Ever notice how Shanks always dissapears right before Browder shows up?
He must really hate that guy.
-Peter
Re:More money than brains I guess
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You are so right. What does she know about what she wants and how to spend her money?
In fact, we should appoint grub Emperor, so he can make sure we all always make smart decisions. I'd hate to be caught spending my money on things I want instead of using it for a charity that has grub's favor.
Did you read the article? His complaint is about a DVD that he bought that had a PC only, high-def version of the movie. Every single person trying to use this feature is, by definition, not just puting it in an A/V DVD player and pressing play.
Governments kill far more people than terrorists. Because I use reason instead of irrational emotional appeals, I fear government more than I fear terrorists.
Any work of fiction worth watching (or reading) has a point of some sort. If the author presents it subtly enough people will call it a "theme." If he makes it more plain they will call it a moral. If he crams it down the audience's throat he's being didactic or even condescending.
And what gives them the bright idea that they can eliminate "dark alleys" on the net any more than dark alleys can be eliminated in real space?
This is going to sound like a paranoid rant. I guess it is. But then, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
What gives you the idea that "they" really believe the bullshit that they shovel? "They" always want a little more authority, so they can protect you from terrorists, or save your kids from drug pushers, or fight "the war on poverty."
Is it possible, just possible, that all of these things are nothing more than thinly veiled power-grabs?
It doth depress thee? Verily, hast thou not known? Yea, hast thou not perceived that thy language doth alter? Ye who read my words, know that I alone have written correctly; for I alone ken the second person pronoun.
That was cool!
So if you're going to gripe about how language changes, why not complain that "you" is used for both singular and plural, for objective and subjective?
Those may be legitimate complaints. If so, the battle is already lost. If not, it is already won. In either case it seems to be a fait accompli.
Why not complain about how conjugation has changed in the last 400 years?
I clearly don't have the level of knowledge regarding the history of English that you do. Would you explain these changes?
The pronoun "their" now functions in English as both the third person plural and the second person neuter singular. It's not accepted as standard written English, yet, but it will be.
Time will tell. If that does come to pass it will be to the loss of the language.
I am really complaining about lack of precision. Natural languages inherently lack precision. Willfully discarding what precision English possesses does not benefit anyone.
That depresses me.
Anyway, does any of this relate to OP's blithely substituting "their" for "her?"
ObGrammar correction: shouldn't that be "The sex of the person..."?
Yes. That was a typo on an edit. Thanks!
ObStyle complaint: Wouldn't it be more precise to say "gender" instead of "sex"?
Absolutely not. With your helpful edit above we have, "Sex of the person," which is correct. Had I said "Sex of the word woman" you would have a point.
Jesus. I just noticed the subject line. Maybe the OP can relate "too" the woman in the article because she is a dropout too.
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Does the manual will indicate which lever is the velocitator and which the deceleratrix?
-Peter
And I thought the last crash of '29 was depressing.
-Peter
Am I close?
-Peter
I've stripped down AbiWord as much as I can and added the OO.o .sxw import/export plugin. It also opens word files.
Got it down to 3.9 megs. You can grab a tarball at http://hutnick.com/littleabi/.
If someone wants to make this a zip (since tar can be a bit tricky for windows users) send me a link and I will upload it. My email address is above.
-Peter
Ever notice how Shanks always dissapears right before Browder shows up?
He must really hate that guy.
-Peter
You are so right. What does she know about what she wants and how to spend her money?
In fact, we should appoint grub Emperor, so he can make sure we all always make smart decisions. I'd hate to be caught spending my money on things I want instead of using it for a charity that has grub's favor.
Thanks for your valuable input.
-Peter
Does it run on Mono? I'm being serious.
-Peter
Did you read the article? His complaint is about a DVD that he bought that had a PC only, high-def version of the movie. Every single person trying to use this feature is, by definition, not just puting it in an A/V DVD player and pressing play.
-Peter
Care to elaborate?
And I'm using my karma bonus just to ask.
-Peter
Governments kill far more people than terrorists. Because I use reason instead of irrational emotional appeals, I fear government more than I fear terrorists.
Thanks for you comment all the same.
-Peter
Never heard of him. Does he really hit you over the head with his Sword of Truth?
-Peter
PS: Tolkien never said his stories were "not intended to be didactic or even metaphorical," he said they weren't allegorical.
-P
Any work of fiction worth watching (or reading) has a point of some sort. If the author presents it subtly enough people will call it a "theme." If he makes it more plain they will call it a moral. If he crams it down the audience's throat he's being didactic or even condescending.
You can have a moral without moralizing.
-Peter
This is going to sound like a paranoid rant. I guess it is. But then, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
What gives you the idea that "they" really believe the bullshit that they shovel? "They" always want a little more authority, so they can protect you from terrorists, or save your kids from drug pushers, or fight "the war on poverty."
Is it possible, just possible, that all of these things are nothing more than thinly veiled power-grabs?
Pierce the veil.
-Peter
That was cool!
Those may be legitimate complaints. If so, the battle is already lost. If not, it is already won. In either case it seems to be a fait accompli.
I clearly don't have the level of knowledge regarding the history of English that you do. Would you explain these changes?
Time will tell. If that does come to pass it will be to the loss of the language.
I am really complaining about lack of precision. Natural languages inherently lack precision. Willfully discarding what precision English possesses does not benefit anyone.
That depresses me.
Anyway, does any of this relate to OP's blithely substituting "their" for "her?"
Yes. That was a typo on an edit. Thanks!
Absolutely not. With your helpful edit above we have, "Sex of the person," which is correct. Had I said "Sex of the word woman" you would have a point.
Jesus. I just noticed the subject line. Maybe the OP can relate "too" the woman in the article because she is a dropout too.
-Peter
Huh? Neither "GPL" nor "standardized" represent either of these things AFAICT.
-Peter
We've reached a new low of pronoun abuse. The sex of person represented by the noun isn't in question, so you don't even have that weak excuse.
Depressing.
Does anyone see how one thing is supposed to follow the other?
-Peter
You want feedback on a book so you ask the folks at a site where they never read the articles they post about.
You're job is in jeopardy, my friend.
-Peter
Probably the same reason we don't all use OpenBSD.
I don't know what it is, but I'm sure it's the same.
-Peter
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine. Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!
That's only true if your RAM > disk. It's nice to swap un-used crap out of RAM so you can use that space for disk cache.
Whee!
-Peter
Oh, or bait for mynock traps?
-Peter
Finally convincing the fucking cat to not chew on the cables?
-Peter
I see this all the time in movies. Is there a place where you get a dial tone a couple of seconds after the remote party disconnects?
-Peter
Ooh, ooh, I've got it. They aren't naked?
-Peter