Random Thought of the Day
May 22nd, 2018 at 9:19:23 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
June 6 is coming up. I suspect Monet has been writing nasty comments about my YouTube videos, but can't prove it. Somebody please remind me to unban Monet here on 6/6. Afterward, I'll keep keeping a close eye on him. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
May 23rd, 2018 at 9:11:18 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
I haven't seen that. It is often used to write offensive words without really writing them f**k, and it is heavily used in mathematics for different meanings, but I have never seen one disconnected to any footnote. |
May 23rd, 2018 at 9:22:55 AM permalink | |
JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 971 |
I've seen it online and I attribute it to the general sloppiness of the internet. Most often I believe it is in text that was copied and pasted and the footnote got left behind or the footnote was removed in some previous edit but the asterisk was overlooked. The mind hungers for that on which it feeds. |
May 23rd, 2018 at 9:38:05 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Sometimes an asterisk is used but the explanatory reference is effectively hidden somewhere so people are less likely to read it. Example: Large type: Cars for six hundred dollars.* Finding the asterisk in much smaller type and faint ink you find "on approved credit" somewhere on the reverse side of the advertisement. |
May 25th, 2018 at 6:22:19 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18762 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Shark_Café You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
May 31st, 2018 at 5:04:28 PM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5108 | I've mentioned before that there is one element that is always included in a survival story, the true stories, where someone is lost: a plane or helicopter flies very close by, often right overhead, searching for the lost person or people ... they go nuts shouting and their hopes of rescue go sky high, but the searchers just don't see them. Saw another one today about a guy who got lost in the jungle around the Mayan ruins, and the same thing happened. But this case was so bad he said he could see the people in the copter and details about them like having blond hair. Amazing. I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
May 31st, 2018 at 5:13:06 PM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11792 |
In my travel agent sabre world an * means - display Whatever part on a passenger name record or reservation I want to look at 1st entry is always an asterisk that means the display and 2nd entry is what part of the PNR I want displayed Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
May 31st, 2018 at 5:39:30 PM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11792 | Watching the spelling bee on ESPN I watched last year I find the competition pretty entertaining. They are spelling words I have never heard of Amazing Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
June 1st, 2018 at 1:11:39 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18762 | I wonder if anyone with land near the big active Hawaii volcano would be in the market to sell at a good price? You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
June 1st, 2018 at 7:54:59 AM permalink | |
beachbumbabs Member since: Sep 3, 2013 Threads: 6 Posts: 1600 |
I can probably help you find a realtor there if you are serious. I'm sure there are at least a few interested sellers, but they may have put a halt to transactions while the land is physically moving and growing. That particular part of the Big Island is also very complicated by purist claims. Purist being my shorthand for Native Hawaiians making claims about the islands being taken by force and not legally belonging to interloper with deeds. The Southern area has a large concentration of purists (trying to remember what they call themselves ), and much of the land is tied up in these issues being fought. A LOT of the property is actually on 99 year leases, rather than owned by the homeowner. Here's an excerpt from a scholarly study on it:
Anyway, there's a large separatist movement among Native Hawaiians (defined as those who occupied the islands before the whites arrived), whether to secede from the US, declare sovereignty return and return the descendents of Hawaiian monarchy to the throne, or some other autonomous configuration. In many deeds, and supported by the government, only those with Hawaiian blood can own a large amount of the land there. Others (haole) can only lease. So buying there is complicated. Never doubt a small group of concerned citizens can change the world; it's the only thing ever has |