All the things that everyone knows are true, yet science won't dare to tread there.
You wrapped up rumour, hearsay, and gossip into one tidy package.
And like most people who prattle such nonsense as yours, you obviously think of "science" as some nebulous agency that does stuff, whereas it's nothing of the sort—science is a method whereby we find out stuff.
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch'.
That doesn't sound like going down a rabbit hole. It sounds more like waking up.
If you need to download it first, you're waiting for a half hour or more to get a good copy.
You might be waiting half an hour--for me it's usually more like 5 minutes.
You might think streaming is a good solution for your shitty Internet, but it's really not.
The people who actually want streaming are the media cartels, so they can keep you from having a copy so they can charge you rent forever and ever, amen.
The only way anyone's ever going to match my Sun Ra collection is via torrent, as many of those albums are no longer in print, and haven't been in 20+ years.
The sting was launched after Eccleston offered to provide an unnamed foreign government with more than 5,000 email addresses of all Energy Department employees for $19,000, or else he would offer the information to China, Iran or Venezuela, according to court files.
After the unnamed foreign government reported the incident, the FBI sting operation sent undercover employees posing as the country’s representatives to meet with Eccleston in 2013.
Oh---in case you missed it--this notion is advocated by none other than APK, which should be reason in and of itself to reject it immediately.
It's basically a means to intimidate moderators.
I submit that most of us—that is, who post in good faith, have lives, and don't suffer from USI—don't give a shit who mods us down, and realise that it's better for them and for us that we don't.
In case you don't see it, the poster's hidden motivation here is that he wants to be able to "get back" at whoever mods him down, probably for pushing some wacko agenda every chance he gets, even when not remotely connected to the discussion. Nobody else seems so very interested in knowing ZOMG WHO DARED MOD ME DOWN!!!
By "Unicode support", we mean, "Please stop filtering any/all characters that aren't used by US English".
We understand that Slashdot is a US site. But lots of Slashdotters aren't.
And I didn't go the trouble of learning Hanzi (and enabling it as an input option) only to find I can't quote Deng Xiaoping in the original in my sig, which is really bogus, man.
--}> I'll even mow the yard this week without being reminded and everything... Please?
Permitting moderation AND posting in the same story is not a good idea.
The only change I see necessary is that metamoderation needs to be restored to its original purpose/function. The "new" metamoderation never made any sense whatsoever.
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I had one of those is-it-1997-again moments today when I discovered that a colleague still has an '@aol.com' address for his personal email.
All the things that everyone knows are true, yet science won't dare to tread there.
You wrapped up rumour, hearsay, and gossip into one tidy package.
And like most people who prattle such nonsense as yours, you obviously think of "science" as some nebulous agency that does stuff, whereas it's nothing of the sort—science is a method whereby we find out stuff.
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch'.
That doesn't sound like going down a rabbit hole. It sounds more like waking up.
All that circular reasoning seems to have left you a bit dizzy.
Definitely APK. Lo, how the mighty have fallen!
Hi there, APK!
Still butthurt over getting all your excess punctuation filtered out?
In the UK and many other English-speaking countries, organisations are considered plural and take plural verbs.
If you need to download it first, you're waiting for a half hour or more to get a good copy.
You might be waiting half an hour--for me it's usually more like 5 minutes.
You might think streaming is a good solution for your shitty Internet, but it's really not.
The people who actually want streaming are the media cartels, so they can keep you from having a copy so they can charge you rent forever and ever, amen.
Don't forget to seed!
You forgot the trailing "...=>APK". Or did they add a filter for that, Alex?
APK makes GNAA look sensible. Also GNAA are occasionally amusing, whereas APK doesn't even know what "funny" is.
I see someone's invented a -1, Insightful moderation option...
...users wishing fine-grained cookie control should be using a third-party add-on instead...
That's a laugh. What third-party add-ons are going to remain after another year or so of breaking them with nearly every damned release?
Mozilla seem absolutely determined to jump the shark.
The only way anyone's ever going to match my Sun Ra collection is via torrent, as many of those albums are no longer in print, and haven't been in 20+ years.
Oooh, drama.
If you actually agreed with what the AC said, you wouldn't be trying to detract from his arguments by making idiotic claims about his alleged "tone".
"Tone" is nothing more than you projecting your own hypersensitivity; it has exactly nothing to do with the fact that the AC is spot-on.
And I suppose since you find the GP "aggressive", you'll find me "abusive". So be it.
Or, as in my case, maybe it's simply a case of being outside the country.
Whatever--Don't read it that often anyway.
Reading comprehension fail.
The sting was launched after Eccleston offered to provide an unnamed foreign government with more than 5,000 email addresses of all Energy Department employees for $19,000, or else he would offer the information to China, Iran or Venezuela, according to court files.
After the unnamed foreign government reported the incident, the FBI sting operation sent undercover employees posing as the country’s representatives to meet with Eccleston in 2013.
WashPost link wasn't paywalled for me. You're in the US?
Oh---in case you missed it--this notion is advocated by none other than APK, which should be reason in and of itself to reject it immediately.
It's basically a means to intimidate moderators.
I submit that most of us—that is, who post in good faith, have lives, and don't suffer from USI—don't give a shit who mods us down, and realise that it's better for them and for us that we don't.
In case you don't see it, the poster's hidden motivation here is that he wants to be able to "get back" at whoever mods him down, probably for pushing some wacko agenda every chance he gets, even when not remotely connected to the discussion. Nobody else seems so very interested in knowing ZOMG WHO DARED MOD ME DOWN!!!
Not at all. What's mysterious about, "Don't take that post at face value"?
By "Unicode support", we mean, "Please stop filtering any/all characters that aren't used by US English".
We understand that Slashdot is a US site. But lots of Slashdotters aren't.
And I didn't go the trouble of learning Hanzi (and enabling it as an input option) only to find I can't quote Deng Xiaoping in the original in my sig, which is really bogus, man.
--}> I'll even mow the yard this week without being reminded and everything... Please?
Nope, I'm still here.
You can already moderate individual posts.
Permitting moderation AND posting in the same story is not a good idea.
The only change I see necessary is that metamoderation needs to be restored to its original purpose/function. The "new" metamoderation never made any sense whatsoever.