I'm very surprised that you overlooked an obvious difference between the sites you named: On Slashdot, you tend to have an audience with some kind of common ground, some common level of basic understanding in logical thought. On Fox News & CNN, for example, you have "everyone who can get on the internet." which, these days, is not a very high barrier of entry and that barrier only tends to be money, not intellect. Don't get me wrong, the moderation system helps, but it's far from the whole reason Slashdot works better than others.
Also, please note that I didn't state that everyone on Slashdot is smart, nor did I state that reading Slashdot makes you smart. All I said is that a site like Slashdot is likely to attract smarter readers.
I'd mod you insightful if I hadn't already commented. I hated Bush while he was in office, but after watching Obama follow much of the same path it's kind of opened my eyes that perhaps maybe, just maybe, as president, they know information that I don't, and are in a far better place to make a decision than I am.
What is/=? Is it the same as != but from a language I'm not familiar with? Or is it short for =/=? The last time I saw it, it meant "divide & assign" (just like how += means add & assign in several languages). I know I'm way off topic but I'm fairly distracted by the use of this symbol in this way.
I'd also like to point out that 92 issues per 100 cars could translate to 50 issues in one car and 42 in another. Kind of hard to say unless the standard deviation is also provided (I didn't check).
But an average is an average, not a limit, so using it as one doesn't make any sense at all. And of the top 10 oldest, only two are disputed, and the 11th and 12th were also both at least 116. Also, I have no idea where your rant about Japan comes from. It's not like Japan is 9 of the top 10 -- they are 2 of the top ten on record, and 4 of the top ten alive, no more in either case than the US.
It's sad that this is how our society has come to treat each other. On one side you've got people who are willing to (questionably) push the boundaries of privacy law so they can gather videos they can put on YouTube to drum up support for their cause. On the other side, you have people who are willing to fire weapons at another person's property (the helicopter and everything underneath & behind it) when the law can't solve their problems for them. We ought to take both these groups and lock them up where their stupid bickering will stop endangering the rest of us.
Several people have lived past 114 in recent history, including a woman, Besse Cooper, who is 115 and still alive today. So, where did the idea of a 114 limit come from? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_person
I see you're modded funny, but I think the comic is quite insightful -- Anonymous didn't hack the CIA, they just send a shitload of requests at their webserver. Such a huge difference!
That's not true. Example: When people speed, they know damn well that they may get pulled over and ticketed. Yet, they speed anyway, and when they do get caught they complain that it was the cop who was in the wrong. They *do* know those consequences, they just expect them not to happen. Same thing with Privacy -- "Yeah, but it won't happen to me!"
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I'm very surprised that you overlooked an obvious difference between the sites you named: On Slashdot, you tend to have an audience with some kind of common ground, some common level of basic understanding in logical thought. On Fox News & CNN, for example, you have "everyone who can get on the internet." which, these days, is not a very high barrier of entry and that barrier only tends to be money, not intellect. Don't get me wrong, the moderation system helps, but it's far from the whole reason Slashdot works better than others.
Also, please note that I didn't state that everyone on Slashdot is smart, nor did I state that reading Slashdot makes you smart. All I said is that a site like Slashdot is likely to attract smarter readers.
Just re-read the GP and found -- nope, he never said Angry Birds was the only one, or that they did it first.
Man, if that's all your monitors can support, they are pretty crappy. I have a 20" supporting 1920x1080 and it's a relatively low-end model
Correct. I believe at that point you start calling them "Politicians."
I'd mod you insightful if I hadn't already commented. I hated Bush while he was in office, but after watching Obama follow much of the same path it's kind of opened my eyes that perhaps maybe, just maybe, as president, they know information that I don't, and are in a far better place to make a decision than I am.
Thats the hole poynt of his comint, dumas!
Our nation's dead elected some of our greatest leaders while they were alive, why wouldn't we trust them to do the same, today?
Thank God I'm not! Sent from my iPhone
Arguably, spending the rest of your life in prison could be considered far worse than death.
Well if you'd stop sleeping through meetings, we'd be higher on the list!
Yeah, he's really the only one left that a democrat could cross over for. Huntsman was the other, and he's already out.
What is /=? Is it the same as != but from a language I'm not familiar with? Or is it short for =/=? The last time I saw it, it meant "divide & assign" (just like how += means add & assign in several languages). I know I'm way off topic but I'm fairly distracted by the use of this symbol in this way.
I'd also like to point out that 92 issues per 100 cars could translate to 50 issues in one car and 42 in another. Kind of hard to say unless the standard deviation is also provided (I didn't check).
If you break a law's spirit, does it get depressed and eat a lot?
But an average is an average, not a limit, so using it as one doesn't make any sense at all. And of the top 10 oldest, only two are disputed, and the 11th and 12th were also both at least 116. Also, I have no idea where your rant about Japan comes from. It's not like Japan is 9 of the top 10 -- they are 2 of the top ten on record, and 4 of the top ten alive, no more in either case than the US.
It's sad that this is how our society has come to treat each other. On one side you've got people who are willing to (questionably) push the boundaries of privacy law so they can gather videos they can put on YouTube to drum up support for their cause. On the other side, you have people who are willing to fire weapons at another person's property (the helicopter and everything underneath & behind it) when the law can't solve their problems for them. We ought to take both these groups and lock them up where their stupid bickering will stop endangering the rest of us.
What are you talking about? "The United States" is no more singular than "The apples," as in "The apples are red." Are you saying that is not plural?
You can see into the founders' dreams? Did they have those crazy flying dreams that we all have today?
Several people have lived past 114 in recent history, including a woman, Besse Cooper, who is 115 and still alive today. So, where did the idea of a 114 limit come from? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_person
I see you're modded funny, but I think the comic is quite insightful -- Anonymous didn't hack the CIA, they just send a shitload of requests at their webserver. Such a huge difference!
FWIW, the summary pretty much says that (and yet, I thank you for pointing it out)
It's "its". -Your friendly neighborhood Grammar Taliban.
I will not tolerate intolerance!!!
That's not true. Example: When people speed, they know damn well that they may get pulled over and ticketed. Yet, they speed anyway, and when they do get caught they complain that it was the cop who was in the wrong. They *do* know those consequences, they just expect them not to happen. Same thing with Privacy -- "Yeah, but it won't happen to me!"