Aside from my utter bewilderment why parent got a troll moderation
That comment (mine) got the hell moderated out of it. It was modded troll, insightful, and interesting. The mods all cancelled each other out, leaving it at the 1 it started at.
I found its moderation amusing, although I might not have if I had to worry about karma.
If God were to twinkle his way down to Times Square, announce his presence. Do a few impossible things, and explain even a small part of how the universe got here, sure I'd believe in it.
Well, that happened 2000 years ago. It's documented. If you believe that all those people lied, explain what they had to gain by lying, since the establishment at the time would imprison or even execute you for it.
I love the vague terminology - God touched you? Explain exactly what that means.
Assume I've been blind from birth. Explain the color red to me. It's inexplicable; there is no referent, no common ground. This may help explain it.
If you expect me to treat it differently because it's religion, or suspend logic for no reason, then no.
No, it's not a matter of religion. If you told me you were at McMurtry Station, I would tend to believe you despite the fact that since so few are there, odds are you aren't either, but since I know of no reason to lie about where you are, I would accept the statement so long as there was no proof to the contrary.
Today, half or more of an editor's job is done automagically with spell checkers...
Ewe stall knead prof radars. Spill chuckers flail at homophones. Thus sentence passes a spell check.
...online thesuarus
How is an online thesaurus in any way superior to a dead tree thesaurus?
As for the idea of higher prices for libraries - I could probably live with that.
Why? I don't have to pay to check out paper books, or CDs or DVDs from the city library. I'm not paying to check out digital music and movies, how are digital books any different?
Audiophiles have been in a quandary ever since the CD came out. In the analog world, the more you spent, the better the gear sounded*. Nobody needed "golden ears" to hear the difference between a $50 turntable, a $100 turntable, and a $500 turntable.
Not so with digital audio. Maybe someone can tell the difference between a $.25 DAC and a $100 DAC, but I can't.
You guys all know (at least I hope you do) that a $2 digital cable works just as well as a $2000 digital cable; noise only affects an analog signal. Costly RCA cables and speaker cables may be worth it if you have more dollars than sense, but you're better off spending that cash on expensive booze or better, giving it to charity.
*With the exception of fools who bought into quadraphonics: a $700 stereo sounded far better than a $1000 quad setup, since you needed two of everything for quad.
I would think a Satanist would give a gift meant to instill doubt in the mind of the receiver, or something that would tempt them into hell's domain, like a few hits of crack..
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Once God touches you, you can never disbelieve. It's like not believing in oliphants after you've seen one. No, there is no proof I can show you, any more than a 17th century man could explain the color red to a man blind from birth.
You goddamned antitheists can't give it a rest for ONE FUCKING DAY? Pitiful.
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the Christianity cult
Posted on the second holiest day for Christians, on Christmas of all days. Damn, you get troll of the year, asshole.
As to Santa Clause, he's responsible for more atheists than Richard Dawkins is (Richard? Is that you?). The kiddies find they've been lied to about Santa Cause and the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy and figure the grownups are lying about Jesus.
I pity you for your ignorance and hate. Now fuck off, troll.
I'm pretty sure this patent is EXACTLY like a patent for a perpetual motion machine; I know it wouldn't work with me. I just grab a box of wrapping paper without even looking at it. So, what does paper decorated with snowmen or candy canes tell you about the giver? I've never seen wrapping paper with Menorahs or nativity scenes or little crosses or fishes, except trout. A trout wrapper wouldn't say anything about the giver or recipient except both are probably redneck fishermen.
I'm not talking about the video; I'm literate and need no damned video. I'm talking about the text. Text is far more precise and understandable than some guy's ramblings. Did he say "the Koala eats shoots and leaves", or did he say "the Koala eats, shoots, and leaves"? Does that commercial for the sex toy shop in Springfield say "Pricilla's, where fun and fantasy meet" or "Pricilla's, we're fun and fantasy meat"?
Video is for demonstrating something like this. Talking head videos are for small children and other illiterates.
Of course it is. Would Ford be a better car company if they only offered the Mustang? Would Mustangs be better if you had no choice whether it had AC, a radio, heated seats, and you had to use whatever color they picked? I get the idea that you're being deliberately dense.
The choice is between having a choice and having no choice. I guess you prefer the USSR's one political party?
And no choice is not good if the consumer has no idea what the answer is to the question.
So you prefer that people remain ignorant? All one has to do is ask someone, or look it up on this newfangled thing they have called "teh intarwebs".
I was running kubuntu 9 and nothing seemed broken to me. 11.1 is even better. I may DL the new KDE just to see if they've added any major improvements, or bugs, or hosed something that was already perfect.
In the design community, designing with mobile devices in mind is a growing practice.
My old Motorola Razr (the old flip phone Razr, not the new Android) was able to get on the internet, and that thing was replaced YEARS ago. At the rate these developers are "growing" there'll be something else to supplant phones and they'll be ignoring the new platform and focusing on the phones nobody is using for teh internet any more. They won't code for the new thing until it, too, is used less than the even newer thing.
I wish you wouldn't have responded to him. He's an AC so he won't see your comment, and he's at -1 so nobody will see his -- except through yours. But since you did, I'll go farther and add that absolute positioning is RETARDED. Screens range for two inches to seventy inches, with resolutions from 640x480 to 1080p, with some screens portrait and some landscape, and with different aspect ratios. It isn't a damned magazine page where you can make it look exectly like you want it, because you CAN'T. Not on every device and every screen. You should strive to make your pages as useable and readable as humanly possible. People really don't give a flying frog about your layout or what the damned thing looks like, they care about the content. "Cool" web pages are seldom good web pages.
I doubt that much of the ID fraud comes from old hard drives. Phishing, cracking web sites, especiall dumpster diving for paper records, are where the ID theft is happening. I'd say that 99.999% of the time, a high level format would be sufficient.
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Christians would all love to see everyone get to heaven, would a Satanist not want to see everyone in hell?
Oh, but the fun they had!
Aside from my utter bewilderment why parent got a troll moderation
That comment (mine) got the hell moderated out of it. It was modded troll, insightful, and interesting. The mods all cancelled each other out, leaving it at the 1 it started at.
I found its moderation amusing, although I might not have if I had to worry about karma.
If God were to twinkle his way down to Times Square, announce his presence. Do a few impossible things, and explain even a small part of how the universe got here, sure I'd believe in it.
Well, that happened 2000 years ago. It's documented. If you believe that all those people lied, explain what they had to gain by lying, since the establishment at the time would imprison or even execute you for it.
I love the vague terminology - God touched you? Explain exactly what that means.
Assume I've been blind from birth. Explain the color red to me. It's inexplicable; there is no referent, no common ground. This may help explain it.
If you expect me to treat it differently because it's religion, or suspend logic for no reason, then no.
No, it's not a matter of religion. If you told me you were at McMurtry Station, I would tend to believe you despite the fact that since so few are there, odds are you aren't either, but since I know of no reason to lie about where you are, I would accept the statement so long as there was no proof to the contrary.
Shhh... You're screwing with the religious zealots.
Of course he is, he's an antireligios zealot. He can't help himself, it's a mental illness.
They'll start quoting fire and brimstone passages out of their holy books.
Not me, that's old testament. That was superceded by the new. No fire and brimstone from an angry God, but love and forgiveness from a loving God.
Today, half or more of an editor's job is done automagically with spell checkers...
Ewe stall knead prof radars. Spill chuckers flail at homophones. Thus sentence passes a spell check.
How is an online thesaurus in any way superior to a dead tree thesaurus?
As for the idea of higher prices for libraries - I could probably live with that.
Why? I don't have to pay to check out paper books, or CDs or DVDs from the city library. I'm not paying to check out digital music and movies, how are digital books any different?
This is just greed at work, and it sickens me.
Audiophiles have been in a quandary ever since the CD came out. In the analog world, the more you spent, the better the gear sounded*. Nobody needed "golden ears" to hear the difference between a $50 turntable, a $100 turntable, and a $500 turntable.
Not so with digital audio. Maybe someone can tell the difference between a $.25 DAC and a $100 DAC, but I can't.
You guys all know (at least I hope you do) that a $2 digital cable works just as well as a $2000 digital cable; noise only affects an analog signal. Costly RCA cables and speaker cables may be worth it if you have more dollars than sense, but you're better off spending that cash on expensive booze or better, giving it to charity.
*With the exception of fools who bought into quadraphonics: a $700 stereo sounded far better than a $1000 quad setup, since you needed two of everything for quad.
LOL, yesterday my 27 year old daughter was on NORAD's site tracking Santa on her new notebook all day!
read Terry Pratchett's Hogfather - while a lot of humourous bits wound in, it provides some deep thinking.
That's true of every Pratchett book I've read. And rather than "humorous parts" I'd say "damned hilarious."
I would think a Satanist would give a gift meant to instill doubt in the mind of the receiver, or something that would tempt them into hell's domain, like a few hits of crack..
I think it probably has more to do with the fact that most folks writing HTML come to slashdot.
Damn, and it looked like I had a new science fiction story to write.
Once God touches you, you can never disbelieve. It's like not believing in oliphants after you've seen one. No, there is no proof I can show you, any more than a 17th century man could explain the color red to a man blind from birth.
You goddamned antitheists can't give it a rest for ONE FUCKING DAY? Pitiful.
the Christianity cult
Posted on the second holiest day for Christians, on Christmas of all days. Damn, you get troll of the year, asshole.
As to Santa Clause, he's responsible for more atheists than Richard Dawkins is (Richard? Is that you?). The kiddies find they've been lied to about Santa Cause and the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy and figure the grownups are lying about Jesus.
I pity you for your ignorance and hate. Now fuck off, troll.
It was just as true in 1955, except the toys were made in the US.
Thats why the world economy crashed and is still looking for a ladder back up.
The world economy crashed because of greed and incompetence of the rich and powerful.
I'm pretty sure this patent is EXACTLY like a patent for a perpetual motion machine; I know it wouldn't work with me. I just grab a box of wrapping paper without even looking at it. So, what does paper decorated with snowmen or candy canes tell you about the giver? I've never seen wrapping paper with Menorahs or nativity scenes or little crosses or fishes, except trout. A trout wrapper wouldn't say anything about the giver or recipient except both are probably redneck fishermen.
Command lines are fine for you and me, but 3/4ths of even slashdotters would be lost without a GUI, let alone normal people.
I'm not talking about the video; I'm literate and need no damned video. I'm talking about the text. Text is far more precise and understandable than some guy's ramblings. Did he say "the Koala eats shoots and leaves", or did he say "the Koala eats, shoots, and leaves"? Does that commercial for the sex toy shop in Springfield say "Pricilla's, where fun and fantasy meet" or "Pricilla's, we're fun and fantasy meat"?
Video is for demonstrating something like this. Talking head videos are for small children and other illiterates.
Of course it is. Would Ford be a better car company if they only offered the Mustang? Would Mustangs be better if you had no choice whether it had AC, a radio, heated seats, and you had to use whatever color they picked? I get the idea that you're being deliberately dense.
The choice is between having a choice and having no choice. I guess you prefer the USSR's one political party?
And no choice is not good if the consumer has no idea what the answer is to the question.
So you prefer that people remain ignorant? All one has to do is ask someone, or look it up on this newfangled thing they have called "teh intarwebs".
Apple is making money hand over fix.
No, Microsoft is making money hand over fix (patch patch patch). Apple is making money hand over fist.
I was running kubuntu 9 and nothing seemed broken to me. 11.1 is even better. I may DL the new KDE just to see if they've added any major improvements, or bugs, or hosed something that was already perfect.
In the design community, designing with mobile devices in mind is a growing practice.
My old Motorola Razr (the old flip phone Razr, not the new Android) was able to get on the internet, and that thing was replaced YEARS ago. At the rate these developers are "growing" there'll be something else to supplant phones and they'll be ignoring the new platform and focusing on the phones nobody is using for teh internet any more. They won't code for the new thing until it, too, is used less than the even newer thing.
I wish you wouldn't have responded to him. He's an AC so he won't see your comment, and he's at -1 so nobody will see his -- except through yours. But since you did, I'll go farther and add that absolute positioning is RETARDED. Screens range for two inches to seventy inches, with resolutions from 640x480 to 1080p, with some screens portrait and some landscape, and with different aspect ratios. It isn't a damned magazine page where you can make it look exectly like you want it, because you CAN'T. Not on every device and every screen. You should strive to make your pages as useable and readable as humanly possible. People really don't give a flying frog about your layout or what the damned thing looks like, they care about the content. "Cool" web pages are seldom good web pages.
I doubt that much of the ID fraud comes from old hard drives. Phishing, cracking web sites, especiall dumpster diving for paper records, are where the ID theft is happening. I'd say that 99.999% of the time, a high level format would be sufficient.