Comment Re:Me, too (Score 1) 81
LOL seems quite plausible to me!
LOL seems quite plausible to me!
But tonight I've been wondering if the person(s) posting as apk on
APK's law perhaps? For him, I offer: "Sufficiently egregious mental incompetence is indistinguishable from intentional trolling"
Tom, apk will go away when he finds another target. He bugged me for a few weeks.
Yeah, it takes a little while for him to froth out. It may also be that Slashdot is but one of his many bile ducts.
I do enjoy seeing him at work though! I've never been into sports, much less gymnastics, but the contortions APK goes through so he can claim he 'dusted' you and play the 'bitter taste of defeat yadda' violins every post are worth the exercise themselves. APK is a needy, needy little man - I bet this whole thread is a full-on mastabatorium for a crawly little mind like his.
But to put it in perspective the volcanic eruption in Europe a few years ago contributed more So2 and Co2 than man has contributed in the last century world wide.
Utter, utter bollocks. The two numbers aren't even in the same ballpark.
You remember there were a bunch of flights cancelled due to the volcanic ash cloud? They alone would have contributed more CO2 than the bloody volcano:
"The grounding of European flights avoided about 3.44×108 kg of CO2 emissions per day, while the volcano emitted about 1.5×108 kg of CO2 per day."
Wiki before inserting boot into chops next time.
It costs a lot more than a new PC to upgrade thousands of PCs
Exactly. This is something I've seen small business struggle with, often taking the form of "But I could have bought a new PC for that much!" complaint after their vital not-backed-up business data has been recovered from a dead hard drive.
(there are many solutions to the above example, I'm using it illustratively)
I'm sure when you signed the legaly binding contract to get the source code that you'd have to have to modify to compile to get the binary patch, their was a clause prohibiting you from distributing any binaries from the source or derivatives of the source.
You don't need the source code to make a patch for a binary - there are a million cracked computer games out there that were patched by third parties without access to the source.
Thanks, you just validated the entirety of my last post to you. You couldn't have done a better job for me if you'd tried.
APK, how many other people behave as you do?
You don't know the answer because you've never really thought about your own behaviour nor considered how you appear to others.
As a fifty-something year old man you should be deeply ashamed by your childish antics, but as they say "there's no fool like an old fool" eh APK?
You are suffering from a mental illness - this is apparent to most people when they read your foolish prattle. Seek help.
Excellent post, I'm embarrassed to admit that this never occurred to me, despite being easily demonstrable in everyday life; someone down the road shutting their car door produces the same effect.
I started noticing overdubbed sound effects after playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The sound effect that plays when holstering/unholstering a weapon is incredibly common, especially in TV cop shows. Similarly, the "door opens with slight-creak" noise effect is similarly overused *everywhere* and it eventually dawned on me that the only natural noises one could expect from a production are the actors voices (and only because they were typically miked with a giant boom just off-camera.) Every other noise heard seems to be added later.
I'm not so sure... While he certainly combined his answer to the parent's contentions with an insult, I'd say it's inaccurate to say "rather than", thus I have to see him as being right- It's not a synonym for "insult".
While I certainly see your point, this is exactly geekoid's modus operandi. In most cases his argument boils down to "If you don't agree with me you're a useless human being" although he isn't usually so blatant about it as he was here.
Geekoid didn't engage Jane in any rational discourse, he tossed in a dictionary definition in a vague appeal to authority (adding nothing to the discussion and clarifying nothing at all) then directly attacked her character by describing her as a "useless human being".
If the shoe fits..
How's that an ad-hominem?
(Hint: It isn't just a fancy-sounding way to say "insult".)
Well, here's his argument:
If you can't grok this, well then you are a useless human being.
Given geekoid's original post it seems only fair to quote Merriam-Webster's definition of Ad Hominem; specifically, definition two:
2: marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made
I'd say calling someone a 'useless human being' fits the definition. You'd also know this yourself if you understood the phrase. Interesting that your ignorance didn't in any way impede you from dilating your rather pungent opinion orifice anyway. Perhaps you could enlighten me by explaining what you found insightful enough in geekoid's post to leap to defend his childish behaviour?
Merriam-Webster? Given the quality of your posts I'm surprised you are aware of its existence. Top marks for your hypocrisy anyway.
That is the context of the discussion. If you can't grok this, well then you are a useless human being.
Why argue intelligently when you can ad-hom your way to 'victory'?
My, what a compelling argument you have there sir.
nuclear winter in north Korea may also happen
Unless I'm mistaken, (anyone?) nuclear winter isn't a localised phenomenon.
A warming climate means more rain overall (across the globe) as there is more water in the atmosphere.
That's new to me (there's always more to learn about climate science) but I don't doubt the veracity of your statement. What do do doubt is the likelihood of the rain falling where we want it and consistently as we've become accustomed. 'Global Weirding' does seem to be a fair description for the seemingly-random changes in weather patterns that are predicted to affect us.
First of all, a warmer climate also means overall more energy in the system.
Yes - more energy to drive upper atmospheric winds like the jetstream, ocean currents, higher-speed and less predictable winds at ground level (yay renewables), more energetic and frequent cyclonic formations, floods, less ice to reflect the endless torrent of radiation from Sol, dogs and cats living together, the baby Jebus crying.. ahem.
Secondly, because of advances in fossil fuel extraction like Fracking, there is no energy problem for anyone that actually needs energy.
Do those people also need air to breathe? I'm only half-joking when I ask this question - some suggest there may well be more fossil fuel still under the ground than there will be atmosphere left to safely burn it in.
It's just a matter of the thin veneer of pretending energy doesn't matter to civilization being stripped away, which happens quite rapidly.
Uh, that bit I didn't get, perhaps you can re-phrase? Do you mean to say that we're essentially 'three square meals from barbarism' as regards our dependence upon steady supplies of electricity? If so I heartily agree. Usually that's an indication that I've gotten it wrong.
"I am, therefore I am." -- Akira