I'm curious - when you went through high school was reading Shakespeare part of the course?
I've got a wild theory that reading something that not completely modern English with modern spelling and grammar raises reading comprehension abilities enough to reduce annoyance when reading other things with less than perfect spelling and grammar. Maybe that explains why younger generations with a different education seem to be less tolerant and gasp in horror at things like the quickly written and error laden spur of the moment posts by "Raster" of enlightenment window manager fame for example instead of considering the content at all.
Since it is close to being universal as seen by text messages I would say that instead of pretending it's a disorder it makes far more sense that it is just an indication of less than extreme care.
Spelling mistakes in a report intended for an audience and proofread by a second party is one thing, spelling mistakes in a text message or slashdot post are another and require far less of a care factor.
What are the people who notice crappy science and object to that?
Normally other scientists and normally a lot of them for anything crappy. See what happened with Wakefield and why he's now nothing but a public speaker for weirdos for a good example.
A live TV cricket commentator in Australia made the comment "he completely buggered the other team". A story about the slip had the headline "not a maiden all day" (in cricket a maiden over is one where no runs are scored). There's been a lot worse but that one was funnier than most.
It is the language purist's eternal struggle that they have been born into using a living language, one that changes and adapts on a daily basis with no regard for formal rules created by the language purists that came before them.
Take "operating system" as an example. Common usage had diverged so far from the textbook definition of the 1990s of being just the kernel to it being effectively the same as what Microsoft argued about in court as their web browser being a major part of the operating system. They were wrong back then but would be considered correct by most today. The beige box has become the "hard drive".
For some reason I became convinced in high school way back when that inclusion of Shakespeare in English classes was of value if only for it really socking it to the spelling Nazis that their obsession really did not matter as much as they thought. Maybe I only came to that opinion because my spelling was crap. Have US schools dropped that from the courses now and is that why we've had so many spelling bee freaks on this site over the last few years? The highlight was when I used the word "aluminium" and some American spelling bee freak wrote "can't you speak English". I think I laughed for about ten minutes.
Yes that really is a good example of taking a good idea of turning waste into fuel and turning it into utter insanity of burning food for the sake of wealth of a lobby group and some votes. See the tariff on sugar for another example where expensive corn syrup replaces expensive protected local sugar that can't compete with either the corn or the cheap sugar from the rest of the world.
It sounds like extrapolating a curve instead of considering what the graph represents in the first place. Bitcoin would need to be incredibly popular for that to happen. Of course the price that bitcoins attract from enthusiasts varies based on hype such as articles like these so it is in the best interests of those in the scam^H^H^H scheme to keep up the puff pieces and media attention.
It being "mined" by malware these days so the cost gets shifted. It was obvious from near the start that such a thing was going to happen and a few people even posted here about that a few years ago. I could say "I told you so" but somebody else with far more understanding of bitcoin than I told me first.
didn't want people like you to get all worked up and trembling
So you think the person advocating open carry is scared of open carry?
How about you stop going all ad hominem on your strawman that you've stuck my name on and instead of acting like a weakling try playing the ball and not the man.
A few people trying to manipulate opinion for the sake of fantasy is not "the real world".
As for your anecdote about criminals breaking that law - is that supposed to be some sort of distraction? It has nothing at all to do with concealed or open carry. It looks like the sort of anecdote someone would use to attempt to influence the complete banning of handguns.
Remove Flash and that gets rid of all of the annoying ads from most things. There's a script called "youtube-dl" to both get to youtube without flash and to get the content you actually want without the annoying ad.
The second involves more thought and implies a more careful personality - so someone less likely to turn to crime as an opportunity comes up and more likely to be able to manage their life without turning to crime. The game of making people see imaginary guns everywhere depends on intelligent, careful and capable criminals so it's a bit of a ridiculous argument to use about mugging.
The ones that don't wear uniforms also conceal their weapons. Why is that?
Because they are doing a job and not playing some stupid little game of pretending to be James Bond and pretending that their game in some magical way makes others safe. They are making other people safe without participating in some weird guessing game.
The whole argument is nonsensical. Surely if an unseen gun that is supposed to make people imagine that there are guns around is going to make people aware then a real, visible gun that is unquestionably there is going to have many times the influence. However such a thing does not push the desired agenda so the weasel words are let out from the cage with talk about tricking people into seeing imaginary guns everywhere.
Given that some of them went to the guys that fund ISIL/Daash maybe they are. Corruption does suck in general, there has been a lot coming out recently about child molesters being protected at a very high level due to systemic corruption in governments, media, all over the place - also very much fitting the description of evil.
Nah, not nihilism. I'm not really sure what you call how I feel these days, but I've been fighting and screaming about corruption and collusion for so long and have really seen how deep and wide it goes
Wins happen. The Jimmy Saville stuff eventually came out after decades of it being hidden.
You've been given plenty of opportunity to divine the very simple reason why concealed carry works to prevent street crime
I see nothing but a very poor excuse that appears to be designed to insult the intelligence of anyone it is given to. By not seeing the gun the "bad guys" will know they have to worry about guns? Really? That's your simple reason? The hypothetical, inconsistent and unlikely "russian roulette" shit added on top just adds in an extra layer of insult. From your own words the "crackhead is generally too smart to try and take on a cop", so surely open carry is going to discourage them as well?
were not state sponsored. I think the Lockerbie bomb is one example
That was a "revenge" attack paid for by Iran with the contract carried out by a person from Libya (with what appeared to be full approval of the Libyan leader) so most definitely state sponsored.
Yes, but I wrote "back when Lennart was running them" for a good reason. PulseAudio is still very annoying at times but earlier it was incredibly buggy yet considered fit for release due to office politics at RedHat. I actually managed to solve a problem with a machine having poor network performance by doing nothing other than blocking the port PulseAudio was using - it went far beyond sound not working.
I think Lennart P. would be utterly delighted with that and would get RedHat to put a fork of linux that he can claim as his own under his control. See PulseAudio and NetworkManager back when Lennart was running them before he started systemd for an example of how messed up that would be.
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I'm curious - when you went through high school was reading Shakespeare part of the course?
I've got a wild theory that reading something that not completely modern English with modern spelling and grammar raises reading comprehension abilities enough to reduce annoyance when reading other things with less than perfect spelling and grammar.
Maybe that explains why younger generations with a different education seem to be less tolerant and gasp in horror at things like the quickly written and error laden spur of the moment posts by "Raster" of enlightenment window manager fame for example instead of considering the content at all.
Since it is close to being universal as seen by text messages I would say that instead of pretending it's a disorder it makes far more sense that it is just an indication of less than extreme care.
Spelling mistakes in a report intended for an audience and proofread by a second party is one thing, spelling mistakes in a text message or slashdot post are another and require far less of a care factor.
Normally other scientists and normally a lot of them for anything crappy. See what happened with Wakefield and why he's now nothing but a public speaker for weirdos for a good example.
A live TV cricket commentator in Australia made the comment "he completely buggered the other team". A story about the slip had the headline "not a maiden all day" (in cricket a maiden over is one where no runs are scored).
There's been a lot worse but that one was funnier than most.
Take "operating system" as an example. Common usage had diverged so far from the textbook definition of the 1990s of being just the kernel to it being effectively the same as what Microsoft argued about in court as their web browser being a major part of the operating system. They were wrong back then but would be considered correct by most today. The beige box has become the "hard drive".
It's doubleplusgood marketingnewspeak :(
For some reason I became convinced in high school way back when that inclusion of Shakespeare in English classes was of value if only for it really socking it to the spelling Nazis that their obsession really did not matter as much as they thought. Maybe I only came to that opinion because my spelling was crap.
Have US schools dropped that from the courses now and is that why we've had so many spelling bee freaks on this site over the last few years? The highlight was when I used the word "aluminium" and some American spelling bee freak wrote "can't you speak English". I think I laughed for about ten minutes.
Yes that really is a good example of taking a good idea of turning waste into fuel and turning it into utter insanity of burning food for the sake of wealth of a lobby group and some votes. See the tariff on sugar for another example where expensive corn syrup replaces expensive protected local sugar that can't compete with either the corn or the cheap sugar from the rest of the world.
It sounds like extrapolating a curve instead of considering what the graph represents in the first place. Bitcoin would need to be incredibly popular for that to happen. Of course the price that bitcoins attract from enthusiasts varies based on hype such as articles like these so it is in the best interests of those in the scam^H^H^H scheme to keep up the puff pieces and media attention.
It being "mined" by malware these days so the cost gets shifted. It was obvious from near the start that such a thing was going to happen and a few people even posted here about that a few years ago. I could say "I told you so" but somebody else with far more understanding of bitcoin than I told me first.
So you think the person advocating open carry is scared of open carry?
How about you stop going all ad hominem on your strawman that you've stuck my name on and instead of acting like a weakling try playing the ball and not the man.
A few people trying to manipulate opinion for the sake of fantasy is not "the real world".
As for your anecdote about criminals breaking that law - is that supposed to be some sort of distraction? It has nothing at all to do with concealed or open carry. It looks like the sort of anecdote someone would use to attempt to influence the complete banning of handguns.
If the intent is to discourage crime as claimed then that impact has happened after the discouragement has failed.
Remove Flash and that gets rid of all of the annoying ads from most things. There's a script called "youtube-dl" to both get to youtube without flash and to get the content you actually want without the annoying ad.
The second involves more thought and implies a more careful personality - so someone less likely to turn to crime as an opportunity comes up and more likely to be able to manage their life without turning to crime.
The game of making people see imaginary guns everywhere depends on intelligent, careful and capable criminals so it's a bit of a ridiculous argument to use about mugging.
Because they are doing a job and not playing some stupid little game of pretending to be James Bond and pretending that their game in some magical way makes others safe. They are making other people safe without participating in some weird guessing game.
The whole argument is nonsensical. Surely if an unseen gun that is supposed to make people imagine that there are guns around is going to make people aware then a real, visible gun that is unquestionably there is going to have many times the influence.
However such a thing does not push the desired agenda so the weasel words are let out from the cage with talk about tricking people into seeing imaginary guns everywhere.
Yes, but the wrong people ended up running the place some time soon after.
See Cuba and Tsarist Russia for other examples.
Given that some of them went to the guys that fund ISIL/Daash maybe they are.
Corruption does suck in general, there has been a lot coming out recently about child molesters being protected at a very high level due to systemic corruption in governments, media, all over the place - also very much fitting the description of evil.
Wins happen. The Jimmy Saville stuff eventually came out after decades of it being hidden.
I see nothing but a very poor excuse that appears to be designed to insult the intelligence of anyone it is given to.
By not seeing the gun the "bad guys" will know they have to worry about guns? Really? That's your simple reason?
The hypothetical, inconsistent and unlikely "russian roulette" shit added on top just adds in an extra layer of insult. From your own words the "crackhead is generally too smart to try and take on a cop", so surely open carry is going to discourage them as well?
That was a "revenge" attack paid for by Iran with the contract carried out by a person from Libya (with what appeared to be full approval of the Libyan leader) so most definitely state sponsored.
Yes, but I wrote "back when Lennart was running them" for a good reason. PulseAudio is still very annoying at times but earlier it was incredibly buggy yet considered fit for release due to office politics at RedHat. I actually managed to solve a problem with a machine having poor network performance by doing nothing other than blocking the port PulseAudio was using - it went far beyond sound not working.
I think Lennart P. would be utterly delighted with that and would get RedHat to put a fork of linux that he can claim as his own under his control. See PulseAudio and NetworkManager back when Lennart was running them before he started systemd for an example of how messed up that would be.
So politics and Hollywood do not exist?
That has zero to do with open or concealed carry.