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Snake
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 Posted - 10/16/2001 : 23:19:42 [Permalink]
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Snake, that's what I MEANT! They're making us lazy! :)
Heck, I can barely remember how to do long division without a calculator now. It's disgusting.
Disgusting and embarrassing, ha ha. I was taking a general education test the other day at my school and totally forgot my algebra. I used to love that subject but it's been years since I've used it. I felt so bad.
Yes, and I do use a simple calculator all the time but I know enough if I get a wrong answer because I forgot a decimal or the batteries are old. If kids only learn to depend on machines, they won't know if something is wrong.
And BTW, I don't trust the scanners in the supper market, I ask the checker to go very slow so I can see the prices as they go by.
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2001 : 23:23:09 [Permalink]
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Ah, but Snake - a calculator does not calculate in the same way we humans do.
Not sure what you mean by that.
We still need to learn and understand and NOT depend on robots.
Fall of Rome.....and all that!
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ZaphodBeeblebrox
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 10/17/2001 : 00:05:02 [Permalink]
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Snake you sound like my Mother!
Even worse, is when she pours over the Reciept after she gets it home, and since she can't do Math, or use a Calculator, guess who she asks, to do it for her.
Speaking of Calculators, what Trish probably meant, was that a Calculator first converts any entries into Binary, and than computes the problem from there. It's an easy way to do Math, if you don't mind doing more than 1,000 Calculations, that is.
If you Ignore Your Rights, they WILL, go away.
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 10/17/2001 : 03:37:28 [Permalink]
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Thanks Zapho,
I have trouble explaining how it works.
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ZaphodBeeblebrox
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 10/17/2001 : 03:44:43 [Permalink]
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No Problem.
I like doing it.
That, and I've always been a Show-Off, at heart.
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 10/17/2001 : 15:34:06 [Permalink]
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Snake you sound like my Mother!
No offence to your mother, I'm sure she is a nice person, but I hate the word mother and I'd never want to be one or a parent of any kind. Mothers from my expience are nasty people. BTW, are you insulting me, ha ha 
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Even worse, is when she pours over the Reciept after she gets it home, and since she can't do Math, or use a Calculator, guess who she asks, to do it for her.
Not sure what you mean here. But I don't cook. The times I do mix food to eat I just throw it together. Cooking is scientific, when you know what 'chemicals'(spices, vegies, etc.) do combined. Only time I have to be exact with recipes is when I mix photo chemicals or ceramic glazes. But thanks anyway.
Oh, and you are a good child to help your mother that way. My kid is a damn selfish brat.
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Speaking of Calculators, what Trish probably meant, was that a Calculator first converts any entries into Binary, and than computes the problem from there. It's an easy way to do Math, if you don't mind doing more than 1,000 Calculations, that is.
Hum! I think we are talking about two different subjects. I wasn't saying anything about the iner workings of a calcluator. Whatever!
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 10/19/2001 : 12:30:21 [Permalink]
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The grammer in today's poll of the day is....abysmal. May I suggest:
Posted - 10/19/2001 : 06:19:27
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I think he was speaking Arabic only in the context of what they were discussing, that they would rather be subject to fundamentalist Islamic rule than endure constant fear of anthrax. I don't think any of them was Muslim.
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I as part of the language police, have another one for you.
You be the judge. The above post is from another folder, do you think the use of the word WAS in the last sentence is incorrect?
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PhDreamer
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 10/19/2001 : 12:53:17 [Permalink]
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The grammer in today's poll of the day is....abysmal. May I suggest:
Posted - 10/19/2001 : 06:19:27
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I think he was speaking Arabic only in the context of what they were discussing, that they would rather be subject to fundamentalist Islamic rule than endure constant fear of anthrax. I don't think any of them was Muslim.
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I as part of the language police, have another one for you.
You be the judge. The above post is from another folder, do you think the use of the word WAS in the last sentence is incorrect?
Out to prove my mother was wrong and I can fight City Hall!
I, as the author of that passage, am of the opinion that 'any,' as it is used in said passage, refers to the characters in the comic singularly, and therefore takes the singular 'was.' The sentence could be correctly written, "I don't think any one of them was Muslim." Obviously, the singular 'one' would take the singular verb 'was' because in this case, 'any' is an adjective, rather than a pronoun as it was in my original phrasing. Had I been referring to cities, regions or any group of people, it would have been correctly, but admittedly awkwardly, written, "I don't think any of them were Muslim."
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Russ
New Member
USA
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Posted - 10/19/2001 : 14:32:52 [Permalink]
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I, as the author of that passage, am of the opinion that 'any,' as it is used in said passage, refers to the characters in the comic singularly, and therefore takes the singular 'was.' The sentence could be correctly written, "I don't think any one of them was Muslim." Obviously, the singular 'one' would take the singular verb 'was' because in this case, 'any' is an adjective, rather than a pronoun as it was in my original phrasing. Had I been referring to cities, regions or any group of people, it would have been correctly, but admittedly awkwardly, written, "I don't think any of them were Muslim."
I know that I am grammatically challanged, BUT... the one thing that was really drilled into me in high school was.... it is "she was / they were" every time.
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PhDreamer
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 10/20/2001 : 21:04:25 [Permalink]
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I, as the author of that passage, am of the opinion that 'any,' as it is used in said passage, refers to the characters in the comic singularly, and therefore takes the singular 'was.' The sentence could be correctly written, "I don't think any one of them was Muslim." Obviously, the singular 'one' would take the singular verb 'was' because in this case, 'any' is an adjective, rather than a pronoun as it was in my original phrasing. Had I been referring to cities, regions or any group of people, it would have been correctly, but admittedly awkwardly, written, "I don't think any of them were Muslim."
I know that I am grammatically challanged, BUT... the one thing that was really drilled into me in high school was.... it is "she was / they were" every time.
No argument. I was just explaining why the pronoun 'any' can take a singular or plural verb. Although now that I look at it, my second example is incorrect.
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