You can also get extended service updates from Microsoft for at least a year. $30 for up to 15 computers, although there are also a couple of ways to get then free. 1000 bing rewards points, or enabling Backup to sync your settings to OneDrive are supposed to both means to get them that will become available soon.

Regarding The example given in the article, lying to get out of a social obligation , memorize this phrase: “I have a prior commitment.” People seldom challenge it or ask for details. It isn’t a lie, it is merely non-specific. That prior commitment could be as simple as “I made a commitment to myself to not do things I don’t feel like doing” or “I need to walk the dog” , descale the tea kettle or keep an appointment.

It’s nobody’s business but yours or perhaps your spouse’s which applies.

That sort of misidentification is another reason that dog bite statistics are unreliable; they depend not on rigorous breed identification but on amateurs’ identification based on physical traits shared by bull dogs, mastiffs and terriers. Artificially group dog bite reports involving a dozen unrelated breeds or mixes together under the misidentification “pit bull” and yeah, you make pit bulls sound scary.

Even when properly applied to pit bull type dogs, the term “pit bull” is imprecise because as wikiipedia states “pit bull is an umbrella term for several types of dog believed to have descended from bull and terriers. In the United States, the term is usually considered to include the American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, American Bully, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and sometimes the American Bulldog, along with any crossbred dog that shares certain physical characteristics with these.”

Anyone who argues that breed is a reliable indicator of violent behavior and refuses to acknowledging the lack of reliability of eye witness breed identification on the basis of appearance is arguing in bad faith.

That’s not a pitbull, it’s a Cane corso or another type of mastiff. That people so frequently misidentify various breeds as “pit bulls” is one of the factors that makes the statistics you cite unreliable. Even “pit bull” isn’t a specific breed designation. Any breed or mix with a boxy head and deep chest is likely to be mistaken for a pit bull.

Trump reminds me of Baron Danglars from The Count of Monte Cristo. Both are tasteless nouveau riche bankrupts with repellent physiognomy.

It’s not what I read for primarily, nor did I say so. Your supposition is something of a strawman argument. There’s no need to be defensive on McCarthy’s behalf. Any writer receives much worse criticism than that no matter how good they are, often from themselves. We tend to be our own worst critics.

That said, poor grammar pulls me out of a story and that’s a common reaction.

A good writer might use such run on sentences sparingly as a matter of style, to good effect. William Kennedy’s opening paragraph in Quinn’s book is a good example. The quoted passage from Blood Meridian may be another such. As I said, I haven’t read McCarthy and don’t know if such run-on sentences are typical of his writing, so I asked.

Yeah, my stupid tablet somehow completed my comment submission before I finished typing it. I finished in an edit.

Jesus, those are some egregious run on sentences. I’ve never read McCarthy, now I’m not sure I should. Is this typical of his writing?

I like that both “toasters” and “clankers” are hard “r” slurs.

That’s fair, because AI is biased against them.

We already have “clankers” thanks to Clone Wars. What more do we need?

If you’re doing it right, cooking is art.

In this case there are no competing domestic products though, or few enough as makes little difference. This is just taxation with extra steps.

“There was a button. I pushed it.” Where’s Holden when you need him?