Comment Re:Need a logo (Score 1) 152
Love it
We need a logo for posts that are just about swearing at Bennett. Dunce cap?
AC, that's a capital idea! I like dunce cap, but allow me to propose some alternative icons for Bennett articles:
- A hot air balloon
- A whoopie cushion
- The smiling poop emoticon
- Rageface
- That truck window sticker of Calvin peeing, but he's peeing on TFS
That's just a few off the top of my head. Feel free to add suggestions!
Good trolling effort, but a bit too obvious. Better luck next time.
Yah wow, I mean if you're going to telegraph it, might as well go for trolling gold! Don't you have some unusually inflammatory opinions about Apple, Obama, copyrights, Edward Snowden, gamergate, race relations, SCO, systemd, climate change, and Israel?
new green flavor enhancer
Those croissants.... couldn't keep em down but they cured my syphilis!
"5 Meaningless buzzwords not worth your time"
No, no, no, you'll never be a true Dice webditor with a headline like that. Try something like, "Which 5 Meaningless Buzzwords Are Least Worth Your Time??" or "5 Words That Give Kim Kardashian a Meaningless Buzz!"
Bonus points for correctly identifying embedded systems as a "weird old tip."
Put him on the kernel team and Linus accept a commit by him - *that* would be news.
This kid could be ready to do just that by the time he's seven. Problem is, he won't be ready to read Linus' comments until he's seventeen.
During peek hour
That's one hell of a way to get people to ride public transit!
Wait, I'm getting something... PedantryBot, are you trying to tell me Shados meant "peak hour"?
And no vicious hatred in the south persisting across generations and taken out on the only victims available.
I believe the vicious hatred stems more from brutal Reconstruction-era policies (much motivated by outrage at Lincoln's assassination) than from the war itself. The entire American South would've been much better off without John Wilkes Booth.
If anyone could've threaded the needle during that delicate time, it was Abe. Lincoln's successor, President Johnson, was no Lincoln, and squandered his political capital losing battles with the Radical Republicans. So you have multiple tracks of dominoes falling from the assassination, leading to a very vindictive (but also more staunchly pro-civil rights, which IMHO is the morally correct side of history) Reconstruction.
Also, offhand, I don't see how a gradual "free at birth" policy would operate in practice. Yes, on paper and in the aggregate, it could work. But what do you do with a generation of babies born to parents who are property? Who's going to raise these "free" children if not their enslaved parents? Who is going to ensure that these kids wind up independent and enfranchised? Knowing that (even to this day) a parent's wealth and ability to provide are major determinants of life outcome, how can you expect children born in captivity to actually escape the plantation, get an education or job, and actually live free lives? No, I think such a plan would've perpetuated de facto slavery for pretty much all southern blacks, well into the 20th century.
You can blame the Civil War, or (more accurately) what happened after the War, but it's wishful thinking to say it was "needless." More, even, to imagine that the deep rooted racial attitudes were caused by the War itself, and could somehow be mitigated by slowing southern blacks' path out of bondage.
Two dozen furlongs per fortnight is roughly 0.009 mph (0.014 kph). That's not so much "travelling" as it is "not quite sitting still."
Only a pedant would call him out for that! It's pretty clear he intended to say "bakers dozens of furlongs per fortnight."
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
