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Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized
slew writes "CNN is reporting that the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in a case where a local community seized private houses for commercial development (not public works) under the guise of eminent domain. Needless to say, the little guy loses to the commercial developer this case...
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Why waste your mod points on "All your base . . ." jokes? I mean, come on, it's been five years since the thing came out. Maybe we need a new type of Funny mod for /. inside jokes like "All your base . . ." and "In Soviet Russia . . .", that way I can filter those posts to get to some actually funny content.
Meme reinforcement. People like it when a nod is given to their favorite silly cliche. The moderators get to feel smart, because they got the joke. "All your base?" oh yeah, I think I saw some flash thingy about that once...that was pretty funny. Huh huh, heh heh
It's just a cultural flag in the dirt for slashdot. Personally, I'd prefer people spend mod points on things that at least have some originality, otherwise I'll just write a perl script to reload slashdot every 10 seconds and post "All Your Are Belong To Us" so that we can get that entertainment aspect out of the way as quickly as possible. I think there should be a firm principle that any humor that can be perl scripted shouldn't be part of serious debate.
Oh....no....did I use the term "serious debate" in the context of slashdot discussion forums? Oh lord.
-- Truth goes out the door when rumor comes innuendo. -- Groucho Marx
Your comment was rated 5 insightful. What's really insighful to me is how you define people who do not fit your myopic and simplistic world views as "waffler". Apparently independent thinking does not exist in your universe.
evil is as evil does