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Poor old lady, shame no one had contact with her for that long, kids or friends. R.I.P. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Dunno if she had any of either, was found by mobile hairdresser turning up for appointment.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I think the cats probably did it!
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It was the black and white one!
He even looks like a butler!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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She was standing at the top of the stairs and they Pussed her.
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It depends. If the toilet seat was opened they would had some chance as the water source is there. But two weeks without food is a challenge even for a human. Such small animal will probably starve to dead.
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Deyan Georgiev wrote: Such small animal will probably starve to dead.
I think the point of the post is they wouldn't have starved to death as they had a big lump of fresh meat there to feast on.
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Thanks for nothing! Now I have this terrible image in my head 
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I hear stories like this from time to time, and they always leave me thinking about H. P. Lovecraft's short story, The Cats of Ulthar[^]
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You may, or may not agree with me, but I do feel that the decision of Popular Science to shut off comments[^] is the right one to take. Thoughts/comments?
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I think I disagree: I can see what they are saying, but the lack of adverse comments - or pointing out an alternative - strikes me as against the whole idea of science.
OK, you get morons who post abuse, but WTF: moderate them as we do to reduce or remove their impact and dump them off the site. Shutting down all discussion is pretty much what some of the morons want, I suspect...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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It dosnt look like they are completely shutting it off (last paragraph):
Quote: There are plenty of other ways to talk back to us, and to each other: through Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, livechats, email, and more. We also plan to open the comments section on select articles that lend themselves to vigorous and intelligent discussion. We hope you'll chime in with your brightest thoughts. Don't do it for us. Do it for science.
So im not quite sure about this, but I know that some of the Norwegian news sites have partially shut down comments on potensially "harmful" articles.
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: It dosnt look like they are completely shutting it off (last paragraph):
Except of course that means that they are the ones that get to decide what articles "lend themselves to vigorous and intelligent discussion.". The other venues of course are transitory and/or not public and thus do not lend themselves to as much feedback.
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Is the comment section of a web site the best place for a civil and unlighted debate on scientific issues ?
Even trivial scientific/technology discussions turn into a cesspool of spambot, trolls, bullies and stupid and insulting comments.
I'd rather be phishing!
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So moderate it. If you have to, do what some sites do and moderate all messages before publication.
Burning all letters unopened because you don't want your wife to see the credit card bill is hardly the ideal solution! 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Who will moderate the moderators?
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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Rorschach!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Maximilien wrote: Even trivial scientific/technology discussions turn into a cesspool of spambot, trolls, bullies and stupid and insulting comments.
There is no right which does not have a negative side.
And not to mention of course is the fact that this is Popular Science which is specifically targeting the mass market.
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OriginalGriff wrote: moderate them as we do to reduce or remove their impact and dump them off the site.
Which then leads to cries of censorship.
Some of those morons think they are correct in debating science of which they have no expertise or in many cases, even any knowledge of.
I had a friend who used to try to tell me he could figure the location of Atlantis without needing to do research or field work.
I just tuned it out, but I'm sure others would jump on the bandwagon.
As I've gotten older, I've become convinced that education has been wasted on the masses. They may have gone to school to memorize a few facts so they can pass a test and then forget them, but most of them never learned to think.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Years ago, we had a (very, very) junior PCB assembler that we took on for a couple of months between school and him going off to travel for his gap year. He believed pretty much anything on the then new internet - including that the UK and US governments had come to an agreement with Aliena that the could make crop circles, take cows for food and the occasional human for research... He didn't like it much when we referred to this as "aliens travelling 200 light years for a Big Mac".
Mind you, he was educated - just thick-as-a-brick: he knew he'd need money to travel around India, so he was saving all his wages, and buying everything on a credit card instead... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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BrainiacV wrote: I had a friend who used to try to tell me he could figure the location of Atlantis without needing to do research or field work
So, was that his(her) way of saying, "Go, jump in the ocean!"?
Without doing any research I think I can definitively say that it used to be an island on Earth, probably close to Europe.
I can definitively say it is or isn't an island on Earth.
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Pretty sure Atlantis is in the Pegasus galaxy...
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Interesting where "research" leads you: www.atlantis.com[^]
Searching for "Atlantis Pegasus" didn't find anything but suggested "Atlantic Pegasus" and searching there found other resorts. Therefore Atlantis is a resort. (Yea, right, and "she" is dating a French model.)
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What do you mean it didn't find anything? Googling "Atlantis Pegasus", the very first result points to what I was referencing. So does the second... and the rest of the first page. (Hint: Sci Fi T.V. show. I was making a joke.)
But yes, Atlantis is a name for a resort these days. I've seen the ads.
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