It's not censorship. I browse at -1 (sig is a JOKE!) and I saw your stupid, pointless waste of bandwidth. If I chose to set my threshold higher I wouldn't have, but it would still be there to annoy anyone browsing at that level. There are several local television stations that I'm not watching right now, doesn't mean that they've been censored. If I don't have time to read the local newspaper it hasn't been censored. Whatever they chose to print is there on the pages, it still got delivered to the house, and if I chose to arrange my priorities differently, I could read it. Freedom of the press means that the government can't tell them what to print or not print, doesn't mean that I have some obligation to read it or that they can force me to read it.
Was "Strange Luck" the one about the kid who was the only survivor of an airliner crash, and was adopted by the cop who found him? On CBS about 10 years ago?
But since both are a sort of "Casablanca" ("Everybody Comes To Rick's")/"Cheers"/"Tales of the White Hart" blend, either one can only claim just so much originality. Not a slam against either show, by the way, I'm a fan of both.
There's a little known but always observed law in NC that says that the skies must be overcast anytime there's going to be one of these interesting once in a lifetime things going on in the sky that would otherwise actually be visible here in "the goodliest land under the cope of heaven".
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And there I was, all set to get rich meeting the overwhelming demand for beach front houses in Antarctica.
The beauty of the multiple names for individual concepts approach is that it leads to the same name being given to different concepts, thus furthering the obfustication factor, and keeping the rabble at bay. What's the point of being a high priest if everybody understands the mumbo jumbo?:-)
"What happens when having a big, reliable pipe to your home becomes the norm?" Please tell me that you aren't holding your breath waiting for that to occur, as I fear it would be fatally detrimental to your general health and well being.
Your post probably deserves a +1 more than mine does, but it's been sitting here over half a day ignored by the moderators for any of a number of what may or may not be perfectly good and valid reasons. Because of that, I browse at a painful -1 (attention sig nazis, the sig is a joke). The most obvious peer pressure here is the attempt to outdo each other in offensiveness and obnoxiousness.
I wondered what their excuse would be.
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So is this what they're going to blame the current rash of Slashdot trouble on? Solar activity?
Although I don't recall having mentioned anywhere except U.S. and Switzerland, Britain is probably an example (though an imperfect one) of what the American propensity for violence would achieve in a largely gunless society. Crimes and murders and suicides would still occur, but without the ease which firearms provide. Iran and China I don't know that much about. Don't like what I hear on the news about their governments, though.
It's probably a generational thing, mostly. Not really worth worrying about as long as you're a reasonable person who knows that their opinion of what is or isn't good music is just that, an opinion, and who's willing to let everybody listen to the music of their own choice without getting all bent out of shape about it.
The "Quick Links" Slashbox (which I *do* know that I can turn off in preferences) has a section that says "Support Slashdot:" and includes links to ThinkGeek and CDnow. Back when Slashdot was a few college kids living on Ramen, selling blood to buy parts for a server in someone's dorm room closet, or something similar, this made perfect sense, kinda like the PBS and NPR mail order sweatshirt, poster, and coffee mug catalog, but now that this is a "real grown-up business", is it still appropriate? They aren't still dependent on donations, are they?
Well, he does do a very good job of bringing Jim Steinman's work to life (although I do prefer Steinman's own release of "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through").
Is there an intermittent Slashdot bug that directs the occasional post to the wrong story, or have these guys just got a lot of posting windows open simultaneously and aren't clever enough to check the top of the screen to see which story they're responding to?
I've seen Grossman on 60 minutes or Nightline or somesuch, and he talks about some kid who, having never previously used real guns, nevertheless was able to go on a rampage killing several people with head shots, apparently due to the "training" the kid received from some video game he practically lived in. Real cops are trained in the use of real guns and are taught to go for the body shot as much more reliable than the head shot, but those cops in New York who emptied their clips at the guy reaching for his wallet hit their target with about only 25% of their shots, yet this kid was doing more like "one bullet,one corpse" with the much more difficult head shot. I'm not saying the video game made him a killer or caused him to go out on a killing spree, but apparently they made him frighteningly efficient at it, and I find that more than a little scary, especially as these kids don't seem to have any real difficulty getting their hands on "bullet hoses".
But are the Swiss as "in love" with guns as so many in the U.S. seem to be? Those adult males are required to have those rifles because they are part of Switzerland's defense force. I suspect that lower crime rate is more of a cultural thing than a fear of getting shot.
I see we have a moderator concerned that out of a total of 3 posts the really good one will be overshadowed without a striking difference in point values.
Unless they're just too timid to wade into the heavily commented upon story threads.
I think I'll leave the bonus point on just to give them something else to shoot at.
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It's not censorship. I browse at -1 (sig is a JOKE!) and I saw your stupid, pointless waste of bandwidth. If I chose to set my threshold higher I wouldn't have, but it would still be there to annoy anyone browsing at that level. There are several local television stations that I'm not watching right now, doesn't mean that they've been censored. If I don't have time to read the local newspaper it hasn't been censored. Whatever they chose to print is there on the pages, it still got delivered to the house, and if I chose to arrange my priorities differently, I could read it. Freedom of the press means that the government can't tell them what to print or not print, doesn't mean that I have some obligation to read it or that they can force me to read it.
Sob! Mommy, the Anonymous Cowards are being mean to me again, make them stop! :-)
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Compare Avery Brooks as Hawk in the Spenser series with his portrayal of the captain in the early DS9 episodes. Hardly seemed to be the same actor.
Was "Strange Luck" the one about the kid who was the only survivor of an airliner crash, and was adopted by the cop who found him? On CBS about 10 years ago?
But since both are a sort of "Casablanca" ("Everybody Comes To Rick's")/"Cheers"/"Tales of the White Hart" blend, either one can only claim just so much originality.
Not a slam against either show, by the way, I'm a fan of both.
"why not ban kids from owning a network-capable PC before they are 18?"
Could Slashdot survive with its audience reduced to only about 100 users?
At least he didn't talk about his investments :-)
There's a little known but always observed law in NC that says that the skies must be overcast anytime there's going to be one of these interesting once in a lifetime things going on in the sky that would otherwise actually be visible here in "the goodliest land under the cope of heaven".
And there I was, all set to get rich meeting the overwhelming demand for beach front houses in Antarctica.
About 20 years ago I read where someone said that the future military of the U.S. were training themselves, one quarter at a time.
"Drinking vodka helps you speak Russian, obviously!!!" :-)
Well, a lot of vodka always makes my speech sound a lot more like Russian than English
The beauty of the multiple names for individual concepts approach is that it leads to the same name being given to different concepts, thus furthering the obfustication factor, and keeping the rabble at bay. What's the point of being a high priest if everybody understands the mumbo jumbo? :-)
"What happens when having a big, reliable pipe to your home becomes the norm?"
Please tell me that you aren't holding your breath waiting for that to occur, as I fear it would be fatally detrimental to your general health and well being.
Your post probably deserves a +1 more than mine does, but it's been sitting here over half a day ignored by the moderators for any of a number of what may or may not be perfectly good and valid reasons.
Because of that, I browse at a painful -1 (attention sig nazis, the sig is a joke). The most obvious peer pressure here is the attempt to outdo each other in offensiveness and obnoxiousness.
So is this what they're going to blame the current rash of Slashdot trouble on? Solar activity?
Although I don't recall having mentioned anywhere except U.S. and Switzerland, Britain is probably an example (though an imperfect one) of what the American propensity for violence would achieve in a largely gunless society. Crimes and murders and suicides would still occur, but without the ease which firearms provide. Iran and China I don't know that much about. Don't like what I hear on the news about their governments, though.
It's probably a generational thing, mostly. Not really worth worrying about as long as you're a reasonable person who knows that their opinion of what is or isn't good music is just that, an opinion, and who's willing to let everybody listen to the music of their own choice without getting all bent out of shape about it.
The "Quick Links" Slashbox (which I *do* know that I can turn off in preferences) has a section that says "Support Slashdot:" and includes links to ThinkGeek and CDnow.
Back when Slashdot was a few college kids living on Ramen, selling blood to buy parts for a server in someone's dorm room closet, or something similar, this made perfect sense, kinda like the PBS and NPR mail order sweatshirt, poster, and coffee mug catalog, but now that this is a "real grown-up business", is it still appropriate?
They aren't still dependent on donations, are they?
Pam Dawber as Ms Croft. Hmmm. Check out Dawber in the '70s movie "The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything". Delicious.
Well, he does do a very good job of bringing Jim Steinman's work to life (although I do prefer Steinman's own release of "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through").
Is there an intermittent Slashdot bug that directs the occasional post to the wrong story, or have these guys just got a lot of posting windows open simultaneously and aren't clever enough to check the top of the screen to see which story they're responding to?
I've seen Grossman on 60 minutes or Nightline or somesuch, and he talks about some kid who, having never previously used real guns, nevertheless was able to go on a rampage killing several people with head shots, apparently due to the "training" the kid received from some video game he practically lived in.
Real cops are trained in the use of real guns and are taught to go for the body shot as much more reliable than the head shot, but those cops in New York who emptied their clips at the guy reaching for his wallet hit their target with about only 25% of their shots, yet this kid was doing more like "one bullet,one corpse" with the much more difficult head shot.
I'm not saying the video game made him a killer or caused him to go out on a killing spree, but apparently they made him frighteningly efficient at it, and I find that more than a little scary, especially as these kids don't seem to have any real difficulty getting their hands on "bullet hoses".
But are the Swiss as "in love" with guns as so many in the U.S. seem to be? Those adult males are required to have those rifles because they are part of Switzerland's defense force. I suspect that lower crime rate is more of a cultural thing than a fear of getting shot.
Unless they're just too timid to wade into the heavily commented upon story threads.
I think I'll leave the bonus point on just to give them something else to shoot at.