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The importance of punctuation:

Dear John:

I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. I can be forever happy-will you let me be yours?

Jane

What happens to the letter if there were some punctuation mistakes and it was punctuated in an entirely different fashion?

Dear John,

I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we're apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be?

Yours,

Jane

Which letter do you think John would prefer to receive?

In a very primitive form,yes.As do all forums.

However,in the future you will always be connected,24/7. No need to log in,etc.

You will also be connected to everyone's suffering and pain and solutions will be found.

From birth you will learn to speak,and understand in every known language,and

language itself will evolve into a universal mind-speak.

The pleasure centers of the brain will be enabled at will,and without guilt.

This should lead to a more civilized society and peaceful planet.

Of course, it could go the other way and take the low road to enslavement of the

masses by a few all powerful tyrants.

I hope they chose the high road.

"However,in the future you will always be connected,24/7. No need to log in,etc."

And that's the part with the dark side, the loss of personal privacy.

• Every time you look at your spouse/fiance, everything you see is streamed to the cloud.
• I just realized, every time someone changes a baby's diaper, it could be considered, ick, 'that type of porn' since it would be automatically streamed to the cloud and recorded.
• Also, that means videos of all those poopy diapers, double ick!
• Unless there are ways to hack into and shut down Google Eye, having one installed would kill whatever security clearance the user once had.
• If they CAN be hacked into and manipulated remotely, hen that just opens up a whole new level of 'cyberterrorism,' where people will fear being hacked by 'foreign agents' and by their own government. (By the way, F--k you, Agent NSA and Agent FBI, the Fourth Amendment is there to keep you two from becoming the 'Secret police' as we saw in the old Soviet Union and the old Nazi Germany.)

Full 24/7 connection of all minds is not the wonderous panacea for Society that people paint it to be. Dow that path lies such things as the Borg (before the writers game up with the 'Borg Queen' to be the 'face' of the Collective. When all minds are connected 24/7, any disagreement with the general consensus gets shouted down and muted out. There is do room for Disagreement, or Debate, or Democracy. No Art or Culture; why paint a portrait or produce a play when just thinking of it flashes it out wo all minds on the planet? No New Invention or Innovation; both start with Disagreement with the Consensus, "There must be a better way," when that spark gets snuffed out as soon as it is born, there is nothing to innovate from.

You mean kinda like it is becoming now? Wait until Borg Queen Hillary gets elected and see what "Resistance is Futile" really looks like. With that murdering B***ch as President, who needs friends? We will all be dead.

Oh like 'The Donald' is the best thing to happen since Regan and his Voodoo supply-side economics. Trump's refusing to commit to any policies until after he's elected. "Vote for me, THEN I'll tell you what you voted for, once it's too late to change your mind."

And as for Murderers, the only reason Chenny didn't get that title too is that he had the wrong shotgun load when he shot that lawyer in the face. Or was the lawyer an 'illegal enemy combatant' at the time?

Ha Ha! Keep dodging - - by the way it is a criminal investigation, not a "security inquiry", as stated by Ms. Clinton. The FBI really called her out on the misnomers yesterday.

Who's dodging? I'm not a big fan of Hillary, I could care less whether Bill becomes First Laddie or not.

Although ... dodging ... that reminds me of an experiment, so see if the GOP of today is the same as the GOP of old: Head into the Republican South, find someone who proudly proclaims to be a GOP member and supporter, then ask them "Since you're a Republican, and Lincoln was a Republican, does that mean you're a Lincoln Lover?" If my theory is true, you WILL need to do a lot of dodging, and possibly some running, after asking that question.

I live in the south, a conservative (as was Lincoln), a lover of freedom, a hater of slavery, and a lover of Lincoln. If you want to still take that tour, let the thing be pressed. You are welcome at my home, as long as my old lady will let me have guests. She is rather strict.

Then you, sir, are not in the South I have been informed about in my History books.

I was led to believe that much of the South still holds on to the antebellum values of the Confederacy, which is why I had assumed 'Lincoln Lover' to be a grave insult, along the lines of 'Filthy Liberal,' 'abolitionist,' 'damned Yankie,' or 'n-r lover.'

Perhaps the South is much more 'sane' than I was led to believe, with only pockets of the 'right-wing crazies,' such as the Westborough Baptist Church. As a 'Filthy Liberal,' I find it hard to condone suppression of free speech, but let me make a proposal: Why not have all the 'sane' Conservatives shouting their values as loud as the 'crazies' do, so the sanity will drown out the insanity by sheer numbers; I'll try to have the 'sane liberals' do the same to drown out all the bats--t crazy Social Justice Warriors⁽¹⁾.

Notes:

1. And those people ARE crazy: they don't even care what they're fighting for, so long as they're offended and fighting. And trust me, EVERYTHING offends them; once they 'win against one target, they'll immediately turn on another, even if that target was an ally two minutes ago.
   

Yelling louder never makes a point more valid. Just louder, and more likely to be ignored, and the ensuing riot started.

But, in a darkened room, when the crazies are yelling, and the sane sit silent, how are we to know that the sane are the majority, or even present? We NEED to hear the dissent against the crazies, or our opinions get colored by the only voices we DO hear.

No, while the crazies are sitting there yelling in the dark, the sane ones filtrate outside where there is ample light, and confer with each other how to deal with the crazies: i.e.- how many straight jackets to order, "buses" to roll, how many eye bandages when they poke each others' eyes out, and how many bottles of tranquilizer to order.

Yep. One in February and the other in March. I would have been nearly blind for most of a week if both were done at once. It took most of a week for the fogginess to lift from the eye with the new lens. Not all react that way, but some do.

The really strange outcome, and I've thought about this for a general question, I can not see at distance quite as well as when I wore glasses, but, I can see into wooded areas much better. I ride mountain bike in the woods many times each week, and I'm suddenly seeing things in the woods that have been there for years, but I never saw before. I look for the remains of old oil well sites, to photograph what is left, and for old dumps, as many around here still have milk bottles in them. I have found 4 well sites and 3 dumps I'd missed for the last 12 years of riding, already this spring, and right by trails/roads I ride many times per year. I couldn't see the contents of the woods for the trees before. I've even seen a well and an oil field shed in the woods beside the road I drive to/from work every day, and have for the last 17 years.

I kind of figured it was to ease the period in the vision was diminished, like you say, so you are not totally blind.

Interesting about the distance vision versus the ability to recognize images. Maybe the clouding of the lens prevented you from seeing things when there is not a lot of contrast, but your visual acuity was better with the glasses (long distance vision). I guess you could think of it in terms of dynamic range. So even though your distance vision is not as good, you have better sensitivity so you can pick up those things previously missed.

Not sure if that makes any sense or not. Just finished up a 14 hour day at work and I'm a bit punch drunk.

That sounds like a good analysis. Makes sense, since the natural lenses were a bit blurry and gave a distinct yellow contrast to my field of view. I can see that now with new clear lenses.

Hope you get time off on the weekend to catch up. I go through periods of work here where I get no days off for weeks, (worked right through Thanksgiving and the weekend before and after) and then into what I have now - nothing to do until the next big project. ALL the jobs I ever had have been that way. Is there such a thing as a "normal" job anymore? (9 to 5 and 5 days/week)

Having a job is something to be thankful for. Even if the hours can be long at times.