It's pretty clear that "exposing creationist pseudoscience" indicates the author does not believe in creationism. Bias isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it really has no place in reporting of facts. In this case, the guy you responded to is correct. TFA regards google's policies and communication with webmasters, not creationist pseudoscience.
"Apparently, it is the first time this organic matter is found in spherical bubbles, that the original article misleadingly calls 'globules'. As usual, the article is light on technical details but heavy on wild crazy sensationalist extrapolation."
The term "globules" is used in the _Science_ article (not the linked National Geographic one) so much that it appears to be a technical term--I'm not familiar with chemistry.
The speculation that life could have arrived on earth via Meteorite Express came from the paper's authors, who were at least careful enough to say that more studies were needed before we could even contemplate the idea:
"Microscopic organic globules may thus have been a common form of prebiotic organic matter delivered to the early Earth by comets and meteorites. Further studies of these objects may elucidate whether their composition and membrane-like structures were important building blocks for the origin of life."
You called 911 (traditionally used for actual life or death emergencies) because some guys might have been doing something illegal with the phone lines?
Slashdot really has slid the past few years. I remember a time when the goat-felching trolls could muster something of a little higher caliber than a tepid "yo momma" flame. But at least this level of originality is consistent with your Ben Franklin post.
"Gingrich, speaking at a Manchester awards banquet, said a 'different set of rules' may be needed to reduce terrorists' ability to use the Internet and free speech to recruit and get out their message."
Or you could counter their message with ideas and actions showing why American freedoms and democracy are better than the alternatives, but I guess that's too much like work for Mr. Gingrich.
TFA is broken at the moment, but I'm willing to bet the reclined position is only "best" compared to the others in the study. I'm also willing to bet the best thing for your back is a variety of seated positions to help flex your spine and muscles, and not one stationary position for hours at a time.
"Copyright laws, we all agree I'm sure, should prevent people from illegally copying and reselling content. Originally, this applied pretty much only to printed books, so that's what the initial system was designed for. Once you start having different mediums, an important concept needs to be well defined which I think both sides of the argument have really addressed: When you buy something, are you paying for the copy, or the content?"
How does the medium change anything here? When I buy a book I'm not paying for the content (I don't have any rights to the written words themselves), but the copy. When I buy a movie, I still don't have any rights to the content itself, only the copy. The MPAA and RIAA want it both ways, of course, but it's obvious that the laws written for printed text apply equally no matter what medium or content we're discussing.
"The tubes were only revealed after a piece of sword was dissolved in hydrochloric acid to remove another microstructure in the swords: nanowires of the mineral cementite."
Am I missing something or did they just say they're dissolving priceless swords in hydrochloric acid?
Full disclosure: I don't work in the energy field (a pun!) and I know next to nothing about economics. If you're in the same boat and you have spare mod points, don't mod me up for this post. Chances are that we're both misinformed.
That said, I do understand the fundamental idea of "running out" of something. In which case, does it matter whether we're at peak production now or in 24 years? Waiting until the last minute to start working on something was a bad idea in college; I don't see how it could possibly be a good idea in the real world.
So when a local station did a "report" on Wal-Mart dropping the price of something or other to a quarter, that wasn't a real story? I feel so used.
In any given 30-minute "news" timeslot I get maybe 5 seconds' worth of actual news between the weather, sports, and paid advertising that should be run during the scheduled commercial breaks. That 5 seconds consists of information I hadn't already found on the internet 2 days previously, and is more often than not celebrity gossip. "Oh, Brittney Spears got divorced. Nifty."
These machines get thousands of votes. What does it matter if one gets lost, statistically speaking? Wait...what do you mean only 36 people voted on it? Well, shit.
In other news, town of 80 has loads of spare cash for voting machine, commissioners too lazy to photocopy some ballots. Film at 11.
If only there were some sort of common, standardized symbolism New Zealanders could use to convey their thoughts! They could call it a "language" or something like that.
"we are winning, and ahead of any reasonable schedule. And, with unexpected good side effects having already occurred."
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Haaaaaa ha ha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Stop! You're killing me!
Back in RealityLand, though, are we winning on the "giving up the search for missing soldiers because the new Iraq government told us to stop looking" front, the "massive increase in terrorist activities" front, or the "Fox News reporters claim everything's peachy but refuse to wander out of the Green Zone to share the good news with the rest of the world" front? Dumb fuck.
Specifically, the one he admitted to to the press corps Wednesday morning, you trolling fuckhead:
Bush indicated that he had made the decision to replace Rumsfeld before the elections, but he said he had not held a "final conversation" with the defense chief or talked to Gates at the time he told reporters in response to a question last week that Rumsfeld would be staying on.
Asked about that comment, Bush said he made it because "I didn't want to inject a major decision about this war in the final days of a campaign," Bush said. He appeared to acknowledge having misled reporters, saying, "And so the only way to answer that question and to get you onto another question was to give you that answer."
He added later, "Win or lose, Bob Gates was going to become the nominee."
I've been happy for political news on Slashdot ever since our cable was out on 9/11/2001 and I found out about the attacks here. If you don't like it, try changing your settings. It's a no-brainer, really.
Here we are at only a couple of comments, and already the focus of his site has shifted from studying how visitors interact with the site to studying his page timeout settings.
"Mr Rumsfeld said earlier this year that he was concerned by the success of US enemies in 'manipulating the media'. 'That's the thing that keeps me up at night,' Mr Rumsfeld said."
So like...not the deaths of 3,000 American soldiers, the deaths of over half a million Iraqis, the lack of any WMD, increasing tension in the middle east, or the exponential rise in terrorist recruitment as a direct result of our involvement in Iraq? Really? The thing that keeps you up at night, you worthless piece of shit, is the thought that al Jazeera might not tell the truth about the Pentagon?
Incorrect title. It should read, "Website Claims Alienware Rep Admits Trying to Fiddle Reviews."
Not that I've ever owned an Alienware system or would lay out the money for the same components I can get cheaper elsewhere, but a little journalistic honesty would be nice here.
Slashdot Mirror
"how is it biased?"
It's pretty clear that "exposing creationist pseudoscience" indicates the author does not believe in creationism. Bias isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it really has no place in reporting of facts. In this case, the guy you responded to is correct. TFA regards google's policies and communication with webmasters, not creationist pseudoscience.
"Apparently, it is the first time this organic matter is found in spherical bubbles, that the original article misleadingly calls 'globules'. As usual, the article is light on technical details but heavy on wild crazy sensationalist extrapolation."
The term "globules" is used in the _Science_ article (not the linked National Geographic one) so much that it appears to be a technical term--I'm not familiar with chemistry.
The speculation that life could have arrived on earth via Meteorite Express came from the paper's authors, who were at least careful enough to say that more studies were needed before we could even contemplate the idea:
"Microscopic organic globules may thus have been a common form of prebiotic organic matter delivered to the early Earth by comets and meteorites. Further studies of these objects may elucidate whether their composition and membrane-like structures were important building blocks for the origin of life."
"there's a limit to what we allow in schools."
Those of us who at least skimmed the fucking article (or even took a cursory glance at the writeup) know that's a moot point.
You called 911 (traditionally used for actual life or death emergencies) because some guys might have been doing something illegal with the phone lines?
Slashdot really has slid the past few years. I remember a time when the goat-felching trolls could muster something of a little higher caliber than a tepid "yo momma" flame. But at least this level of originality is consistent with your Ben Franklin post.
That's way more insightful than the other 20 times it was posted, even if not all the words were right. You rock!
"Gingrich, speaking at a Manchester awards banquet, said a 'different set of rules' may be needed to reduce terrorists' ability to use the Internet and free speech to recruit and get out their message."
Or you could counter their message with ideas and actions showing why American freedoms and democracy are better than the alternatives, but I guess that's too much like work for Mr. Gingrich.
TFA is broken at the moment, but I'm willing to bet the reclined position is only "best" compared to the others in the study. I'm also willing to bet the best thing for your back is a variety of seated positions to help flex your spine and muscles, and not one stationary position for hours at a time.
"Copyright laws, we all agree I'm sure, should prevent people from illegally copying and reselling content. Originally, this applied pretty much only to printed books, so that's what the initial system was designed for. Once you start having different mediums, an important concept needs to be well defined which I think both sides of the argument have really addressed: When you buy something, are you paying for the copy, or the content?"
How does the medium change anything here? When I buy a book I'm not paying for the content (I don't have any rights to the written words themselves), but the copy. When I buy a movie, I still don't have any rights to the content itself, only the copy. The MPAA and RIAA want it both ways, of course, but it's obvious that the laws written for printed text apply equally no matter what medium or content we're discussing.
There's a lot of humor potential in going to a site laced with ads and a list of 30 sponsors to read about spam.
"The tubes were only revealed after a piece of sword was dissolved in hydrochloric acid to remove another microstructure in the swords: nanowires of the mineral cementite."
Am I missing something or did they just say they're dissolving priceless swords in hydrochloric acid?
Full disclosure: I don't work in the energy field (a pun!) and I know next to nothing about economics. If you're in the same boat and you have spare mod points, don't mod me up for this post. Chances are that we're both misinformed.
That said, I do understand the fundamental idea of "running out" of something. In which case, does it matter whether we're at peak production now or in 24 years? Waiting until the last minute to start working on something was a bad idea in college; I don't see how it could possibly be a good idea in the real world.
So when a local station did a "report" on Wal-Mart dropping the price of something or other to a quarter, that wasn't a real story? I feel so used.
In any given 30-minute "news" timeslot I get maybe 5 seconds' worth of actual news between the weather, sports, and paid advertising that should be run during the scheduled commercial breaks. That 5 seconds consists of information I hadn't already found on the internet 2 days previously, and is more often than not celebrity gossip. "Oh, Brittney Spears got divorced. Nifty."
http://www.zug.com/pranks/riaa/
Call Cary in person.
These machines get thousands of votes. What does it matter if one gets lost, statistically speaking? Wait...what do you mean only 36 people voted on it? Well, shit.
In other news, town of 80 has loads of spare cash for voting machine, commissioners too lazy to photocopy some ballots. Film at 11.
"Ted Stevens is a tool."
Tool...or prescient genius? You won't be calling him a tool when the internets really are comprised of tubes, sir!
If only there were some sort of common, standardized symbolism New Zealanders could use to convey their thoughts! They could call it a "language" or something like that.
"we are winning, and ahead of any reasonable schedule. And, with unexpected good side effects having already occurred."
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Haaaaaa ha ha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Stop! You're killing me!
Back in RealityLand, though, are we winning on the "giving up the search for missing soldiers because the new Iraq government told us to stop looking" front, the "massive increase in terrorist activities" front, or the "Fox News reporters claim everything's peachy but refuse to wander out of the Green Zone to share the good news with the rest of the world" front? Dumb fuck.
> What lie?
Specifically, the one he admitted to to the press corps Wednesday morning, you trolling fuckhead:
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti cle/2006/11/08/AR2006110801180.html)
I bet the soldiers who died while Bush was playing political games would sure appreciate his bold leadership.
"This isn't Moveon.org, it's slashdot."
I've been happy for political news on Slashdot ever since our cable was out on 9/11/2001 and I found out about the attacks here. If you don't like it, try changing your settings. It's a no-brainer, really.
Here we are at only a couple of comments, and already the focus of his site has shifted from studying how visitors interact with the site to studying his page timeout settings.
"Mr Rumsfeld said earlier this year that he was concerned by the success of US enemies in 'manipulating the media'.
'That's the thing that keeps me up at night,' Mr Rumsfeld said."
So like...not the deaths of 3,000 American soldiers, the deaths of over half a million Iraqis, the lack of any WMD, increasing tension in the middle east, or the exponential rise in terrorist recruitment as a direct result of our involvement in Iraq? Really? The thing that keeps you up at night, you worthless piece of shit, is the thought that al Jazeera might not tell the truth about the Pentagon?
Fuck you.
To expand on that a bit, Murdoch has a "DO be evil" policy.
Incorrect title. It should read, "Website Claims Alienware Rep Admits Trying to Fiddle Reviews."
Not that I've ever owned an Alienware system or would lay out the money for the same components I can get cheaper elsewhere, but a little journalistic honesty would be nice here.
"God you're dumb."
Pot, Kettle. Howdy!
Your argument is horseshit. There were no violations. If you have seen a violation, feel free to post it.
"If" doesn't count. Last time I checked, presumption of innocence hadn't been fucked in the ass by the administration quite yet.