More reason than to perpetuate the drama and keep the infamous Beatles/Monkey/Random-Poster in the limelight for as long as possible? Email the editors please, and keep the soap-opera out of the comments.
The previous story was posted yesterday.
Meaning it was off the front-page today. Meaning those who did not read/. yesterday probably have not yet heard of the story. Meaning that now we can aquire fresh feedback and alternate perspectives on the same topic, as well as digest the information from yesterdays posting. Meaning there will be lots of "stale repeats" in the comments, but since you already know the story is a dupe from yesterday you will know to avoid reading it, yes?
I for one, will be more interested in fresher comments concerning the dupe than stale repeats of what I read yesterday.
Oops. Obviously not. So you clicked-through to a dupe in order to read comments on the fact that yes, it is indeed a dupe? You want to deliberately infuriate yourself about it? Sounds like Internet masochism to me.
If you genuinely don't want to see dupes or want to see them handled better, just email the editors with your concerns or write something up in your journal -- it really doesn't help the *current* discussion to keep hammering on about how it's a dupe and the end of the/. world is nigh because it was already posted 24 hours ago.
I find it pretty absurd for someone to actively contribute to the amount of noise at/. and for them to have no problem with that, considering they are arguing against it. And look, you've got *me* doing it too.
Yes, this sites' obvious function is to create as much drama as possible about "dupes" and submitter-links in order to drown out the genuinely useful, insightful posts from people who - horror of horrors - might not have actually heard about the story yet, regardless of how many times it has been "duped."
Helping with/.'s signal-to-noise ratio is fine by me. I don't mind links to the orignally submitted story because I can swot-up on the old discussion. I would prefer it if there was a "dupe" button that allowed users to post links to the original stories. At least then we can forbid "dupe" posts from entering the main discussion.
I don't think I'm alone in saying: "I don't give a flying crap about your Dupes/Links/Beatles/Scuttle drama." When the discussion that gets modded to the top has absolutely nothing to do with the topic, I find *that* more of a reason to avoid/. than any number of dupes.
I just want to read the good posts by the informed readers who haven't seen the story yet, and just one or two links to the original discussions if it is a dupe.
Out of curiosity, have you ever met a Christian or read anything by a Christian that wasn't actually a satirical website that made that claim?
Yes, although other than mild implication through the 6,000-years thing I was trying to avoid a Christian reference in my post. I've also heard many times the whole "God created the Earth in 6 days, but one God-day could be like, a million man-days!" argument.
Reasons I have heard stated . ..
Then you have met more rational, reasonable Christians than I have.
Lets go off-topic and try explaining it, and in the process kill the funny: The Earth, by modern scientific calculations, is about 4.57 billion years old. Certain religious-texts suggest that this is not the case, and the figure stands at a much more youthful 6,000 years. Those who hold these texts to be true go on to argue the reason scientific analysis reveals a much older Earth is to "test our faith." God like to tell porkies, in other words.
Knowing this, we can assume that 1 million years hence there will still be people around that believe the Earth is no more than 6,000 years old. (Assuming that people haven't evolved into something else entirely, of course.)
So now you can see how the parent post makes sense, yes?
Super Mario Bros (with Game Genie, specifically. Very easy to make working codes for.) Super Mario Bros 3 Solar Jetman (good choice, that man) Solstice Zelda II
Getting into space isn't just about exploration though, it's about the long-term survival of the species.
The Solar System might be where the Earth is, but it isn't our home. We need to make it our home to be able to reap the wealth and security it provides as a collective entitity.
We need to be able to skip to The Moon and Mars like I would skip to India and New Zealand today. We need to be *established* on as many stable bodies of rock in this System as possible to ensure that a catastrophe on one of them, as tragic as it would be, doesn't mean the end of civilisation as we know it.
Yes, we have quarrels of our own and you might surely argue that we would do better trying to sort those out. But personally, I buy into the insurance that space-travel will ultimately provide.
Yarr, though she be the nemesis of Wikipedia, ye Uncyclopedia be still a minnow in these fair waters of the Internets, for Behold ye skurvy dogs! She cannot yet stand a Slashdottin', it be true.
"It's always the way, isn't it? We've been in space for three million years and there hasn't been one. Then all of a sudden, five of them turn up at once."
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Word. Lets see them make fun of Urectum.
...or the rest of the male coders?
Some iPod 5G community themes: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WpsIpod 5g
One other solution is to go wireless.
Wireless plumbing? At last, I feel like I'm living in the 2000's!
People are posting these comments for a reason.
/. yesterday probably have not yet heard of the story. Meaning that now we can aquire fresh feedback and alternate perspectives on the same topic, as well as digest the information from yesterdays posting. Meaning there will be lots of "stale repeats" in the comments, but since you already know the story is a dupe from yesterday you will know to avoid reading it, yes?
/. world is nigh because it was already posted 24 hours ago.
/. and for them to have no problem with that, considering they are arguing against it. And look, you've got *me* doing it too.
More reason than to perpetuate the drama and keep the infamous Beatles/Monkey/Random-Poster in the limelight for as long as possible? Email the editors please, and keep the soap-opera out of the comments.
The previous story was posted yesterday.
Meaning it was off the front-page today. Meaning those who did not read
I for one, will be more interested in fresher comments concerning the dupe than stale repeats of what I read yesterday.
Oops. Obviously not. So you clicked-through to a dupe in order to read comments on the fact that yes, it is indeed a dupe? You want to deliberately infuriate yourself about it? Sounds like Internet masochism to me.
If you genuinely don't want to see dupes or want to see them handled better, just email the editors with your concerns or write something up in your journal -- it really doesn't help the *current* discussion to keep hammering on about how it's a dupe and the end of the
I find it pretty absurd for someone to actively contribute to the amount of noise at
Yes, this sites' obvious function is to create as much drama as possible about "dupes" and submitter-links in order to drown out the genuinely useful, insightful posts from people who - horror of horrors - might not have actually heard about the story yet, regardless of how many times it has been "duped."
/.'s signal-to-noise ratio is fine by me. I don't mind links to the orignally submitted story because I can swot-up on the old discussion. I would prefer it if there was a "dupe" button that allowed users to post links to the original stories. At least then we can forbid "dupe" posts from entering the main discussion.
/. than any number of dupes.
Helping with
I don't think I'm alone in saying: "I don't give a flying crap about your Dupes/Links/Beatles/Scuttle drama." When the discussion that gets modded to the top has absolutely nothing to do with the topic, I find *that* more of a reason to avoid
I just want to read the good posts by the informed readers who haven't seen the story yet, and just one or two links to the original discussions if it is a dupe.
Mod parent redundant. Taco has already addressed this:4 0
:)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/10/14402
Please stay on-topic.
"You can only take my money for so long - before you take it all, and I say 'Enough!'"
The first link from that Google News page leads straight back to this Slashdot article.
Or is it a dupe? o_O
Aye, it was a Family Guy reference. :D
Out of curiosity, have you ever met a Christian or read anything by a Christian that wasn't actually a satirical website that made that claim?
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Yes, although other than mild implication through the 6,000-years thing I was trying to avoid a Christian reference in my post. I've also heard many times the whole "God created the Earth in 6 days, but one God-day could be like, a million man-days!" argument.
Reasons I have heard stated . .
Then you have met more rational, reasonable Christians than I have.
Wow. That one flew right over your head, eh?
Lets go off-topic and try explaining it, and in the process kill the funny: The Earth, by modern scientific calculations, is about 4.57 billion years old. Certain religious-texts suggest that this is not the case, and the figure stands at a much more youthful 6,000 years. Those who hold these texts to be true go on to argue the reason scientific analysis reveals a much older Earth is to "test our faith." God like to tell porkies, in other words.
Knowing this, we can assume that 1 million years hence there will still be people around that believe the Earth is no more than 6,000 years old. (Assuming that people haven't evolved into something else entirely, of course.)
So now you can see how the parent post makes sense, yes?
That would have been the best technicolor image. ;)
Does anyone else see real photographs?
The Wikipedia is currently exhibiting the best true-color image of Pluto to date:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto
Unfortunately, most of us are endowed with a flakey distro. :(
A Top 5, eh? Lets have one...
Super Mario Bros (with Game Genie, specifically. Very easy to make working codes for.)
Super Mario Bros 3
Solar Jetman (good choice, that man)
Solstice
Zelda II
And one more for luck...
Maniac Mansion
Maybe it's time to stop using vowels
;)
Why?
...I mean, Slashdot's female-community is going to be baying for his blood after reading that remark.
Oh, wait.
Maybe we should hand over the space-programme to Apple?
I think the pair of you should get together and have a mass debate.
Getting into space isn't just about exploration though, it's about the long-term survival of the species.
The Solar System might be where the Earth is, but it isn't our home. We need to make it our home to be able to reap the wealth and security it provides as a collective entitity.
We need to be able to skip to The Moon and Mars like I would skip to India and New Zealand today. We need to be *established* on as many stable bodies of rock in this System as possible to ensure that a catastrophe on one of them, as tragic as it would be, doesn't mean the end of civilisation as we know it.
Yes, we have quarrels of our own and you might surely argue that we would do better trying to sort those out. But personally, I buy into the insurance that space-travel will ultimately provide.
If we pull our collective fingers out, of course.
Yarr, though she be the nemesis of Wikipedia, ye Uncyclopedia be still a minnow in these fair waters of the Internets, for Behold ye skurvy dogs! She cannot yet stand a Slashdottin', it be true.
...Nintendo Seal Of Approval.
How is Microsoft doing things differently?
"It's always the way, isn't it? We've been in space for three million years and there hasn't been one. Then all of a sudden, five of them turn up at once."