Comment Re: The engineers who designed those probes (Score 1) 58
They will bring doom to human species.
And here I thought id already did that.
They will bring doom to human species.
And here I thought id already did that.
I know this is a troll comment, but for anyone genuinely curious, writing word-pronounceable acronyms as words is the BBC's default style. From https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnewsstyleguide%2Fall%2F%23a:
Where you would normally pronounce the abbreviation as a string of letters - an initialism - use all capitals with no full stops or spaces (eg FA, UNHCR). However, our style is to use lower case with an initial cap for acronyms where you would normally pronounce the set of letters as a word (eg Sars, Mers, Aids, Nafta, Nasa, Opec, Apec).
There are a few exceptions:
- The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is capped up ie NICE
- The UK Independence Party is capped up ie UKIP
- Strategic Health Authority becomes SHA ("Sha" looks like a typo)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder becomes SAD ("Sad" would be confusing).
For names with initials, we avoid full stops and spaces (ie JK Rowling and WH Smith).
When abbreviating a phrase, rather than a name or title, use lower case (ie lbw, mph).
Pretty annoying that they don't include periods in "e.g." and "i.e."; pretty amusing that they misuse "i.e." in both instances here.
What else does it make money from? genuine question.
Well, there's the twice-weekly late-night gambling ring they hold in their attic, but they don't really like to talk about that.
Because, unlike Americans, they know it will turn to shit if they make too many.
Moffat did a good job of turning the show to shit during Series 6 and 7 and the fiftieth-anniversary specials.
And wouldn't you know it -- he's Scottish.
Earlier in 2015, game packs and other DLC became unavailable for Xbox 360.[4] Currently as of November 2015, it is not possible to download or re-download the content[5] and there have been reports of users not being able to access the games even when they had purchased them.
Classic Microsoft -- games that can be PlayedForSure!
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982