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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @03:40AM
(19 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday May 29 2022, @03:40AM (#1248681)
I partially disagree with you. There are worthwhile journals. There are a few people who post tech-related journals about things that don't make it to the front page. Look at some of hubie's journals, for example. They would go completely unnoticed were it not for the recent journals box. I like giving visibility to tech-related discussion and other interesting topics that would never make it to the front page.
The problem is that some people love to post divisive political crap, and those journals tend to get the most comments. One user, in particular, is particularly prolific. However, others do post divisive political journals with some regularity. I would prefer that these journals not be posted because their purpose seems to be to piss people off instead of having a genuine discussion about issues. That said, I'm not entirely sure that having a genuine discussion about the issues is possible in today's political climate. However, I do remember there were plenty of political journals on Slashdot when the feature was introduced, and that the discussion was civil. I distinctly remember debating the Iraq War with people in those journals and the discussions being respectful. However, I do believe that the divisive nature of those journals is detrimental to the overall health of the site, and that those arguments tend to spill over into other discussions here and have caused users to leave the site.
I would love to see the journals get cleaned up and to have the divisive political crap go away. However, I don't know how to implement this. I don't think the solution is to get rid of the recent journals box entirely. Besides, we do have some influence on what goes in that box. We can post tech-related journals and other interesting content that isn't political at all. At a minimum, it will take up a space that might otherwise go to political crap.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @09:20PM
(18 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday May 29 2022, @09:20PM (#1248836)
The only reason I come here is for AC posting. My goals are personal release, and to maybe soften up some of the turds from this commode. Some are actual experts in tech fields. This isn't a tech site. If it were, people like me might consider helping, instead of watching those topics we have passion for, swirl down the main page. Somebody ought to get together the $3500, and then do an Elon Musk on this place.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @02:43AM
(13 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday May 30 2022, @02:43AM (#1248886)
If you mean the Real-Real DJT, you mean code that works and is maintainable. I've done coding for his people, and it works, without bringing back retirees from Miami, just to figure out how to do a back-up without deleting three months worth of posts.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @04:32PM
(12 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday May 30 2022, @04:32PM (#1248992)
Wow! I never get down-mods in -nostyle threads. Must've hit a nerve. Okay, this place dresses funny, too!
I don't seem to get solemn about it, and some people might not understand. That's why I never talk about it. I think it's all here — in the mountains and the desert. I don't think God is a softie, either. In the end, it's better if people are forced back into — well — into being right, before they're too far gone. I think your temple is your everyday living.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @06:07PM
(11 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday May 30 2022, @06:07PM (#1249010)
Sorry your missive was mistreated. Fixed what I could for now. Folks wax irrational when you group the "D" with the "J" with the "T". Probably my fault for pitching that set up line to see who would snap at the bait. Lack of sarcasm tags doesn't make things any clearer either.
Cool quote from Carole. One does wonder how we got on that topic though. Reminds me of the proposition:
Man must live in a state of prayer. -'Abdu'l-Bahá
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @08:00PM
(10 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday May 30 2022, @08:00PM (#1249036)
Well, it was less about D (which is, I'll have you know, half of a smiley face), and more about the semi-great purge of last spring. I was grateful for it, since it disappeared a few unfortunate posts I made that narrowed it to less than 3-degrees of separation.
I'm — honestly, truly, for sure this time — working on a project rife with live&death coin flips (it's a comedy). You know, there's a subplot with a tribute to a Kingston Trio song. And now we have "I don't think God is a softie" going in there, for sure. And maybe a little Huxley... he's the father on that old Cosby TV show, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @10:20PM
(8 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday May 30 2022, @10:20PM (#1249058)
Then let me run interference for you.
Today my bride & I celebrate our 47th, and I am feeling expansive and fearless. So for fun search on you tube for Liz Kauai 2009 and look for the haole in the Hawaiian shirt. The percussion was cribbed from LesPaul & Friends version of Sam Cooke/Clapton rendition of Troublin' Mind, and of course the lyrics are from sky fairy land, but the rest is all mine.
I'd link you to album version of the little song, but after a dozen years on you tube, it has only five views and zero likes. Seems only my mom could love such a thing.
No more cracks about my Hawaiian shirt now - deal?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @02:25AM
(2 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday May 31 2022, @02:25AM (#1249099)
I just googled for all the telltale breadcrumbs you've left here. Ha! One or two more posts, and I'll know where you buried your gold! But, about your shirts... nah, too easy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @10:17PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday June 01 2022, @10:17PM (#1249560)
Sometimes the glitter is enough. Look really, really close, and my old car glitters, all by itself.
Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd But you can be happy if you've a mind to
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @02:38AM
(4 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday May 31 2022, @02:38AM (#1249103)
Seem to spend more time addendumin' than doin'! "Troublin' Mind" or is it...
01 Jamaica Farewell 02 Don't Get Around Much Anymore 03 Far Away Places 04 Little Girl Blue 05 The Song Is Ended 06 Bali Hai 07 Trouble In Mind 08 They Call The Wind Maria 09 Swing Low Sweet Chariot 10 Since I Met You Baby
About six months after my dad passed, I dreamed I met him on an infinitely long beach. I asked how he was doing and he told me, "It doesn't hurt anymore." I was happy to have encountered him there. Do miss him still.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @04:12AM
(1 child)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday May 31 2022, @04:12AM (#1249117)
Last week stopped me cold; drained the color from my gut. We knew it wouldn't last, even if it left a scar. Didn't want to post here, didn't want words or pictures at all. "Somebody Ease My Troublin' Mind" pretty much underlies that whole project, and somebody has to do it. Nobody do nothin' for awhile, okay?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @05:59PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday May 31 2022, @05:59PM (#1249247)
Shouldn't have posted in that Digitization thread. Thinking about mortality. Relatives were scattered or already gone, except for my mother and me. When the time came, I was the one who made the decision to "pull the plug" on my father. Watched the big white hospital clock tick.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @04:57PM
(2 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday May 31 2022, @04:57PM (#1249235)
I spent many months and wrote a big, elaborate digital book when paperless distribution was still a novelty. Trust in people led me to leave out copy protection, and to charge a more than reasonable price. It was a hit, people were celebrating it, thanking me profusely, and begging for more. Downloads and distribution were absolutely overwhelming and wonderful.
I sold 4 copies.
A life lesson learned. People really are something.
(Broke a personal rule and posted on a front page article. Here's a FREE reprint.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @05:07PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday June 01 2022, @05:07PM (#1249480)
Well, we went out on a double date Me and Edith, you and Kate Before we got past their front gate There you were making eyes at Edith While you were making time with Kate
You can't have your Kate and Edith too You rascal you yodel-a-dio
Years have passed since that first date I married Edith, you married Kate Now every night when I come home Your car's in the driveway Kate's in the car And you and Edith are in the house alone
You can't have your Kate and Edith too You rascal you yodel-a-dio...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @03:40AM (19 children)
I partially disagree with you. There are worthwhile journals. There are a few people who post tech-related journals about things that don't make it to the front page. Look at some of hubie's journals, for example. They would go completely unnoticed were it not for the recent journals box. I like giving visibility to tech-related discussion and other interesting topics that would never make it to the front page.
The problem is that some people love to post divisive political crap, and those journals tend to get the most comments. One user, in particular, is particularly prolific. However, others do post divisive political journals with some regularity. I would prefer that these journals not be posted because their purpose seems to be to piss people off instead of having a genuine discussion about issues. That said, I'm not entirely sure that having a genuine discussion about the issues is possible in today's political climate. However, I do remember there were plenty of political journals on Slashdot when the feature was introduced, and that the discussion was civil. I distinctly remember debating the Iraq War with people in those journals and the discussions being respectful. However, I do believe that the divisive nature of those journals is detrimental to the overall health of the site, and that those arguments tend to spill over into other discussions here and have caused users to leave the site.
I would love to see the journals get cleaned up and to have the divisive political crap go away. However, I don't know how to implement this. I don't think the solution is to get rid of the recent journals box entirely. Besides, we do have some influence on what goes in that box. We can post tech-related journals and other interesting content that isn't political at all. At a minimum, it will take up a space that might otherwise go to political crap.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @09:20PM (18 children)
The only reason I come here is for AC posting. My goals are personal release, and to maybe soften up some of the turds from this commode. Some are actual experts in tech fields. This isn't a tech site. If it were, people like me might consider helping, instead of watching those topics we have passion for, swirl down the main page. Somebody ought to get together the $3500, and then do an Elon Musk on this place.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @11:10PM (14 children)
...you mean, like asking the Real-DJT to come back?
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @02:43AM (13 children)
If you mean the Real-Real DJT, you mean code that works and is maintainable. I've done coding for his people, and it works, without bringing back retirees from Miami, just to figure out how to do a back-up without deleting three months worth of posts.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @04:32PM (12 children)
Wow! I never get down-mods in -nostyle threads. Must've hit a nerve. Okay, this place dresses funny, too!
- Carole Lombard
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @06:07PM (11 children)
Sorry your missive was mistreated. Fixed what I could for now. Folks wax irrational when you group the "D" with the "J" with the "T". Probably my fault for pitching that set up line to see who would snap at the bait. Lack of sarcasm tags doesn't make things any clearer either.
Cool quote from Carole. One does wonder how we got on that topic though. Reminds me of the proposition:
I put that one into a little song once.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @08:00PM (10 children)
Well, it was less about D (which is, I'll have you know, half of a smiley face), and more about the semi-great purge of last spring. I was grateful for it, since it disappeared a few unfortunate posts I made that narrowed it to less than 3-degrees of separation.
I'm — honestly, truly, for sure this time — working on a project rife with live&death coin flips (it's a comedy). You know, there's a subplot with a tribute to a Kingston Trio song. And now we have "I don't think God is a softie" going in there, for sure. And maybe a little Huxley... he's the father on that old Cosby TV show, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @08:30PM (9 children)
Oh no! I did it again. Please disregard previous post. No, not the typos, but the reference to a TV personality who is now un-personed (Barr'd?).
It would've been cool. The scene with George Burns as a corporate lawyer, would've been priceless.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @10:20PM (8 children)
Then let me run interference for you.
Today my bride & I celebrate our 47th, and I am feeling expansive and fearless. So for fun search on you tube for Liz Kauai 2009 and look for the haole in the Hawaiian shirt. The percussion was cribbed from LesPaul & Friends version of Sam Cooke/Clapton rendition of Troublin' Mind, and of course the lyrics are from sky fairy land, but the rest is all mine.
I'd link you to album version of the little song, but after a dozen years on you tube, it has only five views and zero likes. Seems only my mom could love such a thing.
No more cracks about my Hawaiian shirt now - deal?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @02:25AM (2 children)
I just googled for all the telltale breadcrumbs you've left here. Ha! One or two more posts, and I'll know where you buried your gold! But, about your shirts... nah, too easy.
You can look at it a couple of ways:
It's A Wonderful World (1939) [imdb.com], James Stewart, Caludette Colbert
It's A Wonderful Life (1946) [imdb.com], James Stewart, Donna Reed
Happy 47th.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @04:06PM (1 child)
The gold is a lie.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @10:17PM
Sometimes the glitter is enough. Look really, really close, and my old car glitters, all by itself.
Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
But you can be happy if you've a mind to
- Roger Miller
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @02:38AM (4 children)
Seem to spend more time addendumin' than doin'! "Troublin' Mind" or is it...
01 Jamaica Farewell
02 Don't Get Around Much Anymore
03 Far Away Places
04 Little Girl Blue
05 The Song Is Ended
06 Bali Hai
07 Trouble In Mind
08 They Call The Wind Maria
09 Swing Low Sweet Chariot
10 Since I Met You Baby
- Download w/o Clapton The One and Only Sam Cooke [archive.org]
At the anniversary of losing my father. Lookin' around... it's gettin' lonely down here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @03:20AM (3 children)
Sorry to be unclear... here you go:
"Somebody Ease My Troublin' Mind" [youtube.com]
About six months after my dad passed, I dreamed I met him on an infinitely long beach. I asked how he was doing and he told me, "It doesn't hurt anymore." I was happy to have encountered him there. Do miss him still.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @04:12AM (1 child)
Last week stopped me cold; drained the color from my gut. We knew it wouldn't last, even if it left a scar. Didn't want to post here, didn't want words or pictures at all. "Somebody Ease My Troublin' Mind" pretty much underlies that whole project, and somebody has to do it. Nobody do nothin' for awhile, okay?
Watched Good Girls Go To Paris (1939) [imdb.com] tonight. Throw-away lines are the best:
Customer: "Waitress, what time is it?"
Waitress: "I don't know, this isn't my table."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @05:03AM
My go-to for a good chuckle has always been His Girl Friday (1940) [imdb.com].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @05:59PM
Shouldn't have posted in that Digitization thread. Thinking about mortality. Relatives were scattered or already gone, except for my mother and me. When the time came, I was the one who made the decision to "pull the plug" on my father. Watched the big white hospital clock tick.
Remember every tick. Remember what you can.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @04:57PM (2 children)
I spent many months and wrote a big, elaborate digital book when paperless distribution was still a novelty. Trust in people led me to leave out copy protection, and to charge a more than reasonable price. It was a hit, people were celebrating it, thanking me profusely, and begging for more. Downloads and distribution were absolutely overwhelming and wonderful.
I sold 4 copies.
A life lesson learned. People really are something.
(Broke a personal rule and posted on a front page article. Here's a FREE reprint.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @04:26PM (1 child)
The cake is a lie.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @05:07PM
Well, we went out on a double date
Me and Edith, you and Kate
Before we got past their front gate
There you were making eyes at Edith
While you were making time with Kate
You can't have your Kate and Edith too
You rascal you yodel-a-dio
Years have passed since that first date
I married Edith, you married Kate
Now every night when I come home
Your car's in the driveway Kate's in the car
And you and Edith are in the house alone
You can't have your Kate and Edith too
You rascal you yodel-a-dio...
- Statler Brothers