"poorly written"* "if you will look like an idiot"* "This would have"* "summaries similar to the ones for"* "Pete's sake"*
I count four.
Really? I count five. Well, less, really, because at least one is wrong ("would look" is better than "will look" because the opportunity correction exists) and most of the rest are highly debatable, not least for the fact that the GP isn't pretending to be a professional news website.
What you aren't saying, is that at the time... At the time, they simply didn't understand......they were just doing their best at the time... So, clearly it was a law intended for another time... A the time, this was incredibly progressive...
Thanks for re-making my actual point for me, which is not that the bible was written by idiots, but that it's still used, by many idiots, as a justification for their own prejudices and wilful ignorance of fact - which appeared to be the OP's position (with the caveat that the best satire is indistinguishable from that which it satirises).
But great job completely misrepresenting Leviticus as anti-female
I wasn't trying to represent it as anti-female. I'm trying to represent it as being millennia out of date.
Religious or not, the Bible in an incredible historical document
Agreed, both as you meant it and other meanings of the word "incredible." Though perhaps only "historical" in the sense of "written thousands of years ago," not "everything within actually happened
that should be treated with respect and educated thoughtfulness
Perhaps in some contexts. But not as a guide for living your life in the 21st century, which, again, is the position the OP took which I took issue with.
Now, if someone decides to ignore it, but still chooses to use the classic interface, wouldn't you agree that they thus show support for Beta, although they don't like using it?
Er, no, I wouldn't agree, at all. Ignoring the boycott and using classic supports beta? Then what does ignoring the boycott and using beta do?
But if you really want to make a point, post your comments using the Beta interface.
Whoever posts stories, comments, moderates or meta-moderates the coming week using the classic Slashdot interface is a hypocrite.
Why would someone be a hypocrite simply by doing the above? Why would they be a hypocrite next week but not a hypocrite today? Just because some people have arbitrarily decided that next week is boycott week, it doesn't mean we're all suddenly bound by a covenant.
Whoever posts stories, comments, moderates or meta-moderates the coming week using the classic Slashdot interface is a hypocrite.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
If the comment sections of the articles look alive and well by next Monday, this will mean that the community chose Beta.
No, all it'll mean is that people continued to post. It won't tell you why. Personally I'm planning to post twice as much next week just to spite this self-appointed over-inflated self-righteous crusaders-for-galactic-justice brigade.
I've got a good book that I can recommend that answers all these questions and more....
Questions like:
1. Can I sell my daughter into slavery? Yes! 2. Should I avoid all contact with women during her period? Yes! 3. Can I buy slaves from neighbouring nations? Yes! 4. Should I kill someone who works on a Sunday? Yes! 5. Can I eat shellfish? No! 6. I have a lazy eye. Can I go to church? No! 7. Can I get a haircut? No!
When you are anyone trying to do anything efficiently (such as the legally questionable automated gathering and storage of records of millions of phone calls and text messages?), you use proper tools.
Where did you get hold of the guy's medical history? I mean, you obviously wouldn't try to diagnose a hereditary genetic disease based on a single sentence from a stranger on Slashdot, would you? That would be a really dumb thing to do, so that can't be it.
either the spin is in the same direction as the direction of motion
But if it's how you suggest with the curled fingers and the thumb, isn't it always at 90 degrees to the direction of motion? Or was the way you said it (same/opposite direction as motion) just the convention of these things?
Anyway, thanks. And I don't care what anyone says, I liked you in those campy 70s Bond movies.
to the right like a football thrown by a right-handed quarterback or the left like a pigskin thrown by a lefty.
Oh, thanks, I was having such trouble working out what you meant by "left" and "right." And thanks for confusing some of your non-American readers with your references to footballs that you throw (what's that about?), and then referring to them almost immediately afterwards as "pigskins" instead.
Of course it's a terrible analogy anyway, since particle spin is only loosely analogous to every-day spin.
If it was that kind of spin, wouldn't "clockwise" and "anti-clockwise" be better words for it anyway? "Left" and "right" need a decision on which point you're looking at as well as direction.
Does it all come from electrons spiralling left or right in the old particle accelerators?
First black holes swallow everything. Then they don't. Then Professor Wheels says they don't even exist. Now they're shitting out stars!
astrophysicists have always assumed that it forms a singularity, a region of space that is infinitely dense. Now cosmologists think quantum gravity might prevent this complete collapse after all.
I've been wondering if this (singularities not actually forming because some of unknown process) might be the case for years, but only because I found singularities a freaky concept.
Yeah, they should have just designed and implanted the permanent gizmo straight away without any of this silly experimentation, and testing, and caution.
That sarcastically said, I'd hope this guy's at the top of the list for the final product.
Why the past tense? What made you change your mind?
even going 5 mph over the speed limit is breaking the law.
Going 1mph over the speed limit is technically breaking the law as well. That doesn't mean every - if any - cop would waste his time trying to ticket you for it.
Slashdot Mirror
This is, simply, fraud. It's the same as snatching a purse or looting a shop.
Except, of course, that neither of those are fraud.
Unless you just meant because they're all illegal, in which case it's also the same as murder.
because the opportunity for correction exists
FTFM.
"poorly written"*
"if you will look like an idiot"*
"This would have"*
"summaries similar to the ones for"*
"Pete's sake"*
I count four.
Really? I count five. Well, less, really, because at least one is wrong ("would look" is better than "will look" because the opportunity correction exists) and most of the rest are highly debatable, not least for the fact that the GP isn't pretending to be a professional news website.
reporting largely to Americans
Are you sure about that?
No, I disagree. It was clear that the purpose of your comment...
Oh, right, sorry, I must have been mistaken about what was going on in my own head at the time.
What you aren't saying, is that at the time... ...they were just doing their best at the time...
At the time, they simply didn't understand...
So, clearly it was a law intended for another time...
A the time, this was incredibly progressive...
Thanks for re-making my actual point for me, which is not that the bible was written by idiots, but that it's still used, by many idiots, as a justification for their own prejudices and wilful ignorance of fact - which appeared to be the OP's position (with the caveat that the best satire is indistinguishable from that which it satirises).
But great job completely misrepresenting Leviticus as anti-female
I wasn't trying to represent it as anti-female. I'm trying to represent it as being millennia out of date.
Religious or not, the Bible in an incredible historical document
Agreed, both as you meant it and other meanings of the word "incredible." Though perhaps only "historical" in the sense of "written thousands of years ago," not "everything within actually happened
that should be treated with respect and educated thoughtfulness
Perhaps in some contexts. But not as a guide for living your life in the 21st century, which, again, is the position the OP took which I took issue with.
if (sarcasm) then bravo; else {
If you had principles...
...I wouldn't waste them over the redesign of a free website.
you would join the boycott to protect the very site you love!
Who says I love it? I'd have thought it was obvious that I don't care that much.
For that matter, who says I don't think beta is better?
But you may just be a newbie, poser, feminine, or weak.
Or maybe I just disagree with your point of view and/or way of doing things. Is that still allowed?
I take it that not descending to name-calling is not one of your principles.
Now, if someone decides to ignore it, but still chooses to use the classic interface, wouldn't you agree that they thus show support for Beta, although they don't like using it?
Er, no, I wouldn't agree, at all. Ignoring the boycott and using classic supports beta? Then what does ignoring the boycott and using beta do?
But if you really want to make a point, post your comments using the Beta interface.
Or I could just not and say I did.
I honestly think so many people do not understand the situation with the beta at all.
Or they do and they disagree with you. That doesn't make them automatically wrong.
Whoever posts stories, comments, moderates or meta-moderates the coming week using the classic Slashdot interface is a hypocrite.
Why would someone be a hypocrite simply by doing the above? Why would they be a hypocrite next week but not a hypocrite today? Just because some people have arbitrarily decided that next week is boycott week, it doesn't mean we're all suddenly bound by a covenant.
...is that "systemctl" is a lot of keys to type, and the last four are all consonants.
At least "service" is an actual word.
The patrons told him to stop before he changed the wallpaper and took away the pool table, but there is no stopping him.
FTFY.
Whoever posts stories, comments, moderates or meta-moderates the coming week using the classic Slashdot interface is a hypocrite.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
If the comment sections of the articles look alive and well by next Monday, this will mean that the community chose Beta.
No, all it'll mean is that people continued to post. It won't tell you why. Personally I'm planning to post twice as much next week just to spite this self-appointed over-inflated self-righteous crusaders-for-galactic-justice brigade.
I've got a good book that I can recommend that answers all these questions and more....
Questions like:
1. Can I sell my daughter into slavery? Yes!
2. Should I avoid all contact with women during her period? Yes!
3. Can I buy slaves from neighbouring nations? Yes!
4. Should I kill someone who works on a Sunday? Yes!
5. Can I eat shellfish? No!
6. I have a lazy eye. Can I go to church? No!
7. Can I get a haircut? No!
Yup, good book that.
Betteridge's law of hymns is in effect.
When you are anyone trying to do anything efficiently (such as the legally questionable automated gathering and storage of records of millions of phone calls and text messages?), you use proper tools.
Where did you get hold of the guy's medical history? I mean, you obviously wouldn't try to diagnose a hereditary genetic disease based on a single sentence from a stranger on Slashdot, would you? That would be a really dumb thing to do, so that can't be it.
You will then realize is an abomination
Who put you in charge of my opinions?
either the spin is in the same direction as the direction of motion
But if it's how you suggest with the curled fingers and the thumb, isn't it always at 90 degrees to the direction of motion? Or was the way you said it (same/opposite direction as motion) just the convention of these things?
Anyway, thanks. And I don't care what anyone says, I liked you in those campy 70s Bond movies.
to the right like a football thrown by a right-handed quarterback or the left like a pigskin thrown by a lefty.
Oh, thanks, I was having such trouble working out what you meant by "left" and "right." And thanks for confusing some of your non-American readers with your references to footballs that you throw (what's that about?), and then referring to them almost immediately afterwards as "pigskins" instead.
Of course it's a terrible analogy anyway, since particle spin is only loosely analogous to every-day spin.
If it was that kind of spin, wouldn't "clockwise" and "anti-clockwise" be better words for it anyway? "Left" and "right" need a decision on which point you're looking at as well as direction.
Does it all come from electrons spiralling left or right in the old particle accelerators?
First black holes swallow everything. Then they don't. Then Professor Wheels says they don't even exist. Now they're shitting out stars!
astrophysicists have always assumed that it forms a singularity, a region of space that is infinitely dense. Now cosmologists think quantum gravity might prevent this complete collapse after all.
I've been wondering if this (singularities not actually forming because some of unknown process) might be the case for years, but only because I found singularities a freaky concept.
That really doesn't answer GP's question ;)
I too would like to score +5 Insightful! Boo, beta!
Yeah, they should have just designed and implanted the permanent gizmo straight away without any of this silly experimentation, and testing, and caution.
That sarcastically said, I'd hope this guy's at the top of the list for the final product.
I assumed there has to be some room for error.
Why the past tense? What made you change your mind?
even going 5 mph over the speed limit is breaking the law.
Going 1mph over the speed limit is technically breaking the law as well. That doesn't mean every - if any - cop would waste his time trying to ticket you for it.