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Planetary System Similar to Sol Discovered
Anonymous Coward writes: "The Washington Post is carrying its own copy about a planetary system very similar to Sol in the Big Dipper. 47 Ursae Majoris has at least two large gas giants in circular orbits, similar to many of Sol's satellites, and the possibility exists for smaller, currently undetectable rocky planets closer to the primary. Circular orbits are less common than highly elliptical orbits, and are more promising. Read the whole article to find out why."
Whoa! Lots of fun tonight for you isn't it.
Lets see, where to start. Oh yeah I liked this one...
You obviously have not understood the point of moderation points
Yeah, but the great slashcode god keeps giving them to me anyway. I hope some day that it will be proud of my decisions and I will be justified for my actions. In the mean time, Angry evil half-step-brother of slashcode named Anonymous Coward is displeased with such actions. [you sense a struggle between Slashcode and Anonymous Coward, you feel the power of Anonymous Coward decrease.]
What else did I like, oh yeah right before it...
You say that it is I who does not understand before posting, but it is you who continues to insist that moderation downwards is a more important task than moderating upwards.
Am I missing something? Those seem to be unrelated points and the latter is totaly unsupported and false. I don't know that I need to compare you to a black hole, but on your second point, the moderator guidelines do mention that it is better to mod up than down. That is why I think the informative posts deserve top billing.
I've said it before but I'll put it even more plainly. I'm for moderating up good posts. I'm for moderating up funny posts, they are good. I'm just for moderating up informative posts becuase they are usefull and good. Sometimes its just unfortunate that a moderation cap gets in the way.
You keep wanting to say that I want to mod people down in some superiority trip. Indeed ascribing evil motives to personal choices is one step away from admitting you have no intelligent input. That step is just realizing it for yourself first.
In fact you never mention a good reason why funny posts should rate as high as intelligent posts, did you. I waited but all I got was some personal slander, misrepresentation of actions and not even someone to stand behind the comments.
You tried to re-enforce your misrepresentation with redundancy by repeating the first sentance twice even though I showed it false, twice. Is this what I'm supposed to accept as lucid argument? Keep saying it but won't make it true.
Moderating on slashdot is one thing. Making life changes to value systems is another, and I'll need real reasons to do that. I don't think I should change because some AC thinks such actions are a superiority complex, or the result of a vacious mind. If you can't understand what is going on, why should I listen to you?
Let me end with this one, its classic brown-boxing...
Do you feel that only those posts that you deem important are *real*?
All posts are *real*. Some are just real stupid, some are real clever, some are real useless and some are real informative. Not all posts are created equal. And yes, I moderate accordingly according to my own value judgement. Do you not moderate by your own judgement system? If not, what value system do you use to moderate?
I've had plenty of people complain about things that I do. Your not the first, you are not even the first to complain about something I do that everyone else does.
I like constructive criticism, I appreciate diversity of thought and even seek it out. In the end, I give you the same challenge I give anyone else who doesn't like what I'm doing.
If you can show me something better to do, I'll do it. It's what we call being open minded, but that means you actually have to come up with reasoning. I'm here to tell you that if all your going to do is complain (and all you have done is complain) then it will fall on deaf ears. Theres too much to life to stop and listen to someone who is just a critic.
No I'm not trying to be funny. But fidonet ran in just that style (but a lot faster :) : heres a my longish comment on something ... followed by heres my long winded discussion/reply. Worked quite well. In fact it was a lot more constructive than IRC which seems to lead to more shallow conversations. If you're exchanging vast bodies of knowledge then it would be fine ... and of course just because you send one message doesn't mean you can't send yearly updates even before you get the first reply.
Bitter and proud of it.
Of course there's life in that system! But, don't expect to hear from them anytime soon.
/. effect. Took them several days to restart their systems while they muttered something about a something called a "cmdr taco" and intergalactic war.
How do I know? Well...during my last alien abduction, they told me so (The captain even has a pet shnitzoid named Spazmork). While passing through our solar system, their systems were knocked offline when they encountered an intense wall of RF energy packets originating from atop a coffee shop in NYC. They called it the
They are now posting warnings and to other civilizations warning of the danger of passing through the Sol system.
I've been on this site for 6 months or so but never bothered to make a login, and well here is my login and im' proud of my relatively close to first post post. AC: 0. Non-AC: 1 :)
Personally, for example, I am not a racist. I am in fact a minority, in some sense. But I do not care about people talking. Cause I am not bothered but what people can say about me those, whose opinion I do care about, will be right.. Maybe you do care, and that's your right.. But, it was mentioned - unless you can be reached - any threats in a public forum aren't worth shit.
Just an observation...
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In an incident unknown since the early 60's, Yhwh, a diety in good standing, has demanded that Earthbound scientists "return my friggen mirror". Apparently his shaving problems, as well as those of his son during his brief stint in the middle east, all stem from the inability to see one's own reflection probably.
Science claims ignorance, swearing that it was like that when we got here, all we did was find it. The classic battle between faith and reason is expected to reach yet other heights later this week, when God discovers what we have done with His slippers.
Easy does it!
This comment has been submitted already, 277205 hours , 7 minutes ago. No need to try again.
Nice to see the slashcode is as tight as ever
//ct