Or maybe I'm just availing every opportunity He tosses my way, so as best to take care of the gift He has given me (i.e., my life). To do otherwise would be ungrateful and ungracious.
So I'm assuming that you'll be skipping all future (straight) weddings and anniversary parties you're invited to, and holding your hands over your ears and singing "La la la la la la la la la" whenever anyone mentions his or her opposite-sex significant other.
shut up about your sexual orientation like all of us straight people do about ours.
Unless (assuming you've had such) you've honestly never openly referred to "my girlfriend", "my wife" (or "boyfriend" and "husband" if you're a woman), or in any way let anyone know the gender of a person you're dating or find attractive, then you most certainly do not "shut up about your sexual orientation."
The Salon article you linked to actually confirms the W's incident, as well as several other small-scale pranks. It does indeed, though, make clear that the scope was far less than has been frequently reported.
Tell that to Emily Dickinson!
Or we could give him the benefit of the doubt and construe "be" as a subjunctive.
But I think the most likely explanation is that he typed the sentence so fast that the word "to" got left out.
Amen! Whatever time Firefox may lose in rendering is more than made up by features such as having a menu accessible via the keyboard, "Undo close tab", searching for text when I start typing, and extensions like Add to Search Bar, DownThemAll, Add Bookmark Here, and Uppity. Not to mention "runs in Linux"...
It's a trademark issue. These people had the trademark first, I gather. OpenOffice.org's web site has this to say about the question: Because of trademark issues, OpenOffice.org must insist that all public communications refer to the project and software as "OpenOffice.org" or "OpenOffice.org 1.x," and not "OpenOffice" or "Open Office."
Pedantic aside: The correct spelling is "vocal cords" (no h).
The difference is that relatively few humans learn to communicate in "pictorial languages". EVERY human, give or take a few with damaged or defective physiologies, learns spoken language. We're hard-wired for it. To me, that would indicate pretty clearly that spoken language evolved before "pictorial language".
There can be no selection until there is some advantage to be gained.
Not necessarily true. A random mutation that does not harm an individual's reproductive success will persist and spread. Should the part of the population to whom it has spread be (by some other random chance) the part of the population that happens to survive, then that mutation is selected even without conferring any advantage.
Sure it would. Over and over, even. Mutations are random, and such a mutation as making ears and voices work with different frequencies is probably well within the range of random variation.
What evolution wouldn't do is favor that mistake and perpetuate it. (Of course, if this is what you meant in the first place, then we have no disagreement.)
But maybe the medical professionals are in on the conspiracy! Of course! They're lying and saying there's nothing wrong with me, just so they can increase their profits when something is wrong with me!
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Or maybe I'm just availing every opportunity He tosses my way, so as best to take care of the gift He has given me (i.e., my life). To do otherwise would be ungrateful and ungracious.
So I'm assuming that you'll be skipping all future (straight) weddings and anniversary parties you're invited to, and holding your hands over your ears and singing "La la la la la la la la la" whenever anyone mentions his or her opposite-sex significant other.
shut up about your sexual orientation like all of us straight people do about ours.
Unless (assuming you've had such) you've honestly never openly referred to "my girlfriend", "my wife" (or "boyfriend" and "husband" if you're a woman), or in any way let anyone know the gender of a person you're dating or find attractive, then you most certainly do not "shut up about your sexual orientation."
Linux runs on your girlfriend? Now that is one versatile operating system!
The Salon article you linked to actually confirms the W's incident, as well as several other small-scale pranks. It does indeed, though, make clear that the scope was far less than has been frequently reported.
divine intervention could restore it
Now I have to come up with a way to avoid THAT, too? Damn.
he contacted Nancy Rogers, who is the Ohio Attorney General
Nancy Rogers is a Democrat appointee. Are you suggesting that she would be a shill for Rove?
You're right. It would have made very different (though perhaps no less bad) mistakes.
Tell that to Emily Dickinson! Or we could give him the benefit of the doubt and construe "be" as a subjunctive. But I think the most likely explanation is that he typed the sentence so fast that the word "to" got left out.
There's an easy solution, then. Make the minimum wage higher than $100 an hour!
;-)
Problem solved.
Skimming, I first read this as Basically, they aren't addicted because video games just enjoy playing them.
...which was a sort of chilling mental image.
Is that why those who attend religious services live longer?
(Granted, the correlation could work the other way -- maybe overall-healthier people are more likely to feel like going to church, for instance.)
Aha! Somehow I missed that. Thanks.
Amen! Whatever time Firefox may lose in rendering is more than made up by features such as having a menu accessible via the keyboard, "Undo close tab", searching for text when I start typing, and extensions like Add to Search Bar, DownThemAll, Add Bookmark Here, and Uppity. Not to mention "runs in Linux"...
It's a trademark issue. These people had the trademark first, I gather. OpenOffice.org's web site has this to say about the question: Because of trademark issues, OpenOffice.org must insist that all public communications refer to the project and software as "OpenOffice.org" or "OpenOffice.org 1.x," and not "OpenOffice" or "Open Office."
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: "No more f***ing ABBA!"
while still being "legal".
... for now.
See this post above for an excellent response.
General Ursus? Is that you?
Pedantic aside: The correct spelling is "vocal cords" (no h).
The difference is that relatively few humans learn to communicate in "pictorial languages". EVERY human, give or take a few with damaged or defective physiologies, learns spoken language. We're hard-wired for it. To me, that would indicate pretty clearly that spoken language evolved before "pictorial language".
There can be no selection until there is some advantage to be gained.
Not necessarily true. A random mutation that does not harm an individual's reproductive success will persist and spread. Should the part of the population to whom it has spread be (by some other random chance) the part of the population that happens to survive, then that mutation is selected even without conferring any advantage.
But evolution wouldn't make that mistake.
Sure it would. Over and over, even. Mutations are random, and such a mutation as making ears and voices work with different frequencies is probably well within the range of random variation.
What evolution wouldn't do is favor that mistake and perpetuate it. (Of course, if this is what you meant in the first place, then we have no disagreement.)
Ah, but for speaking social animals, speech IS "the environment" -- or at least a major constituent thereof.
Do you mean confirmed cases of Wikipedia agreeing?
But maybe the medical professionals are in on the conspiracy! Of course! They're lying and saying there's nothing wrong with me, just so they can increase their profits when something is wrong with me!