
Re: Tautology at its finest
Yup, that qualifies as overly redundant tautology
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With a bit of logical thinking, you might discover that isn't necessarily a problem.
If the bot hooks up from the back, it can decouple and scuttle back between the legs of the main landing gear (it is low enough to fit under the fuselage of all aircraft with the possible exception of the B737).
Had a former boss who swooshed into the IT Dept. one fine day, with a visiting dignitary, only to start proclaiming we were doing everything in Java - this was circa 1998. We were an AS/400 shop! Java? No, but we can show you some nice RPG
By that time the AS/400 could do JAVA (and the RPG-JAVA interface is fascinating interesting).
Slightly too late for an edit:
Check the pronunciation at Wikipedia Vincent van Gogh, that is pretty good.
The initial G is pronounced as an H, and the final gh as in the correct Irish/Scottish pronounciation of loch, i.e. with the 'ch' in the back of the throat, not as "lock", hence he is Vincent van Hoch, with a guttural 'ch'.
As somebody born and bred in the Netherlands with Dutch as mother tongue, a mother who is a retired teacher of Dutch (and a father who also used to teach languages), I can tell you with absolute certainty that initial "G" is not pronounced as an "H" (unless you speak the dialect from Zeeland, where they switch them around) but as the "ch" in loch.
Ask the Rijksmuseum if you doubt it.
I recommend you do so yourself.
To the utterly predictable howls of outrage from sales conveyed to my manager that this was inappropriate language to expose to customers, I responded by by pointing out that internal-only test versions were never supposed to be given out in the first place.
Let me guess, that only made them howl louder and now for blood.
There is a difference between Chinese food as served in the west to westerners and Chinese food in China served to Chinese.
And you may be right that Chinese healthcare isn't expensive, it also isn't of the highest quality. Frankly, the quality of healthcare in most of Europe is a lot better than in the USA.