I stared at that for about 10 seconds before I realized it was not a typo, and meant "had a positive impact".
Which makes me wonder what things you interacted with as a child, so I can make a mental downmod against them regarding allowing any future kids I have to get near them. Sheesh.
Good thing you saved five characters' worth of typing on your 1530-character post, I guess...
What you are suggesting is called "Convict Lease", and is a legally fig-leafed form of slavery, and, it should go without saying, an egregious violation of human rights besides. Not only is it wrong on the face of it, it encourages the state to arrest and convict more people, to inflate the legal-slave supply.
To quote a current internet meme: Perhaps you've not thought your cunning plan all the way through.
I'm too busy slamming my fist against the screen, trying to get the dammed thing to work.
As a technical-type guy, I should add that machines of any kind (indeed, any things of any kind) rarely can be made to operate any better by slamming one's fist against any part thereof.
The pronounciation-rule don't help me much. To a Norwegian, it sounds as if Americans pretty much say caw-pee-rait, the 'h' is silent, or close enough to silent to make little difference, thus the problems hearing where it's supposed to be.
Well, the point would be that there's no "th" sound there, therefore if you're deciding between "th" and "ht", pick "ht".
Just remember that language is firstly spoken; writing is a hack. Proceed accordingly.
TH is when you put the tip of your tongue between your slightly-separated teeth -- this, therapy, path, truth. Pretty simple. (Which would give your copyrigth a rather weird pronunciation ("caw-pee-rig-th").
HT is the harder one:
Usually part of a ___ght (light, bright, right, knight, etc.), which usually can be replaced with "te" and look like how it should be pronounced (lite, brite, rite, knite, etc.), though there are, of course, exceptions (draught = "draaft", brought = "brot", probably lots more)
There are some that are the result of some other thing butting up against a t (watchtower = "watch" + "tower", diphthong = "diph" + "thong")
Some come from an unusual (for English) language (borscht = from Yiddish)
Some are just oddballs (yacht = "yott")
So anyway, a good rule is:
If you're doing that tip-of-tongue-between-slightly-separated-teeth thing (which seems to be fairly peculiar to the English language...?), then it's TH. Otherwise, do a HT.
Hope this helps.
(If someone is about to mod this down as Offtopic, please don't, and consider that (1) I'm helping out my fellow man, and (2) this thread is really old now, so who cares anyway.)
So it's hyperbole, but it's not about calling things terrorism.
It would actually have been much more accurate to directly and explicity have called the RIAA's actions terrorism. What is terrorism? A tactic whereby you attempt to cause enough fear (terror) in your opponent that he does what you want.
The RIAA's sue-en-masse tactics are obviously intended to frighten -- terrorize -- P2Pers into falling into line; therefore I don't believe you could call it anything but terrorism.
Seems pretty clear to me. Did my reasoning go wrong somewhere?
he characterized that type of teleportation (both recieve-to-device-from-anywhere and send-from-device-to-anywhere) as "you don't get a society, you get a short war".
Quite so. Which is why I hope they invent this, but only in the form of send-from-device-to-device-only -- teleporter booths on every corner.
Unless, of course, I'm the only one with the -to-anywhere and/or -from-anywhere model. Heh heh hehhh.
There was some comedian on the old Dr. Katz cartoon who had a bit something along the lines of: we're all such whiny babies, complaining about not getting our packet of peanuts or whatever on a flight. When did we get so jaded? It's A MIRACLE. You're FLYING! They shouldn't even have to advertise anything except "We can FLY!!".
...or you'll be sued twelve ways from Sunday the first time something you're "supposed to" be filtering for gets through to someone who feels they have a right not to be offended.
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What is a "wittle"?
(And while you're at it, what is a "yewt"?)
Which makes me wonder what things you interacted with as a child, so I can make a mental downmod against them regarding allowing any future kids I have to get near them. Sheesh.
Good thing you saved five characters' worth of typing on your 1530-character post, I guess...
[PROSECUTOR]: Your honor, the United States would like to introduce this document as Exhibit D. It shows that the defendant is indisputably guilty.
[JUDGE]: Where did this come from?
[PROSECUTOR]: Sorry, can't disclose. National secrets. Remember, Unites States v. John Doe?
[JUDGE]: [RESIGNED SIGH] Fine...
And we're yet another step closer to being completely, irrevocably, screwed.
What you are suggesting is called "Convict Lease", and is a legally fig-leafed form of slavery, and, it should go without saying, an egregious violation of human rights besides. Not only is it wrong on the face of it, it encourages the state to arrest and convict more people, to inflate the legal-slave supply.
To quote a current internet meme: Perhaps you've not thought your cunning plan all the way through.
You know, just for future reference.
Just remember that language is firstly spoken; writing is a hack. Proceed accordingly.
It helps if your state is long.
8 316,-124.208239&daddr=32.728727,-114.618022&ie=UTF 8&om=1
Pissing contest here: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=41.99
I'm sure Alaska would have us both beat, but there are too few roads to actually do it.
The spellings are quite the opposite of random:
- TH is when you put the tip of your tongue between your slightly-separated teeth -- this, therapy, path, truth. Pretty simple. (Which would give your copyrigth a rather weird pronunciation ("caw-pee-rig-th").
- HT is the harder one:
- Usually part of a ___ght (light, bright, right, knight, etc.), which usually can be replaced with "te" and look like how it should be pronounced (lite, brite, rite, knite, etc.), though there are, of course, exceptions (draught = "draaft", brought = "brot", probably lots more)
- There are some that are the result of some other thing butting up against a t (watchtower = "watch" + "tower", diphthong = "diph" + "thong")
- Some come from an unusual (for English) language (borscht = from Yiddish)
- Some are just oddballs (yacht = "yott")
So anyway, a good rule is:If you're doing that tip-of-tongue-between-slightly-separated-teeth thing (which seems to be fairly peculiar to the English language...?), then it's TH. Otherwise, do a HT.
Hope this helps.
(If someone is about to mod this down as Offtopic, please don't, and consider that (1) I'm helping out my fellow man, and (2) this thread is really old now, so who cares anyway.)
Right you are. And another, I would think, more glaring error: the paragraph about the TRS-80 has a picture of an Atari 800 XL.
Not to mention the fact that he pretty much glossed over the Atari 8-bits entirely. Bastard. (See my username...)
The RIAA's sue-en-masse tactics are obviously intended to frighten -- terrorize -- P2Pers into falling into line; therefore I don't believe you could call it anything but terrorism.
Seems pretty clear to me. Did my reasoning go wrong somewhere?
...my curiosity is overwhelming me.
How is it you managed to consistently (nine times!) spell "copyright" as "copyrigth"? Are you making some subtle point that I'm missing?
Not trying to be a spelling-Nazi, I'm genuinely perplexed.
Unless, of course, I'm the only one with the -to-anywhere and/or -from-anywhere model. Heh heh hehhh.
That's a triple-play if I ever saw one. Mash it up!
...that there's nothing else important going on the country or the world, so Congress can address the dire scourge of online gambling.
There was some comedian on the old Dr. Katz cartoon who had a bit something along the lines of: we're all such whiny babies, complaining about not getting our packet of peanuts or whatever on a flight. When did we get so jaded? It's A MIRACLE. You're FLYING! They shouldn't even have to advertise anything except "We can FLY!!".
[Weeps pitifully]
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/whatsnew/bc0b041c051
...or you'll be sued twelve ways from Sunday the first time something you're "supposed to" be filtering for gets through to someone who feels they have a right not to be offended.
"Common carrier"? What does that mean...?
But I am not going to stand by while someone tears down classics like Ren & Stimpy in order to ego-masturbate.
Or maybe just a typical Usenet-style "I'm-better-than-those-who-like-what-I-denigrate" mewler?
They'll help the cause because of something the Right Wing in the U.S. has understood for some time:
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The Overton Window.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/9/11515/7257
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
In short: if you make people talk/think about a more extreme position than your own, your own becomes more acceptable.
Go Pirate Party!