'breech' you use.
You mean 'affected.' To 'effect' a change is to make a change happen. When you change something, that thing is 'affected.' In other words, when you effect changes, you affect the things you're changing. Of course, perhaps you were even farther off and meant 'infected,' I don't know. I've just seen approximately 5 misuses of affect/effect in this thread alone and you're the one I responded to.
man. I wish, in my mind, a comparison was valid between a virus on websites and a time-travelling moron taken advantage of by the kind of person who not only can bring people forward in time, but who also thinks it's funny to dress them in klan gear and who happens to have said klan gear handy, as well as a handy 'Hitler is God' sign. Holy crap. It's almost like there was a spacefaring talking dog on crutches playing pachinko with m&ms. Know what I mean?
Really? So just because I know where you/he/she got the reference from automatically makes it funny? Taking the name of an expansion and adding 'jihad' in the middle does not a joke create. You may think it is funny. You may also think people badly injuring themselves is funny. However, just because I didn't explain the joke when dismissing it, do not assume that I did not 'get it.' I did. It just sucked.
Ehehehe. I bequeath the term 'shitpop' to the internet. Enjoy!
Maybe it's just where I live, but I would say that hip-hop is more popular among local IT people than any other type of music. It is kinda funny to watch a bunch of scrawny white guys noddin' to 50 while ghosting machines or coding or whatever.
I like a lot of hip-hop and rap, but I also like classic metal and grunge and emo and goth music and really just about everything but tejano techno and post-1980 country (no, I didn't miss a comma between tejano and techo. I like traditional Tejano music and I can put up with most techno. I cannot stand tejano techno for even a minute.)
Rapers we Crush
wake up frontin' like i ain't hung over
read the paper, discover that the Germans have annexed grover,
cookie, kermie, piggie and all the rest
there ain't a single domestically controlled muppet left
is it a plot? some kind of conspiracy? my coffee is cold
there is a bitter taste to my cinnamon roll
i venture forth into the bright american day
my neighbor Mister Hess says "wie gehts?" and waves, I hurry away
get in my chrysler (whew). oh the dismay!
someone's replaced all of my Backstreet Boys with Kraftwerk tapes
all right, I'm freaked out, i hope it's a joke
i hear the ominous industrial churn of a two-stroke
engine -- the benz on my left? the bug on my right?
mein gott! a fleet of six trabants encroaching behind!
At the wheel of the lead Trabi, a visage of fear!
red'n'yellow eyes, black gloves gripping the steer!
And it dawns upon me, what chance have I got?
it's KOMPRESSOR, and he's chosen for crushing, mc frontalot
RAPPERS WE CRUSH, FINGERS TO DUST
KOMPRESSOR DIGEST VOCALS AND SPIT OUT MUSH
YOU TRY FRONT WITH RHYMES
STOLEN FROM THE JACKSON FIVE
ERASE YOUR TAPES AT NIGHT
YOU COWER FROM KOMPRESSOR MIGHT
But I don't wanna be crushed! Burried in fear! Left for töt!
Synthesizer might, tearing the rhymes right outta my throat!
Leave my car at the light and run, I make for the park
pursued by steel-toed jack-boots throwing sparks
as they march. And I can hear the gnashing of the yellow teeth
[DU KANNST NICHT HIDE, RAPPER GEEK]
I'm dodging german shepherds playing frisbee with hippies,
making hair-pin turns like horror movie heroines and slipping
back on my feet, his breath on my neck
it smells of baked infants and fried cheese [SCHLECHT!!]
run! you'll surely suffer crushing if you sit still
hop the chain-link to the abandoned wienerschnitzel
What did I do to deserve this? What was my crime?
Was it because I sampled Die Toten Hosen that one time?
And I'm reviewing my life cowered under a grease trap
the bootslap stepping ever closer with its click-clack
now he's here... now he's crouching down...
jaws creak open, ants start pouring out
and just when my flesh is about to get devoured
I wake up screaming, wrapped in the sour
sweat-stained sheets, it takes a minute to get up
stumble to the table, read the paper, clear my head up
still hurts, whu'd I drink all that goldschlager for?
business section: EM.TV bought Jim Henson Corp.
www.frontalot.com/music.html
It's amazing that all of you people think Bush is somehow sitting around in the White House in a ten-gallon hat and Deputy Dawg underoos scheming to take out your favorite thing. It's just not likely, people. I doubt President Bush thinks about or cares about P2P programs these days. You know, what with tiny things like war and re-election campaigns and stuff, I'm sure he has time to make it harder for you to get Brittney Aguilerra mp3s. (Don't bother correcting me on the name I used. That's my generic term for shitpop.)
I'm not in a predominantly Muslim area, Mr. Wo-one-verin-three. Also, 'Jihad' and 'Date' only go together in this way: "Abdul, what is the date for the start of Jihad?"
Nice try.
Obviously. Apart from my not having played the original game, I doubt such an expansion pack would do well in my neighborhood. YMMV. I imagine it'd sell really well in New Zeeland.
How does the particular religion you create for yourself affect the population? Apart from setting their 'morals,' I mean. Do your citizens persecute heretics? Can you tell the difference between 'worshippers' of one player versus 'worshippers' of another? Or is the 'you're God' aspect merely a superficial explanation of your control over the 'citizens' and game environment like it was in Populous? Because although I haven't played the game myself, when I have seen it played and heard it explained, it seemed merely a vehicle to explain the gamer's level of control over the game world. It didn't have anything to do with real religion.
If America truly was a Nazi-run country, you wouldn't be able to anonymously post about it on a system based in the US. This trollish meme is nonsensical and stale. Nice try, though.
Like I said before, it is appearance that matters. Bobby Fischer appeared to represent the US because he was competing as a US citizen. I'm truly sorry if you don't see how that can be intentionally or unintentionally construed as representing the US. American citizenship conveys responsibilities as well as rights, and people who refuse to honor their obligations as a citizen but wish to benefit from that status make me sick.
Nope. Worldwide, it's alcohol. There are some countries where tobacco (it's not actually the nicotine, usually) kills more than alcohol, but overall, alcohol is the deadliest drug in the world, as well as the most popular. Alcohol is more addictive than heroin and does more damage to your body if you abuse it. I've always found it strange that such a horrible poison could be promoted so much while less harmful recreational substances are vilified and lied about and criminalized. It just doesn't make much sense to me.
That's fine, but you were arguing as though his freedom of speech were restricted, which it most certainly was not, and which you would know if you actually do understand the distinction. You don't have to agree with how sanctions work but it is insipid to say that not being able to represent America in a formal tournament in a sanctioned country is somehow violating your 'rights.' He could have played chess on the street or in someone's house or in a bar all day long. Bobby Fischer was trying to make the US look bad, not 'play a little chess.'
I'm fucking sick and tired of people acting like he's in trouble 'for playing chess.' You fucking idiots. It wouldn't have mattered if it was water polo or ping pong or fucking croquet. He played as a representative of America in a sanctioned country. What the fuck is the point of sanctions if a country can gain an appearance of legitimacy even with them in place? If you have a problem with the way santions work, that is one thing. To say that Bobby Fischer is 'in trouble just for playing a little chess' is ridiculous and stupid.
You are retarded. No one told Bobby Fischer he 'couldn't play chess.' He couldn't play chess as a representative of America in certain tournaments in a santioned country. If you do not grasp the essential difference there you are a fuckwit and should be shot to help slow the spread of insipid knee-jerk reactionary idiots. Dipshit.
Consider that a flame.
Everything must be so simple for you in your black-and-white, clear-cut world. The government did not wish to be represented in those tournaments. he played them anyhow, as an American, even though America did not wish to be represented. He could have given up his citizenship at any time. In fact, with the comments he has made and is making, I don't understand why he didn't just renounce his citizenship many years ago. Then he wouldn't be in trouble today. I agree that after all this time, it doesn't matter much, but I also understand why he is in trouble. It's not like he didn't know exactly what he was doing and what message he was sending. I'm sorry if you don't agree, bnut he could have easily changed his situation to make his nationality a nonissue and he chose not to.
I *do* respect the first amendment. You don't seem to understand. He wanted to play as an American in a country where America did not wish to be represented. He could have given up his american citizenship and represented another country if he just wanted to play. the fact is, he *wanted* to make a statement. He did it intentionally and that is why he is in trouble. He always had the right to say whatever he wanted. He just didn't have the right to compete as an American in sanctioned tournaments in Yugoslavia, but he did it anyhow. I'm really really sorry if you cannot understand the distinction.