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Agathon
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Leafs 4TW!! - CPA
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Art is subjective. Period. |
 Perhaps. But not in the way you think of it. Art is not the same as the taste of carrots. It is possible to misunderstand an artwork, which introduces additional complexity into the picture, since you can dislike it, but your dislike is based on a false understanding.
Hence, even if it is "subjective" in some sense, there is a lot more to say.
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What happened was you were talking about something computer-related without an understanding of what you were saying. People with knowledge about computers read more into what you say because the words you use have meaning. "System-wide" means, for example, it'll affect the entire Operating System. Otherwise it's a widget-specific spellchecker, which is what OS X uses. |
Nice cover. What happened is that you read more into it than was intended (if that's what's happening, and you aren't just BSing again), and went off onto a completely silly and irrelevant rampage.
The argument was about whether it was useful to have a spell check that works in any app. You said it wasn't. You said it would be a resource hog. You said X, you said Y. You made a fool of yourself by reading too much into someone else's comments.
When ordinary people talk about spell checks, they mean what I mean.
But even if that is true, you are still full of it, because you ended up arguing that we didn't need such a spell check, no matter what.
You really are quite pathetic.
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Asher
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Calgary, Alberta
Nov 1999
time: 22:16
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Originally posted by Agathon
Nice cover. What happened is that you read more into it than was intended |
1) You were posting in a tech thread
2) You used terminology with specific meaning
While I did read more into what was intended, the problem was you didn't know what you were talking about.
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But even if that is true, you are still full of it, because you ended up arguing that we didn't need such a spell check, no matter what. |
What I said was that a system-wide spellcheck is ridiculous and unnecessary, and that I would personally turn off any widget spellchecker as well.
Feel free to re-read the thread...
A system-wide spellchecker clearly indicates it works across the entire system. If that's not what you intended, why did you say it? My money's on the fact that you didn't know it was not actually system-wide, which is a problem of your ignorance, not my "reading into" what you said.
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You really are quite pathetic. |
I'm not the one fabricating stories and positions, while at the same time accusing the other of fabricating and exaggerating. 
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Asher
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Calgary, Alberta
Nov 1999
time: 22:16
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Originally posted by Agathon
I used terminology with specific meaning for regular folks. |
In a thread with technical folks.
So again, the problem comes back to you.
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You spent the whole thread complaining about the uselessness of optional spell checking without being specific. You just didn't like the idea because it was Apple's, hence your ridiculous defence of bad spelling. |
I don't like the idea because I don't like spellcheckers in informal situations. I disable them in my instant messengers, I disable them in personal email clients as well.
Informal grammar between people is hardly perfect, and is not intended to be. I don't want to waste my time with the spellchecker complaining each time I spell colour as "color", or if I spell "messenger" as "messanger", since I type so fast that I don't care...
I also don't think the defense of "bad spelling" (being one misspelled word in the thread on my behalf) was ridiculous. My position was as long as the situation is informal and the idea and intent was patently clear, there's no problem with being anal about spelling...
That's not a ridiculous position, but a ridiculous position would be calling that a ridiculous position.
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Pathetic.
End of story. |
Agreed completely, but for completely different reasons of course...
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Kuciwalker
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Feb 2001
time: 00:16
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sorry, aggie, but i have to call shenanigans on this. i'd have to say McGill is more well known, and I'd think it's better than UoT. |
It used to be. Unfortunately, it's an English speaking university in a French province. This means it has suffered from political fallout. It's a shame really, because it is, as you say, a very fine university. |
I've heard of McGill, but not of UofT. A lot of people, when I was talking to them about college, knew about McGill, but none of them even mentioned UofT.
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Agathon
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Leafs 4TW!! - CPA
Dec 2002
time: 00:16
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Funny, McGill is older, but U of T is better.
The one thing McGill does have going for it over U of T is that it's in Montréal. Toronto is pretty dull compared to Montréal. You'd have to be some kind of loser to have a bad time in Montréal.
I think McGill has been having money trouble too. I know a couple of their profs in my area were looking to move our way a couple of years back.
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Comrade Tassadar
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After reading parts of this thread, all I have to say is...
WTF?!
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Comrade Tassadar
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OMG THIS THREAD IS TEH JEWISH CONSPIRACY!!!1111!!111onemilliononehundredthousand
eleven!!1
DONT PARTICIPATE OR YOULL PLAY INTO THEIHR HANDS!!11
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Agathon
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Leafs 4TW!! - CPA
Dec 2002
time: 00:16
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It used to be better than it is now. UofT is the 800lb gorilla of Canadian Universities. It's consistently the top Canadian Research University and has been so for years. It attracts the lion's share of funding and has the most Canada Research chairs. Plus it's big.
Moreover UBC is probably better than McGill now. McGill no longer has a Classics department. What university can be considered among the elite educational institution without a Classics department?
The idea of McGill probably has some snob appeal, but it's not the university it used to be.
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Asher
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Calgary, Alberta
Nov 1999
time: 22:16
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Originally posted by Agathon
Check out researchinfosource they do the usual list. |
How do they get their numbers? They show the UofC as getting $165M, while the official numbers in the budget show $247M. Specifically:
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Federal Tri-Council (CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC): $60,385,272
Other federal government programs: $36,246,912
Government of Alberta: $74,608,238
Corporate: $39,000,513
Other (NGOs, foundations, donors, etc.): $25,983,789
Investment: $10,531,721
TOTAL: $246,756,445
In any case, the funding in 1994 was 10M, and now it's at 247M 10 years later.
It's a clear trend.
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