Quality of the Internet

[Alec Empire]

If you agree that a direct action from a person is a tool. Then you must also agree that you yourselves are, in fact, a bunch of tools.

[nihil]

Hmmm,

An interesting concept? "procreation produces tools"

I agree that a direct action is not a tool, it is a process or procedure. The problem is possibly that I am making an assumption about the precise use of the word "communication" in this context?

You know: noun, verb, adjective, adjectival pronoun, gerund, and so on.........

I made the assumption that, in this context, "communication" was being used as a verb, which implies an action or process.

If it were a noun, then it might well be a tool, on the grounds that it would be a subject or an object. However, I would then argue that the statement should have been:

"A communication is a tool" or,
"Communications are a tool"

I might sound very pedantic, nit picking and hair splitting, but IT is a science. This is an IT forum and we are discussing an IT subject, so I tend to use IT terminology and meanings, rather than those of common parlance.

Hell, if you put a comma or semi-colon in the wrong place in a program, what happens?

Having said that, I am not criticising the original author, because I do not believe that his comments were directed at an IT audience, but more at interested members of the General Public.

As an old fart myself, I am empathetic to his sentiments, and, given that my only discernible musical talents involve a hair comb and a sheet of toilet tissue, I certainly respect a Philharmonic Orchestra musician, not only for his talent, but for his courage and self-belief in choosing that career route.

[nihil]

Arrrgh! Nokia you are letting the side down,

Yep, Nihil is the biggest tool I know

A fundamental error in the English Language................ the verb "to be", and the verb "to have"?

Also, you seem to have problems with adjectives today? I mean, how could you mistype "sharpest" as "biggest"?

// off topic

Have you seen the latest Royal Navy recruitment ad on TV?

We have this Electrical Artificer who says something along the lines of:

"Out here, if the server goes down, I can't call in a guy to fix it...........sometimes I just switch it off and on"

Screen then pans to thermonuclear submarine..................