Comment Re:What's a showrunner? (Score 1) 162
"Showrunner" as a term is about 30 years old:
"Showrunner" as a term is about 30 years old:
Then you learn that the players don't want that at all. They want to shoot at the enemy and have a good chance of killing them with a satisfying thunk; that's it.
Sigh. "not the case..."
And, by the way, it is not the cast the "The IMF Says" this:
The views expressed in IMF Working Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF, its Executive Board, or IMF management.
Not against the charge of plagiarism, because "fair use" is a defense against a charge of copyright infringement, which is not the same thing as plagiarism -- although obviously they're similar concepts. If you pass off something you didn't write as your own, you are a plagiarist, even if the thing you've copied is public domain.
for instance:
Holy shit, the Drudge Report still exists, and it looks exactly like did in 1999.
" I get in my car and I drive to places, 99.9% of which have adequate parking that's free. Which I consider...normal?"
That's because you don't live in a city. In the suburbs, usually every new store/etc is required to have enough of their own parking. That's impossible in a city.
The headline makes me think that after 8 flights it had enough XP to purchase its first upgrade.
Show me the last time a male scientist on video got a Slashdot comment "Wow, he's hot".
DEI? I don't even know what Basecamp is, and I didn't learn it from this summary, or even from the original linked-to article.
It's becoming common to refer to a specific person of unknown gender as "they". It's derived, at least in part, from an existing usage for a non-specific person, as in ""The patient should be told at the outset how much they will be required to pay." Using it for a specific person of unknown gender is a newer usage. It's also a part of gender politics. Plenty more at
Ebay is the largest marketplace in general, but there are piles of sources of used books online.
Side point: it's confusing when you do that thing where the first part of your sentence is in the title and the rest is in the comment. It just looks like you're saying "they were committing a crime".
And also it's going to take a few months to get everyone done, so there will be plenty of people who aren't anti-vax, just not-vax-yet. You're helping them out as well by not spreading it.
What's this TV or Radio station which will always carry a complete, Live, unedited White House Press Conference?
CSPAN, and probably whitehouse.gov .
What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer.