if you show someone crappy NTSC video that looks like it is a third hand copy from a dirty VCR from the 1980s, but with high fidelity stunning THX quality sound, the technical quality of the movie overall is rated highly
but if you show someone something better than IMAX resolution video with perfect clarity and lighting and editting... but with tinny, monaural or badly editted or badly recorded sound with hums and hisses, the technical quality of the movie overall is rated poorly
in other words, the human mind seems to have a built-in intolerant and strict bias about audio quality, but is very forgiving when it comes to video quality (as this story confirms)
budding filmmakers: don't fuss that much about your lighting, camera quality, etc. but make damn sure you get good audio. video artifacts and glitches can be explained away as aesthetic quirks but apparently you will be severely punished by your audience's perceptions if your audio sucks
the human mind has a high tolerance for poor video quality, but audio quality is something it is very attentive to and picky about subconsciously
make a structure OUT OF dead people, not over them. not necessarily mausoleums and cenotaphs, but houses for the living too, or town squares: you become, literally, part of the community you helped to build/ that you loved
ok, it's a little creepy
"dad, where's grandpa?"
"in the third load bearing column by the kitchen"
at the very least, it would be a good backstory for a horror movie, or ghostbusters iii
Web Crawler: Bring out yer dead. [a Robots.txt responds to the request with a packet] Robots.txt: Here's one. Web Crawler: That'll be nine bytes. Dead Person's Webpage: I'm not dead. Web Crawler: What? Robots.txt: Nothing. There's your nine bytes. Dead Person's Webpage: I'm not dead. Web Crawler: 'Ere, he says he's not dead. Robots.txt: Yes he is. Dead Person's Webpage: I'm not. Web Crawler: He isn't. Robots.txt: Well, he will be soon, he's got bitrot. Dead Person's Webpage: I'm getting better. Look, new content from friends and family. Robots.txt: No you're not, you'll be stale content in a moment. No more page requests. Web Crawler: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations. Robots.txt, you should take him off your Disallow list. Dead Person's Webpage: I don't want to go to the 404. Robots.txt: Oh, don't be such a baby. Web Crawler: I can't take him. Dead Person's Webpage: I feel fine. Robots.txt: Oh, do me a favor. Web Crawler: I can't. Robots.txt: Well, can you 302 temporarily redirect him for a couple of days? He won't be long. Web Crawler: I promised I'd be at the Facebooks'. They've lost nine today. Robots.txt: Well, when's your next round? Web Crawler: 20100821 04:32:55 UTC. Dead Person's Webpage: I think I'll go for a retweet. Robots.txt: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do? Dead Person's Webpage: Status Update: I feel happy. Status Update: I feel happy. [Web Crawler spiders up and down the fibre optic pipe furtively, then silences the Webpage with a whack of his delisting] Robots.txt: Ah, thank you very much. Web Crawler: Not at all. See you on 20100821 04:32:55 UTC. Robots.txt: Right.
as long as the meaning is communicated, who cares?
nitpicking about arcane redundant rules of the english language is bizarre to me
my theory is that for grammar nazis, there is some sort of mental condition where a sort of extreme cognitive dissonance results when they see a grammar violation, and they simply can't function unless it is corrected
it's really weird to me, it's some sort of brittleness of mind,a handicap
and say "really fast shouting" should read "shouting really fast" but then i saw you are referring to nicholas cage, so yeah, you are grammatically correct after all
Senator McCarthy: Mr. Chairman, may I say that Mr. Welch talks about this being cruel and reckless. He was just baiting. He has been baiting Mr. Cohn here for hours, requesting that Mr. Cohn before sundown get out of any department of the government anyone who is serving the Communist cause. Now, I just give this man's record and I want to say, Mr. Welch, that it had been labeled long before he became a member, as early as 1944 --
Mr. Welch: Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers' Guild.
Senator McCarthy: Let me finish....
Mr. Welch: And Mr. Cohn nods his head at me. I did you, I think, no personal injury, Mr. Cohn?
Mr. Cohn: No, sir.
Mr. Welch: I meant to do you no personal injury.
Mr. Cohn: No, sir.
Mr. Welch: And if I did, I beg your pardon. Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator.
Senator McCarthy: Let's, let's --
Mr. Welch: You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
Senator McCarthy: I know this hurts you, Mr. Welch.
Mr. Welch: I'll say it hurts!
Senator McCarthy: Mr. Chairman, as point of personal privilege, I'd like to finish this.
Mr. Welch: Senator, I think it hurts you, too, sir.
Senator McCarthy: I'd like to finish this. I know Mr. Cohn would rather not have me go into this. I intend to, however, and Mr. Welch talks about any "sense of decency." I have heard you and everyone else talk so much about laying the truth upon the table. But when I heard the completely phony Mr. Welch, I've been listening now for a long time, he's saying, now "before sundown" you must get these people "out of government." So I just want you to have it very clear, very clear that you were not so serious about that when you tried to recommend this man for this Committee.
Mr. Welch: Mr. McCarthy, I will not discuss this further with you. You have sat within six feet of me and could ask -- could have asked me about Fred Fisher. You have seen fit to bring it out, and if there is a God in heaven, it will do neither you nor your cause any good. I will not discuss it further. I will not ask, Mr. Cohn, any more witnesses. You, Mr. Chairman, may, if you will, call the next witness.
you pay the recently departed some due respect, no matter what they did in life, or you've lost your essential humanity and betrayed whatever nobility you think you stand for but obviously don't, you asshole. the guy was not adolf hitler, no matter how much his politics makes your blood boil. get the fuck over yourself
if you can't do that, then perhaps you are just as self-serving and stupid in your craven motivations as you accuse ted stevens of being
the politics in this country has become too mean spirited: more blood sport self-destruction than frank and intellectually honest discussion. and there are plenty of you, from the right and the left, who are more interested in your own petty tit-for-tat blind partisan team sports, than the essential search for progress for this country. what's the matter? policy discussions too boring? want to call each other socialists and fascists? that excites you? go ahead, ruin this country with your loud boorish simpleminded pettiness you assholes
too many of you are too willing, from the right and the left, to step all over the dignity of your fellow human beings (and your own dignity, not that you realize that) in the pursuit of scoring public relations spin points. so many blogging assholes and so many trolling astroturfing scumbags regurgitating their obvious typical mindless lowest common denominator political opinions on every message board, from THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT. you all think you are the goddamn diety-appointed spokesperson for your ill-thought out dimwitted cause. when the truth is all you fucking armchair political philosophers are worth shit and the content of your thoughts are utterly useless. from THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT. 99% of you do the greatest service to the cause you care about by SHUTTING THE FUCK UP
the politics in the united states has lost all dignity, all intelligence, and all meaning and is now nothing more than a petty high school football game for simpletons
and most of you have completely forgotten about what is at stake. and it is obvious when you forget decency, respect, and simple human decorum, that you don't actually care about you fellow americans anymore, you just care about being the loudest most intelligence-defying piece of shit in the room, be damned the consequences to your country, and be damned the consequences to your character
so listen up, asshole: you respect the recently departed
YOU. RESPECT. THE. RECENTLY. DEPARTED.
do you hear me you fuck?
show some DECENCY. show some CHARACTER. show something of what is missing from the shallow dimwitted politics in this country, you small stupid little man
now fuck off, and try, for once in your pathetic propaganda-addled life, to be a decent human being, you smarmy little piece of shit
ALL OF YOU
i HATE what politics in this country has become: a boatload of loud ignorant trolls
THE GUY JUST DIED. AND YOU'RE DANCING ON HIS CORPSE. THE PROBLEM WITH THIS COUNTRY IS YOU
results in more customers, or a perceived lack of one results in less customers, than a privacy policy directly translates into dollars, plus or minus, at some point
meaning, what i am saying and writing is not idealism, and is in fact in better touch with capitalist principles that you allude to but apparently understand less than i do
anyone can regurgitate simpleminded cynicism. what you write is even more useless than the airheaded idealism you dislike
it is unfortunate that so many loud boorish people think that their typical easy cynicism is a replacement for actual intelligence. frankly, its worse than the intolerant blind idealists out there. at least they can be interesting sometimes, no matter how flawed
but cynics are simply a dime a dozen, boring, and utterly useless, but unfortunately, always very loud and insistent on entering the conversation loudly announcing what everyone already knows as if it is some grand epiphany they think they have a monopoly on
lowest common denominator cynicism is not a replacement for intelligence. please, some of you shut up and think for once, then try to say something interesting for once
the marketing assholes in the board room, but if google sticks by its loyalty to privacy, they will remain a respected and profitable company for a very long time
if however they break their commitments to privacy, they will, indeed, reap a flurry of greater profits. but at the cost of driving away customers. the problem in a business like google's is there is always another search website, and even if its not quite as fast or accurate as google, if it makes a loud point of pledging to not rape your privacy, then it will even beat google, eventually
before there was google, there was altavista. before facebook, myspace. the king of the web does not have to stay the king of the web, and it can be quite sudden and amazing at how sudden and fast that fall can be. google better remember this
did they save money over a stage coach or a railroad according to any measurements of cost effectiveness?
of course not. why the hell does anyone think that is the fucking point?
this is new tech. well, old tech (the original rich guy gas powered hobby cars were competing with electrical and steam powered models), but "new" in the sense that it is getting a serious look again because of gas price volatility and geopolitical costs of being so dependent on gasoline
please stop making stupid comparisons folks. currently, owning an electric or hybrid is stupid in comparison to a regular gas powered vehicle according to only economic or technical comparison. no fucking shit. big obvious fucking so what
but when you involve passion: passion for urban air quality, passion for mitigating environmental change, passion in sticking it to gulf raping poor country raping oil conglomerates, passion in not funding religious fundamentalist every time you fill up your automobile...
add up all these passions, and you find a large group of people who are happy to spend their money to supplement the growth of an economic sector of technicological tinkering that will deliver you, eventually, the model t of our generation: the first low cost no brainer better alternative to a gasoline powered car
are these people idiots? no. they're technological pioneers, motivated by passion, who are paving way for a better world, that you will benefit from eventually. go ahead and call them airheaded environemtalists or rich guys with too much cash to burn. you're really awesome in the way you have no fucking clue as to kinds of challenges we face in the world and the better place we need to go to. you're awesome in your willfully ignorant love of stasis, be damned the costs of our current love affair with the gas powered automobile
but go ahead and nitpick, imaginationless bean counters, as if your static economic bullshit is supposed to be any sort of persuasive argument, except for the brain dead. you aren't in the least considering all of the valid motivations for buying something more expensive yet something other than your traditional gas guzzling, religious fundamentalist funding, air quality destroying, corporate behemoth building, climate changing traditional fucking car
death to the internal combustion engine, and a big fuck you to those who resist progress out of smallmindedness
the problems with digg are the same as the problems with american politics: a loud minority group of conservative assholes holding every one else hostage from genuine progress
as we know from 2001/ 2010 a space odyssey, enough black monoliths and jupiter will finally ignite and become a second sun. but the question is: what are those black monoliths? and, we finally have our answer: dental x-ray machines, alien dental x-ray machines. that is what inspired pre-homo sapiens species to begin the journey to modern man: the divine inspiration of advanced dental technology
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism"
you have absolute truth apparently on your side, be damned everything else
what are you, some sort humanist taliban?
dude: you are as bad, if not worse, than whatever you hate in this world, because you think exactly the same way they do
you hate repression and torture? well, the guys doing the repression and torture are empowered with the same haughty arrogance about their beliefs as you have
certain slashdotters are proclaim terry child's innocence or expressing sympathy for him, when if he did the same actions, in another profession, you would be busy declaring his guilt and excoriating his behavior
if you are such a slashdotter, congratulations: you are a prejudiced person
you need a powerful government to regulate the market and keep it fair. left on its own, the market is abused by its largest players. point of economic historical fact
wake the fuck up from your idealistic idiocies please
as long as people identify themselves as french, or muslim, or black, or brazilian, or christian, or asian, or whatever
before they identify themselves as human
when you identify your nationality, or your religion, or your race, as your primary source of pride and your primary source of identity, you are what is wrong with this world, you have just committed the original sin, which allows all the wars and transgressions and crimes you see in this world to take place
pride in some arbitrary signifier, above your basic humanity, is the opening move in the game of dehumanizing all other nationalities, or religions, or races, and thereby accepting or rationalizing or acknowledging, even if simply by staying silent, atrocities against other, fellow, human beings
you can still be proud of your nationality, or your religion, or your race, of course
as long as you identify as a human being, first and foremost, above and beyond anything else, and you know that your pride in your nationality, religion, or race, is but a triviality, not a serious factor in your life
Slashdot Mirror
if you show someone crappy NTSC video that looks like it is a third hand copy from a dirty VCR from the 1980s, but with high fidelity stunning THX quality sound, the technical quality of the movie overall is rated highly
but if you show someone something better than IMAX resolution video with perfect clarity and lighting and editting... but with tinny, monaural or badly editted or badly recorded sound with hums and hisses, the technical quality of the movie overall is rated poorly
in other words, the human mind seems to have a built-in intolerant and strict bias about audio quality, but is very forgiving when it comes to video quality (as this story confirms)
budding filmmakers: don't fuss that much about your lighting, camera quality, etc. but make damn sure you get good audio. video artifacts and glitches can be explained away as aesthetic quirks but apparently you will be severely punished by your audience's perceptions if your audio sucks
the human mind has a high tolerance for poor video quality, but audio quality is something it is very attentive to and picky about subconsciously
make a structure OUT OF dead people, not over them. not necessarily mausoleums and cenotaphs, but houses for the living too, or town squares: you become, literally, part of the community you helped to build/ that you loved
ok, it's a little creepy
"dad, where's grandpa?"
"in the third load bearing column by the kitchen"
at the very least, it would be a good backstory for a horror movie, or ghostbusters iii
Web Crawler: Bring out yer dead.
[a Robots.txt responds to the request with a packet]
Robots.txt: Here's one.
Web Crawler: That'll be nine bytes.
Dead Person's Webpage: I'm not dead.
Web Crawler: What?
Robots.txt: Nothing. There's your nine bytes.
Dead Person's Webpage: I'm not dead.
Web Crawler: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
Robots.txt: Yes he is.
Dead Person's Webpage: I'm not.
Web Crawler: He isn't.
Robots.txt: Well, he will be soon, he's got bitrot.
Dead Person's Webpage: I'm getting better. Look, new content from friends and family.
Robots.txt: No you're not, you'll be stale content in a moment. No more page requests.
Web Crawler: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations. Robots.txt, you should take him off your Disallow list.
Dead Person's Webpage: I don't want to go to the 404.
Robots.txt: Oh, don't be such a baby.
Web Crawler: I can't take him.
Dead Person's Webpage: I feel fine.
Robots.txt: Oh, do me a favor.
Web Crawler: I can't.
Robots.txt: Well, can you 302 temporarily redirect him for a couple of days? He won't be long.
Web Crawler: I promised I'd be at the Facebooks'. They've lost nine today.
Robots.txt: Well, when's your next round?
Web Crawler: 20100821 04:32:55 UTC.
Dead Person's Webpage: I think I'll go for a retweet.
Robots.txt: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?
Dead Person's Webpage: Status Update: I feel happy. Status Update: I feel happy.
[Web Crawler spiders up and down the fibre optic pipe furtively, then silences the Webpage with a whack of his delisting]
Robots.txt: Ah, thank you very much.
Web Crawler: Not at all. See you on 20100821 04:32:55 UTC.
Robots.txt: Right.
as long as the meaning is communicated, who cares?
nitpicking about arcane redundant rules of the english language is bizarre to me
my theory is that for grammar nazis, there is some sort of mental condition where a sort of extreme cognitive dissonance results when they see a grammar violation, and they simply can't function unless it is corrected
it's really weird to me, it's some sort of brittleness of mind,a handicap
summer in winter? winter in summer? stop it now
antipodeans are a fictional kind of leprechaun invented to scare young children. there is no such thing as another hemisphere. you would fall off!
you are a poor troll trying to pull a fast one
and say "really fast shouting" should read "shouting really fast" but then i saw you are referring to nicholas cage, so yeah, you are grammatically correct after all
Senator McCarthy: Mr. Chairman, may I say that Mr. Welch talks about this being cruel and reckless. He was just baiting. He has been baiting Mr. Cohn here for hours, requesting that Mr. Cohn before sundown get out of any department of the government anyone who is serving the Communist cause. Now, I just give this man's record and I want to say, Mr. Welch, that it had been labeled long before he became a member, as early as 1944 --
Mr. Welch: Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers' Guild.
Senator McCarthy: Let me finish....
Mr. Welch: And Mr. Cohn nods his head at me. I did you, I think, no personal injury, Mr. Cohn?
Mr. Cohn: No, sir.
Mr. Welch: I meant to do you no personal injury.
Mr. Cohn: No, sir.
Mr. Welch: And if I did, I beg your pardon. Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator.
Senator McCarthy: Let's, let's --
Mr. Welch: You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
Senator McCarthy: I know this hurts you, Mr. Welch.
Mr. Welch: I'll say it hurts!
Senator McCarthy: Mr. Chairman, as point of personal privilege, I'd like to finish this.
Mr. Welch: Senator, I think it hurts you, too, sir.
Senator McCarthy: I'd like to finish this. I know Mr. Cohn would rather not have me go into this. I intend to, however, and Mr. Welch talks about any "sense of decency." I have heard you and everyone else talk so much about laying the truth upon the table. But when I heard the completely phony Mr. Welch, I've been listening now for a long time, he's saying, now "before sundown" you must get these people "out of government." So I just want you to have it very clear, very clear that you were not so serious about that when you tried to recommend this man for this Committee.
Mr. Welch: Mr. McCarthy, I will not discuss this further with you. You have sat within six feet of me and could ask -- could have asked me about Fred Fisher. You have seen fit to bring it out, and if there is a God in heaven, it will do neither you nor your cause any good. I will not discuss it further. I will not ask, Mr. Cohn, any more witnesses. You, Mr. Chairman, may, if you will, call the next witness.
you pay the recently departed some due respect, no matter what they did in life, or you've lost your essential humanity and betrayed whatever nobility you think you stand for but obviously don't, you asshole. the guy was not adolf hitler, no matter how much his politics makes your blood boil. get the fuck over yourself
if you can't do that, then perhaps you are just as self-serving and stupid in your craven motivations as you accuse ted stevens of being
the politics in this country has become too mean spirited: more blood sport self-destruction than frank and intellectually honest discussion. and there are plenty of you, from the right and the left, who are more interested in your own petty tit-for-tat blind partisan team sports, than the essential search for progress for this country. what's the matter? policy discussions too boring? want to call each other socialists and fascists? that excites you? go ahead, ruin this country with your loud boorish simpleminded pettiness you assholes
too many of you are too willing, from the right and the left, to step all over the dignity of your fellow human beings (and your own dignity, not that you realize that) in the pursuit of scoring public relations spin points. so many blogging assholes and so many trolling astroturfing scumbags regurgitating their obvious typical mindless lowest common denominator political opinions on every message board, from THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT. you all think you are the goddamn diety-appointed spokesperson for your ill-thought out dimwitted cause. when the truth is all you fucking armchair political philosophers are worth shit and the content of your thoughts are utterly useless. from THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT. 99% of you do the greatest service to the cause you care about by SHUTTING THE FUCK UP
the politics in the united states has lost all dignity, all intelligence, and all meaning and is now nothing more than a petty high school football game for simpletons
and most of you have completely forgotten about what is at stake. and it is obvious when you forget decency, respect, and simple human decorum, that you don't actually care about you fellow americans anymore, you just care about being the loudest most intelligence-defying piece of shit in the room, be damned the consequences to your country, and be damned the consequences to your character
so listen up, asshole: you respect the recently departed
YOU. RESPECT. THE. RECENTLY. DEPARTED.
do you hear me you fuck?
show some DECENCY. show some CHARACTER. show something of what is missing from the shallow dimwitted politics in this country, you small stupid little man
now fuck off, and try, for once in your pathetic propaganda-addled life, to be a decent human being, you smarmy little piece of shit
ALL OF YOU
i HATE what politics in this country has become: a boatload of loud ignorant trolls
THE GUY JUST DIED. AND YOU'RE DANCING ON HIS CORPSE. THE PROBLEM WITH THIS COUNTRY IS YOU
FUCK
ALL
OF
YOU /rant over, moving on
the guy's dead, show some sensitivity
hating his politics should not be about forgetting your humanity. then perhaps you are worse than whatever you ridicule about ted stevens
results in more customers, or a perceived lack of one results in less customers, than a privacy policy directly translates into dollars, plus or minus, at some point
meaning, what i am saying and writing is not idealism, and is in fact in better touch with capitalist principles that you allude to but apparently understand less than i do
anyone can regurgitate simpleminded cynicism. what you write is even more useless than the airheaded idealism you dislike
it is unfortunate that so many loud boorish people think that their typical easy cynicism is a replacement for actual intelligence. frankly, its worse than the intolerant blind idealists out there. at least they can be interesting sometimes, no matter how flawed
but cynics are simply a dime a dozen, boring, and utterly useless, but unfortunately, always very loud and insistent on entering the conversation loudly announcing what everyone already knows as if it is some grand epiphany they think they have a monopoly on
lowest common denominator cynicism is not a replacement for intelligence. please, some of you shut up and think for once, then try to say something interesting for once
the world could end, BECAUSE someone made a clerical error
soylent google is people!
soylent google is people!
the marketing assholes in the board room, but if google sticks by its loyalty to privacy, they will remain a respected and profitable company for a very long time
if however they break their commitments to privacy, they will, indeed, reap a flurry of greater profits. but at the cost of driving away customers. the problem in a business like google's is there is always another search website, and even if its not quite as fast or accurate as google, if it makes a loud point of pledging to not rape your privacy, then it will even beat google, eventually
before there was google, there was altavista. before facebook, myspace. the king of the web does not have to stay the king of the web, and it can be quite sudden and amazing at how sudden and fast that fall can be. google better remember this
and power is um... pancakes
nucleotide beggars can't be polypeptide choosers
who drove cars?
rich guys
did they save money over a stage coach or a railroad according to any measurements of cost effectiveness?
of course not. why the hell does anyone think that is the fucking point?
this is new tech. well, old tech (the original rich guy gas powered hobby cars were competing with electrical and steam powered models), but "new" in the sense that it is getting a serious look again because of gas price volatility and geopolitical costs of being so dependent on gasoline
please stop making stupid comparisons folks. currently, owning an electric or hybrid is stupid in comparison to a regular gas powered vehicle according to only economic or technical comparison. no fucking shit. big obvious fucking so what
but when you involve passion: passion for urban air quality, passion for mitigating environmental change, passion in sticking it to gulf raping poor country raping oil conglomerates, passion in not funding religious fundamentalist every time you fill up your automobile...
add up all these passions, and you find a large group of people who are happy to spend their money to supplement the growth of an economic sector of technicological tinkering that will deliver you, eventually, the model t of our generation: the first low cost no brainer better alternative to a gasoline powered car
are these people idiots? no. they're technological pioneers, motivated by passion, who are paving way for a better world, that you will benefit from eventually. go ahead and call them airheaded environemtalists or rich guys with too much cash to burn. you're really awesome in the way you have no fucking clue as to kinds of challenges we face in the world and the better place we need to go to. you're awesome in your willfully ignorant love of stasis, be damned the costs of our current love affair with the gas powered automobile
but go ahead and nitpick, imaginationless bean counters, as if your static economic bullshit is supposed to be any sort of persuasive argument, except for the brain dead. you aren't in the least considering all of the valid motivations for buying something more expensive yet something other than your traditional gas guzzling, religious fundamentalist funding, air quality destroying, corporate behemoth building, climate changing traditional fucking car
death to the internal combustion engine, and a big fuck you to those who resist progress out of smallmindedness
the problems with digg are the same as the problems with american politics: a loud minority group of conservative assholes holding every one else hostage from genuine progress
as we know from 2001/ 2010 a space odyssey, enough black monoliths and jupiter will finally ignite and become a second sun. but the question is: what are those black monoliths? and, we finally have our answer: dental x-ray machines, alien dental x-ray machines. that is what inspired pre-homo sapiens species to begin the journey to modern man: the divine inspiration of advanced dental technology
but from the story summary, i think the most pressing question would be why the heck does jupiter have millions of dental X-rays?
is with winston churchill:
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism"
you have absolute truth apparently on your side, be damned everything else
what are you, some sort humanist taliban?
dude: you are as bad, if not worse, than whatever you hate in this world, because you think exactly the same way they do
you hate repression and torture? well, the guys doing the repression and torture are empowered with the same haughty arrogance about their beliefs as you have
get over your fucking self
certain slashdotters are proclaim terry child's innocence or expressing sympathy for him, when if he did the same actions, in another profession, you would be busy declaring his guilt and excoriating his behavior
if you are such a slashdotter, congratulations: you are a prejudiced person
his comment is perfectly appropriate
of course we should work on all possible valid scientific avenues of work. emphasis on the word "VALID", not this hype bullshit in the story summary
and in fact, the guy you are responding to is asking you to do EXACTLY what you want him to do: look at some new technology
so i think your antipathy to his words is without merit
other assorted tea party morons:
you need a powerful government to regulate the market and keep it fair. left on its own, the market is abused by its largest players. point of economic historical fact
wake the fuck up from your idealistic idiocies please
he is extremely powerful. and it is absolutely normal, and healthy in fact, to distrust such power and its potential misuse
as long as people identify themselves as french, or muslim, or black, or brazilian, or christian, or asian, or whatever
before they identify themselves as human
when you identify your nationality, or your religion, or your race, as your primary source of pride and your primary source of identity, you are what is wrong with this world, you have just committed the original sin, which allows all the wars and transgressions and crimes you see in this world to take place
pride in some arbitrary signifier, above your basic humanity, is the opening move in the game of dehumanizing all other nationalities, or religions, or races, and thereby accepting or rationalizing or acknowledging, even if simply by staying silent, atrocities against other, fellow, human beings
you can still be proud of your nationality, or your religion, or your race, of course
as long as you identify as a human being, first and foremost, above and beyond anything else, and you know that your pride in your nationality, religion, or race, is but a triviality, not a serious factor in your life