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Truth, Ownership, and the Scientific Tradition

number6x writes "The Physics Today website has an article by Robert Laughlin titled "Truth, Ownership, and the Scientific tradition". The article deals with some recent blunders in the scientific community like the falsification of data at lucent covered here on slashdot. The article is mainly about the conflict between the free exchange of ideas that the scientific community needs to survive, and the demand for property ownership that commercial sponsors demand."

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  1. Re:What's with the upped signal-to-noise today? by ContemporaryInsanity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good question, what *is* going on ?!?

  2. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSA by turgid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In soviet Russia, Soviet Russia jokes are tired of YOU!

  3. Off Topic: Learning From kuro5hin by krystal_blade · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gee, the censorship at kuro5hin has seemed to misplace a large amount of village idiots.

    Perchance the slashdot community could take a moment and reflect on how (like open source) this shared experience can be used to control the nuisances on this site.

    I propose, and throw my full support towards adoption of kuro5hin standards for IP blocking, and removal of posts.

    The removal of posts would be an easy process. If a post is rated a -1 or less, a moderator should be able to elect to delete the post.

    This, of course, would no longer be called moderating. It would be editing.

    It would truly kick ass to see non T-SPAMMED stories here. (Troll SPAMMED, or Thread SPAMMED)

    krystal_blade

    --
    It will be easy to motivate our fellow man; there is hardly anything people treasure more than not being annihilated.
  4. Evil Is Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why Evil is Good

    I hate victims. Victims are the albatross hung from the neck of society. The
    term is not even acknowledged by any other species. I am certain if there are
    intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe, they follow the strict principle
    of Natural Selection. Only the Strong shall survive. Mankind cannot survive
    as long as its virility is diluted by the weak.

    Peace-and-Love hippies, retards, cripples, depressives, sickling, addicts
    and whiners are all victims of one kind or another. Larger examples of victims
    can also be found: the entire nations of Israel and Englund, for example, are
    constantly victimized and/or whining about their lack of power in the world. In
    fact, the entire continent of Europe is nothing but a festering sewer of whiners
    and welfare states. If we, the strongest nation on Earth, had a decent Ruler,
    the entire junk-heap of Eurotrash would be burned to create a cloud of such lethal
    density it would waft over to Asia and take out the victims that were left over from
    World War II. The great black column of suffocating smoke would rise high into the
    atmosphere, reaching for the very edges of outer space - a giant, living monument
    to our strength. The unviable ashes of the once living garbage would orbit the Earth,
    forever reminding future generations of the price of weakness.

    World War II. Probably the greatest single era in the history of the planet, barring
    the time before Man and Man's distorted, unnatural philosophies of "common good" and
    "protecting the innocent". The time of Germany and its rule by a man of great vision.
    A man who saw the virtue of evil. Every single class of victim described above was
    dealt with in the harshest possible manner. Most people focus on the genocidal aspect
    of Hitler's activities but his vision was much wider, encompassing every brand of
    weakling from ethnic victims to sexual deviants. Unfortunately the United States,
    led by a cripple, had to involve our great military might on the wrong side of the
    war. The least Roosevelt could have done was to allow Germany to finish raping
    France and reduce Englund to rubble.

    We paid for our mistake in World War II. We were punished for choosing the wrong
    side in the Great War by a period of non-violent "Cold War". The term "Cold War"
    itself is the mark of the true Beast: the peace lover. A true leader - a Ruler -
    would have unleashed the full might of our nuclear arsenal upon every nation on the
    Earth, banishing them forever to particles of glowing dust blowing through the winds
    of history. And look what our lack of action has gotten us: A planet filled with
    human garbage, eternal sufferers suckling from the breast of the Mighty.

    It is beyond my comprehension. Not only am I forced to allow the weak to survive,
    but I - we - are forced to subsidize their pathetic existence. Every cripple
    creeping along the sidewalk. Every degenerate elderly woman with osteoporosis who
    parks in the handicap parking spot. Every worthless, lazy hippy who cries for peace
    and marches on a public university. Every sickling child perpetually hospitalized
    because its fetid welfare mother smoked too many drugs during her pregnancy. Every
    30 year old retard wiping its nose all over its Scooby Doo coloring book. Every
    drunk little whore seeking "justice" in our courts for her rape. All of them,
    and more, deserve nothing but death. In the Natural World, every single one of these
    leeches would be lion fodder.

    Even the "Good Book", the Bible - which is actually nothing more than the sick fantasies
    of opium addicts - predicts the outcome of Nature: "The meek shall inherit the Earth".
    Yes, I know what you're saying, but you are wrong. This phrase has been twisted by the
    weak, the cripple, the Jew to give their pathetic lives some ray of hope. This phrase
    does not mean that the Victim will Rule the world. That is laughable. That is impossible.
    The meek shall inherit the Earth for the one and only reason that they will be buried in
    it.

    To the strong who have read this: Thank you. Together, we will conquer. To the weak who
    will whine in the comments below: Your days are numbered, trash.