I  where to put the period when there is a note in parentheses at the end of a sentence. However, I would like to know what to do in the case where there is a full sentence, or multiple sentences, inside the parentheses contained at the end of a sentence. For example:  This is a sentence (I am also a sentence. This is yet another sentence.).  Note the .). at the end. Is this correct?
I have two complete sentences; the second is in parentheses, essentially a comment on the first.  Where do I place the periods?  I would use this:     They played opera. (I covered my ears.)   Is this punctuation correct?
What does 'condescending' exactly mean? I'm really confused about the meaning of the word 'condescending'. Online dictionaries define it as bossy/disdainful, which fits with...    But I find other usages where being condescending is obviously considered a good thing, perhaps more like being humble, or equal, rather than superior...    (and  of "condescending and friendly" in Google Books)  What's going on? Does this word really have two almost opposite meanings? What is the safest way to clean up /boot partition? I have 200 MB assigned for the /boot partition.  Whenever I try to update the kernel, I receive an error message that basically states /boot is full.  What can I do to cleanup /boot and remove/backup the older kernels? I want to show that any two disjoint compact sets in a Hausdorff space $X$ can be separated by disjoint open sets. Can you please let me know if the following is correct? Not for homework, just studying for a midterm. I'm trying to improve my writing too.  My work:  Let $C$,$D$ be disjoint compact sets in a Hausdorff space $X$. Now fix $y \in D$ and for each $x \in C$ we can find (using Hausdorffness) disjoint open sets $U_{x}(y)$ and $V_{x}(y)$ such that $x \in U_{x}(y)$ and $y \in V_{x}(y)$. Now the collection $\{U_{x}: x \in C\}$ covers $C$ so by compactness we can find some natural k such that  $C \subseteq \bigcup_{i=1}^{k} U_{x_{i}}(y)$   Now for simplicity let $U = \bigcup_{i=1}^{k} U_{x_{i}}(y)$, then $C \subseteq U$ and let $W(y) = \bigcap_{i=1}^{k} V_{x_{i}}(y)$. Then $W(y)$ is a neighborhood of $y$ and disjoint from $U$.  Now consider the collection $\{W(y): y \in D\}$, this covers D so by compactness we can find some natural q such that $D \subseteq \bigcup_{j=1}^{q} W_{y_{j}}$.  Finally set $V = \bigcup_{j=1}^{q} W_{y_{j}}$, then $U$ and $V$ are disjoint open sets containing $C$ and $D$ respectively.   What do you think? Failed to fetch jessie backports repository I'm using a docker image as a base for my own development that adds the jessie backports repository in its Dockerfile and uses that to install a dependency. This image uses the following command to add the repository:  echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main" &gt;&gt; /etc/apt/sources.list   The problem is that fetching packages from the backports repository now  fails with the following error (this used to work previously):  W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-backports/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404  Not Found  W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found   I looked on that server, and those paths are indeed not present there.  I tried to figure out on the Debian backports site whether this particular repository should still be available, and I didn't find any indication that this was deprecated or something like that.  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