I expected everyone to go off on how they loved playing Populous way back when. Now I say people saying "What's Populous?" and a billion people who played Populous on their Genesis.
What kind of nerds are we keeping with?! Did these guys just jump on the nerd-bus when it became profitable? I say all of those people get banned immediately!
What?!?! I'm not a troll imitator, I was making a metaphor about the article and how mechanically it treats its soldiers. It's no accident that these patches are being researched for/introduced to the military first, and not any other part of society.
Goodie, soldiers in combat eating only wastes time killing! Better yet, we can get rid of their blood and replace it with a highly-flammable gunpowder solution, and we can just launch them at the enemy with a giant cannon. That way we can make sure they feel no pleasure at all and have the most efficient combat possible.
On the other hand, the 13-30 year old female demographic has risen infinite percent as the number increased from 0 in 1999 to 1 in 2000, although early reports say the entire female demographic was just searching the web for a funny picture of Bill Gates.
Excessive lobbying: The road to a webby award. Because Slashdot users have nothing better to do, it's destined to win a Webby. Does it deserve it?
The only good category is the Services category where Epinions and Kozmo fight it out for the most revolutionary sites on the web this year.
Does slashdot deserve a webby? Is it revolutionary in design or concept? I don't think so! Personally, I wrote-in a vote for PayYoBillz in the Communities category! =) It may not deserve it, but do any of the others? Maybe some write-ins for Usenet will have it win. ^_^
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I don't know if these have bids or those are just the starting bids, but if you go to Great Domains or any other domain auction site, you can see sites like ForSaleByOwner.com being sold for $835,000, Fruits.com at $160,000, Perfect.com at $94,000, Seminars.com at $119,000, and Stocks.com and Bonds.com at a cool $7.5mil each. Some of the prices on here, like Drugs.com and Taxes.com actually seem a little UNDER-priced at $800,000 and $700,000 respectively.
Alright, thanks for clearing that up.:) I was a bit blurry on the point of the original article, and sorry for the poor formatting (I should preview next time !).
I do disagree with one thing you said; people in manic phase generally won't rob banks etc in the manic stage if they're normally law-abiding citizens. Mania (as well as depression) is a change in affect, not in impulses. Like you said on your web page, there are millions of manic depressives in America, and I doubt there's been a true "manic" individual in recent history that has tried to rob a bank.
I heard a statistic in a psychology class where a statistic was cited where manic depressives actually commit fewer crimes than an "average" person. Maybe it's due to the depression, but I don't know!
I commend you for trying to help people with Manic Depression on your website. However, I do have a problem with all of these articles that tend to glorify bipolar disorder. I'm not saying that people should not tell anyone or talk about Manic Depression if they have it, it's just that this is not a "good" thing to have, especially just for the goal of "writing code," and it definitely should be treated if it's true mania and depression. A lot of these articles are VERY misleading, especially for people who don't have any background in psychology. One of the people in the articles (I don't know if it's the same guy as who wrote the article) writes: "I can work effectively even when I'm wigging, even when I'm hallucinating, even when I'm severely depressed." While this may be out of context, in which case it's the article writer's fault, but this is AGAINST one of the very DEFINITIONS of bipolar disorder. While it may be true for this specific person, it's definitely not common. If a mental attitude is not debilitating in any way, it's not a "mental disorder." There are also some more quotes: "A life that I am convinced will be filled only with despair for the rest of my existence becomes serene and even joyful. The CIA stops tapping my phone." and "The mania snakes out of control like a runaway locomotive--restlessness, irritability, maybe violence or those voices that sound like they're coming from a cheap transistor radio, and eventually, lockdown." These are completely misleading. Hallucinations, and even delusions, are VERY uncommon for people who have bipolar disorder and, in fact, warrant a completely different diagnosis altogether. The "maybe violence" is, again, very misleading in that violence in a manic phase is EVEN MORE UNCOMMON than violence while hypomanic or "normal." There's obviously some confusion here between manic depression and schizophrenia, and random stories in movies and TV about what "mad" people do. Remember that although these may be very interesting, they're very rare in terms of "mental disorders" while other affective disorders (like depression itself) and others are much more common than these romanticized disorders. There's also a large lacking in the mention that bipolar disorder is largely, if not exclusively, hereditary. These articles are written by somewhat uninformed people who are writing to get "human interest" out of their audience. Even the citations come from self-help books instead of psychology literature. If you're interested in learning about manic depression read a psychology text or read some medical websites like WebMD or OnHealth. And remember, most of all, it's not cool to be mentally ill.
Of course they won't, they're too busy cashing in their big advertising checks of thousands of dollars they make off 'free' speech and 'free' software (linux) to care about their users who get them that money.
What's with this crap on Slashdot? First this BS gets on the front page along with those stupid April Fools jokes, and this guy gets marked up to a FOUR? Holy jesus, I wish there was a Worst Web Sites Awards so I could vote for Slashdot a million times.
DON'T CHEAT THEM! Cheating is what makes paying billz hard. You need 25 referrals (who complete registration; they don't even need to play) before 5/15/00. NY and FL residents are fine for signing up, but they just can't win prizes in the beta test (which ends today). If you have any type of webpage (which I see you do ^_^) you can plug a referral code on there, and even if you don't get 25 people, you get whatever they win. It's not a crappy deal either; out of the people I've referred I've made well over $100, close to $150! ^_^ I still haven't even gotten the 25... It's a great game and I recommend it. Anyway, this is off topic-ish so I'll leave it at that. If anyone wants to sign up under me so I can get a palm pilot and get desktop themes, go to my web page above. =)
Slashdot.org writers are the worst ever! The moderators are even worse. If you disagree with them they call you a "Troll" while they give retards who can't spell who say 'linux iz cul' +99 "Insightful." I'm moving to Epinions for good =(
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PC-DOS 2000 = LOL to me =(
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At least they're trying to support their previous customers, but they might as well release an upgrade to Dr. Dos:(
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What kind of nerds are we keeping with?! Did these guys just jump on the nerd-bus when it became profitable? I say all of those people get banned immediately!
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The only good category is the Services category where Epinions and Kozmo fight it out for the most revolutionary sites on the web this year.
Does slashdot deserve a webby? Is it revolutionary in design or concept? I don't think so! Personally, I wrote-in a vote for PayYoBillz in the Communities category! =) It may not deserve it, but do any of the others? Maybe some write-ins for Usenet will have it win. ^_^
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Domain Name: fox.tv
Next Minimum Bid: $250,000 / Year
Domain Name: nbc.tv
Next Minimum Bid: $250,000 / Year
Domain Name: abc.tv
Next Minimum Bid: $1,000,000 / Year
I don't know if these have bids or those are just the starting bids, but if you go to Great Domains or any other domain auction site, you can see sites like ForSaleByOwner.com being sold for $835,000, Fruits.com at $160,000, Perfect.com at $94,000, Seminars.com at $119,000, and Stocks.com and Bonds.com at a cool $7.5mil each. Some of the prices on here, like Drugs.com and Taxes.com actually seem a little UNDER-priced at $800,000 and $700,000 respectively.
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I do disagree with one thing you said; people in manic phase generally won't rob banks etc in the manic stage if they're normally law-abiding citizens. Mania (as well as depression) is a change in affect, not in impulses. Like you said on your web page, there are millions of manic depressives in America, and I doubt there's been a true "manic" individual in recent history that has tried to rob a bank.
I heard a statistic in a psychology class where a statistic was cited where manic depressives actually commit fewer crimes than an "average" person. Maybe it's due to the depression, but I don't know!
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