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Sure number one in engineering...
(Score:2, Funny)
by Gortbusters.org
(637314) on Monday August 25, @10:20PM (#6790506)
(http://www.gortbusters.org/
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| but dead last in babe-filled orgies! |
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Re:Sure number one in engineering...
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by Gherald (682277) on
Monday August 25, @10:23PM (#6790530)
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> number one in engineering... but dead last in
babe-filled orgies!
Of course dude, such things are
mutually exclusive |
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Re:Sure number one in engineering...
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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26,
@01:18AM (#6791426)
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| Thank you, Captain Ovious. |
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Re:Sure number one in engineering...
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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26,
@01:22AM (#6791455)
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| Thats what grandparent said to great grandparent, he just
didn't phrase it "Captain Ovious") |
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ALSO #1 IN UGLY GUYS (Score:-1, Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @10:58PM
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(AND GIRLS)
MIT, where everyone is UMOC. |
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Re:Sure number one in engineering...
(Score:5, Funny)
by tapin (157076) on Monday
August 25, @11:00PM (#6790775)
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but dead last in babe-filled orgies!
That's okay, they've got water
striders gone wild! [mit.edu] available on the "More
pictures" page. |
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Re:Sure number one in engineering...
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by Efreet (246368) on
Tuesday August 26, @11:53AM (#6794649)
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| You've obviously never heard of Steer
Roast [mit.edu]. |
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Re:Sure number one in engineering...
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by sprekken (623464) on
Tuesday August 26, @01:03PM (#6795517)
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| Hah! Damn that's funny. From the link provided, the steer
roast looks like some library gathering where MIT guys sit
around a table and masturbate to porn then watch a bunch of
guys mud wrestling each other.
What the hell does this have to do with hot-ass babe
filled orgies?
BTW: Orgy is a term to describe lots of people (girls
mostly :)) getting together to fuck, suck,
and fuck some more. |
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Re:Sure number one in engineering...
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by Efreet (246368) on
Tuesday August 26, @01:45PM (#6796028)
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Sorry about this, I just grabbed the first link I found.
But let me assure you, that half the amature strippers are
female, as are about half the attendees.
Here are some
better
sites:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~mkg/day_to_day/pictures/
2003/steerRoast.html
http://www.geocities.com/jetandspike/pixrst98/
http://www.andystevens.com/photos/sr99/
MIT
was accidentally listed as one of Playboy's top 10 party
schools one year, when the reporters went to Steer Roast, and
didn't stick around for the rest of the time. MIT doesn't
party often, but when it
does...
http://web.media.mit.edu/~jofish/pictures/2002/ste
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Dupe (Score:0)
by Lord Byron II
(671689) <slashdot.darkcuriosities@com>
on Monday August 25, @10:20PM (#6790510)
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| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/0
8/1157208&mode=thread&tid=134 [slashdot.org]
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Re:Dupe (Score:2)
by Anonvmous
Coward (589068) on Monday August 25, @10:28PM (#6790567)
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Same topic, not a dupe.
We don't need people going
on dupe patrol. |
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I predict... (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonvmous
Coward (589068) on Monday August 25, @10:21PM (#6790515)
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| ... somebody will soon use the word 'overlords', and it
won't really be funny. |
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Re:I predict... (Score:-1, Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @10:28PM
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| I touched her overlords, and she was filled with ecstacy.
My overlords were quivering in anticipation, but I quieted
them with a drink and a slap. I protected myself with my
Overlord and walked to her; her overlord yawning as a canyon
opens for the brute force of a river. As our overlords neared,
a strange thing happened... [to be continued by the next AC to
take up the torch] |
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Re:I predict... (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @10:32PM
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| You needed a microscope to check the status of your
overlord? |
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I for one ... (Score:1)
by
Hal The
Computer (674045) on Monday August 25, @10:43PM (#6790667)
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Welcome our telepathic and precognitive overlords who can
forsee when we are about to make a joke about
Wait,
I can't post that, must resist the urge to
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^H^H^H^H^ H^H^H^ H^H^H^H^H^H^
H^H^H^H^H^H ^H^H^H^H^ H^H^H^H^ H^H^H ^H^H^H^H^ H^H^H^H^H^
H^H^H^H^H^ H^H^H^H^H^H
Oh fine I'll post something on
topic:
You too can actually learn from the Brisbane
Insects and Spiders Home Page [geocities.com] |
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Re:I for one ... (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @01:02PM
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| STOP USING THE DAMN CTRL-Hs.^UPlease use CTRL-U instead.
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Re:I predict... (Score:1)
by The
Munger (695154) on Monday August 25, @11:55PM (#6791053)
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| 'Overlords'... Yeah, you're right - I'm not laughing.
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Re:I predict... (Score:2)
by Lord_Dweomer
(648696) on Tuesday August 26, @12:12AM (#6791116)
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| And I, for one, welcome our MIT overlords. As a trusted
Slashdot personality, I can be useful in rounding up other
Slashbots to toil in their underground...........oh
wait....the story's about robotic waterstriders?
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Science vs. Religion (Score:-1,
Flamebait)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25,
@10:21PM (#6790521)
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| Yup, looks like science is finally catching up to
something religion could do over 2003 years ago. |
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Re:Science vs. Religion (Score:0,
Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25,
@10:33PM (#6790594)
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The only minor differences, of course, being that the MIT
thing actually happened, and that no little boys had to be
molested in the process.
[smartass mode off] |
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Re:Science vs. Religion (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @10:34PM
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| Over 2003 years ago? Jesus was born approximately 2003
years ago (some estimates have it at a few years short of
that, even). Furthermore, his supposed "walking on water"
trick took place significantly after the time he was born.
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Re:Science vs. Religion (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @10:38PM
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| You mean science is finally catching up to the science
fiction written some 2000 years ago. |
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Re:Science vs. Religion (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @01:25AM
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| While we're at it, let's also thank religion for such
other positive world contributions as 9/11, the Holocaust, the
Crusades, Oklahoma City, etc. Sorry, bub, but while religion
says that the moon hangs "in the firmament", science has
actually put people on it. Here's hoping you remain consistent
and non-hypocritical; the next time you get sick I suppose you
will pray for better health instead of visiting that heathen
doctor with his devil-science medicine. |
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MIT (Score:4, Insightful)
by Dachannien (617929)
on Monday August 25, @10:21PM (#6790522)
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Yes, this particular research project is very
cool.
However, since it was mentioned in the original
post, I will say that USN&WR's rankings are flawed, and do
not necessarily reflect the quality of research taking place
at a particular institution. In fact, a significant portion of
their rankings are based on name recognition alone, which has
nothing to do with quality of research.
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Re:MIT (Score:0)
by
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @10:33PM (#6790595)
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USN&WR's rankings are flawed
Possibly
in general. but not in the case of MIT. :P
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Re:MIT (Score:2)
by Hal-9001 (43188) on
Monday August 25, @11:15PM (#6790861)
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| Possibly even in the case of MIT. There is no question
that MIT is a good engineering school, but MIT is not the best
school for everyone, including some of the U.S.'s brightest
budding engineers. |
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Dupe (Score:5, Informative)
by Saeger
(456549) on Monday August 25, @10:22PM (#6790523)
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Journal: http://slashdot.org/~Saeger/journal/)
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| This water
strider story [slashdot.org] was posted two weeks ago, but
because the way it was worded this time, the focus of the
posts will probably be on robots (and dupe flaming) rather
than the Christian Science Monitor being remarkably
unbiased. :)
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Re:Dupe (Score:0)
by
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @10:46PM (#6790690)
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| The Xian Science Monitor defends creationism and
intelligent design. That counts as biased in my book. |
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Re:Dupe (Score:2)
by man_ls (248470) <(ten.htuoslleb)
(ta) (lebeokj)> on Monday August 25, @11:39PM (#6790983)
(http://www.asshats.org/)
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| For a paper with an overt religious adjenda, the CSM is
exceptionally unbiased in its stories when it does print one.
Granted, it may only print stories that support its viewpoint,
but said stories are presented factually. |
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Re:Dupe (Score:0)
by
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @11:59PM (#6791066)
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| It must also be said that a paper that defends
evolutionism and dumb chance is biased, as well. If white is
biased, then black is too. |
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Re:Dupe (Score:1, Funny)
by
Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @12:18PM (#6794995)
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| Darn straight! I demand equal time for my theory that
humans descended from space aliens that interbred with bivalve
molluscs. Every time they publish a piece on human history
that doesn't give credit to homoxenopteriomorphic theory they
reveal their bias! |
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Re:Dupe (Score:2, Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @01:42AM
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I can't figure this out. I'm an apathetic agnostic (by
which I mean that I care so little about religion and the
question of the existence of deities that I can't even bother
to call myself an atheist) and I generally find the Christian
Science Monitor to be one of the more reputable publications
here in the US of A. Maybe people see the word "Christian" in
the title and fly off the handle?
Take a
look at it [csmonitor.com], for crying out loud. The CSM
is not some kind of slobbering fundamentalist rag. It's a
mainstream news and information source. On the front page, I
can't see a single article that could be even remotely
construed as fundy jibber-jabber (Pete Sampras is retiring?)
The way a lot of Slashbots react to it, you would think they
were referring to something like WorldNetDaily
[worldnetdaily.com], a site which drips with xenophobic,
anti-minority, anti-gay, anti-non-Christian,
borderline-fascist rhetoric.
People who are inclined to
bash the Christian Science Monitor should at least take a look
at it before they flame away. They might be surprised. |
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Re:Dupe (Score:3, Insightful)
by Phroggy
(441) *
<mailto:slashdotmail@phroREDHATggy.com%20minus%20distro>
on Tuesday August 26, @01:23PM (#6795770)
(http://phroggy.com/)
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Maybe people see the word "Christian" in the title and
fly off the handle?
I'd bet some people see
"Science" in the title and confuse it with the Church of
Scientology. |
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Jebusbot (Score:-1, Troll)
by 010_digital_100
(662453) on Monday August 25, @10:22PM (#6790528)
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| Crucify Him!!! |
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Re:Jebusbot (Score:3, Funny)
by PetWolverine
(638111) on Monday August 25, @10:39PM (#6790645)
(ftp://louise.dhs.org/ | Last
Journal: http://slashdot.org/~PetWolverine/journal/)
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| Actually, if you RTFA, while the bot has been seen walking
on water, it has not yet been conclusively demonstrated to be
a religious figure among other robots. Therefore a crucifixion
would at this point be premature, as it would not make the
water-walking bot a martyr to solidify and justify the faith
of millions of robot minions for millennia to come. |
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Re:Jebusbot (Score:0)
by 010_digital_100
(662453) on Tuesday August 26, @12:31AM (#6791195)
(http://www.theonion.com/)
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| Sorry, I forgot that the robot must be tempted by
Microsoft in the desert for 40 days and proclaim that "linux
will inherit the desktop" before they crucify him. |
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obJesus (Score:1)
by DChristensen
(98850) on Monday August 25, @10:23PM (#6790533)
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easy--they just know where the rocks are...
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Re:obJesus (Score:-1, Flamebait)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @05:59AM
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| your a idiot |
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Re:obJesus (Score:-1)
by
Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @08:48AM (#6792700)
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That's "You're an idiot"
Fricking Americans! |
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Mirror (Score:2, Informative)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @10:23PM
(#6790536)
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| In case the site is slow, here's
[martin-studio.com] a mirror to the link in the article.
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Still Need a Little Help with Linux
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by Anonymous Coward on Monday
August 25, @10:28PM (#6790562)
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Hi, thanks to everyone who took the time to help me get my
Redhat installation up and running; your suggestions were
right on the money, as always. Slashdotters Rule!
;o)
Anyways, I've noticed something
recently after having used Linux now for about a month; I have
this overwhelming desire to hang out with fags, do faggotly
things, stick foreign objects in my anus, etc. Is this normal?
I woulnd't be asking about this if it weren't for the fact
that my rectal bleeding is getting bad and my dog is scared of
me now. |
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WTF??? (Score:-1, Flamebait)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @10:38PM
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Why was this modded as Flamebait???
I am a confused
young man who needs answers about Linux and my sexual
orientation, and every which way I turn, I am being greeted by
silence and cold stares. |
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Re:Still Need a Little Help with Linux
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by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25,
@10:39PM (#6790638)
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Hi there AC, glad to hear that the install went
well.
About the side effects you mention, its a
perfectly normal reaction - I had the same thing happen to me
once... so, so long ago now.
Anyway, I digress - I'd be
happy to help you try to sort out these "problems". I have
some hardware of my own that I'd like to try out to see if i
can't goop up the source of this rectal bleeding.
If
you need any more news, just mail me at
mrpresident@whitehouse.gov
Much Love!
xxx
George
W. Bush, aka Seksi Bitchn1z |
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Re:Still Need a Little Help with Linux
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by Lxy (80823) on Monday
August 25, @10:55PM (#6790743)
(Last Journal: http://slashdot.org/~Lxy/journal/)
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I have this overwhelming desire to hang out with fags,
do faggotly things, stick foreign objects in my anus, etc. Is
this normal?
Yeah, they fixed this in the 2.6
kernel tree. Try upgrading, you'll feel much better
afterwards. |
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Re:Still Need a Little Help with Linux
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by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25,
@11:05PM (#6790804)
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| Yeah, I BET they fixed the kernel... Always promises of
kernel fixes and instead it's just always more damn
cocksucking. |
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Re:Still Need a Little Help with Linux
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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26,
@12:48AM (#6791252)
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For everyone who's curious, here's the definition
[urbandictionary.com] of "cocksucker."
+5 Informative
plz kthx |
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The real reason why (Score:5, Funny)
by Catharz
(223736) on Monday August 25, @10:30PM (#6790579)
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MIT is number one in engineering.
Robostrider is
made out of a 7-Up can, stainless steel wire legs and an
elastic band coupled to a pulley to power its middle legs.
Too much 7-Up and not enough beer being consumed for
it to be a fair contest. They should increase their beer
consumption to that of other colleges and level the playing
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You've apparently never been anywhere NEAR
MIT (Score:3, Interesting)
by j.e.hahn (1014) on
Monday August 25, @11:41PM (#6790991)
(https://isomorphic.net/)
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MIT students are FAMOUS for their excesses. Drugs,
Alcohol, Sex, you name it. So don't kid yourself. Most MIT
kids are getting way more than their RDA of beer and
liquor.
I've met MIT frat boys (yes, MIT has real
frats, and real frat parties.) whose frats had "drug budgets"
and an officer of Drug Procurement. I've been asked to leave
frat parties because they didn't want me competing for the
girls I came with.
MIT kids are not dorky and innocent.
Anyone who thinks so is in for a surprise. |
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Re:You've apparently never been anywhere NEAR
MIT (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on
Tuesday August 26, @12:51AM (#6791266)
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| And anyone who thinks j.e.hahn has a sense of humor is in
for a surprise too. |
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Re:You've apparently never been anywhere NEAR
MIT (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on
Tuesday August 26, @01:46AM (#6791547)
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Ha, I might even have been the guy who bounced you. (Maybe
6-7 years back? oh well, sorry for the offense)
For what its worth, the reason that non-MIT guys would get
bounced was usually not because we didn't want competition-
hell, we would often get enough girls that we would call other
houses to bring guys over so that the chicks wouldn't get
bored and leave early. No, the reason random guys got kicked
out was because they were the ones most likely to start fights
and steal shit. My frat almost lost its house over such an
incident.
Also, the scene became a lot more low key after '97 when a
pledge (at another house) drank himself to death. (In other
words, if you saw things recently and thought they were
excessive, all I can say is that you really didn't see
_anything_ compared to how it used to be.
oh well, enough of my OT reminiscing.
Bryan |
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Re:You've apparently never been anywhere NEAR
MIT (Score:0)
by grazzy (56382) <{grazzy} {at}
{home.se}> on Tuesday August 26, @06:58AM (#6792363)
(http://grazzy.mjoelkbar.net/
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if they need to ask people to leave to have a chance for
the girls i'll say they're quite dorky.
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Re:You've apparently never been anywhere NEAR
MIT (Score:3, Funny)
by tgd (2822) on Tuesday
August 26, @10:36AM (#6793622)
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| Sex? I've worked right in the middle of MIT, and didn't
even know that! Why the hell didn't someone tell me that when
I was single!?!? |
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Re:The real reason why (Score:3,
Insightful)
by mizhi (186984) on
Tuesday August 26, @02:51AM (#6791745)
(http://binaryshift.dhs.org/)
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| MIT is an incubator of two things: bright engineers and
alcoholics. |
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I for one (Score:0)
by
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @10:31PM (#6790584)
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welcome our new MIT overlords. or is it water strider?
What was the topic? Ooh a shiney!
*wanders away* |
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very pc of them (Score:5, Funny)
by jmarkantes (663024)
on Monday August 25, @10:32PM (#6790591)
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Can't upset the censors
[mit.edu].
J
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Re:very pc of them (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @12:21AM
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| is stridersex.com available? act now! |
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Re:very pc of them (Score:2)
by nEoN nOoDlE
(27594) on Tuesday August 26, @05:58AM (#6792240)
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| notice that they also barred out the eyes... now I can't
positively identify which of my waterstrider cousins is in the
photo. |
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Oh yeah? (Score:0)
by
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @10:34PM (#6790602)
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| Sure, MIT and Jebus have mastered the art of walking on
water, but only /. can turn
back time [slashdot.org] |
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Sloppy video (Score:0, Flamebait)
by bareminimum
(456719) on Monday August 25, @10:36PM (#6790617)
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| Could the video be any less clear than that? Sounds like a
set-up, kinda reminds me of these two guys walking on the
moon. |
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Better name (Score:0)
by jesler (683123) on
Monday August 25, @10:37PM (#6790630)
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| Robostrider? I would've called it the JesusBot, or Jebot
for short. |
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I wonder ... (Score:4, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @10:39PM
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| If it can walk on water - does it run on linux? |
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Re:I wonder ... (Score:1)
by gnu-sucks (561404)
on Tuesday August 26, @12:17AM (#6791138)
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| No, but it does run NetBSD |
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Jeebus! (Score:1, Flamebait)
by Squidgee
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on Monday August 25, @10:39PM (#6790642)
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| Holy crap! They made jeebus?! |
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correction.. (Score:3, Informative)
by linuxislandsucks
(461335) on Monday August 25, @10:40PM (#6790651)
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The actual measure of the number one school engineering is
the school with the highest number of graduates as actual
astronauts serving with NASA..
That record past and
present is held by Purdue University...
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Re:correction.. (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @11:03PM
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| And that of course has nothing to do with the fact that
they have an aviation program. |
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Re:correction.. (Score:1, Informative)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @11:06PM
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Err, you might want to check you facts. I think MIT put
out 31 astronauts, more than Purdue's 20?
Then again
the article is from June 2001.
MIT
Astronauts [mit.edu] |
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Re:correction.. (Score:5, Funny)
by cybermace5 (446439)
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on Tuesday August 26, @01:28AM (#6791485)
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You do realize that the space program started with
unmanned craft, then insects, perhaps mice, then on to
monkeys, and then Purdue graduates....
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Re:correction.. (Score:2)
by Dynedain
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on Tuesday August 26, @12:53PM (#6795418)
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No, the university with the number one engineering school
is the one that has the inventor of the digital interface for
microwaves, blenders, etc as its president.
I'll leave
it as an excersise for the reader to figure it out. |
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Kathleen Fent, whore/slut, dead at 12
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by Anonymous Coward on Monday
August 25, @10:43PM (#6790668)
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dead in her Michigan home this
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hair. I'm sure everyone in
the Slashdot community will miss her - even if you didn't
enjoy her teethy blowjobs,
there's no denying her
contributions to our cocks. Truly an American
icon.
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I bet it walks on Charles river
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by meshko (413657) on
Monday August 25, @10:44PM (#6790676)
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| Charles river (the river that MIT stands on) is always
covered by a film of oil which is approximately one inch
thick. You don't have to be a freaking rocket scientist to
build a robot which walks on *that*. |
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Re:I bet it walks on Charles river
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by mindstrm (20013) on
Monday August 25, @11:11PM (#6790839)
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Cool. Go build one. Scientific fame awaits you.
The
problem is not floating, the problem is walking...
propulsion....
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Re:I bet it walks on Charles river
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by TheLink (130905) on
Tuesday August 26, @12:10PM (#6794881)
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Why? Say you're a lightweight creature on a rubberlike
super-slippery surface, the way you'd push yourself forward is
to push diagonally backwards AND downwards at an optimal
angle. With experience you'd figure out what stroke is optimal
for what situation.
I'm actually not too sure about the
vortices being a critical part of the propulsion method, they
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Re:I bet it walks on Charles river
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by rtv
(567862) on Tuesday August 26, @12:02AM (#6791083)
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Hmmm. The oil is on top because it's less dense and
therefore probably more difficult to walk on than the
water.
Yes I know the parent is a gag, but this is
pedant^d^d^d^d^dslashdot.org after all. |
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Re:I bet it walks on Charles river
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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26,
@12:19AM (#6791145)
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| More difficult? Not if you create a device that floats on
water but sags in oil. |
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Re:I bet it walks on Charles river
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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26,
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| Not true. |
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Re:I bet it walks on Charles river
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by misterpies (632880)
on Tuesday August 26, @06:50AM (#6792345)
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Aside from the fact that that's completely untrue (ask
all the folk who sail and row on the Charles -- as I have
done), it would be much harder to "walk on oil" than water.
Water striders are kept afloat by surface tension, and oil,
especially light oils that float on water, has much lower
surface tension than water.
But in any case, all MIT
students need to is wait until February when the Charles
generally freezes over. Shouldn't be hard to walk over
that.
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