My relationship to 4th of July noise:
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I'm not American so why would I care? (Score:5, Insightful)
July 4th will be just another (normal) Saturday for the rest of the world.
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No it won't. July 4th will be the day the attack against the aliens begins. Didn't you see the movie?
Re:I'm not American so why would I care? (Score:5, Funny)
Lucky we can hack them because they independently invented an insecure IPv4-compatible protocol.
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But since Apple switched to Intel CPUs, who's going to save us?
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Do you want to get The Borg? Because that's how you get The Borg.
Re: I'm not American so why would I care? (Score:1)
I still have a Powerbook 165c.
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HA! I'm running Lindows :)
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I think that was July 2nd or third. Unless you mean the counter attack.
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woooooh murkins
coz thats the whole world and the entire slashdot audience
oh and the entire independence thing is an illegal act any way
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woooooh murkins coz thats the whole world and the entire slashdot audience
oh and the entire independence thing is an illegal act any way
It was an illegal act at the time. However, after lots of people died, the U.K. accepted and legitimized the independence of the United States.
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I have close to zero respect for anti-fireworks laws. Go ahead and do it, but be responsible, or be held liable.
What the hell is wrong with that?
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What the hell is wrong with that, hmm, doctors, dentists, school teachers, road laws, aeroplane laws, ship laws, gun laws (in sane countries) just some that spring to mind with regards to doing what ever you like but you are responsible. So hmm, whom do you sue when they blow themselves up as well as others?
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Repeat: what is wrong with being held LIABLE for your transgressions? You have a problem with that?
So hmm, whom do you sue when they blow themselves up as well as others?
The same people you sue when anybody else does the same thing. What, you think any of this is new?
Do you think any of your answers are new? That they haven't been done before?
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Which has then conspired to de-legitimize the celebration of its own independence. I have close to zero respect for anti-fireworks laws. Go ahead and do it, but be responsible, or be held liable. What the hell is wrong with that?
What's wrong with that is that it's a little hard to track down the individual who lit the fireworks AFTER a wildfire has devastated the region. You do understand that fire prevention is the primary reason for these laws, right? (There may be rural areas where the noise frightens livestock, and that would be a legitimate reason for prohibiting their use as well).
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It helped a lot that King George the Third was probably sick with Porphyria [wikipedia.org] at the time as well as having his hands full with much closer and more powerful enemies than the cocky Americans.
Don't forget they came back not that much later and thoroughly kicked our asses.
America and Britain will always be allies. At least if they get their Islamic immigration under control.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga... [bbc.co.uk]
when it happened....there were nukes.....hmmm who knew
The way to do it that would have been legal would have been to petition parliament like the Scottish just did, you can't just decide you don't like the way your country is run so you'll make you're own....if that was a thing, I'd have my own already.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga... [bbc.co.uk] when it happened....there were nukes.....hmmm who knew
The way to do it that would have been legal would have been to petition parliament like the Scottish just did, you can't just decide you don't like the way your country is run so you'll make you're own....if that was a thing, I'd have my own already.
Um, remember that phrase "taxation without representation" that got thrown around back then? Parliament did not recognize the colonies' right to petition because there was no colonial representative member. The colonists then did what they could--petitioned the king directly [wikipedia.org].
I guess that didn't help either.
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False. Republic Day in the Philippines, Liberation Day in Rwanda and North Mariana Islands and Christian Feast Day for several saints.
Higgs Day (Score:3)
July 4th will be just another (normal) Saturday for the rest of the world.
Not so - 4th July 2015 is the third anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson! That's a far better excuse to celebrate than winning an armed conflict.
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I AM American and live here, and I don't even care. Big deal, a bunch of aristocrats declared independance and now we have an abusive empire....swell, totally worth celebrating.
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The vast majority of slashdot users are not americans, the editors know and don't care.
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Where did you get that?
Slashdot has always been a US centric site.
Re: I'm not American so why would I care? (Score:2)
On the contrary, I didn't have to worry.
I'm a Loyalist (Score:5, Funny)
...you insensitive clod!
Re:I'm a Loyalist (Score:5, Interesting)
Used to live in a backwoods Canadian coastal area. It wasn't unusual to head toward the marina to watch the 4th of July fireworks coming from the rich American yachts because they could afford to put on a better fireworks show than the local town did a few days earlier on Canada Day.
All things considered we have good neighbours. Elsewhere in the world, little nations that reside beside super powers are sleeping with one eye open. We're not worried about USA. If they want something from us they pull out a check book, not a cannon. It will be just another Saturday for us but hope you guys enjoy your Independence Day.
Not sure what this has to do with tech news. I guess gun powder was a significant invention. What better way to celebrate the greatness of America than with Chinese goods?
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We are a little short on cash, will you take beer?
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We're sorry but we don't recognize weak yellow water as a currency.
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Dude, Canada's maple whiskey is some of the best shit on the planet.
http://www.saq.com/page/en/saq... [saq.com]
If you think otherwise, you're sorely mistaken.
That's coming from a BAD alcoholic with two+ decades of experience tasting alcohols from around the world.
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What better way to celebrate the greatness of America than with Chinese goods?
Well said, and of course, ever since the days of colonialism we have largely celebrated with goods from overseas, only now we sometimes pay for them.
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patriotism, the next religion. (Score:1)
patriotism, the next religion.
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I swear allegiance to the piece of cloth hanging in the corner of the room....then switch salutes once I realise the nazi party have been doing it too.
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You'll find that many Americans love and celebrate this holiday with nary a thought of patriotism, jingoism, or even why we're celebrating.
July 4th is my favorite holiday of the year. It's a great day to fire up the grill and cook/smoke enough meat to feed my family and the neighbors, drink a few beers, and set off some lame consumer grade fireworks. Maybe make a bonfire to keep the mosquitoes away, and drink a few more beers. At no point is anyone I know chanting "USA" or singing God Bless America or wavin
New Hampshire (Score:2, Informative)
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It's your civic duty as a citizen of New Hampshire to purchase and light my own fireworks which were made in China, hence removing cash value from your own country and send it to China.
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It's your civic duty as a citizen of New Hampshire to purchase and light my own fireworks which were made in China, hence removing cash value from your own country and send it to China.
Well, since fireworks came from China in the first place, it's not like it is a big loss. Not like IT jobs, cars, electronics, etc.
Hate getting stuck in traffic. Distant=better (Score:2)
A few towns I've lived in had fireworks that involved driving somewhere to watch them, which might or might not involve horrendous traffic going there, but always involved horrendous traffic leaving. Not worth it.
Fun places to watch fireworks (Score:2)
Your own front yard, or back yard, or the street, of course, preferably with illegal fireworks. Or the beach. As a friend put it, for any holiday celebrating the overthrow of the government, the question of whether your fireworks are legal simply shouldn't come up.
Most of California's way too dry to allow the things, but there's one town near San Francisco (Pacifica) that's always wet enough they're not worried about moderate levels of fireworks, so the local fire department sells them, and you're allowed
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it also is nice when family does fireworks for the big shows
If we're stuck with polls, how 'bout tech polls? (Score:2, Insightful)
Jesus Spaghetti, if we're stuck with f***ing polls on SlashDot, how about one that, I don't know, has ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH TECH. OOOOAAHH OOOHHHH!!!!!
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you can be a big boy and say fucking if you think you are ready for such a commitment
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>> you can be a big boy and say...
Kind of depends on the corporate web filter. YMWV :)
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well maybe you should be a big boy and choose better wording while using your overlords computer
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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I'm becoming a bit of a fireworks nerd, actually. I grew up in the big city where firework sales were forbidden, and now I live in the country where you can buy them twice a year. We actually double up on fourth of July and get extras to save for the fifth of November and have a fun time then, as well.
I've gone so far as to research how to create my own fireworks, and I might actually give it a try some day.
Gunpowder is really the original world-transforming technologies.
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In NZ we still have Guy Fawkes on 5/11 however the sale of fireworks is restricted from 2nd - 5th November.
I do not think Australia have any fireworks anymore, something about the place being one giant tinderbox.
'Remember, remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.'
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How about 3D-printed, Arduino-controlled fireworks choreographed by a beowulf cluster of Raspberry Pi running Linux and systemd, all bought online with Bitcoins?
I don't know about the 4th of July (Score:2, Insightful)
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They started going downhill when the cowboy neil option went away.
The embedded thing is very none traditional and I don't like it.
Please don't burn my house down (Score:2)
I'll be wearing my black armband all day (Score:2)
I'm English you insensitive clod.
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I have idiot neighbors that set off roman candles underneath low hanging trees.
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So, not waving your "Happy to be rid of you clowns" banner?
JULY 4th is a DATE (Score:2)
There's no "happy July 4th."
We don't celebrate July 4th, December 25th, October 31st, etc.
We celebrate the HOLIDAYS.
HAPPY US INDEPENDENCE DAY.
(and yes, as previous posters pointed out it's not an international holiday. Sorry Will Smith and ID4 crew.)
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Happy you independence day!
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I celebrate US Independence Day on July 2 -- the day the Continental Congress approved the resolution of independence that they had been talking about since June 7.
John Adams wrote to his wife:
If you're not going to do CowboyNeal options (Score:5, Insightful)
If you're not going to give us a CowboyNeal option, can you at least start giving us a "put the poll back in the sidebar where it belongs" option?
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+1 hahaha
Now I wish I used my mod points to mod this up instead of posting my own comment elsewhere.
Actively killing the polls (Score:5, Informative)
Okay, I get it. Dice is actively trying to kill the polls.
What is this new feature where I get told who else voted the same as me? Why does that matter without the context of the rest of the results? What a ridiculous waste of developer time.
Every time a new "feature" is added to the site it gets worse, and every time the old guard complains, and every time the complaints are ignored.
Let's take a look at something real quick. In a post from today (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/06/29/1441222/bill-gates-investing-2-billion-in-renewables), there are currently 19 "highly rated comments" showing with my default filter as of this moment. Of those, one is from an AC, two are from users with UID having 7 digits, and 16 of them are from users with UID having 5 or 6 digits.
Greater than 80% of the comments that people actually care about on that post came from users that have been around a while.
In my ridiculously small sample, that would seem to imply that the old guard contributes the most to the reason that people come to this site.
So the only conclusion I can draw is that Dice actually wants to kill the site.
SoylentNews is getting better every day while this place keeps going downhill. I think the day will soon come when I sign out for good.
But Dice doesn't care. That's the sad thing.
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Came to post the same thing. 13% voted the same as I did. Why would anyone bother to write the AJAX code to update the page, but only include a subset of the information? Also: I am a fix 50/50 mix between Slashdot and Soylent now. Soylent isn't the ultimate solution since it is still the aging Slashcode. But at least the content is well-edited and the site makes sense!
Not a Fan (Score:2)
Especially since my illiterate, mouth-breathing, redneck*, 4x4-driving fuckwit neighbor damned near set fire to my house last year with his "'Murica! Fuck Yeah!" Budweiser and fireworks extravaganza. He nearly killed one of his kids too, but the really tragic part of that is the "nearly" bit. That gene pool needs some chlorine bleach, stat.
Happily he is doing some time in jail, so I might have a quiet weekend.
*We have these in Massachusetts, believe it or not.
Stop responding to polls! (Score:2, Interesting)
1,700+ have answered the poll, along with having to enter the "booth" and having it in the main story area.
DO NOT ANSWER MAIN LINE POLLS!
Seriously, imagine a poll with no answers. 1,700 is very low for a Slashdot poll, but that could be due to topical reasons.
Want to stop polls in the main story feed? Do not vote and do not comment.
This is my last poll comment, other than restating this....
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I seriously don't care if polls are in the main story stream. I seriously think that the people complaining about it must have something wrong with them. Just skip over it. Whogivesashit.
Also, while I'm ranting, Slashdot polls have always been lame. So what if this one is also lame?
The one valid complaint about these polls... CowboyNeal Option
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I mostly agree, but the "stories" should have an icon or A "Poll:" in the subject line.
I totally agree with regards to the options.
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I've put in a request that the polls be labeled such; I agree.
This is a pretty conservative site (to put it mildly) when it comes to design, down to what might in other circumstances seem like pretty small changes, so it's always with some trepidation that we make any changes at all, and (nature of the beast, universally true for probably any site, household, business, or therapy group) we who work on the site don't all agree on everything, so sometimes we make moves that at least some people will think are
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Thanks for the response. Putting "Poll: " in front would be nice.
It also looks like traffic to the polls has dropped, which makes sense as they will fall of the front page in under 24 hours. Shoot get someone to sponsor the polls (I don't kid actually).
And yes, the community really wants no change. I can understand the urge to "improve" it, but I believe a lot of people find it a nice refuge from the "in your face" Web 2.0/3.0/"whatever internet version we are on" sites. I do.
Not Driving... (Score:5, Interesting)
Well, I won't drive to view the local community fireworks because it'll take me 2 hours to drive the 5 miles home. But I will bike to see the local fireworks.
Fire danger (Score:3)
I like fireworks as much as anyone and I don't mind if someones takes his chances with blowing his own hand off because he's had a few too many Bud Lights. What I mind is when it hasn't rained in months and all the fire danger alerts are Ultra Violet level but people are still shooting off sparkly rockets. Have a little sense, people!
Courage (Score:3)
I don't mind fireworks and I used to love setting them off (especially in model cars and school toilets). But now I've got a 15 year old border collie who hates those things. She'll face down pit bulls, coyotes and patiently lets kids crawl all over her, but when the fireworks start, she shrinks into the closet, shaking, and tries to dig her way through the rug hoping to create a hole big enough to hide in.
Plus, every year the Fourth of July seems to last longer. Now it starts somewhere around June 20th
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But now I've got a 15 year old border collie who hates those things
Dogs can get this way around fireworks, thunderstorms, etc, by people thinking they're comforting the dog when it looks worried. Instead, the dog takes this as confirmation there's something to be worried about and it becomes an increasing cycle. The secret is to pay no attention to the dog's worrying behavior instead of petting and telling it everything is OK.
This may not be your case; I'm just using you as a seque to bring it up.
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You may be right. My dog will try to climb into me or my wife's lap when the fireworks start, and if thunder happens at night, she'll try to climb i
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It's been a few years since I had a dog; the current theory is that instead of ignoring the dog during thunder/fireworks you should actively distract her. Try to get her to play with her favorite toy, etc.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a try, but at her advanced age, my dog's favorite toy is a bed on which to take a nap. I could probably interest her in a tennis ball or treat, though.
I'm an American but don't care... (Score:1)
I'm a natural born US citizen. I'm a patriot. I hate people (both online and direct meat puppet communication). I don't want to hear my neighbors and their stupid parties. I don't want to have to worry about an errant fire work setting my car or lawn on fire. I don't want to share in their celebration. I don't even want to be bothered by it.
Just a data point to show that some people can not care about fireworks or independence day celebration in general yet still be a US citizen.
I don't mind, but I'm not a veteran (Score:3)
I know some veterans who get nasty PTSD reactions from fireworks. I can't imagine what it must be like to get continual flashbacks to battle and all the emotions that come with that when fireworks go off.
It seems more than a little ironic to me that so many Americans celebrate veterans for "protecting our freedom," and then traumatize those same veterans when it comes time to celebrate our freedom.
Please be courteous with your use of fireworks, especially if you know that any veterans live nearby.
Missing: I threaten my neighbors with retaliation (Score:1)
My neighbors have until 10pm to blow their wad (of fireworks). After that, they know they will be met with suppressive fire from my 2nd floor balcony and A2G Roman Candle mortars.
Enthusiastic, but not for 4th July (Score:3)
Since there was no CowboyNeal option, I just localised it.
I voted Enthusiastic, since I will drive to see fireworks on Guy Fawkes night.
Good excuse (Score:3)
It's a good excuse to drag the fire pit and the grill around to the front of the house and invite the neighbors to do the same. Then spend the night watching what fireworks people set off (illegally) in the neighborhood and what we can see of the municipal display over the intervening houses and trees. The fireworks viewing is accomplished while drinking various libations and eating grilled meats, etc. and sitting around a roaring fire.
Note: I haven't melted the fire pit yet but there's still time.
Cheers,
Dave
Extreme Depression (Score:2)
Not Disinterested; Uninterested (Score:1)
Disinterest = Absence of bias
Uninterest = Lack of interest
don't live in the US now, but didn't care before (Score:1)
I don't live in the US, so this post will probably be the biggest deal for the Fourth for me.
I've never been patriotic. I find people are a better object of loyalty than countries. I've rarely been impressed by fireworks since I was a small child. And, when I was a kid, we didn't usually do the big family BBQ thing. The biggest effect it used to have as an adult was that I had a day off. Occasionally, I would go to some fireworks because my mother or girlfriend wanted to go.
So, disinterest.
They're not for everyone (Score:3)
I loved the 4th of July and all things fireworks as a kid. The bigger the better. However, after Iraq they've given me trouble ever since. My first year back was especially problematic and I didn't realize they'd bother me that much, so I just sat in the back of an RV during the fireworks show we went to.
Pets (Score:2)
I don't mind the holiday noise personally, but my cat does not like it at all. Since I care a lot about my cat, I have to take some precautions for his sake.
its ok (Score:1)
Missing Option: I like the pretty lights. (Score:2)
I very much enjoy the light shows, and even set off some blossoms and fountains and such - but I don't like the loud stuff.
My answer's not there (Score:1)
I'm hiding in the basement with my front paws over my ears.
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On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog.
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Only point roman candles at people you don't like.
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use the navel reactor dose management technique: STOGI for large fireworks
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what, belly buttons don't have nuclear piles? then naval.
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Yeehaw! [giantbomb.com] (warning: probably NSFW)
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As opposed to the rest of the world where the countries all have histories full of peace, love, and rainbows.