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* Who else here has ever talked about "taping" a show on to a hard disc, or "rewinding" a DVD? |
* Who else here has ever talked about "taping" a show on to a hard disc, or "rewinding" a DVD? |
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** The "DVD rewinder" even exists as a joke appliance.<ref>It's simply a base with a powered spindle and a button turning the motor on and off.</ref> |
** The "DVD rewinder" even exists as a joke appliance.<ref>It's simply a base with a powered spindle and a button turning the motor on and off.</ref> |
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** The concept of "tapes" as central to any good scandal dates to Nixon and the Watergate era, but the allusions continue. Trump's May 2017 outburst "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!" is one example; little did he know that Comey indeed held damning audio, recording everything. |
** The concept of "tapes" as central to any good scandal dates to Nixon and the Watergate era, but the allusions continue. Trump's May 2017 outburst "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!" is one example; little did he know that Comey kept meticulous notes as FBI records. Furthermore, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen indeed held damning audio, recording everything, and eventually did 'flip' to become [[State's Evidence]]. |
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* The use of double-spacing at the end of sentences, like this.{{color|white|--}}This is a hold-over from the days of typewriters with their monospacing (where every character occupies the same amount of space), to help the period stand out. Such a necessity has long been rendered obsolete by digital word-processors and just plain looks silly when used nowadays, but a lot of older typists (or younger ones taught by them), still use two spaces after periods. Even on this very wiki, though [[That Other Wiki]] and other MediaWiki-based wikis generally format pages so only one space is displayed even if more than one is typed into the code for the page. |
* The use of double-spacing at the end of sentences, like this.{{color|white|--}}This is a hold-over from the days of typewriters with their monospacing (where every character occupies the same amount of space), to help the period stand out. Such a necessity has long been rendered obsolete by digital word-processors and just plain looks silly when used nowadays, but a lot of older typists (or younger ones taught by them), still use two spaces after periods. Even on this very wiki, though [[That Other Wiki]] and other MediaWiki-based wikis generally format pages so only one space is displayed even if more than one is typed into the code for the page. |
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** It's still a handy method for students to pad papers that are to be a certain number of pages long. Two spaces at the end of every sentence adds up. |
** It's still a handy method for students to pad papers that are to be a certain number of pages long. Two spaces at the end of every sentence adds up. |
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