I hadn't gotten to all my hosts files. You leftist losers should be happy you had me here for one more day, though.

Wouldn't it be easier just to get 2 sets of acoustic couplers and tape them together out->in in-out? Why reinvent the wheel?

This site died long ago, and the paid astroturfing you are complaining about is the reason why. Time to put 127.0.0.1 in the hosts table again for slashdot.org.

But wait, acknowledging you would be actual work...how about this automated game instead?

When the journal circle went away, that kind of wrecked that part. It was a huge disturbance in the force, like hundreds of blogging types suddenly went silent. And went elsewhere.

It's really sad because this didn't really have to happen. More professional operation of the site would have alleviated most of the issues that caused loss of readers.

Not really. Who started with the word 'denial' first? Yep. You know it.

Perhaps an analogy will help. When someone invokes Godwin: to continue along with the retarded argument, you must also invoke Godwin.

The AGW believing crew lost this one already and shredded its credibility along the way, the same way any kind of political advocacy shreds credibility. You can blame the other side for smearing shit all over you, but the results were as predictable as the sun rising again tomorrow morning.

Or, to put it another way, if you want to change minds, this isn't how to do it. Economics is a better argument than aesthetics, or crying wolf. The AGW "deniers" win by default.

I'm sure they are. They are from Montana, after all.

The word "denier" implies the debate is over. So why not do what the Heartland Institute is doing? Smear the shit out of the AGW believers. It's how campaigns are won, and this one is being won.

How can you even argue that they should be doing anything different, if you assume that they actually believe in what they believe in. The other side is working off of false premises and has been admitting it - not quite openly, but admitting it - for 30 years. All that talk about the emergency not allowing for proper proof. Why not go hardball in the other direction? It's the only thing that's worked so far to move the needle. Otherwise, every time there's a snowstorm or a heat wave, it's AGW causing it.

Did you really think that politicians, an expression of the will of people, were going to let what amounts to a bunch of geeks tell them what to do? Think about it for a moment and realize how ludicrous that sounds. Of course there are Climategates and OBL billboards going up, tarring the AGW believers. This is standard politics, how it's been done since the beginning of time.

You are right about the trolls. BSD is dying was pretty funny too.

In any event, I think the AGW troll articles are going to do what nothing else did - encourage me to go to Reddit. People laugh that I still post here. I am coming to the point of view that they are right.

But yet the grandparent poster is at +5 Insightful for failing to google.

Proves out my decade-long tagline every time. People are fucking idiots, and any pretension of the posters on this site having higher than average intelligence is laughable.

No, they just annoy the shit out of people who still accept the updates with Genuine Windows bullshit. The default way to fix is to turn them off. Voila, zombie systems. It's all about revenue, after all, and fuck the rest of the world.

Who is the cocksmoker here? That'd be the AC Microsoft shill.

The paid shills have ruined this site. I wonder how that is working out for Microsoft.

Microsoft were the ones who restricted updates to those who are running Genuine Windows via various measures...

It's Microsoft's harm they are inflicting on the net - licensed systems that are easy to pirate, with features that encourage users to disable the updates. They decided to generate revenue through annoyance. The end result is zombie systems that will never get updates.

It's all Microsoft's fault. There is not even an iota of blame that falls on the pirate, as the existence of same is only human and entirely predictable.

USA Today...the only place I see it is at hotels, free copies at the door of the rooms in the morning. Otherwise, who buys it or reads it?

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