The guy was flaming, claiming that the act of climbing the mountain was a joke. It's not. It's damn hard and extremely dangerous.

54 fatalities since 2000, around 2%. A 1 in 50 chance is still extreme.

Getting us to Proxima Centauri in less than a few hundred years would require technolgy that is orders of magnitude beyond what we have now.

Getting to the moon requires technology orders of magnitude beyond what humanity had 500 years ago. 500 years is a blink of an eye in galactic terms.

We already have now ideas about how it would be possible to travel to other star systems... given enough impetus, we could start a project now. The likelihood of success would be near zero, it'd take hundreds or thousands of years, but we know it could be possible. 500 years ago, no one even had a clue how to get to the moon.

500 years is insignificant in terms of the timescale of the universe, galaxy, solar system, and even humanity.

Just checked the 6 hr forecast for SFO, and it's reporting -58 degrees F at 39,000 ft. The aircraft had been at altitude for 10 hours, so you can't automatically rule out a temperature-related anomaly simply because it's a nice day on the ground.

Another 777 landed short of the runway at Heathrow in 2008 after losing engine power because of ice in the fuel lines. I wonder if something similar happened here? The preliminary report that the aircraft "seemed unstable" could have been because the pilot was flying just above stall speed in a desperate attempt to maintain altitude in a power loss situation. That could also explain the tail damage; the aircraft would have been in an extremely nose-high attitude as the pilot attempted to maximize lift to avoid hitting the water.

3,142 people have summited Everest a total of 5,104 times. Two hundred and nineteen people have lost their lives, with a quarter dying after reaching the summit. That's a 6.97% fatality rate. It's hardly something to joke about.

You haven't checked for a while, have you. Third party developers started being Steam only in 2006. From the link :

"This is a list of games that require Steam authentication, regardless of whether they are purchased at retail or through other digital distribution services. An active Steam account is compulsory in order to authenticate and play these games on a personal computer. Games that also have a non-Steam version available separately are excluded from this list.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure he wrote this with an edh, which is the correct usage. Thorn, I thought , looked like a combination between "b" and"p".

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Okay. Thx for the answers. I figure as cheap as human labor is now, there is no reason to use bot reputation management--and indeed, some of Microsoft's reputation management seems to be explicitly hired for that purpose.

Thus people, not bots.

And yes, I too get annoyed at some moderators, but sometimes I wonder if it is business.

But over on yafi ics, there are a lot of bots for chess, that are pretty skillful at what they do, be it playing, or answering qwestions, or whatnot.

Ok. 1) with a name like *bot-bot, and posts that are links to wikipedia, are you a bot as opposed to a person?

2) I have heard "online reputation management" advertised on NPR, and I have seen what looks like online reputation management on slashdot, sometimes in the modding, sometimes in the posting. But I expect that mod bots need to post enough to get mod points. Are you a modbot?

3) if you are a bot, whom have you provided with services?

or, looking at other subjects, molecules, DNA, bacteria [...] - I could pass around a life-size replica.

I'm not sure that will be quite as useful as you think it will be.

My own interpretations:
Primarily, this is actually about the crucifixion: the part that follows deals with his righteousness being his only clothing [he was naked when crucified], and so on.

But it also applies to us today, in its primary condition:

your sins have hidden his face from you,
so that he will not hear.
In World War II, we were heard. It will not happen now.

4.No one calls for justice;
no one pleads a case with integrity.
They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies;
they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.

See what is on slashdot every day. We call it trolling, sometimes. Sometimes we call it Online Reputation Management. Sometimes we mod it up.

5.They hatch the eggs of vipers
and spin a spider's web.
Whoever eats their eggs will die,
and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.

how many times, are we offered up that which is bad for us, as a good thing. The director the the NSA among them! Also the chairmen of the Fed, and our lawyers, or doctors... often our bishops and priests, our realtors... But if anyone points that out, they have made a mortal enemy, an adder.

6.Their cobwebs are useless for clothing;
they cannot cover themselves with what they make.
Their deeds are evil deeds,

All those webs of intrigue... will never cover their --or our-- nakedness. They will never honor us.

and acts of violence are in their hands.

Remember the last wikileaks scandle, Manning, where video of our soldiers slaughtering innocent civilians and laughing -- a war crime!!! -- was released, and only Manning has been charged? Need I say more?

7.Their feet rush into sin;
they are swift to shed innocent blood.

Iniquitous laws made by evildoers aside, Manning is innocent in the strongest sense of the word. So is Snowden. Here on Slashdot, I see some deny that, some laugh at him and taunt him -- cowards, you -- some agree with that, and some agree, while laughing that he's going to be destroyed.

They pursue evil schemes;
acts of violence mark their ways.

Again, not so much those we name as terrorists, though them too: Rather, our own government, and even us.

8.The way of peace they do not know;
there is no justice in their paths.

Our leadership destroys our whistleblowers, and let mass murderers go free. In justice, such deserve to die at the hands of the mass murderers they supported.

They have turned them into crooked roads;
no one who walks along them will know peace.
9.So justice is far from us,
and righteousness does not reach us.
We look for light, but all is darkness;
for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.
10.Like the blind we grope along the wall,
feeling our way like people without eyes.
At midday we stumble as if it were twilight;
among the strong, we are like the dead.
11.We all growl like bears;try to threaten others for our safety
we moan mournfully like doves. gasping in shock and pain
We look for justice, but find none;
for deliverance, but it is far away.
12.For our offenses are many in your sight,
and our sins testify against us.
Our offenses are ever with us,
and we acknowledge our iniquities:

13.rebellion and treachery against the Lord,
turning our backs on our God,

this is the source of our problems. Deny it, but you will live it.

inciting revolt and oppression,
uttering lies our hearts have conceived.

I'm going to say, most people--even on slashdot now-- are afraid to post what they believe, by now. Our government embraced Naziism, and we are living in Nazi times.

14.So justice is driven back,
and righteousness stands at a distance;
truth has stumbled in the streets,
honesty cannot enter.

15.Truth is nowhere to be found,
and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.

Snowden

The Lord looked and was displeased
that there was no justice.
16.He saw that there was no one,
he was appalled that there was no one to intervene;

This is where I look for my answer. When there is noone to save, then look to the Lord to save.

59:1.Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save,
nor his ear too dull to hear.
2.But your iniquities have separated
you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you,
so that he will not hear.
3.For your hands are stained with blood,
your fingers with guilt.
Your lips have spoken falsely,
and your tongue mutters wicked things.
4.No one calls for justice;
no one pleads a case with integrity.
They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies;
they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
5.They hatch the eggs of vipers
and spin a spiderâ(TM)s web.
Whoever eats their eggs will die,
and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.
6.Their cobwebs are useless for clothing;
they cannot cover themselves with what they make.
Their deeds are evil deeds,
and acts of violence are in their hands.
7.Their feet rush into sin;
they are swift to shed innocent blood.
They pursue evil schemes;
acts of violence mark their ways.
8.The way of peace they do not know;
there is no justice in their paths.
They have turned them into crooked roads;
no one who walks along them will know peace.
9.So justice is far from us,
and righteousness does not reach us.
We look for light, but all is darkness;
for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.
10.Like the blind we grope along the wall,
feeling our way like people without eyes.
At midday we stumble as if it were twilight;
among the strong, we are like the dead.
11.We all growl like bears;
we moan mournfully like doves.
We look for justice, but find none;
for deliverance, but it is far away.
12.For our offenses are many in your sight,
and our sins testify against us.
Our offenses are ever with us,
and we acknowledge our iniquities:
13.rebellion and treachery against the Lord,
turning our backs on our God,
inciting revolt and oppression,
uttering lies our hearts have conceived.
14.So justice is driven back,
and righteousness stands at a distance;
truth has stumbled in the streets,
honesty cannot enter.
15.Truth is nowhere to be found,
and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.
The Lord looked and was displeased
that there was no justice.
16.He saw that there was no one,
he was appalled that there was no one to intervene;

>Socrates really did die in vain

You only have to read Plato's "The Republic" to know that.