Score all "Funny" mods at -1 and Slashdot becomes a lot more interesting all of a sudden.

Agreed. Comment sections on news sites quickly become playgrounds for internet psychopaths. My solution is to put CSS rules in my userContent.css to set comment sections on news sites I visit often to { display: none !important; }.

There's actually a hunting technique that's been used called exhaustion hunting, where people chased a deer or whatever until it collapsed from exhaustion and then ran up to it and killed it.

Still in use: Human mammal, human hunter.

You know what? These "just use Postgresql" posts in every MySQL-related story are about as interesting as GNAA or goatse. The mere mention of Postgresql is making me sick at this point. Is that the goal here? Are these posts actually part of an anti-Postgresql astroturfing campaign?

They will have to breed, researchers looking into how many people did it take to originally populate north american continent (answer was about 70)

If I remember correctly, there is a Stephen Baxter story about a multi-generation starship in which newer generations come to believe that there is not really dangerous empty space behind the walls, that is just fabricated mythology to keep the rulers in power (or something like that). Perhaps it was "Ark".

Because the Postgresql trolls flooding every MySQL story have left a permanent bad taste in my mouth.

Note that the "Soylent Green is people" meme is from the film, not the book. In the book there is no cannibalism angle at all.

I'm a developer, and I don't play any games. Total waste of time.

Rape is about sex. Sex is about power.

Each city marker in the land of Limburg has the Dutch name, and the Limburgish name of the city.

This isn't the case in Limburg. Were you thinking of Frisia?

Individuals are also guaranteed the right to speak Limburgish with an interpreter for access to government.

Not sure if this is true. However, if it is, it's purely symbolic. There are probably a few very elderly native Dutch people in the Netherlands who don't speak standard Dutch, but the numbers will be so small as to be negligable. And I'm sure all of them will at least understand standard Dutch.

That's the feminist/social sciences dogma. See Palmer & Thornhill, A Natural History of Rape for a different point of view.

Probably Photino birds wreaking havoc with the sun.

Transcribe manually, using a transcription program like PRAAT.

Set "Funny" mods to score -6. No more jokes.

Maybe I'm missing some option to turn that irrelevant waste off

Yes. If you follow someone, you don't see their replies to other users (unless you go look for them).