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  1. False alarm on Avoiding the Word "Evolution" · · Score: 1

    The evolutionary biologists use "evolution" more often, the medical scientists use "emergence" more often. Why is it surprising that two different fields of science happen to use somewhat different terminology? This is not evidence of a conspiracy.

  2. Re:How it works on IE and Firefox Share a Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Also handy for focusing on a particular element when the page loads. Such as the search input box on google.

  3. Re:So you're the ones on Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia · · Score: 1

    Voting is compulsory in Australia. The electorates are gerrymandered so the bush-dwellers get more reps per head than city-dwellers...

  4. Re:I for one am glad it's gone... on Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia · · Score: 1

    Bingo! Now people who would have been raiding the fridge while the ad was on will hear about it on the evening news, the car radio, and the morning paper...

  5. Re:Explain to a two year old? on Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia · · Score: 1

    Personally, I have no problem with 80 parents choosing to complain about this ad.

    80 people too dumb to turn off a TV, yet able to operate a telephone... go figure.

  6. Re:Simple answer: YES on Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bah. My nephew loves playing with keys. And there is no way to choke on a keyring full of keys plus an alarm gadget and logo gadget. I've tried, it's too big for even an adult to choke on. Try again. At worst they might poke themselves in the eye... but really, having acheived the ability to walk, mastering the art of not sticking pointy things in your eye is a cakewalk, unless your kid is a tard.

  7. Re:Soccer Clubs on Consumer Revolt Spurred Via the Internet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Which of the following should we call FOOTball?

    1. A bunch of players maneuvering a ball around a field using mainly their FEET.

    2. A bunch of 'roid monkeys in full body armour running full pelt into each other, sometimes holding a ball, sometimes throwing it. Rarely does it touch the feet.

  8. The problem... on A Unique Perspective on a 'Game-Related' Tragedy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He was constantly in trouble in school, with the cops, with us, with his mother, and with anyone else who was an authority figure. Not a week went by that the school or the cops wouldn't call us for something. His attitude was basically "fuck you, I don't have to listen to you" said with a shrug.

    We tried absolutely everything we could think of to get him to behave like a normal human being... we tried groundings, negative reinforcement / punishment, positive reinforcement, counseling, and anything and everything the counselors suggested.


    They didn't try beating the living shit out of the little prick. Spare the rod...

  9. Inside the Windows Vista Kernel ... on Inside the Windows Vista Kernel, Part 2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... no one can hear you scream.

  10. Re:And another one... on UK's Blair Dismisses Online Anti ID-Card Petition · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's only 1.5 million more than signed the petition in favour of ID cards.

  11. Re:I support the RIAA this time on RIAA Hires Artists, Then Sends In the SWAT team · · Score: 2, Funny

    rapc?

  12. Stop testing? Bury heads in sand? on Suppressed Report Shows Cancer Link to GM Potatoes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Given the suggestion that GM foods might be more harmful than old-school foods, wouldn't the sane thing be to *increase* testing? What's wrong with these idiots?

  13. Re:They both suck. on Microsoft Blasts IBM Over XML Standards · · Score: 1

    grep?

  14. Re:"God Says it" on Kansas Adopts New Science Standards · · Score: 1

    This is the No True Scotsman fallacy.

    Christians are a diverse lot, ranging from complete idiots to almost rational. They hold a large variety of beliefs which are subtly or largely incompatible with other species of Christian. Claiming that your own narrow definition is the only "true" Christians is totally bogus.

  15. Re:FIrst post on Bird Flu Pandemic Could Choke the Net · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh no! If the net gets choked, what will we choke our chickens to? We must act now, choke all the chickens, stop the bird flu and protect our porn supply for a happy chicken choking future!

  16. Re:The first thing that came into my mind. on Mars Camera's Worsening Eye Problems · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't you mean marsturbation?

  17. Re:The birth of a scientist's mind on Princeton ESP Lab to Close · · Score: 1

    Soldiers go to war to *die*.

    Err, no. They go to war to make someone else die and loot their property. Sure there's risks.

    People risk their lives for all sorts of silly reasons. Sometimes people die in traffic rushing to get to work on time.

    Religion might encourage some people to take bigger risks, yeah, but getting rich plays a bigger role.

  18. Re:A low-level ESP effect is real (and obvious) on Princeton ESP Lab to Close · · Score: 1

    Yeah... and if someone in the next suburb farts during a thunderstorm, the effect on my ears is greater than zero.... bah.

  19. Re:Also on Princeton ESP Lab to Close · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1. There's no way they could possibly be unaware of the million dollar challenge, given their field of study.

    2. Winning the challenge would not only get them a million dollars in funding, but *incredible* publicity leading to millions more.

    3. They'd be crazy not to take the challenge if they knew they could win it.

    4. They haven't taken the challenge.

    Conclusion: They never discovered any repeatable paranormal phenomenon. Why am I not surprised?

  20. Re:Bomb Stops At The Top on Cartoon Network CEO Resigns Over Aqua Teen Scare · · Score: 1

    Bah. Different things matter to different people, it's entirely subjective. For a sane person, it's usually in the order: myself, family, friends, property, country, world, etc. For the insane... some sort of absolutism...

  21. Put libido suppressing drugs in their food. on Breakdown Forces New Look At Mars Mission Sexuality · · Score: 1

    Then you'd just be left with non-sexual personality problems.

  22. Re:scary quote from the article on US Set on Expansion of Security DNA Collection · · Score: 1

    Well... lets's see. Being an illegal immigrant, after your first arrest, you'd have a criminal record. Get arrested again, suddenly your whole demographic becomes a mob of axe-murdering child rapists...

  23. Re:Stronger than...? on Material Tougher Than Diamond Developed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks pretty soft actually.

  24. Books are much better value for money on Solving DRM in the BitTorrent Age · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A nice fat book will keep you company on the commute for a week or more, and if it's any good, keep you thinking long after that.

    A DVD will give you two hours of mindless entertainment then merely take up shelf space.

    A book costs about the same, or less than a DVD.

    No contest.

  25. Re:Ah ha! on Pillars of Creation Destroyed · · Score: -1, Troll

    Of course it is. I heard it was 6000 years old two years ago, that makes it 6002. Duh.

    I think MC Hawking lays out my position on young-earth creationists best:

    Fuck The Creationists

    Ah yeah, here we go again!
    Damn! This is some funky shit that I be laying down on your ass.
    This one goes out to all my homey's working in the field of
    evolutionary science.
    Check it!

    Fuck the damn creationists, those bunch of dumb-ass bitches,
    every time I think of them my trigger finger itches.
    They want to have their bullshit, taught in public class,
    Stephen J. Gould should put his foot right up their ass.
    Noah and his ark, Adam and his Eve,
    straight up fairy stories even children don't believe.
    I'm not saying there's no god, that's not for me to say,
    all I'm saying is the Earth was not made in a day.

    Fuck, fuck, fuck,
    fuck the Creationists.

    Break it down.
    Ah damn, this is a funky jam!
    I'm about ready to kick this bitch back in.
    Check it.

    Fuck the damn creationists I say it with authority,
    because kicking their punk asses be me paramount priority.
    Them wack-ass bitches say, "evolution's just a theory",
    they best step off, them brainless fools, I'll give them cause to fear me.
    The cosmos is expanding every second, every day,
    but their minds are shrinking as they close their eyes and pray.
    They call their bullshit science like the word could give them cred,
    if them bitches be scientists then cap me in the head.

    Fuck, fuck, fuck,
    fuck the Creationists.

    Bass!
    Bring that shit in!
    Ah yeah, that's right, fuck them all motherfuckers.
    Fucking punk ass creationists trying to set scientific thought back 400 years.
    Fuck that!
    If them superstitious motherfuckers want to have that kind of party,
    I'm going to put my dick in the mashed potatoes.
    Fucking creationists.
    Fuck them.