How in the name of Shub Internet did this make front page? Bad slashdot editors. Bad! No cookie for you.
Because it's funny. Front page funny. And it mixes comedy with an often overlooked icon in our world. I've read books on Tesla and I've read his patents and he truly was a remarkably gifted man. Yet I didn't hear about him until college.
Why? Probably because Edison was a pompous jerk. Probably because Tesla was an immigrant. Probably because he expressed too many alternative ideas... some of which had serious merit and continue to influence us in new ways until this very day.
And yet one of the few routes we have to raise public awareness about him is very well filmed and choreographed internet videos... because tesla wasn't The American Inventor Thomas Edison that every American School child Must learn about.
I disagree with your hard line "no cookie" stance and instead offer the Slashdot Editor trapped in my basement a full cookie and the ability to rub his eyeball on my shoe. I thoroughly enjoyed the throwing up of absinthe mixed with pineapple as well as the "Tesla was the Electric Jesus" statement.
All you have to do, girlintraining is filter Idle so that it doesn't appear on your front page. It's in your preferences.
-- My work here is dung.
Re:Idle can please die.
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eldavojohn
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Upper right of the page you're viewing has a "Help & Account" link. Click it or open it into a new tab. If you are using the dynamic index like most, click "Exclusions" under that heading. Enter "Idle" into the text box and hit save. While you will probably miss stories like "Bill Gates Sits Idle as World Burns" you will not see any Idle: stories on your front page. In the classic index, you can select sections and remove Idle. I don't know why the dynamic index doesn't have this granularity of exact control yet. I'd give you links but they're javascripty popups so take care if you have javascripty blocking mechanisms.
*whoosh*:P she wasn't talking about the video at that point dude, she was employing some kind of "non sequitur humour"ous device.
-- which is totally what she said
Re:Lightweight!
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h3llfish
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· Score: 2, Informative
That is incorrect. It's certainly a highly potent alcoholic spirit, but it has no hallucinogenic drugs in it. That part is pretty much made up. It's basically just regular booze. It's certainly nothing like Psilocybin mushrooms.
Re:Pretty weak constitution
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BKX
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Uh, no. A fifth is 18 shots (a pint of liquor is 250 mL vs 750 mL for a fifth (yes, I know is seems wrong, but the names for those sized bottles no longer match their volumes, not even in the US)). Therefore a pint, being exactly one third of a fifth, is 6 shots. I define a shot as 42 mL, which is strikingly close to the US government's definition of 44 mL (1.5 fl oz).
And don't start claiming that is shot is some other size like 1 fl oz or 30 mL or some bullshit. It's slightly less than 1.5 fl oz, dammit. In fact, there MUST be 18 shots in a fifth. That way I can finish my bottle of whisky just as I start the 18th hole. (And now you know why there are 18 holes in a full round of golf.)
Re:Lightweight!
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TheTurtlesMoves
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If made the proper way, even back then i didn't have any real "hallucigenic" in it. The heat breaks it down.
-- The Grey Goo disaster happened 3 billion years ago. This rock is covered in self replicating machines!
The video on YouTube
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Smurf
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Slashdot Mirror
How in the name of Shub Internet did this make front page? Bad slashdot editors. Bad! No cookie for you.
Because it's funny. Front page funny. And it mixes comedy with an often overlooked icon in our world. I've read books on Tesla and I've read his patents and he truly was a remarkably gifted man. Yet I didn't hear about him until college.
... some of which had serious merit and continue to influence us in new ways until this very day.
... because tesla wasn't The American Inventor Thomas Edison that every American School child Must learn about.
Why? Probably because Edison was a pompous jerk. Probably because Tesla was an immigrant. Probably because he expressed too many alternative ideas
And yet one of the few routes we have to raise public awareness about him is very well filmed and choreographed internet videos
I disagree with your hard line "no cookie" stance and instead offer the Slashdot Editor trapped in my basement a full cookie and the ability to rub his eyeball on my shoe. I thoroughly enjoyed the throwing up of absinthe mixed with pineapple as well as the "Tesla was the Electric Jesus" statement.
All you have to do, girlintraining is filter Idle so that it doesn't appear on your front page. It's in your preferences.
My work here is dung.
Upper right of the page you're viewing has a "Help & Account" link. Click it or open it into a new tab. If you are using the dynamic index like most, click "Exclusions" under that heading. Enter "Idle" into the text box and hit save. While you will probably miss stories like "Bill Gates Sits Idle as World Burns" you will not see any Idle: stories on your front page. In the classic index, you can select sections and remove Idle. I don't know why the dynamic index doesn't have this granularity of exact control yet. I'd give you links but they're javascripty popups so take care if you have javascripty blocking mechanisms.
My work here is dung.
*whoosh* :P she wasn't talking about the video at that point dude, she was employing some kind of "non sequitur humour"ous device.
which is totally what she said
That is incorrect. It's certainly a highly potent alcoholic spirit, but it has no hallucinogenic drugs in it. That part is pretty much made up. It's basically just regular booze. It's certainly nothing like Psilocybin mushrooms.
This site has a pretty good FAQ:
http://www.wormwoodsociety.org/
Uh, no. A fifth is 18 shots (a pint of liquor is 250 mL vs 750 mL for a fifth (yes, I know is seems wrong, but the names for those sized bottles no longer match their volumes, not even in the US)). Therefore a pint, being exactly one third of a fifth, is 6 shots. I define a shot as 42 mL, which is strikingly close to the US government's definition of 44 mL (1.5 fl oz).
And don't start claiming that is shot is some other size like 1 fl oz or 30 mL or some bullshit. It's slightly less than 1.5 fl oz, dammit. In fact, there MUST be 18 shots in a fifth. That way I can finish my bottle of whisky just as I start the 18th hole. (And now you know why there are 18 holes in a full round of golf.)
If made the proper way, even back then i didn't have any real "hallucigenic" in it. The heat breaks it down.
The Grey Goo disaster happened 3 billion years ago. This rock is covered in self replicating machines!
Yeah. Apparently someone uploaded teh video to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FFazanaWQY