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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Perhap carelessness about footwear (‘scattershod’) serves metonymically for indifference, dispersal, and randomness (‘scattershot’). Almost 300 ghits:
... a set of hand-tuned and laboriously developed rules like those in SpamAssassin would predict spam more accurately than a scattershod automated approach.
gnosis.cx/publish/programming/filtering-spam.html
As is evident from the above, this is a rather scattershod release from a young musician.
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/ … I?v=glance
Much more full realized than the slightly more scattershod first efforts, this newest release is pared back a bit on the production …
www.almostcool.org/mr/931/
Road markings are scattershod, Sydney drivers can be fast and intolerant of those learning to drive on the left-hand side, and streets are hilly and curving …
www.sydneyhotelbookings.com/cityinformation.htm
They seem very scattershod, and in retrospect are trying to focus on far, far too many characters.
www.trekbbs.com/threads/showflat.php?Ca … iew=collap
Nothing new, we’ve been doing this for a long time but it has been scattershod – one teacher here and another teacher there. There needs to be a committment …
www.nycwp.org/NRIstudygroup/discuss/msg … 5?mode=day
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