Well, if Numa Pompilius can add two months (Jan and Feb) and Augustus Caesar can by decree rename two (Jul and Aug), wherein is Donald a lesser ruler? Let it be so! But where is Cassius when he is most needed?
')' - as an aging programmer, unbalanced parentheses are anathema. My first ever COBOL compile generated 3000 errors because of a missing fullstop. Circa 1969.
@OP actually I came here for social blogging, not intending to connect, and I can confirm I have made zero connections ... partly age and also ardour or lack thereof. I happened across this site by searching for a blogger's quote in another site, finding that he was copying in several sites. This is a 'Murikuncentric' site (to appropriate a CS semi-civil blogger's word, and that for me is a big turn-off.
@OP one that particularly rubs me up is 'looser' which immediately summons images of loosening a belt for an oversize belly. Or verbal LBM such as one of the CS denizens practises. The latest instance of 'looser' can be found in a recent @alove2hard2find post. If you're (not your, notice) unsure what LBM denotes, the first word is, surprise surprise, 'loose' Oh don't get me started on you're your yore yaw or their they're there!
@jim just be aware if I see you lock and block comments on a blog thread I will not bother opening in future. The last one of yours, I noticed on opening, was blocked so I exited without reading. I will check in future since I see it is detectable.
Unfortunately the election, whatever the result, will not bring an end to the obsessive barking screeching and ranting. A divided America is here for the long haul, much like the virus; what can heal this division?
@VKH well perception is a curious thing - I remember the Psych101 experiment and how variable recollections were. I saw an almost debate in which both candidates avoided answering or pivoted into convenient alternative questions and in which the incumbent consistently and prolongedly exceeded time as a clearly deliberate strategy. Understandable with such a thin case to argue. No one came out a winner, and equally no one came out a loser. But your warped vision sees it otherwise. Such, as I say is perception.
@merc it's not a matter of understanding, it's simply not a good tactic. Biden's laughing was one of his worst points. Harris much less so, but only marginally better. Smiling laughing, shaking the head, exclamations do not win over anyone. Pence just once managed to disturb Harris with an exclamation ... So they are distractions which might comfort or impress the converted but they won't win over the undecided.
@bj I didn't see Pence as smarmy, he was carefully groomed anclaculatingly calm, but also very deliberately exceeding time. Cloying, no - I think that speaks of a viewers initial bias. As for Harris, I would have preferred less of, fewer smiles, and more seizing of opportunities which she did let pass. Uriah Heep fits cloying ingratiating and smalmy/smarmy
@crypto it was a fly was it? Perhaps he had Brylcreem or coconut oil (oh wow, now I discover Brylcreem (a little dab will do it) is British). For more than 65 years I assumed it was a Yankee product! I thought it might be claimed as a 'Joe Biden Disruptor mini-Drone'
@miclee on the contrary - in politics one does not want to predict a win, lest it results in lazy voters staying home. I think you can assume the lazy voters swung the result in 2016. I was surprised in fact to hear Pence say 'We are going to win'
Both evaded answers on several questions, and pivoted questions to alternative topics by way of non-answers. Both performed reasonably comptetently. The referee did zero fact-checking.
Steep rise, gradual decrease - perhaps you might learn to read and interpret a graph. During July new cases tripled. During Aug-Sep they halved - so they are overall decreasing at 1/3 the July increase rate - heavily skewed. Trump however is indeed in steep decline
Whatever that last was (who knows) it had nothing to do with the resounding non-drubbing. The Delphic oracles of Pythia were pithier and sensibly arcane - it never pays to make your prognostications or predictions so unambiguous. You were on a hiding to nothing, and nothing is what you got.
@NZ dooo as I recall it was you, and certainly not MERC, who coined the brilliant witty but forlorn phrase 'fargon' and I suggested you meant far-gone as in 'too farkin fargorn' or even 'farkin barkin mad'? What about forgone? As in 'it's a foregone conclusion that the Bledisloe cup will stay in NZ?
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RE: Cher sings a new song in honor of Joe Biden
Wah! It's helluva schmaltzy, she really lays it on with a trowel. The voice retains its amazing quality though, doen't it!?