You'd throw away your dignity and self-respect for a mere $25K yet you call us sad and shallow?
Next time I pass a donation box, I'll throw a dollar in for you. Take yourself out somewhere nice.
And remember to thank me.
I don't see you as being all that much better. At least Bob Cat is an entertaining read.
You, however, jump out of nowhere to harass him about having the nerve say he was less than thrilled by the experience.
Whether or not you agree with him, that's your choice, sure. But insulting him needlessly because you still worship Alex doesn't change his mind and force him to realize that "hey, maybe I really *am* pathetic and so therefore Alex isn't such a bad guy after all."
In a contest to see who's the more pathetic and odious, you're more likely to take home the Sauder desk while Bob Cat'll get stuck with the mops.
Personally, I think human dignity is worth more than a mere $25,000 and if you have to be treated as cattle and herded onstage and off so the network can make their cash, it's not necessarily worth it.
I doubt I'd cheerfully thank someone even if they did paid me $25k to treat me like a commodity.
Maybe you're right. Spelling, grammar, capitalization, punctuation, these aren't tools to help us be clearly understood, they're tools of oppressivist old-thinkers trying to stomp out the creativity of youth!
how dare people tell me when i should use capital letters!
how dair peepul tel me wen i shuld us propr speling!
how peeples dair tells we when shuld i use good grammer!
They should just worry about my meaning and not judge me on the way I convey it!
Evolution of the language is one thing. Deterioration of it is yet another. No matter how the language has evolved in the past, such things as grammar and spelling and capitalization and punctuation have become more formalized to assist in clarifying the multitude of meanings the newer words and the newer meanings for those words now attempt to convey.
As to people worrying about what you say and not how you say it, my opinion is this: If you cannot be bothered to take the time to be easily readable and clearly understood, then I in turn cannot be bothered to try to read and understand your textual vomitus.
And as far as having the right not to be judged by your spelling/grammer/punctuation/capitalization skills, well, that right does not exist. People *will* judge you whether you like it or not, and they do have a right think what they choose.
When you communicate using the written word, the only indicator of your level of intelligence is the skill with which you do it.
If you type like a four-year-old, you're judged to have the mind of a four-year-old whether you like it or not.
If you really feel like defending your right to mangle the language, do so on your next job résumé. (For future reference, yes I would like fries with that.)
Maybe you're right. Spelling, grammar, capitalization, punctuation, these aren't tools to help us be clearly understood, they're tools of oppressivist old-thinkers trying to stomp out the creativity of youth!
how dare people tell me when i should use capital letters!
how dair peepul tel me wen i shuld us propr speling!
how peeples dair tells we when shuld i use good grammer!
They should just worry about my meaning and not judge me on the way I convey it!
Evolution of the language is one thing. Deterioration of it is yet another. No matter how the language has evolved in the past, such things as grammar and spelling and capitalization and punctuation have become more formalized to assist in clarifying the multitude of meanings the newer words and the newer meanings for those words now attempt to convey.
As to people worrying about what you say and not how you say it, my opinion is this: If you cannot be bothered to take the time to be easily readable and clearly understood, then I in turn cannot be bothered to try to read and understand your textual vomitus.
And as far as having the right not to be judged by your spelling/grammer/punctuation/capitalization skills, well, that right does not exist. People *will* judge you whether you like it or not, and they do have a right think what they choose. When you communicate using the written word, the only indicator of your level of intelligence is the skill with which you do it. If you type like a four-year-old, you're judged to have the mind of a four-year-old whether you like it or not.
If you really feel like defending your right to mangle the language, do so on your next job résumé. (For future reference, yes I would like fries with that.)
Data you wrote there six months ago is destroyed. Data wrote more recently remains unaffected.
I'd think that if you were interested in any kind of long-term storage, the parts of the fingernail that were written to would be close to the nail bed.
Unless you chew your fingers down to the first knuckle, thereby eliminating all traces of fingernail, biting your fingernails shouldn't affect anything recent.
Now, for women, colored nail polish is probably the greatest threat. And manicures are probably number two, what with the sanding and polishing of the nail surface. But depending on the depth the data is written, maybe it would survive a manicure...
"Minimizing a persons intellect on anything other than what they are actually attempting to communicate is the internet form of racism. Tieing two unrelated concepts to diminish a persons worth."
Yet you lead into the above with this:
"That's because you're a fool. Minimizing a persons intellect based on their ability to communicate shows that you have no understanding in what genius comes from."
According to your own argument, minimizing a person's intellect based on their tendency to minimize another person's intellect is therefore also a form of racism, and you too are guilty of tying two unrelated concepts together to diminish a person's worth.
So, either you're wrong, a racist, or a hypocrite.
Could you clarify for us by letting us know which?
Based on your numerous spelling and grammar errors, I'm gleefully jumping on your minimization bandwagon and am guessing that you're merely wrong (which means neither of us are therefore necessarily racist! yay!) though I haven't ruled out hypocrite yet.
I think it inadvertently proves yet another point as well:
If people who've in most cases been using a language since shortly after birth still can't get all the details right when using it,
How do you expect them to get all the details right in a language that
...they've only been speaking for a relatively small percentage of their lives, and
...wasn't even created for humans to communicate natively in.
...they haven't been formally trained in for at least a half-dozen years
How do you expect them to respond to criticism of their use of a programming language when they've proven that their typical response to criticism of their native language consists of things like:
"Shut up, grammar/spelling/punctuation nazi!"
"You can still understand me! Who cares!?"
"I meant to do it that way because I'm a 1337 h4xx0r!"
"STFU, n00b"
So, in conclusion, <sarcasm><irony>"STFU, buffer overrun nazis!"</irony></sarcasm>
I do feel that attention to detail in one is reflected in the other and that overall quality will improve in neither until people start to care and it becomes less socially acceptable to make the mistake in the first place than to be the one to point the mistake out, in code or otherwise.
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You'd throw away your dignity and self-respect for a mere $25K yet you call us sad and shallow? Next time I pass a donation box, I'll throw a dollar in for you. Take yourself out somewhere nice. And remember to thank me.
I don't see you as being all that much better. At least Bob Cat is an entertaining read.
You, however, jump out of nowhere to harass him about having the nerve say he was less than thrilled by the experience.
Whether or not you agree with him, that's your choice, sure. But insulting him needlessly because you still worship Alex doesn't change his mind and force him to realize that "hey, maybe I really *am* pathetic and so therefore Alex isn't such a bad guy after all."
In a contest to see who's the more pathetic and odious, you're more likely to take home the Sauder desk while Bob Cat'll get stuck with the mops.
Personally, I think human dignity is worth more than a mere $25,000 and if you have to be treated as cattle and herded onstage and off so the network can make their cash, it's not necessarily worth it.
I doubt I'd cheerfully thank someone even if they did paid me $25k to treat me like a commodity.
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Maybe you're right.
Spelling, grammar, capitalization, punctuation, these aren't tools to help us be clearly understood, they're tools of oppressivist old-thinkers trying to stomp out the creativity of youth!
how dare people tell me when i should use capital letters!
how dair peepul tel me wen i shuld us propr speling!
how peeples dair tells we when shuld i use good grammer!
They should just worry about my meaning and not judge me on the way I convey it!
Evolution of the language is one thing. Deterioration of it is yet another. No matter how the language has evolved in the past, such things as grammar and spelling and capitalization and punctuation have become more formalized to assist in clarifying the multitude of meanings the newer words and the newer meanings for those words now attempt to convey.
As to people worrying about what you say and not how you say it, my opinion is this: If you cannot be bothered to take the time to be easily readable and clearly understood, then I in turn cannot be bothered to try to read and understand your textual vomitus.
And as far as having the right not to be judged by your spelling/grammer/punctuation/capitalization skills, well, that right does not exist. People *will* judge you whether you like it or not, and they do have a right think what they choose.
When you communicate using the written word, the only indicator of your level of intelligence is the skill with which you do it.
If you type like a four-year-old, you're judged to have the mind of a four-year-old whether you like it or not.
If you really feel like defending your right to mangle the language, do so on your next job résumé. (For future reference, yes I would like fries with that.)
Maybe you're right. Spelling, grammar, capitalization, punctuation, these aren't tools to help us be clearly understood, they're tools of oppressivist old-thinkers trying to stomp out the creativity of youth! how dare people tell me when i should use capital letters! how dair peepul tel me wen i shuld us propr speling! how peeples dair tells we when shuld i use good grammer! They should just worry about my meaning and not judge me on the way I convey it! Evolution of the language is one thing. Deterioration of it is yet another. No matter how the language has evolved in the past, such things as grammar and spelling and capitalization and punctuation have become more formalized to assist in clarifying the multitude of meanings the newer words and the newer meanings for those words now attempt to convey. As to people worrying about what you say and not how you say it, my opinion is this: If you cannot be bothered to take the time to be easily readable and clearly understood, then I in turn cannot be bothered to try to read and understand your textual vomitus. And as far as having the right not to be judged by your spelling/grammer/punctuation/capitalization skills, well, that right does not exist. People *will* judge you whether you like it or not, and they do have a right think what they choose. When you communicate using the written word, the only indicator of your level of intelligence is the skill with which you do it. If you type like a four-year-old, you're judged to have the mind of a four-year-old whether you like it or not. If you really feel like defending your right to mangle the language, do so on your next job résumé. (For future reference, yes I would like fries with that.)
Simple:
Data you wrote there six months ago is destroyed. Data wrote more recently remains unaffected.I'd think that if you were interested in any kind of long-term storage, the parts of the fingernail that were written to would be close to the nail bed.
Unless you chew your fingers down to the first knuckle, thereby eliminating all traces of fingernail, biting your fingernails shouldn't affect anything recent.
Now, for women, colored nail polish is probably the greatest threat. And manicures are probably number two, what with the sanding and polishing of the nail surface. But depending on the depth the data is written, maybe it would survive a manicure...
According to your own argument , minimizing a person's intellect based on their tendency to minimize another person's intellect is therefore also a form of racism, and you too are guilty of tying two unrelated concepts together to diminish a person's worth.
So, either you're wrong, a racist, or a hypocrite.
Could you clarify for us by letting us know which?
Based on your numerous spelling and grammar errors, I'm gleefully jumping on your minimization bandwagon and am guessing that you're merely wrong (which means neither of us are therefore necessarily racist! yay!) though I haven't ruled out hypocrite yet.
I think it inadvertently proves yet another point as well:
If people who've in most cases been using a language since shortly after birth still can't get all the details right when using it,
So, in conclusion, <sarcasm><irony>"STFU, buffer overrun nazis!"</irony></sarcasm>
I do feel that attention to detail in one is reflected in the other and that overall quality will improve in neither until people start to care and it becomes less socially acceptable to make the mistake in the first place than to be the one to point the mistake out, in code or otherwise.