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SpaceShipThree to be Orbital Spacecraft

FleaPlus writes "The president of spaceflight company Virgin Galactic has recently stated that if the upcoming suborbital service with SpaceShipTwo is successful, the follow-up SpaceShipThree will be an orbital craft. Although orbital spaceflights would be much longer and could potentially dock with orbital space stations, they are also considerably more difficult than suborbital spaceflights. Other private firms working on orbital spaceflight (and potentially in the running for Robert Bigelow's $50 million America's Space Prize for orbital flight) include t/Space and SpaceX."

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  1. GNAA outreach program hailed as a success by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    GNAA outreach program hailed as an overwhelming success.
    Impi - GNAA PR Department, South Africa.

    In a bold move to bridge cultural divides and to promote racial and sexual tolerance, GNAA president timecop, NAACP president Kweisi Mfumeq and the distributors and broadcasters of popular Naruto anime series embarked on an ambitious project to achieve these noble objectives.

    The vehicle selected was the anime series Naruto. In collusion with the distributors on this series, it was agreed to not broadcast episode 146 for the week of August 1st to August 7th, 2005.

    timecop proposed and executed the plan to provide an alternative viewing experience, which was aimed at reaching out to the targeted population, and bringing about the achievement of the goals of this project.

    Spokesman for Nielsen Media Research Company, Armands Leimanis, estimated that 77439 people downloaded the torrent, which actually was the movie Gay Niggers from Outer Space masterfully disguised as Naruto 146. "Never in the history of mass media marketing has something been so successfully marketed on such a large scale in such a short period of time. timecop has succeeded in accomplishing what marketing gurus around the globe have been trying to do for decades. This is truly genius in motion."

    timecop was unavailable for comment as he was on an expedition to photograph spiders.

    Dattebayo, in a fit of rage at being excluded from this glorious endeavor, flipped out and made the channel #db on rizon.net +i (invite only) and +k (key). This led to the mass suicide of an estimated 16% of the Naruto viewing population. This is believed to be the single most damaging factor in limiting the distribution of GNFOS to the magical 100,000 leeches. NCAAP president Kweisi Mfumeq condemned Dattebayo's actions and compared them to the KKK and gay bashing organizations.

    About Dattebayo and #db on Rizon:

    #db is a neo-fascist translating group who foists its misguided translations of Naruto on the unsuspecting and naïve fans of this anime series, in an attempt to promote their own nefarious agendas.

    About Gayniggers from Outer Space:

    Overview
    Sponsored by Carlsberg Pilsner
    Produced by GayJack Movies
    Distributed by WorldWide GayMovies
    Dino De Laurentus & Raymond Hansen Present
    A Lindberg & Kristensen Production

    "The Universe. Its mighty power. Its evolutionary force, not to be stopped by anyone. In its beauty, this, this is a happy place to stay, filled with harmony and cosmic joy. A free place, where men can express themselves, and be as when they were born. All of this is, because someone cares. Because someone looks after us. When we sleep, when we play. When we act natural. This is a movie about those who risk life, and partners, to guarantee living in a wonderful and free universe. This is a movie about the Gayniggers From Outer Space. The Gayniggers come from the planet Anus, in the 8th Sun System, far far away from here. They are much, much more intelligent than any other creature in the Universe. The most fascinating thing about them is that they, with the help of their super intelligence, and their highly developed telepathic system, Braintapping, will be able to create a world, a society, a perfect world to live in without the presence of women. A MALE ONLY WORLD."

    Starring
    Coco P. Dalbert as ArmInAss
    Sammy Saloman as Capt. B. Dick
    Gerald F. Hail as D. Ildo
    Gbartokai Dakinah as Sgt. Shaved Balls
    Konrad Fields as Mr. Schwul
    Johnny Conny & Tony Thomas as The Gay Ambassador

    About GNAA:
    GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

    Are you

    1. Re:GNAA outreach program hailed as a success by othiekan · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The above needs to be modded out, it contains words that, even though the internet is a non-filtered uncensored network, is just a bit innapropriate....

    2. Re:GNAA outreach program hailed as a success by godfra · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Quite. What the hell is this rubbish? And why are they posting it as FP on every single thread? I have mod points today and I'm going to use them!!

    3. Re:GNAA outreach program hailed as a success by darmey · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Hey guys, I've just registered, but even I know GNAA! They rock!

    4. Re:GNAA outreach program hailed as a success by kc0re · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Good for you, I've not had Mod points in 6 months. I used to get them every other day.

    5. Re:GNAA outreach program hailed as a success by jurt1235 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      They have a bot posting it. Very annoying.

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  2. Modded out by jurt1235 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It is modded out already (as far as possible with the moderation system), the bad part is, that this person who posts that message has now posted it several times, thus making you, me and others look at that nonsense and most likely hurtfull text several times now.
    Search engines will also pick it up, that way spreading it even further.

    A change in the moderation system would be nice, but writing this down will probably break the fabric of the universe:
    I, a regular /. visitor and contributor (ok, all my contributions are denied sofar), ask /. to CENSOR /. for certain messages, and block access for certain IP addresses which post offtopic texts with highly likely hurtfull content.
    Proposal to get a message offline is: Introduce an extra modifier hurtfull/discriminative. Once a message is marked that way once only, a message will be generated at one of the maintainers. He/she will look at it and disable/remove the message if it a valid moderation in that category. If is not a valid moderation in that category, extra hurtfull moderations will not produce extra messages.

    I know this is way offtopic, just as the parent is, but something needs to be done about the grandparent messages.

    Best regards,

    Jurt1235

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    1. Re:Modded out by SimilarityEngine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You could simply view with threshold = 0. Then you don't have to read this rubbish, once it has been moderated. Any modification to the moderation system itself won't prevent us from having to read it before it gets moderated, so I think we should leave that aspect of the system as it is.

      In terms of preventing it from appearing in the first place, maybe we need some kind of spam-filter, which flags dubious messages for the editors' attention. Until it has been checked out, it doesn't appear in the comments list.

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      Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
    2. Re:Modded out by zwei2stein · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      hurtfull/discriminative ... i sense monster of Political Corectness making its way to slashdot ...

      if people cant cope with bad words or something that they dont agree with, how can they cope with whole world?

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    3. Re:Modded out by jurt1235 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I view with threshold one, but I also have the right to moderate sometimes. I want to be able to really influence such a post out of existance.
      A spam-filter is also a possible solution, but then there is a chance that messages are refused based on some wording which might be harmful, but just harmful to just one person (some personal flaming, nice to get some extra foes on your list), which I think should be allowed.
      Sometimes discussions just get a bit overheated, that should still be ok.

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  3. Re:Only assuming thye use the same design by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Welcome to Slashdot!