AOTC and GeekPAC

[Aaron]

Geeezz.  You people are a bunch of whiny babies. And yes, it's HTML... live
with it.

pred·a·to·ry   Pronunciation Key  (prd-tôr, -tr)
adj.
1.. Living by preying on other organisms: a predatory mammal; a
predatory insect.
2..
1.. Of, relating to, or characterized by plundering, pillaging, or
marauding.
2.. Living by or given to exploiting or destroying others for
one's own gain.

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[Latin praedtrius, plundering, from praedr, to plunder, from praeda,
booty. See ghend- in Indo-European Roots.]
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preda·tori·ly adv.
preda·tori·ness n.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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predatory

Pred"a*to*ry, a. [L. praedatorius, fr. praedari to plunder, fr. praeda
prey. See Prey.] 1. Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine;
plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party. ``A
predatory war.'' --Macaulay.

2. Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits. [Obs.]

Exercise . . . maketh the spirits more hot and predatory. --Bacon.

3. (Zo["o]l.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA,
Inc.

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predatory

adj 1: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of
marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party" [syn: marauding,
raiding] 2: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living
prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening
wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" [syn: rapacious, raptorial, ravening,
vulturine, vulturous] 3: living by or given to victimizing others for
personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in
which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a
predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton [syn:
predaceous, predacious]
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

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predatory

predatory: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary

predatory found in 2 items.
Stealing
Excerpt: "...; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; raptorial
(rapacious..."
[View Entry]

Taking
Excerpt: "...; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; lupine,
rapacious..."
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Monty J. Harder" <lists at kc.rr.com>
To: "Eric Rossiter" <rossiter at discoverynet.com>; <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: AOTC and GeekPAC

> > >   But as long as I'm critiquing position papers...  "preditory" won't
> even
> > > pass a spell-checker, because there is no such word.
> > >
> > Oh, it's a word, it's just misspelled.
> >
> > pred·a·to·ry   Pronunciation Key  (prd-tôr, -tr)
>
>   LIS, there is no such word as 'preditory'.  Any spell-checker that has
> 'preditory' in it is just plain wrong (as oppposed to one that has real
> words in it, but can't determine that the one used is incorrect).  If
you're
> going to put out a Position Paper, it's because you want people to take
your
> position seriously.  When you don't even run the Position Paper through a
> spell-checker, it shows that you haven't done your homework.
>
>   Maybe I'm worrying too much about this, but I've really gotten sick of
> reading articles with obvious misspellings and horrendous grammar (and not
> just on /.) from people who expect their words to carry some weight.  I
know
> it's considered 'cool' to be all anti-establishment, and denigrate things
> like proper grammar, or professional business attire -- amongst us geeks
> that's fine.  But when we try to communcate with the non-geek community
> (which would seem to be what these proposed organizations are all about)
we
> need to do a better job.
>
>   One of the big knocks on open source software is the uneven quality of
> documentation.  Some times programmers forget that a system comprises* not
> just hardware and  software, but documentation, configuration, data, and
> user training.  It seems that if we take an even more inclusive view of
the
> system, we should also include the proverbial 'religion and politics'.  We
> have software that does wonderful things, if people could just figure out
> how to make it all work with the data files they already have, and the
work
> habits they've already acquired.  But we're losing the war where it counts
> the most, precisely because the people who know how to communicate
> effectively are on the other side(s).
>
>   If these are the people who are trying to represent our position
(assuming
> that we do in fact agree with their goals) then we are in big trouble.
>
> ---
> * This is a word that I've seen misused so often that the dictionaries now
> include the wrong meaning, which makes the word nearly meaningless; the
two
> meanings are in direct opposition to one another
>
>
>