If you live in a community property state, your wife has as much of a legal right to that computer as you do.
Also, even if it were some guy off the street and not your wife we were discussing, by authorizing anyone to use your computer with an administrator account (i.e., able to install stuff into the operating system) you are accepting responsibility for their actions. It's just like lending a car to someone: you'd better make sure they have insurance, and won't park in the handicap spot, run red lights, etc.
If you don't trust your wife to safely use your computer, just set up a normal (non-admin) user account.
Main Entry: 4 found Function: transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old French fonder, from Latin fundare, from fundus bottom -- more at BOTTOM 1 : to take the first steps in building 2 : to set or ground on something solid : BASE 3 : to establish (as an institution) often with provision for future maintenance
What your wife will then tell you is that by letting the heat into the refrigerator, it means that the heat pump in the back has to do more work to pump that heat back out into the kitchen (even accounting for the lower temperature inside the fridge), which it uses electricity for, some of which escapes in the form of heat, resulting in a net increase in the temperature of your kitchen, which in turn results in more global warming.
Or maybe that's what you meant by "help global warming"
I believe that was Newton, actually. He postulated that if you fired a cannon from a "very tall mountain" with a great enough velocity, then ignoring the resistance of air, and if it was fast enough, then the curvature of the earth would fall away from the cannonball at the same rate at which it fell to the earth.
Because of the dual meanings, a second class of byte measurement names was devised for the base-2 system, which uses the iB suffix, so "terabyte" technically means TB, but many people say that and mean TiB.
You're right. AIDS is the syndrome, HIV is the Virus.
However, your anal objection to the phrase "AIDS virus" in completely unfounded. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. AIDS uniquely identifies this particular virus, and so in English, the phrase "the virus that causes AIDS" can be shortened to "the AIDS virus" without any loss of meaning or correctness.
In fact, the phrase was probably intentionally chosen to intensify (or sensationalize) the mental image conveyed by the story.
Except that research shows that the human gene pool has a rather significant bottleneck, wherein we all descend from a small set of individuals not to far in the past. There is so little genetic variation in humans that if some of us have Neanderthal genes, then all of us do.
Yes he _knows_ that. That's his point: he is saying that his grammar-facism has led him to the point where he sees mistakes where they don't exist.
"I've almost gotten to the point where..."
You even quoted that part and you still didn't understand it.
The phrase "even in advertising copy, for pete's sake" might throw you off, but it means that he even goes into this mode when reading material that he knows has gone through rigorous editing before it meets his eyes.
What you don't understand is that English is a language in flux. It is constantly being rewritten, modified, specialized, imported and exported, much like open source software.
Standards are useful. However, if standard English (and there are several versions--pick one) is enforced, it will go the way of ancient Greek, Latin, and more recently French: extinction.
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If you live in a community property state, your wife has as much of a legal right to that computer as you do. Also, even if it were some guy off the street and not your wife we were discussing, by authorizing anyone to use your computer with an administrator account (i.e., able to install stuff into the operating system) you are accepting responsibility for their actions. It's just like lending a car to someone: you'd better make sure they have insurance, and won't park in the handicap spot, run red lights, etc. If you don't trust your wife to safely use your computer, just set up a normal (non-admin) user account.
Main Entry: 4 found
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French fonder, from Latin fundare, from fundus bottom -- more at BOTTOM
1 : to take the first steps in building
2 : to set or ground on something solid : BASE
3 : to establish (as an institution) often with provision for future maintenance
Source: mw.com http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=found
Or maybe that's what you meant by "help global warming"
If I had mod points, I would annoint you simply for using the proper past participle of that particular verb. Perhaps just I'm easily amused.
This is your big chance to catch up on all that spam you missed over the years.
I believe that was Newton, actually. He postulated that if you fired a cannon from a "very tall mountain" with a great enough velocity, then ignoring the resistance of air, and if it was fast enough, then the curvature of the earth would fall away from the cannonball at the same rate at which it fell to the earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte states that Terabyte may in practice refer to either 10^12 or 2^40 bytes
See also this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
Because of the dual meanings, a second class of byte measurement names was devised for the base-2 system, which uses the iB suffix, so "terabyte" technically means TB, but many people say that and mean TiB.
I think they prefer the term 'flight attendant.'
We each have our favorite flavor, what's yours?
Seriously who cares that it's the 'smallest' if it's such a cumbersome shape that it feels like a rock in your pocket.
Silly Canada. Thinks it's a country.
Kindergarten.
However, your anal objection to the phrase "AIDS virus" in completely unfounded. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. AIDS uniquely identifies this particular virus, and so in English, the phrase "the virus that causes AIDS" can be shortened to "the AIDS virus" without any loss of meaning or correctness.
In fact, the phrase was probably intentionally chosen to intensify (or sensationalize) the mental image conveyed by the story.
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Except that research shows that the human gene pool has a rather significant bottleneck, wherein we all descend from a small set of individuals not to far in the past. There is so little genetic variation in humans that if some of us have Neanderthal genes, then all of us do.
"I've almost gotten to the point where..."
You even quoted that part and you still didn't understand it.
The phrase "even in advertising copy, for pete's sake" might throw you off, but it means that he even goes into this mode when reading material that he knows has gone through rigorous editing before it meets his eyes.
What you don't understand is that English is a language in flux. It is constantly being rewritten, modified, specialized, imported and exported, much like open source software. Standards are useful. However, if standard English (and there are several versions--pick one) is enforced, it will go the way of ancient Greek, Latin, and more recently French: extinction.
Funny. The whole reason I bought Wind Waker was for the bonus disk.
Replace "criticism" with condemnation and you're right on.
No really, that's all I wanted to say.
Get it here.
H3RBAL VI@GRA???
Dell is a swear word.
They sell YOUR EYEBALLS!!!