Good catch. Ignoring the "in", as I think that's just a typo, the phrase "not at all stupid" sounds Slavic to me. I can't pinpoint why, exactly. Perhaps it's a subtle pattern I picked up from my teachers long ago.

That's because your native tongue is one of the Slavic languages. For list of telltales, see some of the other replies.

A reply of a partisan for the other side of the argument. Otoh, I don't like it when it starts to devolve into ad hominems, either.

And that, of course, is what makes an argument.

Vsevo Khoroshevo,
    Sysrammer

Update: I reviewed your other posts, and the English is generally good. So, I presume 1) You let someone else use your account, 2) possibly because there was a shift change. Perhaps one of your staff of linguist/programmers is a bit weaker or is less experienced, and needs more training.

Imposter alert! There is no stick-guy-in-a-hat pointing at the graph.

I had no idea that the San Jose Water co. behaved like this. I believe I shall start a petition.

Yep. "high-school drama"...nice turn of phrase.

"I'm a Rational Scientist"
"I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!"

Hah! Good reply. But I understand where the OP is coming from. Unfortunately, that seems to be the way humans work. Nobody paid much attention to the previous 20-30 years of work on climate. It wasn't until things passed a certain point, then everybody started jumping on the bandwagon. Politicians follow people. And then they swing the pendulum too far in the opposite direction.

What a great explanation! I try to explain what science is sometimes, albeit not so eloquently; I'm not sure elegance would help with some people anyways.

I have a relative that was shocked when I mentioned scientific research about the parting the Red Sea in the bible. I tried to boil it down to "science is about what, and religion is about why". Not sure it helped. Maybe I'll try your spiel.

It seems so right when you explain it.

Thx, I checked it out, saw this immediately "Jerry Jeff Walker 'LET OUR MIKE GO'". An interesting poem, I thought, then finally got it that it was to the tune of Mr. Bojangles. I may have found a new home.

Well, in my case, I resolved to not go to any games. If enough people do that to hurt ticket sales, then it's a win. If they see tic sales go up because people can't see it on TV, they win. And the Dodgers will look brilliant and become a case study at business colleges.

Reality is that any and all methods were and are being used to kill Obamacare. Dems can't trust Pubs with any legislation regarding Obamacare, lest it be a trap. All big systems have problems; they get fixed eventually. It will take a couple of years to fully stabilize. Reality.

Sorry, the 'pubs have tried to kill Obamacare dozens of times. When faced with a relentless enemy one has to put up a relentless defense. Yeah, the 'pubs were right; anyone with an IT background would have known the same. But delay was also a political move, defended by another political move.

So, yeah, sucks, but any big IT project has major problems. It had to be rolled out everywhere at once else there would be charges of political favoritism.

Hah. Crazy chit, mon.

For the daily mini-tornado.