I ask 'cause I tried the latter two several times, just tried a minimal install, and am happily using NS6.01. Of course, mine is a win box cause I have a winmodem (non-Lucent chipset), but using the minimum install option might actually work. Or it might not. Hope this helps!
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Well, to make all you web developers out there happy, I just upgraded Netscape to 6.01. I would have done it the first week it came out, but I was having trouble w/ a custom or full install. Finally tried the 'minimum install' option, and got a working browser.
Sigh. The guys in the story have a good sentiment, but a rude implementation. Why can't more people be thoughtful and polite these days?
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and at a threshold of 3+, they're usually interesting enough that I might pay for them. YMMV.
And you're right, there probably are enough interesting moderated message boards out there that you feel you can get the same thing for free, but I am disappointed by your attitude: "If I can get it for free, I'm not paying for it."
Well, that may fall within the bounds of ethical behavior, but it doesn't fall within the bounds of principled behavior. It is a slightly calloused, self-centered behavior: "If someone does me a favor, I'm not obligated to repay or even thank them, monetarily or otherwise." Not enough people learn the art of living morally these days. We need to start teaching some form of ethics in school soon. Church and State need to be seperated, but State and Ethics need to be integrated.
OTOH, you may be a poor college student, and your attitude may change when you have an abundance of disposable income. If that's the case, I apologize and hope that your attitude does, in fact, improve as you have more money.
Please learn the Art of being a highly moral human being. It's tough, but rewarding...
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when they could get the same thing for 2$ a pop at cheapbytes.
Maybe I'm more of an optimist about human nature than you are. Maybe I'm naive for believing that voluntary payments can support a lot of people who 'only' provide a service. Maybe I am a fool for these beliefs.
But I'm a happy fool:P
Prepare for the worst, hope and pray for the best, and expect something between the two. Is that an unreasonable approach to life?
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Yeah, maybe Christ never existed as a historical figure. Or maybe he's heavily into reincarnation.;) That could explain things just as well, and as a theory its a lot more fun.
My personal beliefs are odd. For instance, I don't wholeheartedly believe that all souls go directly to heaven or hell, no third options to try insteadd. I have no idea how God built his universe and afterlife, or what he built instead, but I believe He's a weird bastard that asks us to choose good or evil, and accept the consequences. I dunno why He hides His existence from us, but thats just another question to ask Him if I get the chance.;)
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Damnit, they needed to call in the Boy Scouts of America as a witness or amicus in this case if what you say is true. Where do we go to recommend that to the plaintiffs? Oh, and so this post has some actual substance, I resubmit the important parts of my defense of your excellent post.
Ahem.
Also in this vein, I would argue that just because someone places an emotional appeal in their argument doesn't mean they don't have a point. It is easy to fall for an intellectual fallacy- that if a person makes an emotional appeal in an argument, they must have neccessarily lost the logic argument. On the contrary, one can create a case that both has strong logic and emotional resonance.
Here is the situation: what's the effective difference between eternal and indefinitely extensible? As in, what's the difference it has on the way people live their lives? All questions of human law must ultimately relate to human behavior. Copyright is not currently eternal, agreed. But neither is the human race, and if retroactive copyright extensions have copyrights expire 5 minutes before the last human being does, than it is effectively eternal.
And as for IP, no one on/. has ever said that we should destroy all forms of IP and intellectual ownership,(well, said that and been modded up to 3+) just that we want reasonable limits to the rights of the individual or corporation, respecting instead the rights of the greater society in general. The individuals right to scream "FIRE!" in a theater is outweighed by society's right to safety and well-being, to rephrase the old proverb.
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You are falling for an intellectual fallacy- that if a person makes an emotional appeal in an argument, they must have neccessarily lost the logic argument. On the contrary, one can create a case that both has strong logic and emotional resonance.
And as for any feelings of personal attack, don't get uptight. He is right in that you don't understand the situation: what's the effective difference between eternal and indefinitely extensible? As in, what's the difference it has on the way people live their lives? All questions of human law must ultimately relate to human behavior. Copyright is not currently eternal, agreed. But neither is the human race, and if retroactive copyright extensions have copyrights expire 5 minutes before the last human being does, than it is effectively eternal.
I'm afraid you've fallen for the same trap you accuse your oppenent of: demonizing the opposition. He never said he wants to destroy all forms of IP and ownership, just that he wants reasonable limits to the rights of the individual or corporation, respecting instead the rights of the greater society in general. The individuals right to scream "FIRE!" in a theater is outweighed by society's right to safety and well-being, to rephrase the old proverb.
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! == 2 keystrokes, a 1 and a (shift).
= == 1 keystroke.
thus, != == 3 keystrokes. I got that far.
But what is this 4 keystroke (not equal) that you're talking about? Is it like Alt-1-7-1 produces a ½? If so, what's the keycode?
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Please get an account, whoever you are...
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/. needs informative, intelligent people like you posting at 1. Currently, you're down there with the goatse.cx and first posts. The moderators will never notice you, and consequently those of us who browse at higher thresholds will never notice either.
So please- make a fellow reader happy and register sometime soon. Then you can automatically set your comment views (when not moderating) at (3+, nested, highest first) and witness/. at it's moderated best.
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Then how did you read enough to post a reply to my crazed, gooofball post?:P
And no, you don't have to pay 90$ a year for/..(how do you punctuate around/.'s name?:) My point was that there would be enough Karma whores and bored introverted geeks like me to support/. totally through voluntary donations.
The amount is debatable; in fact, I just came up with a goofball idea for a slashcode derived page with enough different topics and articles to draw in a huge mainstream crowd. If all articles were user-selected, it would be like a custom-designed national personalized newspaper. Sick of hearing about California's power problems? Disable the topic.
And if you drew in those huge mainstream crowds, you might be able to sell this service (accounts, moderator privilages, etc.) for less than 12$ a year. So the amount is unimportant- the real idea is that/. provides enough service to their customers that they will never have to sell out to make money. I mean, I haven't heard much criticism of Andover or VA Linux, but they haven't become incredibly effusive with their praise, either.
Oh, and you're absolutely right. Sluggy does rock. But I first heard about them through someone's sig here, so I owe/. (or its readers) something. Yeah, if I was as cool as you, (sub 30K id! woohoo! I had a sub 80K id, but lost my password and email account...:( ) I would of heard about them earlier through someone else, but I'm not;)
And finally, what websites do you think are better? If someone has a better comment rating system, I'd love to hear of it.
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Think about it: slashcode and one hundred editors working on previewing submissions over every topic imaginable. Reviews of great history books like this one. Topics like the environment, tax law, finance news, anything you could possibly imagine. Make a/. lookalike that draws my mother in, in other words. Heck, it probably could be done off of only 10$ a yr from all registered readers. Include a bonus of 1 moderation point a month to subscribers, and watch the results.
Yowza. I need to turn this into a proposal for Andover, and then turn this into the greatest, cheapest national and global newspaper on the Web. And it might be feasible even without patenting it as a business model or closing off slashcode to public review. If I got involved with this, I could do more good for the world than going into public office as an educated, intelligent, honest individual. Hold on a sec while I review my life's plans...
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After some thought and time, I sent an email to my senators(Tennessee). If you want to do the same to your senators, I've included the full text below.
Dear Senator Frist and Senator Thompson,
I'm aware of all the hype surrounding the proposed Tax Cut, and see the inevitability of some form of tax relief. However, all these plans ignore that all future surpluses are all hypothetical , and could evaporate with even a minor recession. In that event, the government would be faced once more with deficits, just when the economy most needs help. This is obviously financial lunacy, but the sentiment on the Hill is such that tax relief is a political inevitability. How do you reconcile these two drives of political advantage and fiscal responsibility?
The answer is simple: use a Tax Refund instead of a Tax Cut. Then one knows the size of the surpluses, and avoids the likelyhood of spending money that we haven't earned yet. Moreover, a Refund could boost the economy in the current short term better than a Cut, and might be more feasible for the tax year of 2000 than a retroactive Cut would be. One doesn't spend money one hasn't earned in real life, why should the government be any different?
I'm aware that my idea has problems; Would the administrative costs be higher for a refund than a cut? Will it be reviewed every year for renewal or last for several years at once? Will the proposed refund be accompanied by a reduced tax cut or will it stand alone? Is there still time to change the idea from tax cut to tax refund? However, despite these burning questions, I believe that a refund is the more sensible approach, and hope that you consider it as you help guide this great nation of ours.
Thank you very much for your time and attention.
A concerned voter,
Jonathan Fisher
Change my name to yours, the senators names to your own, email them, and tell the rest of us what state you're from. That last part is so that the senators don't catch on to the fact that you're just cutting and pasting someone else's words, though the sentiment may be your own. Let's get them all to embrace the idea of a refund over a cut!
Oh, and here's the Senate's web page so you can look up your senators yourself. You know,/. has made me a lot more politically active, you know?
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As the article submitter I must object to the dept
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...that Michael filed this under.
As/.-ers have pointed out, man has been playing God from the beginnings of civilization, breeding animals and crops to our desired specifications. And as Jared Diamond has pointed out so eloquently in his book, The Third Chimpanzee, man has been changing the climate and ecology(accidentally, perhaps, but changing nonetheless) of our planet since he first deforested Lebanon. If the possibility exists to reverse damages we have inflicted on the world, we have the right, and even perhaps the duty, to do so.
God himself has given man license to 'play god', so to speak, from Adam onwards. He knew what He was setting us up for when He gave us intelligence, and hopes to see us do good with our tools.
As David Brin pointed out so eloquently in his essays in the book Otherness, what does God, if He is a loving father, want of us? Does He want blind obedience, as one would from a dog rather than a child? Or does He want to see us grow and mature, taking up His tools as we grow older, creating beautiful things with them? As an avowed Christian, I must believe in a loving God who expects the latter.
This is not to say that iron fertilization is a good idea. We don't yet have anywhere near the foresight and knowledge that our Father has, and humility demands we admit this. We should definitely make plans to curb the greenhouse effect, but we need to know our limitations. Unintended consequences have a way of popping up in the oddest ways...however, we must take drastic action to prevent global warming, and climate engineering is just another tool in our toolbox, though it is a dangerous one.
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Dogma is a religious satire. You're not going to enjoy it unless you're mildly Christian or have some positive experiences with them.
Having said that, why did you post that comment, even as AC? It takes at least 10-20 seconds to post a comment even that small, and all you did with it is insult some strangers.
I guess some people just enjoy randomly insulting others. What a bunch of dumbasses!;)
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Times 365 equals 91.25$ a year maybe, but it's still only 25 cents a day.
/. is easily that nifty, I'd say. It's now as much of a part of my daily routine as the morning paper, and 25c is comparable to what my family pays every morning for the funny papers. (the local paper sucks, and the only reason to buy it is for the extra comics you can read each morning)
Also,/. readers have introduced me to all sorts of cool stuff. Sluggy Freelance. Megatokyo. And I get commentaries from intelligent geeks around the world, introducing me to topics like power generation lines and all sorts of weird, wonderful things. It's easily worth the price of a subscription to magazines like Discover, Scientific American, or the Smithsonian.
In short, you're one cheap bastard if you'd only pay 10$ a yr to feed CmdrTaco and friends. Either that, or your thresholds are too low. I usually go at 3+, nested, highest first.(When I don't have moderator access) It's AMAZING how good the comments are at that level.
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Sorta funny to slam one of Slashdot's only revenue streams...
Well, if/. really, truly needed revenue, then they could call upon the community to support them with monthly microdonations via Paypal. Just consider: 5-10$ a month from however many avid readers/. has would add up pretty quickly.
If we can support whole distributions and the people behind them with voluntary payments, why not our favorite news site?
Also, it looks like charitable donations will be itemizable in the future, even for people who don't itemize. So if/. became non-profit, you could deduct the 60-120$ each year from your taxes. Hey, every bit helps, no? That's about the best thing about the upcoming tax cut that I like, that and the 'marriage penalty' elimination. I'm iffy about the rest: it all sounds well and good, but we really need to pay off the national debt. The surpluses are all just projections now anyways, and a recession could really hurt us if one appears in the next decade or so.
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Whoops again. The link I gave was the text of the document, but lacks all the nifty diagrams and stuff. This site provides the full article on climate engineering, with the important part about the experiments with iron dust and such. Sorry, impatient to post the idea and didn't play around with the article in my browser enough. I thought cleng.txt refered to the author, and didn't realize it was an abreviation of the phrase climate engineering. I blame the Chinese, cause if they all had ordinary names like John and Isaac, I never would have thought there were even people named 'Cleng', or somesuch.
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Whoops, forgot to mention the deep-water upwellings of nutrient-rich cold water, but I only just learned about the role that plays in Oceanic ecology just now with google. Isn't it incredible what you can learn off the Internet? And some of it is even true!
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Quick Quiz: Why are the waters of the North Pacific so fertile?
Answer: the Sahara Desert. Evidently, dust from the Sahara is carried on the jetstream to the ocean, where the trace iron boosts the nutrient content of the waters, increasing the amount of plankton on the very bottom of the food chain, which we eventually benefit from in the form of salmon and other tasty treats.
From the sound of the article, it sounds like they're going ahead with experiments in this vein already. Don't know if the consequences will be all or even mostly beneficial, but what the heck, gotta try something, eh?
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Or is that actually your opinion? Sorry, I've been looking at sid=trolltalk lately and don't know what to think.
The point of back alley abortions being mentioned is that you know someone dies there. The mother. And frankly, I don't think God does put the soul into the body until it can survive outside the mother's body. If He put it in at conception, I'd have to conclude He was a cruel bastard, given that what, 1 in 5 pregnancies result in miscarriage? And whatever else I know, I know God isn't a cruel bastard. Life is cruel, yes, but He does His best to lessen its pains. He has touched me personally at times to prove it, so I say here,stop slandering my God!
Yeah, I really think you're a troll, given your AC status and hastily written style, but if you aren't, there's some thoughts to chew on...
Slashdot Mirror
I ask 'cause I tried the latter two several times, just tried a minimal install, and am happily using NS6.01. Of course, mine is a win box cause I have a winmodem (non-Lucent chipset), but using the minimum install option might actually work. Or it might not. Hope this helps!
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So what is it? Bells-and-whistles or standards-compliant?
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Sigh. The guys in the story have a good sentiment, but a rude implementation. Why can't more people be thoughtful and polite these days?
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And you're right, there probably are enough interesting moderated message boards out there that you feel you can get the same thing for free, but I am disappointed by your attitude: "If I can get it for free, I'm not paying for it."
Well, that may fall within the bounds of ethical behavior, but it doesn't fall within the bounds of principled behavior. It is a slightly calloused, self-centered behavior: "If someone does me a favor, I'm not obligated to repay or even thank them, monetarily or otherwise." Not enough people learn the art of living morally these days. We need to start teaching some form of ethics in school soon. Church and State need to be seperated, but State and Ethics need to be integrated.
OTOH, you may be a poor college student, and your attitude may change when you have an abundance of disposable income. If that's the case, I apologize and hope that your attitude does, in fact, improve as you have more money.
Please learn the Art of being a highly moral human being. It's tough, but rewarding...
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Maybe I'm more of an optimist about human nature than you are. Maybe I'm naive for believing that voluntary payments can support a lot of people who 'only' provide a service. Maybe I am a fool for these beliefs.
But I'm a happy fool :P
Prepare for the worst, hope and pray for the best, and expect something between the two. Is that an unreasonable approach to life?
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Yeah, maybe Christ never existed as a historical figure. Or maybe he's heavily into reincarnation. ;) That could explain things just as well, and as a theory its a lot more fun.
My personal beliefs are odd. For instance, I don't wholeheartedly believe that all souls go directly to heaven or hell, no third options to try insteadd. I have no idea how God built his universe and afterlife, or what he built instead, but I believe He's a weird bastard that asks us to choose good or evil, and accept the consequences. I dunno why He hides His existence from us, but thats just another question to ask Him if I get the chance.;)
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Ahem.
Also in this vein, I would argue that just because someone places an emotional appeal in their argument doesn't mean they don't have a point. It is easy to fall for an intellectual fallacy- that if a person makes an emotional appeal in an argument, they must have neccessarily lost the logic argument. On the contrary, one can create a case that both has strong logic and emotional resonance.
Here is the situation: what's the effective difference between eternal and indefinitely extensible? As in, what's the difference it has on the way people live their lives? All questions of human law must ultimately relate to human behavior. Copyright is not currently eternal, agreed. But neither is the human race, and if retroactive copyright extensions have copyrights expire 5 minutes before the last human being does, than it is effectively eternal.
And as for IP, no one on /. has ever said that we should destroy all forms of IP and intellectual ownership,(well, said that and been modded up to 3+) just that we want reasonable limits to the rights of the individual or corporation, respecting instead the rights of the greater society in general. The individuals right to scream "FIRE!" in a theater is outweighed by society's right to safety and well-being, to rephrase the old proverb.
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You are falling for an intellectual fallacy- that if a person makes an emotional appeal in an argument, they must have neccessarily lost the logic argument. On the contrary, one can create a case that both has strong logic and emotional resonance.
And as for any feelings of personal attack, don't get uptight. He is right in that you don't understand the situation: what's the effective difference between eternal and indefinitely extensible? As in, what's the difference it has on the way people live their lives? All questions of human law must ultimately relate to human behavior. Copyright is not currently eternal, agreed. But neither is the human race, and if retroactive copyright extensions have copyrights expire 5 minutes before the last human being does, than it is effectively eternal.
I'm afraid you've fallen for the same trap you accuse your oppenent of: demonizing the opposition. He never said he wants to destroy all forms of IP and ownership, just that he wants reasonable limits to the rights of the individual or corporation, respecting instead the rights of the greater society in general. The individuals right to scream "FIRE!" in a theater is outweighed by society's right to safety and well-being, to rephrase the old proverb.
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! == 2 keystrokes, a 1 and a (shift).
= == 1 keystroke.
thus, != == 3 keystrokes. I got that far.
But what is this 4 keystroke (not equal) that you're talking about? Is it like Alt-1-7-1 produces a ½? If so, what's the keycode?
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So please- make a fellow reader happy and register sometime soon. Then you can automatically set your comment views (when not moderating) at (3+, nested, highest first) and witness /. at it's moderated best.
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And no, you don't have to pay 90$ a year for /. .(how do you punctuate around /.'s name? :) My point was that there would be enough Karma whores and bored introverted geeks like me to support /. totally through voluntary donations.
The amount is debatable; in fact, I just came up with a goofball idea for a slashcode derived page with enough different topics and articles to draw in a huge mainstream crowd. If all articles were user-selected, it would be like a custom-designed national personalized newspaper. Sick of hearing about California's power problems? Disable the topic.
And if you drew in those huge mainstream crowds, you might be able to sell this service (accounts, moderator privilages, etc.) for less than 12$ a year. So the amount is unimportant- the real idea is that /. provides enough service to their customers that they will never have to sell out to make money. I mean, I haven't heard much criticism of Andover or VA Linux, but they haven't become incredibly effusive with their praise, either.
Oh, and you're absolutely right. Sluggy does rock. But I first heard about them through someone's sig here, so I owe /. (or its readers) something. Yeah, if I was as cool as you, (sub 30K id! woohoo! I had a sub 80K id, but lost my password and email account...:( ) I would of heard about them earlier through someone else, but I'm not ;)
And finally, what websites do you think are better? If someone has a better comment rating system, I'd love to hear of it.
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Yowza. I need to turn this into a proposal for Andover, and then turn this into the greatest, cheapest national and global newspaper on the Web. And it might be feasible even without patenting it as a business model or closing off slashcode to public review. If I got involved with this, I could do more good for the world than going into public office as an educated, intelligent, honest individual. Hold on a sec while I review my life's plans...
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Change my name to yours, the senators names to your own, email them, and tell the rest of us what state you're from. That last part is so that the senators don't catch on to the fact that you're just cutting and pasting someone else's words, though the sentiment may be your own. Let's get them all to embrace the idea of a refund over a cut!
Oh, and here's the Senate's web page so you can look up your senators yourself. You know, /. has made me a lot more politically active, you know?
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As /.-ers have pointed out, man has been playing God from the beginnings of civilization, breeding animals and crops to our desired specifications. And as Jared Diamond has pointed out so eloquently in his book, The Third Chimpanzee, man has been changing the climate and ecology(accidentally, perhaps, but changing nonetheless) of our planet since he first deforested Lebanon. If the possibility exists to reverse damages we have inflicted on the world, we have the right, and even perhaps the duty, to do so.
God himself has given man license to 'play god', so to speak, from Adam onwards. He knew what He was setting us up for when He gave us intelligence, and hopes to see us do good with our tools.
As David Brin pointed out so eloquently in his essays in the book Otherness, what does God, if He is a loving father, want of us? Does He want blind obedience, as one would from a dog rather than a child? Or does He want to see us grow and mature, taking up His tools as we grow older, creating beautiful things with them? As an avowed Christian, I must believe in a loving God who expects the latter.
This is not to say that iron fertilization is a good idea. We don't yet have anywhere near the foresight and knowledge that our Father has, and humility demands we admit this. We should definitely make plans to curb the greenhouse effect, but we need to know our limitations. Unintended consequences have a way of popping up in the oddest ways...however, we must take drastic action to prevent global warming, and climate engineering is just another tool in our toolbox, though it is a dangerous one.
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Since they haven't put my submission onto the front page or the science section yet, I'm assuming its in an upcoming slashback or quickies fix.
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Now how do we get those in power to consider it?
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Having said that, why did you post that comment, even as AC? It takes at least 10-20 seconds to post a comment even that small, and all you did with it is insult some strangers.
I guess some people just enjoy randomly insulting others. What a bunch of dumbasses! ;)
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Times 365 equals 91.25$ a year maybe, but it's still only 25 cents a day.
/. is easily that nifty, I'd say. It's now as much of a part of my daily routine as the morning paper, and 25c is comparable to what my family pays every morning for the funny papers. (the local paper sucks, and the only reason to buy it is for the extra comics you can read each morning)
Also, /. readers have introduced me to all sorts of cool stuff. Sluggy Freelance. Megatokyo. And I get commentaries from intelligent geeks around the world, introducing me to topics like power generation lines and all sorts of weird, wonderful things. It's easily worth the price of a subscription to magazines like Discover, Scientific American, or the Smithsonian.
In short, you're one cheap bastard if you'd only pay 10$ a yr to feed CmdrTaco and friends. Either that, or your thresholds are too low. I usually go at 3+, nested, highest first.(When I don't have moderator access) It's AMAZING how good the comments are at that level.
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If we can support whole distributions and the people behind them with voluntary payments, why not our favorite news site?
Also, it looks like charitable donations will be itemizable in the future, even for people who don't itemize. So if /. became non-profit, you could deduct the 60-120$ each year from your taxes. Hey, every bit helps, no? That's about the best thing about the upcoming tax cut that I like, that and the 'marriage penalty' elimination. I'm iffy about the rest: it all sounds well and good, but we really need to pay off the national debt. The surpluses are all just projections now anyways, and a recession could really hurt us if one appears in the next decade or so.
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Just letting you know someone caught the reference.
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Whoops again. The link I gave was the text of the document, but lacks all the nifty diagrams and stuff. This site provides the full article on climate engineering, with the important part about the experiments with iron dust and such. Sorry, impatient to post the idea and didn't play around with the article in my browser enough. I thought cleng.txt refered to the author, and didn't realize it was an abreviation of the phrase climate engineering. I blame the Chinese, cause if they all had ordinary names like John and Isaac, I never would have thought there were even people named 'Cleng', or somesuch.
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Whoops, forgot to mention the deep-water upwellings of nutrient-rich cold water, but I only just learned about the role that plays in Oceanic ecology just now with google. Isn't it incredible what you can learn off the Internet? And some of it is even true!
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Answer: the Sahara Desert. Evidently, dust from the Sahara is carried on the jetstream to the ocean, where the trace iron boosts the nutrient content of the waters, increasing the amount of plankton on the very bottom of the food chain, which we eventually benefit from in the form of salmon and other tasty treats.
Well, how does that solve global warming? Well, when the plankton die, they fall to the ocean floor, locking up CO2. There are also large 'deserts' of the ocean where there aren't these plankton because they lack the needed nutrients. So, some people have come up with a plan for fertilizing these parts of the ocean with iron dust, sequestering carbon dioxide, as well as possibly creating new fishing grounds, for all I know.
From the sound of the article, it sounds like they're going ahead with experiments in this vein already. Don't know if the consequences will be all or even mostly beneficial, but what the heck, gotta try something, eh?
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IANASRP- I am not a self-referential phrase
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Bonsai Kitten eaten by carnivore. How long until the webmasters update their site to take advantage of this wonderful new Kitticulture Technique?
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IANASRP- I am not a self-referential phrase
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The point of back alley abortions being mentioned is that you know someone dies there. The mother. And frankly, I don't think God does put the soul into the body until it can survive outside the mother's body. If He put it in at conception, I'd have to conclude He was a cruel bastard, given that what, 1 in 5 pregnancies result in miscarriage? And whatever else I know, I know God isn't a cruel bastard. Life is cruel, yes, but He does His best to lessen its pains. He has touched me personally at times to prove it, so I say here,stop slandering my God!
Yeah, I really think you're a troll, given your AC status and hastily written style, but if you aren't, there's some thoughts to chew on...
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