http://wordcraft.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/932607094/m/1411025993Interested to learn if you agree with my interpretations as well as Bob's def--thanks all
WOW.
Honestly, I don't subscribe to any of the general notions about "THE MAN" building a huge, complex conspiracy against the average citizen.
This is from personal experience. I have worked as a contractor in the US Congressional offices and the people working in Government are JUST NOT SMART ENOUGH to pull of any such thing. The things that appear to be sophisticated plots are simply dumb luck.
dale,
I sent you a private message about this, but I think you should consider deleting this thread.
eta: Sorry, I didn't receive it, perhaps it was rejected by my Norton algorithm (sorry, I still haven't found any good synonyms). As I'm not easily offended (you can't be and survive on the WWW), please feel free to reproduce your objection to my thread below as a followup to this one. Thank you for all your past and future contributions
oh come off it dale.
one minute you're so smart, the next minute you can't (won't, refuse) to remember that cross references links to post on wordcraft is considered bad manners.
you have have made up your mind about certain things, and are not bothered by the facts, are you?
time and time again, you insist that we come round to your way of thinking (since you think it's it so superior) and time and time again, we politely ask, pm, ignore your exhorations.
you like wordcraft--great. i know several members of this board who agree with you.. BUT YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO KEEPS STARTING TOPICS THERE, and THEN POSTING LINKS HERE, AND ENCOURAGING US TO GO THERE.
If we want to go to wordcrafter we can (and do) and if we don't, we don't. we are not children who have to be told "eat your spinach" (or go to wordcrafter) we are quite capable of finding word related site that interest us all on our own.
it's not gently teasing, it's rude, cruel, and thoughtless poking with a stick. and that you are laughing as you poke doesn't make if fun. and if you can't understand the difference, you are severly lacking in social skill.
since you asked : I believe in the quote Bob gave.
I recall the McCarthy era clealy and also remember that the Senator claimed the "Commies" had infiltrated the Courts, the Legislature, the Press and the movies ... I thought then that if the "Reds" were in all those positions of power and hadn't managed to take over - well- they were too stupid and inept to worry about.
To boil it down; I disagree with your post and agree with the quote.
perhaps dale hasn't made use of the PM feature here??
tsu: Aha, no, it had slipped my aging mind
Myr: Sorry but my ancient, decrepit mind doesn't comprehend. When you reach my age you might experience the same kind of senior infirmity whreupon I will welcome you to the club
Meanwhile, since I have been roundly criticized from many quarters for its repeated use, I need a synonym for "algorithm," altogether missing in my Merriam Thesaurus, while neither Merriam nor Bill Gates recognizes "routine" as a methodical set of steps to accomplish a set goal. Perhaps this might make an interesting thread
When I explained to Laverne (who is much smarter than I) what an algorithm is, she was unable to think of a single synonym
No doubt if I spent the rest of the morning in St. Martin's Original Thesaurus I could find one better than "routine", but it's after all also behind the times, and as you know I am intellectually lazy in the extremre. Thus the hope that somebody might come up with a better one, saving me the trouble
--thanks all for helping out an old fart
Helen: Dreadfully sorry but I get mixed up. WC lets you to link to WS but not vice-versa and it's hard to keep track of all the decretums. Each board has about 25 rules and I subscribe to about 10 of them so I have to keep track of 250 injunctions. Goodness, as Rummy might say, can the issue be that crucial
But as I asked before, why does the WWW have to be such a hotbed of mutual hostility
Nonetheless I shall attempt to tow the line and endeavor to remember your diatribe. I am really a very fine fellow when you get to know me
Meanwhile any further followups on The Establishment welcome
An algorithm is a set of procedures that when followed accomplishes some task. It's not really like a sentence or a book, but it's closer to a paragraph I suppose.
DaleSpeak: Sorry, I didn't receive it, perhaps it was rejected by my Norton algorithm.
NormalTalk: Sorry, I didn't receive it. Perhaps it was filtered out by my anti-virus software.
Sometimes the same task can be accomplished by using different algorithms: e.g., sorting.