Comment What the heck are you talking about? (Score 1) 316
Christ, the things that get modded up on
I came here to moderate, but unfortunately slashdot's bug initiation team has made it so I either have to have teeny tiny print or a side scroll. Hey, slashdot, we aren't all using thirty inch monitors! Jesus, even the newspapers (most are the worst sites on the web) don't fuck up this bad.
Really, slashdot, is Dice trying to get rid of you? This is really lame. You really should hang your heads in shame.
See you at Soylent News.
Now, someone else with points please mod me offtopic. Thanks.
ASCII is fine if it's only going to be published at slashdot, but conversion is a pain in the ass I shouldn't put up with.
It seems that slashdot no longer fixes bugs, but are trying to introduce more. Today I have a choice between a tiny font and a side scroll. LAME!
I think the writing was on the wall over a year ago when they tried to shove Beta down our throats.
I miss Taco, the place worked when he was here.
At an impasse with Voyage to Earth, I hacked out another short story today. Unfortunately, I wrote it in Open Office and slashdot refuses to preview properly; in preview it looks fine but when posted the smart quotes turn to garbage. So rather than pasting it here, I'll have to send you to somewhere less stupid.
No, but he DID speak. This theory is the dumbest theory I've seen coming from someone who should know better for years; it's already been disproven before the dumbass thought of it.
Other apes have language. Prairie dogs have language. Even dogs have language, even though the only three things they say are "I'm hurt", "I'm lonely" and "get off my property before I eat you!" Previous STUDIES have shown this.
Why do these educated morons think vocal cords evolved for in the first place??
Also, the summary is likewise retarded: "If there's one thing that distinguishes humans from other animals, it's our ability to use language."
We may use it better than other species, but this is unproven; whales and dolphins may have more sophisticated language than us, but we can't tell because we can't understand them. It may well be that we're the only species to have abstractions, but that's not proven, either.
Tools aren't even human-only; birds and other animals have been spotted using tools. So what makes us different?
Music, art, and humor. No other species laughs (Hyenas' "laughs" aren't from humor); no other species make art (the elephant doesn't count; do you really think he knows what's going on?), and no other species makes music -- and no, bird "song" isn't music, it's speech (that the idiots coming up with this absurd theory don't understand).
I just added another title to my web site: H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. I hadn't realized that book was 8000 words short of being a novel.
It only took a day or so to fix up, but then it isn't a fat book like Huckleberry Finn, which has so many illustrations that I'm going to have to upgrade my space on the server (as if this hobby doesn't already cost too much). The Time Machine only has three pictures.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion