Slashdot Mirror


User: Oligonicella

Oligonicella's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
6,527
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 6,527

  1. Is ... Is not on Taxing Virtual Gaming Assets · · Score: 0, Troll

    For a while, I've read posters whining that the virtual world they frequent is just as real as the world outside. Now that the outside wants to intrude, they're whining it isn't. Rich and delightful.

  2. Re:Utter BS on Software Used To Predict Who Might Kill · · Score: 1

    It's a shame you view Arabs that way. Islam is a global religion and not restricted to Arabs. Further, Islamofascism is a subset of that, albeit a very vocal and violent one. Kind'a like the KKK being a subset of Christianity.

    Or, perhaps you do realize that and are just throwing straw in the wind. 'Cause, you know, everyone else knows it too. Except for the few myopic bigots.

  3. Re:are they that simple? on Air Force Jams Garage Doors · · Score: 1

    There may be crappy cheap ones that are, but my garage is a twin. Both door openers from same mfg. Neither opens the other.

  4. Re:The point of the robot... on Air Force Jams Garage Doors · · Score: 1

    "Are you seriously telling me you weren't concerned ... You weren't looking up in the sky for any more planes?"

    It had been broadcast in short order that the airline planes were accounted for and grounding in progress. I was in Columbus, one of the "targets". I was concerned as to what it all was, but I wasn't looking "in the sky".

    Your sentence fulfills the 'paranoid fantasy' aspect. Getting information, yet being paranoid.

  5. Re:I seriously doubt it... SERIOUSLY on Pyramid Stones Were Poured, Not Quarried · · Score: 1

    "Homer's Odyssey was the closest the Greeks ever came to an actual rhyming system, though, in its native Latin the Odyssey will cause a sane man to go mad."

    Uh, do you not see the contradiction there?

  6. Re:Bronze, not copper. on Pyramid Stones Were Poured, Not Quarried · · Score: 1

    No, actually you did not think first. Shards are of no use. A bent, broken or dulled bronze chisel can be melted and recast.

  7. Re:You break it you buy it. on Iraq Study Group Reaches Concensus · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yes there was proof. Violations of 19 UN resolutions, breaking the no-fly zone, photographic evidence of torture and genocide. What more would you need?

    By way, profited HOW? This is costing us, not making us money. The Oil for Food fiasco was profit motivated, not the deposizing of Saddam.

  8. Re:Concensus. Opposite of a census? on Iraq Study Group Reaches Concensus · · Score: 1

    Dreadful mortality rate brought to you courtesy of Islamofascism via generous donations from Syria and Iran.

  9. Re:Is this about science being apolitical on Politics and 'An Inconvenient Truth' · · Score: 1

    Well, that was loaded with a bunch of assertions backed up with... nothing.

    For your information, the number one pesticide problem is -- cities. That's where golf courses are and where the unlicensed users are (farmers using over certain amounts must take courses and be licensed and inspected). The older ones are less educated, but most of the younger ones have degrees in agriculture. Something I doubt you have. They use the latest techniques.

    Given that, yes cities are the place to stack lots of people. The country is the place to put people who know how to interface and grow the stuff you need. Just get off the redneck rant. It belies your environmental ignorance.

    Yes, I am a degreed biologist living amongst the rurals.

  10. Re:Hey I know what day it is! on Gamers Divorced From Reality? · · Score: 1

    I got a feeling there's less of a percentage of finding something you would die for than of a soldier dying in Iraq.

    I think your mother and best friend were being nice or have odd views, but they're right. You're cynical enough and would probably focus on only you and yours, leaving society at large to flounder. Perfect politician.

  11. Re:I'm so tired of this! on An Inconvenient Truth · · Score: 1

    Study the topic for yourself, the vast majority of ... have been wrong before.

  12. Re:Charged != convicted on UK Woman Charged As Terrorist For Computer Files · · Score: 1

    "There are terrorists all around us! "

    Well, since they've actually -- like, for real -- blown the shit out of things and people, I'd have to agree with that statement.

  13. Re:what's wrong with that logic? on Has Verizon Forfeited Common Carrier Status? · · Score: 1

    Only if he hadn't provided the reason of one being consensual and the other forced, making it clear that it was more than a simple issue of sexual preference. One would have to be dismissive of the forced aspect to equate the two.

  14. Re:Wrong Questions on Global Warming Debunked? · · Score: 1

    "These questions should be framed with the idea that the climate is changing and will eventually wipe life as we know it off the face of the Earth."

    Excellent example of someone with an agenda who isn't interested in discovering the scientific truth.

    As a curious and ironic aside, my image word was "fraught".

  15. Re:Cue the right wing wackos on Research Supports "Snowball Earth" Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    "An orbital solar diffuser is REVERSIBLE"

    Yes, and the Hubble was supposed to FOCUS. Things of complexity break down. What if -- just consider -- what if, your spacecraft drop and refuse communication? How then will you remove said cloud?

    Want another suggestion? One that is Earth-bound and therefore far more likely to be controllable? CO2 scrubbers.

  16. Re:Altering expression of an existing gene isn't n on The Dolphin With Leftover Legs · · Score: 1

    "...evidence that an ancestral dolphin had four fins does not necessarily mean that a dolphin ancestor lived on land..."
    If the evidence stopped there, agreed. But, the evidence proceeds backwards in time to animals which lived on land and in water, and further to land-based ones.

    "The fact that a mutation present in one member of the dolphin population prevents the hind fins disappearing should hardly be newsworthy."
    If you understood mutation, it would be newsworthy.

  17. Re:Pre-election FUD on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    "You think that it is important to KEEP terrorists in the US and not to let the bastards go elsewhere?"

    You would get to trial here how, otherwise?

  18. Re:Pre-election FUD on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    Here's the correction -- "We wish to talk to you about suspicious activities (perfectly legal, like suspected bank robbers), but cannot locate you (like said bank robbers), so if you try to fly, we will detain and talk to you."

  19. Re:Utopian expectations on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    This is no change from when I went to highschool in '67. Minors do not have the right to warranted searches or most other adult rights because they are not adults with the responsibilities of same.

    This is not a bad thing, as minors cannot and do not think well. Study some brain research if you don't believe my last statement. That, or the police blotters.

  20. Re:nothing to hide, no reason to worry? on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    Oh, please. That report was eviserated the day it was fabricated. Four hundred dead per day? Hardly.

  21. Big deal on Automatic Image Tagging · · Score: 1

    So what were they doing, throwing a dart at a damn board? That success rate is no better then randomly applying vague words.
     
    Move along to real research.

  22. Re:Get big media attention on Diebold Demands That HBO Cancel Documentary · · Score: 1

    Apparently you're a sometime viewer. It's on there frequently.

  23. Re:EdGCM: NASA Global Warming Simulator on a Lapto on Tackling Global Warming Cheaper Than Ignoring It · · Score: 1

    Does the model acurrately 'predict' backwards? When you plug in previous facts, does the model reflect the world at that time?

  24. Re:nuisance on Testosterone Tumbling in American Males · · Score: 1

    You can be comfortable with your lower T. Me? Glad mine is still active at 56. Once can learn to not get the boner with simple concentration.

    "What's really scary about this is not the effect it's having on adult males (and the rest of society), which may be positive."

    Bzzt! That's a scary thing too, chum.

    "I have my own personal list of embarrassing things"
    I'll take the embarrassment and a working dick, thank you.

  25. Re:Ahhh on Testosterone Tumbling in American Males · · Score: 1

    Another bio-ignorant poster.