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  1. Re:Yes on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    With all due respect to Churchill, that is a grammar rule which one should not tolerate.

  2. Re:Grammar, on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    But what if you're speaking? How do you pronounce upper-case letters differently from lower-case letters? The commas indicate that the speaker should make a slight pause.

  3. Re:It's like this. on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Who are you communicating with?

    People in glass houses should not end sentences with prepositions. Also, the "who" should be "whom".

  4. Re:It's like this. on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1
  5. Re:It's like this. on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Contrast "Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia" with "Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia" (from The Book of Lists #3)

  6. Re:It's like this. on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Alas, ... (& #133; with no space after the ampersand) is no longer conformant. Also, it doesn't have spaces between the periods. I don't know what APA says about ellipses.

  7. Re:Brain vs. mind on fMRI Lets Israeli Student Control Robot In France With His Mind · · Score: 1

    I might be conscious, but is the brain activity conscious? Or did you mean that the brain activity was the result of a conscious decision?

  8. Brain vs. mind on fMRI Lets Israeli Student Control Robot In France With His Mind · · Score: 2

    Shouldn't that be brain instead of mind?

  9. Re:Great! Now, can we all switch to 64bit, please? on ARM Publishes 64-bit "AArch64" Linux Kernel Support · · Score: 1

    Lots of stuff works in x86_64 in Linux. What problems are you having?

  10. Re:So what? on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 1

    have magically started to heal

    Then as far as you know, it could have been the trip to the chiropractor that cured you, or what you had for breakfast that morning.

    That people sometimes get positive outcomes is merely collateral benefit and opportunistic PR.

    Sounds more like chiropractic.

  11. Re:The Taliban denied.. on WHO Says Afghan School "Poison Attacks" Probably Mass Hysteria · · Score: 1

    Is that why Bin Laden hid in Abbottabad?

  12. Re:So what? on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 1

    And who has the burden of proof? I don't consider it my job to refure chiropractic's claims about subluxation, or homeopathy's views on water memory.

  13. Re:So what? on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 1

    OK, I would have taken Vioxx had a physician prescribed it. That doesn't mean I have to accept homeopathy and its ilk. Bias? Bias with respect to what?

  14. Re:Really? on Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised" · · Score: 1

    And Stalin starved him to death? I think a lot of people starved to death during the siege with little prompting from the General Secretary.

  15. Re:Really? on Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised" · · Score: 2

    C and Unix were released before MSDOS. Indeed, Microsot licensed a version of Unix before it released MSDOS

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Xenix

  16. Re:So what? on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 1

    Midwives don't require 30 years, but if something goes wrong, you might want a physician. I did not list midwifery above.

  17. Re:So what? on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 1

    Another FDA shill that can't distinguish between alternative medicine and quackery.

    And which alternatives aren't quackery?

  18. Re:So what? on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 1

    I would question the professionalism of physicians prescribing such "treatment".

  19. Re:So what? on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 1

    And how is medical marijuana alternative? Legally alternative, yes, but medically alternative? Haven't we tested it?

  20. Re:are you new here? on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I suspect that Americans have more respect for physicians than they have for Congress.

  21. Re:So what? on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 5, Informative

    He wants you to have more avenues to take care of yourself and even stating in one of the GOP debates he would legalize alternative medicine.

    It is neither the nefarious plots of Big Pharma nor the machinations of health-care officials that thwart naturopathy, homeopathy, chiropractic, etc, but objective reality. Besides, much of alternative medicine is already legal.

  22. Re:Do the editors even look at the submissions? on Copyrights To Reach Deep Space · · Score: 1

    And those don't occur in the US?

  23. Re:What do you call a thousand lawyers... on Copyrights To Reach Deep Space · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nope, lawyers don't asphyxiate in space:

    http://business.illinois.edu/broker/startrek.htm

  24. Re:Do the editors even look at the submissions? on Copyrights To Reach Deep Space · · Score: 1

    Except that people in India study English.

  25. Downfall? on Microsoft's 'Cannibalistic Culture' · · Score: 1

    But who has to tell Ballmer that Steiner's force doesn't exist?