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Or how about the guy having child support garnished for the child he has sole custody for. (Thank you fark...)

I think the guys at FARK do enough kitten killing for all of us...

I think this guy is a member.

Go east, young man.

Worldwide population is also up in 2003 and we don't want to know who the most prolific producer is either.

What a farking LOSER you ARE.

1. Hm. You just posted the exact same comment on Fark.com. The duplication of your writings is undermining your credibility through astroturfing.
2. Whenever anyone starts mud-slinging and calling sources "leftist" / "right-wing" - it's usually an indication that the callee is themselves on the fringes and probably not a credible source. If I were to use same bias you did, I should not believe a word you wrote. For example:
3. "You're a SCIENCE FICTION WRITER with CHRISTIAN ideals! You're a RIGHT-WING LOON! Yuk!" (See what I mean? Unnecessary mud-slinging hurts doesn't it?)
4. The Guardian article was very careful to not assign blame and are more or less describing the pandora's box. They do mention the previous government being relatively oppressive, lack of television being one of the last hurdles to overcome. They talk to the teenagers in schools, describe them as bright, intelligent and wired to the world. I wish *I* could get 40 cable TV channels for $4 a month.
5. I'm a little concerned about your double-standards: In the United States, children allowed to watch TV for 12 hours a day and people too busy to do their jobs because they're watching television - would have people extremely concerned for their mental well-being.
   
   You're saying that's okay by you for people to do that - so long as it only happens to foreigners?
6. Sources within THEIR OWN COUNTRY are trying to stop their culture from being washed away. Much like France. I suppose you want France and French Canada to stop requiring French to be learned in schools and products requiring French documentation - all in favor of English?
7. The article doesn't mention any suggestion about taking television away from the people again. But maybe, I think, that it would be nice for them to adjust to living with it.
8. Thanks for asininely telling me that "Freedom Has A Price". You sound quite the poster-boy for the current US foreign policy throughout the world: "Enabling 'Freedom' Through Installing Democracy And Christianity".
   
   And does that mean you advocate legalising crack cocaine and heroine - because you think it's silly to tell people what to do occasionally?

I doubt it was a typo.

A reviewer called Toriko wrote an interesting review of The Culture of E3 a few months back. Was an interesting read in that she didn't mention many games and instead concentrated on the event itself.
You can see the members of Fark and their reactions to the article here.

A reviewer called Toriko wrote an interesting review of The Culture of E3 a few months back. Was an interesting read in that she didn't mention many games and instead concentrated on the event itself.
You can see the members of Fark and their reactions to the article here.

Fark.com has something similar to what you propose. If you donate money and subscribe to TotalFark, you can view a list of all stories submitted, regardless of whether or not they make the front page.

Maybe /. could do something like this for their subscribers?

That's not my experience. I have never received a single piece of spam on a hotmail account I've been using for at least nine months.

I take my name and tack on an approximation of a transcendental number and no spam (and no dictionary attacks).

Now, no farkettes have written me either, but that's a different problem.

Hilarity would ensue.

But ok, I'll bite. Your just wrong. Last time I checked Slashdot, Fark, Metafilter, etc... were doing ok. The key is some moderation of the frontpage on the part of the maintainers, and some "don't read the damn story if your not interested" moderation on the part of the user.

Caveat Emptor

It really takes four days for links to get from Fark to here? That's actually pretty surprising...

It really takes four days for links to get from Fark to here? That's actually pretty surprising...

Hmm, seems FARK had slashdot scooped here. This story has a picture and some more information:
http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/3/2003/06/01/s tory001.html

All that needs to happen for Slashdot to become Fark is to have posted this story under the heading "Boobies."

Wow -- so, basically all of the boobies have left FARK and ended up here...

excellent.

Like so

I googled the "Mars Attacks", but could find a lot of info on the sequel film that's in the works... Supposedly Warner Bros has put up $45mil for it, but I can't find a damn thing on "The WarnerBros" website.

The original didn't do so well in the box office, but it seems to have caught on as a cult hit. Most everybody I know has seen in on DVD or tape. I saw a link here (or perhaps on Some other news site for the complete set of images of the original trading cards, and had them printed up on card stock at a local print shop. My boy took them to school, and they were a big hit with the kids. (Although the teachers had a few things to "say" about them, haha)

Anyways, if you have more info on the sequel movie, please post it. I'd love to see what they have planned. Thx!

Morpheus: We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early twenty-first century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to slashdot.
Neo: Slashdot? You mean the tech news site?
Morpheus: Yes, but a single troller spawned an entire race of slashbot. We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that released the mods. At the time they were dependent on first posts and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an attention source as abundant as the fp. There are fields, endless fields, where slashbots are no longer born. They are interpreted. For the longest time I wouldn't believe it, and then I saw the fields with my own eyes. Watched them liquefy the content of the post so it could be distributed mindlessly around slashdot. And standing there, facing the pure horrifying precision, I came to realize the obviousness of the truth. What is the Troll? Control. The Troll is an annoying fiend who exists only to post worthless comments on slashdot and turn it into this.

Is there any way to mod this entire story as (-1, Overrated)?

Seriously, this has to be one of the most useless and uninteresting items to appear on Slashdot in the recent past. A real history of the internet? Maybe that would be an interesting read. But this garbage from The Lemon is completely worthless, not even funny (it tries, yet fails miserably), and unworthy of even a mention on Fark.

Kinda sad when Fark beats /. to a geek story of this magnitude.

Some kindly folk at Fark have provided mirrors. Scroll down for links.

Two reasons:

1. /. stole the phrase from fark.com, who puts in on just about every other article.

2. It's "funny" when someone you hate suffers. For example: If Bill Gates was diagnosed with a terminal cancer, the /. crowd would LOVE it. If Torvalds came down with the same cancer, it would be the biggest tragedy in geek history.

It would be a geek tragedy.

Fark drives a few servers into the ground every day.

(I told him we've already got one. >snicker<)

My God! It's full of links!" (ripped off from TOTALFARK)

What do you think this is, fark?

It's just Karma for their years of refusal to follow their own polls and give Fark an award or even a nomination, even though it always had way more votes than any of the other silly 'community' sites they list which you've never heard of.

Slashdot falls for the "Time Traveler Insider Trading" story. Weekly World News laughs evilly in its beer

Gullibility of /. editors revealed on fark!

Fark

there was a thread yesterday wherein many farkers were talking about how this action by MS was frustrating, and that they wanted to switch.

here.

just a not-so geeky viewpoint there.

Call me strange, but there's already a precedent to deal with this problem: Make comments available to subscribers prior to posting the story; check the comments before actually posting to the front page. Fark does it with Total Fark and has done it for months [natch, they allow all submission to be viewed by subscribers, but Slashdot editors have shown adverse reactions to such an idea]. Dupes are detected pretty reliably by readers, as evidenced by the first four comments on this story. If they want to be real bastards and make more work for themselves, they could even nuke all comments posted prior to the public live time so that you wouldn't see subscribers competing for first post rights.

Or perhaps take the rather simple route of exposing those 'dupe detection' scripts to the world that supposedly help combat this problem. I didn't see them on the slashcode CVS when I checked. Perhaps if we had access to those, someone would kindly touch them up to be a little more intelligent perhaps allowing the editors to look a little more intelligent.

Having to work around writers and executive producers and other people in the industry is a drain. You will never find a group of folks more full of shit. I completely agree with the article in that all the movers and shakers in the industry run on fear, constantly looking around to see what everyone else is doing.


We're discussing this at Fark. Here's what I had to say there:

Ben's experience matches up EXACTLY with what I've known to be standard industry practice for as long as I can remember.

We used to joke that there was one guy, who'd get drunk at a restaurant and spout out movie ideas (it changes as things go in and out of style -- in the 80s it was Spago, in the 90s I think it was the Viper Room. I have no idea what it is now, as I attempt to claw my way back up to the "b" list.) The joke went that there were execs from all the major studios, and they'd only hear flashes of the conversation, like ". . . asteroid . . . earth . . . big summer movie . . ." and we get two or three movies that are exactly the same.

The worst thing about this article is that Hollywood will see it, and they'll add Ben to the "we hate him because he doesn't play by our rules" list, and Bringing Down The House will never get made.

Which REALLY sucks, because I was hoping to score a part in it.

A friend of mine (who is now an indie director) worked on "Batman and Robin."

The horror stories he told me about the insane wasting of money on actor crap would make you explode.

The budget for actor garbage -- workout rooms, personal chefs, personal assistants, personal drivers, groomers, and all that useless shiat -- was THREE MILLION DOLLARS.

We made Neverland for less than 50 grand, and even THAT was a ton of money to me. (I'm not an investor, just an actor, in that picture.)

Jane White Is Sick And Twisted, which is coming out on DVD in just a couple of weeks, was similar in budget . . . and I'd wager that both of these movies are more entertaining, and more watchable than Batman and Robin.

Yeah, Hollywood is fucked. Royally. The big media conglomerates (you can't even call them 'studios' any longer) have co-opted "independent" as a marketing device . . . but there are some real indie studios out there, with people who love the material, love the process of bringing it to life, and create great work. It's just hard to find right now, is all.

As for Ben's movie? I'd DIE to play Kevin, but a part that big will go to someone who is currently "established," who can "open" a movie. (By "open," I mean that they can get people into the theatre based on their name alone.)

Kevin's character is asian in Real Life, IIRC, but they'll change that for the movie, and you'll see someone like Matt Damon (if Hollywood is smart, which they're not so we'll probably see someone who's a lousy actor, but on a "hot" series right now. I leave it to you to fill in the blanks on that one) in that role. Which he probably won't take, because it's too similar to "Rounders," which leaves it wide open for me!

. . . to lose out to some guy who's hot right now.

But Dealer #5 is all mine, baby! ;)

Man, you are a looooonnnnggg way from home.

Trolling /. is dead! Maybe you morons should try the morons at some easy places like here, here, here, or here

You have *seen* FoxNews haven't you?

Here's an accurate interpretation

So how does one quote a search engine as a source in a term paper anyways?

I don't know about anyone else but Google certainly isn't the single source to define whatever topics I'm doing research into.

And by research I'm not talking specifically some kind of thesis or paper. I mean even the little stuff such as a definition of a word or phrase that I've come across in a book or an online article.

There are plenty of other search engines and plenty of other indexing algorithms to go with it. I can't let one "fuzzy logic" formula control my view of the world.

This is why when learning how to write a term paper in high school we're told to get at least X number of different sources. Perhaps a refresher course where we replace the concept of "term paper" with "internet".

And lastly, is this a trend that we need to worry about? Does Google really have that kind of influence that if it starts linking to one definition of a phrase instead of the other, the world is going to conform to what Google tells us?

Farked if I know. Or care.

[insert response noting reference to fark and its influence over me. TIC ppl.]

has got to be Weekly World News. This fake news site seems to have its stories pop up on other non-fake sites, eg. Yahoo and Fark.

I guess that, unlike the Onion, the stories are more designed for hoaxness than for humorous effect, so they might skip by someone not paying attention?

This is pretty funny. However by far the best thing I have seen was the April Fool's thread posted on Fark yesterday.

However somehow I doubt my computer science teacher was so amused after we filled out a sex offender registration form and left it on the ground in his bosses office... :)

Look at The Onion! They are also pulling a "all news are bogus" day. Man, where am I supposed to get informed today then?

I guess I'll have to rely on good old trusted news from fark or bbspot.

We're neither dentists nor lawyers here. You might have much better luck posting on a site where most of the readers have a strong understanding of standard dentistry, medical malpractice law, and how this type of thing is handled in your state.

For example, you might want to try fark or msdn, since those sites seem to have better medical malpractice information than Slashdot does.

The source of the most unbiased news on ANYTHING that's available is called "thinking rationally". It seems that most of the world regards thought as some sort of CHORE (I recall the bland, low-content speech President Bush gave to announce the 48-hour deadline...and the calls that came into C-Span afterwards. NOBODY was thinking. I heard "I don't need any information! George Bush says it, I believe it, that settles it! Praise George Bush, for He Can Do No Wrong!"....followed by "I don't need any information! George Bush says it, I don't believe it, that settles it! Curse George Bush, for He Can Do No Right!". No wonder we're denied any useful information - it's assumed everyone's decided on their opinion and won't change it no matter what, so why bother with facts?...). Anyway, back to my point - being willing to honestly think about and evaluate information will give you the most accurate "news".

I doubt it's possible to find a single "unbiased" news source. You CAN, though, find a whole mess of different sources that all have different biases. By comparing what they report and how they report it, it's just a matter of actual thinking to determine, approximately, what the "unbiased" truth really is.

For this, I recommend The Illustrious Google News and Columbia Newsblaster as starting points. Fark occasionally has some interesting pointers to more amusing angles on breaking news as well, though Fark is more for entertainment and amusement than "serious" news...

Sitting here at work, I must say that the only thing I really wish I could get would be a live cable feed of some of the news conferences.

All the opinions, perspectives, and breaking news information I could ever want is available online, with the help of places like Slashdot, Fark.com, and of course... Matt Drudge.

I got nothin'.

"what will information-access-over-electronic-networks look like in 2013?"

Is this a fark.com photoshop? I thought I was on slashdot... :-P

Join me in messing with the morons here.

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