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  • Dave2002
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    • Dec 2010
    • 18013

    #61
    Not necessarily!

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    • ahinton
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 16122

      #62
      Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
      For me the jury's still out about Big Bill. Arguably he enabled many to acquire useful computer devices and software, but another argument is that he actually held back the development of better software aand systems by years. Many of the features of his original operating systems were in fact blatant copies of Unix features, and often implemented less well. His companies were aggressive in business, and involved in some major court cases, and - in case anyone hasn't noticed - probably didn't comply fully with the requirements following the outcomes.
      Well, I was referring only to his current and recent charitable actions rather than those that enabled him the acquire the wherewithal to take them...

      Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
      Having now amassed a very large fortune, I applaud that he has now decided to start to give it away, and does seem to be doing good around the world. However, not all very rich people behave like that, and also it does not follow that there was a plan to become philanthropists. Do some of these people feel guilt later at having ripped off so many, so that drives them to start to give their weath away?
      I doubt it in general terms, although there might perhaps be the odd exception.

      That said, you did write "having now amassed a very large fortune, I applaud that he has now decided to start to give it away" and jean's right in what she wrote about its meaning whilst at the same time being aware that it was not what you intended, which would correctly have been expressed had you instead typed "Having now amassed a very large fortune, he has now decided to start to give it away, which I applaud" (a pedant writes)...

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      • Dave2002
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        • Dec 2010
        • 18013

        #63
        Transfer to pedant's corner

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        • Richard Barrett
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          • Jan 2016
          • 6259

          #64
          So you mean dangling participles can make you rich? Speaking personally, that would be very welcome indeed.

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          • ahinton
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 16122

            #65
            Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
            So you mean dangling participles can make you rich? Speaking personally, that would be very welcome indeed.
            Depends which ones and before whom one dangles them, I guess but, apart rom that, I cannot but agree!
            Last edited by ahinton; 29-03-16, 17:45.

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26527

              #66
              Originally posted by jean View Post
              (Were I from Dunsinane away and clear,
              Profit again should hardly draw me here.)


              I feel exactly the same about this thread...
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • ahinton
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 16122

                #67
                Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                I feel exactly the same about this thread...
                You mean you feel that you can use your time more profitably elsewhere?

                Profiteroles, anyone?

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                • P. G. Tipps
                  Full Member
                  • Jun 2014
                  • 2978

                  #68
                  Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                  .... I cannot but agree!
                  Yes, we kind of gathered that a very long time ago ...

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                  • ahinton
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 16122

                    #69
                    Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View Post
                    Yes, we kind of gathered that a very long time ago ...
                    Who might this "we" be? Are you adopting a Grewish stance for the sake of trying to respond here? If so, I wonder why you've bothered, for all the effect that the adoption of such a stance could possibly hope to have...

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                    • Eine Alpensinfonie
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20570

                      #70
                      Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                      Transfer to pedant's corner
                      Sorry to be pedantic, but it's Pedants' Paradise on this forum (and the apostrophe goes after the S).

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26527

                        #71
                        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                        Sorry to be pedantic, but it's Pedants' Paradise on this forum (and the apostrophe goes after the S).
                        One hundred and EIGHTY !!!!

                        Nice cluster, Alpie!

                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • Dave2002
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 18013

                          #72
                          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                          Sorry to be pedantic, but it's Pedants' Paradise on this forum (and the apostrophe goes after the S).
                          You are assuming I was referring to a group of pedants. How dare you presume to know my intentions!

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                          • ahinton
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 16122

                            #73
                            Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                            Sorry to be pedantic, but it's Pedants' Paradise on this forum (and the apostrophe goes after the S).
                            Does that mean that we should be anticipting some paradisiac content here? "Prof., it can't be so, can it?". On the other hand, might there be profits to be made from the marketing and distribution of apostrophes and their use/misuse?

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                            • Beef Oven!
                              Ex-member
                              • Sep 2013
                              • 18147

                              #74
                              Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                              You are assuming I was referring to a group of pedants. How dare you presume to know my intentions!
                              I don't think he claims to know who you intended to refer to, more who you were referring to.

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                              • ahinton
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 16122

                                #75
                                Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                                I don't think he claims to know who you intended to refer to, more who you were referring to.
                                Perhaps so, perhaps not - but does it actually matter? and in any case would or could it profit anyone to know one way or the other?

                                Thatcher used to say that capitalism (by which I assume her to have meant the profiteering aspect thereof) was about how to turn sixpence into a shilling which, when I heard it, made me wonder whether it would really be worth stealing that sixpence in order to find out...

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