Commas are the spice of writing. Some people just like spicier text! I tend to be heavy handed with applications of commas as well, it's nothing to be ashamed of...
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There are tits everywhere. There are yellow tits and blue tits, there are dusky tits and sombre tits, and the Philippines even have "elegant tits". There are also several species that seem somewhat meta, like the red-breasted and stripy-breasted tits.
It was a silly generalisation because it was in response to a silly statement by an AC. Your point, however, I completely agree with. Guido kids himself on there are no block delimiters in Python, when every single block is preceeded by a colon. Python has start delimiters for blocks, but no end delimiters, which I think is madness.
But the language is still well suited to my needs so I use it.
Ditto. Besides, like all scripting languages that have mushroomed over the last few years, Python has some ridiculous drawbacks. Who wants to use a programming language where deleting a space at the beginning of the line will prevent the code from running?
I hate semantic whitespace, but even then, your argument could be parameterised as "Who wants to use a programming language where deleting a {char_name} at {position} will prevent the code from running?" for many different char_names and positions, covering every single language.
But despite the nuisance of semantic whitespace, Python is still my main language at the moment because no-one has yet pointed me to a language that handles lists as cleanly, and all my programming tasks these days involve lists of data.
No, I don't. But if we treat trying to understand reasons as justifying, then all we'll have is a world full of people shooting each other in muddy moral trenches while believing that they're occupying the high ground.
- when in fact it was terrorism that started the wars. Please enlighten me as to when NATO countries "consistently bombed" the middle east prior to say, the Pan Am 101 bombing or the Air India bombing.
Pan Am 101 -- 17th August 1989; Pan Am 103 -- 21st December 1988; Iran airways flight 655 -- 3rd July 1988. I'm not saying that 655 wasn't an accident, but that they
perceived
it as an act of aggression. But well before that, we were involved in interventions in the Middle East. I mean, we backed Saddam Hussein, who'd been in power for almost a decade by then. We supported Saddam because Iran had overthrown the regime we'd installed that favoured western oil firms.
Blaming "colonialism", "imperialism", "greedy oil companies run by the western white man", "the jews", etc is merely justification for a business model. Said business model works by duping idiots like yourself into sending money to support very wealthy people who send out stupid people to get themselves killed by blowing something up.
What are you on about? I don't give anyone any money to fight. Why on Earth did you think I would???
True, but the caliphate's a very new thing. The terrorist violence against the west was fueled by a perception that we were aggressors, and it's not without reason.
Which is the Old Testament, hence it goes back to Judaism. The whole Abrahamic tradition is against idol worship (see the golden calf in Exodus), and yet even then, the Abrahamic tradition hasn't even been unusual in terms of iconoclasts -- see also the Russian revolution, the pre-Christian vikings and their sacking of monasteries etc.
With the rise of Islam in the 7th century, Christian sites in the Sinai Desert began to disappear,
The same thing is happening now in Europe
Except in this case it's because the Christians are becoming atheists, and there's simply no critical mass (no pun intended) to fill Christian places of worship. I doubt there's anyone under 40 going to the kirk in the village I grew up in.
It's the modern form of a palimpsest: a CVS repository showing all the different fad languages your PHB insisted the company codebase be rewritten in over the decades.
It's an interesting archeological research project that sadly even media like National Geographic or PBS seldom covers because they don't want to piss anyone off with reality.
Actually, I recently saw a fantastic PBS documentary on the birth of Judaism, which pointed out that Abraham picked up his monotheistic faith and the name of Yahweh from somewhere in Arabia, and how Yahweh worship was used as an agrarian revolution among the lower orders of the Caananites which overturned the nobility there. There was no "exodus" from Egypt, seemingly; rather, the Caananite rulers were vassal kings under the pharaoh, and the leaving of Egypt was really just getting the land out from the Egyptian empire.
Early Israelites still hung onto trappings of pantheism, though, and when early Judaism was used to justify the rule of kings (the birth of the House of David) -- as has happened with almost every religion at some point -- there was a much stricter enforcement of genuine monotheism.
The term "cult" in theological terms relates to a specific set of beliefs and/or practices. For example, the "Marian cult" is the worship of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the belief that she was conceived without sin. This is shared by the Catholic and Orthodox Christian churches, as well as some of the Middle Eastern and north-east African groups. Most Protestant groups (particularly Calvinist sections) refuse the Marian cult as a form of pseudo-pantheism.
The vernacular use of "cult", though, is ill-defined and meaningless.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure some Thalidomide-brained idiot is going to drag up the Crusades or something else that happened a thousand fucking years ago in order to justify Islamic barbarity TODAY.
Christ on a bike, that's the most insult-dense post I've read in a while. Islamophobia, ableism and insulting people who disagree with you all rolled into one.
Every broad group has contained some iconoclasts at some point, and you don't have to go as far back as the Crusades to see Christians destroying totems of other religions (we did it throughout the Imperial era). However, the acts of the extremists of I.S. do not represent the mainstream of Islam in any way.
They went to a fair/show organised by a vintage engineering preservation group. Must have been a hell of a day for the owners when they were asked to do something so special.
A roadroller that is not powered by steam is not a steamroller. Shit any idiot with two brain cells knows that. It's right in the freakin word!
...which is why they specifically went to a vintage steamroller show, who would have been extremely happy for the unusual publicity that it generated for the guys involved.
No, it's a subjunctive, meaning it's speculative or hypothetical, not factual.
You would say "If I were you", implying "but I'm not" by using "were" instead of "was". Likewise, saying "If Pratchett were a Texan", you signal that you know he was not. "If Pratchett was a Texan" implies that you don't know whether this is the case.
Both are correct forms.
The subjunctive is dying out in English. The circumstances of its use vary between dialects, and a heck of a lot of people do not use it at all. I do not use it at all. It is not an "error", and it's damn rude to a hell of a lot of people to say it is.
I agree. Because Apple has made some good decisions in the past, all of their decisions are good.
I don't think that was what the GP was claiming, just refuting the idea that Apple had a history of adding useless features. Apple have been ahead of the curve on certain features that are now mainstream, and have made a few missteps (Thunderbolt, for example).The Touchbar is pretty ridiculous and not part of any historical pattern. I'm tempted to say it's something that could only exist because Jobs died...
Call me a luddite, but why make this legal while there is still a ban on any vehicle having more than one trailer.
It's a problem of dynamics when trailers are connected together. Independently controlled and steered units can compensate quite easily for any movement in the front. However when they are all connected together a wobble in the front can magnify quite badly in the back trailer, combined with some winds and these things are a nightmare on the road. I used to have to overtake road trains regularly on the way to work in Australia. The trick was, if you can overtake the rear trailer you're usually okay, but don't even consider doing it if it's windy or the road isn't perfectly straight.
What I'm trying to say is to make multiple tow legal if the trailers are active vehicles with a "slave" steering mechanism controlled from the front.
Call me a luddite, but why make this legal while there is still a ban on any vehicle having more than one trailer. Surely a multitrailer lorry-train with physical wires and wireless backup would offer all the same advantages, but be much safer and easier to manage? Not to mention less hackable.
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Commas are the spice of writing. Some people just like spicier text! I tend to be heavy handed with applications of commas as well, it's nothing to be ashamed of...
Comma splice! Please see me during my office hours for a review of your writing portfolio.
There are tits everywhere. There are yellow tits and blue tits, there are dusky tits and sombre tits, and the Philippines even have "elegant tits". There are also several species that seem somewhat meta, like the red-breasted and stripy-breasted tits.
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It was a silly generalisation because it was in response to a silly statement by an AC. Your point, however, I completely agree with. Guido kids himself on there are no block delimiters in Python, when every single block is preceeded by a colon. Python has start delimiters for blocks, but no end delimiters, which I think is madness.
But the language is still well suited to my needs so I use it.
Ditto. Besides, like all scripting languages that have mushroomed over the last few years, Python has some ridiculous drawbacks. Who wants to use a programming language where deleting a space at the beginning of the line will prevent the code from running?
I hate semantic whitespace, but even then, your argument could be parameterised as "Who wants to use a programming language where deleting a {char_name} at {position} will prevent the code from running?" for many different char_names and positions, covering every single language.
But despite the nuisance of semantic whitespace, Python is still my main language at the moment because no-one has yet pointed me to a language that handles lists as cleanly, and all my programming tasks these days involve lists of data.
So you justify terrorism as a response to war
No, I don't. But if we treat trying to understand reasons as justifying, then all we'll have is a world full of people shooting each other in muddy moral trenches while believing that they're occupying the high ground.
- when in fact it was terrorism that started the wars. Please enlighten me as to when NATO countries "consistently bombed" the middle east prior to say, the Pan Am 101 bombing or the Air India bombing.
Pan Am 101 -- 17th August 1989; Pan Am 103 -- 21st December 1988; Iran airways flight 655 -- 3rd July 1988. I'm not saying that 655 wasn't an accident, but that they
perceived
it as an act of aggression. But well before that, we were involved in interventions in the Middle East. I mean, we backed Saddam Hussein, who'd been in power for almost a decade by then. We supported Saddam because Iran had overthrown the regime we'd installed that favoured western oil firms.
Blaming "colonialism", "imperialism", "greedy oil companies run by the western white man", "the jews", etc is merely justification for a business model. Said business model works by duping idiots like yourself into sending money to support very wealthy people who send out stupid people to get themselves killed by blowing something up.
What are you on about? I don't give anyone any money to fight. Why on Earth did you think I would???
Perhaps not as much as the Caliphate does.
True, but the caliphate's a very new thing. The terrorist violence against the west was fueled by a perception that we were aggressors, and it's not without reason.
Except there's nothing irrational about fearing a group that is bombing you,
Which, funnily enough, is what we consistently do to the Middle East....
Which is the Old Testament, hence it goes back to Judaism. The whole Abrahamic tradition is against idol worship (see the golden calf in Exodus), and yet even then, the Abrahamic tradition hasn't even been unusual in terms of iconoclasts -- see also the Russian revolution, the pre-Christian vikings and their sacking of monasteries etc.
With the rise of Islam in the 7th century, Christian sites in the Sinai Desert began to disappear,
The same thing is happening now in Europe
Except in this case it's because the Christians are becoming atheists, and there's simply no critical mass (no pun intended) to fill Christian places of worship. I doubt there's anyone under 40 going to the kirk in the village I grew up in.
Javascript? PHP? C++? Python?
What are we doing?
It's the modern form of a palimpsest: a CVS repository showing all the different fad languages your PHB insisted the company codebase be rewritten in over the decades.
It's an interesting archeological research project that sadly even media like National Geographic or PBS seldom covers because they don't want to piss anyone off with reality.
Actually, I recently saw a fantastic PBS documentary on the birth of Judaism, which pointed out that Abraham picked up his monotheistic faith and the name of Yahweh from somewhere in Arabia, and how Yahweh worship was used as an agrarian revolution among the lower orders of the Caananites which overturned the nobility there. There was no "exodus" from Egypt, seemingly; rather, the Caananite rulers were vassal kings under the pharaoh, and the leaving of Egypt was really just getting the land out from the Egyptian empire.
Early Israelites still hung onto trappings of pantheism, though, and when early Judaism was used to justify the rule of kings (the birth of the House of David) -- as has happened with almost every religion at some point -- there was a much stricter enforcement of genuine monotheism.
The term "cult" in theological terms relates to a specific set of beliefs and/or practices. For example, the "Marian cult" is the worship of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the belief that she was conceived without sin. This is shared by the Catholic and Orthodox Christian churches, as well as some of the Middle Eastern and north-east African groups. Most Protestant groups (particularly Calvinist sections) refuse the Marian cult as a form of pseudo-pantheism.
The vernacular use of "cult", though, is ill-defined and meaningless.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure some Thalidomide-brained idiot is going to drag up the Crusades or something else that happened a thousand fucking years ago in order to justify Islamic barbarity TODAY.
Christ on a bike, that's the most insult-dense post I've read in a while. Islamophobia, ableism and insulting people who disagree with you all rolled into one.
Every broad group has contained some iconoclasts at some point, and you don't have to go as far back as the Crusades to see Christians destroying totems of other religions (we did it throughout the Imperial era). However, the acts of the extremists of I.S. do not represent the mainstream of Islam in any way.
They went to a fair/show organised by a vintage engineering preservation group. Must have been a hell of a day for the owners when they were asked to do something so special.
A roadroller that is not powered by steam is not a steamroller. Shit any idiot with two brain cells knows that. It's right in the freakin word!
...which is why they specifically went to a vintage steamroller show, who would have been extremely happy for the unusual publicity that it generated for the guys involved.
(except the invaluable data on it, that is)
Do we know it wasn't a piece of out-of-date hardware with no resale value...?
Isn't "if he was a Texan" is the correct form?
No, it's a subjunctive, meaning it's speculative or hypothetical, not factual. You would say "If I were you", implying "but I'm not" by using "were" instead of "was". Likewise, saying "If Pratchett were a Texan", you signal that you know he was not. "If Pratchett was a Texan" implies that you don't know whether this is the case.
Both are correct forms.
The subjunctive is dying out in English. The circumstances of its use vary between dialects, and a heck of a lot of people do not use it at all. I do not use it at all. It is not an "error", and it's damn rude to a hell of a lot of people to say it is.
...not to mention off-topic.
The hard-drive was less damaged by the steamroller than expected, so they put it through a stone-crusher afterwards.
I agree. Because Apple has made some good decisions in the past, all of their decisions are good.
I don't think that was what the GP was claiming, just refuting the idea that Apple had a history of adding useless features. Apple have been ahead of the curve on certain features that are now mainstream, and have made a few missteps (Thunderbolt, for example).The Touchbar is pretty ridiculous and not part of any historical pattern. I'm tempted to say it's something that could only exist because Jobs died...
The iMac range is for the desktop -- the only battery in it should be for keeping the system clock running.
Ever seen the roads mangled and road tar deformed where heavy buses stop all the time?
I'm a cyclist... I call riding past bus stops "surfing".
Call me a luddite, but why make this legal while there is still a ban on any vehicle having more than one trailer.
It's a problem of dynamics when trailers are connected together. Independently controlled and steered units can compensate quite easily for any movement in the front. However when they are all connected together a wobble in the front can magnify quite badly in the back trailer, combined with some winds and these things are a nightmare on the road. I used to have to overtake road trains regularly on the way to work in Australia. The trick was, if you can overtake the rear trailer you're usually okay, but don't even consider doing it if it's windy or the road isn't perfectly straight.
What I'm trying to say is to make multiple tow legal if the trailers are active vehicles with a "slave" steering mechanism controlled from the front.
Call me a luddite, but why make this legal while there is still a ban on any vehicle having more than one trailer. Surely a multitrailer lorry-train with physical wires and wireless backup would offer all the same advantages, but be much safer and easier to manage? Not to mention less hackable.