6 American beers and half an absinthe? Come back when you've downed the best part of a bottle of whisky and a handfull of shrooms, and we can talk.
Nothing More Inspiring
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eldavojohn
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Than watching a grown man laying in a bathroom about to throw up saying "Tesla... was the Electric Jesus... I can't breath." Well done, good sir. I only hope this weekend has in store for me the same beauty that you have gifted to the internet.
-- My work here is dung.
Idle can please die.
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Elgonn
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· Score: 5, Insightful
What setting am I missing that blocks idle from appearing on the main page?
Re:Idle can please die.
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eldavojohn
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· Score: 4, Informative
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.
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.
The video on YouTube
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Smurf
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· Score: 4, Informative
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6 American beers and half an absinthe? Come back when you've downed the best part of a bottle of whisky and a handfull of shrooms, and we can talk.
Than watching a grown man laying in a bathroom about to throw up saying "Tesla ... was the Electric Jesus ... I can't breath." Well done, good sir. I only hope this weekend has in store for me the same beauty that you have gifted to the internet.
My work here is dung.
What setting am I missing that blocks idle from appearing on the main page?
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.
Yeah. Apparently someone uploaded teh video to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FFazanaWQY