Let's say hypothetically a slashditor (let's call him "Supnezmas"), when not posting duplicate articles from 2 days before, has a major erection for some web commenter (let's call him "Notlesah, Ttenneb").

How could I edit my settings so that worthless shit articles from "Supnezmas" referencing this "Notlesah, Ttenneb" were somehow downrated to oblivion so I don't see them anymore, ever? Is there a filter I can apply?

Can I "foe" an editor based on context?

I'd like to know who the flip is XanC, since you asked the SAME question I did, and I got -1,Troll while you got +5 Insightful?

http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

Note however that I *entirely* agree with you.
Is there a /. editor trying to build a buddy into a web celebrity?
FWIW, I *still* don't really get why Ze Frank is a weblebrity, either. How does one make a living doing that?

Seriously, your answer to crime is "people should be moral people"?

Wow, no wonder it's working so well.

If not, throw them into a wood chipper.

Seriously, if the potential reward for crime is in the $million$, the odds of getting caught are probably low, and the punishment is a handful of years in prison - why would anyone NOT commit such a crime?

Most of the people I know work their lives as wage-slaves for 8+ hours a day, for decades, for a fraction of that (and what they get, a giant chunk goes to taxes).

..."examine historical temperature data going back 500 years"

Because "climate cycles" are never more than 500 years long? Seriously?

I would also point out that the "US" - commonly condemned in such statistics - is probably the least homogenous country in the world. As such, it's probably useful to look at the state by state rankings, both positively and negatively:
(ranked by deaths per 100k)
1. District of Columbia 30.8 http://www.city-data.com/forum...

Are all these faculty members likewise PERSONALLY *completely* divested from fossil fuels - ie no driving, bus riding, train riding, electricity from oil/coal/natgas sources, etc?

Because otherwise they're pretty much hypocrites.

"The number of people who have actually paid, out of these 7 million, remains a closely-guarded secret."

Ooh, I know that one! I know! (raises hand and waves it furiously)

THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER...since Obamacare *guaranteed* payment to the insurers.

Awesome, so what was intended as a way to get insurance care to the needy, ends up being another exercise in wealth theft by the government, and redistribution to the massively profitable insurance companies.

Almost like it was a scam from the fucking start.

That's the Open Minded Liberals you're talking about, right?

I know a girl who worked for Deja Vu in the 1990s as a stripper, was invited on some sort of tour of Israel, and made just under $30,000 CASH in those 2 weeks dancing.
(She said that she suspected there were several other girls who did some "extra" shifts (so to speak) that made significantly more than she did.)

I also know a shit-ton of programmers that would love to make $15,000 cash per week.

Is that "significant enough" wages?

Let's change the context:
If men are a genuine minority in the exotic dancing field (because there are far, far more female strippers than male) would you say that the industry is discriminatory, and that there should be subsidies for men who want to get into that field?

Personally, I'd say that's stupid.

I personally believe that Google can do what it wants with its money - if it wants more coders with tits for some reason, that's their choice. But let's not try to rationalize it away and say that it's not blatant gender discrimination. You may say it's entirely justified, but then be prepared for that same argument in reverse when people say that we can discriminate against women in firefighting or the military.

It's been a mantra of the Victim Lobby (ie the Left) since the 1960s that racism, sexism, etc are not absolute values, they're vectors, as such '-isms' can only come from a position of power.

So if a white man fires a black man, that could be (and probably is, according to dogma) racism.
If a black man fires a white man, that cannot be racism because the black man is not contextually, culturally, or historically empowered; anything he does to the white man is so far outweighed by the evils done to him, it's at the very least justifiable and in no way racist (regardless if, for example, the white man and black man both immigrated to the US in 1994; the logic is that regardless of either individual or family lines' lack of participation in actual slavery or Jim Crow era racism, we're talking about a cultural preponderance of racism, which impacts all people of color regardless).

Same with gender.

"But, seeing as she stomped my heart flat, I can say this without fear of reprisal..."

I'm pretty sure if she was deaf, you could say whatever you wanted without fear of reprisal, just face away from her.

http://www.vintage-basic.net/g...

"BASIC Computer Games
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BASIC Computer Games
Author David H. Ahl
Subject Computer programming
Publication date
1973
BASIC Computer Games (1973, 1978, 2010) is a compilation of type-in computer games in the BASIC programming language collected by David H. Ahl. Some of the games were written or modified by Ahl as well. It was the first million-selling computer book.[1]

The first edition of the book, released in 1973, contained 101 games that had been collected from a newsletter Ahl wrote for DEC's education department. Many of these games had originally been written on different platforms and then ported to DEC machines. These were easy enough to port to other popular platforms of the era, and many of the games re-appeared on other popular systems like the Data General Nova and HP 2100 series.

Copies of the original collection were still widely available when the first hobbyist microcomputers started appearing in 1975, and it became quite popular with these owners. The release of the "1977 Trinity" machines (Apple II, Commodore PET and TRS-80) was soon followed by a great many new competing microcomputer platforms featuring BASIC, along with the userbase to go with them, and demand for the book led to a second edition in 1978. Sales remained strong for years, and spawned similar collections in More Basic Computer Games (1979), and Big Computer Games (1984) and Basic Computer Adventures (1984).

The BASIC Computer Games are playable under the relatively obscure Microsoft Small Basic development environment for kids.[2] Computer Science for Kids has released a 2010 Small Basic Edition of the classic Basic Computer Games book called Basic Computers Games: Small Basic Edition.[3]

The programs can also be run on a modern Microsoft Windows machine (32-bit only) by downloading the GW-BASIC interpreter.[4]"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Computer_Games)

http://www.atariarchives.org/b...

I remember hammering in just about every game listed in the 1978 book. It really was fun as a 5th grader to puzzle through why these lines of text resulted in a computer doing stuff.

I'm sure it's coincidental that "M$" likewise suggests Microsoft's financial rapacity, of course.