On the subject of [the way in which Romanians are][aferim] -- as a matter of
fact, we are talking about the people living in the Carpatho-Danubiano-Pontic
-space for the last millenium or so, regardless of their nationality or
+space for the last millennium or so, regardless of their nationality or
ethnicity; however, for the sake of brevity we shall call them Romanians -- it
is worth mentioning that there is a general lack of literature to describe
this, and furthermore there is a lack of people that are both able and willing
Note that this post is the result of years of usage and only because it
doesn't cover the good parts, it doesn't mean that there are none. No
-improvement ever arised from gratuitous praise, however, so if you see fit to
+improvement ever arose from gratuitous praise, however, so if you see fit to
apply the same critique to other operating systems, mobile or otherwise, feel
free.
are accessible; making calls or downloading files doesn't impose any quotas, so
you can download a 200KB application that then eats through your entire data
plan in five minutes; I won't even go into the web access permissions which
-come as a complete privacy killer, nor into the wakelock acquision which can
+come as a complete privacy killer, nor into the wakelock acquisition which can
eat your phone's battery without you even noticing, but you get the general
idea. Basically, all you're left with is trusting the application developers to
not be malicious or utter incompetents.
stuff. Because in the logic of "preventing" "terrorism", no one's really
thought of actually preventing terrorism.
-**Scenario 5**: The great bankrupcy. Corporations are people, and
+**Scenario 5**: The great bankruptcy. Corporations are people, and
people, believe it or not, very often die of natural causes. So what
will happen with your company's data when they discontinue Google? This
will send giant ripples all through the Interwebs, and while you're
While mathematics is an exact "science"[^4], its methodology differs
from that of, say, physics or biology, which have fundamentally
-different ojectives, although the latter very often make use of
+different objectives, although the latter very often make use of
mathematical means to make sense of the world. Instead, it'd be fairer
to find the origins of mathematics in philosophy, which discusses
concepts, or ideas, or essences, rather than objective experience.
call "public relations".
It happens, as the history goes, that in the past few decades[^1] a slow
-but sure rupture between the term and its meaning occured, among others,
+but sure rupture between the term and its meaning occurred, among others,
in marketing, and this phenomenon will, I am assuming, continue along
its path towards a slow and painful death. The meaning of marketing has
already inflated, or rather, it has become more and more diluted, as
state" and so on and so forth, have taught us individuals that laws have
been put in place by our forefathers for morals, ethics, or in other
words, for normative reasons. This, of all things, ensures that within
-the pale of "society", "state" (and so on and so forth) activities ocur
+the pale of "society", "state" (and so on and so forth) activities occur
deterministically, and thus the continued existence of said entities.
In modern democratic society, a heavy counterbalance to those otherwise
it's far from being the first of its kind, which means that the
necessity of being able to find things in the vast stuff of the Web[^4]
was there not in 1998, not even in 1995, but from the very beginning of
-things. Thus denying the usefuleness of, and moreover, the need for
+things. Thus denying the usefulness of, and moreover, the need for
Google as a tool for finding information on the Internet would be like
denying the need for a hammer to drive nails or the need for a gun to
shoot down your enemy[^5].
[^3]: People of "the previous generation" might remember Gopher, Usenet
and so on. I wasn't there, but it would make a lot of sense to
compare these to nowadays' technologies, which would give some
- historical perspective on the latter's *actual* usefuleness.
+ historical perspective on the latter's *actual* usefulness.
[^4]: But not -- and this is a very important point -- on the
Internet. Although CERN's version of hypertext appeared while the
name here. However, it has the exact opposite of agency when I carry
the damned gun. Or, to quote Dreamfall Chapters' Mr. London:
- > A travelling salesman was advertising his wares. He sold weapons
+ > A traveling salesman was advertising his wares. He sold weapons
> and armour. One day he came to a village where a great soldier
> lived.
>
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