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They're including as an "illegal download" people who can hear your radio because you have the volume too high.

There is only one solution to stopping the "carbon footprint": KILL EVERYTHING!

Considering Google's high energy standards from using alternative energy in the GooglePlex, to using energy efficient hardware, its not enough! So everyone must die! That's right! Kill everything! Destroy everything you touch! (By clicking on that link, you have drowned a litter of puppies due to global warming! How do you sleep at night! You should kill something! HURRY!) You must save the planet from yourself. You are not clean enough! You're mentally ill! (Gasp! You killed the wiggy-wamp-wiggy! A species of ant that lives in the Rainforest! MURDERER!) Germs are making you like that! They fart their carbon dioxide in the air! Must destroy the germs! Must kill everything! AUGH!

OK, enough sillyness. I've had quite enough of this carbon footprint bullshit! You know what, I'm going to keep surfing the Internet. I'm going to surf the internet until I kill a penguin with an oil tanker in Florida!

"Save the planet? We can't even save ourselves!"--George Carlin.

By reading this post you have already helped destroy the o-zone layer. Never mind that a Gamma Ray Burst can destroy it in an instant, but you a supernova to somebody.

how efficiently the bad guys always work.

Not really - we only ever hear about the efficient ones here. Head on over to Fark (or even Youtube:) to get some examples of bad guys working....inefficiently.

wow dude way to flamebait... this isn't Fark

Easy, if it were done in MS paint there is only one suspect: Heamer

Posted anonymously to hide the shame of being a Fark addict.

And here is an EXTREMELY exhaustive discussion on the physics of lightsabers, in a fun sort of way.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1406308

"Can a lightsaber cut through adamantium?"

Yet another commenter stealing from Fark.

Or maybe the joke is just that obvious?

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3975103&IDComment=45754482#c45754482

You owe Decados an apology!

posting as anonymous so the person who originally wrote this line on fark doesn't get pissed?

Found it...

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1115586

Lukket's image. It went so far as to get debunked by Snopes before the month was out.

So true, just like when they found Amelia Earhart's plane last year. Major news outlets didn't think it was newsworthy enough to run the story at all.

I think you mean Anne Frank.

I think Fark's privacy policy is one of the best. They have a short version: "We will not give your addresses to third parties. We hate spammers. Bunch of jackasses is what they are." And then, there's a longer, official version for the lawyers,... ;-)

*moves over to reading Slashdot

My god man! You've copied and pasted your exact comment from Fark!

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3835988&IDComment=43858596#c43858596

Crying wolf destroys the perception of journalistic integrity for everyone.

There's a site for that.

people who think real life resembles a b-grade hollywood movie plot. if they were comparing this to a bad hollywood movie plot and laughing, i would certainly lighten up and laugh along. in fact, some do make this joke, and i do laugh:

Antisocial scientist behind Anthrax attacks commits suicide before I Am The Law closes in on his Madhouse to Bring The Noise; no word if he was Armed & Dangerous

now that's funny! ;-)

but now read some of the posts here. look for a humours tone. none. you are talking about posters here, go ahead, read some posts, who *actually* believe the government killed this guy and made it look like a suicide. AND they spread the anthrax in the first place. AND they did 9/11. its all masterminded by the top secret cabal you see

there are actual low iq fools, posters in this thread, go ahead, read, who really firmly and honestly believe these things. go ahead, read some posts here, MODDED UP as interesting and informative no less. it is of course a joke. but the really crazy joke are those who take conspiratorial fantasies seriously. and its not a fringe parnaoid schizophrenic few, this cretinous stupidity is mainstream

i mean, creationism is pretty hilarious too, when you think about it. flying spaghetti monster and all that... if creationism weren't taken so seriously by so many fools that they actually warp our education system. the same goes for people who's opinion of government comes from the plot of steven seagal movies. same stupidity, taken very seriously, by enough fools, and you have something that's not funny anymore, but something to seriously denounce as unhealthy for society

i'll say it again:

healthy distrust of your government is normal and helpful to the functioning of a vibrant society

however, rabid, paranoid schizophrenic musings on all evil in the world falling at the government's doorstep is not anywhere near the definition of "healthy distrust". more like pathological hobbling distrust

Dear Mr. Free The Cowards:

It seems there has been a gross error on your part. You should have properly formatted your original reply [1] first and used an MLA approved citation method to indicate to the reader what point from which reference [2] you were arguing for or against. Now you can see the huge mess you caused by replying to a slashdotter [3] without following the proper guidelines. We are all very serious about engaging in proper debate and encourage you to practice these guidelines in a better site to hone your skills [4], you may return when ready.

Sincerely,

John Q. Anonymous

[1] - http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=612665&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=nested&cid=24174607
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[4] - http://fark.com/

• Feedreader (collapsed) - these two feeds came with Feedreader, and I just didn't delete them.
• • Feedreader Developer Blog
  • Feedreader news and announcements
• Games
• • Deus Ex Projects - two projects for my favorite game of all time that both move one inch toward completion every 6 months.
  • • Deus Ex HTDP - high-definition texture pack. Text feed, news and announcements.
    • Project 2027 - new levels and story for Deus Ex. Text feed, news and announcements.
  • The Escapist: Zero Punctuation - if you're not watching these game reviews, you should be. Feed is links to the weekly ZP posts.
  • Valve Steam news and updates - Steam is Valve's content delivery system. This feed includes game updates and general news. Text only.
• News/aggregator
• • CNN top stories - this feed can be annoying because it sometimes contains a story summary in the item, but more often it just contains a link to the story. I wish it had summaries more often.
  • Fark - Fark is a news aggregator site that, like /., combines user submission with a little editorial control (as opposed to the Digg method). This feed is of the mainpage stories and contains only the headlines and a link. Sophomoric and dark humor are mainstays.
  • MSNBC - this is the top stories feed, editorially selected. They also have a "most viewed" feed if you're into celeb news and dogs in funny poses.
  • MSNBC - Coundown - feed of Countdown with Keith Olbermann video clips, updated nightly, with the first two stories usually posted before the show is over. Feed is links to the clips.
  • Slashdot - log in, your feed is personalized to your mainpage prefs. /.'s own feed contains headlines and story summaries.
• Politics
• • Crooks and Liars - This is a blog that supports more liberal ideals than the party line. Feed is of front page stories and contains attachments of any items referenced in the stories (usually QT files, sometimes PDFs)
  • Daily Kos - The largest liberal log/community on the net, this one is much more toward party line. Text only.
  • Electoral-vote.com - election news and coverage with a map that updates the electoral college count by poll average. Contains the site's daily upd

Yes you have heroicly transcended the awesome responsibility that was placed upon your shoulders. Obviously you need a pat on the back, you self-important twit.

Thanks. It's the external validation that keeps me going.

If it weren't for slashdot I'd be ranting anti-OOXML nonsense on FARK.COM and that would not go well.

It's spelled catamoran over on Fark.

I don't know, I could see a niche for this, especially now that FarkTV has bit the dust.

It's always nice to have a place to go on the internet when I need to see something totally mediocre, get my daily dose of unadulterated contempt and loathing, or just want to be mean myself.

with /., Fark, Kongregate (if your firewall will let you), and slavehack. Those are my best suggestions if you can't work.

Ducks are just as bad. I was sitting by a pond the other day with about 20 or so ducks there. In the space of about half an hour or so, about six fights broke out, half of which were sexually motivated. In the same amount of time, over a hundred humans must've passed by --- a population in whom not one case of violence or sexual harassment broke out.

Yeah, but you don't know the meaning of laughter until you read about someone on Fark who found out about ducks the hard way a couple of days ago.

What I am more willing to believe is this: 99% of the people in China don't even HAVE internet access, let alone have an opinion on it; the 1% left are the "elite", and 99% of them are Chinese government lap-dogs, doing precisely what they're told to do, because they don't want their families to die in labor camps.

There's already a good discussion about this going on over at fark.

It sounds like the issue may be related to him not being a taxpayer in Nevada and the governor not wanting to force the taxpayers to foot the bill.

When the rabble on Fark have figured this out.

China calls Dalai Lama a terrorist, Starbucks coffee affordably priced, Vista an excellent, glitch-free operating system

Chewed cigar butts floating in congealed phlegm sauce.

Fifty-seven channels and nothin' on.

/obscure?

// oh wait this isn't Fark.com

//slashies!!!

This thread has been farked.
We should link back, thus crossing the streams and see what happens.
fark

Slashdotters wonder if they should date women who believe in Astrology. Because if there's one thing Slashdotters need, it's a way to winnow down the vast number of women asking them for dates

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3385885

It's all about Bea Arthur, baby.

/Nothing is obscure on Slashiedot.

It's Not News It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News

I want Web1.0 back...back when spam was just an annoyance, slashdot did news for nerds (and not BS politics for idiots), and one could find actual communities online.

Oh well.

i remember reading the thread on fark and laughing so hard, that i had tears running down my face...

scroll halfway down - it's comedy in realtime

Check out what the guys at fark are running

Thank you! You have the support of someone within the US that believes that the level of paranoia around here is friggin' retarded.

I swear if I hear the word "Terrorist" on more damn time, I'm gonna go completely crackers. Am I afraid of terrorists, terrorism, bombs, sleeper cells, whatever? Fuck no! If it happens, it happens, and no amount of fearmongering, or paranoia is going to change that. Sure, you'll catch of few before they can pull whatever stunt they're planning, but eventually, one will get through.

The very fact that we're so paranoid is evidence that the terrorists have already won. The goal of terrorism is to get your enemy so afraid of you that they change their way of life to make you happy. Check the news; check Fark.com. There's an article just about every day about this person won't take a seeing eye dog in their cab because that would be bad, or somebody jumps up on a plane screaming about allah and how great 9/11 was in arabic, and they get away with no punishment, and worse, they sue and win for "discrimination"; but the instant a college student walks into an airport with a homemade light-up shirt, she gets an MP5 shoved in her face! She wasn't even trying to get on a plane. She was waiting for a friend to come out. I'll be honest, I've worn a shirt like this. After a few minutes, I completely forgot I was wearing it. I finally remembered when I started getting weird looks from cops at IHOP. I don't blame her for wearing it in an airport, I probably would have too, and not even given it a second thought.

She didn't respond to the lady at the counter, maybe because she didn't hear her, or possible she wasn't paying attention. Yes, the police should have responded, but they responded with WAAAAAYYYYY too much force.

Whatever happened to "no harm, no foul?" charges should be dropped against this girl immediately, and she should sue the dogshit out of the TSA.

Yes, and to further drive home the distinction, they could even place it under a different domain. Something like, Fark.com perhaps...

/kidding
//this is probably too irrelevant even for Fark
///slashies on Slashdot

Agreed! I really, really wish Slashdot would revise their mobile page for 2007.

Mobile browsers have come a long way in recent times.

Check out http://www.fark.com/pda.html for a good example.

An oldie but strangely, still topical in these circles.

it's not.

They even have pictures of the little spies:
http://img.fark.com/images/squirrel.jpg


Wow. Never thought I get to use that pic and be ontopic.

Yup, this machine was probably built for XP. And from your statement I'm guessing that your parents aren't doing anything on a computer that needs to be done. I know if my mom can't get her email or watch a flash video one day she just decides to do something else for a while.

A student, otoh, has work that needs to be done. And in a timely manner. And often using whatever wierd software the school/prof says they will. Things like "CPU" and "RAM" aren't bells or whistles. They're the basic needs for getting work done. The fact that a better CPU or more RAM also makes it possible to play a game doesn't mean that games are all a better machine is good for.

If you're that worried about your kids playing a game on the PC you buy them then you'd better remove all the other bells and whistles too... like Flash... and the web browser... and Java and the OS... because they can be used for entertainment too.

1. Don't mention God. You'll start another flamewar and we'll have to hear about FSM vs Kthulu all over again for no good reason because TFA isn't about that. That nonsense is what fark comments are for.
2. Using M$ for Microsoft is pedantic. Don't do it. Lots of people hate the Beast but like money. Like the devil in old folk tales, don't name them but talk about them less directly. You see how I'm referring to them as if they were the culture assimilating soul destroying Borg without actually saying it? That lets other people know they want to be in on the joke. It's a subtlety thing. I like to call it "peer reference pressure."
3. One exclamation helps! Two don't?
4. Have a signature that tersely expresses your wry wit.
5. Location, location, location. Being frist psot seldom hurts.
6. When following up with a post like this one, be sure to mention that Mandriva is well supported by major vendors like HP (8 different models each of laptops and desktop/workstations). That way you won't be too far off topic.
7. If you use links, try to work in one that's funny and on point at the same time.
8. All ordered lists must end with ...profit!

Here's an example of this done goodlier: Thank goodness

"Cascade B Particle discovered at Fermilab. In related news, cascade resonance detected at Black Mesa, Gordon Freeman to assess the situation"

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =2874683

He will most likely venture into the test chamber and push the sample into the beam, if all goes well he will be out of there and cleaned up for lunch with the G man directly after the test..... or will he?

That's why its funny. Listen to the song.

Forbidden Love II: Itsa Also Beesa Trap!

Couldn't have been worse than Forbidden Love: It's a TRAP!.

This is, of course, all just the buildup to *SPOLER ALERT* Darth Binks' dramatic revelation: "JAR JAR, I BEESA YOU DADDY!"

(Not my Photoshop. Found it in this epic thread. Lost the link to Jar Jar's "I beesa you daddy". )

Have they turned it into a blog where any moron can write a story and get it on the front page?

The only way this improbable event will ever happen is if there was a nice cup of really hot tea powering those boosters.

Here is Fark's stance on this issue:

We're not a silicon valley venture-capital funded behemoth startup. Fark is self-funded and run out of my living room. They have parties with limos and live bands out there, while here in Kentucky I get pretty excited when I find a new bourbon at the store around the corner.
Fark isn't in a financial position to stand up and take on the DMCA/MPAA/WTFOMG in a head to head legal battle, they'll crush us into fine paste. I can however say with confidence that the DMCA is a load of crap, the MPAA and their attorneys are douchebags, and someone needs to take them down. More power to Digg, if we can help we will. We just can't take point on this one. Digg has millions of VC dollars in their bank account, they're in a much better position than us to take this one on. Go gettum guys.

(Btw this does mean we'll have to continue deleting posts and links containing the code until some BS politico in Washington changes that BS law. Please don't post it thanks)

I think even worse is the web master Drew's official statement and the community responses: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =2776805/ Its really interesting to compare the level of technical saavy over there with here or even Digg. As in, they're a bunch of cowards who don't really understand what's going on. Man, I love me some Slashdot! It feels like home! :)

Works equally well here.

Details from VT gunman's suicide note revealed, blames actions on "rich kids" and "debauchery" but makes no mention of Anna Nicole Smith, Don Imus or violent video games

Turned into a whole string of "I blame..." responses.

Usually art imitates life, but sometimes life imitates art. A few threads later After Columbine, Tom Delay blamed the shootings on science classes teaching evolution. Surely, we've learned from past idiots, right? Well... a day after the VT massacre, it appears not showed up, with a link pointing to a Crooks and Liars article in which Tom Delay blamed the Columbine attack on the teaching of evolution, and some other contemptible ghoul of a fundie whackjob blamed the VT shooting on the teaching of evolution.

Just when we'd thought we'd blamed it on everything, some fucking fundie freak has to play a game of one-upmanship.