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You apparently don't realize that not everything will react with an acid. For example, the glass beaker it is often kept in. For further proof, notice that you have not digested yourself. There's some pretty strong stuff in your stomach, assuming that you are human of course.
Those words are not redundant or obsolete. That's one of the beauties of the English language; there's dozens of words with the same general meaning but a myriad of subtle nuances.
"A myriad of" and "a lot of" have the same overall meaning, that there is a large number of what ever object is being referred to. But they are not identical. A myriad implieas a larger number and also small differentiation between each of the objects. Just one example.
If we removed all redundancy, then awful, terrible, revolting, bad, hideous, and attrocious can all be replaced with "doubleplusungood." At least in my opinion that would be a doubleplusungood thing.
Microsoft seems to want to move towards the liscensing strategy used for real expensive software like high end CAD tools. These are usually liscensed for a set term and each license lets you run one copy for the term of the license, whatever version you want on as many machines as you want (one running per license at any time butthe machine is irrelevent).
This is not your everyday "pedestrian" software like windows and office though. In my case, I'm using place and route tools for chip layout work. If there's a bug in the software that causes us problems, it can cost us serious money. Consequently, these types of licenses include a lot of support. You submit a bug and they put a couple engineers on it immediately and have patch to you in a little as a few days.
I can't speak to how MS treats its large customers, but I doubt they get that kind of response to problems.
I wired mine straight into the back of the radio and experience a similar whine, but only if I try to use the car charger. I don't have the problem running from the battery.
All right, I've gotten sucked into this pointless argument.
Absolutely anything can be stolen. Do you always buy the crappiest bike or car because "it can be stolen"? Crappiest TV and stereo? I suppose if all your belongings have as little value as possible then that may mitigate the likelyhood of thievery.
What was my point? Oh yeah. Anything can be stolen. You're better off worrying about securing what you have, than trying to make your possesions unappealing to potential thieves. I could steal your house with the proper equipment and motivation.
I used to be on the track team at my school and there occasionally would be some well endowed female runners. It looked like they were going to knock themselves out.
There have been several mass extinctions in the Earth's history. The one you refer to is only the most recent. Whether or not some or all were caused by impacts is another story.
I did not say that exercise (in terms of specifically doing strenuos work) was a person's major caloric expenditure. But it is the controllable portion. What you use for breathing, basic metabolism, body heat regulation, etc. is going to stay relatively constant.
It's probably not true for everyone, but I find that increasing exercise and holding food intake constant is a lot easier than just dieting.
You completely contradicted yourself. Weight is determined by diet and exercise. It's very simple really, if you eat more calories than you use, you will gain weight. If you eat less, you will lose weight. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that it is easy to do.
But, some people can eat extremely high calorie diets and not gain weight if they are active enough. I can personally vouch for that from my first season of varsity track in college. Because of the 3 hours a da of running and lifting I was losing weight despite a diet composed mostly of donuts and ice cream.
That is simply a horrible policy. No public school I went to used it thankfully. We were graded mostly on participation.
I realize that you are probably making those numbers up, but i was on the varsity track team at my high school (though not as a runner) and I would have been hard pressed to get a C in your gym class. I always loved the hammer throw. It was like artillery, but you didn't have to mess with gunpowder.:-)
I don't know what kind of highschool you went to, but PE grades in my school never had anything to do with athletic ability. You could be the most uncoordinated person in the world and get an A or a B. It was mostly a participation grade. Furthermore, PE and health class grades were not included in your GPA.
This depends a lot on the actor. Some movies expect to be carried on the star power alone. They generally aren't very good.
On the other hand, there are some actors that are always very good, and are believable (at least to me) in almost any role. Harrison Ford comes to mind.
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You apparently don't realize that not everything will react with an acid. For example, the glass beaker it is often kept in. For further proof, notice that you have not digested yourself. There's some pretty strong stuff in your stomach, assuming that you are human of course.
This is far and away the dumbest "story" I have ever seen posted on this site. I'm taking this chance to express my outrage.
The submitter clearly has no understanding of anything going on here.
The article is pretty interesting though. Give it a read.
Close. It is Spanish for a friend that happens to be female. A girlfriend, as in a significant other, would be "novia".
Those words are not redundant or obsolete. That's one of the beauties of the English language; there's dozens of words with the same general meaning but a myriad of subtle nuances.
"A myriad of" and "a lot of" have the same overall meaning, that there is a large number of what ever object is being referred to. But they are not identical. A myriad implieas a larger number and also small differentiation between each of the objects. Just one example.
If we removed all redundancy, then awful, terrible, revolting, bad, hideous, and attrocious can all be replaced with "doubleplusungood." At least in my opinion that would be a doubleplusungood thing.
Perhaps if more people used those nice erudite words, the plebs would actually know them.
This is an SE/30, the successor to the original SE. It had completely different innards.
Microsoft seems to want to move towards the liscensing strategy used for real expensive software like high end CAD tools. These are usually liscensed for a set term and each license lets you run one copy for the term of the license, whatever version you want on as many machines as you want (one running per license at any time butthe machine is irrelevent).
This is not your everyday "pedestrian" software like windows and office though. In my case, I'm using place and route tools for chip layout work. If there's a bug in the software that causes us problems, it can cost us serious money. Consequently, these types of licenses include a lot of support. You submit a bug and they put a couple engineers on it immediately and have patch to you in a little as a few days.
I can't speak to how MS treats its large customers, but I doubt they get that kind of response to problems.
I suppose it wouldn't matter to you that it would be a massive waste of time and money that would be driving everyone's insurance premiums up?
I like the quote you used for your sig, but unfortunately it's a bit too long.
Go Groucho!
I wired mine straight into the back of the radio and experience a similar whine, but only if I try to use the car charger. I don't have the problem running from the battery.
All right, I've gotten sucked into this pointless argument.
Absolutely anything can be stolen. Do you always buy the crappiest bike or car because "it can be stolen"? Crappiest TV and stereo? I suppose if all your belongings have as little value as possible then that may mitigate the likelyhood of thievery.
What was my point? Oh yeah. Anything can be stolen. You're better off worrying about securing what you have, than trying to make your possesions unappealing to potential thieves. I could steal your house with the proper equipment and motivation.
Non taken.
I used to be on the track team at my school and there occasionally would be some well endowed female runners. It looked like they were going to knock themselves out.
A bat mitzvah is for a girl. A bar mitzvah is for a boy.
Not everything is sequential.
I really fail to see how using a chip that draws more power is going to extend battery life. Unless I'm missing something obvious?
There have been several mass extinctions in the Earth's history. The one you refer to is only the most recent. Whether or not some or all were caused by impacts is another story.
I did not say that exercise (in terms of specifically doing strenuos work) was a person's major caloric expenditure. But it is the controllable portion. What you use for breathing, basic metabolism, body heat regulation, etc. is going to stay relatively constant.
It's probably not true for everyone, but I find that increasing exercise and holding food intake constant is a lot easier than just dieting.
I took physics in high school. A very good course in basic newtonian physics, from a very good instuctor who was a retired NASA astrophysist.
You completely contradicted yourself. Weight is determined by diet and exercise. It's very simple really, if you eat more calories than you use, you will gain weight. If you eat less, you will lose weight. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that it is easy to do.
But, some people can eat extremely high calorie diets and not gain weight if they are active enough. I can personally vouch for that from my first season of varsity track in college. Because of the 3 hours a da of running and lifting I was losing weight despite a diet composed mostly of donuts and ice cream.
Makes me think of Kurt Vonnegut.
That is simply a horrible policy. No public school I went to used it thankfully. We were graded mostly on participation.
:-)
I realize that you are probably making those numbers up, but i was on the varsity track team at my high school (though not as a runner) and I would have been hard pressed to get a C in your gym class. I always loved the hammer throw. It was like artillery, but you didn't have to mess with gunpowder.
I don't know what kind of highschool you went to, but PE grades in my school never had anything to do with athletic ability. You could be the most uncoordinated person in the world and get an A or a B. It was mostly a participation grade. Furthermore, PE and health class grades were not included in your GPA.
" movies' " is the correct form for the plural possesive.
You asked for it.
This depends a lot on the actor. Some movies expect to be carried on the star power alone. They generally aren't very good.
On the other hand, there are some actors that are always very good, and are believable (at least to me) in almost any role. Harrison Ford comes to mind.