Couple does not have to mean exactly two.
https://www.merriam-webster.co... :
* 4 : an indefinite small number : few
* also : few â"used with a
https://dictionary.cambridge.o... :
* two or a few things that are similar or the same, or two or a few people who are in some way connected:
https://www.oxfordlearnersdict...
* couple (of somebody/something) a small number of people or things
Hi Bruce,
I'm pleased that this has gone your way.
All the best,
Roger
Curious.
Does your definition of "liberty" include forcing privately-owned and operated Web sites to carry and publish material that the proprietors may fundamentally disagree with?
Would the proprietors of these Web sites fall under your definition of "evil men that would do us harm" if they attempted to establish and enforce their own principles on their own private property?
There are a lot of places on Earth that have no functioning government (and therefore have no taxes). One would think that the the "taxation is theft" crowd would be flocking to these places en masse, but for some reason they are not. Interesting, that.
There was a point in time (and it's well over a decade past) where Slashdot was the definitive go-to site for smart discussions, both on technical topics as well as society in the larger sense. I use the word "discussions" very deliberately, because then (as now) the articles were really just a jumping-off point for a conversation. Nobody ever actually read the articles; why bother? You had a lot of very intelligent people gathered together to share their experiences and impart their knowledge. That was what made Slashdot what is was.
These days, I very rarely visit this site, and this particular conversation is a prime example of why this is. The grandparent post, which at the current time has a score of 4, suggests that the media establishment is made up of (among others) "angry lesbians and transsexuals." Now, I have no doubt that you personally find this type of discourse to be "in-depth, intelligent, and rational." But there are lots of decent people, people who were here very early on and still remember how great this place used to be, who have simply grown tired of this kind of thing.
Most of the intelligent conversation here has been replaced by spoutings so deranged that they make The Protocols of the Elders of Zion read like the owner's manual to a 1987 Buick Skylark. And I'm not just talking about trolls here (although they've been around since the early days as well.) Today, this kind of semiliterate gibbering is just as likely to have a score of 5 as it is to be at -1. Now, I know what you're thinking; I'm either a unwitting tool of the "SJW establishment" or (gasp! dare one think it?) an SJW myself, and I'm just having troubles coming to terms with the fact that the old rules have been usurped and it's now finally permissible to get out The Truth about minorities, women, gays, etc.
The truth of the matter is that I'm just a regular guy who occasionally thinks about how nice it would be to have the old Slashdot back, before it became dominated by angry, pear-shaped, basement-dwelling virgins. Now, to be fair, there were doubtless plenty of basement-dwelling virgins on 1998 Slashdot as well. It's just that the 2016 variant has made the site essentially intolerable and a hollow shell of its former self.
I haven't seen zxcvbn mentioned before, a similar look at password strength from 3 years ago.
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech...
Demo is here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent....
Personally I like the output of http://www.kurtm.net/wpa-pskge... for passwords:
o|IRcWY;g_V]C}9'.@]@,]!YF.[Yj{K@QmuFCo%%!=~+ab,e2(pU97{V-)Qm*T
A "Swiss watch" means that it follows the 'Ordinance regulating the use of the name "Swiss" on watches', which also includes quartz watches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It might be that in your locale it is commonly taken to mean a purely mechanical watch, but that isn't the same the whole world over.
I believe that "initialism" is the correct word.
Baffled that this is modded as "Funny".
Wait wait, hold on.
Someone lied?
On the Internet?
Say it ain't so!
PS: I can bench press 400 pounds, and I'm a lawyer, and a doctor, and I used to be an astronaut. Oh and Bill Gates stole MS-DOS from my cousin when they lived together in college.
You know, this issue tends to draw nutcases of all stripes out of the woodwork, but the fact that there's a "white males are the real victims!" post sitting at "Score 5: Insightful" is to Slashdot's eternal shame.
The conventional wisdom that it's political suicide in Florida to support normalization of relations with Cuba just isn't true any longer. 56% of Americans in general support it. That number increases to 62% if you focus only on responses from the Hispanic/Latino community, and it increases to 63% if you just ask people from Florida.
The "angry Scarface extra" demographic in Florida is dying (both metaphorically and literally.) The times, they are a-changing.
While some of the proposed changes (e.g., better draw distance, more detail, etc.) aim to make the game better on modern hardware, it seems like adding things like "denser traffic" would have the effect of changing the gameplay itself. While denser traffic would certainly make the game's Southern California setting a little bit more realistic, I'm not sure that it would make the game more enjoyable. In particular, it seems like a change of this nature could make some of the game's high-speed chase missions and side events into a big pain in the ass.
The fact that you can do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should.
I'm not arguing grammar, but this may be of interest.
Anything cut to length will be too short.
