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Slacking off early? Pshaw, I haven't even left my house yet!

Listen to me carefully. Being deliberately ambiguous and then laughing when other people take what you said the wrong way is NOT CLEVER. It is, in fact, the mark of monumental stupidity. This has been a public service announcement. Have a nice day.

I wasn't criticizing the OP. I was pointing out that there should be no need for the excuse "I have different standards on a forum than I do when writing a CV", because should be able to write near-perfectly all the time, with no additional effort required. Obviously small typos will slip...

Notice that: d[y/x]/dx = 1/x * dy/dx - 1/x * [y/x] and then rearrange to get dy/dx = x * d[y/x]/dx + [y/x] and stick that in the equation you start with, to get x * d[y/x]/dx + [y/x] = 2*[y/x] + 1 Now notice that one of the [y/x] terms cancels on each side. That's what happens...

There shouldn't be. Making your writing readable should be second nature, not something that you have to concentrate on in order to get it right.

I hear that marketing isn't as soul-destroying as it used to be.

Before you fire off an email to your bosses in disgust, I'd get your language straight - it's 'remuneration'.

Until about fifty years ago, German was the language of science. These things aren't as immutable as we seem to believe.

Definitely agree with this - the book should not be censored. But what are your opinions on whether it was right to move this book from the children's section in whatever bookshop it was? (As I ask that question I come to realise how ridiculous this debate is... ;))

Do you normally feel the need to ask people 'why' they ask people 'why' they have bought a book? ;)

Perhaps this isn't the right thread for it, but I'd like to know what you find so 'fundamentalist' about Dawkins' book. I'm just reading it now, after having ignored it for quite some time, and I've yet to encounter anything approaching fundamentalism. He's quite careful to state that it would...

I'm not 'implying' anything - I'm asking a question!

I've got it in for computational linguists, myself.

I use a generic antiperspirant, and unfragranced aftershave. I'm a simple man really.

No one else has responded to this incredible piece of punnery, so it seems that it falls to me to highlight and praise it. Good work, sir! As to my opinion on the pork factory... as always, I believe that religious people of all bents should be more willing to adapt the teachings of their...

Why did you buy this book, out of interest?

I don't think that people are buying it because they want to fight the idiocy of political correctness. Merely that they've been made aware of it by all the media coverage and they want to see what it's about for themselves. In that respect it's no different from someone buying the latest Harry...

Until the trainers realised what the dolphin was doing, it had effectively outwitted them. The trainers thought that they had trained the dolphin to clear up litter from its pool. In actuality, the dolphin had trained the trainers to keep bringing it fish, without having to clear up any litter.

They've also evolved an elaborate courtship ritual, which consists of... um, the male sitting there with his legs open and showing his erection. If only it were that simple for us. ;)