English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

skullpatrol

12:00 PM

Basically, anything I said to question his "authority" was removed.

tchrist

RegDwigнt

Good thing it doesn't mention where the spam was blocked.

Is this ELU or what?

I'm not on top of your recycling shit.

tchrist

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A: Anti-spam: Blocking questions whose bodies end with a raw hyperlink

We've experimented with this sort of thing in the past, and it hasn't been very successful for any appreciable amount of time. This is for two reasons: We have to tell users why something can't be submitted, although we can be kind of vague as to what's wrong, to avoid users 'fixing' only the s...

RegDwigнt

Oh. Ah. Aha. Soso.

tchrist

I imagine it is across all SE, but I do not know.

RegDwigнt

12:04 PM

That's how it reads.

tchrist

> And, whatever is doing this is freaking huge, I've been battling it for a few weeks now, and quite sick of it along with everyone else.

In Rule 34, Charlie Stross posits an AI code-named Athena whose job is vengeance: she uses lethal methods against spammers.

And there was much rejoicing.

Gaydar is become a count nount?

RegDwigнt

Tell me who gay is.

tchrist

The daughter of Fritz Leiber.

And that guy in the undisclosed location.

RegDwigнt

Every other sentence it reads like a different dupe. But it somehow ends up being a new question.

Anonymous

I don't know, my count-noun-dar is on the fritz.

RegDwigнt

12:08 PM

A question for ELL nonetheless.

skullpatrol

Does she live on the island of lesbian?

Matt Эллен

@RegDwigнt I was thinking the same

tchrist

I have no idea what the question is asking.

RegDwigнt

@MattЭллен Well it's gone, too late for thinking.

@tchrist it is asking who are you.

tchrist

I’m a saint.

RegDwigнt

12:09 PM

Go to ELL post that as an answer.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist the asker wants to know if "Who are you?" and "Who you are?" are different questions

skullpatrol

Saint who?

tchrist

Saint Thomas the Doubter

Jasper Loy

I announce my retirement from ELU, now I will just come to chat.

RegDwigнt

Saint Kilmer.

Matt Эллен

12:11 PM

@JasperLoy I announce that I will not retire from EL&U today

tchrist

@MattЭллен One is a question. The other is Garblese.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist indeed :D

RegDwigнt

@tchrist why are you telling him that?

skullpatrol

Simon Templer was a saint too.

RegDwigнt

Just because he's a Brit doesn't mean his command of the language is that nonexistent.

Matt Эллен

12:12 PM

thanks?

Jasper Loy

I am Saint Loy.

RegDwigнt

@MattЭллен problem no?

Jasper Loy

@MattЭллен Doing that illegal thing has now bothered me so much that it is officially part of my mental problems that I have to resolve.

Andrew Leach

@skullpatrol Templar.

Matt Эллен

@JasperLoy maybe become preoccupied with something relaxing. Or collecting something harmless, like Pokémon or whatnot

Jasper Loy

12:15 PM

@MattЭллен Eventually I will have to decide to do it and be arrested, or not do it and yet feel peace in my heart.

Matt Эллен

yes, but you don't have to let it run your thoughts

Jasper Loy

Good thinking.

skullpatrol

Thanks for the correction @Andrew

Anonymous

@MattЭллен It looks like they don't understand how interrogative complement clauses are formed. "Tell me [who is gay]" has the interrogative phrase who in subject position, while "Tell me [who Gay is __]" has it fronted from complement position, leaving behind a gap. I think this sort of thing is tricky for learners.

Jasper Loy

@snailboat This kind of question has been asked over 9000 times on this site.

Anonymous

12:18 PM

And they're making a generalization error.

RegDwigнt

No. It is not about the order changing the meaning. It is all about the order reflecting the subject. In one case, who is the subject; in the other it's Gay. Hence the difference in meaning. But in your case, the subject of both questions is still you. So you end up with two questions meaning the exact same thing, but one of them being ungrammatical because of the wrong word order. — ЯegDwight 30 secs ago

Jasper Loy

Who is that? Tell me who that is.

RegDwigнt

There. Now let's move on.

Jasper Loy

Who are you? Tell me who you are.

RegDwigнt

It will tell you who you are for 3000 dollars.

Matt Эллен

12:19 PM

@snailboat yes. I agree.

Jasper Loy

3000 rupees, lol.

skullpatrol

@JasperLoy it is that kind of good thinking that will ultimately cure you.

Jasper Loy

@skullpatrol Good thinking.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Nuestra Señora Dolorosa

Anonymous

Oh, it went to ELL!

tchrist

12:20 PM

sic transit

RegDwigнt

De dolores son los pajaritos que vienen da afuera.

Jasper Loy

Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

tchrist

Mientras los de aquí se aburren.

RegDwigнt

Who you call a donkey?

Andrew Leach

@snailboat No reason why it should not be answered there in much the same way as your comment here.

tchrist

12:21 PM

Con queso.

Anonymous

@AndrewLeach Sure. I think it belongs on ELL.

skullpatrol

Please @Jasper seriously think about what Matt said :)

Matt Эллен

con miel y piña

Anonymous

Although my comment alone isn't an answer--it needs some elaboration to address the generalization error

Jasper Loy

@skullpatrol Yes, I do. =)

RegDwigнt

12:22 PM

As I said, we have sorta covered this before, and Kosmo did it no less, but only sorta. It ends up being a different question so I can't just point him to Kosmo, "go read this". That won't actually help him.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt *because the wrong order word of.

tchrist

Tomorrow I get to learn whether I am to get a new knee, but today I must first an airplane ride. I really hate mixing bad knees and airports.

Robusto

@tchrist Pretty much nothing goes well with airports.

Anonymous

@tchrist Good luck! I come from a family of bad knees.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto well crap. I can't edit on ELL forever.

Anonymous

12:23 PM

Good heart health, bad knees.

tchrist

Miserable places.

Jasper Loy

Bad niece.

Jason Marsh

Guys, could you recommend me some rock songs / bands about devil?

Robusto

There was an article in the paper this morning about people who "forget" they have loaded guns with them as they go into TSA screening at the airport. I mean, how could you forget something like that?

RegDwigнt

Actually I'm not even sure it was Kosmo. It might've been JSB.

Jasper Loy

12:23 PM

@JasonMarsh Devil is too evil.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto you can forget everything, that's what "routine" means.

You could forget you were flying a plane with 590 passengers in the back.

Matt Эллен

@JasonMarsh tribute, by tennacious D

RegDwigнt

This just goes to show how little meaning a loaded gun has to some.

I mean, people sleep with a loaded gun under their pillow.

Jason Marsh

Good thx, anymore?

skullpatrol

From Texas

Robusto

12:25 PM

I dunno. I would not be able to forget if I were carrying a gun. I would be conscious of it every second. Of course, I don't ever carry a gun, so maybe I can't put myself in the shoes of someone who does.

RegDwigнt

Yeah. That is precisely it.

I mean, are you noticing you are wearing shoes right now?

skullpatrol

They carry them everywhere in Texas

Robusto

I mean, guns are fucking dangerous. I try not to be around potentially lethal things if I can help it.

Anonymous

@RegDwigнt I was about to make a clothing analogy!

RegDwigнt

If you carry something 24/7, it doesn't make a difference if it's a shoe or a gun.

Robusto

12:26 PM

@RegDwigнt My shoes are not lethal weapons.

Anonymous

@RegDwigнt I don't carry a shoe 24/7.

Anonymous

I am not a shoe carrier.

Matt Эллен

@JasonMarsh The number of the beast, Iron Maiden

Anonymous

And if I were, I would take breaks.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto hey shoes can be fucking dangerous, too!

Robusto

12:27 PM

Well, I think we should not be so callous as to not remember if we are carrying lethal weapons.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto there's your problem right there. You should get some from Syria rather than Bangladesh.

Matt Эллен

@JasonMarsh Sympathy for the devil, the Rolling Stones

Robusto

@RegDwigнt That wasn't even close.

Matt Эллен

that's all I can think of

but Google will think of more

RegDwigнt

@Robusto everyone has to start small. What, your every AK bullet was a hit?

@Robusto and that's why we are we, and that moron is not we but a moron.

skullpatrol

12:28 PM

Play stairway to heaven backwards @Jason :)

Robusto

Devil in a blue dress, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels.

skullpatrol

Helter skelter

Jasper Loy

amazon.com has a new look.

skullpatrol

Highway to hell

Matt Эллен

Road to Hell

Jasper Loy

12:31 PM

Road to Perdition

skullpatrol

Path to hell

RegDwigнt

Why is it that Eastern Europeans always use over-the-top offensive example sentences? What are those people reading?

Jasper Loy

Staircase to Heaven

skullpatrol

Wtf^

Jasper Loy

@RegDwigнt Another italics.

Robusto

12:32 PM

All metal songs are ultimately about Satan.

RegDwigнt

They never ask you about the word order in "I picked a daffodil", they always ask about "I picked your mom and fucked her real good".

Satan and Fanta

lol

How does that sound?

I killed Satan long ago, but nobody knows.

Matt Эллен

12:34 PM

sounds unpleasant

RegDwigнt

Für dich immer noch Fanta Sie

Für dich immer noch Fanta Sie ist das achte reguläre Studioalbum der Fantastischen Vier. Es wurde am 14. Mai 2010 bei Four Music/Sony BMG veröffentlicht. == Geschichte == Das Album entstand wie die beiden Vorgänger per gemeinsamem Brainstorming im Bregenzerwald sowie in einer weiteren Woche auf Mallorca. Abgemischt wurde die Platte in Berlin, im Studio von Thomas Burchia (Turntablerocker), und in Kornwestheim bei Ralf C. Mayer im Tucan Studio. Als erfolgreiche, poporientierte Single wurde Gebt uns ruhig die Schuld (den Rest könnt ihr behalten) ausgekoppelt. == Rezeption == Das Album erreichte Platz…

Will fly over absolutely everyone's head except perhaps Rob's.

Robusto

"I saw mommy kissing Satan Claus."

Jason Marsh

Santa Cross

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I thought the Fantastic Four were a Marvel Comics property. Don't you have copyright laws in your country?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto hey them's rappers. Rappers don't care about no laws. They care about attitude.

Jason Marsh

12:36 PM

The Mighty Ride of the Santa Claus.

Jasper Loy

Black hat, black tie, black shoes with a black attitude.

Robusto

What is deutsch for "sampling" (Plagiarismus?)

Matt Эллен

*altitude: how high they get

RegDwigнt

They will literally call themselves NWA and pretend they never heard of Northwest Airlines.

Robusto

No Work Anymore

RegDwigнt

12:37 PM

@Robusto sampling is sampling; plagiarism is plagiarism. Instructions unclear.

Jason Marsh

Devil's Horn Implantation.

RegDwigнt

You can sample up to 7.5 seconds of anything. That's a sample. Called the same in German, too.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Klar.

Jason Marsh

I'm good at coming up with devil rock song names.

Matt Эллен

Stichprobenverfahren

Jasper Loy

12:38 PM

I am going to sleep, good night @MattЭллен

Jason Marsh

Curry and Fury of Devil.

Matt Эллен

night, @Jasper

Jason Marsh

I went to a dentist today where all their workers are hot women (definitely undergone plastic surgeries before).

skullpatrol

What, no corny "see you in dreams" line. I think you may have cured him @Matt :)

Jason Marsh

And only men there were actual doctors.

tchrist

12:41 PM

Erinyes

In Greek mythology the Erinyes (/ɪˈrɪniˌiz/; Greek: Ἐρῑνύες [ῠ], pl. of Ἐρῑνύς [ῡ], Erinys; literally "avengers of perjury"), also known as Furies, were female chthonic deities of vengeance; they were sometimes referred to as "infernal goddesses" (χθόνιαι θεαί). A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "those who beneath the earth punish whosoever has sworn a false oath". Burkert suggests they are "an embodiment of the act of self-cursing contained in the oath". They correspond to the Dirae in Roman mythology. According to Hesiod's Theogony, when the Titan Cronus castrated his father Uranus...

Matt Эллен

@skullpatrol ah! well, I'm not the one going to bed :D

Robusto

@tchrist Perhaps you meant Eumenides?

Don't talk about Erinyes in chat. Bad luck, what?

tchrist

@Robusto What are you, an answering machine?

Robusto

I passed my Turing test, yes.

tchrist

One for you and one for her.

RegDwigнt

12:42 PM

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Q: Meaning of жить можно

In a video, two guys walk out of a store having bought lots of cool gadgets and one says: Жить можно! What would be the idiomatic English equivalent of this and what does it imply?

See, we're not the only ones shooting down questions in record time.

Robusto

From now on, the Turing test should require one to pee into a cup. Not for chemical analysis, but because if you can't pee into a cup you're probably a machine.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt ¿?

RegDwigнt

@tchrist it's an interesting question, actually. I am failing to translate it adequately.

Literally, "one can live". Sort of "life's good".

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Shits?

RegDwigнt

Zhit'.

Robusto

12:45 PM

Why is that off-topic?

RegDwigнt

GR.

Mitch

I want to know!

RegDwigнt

> off-topic unless prior research effort is clearly indicated; we're here to help you learn, not provide a bulk translation service

See, even their close reasons are more frank than ours.

And they're in beta, mind you.

To say, you'd think they'd rather err on the side of getting too many questions than too few.

skullpatrol

Who is frank?

Matt Эллен

Frank Bruno

RegDwigнt

12:47 PM

Are you Jerry Stiller? Welcome to ELU, sir. — RegDwigнt ♦ Dec 2 '12 at 18:31

Mitch

@skullpatrol Brother of Shirley.

skullpatrol

Icic

Matt Эллен

chat.stackexchange.com/users/34238/frank

RegDwigнt

So anyway. I'm still strugging to translate.

Anonymous

@RegDwigнt That's the same reason they set up on the Japanese, Chinese, German, and Spanish betas

RegDwigнt

12:48 PM

It's sort of the opposite of how you'd say "life's a bitch". To dismiss something bad.

Matt Эллен

maybe something like "Now this is living"?

@RegDwigнt are they being sarcastic?

RegDwigнt

Here, you're saying "life's not a bitch", but it has the same, um, dismissive? except dismissive as in positive? connotation. You recognize it's just a bunch of stuff you bought. Life's nice, but it's not gonna last forever.

Robusto

Is anything in Russian ever not sarcastic?

RegDwigнt

"I can totally live like this".

Matt Эллен

@RegDwigнt YOLO

Mitch

12:49 PM

10 layers of sarcasm

RegDwigнt

Something like that.

skullpatrol

Without sarcasm the British would have nothing to say, no offense intended ;-)

RegDwigнt

@MattЭллен ha. Actually why not. Except nah, it's different.

Matt Эллен

hmmmm

RegDwigнt

But it's good thinking.

Matt Эллен

12:51 PM

"Can't take it with you" referring to money

RegDwigнt

Ah okay perhaps I've explained this all wrong. You seem to be aiming in a very specific direction with this.

"Now this is living" was closer.

Matt Эллен

OK...

Mitch

so literally "Жить можно! " means "I've got indigestion!" but sarcastically means "Life will never get better than this!" then "Oh shit, this is it?"

RegDwigнt

But it's more like "good living is possible". Possibly with an implied ", after all", depending on the context.

Mitch

It's the only utterance in Russian you can say without referring to alcoholic consumption or someone's mother.

RegDwigнt

12:54 PM

@Mitch where the hell did you get the indigestion from. Stop using Google Trollate.

Mitch

Or "The ones who die first are the lucky ones"

@RegDwigнt Oops, I translated into Dutch first.

skullpatrol

Only the good die young

RegDwigнt

Anyway. I think for all intents and purposes "now that's what I call a life" or "I can totally live like this" or even a simple "life's nais" will work. It's just that unlike any of them, the original is a rather ubiquitous idiom.

skullpatrol

Life is life.

RegDwigнt

And one more thing I didn't even mention is the understatement. It is using "live" more like "I can survive", or "at last I'm not starving".

When you are quite clearly the opposite of starving. You never were on the brink to begin with, what with all the shit you can afford.

Robusto

12:59 PM

@RegDwigнt "at last" or "at least"?

RegDwigнt

Think buying a third car and thinking "at last the life has become somewhat bearable".

@Robusto at last.

So there's some first-world-problem shit playing into it, too.

Robusto

Then your other statement, "I can survive," should have some kind of temporal aspect to it, as in "Now I can survive."

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt But what about for intensive purposes?

Matt Эллен

"I can live with that"

RegDwigнt

@Robusto yeah there's an implied "now" alright. It is totally acknowledging the temporarity of it all.

skullpatrol

1:02 PM

Life is a bitch and then you marry one.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt But I mean now in the sense of having arrived at this condition, not acknowledging its ephemeral nature.

RegDwigнt

@MattЭллен yeah, could be a good candidate. Again, perhaps more of a "I can survive on this".

Matt Эллен

Life's a long stretch of booze and sleepless nights, and then you marry one.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto ah yeah okay. Both nows are implied.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwigнt I think I see what you mean, but I don't know what words to use

Life's a piece of cake, and then you marry one.

Life's a collection of unpaired socks, and then you marry one.

Robusto

1:06 PM

Life is like a box, and then you marry one.

Life is like Humpty-Dumpty, and then you marry one.

RegDwigнt

Life is like a box, and then you're Cassius Clay.

Robusto

Life is like the inverse-square law, and then you marry one.

Life is like a prime number, and then you marry 1.

Matt Эллен

:D

RegDwigнt

Who you call a verse-in-law squaw?

KitFox

Life is just a bowl of cherries and then you eat one and then you go into anaphylactic shock because oh yeah, you're allergic to cherries.

RegDwigнt

1:08 PM

Hah, I'm seeing four comments have been posted. Let me quickly close the tab before I accidentally load them.

Don't want to see people going berserk over the poor fellow mod.

This is such a great and complex question! What were you thinking! Mod abuse!

Matt Эллен

All of my questions are great and complex!

KitFox

Which question?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

All of them!

Matt Эллен

27 mins ago, by RegDwigнt

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Q: Meaning of жить можно

In a video, two guys walk out of a store having bought lots of cool gadgets and one says: Жить можно! What would be the idiomatic English equivalent of this and what does it imply?

usage значения

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

tweened!

RegDwigнt

1:10 PM

@KitFox nice trick to try and get me to open it again.

Johan Larsson

Matt Эллен

Life's a tween and then you marry one.

Johan Larsson

Just pack my family and go

Matt Эллен

you fit your family in a suitcase?

Andrew Leach

@JohanLarsson You get a family in that? It's a model, isn't it?!

RegDwigнt

1:11 PM

So anyway. Actually now I'm thinking it should just be translated literally, "life's possible" or "survival is possible" and then even though it's not an idiom anywhere else, the meaning is quite transparent.

KitFox

Life's a model then you murder one.

Johan Larsson

@AndrewLeach It was a joke cos it is so small.

RegDwigнt

Especially if you are around to hear the intonation, too.

skullpatrol

Life is life. La la la la la

RegDwigнt

0

A: What is origin of the word 'do'?

Read Lorenzo Dion Lee's children's book "Do I do" lorfakoriginalmusin.com. Below is a part of it. It moves this important word "do" back and forth through time as it becomes an extinction of an act. Do I Do? Bed time story (Lorfak Original Music, LLC © 2014 Lorenzo Dion Lee & Linda Fakundiny-Le...

Cerberus

1:13 PM

Hello.

RegDwigнt

Please sort this in for me. I'm failing.

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It may please you to know that I have accidentally updated to Firefox 31!

skullpatrol

Hi pal :)

Cerberus

It was a bit of an ordeal when I started my browser and suddenly the interface was all screwed up, some things didn't even work, some half-empty navigation bars, etc.

@skullpatrol Morning!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus what curious fit of madness brought that on for you?

Cerberus

1:15 PM

Well, I...

I suspect my date pressed the "update now" button.

Because it was suddenly checking for add-ons this morning.

RegDwigнt

Aug 6 at 19:46, by George Pompidou

you don't say hi to people.

Aug 6 at 19:46, by George Pompidou

you just start talking

Cerberus

Hi!

Matt Эллен

Hi!

Cerberus

What can I say about George...he is wrong.

RegDwigнt

No, I'm a Nilpferd.

Cerberus

1:16 PM

Hi!

RegDwigнt

No, Nilpferd.

Cerberus

You are mistaken.

Anonymous

@RegDwigнt Wait. Who doesn't?

Cerberus

You are Legonilpferd. He is Nilpferd.

Anonymous

@Cerberus I don't know your fancy nilp-related terminology.

RegDwigнt

1:17 PM

Don't be so cruel. He's grokked this room before anyone else.

Aug 7 at 19:13, by George Pompidou

I'm going to try saying hi to KitFox because with so many people doing it every five minutes there must be some hidden benefit

Cerberus

@snailboat Tell that to the Legonilpferd!

@RegDwigнt That is true, but...all the more reason not to be too soft on him!

Matt Эллен

forget "ring of the nibelung". "leg of the nilpferd" is where it's at

skullpatrol

More sarcasm?

Cerberus

Hah, you didn't see what I had before I changed it according to proper spelling.

Matt Эллен

no, just nonsense

skullpatrol

1:19 PM

:-)

KitFox

Hi.

skullpatrol

If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding <== dunno why this is stuck in my head all day :(

Some form of Cambridge brain washing.

KitFox

I am currently despising the word "purchase". I hate this word very much.

Andrew Leach

In all its meanings, or only one?

Matt Эллен

have you lost your purchase on purchase?

Cerberus

1:26 PM

@MattЭллен I? Nonsense?

@skullpatrol What is so unusual about that?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus I thought skullpatrol was talking to me :D

KitFox

I hate the way it sounds.

skullpatrol

How can you have any pudding, if you don't eat your meat?

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Oh that was to him...

Very comprehensible.

Matt Эллен

@KitFox I sometimes feel like that about the letter f

Cerberus

1:27 PM

@skullpatrol You cannot. Which is why it makes perfect sense.

KitFox

You, yes you behind the bedstead...stand still, willya.

Andrew Leach

@KitFox Just start pronouncing it per-chase, like perchance.

RegDwigнt

Stop purchasing moist things, for f's sake.

KitFox

It has a sort of fawning sound to it.

skullpatrol

But @Cerberus it will not fade?

Cerberus

1:28 PM

What will not fade?

KitFox

purchase, purchase Just buy it.

skullpatrol

The memory of the sentence

Matt Эллен

I bought my purchase

the bird saw so many branches, it was in a perch haze

RegDwigнt

Mar 13 '11 at 15:32, by RegDwight

►

skullpatrol

I should block it out by trying to memorize something else @cerb

But like you said it is so logical.

Mitch

1:32 PM

@MattЭллен It's hard to wreck a nice beach.

skullpatrol

Math plays the same "poetry of logical ideas" game @Cerberus

tchrist

Come on guys, this is self-promotion:

Notice how the author name and user name coincide.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist lol. I hadn't noticed!

tchrist

@Cerberus Maybe he thought it would update the date.

Matt Эллен

He's already looking for a newer model!

Mitch

1:40 PM

@tchrist Maybe they're an expert on it?

RegDwigнt

You don't have "a gaydar," you have "good gaydar." — CocoPop 1 hour ago

Good. I knew my comment was incomplete.

tchrist

Just install ntpd, and all these things will happen automagically.

RegDwigнt

New Toronto Police Department?

tchrist

Ntpd

The Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) is an operating system program that maintains the system time in synchronization with time servers using the Network Time Protocol (NTP). == Description == The ntpd program is an operating system daemon that sets and maintains the system time in synchronization with Internet standard time servers. It is a complete implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) version 4, but retains compatibility with versions 1, 2, and 3 as defined by RFC 1059, RFC 1119, and RFC 1305, respectively. ntpd performs most computations in 64-bit floating point arithmetic and...

skullpatrol

Same Toronto mayor?

tchrist

1:42 PM

It manages your dates for you.

When they get unruly, they get bumped.

RegDwigнt

Actually "a gaydar" is precisely right. His first name was "Arkadi", not "Good".

GnomeSlice

Today's Listening | House (Mixsets day 11)

skullpatrol

Thanks @GnomeSlice :-)

tchrist

Rayagada

Rayagada is a municipality in Rayagada district in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the administrative headquarters of Rayagada district. == Geography == Rayagada is a district of meadows, forests, water falls and terraced valleys, peopled by many primitive tribal groups. The scenic beauty and heritage on the land is an unexplored paradise. The pattern of people living in the district show unity in diversity of races, languages, and culture. The Scheduled Tribes living in the district possess dissimilar economics ranging from food gathering to settled cultivation. Their languages/dialect...

GnomeSlice

@skullpatrol This one is quite long. :)

skullpatrol

1:45 PM

Maybe it'll help get that Floyd outta my head.

tchrist

Wow, some numbskull let the damned tourist board edit their own Wikipedia page.

skullpatrol

Now I remember why I stopped listening to their music.

tchrist

This is what happens when you let them move off the reservations.

Next up, a proposed two-state solution.

skullpatrol

Natives?

You don't want them off the reservations.

tchrist

> ?The pupils were explained everything by the teacher seems to fall between two stools.

Don’t forget to flush.

GnomeSlice

1:50 PM

@skullpatrol lol

RegDwigнt

> Rayagada is a municipality in Rayagada district

Yeah, and sloppy writing is a kind of writing.

Andrew Leach

A district can be named the same as a town with it. That used to happen all the time in England.

tchrist

Looks like this one escaped the res:

We usually like evidence to back up claims, but if you really can split mountains purely with the power of your eyes, I say we let this one stand. Sir. — Edwin Ashworth 1 hour ago

RegDwigнt

@AndrewLeach depends on whether the town was named after the district, or not. The latter is the case here.

tchrist

The town of X != X township

The language isn’t even English in that article.

RegDwigнt

1:53 PM

When you ask me where Seattle is, and I tell you that Seattle is in the middle of the suburbs of Seattle, I am being an asshole at best.

That is not very useful information like at all.

Andrew Leach

@RegDwigнt Yes. The Hailsham Rural District (which had a Rural District Council) was named after the town of Hailsham, where the council offices were located.

tchrist

The best an asshole can be still an asshole is.

> The pattern of people living in the district show unity in diversity of races, languages, and culture.

Andrew Leach

Hmph. That doesn't mean anything.

tchrist

@AndrewLeach I blame this all on you for leaving before you had taught them English.

RegDwigнt

Rayagada is not in Rayagada district. The Rayagada district is around Rayagada.

skullpatrol

1:56 PM

Again with the native jokes?

RegDwigнt

London

London /ˈlʌndən/ is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. It is the most populous city in the United Kingdom, with a metropolitan area of over 13 million inhabitants. Standing on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1.12-square-mile (2.9 km2) mediaeval boundaries and in 2011 had a resident population of 7,375, making it the smallest city in England. Since at least the 19th century, the term London has al...

tchrist

Their heritage is an unexplored pair of dice.

Andrew Leach

Like the City of London is not within the former County of London.

tchrist

I wonder how that works.

skullpatrol

Don't crap out :)

RegDwigнt

1:56 PM

Look how it doesn't say "London is a city in the administrative area of Greater London in the London Region of England".

tchrist

> The scenic beauty and heritage on the land is an unexplored paradise.

Andrew Leach

That's because it's not called "London Region"

tchrist

What is heritage on the land, and how can said heritage be an unexplored paradise?

RegDwigнt

@AndrewLeach it says "Region: London" right there in the box.

And stop splitting hairs, you know exactly what I mean.

Andrew Leach

London is a complex series of anomalies in governance.

RegDwigнt

1:58 PM

We can take Moscow as an example, then you won't be able to say anything anymore.

tchrist

> Sindhis, Gujaratis and Marwaris who settled there a long time ago have become a distinct identity of the place.

skullpatrol

Capital cities are like that.

tchrist

> All the festivals relating to these communities are celebrated with pomp and fervour.

> Biswambar Dev was defeated and killed by Hasin Khan of Mughal Chicacole Sarkar rulers of Odisha, was perhaps the third king installed at Rayagada.

RegDwigнt

@skullpatrol no, the point is that all cities are like that after which their municipalities were named.

Andrew Leach

@RegDwigнt The "Region" there simply means that there is a Government Office for London, just as there's a Government Office for the South-East. No-one knows what these Government Offices actually do.

skullpatrol

1:59 PM

I think Rome started it.

tchrist

I am being thinking that this is being where all the call centers are coming from being.

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