anus' was meant to be possessive, as in it belongs to the person, not as in there are more than one
Um, that's still the incorrect usage.
but most of the time, if people relax their anus' a little
In this case "their" takes care of the possessive for you; all you need to do to your anus is pluralize it. The apostrophe in your example is actually giving your anuses ownership over "a little."
How often do they have to happen before the cost of maintenance is prohibitive? According to other comments, it costs 10x more just to install underground. Add to that any landscaping or construction that is put over the top of it afterward (driveways? gardens? etc) and now not only will you have to pay to dig it up, but you've got to replace everything you've destroyed to get down to it. On top of the dollar cost, it also takes a lot longer to locate a breach with buried utilities. When I have a guy come look at my buried sewer system, I have to pay him hundreds of dollars to use a camera that looks like a colonoscope and find the breach in my sewer line before he can even decide if it needs to be dug up or not.
Buried lines are not the magic bullet you seem to think they are, and there is plenty of analysis that should be done before deciding to completely change the way we do things.
Doesn't every generation talk about how the next generation has it so much easier than the last? Does this kind of talk really get us anywhere? Feel free to do an actual scientific study, rather than just saying "such kids grow up and lead the ones who were coddled (e.g. US kids) during their early years."
There is way too much speculation in the world today. Back in my day, we did experiments and only told the truth! Damn kids, get off my lawn!
I second this -- OP talked a lot about HTML/CSS which JSfiddle handles well, and also lets you get into a lot of client side stuff like jquery. Definitely a good resource.
SlashDot users are not very good at predicting the market, historically. Remember the news story announcing the iPod? Everyone said how it wasn't much of an improvement over the other products, and yet -- today you don't even say "MP3 player" you just say "iPod."
So, my point is, I don't think it matters who is a fanboi, we just suck at knowing what the real world will do.
Wow you really called China out, and right on the public internets! I bet they will now have a moment to reflect on their actions and then will change to become the "Ms. Congeniality" of the world as a result of your insightful comment!
Several other black men and several women have run for president without success -- why were they not fortunate enough to have enjoyed this public sentiment you're speaking of? Based on this, shouldn't Hillary have won the nomination (and then the presidency)? I mean, there are far more women in the US than there are black people.
Ya, I thought that too. It got a lot less interesting when it turned out to just be a guy played the same saved game every once in a while over a decade.
Mod parent up for the umpteenth time, please -- there are several posts saying "95% of blacks voted for Obama" and ignoring the fact that a very similar percentage of blacks typically vote Democrat even when the candidate is white.
Do you have enough experience with this topic across the whole of the US that the average in your experience somehow applies? I don't, however my experience has been far different from yours. I'm *white* and I've had not-so-great encounters with white racists and even supremacists several times. Even if they are less significant in overall number, the severity of how they treat their "enemy" is much greater. I have seen a white guy with a shaved head and a swastika tattooed on his entire scalp. I've seen big signs posted on the sides of public, heavily traveled roads about how they won't support a "dirty arab" and "terrorist." I've never experienced an anti-white sentiment that comes close to rivaling this, and I've lived in predominantly black neighborhoods for most of the last decade. I dated a cop for a while and we were in walmart once, she saw an end-cap with baby-dolls with dark skin tone -- she looked at it with disgust and said "You never saw stuff like that before Obama. Just saying..."
So, what makes your experience more relevant than mine?
Ah, no. "The Vote" consists only of voters. You are making an assumption that abstaining from voting is the same as a vote against. It is not the same.
That's interesting, I didn't know that. Is that data kept somewhere that I can get to it? I remember looking at exit polls after the 2008 election and seeing the same thing as the AC GP, but I didn't have any historical data to compare against. I thought it unlikely that blacks always heavily favor one party over the other like this, but your comment says otherwise, and I'd like some more info.
game development is unethical because it causes violent behavior
You realize there are two assumptions there rather than one, right?
1. Causing violent behavior is unethical (which I think is the one you were going for)
2. Game development causes violent behavior -- I'm not sure you thought about this one. Perhaps you meant the games themselves cause violent behavior, which is something that has been argued to death and most recent studies have shown that it is not the case. However, it sounds more like the act of developing games is what causes violent behavior. Is this akin to going postal, except doing it at EA instead of at the post office?
Another automotive killer is travel. Simply make it illegal to operate a motor vehicle more than 50 miles from county of registration and that alone will cut accident rates by a considerable amount.
Um...
"Most car accidents happen close to home. Only 1% of accidents occurred more than 50 miles from home. Most people drive close to their home, which is why car insurance rates depend heavily on your home address."
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=how+many+accidents+occur+close+to+home
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So your left; his right?
Ur... This is Slashdot, not Slapdash. That's a completely different site.
Um, that's still the incorrect usage.
In this case "their" takes care of the possessive for you; all you need to do to your anus is pluralize it. The apostrophe in your example is actually giving your anuses ownership over "a little."
Just out of curiosity, did anyone suggest closing the pool?
How often do they have to happen before the cost of maintenance is prohibitive? According to other comments, it costs 10x more just to install underground. Add to that any landscaping or construction that is put over the top of it afterward (driveways? gardens? etc) and now not only will you have to pay to dig it up, but you've got to replace everything you've destroyed to get down to it. On top of the dollar cost, it also takes a lot longer to locate a breach with buried utilities. When I have a guy come look at my buried sewer system, I have to pay him hundreds of dollars to use a camera that looks like a colonoscope and find the breach in my sewer line before he can even decide if it needs to be dug up or not.
Buried lines are not the magic bullet you seem to think they are, and there is plenty of analysis that should be done before deciding to completely change the way we do things.
Doesn't every generation talk about how the next generation has it so much easier than the last? Does this kind of talk really get us anywhere? Feel free to do an actual scientific study, rather than just saying "such kids grow up and lead the ones who were coddled (e.g. US kids) during their early years."
There is way too much speculation in the world today. Back in my day, we did experiments and only told the truth! Damn kids, get off my lawn!
I second this -- OP talked a lot about HTML/CSS which JSfiddle handles well, and also lets you get into a lot of client side stuff like jquery. Definitely a good resource.
Why the fuck did you censor your shit there? Slashdot's a free fucking speech zone, you can fucking say all the shit you fucking want to.
Ouch, good comeback!
SlashDot users are not very good at predicting the market, historically. Remember the news story announcing the iPod? Everyone said how it wasn't much of an improvement over the other products, and yet -- today you don't even say "MP3 player" you just say "iPod."
So, my point is, I don't think it matters who is a fanboi, we just suck at knowing what the real world will do.
So what you're saying is that Romney's campaign team will be lining up at Best Buy for these?
Can I have your stuff?
+1 Funny
Wow you really called China out, and right on the public internets! I bet they will now have a moment to reflect on their actions and then will change to become the "Ms. Congeniality" of the world as a result of your insightful comment!
Are you friends with this guy? http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/
Several other black men and several women have run for president without success -- why were they not fortunate enough to have enjoyed this public sentiment you're speaking of? Based on this, shouldn't Hillary have won the nomination (and then the presidency)? I mean, there are far more women in the US than there are black people.
Ya, I thought that too. It got a lot less interesting when it turned out to just be a guy played the same saved game every once in a while over a decade.
Mod parent up for the umpteenth time, please -- there are several posts saying "95% of blacks voted for Obama" and ignoring the fact that a very similar percentage of blacks typically vote Democrat even when the candidate is white.
Do you have enough experience with this topic across the whole of the US that the average in your experience somehow applies? I don't, however my experience has been far different from yours. I'm *white* and I've had not-so-great encounters with white racists and even supremacists several times. Even if they are less significant in overall number, the severity of how they treat their "enemy" is much greater. I have seen a white guy with a shaved head and a swastika tattooed on his entire scalp. I've seen big signs posted on the sides of public, heavily traveled roads about how they won't support a "dirty arab" and "terrorist." I've never experienced an anti-white sentiment that comes close to rivaling this, and I've lived in predominantly black neighborhoods for most of the last decade. I dated a cop for a while and we were in walmart once, she saw an end-cap with baby-dolls with dark skin tone -- she looked at it with disgust and said "You never saw stuff like that before Obama. Just saying..."
So, what makes your experience more relevant than mine?
Ah, no. "The Vote" consists only of voters. You are making an assumption that abstaining from voting is the same as a vote against. It is not the same.
It's true that he made history, but to be fair, he never once ran his campaign on the idea of "let's put the first black man in the white house."
That's interesting, I didn't know that. Is that data kept somewhere that I can get to it? I remember looking at exit polls after the 2008 election and seeing the same thing as the AC GP, but I didn't have any historical data to compare against. I thought it unlikely that blacks always heavily favor one party over the other like this, but your comment says otherwise, and I'd like some more info.
Sure, but there are myriad video games which do not even depict violence -- unless you think things like "words with friends" is an immoral cesspool?
You realize there are two assumptions there rather than one, right?
1. Causing violent behavior is unethical (which I think is the one you were going for)
2. Game development causes violent behavior -- I'm not sure you thought about this one. Perhaps you meant the games themselves cause violent behavior, which is something that has been argued to death and most recent studies have shown that it is not the case. However, it sounds more like the act of developing games is what causes violent behavior. Is this akin to going postal, except doing it at EA instead of at the post office?
Um... "Most car accidents happen close to home. Only 1% of accidents occurred more than 50 miles from home. Most people drive close to their home, which is why car insurance rates depend heavily on your home address." http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=how+many+accidents+occur+close+to+home