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[TD1]

Can someone explain prepositions to me? It's a glaring hole in my knowledge I should have filled earlier, but I'm finding trouble finding a good explanation online.

[Frumple]

Wikipedia page seems to do a pretty decent job of it? Lot more thorough than I could manage, anyway. I'd try to explain it, but I lost the ability to explain grammar years ago. Use it, edit it, abuse it, sure, sure, but the hell if I remember what the zog a preposition is, or actually give a damn about what object and subject relations are.

[Helgoland]

Can someone explain prepositions to me? It's a glaring hole in my knowledge I should have filled earlier, but I'm finding trouble finding a good explanation online.

Basically grammatical lubricant. Dem critters tell you in what relation the bit of the sentence they're leading into stands to the rest of the sentence. But yeah, the wiki has a fair number of good examples.

[Neonivek]

Has anyone ever made a list of how many episodes in the entire Star Trek series could have been skipped if the Captains actually asked for and read the list of laws, regulations, and culture before deciding to teleport down?

[Yoink]

Has anyone ever made a list of how many episodes in the entire Star Trek series could have been skipped if the Captains actually asked for and read the list of laws, regulations, and culture before deciding to teleport down?

How would they call themselves adventurers if they did something lame like that?!

[TD1]

Wikipedia page seems to do a pretty decent job of it? Lot more thorough than I could manage, anyway. I'd try to explain it, but I lost the ability to explain grammar years ago. Use it, edit it, abuse it, sure, sure, but the hell if I remember what the zog a preposition is, or actually give a damn about what object and subject relations are.

Can someone explain prepositions to me? It's a glaring hole in my knowledge I should have filled earlier, but I'm finding trouble finding a good explanation online.

Basically grammatical lubricant. Dem critters tell you in what relation the bit of the sentence they're leading into stands to the rest of the sentence. But yeah, the wiki has a fair number of good examples.

Ah. Yea, that'd be better than youtube. Thanks.

[Comrade P.]

Say, folks. I got a USB stick fresh from the store and it malfunctions weirdly. I threw in a couple of files when it suddenly decided that it is actually write protected. I can't even delete them from there. It does not lose the write protection from Windows DISKPART tool when I tell it to (really, it says that it removed read only attribute and when I request disc attributes it is still there, strange). I ran a handful of software utilities on that and they did no good as well. I tried going for registry editor to see the Storage Device Policies, but I don't even have that, it appears.

What do?

[GiglameshDespair]

Sledgehammer. The manual deletion.

Couldn't you get a replacement one if you take it back?

[Comrade P.]

Sledgehammer. The manual deletion.

Couldn't you get a replacement one if you take it back?

I'll do that, I suppose. This shop usually gives a full refund or a replacement in case things go that bad.

[Graknorke]

Does it still happen when you format the drive?

[Comrade P.]

Does it still happen when you format the drive?

I cannot even format it. Neither through standard means, nor via command line. You can't do that with write protected stuff, apparently.

I'm coming for a refund on this. Kept the receipt, shouldn't be a problem.

[sprinkled chariot]

Were there any u.s elections won not by someone from democrats or republicans?

[i2amroy]

Were there any u.s elections won not by someone from democrats or republicans?

The first 17 presidents or so were elected before the modern democratic and republican parties existed, so yes.

Here's a list.

[Aklyon]

Were there any u.s elections won not by someone from democrats or republicans?

Not since they decided what they were going to call themselves.

[Tawa]

Intend to run a semi-sandbox D&D PBP game and I have no idea what to make the thread title. Any suggestions?