Comments on: ACTA Report

By: david tiley

david tiley — Sat, 20 May 2006 14:04:41 +0000

Youse are ALL eurocentric.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 20 May 2006 10:18:50 +0000

Fucking À!

By: des von bladet

des von bladet — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:06:18 +0000

Yup. It is the previewer that misparsed Daniel’s HTML, and Daniel who neglected to finish his HTML entity insertion with the required semicolon.

(I assume he will wear this evidence of his ignorance of such nerdy minutiae with the usual pride, and why not?)

By: des von bladet

des von bladet — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:04:10 +0000

Éh. An occurence just occurred to me, which this is intended to test.

By: abb1

abb1 — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:38:44 +0000

If you absolutely have to have two of these things, why not have é and è?

By: Michael Bérubé

Michael Bérubé — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:15:54 +0000

I’m up for an é or two. More important, I’m up for this:

I hope abb1 will support my Agricultural Bill of Rights (in progress). Remember, Terry Nichols is everywhere, and is increasingly representative of something.

By: Kieran Healy

Kieran Healy — Fri, 19 May 2006 13:02:23 +0000

Î cårë nøt.

By: des von bladet

des von bladet — Fri, 19 May 2006 12:01:25 +0000

Anyone for é (or in fact É)?

Are all of you silly Engleeshes (and Welshes) really totally incapable of fixing your many keyboards to handle iso-latins? Even stinky old LaTeX has a package for that!

(And am I going to look even more of a tosser when this gets scrunged into the local charset? Only one way to find out…)

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Fri, 19 May 2006 11:09:39 +0000

WTF! … even using the pre tag it messes up!

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Fri, 19 May 2006 11:08:53 +0000

Damn … and there’s me trying to be clever, and the backslast disappeared and the inverted comma went curly. What I meant was

‘{e}

of course.

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Fri, 19 May 2006 11:06:17 +0000

‘{e}

was what you were groping for. If only you hadn’t agreed with Des.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 19 May 2006 10:58:49 +0000

oh effing great. HTML accents show up in preview but get stripped out for the actual post. Or possibly, Kieran did this on purpose to make me look stupid.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 19 May 2006 10:58:08 +0000

I am with Des on this one. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that”, but that is a really poovey font. The &Eacute on “&Eacutemile Durkheim” actually smells of lavender.

By: Brett Bellmore

Brett Bellmore — Fri, 19 May 2006 10:57:40 +0000

“Also the report cites many cases of things like professors asking students to respect one another as somehow ideologically loaded which is ridiculous.”

I suppose whether it’s ridiculous depends on the sense in which “respect” is used. I’ve seen it used in some senses which are awfully loaded.

By: abb1

abb1 — Fri, 19 May 2006 09:58:47 +0000

As a US taxpayer spending billions of my tax dollars every year to subsidise the farmers, I resent appalling conservatism of the American farming community with Terry Nichols kind of extremists prospering among them. Something needs to be done about it pronto. I’m not sure what can be done, perhaps those who refuse to become more liberal should have their farms confiscated and we could settle them in Alaska. Or something.