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  1. "You can live your life playing in the darkness of shadows, or dance with the shadows coloured by the memory of reality when you paused to catch your breath."

    You know, your condescension is not invisible.

  2. Re:Out-of-body on Synchronized Virtual Reality Heartbeat Triggers Out-of-Body Experiences · · Score: 1

    Reality is that which does not go away when you wish it so.

  3. Tenure on Obama Seeks New System For Rating Colleges · · Score: 1

    That's the golden word in all of your support. Tenure.

    That is why they do those long hours, to secure tenure. You know, the ability to lay back and not have to worry about the future - or actually work.

    We all know people in IT who worked just as hard and even longer than the proto-profs and do not have tenure.

    My heart does not bleed. The salaries the profs draw are anything but terrible. Hyperbole for teachers salaries is like the race card; old and unimpressive anymore.

  4. Re:If you are afraid to be known for your comments on Huffington: Trolls Uglier Than Ever, So We're Cutting Off Anonymous Commenting · · Score: 1

    ".../. forces you to post AC if you are critical of Obama and post nothing but facts that they can't refute and want to bury."

    Completely untrue, I do it all the time.

  5. Re:If you are afraid to be known for your comments on Huffington: Trolls Uglier Than Ever, So We're Cutting Off Anonymous Commenting · · Score: 1

    Pedantry is unbecoming. Speaking to someone face to face removes anonymity.

  6. Not unless you're pedantic as all hell. The phrase "stand behind" means you can support your argument with facts. It can *also* mean that you're willing to defend your position with physical force, but that's a lower percentage usage.

  7. Yes, but which of the five varying arguments posted anonymously by the same person are you supposed to evaluate? All of them? Easy to use this technique to simply derail comment threads and troll for flame.

  8. said it

  9. Really? How, without proving you said or just trying to have two (or many more) voices at once and therefore make your argument seem more supported?

  10. "It leads directly to intimidation and bribery..."

    Both of which exist in every country that uses private voting as well. Ever hear of the Blank Panther kerfuffle? There are good arguments for both, but neither precludes the same kind of abuses.

  11. Re:"Maker" isn't a thing on How Oakland Is Turning Into an Art and Maker Mecca · · Score: 1

    It's an offshoot of the concept that ***the process*** is what's important in art, not the resultant quality. I agree, "maker" is a general and too vague to be worthwhile title title in and of itself.

    You can make a table out of a piece of plywood and four posts, but that doesn't make you a furniture maker. "Maker" seems (like in art) just a way to sidestep the term craft.

  12. Re:"Maker" isn't a thing on How Oakland Is Turning Into an Art and Maker Mecca · · Score: 3, Interesting

    To correct your view a touch: the majority of *urban* people are pure consumers. Out here in the boons, it's still the standard way of life. Everyone welds, constructs, fixes and "makes".

  13. Re:Awesome on Huffington: Trolls Uglier Than Ever, So We're Cutting Off Anonymous Commenting · · Score: 4, Informative

    OK. Try assembling the chronological arguments of Anonymous Coward. Even a fake moniker like yours and mine will display a history of thought. AC comments cannot.

  14. Re:Extraordinary claims on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video) · · Score: 1

    Your examples actually work very much against the premise that this would work on humans. We cannot encyst ourselves or self-altar our internal organization and chemistry, both of which your references do to accomplish the hibernation..
    >BR>

  15. Re:Slashvertisement on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video) · · Score: 1

    They may be physical, but not in the sense an arm is. They are transient in nature, the exact thing that death and freezing stops. They are also directional in nature. Exactly how would someone determine the signal and direction after both are destroyed?

    Added thought: What makes anyone think the future would want them?

  16. Mush on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video) · · Score: 1

    How many times must people be told, when the cells are frozen, they are destroyed by ice crystals. Ask any chef (Ramsey says it constantly and can tell by taste).

    It's a scam.

  17. Re:Not a gun on Colorado Teen Designs Robotic Arm With 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    No sarcasm directed at the kid at all. I meant what I wrote. At least /. isn't rehashing someone trying to make a gun.

  18. Not a gun on Colorado Teen Designs Robotic Arm With 3D Printing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Glad to see /. can find better articles on 3D printing.

  19. Re:They didn't know he also... on Yahoo Deletes Journalist's Pre-Paid Legacy Site After Suicide · · Score: 1

    Rag dolls don't assist suicide. Red herring.

  20. Re:just before I saw the draft on Ask Slashdot: Experiences Working At a High-Profile Game Studio? · · Score: 1

    Lemme guess... You program in Perl, right?

  21. Re:Great on Soda Makes Five-Year-Olds Break Your Stuff, Science Finds · · Score: 1

    One hundred percent of infinity is infinity. Apples. Oranges. Try again.

  22. Re:Correlation does not imply causation on Soda Makes Five-Year-Olds Break Your Stuff, Science Finds · · Score: 1

    People who kark on someone's humorous post as being too literal should understand tense when they write their own.

  23. Re:Correct response to obnoxious fans on Biggest Headache For Game Developers: Abusive Fans · · Score: 1

    That was friggin' hilarious.

  24. Re:Blizzard seems to have gotten a handle on it on Biggest Headache For Game Developers: Abusive Fans · · Score: 1

    By definition games you purchase are a business model.

  25. Re:Couldn't have happened to nicer people... on Biggest Headache For Game Developers: Abusive Fans · · Score: 2

    "At the same time it wouldn't be directed at you as a person".

    Bullshit. Verbal abuse is *always* directed at a person. You're rationalizing. The entire context here is abuse and threats, not criticism.