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Engineers Propose Lily Pad-Like Floating Cities
Zothecula writes "The idea of going offshore to satisfy our renewable energy needs isn't new, but the grand vision of Japan's Shimizu Corporation goes way beyond harnessing green energy at sea for use in cities on Terra firma — it takes the whole city along for the ride. The company, along with the Super Collaborative Graduate School and Nomura Securities, is researching the technical issues involved in constructing its Green Float concept — a self-sufficient, carbon-negative floating city that would reside in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean."
Mods: How the hell is that offtopic? The author is trying to say that because something rarely happens it shouldn't be investigated, and I have provided a relevant and personal example of why that logic is faulty. Just because you don't like the conclusion doesn't make it offtopic!
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NOT. OFF. TOPIC.
Mod me into oblivion... it doesn't make you right, you dick.
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Comments regarding moderation are ALWAYS offtopic, since they are metacomments.
Read the FAQ.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Well what does it say on metametacomments then? Because I think he was being a metadick in a metamassive metaway, if you get my metametadrift.
And since when the hell did geeks follow arbitrary social rules? Geeks are like cats -- they do whatever the hell they want, whenever they want. /metageeked
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Yeah, this comment is offtopic too, but WTH. (Oh, and I have no points today, and thus made none of the moderations in this discussion).
When I get mod points, I usually drop one or two on comments along the lines of "oh sure, mod me down because you disagree with me", or words to that effect. I do this irrespective of whether I was the person to mod down the original comment, whether I agree with the moderation, or whether I think the original comment has merit. I will occasionally mod the original comment up even as I moderate the complaint about the original comment's prior moderation down, contradictory as that may sound.
Why do I do this? Because bitching about being downmodded is noise instead of signal. It's that simple. Better to remove it from the thread by putting it below most thresholds.
I rarely otherwise downmod comments, unless they're really obviously noise, offtopic soapboxing, or part of a flamewar. Hell, I've even held off on downmodding posts that demonstrated massive ignorance on a subject, in favour of upmodding the people correcting said ignorance.
Erotic is when you use a feather. Exotic is when you use the whole chicken.
Yeah, but he got +5 and I got -1... so this has nothing to do with the content of the posts, but rather the fact that the mods apparently think mentioning the city that's been swamped, flooded, oiled up, and spat out in anything other than a glowingly positive light is blasphemy and a hanging offense.
"I disagree with you -- eat -1, Troll, evil do-er!"
*shakes head* Whatever... I got plenty more karma to burn stating the truth even when it hurts some delicate snowflake's worldview.
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