@messenger

"You said I was wrong, and "effect" is never a verb."
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I said you were wrong, I never said that it's "never used as a verb." You've quoted most (all?) of my posts so we can be relatively certain they are not edited.
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"you talk about "personal effects". This is meaningless."
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You sure about that?
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/personal+effects
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/personal%20effects
http://definitions.uslegal.com/p/personal-effects/
https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0501130430
For someone with English as THE major focus of their life for the past 12 years, I'm very surprised you have never heard of the phrase "personal effects."
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*increases bullshit radar's maximum power*
So, you're telling me that the focus of your life has revolved around the English language and the phrase "personal effects" is meaningless?
*bullshit radar bursts into flames*
kay...
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In your second sentence, you have all the "effect"s and "affect"s backwards. A correct sentence could be:
My personal affects (things I own) and the effects of my person on others effected (caused to happen) other affects (moods/emotions).
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Negative; the sentence isn't all backwards.

My personal effects (noun, see definitions' links above) and the effects of my person (noun, I did get this wrong in the original) on others affected (verb form, the definition for the noun form doesn't make sense in this context [not at all]) other effects (in this case, I suppose you could possibly use affect as a noun, but its use in the language is arguably near extinction today).
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Also, no comma between a subject and verb.
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What is this^ in reference to?
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Finally, you still seem confused on which word to use. We can't have someone's life's work done poorly now can we? I recommend you practice which word to use by reading up on the subject at the Purdue Online Writing Lab: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/660/01/
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After studying, you can test your affectiveness effectiveness (see what I did there?) at their use by trying the sample exercises provided by the same site: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/4/24/42/
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Here are some other sources that may help you better understand your own life's work:
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/affect-versus-effect.aspx
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/english/2005/08/effect_as_a_ver.html
http://www.esm.ucsb.edu/academics/documents/grammar_style.pdf
http://www.writersblock.ca/tips/monthtip/tipsep99a.htm
http://prpost.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/raven-remember-affect-is-a-verb-and-effect-is-a-noun-usually/
http://imgi.uibk.ac.at/mmetgroup/MMet_imgi/tools/mayfield/affect.htm <-- the most precise and concise source I could find
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p.s.
Does anal retentive have a hyphen in it?

I am in agreement with that, however it won't solve the entire problem. Collective bargaining, when applied to the the sector of public service, will always end badly. At the risk of repeating myself, there simply isn't enough money. FDR saw this in his letter to the National Federation of Federal Employees in which, among other things, he stated, "The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service . . "

We can leave things as they are and just not pay people the pensions we've promised to them, or we can correct the error now. There is an alternative to the government fixing it now. The people certainly will at the polls. You may find this article regarding what is happening in California enlightening. Brown has his tit in a wringer because the people of CA will correct these issues if he doesn't. My guess is that the people of Wisconsin will come to the same conclusion eventually when the "where's my pension you promised me?," lawsuits begin.



>> ^packo:

>> ^silvercord:
Being an old hippie, I understand this. But I also understand that the state has made promises it cannot keep. Same thing is happening in California under Jerry Brown. He has proposed to cut state union pensions in order to rectify the matter. There is no magic wand to pay those pensions. The money is simply not there.

subsidizing big business friends that don't need the subsidy or tax break may be the place to look for that

$14k for a semester is the OUT OF STATE tuition? he would have paid just about as much for in state back at a decent UC (UCSD, UCSB, UCLA, UCB, etc).

not sure what he's complaining about, seems like a helluva deal. it's not even his money.

The plasmoids (what the parasites are sometimes called) live in rodent GI tracts, but they can only reproduce in a cat's GI tract. The plasmoids alter the brain chemistry of rodents to change their physical response to the smell of cat urine - normally, a rodent will high-tail it in panic away from cat pee, but this response is altered in rodents infected with plasmoids. It basically de-compiles hard-coded instinctual brain wiring and re-writes a new behavior for a specific stimulus.

I always thought that this would be a good explanation for so-called "crazy cat-ladies" - the stereotypical old lady with a house full of more cats than any sane person would ever take in.

http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1485

My GF and I lived in San Francisco in a house with five other people which we all collectively rented. We both worked 50+ hrs a week, and rarely got out to do anything fun. We had put about 90k away, and thought about buying a house with it. If we had done that four years ago we would have negative equity, and owe over $0.5M, instead we got out.

We moved to Pittsburgh PA, where we bought two houses for < $20k each. We rent one and live in the other, we do web work and print design when they come our way.

The cash flow about breaks even, but we have no debt, and we have everything we need, and loads of free time.

I have a cyclical habit of downsizing my life. After I dropped out of UCSB in the late '90s I went to live off the grid in Canada for a few years, the catalyst being the existential arrest caused by my job as a university IT manager.

After I resettled in SF I was sqatting, and dumpsering myself a generally punk-rock existence (minus musical preference). As tends to happen I ended up living with my GF and living a somewhat "normal" life, until we decided to buy a house, and realized we would not be able to do it in SF, and so we downsized to Pittsburgh, and became landlords (gasp squatter -> landlord in 4 years flat).

I'm kinda hoping for total economic collapse, so that I can massively simplify my life again. I'll be planting a garden this year, to make sure we can keep veggies on the table if California has trouble shipping them out in their current low-water-reserves condition, that's going to be my bad economy "side business".

>> ^NetRunner:

I didn't realize they had a state-by-state prediction market.
If someone wanted to gamble on this election (and I'm getting sorely tempted to), I'd say buy stock in Virginia -- Obama is more likely to win that than Nevada, IMO.
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I'd say buy stock in Diebold or ES&S ftw!:

http://www.videosift.com/video/From-The-Programmers-Mouth-How-The-2000-Election-Was-Fixed

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-architect-of-the-Sarasota-FL-13-stolen-election

http://www.videosift.com/video/Hacking-Democracy

http://www.videosift.com/video/Dan-Rather-Reports-Trouble-with-Touchscreens

http://www.videosift.com/video/Sarasota-Elections-2006

http://www.videosift.com/video/Invisible-Ballots-A-Temptation-for-Electronic-Voting-Fraud

http://www.videosift.com/video/Broken-Government-Electronic-Voting-Machines

http://www.videosift.com/video/How-Fox-News-Killed-John-Kerry-in-2004

http://www.videosift.com/video/Uncounted-The-New-Math-of-American-Elections

http://www.videosift.com/video/PBS-NOW-Republicans-illegal-use-of-Voter-Caging-in-2004

http://www.videosift.com/video/Fox-News-Rigged-Focus-Groups

http://www.videosift.com/video/Hack-a-US-Election-in-3-E-Z-steps-with-your-friend-Diebold

http://www.videosift.com/video/New-Hampshire-Primary-Sham-Chain-of-Custody

http://www.videosift.com/video/Yet-another-documentary-showing-stolen-broken-elections

http://www.videosift.com/video/Votergate

http://www.videosift.com/video/E-Voting-Machine-Maker-Admits-Miscounts

http://www.videosift.com/video/Stealing-America-Vote-by-Vote

http://www.videosift.com/video/Voting-Machine-Being-Compromised-by-UCSBs-Security-Group

... there was also an amazing newscast report video that showed the new electronic voting machines in California were decertified by some officials. This video has been stripped off of youtube several months and I haven't been able to find it since.

I did find this interesting article about a voting fraud investigator that found out "too much"...
http://www.bradblog.com/Docs/ClintCurtis_RayLemme_Hust0906.pdf

Poignant memories...thanks!

In reply to your comment:
“MLX:

I remember in second grade coming home from school early one day. A man in a suit (some kid's dad . . . they all wore suits back then) had come into class and whispered something to my teacher. She looked very disturbed. She began to cry and then she told us that we needed to go home. I don't remember the walk. I just remember getting to the house and going upstairs and finding my mom on the floor of her bedroom in front of the television. She was weeping and weeping.

The date was November 22, 1963. This was my first indication in my young life that something was terribly wrong in the world.

In reply to your comment:
“He came to TVA in '63, I was there. I was only two, wish I could remember!””

MLX:

I remember in second grade coming home from school early one day. A man in a suit (some kid's dad . . . they all wore suits back then) had come into class and whispered something to my teacher. She looked very disturbed. She began to cry and then she told us that we needed to go home. I don't remember the walk. I just remember getting to the house and going upstairs and finding my mom on the floor of her bedroom in front of the television. She was weeping and weeping.

The date was November 22, 1963. This was my first indication in my young life that something was terribly wrong in the world.

In reply to your comment:
“He came to TVA in '63, I was there. I was only two, wish I could remember!”

He came to TVA in '63, I was there. I was only two, wish I could remember!