What about the extended and expanded editions, not to mention character-specific editions, the Gold edition, and the Super edition?
And the McDonald's Special Edition, which includes a short badly animated cartoon about Ronald McDonald teaming up with Roscharch and Doctor Manhattan to catch hamburger thieves.
I seriously doubt this is the last we'll hear of Jack Thompson. He'll just come up with new and creative ways to be a thorn in the side of gamers and freethinkers.
Actually, it has been argued that Thompson is helping gamers, by being so clearly insane that he gives anti-game people a bad name, a bit like a non-religious version of Jack Chick or Fred Phelps.
"Kids, this mushroom killed my brother when I was your age, so don't eat it; but this one can keep you running three days straight, after which you'll sleep like a log for a day."
And of course, once culture starts really picking up, there's a certain advantage for having a master craftsman with decades of experience making your tools and weapons.
Justifying it, endorsing it, and supporting it still make it malice.
None of which the original AC did.
"Oh, well it's unfortunate that god's going to burn mr hawking in the fires of hell, but them's the rules"
Still malice.
Indifference, actually, and not what the OAC wrote anyway.
Quit trying to justify it and grow up.
What have I tried to justify?
If you don't have the backbone for your faith, pick a new one.
Well, since you clearly don't have use for yours, Mr. Coward, maybe you give your backbone to me?
Don't you love god enough to admit he's doing the right thing flaying hawking endlessly? Don't you think his divine plan included making a genious handycaped man which would remind you that even the friendly need to burn?
If you don't have the balls for your religion, I recommend asking yourself why that is.
Last I checked, Hawkings was alive and on Earth rather than burning or being flayed in Hell, so it would be a bit early for even the most zealous people to endorse such a thing based on pure speculation. And in any case, why would being genius (or handicapped, for that matter) make a difference on what you deserve? High IQ doesn't excuse you on Earthly courts.
An Anonymous Coward talking about balls is pretty funny, in a twisted sort of way. And in any case, I don't think going with the flow would really be indicative or require testicular fortitude.
Maybe you're more humane then your faith is... and maybe you need to think about that for a while.
Whether or not I'm humane, the claim that someone who's wishing someone else won't die and go to Hell is being malicious is still absurd.
That doesn't appear to be Jesus. It reads more like a C'thulu cult site.
Actually, it looks like that image of Cthulhu as an office worker I once saw. Seriously, Chick is either nuts or the most persistant troll I've ever seen. Could be both, I guess.
Implying that Stephen Hawking is going to Hell is not malicious?
Did I miss the memo where we changed the definition of 'malicious?'
"Malice" means ill will, not merely stating that bad things might or will happen but wanting that they happen. As the AC specifically stated that he hopes that said bad things won't happen to Mr. Hawkings, he can't very well be malicious.
Then again, it is hard to imagine why anyone would had posted that on Slashdot, especially as Anonymous Coward, except for purposes of trolling.
What goes through my mind is 'Chernobyl' - you know, the one that actually suffered a FULL meltdown? The one that caused the permenant evacuation of an entire city and the creation of an exclusion zone? The one that spewed a cloud of radioactive material over most of Europe?
And killed the total of, what, 60 people? The worst accident in the history of nuclear power was about equivalent to a bad truck accident. That is the bogeyman we're all supposed to be terrified of?
And that exclusion zone is busily turning into a forest with flourishing widllife.
if Three Mile Island was a fender bender, Chernobyl was an at-speed Head-on collision between a bus and a fuel tanker.
And it caused about as much death and destruction. On the other hand, mining coal kills more people every year.
And then what happens when we run out of nuclear fuel? If we're going to pick new energy sources, why can't we pick the ones that are clean and inexhaustible?
According to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, there are no inexhaustible energy sources.
I'm all for nuclear power, as long as it comes from the fusion plant conveniently located 149 598 000 km away.
I'm all for ignoring the opinions of people who fail to grasp basic physics when solving a physics-related problem. Especially if they try to compensate by inserting irrelevant trivia into the conversation.
We have the ABILITY to put dozens of people on the moon today. What we lack is the BALLS to do it.
No, what we lack is the ability to build a self-sustaining sealed colony. Without that, those dozens of people will simply die a bit later than the rest of us in case of an apocalypse, making putting them there a waste of resources. And of course a dozen people is much too little genetic variance for a viable population anyway, even ignoring the high death rate due to the extremely hazardous and hostile environment. Consequently, the best plan to keep humanity alive is to pour those dollars into research, making spaceflight cheaper and thus giving us the ability to put hundreds of thousands on the Moon (or the orbit), spread in several self-sustaining colonies.
Think with your brains rather than with your balls.
This is complete and utter horseshit. Just try espousing socialism on slashdot and see how long you last. Hell, try simply posting a comment that is positive about workers' unions, and you'll be shot down within minutes.
Worker's unions are an absolutely vital part of economy, as they counterbalance the power of employers and allow said workers to negotiate on even ground. Lack of unions is what has led to the abysmal working conditions in China (16 hour days, 7 day weeks, a permission slip needed to go to bathroom). Without them we wouldn't have holidays or weekends; in fact, without them, we wouldn't be allowed to leave factory grounds even after workday (not that we could, anyway, only having from 4-6 hours to sleep) just in case we were needed for something.
The clocks ticking. Mod me down for cheering for voluntary association between working men, libertarians!
Oh, and I also support universal healthcare paid by the Government, social security, and free education up to and including doctorate level. In fact I suggest that the Government should pay the students their living expenses so they can better concentrate on their studies, and McDonald's and Wal-Mart have a smaller pool of desperate people to draw from, and thus have to treat them better. Also, erect toll barriers at borders to protect domestic industry, tax the rich until they more, and make campaign contributions be recognized as the bribery they are. Oh, and reform the voting system so smaller parties and independents can also get in in proportion to their votes.
Yup, I'm red as a lobster. Must be sunburn from the ozone hole.
If they had noticed anything weird, I'm sure Vinny and the boys would be at my house within hours to rough me up. Rather, I he said thanks, we had a good chat, over the course of the next couple days, and that was it.
And what if someone else had done something weird, and the IT guy needed a scapegoat?
What you did was nice, but it was also bloody stupid. Never, ever, ever let anyone know you know of a vulnerability on their network. Doing so is asking to become the scapegoat.
When everyone else in the world manages to screw it all up, they take the ultimate ironic revenge by copying the insidious unions that had foiled them, going on strike and heading to a utopian valley where they can practice their philosophy in peace without the Man keeping them down.
That, actually, is the part of Randian philosophy I've never quite understood: why do they hate labour unions so much? Aren't the unions simply a free association of people working for their own good, and thus pretty much a textbook example of Randian heroes? Or is greed only good if it's by a corporate CEO?
Libertarians are almost always people who think that how you behave often has something to do with how well off you are, and don't like the idea of helping those who refuse to get their act together.
Libertarians are people who demand the government to defend their property, but don't care if other people die from lack of healthcare. Basically, they are a hypocritical version of anarchists.
Maybe I'm alone here, but I don't like the fact that while I'm sitting here in a small sort of run down apartment because that's what I can afford on a grad student salary without going into debt (I have no debt that lasts longer than a month), my tax dollars are going to pay off the mortgage belonging to some fat crack smoking douchebag from my same socioeconomic class who couldn't even make it through high school, who holds a crappy job that pays him about as much as I make, but who managed to coerce the dumb loan officer to give him a loan for a big house he couldn't afford.
Ah yes, the "poor deserve being that because they're (insert rant here)" argument, the standard libertarian fare. It's the classic tactic of dehumanizing the enemy so he can be mistreated or killed without guilt used by everyone trying to excuse their inexcusable behaviour, from Nazis to South Africa during the apartheid to Serbia.
I took care of my shit. He didn't. I don't like the fact that he gets his big house for free as a result of his bad behavior. That's why I'm libertarian leaning.
Of course you did. It's not your fault that you're living in a small run-down apartment. It's the fault of fat crack smoking douchebags! If only we could evict them and give their ill-gotten property to real Germans^HAmericans like you!
Maybe we should make them wear some kind of symbol - say, a yellow cannabis leave? - so we could all recognize and avoid them on the streets, least they pollute our precious bodily fluids?
I do recognize that we probably do need to keep all these mortgages from defaulting. So sure, use government funds to pay them off. But then, evict the fools who couldn't pay them, and give the house to somebody who doesn't have any unmanageable debt.
So, in short, you want my tax dollars to be used to evict people from their houses and give said houses to you.
Seriously, people like you are the reason why Libertarians won't ever hold political power, because you make it so bloody clear just what would happen if they did. Which is probably unfair since I find it likely that there are people who actually are in it for liberty, but hey: if you lay with dogs you will get fleas.
It wasn't posted as Anonymous Coward because I'm not one. I'm just annoyed of unimaginative morons repeating the same tired jokes year after year after year, and some other morons modding the copypasta up without fail.
So fuck you, fuck the grandparent, fuck the moderators, and FUCK YEAH SEAKING!
The colder it is, the less moisture the air is capable of carrying, leading to less rain/snowfall. Basically, when it gets below about -10 degree Celsius, you can safely bet it'll be nice and sunny; there simply isn't enough evaporated water to form clouds.
This is my experience from living 30 years in a polar country (Finland); disregard it if you want.
No. Al Gore did. Pres. Obama just gets the credit just like other people received the credit for "the internet.";)
Actually, it was Seaking who did it, poked a hole on the layer of carbon dioxide and let the extra heat out. Fuck yeah Seaking! In Soviet Russia, the Internet credits you! I, for one, welcome our new credit-stealing overlords! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Antarctic ice! Antarctic is not a truck, you can't just throw some snow on top and expect it to convert to - hey, wait a minute...
Slashdot is where old memes come to die. Sadly, they don't stay dead, but haunt this place like the undead, seeking to eat the brains of unwary. Sadly, it seems that you weren't careful, and thus your intellect was devoured, and were made a host to continue this particular stupid meme. Stop it, or we're forced to drive a stake through your heart, cut off your head, and to add the final insult to injury, stuff your mouth with garlic. Oh, and we'll cremate the remains and bury them in an urn at crossroads, under a pile of rocks.
Occam's razor isn't the one true measure of truth. If it were, then Quantum mechanics and General Relativity would never have been accepted.
Actually, at least as far as General Relativity goes you're wrong. Special Relativity began as a thought experiment: what would you see if you could move along a beam of light? You would see a stationary sinusoidal variance of electric and magnetic fields. However, Maxwell's equations prohibit this; you can derive the speed of light from them, and it's non-zero - and more importantly, it has the specific value without it being relative to anything. Special Relativity takes it as granted that all observers observe the same laws of physics (specifically Maxwell's equations) and explains the logical consequences. General Relativity further generalizes this to accelerating observers and shows that inertial and gravitic mass are actually the same entity.
TL;DR: A universe where General Relativity holds is simpler (has (much))less entities) than one without it. General Relativity is logically equivalent to stating that everyone observes the same laws of physics, and that they don't change just because you start running or floor the gas pedal. In other words, General Relativity is logically equivalent to stating that physical reality is consistent.
I can vouch for that. I've found that the fastest way to find a torrent is to simply google it. That works a lot better than using any of the torrent sites' search functions, in my experience.
And now you go to jail for helping any readers with copyright infringement. You felon, you!
I suggest a small cycling multicolored LED, glued to a battery and rare earth magnet attached to one's antenna, as a way to show solidarity.
One could even make an inductive charger for it, so it could be removed at night, and recharged.
Couldn't you simply power it through the antenna? AC, at sufficiently low power, should be filtered out by the radio's tuner, and be easily usable by a simple electric circuit.
But anyway, I'm such a traditionalist that I'll go with Jolly Roger, or Jolly Cassette as the case may be.
In Europe, we do have ready-made ribbons, but we cannot afford them, so we buy them imported from the Chinese and still lack the skill of tying a ribbon. The world's a sad place, unless you're Chinese.
But if you're Chinese, you work 14 hours a day tying ribbons for 12 euros a month and require a permission slip (for which there are 1 per 100 workers) to go to bathroom. The worlds a sad place, unless you're rich and powerful. Which is idiotic, because even if we take for granted that the rich care nothing for anything except themselves, we are currently producing so much that giving decent living conditions for everyone wouldn't affect the lifestyle of our overlords at all. The first billion in the bank makes you part of the elite, everything after that makes no difference whatsoever.
It's nowadays not even greed but some kind of sick obsession with numbers that's making the world such a nasty place. Maybe we should simply switch accounts to report their balance using a new monetary unit monthly, where the new unit is worth one half the previous, so someone obsessed with numbers would see the number indicating their balance double monthly? It would only take a few lines of code in the viewer algorithm, and would be well worth it if it satisfied these rich neurotics so they wouldn't feel the need to fuck with everyone else anymore.
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What about the extended and expanded editions, not to mention character-specific editions, the Gold edition, and the Super edition?
And the McDonald's Special Edition, which includes a short badly animated cartoon about Ronald McDonald teaming up with Roscharch and Doctor Manhattan to catch hamburger thieves.
What kind of problems? I'm asking because I have a Radeon 9550 and was considering updating my distro.
Actually, it has been argued that Thompson is helping gamers, by being so clearly insane that he gives anti-game people a bad name, a bit like a non-religious version of Jack Chick or Fred Phelps.
"Kids, this mushroom killed my brother when I was your age, so don't eat it; but this one can keep you running three days straight, after which you'll sleep like a log for a day."
And of course, once culture starts really picking up, there's a certain advantage for having a master craftsman with decades of experience making your tools and weapons.
So instead of a storm, we'll get a radioactive storm. Much better.
Disney can simply pay the politicians to pass laws and use force on its behalf. See Mickey Mouse Protection Acts and the Pirate Bay raids and trial.
Quoth the Spaceballs: Check please!
None of which the original AC did.
Indifference, actually, and not what the OAC wrote anyway.
What have I tried to justify?
Well, since you clearly don't have use for yours, Mr. Coward, maybe you give your backbone to me?
Last I checked, Hawkings was alive and on Earth rather than burning or being flayed in Hell, so it would be a bit early for even the most zealous people to endorse such a thing based on pure speculation. And in any case, why would being genius (or handicapped, for that matter) make a difference on what you deserve? High IQ doesn't excuse you on Earthly courts.
An Anonymous Coward talking about balls is pretty funny, in a twisted sort of way. And in any case, I don't think going with the flow would really be indicative or require testicular fortitude.
Whether or not I'm humane, the claim that someone who's wishing someone else won't die and go to Hell is being malicious is still absurd.
Actually, it looks like that image of Cthulhu as an office worker I once saw. Seriously, Chick is either nuts or the most persistant troll I've ever seen. Could be both, I guess.
"Malice" means ill will, not merely stating that bad things might or will happen but wanting that they happen. As the AC specifically stated that he hopes that said bad things won't happen to Mr. Hawkings, he can't very well be malicious.
Then again, it is hard to imagine why anyone would had posted that on Slashdot, especially as Anonymous Coward, except for purposes of trolling.
And killed the total of, what, 60 people? The worst accident in the history of nuclear power was about equivalent to a bad truck accident. That is the bogeyman we're all supposed to be terrified of?
And that exclusion zone is busily turning into a forest with flourishing widllife.
And it caused about as much death and destruction. On the other hand, mining coal kills more people every year.
A typo is simply a lexical mutation. This is a sign, and the sign ain't good.
According to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, there are no inexhaustible energy sources.
I'm all for ignoring the opinions of people who fail to grasp basic physics when solving a physics-related problem. Especially if they try to compensate by inserting irrelevant trivia into the conversation.
No, what we lack is the ability to build a self-sustaining sealed colony. Without that, those dozens of people will simply die a bit later than the rest of us in case of an apocalypse, making putting them there a waste of resources. And of course a dozen people is much too little genetic variance for a viable population anyway, even ignoring the high death rate due to the extremely hazardous and hostile environment. Consequently, the best plan to keep humanity alive is to pour those dollars into research, making spaceflight cheaper and thus giving us the ability to put hundreds of thousands on the Moon (or the orbit), spread in several self-sustaining colonies.
Think with your brains rather than with your balls.
Worker's unions are an absolutely vital part of economy, as they counterbalance the power of employers and allow said workers to negotiate on even ground. Lack of unions is what has led to the abysmal working conditions in China (16 hour days, 7 day weeks, a permission slip needed to go to bathroom). Without them we wouldn't have holidays or weekends; in fact, without them, we wouldn't be allowed to leave factory grounds even after workday (not that we could, anyway, only having from 4-6 hours to sleep) just in case we were needed for something.
The clocks ticking. Mod me down for cheering for voluntary association between working men, libertarians!
Oh, and I also support universal healthcare paid by the Government, social security, and free education up to and including doctorate level. In fact I suggest that the Government should pay the students their living expenses so they can better concentrate on their studies, and McDonald's and Wal-Mart have a smaller pool of desperate people to draw from, and thus have to treat them better. Also, erect toll barriers at borders to protect domestic industry, tax the rich until they more, and make campaign contributions be recognized as the bribery they are. Oh, and reform the voting system so smaller parties and independents can also get in in proportion to their votes.
Yup, I'm red as a lobster. Must be sunburn from the ozone hole.
And what if someone else had done something weird, and the IT guy needed a scapegoat?
What you did was nice, but it was also bloody stupid. Never, ever, ever let anyone know you know of a vulnerability on their network. Doing so is asking to become the scapegoat.
That, actually, is the part of Randian philosophy I've never quite understood: why do they hate labour unions so much? Aren't the unions simply a free association of people working for their own good, and thus pretty much a textbook example of Randian heroes? Or is greed only good if it's by a corporate CEO?
Me is confused.
Libertarians are people who demand the government to defend their property, but don't care if other people die from lack of healthcare. Basically, they are a hypocritical version of anarchists.
Ah yes, the "poor deserve being that because they're (insert rant here)" argument, the standard libertarian fare. It's the classic tactic of dehumanizing the enemy so he can be mistreated or killed without guilt used by everyone trying to excuse their inexcusable behaviour, from Nazis to South Africa during the apartheid to Serbia.
Of course you did. It's not your fault that you're living in a small run-down apartment. It's the fault of fat crack smoking douchebags! If only we could evict them and give their ill-gotten property to real Germans^HAmericans like you!
Maybe we should make them wear some kind of symbol - say, a yellow cannabis leave? - so we could all recognize and avoid them on the streets, least they pollute our precious bodily fluids?
So, in short, you want my tax dollars to be used to evict people from their houses and give said houses to you.
Seriously, people like you are the reason why Libertarians won't ever hold political power, because you make it so bloody clear just what would happen if they did. Which is probably unfair since I find it likely that there are people who actually are in it for liberty, but hey: if you lay with dogs you will get fleas.
It wasn't posted as Anonymous Coward because I'm not one. I'm just annoyed of unimaginative morons repeating the same tired jokes year after year after year, and some other morons modding the copypasta up without fail.
So fuck you, fuck the grandparent, fuck the moderators, and FUCK YEAH SEAKING!
Courtesy of a Pseudonymous Sensibly Cautious.
The colder it is, the less moisture the air is capable of carrying, leading to less rain/snowfall. Basically, when it gets below about -10 degree Celsius, you can safely bet it'll be nice and sunny; there simply isn't enough evaporated water to form clouds.
This is my experience from living 30 years in a polar country (Finland); disregard it if you want.
Actually, it was Seaking who did it, poked a hole on the layer of carbon dioxide and let the extra heat out. Fuck yeah Seaking! In Soviet Russia, the Internet credits you! I, for one, welcome our new credit-stealing overlords! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Antarctic ice! Antarctic is not a truck, you can't just throw some snow on top and expect it to convert to - hey, wait a minute...
Slashdot is where old memes come to die. Sadly, they don't stay dead, but haunt this place like the undead, seeking to eat the brains of unwary. Sadly, it seems that you weren't careful, and thus your intellect was devoured, and were made a host to continue this particular stupid meme. Stop it, or we're forced to drive a stake through your heart, cut off your head, and to add the final insult to injury, stuff your mouth with garlic. Oh, and we'll cremate the remains and bury them in an urn at crossroads, under a pile of rocks.
Actually, at least as far as General Relativity goes you're wrong. Special Relativity began as a thought experiment: what would you see if you could move along a beam of light? You would see a stationary sinusoidal variance of electric and magnetic fields. However, Maxwell's equations prohibit this; you can derive the speed of light from them, and it's non-zero - and more importantly, it has the specific value without it being relative to anything. Special Relativity takes it as granted that all observers observe the same laws of physics (specifically Maxwell's equations) and explains the logical consequences. General Relativity further generalizes this to accelerating observers and shows that inertial and gravitic mass are actually the same entity.
TL;DR: A universe where General Relativity holds is simpler (has (much))less entities) than one without it. General Relativity is logically equivalent to stating that everyone observes the same laws of physics, and that they don't change just because you start running or floor the gas pedal. In other words, General Relativity is logically equivalent to stating that physical reality is consistent.
And now you go to jail for helping any readers with copyright infringement. You felon, you!
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Couldn't you simply power it through the antenna? AC, at sufficiently low power, should be filtered out by the radio's tuner, and be easily usable by a simple electric circuit.
But anyway, I'm such a traditionalist that I'll go with Jolly Roger, or Jolly Cassette as the case may be.
But if you're Chinese, you work 14 hours a day tying ribbons for 12 euros a month and require a permission slip (for which there are 1 per 100 workers) to go to bathroom. The worlds a sad place, unless you're rich and powerful. Which is idiotic, because even if we take for granted that the rich care nothing for anything except themselves, we are currently producing so much that giving decent living conditions for everyone wouldn't affect the lifestyle of our overlords at all. The first billion in the bank makes you part of the elite, everything after that makes no difference whatsoever.
It's nowadays not even greed but some kind of sick obsession with numbers that's making the world such a nasty place. Maybe we should simply switch accounts to report their balance using a new monetary unit monthly, where the new unit is worth one half the previous, so someone obsessed with numbers would see the number indicating their balance double monthly? It would only take a few lines of code in the viewer algorithm, and would be well worth it if it satisfied these rich neurotics so they wouldn't feel the need to fuck with everyone else anymore.