The fairest thing would be to only allow the under/overrated mods to move it back towards the neutral or starting value.
To put it another way, let overrated only be used to counter a prior unfair positive mod and underated a negative one. After all, until it's been rated insome way it can't logically be overrated or underrated can it?
Mathematical chaos applies to only certain deterministic systems, not real life.
Bullcrap. There are numerous real world examples in biology (populations, heart rhythm) physics (double pedulum, leaky waterwheel), economics (stock markets) and chemistry (some reaction named after an unpronouncable Russian or two).
Some might even mention the slashdot modding system, as evidenced by the fact that you got modded up which wouldn't occur in any sensible Newtonian system.
As the aardvark is invisible, it does not reflect light in the correct wavelength in order to appear pink. Thus there is not an invisible pink aardvark.
How can a poster who doesn't understand a basic concept like the pinkness of invisibilty be modded insightful?
Next you'll be claiming you didn't (or couldn't, by definition) hear that inaudible "whoosh" sound.
Search engines don't have shareholders...companies do.
If there's a point in there (apart from pedantically literal nitpicking) would you kindly repost it with the relevant portion marked in some way, because I for one missed it.
The slashcode mod system was designed explicitly to constrain the socially-unacceptable, albeit using more flexible and tolerant means than, say, Hitler.
I happen to think that the parent poster is a bit of an arrogant git. However the post is in no way whatsoever a troll, not even a small and relatively non-odorous one. Sort it please, metamods.
geek squad repeatedly erased all my data [... long rant snipped...] the solution would invariably be to reformat and reinstall.
If you're that much smarter, why did you take the machine to them anyway? You could have done a better job, saved $$$ and probably some time into the bargain.
Perhaps the moderators struggle to distinguish informative from imaginative?
because at any second someone could hit Ctrl-C and kill us all instantly, erasing our entire life's work, because the whole of human existance could be some process running in the background of a lab workstation
Still, look on the bright side: if the galactic operator did send us the cosmic sigkill, we'd hardly be upset or disappointed about it.
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And karma is inversely proportional to how many times you ask: does it run on linux?
Can someone please explain how the parent is offtopic?
Watts are watts. The period is irrelevant.
The fairest thing would be to only allow the under/overrated mods to move it back towards the neutral or starting value.
To put it another way, let overrated only be used to counter a prior unfair positive mod and underated a negative one. After all, until it's been rated insome way it can't logically be overrated or underrated can it?
Some might even mention the slashdot modding system, as evidenced by the fact that you got modded up which wouldn't occur in any sensible Newtonian system.
You link to an article containing his name in the URL and you still manage to spell it wrong.
Next you'll be claiming you didn't (or couldn't, by definition) hear that inaudible "whoosh" sound.
Why isn't there a -1, tedious mod?
kthxbye.
Perhaps some people agree with my sig?
I happen to think that the parent poster is a bit of an arrogant git. However the post is in no way whatsoever a troll, not even a small and relatively non-odorous one. Sort it please, metamods.
Since when has punctuating like a spastic chimpanzee on LSD been insightful?
Perhaps the moderators struggle to distinguish informative from imaginative?
Ignorant is insightful, wrong is informative. Google is not your friend. Google has never been your friend..
But coconuts are tropical. This here's a temperate zone.