Wrong comparison. Unless you are counting the robot's legs in the length, and its non-existant head, it's not the same ratio. You should compare its length/speed ratio to a human torso/speed ratio.
Not to mention it uses two pairs of appendages for motive force (?better term wanted?), while humans only use one.
"I modded it Overrated in the hope the writer will improve his rhetoric down the line."
Good luck with that, Overrated is the most over-abused moderation on Slashdot because it never used to trigger meta-moderation (and still may not, I stopped paying attention a long time ago)
I was not aware of this. Now I understand why I get that one so often.
meaning there was no check on it's abuse and 99% of the time it means "I want to silence this person because I disagree".
This I assumed to be the case anyway.
There's literally zero chance anyone will be able to separate your honest Overrated downmod from a political troll that just wants to censor and they'll just write it off as such.
If you don't like a post and it's not explicitly troll or flamebait then just leave it alone and focus on up-modding the genuinely good and factual stuff. Don't play the Overrated game, it's too arbitrary and too full of abuse for anyone to take any legitimate meaning from it.
I will keep this in mind the next time I get mod points.
Yes, I said that "some philosophies are common among quite different people" because I am not claiming Rand and Torvalds are similar in their actual view of the world. But they both can be described by the part I first quoted. Many people could be.
Actually, my biggest problems with Ayn Rand were: 1) Her novel The Fountainhead was as subtle as a ton of bricks falling on your head; and 2) She was a hypocrite who didn't actually live according to the philosophy of Objectivism. She used it to rationalize being a horrible person, rather than follow it like Howard Roark did in the novel.
I don't have a problem with Objectivism itself. It's just another philosophy.
Ayn Rand was an idiot, her theories flawed and they don't work. Provable. Anyone who subscribes to her objectivism doesn't have two brain cells to think it through.
So, if he had said he follows Linus Torvalds because of his method of
be your own independent architect, do what you love to do, put it out there, see if anyone else loves it too, find your birds of a feather, flock together, and f— everyone else, especially your competitors on similar projects.
Would you have the same vitriol against him?
Because you don't sound like you have two one brain cells to figure out some philosophies are common among quite different people.
And if you're going to be hard-line like you seem to be, you'll browse slashdot at -1 and never rate comments.
I browse at -1 (damn that goat.cx bastard, that lame posting is over a decade old), but I use the mod points I receive. Just a few days ago in fact. I modded up 3 posts I don't agree and 1 I do agree with, because they all made good arguments for their position.
The fifth one was a mod down for a crap argument. I debated whether I should let it pass, but it was a really bad argument. I didn't mod it down just because I disagreeed, I modded it Overrated in the hope the writer will improve his rhetoric down the line.
Even for civil rights activists, I think rating comments is fine as long as you mod up or down based on the post itself, not on your own views.
They may or may not have any such evidence. But if I talk to them, nothing I say, or refuse to say, will implicate me any further than affirming something is my property, which they will be able to prove whether I say so or not.
So, no, I have no qualms about speaking to the cops. If they are so corrupt that they can make me appear guilty from that, that is a separate issue. We were talking about right to remain silent, not cops planting or fabricating evidence.
Hey now, keep the liberal side of the Court represented in that list. They are the ones that decided the government can take your land and give it to a casino developer.
Yeah, this does seem like political games just to make Obama look bad somehow. While I would love for this country to get back to the moon, we won't get there anytime soon. A mission to an asteroid seems like it would be much cheaper and quicker to accomplish. Let's get that done first. Worry about a lunar lander and re-launch vehicle later.
Ok, then I think we are on to something. If scientists can tell us Pluto is now a dwarf planet, they should be able to accept that tidal waves/tsunamis are now rulfas and naw wriafs.
"Hurt" implies I am offended in some way by the original post. I am not. I am confused why Impy the Impiuos Imp thinks that pointing out the obvious would be an "inconvenient truth", but I'm certainly not hurt by it.
I am, however, curious why you think I am hurt by OP's post.
When you say things like:
Go back to your corporate master and beg to be put out of your misery,
it shows he touched something unpleasant in your being. Yes you were hurt.
But how about the rest of my post? You have your dwelling, the other businesses you patronize already have their buildings, so you don't want any one else to build something. Why? Because wildlife may be impacted? Maybe the fact that people can see the beauty of the wildlife will cause them to do more to preserve it. There's historical precedence for that influence on people, after all.
'Rulfa' sounds good, but I'm not sure on the scientific accuracy of 'naw wriaf'. At first, only the front of the wave that is in the shallows slows, which is when the body and rear of the wave piles into it. Each part that gets to the shallows slows, but 'the wave' itself isn't slowing. And whether the wave slows or not, why would the frequency change? Two waves that are five minutes apart in the ocean, traveling the same speed, will hit land five minutes apart as well.
But with that being said, it is still more accurate than 'harbor wave' in all instances outside of a harbor.
While I have done that a couple times, I would rather mod up people who make good arguments, even when I don't agree with them. I just had mod points yesterday (Monday really, but I was exhausted from an install), and modded down one guy who was just a dope, modded up three who I don't agree with, and one who I did agree with. I didn't plan it that way, but those three made good points and hadn't been modded up yet. Most of the great posts I did agree with had already been modded up to at least 3, and they didn't need any help from me.
I don't think the Indonesia tsunami did any damage to those islands. The US military has a base, Diego Garcia, on the British islands a couple hundred miles to the south, and they saw no effect at all. Because tsunamis don't cross the ocean as a giant tumbling wave*. Those only build as they get to shallow water. And the islands are too abrupt to have a large shallows, so the ocean swells a few inches for a few minutes, then it's back to normal as the tsunami passes by.
*This is why it is no more correct to call these events a 'tsunami' than a 'tidal wave' like we did when I was a kid. The term 'tsu nami' actually means 'harbor wave', which is then meaningless out in the middle of the ocean. Generally, a tsunami is only destructive when it gets to shallows in front of land, and it doesn't matter if there is a harbor or not. So we should stop using the term, and find something more scientifically accurate.
Spoken by someone who lives in a house that was already built, on land that had to be cleared, in a natural ecosystem that had to be destroyed, and protected by systems that kill nature's attempts to recolonize.
Ahh. I just thought you were implying those things. Good post then, although I don't agree with it. People would 'drive safe' to show you they can, and then drive just as bad as ever once they are on the road again. It's a no-win situation.
To me, talking on a cell phone while driving is like reading a book that has each sentence on its own page. It doesn't flow at all, and the attention needed to splice it together takes a lot of attention from other things.
And, yes, I do talk on the phone while driving. I've never gotten into an accident from it yet.
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Wrong comparison. Unless you are counting the robot's legs in the length, and its non-existant head, it's not the same ratio. You should compare its length/speed ratio to a human torso/speed ratio.
Not to mention it uses two pairs of appendages for motive force (?better term wanted?), while humans only use one.
"I modded it Overrated in the hope the writer will improve his rhetoric down the line."
Good luck with that, Overrated is the most over-abused moderation on Slashdot because it never used to trigger meta-moderation (and still may not, I stopped paying attention a long time ago)
I was not aware of this. Now I understand why I get that one so often.
meaning there was no check on it's abuse and 99% of the time it means "I want to silence this person because I disagree".
This I assumed to be the case anyway.
There's literally zero chance anyone will be able to separate your honest Overrated downmod from a political troll that just wants to censor and they'll just write it off as such.
If you don't like a post and it's not explicitly troll or flamebait then just leave it alone and focus on up-modding the genuinely good and factual stuff. Don't play the Overrated game, it's too arbitrary and too full of abuse for anyone to take any legitimate meaning from it.
I will keep this in mind the next time I get mod points.
Having noticed that exact thing in Word documents, I would say yes.
Granted, the documents weren't hundred of pages long, but if I had to actively find extra spaces, the search function would work easily enough.
Yes, I said that "some philosophies are common among quite different people" because I am not claiming Rand and Torvalds are similar in their actual view of the world. But they both can be described by the part I first quoted. Many people could be.
Actually, my biggest problems with Ayn Rand were:
1) Her novel The Fountainhead was as subtle as a ton of bricks falling on your head; and
2) She was a hypocrite who didn't actually live according to the philosophy of Objectivism. She used it to rationalize being a horrible person, rather than follow it like Howard Roark did in the novel.
I don't have a problem with Objectivism itself. It's just another philosophy.
Do you mean on Second Amendment cases, or on any criminal case you may get?
Ayn Rand was an idiot, her theories flawed and they don't work. Provable.
Anyone who subscribes to her objectivism doesn't have two brain cells to think it through.
So, if he had said he follows Linus Torvalds because of his method of
be your own independent architect, do what you love to do, put it out there, see if anyone else loves it too, find your birds of a feather, flock together, and f— everyone else, especially your competitors on similar projects.
Would you have the same vitriol against him?
Because you don't sound like you have two one brain cells to figure out some philosophies are common among quite different people.
Yes, I believe he wasn't allowed to vote for president last fall.
I'm sorry. What was the end of your argument? I drifted off after you said "the word".
And if you're going to be hard-line like you seem to be, you'll browse slashdot at -1 and never rate comments.
I browse at -1 (damn that goat.cx bastard, that lame posting is over a decade old), but I use the mod points I receive. Just a few days ago in fact. I modded up 3 posts I don't agree and 1 I do agree with, because they all made good arguments for their position.
The fifth one was a mod down for a crap argument. I debated whether I should let it pass, but it was a really bad argument. I didn't mod it down just because I disagreeed, I modded it Overrated in the hope the writer will improve his rhetoric down the line.
Even for civil rights activists, I think rating comments is fine as long as you mod up or down based on the post itself, not on your own views.
They may or may not have any such evidence. But if I talk to them, nothing I say, or refuse to say, will implicate me any further than affirming something is my property, which they will be able to prove whether I say so or not.
So, no, I have no qualms about speaking to the cops. If they are so corrupt that they can make me appear guilty from that, that is a separate issue. We were talking about right to remain silent, not cops planting or fabricating evidence.
Wait a minute.
Viagra makes snake oil come out of your dick??
Or is that a euphemism for ejaculate?
It was long before the Roberts Court.
And Ruth Bader Ginsburg is no conservative.
But I think fnj has the better response overall.
Hey now, keep the liberal side of the Court represented in that list. They are the ones that decided the government can take your land and give it to a casino developer.
Or, alternatively, don't commit crimes.
The cops can ask me any question they want. I know I didn't kill someone with a shotgun.
So? This still doesn't help people take the games seriously.
And the worst thing in the world is people not taking games seriously.
This will not get through the Senate.
Yeah, this does seem like political games just to make Obama look bad somehow. While I would love for this country to get back to the moon, we won't get there anytime soon. A mission to an asteroid seems like it would be much cheaper and quicker to accomplish. Let's get that done first. Worry about a lunar lander and re-launch vehicle later.
Ok, then I think we are on to something. If scientists can tell us Pluto is now a dwarf planet, they should be able to accept that tidal waves/tsunamis are now rulfas and naw wriafs.
"Hurt" implies I am offended in some way by the original post. I am not. I am confused why Impy the Impiuos Imp thinks that pointing out the obvious would be an "inconvenient truth", but I'm certainly not hurt by it.
I am, however, curious why you think I am hurt by OP's post.
When you say things like:
Go back to your corporate master and beg to be put out of your misery,
it shows he touched something unpleasant in your being. Yes you were hurt.
But how about the rest of my post? You have your dwelling, the other businesses you patronize already have their buildings, so you don't want any one else to build something. Why? Because wildlife may be impacted? Maybe the fact that people can see the beauty of the wildlife will cause them to do more to preserve it. There's historical precedence for that influence on people, after all.
'Rulfa' sounds good, but I'm not sure on the scientific accuracy of 'naw wriaf'. At first, only the front of the wave that is in the shallows slows, which is when the body and rear of the wave piles into it. Each part that gets to the shallows slows, but 'the wave' itself isn't slowing. And whether the wave slows or not, why would the frequency change? Two waves that are five minutes apart in the ocean, traveling the same speed, will hit land five minutes apart as well.
But with that being said, it is still more accurate than 'harbor wave' in all instances outside of a harbor.
While I have done that a couple times, I would rather mod up people who make good arguments, even when I don't agree with them. I just had mod points yesterday (Monday really, but I was exhausted from an install), and modded down one guy who was just a dope, modded up three who I don't agree with, and one who I did agree with. I didn't plan it that way, but those three made good points and hadn't been modded up yet. Most of the great posts I did agree with had already been modded up to at least 3, and they didn't need any help from me.
I don't think the Indonesia tsunami did any damage to those islands. The US military has a base, Diego Garcia, on the British islands a couple hundred miles to the south, and they saw no effect at all. Because tsunamis don't cross the ocean as a giant tumbling wave*. Those only build as they get to shallow water. And the islands are too abrupt to have a large shallows, so the ocean swells a few inches for a few minutes, then it's back to normal as the tsunami passes by.
*This is why it is no more correct to call these events a 'tsunami' than a 'tidal wave' like we did when I was a kid. The term 'tsu nami' actually means 'harbor wave', which is then meaningless out in the middle of the ocean. Generally, a tsunami is only destructive when it gets to shallows in front of land, and it doesn't matter if there is a harbor or not. So we should stop using the term, and find something more scientifically accurate.
Spoken by someone who lives in a house that was already built, on land that had to be cleared, in a natural ecosystem that had to be destroyed, and protected by systems that kill nature's attempts to recolonize.
Your hurt shows through remarkably.
Ahh. I just thought you were implying those things. Good post then, although I don't agree with it. People would 'drive safe' to show you they can, and then drive just as bad as ever once they are on the road again. It's a no-win situation.
To me, talking on a cell phone while driving is like reading a book that has each sentence on its own page. It doesn't flow at all, and the attention needed to splice it together takes a lot of attention from other things.
And, yes, I do talk on the phone while driving. I've never gotten into an accident from it yet.
The problem is many people are dangerous even without the cell phone or texting. Removing those things doesn't make them safe.