Well, most Slashdotters are only afraid of sex if it involves themselves and another person. Porn certainly doesn't apply unless you do it either very wrong or very right.
Ah, good point. For example, with hot grits and Natalie Portman.
Man I wish the United States would just hit puberty already and get over their paralyzing fear of sex.
This is really the wrong crowd for that sentiment. Many slashdotters decades past puberty still won't know what you're talking about. Get over fear of sex? As if.
I'm less worried about Congress and more worried about the voters...the idiot voters will skewer him for a post he made ~40 years earlier.
Yeah, those same idiot voters who voted down Barack Obama 'cause he didn't wear his flag pin at all times and said something about "clinging to guns or religion" that was totally reasonable but a bad sound bite. Oh wait...he won? Maybe voters are smarter than that...
Yeah. Not to troll, but if you want to be user-friendly like Windows, you can't dump out to a black screen and tell the user to run some command-line gobbledygook... every 3 months....
You're right. If you want it to be user-friendly like Windows you have to put the gobbledygook in a little gray window with buttons that don't respond when you click them.
Also, make the gobbledygook as uniform as possible, so that nobody can ever tell the cause of the error. That should do quite nicely!
...they could preprint their answers (we are not concerned bla bla, strong product lineup bla bla, we are the future bla bla) and have it signed by them, would not make a difference but would be way cheaper.
You actually should market that. I could see you making millions selling licensed made-up quotes to every newspaper on the planet, which they could use instead of hiring actual people to conduct interviews.
So why would we see it happening more now, and not previously? These hard economic times did not begin recently; as one of the first to go, you'd think entertainment spending would have taken a bigger hit some time ago.
Because video games aren't entertainment...they're vital survival goods. Gamers were just stocking up for hard times.
...adding more concerns about the health of the industry in the worst year-over-year decline since July 2009.
...adding more concerns about the health of the industry in the worst year-over-year decline in the last year.
What? Seriously? That's like complaining about the weather today by saying it's the hottest day since yesterday. When I started reading that sentence, I thought it was going to end with "since 1984." If it's the worst decline since the decline that just happened, how is this in any way news?
I am curious. What was the context of that O'Reilly quote? That could be interesting.
O'Reilly was bloviating about how awful it was to give criminals civilian trials.
O'Reilly's Guest: "But it is not I who is saying it, it is the Constitution that is saying it."...and the rest is history...
Wives discovered a long time ago that screaming loudly enough in the vicinity of their husband's testicles somehow "magically" prevented pregnancy. It prevented a lot of other things too, but that's beside the point.
In a pinch, biting works too, I've heard. Though it tends to be less reversible.
Dear douchebag who ripped through the thread about Argentinians and moderated everything off-topic:
"Off-topic" does NOT mean off the topic of the article. Off-topic means off the topic of what the post is replying to. If somebody is talking about being an Argentinian and not living in the US, a reply about Argentinians living in the US is NOT off-topic!! It's mods like you, whoever you are, who make people lose faith in the/. mod system!
Slashdot Mirror
Did anyone else see "Wikileaks founder Assassinated" before taking a second look?
No, most of us can read.
No, he's right, it actually said assassination before the editors fixed the vandalism.
Next on Slashdot... BatBoy sighted on ChatRoulette, and Cmdr Taco has love child by alien visitor.
That second one actually happened though...
Do you think that "protons" are "protozoa" are the same thing just because they start with he same four letters?
No. I think protons and protozoa are the same thing because they start with the same first five letters.
Seriously now... Do you think I am trying to trick you with reversed phycology?
Yes, yes I do. I think this conversation can be summed up like so:
Donut[AFK]: RIPOSTE
Donut[AFK]: ADDON RIPOSTE
Eurakarte: COUNTER-RIPOSTE
Donut[AFK]: COUNTER-COUNTER RIPOSTE
Eurakarte: NONSENSICAL STATEMENT INVOLVING PLANKTON
Unless there was a "revision" made to 1984...
The original wasn't pro-America enough.
Well, most Slashdotters are only afraid of sex if it involves themselves and another person. Porn certainly doesn't apply unless you do it either very wrong or very right.
Ah, good point. For example, with hot grits and Natalie Portman.
Man I wish the United States would just hit puberty already and get over their paralyzing fear of sex.
This is really the wrong crowd for that sentiment. Many slashdotters decades past puberty still won't know what you're talking about. Get over fear of sex? As if.
...I don't know what is.
Oh, shit. You can.
Fucking Live Journal. I thought I deleted that when I was 17.
I think you've just made the point of this thread.
I'm less worried about Congress and more worried about the voters...the idiot voters will skewer him for a post he made ~40 years earlier.
Yeah, those same idiot voters who voted down Barack Obama 'cause he didn't wear his flag pin at all times and said something about "clinging to guns or religion" that was totally reasonable but a bad sound bite. Oh wait...he won? Maybe voters are smarter than that...
You can keep your ugly old broad. Me, I want something young and fresh, even if she's a little loopy.
Loopy chicks fsck better.
And you can mount them more times in a row. Loopback mounting, even.
When 900 years old you reach, use ext2 you will not! Hmph!
1. The file system has the power to brick your machine because of a clock setting
I do not think this word means what you think it means.
Inconceivable!
Yeah. Not to troll, but if you want to be user-friendly like Windows, you can't dump out to a black screen and tell the user to run some command-line gobbledygook... every 3 months....
You're right. If you want it to be user-friendly like Windows you have to put the gobbledygook in a little gray window with buttons that don't respond when you click them.
Also, make the gobbledygook as uniform as possible, so that nobody can ever tell the cause of the error. That should do quite nicely!
...they could preprint their answers (we are not concerned bla bla, strong product lineup bla bla, we are the future bla bla) and have it signed by them, would not make a difference but would be way cheaper.
You actually should market that. I could see you making millions selling licensed made-up quotes to every newspaper on the planet, which they could use instead of hiring actual people to conduct interviews.
So why would we see it happening more now, and not previously? These hard economic times did not begin recently; as one of the first to go, you'd think entertainment spending would have taken a bigger hit some time ago.
Because video games aren't entertainment...they're vital survival goods. Gamers were just stocking up for hard times.
...adding more concerns about the health of the industry in the worst year-over-year decline since July 2009.
...adding more concerns about the health of the industry in the worst year-over-year decline in the last year.
What? Seriously? That's like complaining about the weather today by saying it's the hottest day since yesterday. When I started reading that sentence, I thought it was going to end with "since 1984." If it's the worst decline since the decline that just happened, how is this in any way news?
"We're sorry, but your voicemail is in another castle!"
But after you got to World 8 that message would go away...
I am curious. What was the context of that O'Reilly quote? That could be interesting.
O'Reilly was bloviating about how awful it was to give criminals civilian trials. O'Reilly's Guest: "But it is not I who is saying it, it is the Constitution that is saying it." ...and the rest is history...
Wives discovered a long time ago that screaming loudly enough in the vicinity of their husband's testicles somehow "magically" prevented pregnancy. It prevented a lot of other things too, but that's beside the point.
In a pinch, biting works too, I've heard. Though it tends to be less reversible.
In fact, there's only one thing I can think of that they do have in common.
Virility-destroying products?
If you call Bill Gates a product. Virility-destroying, I think we can all agree with.
Do they serve beer on your planet too?
Free beer! On his planet, beer is free as in software!
Also, frickin' laser beams.
But was it performed by a shark?
No, he had to settle for a mutant sea bass. But at least it was ill-tempered.
Marriage is almost a better contraception than being geeky.
Both apply in my case...no WONDER we're having so much trouble conceiving.
Dear douchebag who ripped through the thread about Argentinians and moderated everything off-topic: "Off-topic" does NOT mean off the topic of the article. Off-topic means off the topic of what the post is replying to. If somebody is talking about being an Argentinian and not living in the US, a reply about Argentinians living in the US is NOT off-topic!! It's mods like you, whoever you are, who make people lose faith in the /. mod system!
Now this post, THIS is a post to mod off-topic.