I woke up super annoyed because in my dream I made a joke about Hackers, saying something in reference to the 1776 OverDrive, and my brother started shouting at me, saying that it wasn't the 1776 OverDrive, it was a 17.6 MB Hard Drive and I said that didn't make any sense and how dare he question my Hackers knowledge.
Woke up, rolled out of bed, went over to Google and typed in 1776 OverDrive, still super annoyed and full of conviction, and it turns out that isn't a real thing at all.
Were you maybe thinking of the 1812 Overture, a.k.a. The One With The Cannons?
I woke up super annoyed because in my dream I made a joke about Hackers, saying something in reference to the 1776 OverDrive, and my brother started shouting at me, saying that it wasn't the 1776 OverDrive, it was a 17.6 MB Hard Drive and I said that didn't make any sense and how dare he question my Hackers knowledge.
Woke up, rolled out of bed, went over to Google and typed in 1776 OverDrive, still super annoyed and full of conviction, and it turns out that isn't a real thing at all.
Were you maybe thinking of the 1812 Overture, a.k.a. The One With The Cannons?
That, Mona Lisa Overdrive and recently relistening to an audiobook of 1776 by David Mccullough were the probably contributing factors.
In happier news- the people who take the "yeah yeah, theory's fun but let's get down to business" approach have fewer crazy ideas and use sounder methodologies. They're just not the ones that get all the buzz and funding and buildings named after them and whatnot, so you have to sort through a bunch of references to the craziness to find a good source that's sane. An intro chapter on the relevent linguistic principles is a good sign- apparently the authors in this camp assume (probably rightly so) that a student of ancient languages doesn't know the difference between semantics and pragmatics. I mean, the leading authors seem not to, so...
Like, the thing that got me all ranting was that apparently the majority opinion among the more prestigious scholars is that Greek verbs don't convey tense. Like, at all.
And I'm all like "Yeah dude, aspect's exciting and all, but what are you doing with all this extra morphology?" It's like they think it's IKEA or something, sometimes a language just throws in a dozen extra verb forms in case you lose some.
For what it's worth, I have no idea what this means about the verbs because that is very much not what I learned in my Ancient Greek language class in college
Then again that was years ago, so maybe things have changed
Yeah, most undergrad texts either teach aktionsart (an older way of thinking of basically the same thing as aspect, several decades out of date but easier than re-writing the textbooks), or assume that undergrads are too stupid to get it and skip the whole thing. The people pushing the whole thing are throwing a fit about it, but nobody wants to write a textbook because apparently it's beneath them. There are a handful of sources that could easily be used in the classroom, but they all seem to take the more reasonable approach.
Anyway, what they're saying is that verb forms only encode aspect and tense is strictly contextual. It's bananas. THe more reasonable people are taking up the aspect thing but skipping the whole throwing out tense part of it.
Also, I have no idea how the classical Greek folks are dealing with this. They're different languages with very different sorts of people studying them.
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"Would you like to save fifteen percent on your purchase today?"
"No thanks."
"Hey it's free money! How often do you come here?"
"Not very often."
"How often is 'not very often'?"
SWEET FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER I SAID NO SHUT UP
The only time I would even think about the first re-attempt is if it was a customer I actually recognized as being frequent. And it'd be more of, "Hey, I see you shop here often, you're in a pretty easy position to earn on our rewards program."
But like Goatmon said, there are people who get pushed into acting like that.
there is a store I go to where I purchase one particular product, and they keep trying to get me to do a membership. The incentive is that I get a ten dollar coupon every year. Ten dollars a year is not worth carrying another piece of plastic around.
Do you actually have to carry it on you or can you just sign up and then throw it away?
"Would you like to save fifteen percent on your purchase today?"
"No thanks."
"Hey it's free money! How often do you come here?"
"Not very often."
"How often is 'not very often'?"
SWEET FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER I SAID NO SHUT UP
The only time I would even think about the first re-attempt is if it was a customer I actually recognized as being frequent. And it'd be more of, "Hey, I see you shop here often, you're in a pretty easy position to earn on our rewards program."
But like Goatmon said, there are people who get pushed into acting like that.
there is a store I go to where I purchase one particular product, and they keep trying to get me to do a membership. The incentive is that I get a ten dollar coupon every year. Ten dollars a year is not worth carrying another piece of plastic around.
Do you actually have to carry it on you or can you just sign up and then throw it away?
I woke up super annoyed because in my dream I made a joke about Hackers, saying something in reference to the 1776 OverDrive, and my brother started shouting at me, saying that it wasn't the 1776 OverDrive, it was a 17.6 MB Hard Drive and I said that didn't make any sense and how dare he question my Hackers knowledge.
Woke up, rolled out of bed, went over to Google and typed in 1776 OverDrive, still super annoyed and full of conviction, and it turns out that isn't a real thing at all.
Were you maybe thinking of the 1812 Overture, a.k.a. The One With The Cannons?
That, Mona Lisa Overdrive and recently relistening to an audiobook of 1776 by David Mccullough were the probably contributing factors.
And I think one of the hacker names was CrashOverride so that might have snuck in too.
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Sprint annoys the ever living fuck out of me right now.
We are moving into a new house and there is no coverage in the house or outside. Nothing but constant digital roam. However, since the coverage map technically shows fair coverage (which is one fucking bar) they won't let me out of my contract so I'm either stuck keeping a cell phone that barely works, or paying about $600 in cancellation fees.
Now, I could sell our phones to close to that or more so I might just do it because I'm pissed off at Sprint at this point but I'm not sure.
In happier news- the people who take the "yeah yeah, theory's fun but let's get down to business" approach have fewer crazy ideas and use sounder methodologies. They're just not the ones that get all the buzz and funding and buildings named after them and whatnot, so you have to sort through a bunch of references to the craziness to find a good source that's sane. An intro chapter on the relevent linguistic principles is a good sign- apparently the authors in this camp assume (probably rightly so) that a student of ancient languages doesn't know the difference between semantics and pragmatics. I mean, the leading authors seem not to, so...
Like, the thing that got me all ranting was that apparently the majority opinion among the more prestigious scholars is that Greek verbs don't convey tense. Like, at all.
And I'm all like "Yeah dude, aspect's exciting and all, but what are you doing with all this extra morphology?" It's like they think it's IKEA or something, sometimes a language just throws in a dozen extra verb forms in case you lose some.
For what it's worth, I have no idea what this means about the verbs because that is very much not what I learned in my Ancient Greek language class in college
Then again that was years ago, so maybe things have changed
Yeah, most undergrad texts either teach aktionsart (an older way of thinking of basically the same thing as aspect, several decades out of date but easier than re-writing the textbooks), or assume that undergrads are too stupid to get it and skip the whole thing. The people pushing the whole thing are throwing a fit about it, but nobody wants to write a textbook because apparently it's beneath them. There are a handful of sources that could easily be used in the classroom, but they all seem to take the more reasonable approach.
Anyway, what they're saying is that verb forms only encode aspect and tense is strictly contextual. It's bananas. THe more reasonable people are taking up the aspect thing but skipping the whole throwing out tense part of it.
Also, I have no idea how the classical Greek folks are dealing with this. They're different languages with very different sorts of people studying them.
We did learn the telic/atelic stuff but I'm maybe not following what the idea is here... How can there not be tenses? Everything is conjugated/declined? Heck, we were even taught that Greek is easier than Latin because you can tell what words go with each other based on the declension, where in Latin I guess you have to figure it out more from context?
I hope I am not misremembering everything, that would be embarrassing
are there actually people who take the "flying spaghetti monster" in vain
out loud
in public?
I would punch this person.
I would too
Taking pasta in vain is a sin
I'm not a super religious guy but the concept is very insulting to me.
It assumes all people with faith are children who believe in fairytales based on faulty logic and that they should be mocked,insulted and talked down to.
That lack of respect for how people chose to live leads to Westboro babtist churches of the world
I was going to counter that I didn't bring up FSM to mock religion, and that the concept wasn't created as anti-religious symbol but rather an anti-creationism-in-schools symbol...but I dunno, thinking about it maybe you're right and there's some anti-religious antagonism inherent in the concept, reagardless of what I might say or the Pastafarian Church's website says.
Still though, the phrases "Flying Spaghetti Monster", "His Noodly Appendage", and "Pastafarianism" are pretty dang funny
are there actually people who take the "flying spaghetti monster" in vain
out loud
in public?
I would punch this person.
I would too
Taking pasta in vain is a sin
I'm not a super religious guy but the concept is very insulting to me.
It assumes all people with faith are children who believe in fairytales based on faulty logic and that they should be mocked,insulted and talked down to.
That lack of respect for how people chose to live leads to Westboro babtist churches of the world
Y'know, the flying spaghetti monster arose specifically as a satire of theism, and christian attempts to eliminate scientific education in science classes and replace it with nonsensical, nonscientific religious explanations
So for you to say that the flying spaghetti monster = the westboro baptist church seems like a BIT of a stretch.
The flying spaghetti monster is satire, in this case satire against theism and creationism. I'm sure people can be jerks about it, just the same way as they can be jerks about anything.
But honestly I have zero patience for someone who just assumes that any critique of their religion is over the bounds of good taste. Faith, like any belief system, should be challenged lest it atrophy.
EDIT: And btw, mocking theism is not necessarily the same thing as mocking faith, nor is it inherently atheistic in the modern sense.
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A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
One business I've been to said "here, we're going to enroll you in our program, no cost, it'll help with today's purchase (it was $400 purchase, so a decent amount off). So he did the stuff, swiped the card, and then pitched it in the trash
"Just give us your phone number if you come in again, no worries."
Sprint annoys the ever living fuck out of me right now.
We are moving into a new house and there is no coverage in the house or outside. Nothing but constant digital roam. However, since the coverage map technically shows fair coverage (which is one fucking bar) they won't let me out of my contract so I'm either stuck keeping a cell phone that barely works, or paying about $600 in cancellation fees.
Now, I could sell our phones to close to that or more so I might just do it because I'm pissed off at Sprint at this point but I'm not sure.
Yeah, I'd recommend you sell the handsets to pay for the contract cancellation if you have awhile left.
Obviously for the future you need to confirm cellular coverage in any place you move to when you're under contact. Especially with Sprint. Double-especially if your area is listed below "great" coverage.
Let me know if you have mobile phone contract questions including pricing, features and handsets. That's my bread and butter. PM me if you want!
Sprint annoys the ever living fuck out of me right now.
We are moving into a new house and there is no coverage in the house or outside. Nothing but constant digital roam. However, since the coverage map technically shows fair coverage (which is one fucking bar) they won't let me out of my contract so I'm either stuck keeping a cell phone that barely works, or paying about $600 in cancellation fees.
Now, I could sell our phones to close to that or more so I might just do it because I'm pissed off at Sprint at this point but I'm not sure.
Yeah, I'd recommend you sell the handsets to pay for the contract cancellation if you have awhile left.
Obviously for the future you need to confirm cellular coverage in any place you move to when you're under contact. Especially with Sprint. Double-especially if your area is listed below "great" coverage.
Let me know if you have mobile phone contract questions including pricing, features and handsets. That's my bread and butter. PM me if you want!
"Listen motherfucker. How about you come over and we'll have a drink and you can try to make a fucking call to someone. Let's see how well that works for you."
I wish could find strong, ruffled baked potato crisps. Crisps as you know are potato flakes formed into a chip shape (like Pringles).
I like the baked ones, but they're so flimsy, you can't dip them without them breaking. So yeah, gimme a ruffled baked crisp.
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Just went through Wendy's drive through asked for a frosty and a spicy chicken wrap. Was asked if I wanted a large fry, said no. I paid, took a bag and the frosty.
Upon reaching in: fries, and just fries.
Go inside, explain, return the fries. I get the wrap eventually and also fries.
Kind of annoyed, but I was still polite. Also, free (if unwanted) fries.
I was looking into leasing a car, and after the 36 months, there is a $400 turn-in fee.
Hey uh, screw you? I'm giving you your car back AND I have to give you 400 bucks? I'd rather run it into the river and let insurance pay you, you freaking crooks.
Also, I hate dealerships. They're so thick with middleman gunk, why can't we just order a new car online from Ford.com or whatever and just have them deliver it to our house? Yeah some people want to test drive, but all cars are the same to me. Lemme look up some reviews and bam, I'm ready to make a purchase, and I'd like to not have to interact with a guy whose whole thing is to trick me into giving him extra money.
I was looking into leasing a car, and after the 36 months, there is a $400 turn-in fee.
Hey uh, screw you? I'm giving you your car back AND I have to give you 400 bucks? I'd rather run it into the river and let insurance pay you, you freaking crooks.
Car leasing is pretty terrible anyhow. Usually you are a good quarter or more into ownership by time you add in everything. Unless you really like having different cars every so often you usually pay less by buying to own and then just keeping a bit on the side for maintenance.
Did the cancellation fee calculate milage? The last lease I had before I bought had a clause to waive/lower the turn-in fee if you were under a certain mileage each year.
I was looking into leasing a car, and after the 36 months, there is a $400 turn-in fee.
Hey uh, screw you? I'm giving you your car back AND I have to give you 400 bucks? I'd rather run it into the river and let insurance pay you, you freaking crooks.
Car leasing is pretty terrible anyhow. Usually you are a good quarter or more into ownership by time you add in everything. Unless you really like having different cars every so often you usually pay less by buying to own and then just keeping a bit on the side for maintenance.
Did the cancellation fee calculate milage? The last lease I had before I bought had a clause to waive/lower the turn-in fee if you were under a certain mileage each year.
It didn't. The usage fee was completely separate. It was literally a fee for them having to see my ugly mug again
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I was looking into leasing a car, and after the 36 months, there is a $400 turn-in fee.
Hey uh, screw you? I'm giving you your car back AND I have to give you 400 bucks? I'd rather run it into the river and let insurance pay you, you freaking crooks.
Car leasing is pretty terrible anyhow. Usually you are a good quarter or more into ownership by time you add in everything. Unless you really like having different cars every so often you usually pay less by buying to own and then just keeping a bit on the side for maintenance.
Did the cancellation fee calculate milage? The last lease I had before I bought had a clause to waive/lower the turn-in fee if you were under a certain mileage each year.
It didn't. The usage fee was completely separate. It was literally a fee for them having to see my ugly mug again
You should have taken the deal, then charged them a $400 turning in the turning in fee.
remember when pringles came out with those chips that were like, "scientifically engineered" to mimic the exact shape of the bill of a platypus for maximum scooping efficiency?
even at seven years of age I could tell this was bullshit
Also I made the mistake of buying "regular" tortilla chips last time I was at the store: 1 serving is 7 chips. 170 calories, some fat, sodium, all that
I was looking into leasing a car, and after the 36 months, there is a $400 turn-in fee.
Hey uh, screw you? I'm giving you your car back AND I have to give you 400 bucks? I'd rather run it into the river and let insurance pay you, you freaking crooks.
Also, I hate dealerships. They're so thick with middleman gunk, why can't we just order a new car online from Ford.com or whatever and just have them deliver it to our house? Yeah some people want to test drive, but all cars are the same to me. Lemme look up some reviews and bam, I'm ready to make a purchase, and I'd like to not have to interact with a guy whose whole thing is to trick me into giving him extra money.
State laws, written at the behest of the NADA (National Auto Dealers Association) stop this from happening.
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Were you maybe thinking of the 1812 Overture, a.k.a. The One With The Cannons?
That, Mona Lisa Overdrive and recently relistening to an audiobook of 1776 by David Mccullough were the probably contributing factors.
Yeah, most undergrad texts either teach aktionsart (an older way of thinking of basically the same thing as aspect, several decades out of date but easier than re-writing the textbooks), or assume that undergrads are too stupid to get it and skip the whole thing. The people pushing the whole thing are throwing a fit about it, but nobody wants to write a textbook because apparently it's beneath them. There are a handful of sources that could easily be used in the classroom, but they all seem to take the more reasonable approach.
Anyway, what they're saying is that verb forms only encode aspect and tense is strictly contextual. It's bananas. THe more reasonable people are taking up the aspect thing but skipping the whole throwing out tense part of it.
Also, I have no idea how the classical Greek folks are dealing with this. They're different languages with very different sorts of people studying them.
Do you actually have to carry it on you or can you just sign up and then throw it away?
who cares, just give me my ginger beer
And I think one of the hacker names was CrashOverride so that might have snuck in too.
We are moving into a new house and there is no coverage in the house or outside. Nothing but constant digital roam. However, since the coverage map technically shows fair coverage (which is one fucking bar) they won't let me out of my contract so I'm either stuck keeping a cell phone that barely works, or paying about $600 in cancellation fees.
Now, I could sell our phones to close to that or more so I might just do it because I'm pissed off at Sprint at this point but I'm not sure.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1JI9WWSRW1YJI
I believe this is the book we used, if this helps at all http://www.amazon.ca/Athenaze-Introduction-Ancient-Greek-Book/dp/0195149564
We did learn the telic/atelic stuff but I'm maybe not following what the idea is here... How can there not be tenses? Everything is conjugated/declined? Heck, we were even taught that Greek is easier than Latin because you can tell what words go with each other based on the declension, where in Latin I guess you have to figure it out more from context?
I hope I am not misremembering everything, that would be embarrassing
Still though, the phrases "Flying Spaghetti Monster", "His Noodly Appendage", and "Pastafarianism" are pretty dang funny
Y'know, the flying spaghetti monster arose specifically as a satire of theism, and christian attempts to eliminate scientific education in science classes and replace it with nonsensical, nonscientific religious explanations
So for you to say that the flying spaghetti monster = the westboro baptist church seems like a BIT of a stretch.
The flying spaghetti monster is satire, in this case satire against theism and creationism. I'm sure people can be jerks about it, just the same way as they can be jerks about anything.
But honestly I have zero patience for someone who just assumes that any critique of their religion is over the bounds of good taste. Faith, like any belief system, should be challenged lest it atrophy.
EDIT: And btw, mocking theism is not necessarily the same thing as mocking faith, nor is it inherently atheistic in the modern sense.
"Just give us your phone number if you come in again, no worries."
Yeah, I'd recommend you sell the handsets to pay for the contract cancellation if you have awhile left.
Obviously for the future you need to confirm cellular coverage in any place you move to when you're under contact. Especially with Sprint. Double-especially if your area is listed below "great" coverage.
Let me know if you have mobile phone contract questions including pricing, features and handsets. That's my bread and butter. PM me if you want!
"Listen motherfucker. How about you come over and we'll have a drink and you can try to make a fucking call to someone. Let's see how well that works for you."
I mean it goes <lays flavors> <corn chips flavors> <ruffles are way over here for some reason>
excuse me are you talking about Cheddar & Sour Cream Ruffles
get a load of this guy
talkin' shit about the CheddaRuffs
Potato chips are gross in general we all know that.
/pats on shoulder
Scoops.
I have no enmity towards their flavoring powders, which for both Lays and Ruffles have occasionally been amazing.
But the chips themselves are greasy garbage.
Because yeah those are pretty good.
But they are corn chips though so that's different.
Legal extortion is all that is.
No.
http://www.ballreich.com/
these are much greasier.
I like the baked ones, but they're so flimsy, you can't dip them without them breaking. So yeah, gimme a ruffled baked crisp.
Upon reaching in: fries, and just fries.
Go inside, explain, return the fries. I get the wrap eventually and also fries.
Kind of annoyed, but I was still polite. Also, free (if unwanted) fries.
I was looking into leasing a car, and after the 36 months, there is a $400 turn-in fee.
Hey uh, screw you? I'm giving you your car back AND I have to give you 400 bucks? I'd rather run it into the river and let insurance pay you, you freaking crooks.
Also, I hate dealerships. They're so thick with middleman gunk, why can't we just order a new car online from Ford.com or whatever and just have them deliver it to our house? Yeah some people want to test drive, but all cars are the same to me. Lemme look up some reviews and bam, I'm ready to make a purchase, and I'd like to not have to interact with a guy whose whole thing is to trick me into giving him extra money.
Yo dawg sometime I want to dip potatoes and not corn.
Car leasing is pretty terrible anyhow. Usually you are a good quarter or more into ownership by time you add in everything. Unless you really like having different cars every so often you usually pay less by buying to own and then just keeping a bit on the side for maintenance.
Did the cancellation fee calculate milage? The last lease I had before I bought had a clause to waive/lower the turn-in fee if you were under a certain mileage each year.
It didn't. The usage fee was completely separate. It was literally a fee for them having to see my ugly mug again
At which time you should be investing your time and money into delicious kettle chips.
Cape Cod brand even has both ruffle and waffle cut varieties.
what
You should have taken the deal, then charged them a $400 turning in the turning in fee.
even at seven years of age I could tell this was bullshit
Oh shiiiiiiiiiiiii I had no idea!
from seven chips.
State laws, written at the behest of the NADA (National Auto Dealers Association) stop this from happening.