Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/30

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Subject: [Leica] Sun-Times
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 13:38:23 -0500
References: <CA+yJO1D-NpNEdi5by7x-r1GND9N9H+mEG_161ucFAvEe9C-suw@mail.gmail.com> <7AF51354-A954-47D3-A34D-DB6062A0219C@acm.org>

"Remember: spell-check was written by programmers -- not English majors --
so don't rely upon it being correct."  Jon Warren, Programmer


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> Those times started at least a decade ago. Newspapers are really going to
> hell. Going back to the '90s, my wife, teaching at a community college, had
> to interrupt a near fist fight between a pair of students, one of whom was
> the verbal aggressor. Later, she found out why the guy was so hair-trigger:
> he was an editor at the local newspaper, the (San Jose) Mercury News, and
> had just been laid off. It seemed they didn't need editors any longer. A
> computer could do the spell checking.
>
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
>
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>
>
>
>
> On May 30, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:
>
> > PESO:
> >
> > A sign of the Times:
> >
> >
> http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-chicago-sun-times-photo-20130530,0,4361142.story
> >
> > Too depressing to consider.  They are blind and will regret this
> decision.
> >
> > Tina
> >
> > --
> > Tina Manley, ASMP
> > www.tinamanley.com
> >
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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA


In reply to: Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Sun-Times)
Message from kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner) ([Leica] Sun-Times)