You what? If you live in a society where guns are easily available an attacker just isn't going to come at you with a knife, is he? He's going to have a gun too! Same scenario then, but the stakes are so much higher.
(why is it every discussion on/. seems to boil down to a gun control one? )
Hey come on dude, the title of the linked story was "Amiga are no April fools" - to post a comment underneath saying "huhhuhhuh is this an April fool" is lame, lame, lame. And I would also say it was redundant.
However, I do agree with you in general on moderation, far too many points are used negatively.
Read the rest of the comments. In fact, read the very article this story refers to. Realise that the "April fool" angle has been covered multiple times. Realise that this post is indeed utterly redundant.
I don't mean to go off at you in particular, but I'm sick of people making this joke again and again when the very article starts off by pre-empting this very 'joke' by saying that it's not an April fool.
Re:you make the same mistake!
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Yes, there is a possiblity that we as a race are meaningful on the cosmic scale, but it is doubtful.
Looking at the evolution of man, one can use the sophistication of his weapons as a 'benchmark' of progress. From a stone tied to a stick, all the way up to nuclear bombs. Hence, here is my crazy theory:
I think man's destiny is to evolve physically and then intellectually to a point where he can make a weapon powerful enough to destroy the entire universe.
Perhaps we are even a genetic program created by some higher intelligence in order to achieve this very aim. Won't he get a surprise when we break our programming and jump up into his universe and kick his sorry ass! HAHAHAHAHAAAA!
Umm, I think I'll go and lie down for a while... ;)
UPDATE: Checked "User Info" and found out that, yes, this incredible fucknut created a username of "Malfeasence" [sic], thereby setting a new standard of imbecility (which, on Slashdot, should be cause for a national fucking holiday or something).
And you sir, have topped him!
Main Entry: malfeasance Pronunciation: "mal-'fE-z&n(t)s Function: noun Etymology: mal- + obsolete feasance doing, execution Date: 1696 : wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official
You got to be kidding, right? Sony released a second Playstation after SIX YEARS! That's one hell of a shelf-life for a console. And I doubt the release had anything to do with "keeping up" with the N64!
It's an impressive concept, mapping the terrain of the Earth so exactly, but frankly I've generated better looking images with Vista Pro on my Amiga!
Vista Pro was(is?) cool... it came with contour files for real places, like the Grand Canyon and Olympus Mons(!), and you could set up animated fly-bys and stuff... nice!
And before you attack anyone's right to speak, buy a clue.
Ahh, I always wonder why people end reasonably well argued posts with pointless little insults like that. An attempt to sting the other person in replying perhaps?
There is a vast gap between verbal abuse and physical violation of children!!!
Of course there is. I was talking about the act of looking at child porn - I'm sure if you showed it to your grandmother (or even your average man on the street), it would cause them extreme offence and hurt. I shouldn't have used the emotionally loaded child porn example, mind you. I just wanted to get across the idea that pictures could hurt.
If people can't take verbal abuse, then something is seriously wrong with them
Yeah, stand up and take it like a man! On the contrary, in a supposedly advanced society like ours, why should anyone have to suffer verbal abuse? (I'm not talking about friendly slagging here, mark you)
I never read the rating 0 posts anyway
Well, I read at -1 and above. I have never read anything on the Internet that offended me, and I've read and saw some rum stuff. How's about that?
I'm objecting to the personal element in flaming being defended under the mantle of 'free speech', that's all.
I actually agree with you more or less. I was under the impression that you were saying that, because of the medium of the message, no-one could get 'hurt'. Of course, no-one can get physically hurt, but people don't get hurt by verbal abuse either, and it's a crime... Sure, no-one should be offended by directionless trolling on Slashdot, but we're talking about personally directed flames here.
It was your 'it's just 1's and 0's' that stung me into replying - it seemed much too disingenuous. Bulletin boards's are as much a valid communication medium as letter-writing, IMHO.
They're 1's and 0's people. They don't hurt people.
Yeah, and verbal abuse is just sound waves. They don't hurt people! Child porn and is just light reflected from a surface! It doesn't hurt people! Racist graffiti is just paint on a wall! etc, etc.
I don't think we can really go with this deconstructionalist approach. Sure, online postings are one step further removed from reality, but I don't this gives people a God-given right to spout any old guff and expect other people to have to read it.
funny you should say that, they had a story one week about a man who was complaining about not being able to breed his cats - no matter what he tried they wouldn't have kittens. I'm sure you can guess the punchline...
(he was performing the process himself!)
It was appalling and hilarious. Alas, it doesn't seem to be in their online archives.
I notice that a lot of posters are using the gun analogy, in that gun manufacturers are not to blame for shootings. But if you look at this link on the BBC it seems that people *are* suing gun manufacturers, or at least makers of assault rifles, as they are not 'self-defense weapons'.
I think we can stretch this to malicious software too - e.g. viruses. But then, what if you were to write viruses for 'educational' purposes? If you write cracking software, I think you'd have to prepared to face some legal action.
There once was a man named Dell Whose computers truly were swell But he said, appalled, as they all were recalled Whoever did this is gonna catch Hell!
Slashdot Mirror
You what?
/. seems to boil down to a gun control one? )
If you live in a society where guns are easily available an attacker just isn't going to come at you with a knife, is he? He's going to have a gun too! Same scenario then, but the stakes are so much higher.
(why is it every discussion on
Hey come on dude, the title of the linked story was "Amiga are no April fools" - to post a comment underneath saying "huhhuhhuh is this an April fool" is lame, lame, lame. And I would also say it was redundant.
However, I do agree with you in general on moderation, far too many points are used negatively.
Dear unitron
Read the rest of the comments. In fact, read the very article this story refers to.
Realise that the "April fool" angle has been covered multiple times.
Realise that this post is indeed utterly redundant.
I don't mean to go off at you in particular, but I'm sick of people making this joke again and again when the very article starts off by pre-empting this very 'joke' by saying that it's not an April fool.
Yes, there is a possiblity that we as a race are meaningful on the cosmic scale, but it is doubtful.
Looking at the evolution of man, one can use the sophistication of his weapons as a 'benchmark' of progress. From a stone tied to a stick, all the way up to nuclear bombs. Hence, here is my crazy theory:
I think man's destiny is to evolve physically and then intellectually to a point where he can make a weapon powerful enough to destroy the entire universe.
Perhaps we are even a genetic program created by some higher intelligence in order to achieve this very aim. Won't he get a surprise when we break our programming and jump up into his universe and kick his sorry ass! HAHAHAHAHAAAA!
Umm, I think I'll go and lie down for a while...
;)
.. in a musical version!
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius!
I love you Dr. Zaius!
One of the funniest things I've ever seen.
(Reads own post)
Oh Christ, and I have topped you. Mea culpa, apologies, grovel, sorry.
(sound of gunshot)
UPDATE: Checked "User Info" and found out that, yes, this incredible fucknut created a username of "Malfeasence" [sic], thereby setting a new standard of imbecility (which, on Slashdot, should be cause for a national fucking holiday or something).
And you sir, have topped him!
Main Entry: malfeasance
Pronunciation: "mal-'fE-z&n(t)s
Function: noun
Etymology: mal- + obsolete feasance doing, execution
Date: 1696
: wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official
You have done a brainwrong, my twisted friend.
Someone tell John Crichton, he's comin' home!
You got to be kidding, right? Sony released a second Playstation after SIX YEARS! That's one hell of a shelf-life for a console. And I doubt the release had anything to do with "keeping up" with the N64!
It's an impressive concept, mapping the terrain of the Earth so exactly, but frankly I've generated better looking images with Vista Pro on my Amiga!
Vista Pro was(is?) cool... it came with contour files for real places, like the Grand Canyon and Olympus Mons(!), and you could set up animated fly-bys and stuff... nice!
Ah, you're right of course. I meant it was the best example of a hole in Slashdot's security, I should have been more clear.
Jeez man, that beats them all so far!
Mod this up someone!
(In case it doesn't work on your machine : it pops up an alert as soon as this page loads. Works on latest Netscape release)
Does this sound at all familiar to anyone?
It'll certainly sound familiar to anyone schooled in endlessly recycled urban legends!
That word, 'deconstructionalist.' I do not think it means what you think it means
Indeed, as another poster said, the word I was groping for was reductionalist.
You learn something new every day, as they say...
And before you attack anyone's right to speak, buy a clue.
Ahh, I always wonder why people end reasonably well argued posts with pointless little insults like that. An attempt to sting the other person in replying perhaps?
Oh look - it worked!
There is a vast gap between verbal abuse and physical violation of children!!!
Of course there is. I was talking about the act of looking at child porn - I'm sure if you showed it to your grandmother (or even your average man on the street), it would cause them extreme offence and hurt. I shouldn't have used the emotionally loaded child porn example, mind you. I just wanted to get across the idea that pictures could hurt.
If people can't take verbal abuse, then something is seriously wrong with them
Yeah, stand up and take it like a man! On the contrary, in a supposedly advanced society like ours, why should anyone have to suffer verbal abuse? (I'm not talking about friendly slagging here, mark you)
I never read the rating 0 posts anyway
Well, I read at -1 and above. I have never read anything on the Internet that offended me, and I've read and saw some rum stuff. How's about that?
I'm objecting to the personal element in flaming being defended under the mantle of 'free speech', that's all.
I actually agree with you more or less. I was under the impression that you were saying that, because of the medium of the message, no-one could get 'hurt'. Of course, no-one can get physically hurt, but people don't get hurt by verbal abuse either, and it's a crime... Sure, no-one should be offended by directionless trolling on Slashdot, but we're talking about personally directed flames here.
It was your 'it's just 1's and 0's' that stung me into replying - it seemed much too disingenuous. Bulletin boards's are as much a valid communication medium as letter-writing, IMHO.
They're 1's and 0's people. They don't hurt people.
Yeah, and verbal abuse is just sound waves. They don't hurt people! Child porn and is just light reflected from a surface! It doesn't hurt people! Racist graffiti is just paint on a wall! etc, etc.
I don't think we can really go with this deconstructionalist approach. Sure, online postings are one step further removed from reality, but I don't this gives people a God-given right to spout any old guff and expect other people to have to read it.
You almost sound like you speak from experience! ;)
I suppose you've got to pass those rainy days somehow.
but I don't think there's a big book of algorithms for going about alternative sexual practices
Think again my friend!
Look at this and don't miss the comments.
Like something out of the Onion?
funny you should say that, they had a story one week about a man who was complaining about not being able to breed his cats - no matter what he tried they wouldn't have kittens. I'm sure you can guess the punchline...
(he was performing the process himself!)
It was appalling and hilarious. Alas, it doesn't seem to be in their online archives.
And why do you think an 'assault rifle' is not a self-defense weapon?
Hmm, the word 'assault' perhaps?
I notice that a lot of posters are using the gun analogy, in that gun manufacturers are not to blame for shootings. But if you look at this link on the BBC it seems that people *are* suing gun manufacturers, or at least makers of assault rifles, as they are not 'self-defense weapons'.
I think we can stretch this to malicious software too - e.g. viruses. But then, what if you were to write viruses for 'educational' purposes? If you write cracking software, I think you'd have to prepared to face some legal action.
Hmm, doesn't really scan, does it?
How about:
There once was a man named Dell
Whose computers truly were swell
But he said, appalled,
as they all were recalled
Whoever did this is gonna catch Hell!
Hey, Open source poetry!
Yes, I have one of these. It's got 128MB RAM, 2MB ROM, and a chipped RIM.