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Whenever I see something like this, I always have to shake my head and wonder where people went to school.

Conservation of energy is a foundation concept in most of science. You literally cannot understand anything significant in physics or chemistry without taking it into account throughout. Yet there goes CowboyNeal, blithely posting an article which implicitly claims that a lossy microwave generator can create energy from nothing.

Science-illiterate I can believe, but Slashdot shouldn't be giving science editor duties to anyone like that. Stupid or credulous, I am a little less ready to believe... though I am willing to be convinced.

The thing that worries me most, though, is that someone's paying editors under the table to get publicity for their hokey products. If that's where Slashdot is going, it either needs to fire the editors or die.

For crying out loud, we shouldn't have to do this. How hard is it to test things before shoving them onto everyone?

And on top of that, the very tip of the remains of what was Hurricane Rita is drenching the area.

I followed a likely link and modded some people up. If my theory is correct, this will cause them angst and discomfort as they feel most at home with curmudgeonly remarks and other negative feedback.

Results of this experiment are pending.

Yet despite this, I haven't had a new freak in ages. People continue to "friend" me (this entry prompted by the most recent).

The only conclusion I can draw from this is that the part of Slashdot which reads me (probably including most of Sol's and Pixie's friends) has a large fraction of masochists.

(I have mod points. Should I test this by going through my "fans" list and modding people down? I suppose that appreciative reactions would confirm the hypothesis. Hmmm....)

Update: Dang, there's another one! I've got the wrong looks, the wrong personality and the wrong demeanor. Where did I go right? (2 points to whoever catches THAT reference)