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  1. Unless you are a Cretionist on Dinosaurs Grew Fast and Bred Young · · Score: 0

    Dinosaurs Grew Fast and Bred Young

    They also lived fast, died young and left beautiful corpses.

  2. Re:i was just reading on Oracle Buys BEA · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's like the story about bringing in cats to kill mice, but then they needed dogs to chase away all the cats, and wolves to chase the dogs, and elephants to chase away the wolves and finally mice again to scare away the elephants. Maybe they think this new software will seek out and devour the other four. Or not.

  3. Hmm on Oracle Buys BEA · · Score: 2, Funny

    No Bea Arthur jokes. The world has truly moved on. *sigh* I'm old. :-(

  4. Are they the same game? on Spore, Call of Duty 4 Confirmed for OSX · · Score: 2, Funny

    Call Of Duty 4: Spore Wars

    Some sort of biowar sim, I would guess.

  5. Pimp it, motherfuckers! on NASA Wants Fast Moonbuggies and Solid Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    Purple neon lights, unnecessary wings, fuzzy seats, hydraulic bouncers on two of the landing legs and "go faster" stickers!

    And paint on some flames (over the lime green to solar orange gradient base coat) and get one of those "La Cucaracha" horns. You can't hear it in a vacuum, but it's the principle of the thing.

    Oh, and a wicked sound system so our Mooninite homeboys can experience our righteous mammalian thump-thump. Well, I guess the whole vacuum thing figures in again, but still...

  6. Not Pong! on What Was Your First Gaming Experience? · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough (or not) it was Space Wars.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Wars

    For the life of me I can't recall where. A pizza parlor or something.

    I remember the best strategy was "tap the buttons at random". It kept the enemy confused.

  7. Re:Attack tree on Parents To Block Kids From Joining MySpace · · Score: 1

    (blank stare)

    Ssssooooooo.... what? Trees are dangerous?

  8. Re:What is a grocery store? on Microsoft Will Stream Ads To Grocery Carts · · Score: 1

    Egads, don't encourage him!

  9. Re:What is a grocery store? on Microsoft Will Stream Ads To Grocery Carts · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm a guy.

    Well, we guessed that.

    Do you have a wife or a girlfriend? Ask her about women's clothing sizes, especially with everything being made in 97 different countries. One week's "Small" is next week's "Extra Large" and vice versa. Every women I've known gave up on mail order because they were retuning 4 out of 5 items, and it was steadily getting worse. For some reason men's clothes don't suffer the same variance. Only $INSERT_FAVORITE_DEITY knows why.

    The problem is that you seem incapable civilly stating that you shop for groceries online and that it's the best thing since sliced bread. You seem incapable of not adding insults against anyone who still likes to shop at the store for a host of valid reasons. That might be why some people suggest you might wont more social interaction because, quite frankly, you really fucking suck at it.

  10. Re:What is a grocery store? on Microsoft Will Stream Ads To Grocery Carts · · Score: 1

    So why wheel a cart around like some sort of trained monkey...

    Is there ANYBODY left in this world who can say "I do something different, but it's OK if people choose to do otherwise" instead of "People who do things in a different way from me are lower primates"?

    Seriously. Is there *anyone* left?

  11. heh heh... I'm going to say "members"... on Modeling Urban Panic · · Score: 1

    Actually, you want to optimize your zombie horde with a mixture of fast and slow moving members. That way you get successive waves of brain eating obsession that no actor or sex starved teenager can ever hope to withstand.

  12. Re:Why simulate it? on Modeling Urban Panic · · Score: 1

    Can WoW players even find their front door anymore, much less start a riot?

    It'll be the slowest moving riot in history, and easily defeated by water cannons loaded with Mountain Dew.

    I tried to fit Cheese Doodles into the joke somewhere, but I failed. I am unworthy.

  13. Boring on Modeling Urban Panic · · Score: 1

    Let me know when they get to the real world testing.

  14. Response from a sometimes telecommuter on Telecommuting Can Be Bad For Those Who Don't · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tough shit unless you want to drive me to work. :-P

  15. Re:Top ten things on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah, you need different teams in constant rotation.

    Or come up with a drug that keeps them in *constant* PMS during war time.

    The horror... the horror...

  16. Wow! on Filming an Invasion Without Extras · · Score: 4, Funny

    Invasions that involve hardly anyone at all?

    Too bad we can't do that in real life.

    Gosh! That was deep and out of character for me.

    Um, uh, in Soviet Russia... uh... you profit from a beowulf cluster of these... or something.

  17. Re:RTW on Netflix To Lift Streaming Limits · · Score: 1

    I know, but if you've been reading the blog, they clearly intend to get rid of it eventually. I dunno... maybe the outcry will make them leave it there for those that know, sort of like the 30 second skip on Tivos.

  18. Top ten things on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Everyone who ever picked on me as a kid would receive all expense paid accommodations in Gitmo.

    2. A Manhatten Project level of effort to develop realistic sexbots.

    3. Presidential Security: Bye-bye Secret Service. Hello Mord'Sith.

    4. New Marine units composed of the Islamic extremists worst nightmare: superbutch lesbians locked into eternal PMS synchronization. Name? The Crimson Tide.

    5. The immediate carpet bombing of Hollywood.

    6. Churches? Tax 'em, and require every claim they make about their deities be backed up by documented proof.

    7. Abortions would be free for all at sidewalk kiosks and in malls. No age limit. No question asked.

    8. Power? Breeder reactors (and other advanced types) that double as desalination plants. More power? Gentetically bred giant superhampsters.

    9. Lawyers who lose frivolous lawsuit would be able to keep their license to practice, but they'd have to fight a lion using nothing but a spork.

    10. Everytime I get something like "Slow down, Cowboy. It has been X minutes since you last posted!" where X is anything greater than 2, a Slashdot editor is waterboarded.

  19. RTW on Netflix To Lift Streaming Limits · · Score: 1

    I'd rather they just brought back the "Releasing This Week" page instead of that Fisher Price Activity Box style of New Releases (which has releases a year old) page with its "gee whiz" effects that makes web designers orgasm and gives web users headaches.

  20. Re:Fuck you America on Interview With Pirate Party Leader Rick Falkvinge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, you don't know when I was born, but yes, the end *started* a while ago. Look at the other two reactions I got. The blind and insane will think you crazy when you speak the truth. :)

    Actually, the idea that most of humanity has a world view composed of little more than myth, lies and wholesale bullshit is hardly new, but people will gape at you with drooling expressions if you ever suggest it

      And the information age hasn't helped on bit. If anything, it's made it worse. Now people can be totally ignorant about thing they never used to know existed!

  21. Re:SWING, and a miss! on Interview With Pirate Party Leader Rick Falkvinge · · Score: 1

    Do you take everything so seriously to the point of blindness?

  22. SWING, and a miss! on Interview With Pirate Party Leader Rick Falkvinge · · Score: 1

    This is your future:

    Link to your future

    Enjoy. :)

  23. You See,My Stethoscope Is Bobbing to The Throbbing on Researchers Create Beating Heart In Lab · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...Of Your Heart.

    It Goes Boom Boody-Boom Boody-Boom Boody-Boom, Boody-Boom Boody-Boom Boody-Boom-Boom-Boom

    Well, Goodness Gracious Me! ...

    Next up on OldTyme Radio overnight, Dr. Hanny Lector and the Cannibals with their top hit, Liver & Chianti. Hope you like it...

  24. Re:Fuck you America on Interview With Pirate Party Leader Rick Falkvinge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Dude, you're trying to roll the big boulder uphill like Sisyphus. 99% of humanity is now batshit insane with rigid ideology and rabid hate. You can't argue with people like this. They are blinded far beyond reason and critical thought.

    Bashing The U.S.A. (one of the most diverse nations ever created) with generalizations is just the latest excuse people use to avoid having to actually think. It's all going to go to shit. The brief flirtation humanity had with freedom will end, and it'll all return to the king/serf model where the serfs don't have to think and the king is replaced by massive bureaucracy.

    All you can do is keep your head down, work hard and invest, and retire as early as possible far away from it all when the whole thing does a big belly flop.

  25. Re:This is really a debate? on Why Space Exploration Is Worth the Cost · · Score: 1

    You fixed it but... I dunno... You might need to still turn in your Slashdot decoder ring. :-)

    I'll call the Council together, but we might require the services of a Confessor.