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[CortJstr]

It was in a little different of a place but I found it (Web Features -> Advanced for anyone taking notes), thank you!

You know, it never occurred to me to even look, I am getting slow and decrepit in my advanced age like Elvis or Jesus.

I think they rearranged the Options in 1.5 so I guess you have an older version. Regardless, there's a lot of good stuff in that window like not letting sites fuck with your right-click menu. That'll teach them to try and stop me from Saving Image As

[pmcd9]

Oh also, screw people that use the faux word "irregardless".  I don't care if Webster's added it from common usage, it still is a needless word.  We already have a word that means what you're looking for.. it's "regardless".  Why the hell would you add Ir to it?  To sound more erudite?  Fuck that and fuck you.  You can't be without without regard, that means you have regard for it.  You fucks.

It's been mentioned a number of times on this board that the language is going to change irregardless of what we feel about it.  But rage on little buddy, because righteous indignation is nothing if not entertaining to the dispasionate observer.

~Paul

Edit:  Hmmm, interesting, the spell checker dislikes the word faux in your original post.  Misterqueue why do you want to change the language?  Can't you just use the proper word fake?

[misterqueue]

It's been mentioned a number of times on this board that the language is going to change irregardless of what we feel about it.  But rage on little buddy, because righteous indignation is nothing if not entertaining to the dispasionate observer.

~Paul

Edit:  Hmmm, interesting, the spell checker dislikes the word faux in your original post.  Misterqueue why do you want to change the language?  Can't you just use the proper word fake?

Faux


Er anyway.. I'm all for living language.  Hell, approximately 1/5th of the words I use aren't even cromulent, but what bothers the hell out of me is needless addition in the name of false elocution.  Regardless already means what they want it to mean by adding Ir.  That's what bothers me. 

[Hobot]

cromulent

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

[jough]

I have a little javascript link that I keep in my bookmarks bar for when someone moves or resizes my browser window, labled "resize":

Code: [Select]

javascript:moveTo(640,0);window.resizeTo(850,screen.availHeight-40)

The first set of coordinates are how far over the window starts (I have a 1440x900 widescreen display, so YMMV) and the second is how big to make the window (change it to 1024x768 if you prefer, but I like the added height - the "availHeight-40" leaves just enough room for the windows taskbar when it un-auto-hides).

Also, did you know that in Firefox you can select what you want javascript to be able to do?

Tools > Options > Content > Enable Javascript (checked) > Advanced (next to Javascript) > Allow scripts to... > Move or Resize Existing Windows (uncheck)

Ta-da.

[miles]

Er anyway.. I'm all for living language.  Hell, approximately 1/5th of the words I use aren't even cromulent, but what bothers the hell out of me is needless addition in the name of false elocution.  Regardless already means what they want it to mean by adding Ir.  That's what bothers me. 

Yeah, there's something far more irritating about the misuse of language if the user thinks it's making him sound more intelligent, compared to violations of standard usage for the sake of convenience, or even laziness, that get adopted generally.

[jough]

I just heard a misuse that irks me in a tv commercial.  Someone said something was "going ballistic" to mean it was going crazy, flipping out, where "going ballistic" really means falling asleep, getting tired, etc.

I.e. ballistic trajectory - when a missle is no longer under power and is falling.

[Carlos del Vaca]

How come the "I made a comic strip" thread is locked??

[wombat]

Dunno.  Unlocked.

[Ben-San]

I just heard a misuse that irks me in a tv commercial.  Someone said something was "going ballistic" to mean it was going crazy, flipping out, where "going ballistic" really means falling asleep, getting tired, etc.

I.e. ballistic trajectory - when a missle is no longer under power and is falling.

But a person is not normally under a ballistic trajectory, is he? Most of the time a person is standing or sitting or lying on a surface. Perhaps when you have "gone ballistic" you have hurled yourself into the sky with a single explosive exertion and achieved from that point forward a ballistic trajectory.

(note: obviously none of this applies if your primary occupation is to plummet.)

[Hobo Frenzy]

I don't know if ballistic really means to fall. I think it just means that the object in question is no longer being powered to move and will not be changing it's current course. It is only moving with it's current momentum and I suppose gravity. A ballistic missile shoots up really high into the air (like sub-orbit or something) gets on the right course then shuts down and just falls with it's momentum and gravity to it's target. It can't change direction or alter it's course.

So the term "going ballistic" would make more sense if it was describing a determined/stubborn person, someone who is not easily deterred or changed.

[wombat]

It doesn't matter what makes sense.  It matters what people use it to mean.

[AugustWest]

I propose that hereafter we immediately lock any thread when it becomes a debate over prescriptive vs. descriptive grammar.

How many times, people, how many times...

[jough]

Hey, I just wanted to complain about search boxes on web sites that did not search the site that they were placed on.

[wombat]

I propose that hereafter we immediately lock any thread when it becomes a debate over prescriptive vs. descriptive grammar.

Don't tempt me.