Skimming by his long posts works very well as well, since you can be sure to have missed nothing at all.
This is a reasonable argument in that it is true that current laws are not designed for this. Remember, it’s totally acceptable to consider a patient dead if their heart stopped, even though in reality you have somewhere between 4 and 30 minutes before they are ‘really, definitely, 100% dead’. (the greater threshold is because there’s some clinical success with longer durations)
Remember, also, that the majority religion when these laws were written believes at some point your “soul” detaches from your body to go to heaven or hell, after which if you could successfully revive someone, maybe they’d be soul-less or replaced with a demon or maybe god would punish you for your audacity. If you’re wondering, the last idea I heard expressed by a medical student, and the first 2 are common themes in dozens of movies.
So no, you don’t deserve ignore. Now if you said “SamuelA is a crackpot, all his posts are nonsense”, that would be a sweeping insult worthy of becoming the 6th ignore list entry.
Nah, he’ll become a Big Damn Hero when an asteroid approaches Earth and he slaps it away with his giant dick.
You are way too kind LSLGuy, and I love you for it. I think SamuelA might have a lot of interesting ideas about highly technical subjects, but even in something fairly simple to understand he displays a lack of even basic reading comprehension and works himself into a frenzy of abusive, belittling language. He is far more concerned about proving that he has a superior grasp of everything than actually understanding fully what is being talked about. Some of this has nothing to do with being a CS major and much more to do with coming from a standpoint of fear and anxiety about being wring about something.
But maybe I’m projecting; if he is as young as I believe him to be, then at his age I was at least just as bad. This just makes me feel a little sad and sorry for him, he will probably have many difficult years ahead of him, hopefully he listens to some of what you have to say. Or maybe he’s just fine how he is - I don’t know, I’m not a psychologist, I fix bicycles for a living. But my cat loves me, so that’s something. She’s fast asleep on my arm right now, it’s sooo cute, and also provides a reasonable amount of warmth. Maybe SamuelA should get a cat.
Anyhow, here is the thread I’m talking about :
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=842937
He can’t figure out the different meanings of the words tax lien and lender foreclosure.
You struggled on the point of realizing that the root of “obdurism” is “obdurate”. No matter how many words you throw at us, you still messed it up. It’s OK, man. It really is.
I will trust you used the right clip-Thank you.
Both involve an auction, right…
In that thread, you didn’t bother to specify what the differences were. I’m sure there are slight procedural differences*, but how does that matter? My point from the beginning was the house must sell for a lot less than it’s worth, or there’s no point in buying it and flipping it. This is basic mathematics. And I pointed out that whatever the procedures were, it must be cheating the homeowner, in practice the homeowner must lose a lot more than the mere back taxes they owe. And I established that point solidly with evidence and math and you just claimed I was ignorant and drifted off.
You’re just pitting yourself here.
*county by county. Some counties probably use the exact same procedure for foreclosures and tax lien sales…
It’s the one with bukaki, that’s what you wanted, right?
And it’s ok for you to not realize that the definitions of both words are so *similar *(your new word of the day!) that my answer was still correct. It’s also ok for you to feel superior that because you know a rarely used English word and I didn’t, that must mean you are smarter than me. Why, if you’re smarter than me, that must mean you’re right about everything and I’m not.
Thank you. You have redeemed yourself in my eyes. Please don’t put me on your ignore list, the content you provide is truly entertaining at times.
I believe this is the second time you’ve tried this comeback…and I also believe that if this were true, the other posters in this thread would be insulting his dickishness, not yours.
Maybe all the other posters are too mentally lazy to click the link and read the thread and analyze it. Shrug. Humans are stupid, what can I say.
Not for the message board-That one is PM only!
So this is what it is like to be on someone’s “Ignore” list.
Interesting.
Are you self-aware enough to understand that your argument that “close enough is good enough” in regards to English is the same defense you use in regards to scientific principles? Are you knowledgable enough to realize “close enough” is not a scientific principle, even though you constantly argue as if it is?
Rule: You can’t conduct science by using analogies!
Don’t you mean this?
It is not only kosher, it’s perfectly cromulent and embiggens our language. 