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petsos

pedant |ˈpednt| noun a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.

Please explain to me how saying that an invasion is not a war is a minor detail.

You seem very good at classifying the killings, but completely fail to classify the big picture by calling it a "war".
Re:Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @12:14AM (#6639453)
Or you know is tired of seeing every thread turning to an Apple flame.
Re:Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a Good Idea on Saturday October 26, 2013 @02:06AM (#6616552)
Look at it a different way. If a bug was found that could kill sshd, then a local user could replace it.
Re:Why putting SSH on another port than 22 is bad idea on Saturday October 26, 2013 @01:59AM (#6616533)
Now imagine a million people from all over the world passing by. Would hiding the wallet in the shoe help?
Re:What happens when a language has no numbers? on Friday October 18, 2013 @05:55AM (#6570547)
Did we forget any to our way to the mall maybe? Animals seem to be able to handle their young ones without counting them too.
Re:What happens when a language has no numbers? on Friday October 18, 2013 @05:52AM (#6570539)
What would you do differently if it was 5 or 8 wolves? Having concepts like "a few" and "a lot" seems to be enough for this case.
Re:I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything on Thursday September 19, 2013 @08:02PM (#6415133)
I'm going to guess that this was not posted in /r/TalesFromYourServer. The mere fact that it attracted so many comments means that it was posted on one of the "average" reddits.
Re:The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @09:09PM (#6402858)
Of course, why should he stay more if he has been rehabilitated?
Also, it doesn't look very active: https://libdispatch.macosforge.org/trac/log/
Exactly, I think it is more relevant to compare to e.g. glib.
Re:First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature on Thursday September 12, 2013 @11:21PM (#6378388)
They are only parasites only if you also think that genes are parasites too.
How is that different from "don't trust, verify"?
Re: on Thursday August 29, 2013 @08:20PM (#6299458)
In what universe would changing a URL to something that doesn't work be a feature?
Re:How one man turns annoying cold calls into cash on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @08:53PM (#6293629)
Wait, it costs money to receive calls in the US?
Re:Boarding Pass Redesign on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @08:16PM (#6293521)
Also, the information for the passenger on board is on the part that you don't have on board.
Well, you get what you ask for.
Re:Feedly Pro on Monday August 05, 2013 @04:07AM (#6158925)
Not again with the lifetime accounts...
Re:Ask PG: Why is everybody hellbanned? on Sunday August 04, 2013 @09:16AM (#6155540)
How long is the limit after which you are allowed to express a criticism?
Re:PEP 8 Modernisation on Thursday August 01, 2013 @11:38AM (#6141019)
Even the old PEP8 was stating:

    When applying the rule would make the code less readable, even for someone who is used to reading code that follows the rules.
Re:The Million Dollar Homepage (2005) on Thursday August 01, 2013 @09:11AM (#6140013)
(slow clap)
Re: on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @11:25AM (#6134374)
Re:The Popularity of Four Lisp Dialects on Github on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @03:32AM (#6125761)
Large corporations, governments and science conglomerates that use COBOL and Ada are not part of any community.
Re:The Popularity of Four Lisp Dialects on Github on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @03:30AM (#6125751)
How is that different for any of the other top 10 languages?
Re:Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery sales statistics on Friday July 26, 2013 @10:42PM (#6111675)
So you are saying that an Android user who wanted to play the game would just buy an iOS device? And that's why sells on Android were lower?

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