Didn't Nikola Tesla predict the invention of the tractor? Penicillin? A cure for the common cold? The difference engine? The Triumph of The Third International? Popular entertainment that consisted of nothing more than the daily life of boring members of the audience (now that one was wierd. How did he know it woulld be more popular than the obsession with forensic science?).

Nope.

It was - people who were famous for being famous..?

No it wasn't that.

Dang! It was microwave food. MMM!

Hedamannnn!

everyone that a group of Marxist Revolutionaries equipped with only AK47, black pyjamas a coolie hat, the occasional bicycle and dried rat for lunch (according to Martin Sheene in Apocalypse Now) managed to defeat the might of an invading alien army equipped with unimaginable resources, superior weapons and the ability to spend 168 billion US Dollars with a projected end cost of 900 billion US Dollars.

Then there were the Somalis. They just had Technicals and 9 year old boys equipped with RPG launchers...

So all members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Earth, SG1, the Resistance and any other exciting names you can think up, get your spray cans ready and let's begin with the first letter we will need.

V.

The unqualified level of ignorance in this post and the fact that others have ranked it insightful are a sad indictment of some of the slash dot community. Not to mention the fact that the source of the "story" is the Sun Newspaper - a source more normally the recipient of slashdot vitriol. Apparently any consistent moral standard of behaviour is to be abandoned the moment an opportunity to talk with a mouthful of ash presents itself.

• 1 Citizen is sent to prison for crimes committed under the influence of drugs.
• 2 Citizen serves sentence and loses habit.
• 3 Society, properly concerned for the life of its individuals offers specific recidivists some protection from street drugs and a return to crime to fund street drugs (Methadone is provided by our free health care system because our health care system is indeed free to all citizens)
• 4 Same citizen is completely within their rights to go straight to a GP or Addict Support Team anywhere in the UK and request acceptance on the Methadone programme. Acceptance on this programme requires the same assessment they would have had to have undergone prior to point 3 above.
• 5 Citizen either copes or doesn't cope with life outside but has some understanding that our society, composed in the majority of decent hardworking law-abiding citizens, at least makes some effort to protect the weak and the vulnerable. Even drug addicts, a group of people whom contrary to their manufactured LaLaLand stereotype of being a menace to society are really a greater menace to themselves, their familes and their friends.
• But you don't really care for people, Do you?

Just because there are barbarians at the gate, it doesn't mean that you have to become one.

They wanted to erase all trace of Escalante because he tried to teach. This is contrary to purpose as Gatto explains in his famous essay and Stuart Williams exposed in his secret diary http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/features/2004/04/secret_diary_of_the_telford_teacher.shtml. Highlighting the shortcomings off your fellow teachers, administration, trade union and elected officials is the same as being Piggy in Lord of the Flies - and I'm not linking to the wiki entry on William Goldsmith, since that book is one we reserve for the punishment block (along with: 1984, Moby Dick and A Clockwork Orange).

People think that the Sun determines the winner of UK Parliamentary Elections. This is because the Sun always supports the winner. This is because the Sun's readers helpfully write, text, email and call the Sun's editorial desk and allow the paper to easily gauge the mood of the country whereby it changes its political colours to suit. The Scottish edition managed to support the Conservatives, the Nationalists and the Socialists in the space of twelve months.

News Internationals wacky venture into paywalls is the sort of thing we can expect from a company that does not understand the internet. News International has been so succesful in the past because the competition has always been so weak and stuck in their ways.

The Internet is an exceptionally strong threat to News International because it challenges it in all of its market sectors. It is quite likely that the web is a much greater threat to NI than any of their suits can either appreciate or convince the CEO.
For all the other reasons this is a stupid idea, see my other posts on this subject. I wouldn't want to be duping...

hopefully your friend has kept all the original packing that their computer came in. Repack everything and return it to the original vendor. Tell them that your friend (and quite possibly your friend's friend) is not really smart enough to own a computer.

The Nothing, whilst dominated by sand and possibly beetles, is of course anything but black...

I was so freaked out there. What with the recent death of Arnold Stang, it would have been too much to bear.
Long live the Drupal God http://buytaert.net/

There's a pattern to be found in everything provided you cut the logos and labels off your black 501's and never, ever enter a Tommy Hilfiger store.

Piracy is what is going around the Red Sea, the Somalia coast and the Indian Ocean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy.
It has nothing to do with copying media. What the entertainments industry are doing is called privateering - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer.
The original model for the entertainment industry was: entertainers appear live and perform. This had high overheads and physical limitations.
The recording model was: mass produce the sound and sell these copies to so many people that they would make more money than anyone could ever imagine and the medium would be so cheap that everyone could afford it and copying it would be pointless. Oops,sorry, they decided to skip the last part.

but I know someone who is. They would advise all slashdotters (and anyone else for that matter) that it is an incredibly bad idea to take any paracetamol when you have been drinking alcohol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol.
It is very toxic to your liver. Better to drink responsibly, consume quality products and remember that a reasonable consumption of water only protects you from the effects of hydration but has no real effect on the contaminants that cause the headache and nausea. Wait until the alcohol has been metabolised (2 hours per unit) and then take the lowest dose possible or some other analgesic.

of Santa's Dawkinsian Mind Virus Generator. Once the virus was released into the wild the infected parents and relatives did all the rest of the heavy lifting involved. No need for any other additional gadgets.
Of course the presence of the virus can be observed in the fleeting mutations with their signature side effects - wearing baseball caps back to front when your name is not Luke, thinking that SuBo is an international singing sensation (and not a funny woman from Fife) and believing that the word "friend" on a social network site means the same as it does in the Nothing.
Dear Readers: Yes it was Christmas Day (CET) in the Slash Dot Workhouse and I was posting about Santa Claus er...Science. You know when I started reading this my wife was watching Schöne Bescherung (National Lampoons Christmas Vacation) and I promise you, the movie is not improved with a German overdub.

Oh, hang on she's switched to the very young Romy Schneider in Sissi - The Young Empress, well, yes, now, that changes ..

collapse under its own weight. No matter how many IOU's it has from the USA, the Communist Party of China only remains in power as long as it has a booming economy. The present economic miracle in China is a very recent phenomena and mostly results from the simple arithmetic of raising living standards from nothing to something which always appears to be a large increase. When the economic bubble bursts (and it will) the various factions within the CP and the Red Army will carve their own piece of the Chinese pie to the exclusion of all other interests. By that time, the great firewall and this nonsense won't make any difference.
Then Ikea will invade.

After all, what purpose do they really serve? Apart from fans of X Factor would anyone really notice if it was gone?
At the very least it would save us all from the annual slashdot Christmas bunfight over which code reigns supreme.

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