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Comment: Re:Characters are created to suffer (Score 0) 49

by flyneye (#44055351) Attached to: The Plight of <em>Star Wars</em> Droids

Droids in real life are built to suffer. To do shit man doesn't want to expend time/effort/health to do. Heavy, dangerous, repetitive, they don't get tired, they don't get hungry, they don't whine about trolls, they don't feel any remorse.
It should come as no surprise that some writer somewhere realized a machine is a damn machine even if you give it a nice voice, a stylish haircut and big tits.
It's a machine. The pissing and moaning C3PO did was a comedy device, not real life. Pursuing philosophical ends to an imaginary problem in a closed system is neurotic on television. Doing it in real life.... well, as long as you don't wear Trekkie gear to deliver the mail or preach from a bullhorn on the streetcorner...

Comment: Re:And this needed research? (Score 1) 194

by flyneye (#44055163) Attached to: Trying To Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home

The word "learnt " is part of slang. Slang is not considered good grammar.
The leading dentists surveyed found that leading and trailing competitive publications publish opinions on word usage and are as subject to error as The Enquirer. The name Standard Dictionary of American English is no more standard than Federal Express is federal.
Definitions of all sorts of cultural terms are included in dictionaries. Definitions of all sorts of cultural terms disappear from dictionaries over time.
All this "look a bird" aside; in the several states public school system at the middle school level you were taught past, present, future perfect and conjugated them in first, second and third persons until you thought you would die.
The end result. You are currently trying to use a screwdriver to turn a nut.

Comment: Re:All of them. (Score 3, Funny) 211

by flyneye (#44047969) Attached to: Google's Crazy Lack of Focus: Is It Really Serious About Enterprise?

Flip a coin, shut down a program and call the accountants to call it a loss on taxes. What's the problem here? Looks ordinary to me.
Next up, the Google inflatable mate w/ bucking mechanism and heater, it makes it's own pr0n movies and uploads them to Redtube while you pump away.
It collects customer data to recommend lube, toys or Viagra. It also has a government backdoor...

Comment: Re:And this needed research? (Score 1) 194

by flyneye (#44047951) Attached to: Trying To Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home

And yet it still has nothing to do with standards of language construction. It is about definitions, including slang and pop culture invention. At best it will show nouns, verbs and pronunciation.
We might as well get a manual on the Ford Fiesta to consult in a matter of the English language.

Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.

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