Thinking isn't involved. It's seeing that the writer used the word 'and' where they should have used 'to'. It's the wrong word.
Do you have an example that doesn't involve changing the subject? The subject is "try and $verb". Their may be cases where "try and" can be together in a sentence that would be fine... but this is none of those cases.
Coherent? How is "try and" coherent when they are clearly using the wrong word? Just because people can work around the bug doesn't make it right.
Its "heritage" doesn't enter into it. It can have all the heritage it wants and still be wrong.
If Google collapses it will be like the death of a whale in the ocean. There will be a feeding frenzy picking its bones clean. At first it will be many little critters, and some bigger critters gobbling up market share and assets. Then the better nibblers will consume the weaker. Eventually we'll have something Google-like as king of the heap.
When the.com boom happened there were many tiny companies creating markets out of thin air. Some of those markets were worth something, others were not. Some of these companies had good leadership, some were in the right place at the right time. The weaker companies died off and the strongest thrived.
This post should also be +5 Insightful. These sorts of "articles" annoy me for the reasons you show here. It's a damn template. Worse yet, we do this sort of thing for $BLOGGERs, not just pundits. Some twit with an email account phrases an accustation as a question "Is X Y?" like it's profound. Then it becomes a/. thread. *sigh*
When it is controlled by a person it is not a robot. Your car is not a robot. The "bots" in Robot Wars where not robots, they were remotely controlled cars with weapons.
A land mine or heat seeking missile would be robots(ish).
This system sounds like it is remotely controlled (and therefor not a robot).
Take bullies of various kinds (muscle, pretty, wealth) and put them in groups with other bullies of the same type. All the meat heads in one place would get to be bullied by someone even bigger and meaner. Then you give them a choice: be bullied, or go back to the other school and behave themselves.
But then again, atheists should just be in the closet with the gays, right? Women should be grateful to stay at home and make us dinner.
It's a sign of being a member of a privileged class when you take offense at an outsider speaking up for themselves. Women and blacks who wanted equal rights to men/whites were treated in much the same way. Those in power regarded activists as "uppity" and wondered "why are they so angry all the time?". Some of us are angry and sometimes rightfully so. That doesn't mean we all are. Just because some individuals are obtuse and belligerent doesn't mean you should misrepresent the whole. Otherwise, atheists might hold up folks like Haggard and OBL as examples of theists.
Want atheists to be less outspoken? Treat them with the same respect you want (that sounds familiar, hrm). Or better yet, treat people like they WANT to be treated. Start with something minor like... knowing that atheism is NOT an ideology or even an actual group or movement. If someone says they are atheist... respond in the same way you would if they said they like to watch baseball. It has nothing to do with you. They can watch baseball, and you can watch football. It's not a zero sum game.
Unless it's the first word of the sentence or in a book title, just leave it lower case.
i didn't get into laptops because they are too small. My fiance has a netbook which was handy on vacation a few times, but it's still too small and underpowered for me use as anything but a browser. For that i have an iPhone which is much, much smaller.
[rant] Instead of passively witnessing multimillionaire drug addicts chase a ball to sell ad space... do something. Take the people who were going to show up for "da big game" outside to play tag football. Have a foosball championship. Play card games. Have a LAN party. Play DnD. Do something.
The outcome of the game will be the same whether you watch it or not.
Whatever teams are playing this year are branches of a company. Do you care which 7-11 sold the most hotdogs? Or if the Pepsi bottling plant on the east coast produced more soda than the west coast plant? Even if it is your home team, the players aren't from your town. They're employees shuffled around or chasing contracts. At least the local high school games have some attachment to you.
Go ahead and mod me troll or flambait if i've hurt your feelings and doing something to me will make you feel better about how you've spent your Sundays. Just take a moment to consider *doing* something instead of watching others. And if the team you cheered for won... don't say "we won". If you didn't leave a drop of blood or sweat on the field... you were not a part of that victory. You're a witness, that's it. Watching something someone else did is not an accomplishment and no reason to be proud. The team won. You watched. [/rant]
Descriptivism coddles ignorance and laziness. It's leaning on the hands of the Idiocracy clock.
Informal speech and writing have their place... in chat rooms, in the living room and so on. But when you are at work or at school, you should put the laziness and excuses aside.
Not all change is evolution/good. The collective singular was a good change. Not knowing the difference between jealous and envious is not. That's just ignorance. Using the word decimate when you mean obliterate is ignorance. It's laziness to stay ignorant. It's laziness and cowardice to tolerate or worse yet justify it. "Poor Timmy can't tie his shoes, let's get him some velcro!" Learning to tie your shoes might be a challenge at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's easy.
We can has as the cuz we want here. But when you're at work or at school... run a fucking spell and grammar check.
because we feel we have no control over any of it. Why should i follow the health care debate if i don't get to vote on it? Either it will pass or fail without my input. Either i'll be paying for it and benefiting from it, or i won't. Writing my congress critter is as effective as prayer or wishing on a star. The 2000 election reminded us that we NOT in charge because the SCotUS can coronate whomever they please. My vote doesn't count if i happen to be in a populous area or in an area a candidate wants to disenfranchise. i could vote with my wallet but my wallet is a gnat while corporations are like those asian hornets.
The news is overwhelmingly negative and spinning like a top. It just makes me sad to hear people lie and how bad other people's lives are and how badly we treat each other.
Best source for news imho: Fark.com
BBC's horrific writing made me stop trying to follow it via RSS, he said.
There's also the neurological differences between left and right leaning people. If your neurology might lead one toward one direction it might be that trait also carried some... *gasp* physiognomic traits.
Might be neat to do this experiment again by having all the people in the pics clean shaven, wearing a plain white T, and having a neutral facial expression.
Then run it again with the people smiling. Would a smiling face skew the results?
How does Discovery let writing this bad on their web page?
"Oceans of liquid diamond, filled with solid diamond icebergs, could be floating on Neptune and Uranus, according to a recent article in the journal Nature Physics."
Dear Aspiring Journalists and Scientists,
Take more than English 101. Use a the grammar check... even MS Word would have helped here.
Slashdot Mirror
i'd do this Sky Captain style. Real actors, CG environment, 50's looking gadgets. i'd do it as a TV series so you could give it the time it needs.
Thinking isn't involved. It's seeing that the writer used the word 'and' where they should have used 'to'. It's the wrong word.
Do you have an example that doesn't involve changing the subject? The subject is "try and $verb". Their may be cases where "try and" can be together in a sentence that would be fine... but this is none of those cases.
Coherent? How is "try and" coherent when they are clearly using the wrong word? Just because people can work around the bug doesn't make it right.
Its "heritage" doesn't enter into it. It can have all the heritage it wants and still be wrong.
Lemme guess. You just read Chomsky or Zinn and want to impress the boy in the cool plastic frames at the campus bookstore.
That's hilarious (because it's true!). Thanks for that.
Can someone hook up ThisIsForReal with some karma?
"I'm going to try TO teach you decent grammar."
It's not two separate actions. "And" would make sense in a case like, "I'm going to sing and dance".
If Google collapses it will be like the death of a whale in the ocean. There will be a feeding frenzy picking its bones clean. At first it will be many little critters, and some bigger critters gobbling up market share and assets. Then the better nibblers will consume the weaker. Eventually we'll have something Google-like as king of the heap.
When the .com boom happened there were many tiny companies creating markets out of thin air. Some of those markets were worth something, others were not. Some of these companies had good leadership, some were in the right place at the right time. The weaker companies died off and the strongest thrived.
This post should also be +5 Insightful. These sorts of "articles" annoy me for the reasons you show here. It's a damn template. Worse yet, we do this sort of thing for $BLOGGERs, not just pundits. Some twit with an email account phrases an accustation as a question "Is X Y?" like it's profound. Then it becomes a /. thread. *sigh*
Anywho, great post.
When it is controlled by a person it is not a robot. Your car is not a robot. The "bots" in Robot Wars where not robots, they were remotely controlled cars with weapons.
A land mine or heat seeking missile would be robots(ish).
This system sounds like it is remotely controlled (and therefor not a robot).
Verbing wierds the langauge.
Ah, thanks.
i looked for a post of yours i could mod up and everything was archived.
Could someone throw Molly a +1 Informative for me?
My understanding of periods in/outside is that it depends the sentence *holding* a quote or the sentence *being* a quote.
"Stop."
He said, "stop".
Honest question here: What does putting the first letter in brackets mean?
Take bullies of various kinds (muscle, pretty, wealth) and put them in groups with other bullies of the same type. All the meat heads in one place would get to be bullied by someone even bigger and meaner. Then you give them a choice: be bullied, or go back to the other school and behave themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
But then again, atheists should just be in the closet with the gays, right? Women should be grateful to stay at home and make us dinner.
It's a sign of being a member of a privileged class when you take offense at an outsider speaking up for themselves. Women and blacks who wanted equal rights to men/whites were treated in much the same way. Those in power regarded activists as "uppity" and wondered "why are they so angry all the time?". Some of us are angry and sometimes rightfully so. That doesn't mean we all are. Just because some individuals are obtuse and belligerent doesn't mean you should misrepresent the whole. Otherwise, atheists might hold up folks like Haggard and OBL as examples of theists.
Want atheists to be less outspoken? Treat them with the same respect you want (that sounds familiar, hrm). Or better yet, treat people like they WANT to be treated. Start with something minor like... knowing that atheism is NOT an ideology or even an actual group or movement. If someone says they are atheist... respond in the same way you would if they said they like to watch baseball. It has nothing to do with you. They can watch baseball, and you can watch football. It's not a zero sum game.
Unless it's the first word of the sentence or in a book title, just leave it lower case.
i didn't get into laptops because they are too small. My fiance has a netbook which was handy on vacation a few times, but it's still too small and underpowered for me use as anything but a browser. For that i have an iPhone which is much, much smaller.
17 if you're a dude.
(side note: atheist is not a proper noun, so it should be capitalized only when it's the first word of a sentence or part of a book title) /atheist
How did they know Christa McAuliffe had dandruff? They found her head and shoulders.
[rant]
Instead of passively witnessing multimillionaire drug addicts chase a ball to sell ad space... do something. Take the people who were going to show up for "da big game" outside to play tag football. Have a foosball championship. Play card games. Have a LAN party. Play DnD. Do something.
The outcome of the game will be the same whether you watch it or not.
Whatever teams are playing this year are branches of a company. Do you care which 7-11 sold the most hotdogs? Or if the Pepsi bottling plant on the east coast produced more soda than the west coast plant? Even if it is your home team, the players aren't from your town. They're employees shuffled around or chasing contracts. At least the local high school games have some attachment to you.
Go ahead and mod me troll or flambait if i've hurt your feelings and doing something to me will make you feel better about how you've spent your Sundays. Just take a moment to consider *doing* something instead of watching others. And if the team you cheered for won... don't say "we won". If you didn't leave a drop of blood or sweat on the field... you were not a part of that victory. You're a witness, that's it. Watching something someone else did is not an accomplishment and no reason to be proud. The team won. You watched.
[/rant]
i'm sure Black Mesa or Aperture Science is working on something to deal with the half life.
Descriptivism coddles ignorance and laziness. It's leaning on the hands of the Idiocracy clock.
Informal speech and writing have their place... in chat rooms, in the living room and so on. But when you are at work or at school, you should put the laziness and excuses aside.
Not all change is evolution/good. The collective singular was a good change. Not knowing the difference between jealous and envious is not. That's just ignorance. Using the word decimate when you mean obliterate is ignorance. It's laziness to stay ignorant. It's laziness and cowardice to tolerate or worse yet justify it. "Poor Timmy can't tie his shoes, let's get him some velcro!" Learning to tie your shoes might be a challenge at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's easy.
We can has as the cuz we want here. But when you're at work or at school... run a fucking spell and grammar check.
Weird how the photographer held a pencil to point at the laser.
You have to think in Russian.
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This thing looks like the F-22 and the Su-27/35 had a baby. i'd like to see how it actually measures against the F-22.
A dollar is too much for something of infinite supply and finite demand.
because we feel we have no control over any of it. Why should i follow the health care debate if i don't get to vote on it? Either it will pass or fail without my input. Either i'll be paying for it and benefiting from it, or i won't. Writing my congress critter is as effective as prayer or wishing on a star. The 2000 election reminded us that we NOT in charge because the SCotUS can coronate whomever they please. My vote doesn't count if i happen to be in a populous area or in an area a candidate wants to disenfranchise. i could vote with my wallet but my wallet is a gnat while corporations are like those asian hornets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDSf3Kshq1M
The news is overwhelmingly negative and spinning like a top. It just makes me sad to hear people lie and how bad other people's lives are and how badly we treat each other.
Best source for news imho: Fark.com
BBC's horrific writing made me stop trying to follow it via RSS, he said.
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Do question headlines annoy people?
There's also the neurological differences between left and right leaning people. If your neurology might lead one toward one direction it might be that trait also carried some... *gasp* physiognomic traits.
Might be neat to do this experiment again by having all the people in the pics clean shaven, wearing a plain white T, and having a neutral facial expression.
Then run it again with the people smiling. Would a smiling face skew the results?
How does Discovery let writing this bad on their web page?
"Oceans of liquid diamond, filled with solid diamond icebergs, could be floating on Neptune and Uranus, according to a recent article in the journal Nature Physics."
Dear Aspiring Journalists and Scientists,
Take more than English 101. Use a the grammar check... even MS Word would have helped here.