see. so @Cerb has no right to be surprised that Russians look small compared to the Dutch. no right. I am confiscating it. He will not be given this right back until he pays reparations to the Russian people
Ever since he was a young boy, he'd played the silver ball. from soho down to brighton, he must have played them all. I ain't seen nothing like him in any amusement hall. That Yaroslav Rakhmatullin sure played a mean pinball
So now we have to go through days of encomiums about what a great PM she was for saving the Falklands, and of course that will stir another outpouring of nostalgia for the Reagan years, and blah blah blah.
Which reminds me. If England has a queen, why is it called a kingdom and not a queendom? (Actually, it probably ought to be called a femdom, but that's another story.)
FFS, Google. Why does a search for "cologne cathedral from above" return images of the cathedral from below, left, and right, but not a single one from above?
@Cerberus As I said: I have first-hand experience fixing problems caused by users changing settings and then denying they changed anything. They either forget they changed the setting and never connect the two events or else they refuse to admit that the settings change could possibly break the thing that broke. Furthermore they expect that if changing the setting would break something, then the OS wouldn't let you change the setting.
72 and sunny today. 6" of snow tonight. I was too stubborn to answer the phone calling for help, and they were too stupid to stay in the hospital where I’d told them they had to be. Dead at 31 and a week.
I personally hate video captures. They often don't reflect the user's screen because the software is a different version, and I resent being forced to listen/watch in a linear fashion at normal speaking speed.
@RegDwighт I still say the style choice depends on the audience. When in doubt, don't abbreviate. Spell it out. Make sure they understand. Don't leave out anything. Be redundant, even.
The page has three sections: * "Home", where you can do stuff; * "About", where you can read about things, and * "Download", where you can get free malware.
@udaysagar Some people will try to tell you that it's wrong to use "all" when you only have two, and you must use "both". If you want those people to be happy, use "both". I say it's okay to use "all". But also, I'd say "They are all yours", not "They all are yours".
When you create a new page, you will be presented with a blank form. This form has two sections, "Publish": used to publish your content and "Save as Draft": used to save your content for later use.
When you create a new page, you will be presented with a blank form. This form has two sections, "Publish", used to publish your content and "Save as Draft", used to save your content for later use.
When you create a new page, you will be presented with a blank form. This form has two sections, "Publish", used to publish your content, and "Save as Draft", used to save your content for later use.
Because you have a parenthetical phrase there, "used to publish your content". You have offset it with a comma on one side, but not on the other. That's wrong.
> When you create a new page, you will be presented with a blank form. This form has two sections: "Publish", used to publish your content, and "Save as Draft", used to save your content for later use.
When you create a new page, you will be presented with a blank form. This form has two sections: "Publish", used to publish your content, and "Save as Draft", used to save your content for later use.
Without the comma, what you have is that "Publish" is used to both publish your content and save as draft, and the rest of the sentence makes no sense anymore.
> Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
No one but me took it seriously.
And the fucking hospital released him.
And I refused to answer the phone because I thought he was mixed up with bad shit.
Head just going in little circle. I should try to work. Very hard. Dodged the India call this morning. Told the boss that there had been a sudden tragedy. Didn't tell him anything else, like aversion.
And his ex woke up screaming (of a nightmare that he had died) in my basement at the exact moment the coroner pronounced him dead, and I had told him nothing whatsoever about it. I don’t believe in mumbo jumbo, but it bothered me. So I spent the day trying to reach him. It was already too late.
Took a walk at dawn. Tried reading. Tried taped movies. Guess I could try hacking.
And no one where he is knows his family, or has told them.
I guess I should just give the contact info to the morgue.
But seriously, don't blame yourself. My wife blamed herself for her grandmother's stroke and it took years for her to shake that cloud of guilt. This isn't your fault.
@tchrist It's not the same though. You didn't "turn your back". You avoided a phone call for a perfectly legit reason. You are not beholden to everyone who wants to call you whenever they want to call.
@tchrist What would you have fixed exactly? He would have (maybe) listened to you and (maybe) gone to the hospital and (maybe) lived until the next time and then what? You couldn't live his life for him. He had a right to make his own decisions.
@tchrist But even if you bear some measure of responsibility for this person, like you might for, eg, your mother or child, that doesn't mean you have to run and jump every time they call you on the phone.
@KitFox Been through this before. They saved him more than once. His heart was miswired and they rewired it. He already died on my doorstep years ago, but the cops were right their with the defig, and jumpstarted him.
If my mother called me on the phone from a different city because she wanted to tell me about a kidney problem, but she didn't go to the hospital or tell anyone nearby, it wouldn't be my fault if I didn't answer the phone and then she died. It would be her fault for not calling an ambulance.
@tchrist but that's what Kit's saying I guess. Not your fault, then. Kind of the equivalent, for lack of a less cheap example, of someone getting diagnosed with cancer and smoking on.
When you have the courage to listen to his messages, maybe you'll hear that he was calling you about the drama you were trying to avoid, and not about the kidney thing at all.
@tchrist It's going to feel bad, for probably a long time. You're going to be hurt, and upset, and angry, and you're going to feel guilty. And that's okay, and it will get better eventually. I know that doesn't help much right now, but it's true. We're here for you, and I'm sure there are RL people who care about you very much and want to help you through this too. I can't promise it will get better soon, but it will eventually. I'm very, very sorry this happened to you.
@tchrist But someday you're going to be able to look back and see the happy memories. I promise. hugs
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English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
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