"but also have a glass containing two different juices"
Nope, one glass with two different types of juice, or juice from two different fruits or two different types of fruit. One may choose to abbreviate, as with anything, but just because it is done, doesn't mean it is correct... just because it's not correct doesn't mean you have to care, but again, it not being important to you doesn't make it correct either.
"so how many kinds of petrols do we have? how many juices?"
In the first instance, you pluralised 'kinds'; 'petrol' shouldn't be plural (ie, "how many kinds of petrol"). The second I believe to be incomplete, and should also be prefixed as with your first to form something like "how many types of juice".
For the zillionth time, in Latin times, no one had the kind of technology to be able to see viruses, so no one knew they were individual things. The word 'virus' thus refered to a liquid, like an infected substance, and therefore was measured in unitS of quanitY (eg, 2 gallons of petrol, or 4 glasses of apple juice), not unit quantities (eg 4 individual apples). Notice where pluralisation occurs. To suggest Latin rules for pluralisation is absurd because the latin word wasn't to be pluralised; the units of measurement were to be. Learned folk should not repeat this mistake.
(I'm sure those with greater knowledge of Latin could weigh in on other reasons why 'virii' is incorrect, this is just the one I've been made aware of)
"The cost of a screen is substantially cheaper than the cost of a new laptop"
Depends on the laptop model. I broke my laptop screen a couple years back. It's a 2003 dell model (D505) that's crucial for my work, but couldn't afford laptop replacement. New screen set me back around £50-60 (~US$80). I fit it myself (was rather simple to)... and now it's continuing to serve me well. But, that particular model did sell rather well, and many neighbouring models (such as D510 I believe) used the same screen, so it a very common, easy to find part. As for Unbranded Model(tm)... that might not be so cheap.
"Also, the rate of alcohol poisoning in the US far exceeds lithium poisoning... um... probably..."
Well alcohol would be more readily available, and my guess is, more fun then lithium (although I've not done a comparison myself)... my guess is they would be the reasons why it's higher.
No, it's Many Enemas Mean Something... the guy who came up with the design really liked his coffee... like... more than just as a friend. Anyway, legand has it, he needed something that would hold steady.
"Im certainly not advocating spiking the water with anything but fluoride"
Does that mean that you do advocate putting fluoride in water? A chemical used in the treatment of hyperthyroidism (until safer alternatives where found)? I guess it would make sense that if you don't like overly-energetic people (which I'm not arguing with you about!) disrupting TSH receptor site activity within their thyroid gland with fluoride to slow their production of thyroxine probably would be a good thing... so was just wondering if you are a fluoride in water advocate, or whether you mean you're just abstaining from commenting on that one particular chemical? (or of course the option's there that I am mistaken with regards to the effect of fluoride on the thyroid)
God, why does everyone take everything so seriously? One must not play with words lest he be deemed 'troll'?! Sheesh. To mods 'n others of a hair trigger offence mechanism: learn to appreciate the jest, it does make life more fun.
*falls off his chair* thank you for opening mine eyes! If only I'd had the necessary brain cell population primed to have worked that out for myself, that'd probably completely change the tone 'n spirit of my post. Imagine if that was actually the case!
"The 8088 was a technical nightmare with a crappy architecture . It just got lucky. IBM's justifiable preference was Motorola's infinitely superior 68000. Unfortunately, the 68000 was 9 months to a year away"
Yeah, I hear ya, the architecture of a chip is much more important than whether it exists or not.
"I guess I prefer the keyboard rather than lots of menus and toolbars"
Well with a laptop the the keyboard and mouse are all so close that it's not such an either-or issue as it was when your hand was either on the keyboard or mouse. On the whole, if I'm using the mouse for something, it has to be one click away, and not in submenues, but for the majority of stuff, Launchy is very cool, far more effective than other search functions (such as those on the start menu in vista etc) as it's indexed by letter rather than by strings of letters. Many of my things in my menus are named in such a way that make them interact much better with launchy, so I can launch nearly anything, make any connection with ssh/web/vnc bookmark/connection profiles, in no more than 2-4 keypresses in no more than 2 seconds, whatever's open on my screen. If you're a mostly-keyboard user, get Launchy, highly recommend. Will also point out it remembers your search selected, so if you type two letters, scroll down to the prog you want, next time you type those two letters, you'll get that prog come up as default. So, I have a putty connection and a vnc connection both saved as 'fwall'. I can access the one I use most by typing in 'fw', and the other by typing 'fwa', because it remembers to do again what I got it to do last time.
Wow... the age of terror really has you! My actions are based on trying to achieve positive gain, not avoid negative loss situations. I don't understand why anyone would want to live their life based on the bad things that could happen, rather than the good.
"Adrenaline lets you do things you otherwise couldn't do, or at the very least do them faster"
So does a regular workout. If you're fit 'n healthy, you don't need to rely on adrenaline.
"IMHO, you sound like you're afraid of being afraid, so maybe you could think about working on that"
To you, of course I do. You're so wrapped up in stuff you're afraid of on a daily basis, by your own admission, that it shapes the way you see things. This is known as 'projection', or 'generalising from self'. You can't see any other way of life, therefore can't see anyone else having another way of life. Maybe you should think about working on that. Of course you won't, because there's no fear component, which means there's no motivation for you to... and that's where the problem lies.
"If you weren't afraid of something undesirable happening, what possible reason could you have for reacting in the first place?"
Wow... I guess it stands to reason that in this 'global age of terror' people can't think of motivations for doing something that aren't routed in fear. How about desire? Necessity? Both powerful motivators that can keep you out of deaths grasp without having to feel fear.
Please note that I'm not standing here calling people who were scared when a plane hit the building they were in sissy... I'm sitting... no just kiddin, fear is a normal, natural, human response to life threatening situations. My argument is purely that you don't NEED it, life preserving actions can be decision based rather than emotionally driven... but again, yes, in our 'age of terror', one could be forgiven for forgetting that.
"like when a jet is occupying airspace in your high-rise building's proximity with a military fighter escort in a city that has seen some nasty shit go down"
Yeah, I can understand why that would scare you, but what you need is, if there's a potential threat, is to get out the way of it. As you can do this without fear, fear is something you don't need.
"And from there came the ability to think clearly and react effectively"
"but *sometimes* there is good reason to be afraid"
Like what? I think there can be good reason to react, but if you can do it without being afraid, your chances of survival are higher, cuz you'll be thinking more clearly, therefore the more dangerous the situation, the more reason there is to not be afraid... and of course, in a non-dangerous situation, there's obviously no reason to be afraid either. React sanely without fear, you can still preserve your life... and you get to live without fear, which is a good thing, and should be encouraged.
You seem to be forgetting how exactly sept11 'went down' (excuse the pun)... most of the deaths were caused by the building collapses, not the initial impacts. Reports say that even after the planes hit, there were people in the buildings not escaping, but congregating to decide what they should do in their stunned state. Your chance of survival could really be quite decent as long as you were below the plane when it hit, you don't stop, don't turn round, and just get out before the smoke or the rest of the building catch up with you.
I'm not advocating fear of any event that hasn't happened, but your argument is dumb. I'd rather be someone who got out of the building in time than a soon to be dead rabbit in headlights.
Who's "them"? The link you posted wasn't an election for which party should be in government, but who shall lead the party. The party in power (which is what the country votes to choose during a general election) wasn't changing which is why it was a party member vote rather than a general election. The party in power is decided by which party holds the most seats after a general election, that didn't change by Tony Blair standing down, so the party in power doesn't change.
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"but also have a glass containing two different juices"
Nope, one glass with two different types of juice, or juice from two different fruits or two different types of fruit. One may choose to abbreviate, as with anything, but just because it is done, doesn't mean it is correct... just because it's not correct doesn't mean you have to care, but again, it not being important to you doesn't make it correct either.
"so how many kinds of petrols do we have?
how many juices?"
In the first instance, you pluralised 'kinds'; 'petrol' shouldn't be plural (ie, "how many kinds of petrol"). The second I believe to be incomplete, and should also be prefixed as with your first to form something like "how many types of juice".
Yeah, to hell with accuracy, correctness, lets just grunt at each other and point... as long as we know what each other means.
For the zillionth time, in Latin times, no one had the kind of technology to be able to see viruses, so no one knew they were individual things. The word 'virus' thus refered to a liquid, like an infected substance, and therefore was measured in unitS of quanitY (eg, 2 gallons of petrol, or 4 glasses of apple juice), not unit quantities (eg 4 individual apples). Notice where pluralisation occurs. To suggest Latin rules for pluralisation is absurd because the latin word wasn't to be pluralised; the units of measurement were to be. Learned folk should not repeat this mistake.
(I'm sure those with greater knowledge of Latin could weigh in on other reasons why 'virii' is incorrect, this is just the one I've been made aware of)
It works fine if you copy the URL and paste it into a new window, rather than click the link (as that won't send the HTTP REFERER field)
"The cost of a screen is substantially cheaper than the cost of a new laptop"
Depends on the laptop model. I broke my laptop screen a couple years back. It's a 2003 dell model (D505) that's crucial for my work, but couldn't afford laptop replacement. New screen set me back around £50-60 (~US$80). I fit it myself (was rather simple to)... and now it's continuing to serve me well. But, that particular model did sell rather well, and many neighbouring models (such as D510 I believe) used the same screen, so it a very common, easy to find part. As for Unbranded Model(tm)... that might not be so cheap.
"Also, the rate of alcohol poisoning in the US far exceeds lithium poisoning... um... probably..."
Well alcohol would be more readily available, and my guess is, more fun then lithium (although I've not done a comparison myself) ... my guess is they would be the reasons why it's higher.
No, it's Many Enemas Mean Something... the guy who came up with the design really liked his coffee... like... more than just as a friend. Anyway, legand has it, he needed something that would hold steady.
"Im certainly not advocating spiking the water with anything but fluoride"
Does that mean that you do advocate putting fluoride in water? A chemical used in the treatment of hyperthyroidism (until safer alternatives where found)? I guess it would make sense that if you don't like overly-energetic people (which I'm not arguing with you about!) disrupting TSH receptor site activity within their thyroid gland with fluoride to slow their production of thyroxine probably would be a good thing... so was just wondering if you are a fluoride in water advocate, or whether you mean you're just abstaining from commenting on that one particular chemical? (or of course the option's there that I am mistaken with regards to the effect of fluoride on the thyroid)
"unless it would be a chemical to stop rational thinking"
Holy water?!!
God, why does everyone take everything so seriously? One must not play with words lest he be deemed 'troll'?! Sheesh. To mods 'n others of a hair trigger offence mechanism: learn to appreciate the jest, it does make life more fun.
*falls off his chair* thank you for opening mine eyes! If only I'd had the necessary brain cell population primed to have worked that out for myself, that'd probably completely change the tone 'n spirit of my post. Imagine if that was actually the case!
Well that's more a sentence than a word.
"The 8088 was a technical nightmare with a crappy architecture . It just got lucky. IBM's justifiable preference was Motorola's infinitely superior 68000. Unfortunately, the 68000 was 9 months to a year away"
Yeah, I hear ya, the architecture of a chip is much more important than whether it exists or not.
"There are words for that sort of behaviour, starting with "malware" and in many places ending in "illegal"."
Wow... and I can't even think of one word that begins with 'malware' and ends with 'illegal'. But there are many you say?
"I guess I prefer the keyboard rather than lots of menus and toolbars"
Well with a laptop the the keyboard and mouse are all so close that it's not such an either-or issue as it was when your hand was either on the keyboard or mouse. On the whole, if I'm using the mouse for something, it has to be one click away, and not in submenues, but for the majority of stuff, Launchy is very cool, far more effective than other search functions (such as those on the start menu in vista etc) as it's indexed by letter rather than by strings of letters. Many of my things in my menus are named in such a way that make them interact much better with launchy, so I can launch nearly anything, make any connection with ssh/web/vnc bookmark/connection profiles, in no more than 2-4 keypresses in no more than 2 seconds, whatever's open on my screen. If you're a mostly-keyboard user, get Launchy, highly recommend. Will also point out it remembers your search selected, so if you type two letters, scroll down to the prog you want, next time you type those two letters, you'll get that prog come up as default. So, I have a putty connection and a vnc connection both saved as 'fwall'. I can access the one I use most by typing in 'fw', and the other by typing 'fwa', because it remembers to do again what I got it to do last time.
"Anyway, not everyone prioritises being "fit 'n healthy" to the same degree that you do ...
That last comment was a joke, by the way"
I'm glad you pointed that out, for a moment then I thought you'd seen me and was being sarcastic ;-)
"If you're fit and healthy, adrenaline will give you a further boost"
I'd just prefer a redbull!
Wow... the age of terror really has you! My actions are based on trying to achieve positive gain, not avoid negative loss situations. I don't understand why anyone would want to live their life based on the bad things that could happen, rather than the good.
"Adrenaline lets you do things you otherwise couldn't do, or at the very least do them faster"
So does a regular workout. If you're fit 'n healthy, you don't need to rely on adrenaline.
"IMHO, you sound like you're afraid of being afraid, so maybe you could think about working on that"
To you, of course I do. You're so wrapped up in stuff you're afraid of on a daily basis, by your own admission, that it shapes the way you see things. This is known as 'projection', or 'generalising from self'. You can't see any other way of life, therefore can't see anyone else having another way of life. Maybe you should think about working on that. Of course you won't, because there's no fear component, which means there's no motivation for you to... and that's where the problem lies.
"If you weren't afraid of something undesirable happening, what possible reason could you have for reacting in the first place?"
Wow... I guess it stands to reason that in this 'global age of terror' people can't think of motivations for doing something that aren't routed in fear. How about desire? Necessity? Both powerful motivators that can keep you out of deaths grasp without having to feel fear.
Please note that I'm not standing here calling people who were scared when a plane hit the building they were in sissy... I'm sitting... no just kiddin, fear is a normal, natural, human response to life threatening situations. My argument is purely that you don't NEED it, life preserving actions can be decision based rather than emotionally driven... but again, yes, in our 'age of terror', one could be forgiven for forgetting that.
"like when a jet is occupying airspace in your high-rise building's proximity with a military fighter escort in a city that has seen some nasty shit go down"
Yeah, I can understand why that would scare you, but what you need is, if there's a potential threat, is to get out the way of it. As you can do this without fear, fear is something you don't need.
"And from there came the ability to think clearly and react effectively"
And you can't get that ability otherwise?
"but *sometimes* there is good reason to be afraid"
Like what? I think there can be good reason to react, but if you can do it without being afraid, your chances of survival are higher, cuz you'll be thinking more clearly, therefore the more dangerous the situation, the more reason there is to not be afraid... and of course, in a non-dangerous situation, there's obviously no reason to be afraid either. React sanely without fear, you can still preserve your life... and you get to live without fear, which is a good thing, and should be encouraged.
You seem to be forgetting how exactly sept11 'went down' (excuse the pun)... most of the deaths were caused by the building collapses, not the initial impacts. Reports say that even after the planes hit, there were people in the buildings not escaping, but congregating to decide what they should do in their stunned state. Your chance of survival could really be quite decent as long as you were below the plane when it hit, you don't stop, don't turn round, and just get out before the smoke or the rest of the building catch up with you.
I'm not advocating fear of any event that hasn't happened, but your argument is dumb. I'd rather be someone who got out of the building in time than a soon to be dead rabbit in headlights.
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Who's "them"? The link you posted wasn't an election for which party should be in government, but who shall lead the party. The party in power (which is what the country votes to choose during a general election) wasn't changing which is why it was a party member vote rather than a general election. The party in power is decided by which party holds the most seats after a general election, that didn't change by Tony Blair standing down, so the party in power doesn't change.