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Re:Food for thought by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-02 20:25 · Score: 2, Informative · on Giant Shoe Honors Journalist Who Targeted Bush

According to a Mistress of Saddam's, he also liked to watch videos of his enemies being tortured. During the viewings he'd be smoking a cigar and wearing a cowboy hat while laughing out loud.

It's not much of a stretch to think that he did something similar when he gassed a lot of Kurds...

Re:FAAAAAKKKEE by GooberToo · 2008-12-22 04:54 · Score: 1 · on Denver Couple Unveils Homemade Service Robot

And children.

This boy can properly identify objects as small as a pencil; just not easily. He can ride his bike and roller skate, while avoiding children and objects simply by using echo location.

Not to mention, the military can fairly accurately identify threats (SAM, AA-tank, should launched AA, so on and so on - except specific models) simply by radar returns, against significant ground clutter. Expecting a robot to do so in a limited and known environment is trivial by today's DSP requirements.

Correlation does not imply causation by br00tus · 2008-11-15 08:56 · Score: 1, Redundant · on Unhappy People Watch More TV

I think this may be a case where correlation does not imply causation. I think it's rather obvious that a person who is spending his evenings hanging out with girls who look like Leighton Meester or Kristin Kreuk is going to be happier than those who go home and just watch people like that on their television. I think it's also obvious that reading good books is usually more enriching than watching some reality show of people competitively chasing the American dream, and who swallow a bottle of sleeping pills when they don't win. Recently I've been interviewing, so I have been reading books like Andrew Tanenbaum's Operating Systems and the like, which I already know will help me as it has answers to questions I've missed on some interviews (such as an indepth look into how pipes work in UNIX in terms of how file descriptors are handled etc.) Or I read some books on (pre)revolutionary China which expand my knowledge of the world, and which I sometimes refer to in conversations with people. Or I've read books by Sigmund Freud or Marvin Minsky on the brain, which not only are things which are interesting to discuss, but you could say have had a more significant impact on my life than some TV show would. I hear from too many people how some lame-o, poorly written book like the Fountainhead "changed their life"; but things like Freud's idea that unexpressed aggression can only be turned inward causing anxiety and depression, or Minsky's ideas on how rationality is not counterposed to being emotional in the brain, but that (to simplify it, perhaps too much) that rationality is just one of our emotions, or is parsed out in pieces among our emotions (considering all possibilities to a problem is euphoric, being very critical of each solution in turn is depressing), has probably changed my behavior somewhat.

Thinking of my own life, I usually sat down and vegetated in front of the tube when I was "beat" after coming home from work. If work was stressful, with too many hours, too little time spent on planning and too little money spent on resources, so that keeping all plates spinning fell more and more on the people working there, I come home tired and don't feel the energy to do anything else, work has sucked all my energy via too many hours and too much asked for in those hours - with the too much not being critical thinking but rushing from crisis to crisis. On the other hand, I've worked at places where hours are more reasonable and work is more enjoyable, so I have more time and energy at night to socialize or do other constructive things. Watching too much television might be a sign of unhappiness, but what are the causes of that unhappiness?

While I think the main cause of unhappiness leads to the correlation of watching too much television, I also think television has an anesthesizing and depressing effect of its own. Aside from watching the US electoral debates recently, I have very rarely watched any television. Almost all of it garbage. The only channels that are any good are the Independent Film Channel, which has good stuff sometimes, or sometimes C-SPAN or PBS has someone interesting on. The only things I used to watch regularly were the Daily Show and Colbert Report, but now I'm usually doing something else at that time.

Re:Bit of a stab at Microshaft in TFA by MyLongNickName · 2008-09-25 01:25 · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Has Google Redefined Beta?

I sincerely apologize for coopting a thread with a post that is not related to the topic of hand. However, there is some big new out there that needs discussing. Bigger than the election. Bigger than a $700 Billion dollar bail out. It will affect you very deeply. Please read here.

I understand if you mod me offtopic, but you need to read this and get your hot grits ready.

Re:Genarlow Wilson by bwcbwc · 2008-07-17 23:24 · Score: 1 · on US ISPs Announce Anti-Child-Porn Agreement

Not to mention Miley Cyrus, Vanessa Hudgens and Jamie Lynn Spears. Interesting that no one has been charged with child porn or molestation in these cases.

Re:Fie on Rush by Albanach · 2008-02-15 02:03 · Score: 1 · on Rush Limbaugh Begs Steve Jobs For Bug Fixes

Here is a video clip of him admitting this.

That wasn't a video admitting anything - it was one of the most selective, heavily edited and cut snippets I've seen come out of fox. Maybe you should read this. Or this Or watch the CBS interview and hear it in his own words.

The Next Generation by Nymz · 2007-08-27 19:04 · Score: 2, Insightful · on NASA To Send Luke's Lightsaber Into Space

If firing a Star Wars movie prop into space, is what it takes, to get the next generations attention and acceptance of continued funding of NASA programs, then perhaps we should rethink the whole thing. Isn't teaching the truth about outer-space enough? because I don't think another Lance Bass is the way to save NASA.

Re:Humiliate. Don't Incarcerate by Joe+U · 2007-07-06 10:30 · Score: 1 · on Arrest Under New NY Anti-Piracy Law

why is community service humiliating?

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,12262 42,00.html

Re:Off topic. Bye. by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-05 06:10 · Score: 0 · on How Ray Ozzie is Changing Microsoft

Seeing as how none of your comments has achieved a mod greater than 1, I'd say don't let the door hit you in the ass, you worthless troll. News For Nerds obviously isn't for you. Maybe you should try something more your speed.

Sincerely,
The Slashdot Community, et al

Re:Information ratio too low by OhHellWithIt · 2004-05-21 07:52 · Score: 1 · on Sailing the Wine Dark Sea

Yup! How the Irish saved civilization seemed to be totally lacking in footnotes, so that it felt like I was reading People Magazine, since I read it right after Richard Fletcher's The Barbarian Conversion. I hope he does better in this effort.

( .hj by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-31 18:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Matchbox -- a Small Footprint Window Manager

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Linking to the site and the story by jdavidb · 2002-05-04 02:44 · Score: 3, Insightful · on The Creamy Center of the Atom

Something's starting to annoy me. When you submit an article and link to a page on another site, you don't have to put the name of the site in a hyperlink. Nearly every person here knows how to get to the main page for the site if they want to, and usually the main page isn't directly relevant to the story.

Sometimes it seems like people link for every word in the article and it's hard to figure out which link is the one with the story.

Re:What's the difference? by Russ+Nelson · 2000-06-04 22:06 · Score: 1 · on Criminal Libel, Free Speech And The Net

Libel laws exist because not everyone owns a printing press. However, if you're defamed on a web site, you can defend yourself on a web site.

Maybe somebody needs to start a defamation search engine, which links defamation to defenses against same, and lets people compare to see which is more plausible.
-russ

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