On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:On 27 June 2015 at 17:47, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:44 PM, <shadow@shadowgard.com> wrote:Your usage was apparently "has connections for"
Usage I am (and apparently other folks on tne list are) used to is
"has the gear already installed & working"Even "has connections for" means - in COMMON usage - that the item has the PHYSICAL parts required to hook up the relevant bits of subsidiary tech already installed. In this sense, a laptop or a smart phone is "wired for" HDMI connection to other devices by having at least one HDMI port actually installed into it at the factory. There used to exist (before such models were made obsolete through lack of same) such devices that came from the factory without such "wired for" connections.All electical devices come from the factory wired for electricity. They just need a wall socket.Apparently the use of hyperbole as a discussion tactic is something you find comforting.ASSUMING this is so in the rest of your communications, one can readily see why the USMC might take your "advice" with a metric ton of sodium.The mind does not work on electricty, either AC or DC.I call [male cattle excrement] on that: http://jonlieffmd.com/blog/brain-electricity-and-the-mindGiven the above, the assumption (as I and other have stated) is that a human "wired from birth" for control of external electronics will have the relevant data ports installed into their nervous systems as physical cyberwear.A million people making the same assumption, is still an assumption.So?"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again too. Who decides?" Robert A. Heinlein
Since most people [including probably 99+% of this list] in modern Western culture would rather live under a democracy than an autocracy, I'm okay with the concept that a million people agreeing that an author writing for general consumption is using the ASSUMED meaning of his words, unless he SPECIFICALLY states otherwise.--It would have been better if you asked if you were unsure what exactly I meant than assumeMore bovine excrement.So you apparently believe that EVERY response to EVERY post on this list (or any other written communication) should be prefaced with:"Assuming the author to whom I am replying is using the COMMON DEFINITION of the words he used, I am replying thusly."If you DON'T believe this statement should be used by EVERY respondent, then how do you propose that someone should go about picking which missive should use the ASSUMED values and which should require such special questioning?My. God.Here I am, wasting my time, actually trying to reason with an internet troll.Richard Aiken
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