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  1. Blessed are those who have not seen, yet believe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The World is Losing Fish to Eat as Oceans Warm, Study Finds (nytimes.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Sun researchers find strange eclipse reading

  2. You followed the prince of the power of the air by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Tristan O'Tierney, Square Co-Founder, Dies at Age 35 (sfchronicle.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Sun researchers find strange eclipse reading

  3. “Take your son,” God said, “your by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Movies After CNN Inquiry (cnn.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Sun researchers find strange eclipse reading

  4. Re:What about Alien: David 3? by Cochonou · · Score: 1 · on Ridley Scott's 'Alien' Will Finally be Released in 4K HDR For Its 40th Anniversary (arstechnica.com)

    Alien: engineers could have been good. Unfortunately, we got Prometheus.

  5. Re:Actors need to grow up by thegarbz · · Score: 1 · on Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film's Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls (rottentomatoes.com)

    You cannot just be a complete ass and expect people not to react. https://web.archive.org/web/*/... [archive.org]

    You can however be a complete arse and expect most people to not give a shit. It's quite interesting you stopped at Feb 19. Notice that Feb 19 - Feb 20 more than doubled the total number of responses and at Feb 21 there were more responses than any other movie on record?, all this a full week after the femnazi mouthed off and it hit the media?

    You know what we call that? A coordinated campaign.

    Interestingly it's not the actors needing to do anything. They aren't the ones complaining. It's RT that's complaining their platform is being misused, and they're not wrong. Go picket somewhere else.

  6. Re:There was not a *prefilm* review... by rundgong · · Score: 1 · on Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film's Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls (rottentomatoes.com)

    I guess they are talking about the reviews below.

    > This movie will be the most pathetic movie of the year

    >This Movie is going to be a total disaster.

    > This looks like straight up garbage.

    > Tired of all this SJW nonsense

      Also I guess there was an unusual influx of "Not Interested" that is not normal:
    Have a look at the Way Back Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/...
    Early February: A few thousand votes at a sold 90% interested
    17 Feb: 86% / 3704 Votes
    19 Feb: 82% / 4606
    20 Feb: 62% / 8k
    21 Feb: 57% / 12k
    23 Feb: 52% / 18k
    25 Feb: 38% / 28k

    Perhaps this is normal, but to me it does look a bit strange.

  7. Re:Common by colonslash · · Score: 1 · on Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film's Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls (rottentomatoes.com)

    Not common sense to me at all. The 'reviews' were the want-to-see score with comments. Here are the opinions before this internet site was cleansed with money:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20...

  8. Re:quiet, blessed quiet by colonslash · · Score: 1 · on Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film's Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls (rottentomatoes.com)

    The 'reviews' were the want-to-see score with comments. Here are the opinions before this internet site was cleansed with money:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20...

  9. Re:Common by ljw1004 · · Score: 1 · on Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film's Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls (rottentomatoes.com)

    There's also no proof of review bombing despite all of the media outlets reporting that's the case.

    Yeah, that frustrates me too. Rotten Tomatoes is no longer showing "do I want to watch this?" so I can't make any assessment. I'd want to know whether the volume of "do I want to watch this" ratings for Captain Marvel is significantly different from that for other MCU films. If it is, that suggests trolling/bombing. If it's not, that suggests genuine sentiment.

    Before rottentomateos scrubbed it the main "not interested" group was made up of old accounts greater than 8 years. Feel free to look up the archived snapshots if you want, wayback, archive.co, whatever go have fun.

    Oh that's a good idea! I did just that. Here are how many people voted yes or no on the "I want to see this movie" button on rotten tomatoes, as of 10 days prior to each movie's release:

    These numbers flat out don't make sense. I don't know much about MCU but my perception of the hype was that "DrStrange (47k), AntMan+Wasp (11k), CaptainMarvel (45k)" were all minor films about minor characters, while "GOG2 (54k), BlackPanther (34k), InfinityWar (11k)" are major films that were massively hyped.

    Oh speaking of how well is the moving going to do? They've already revised the opening weekend downward twice, and now are expecting it to not clear $100m on opening weekend.

    I wanted to understand your claim in context. Here's some good context, from two weeks ago:

    https://deadline.com/2019/02/c... (Feb 14th)
    Outside of Iron Man‘s $102M and Black Panther‘s $202M, no other Marvel origins film has opened to north of $100M, particularly those in the deeper universe, i.e. Doctor Strange ($85M) and Guardians of the Galaxy ($94.3M)...
    Another box office industry source informed us on Captain Marvel‘s $100M start: “Give or take $20M”.

    http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/... (Feb 14th)
    early tracking data suggests the Brie Larson-helmed superhero film is heading toward a $100 million opening-weekend haul at the box office. That would make it one of the highest-grossing Marvel-movie openings of all time, and put it close to the $103 million earned by DC’s Wonder Woman film during

  10. Re:Common by ljw1004 · · Score: 1 · on Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film's Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls (rottentomatoes.com)

    There's also no proof of review bombing despite all of the media outlets reporting that's the case.

    Yeah, that frustrates me too. Rotten Tomatoes is no longer showing "do I want to watch this?" so I can't make any assessment. I'd want to know whether the volume of "do I want to watch this" ratings for Captain Marvel is significantly different from that for other MCU films. If it is, that suggests trolling/bombing. If it's not, that suggests genuine sentiment.

    Before rottentomateos scrubbed it the main "not interested" group was made up of old accounts greater than 8 years. Feel free to look up the archived snapshots if you want, wayback, archive.co, whatever go have fun.

    Oh that's a good idea! I did just that. Here are how many people voted yes or no on the "I want to see this movie" button on rotten tomatoes, as of 10 days prior to each movie's release:

    These numbers flat out don't make sense. I don't know much about MCU but my perception of the hype was that "DrStrange (47k), AntMan+Wasp (11k), CaptainMarvel (45k)" were all minor films about minor characters, while "GOG2 (54k), BlackPanther (34k), InfinityWar (11k)" are major films that were massively hyped.

    Oh speaking of how well is the moving going to do? They've already revised the opening weekend downward twice, and now are expecting it to not clear $100m on opening weekend.

    I wanted to understand your claim in context. Here's some good context, from two weeks ago:

    https://deadline.com/2019/02/c... (Feb 14th)
    Outside of Iron Man‘s $102M and Black Panther‘s $202M, no other Marvel origins film has opened to north of $100M, particularly those in the deeper universe, i.e. Doctor Strange ($85M) and Guardians of the Galaxy ($94.3M)...
    Another box office industry source informed us on Captain Marvel‘s $100M start: “Give or take $20M”.

    http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/... (Feb 14th)
    early tracking data suggests the Brie Larson-helmed superhero film is heading toward a $100 million opening-weekend haul at the box office. That would make it one of the highest-grossing Marvel-movie openings of all time, and put it close to the $103 million earned by DC’s Wonder Woman film during

  11. Re:Common by ljw1004 · · Score: 1 · on Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film's Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls (rottentomatoes.com)

    There's also no proof of review bombing despite all of the media outlets reporting that's the case.

    Yeah, that frustrates me too. Rotten Tomatoes is no longer showing "do I want to watch this?" so I can't make any assessment. I'd want to know whether the volume of "do I want to watch this" ratings for Captain Marvel is significantly different from that for other MCU films. If it is, that suggests trolling/bombing. If it's not, that suggests genuine sentiment.

    Before rottentomateos scrubbed it the main "not interested" group was made up of old accounts greater than 8 years. Feel free to look up the archived snapshots if you want, wayback, archive.co, whatever go have fun.

    Oh that's a good idea! I did just that. Here are how many people voted yes or no on the "I want to see this movie" button on rotten tomatoes, as of 10 days prior to each movie's release:

    These numbers flat out don't make sense. I don't know much about MCU but my perception of the hype was that "DrStrange (47k), AntMan+Wasp (11k), CaptainMarvel (45k)" were all minor films about minor characters, while "GOG2 (54k), BlackPanther (34k), InfinityWar (11k)" are major films that were massively hyped.

    Oh speaking of how well is the moving going to do? They've already revised the opening weekend downward twice, and now are expecting it to not clear $100m on opening weekend.

    I wanted to understand your claim in context. Here's some good context, from two weeks ago:

    https://deadline.com/2019/02/c... (Feb 14th)
    Outside of Iron Man‘s $102M and Black Panther‘s $202M, no other Marvel origins film has opened to north of $100M, particularly those in the deeper universe, i.e. Doctor Strange ($85M) and Guardians of the Galaxy ($94.3M)...
    Another box office industry source informed us on Captain Marvel‘s $100M start: “Give or take $20M”.

    http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/... (Feb 14th)
    early tracking data suggests the Brie Larson-helmed superhero film is heading toward a $100 million opening-weekend haul at the box office. That would make it one of the highest-grossing Marvel-movie openings of all time, and put it close to the $103 million earned by DC’s Wonder Woman film during

  12. Re:Common by ljw1004 · · Score: 1 · on Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film's Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls (rottentomatoes.com)

    There's also no proof of review bombing despite all of the media outlets reporting that's the case.

    Yeah, that frustrates me too. Rotten Tomatoes is no longer showing "do I want to watch this?" so I can't make any assessment. I'd want to know whether the volume of "do I want to watch this" ratings for Captain Marvel is significantly different from that for other MCU films. If it is, that suggests trolling/bombing. If it's not, that suggests genuine sentiment.

    Before rottentomateos scrubbed it the main "not interested" group was made up of old accounts greater than 8 years. Feel free to look up the archived snapshots if you want, wayback, archive.co, whatever go have fun.

    Oh that's a good idea! I did just that. Here are how many people voted yes or no on the "I want to see this movie" button on rotten tomatoes, as of 10 days prior to each movie's release:

    These numbers flat out don't make sense. I don't know much about MCU but my perception of the hype was that "DrStrange (47k), AntMan+Wasp (11k), CaptainMarvel (45k)" were all minor films about minor characters, while "GOG2 (54k), BlackPanther (34k), InfinityWar (11k)" are major films that were massively hyped.

    Oh speaking of how well is the moving going to do? They've already revised the opening weekend downward twice, and now are expecting it to not clear $100m on opening weekend.

    I wanted to understand your claim in context. Here's some good context, from two weeks ago:

    https://deadline.com/2019/02/c... (Feb 14th)
    Outside of Iron Man‘s $102M and Black Panther‘s $202M, no other Marvel origins film has opened to north of $100M, particularly those in the deeper universe, i.e. Doctor Strange ($85M) and Guardians of the Galaxy ($94.3M)...
    Another box office industry source informed us on Captain Marvel‘s $100M start: “Give or take $20M”.

    http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/... (Feb 14th)
    early tracking data suggests the Brie Larson-helmed superhero film is heading toward a $100 million opening-weekend haul at the box office. That would make it one of the highest-grossing Marvel-movie openings of all time, and put it close to the $103 million earned by DC’s Wonder Woman film during

  13. Re:Common by ljw1004 · · Score: 1 · on Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film's Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls (rottentomatoes.com)

    There's also no proof of review bombing despite all of the media outlets reporting that's the case.

    Yeah, that frustrates me too. Rotten Tomatoes is no longer showing "do I want to watch this?" so I can't make any assessment. I'd want to know whether the volume of "do I want to watch this" ratings for Captain Marvel is significantly different from that for other MCU films. If it is, that suggests trolling/bombing. If it's not, that suggests genuine sentiment.

    Before rottentomateos scrubbed it the main "not interested" group was made up of old accounts greater than 8 years. Feel free to look up the archived snapshots if you want, wayback, archive.co, whatever go have fun.

    Oh that's a good idea! I did just that. Here are how many people voted yes or no on the "I want to see this movie" button on rotten tomatoes, as of 10 days prior to each movie's release:

    These numbers flat out don't make sense. I don't know much about MCU but my perception of the hype was that "DrStrange (47k), AntMan+Wasp (11k), CaptainMarvel (45k)" were all minor films about minor characters, while "GOG2 (54k), BlackPanther (34k), InfinityWar (11k)" are major films that were massively hyped.

    Oh speaking of how well is the moving going to do? They've already revised the opening weekend downward twice, and now are expecting it to not clear $100m on opening weekend.

    I wanted to understand your claim in context. Here's some good context, from two weeks ago:

    https://deadline.com/2019/02/c... (Feb 14th)
    Outside of Iron Man‘s $102M and Black Panther‘s $202M, no other Marvel origins film has opened to north of $100M, particularly those in the deeper universe, i.e. Doctor Strange ($85M) and Guardians of the Galaxy ($94.3M)...
    Another box office industry source informed us on Captain Marvel‘s $100M start: “Give or take $20M”.

    http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/... (Feb 14th)
    early tracking data suggests the Brie Larson-helmed superhero film is heading toward a $100 million opening-weekend haul at the box office. That would make it one of the highest-grossing Marvel-movie openings of all time, and put it close to the $103 million earned by DC’s Wonder Woman film during

  14. Re:Common by ljw1004 · · Score: 1 · on Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film's Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls (rottentomatoes.com)

    There's also no proof of review bombing despite all of the media outlets reporting that's the case.

    Yeah, that frustrates me too. Rotten Tomatoes is no longer showing "do I want to watch this?" so I can't make any assessment. I'd want to know whether the volume of "do I want to watch this" ratings for Captain Marvel is significantly different from that for other MCU films. If it is, that suggests trolling/bombing. If it's not, that suggests genuine sentiment.

    Before rottentomateos scrubbed it the main "not interested" group was made up of old accounts greater than 8 years. Feel free to look up the archived snapshots if you want, wayback, archive.co, whatever go have fun.

    Oh that's a good idea! I did just that. Here are how many people voted yes or no on the "I want to see this movie" button on rotten tomatoes, as of 10 days prior to each movie's release:

    These numbers flat out don't make sense. I don't know much about MCU but my perception of the hype was that "DrStrange (47k), AntMan+Wasp (11k), CaptainMarvel (45k)" were all minor films about minor characters, while "GOG2 (54k), BlackPanther (34k), InfinityWar (11k)" are major films that were massively hyped.

    Oh speaking of how well is the moving going to do? They've already revised the opening weekend downward twice, and now are expecting it to not clear $100m on opening weekend.

    I wanted to understand your claim in context. Here's some good context, from two weeks ago:

    https://deadline.com/2019/02/c... (Feb 14th)
    Outside of Iron Man‘s $102M and Black Panther‘s $202M, no other Marvel origins film has opened to north of $100M, particularly those in the deeper universe, i.e. Doctor Strange ($85M) and Guardians of the Galaxy ($94.3M)...
    Another box office industry source informed us on Captain Marvel‘s $100M start: “Give or take $20M”.

    http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/... (Feb 14th)
    early tracking data suggests the Brie Larson-helmed superhero film is heading toward a $100 million opening-weekend haul at the box office. That would make it one of the highest-grossing Marvel-movie openings of all time, and put it close to the $103 million earned by DC’s Wonder Woman film during

  15. Re:Common by ljw1004 · · Score: 1 · on Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film's Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls (rottentomatoes.com)

    There's also no proof of review bombing despite all of the media outlets reporting that's the case.

    Yeah, that frustrates me too. Rotten Tomatoes is no longer showing "do I want to watch this?" so I can't make any assessment. I'd want to know whether the volume of "do I want to watch this" ratings for Captain Marvel is significantly different from that for other MCU films. If it is, that suggests trolling/bombing. If it's not, that suggests genuine sentiment.

    Before rottentomateos scrubbed it the main "not interested" group was made up of old accounts greater than 8 years. Feel free to look up the archived snapshots if you want, wayback, archive.co, whatever go have fun.

    Oh that's a good idea! I did just that. Here are how many people voted yes or no on the "I want to see this movie" button on rotten tomatoes, as of 10 days prior to each movie's release:

    These numbers flat out don't make sense. I don't know much about MCU but my perception of the hype was that "DrStrange (47k), AntMan+Wasp (11k), CaptainMarvel (45k)" were all minor films about minor characters, while "GOG2 (54k), BlackPanther (34k), InfinityWar (11k)" are major films that were massively hyped.

    Oh speaking of how well is the moving going to do? They've already revised the opening weekend downward twice, and now are expecting it to not clear $100m on opening weekend.

    I wanted to understand your claim in context. Here's some good context, from two weeks ago:

    https://deadline.com/2019/02/c... (Feb 14th)
    Outside of Iron Man‘s $102M and Black Panther‘s $202M, no other Marvel origins film has opened to north of $100M, particularly those in the deeper universe, i.e. Doctor Strange ($85M) and Guardians of the Galaxy ($94.3M)...
    Another box office industry source informed us on Captain Marvel‘s $100M start: “Give or take $20M”.

    http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/... (Feb 14th)
    early tracking data suggests the Brie Larson-helmed superhero film is heading toward a $100 million opening-weekend haul at the box office. That would make it one of the highest-grossing Marvel-movie openings of all time, and put it close to the $103 million earned by DC’s Wonder Woman film during

  16. Re:Common by ljw1004 · · Score: 1 · on Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film's Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls (rottentomatoes.com)

    There's also no proof of review bombing despite all of the media outlets reporting that's the case.

    Yeah, that frustrates me too. Rotten Tomatoes is no longer showing "do I want to watch this?" so I can't make any assessment. I'd want to know whether the volume of "do I want to watch this" ratings for Captain Marvel is significantly different from that for other MCU films. If it is, that suggests trolling/bombing. If it's not, that suggests genuine sentiment.

    Before rottentomateos scrubbed it the main "not interested" group was made up of old accounts greater than 8 years. Feel free to look up the archived snapshots if you want, wayback, archive.co, whatever go have fun.

    Oh that's a good idea! I did just that. Here are how many people voted yes or no on the "I want to see this movie" button on rotten tomatoes, as of 10 days prior to each movie's release:

    These numbers flat out don't make sense. I don't know much about MCU but my perception of the hype was that "DrStrange (47k), AntMan+Wasp (11k), CaptainMarvel (45k)" were all minor films about minor characters, while "GOG2 (54k), BlackPanther (34k), InfinityWar (11k)" are major films that were massively hyped.

    Oh speaking of how well is the moving going to do? They've already revised the opening weekend downward twice, and now are expecting it to not clear $100m on opening weekend.

    I wanted to understand your claim in context. Here's some good context, from two weeks ago:

    https://deadline.com/2019/02/c... (Feb 14th)
    Outside of Iron Man‘s $102M and Black Panther‘s $202M, no other Marvel origins film has opened to north of $100M, particularly those in the deeper universe, i.e. Doctor Strange ($85M) and Guardians of the Galaxy ($94.3M)...
    Another box office industry source informed us on Captain Marvel‘s $100M start: “Give or take $20M”.

    http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/... (Feb 14th)
    early tracking data suggests the Brie Larson-helmed superhero film is heading toward a $100 million opening-weekend haul at the box office. That would make it one of the highest-grossing Marvel-movie openings of all time, and put it close to the $103 million earned by DC’s Wonder Woman film during

  17. Actors need to grow up by bongey · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film's Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls (rottentomatoes.com)

    Brie Larson , Feb 12 says doesn't want Captain Marvel press tour to be "to be overwhelmingly white male". Feb 5-10 , 91% , Feb 10- Feb 12 90%, 13-14 89%, 15 88%, Feb 16,87% Feb 17 86%, Feb 18 85% Feb 19 82% . You cannot just be a complete ass and expect people not to react. https://web.archive.org/web/*/...

  18. Not unique to Starbucks by chipperdog · · Score: 1 · on Starbucks' Music Is Driving Employees Nuts (www.cbc.ca)

    This isn't new or unique to Starbucks even k-mart employees had to listen to a couple hour loop for a month at a time..

  19. Re: Movie reviews by JudgeFurious · · Score: 1 · on 'Captain Marvel' Review Bombers Have Dropped Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating To Lowest Among MCU Movies (comicbook.com)

    The day before Black Panther was released it had 40,095 intentions to see and was sitting at 94% according to this. https://web.archive.org/web/20...

  20. Re:Kernighan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Programming Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier?

    I wish they had actually used "The C Programming Language" at bible school. I would have paid a whole lot more attention.

    I always wanted to be put on the witness stand and asked to swear on the bible, just so I could tell them I brought my own

  21. Re:Movie reviews by Layzej · · Score: 1 · on 'Captain Marvel' Review Bombers Have Dropped Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating To Lowest Among MCU Movies (comicbook.com)

    About 44,000 of the votes were submitted in the last 2 weeks. Prior to that it had a 90% rating.

  22. Re: Completely True by thomst · · Score: 1, Troll · on 'Captain Marvel' Review Bombers Have Dropped Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating To Lowest Among MCU Movies (comicbook.com)

    lgw selectively quoted pseudofrog thusly:

    reactions that based on some reactionary ideology that's far from uncommon online (The Force Awakens sucks because a lady with latent Force powers beat up a couple of guys with a space stick).

    He then responded to that assertion by opining:

    You know, I'm not sure anyone actually believed that. I think it's entirely a contrived excuse, or so oversimplified as to be wrong.

    No. No, it's really not.

    While The Last Jedi was still in theaters, some unemployed basement-dweller spent considerable effort to create a de-feminized fanedit of the movie.

    If you're still determined to defend your thesis, you might first want to visit the Reddit discussion page about what has come to be known as the Chauvinist Cut. Or you could "treat" yourself to mundanemike's fawning SJWs lose their mind over THE LAST JEDI: THE DE-FEMINIZED FANEDIT review of the CC (the Youtube version is the same video he posted to the Daily Caller website, btw). Be sure to at least read the commments that other incels have posted praising his review's "takedown" of SJWs.

    I could cite a Godzillion examples of similar foaming, reactionary rants about the original movie, the Chauvinist Cut, and the campaign to downvote it on Rotten Tomatoes, but all you really need as evidence is Bleedingcool's 2017 story about the Facebook troll who claimed to have written a bot he used to massively downvote The Last Jedi on RT to understand that your skepticism is baseless.

    Not to mention naive ...

  23. In the beginning God created the heavens and earth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1 · on Thirty-Million-Page Backup of Humanity Headed To Moon Aboard Israeli Lander (cnet.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Sun researchers find strange eclipse reading
    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander

  24. Eve answered: The serpent deceived me, and I ate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1 · on US Paleontologists Call For a Worldwide Halt To the Sale of Vertebrate Dinosaur Fossils (theguardian.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Sun researchers find strange eclipse reading
    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander

  25. Re:Wandering you say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Netflix Buys Rights To Stream Chinese Sci-Fi Blockbuster 'The Wandering Earth' (npr.org)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Sun researchers find strange eclipse reading

  26. Make fire come down from heaven in sight of men by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1 · on NASA Approves SpaceX's Crew Dragon For March 2 Unmanned Flight To the ISS (theverge.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Sun researchers find strange eclipse reading
    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander

  27. The Mystery of Lawlessness is already working by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Could 'Oumuamua Be A Fluffy Radiation-Driven Icy Fractal From Another Star System? (syfy.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Sun researchers find strange eclipse reading
    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander

  28. And here, have a fresh citation, hot off the WP by drinkypoo · · Score: 1 · on Redis Changes Its Open Source License -- Again (zdnet.com)

    Just discovered this one on Wikipedia, the oldest citation yet: Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, cited as using the term all the way back in 1985 . (Try at about 13 minutes and 50 seconds.) Thanks, NJB!

  29. Re:Thanks much. You misrepresent Bruce's words by drinkypoo · · Score: 1 · on Redis Changes Its Open Source License -- Again (zdnet.com)

    Thanks for the link and your research.

    You're welcome.

    You have, however, misrepresented the statement Bruce Perens made. This unfortunate fact turns your work from useful to bullshit.

    No, no it does not. Frankly, it wasn't clear at the time what Bruce was talking about. Lots of people were making lots of claims at the time — remember, this was a dozen years ago, before Christine Peterson claimed to have coined the term. But even if it was, that doesn't change the content or quality of the citations I and others located even slightly.

    Neither Perens, nor ESR, not Stallman, nor any other person claims to have originated the term,

    Christine Peterson outright claims to have "coined" the phrase. My recollection is that before that, ESR claimed to have done so, but he has since supported her story. I agree with you that Perens didn't claim to have coined the term; what he did do was claim to have established its meaning authoritatively by writing a document — which sought to retcon history by redefining a term already in common use before the OSI was even imagined.

    Trying to portray it as an argument between the people who were present is disingenuous.

    I portrayed it as a series of mutually contradictory claims, but I never asserted that they "argued" about it, at least not that I can recall. If you can find a place where I made such a claim, I'll happily retract it.

    It would also be more interesting had they used the combined term "open source" as a noun. They used the noun phrase "source code" with the adjective "open", which may seem like a subtle difference.

    That is an outright falsehood. Surely, you can do better. The Caldera press release for OpenDOS authored by Lyle Ball clearly puts all three words together, in the order which you expect, right in the headline: "CALDERA® ANNOUNCES OPEN SOURCE CODE MODEL FOR DOS". If you had actually read my citations, instead of only looking for arguments against them, you'd have known that. This post to comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 from 1993 also uses the phrase in the sense in which you describe. (To be fair, that citation was linked from my later article on this same subject, which I didn't link in the subthread to which you're replying; however, I did link it in a sibling subthread in this same conversation before you wrote the above comment — you might have taken the time to read the rest of the discussion before writing such an emphatic reply.) However, the Caldera press release was linked from my original article, which you really should have read before leaving your highly inaccurate comment here.

    What a waste of your time and ours.

    You can make excuses all day, or mischaracterise my efforts repeatedly, but it doesn't change the facts at all — And the most basic fact is that the phrase was being used by the community at least five years before Christine Peterson claims to have "coined" it (her word, not mine), and was used by at least one corporation two years earlier.

    Further, because I was there, I personally remember the term being in broad use in conversation around the Santa Cruz geek community in the early nineties, in its current sense. That's what set me off in the first place when I read

  30. Wandering stars, in blackest darkness forever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Virgin Galactic Reaches Space Again In Highest, Fastest Test Flight Yet (cnn.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Sound of Silence

  31. EUSSR indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on European Governments Approve Controversial New Copyright Law (arstechnica.com)

    Despite the backlash from people, and the commission writing an article about how uninformed and uneducated people were https://web.archive.org/web/20...
    Now deleted https://medium.com/@EuropeanCo...

    They just went on with it.

  32. Re:What a load of bollocks by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Redis Changes Its Open Source License -- Again (zdnet.com)

    Stupid bleeping...I'm not sure how I wrote "probably". A specific person, ESR, definitely used it first.

    First, ESR doesn't actually claim (any more) to have invented it, he claims Christine Petersen invented it. He changed his story.

    Second:
    1993: Jerome Schneider
    1996: Caldera (Written by Lyle Ball, whom I queried on the subject)
    1998: Christine Peterson (Writing in 2006, mind, and providing zero citations)

    So you tell me, who you gonna believe? The citations which prove that its use predates OSI claims by five years, provided by a person (me) who has nothing to gain by continuing this argument except the credibility which naturally comes from supporting the facts, or someone with something to gain economically from making such claims, like Christine Peterson or Bruce Perens? The only dog I've got in this fight is the truth.

    Sustaining this argument over the years (literally over more than a decade) has cost me substantial credibility, but only among people who value prejudice over fact. I'm okay with that. Better to suffer for the truth than promote a pack of lies. Buying into bullshit is why we can't have nice things.

  33. Eve answered: The serpent deceived me, and I ate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Israel Launches Spacecraft To the Moon (npr.org)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Losing my religion

  34. Wandering stars, in blackest darkness forever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Earth's Atmosphere Extends Much Farther Than Previously Thought (newatlas.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Sound of Silence

  35. The trial never ends, Picard. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1 · on Pinterest Cracks Down on Anti-Vaxxers, Pressuring Facebook To Follow (cnbc.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Losing my religion

  36. Re:More big government by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Proposed Bill Would Force Arizonians To Pay $250 To Have Their DNA Added To a Database (gizmodo.com)

    An Anonymous Coward objected to gtall's statement:

    Libertarians had a field day....before 2007. Then their principles helped the banks dip the U.S. economy in shit and roll the rest of us. There was nothing the Bush Administration felt needed adult oversight in the banking industry.

    by pointing out:

    Uhhh, you are aware that Libertarians have never had much representation in the government, right? Like, in the last election we managed a whopping 3.3% of the vote. They currently hold 0 seats in the senate and 0 seats in the house. If you're blaming Libertarians for the crisis in 2008, I'd like some of what you're smoking. I do find it somewhat satisfying though that you're so terrified of us, even though we are not a large party.

    You're conflating the Libertarian political party with adherents of economic libertarianism, as espoused by Alan Greenspan, friend and adoring devotee of Ayn Rand (and dedicated opponent of government oversight of banks and brokerages).

    You may recall him as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve who presided over the Fed's determinedly hands-off policy towards regulation and oversight of the financial industry (which is, ironically, among its explicitly-defined core duties, as laid out in its charter) during the era of the housing bubble, the implosion of which tanked the world economy (a policy that Ben Bernanke, his devoted acolyte and successor as Fed Chairman, unswervingly followed)? The guy who, in the aftermath of that disaster, admitted in Congressional testimony that he was convinced the mortgage bankers and the Wall Street clowns who "securitized" toxic, sub-prime-rate mortgages and pimped them to their customers as absolutely safe investments (because the underlying "assets" were insured by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) would never act in ways that could harm the economy, because Ayn Rand said so? That guy?

    That's the kind of libertarianism to which gtall is referring - the "unfettered, free-market capitalism is an unqualified benefit to society that must never be doubted or questioned" economic philosophy kind. Not the "I voted for Gary Johnson and all I got was this stupid sticker" variety ...

    (Posting as AC only so as not to undo prior upmods in this thread.)

    --

    Check out my novel ...

  37. Wandering stars, in blackest darkness forever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Trump Directs Pentagon To Create Space Force Legislation for Congress (wsj.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Losing my religion

  38. This will be your opportunity to serve as witneses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DC Cancels Comic Where Jesus Learns From Superhero After Outcry (theguardian.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Sound of Silence

  39. Wandering stars, in blackest darkness forever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study (cnet.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Sound of Silence
    Losing my religion

    Energeian Planes.

  40. Where were you when I fixed the foundations? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study (cnet.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Sound of Silence

  41. He gave them up to a depraved mind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on House Bill Requires Pornography Filter on All Phones, Computers Purchased in Kansas (cjonline.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Losing my religion

  42. Hello Apophenia, my old friend... by denzacar · · Score: 1 · on James Cameron's Alita: Battle Angel Released After Sixteen Years (rottentomatoes.com)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Apophenia is the tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things.[1]

    Originally, character's name was Gally.
    Name was changed during translation in order "to appeal to more than just the hard-core manga and anime crowd".

    https://www.animenation.net/bl...

    Actually, the discrepancy between the names Gally and Alita comes courtesy not of AD Vision, but from Viz.
    In the October 1993 issue of Animerica, Fred Burke, co-translator for the Viz Comics Battle Angel Alita manga explains that, "For a Viz Comic to work, it's got to appeal to more than just the hard-core manga and anime crowd;" therefore there were several alterations made in the translation of the manga.
    Yukito Kishiro's title Gunnm, a compound of Gun Dream, was re-named Battle Angel Alita.
    Gally, the protagonist, had her name changed to Alita, a name, Burke explains, means "noble": a name that he discovered while searching through a book of baby names.
    Burke also explains that, for no reason given, the floating city Zalem was re-named Tiphares: a name meaning "beauty", taken from the Qabalah and the mystical Tree of Life.
    Furthermore, Yugo's name was given a cosmetic change to Hugo for American readers.

    Also...
    https://web.archive.org/web/20...

  43. The Beast from the Earth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1 · on 'This Person Does Not Exist' Website Uses AI To Create Realistic Yet Horrifying Faces (inverse.com)

    The second beast was permitted to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship it to be killed.

    And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark—the name of the beast or the number of its name.

    Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is 666.

    Speed of Earth 66,600MPH.

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Sound of Silence

  44. Slashdot featured a guy doing this back in 2002 by Solandri · · Score: 1 · on Smart Cat Shelter Uses AI To Let Strays Inside, Keep Dogs Out (mashable.com)

    Original slashdot article and discussion. Guy hacked together a digital camera (they were relatively new back then) and an electromagnet controlling the door latch, and wrote his own image recognition software to block the cat from using the cat door if it had a "present" in its mouth. The cat would be allowed in if it was not carrying anything in its mouth. But it also happened to work at blocking other animals from entering through the door.

    Archive.org link to original TFA since the hosting site has apparently expunged it.

    On a side note, why do homeless cats need to be protected in winter but not homeless dogs?

  45. Re:Old news by AmiMoJo · · Score: 0 · on Smart Cat Shelter Uses AI To Let Strays Inside, Keep Dogs Out (mashable.com)

    Found it: https://lmb.informatik.uni-fre...

    Which mentions an even older project from around 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20...

    Those two are a little bit more limited in scope, in that they detect things in the cat's mouth rather than trying to determine if it's a cat or not and if the cat is healthy or in need of attention, but damn impressive for the time.

    I wish someone would commercialize that tech. Mine brings all sorts of stuff home - mice, live birds, fish...

  46. Beast made image speak, and kill all don't worship by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Trump Administration Unveils Order To Prioritize and Promote AI (reuters.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Losing my religion

  47. and with every wicked deception directed at those by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Mars One is Dead (engadget.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Sound of Silence

  48. Allais Effect, Micheson-Morley, Stationary Earth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Wayward Satellites Test Einstein's Theory of General Relativity (scientificamerican.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Losing my religion

  49. so that the waters would not surpass His command by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Scientists Have Reduced the Forecast of Sea Level Rise Seven Times Due To Melting of the Antarctic (maritimeherald.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Losing my religion

  50. Make fire come down from heaven in sight of men by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Tesla Model 3 Becomes Best Selling Electric Car In World (cleantechnica.com)

    For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.

    Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
    It has blood on it!
    ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
    Losing my religion