Man, the control freaks at Wikipedia must be going crazy. On one hand, they're doing a Good Deed[tm] for the Poor Third Worlders[tm] which is part and parcel of their Knight In Shining Armor Self-Image[tm].
On the other hand, the filthy peasants are Using Wikipedia Wrong[tm], a capital offense that carries the penalty of Summary Deletion. They must be experiencing such cognitive dissonance that cerebrospinal fluid is squirting out their ears under high pressure. I wish I cared enough to go follow the tortured discussions.
Well, when the new boss took over, I really thought things would change. He fired the two older idiots that posted crap day in and day out first day on the job. But now, we still get this? "Save America"? For real? Sigh...I had such hopes.
A person who gets paid by every confirmed takedown.
Youtube doesn't care because compliance is something they are required to do and they don't make any money off tiny users, thus no incentive to spend time fixing false positives. Tiny users get screwed? Let them eat cake.
Whaa...? Capitalism is disorganized and does whatever the hell it wants without asking anyone first. Rational? Something like 90% of companies go out of business in the first year and should have never been founded. And who mentioned Hitler? Since Godwin's Law has been repealed this year and you can freely compare whoever you want to Hitler, even in the pages of the most sacred liberal media, I suppose you went right for the throat. And yes, the EU does not like voting by the people. I can't really understand where you haven't picked this up before.
"Referenda are pure gambling. There is no guarantee of a positive outcome, unfortunately."
Well, seeing as the case is now a genuine emergency, I know what we can do. Let's give the radical Left everything it's been asking for for decades, right now, without any debate or voting or any of that old-fashioned crap that only randomly results in positive outcomes. Let's make the decision now and get rid of capitalism once and for all, in the West anyway, and implement a fair system by which we'll be ruled by highly intelligent elites that will put all of society's resources in a basket and then share them out fairly for all.
The fact is that even if every American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse emissions, guess what â" that still wouldn't be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world.
If all the industrial nations went down to zero emissions...it wouldn't be enough, not when more than 65 percent of the world's carbon pollution comes from the developing world.
Rational and efficient...where have I heard that before...oh, right as a justification for fascism.
If this system is so great, why can't it be democratically enacted. Because the people won't agree, amirite? To hell with this "representative government" nonsense, that's for the Americans and other foreign barbarians. The Council of Alphas knows what's best for Eurasia, I mean Europe. Two legs good, four legs better.
"their work ought to convince hundreds of thousands of drivers to keep their car keys next to their Pudding Pops"
Huh? Pudding pops? What does that even mean? I thought the new Slashdot management was going to get rid of these horrible summaries that don't make any sense. Since the word is capitalized, I assume this means Jell-O Pudding Pops? The frozen snack from the 80s? They stopped making these a long, long time ago. So you should keep your key fob in the freezer? How does that help?
Well, Christians don't have a holy book that tells them to slay the infidels and take their women and treasure. Islam does. Do we still not know this in two thousand fucking sixteen?
So, the message isn't that the media isn't leftist, it's that it's not leftist enough.
I note that you conveniently leave out the fact that the Democrat-controlled Congress deliberately cut the South Vietnamese off from aid and ensured their downfall. Why? Why did millions of people have to suffer? Well so they could make sure Nixon didn't have a positive legacy. Seriously. What a bunch of pricks.
There are a lot of stupid comments in this thread already but this is the winner for -1 Offtopic, -1 Troll, -1 Unfunny, and -1 Overrated all in the same 500 characters. That's actually pretty hard to do.
Equating the naval base at Guantanamo Bay to Auschwitz and Dachau is one of the main reasons that people turn their brains off when people like you start shouting and spewing spittle. If you had a more reasoned argument, maybe it would make some headway and people would listen. But freaking Auschwitz? The sad part is, I don't even think you and your left-wing progressive friends understand what I'm talking about, and you really think the two places are the same.:(
I notice that not a word has been said about the dissidents that Cuba rounded up before Obama arrived in order that they might not protest. What would happen if Castro visited Miami? Would our secret police do the same? Who is really the villain here, Obama for keeping Guantanamo open, or Castro for his actions today?
The teams selected were not chosen with any race or gender elements in mind
Well, there's your problem right there! You should have done that first and foremost and then your project might have been socially acceptable. Now all you have is another illustration of why racism is alive and well. Good job, racist.
So you've been out of the market for 20 years and have no idea what's going on. Thanks for letting me know you don't need any help and I should help others instead. Nowhere did anyone say 'abusive' until you brought it up. Please stop giving advice on what young women want from men, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Well, we've had a nice conversation, and nobody is mentioning the obvious question: what is the racial makeup of these students that are having their experiments carried aloft? I see one in Georgia, a historically African-American state, and Puerto Rico, Latino, but the rest look as lily-white as the X Games. How did Slashdot miss this angle of the story? News for nerds, remember? Stuff that matters.
And the really easy one - what kind of shirt was the spokesman wearing when he made the announcement? This kind of fashion news trumps any kind of scientific achievement, as we know from empirical evidence.
I still laugh uproariously every time that Assange thing comes up. Here is a man who spent his entire life fantasizing about being a personal enemy of the US government, and he finally got his wish. Then what does he do? Rapes a couple of feminists! Seriously, that's like the first thing in the book of things NOT to do when you're wanted. Stay out of the honey trap! But I suppose hubris isn't just in Greek novels, it's for real. The security services didn't even have to try very hard to nail him. What an idiot.
The really hilarious part is where the Swedish feminist-written laws gave those women carte blanche to accuse Assange of whatever they wanted. If a woman says she was raped, then that means she was raped. If he would have just kept his dick in his pants, he'd be a free man today.
Ah, I know this one. We had the same problem when Solaris came out with an x86 version back in the early 2000s. These drive-by linux users downloaded the ISO as if it were the distro-of-the-week, attempted to install it on whatever random crap hardware they had, and then loudly declared that Solaris sucked because they couldn't get something or other to work properly. The problem isn't the OS, the problem is between the keyboard and chair.
When you install a serious OS, you first must do something very unfamiliar and disconcerting. First, you must look at the list of supported hardware. The importance of this cannot be underestimated. If your hardware is not on the list, then the OS will not support it. Most linux fans come from Windows, which supports just about every bit of random junk Taiwanese hardware in the world. Other OS's aren't like that.
After you look at the hardware list, you then must do another thing that is totally counter-intuitive and out of most people's experience - go and buy supported hardware. They won't do this, they install the OS anyway, and surprise surprise when something doesn't work because the documentation clearly states it's not supported, guess what happens? They get frustrated, feel insulted, and begin screaming loudly online that the OS sucks ass. They wonder why they heard so many great things about the software. If it's so fucking great, why doesn't their wireless trackball and webcam from 1997 work seamlessly like under Windows? This happened so often back in the day with Solaris x86 that we had a slang term for the people who did it, though I forget what it was.
It sounds counterintuitive to shy programmer males, but pushy, arrogant men are in great demand by women. It's sad but unfortunately true.
"I could imagine that few women would want to date people like that for free. "
You are so, so wrong, my friend. You're looking at it from your own perspective, not from a woman's perspective. I hope you can get the wisdom you seek to improve your chances with women, because you have wrongheaded ideas about what women are looking for in a man.:(
The American media is solidly left-wing and has been so since the days of Vietnam when they turned Peace With Honor in 1972 into the perception of a defeat in 1975. The crimes of socialism are responsible for the negative reputation of socialism. What did the North Vietnamese do in 1975 that could have tarnished the reputation? Oh, right, invading and conquering another country with tanks, and then murdering the right-wingers. Who has even heard of this history?
We don't read that site, and aren't required to. This is a different site with different posters. At least you aren't using reddit insider slang without explaining what it means.
Do you have any actual evidence, or you're just saying people that you don't like are people that you don't like? I'm aware that the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club, but come on, offer something better.
How about a rule that says, "this food was harvested by American citizens", or did we suddenly move past full information and into something that you don't want to disclose? Two can play this game.
The history of the 20th century finds plenty of reasons those words were poisoned, and it has nothing to do with media bias. It has everything to do with the depraved hearts of socialists and the utterly ruthless way they went about implementing socialism. I think you really don't know your own history. You need to hit the books. For the short version, one picture is worth a thousand words.
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Man, the control freaks at Wikipedia must be going crazy. On one hand, they're doing a Good Deed[tm] for the Poor Third Worlders[tm] which is part and parcel of their Knight In Shining Armor Self-Image[tm].
On the other hand, the filthy peasants are Using Wikipedia Wrong[tm], a capital offense that carries the penalty of Summary Deletion. They must be experiencing such cognitive dissonance that cerebrospinal fluid is squirting out their ears under high pressure. I wish I cared enough to go follow the tortured discussions.
Well, when the new boss took over, I really thought things would change. He fired the two older idiots that posted crap day in and day out first day on the job. But now, we still get this? "Save America"? For real? Sigh...I had such hopes.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Youtube doesn't care because compliance is something they are required to do and they don't make any money off tiny users, thus no incentive to spend time fixing false positives. Tiny users get screwed? Let them eat cake.
Whaa...? Capitalism is disorganized and does whatever the hell it wants without asking anyone first. Rational? Something like 90% of companies go out of business in the first year and should have never been founded. And who mentioned Hitler? Since Godwin's Law has been repealed this year and you can freely compare whoever you want to Hitler, even in the pages of the most sacred liberal media, I suppose you went right for the throat. And yes, the EU does not like voting by the people. I can't really understand where you haven't picked this up before.
Well, seeing as the case is now a genuine emergency, I know what we can do. Let's give the radical Left everything it's been asking for for decades, right now, without any debate or voting or any of that old-fashioned crap that only randomly results in positive outcomes. Let's make the decision now and get rid of capitalism once and for all, in the West anyway, and implement a fair system by which we'll be ruled by highly intelligent elites that will put all of society's resources in a basket and then share them out fairly for all.
Rational and efficient...where have I heard that before...oh, right as a justification for fascism.
If this system is so great, why can't it be democratically enacted. Because the people won't agree, amirite? To hell with this "representative government" nonsense, that's for the Americans and other foreign barbarians. The Council of Alphas knows what's best for Eurasia, I mean Europe. Two legs good, four legs better.
"their work ought to convince hundreds of thousands of drivers to keep their car keys next to their Pudding Pops"
Huh? Pudding pops? What does that even mean? I thought the new Slashdot management was going to get rid of these horrible summaries that don't make any sense. Since the word is capitalized, I assume this means Jell-O Pudding Pops? The frozen snack from the 80s? They stopped making these a long, long time ago. So you should keep your key fob in the freezer? How does that help?
Well, Christians don't have a holy book that tells them to slay the infidels and take their women and treasure. Islam does. Do we still not know this in two thousand fucking sixteen?
Way to split hairs. Compiler, interpreter, a way to create your own programs. Computers don't come with them and haven't for quite a while.
So, the message isn't that the media isn't leftist, it's that it's not leftist enough.
I note that you conveniently leave out the fact that the Democrat-controlled Congress deliberately cut the South Vietnamese off from aid and ensured their downfall. Why? Why did millions of people have to suffer? Well so they could make sure Nixon didn't have a positive legacy. Seriously. What a bunch of pricks.
That's great, but computers don't come with compilers any more.
There are a lot of stupid comments in this thread already but this is the winner for -1 Offtopic, -1 Troll, -1 Unfunny, and -1 Overrated all in the same 500 characters. That's actually pretty hard to do.
Equating the naval base at Guantanamo Bay to Auschwitz and Dachau is one of the main reasons that people turn their brains off when people like you start shouting and spewing spittle. If you had a more reasoned argument, maybe it would make some headway and people would listen. But freaking Auschwitz? The sad part is, I don't even think you and your left-wing progressive friends understand what I'm talking about, and you really think the two places are the same. :(
I notice that not a word has been said about the dissidents that Cuba rounded up before Obama arrived in order that they might not protest. What would happen if Castro visited Miami? Would our secret police do the same? Who is really the villain here, Obama for keeping Guantanamo open, or Castro for his actions today?
The teams selected were not chosen with any race or gender elements in mind
Well, there's your problem right there! You should have done that first and foremost and then your project might have been socially acceptable. Now all you have is another illustration of why racism is alive and well. Good job, racist.
So you've been out of the market for 20 years and have no idea what's going on. Thanks for letting me know you don't need any help and I should help others instead. Nowhere did anyone say 'abusive' until you brought it up. Please stop giving advice on what young women want from men, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Well, we've had a nice conversation, and nobody is mentioning the obvious question: what is the racial makeup of these students that are having their experiments carried aloft? I see one in Georgia, a historically African-American state, and Puerto Rico, Latino, but the rest look as lily-white as the X Games. How did Slashdot miss this angle of the story? News for nerds, remember? Stuff that matters.
And the really easy one - what kind of shirt was the spokesman wearing when he made the announcement? This kind of fashion news trumps any kind of scientific achievement, as we know from empirical evidence.
I still laugh uproariously every time that Assange thing comes up. Here is a man who spent his entire life fantasizing about being a personal enemy of the US government, and he finally got his wish. Then what does he do? Rapes a couple of feminists! Seriously, that's like the first thing in the book of things NOT to do when you're wanted. Stay out of the honey trap! But I suppose hubris isn't just in Greek novels, it's for real. The security services didn't even have to try very hard to nail him. What an idiot.
The really hilarious part is where the Swedish feminist-written laws gave those women carte blanche to accuse Assange of whatever they wanted. If a woman says she was raped, then that means she was raped. If he would have just kept his dick in his pants, he'd be a free man today.
Ah, I know this one. We had the same problem when Solaris came out with an x86 version back in the early 2000s. These drive-by linux users downloaded the ISO as if it were the distro-of-the-week, attempted to install it on whatever random crap hardware they had, and then loudly declared that Solaris sucked because they couldn't get something or other to work properly. The problem isn't the OS, the problem is between the keyboard and chair.
When you install a serious OS, you first must do something very unfamiliar and disconcerting. First, you must look at the list of supported hardware. The importance of this cannot be underestimated. If your hardware is not on the list, then the OS will not support it. Most linux fans come from Windows, which supports just about every bit of random junk Taiwanese hardware in the world. Other OS's aren't like that.
After you look at the hardware list, you then must do another thing that is totally counter-intuitive and out of most people's experience - go and buy supported hardware. They won't do this, they install the OS anyway, and surprise surprise when something doesn't work because the documentation clearly states it's not supported, guess what happens? They get frustrated, feel insulted, and begin screaming loudly online that the OS sucks ass. They wonder why they heard so many great things about the software. If it's so fucking great, why doesn't their wireless trackball and webcam from 1997 work seamlessly like under Windows? This happened so often back in the day with Solaris x86 that we had a slang term for the people who did it, though I forget what it was.
It sounds counterintuitive to shy programmer males, but pushy, arrogant men are in great demand by women. It's sad but unfortunately true.
"I could imagine that few women would want to date people like that for free. "
You are so, so wrong, my friend. You're looking at it from your own perspective, not from a woman's perspective. I hope you can get the wisdom you seek to improve your chances with women, because you have wrongheaded ideas about what women are looking for in a man. :(
He bills himself as "the science guy"...uh....
The American media is solidly left-wing and has been so since the days of Vietnam when they turned Peace With Honor in 1972 into the perception of a defeat in 1975. The crimes of socialism are responsible for the negative reputation of socialism. What did the North Vietnamese do in 1975 that could have tarnished the reputation? Oh, right, invading and conquering another country with tanks, and then murdering the right-wingers. Who has even heard of this history?
Scientist changes his mind on a subject.
Scientist, without any sense of irony, writes book titled Undeniable, thus pulling up the stairs behind him. /facepalm
We don't read that site, and aren't required to. This is a different site with different posters. At least you aren't using reddit insider slang without explaining what it means.
Do you have any actual evidence, or you're just saying people that you don't like are people that you don't like? I'm aware that the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club, but come on, offer something better.
How about a rule that says, "this food was harvested by American citizens", or did we suddenly move past full information and into something that you don't want to disclose? Two can play this game.
The history of the 20th century finds plenty of reasons those words were poisoned, and it has nothing to do with media bias. It has everything to do with the depraved hearts of socialists and the utterly ruthless way they went about implementing socialism. I think you really don't know your own history. You need to hit the books. For the short version, one picture is worth a thousand words.