Comment Re:And in other news (Score 3, Funny) 139
The reason most accidents happen close to your home is exactly as you said -- most driving occurs close to your home.
So don't drive anywhere near this guy's home.
The reason most accidents happen close to your home is exactly as you said -- most driving occurs close to your home.
So don't drive anywhere near this guy's home.
Maybe they meant that the lab is only underwater. As opposed to, y'know, being a bit underwater.
...what does that make beavers?
Can't we call them sunspots instead of starspots? It's the same phenomenon. It seems needlessly ambiguous to call them one thing when they're on one star, but another thing when they're on any other star.
Neither, he said, does another planet in the same solar system
Aha! It's a star system. Nyah.
Louis Del Monte has a book to sell
Hey, lay off the guy. He's driving.
Nifty. Personally I don't think I'd risk attaching my phone to my bike in any way that left me unable to see it, but that's a neat solution you've got with the signalling.
Err, no. None of that is true, and this news doesn't make it any truer.
But after a few weeks using trying to pick up some German, I become increasingly frustrated
Been there. Sounds like you to need to try picking up a different German.
What good is a disclaimer going to do? Are any instructions within legally, or in another way, enforceable?
That doesn't make this a non-story, only a slightly out-of-date one.
I am not normally a grammar Nazi, but when I am right
What about when you're think you're right, but you're actually wrong? Perhaps you should have followed the advice on the page you linked to, which states:
An easy way of making sure you’ve chosen the right pronoun is to see whether the sentence reads properly if you remove the additional noun:
Some of the stupid interviewing criteria that me had to deal with boggles my mind
See? Doesn't work. Whoever wrote it should have said "my colleagues and I," therefore the GP's "[sic]" was correct.
In fact there should have been a [sic] after "boggles" too, since it was the criteria (plural) which were boggling.
foam rubber bobbies
Haha, you said -
Oh, wait, you didn't. Sad face.
If only Slashdot would act like a real news source, and subtly provide just the barest of information rather than leaving the reader less well informed than before.
Yikes. How much crap do you have in your pockets? I can do it in 4 without really trying.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison
