Thanks, but apparently several people got upset with my comments. It was equally modded up, as it was down. My guess is that some thin-skinned people thought I was calling them childish, when I was not, yet still took offense. Ironic enough, that is acting childish. Sometimes i wish I it was public how individuals spend their moderation points, but I'm not sure how that'd affect the tenuous balance we have here on Slashdot.
These codes of conduct seem ludicrous to me. There's two ways they make sense. If I look at it as authoritarian asshats trying their best to attack freedom of speech, this pattern seems logical. If I look at it as poorly socialized children suddenly finding themselves in adult bodies, it also makes sense. Both could be true and seem to be 2 sides of the same coin. Where did all this moral posturing and white knighting come from? It's McCarthyism all over again, yet no one seems to be willing to admit that these witch hunts will lead us all into hell.
Good job for SQLite! I like 19 (Console the sorrowing) the most. I also want to start a new project called "Sorrowing: The Console". It'd be like bash, but all the messages would be drenched in existential dread.
Great. So for 2 mistakes in the past (not voting), you're permanently punished for the rest of your life. No way that could be abused. No way someone missed elections because they couldn't get off work, or had a sick family member, or didn't like any candidates. Nope. No matter what, they're bad people who need to have their right to vote stolen from them forever.
I bet you feel embarrassed when you forget to pay that bill, and Sergeant Snuggles name is brought under fire for your mistake. What about the electric bill, where Sparkle Mittens would end up taking the heat?
Are you troll, or foolish? Whistle-blowers generally anger those in charge who'd like to keep their shady dealings in the dark. If you can report it anonymously, then the whistle-blower's life doesn't have to be ruined. Ask Edward Snowden if you have any questions. There's one example among many.
"Also a Communist government could also be a nice place to live and work." - oh, really? Give one real world example where that's true for anyone not at the top. I'll wait.
Irony: And now I'm posting crap about people posting crap. DOH.
I'll stop you right there. You wrote something intelligent. You actually exercised your brain to write down your thoughts. That's not what I remember from my days on Facebook. Many would just write a couple words and link to someone else's thoughts.
We are not Facebook.
p.s. Yeah, no one seems to have hobbies anymore. Many people seem content passively consuming mediocre content in bulk.
Because Facebook causes depression. It's as toxic as methyl mercury
I'll agree it's toxic, but not as bad as Methylmercury. However, I'm pedantic as fuck. I think you were thinking of dimethylmercury. Still, I'd disagree.
Facebook has an antidote. It's free and worked well for me.
Otherwise, I agree with what you're trying to say.
It only took you 3 months to condemn an entire country of around 25 million people? Efficient as it is prejudiced! Do me a favor and use your amazing skills in North Korea next.
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"Give me the child for his first seven years, and Iâ(TM)ll give you the man" was a memorable Jesuit quote from the book The God Delusion.
Thanks, but apparently several people got upset with my comments. It was equally modded up, as it was down. My guess is that some thin-skinned people thought I was calling them childish, when I was not, yet still took offense. Ironic enough, that is acting childish. Sometimes i wish I it was public how individuals spend their moderation points, but I'm not sure how that'd affect the tenuous balance we have here on Slashdot.
Aren't these all common sense? My parents taught me these things in elementary school or earlier? Why the sudden need to codify obviousness?
These codes of conduct seem ludicrous to me. There's two ways they make sense. If I look at it as authoritarian asshats trying their best to attack freedom of speech, this pattern seems logical. If I look at it as poorly socialized children suddenly finding themselves in adult bodies, it also makes sense. Both could be true and seem to be 2 sides of the same coin. Where did all this moral posturing and white knighting come from? It's McCarthyism all over again, yet no one seems to be willing to admit that these witch hunts will lead us all into hell.
Good job for SQLite! I like 19 (Console the sorrowing) the most. I also want to start a new project called "Sorrowing: The Console". It'd be like bash, but all the messages would be drenched in existential dread.
Great. So for 2 mistakes in the past (not voting), you're permanently punished for the rest of your life. No way that could be abused. No way someone missed elections because they couldn't get off work, or had a sick family member, or didn't like any candidates. Nope. No matter what, they're bad people who need to have their right to vote stolen from them forever.
I bet you feel embarrassed when you forget to pay that bill, and Sergeant Snuggles name is brought under fire for your mistake. What about the electric bill, where Sparkle Mittens would end up taking the heat?
Are you troll, or foolish? Whistle-blowers generally anger those in charge who'd like to keep their shady dealings in the dark. If you can report it anonymously, then the whistle-blower's life doesn't have to be ruined. Ask Edward Snowden if you have any questions. There's one example among many.
"Also a Communist government could also be a nice place to live and work." - oh, really? Give one real world example where that's true for anyone not at the top. I'll wait.
Found the buggy NPC. I'll submit a patch ASAP.
I love that South Park episode!
I totally agree.
-All UI/UX people these days
p.s. Think I should add just a bit more whitespace
(you don't want it to look cluttered)
Please, dear God, no! Open source UIs aren't always the best to begin with. Please don't hire those sort of people to make the UIs even worse.
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Irony: And now I'm posting crap about people posting crap. DOH.
I'll stop you right there. You wrote something intelligent. You actually exercised your brain to write down your thoughts. That's not what I remember from my days on Facebook. Many would just write a couple words and link to someone else's thoughts.
We are not Facebook.
p.s. Yeah, no one seems to have hobbies anymore. Many people seem content passively consuming mediocre content in bulk.
Because Facebook causes depression. It's as toxic as methyl mercury
I'll agree it's toxic, but not as bad as Methylmercury. However, I'm pedantic as fuck. I think you were thinking of dimethylmercury. Still, I'd disagree.
Facebook has an antidote. It's free and worked well for me.
Otherwise, I agree with what you're trying to say.
It only took you 3 months to condemn an entire country of around 25 million people? Efficient as it is prejudiced! Do me a favor and use your amazing skills in North Korea next.
I'm looking forward to the MST3K version of The Last Jedi, comrade. I'm not watching before then.
Note: I deal with bad news with gallows humor. It's a coping mechanism. I wish Bill was the one who left instead of him.
Did they try turning him off and on again? It might just be a routine BSOD.
Mod parent up insightful please. I have a graphic design degree and couldn't sum it up better myself.
Good luck with that.
Learn "Mexican"? Pfft! I speak American!
Isn't that like saying, "were it not for physics, I'd be invulnerable!"?
I don't think an ideological safe search feature would do anything other than make echo chambers sound proof...
So it'll record a lot of, 'not now; I have a headache'?