lolll...there was the barest, slimmest chance that some feeling of mine might suffer a pang from your angst-laden comment...but then I clicked upon your username, reviewed your page of comments, and realized that negative is all that you feel or know.
Oh? Even old comments, from articles that don't even appear on the/. main page anymore? As in, check their mod level, make a comment about BP, check their mod level again, and even the old have gone down?
Perhaps I am delusional...on the other hand, perhaps others will be motivated to make the same observations - empirical science can be a wonderful thing. In the grand scheme of things, people expressing their political biases with mod points is as a fart in the wind - but if I am not delusional, then I'd like such to know that their desire to act in secret is in vain.
Just an observation...since I first observed the phenomena, I have gotten into the habit of going to my account page on/. 'n waiting whenever I write a comment that could be considered to be "anti-Big [___]" something or other. lollll...within five minutes, the most recent half dozen or so of my comments on any other article reflect being modded down a point.
Makes me think some entity's discretionary fund is entirely too large - or someone's mind is too small.
Sure, I could be paranoid...can't rule anything out, in such a large universe.
An article that derides both predator and victim is rare...on the one hand, castigating the predator; on the other, justifying the treatment of the victim by pointing out their deficiencies in social situations.
lollll...guessing the author's technology skills suck.
Like, "What is good for the rooster is good for the hen." doesn't translate into "What is good for the corporation is good for the consumer." worth a damn.
And, in a stunning display of randomness (or a 1% solution, depending upon your perspective), nemesis sent meteors crashing down into the keyboards of everybody who modded me down...
Cloudant is a Y-Combinator company whose founders have more than 10 years of experience managing multi-petabyte datasets.
Y Combinator is a new kind of venture firm specializing in funding early stage startups. We help startups through what is for many the hardest step, from idea to company.
We invest mostly in software and web services. And because we are ourselves technology people, we prefer groups with a lot of technical depth. We care more about how smart you are than how old you are, and more about the quality of your ideas than whether you have a formal business plan.
Ironic, if ET is discovered by the kids down at your local middle school who have yet to outgrow their sweet tooth for Reese's Pieces.
Members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation are drafting a bill (due this week) which slashes NASA technology development/demonstrations, commercial space transportation, and new robotic missions to a small fraction of what the White House proposed earlier this year.
Given that the hard and expensive part is breaking free of the earth's gravity, is it correct to say that the honorable and esteemed Senators are eliminating subsidies for "commercial space transportation", or ensuring that such potentially highly lucrative ventures have a 'Dawg to ride on the taxpayer's dime?
Thinking the IRS and your local state and community tax collectors would like to know everybody whose e-return is >= 1 microsecond late. That penalty money is important to g'ment - particularly in these days when an industrial base decimated by inequitable free trade provides ever less tax revenue.
Have you noticed that the decision to interfere with the free flow of commerce in the name of national security is a difficult one for our government, yet they find interfering in the rights and way of life of the American people for the same - or any other - reason to be a piece of cake?
Yet people call me a "liberal" for saying that the SCOTUS made corporations super-citizens when they made them de jure living entities complete with the right to free speech...
I'm sure that not one of the millions of Chinese Army read slashdot.
lolll...you're right! When it comes to reading slashdot (or leaving their footprints in my logs), those units of the People's Liberation Army that are working with the Ministry of State Security suddenly become "research institutes".
...the more genetic databases, the merrier. Nice, being able to access a database and look for markers of genetic disorders and predispositions so that you can size the mandatory health care premium appropriately.
But wait, no government official would ever be so corrupt as to allow a great big industry with a whole lot of campaign dollars to access their growing genetic databases...
Good database to have, if you wanted to be able to isolate your land acquisitions to those areas which would be unaffected by - or would benefit from - rising sea levels.
...if the Romans had had the power to seek out those who fail to keep their thoughts and speech within the bounds of what is condoned by "the State"? If the Romans had had the power that today's politicians seek? One message on the web, and John...Paul...all of 'em would have been crucified, right quick. Poof...no Christianity.
Fitting, that an Italian MEP should seek to be the new Pontius Pilot - V2.0, as it were. Or would he be 4.0, after Mao and Stalin?
The only time I don't like it is when the ambient is 30 Celsius or better out and taking your key out shuts down all electric power - to include the power to the air conditioner...so you come back to a miserable, sweltering room.
I never took a poly...but then again, the clearance process and background checks on me started when I was 17. With that midwestern paper boy/Boy Scout/Junior Achievement/etc. kind of background, the only thing they could have dreamed up to ask me was whether or not I was a virgin.
Every single hotel room I stayed in had a slot for the key. You walked in, put the key in the slot and the power came on to the room. If you took the key, you lost power.
Don't have to go clear to India...that is popular in island nations, too, where the cost of shipping fuel to power plants is expensive. Like down in the Dominican Republic.
(Although it is my thought that they could have just capitalized on the "Drinks Included!" feature of their resorts and routed the urinal flow through generators.)
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lolll...there was the barest, slimmest chance that some feeling of mine might suffer a pang from your angst-laden comment...but then I clicked upon your username, reviewed your page of comments, and realized that negative is all that you feel or know.
Oh? Even old comments, from articles that don't even appear on the /. main page anymore? As in, check their mod level, make a comment about BP, check their mod level again, and even the old have gone down?
Perhaps I am delusional...on the other hand, perhaps others will be motivated to make the same observations - empirical science can be a wonderful thing. In the grand scheme of things, people expressing their political biases with mod points is as a fart in the wind - but if I am not delusional, then I'd like such to know that their desire to act in secret is in vain.
Just an observation...since I first observed the phenomena, I have gotten into the habit of going to my account page on /. 'n waiting whenever I write a comment that could be considered to be "anti-Big [___]" something or other. lollll...within five minutes, the most recent half dozen or so of my comments on any other article reflect being modded down a point.
Makes me think some entity's discretionary fund is entirely too large - or someone's mind is too small.
Sure, I could be paranoid...can't rule anything out, in such a large universe.
By hiding the light with a nice thick layer of oil?
An article that derides both predator and victim is rare...on the one hand, castigating the predator; on the other, justifying the treatment of the victim by pointing out their deficiencies in social situations.
lollll...guessing the author's technology skills suck.
Like, "What is good for the rooster is good for the hen." doesn't translate into "What is good for the corporation is good for the consumer." worth a damn.
Apparently.
They can look North at we in the U.S. of A. and learn from how we screwed up democracy, capitalism, free enterprise, the creative process.
And, in a stunning display of randomness (or a 1% solution, depending upon your perspective), nemesis sent meteors crashing down into the keyboards of everybody who modded me down...
Cloudant is a Y-Combinator company whose founders have more than 10 years of experience managing multi-petabyte datasets.
Y Combinator is a new kind of venture firm specializing in funding early stage startups. We help startups through what is for many the hardest step, from idea to company. We invest mostly in software and web services. And because we are ourselves technology people, we prefer groups with a lot of technical depth. We care more about how smart you are than how old you are, and more about the quality of your ideas than whether you have a formal business plan.
Ironic, if ET is discovered by the kids down at your local middle school who have yet to outgrow their sweet tooth for Reese's Pieces.
...announcing mysterious manufacturing delays and raising the price.
Ahhhh...I sit corrected - I don't know how I missed it.
Here's hoping the universe isn't in a 1% mood, then.
Seriously...not a word in TFA about whether it is half-past 27 million years, or 2 hours till...
Members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation are drafting a bill (due this week) which slashes NASA technology development/demonstrations, commercial space transportation, and new robotic missions to a small fraction of what the White House proposed earlier this year.
Given that the hard and expensive part is breaking free of the earth's gravity, is it correct to say that the honorable and esteemed Senators are eliminating subsidies for "commercial space transportation", or ensuring that such potentially highly lucrative ventures have a 'Dawg to ride on the taxpayer's dime?
The existence of the Evil Genius is at least credible. High IQ doesn't automatically make you a nice person.
I give you Karl Rove...Dick Cheney...Roger Ailes...etc. etc. etc.
Thinking the IRS and your local state and community tax collectors would like to know everybody whose e-return is >= 1 microsecond late. That penalty money is important to g'ment - particularly in these days when an industrial base decimated by inequitable free trade provides ever less tax revenue.
Have you noticed that the decision to interfere with the free flow of commerce in the name of national security is a difficult one for our government, yet they find interfering in the rights and way of life of the American people for the same - or any other - reason to be a piece of cake?
Yet people call me a "liberal" for saying that the SCOTUS made corporations super-citizens when they made them de jure living entities complete with the right to free speech...
I'm sure that not one of the millions of Chinese Army read slashdot.
lolll...you're right! When it comes to reading slashdot (or leaving their footprints in my logs), those units of the People's Liberation Army that are working with the Ministry of State Security suddenly become "research institutes".
...the more genetic databases, the merrier. Nice, being able to access a database and look for markers of genetic disorders and predispositions so that you can size the mandatory health care premium appropriately.
But wait, no government official would ever be so corrupt as to allow a great big industry with a whole lot of campaign dollars to access their growing genetic databases...
...for Lucy is never wrong. (There is some kind of circular logic there...pumpkin-shaped, possibly.)
Good database to have, if you wanted to be able to isolate your land acquisitions to those areas which would be unaffected by - or would benefit from - rising sea levels.
Caused by whatever.
...if the Romans had had the power to seek out those who fail to keep their thoughts and speech within the bounds of what is condoned by "the State"? If the Romans had had the power that today's politicians seek? One message on the web, and John...Paul...all of 'em would have been crucified, right quick. Poof...no Christianity.
Fitting, that an Italian MEP should seek to be the new Pontius Pilot - V2.0, as it were. Or would he be 4.0, after Mao and Stalin?
The only time I don't like it is when the ambient is 30 Celsius or better out and taking your key out shuts down all electric power - to include the power to the air conditioner...so you come back to a miserable, sweltering room.
I never took a poly...but then again, the clearance process and background checks on me started when I was 17. With that midwestern paper boy/Boy Scout/Junior Achievement/etc. kind of background, the only thing they could have dreamed up to ask me was whether or not I was a virgin.
I would have lied, of course.
Every single hotel room I stayed in had a slot for the key. You walked in, put the key in the slot and the power came on to the room. If you took the key, you lost power.
Don't have to go clear to India...that is popular in island nations, too, where the cost of shipping fuel to power plants is expensive. Like down in the Dominican Republic.
(Although it is my thought that they could have just capitalized on the "Drinks Included!" feature of their resorts and routed the urinal flow through generators.)