Am I crazy, or does slashdot not have the barest level of editorial oversight or quality control? (Mind you, both situations are not mutually exclusive)
There are two kinds of online reviews, whether on Amazon or elsewhere. The kind that are paid for, which aren't worth anything of course but at least money is changing hands and writers gotta make a buck somehow, so I respect that; and the kind that are written by the freekazoid basement dwellers for no compensation or reason except they think we are as interested in the sound of their own voice as they are.
"Tuesday" is a religious issue for people like that. It doesn't help make your case. The fact remains that the Climate Change Alarmism has morphed into something with all the trappings of a zealous religious cult filled with people who would otherwise never ever let themselves be found inside a church, and it is hysterical to watch.
Right. The Pope is a Climate Change Alarmist. And he, like other Climate Change Alarmists, is also known for being a Very Religious Person and drawing conclusions based solely on faith.
>> promote the notion that they are up against a global conspiracy of scientists.
No. The scientists are just the dupes, the pawns needed to lend credibility to the scheme. The global conspiracy consists of the powers that want to siphon off the wealth from 1st world nations and redistribute it elsewhere, while lining their own pockets during the shell game.
>>global warming denial is almost identical to that of evolution denial
You should not conflate the two in any way. A fraction of Evangelicals, who themselves are a tiny fraction of Christianity, believes in Evolution, while a huge -- and growing, weekly -- percentage of the overall population believes that "climate change" is not the immediate dire threat the Alarmists make it out to be.
>> rhetoric
Careful here. This whole thread arose from the clear and comical similarity between the angry threats, chastisements, indignation, etc. routinely expressed by the Alarmists and the fire-and-brimstone rhetoric of certain Baptist preachers. It's quite striking and humorous.
Online Forum Pro-Tip: When you write "'Murrica," you betray your classist prejudice, weaken your argument, and reveal yourself as a hipster lightweight. Always remember that the little bits that gain you guffaws around the high school cafeteria with other members of the AV Club table don't always translate well to adult discussions with strangers.
It is illegal to assault you and I'm not even sure I have a right to privacy. But I will first threaten you, and then follow through on the threat, if you are a glasshole and in the same room as me. I will also pull a cigarette out of the mouth of someone smoking near a pregnant woman who is asked to extinguish it and refuses, even though that is "assault" as well. I do both these things in the name of common decency, a notion usually lost on the insistent close-quarter smokers and glassholes. And both these paragons of Law and Order are welcome to call the cops. Unless we're sitting in college pubs in Brooklyn or Portland, I'm not too concerned about how things will pan out...
Dude, I am the furthest thing from a Luddite you will ever meet and I am proud to have done more than my share online and IRL to keep Google glass from becoming a "thing." Glassholes weren't geeks (see how I am able to use the past tense verb there? I LOVE that!) they were self-absorbed hipster gadgeteers. Geeks value their privacy.
Seriously, that's the whole point. The only reason the OT is included as part of the Good Book is that it helps provide context and narrative. That, and the fact that the early Christians were Jews first and old habits die hard.
The Bible is a story of civilization's redemption, not a Chinese menu where different sects can take one from Column Leviticus and two from Column Galatians. An overwhelming majority of Christianity gets that, but the butt-hurt and snarky will always point to the one or two sociopath Baptist cults like Westboro as if these in any way represent modern Christianity.
No, actually it doesn't. The OT exists in the Christian bible as an historical perspective. It shows what happened, and where we have been. It's the NT and Christ's teachings there that are the basis for intended Christian behavior. Anything in the OT that is refuted in the NT is, well, refuted for Christianity. This is sort of like Religion 101 and I am frankly surprised that someone would come onto a forum as large as slashdot and get into a theology debate without this barest minimum of subject matter knowledge.
I'd be rich. Can you imagine how much money Samsung is spending these days on paid astro-turf stories like these to deflect attention away from the hue and cry over their phones moonlighting as hand grenades?
>>Teachers too are under pressure to cover the material.
Good.
>>She stated, "There's pressure on me and the kids to perform at a higher level academically."
Good.
>>"decoding word drills, practicing sight words, reading to themselves and then to a buddy, counting up to 100 by ones, fives and tens, practicing simple addition, counting money, completing science activities about living things, and writing in journals on multiple occasions."
All Good.
Thank you, Slashdot, I feel a little bit better about the future of our great country today
Racial profiling, like "I bet the guy who blew up the bomb in Chelsea is more likely to answer to the name 'Akbar' than he is 'O'Toole', so let's search the hookah bars before the Irish pubs, we ain't gotta lot of time," that kind of racial profiling? That's not racism, that's common sense allocation of resources in a crisis.
So teach them baking, or investing. The languages and parameters for these don't change every two years and aren't such political footballs. Also: Cupcakes.
Because I know they teach it in high school: Do not rely on Wikipedia for anything more than starting you in more or less the right direction. To build a business or even a business plan around the accuracy of the content in Wikipedia is ludicrous.
Help Wikipedia "revert vandalism"? WTF?? Wikipedia is like that Mom&Pop Bookstore where they scream at you not to let the cat out when you open the door... "Dude, I wandered in to browse some books, if I can't do that without you stressing me I'll go shop someplace else!"
Give their users the tools to incorporate whatever mainstream or bizarro feeds they want into their feeds or pages or whatever they call it. They can stick Free Republic or Daily Kos or Medijate or whatever other crazy-ass site they want up there next to Aunt Dolly's pix of recently baked muffins. FB can still sell profiles of their users to their real customers without worrying about pissing off the extremists, because it's 2017 and we're all online and we're all extremists, about one thing or another.
But Facebook won't do this, because it's not about the Money anymore, it's about the Power, and Facebook has something to prove to the Global Playas about their ability to mind-control the masses...
...that's all anybody is really expecting. Like, one sentence, a parenthetical phrase, even, describing WTF WrkRiot is, what they make, something, anything, in the first paragraph of the summary to make me care about this. We get a "Credit Karma of LinkedIn" buried somewhere in the middle, which -- fascinating-ly -- is actually LESS than descriptive or useful.
Slashdot, I love you guys, but most days you make it really, really tough...
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I for one would like to see cliches and lazy language like "slippery slope" and "I for one" disappear.
Am I crazy, or does slashdot not have the barest level of editorial oversight or quality control? (Mind you, both situations are not mutually exclusive)
There are two kinds of online reviews, whether on Amazon or elsewhere. The kind that are paid for, which aren't worth anything of course but at least money is changing hands and writers gotta make a buck somehow, so I respect that; and the kind that are written by the freekazoid basement dwellers for no compensation or reason except they think we are as interested in the sound of their own voice as they are.
Maybe on your planet.
Here on Earth, keeping the Internet under U.S. control is/was its only chance for keeping the exchange of thoughts and idea unfettered.
I must be a super genius tech entrepreneur and didn't know it...
cuz folks are just about done buying them!
"Tuesday" is a religious issue for people like that. It doesn't help make your case. The fact remains that the Climate Change Alarmism has morphed into something with all the trappings of a zealous religious cult filled with people who would otherwise never ever let themselves be found inside a church, and it is hysterical to watch.
Right. The Pope is a Climate Change Alarmist. And he, like other Climate Change Alarmists, is also known for being a Very Religious Person and drawing conclusions based solely on faith.
That *was* your point, right...?
>> promote the notion that they are up against a global conspiracy of scientists.
No. The scientists are just the dupes, the pawns needed to lend credibility to the scheme. The global conspiracy consists of the powers that want to siphon off the wealth from 1st world nations and redistribute it elsewhere, while lining their own pockets during the shell game.
>>global warming denial is almost identical to that of evolution denial
You should not conflate the two in any way. A fraction of Evangelicals, who themselves are a tiny fraction of Christianity, believes in Evolution, while a huge -- and growing, weekly -- percentage of the overall population believes that "climate change" is not the immediate dire threat the Alarmists make it out to be.
>> rhetoric
Careful here. This whole thread arose from the clear and comical similarity between the angry threats, chastisements, indignation, etc. routinely expressed by the Alarmists and the fire-and-brimstone rhetoric of certain Baptist preachers. It's quite striking and humorous.
Climate Change is not a religious issue for those who "deny" it. (The other side, arguably yes...) You're confusing it with Evolution.
But keep ranting, you're making anti-religious bigots look like angry, confused assholes here at the top of the page. Carry on...
It's the Climate Change Alarmists who behave more like religious zealots.
Just sayin'...
Online Forum Pro-Tip: When you write "'Murrica," you betray your classist prejudice, weaken your argument, and reveal yourself as a hipster lightweight. Always remember that the little bits that gain you guffaws around the high school cafeteria with other members of the AV Club table don't always translate well to adult discussions with strangers .
Happy to help.
It is illegal to assault you and I'm not even sure I have a right to privacy. But I will first threaten you, and then follow through on the threat, if you are a glasshole and in the same room as me. I will also pull a cigarette out of the mouth of someone smoking near a pregnant woman who is asked to extinguish it and refuses, even though that is "assault" as well. I do both these things in the name of common decency, a notion usually lost on the insistent close-quarter smokers and glassholes. And both these paragons of Law and Order are welcome to call the cops. Unless we're sitting in college pubs in Brooklyn or Portland, I'm not too concerned about how things will pan out...
Dude, I am the furthest thing from a Luddite you will ever meet and I am proud to have done more than my share online and IRL to keep Google glass from becoming a "thing." Glassholes weren't geeks (see how I am able to use the past tense verb there? I LOVE that!) they were self-absorbed hipster gadgeteers. Geeks value their privacy.
He got better?
Seriously, that's the whole point. The only reason the OT is included as part of the Good Book is that it helps provide context and narrative. That, and the fact that the early Christians were Jews first and old habits die hard.
The Bible is a story of civilization's redemption, not a Chinese menu where different sects can take one from Column Leviticus and two from Column Galatians. An overwhelming majority of Christianity gets that, but the butt-hurt and snarky will always point to the one or two sociopath Baptist cults like Westboro as if these in any way represent modern Christianity.
No, actually it doesn't. The OT exists in the Christian bible as an historical perspective. It shows what happened, and where we have been. It's the NT and Christ's teachings there that are the basis for intended Christian behavior. Anything in the OT that is refuted in the NT is, well, refuted for Christianity. This is sort of like Religion 101 and I am frankly surprised that someone would come onto a forum as large as slashdot and get into a theology debate without this barest minimum of subject matter knowledge.
I'd be rich. Can you imagine how much money Samsung is spending these days on paid astro-turf stories like these to deflect attention away from the hue and cry over their phones moonlighting as hand grenades?
>>Teachers too are under pressure to cover the material.
Good.
>>She stated, "There's pressure on me and the kids to perform at a higher level academically."
Good.
>>"decoding word drills, practicing sight words, reading to themselves and then to a buddy, counting up to 100 by ones, fives and tens, practicing simple addition, counting money, completing science activities about living things, and writing in journals on multiple occasions."
All Good.
Thank you, Slashdot, I feel a little bit better about the future of our great country today
Racial profiling, like "I bet the guy who blew up the bomb in Chelsea is more likely to answer to the name 'Akbar' than he is 'O'Toole', so let's search the hookah bars before the Irish pubs, we ain't gotta lot of time," that kind of racial profiling? That's not racism, that's common sense allocation of resources in a crisis.
So teach them baking, or investing. The languages and parameters for these don't change every two years and aren't such political footballs. Also: Cupcakes.
He refers to Hillary as "unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still dicking bimbos at home." That didn't bore me at all!
One of those "major technology companies" is not like the others...
Because I know they teach it in high school: Do not rely on Wikipedia for anything more than starting you in more or less the right direction. To build a business or even a business plan around the accuracy of the content in Wikipedia is ludicrous.
Help Wikipedia "revert vandalism"? WTF?? Wikipedia is like that Mom&Pop Bookstore where they scream at you not to let the cat out when you open the door... "Dude, I wandered in to browse some books, if I can't do that without you stressing me I'll go shop someplace else!"
Give their users the tools to incorporate whatever mainstream or bizarro feeds they want into their feeds or pages or whatever they call it. They can stick Free Republic or Daily Kos or Medijate or whatever other crazy-ass site they want up there next to Aunt Dolly's pix of recently baked muffins. FB can still sell profiles of their users to their real customers without worrying about pissing off the extremists, because it's 2017 and we're all online and we're all extremists, about one thing or another.
But Facebook won't do this, because it's not about the Money anymore, it's about the Power, and Facebook has something to prove to the Global Playas about their ability to mind-control the masses...
...that's all anybody is really expecting. Like, one sentence, a parenthetical phrase, even, describing WTF WrkRiot is, what they make, something, anything, in the first paragraph of the summary to make me care about this. We get a "Credit Karma of LinkedIn" buried somewhere in the middle, which -- fascinating-ly -- is actually LESS than descriptive or useful.
Slashdot, I love you guys, but most days you make it really, really tough...