What you've referred to is called a misplaced modifier, and it occurs when the wrong noun or pronoun is referred to as the precursor to a verb.
For instance, note the following sentence: "I walked down the street, saw a boy and a bike, and he was walking quickly." In this example, the sentence attempts to reference the boy, but actually references the bike. The original statement is grammatically correct.
Yes, the real question is this: Why does she have an account on a dating service site in the first place? If she's had it open since before you two were dating, ok, I can understand that, but you'd think she'd close the account or change the status or something. Otherwise I'd be worried about her intentions of sticking around...
Of course, maybe you're just sticking her while she's sticking around. *shrug*
I forsee some lonely nerd using a video-chat application to try and talk with a woman when all of a sudden, his computer reads his mind and says to him:
"I'm reading that you're horny, Jim. Here is a selection of your favorite porn- Princess Leia doing an Ewok. Enjoy!" Prospective Girlfriend: "You sicko! *exits the video chat*" Jim: "Oh well... I guess I'll just enjoy this video. Thanks manputer!"
Some of my favorite memories were that of my Mom reading The Hobbit (and to a lesser extend, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King) to us as bedtime stories.
I'll never forget this one time - she would read the character voices high pitched if it was a hobbit speaking, and low pitched for Gimli. She got them backwards once and ended up making Frodo sound all gruff and low pitched... we still laugh about that today.
The only part of/. that was blocked when I worked on air force computers was slashdot games. But then again, it blocked anything that had game in the URL string... so it wasn't Slashdot specific.
The Air Force is tightening restrictions on which blogs its troops can read, cutting off access to just about any independent site with the word "blog" in its web address. It's the latest move in a larger struggle within the military over the value -- and hazards -- of the sites. At least one senior Air Force official calls the squeeze so "utterly stupid, it makes me want to scream."
Until recently, each major command of the Air Force had some control over what sites their troops could visit, the Air Force Times reports. Then the Air Force Network Operations Center, under the service's new "Cyber Command," took over.
AFNOC has imposed bans on all sites with "blog" in their URLs, thus cutting off any sites hosted by Blogspot. Other blogs, and sites in general, are blocked based on content reviews performed at the base, command and AFNOC level...
The idea isn't to keep airmen in the dark -- they can still access news sources that are "primary, official-use sources," said Maj. Henry Schott, A5 for Air Force Network Operations. "Basically... if it's a place like The New York Times, an established, reputable media outlet, then it's fairly cut and dry that that's a good source, an authorized source," he said...
AFNOC blocks sites by using Blue Coat software, which categorizes sites based on their content and allows users to block sub-categories as they choose.
"Often, we block first and then review exceptions," said Tech. Sgt. Christopher DeWitt, a Cyber Command spokesman.
As a result, airmen posting online have cited instances of seemingly innocuous sites -- such as educational databases and some work-related sites -- getting wrapped up in broad proxy filters.
"A couple of years back, I fought this issue concerning the Counterterrorism Blog," one Air Force officer tells Danger Room. "An AF [Air Force] professional education course website recommended it as a great source for daily worldwide CT [counterterrorism] news. However it had been banned, because it called itself a blog. And as we all know, all blogs are bad!"
He's joking, of course. But blogs and social networking sites have faced all sorts of restrictions on military networks, for all sorts of reasons. MySpace and YouTube are officially banned, for eating up too much bandwidth. Stringent regulations, read literally, require Army officers to review each and every item one of his soldiers puts online, in case they leak secrets. And in televised commercials, screensavers and fliers, troops are told that blogging is a major security risk -- even though official sites have proven to leak many, many more secrets. Now there's the Air Force's argument, that blogs aren't legitimate media outlets -- and therefore, shouldn't be read at work.
But this view isn't universally held in the military. Many believe blogs to be a valuable source of information -- and a way for ordinary troops to shape opinions, at home and abroad. Gen. David Petraeus, who heads the U.S. effort in Iraq, has commended military bloggers. Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, who replaced Petraeus as the head of the Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth, recently wrote (in a blog post, no less) that soldiers should be encouraged to "get onto blogs and [s]end their YouTube videos to their friends and family."
Within the Air Force, there's also a strong contingent that wants to see open access to the sites -- and is mortified by the AFNOC's restrictions. "When I hear stuff this utterly stupid, it makes me want to scream.... Piles of torn out hair are accumulating around my desk as we speak," one senior Air Force official writes in an e-mail. "I'm certain that by blocking blogs for official use, our airmen will never, ever be able to read them on their own home computers, so we have indeed saved them from a contaminating influence. Sorry, didn't mean to drip sarcasm on your rug."
I can't help but think, though: how many more of these things are out there that this 'sting' didn't touch? If I had to guess, I would say it is roughly the same number of computers in use by the US government...
I think we can all agree that this is definitely not Verizon lifting her skirt for us.
This is more like Verizon bringing us to her front doorstep with promises of gratification, only to slap us and call us names for even implying something might happen.
That translation from English to Chinese-Trad, back to English, to Dutch, to French, to Portugese, to English, to Russian, back to English, to Greek, to French, to German, to English:
The Helloh button honours the memory of 5 questions dlinniy the Minister the strangers of affairses: The nut/mother will be your attendance enevolencesschlaf in Israel, or at the bed your conflict brain will be Palestinian israeliano I'd definitely say there are bigger problems here.
Slashdot Mirror
...is Box Powder!
Those silly executives at the Box Network never learn.
Maybe your threshold is set too low?
What you've referred to is called a misplaced modifier, and it occurs when the wrong noun or pronoun is referred to as the precursor to a verb.
For instance, note the following sentence: "I walked down the street, saw a boy and a bike, and he was walking quickly." In this example, the sentence attempts to reference the boy, but actually references the bike. The original statement is grammatically correct.
I'm an English teacher you insensitive clod!
The US Swim Team's Secret Weapon: Michael Phelps.
Though that's not very secret. Sort of like Victoria's.
Before, it told me that idle.slashdot.org was a total waste of my time and that I should never go there!
/headasplode
Because his latest hobby is directing Porn movies.
Wii Money Shot!©
Hmm... so having extremities standing out horizontally makes them feel like wood...
I have something that feels like wood right now!
Unfortunately, a lot of people will be stricken with, "The Enemy of my Enemy is... the maker of the game that I'm addicted to."
I feel a strange disturbance in the force... as if thousands of WoW-addicts/programmers cried out in pain, and were silenced.
Yes, the real question is this:
Why does she have an account on a dating service site in the first place? If she's had it open since before you two were dating, ok, I can understand that, but you'd think she'd close the account or change the status or something. Otherwise I'd be worried about her intentions of sticking around...
Of course, maybe you're just sticking her while she's sticking around. *shrug*
I forsee some lonely nerd using a video-chat application to try and talk with a woman when all of a sudden, his computer reads his mind and says to him:
"I'm reading that you're horny, Jim. Here is a selection of your favorite porn- Princess Leia doing an Ewok. Enjoy!"
Prospective Girlfriend: "You sicko! *exits the video chat*"
Jim: "Oh well... I guess I'll just enjoy this video. Thanks manputer!"
It's Progress Quest!
That would be Linux for Canucks.
Some of my favorite memories were that of my Mom reading The Hobbit (and to a lesser extend, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King) to us as bedtime stories.
I'll never forget this one time - she would read the character voices high pitched if it was a hobbit speaking, and low pitched for Gimli. She got them backwards once and ended up making Frodo sound all gruff and low pitched... we still laugh about that today.
The only part of /. that was blocked when I worked on air force computers was slashdot games. But then again, it blocked anything that had game in the URL string... so it wasn't Slashdot specific.
How can they claim the numbers they're claiming without trying out the engine first?
"Using an untried technique of dropping a squirrel into the gas tank, we're able to get 100 MPG on our vehicles."
Uhh...
Are they giving Coke addicts free Cocaine while they perfect their formulas?
Junkies, get it while you can!
That would be awesome for the nerds of us who stayed awake through the introduction to the Valar.
Jackson has always wanted to do film The Hobbit, but due to legal issues they couldn't agree on terms.
They've finally resolved, woo!
Ok what the fuck - a base 1 score (unmoderated post) that was modded OVERRATED?! Fuck you moderator!
Why on earch would I want that?! I already have a WIFE that tells me that (without my asking her to mind you) already!!
I vote no to nagging pants!
If I had to guess, I would say it is roughly the same number of computers in use by the US government...
I think we can all agree that this is definitely not Verizon lifting her skirt for us.
This is more like Verizon bringing us to her front doorstep with promises of gratification, only to slap us and call us names for even implying something might happen.
The whore.
I put on my wizard robe and hat.
The Helloh button honours the memory of 5 questions dlinniy the Minister the strangers of affairses: The nut/mother will be your attendance enevolencesschlaf in Israel, or at the bed your conflict brain will be Palestinian israeliano
I'd definitely say there are bigger problems here.