Another B Ark? That’s how we got in this mess.
‘Ahem, X Ark.’ ~ Elon
Not me. I trust y’all’s judgement about your pricing practices. Still kinda salty about the Portland stores not really carrying jumbo eggs, despite what you told me that one time, though.
Maybe not the same museum, but I saw this machine at a museum on Pacific Avenue in Downtown Tacoma, when the area was being renovated along with Union Station in the mid-90s. The racist nickname was part of the exhibit.
Interesting, but I preferred the town museum in Gig Harbor that featured all the many winners of the annual contest to find the most perfectly spherical rock on the beach.
Well they are called Arabic numbers what more do you need to get upset about?
Consider the track. The horses are all half-Arabian, so you have to use Arabic numbers to place your bets.
No need to do something as silly as create an image of colored words, post it to a hosting site, then link to it.
Discourse is perfectly capable of \color{violet}\textsf{purple words} anywhere you want them. Or \color{red}\textsf{red} or \color{green}\textsf{green} or nearly any other color you want.
The fancy formatting features in Discourse are not as easy for the simplest cases, like just coloring, but they’re far more powerful than the primitive tools available in vBulletin.
I’ve never heard this one before:
Point taken, but a lot of us were never looking for anything beyond “easy,” and would like “easy” back, please and thank you.
But since Dicksource formatting is not user-friendly, it’s useless.
No kidding. I took a quick peek when I saw the post, and after I saw the coding I concluded, yeah, that’s never gonna happen.
This is the only one that’s kinda cool (mouse over the text).
I miss being able to do red strike thrus…
OTOH, now there’s stuff like this:
x=\frac{-b\pm\sqrt{b^{2}-4ac}}{2a}
I also like ACtrl-AEnter
or even Ctrl + Alt + Del
See, you put a non-breaking space after the smilie thing. That confuses me.
I find them useful for generating indented paragraphs, in place of the terrible blank line paragraph breaking demanded by the web.
If you put a smilie / emoticon on a line by itself it comes out big:
The line below reads just
: grin :
and results in:
If you put anything else (other than plain space character(s)) ahead of or behind of the emoticon, then it renders at normal size:
The line below reads
: grin :.
and results in:
.
and this one reads
I like to : grin :
and results in:
I like to
So if you want a small = normal line-sized emoticon all by itself on a new line with no visible stuff on the rest of the line then you need to use something invisible to be that other stuff. In my case I like So
: grin :
results in:
Note in all these examples I had to resort to inserting   into my plain text examples since the Discourse (Markdown really) parser won’t let us escape the : with the usual \: treatment. So the   fools the parser and effectively escapes the colons without making (much) of a visible difference in the rendered text. The Unicode U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE character would be even better as a markdown fake escape char but it doesn’t have an easy-to-remember HTML entity name like HairSp does.
Markdown is a great advance over BBCode but it’s still a dog’s breakfast of inconsistency. Just like HTML.
BTW, starting paragraphs with an indent is soooo 1940s. Stop that silliness.
Or at the very least, not appropriate for a digital medium.
CT state legislator says of her primary opponent that “we cannot permit a person who is of Jewish origin to represent our community”.
Real stupid. Although maybe what she really meant was more like this:
- Now that our overwhelmingly Hispanic district has finally achieved a Hispanic rep (me), it’d be nuts to have some generic white person, or black person, or Asian person represent us, the Hispanics of this county. We deserve own-race representation. Now and going forward. We have arrived as a coherent force in local & state politics.
My opponent happens to be Jewish. So not Hispanic and therefore not qualified. Unlike me, a genuine real Hispanic person. I’d say the same thing about them if they were white, black or Asian. But they’re not.
Sucks to be her whatever she meant. She screwed that pooch and is gonna pay. Probably rightly so.
How do you do the “non-breaking space” bit?