Well the cartoon is mildly amusing... but it's not really got a lot of content, has it? And it's not really news - maybe Scuttlemonkey thought it was true?
Is the jury returning a verdict that the judge doesn't agree with sufficient grounds to cosider it a mistrial?
That's got to be close to conflicting with concepts like double jeopardy.
Well said. You can teach a monkey to press buttons but it doesn't mean it understands the machine. It's like saying that because the first iron age kids could wave a sword around they were all metallurgists.
In my very first job, we used a shark's tooth rubbed down to a small point with different types of granite. We used to dip the pen in ink that we used to make ourselves on our one day off per month out of ground up soot from the cave roof mixed with tree resin and boiled fish giblets. We wrote on dried antelope hide, if we could get it. Otherwise we used the skin off our own backs.
Nope. It may be derived from a verb, but many present participles/gerunds (which have the sanme form in English also exist as adjectives. Oh, and we don't capitalise gerunds in English.
e.g. Owning a television was considered de rigeur among the aspiring middle classes.
Preparing for those situations is most likely a waste of time.
Not really. Developing a normal level of knowledge about such things - I hate the phrase 'common sense' but it's darn close to that - is something you should have developed anyway whether through school, scouting, military service or whatever.
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Well the cartoon is mildly amusing ... but it's not really got a lot of content, has it? And it's not really news - maybe Scuttlemonkey thought it was true?
Is the jury returning a verdict that the judge doesn't agree with sufficient grounds to cosider it a mistrial? That's got to be close to conflicting with concepts like double jeopardy.
Is that one cent, or point zero one of a cent?
Well thanks for clearing up the confusion, Einstein.
P.S. You and your pals seem like a wild bunch. You guys really rock, I'd like to hang out with you. Which part of Germany do you live in?
You just have to say "zoom" and "enhance". See, all that time watching CSI wasn't wasted.
Did they fail a 2D6 roll against their INT?
Are software programs what you run on your hardware computers?
They could always pad it out with a few musical numbers. Heck, what better way is there to make up for the omission of Tom Bombadil?
Well said. You can teach a monkey to press buttons but it doesn't mean it understands the machine. It's like saying that because the first iron age kids could wave a sword around they were all metallurgists.
Tech CEO promotes use of technology in schools. Film at ... hang on a mo, there's someone at the door. Ah, it's the barber - he says I need a haircut.
For some reason I read "comma" as "coma", which led me to the thought that kdawson might as well be in one for all the use he is.
Autocad? We used to dream of having autocad.
In my very first job, we used a shark's tooth rubbed down to a small point with different types of granite. We used to dip the pen in ink that we used to make ourselves on our one day off per month out of ground up soot from the cave roof mixed with tree resin and boiled fish giblets. We wrote on dried antelope hide, if we could get it. Otherwise we used the skin off our own backs.
And that's how we liked it.
e.g. Owning a television was considered de rigeur among the aspiring middle classes.
At least a slide rule is more accurate than excel 2007.
What, work with fixed-point only? Are we back in 1983?
My oh my, the editing around here is certainly morabund.
It depends on your definition of pedantic.