I hate all races equally but I hate some races more equally than others.

I'm not a racist!

@Robusto I neither confirm nor deny that I am Dick Cheney by responding to you question. That statement, by not confirming nor denying, is not an implicit recognition of the possibility one way or the other of being Dick Cheney. That statement, the previous one, and this statement and their combined and calculated inferences are no evidence in any way of Dick Cheney writing this.

Oh fuck it. I'm Dick Cheney.

@GeorgePompidou The absolute worst is the 1k steeplechase. Who do they think they are, some kinda horse?

@Mitch oh you

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> [What] to call organization that is customer of my customer?

anything you like, they can't hear you

As Vinnie Jones would say, you can call them Susan if it makes you happy.

@shingu it means nothing. There is no "considered professional" in that phrase. There is the word "considered" and the word "professional".

@RegDwigнt Okay, so, the author is stating that his judgement is considered professional?

@shingu I don't know what the author is stating. He either uses the wrong word, or the wrong syntax.

That fragment does not sound like something a native speaker would produce.

If he wants to say that his judgment is considered professional, he is doing it in an ungrammatical manner.

If he really means considerate, then he's using the wrong word.

considered is an adjective, professional is another adjective

I considered that.

Then I checked a couple dictionaries and they told me I was wrong.

hmmm

At any rate, I think shingu's interpretation is closer to the truth of what the author is trying to say.

in ODO:

But we'd have to see more of the text to know for sure if it's some weird poetry written by Her Majesty, or some weird mumbo-jumbo spit out by an ananas.

true

@MattE.Эллен yeah I knew there was that. But lo and behold, wiki told me I was an idiot.

So I shrugged and moved on with my life.

:D

yeah, and ODO kinda shoves it in as a p.s. Not obvious at all to start with

Any ODO entry is just a TODO entry with no tea.

That cannot be good.

It's, like, doubleplusungood.

Thanks @RegDwigнt.

I encountered this phrase in "The tragedy of the commons" -an academic paper- by Garrett Hardin

Then it must be the meaning Matt explained. The author states that his opinion is professional and carefully crafted.

And now for something completely Russian @Cerberus:

that's better than lonely chairs at CERN

Yeah. Some of them chairs aren't even lonely.

False advertising. And you trust these crooks with your physics!

Not to mention they can't tell chairs from stools.

And you want them to tell higgs from bosoms.

Pathetic.

@Mitch help vampire to be precise

@RegDwigнt maybe they don't have enough samples to tell stools from chairs

I could tell a stool from a chair with no samples, for only $3000.

And it's not like they don't have that kind of money.

It's like with Hollywood. They could hire someone who actually speaks a single word of Russian. But they will rather die trying not to.

I have no sound here. But there was a malagueña salerosa in Kill Bill. Is it the same one?

bbl

hey people :) just a quick question

if i copy exactly half of a setence wot an author wrote,in addition to intext referencing, do i have to put quotation marks???

for example: RegDwigнt wrote :But there was a malagueña salerosa in Kill Bill.

^^^^ lets just assume the sentence was longer than this....

All quotes must always be indicated as quotes. No exceptions.

Why would you quote someone and not mark it up as a quote?

That's actually a crime in most countries, you know...

If I wrote : I think there was a malagueña salerosa in Kill Bill.

@RegDwigнt I want to , I dont know if I should only quote if I exactly copy the exact sentence?

Are you talking about direct vs indirect speech?

It is not very clear what you're after.

okay so in this case do I write it as : I "think there was a malagueña salerosa in Kill Bill." or " I think there was a malagueña salerosa in Kill Bill."

direct speech

Indirect speech uses no quotes because it uses rephrasing instead, and a clear attribution to the author.

I'm just pulling an indirect speech for demonstration

@RegDwigнt this is just for demonstration. In reality its a sentence from a book

What is the sentence from the book?

@TheArtist the latter if the "I" is a part of the original quote. The former if it is not.

It's very simple. If it's part of the quote, it must be part of the quote.

This is the exact sentence from the book :

It found that it was "inconceivable" that such a study would have failed to pinpont the fact that a loss of warm oil flow could lead to dangerously low temperatures and the possibility of brittle fracture.

.................................................

Okay.

It would have pinpointed the fact that a loss of warm oil flow could lead to a dangerously low temperatures and the possibility of brittle fracture

And this is what Im writing:

sorry....

It would have pinpointed the fact that a loss of warm oil flow could lead to a dangerously low temperatures and the possibility of brittle fracture (Dawson, p.10).

You are using someone else's words. They must be set in quotes.

@RegDwigнt do I set it as "It would have pinpointed the fact that a loss of warm oil flow could lead to a dangerously low temperatures and the possibility of brittle fracture (Dawson, p.10)."

or

It would have pinpointed " the fact that a loss of warm oil flow could lead to a dangerously low temperatures and the possibility of brittle fracture (Dawson, p.10)."

It would have "pinpoint[ed] the fact that a loss of warm oil flow could lead to a dangerously low temperatures [sic] and the possibility of brittle fracture" (Dawson, p.10).

It would have pinpointed " the fact that a loss of warm oil flow could lead to a dangerously low temperatures and the possibility of brittle fracture" (Dawson, p.10).

@RegDwigнt Please check my last sentence ^^^

That works, too, but since pinpoint is such a peculiar word choice, and it's clearly not a coincidence you're using it, it's better if you be honest that you got it from that text as well.

Your best option is the one I wrote above. All the other options are inferior.

@RegDwigнt Okay, Thank you very much :)

No problem.

@RegDwigнt Thank you a lot.

:)

@RegDwigнt I forgot to say "Hi" :)

You did say "hey". (^_^)

We'll pretend it's the same thing.

oh i did :) yes

@RegDwigнt oh good question came to my mind :) why do you put [ed] to pinpointed. Ive seen this style in several places, but I have just forgotten to ask someone as to why its there.

Because it is not there in the original quote.

If you have to change the quote to fit your new sentence, you mark such changes with square brackets.

oh I see. so it happens only when quoting.

ok :)

Thanks for that too :)

^_^

thanks

@RegDwigнt what instrument do you play?

Several. These days mainly the piano.

Next up, you'll ask me what book I have read. :)

wow thats great :)

No, it's not a great piano, it's an upright one.

@RegDwigнt oh no :) that was my first question , but looking at your reputation and book readers read a lot of books. My gf reads so many books, one after another and finishes each in a week. So thats a lot of books :) which is why i avoided asking that question. my next question was going to be about web designing

Though come to think of it, the ceiling's so high at my place, I could just place a grand piano vertically. Hm. Hm hm hm...

(Y)

@TheArtist I have designed many sites, read many books, played many instruments, visited many places, and eaten many foodstuffs.

I've been one busy little bee.

You left out the drinking part.

I did no such thing.

Not in your list.

All these words are euphemisms for vodka and women.

And women are euphemisms for vodka.

@RegDwigнt may I know a website ? :) Il like to see one.

Sorry, even the regulars in this room are in no possession of any such information. Except the regulars who work for the NSA, that is.

@RegDwigнt what about Google?

Also, them's very very boring sites about very very boring things no normal human even cares about.

They might be gorgeously boring, but boring is the operative word.

@RegDwigнt With all the work I have , I would love to be bored right now.

@TheArtist Google knows nothing about me. I prefix every Google search with "my name is @Robusto". I am very smart, you must know.

@RegDwigнt The NSA is so over you.

@RegDwigнt I dont understand your last message. How does that prevent google from knowing you?

Very, very effectively. That's how.

And very efficiently, too.

@Robusto your tax money at work.

You give your government thousands of dollars such that it can make a copy of this publicly accessible transcript, and then never even read it.

Brilliant.

'Sactly.

Perhaps fifty-seven years from now some stray automated algorithm comes along, only to learn that Balrogs have attacked Riyadh in 2032.

@RegDwigнt where are u from ? :P

Guitar Sexy Music?

Order word new?

> The design specs will be made available once coding has been completed. — Robusto's First Rule of Software Development

Thank god he's sexy and gorgeous. Just imagine his suffering if he were sexy and hideous!

@TheArtist Milky Way, Earth, Eurasia.

Bullshit. You're an Adromedan if ever I saw one.

I can clearly see a Balrog approaching. From the left. In 2032. Just saying.

@RegDwigнt Milky Way, Earth, Eurasia, _____ . Fill in this blank :D

@TheArtist Milky Way, Earth, Eurasia, adenosinetriphosphate.

Did I do it right? What do I get?

@Robusto I'm just a sweet Andromede from Andromedal Andromedania, haha!

2

Oh, a countdown!

1

@RegDwigнt , that was smart. but wait i forgot to put a restriction

0

:P

This is such fun.

Ignition ignition. Liftoff liftoff. Retard retard.

@TheArtist: You're asking personal questions people aren't obliged to answer. Most people would tell you to FO, in so many words, but @Reg is bored and idle today and so he is having fun with you. Probably he thinks you will eventually get the message. Possibly he is wrong to think that.

Nah truth is I am not thinking anything right now. Thinking is overrated.

TL;DR: This ain't Tinder.

Wait what?

WHAT?

@RegDwigнt So say my cats.

@RegDwigнt Right?

Okay now I am like flabbergasted and shit.

This u-turn of events shall not pass.

Oh, by the way, Chinaman is not the correct nomenclature.

Also, I actually don't mind telling people that I'm from Milky Way, Earth, Eurasia, Riyadh.

How are they going to cross-check that anyway?

And they wouldn't if they could, because five minutes from now they'll've forgotten they had talked to me.

@RegDwigнt Hah.

I presume there was once a fence there, now demolished or removed?

Just to demonstrate the sheer extent of my idleness right now: I'm reading IMDb reviews of Kill Bill Vol. 2.

@Cerberus so did I, but the caption actually suggested that was the only bit ever constructed.

Not that it matters. It's retarded either way.

@RegDwigнt Restriction :

You do know that we can guess where in the world you're from simply by looking at your writing?

Hint: only the French and the Indians put a whitespace before a colon. Nobody else does.

@RegDwigнt you got it wrong :D

That doesn't even make sense.

Xn+1 is a subset of Xn, I think you mean.

He's also telling me to name a place that's less than 1000meters in diameter, while I'm from a place that's like fifty times as large.

Not that I know what the heck "1000meters" is.

@RegDwigнt That's a pretty big apartment for Germany.

Aye.

@RegDwigнt greater than 1000 meters.

coz u said adenosinetriphosphate , in ur first try

@TheArtist oh, in that case: Milky Way, Earth, Eurasia, Eurasia.

@RegDwigнt $x_5 \neq x_4$

You will have to try harder. I have studied this math shit, you know, like at university level and stuff.

@TheArtist Milky Way, Earth, Eurasia, Eurasia minus Monaco.

@Robusto you dont write it as N+1 and N. Thats for unknown general values.

@RegDwigнt ok you get a cookie (Y)

The funny thing is, you will spend your entire day writing up constraints, and all the while I'll be originally from Lima.

@TheArtist I don't write it at all. I program shit like that. And I always deal in unknown general values.

@RegDwigнt The bean or the city?

@TheArtist also, if you are not from India or France, then you got it wrong.

I never put white space s wher e none belon g.

@Robusto yeah in my example i know its 5 and 4. so they are not "unknown" or "general"

@Robusto you dont even make sense.

@Robusto false dichotomy. This is why we can't have both things!

@TheArtist I think you need better English to get the jokes in this chat.

@Robusto whoa whoa who made you a general, private.

@RegDwigнt I deal with private members in a general way.

New rules: I will get the jokes in this chat for you, for $3000.

okay dont be mean :)

He's merely median.

hugs for both of you :)

You will have to excuse him, his entire country was built upon unknown family values.

@RegDwigнt If there is a report:

^^^ How do we reference this at the back of my work? It does not seem have an author :/

^^^^ This is the front cover of it

Whachamean, no author, there's authors on the front page you just showed.

A honorable sir won't do for you?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That's what I meant: they appeared to be very much afraid of the law, even if it was of the wrong law. And, actually, with their crazy system, I wouldn't have been surprised if they had been sued for millions by parents in America.

(Not that you'd need to have an author unless you're writing in BibTeX and not English.)

@RegDwigнt Why does Dawson call himself the chairman ? And it seems to be a government print report.

I don't think he calls himself that. I don't think that's how chairmanship works. Unless you're in Riyadh, that is.

@RegDwigнt remember, even I thought it was done by Dawson and i even used his name in the intext reference. But the front cover is confusing me now.

Okay, so back to my question, then: what do you even need a name for?

How is "the Report of the Blah Royal Commission" not specific enough? Do these appear monthly?

Dawson, M 1999, Report of the Longford Royal Commission, Victoria

^^^ Is this the way to do it ? @RegDwigнt

Okay so we are talking BibTeX and not English.

In which case I'm afraid I'm of no help.

We do have a sister site for TeXies, though.

@RegDwigнt oh yes its very specific, but how do I write that in english way ? :P

Well, as far as English is concerned, you can write it any way you please. English is a language, not a format.

@RegDwigнt ok so under references , can I just put "The report of the Longford Royal Commission, 1999" ?

Works for me, why not.

@RegDwigнt Ok thanks :)

@RegDwigнt His name is Darly Micheal Dawson. So do we write him as Dawson, D.M or Dawson, D M ? If the format is family name, initial(s).

@RegDwigнt Do we put a fullstop between D and M ? :)

@RegDwigнt k heres the problem :) when writing out my work , i referred to The report of the longford commission as Dawson ( coz thats the author) . Now at the back in the references if I simply write "The report of the Longford Royal Commission, 1999" , won't the reader go like "who the hell is Dawson that I was referring to in my text" . How do I solve this ? any idea?

Is there anything this guy says that is not inoffensive?

@Mitch the only thing that he said that wasn't .... is "BTW"

@Cerberus So because people are misinformed about a law, and thus act in a way that appears irrational in the face of the real law, is somehow the justice system's fault? I dunno. It seems you saw one vaguely worded tweet that mentions COPPA in a dubious way and jumped to conclusions. The much more likely scenario is that Lego was just trying to protect their brand image. It's a marketing issue, not a legal one.