Then 95% of the world is wrong. This is an American site. It's hosted in the USA, it's staffed in the USA... it's American. Sites can have an international audience, but this is still an American site. Japan has its own Slashdot for a reason. They need one. The rest of your English speakers can tag along with us.

The ice bucket challenge was a ploy to secure funding. This is also a ploy to secure funding.

These threads on Slashdot predate Reddit. If you want the old slashdot back, then this is what you want.

It is after all if not the alpha then at least the omega

I killed several palm PDAs and one wince PDA in my front pants pocket while driving due to canyon carving with inadequate lateral support. I've had a whopping two smartphones so far, Xperia Play and Nexus 4, and they hold up fine but yes, I occasionally feel the same thing. Then I take the damned phone out of my pocket and put it somewhere else. Nobody should be putting their phone in their back pocket. That's daft. Not only does it risk destruction by ass, but it's a good way to get it stolen unless you have pants so tight it's going to give you robobuttock.

Hey man, I don't know why you're so upset. Maybe you need a punching bag. Maybe somebody left a bag of poop on your door, or ran over your rose bushes. If so, glad to be your virtual punching bag. Looking back over this, I'll admit that I might have escalated things unnecessarily by saying "you should have just corrected my sig". You opened the door of pedantry though, and that pissed me off. I apologize for that little remark. I apologize for nothing else. I'm done with this. Chill out and have a nice day. The last word is yours.

That's a good point. Tesla probably has the ability to fight and win outright.

I don't care about my ego. If I did, I wouldn't have linked to Wikipedia and acknowledged the technical correctness of what you're saying. It's the spirit of what she did that matters more to me (and most people) than the technical correctness. You could have pointed it out more politely. It could have gone something like this:

"Actually, she simply refused to get up when the driver shrank the "colored" section; but I get what your'e saying".

Rent a Tesla for $1. This is a one-time offer. Limit one per customer. Problem solved.

Yes, I think those sorts of event are generally crocks as well, and hypocritical to boot.

Yes, if you keep it local. Instead of centralizing, have more and smaller gatherings. They can still be fairly large, as much as someone can reasonably actually take in at a time.

But it is. A lot of energy is consumed just getting people there, resulting in a lot of emissions. A lot of stuff is burned that shouldn't be, in spite of attempts to prevent it. What about a festival that's inherently creative? I guess that's not as fun as setting shit on fire.

While that's a Bad Idea(tm), no means no even when it's a drunken, half-assed no. If you don't care enough to listen well enough to hear and observe that no, then you're the problem.

I'm not one of the people who believes that alcohol eliminates the possibility of consent. If you get intoxicated and consent to sex, well, you consented. The obvious exception is giving people intoxicating substances without their knowledge. There is however a gray area; what if someone else slips someone GHB without their consent and without your knowledge, say, and then that person wants to have sex with you? Well, it's still your responsibility. You should know who you're fucking, and why.

Amen to that. I want a festival someplace where I don't have to suck alkali dust. And I also want a festival that's about making things, not burning shit down and blowing shit up. The best thing 40,000 people can think of to do with a week is go to the desert and set shit on fire? If one tenth of that effort were spent doing something positive instead of something destructive, what could those people accomplish? How many trees could they plant, or whatever? Instead it's post-post-modern celebration of the destruction of the biosphere, which itself consumes massive amounts of energy just in transporting all those burners.

That said, if I were testing a stillsuit, that's where I'd go. Otherwise, it just don't make no sense. There's nothing there but what you make. Why not make something somewhere else? Maybe something you're not just going to set on fire.