This design appears to be identical to one I learned to make from a Klutz Press book. It is called the Nakamura Lock, after its designer, and it is definitely the best paper airplane I have flown indoors. It seems kind of tacky to rename it - the designer should get some credit for his work.
And yet, there are many, many people who have used amphetamines every day for years without running into these problems that you claim to be inevitable. Front line troops and military pilots, for example, are routinely expected to self-medicate to optimize their performance. ADHD patients get Adderall from their doctors (when supplies permit). And I have personally known many ordinary people who have used speed recreationally while maintaining their jobs, health, and relationships. Demonizing it is just not helpful.
I'm genuinely surprised, and faintly horrified, to find someone using Best Buy as an example of good retail practice. In the past few years they have been caught misrepresenting products, selling used products as new, setting up a fake website with inflated prices, and otherwise behaving like dishonest scum.
What's interesting to me is that, up until these two PR blunders, Netflix was highly respected - certainly here on Slashdot - both for its efficient operation and for an unusually enlightened attitude towards customer service and satisfaction. How did the same people go so wrong so fast?
U.S. postal regulations explicitly state that if you receive unsolicited goods in the mail, they are yours to do with as you wish - you have no obligation to the sender. The liability is always with the sender. This is to discourage certain obvious scams.
If something is delivered to you which is clearly intended for someone else (i.e., right address, wrong name), things might get more complicated. I don't know the legalities in that case.
My sister was affected by this a few weeks ago, and I wondered that there was nothing on the news about it at the time.
She got a call saying that her account might have been compromised, and that a new card was on the way. Early on the day after she received the replacement card, and before she had even activated it, there was another call telling her that the new account number had already been used to make several purchases.
Clearly this was a serious breach that continued over at least several days, and was not the fault of a merchant, as they tried to claim.
I immediately thought of auto-formatting in Word, which often leaves me swearing at my computer when it algorithmically decides to deviate from something I just explicitly told it to do. In a car, this could be really dangerous.
If I buy a brand new car, of a model whose current design is based on one initially released ten years ago, I absolutely still get a standard warranty with it. Indeed, this happens all the time, as refinements and superficial changes are added to an existing frame.
I object to your assumption that credentials are more important than competence. He does not misrepresent his background, and his clear, simple, and dispassionate explanation justifies itself. It's not as if the facts are really in question.
I don't understand the part about 'the plugs didn't fit.' These guys are nuclear engineers, with access to the emergency response capabilities of an entire technologically sophisticated nation. Surely someone could rewire the connectors?
Oops, I did intend to refer to Rule 11, not Rule 6. So Grammar Book, Purdue, Wikipedia, and the books Eats, Shoots & Leaves and The Well-Tempered Sentence (currently on my desk) all agree with using the apostrophe with lower-case letters to indicate plurals. For upper-case letters, and numerals, usage is currently mixed: formerly, the apostrophe was considered correct; now, it is usually omitted except when this would cause confusion. However, the New York Times, for one example, still uses the apostrophe when pluralizing upper-case letters.
Err - I was referring to the latter part of the comment, where spun suggests differences in what an audience wants based on the economic (and political) climate.
If I may step in here: a corporation is granted a charter by the state, allowing it certain extraordinary benefits in exchange for the presumed advantage to the state (and society at large) of such economic activities. Although this process has become routine, we shouldn't forget that this give and take underlies the essential concept of the corporation. A corporation which does not benefit the larger culture, or which actively plunders and undermines the economy (as has become increasingly the norm), deserves to have its charter revoked.
At some point, I would like to believe this might start happening. Wishful thinking, I know, but one can always dream.
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Unlike you, I do automatically respect people with nice hair.
The rudeness quite obviously lies in the 'F' of RTFA. We are so used to the acronym that perhaps we forget exactly what it stands for.
This design appears to be identical to one I learned to make from a Klutz Press book. It is called the Nakamura Lock, after its designer, and it is definitely the best paper airplane I have flown indoors. It seems kind of tacky to rename it - the designer should get some credit for his work.
Except there were a number of British accents in that movie, including Wesley's.
And yet, there are many, many people who have used amphetamines every day for years without running into these problems that you claim to be inevitable. Front line troops and military pilots, for example, are routinely expected to self-medicate to optimize their performance. ADHD patients get Adderall from their doctors (when supplies permit). And I have personally known many ordinary people who have used speed recreationally while maintaining their jobs, health, and relationships. Demonizing it is just not helpful.
I'm genuinely surprised, and faintly horrified, to find someone using Best Buy as an example of good retail practice. In the past few years they have been caught misrepresenting products, selling used products as new, setting up a fake website with inflated prices, and otherwise behaving like dishonest scum.
The phrase is 'blind-sided.'
'Help' is not even remotely the same as 'give money to.'
The NYT allows me 20 free articles a month, so your numbers are suspect.
However, that limit does not include articles linked from, for example, Google News or any Google search. Which makes it fairly easy to get around.
What's interesting to me is that, up until these two PR blunders, Netflix was highly respected - certainly here on Slashdot - both for its efficient operation and for an unusually enlightened attitude towards customer service and satisfaction. How did the same people go so wrong so fast?
Or as they say, no matter how cynical I become, I can never keep up.
U.S. postal regulations explicitly state that if you receive unsolicited goods in the mail, they are yours to do with as you wish - you have no obligation to the sender. The liability is always with the sender. This is to discourage certain obvious scams.
If something is delivered to you which is clearly intended for someone else (i.e., right address, wrong name), things might get more complicated. I don't know the legalities in that case.
Clearly, you are not someone who values 'superior writing skills.'
You're doing it wrong . . . .
My sister was affected by this a few weeks ago, and I wondered that there was nothing on the news about it at the time.
She got a call saying that her account might have been compromised, and that a new card was on the way. Early on the day after she received the replacement card, and before she had even activated it, there was another call telling her that the new account number had already been used to make several purchases.
Clearly this was a serious breach that continued over at least several days, and was not the fault of a merchant, as they tried to claim.
'Wan' is a word. It means 'pale.'
I immediately thought of auto-formatting in Word, which often leaves me swearing at my computer when it algorithmically decides to deviate from something I just explicitly told it to do. In a car, this could be really dangerous.
If I buy a brand new car, of a model whose current design is based on one initially released ten years ago, I absolutely still get a standard warranty with it. Indeed, this happens all the time, as refinements and superficial changes are added to an existing frame.
Populace. The word you want is populace.
I object to your assumption that credentials are more important than competence. He does not misrepresent his background, and his clear, simple, and dispassionate explanation justifies itself. It's not as if the facts are really in question.
I don't understand the part about 'the plugs didn't fit.' These guys are nuclear engineers, with access to the emergency response capabilities of an entire technologically sophisticated nation. Surely someone could rewire the connectors?
Oops, I did intend to refer to Rule 11, not Rule 6. So Grammar Book, Purdue, Wikipedia, and the books Eats, Shoots & Leaves and The Well-Tempered Sentence (currently on my desk) all agree with using the apostrophe with lower-case letters to indicate plurals. For upper-case letters, and numerals, usage is currently mixed: formerly, the apostrophe was considered correct; now, it is usually omitted except when this would cause confusion. However, the New York Times, for one example, still uses the apostrophe when pluralizing upper-case letters.
Rule 6 from your Grammar Book explicitly uses the apostrophe to show the plural of a lower case letter (i's). Your own references refute you.
Err - I was referring to the latter part of the comment, where spun suggests differences in what an audience wants based on the economic (and political) climate.
But well-played, Raven.
If I may step in here: a corporation is granted a charter by the state, allowing it certain extraordinary benefits in exchange for the presumed advantage to the state (and society at large) of such economic activities. Although this process has become routine, we shouldn't forget that this give and take underlies the essential concept of the corporation. A corporation which does not benefit the larger culture, or which actively plunders and undermines the economy (as has become increasingly the norm), deserves to have its charter revoked.
At some point, I would like to believe this might start happening. Wishful thinking, I know, but one can always dream.