I surprised to see so many here defending a man who quite clearly killed or was involved in killing his wife. Just because he invented a file system few people use, the Slashdot Crowd worships him to the point of blindness to the obvious. Is it amazing that he was able to pull it off while leaving such little actual evidence? Sure. But that "getting away with murder" doesn't justify it. It's pretty sad to see so many supporting this sociopath.
The Slashdot crowd sees that he was convicted more for being a weird awkward geek than on the basis of any evidence, and can imagine very easily themselves in the same position without having done anything. I don't know whether he did it or not, but the evidence seems shockingly weak, and it scares me to think of what might happen if I ended up in a similar situation, and I have the pretty girl factor to balance out the awkward weirdo element.
Seriously, sex leaving a 6 splotch of blood?! What kind of sex were they into?
So what? Supposing they were into kinky sex, that hardly makes him a murderer. I am, I've bled more than that, and I have, amazingly enough, failed to kill anyone thus far. Maybe I should have to turn in my pervert card.
A 6-inch wide blotch is a pretty large one, I might add, not a simple cut.
And he claims they had sex in the sleeping bag and that was where the blood came from. Sounds reasonable enough to me. Maybe she was menstruating. Maybe they were doing something kinky. I know I've bled more than that from play piercings and such, although I'd be kinda disinclined to do that in a sleeping bag.
This is especially true when you consider that CGI child porn that is virtually indistinguishable from the real thing is illegal to possess (thanks to the PROTECT Act), and that people are being arrested for pasting pictures of children's heads on naked adult bodies:
It's worse than that. At least one person has been prosecuted for writing fiction with pedophilic themes. It's all just thoughtcrime, and pedophiles appear to be the backup boogeyman just in case the sheep stop being afraid on cue whenever their masters say 'terrorists'.
Um, okay. So what specific, observable difference is there between an animal for which vision forms 80 percent of "total sensory input" versus one for which it forms, say, 81 percent?
The "dick out" is a somewhat archaic golf tradition that originated on military golf courses, where any golfers whose tee shot that did not make it to the ladies tee is required to un-zip and walk to his ball exposed, ostensibly to show that he is indeed a man. In practice, if a client or a superior declares a dick-out on your tee shot, you should comply, unless of course, there are women present.
Either he's not serious, or golf is a much more disturbing game than I had imagined.
... vision (inputs from our eyes) form 80% of our total sensory input (compared to 10% for a Dog).
What does that even *mean*? How would you measure or even define something like that? Also, why is Dog capitalized? Is this like Christians worshipping a god named God?
The closest I could come to any of those is working on growing my hair long enough to make cute pigtails. Well, do t-shirts that say things like "R'Lyeh is for Lovers" [1] or "Gothnix: nice boot, wanna fsck?" count as better or worse than a band t-shirt?
My present personal style involves:
Long flowing black skirt, or shorter skirt, often with black and white stripey tights, during warmer weather
T-shirt with something inscrutable to normals on it
Big stompy combat boots
Hair dyed non-standard color
Somehow I don't think I'm quite what the author of that article would have thought of as 'management material', but all the other developers here seems to be doing jeans and a more generic t-shirt, so I consider myself the best-dressed person in the office.:)
[1] Yes, I know Innsmouth or Y'ha-nthlei would make more sense, but I couldn't find one that said that.
And with what sort of upload bandwidth? How much of the 5.8 TB you theoretically could download in a month could you actually get away with before they shut it off?
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17 aint kiddy porn, no matter how you cut it. I know the US has some odd laws but even they wouldn't call a 17 year old a child.
*sigh*
You underestimate the level of stupid fundies produce.
You can, but, not being a lawyer, I don't know whether there are any rules about when you can do it or other consequences of it.
I surprised to see so many here defending a man who quite clearly killed or was involved in killing his wife. Just because he invented a file system few people use, the Slashdot Crowd worships him to the point of blindness to the obvious. Is it amazing that he was able to pull it off while leaving such little actual evidence? Sure. But that "getting away with murder" doesn't justify it. It's pretty sad to see so many supporting this sociopath.
The Slashdot crowd sees that he was convicted more for being a weird awkward geek than on the basis of any evidence, and can imagine very easily themselves in the same position without having done anything. I don't know whether he did it or not, but the evidence seems shockingly weak, and it scares me to think of what might happen if I ended up in a similar situation, and I have the pretty girl factor to balance out the awkward weirdo element.
Seriously, sex leaving a 6 splotch of blood?! What kind of sex were they into?
So what? Supposing they were into kinky sex, that hardly makes him a murderer. I am, I've bled more than that, and I have, amazingly enough, failed to kill anyone thus far. Maybe I should have to turn in my pervert card.
A 6-inch wide blotch is a pretty large one, I might add, not a simple cut.
And he claims they had sex in the sleeping bag and that was where the blood came from. Sounds reasonable enough to me. Maybe she was menstruating. Maybe they were doing something kinky. I know I've bled more than that from play piercings and such, although I'd be kinda disinclined to do that in a sleeping bag.
This is especially true when you consider that CGI child porn that is virtually indistinguishable from the real thing is illegal to possess (thanks to the PROTECT Act), and that people are being arrested for pasting pictures of children's heads on naked adult bodies:
It's worse than that. At least one person has been prosecuted for writing fiction with pedophilic themes. It's all just thoughtcrime, and pedophiles appear to be the backup boogeyman just in case the sheep stop being afraid on cue whenever their masters say 'terrorists'.
What more fitting tribute to Clarke than to associate his name with the greatest bang since the big one?
But Zaphod Beeblebrox already has a name. :)
This has already been tried
... or have a heart attack when they realize how much money they pissed away finding out.
One senior Air Force official calls the squeeze so 'utterly stupid, it makes me want to scream.'
If this person considers utter stupidity a thing to be avoided, then doesn't it rather seem that joining the military was a bit of a bad move?
Um, okay. So what specific, observable difference is there between an animal for which vision forms 80 percent of "total sensory input" versus one for which it forms, say, 81 percent?
From elsewhere on that site:
The "dick out" is a somewhat archaic golf tradition that originated on military golf courses, where any golfers whose tee shot that did not make it to the ladies tee is required to un-zip and walk to his ball exposed, ostensibly to show that he is indeed a man. In practice, if a client or a superior declares a dick-out on your tee shot, you should comply, unless of course, there are women present.
Either he's not serious, or golf is a much more disturbing game than I had imagined.
What does that even *mean*? How would you measure or even define something like that? Also, why is Dog capitalized? Is this like Christians worshipping a god named God?
Yeah, but IT geeks have no trouble getting into the bedroom. It's getting someone else into the bedroom that tends to be the problem. :)
Wow, first the Mormons and now execs? Who else has mandatory underwear?
The closest I could come to any of those is working on growing my hair long enough to make cute pigtails. Well, do t-shirts that say things like "R'Lyeh is for Lovers" [1] or "Gothnix: nice boot, wanna fsck?" count as better or worse than a band t-shirt?
My present personal style involves:
Somehow I don't think I'm quite what the author of that article would have thought of as 'management material', but all the other developers here seems to be doing jeans and a more generic t-shirt, so I consider myself the best-dressed person in the office. :)
[1] Yes, I know Innsmouth or Y'ha-nthlei would make more sense, but I couldn't find one that said that.
And just how exactly is it supposed to improve their image with the rest of the world to look like a bunch of censorious tyrants?
It seems like we would also have to burn the patriot act.
You forgot the part where we hang George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bush's cabinet, and everyone in congress who voted for it.
For some of us, sex was never really an option most of the time.
No, I wouldn't. I am gloriously weird. :)
That is, unless you're implying that the average Slashdotter is a lesbian...
Hey, there *are* a few of us here.
Are there seriously people this stupid in the world?
Well, I guess it'd explain the Bush administration.
And with what sort of upload bandwidth? How much of the 5.8 TB you theoretically could download in a month could you actually get away with before they shut it off?
I think I'll stick with my Speakeasy T1 :)
And some of us are and still don't make it out of the basement. :)
Hey, some of us have to untangle our own hair. :)