Not to mention if those of us spent less time on slashdot and more time outside, you would simply have noticed the (comparitively) massive red ball in the sky:)
That depends on where you live, you insensitive clod! (You can't see it in Europe:-/ )
Then it's failed, because the indescribably poor communication commonly called "spam" has all but choked it.
I haven't bothered with Usenet for several years simply because of the quantity of junk.
Then you haven't been around to see the improvement. Don't know if its anti spam bots or ISP filterings, but i hardly ever see any spam in the newsgroups (email is something else)
"Seriously though, we live in a democracy " Err, actually, we live in a republic:
Why is there always some idiot who spouts this crap!! (And get modded up no less!) Not only do a lot of slashdot readers not live in a republic but the words republic and democracy are not incompatible with one another.
The USA has a presidency rather than a monarchy, that makes it a republic, the government is elected by the people that makes it a democracy (a representative democracy to be more precise). This is not hard to understand.
"Republic" and "democracy" are not alternatives to one another. A country can be both or neither or either one but not the other.
Iraq, pre-war, was a non-democratic republic.
The UK is a democratic monarchy.
Saudi Arabia is a non-democratic monarchy.
The USA is a democratic republic.
And Brannon & Braga will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Hey, I am one of those people. I've got about 40 gigs of movies and documentaries shared on K-lite. All of them are public domain and downloadable from the Moving Pictures Database on Archive.org. During the past three months, none of them have been downloaded even once.
... we have a situation where only 0.000000001% of the people involved actually understand the Science - the rest just assumes "oh - they are probably right" - but if they are not, or have a hidden agenda.... don't let them tell you that one man can't make a difference...
I bought Beneath a Steel Sky for the Amiga many moons ago... but it kept crashing in the garden.. now i might actually be able to finish it! (Don't tell me how it ends!)
I was actually thinking of Blakes 7 when i saw Farscape - don't know why really, its not that they have that much obviously in common - apart from a group of people on the run from the police state.
Blakes 7 was also unusual in that our heros were usually dealing from a position of strengh. Usually writers hate to make their people to strong because then they can't write their way out of it later (bad writers perhaps?) - but the ship "The Liberator" was the fastest ship in known space (only its sister ship was as fast, and it was only see twice and quickly met an untimely end), the ship has regenerative properties and could restore itself even after the most heavy of attacks. It had teleportation ability over wast distances, something that the federation had never been able to work out. The (almost) sentient computer Zen had wast amounts of knowledge about most things they ran into, and the ship was well stocked with copious amounts of food, clothes and valuables (in the form of gems, precious medals, and currency) - and at the end of season one they manage to aquired "Orac" before the federation does. A supercomputer of a special kind, its dying inventor originally invented the chip and computer principles that all computers in exsistance are based on - because of this the sentient Orac is able to tap into any computer system at all and control it. But that didn't really stifle the creativity - perhaps because there was always a certain amount of internal strife.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh it will work.
No first T-Shirt?
Not to mention if those of us spent less time on slashdot and more time outside, you would simply have noticed the (comparitively) massive red ball in the sky :)
:-/ )
That depends on where you live, you insensitive clod! (You can't see it in Europe
In fact, be outside the system wouldn't be a definite answer : a known effect in physic is that the observator modify what he observes ...
Which is logically nonsense - they should look for the real reason that something has been modified...
I didn't know Bill was moderating here?
Is starting out calling the other guy a Nazi.
Then it's failed, because the indescribably poor communication commonly called "spam" has all but choked it.
I haven't bothered with Usenet for several years simply because of the quantity of junk.
Then you haven't been around to see the improvement. Don't know if its anti spam bots or ISP filterings, but i hardly ever see any spam in the newsgroups (email is something else)
Who the hell visits usenet for news anymore?
I do. Its usually the first place people post a link to some newsstory relevant to charter of the group.
"Seriously though, we live in a democracy "
Err, actually, we live in a republic:
Why is there always some idiot who spouts this crap!! (And get modded up no less!)
Not only do a lot of slashdot readers not live in a republic but the words republic and democracy are not incompatible with one another.
The USA has a presidency rather than a monarchy, that makes it a republic, the government is elected by the people that makes it a democracy (a representative democracy to be more precise). This is not hard to understand.
"Republic" and "democracy" are not alternatives to one another. A country can be both or neither or either one but not the other.
Iraq, pre-war, was a non-democratic republic.
The UK is a democratic monarchy.
Saudi Arabia is a non-democratic monarchy.
The USA is a democratic republic.
And Brannon & Braga will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
What? You mean things like:
Precambrian Tibetan Clog Dancing
How To Make Money On The Internet
Outback ostrich tossing records
Telephone poles of the twenties century
Zimbabwean Rhino spotting
Yeah, gotta watch those real soon now.
Is this really the future that everyone wants?
Like a frightened child you only see this afternoon - you do not try to comprehend tomorrow.
Yes, some things will disappear - and new things will appear.
You know he's insightfull ;)
It was stupid nonsense - that's why it was modded as flamebait.
*bonk*
LOL
.. in old days the artist wished to enrich everybody else - today they are only in it to enrich themselves. Ain't Copyright grand.
... we have a situation where only 0.000000001% of the people involved actually understand the Science - the rest just assumes "oh - they are probably right" - but if they are not, or have a hidden agenda.... don't let them tell you that one man can't make a difference...
I bought Beneath a Steel Sky for the Amiga many moons ago... but it kept crashing in the garden .. now i might actually be able to finish it! (Don't tell me how it ends!)
...just points out how sick and greedy copyright is. Good riddance.
Yes, we noticed your spelling.
Well, the whole series has been released on VHS.
And according to rumour its being spread by all the evil bits out there *G*
I was actually thinking of Blakes 7 when i saw Farscape - don't know why really, its not that they have that much obviously in common - apart from a group of people on the run from the police state.
Blakes 7 was also unusual in that our heros were usually dealing from a position of strengh. Usually writers hate to make their people to strong because then they can't write their way out of it later (bad writers perhaps?) - but the ship "The Liberator" was the fastest ship in known space (only its sister ship was as fast, and it was only see twice and quickly met an untimely end), the ship has regenerative properties and could restore itself even after the most heavy of attacks. It had teleportation ability over wast distances, something that the federation had never been able to work out. The (almost) sentient computer Zen had wast amounts of knowledge about most things they ran into, and the ship was well stocked with copious amounts of food, clothes and valuables (in the form of gems, precious medals, and currency) - and at the end of season one they manage to aquired "Orac" before the federation does. A supercomputer of a special kind, its dying inventor originally invented the chip and computer principles that all computers in exsistance are based on - because of this the sentient Orac is able to tap into any computer system at all and control it.
But that didn't really stifle the creativity - perhaps because there was always a certain amount of internal strife.
Or at least that they feed the webdesigner to the ravenous bugblatter beast of traal!
You ment to click "Funny" not "Flamebait" - moron.
"Don't do it!"
If you live there for life it's cheaper. But it's cramped.