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by dctoedt 4y ago
> I bet you’ve got good handwriting and penmanship habits. Sadly, no: My dad's next duty station was in a small college town in east Texas, where my mother said the local elementary school completely messed up my handwriting becau
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by dctoedt 4y ago
AM radio broadcasts can reach somewhat farther than FM (and way farther at night on clear channels); that might matter in an emergency. As a middle-schooler living in the Washington DC area, I would regularly pick up WLS in Chicago, some 70
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by dctoedt 4y ago
My first three years of school were in a little French farm village [0] — even in kindergarten, we wrote in longhand with (literally) pen and ink: We used wooden dowels, about the size of a pencil, with a steel nib at one end, which we dipp
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> a unilateral mercy killing I can't stop you from describing it that way, of course. But that description presupposes that, always and everywhere, the potential person, i.e., the zygote/fetus, must be valued more highly
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> worthy of being allowed to grow up into the person they would have become .... prematurely ending the life of a human being This assumes that the zygote or fetus — if it were sentient and capable of choice — would want the particul
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by dctoedt 4y ago
My students have said they prefer a Web page over slides, for the same reasons. (Example, posted in a grandchild comment: https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/#Day26 )
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by dctoedt 4y ago
I do the same as the GP; see, e.g., last Monday's class: https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/#Day26
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by dctoedt 4y ago
FTA: "After a review of the possible outcomes by the medical team, and following the wishes expressed in his advance directive, Bear was taken off life support and died two hours later." (Emphasis added.) Advance directives are
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Why I did not sign up for hardcore Twitter 2.0(twitter.com)
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by dctoedt 4y ago
My MIL died unexpectedly some years ago. We all came home from the hospital that afternoon and were just sitting around. The doorbell rang; my wife saw through the window that it was one of her longtime friends. My wife answered the door; t
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Seems to be a human trait to want to look down on someone . Example: LBJ (former U.S. president) once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picki
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Sounds like depression of some kind — does your school have any kind of counseling program? Your employer likely has an EAP, employee assistance program. EDIT 1: Plus-one for the commenters suggesting doing something with other people — es
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Congress can’t delegate it’s power: Then you should tell Justice Gorsuch (joined by Alito, and Thomas) that he was wasting his time when he raised the nondelegation doctrine in his concurrence in striking down the OSHA vaccine mandat
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> What was the origin of the idea that the Unix philosophy is "do one thing and do it well"? Relatedly: Brian Kernighan's Unix: A History and a Memoir was an enjoyable read. https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> is there any objective measurement that 1 vs 2 spaces actually makes a difference. One (small) study said that two spaces increases reading speed by about 3% [0] [1] [2]; I couldn't find any indication whether scanning and
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by dctoedt 4y ago
I just searched the online Bluebook and found nothing about spaces after the end of a sentence.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Nobody whose business it is to establish the correct number of spaces to put between sentences What's the metric for establishing what is the "correct" number of spaces? I submit that it's functional, not aesthet
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> he didn't patent E=MC^2 and now everyone says it scot-free Laws of nature (and descriptions thereof) aren't patentable. https://www.bitlaw.com/source/mpep/2106_04_b.html#:~:text=Th... .
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Relatively-few lawyers even know what LaTeX is, let alone would be willing to use it for drafting documents for client use. (At a family reunion a few years ago, I was discussing a book-in-progress with an extended-family member, who at the
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Just adjust the size of a space to the appropriate size That would work IF the rendering engine knew it was supposed to use a horizontally-larger space at the end of a sentence (comparable to the CSS styling element "padding-rig
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> two spaces after a paragraph has been a dead convention for years by this point. It's "a dead convention" among people who care about the aesthetic pleasure that they get from the visual beauty of the paragraph and who
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Two spaces after a sentence make paragraphs easier to parse. Correct. Most readers of any legal document have zero interest in sipping and savoring each word as if the document were a fine wine. Readers want to learn — as quickly as
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by dctoedt 4y ago
If you have to keep chanting "ignorant" and "bigoted" and "respect" and "courtesy," you're spotlighting the substantive emptiness of your arguments. Bye.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
I'm an intellectual-property lawyer; I'm well aware of what "cultural appropriation" supposedly is — and what it isn't. (That's why I put the term in quotes. In part, it's to tweak the noses of people who
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Modern readers are taught from childhood that gender isn't binary Is that a fact? Repeating another comment I made on this thread: If we take "gender" as meaning "biological sex," then it IS binary;* I can no
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by dctoedt 4y ago
"Nonbinary" [sic] people should not be doing "cultural appropriation" of the plural pronouns the rest of us know; if they insist on not being referred to as "he" or "she," then they should come up wit
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> "he or she" doesn't include everyone though Hard no on that one — just because someone declares "I have no gender" doesn't make it so, any more than if I were to declare that I have no eye color. > i
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> what do you use when referring to a singular person of unknown gender? A. Use "he or she," etc.; or B. Rewrite the sentence.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> You forgot to put two spaces after each full stop (or period, if you prefer). No, I didn't forget — browsers strip out the extra space, and I wasn't going to take the time to type in the HTML code ( ) to get an ext
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Low-energy prep of steel-cut oats for several breakfasts: 1. Boil water in an electric kettle — we have a gas stove-top but we buy wind power for electricity; it's a Texas-grid thing. 2. Pour boiling water into a pot, add oats, bring b

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