Are you out of your mind? Hundreds of people every year since the 80s. Africa alone has suffered thousands of death. Do better research.
WHOOOSH!! Thanks a lot Captain Dimwit. Since you obviously failed to grasp the nature of my previous comment, let me break it down for you. The person I was replying to said that AIDS had killed thousands of people, which is ridiculous, as it killed millions. Instead of going "You mean millions?!" I chose to go the other way by making a comment that would carry the same message with added sarcasm, which is why I said "hundreds" instead. The only problem with my sarcasm is that it was overly subtle for.. people of your kind.
Now if you weren't the author of the original comment I'd think that this comment was a tongue-in-cheek sarcasm, but given this and your posting record (you must be the first person I see here who posts an entire post over again with one typo corrected), you're either a licensed moron or an incredibly bored troll.
most sane humans can cope with a few sexless months.
Make it 261 for me. Maybe NASA needs virgin astronauts?
And by chance NASA picked 5 stonecoldfreezing woman who'd have no problems with a few years of celibacy and a few of the guys have a bit above average of testosterone...
I'm obviously going to be modded down for this, but what does this blog post do on the front page of Slashdot? I mean ti's not news, it's just a guy with a job like another telling us his life. Surely that may be relevant to some, but that's just a blog entry about someone's life among others, so what the hell is it doing here? Is that guy pals with ScuttleMonkey?
The bigbrother tag amuses me, because it seems to imply that this cell phone GPS thing could be used against your will to track you or something. Well I've got a N95 and I have no fear of that happening, because for the GPS to synchronise you need to slide your cell phone out and wait about one minute and a half in a clear outdoors location. So clearly using a N95 you can be sure that the GPS will only be used if you want it to be used.
In what way is it blasphemous? Can you name a bible verse that states "thou shalt not watch football in church"?
Well there's lots of things you're not supposed to do in "the house of God", basically anything not related to religion, right? Or is it only in Catholicism?
Funny, all my friends are vi pre-version 5.x people. I couldn't be friends with someone who uses vim 6.3, let alone vim 7.0! Death to the heretics!
My overly subtle point being, people don't actually tend that much to associate themselves with other people of the same opinion, because too rarely does an opinion about something matter to the point it would determine who you're going to befriend or not with. Except in the case of hippies and religious freaks.
No it's not! You want funny? Here's funny : There's two hookers in a lift. One goes, "It smells like cum in here". The other one replies, "Oops sorry I just farted".
That would be cool if they used your friends and such to suggest you new people to become friends with, à la Last.fm, with people instead of music.
Well to LastNig.ht. According to your Facebook profile, you recently "hooked up" with Sally, Michelle and Brandy. LastNig.ht BETA suggests you to try to hook up with the following people : Stacy. Pam. Jeff.
Seriously, can anyone see this being more pertinent than regular searches? I don't know about you people, but I don't necessarily have much in common with my few friends, so if a friend of mine is into Paris Hilton or international law that's not necessarily going to improve my search results in any good way.
There was only limited opportunity to take (false) color shots, since the 3 color channels had to be taken sequentially
As you're obviously unaware of, every shot has been taken sequentially with the probe's 11 filters, included red, green and blue, sequentially, everytime. I love it when people make their assumptions sound like facts.
You mean besides making us rich by picking cotton, sugar cane and being our "house niggers" for hundreds of years, while "letting" us exploit the mineral resources of their countries of origin? Yeah, let's not give handouts to these people, they should be glad we let them live in our beautiful country after all they've done for us. Oh wait..
they still have tribal warfare, genital mutilation
We were talking about American blacks, not African blacks. But I guess bigotry doesn't care about such details.
Seriously, don't they have other more pressing issues to spend money on like abject poverty?
Yeah, cause trying to attract as many rich tourists from all over the world as much as possible isn't going to do anything to alleviate China's poverty anyways.
We can spend who knows how much money on a pointless and widely unpopular war over in Iraq...but we can't get better tube materials for our internets?
lol. That's what I love about us computer nerds, our priorities. Like, you just realised that something was wrong because so much money was spent on war during the 5 years it lasted and little can be spent on Internet's infrastructure, when black babies have been dying with no healthcare for the whole time.
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Are you out of your mind? Hundreds of people every year since the 80s. Africa alone has suffered thousands of death. Do better research.
WHOOOSH!! Thanks a lot Captain Dimwit. Since you obviously failed to grasp the nature of my previous comment, let me break it down for you. The person I was replying to said that AIDS had killed thousands of people, which is ridiculous, as it killed millions. Instead of going "You mean millions?!" I chose to go the other way by making a comment that would carry the same message with added sarcasm, which is why I said "hundreds" instead. The only problem with my sarcasm is that it was overly subtle for.. people of your kind.
Now if you weren't the author of the original comment I'd think that this comment was a tongue-in-cheek sarcasm, but given this and your posting record (you must be the first person I see here who posts an entire post over again with one typo corrected), you're either a licensed moron or an incredibly bored troll.
Is abstinence really that difficult?
Every wise man must know that it's foolish to rely on people for safety, mainly on people's will.
Is it just sexually? What about blood transfusions? What about sharing needles?
What about having children? (That's right, it was about time someone had to think of the children!)
an epidemic that has killed thousands of people
Thousands of people? More like hundreds of people!
most sane humans can cope with a few sexless months.
Make it 261 for me. Maybe NASA needs virgin astronauts?
And by chance NASA picked 5 stonecoldfreezing woman who'd have no problems with a few years of celibacy and a few of the guys have a bit above average of testosterone...
Sounds like MTV's A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila (12 hardcore lesbians and 12 horny males put together in the same house)
So basically they're looking for people that would help astronauts remain sane and cool during long stays in space. Have they considered prostitutes?
It seems you have a rather narrow definition of news.
Au contraire, you seem to have a fairly wide definition of news. What is less news than this according to you?
I'm obviously going to be modded down for this, but what does this blog post do on the front page of Slashdot? I mean ti's not news, it's just a guy with a job like another telling us his life. Surely that may be relevant to some, but that's just a blog entry about someone's life among others, so what the hell is it doing here? Is that guy pals with ScuttleMonkey?
The bigbrother tag amuses me, because it seems to imply that this cell phone GPS thing could be used against your will to track you or something. Well I've got a N95 and I have no fear of that happening, because for the GPS to synchronise you need to slide your cell phone out and wait about one minute and a half in a clear outdoors location. So clearly using a N95 you can be sure that the GPS will only be used if you want it to be used.
In what way is it blasphemous? Can you name a bible verse that states "thou shalt not watch football in church"?
Well there's lots of things you're not supposed to do in "the house of God", basically anything not related to religion, right? Or is it only in Catholicism?
Are you British, by chance?
No, French, and atheist too.
The real WTF is, people in the USA watch football in churches? How the fuck is that not somehow blasphemous?
Hairy Hardon.
Sorry, that's probably not original at all, but I couldn't resist..
all my friends are emacs people
Funny, all my friends are vi pre-version 5.x people. I couldn't be friends with someone who uses vim 6.3, let alone vim 7.0! Death to the heretics!
My overly subtle point being, people don't actually tend that much to associate themselves with other people of the same opinion, because too rarely does an opinion about something matter to the point it would determine who you're going to befriend or not with. Except in the case of hippies and religious freaks.
OK, now that's funny!
No it's not! You want funny? Here's funny : There's two hookers in a lift. One goes, "It smells like cum in here". The other one replies, "Oops sorry I just farted".
Tada! Mod points please...
That would be cool if they used your friends and such to suggest you new people to become friends with, à la Last.fm, with people instead of music.
Well to LastNig.ht. According to your Facebook profile, you recently "hooked up" with Sally, Michelle and Brandy. LastNig.ht BETA suggests you to try to hook up with the following people : Stacy. Pam. Jeff.
Seriously, can anyone see this being more pertinent than regular searches? I don't know about you people, but I don't necessarily have much in common with my few friends, so if a friend of mine is into Paris Hilton or international law that's not necessarily going to improve my search results in any good way.
Right, because white babies never ever die without healthcare.
What, you think you're making a point?
There was only limited opportunity to take (false) color shots, since the 3 color channels had to be taken sequentially
As you're obviously unaware of, every shot has been taken sequentially with the probe's 11 filters, included red, green and blue, sequentially, everytime. I love it when people make their assumptions sound like facts.
What have they done in the last, say, 2000 years?
You mean besides making us rich by picking cotton, sugar cane and being our "house niggers" for hundreds of years, while "letting" us exploit the mineral resources of their countries of origin? Yeah, let's not give handouts to these people, they should be glad we let them live in our beautiful country after all they've done for us. Oh wait..
they still have tribal warfare, genital mutilation
We were talking about American blacks, not African blacks. But I guess bigotry doesn't care about such details.
Seriously, don't they have other more pressing issues to spend money on like abject poverty?
Yeah, cause trying to attract as many rich tourists from all over the world as much as possible isn't going to do anything to alleviate China's poverty anyways.
Oh wait..
That picture is so shamelessly nerdy it almost gives me chills down my spine.
We can spend who knows how much money on a pointless and widely unpopular war over in Iraq...but we can't get better tube materials for our internets?
lol. That's what I love about us computer nerds, our priorities. Like, you just realised that something was wrong because so much money was spent on war during the 5 years it lasted and little can be spent on Internet's infrastructure, when black babies have been dying with no healthcare for the whole time.
Without looking at pr0n? How?
Wait, you mean, you don't have any on your cell phone's micro SD card? Like, you know, emergency porn?
I hope there is an IQ minimum
Nah, IQ tests are too long to pass. Would be much quicker to ask people to spell out "soccer" instead.