Top dictionaries are listing a pronunciation of "nuclear" that rhymes with secular, so people who mispronounced it can now point to a respected dictionary and be vindicated.
Same way "gigabyte" got a hard G.
Same way "dissect" got a long I.
Same way every word changed, and why we don't speak like we are from hundreds of years ago.
Putting an apostrophe on the possessive of "it" is rampant on the internet. It'll lead the way for a change in the apostrophe rule. The new rule will be "do whatever you want, grammar is not important and we love your expression of individuality."
In Morrowind, or an expansion, there was a vast ancient dweemer hold. The story explained the dweemers had disappeared suddenly (act of god type thing), and sure enough there were little ash piles everywhere a dweemer has died. In one residence, there were two ash piles on a bed, plus a "dweemer tube" (like a vacuum tube the size of a banana) on one ash pile, and a jar of "dweemer oil" on the bedside table. After I got done laughing I opened the other door to leave, and found another ashpile outside the door, lined up with the door's keyhole.
Don't confuse the last 300,000 years of human society with modern society. The modern standard of expressing a gay gene by "not having children" might not have been an option during the bulk of human evolution. Especially for lesbians.
Don't confuse the last 300,000 years of human society with modern society. The modern standard of expressing a gay gene by "not having children" might not have been an option during the bulk of human evolution.
The poster has his own "think of the children" problem. "Poor kids are tracked a million ways and have no privacy today, boo hoo."
Today kids have all kinds of freedom compared to yesterday in a small neighborhood where every adult knew them and both wouldn't get in trouble for disciplining a fellow townsperson's child themselves, and would phone the parent and say "you know what you kid did" when the result would be some very unwanted punishment. Today's parents want to be their children's friends and don't dish out discipline. Kids know it and aren't afraid of misbehaving, tracking or not.
This thread contains good arguments why, once a buyer has passed a background check, centralized records on gun owners should not be kept. As Germans were rounding up Jews on the lists of the Dutch, Germans were going to the homes of those with registered firearms and confiscating them.
Here's a goodie: Associated Press, 07/21/06
State: TN
Chris Cope said it was "like something in a serial killer movie," at a Memphis, Tenn., shopping center where he manages a financial services office. According to police, a store employee began stabbing co-workers after a work dispute. The attacker had already stabbed eight people and was chasing a ninth when Cope ran to his truck to retrieve his 9 mm pistol. "[The suspect] just kept saying, 'I'm insane. I wish I was never born,' and all that stuff," Cope said. But apparently the crazed man valued his life more than he let on. "When he turned around and saw my pistol, he threw the knife away, put his hands up and got on the ground," Cope said. "He saw my gun and that was pretty much it." ====
The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC, 11/18/98
A number of unsolved burglaries and a subsequent string of sexual assaults near the University of North Carolina's Charlotte campus had female residents there fearing for their safety. It was that heightened sense of awareness, and an armed citizen, that helped prevent yet another attack. Twenty-six-year-old Adrian Rodricka Cathey entered a woman's apartment early one morning and assaulted her with a knife. This time, however, the intended victim fought back, retrieving a firearm and shooting her assailant. Cathey, who had a record of arrests on charges of rape and attempted murder, was later found dead in a parking lot. ==== Seattle Post Intelligencer, Seattle, WA
Samuel S. Cameron, associate principal of the Garfield High School in Garfield, Wash., spotted a youth who had caused a disturbance on the campus. When Cameron asked the youth to leave, the latter pulled what appeared to be a gun. Grabbing his own pistol, Cameron fired into the ground, causing the troublemaker to flee.
"Her suit asserts that the Internet Archive's programmatic visitation of her site constitutes acceptance of her terms, despite the obvious inability of a Web crawler to understand those terms and the absence of a robots.txt file to warn crawlers away."
I don't want my internet service rates pooled with DVD and music downloaders (ARRR matey!!!) any more than I want my health insurance pooled with fat smokers, or my car insurance with drivers carrying points.
I look forward to the day I pay for what I use, without subsidizing others.
Patents give a financial incentive for inventors to invent and disclose their new idea to the rest of us. The inventors are given the temporary ability to manufacture the product themselves or license to someone who will. Take away patents and you empower a manufacuring juggernaught to immediately produce any products introduced by others. Got an idea for a better snow shovel design, intermittant wipers, a better way to microwave bacon? Patent it and tell us, and rest assured ACME, Ford or Ronco won't rip you off and get away with it.
I'm surprised courts approve of email, considering the occasional failure to deliver, and spoofing possibility. I thought that's what registered mail was for.
"Gasoline is nearly back to $2 a gallon." Still a bunch higher than when Bush took office. Big surprise that an oilman in the oval office led to higher prices.
Gasoline is nearly back to $2 a gallon. Thanks to aggressive imperialistic foreign policies that piss-off the rest of the planet against 'mericans.
This would be more like if there was a test 20% into it that you had to pass before you could watch the last 80%. And all the questions were essay questions. And you had to come up with the essay answer that was word for word, letter for letter the same as the official answer. While being kicked in the nuts.
Jesus Christ... that must be one difficult race we're talking about.
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Top dictionaries are listing a pronunciation of "nuclear" that rhymes with secular, so people who mispronounced it can now point to a respected dictionary and be vindicated.
Same way "gigabyte" got a hard G.
Same way "dissect" got a long I.
Same way every word changed, and why we don't speak like we are from hundreds of years ago.
Putting an apostrophe on the possessive of "it" is rampant on the internet. It'll lead the way for a change in the apostrophe rule. The new rule will be "do whatever you want, grammar is not important and we love your expression of individuality."
Well put. I wish I had a mod point for you. Here's a smilie instead :-)
Boy to economist father: "I see money under that bench!"
Father: "Silly, if there were money under the bench, someone would have picked it up!"
In Morrowind, or an expansion, there was a vast ancient dweemer hold. The story explained the dweemers had disappeared suddenly (act of god type thing), and sure enough there were little ash piles everywhere a dweemer has died. In one residence, there were two ash piles on a bed, plus a "dweemer tube" (like a vacuum tube the size of a banana) on one ash pile, and a jar of "dweemer oil" on the bedside table. After I got done laughing I opened the other door to leave, and found another ashpile outside the door, lined up with the door's keyhole.
I hope that /. editors become aware of the slant they have continuously put on the LHC setback stories.
They BECOME editors to inject their slant, whether about Bush, RIAA, DMCA, capitalism, america, or anything else.
Don't confuse the last 300,000 years of human society with modern society. The modern standard of expressing a gay gene by "not having children" might not have been an option during the bulk of human evolution. Especially for lesbians.
Don't confuse the last 300,000 years of human society with modern society. The modern standard of expressing a gay gene by "not having children" might not have been an option during the bulk of human evolution.
The poster has his own "think of the children" problem. "Poor kids are tracked a million ways and have no privacy today, boo hoo."
Today kids have all kinds of freedom compared to yesterday in a small neighborhood where every adult knew them and both wouldn't get in trouble for disciplining a fellow townsperson's child themselves, and would phone the parent and say "you know what you kid did" when the result would be some very unwanted punishment. Today's parents want to be their children's friends and don't dish out discipline. Kids know it and aren't afraid of misbehaving, tracking or not.
http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/
This thread contains good arguments why, once a buyer has passed a background check, centralized records on gun owners should not be kept. As Germans were rounding up Jews on the lists of the Dutch, Germans were going to the homes of those with registered firearms and confiscating them.
Even the most successful technologies have some problems associated with them. Nothing parent mentioned is even remotely close to show stopper.
Thanks for digging a little. Hearing both sides sure puts things in perspective.
The debate analyzers knew a lot of people vote for a candidate's platform, not the candidate.
Here's a goodie:
Associated Press, 07/21/06
State: TN
Chris Cope said it was "like something in a serial killer movie," at a Memphis, Tenn., shopping center where he manages a financial services office. According to police, a store employee began stabbing co-workers after a work dispute. The attacker had already stabbed eight people and was chasing a ninth when Cope ran to his truck to retrieve his 9 mm pistol. "[The suspect] just kept saying, 'I'm insane. I wish I was never born,' and all that stuff," Cope said. But apparently the crazed man valued his life more than he let on. "When he turned around and saw my pistol, he threw the knife away, put his hands up and got on the ground," Cope said. "He saw my gun and that was pretty much it."
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Find your own with this searchable archive:
http://www.nraila.org/ArmedCitizen/Default.aspx
The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC, 11/18/98
A number of unsolved burglaries and a subsequent string of sexual assaults near the University of North Carolina's Charlotte campus had female residents there fearing for their safety. It was that heightened sense of awareness, and an armed citizen, that helped prevent yet another attack. Twenty-six-year-old Adrian Rodricka Cathey entered a woman's apartment early one morning and assaulted her with a knife. This time, however, the intended victim fought back, retrieving a firearm and shooting her assailant. Cathey, who had a record of arrests on charges of rape and attempted murder, was later found dead in a parking lot.
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Seattle Post Intelligencer, Seattle, WA
Samuel S. Cameron, associate principal of the Garfield High School in Garfield, Wash., spotted a youth who had caused a disturbance on the campus. When Cameron asked the youth to leave, the latter pulled what appeared to be a gun. Grabbing his own pistol, Cameron fired into the ground, causing the troublemaker to flee.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070317/tc_cmp/198001 674
"Her suit asserts that the Internet Archive's programmatic visitation of her site constitutes acceptance of her terms, despite the obvious inability of a Web crawler to understand those terms and the absence of a robots.txt file to warn crawlers away."
I don't want my internet service rates pooled with DVD and music downloaders (ARRR matey!!!) any more than I want my health insurance pooled with fat smokers, or my car insurance with drivers carrying points.
I look forward to the day I pay for what I use, without subsidizing others.
"the question of whether computers can think is no more interesting than the question of whether submarines can swim."
it's = "it is"
its = possessive of "it"
Patents give a financial incentive for inventors to invent and disclose their new idea to the rest of us. The inventors are given the temporary ability to manufacture the product themselves or license to someone who will. Take away patents and you empower a manufacuring juggernaught to immediately produce any products introduced by others. Got an idea for a better snow shovel design, intermittant wipers, a better way to microwave bacon? Patent it and tell us, and rest assured ACME, Ford or Ronco won't rip you off and get away with it.
I'm surprised courts approve of email, considering the occasional failure to deliver, and spoofing possibility. I thought that's what registered mail was for.
"Gasoline is nearly back to $2 a gallon."
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Still a bunch higher than when Bush took office. Big surprise that an oilman in the oval office led to higher prices.
Gasoline is nearly back to $2 a gallon.
Thanks to aggressive imperialistic foreign policies that piss-off the rest of the planet against 'mericans.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=222080&ci
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=222080&ci
GP says Obama is for gun control and redistributive economics and gets modded troll.
Parent disparages single issue voters (despite GP mentioning TWO issues), and gets modded +5 insightful.
No bias here, move along...
So when do we start requiring people to start taking responsibility for themselves?
1776-1929?This would be more like if there was a test 20% into it that you had to pass before you could watch the last 80%. And all the questions were essay questions. And you had to come up with the essay answer that was word for word, letter for letter the same as the official answer. While being kicked in the nuts.
Jesus Christ... that must be one difficult race we're talking about.