The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread IX

[Tani Coyote]

I'm doing an assignment on terms in poetry.

What's confusing is we have both "Relative" and "subjective" as terms...

I found definitions of subjective as the narrator fusing their point of view with that of a character to relate that character's inner feelings and whatnot to the reader.

...So what the heck does "relative" mean in poetry?

 

[Mad Man]

Does anyone here use Playstation Home? If so do you know the key code for the keypad by the entrance to Xi?

 

[say1988]

Is it just me, or on Amazon, people usually only give 5-star or 1-star reviews?

Not having looked at Amazon, I would say quite likely. In my experience most vote max or min, while a good number vote the middle, and a smattering cover the rest, in most rating systems.

I seem to recall reading a significant site recently did away with a 1-5 system for a binary (like or not like) citing this reason (youtube, maybe?).

 

[cardgame]

1-5 system is easy to screw with.

If the rating is four, and I thought it should be more like 3.5, I'll give it a one, to average it out.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I have a book that the copyright date is 2006. Yet it says "Printed in the U.S.S.R." I'm confused?

 

[Virote_Considon]

The USSR is dead. Totally dead. Don't believe anything else

 

[Cutlass]

I have a book that the copyright date is 2006. Yet it says "Printed in the U.S.S.R." I'm confused?

Just because it's a publisher does not mean that it's properly edited. Most likely someone just screwed up.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

edit nvm

 

[Lord Baal]

I have a book that the copyright date is 2006. Yet it says "Printed in the U.S.S.R." I'm confused?

The original edition was probably printed in the USSR, with it being re-issued in 2006.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

OK.

Question: The expiration date on something I have (some painkillers) says "MA2010." Is this March or May? My mom says it's March, but I'd think that's be something like MR.

EDIT: I did try googling it. I got a lot of stuff about Massachusetts.

 

[Brighteye]

It doesn't matter. They'll work after that.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I'll give it a one, to average it out.

That's pretty much how it works when there are many votes. To align the rating better to your preference, you pick the extremes.

 

[Quackers]

Why don't we back currency with gold anymore?

 

[Cutlass]

Why don't we back currency with gold anymore?

Because it is highly disruptive to economies to lock the quantity of money to something which does not expand or contract as the demand for money expands and contracts.

 

[Quackers]

Than money is worthless and we are just printing pieces of paper?

 

[Cutlass]

Than money is worthless and we are just printing pieces of paper?

Money is worth what people will exchange for it. But that was always true. Gold is worth what people will exchange for it. Silver is worth what people will exchange for it. Cows are worth what people will exchange for it. Wampum is worth what people will exchange for it. All of these things have been money. And all of these things have had variable value over time. Nothing has a fixed intrinsic worth.

 

[Yared]

They aren't worthless as people consider them to be of worth.

And they can be aesthetically nice too

 

[Quackers]

But we can print more money. So it gets more and more worthless all the time untill eventually we pay £10000 BILLION for bread.

 

[say1988]

But we can print more money. So it gets more and more worthless all the time untill eventually we pay £10000 BILLION for bread.

But if people thought that was likely to occur, then they would get rid of the money and push its value down.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Than money is worthless and we are just printing pieces of paper?

I'll take those worthless scraps of paper off your hands if you want.