Although each set comes with 3 books Essential/Intermediate/Advanced, be aware that it really only is basic. I think it should take you to the B1 level of the CEFR.
It works great. I can't wait to get back out there today, now that I have my special pedals installed. I used toe clips yesterday because I was in a lather to get out and ride.
Whoa ELU chat from the Pittsburgh airport! Thanks to record-warm September and October I picked red raspberries and tomatoes and basil in shorts when I left a week ago. Going home now to 10" of snow that fell at my house and a HIGH of only 6 F with worse overnight. I was hoping for a record November too but not this way.
I will have to re-teach Randy and Lorin about winter when I get back later today. They have been really depressed and frustrated at being locked inside. Just wait till they finally see the alternative!
@Robusto actually the wires are in the frame. I can't find a picture of my exact bike, but yeah. this is a hybrid, though, so aluminium frame, carbon forks
I need to make it NEVER EVER EVER do something I did not myself explicitly type. Who the bloody fuck though it was a good idea to scramble the signal with random line noise? worst fucking design fiasco in history! I'll be responsible for my own typos, fang you fairy much.
I control the vertical. I control the horizontal. My piano keyboard doesn't do this sort of shit; nothing should. It is an abomination before Guterberg and Man. The #2 slot on the vigilante hit list just got occupied -- right behind spammers. Barely.
Mine wouldn't let me type any variant of fuck. I found this out the hard way when I typed, "This thing is all fucked up" and after I sent it I saw what my keyboard actually rendered was "This thing is all ducked up." Which made me look stupid, or confused, or both.
@Cerberus: I thought Amsterdam had free bikes.
@tchrist Smart phones only give you the illusion of control, but you do have your choice of dimensions you wish to pretend to be the master of.
They certainly don't require Moebius-Markov chain rewrites to do that now do they? This is the most perversely non-deterministic input method ever devised, a hundred million monkeys NOT excepted. How fucking hard is it to SIMPLY TAKE WHATEVER I ACTUALLY TYPE AND LEAVE IT THE FUCK ALONE???? Try to imagine editing program code in vi or emacs with this abomination!
@JasperLoy Mate has nothing to do with Ubuntu! The Ubuntu Mate is just normal Ubuntu that comes with the Mate desktop environment by default. Mate was developed by Mint to avoid the whole Gnome3 debacle.
@JasperLoy Well, at least it doesn't pass your data to Amazon. Also, that's not true. That is firefox, not Mint (I mean the mint version of firefox) and you can just change the default engine with a single click. I don't though, DuckDuckGo is excellent and does not track me. Unlike Google.
@JasperLoy True, I don't actually use either anymore. But Ubuntu's links to large corporate entities bother me. And I can't stand the idea of my searches on my own machine being passed to amazon.
@JasperLoy Yes, but if you object to a one click addition of google, I am surprised you don't object top that. And it's the principle of the thing that really bugs me. My computer and data are my own, the idea of two huge companies having access to them scares me,.
Those insurance and credit card companies always approach me on the streets. I tell them I have no money but they don't believe me.
@terdon Actually, the last time I checked, it was not one click. It's not changing the default only. One really has to go to a special page to add the engine that is originally missing in the Mint version of Firefox.
@tchrist That seemed to outlandish that I had to check the manual to verify and BY GODS, you're right! in 2014 the MySQL regex only works on single-byte characters!
@tchrist have you read these docs? They will make you sad
My favorite Windows 3.1 feature was the fact that when trying to copy from one floppy to another it would wait till it had tried and failed to copy before alerting you that the target disk didn't have enough room.
So what I want to know is this: SE sites want you to include citations for your answer, but answers that are general reference get closed. So is there some narrow band of answer for which research is sufficiently recondite that it is not gen ref but also readily searchable?
@Robusto The list of general references is meant to be small, and questions worth answering should go beyond, or better explain, the references. Also should use multiple references as needed.
So yes. There is a range of questions worth answering that are more than copying out of dictionaries.
> Does the Windows XP Add/Remove Programs control panel expose a scriptable object model? We want our program to open the Add/Remove Programs control panel and uninstall the programs of our competitors.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I'm not sure this is about "excuses".
We just don't think it is efficient for anyone to go about answering very basic grammar questions rather than have them read an introductory grammar book first.
@Robusto Hilarious. Very good practice.
@Mitch No, because we can still close those questions even if they have to read an actual book.
Which I think they don't: there are enough websites that explain all the basics of English grammar.
@Cerberus Yes, it is about excuses. You are excused from having to perform certain tasks we deem are too onerous to require, such as completing a linguistics degree, or buying the OED or CGEL. You are not excused from using a dictionary.
If you fail to use a dictionary, we just close your question. We don't want it. Come back when you've done the homework.
@tchrist: The flickers are all over my suet feeder. Took them a couple of days, but they are loving it. Now I'm going to have to start buying suet cakes in bulk, I think.
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" (alternatively, "There's no such thing as a free lunch" or other variants) is a popular adage communicating the idea that it is impossible to get something for nothing. The initialisms TNSTAAFL, TANSTAAFL, and TINSTAAFL are also used. Uses of the phrase dating back to the 1930s and 1940s have been found, but the phrase's first appearance is unknown. The "free lunch" in the saying refers to the nineteenth-century practice in American bars of offering a "free lunch" in order to entice drinking customers.
The phrase and the acronym are central to Robert...
I recently read an article claiming that employing some tactic was OK but could mitigate many of the good effects of the main action.
What word should the author have used, as mitigate means to improve or to lessen a negative, not to render a positive thing less good?
There may be no single wor...
This question appears to be off-topic because it is nothing but one user’s personal vendetta against tchrist. It is not a real question. Voting to close and delete. — tchrist14 mins ago
Might as well edit the title to "I think that the moderators should suspend tchrist for being funny." That way it stops being a lie and says what he wants.