I find this especially ironic. People care about Paris Hilton's car crash not because car crashes are particularly rare, but because Paris Hilton is really popular. And you're reasoning that Google ordering items by popularity is very important, not because ordering by popularity is particularly rare, but because Google is really popular.
1- Like rain on a wedding day.
2- For crying out loud, WHY is google popular VS why is the dumb blonde popular? THAT is the freaking difference.
Google is popular because it works well, the article is about how it works. Paris Hilton is popular because she's got money for self promotion. She's a vapid waste of carbon who should be ignored.
P.S. Had not heard of her car trouble before you mentioned her.
Even if you took the radiation aspect away from the Hiroshima bomb it still would have done far more damage. Guess the whole line of "location, location, location" really is true.
Of course the meteor would not have had any noteworthy radioactivity and was not in a populated area.
Ah, a very insightfull retort.
But you forgot to mention that the radioactive fallout would be much smaller, AND that the coordinates of the impact place it far from any city or industry.
they AGREE that trading files online is morally comparable to intentionally murdering women, children and other non-combatants or, more likely, they think terrorists, as long as they are politically correct anti-american/anti-semitic terrorists that is, are admirable people worthy of comparing oneself to.
Maybe he meant that they're a movement going from the underground to the mainstream, the way the hezbollah did?
But 9/11 apparently did change everything. Lately the EFF seems to spend most of its time and effort supporting the terrorists
Oh... Ok. Maybe I should leave you to your irrational rant then...
To search whitey just to be PC and not be accused of "racial profiling" is just plain ridiculous, because the truth is it IS racial profiling, based in forensics.
Tell that to the cop who caught the Oklahoma City bomber, jackass:
In the moments after news of the explosion hit national press, sketches of Middle Eastern men were posted. Numerous terrorist groups were targeted. It made logical sense to America, as two years prior, the last attempt of a building being bombed was the World Trade Center in New York. It would not be until a few days later that these reports would be proven wrong.
Within 90 minutes of the explosion Timothy McVeigh, a Gulf War veteran, was arrested, travelling north out of Oklahoma City on Interstate 35 near Perry in Noble County, after being pulled over for driving without a license plate by an Oklahoma State Trooper.
You would have been harassing innocents, and would have ignored whity. Good thing that cop did his damn job instead of knee-jerking (or "using forensics" as you call it).
I fail to see how the grandparent, which simply said "Good thing he's white" can be modded +5 insightful while this AC post, which actually provides a little bit of information (an anecdote, at least) can be modded 0.
You fail to see how a logged-in user that got in the thread early can have a higher mod than an anonymous coward that replied to it? Might want to go read up on the subject.
John Perry Barlow: We were at one point the biggest grossing performing act in the United States, and most of our records went platinum sooner or later. It's an economic model that has worked in my experience and I think it does work. It's just that it seems like it wouldn't. It seems counter-intuitive.
Dan Glickman: It is ridiculous to believe that you can give product away for free and be more successful. I mean it defies the laws of nature.
"Look, this works. I have proof." "I refuse to believe it can work."
If they can't listen to reason, we'll have to wait for them to die, it seems.
batteries perform poorly in the cold (due to their chemical electricity-generating process)
What has always baffled me about this is that putting a seemingly dead battery in the freezer for a few hours will give you back about tten minuttes of power.
Why is weed illegal? IANALawyer but I would guess it alters one's state of mind and is therefore not to be trusted.
Beer is legal, cough syrup is legal at any age, and MORPHINE is more legal than pot. YANAL, but your guess is obviously WAY off.
But the fundemental rule when applied was valid enough and no argument since has been strong enough to repeal it.
You seen many axe murdering stoners recently? The original argument was a lie, flat out lie, and ever since all, I mean ALL scientific studies have concluded that it should be taken off the illegal substances list.
The law is immoral. Laws are not based on morality. Q.e.d.
How long before we find these on eBay for $200? Money and food probably means a lot more to many of these people's immediate needs then a laptop for their child.
Well, about as long as it takes for them to use the laptops to get to eBay for the first time, I'd say.
Law itself is based on morality. I cannot think of any law which you cannot tie directly or indirectly to morality.
And ruining someone's life because they decided to smoke some weed is moral how? Denying chronic pain sufferer relief from said weed is moral how?
Please include the original argument for that legislation in your explanation: The devil's weed turns people who try it into axe murderers (I kid you not).
there's only one magical instant in the entire process: conception, before which their are two different things and after which there is a new organism. [...]
Note that I'm arguing purely from the scientific side.
Is all this technology assisting with breeding a race of second rate homo sapiens?
Why stop at rare diseases? Let's breed a race of humans impervious to all diseases and injuries! I'm sure you'll be the first to refuse all medical treatments, in the name of the betterment of humanity's genetic stock.
would you rather have an RPG that started you out at max level with all your gear, or is it more fun to work for it?
I'd rather have an RPG that has you levelling up normally than one that is designed to force you to run in circles for 10 hours to level up enough to beat the next boss, just to pad the play time numbers.
Example: Grandia II, there's a cliff that takes FOREVER to go down. There's no point to it, they just wanted to have the right amount of playtime listed in the reviews. That sucks. A lot.
I wonder if we are going to see only one side, overly liberal people who believe whatever people say is science as long as they are saying the right and/or republicans are ignoring it, abusing it, etc etc.
Setting up a dichotomy (badly).
This is stupid, and does not belong on Slashdot at all.
Summing up his own post.
it will be a right/republican bashing contest. And sorry to say for all you super liberals here on Slashdot
Flamebaiting one side of the dichotomy and propping up the other as victims.
I remember when Slashdot use to be about science and geekyness.....
Which somehow doesn't include cartoons about science (in trollland): An obvious falsehood baiting for an easy correction.
you mean that when they pay up the people actually let them get their files back? you would think any criminal would just delete them, say that they would give them back and then just take off with the money; they are already breaking the law, whats another one added to that?
Another one what? What additional law are they breaking by not doing their part of the extortion deal?
This is a criminal business, they need their victims to know that they'll get the files back, or else they won't pay for long. Just like small mom & pop store owners need to know that they won't get shaken down at night when they close shop... if they pay the protection fee to the large men with no sense of humour.
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I find this especially ironic. People care about Paris Hilton's car crash not because car crashes are particularly rare, but because Paris Hilton is really popular.
And you're reasoning that Google ordering items by popularity is very important, not because ordering by popularity is particularly rare, but because Google is really popular.
1- Like rain on a wedding day.
2- For crying out loud, WHY is google popular VS why is the dumb blonde popular? THAT is the freaking difference.
Google is popular because it works well, the article is about how it works.
Paris Hilton is popular because she's got money for self promotion. She's a vapid waste of carbon who should be ignored.
P.S. Had not heard of her car trouble before you mentioned her.
Ah, a very insightfull retort.
But you forgot to mention that the radioactive fallout would be much smaller, AND that the coordinates of the impact place it far from any city or industry.
they AGREE that trading files online is morally comparable to intentionally murdering women, children and other non-combatants or, more likely, they think terrorists, as long as they are politically correct anti-american/anti-semitic terrorists that is, are admirable people worthy of comparing oneself to.
Maybe he meant that they're a movement going from the underground to the mainstream, the way the hezbollah did?
But 9/11 apparently did change everything. Lately the EFF seems to spend most of its time and effort supporting the terrorists
Oh... Ok. Maybe I should leave you to your irrational rant then...
Tell that to the cop who caught the Oklahoma City bomber, jackass:
You would have been harassing innocents, and would have ignored whity. Good thing that cop did his damn job instead of knee-jerking (or "using forensics" as you call it).
I fail to see how the grandparent, which simply said "Good thing he's white" can be modded +5 insightful while this AC post, which actually provides a little bit of information (an anecdote, at least) can be modded 0.
You fail to see how a logged-in user that got in the thread early can have a higher mod than an anonymous coward that replied to it? Might want to go read up on the subject.
Or put another way... "I'll see it when I believe it."
No, he's actually saying "I don't need to see it. I know it can't be true."
"Look, this works. I have proof."
"I refuse to believe it can work."
If they can't listen to reason, we'll have to wait for them to die, it seems.
or my game console color limited to black or white.
What the hell are you talking about???
batteries perform poorly in the cold (due to their chemical electricity-generating process)
What has always baffled me about this is that putting a seemingly dead battery in the freezer for a few hours will give you back about tten minuttes of power.
Amaze your friends!
Why is weed illegal? IANALawyer but I would guess it alters one's state of mind and is therefore not to be trusted.
Beer is legal, cough syrup is legal at any age, and MORPHINE is more legal than pot.
YANAL, but your guess is obviously WAY off.
But the fundemental rule when applied was valid enough and no argument since has been strong enough to repeal it.
You seen many axe murdering stoners recently? The original argument was a lie, flat out lie, and ever since all, I mean ALL scientific studies have concluded that it should be taken off the illegal substances list.
The law is immoral.
Laws are not based on morality. Q.e.d.
How long before we find these on eBay for $200? Money and food probably means a lot more to many of these people's immediate needs then a laptop for their child.
Well, about as long as it takes for them to use the laptops to get to eBay for the first time, I'd say.
Law itself is based on morality. I cannot think of any law which you cannot tie directly or indirectly to morality.
And ruining someone's life because they decided to smoke some weed is moral how?
Denying chronic pain sufferer relief from said weed is moral how?
Please include the original argument for that legislation in your explanation: The devil's weed turns people who try it into axe murderers (I kid you not).
there's only one magical instant in the entire process: conception, before which their are two different things and after which there is a new organism. [...]
Note that I'm arguing purely from the scientific side.
Sure you are, Bub, sure you are.
Whatever happened to survival of the fittest?
Still going strong.
Is all this technology assisting with breeding a race of second rate homo sapiens?
Why stop at rare diseases? Let's breed a race of humans impervious to all diseases and injuries! I'm sure you'll be the first to refuse all medical treatments, in the name of the betterment of humanity's genetic stock.
would you rather have an RPG that started you out at max level with all your gear, or is it more fun to work for it?
I'd rather have an RPG that has you levelling up normally than one that is designed to force you to run in circles for 10 hours to level up enough to beat the next boss, just to pad the play time numbers.
Example: Grandia II, there's a cliff that takes FOREVER to go down. There's no point to it, they just wanted to have the right amount of playtime listed in the reviews.
That sucks.
A lot.
try thinking of them as spreading the fun over a longer period of time.
Yeah, that'll make the tediousness enjoyable!
Also, when it's cold out, don't put on a sweater, try to think about hawaii, that'll warm you up!
if video games are "murder simulators" (at least according to Jack Thompson), then are violent movies "murder instructional videos"?
And Tom Clancy produces Murder Manuals! He must be stopped! Or else!
It's a clever euphemism for "accomplice" ;-)
I believe what you were looking for is this:
;-)
Jack don't know SHIT.
I initially wrote it as that, but I realised that all Jack knows is bullshit, so I reworded it
I once went to a thanatological exhibition where they demonstrated facial reconstruction of severe facial trauma victims for open casket funerals.
I skipped lunch that day.
Since when do hitmen execute people by shooting them in the face? Back of the head/neck is traditional.
Jack don't know anything.
Ahem. "National Socialist Party."
You believe everything the nazis tell you?
I wonder if we are going to see only one side, overly liberal people who believe whatever people say is science as long as they are saying the right and/or republicans are ignoring it, abusing it, etc etc.
Setting up a dichotomy (badly).
This is stupid, and does not belong on Slashdot at all.
Summing up his own post.
it will be a right/republican bashing contest. And sorry to say for all you super liberals here on Slashdot
Flamebaiting one side of the dichotomy and propping up the other as victims.
I remember when Slashdot use to be about science and geekyness.....
Which somehow doesn't include cartoons about science (in trollland): An obvious falsehood baiting for an easy correction.
there's a lot of misinformation on slashdot (surprise surprise) but it always seems to be worse when it involves the law...
:-)
Probably because we all know that ignorance of the law is inexcusable, so bullshitting the law appears to be a better option
you mean that when they pay up the people actually let them get their files back? you would think any criminal would just delete them, say that they would give them back and then just take off with the money; they are already breaking the law, whats another one added to that?
Another one what? What additional law are they breaking by not doing their part of the extortion deal?
This is a criminal business, they need their victims to know that they'll get the files back, or else they won't pay for long. Just like small mom & pop store owners need to know that they won't get shaken down at night when they close shop... if they pay the protection fee to the large men with no sense of humour.