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We really need that 'B' Ark.

Geez people, why all the hate? I could see it directed at the pharma guy. I don't think Mr. Godin quite deserves this. Is it because he's successful? Perhaps doesn't speak to your interests?

Perhaps Mr. Godin does not deserve the hate, but Slashdot definitely does for trying to sell marketing as "nerdy" to a crowd which would put all marketeers on the B-Ark.

So: he doesn't speak to our interests.

No, none of that is really true. You are just using selective bias to reinforce your own choices.

There are brilliant people in suits and in T-shirts. Trying to discern which is which by their attire is a losing battle.

Personally, I am a technologist who tries to maintain a professional appearance. I usually wear slacks and button down shirts. Why? Because traditionally people signal the importance of the task by what they wear. I might head to the gym in sweats, but I'm not going to wear them to a funeral or a wedding.

The fact that I dress up for those events demonstrates that I care enough to put in some effort. Wearing some dirty, stained rags that I picked up off the floor indicates that I put no care, effort, or thought into an event that is tremendously important to others.

Now, I realize that many techs dress down almost as a uniform to differentiate themselves from others. So, I pretty much give them a pass, but I'm never impressed by it.

Here are a couple of guys in suits who I'm sure you think are clueless because they are wearing suits. I'm sure someone explained all that complicated technology stuff to them before the event. Too bad they couldn't find some competent techs to figure out why those people died.
http://www.geoffwilkins.net/im...

They'll just put them in the B Ark.

And what are we supposed to do with these incompetents if we can't promote them out to management?

Something about a B Ark ...

First hit for B-Ark

"charters are providing a reform cover for eroding the public school system ..."

Long before charter schools were a political hot potato, the public school system in the USA had degenerated into a bloated bureaucracy of administrators managing a population of teachers holding degrees in "education" (instead of maths, physics, biology, psychology, etc.) - the "B Ark" of society. . This moronic mass has metastasized into our modern American public school system.

I dare you to visit the administrative center of a large city's public school system. You'll see hundreds, if not thousands, of school cops, social workers, bus traffic analysts, government grant analysts, etc. mindlessly walking the halls in search of a cup of coffee or the next new secretary to lay.

And I don't want to even venture near the topic of quality of teachers in these schools, whose only solution has been for decades "Give us more money!"

> I am not familiar with this "third ship" thing you mention. I am assuming from context it means being
> one of the elite.

Actually its was a Hitchhikers Guide reference, that along with the listing of "telephone sanitizer". If I had remembered it properly, I would have called them the "B ARK"... but basically, the joke comes from this text: http://www.geoffwilkins.net/fragments/Adams.htm

Its kind of the opposite, the "B Ark", was loaded up with the useless people and middle men, then "sent off first", being told it was because they were so important....

"Oh yes," said the Captain, "Millions of them. Hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, management consultants, you name them. We're going to colonize another planet."

... we're all living on the B-Ark.

I was under the impression there was really only one...

these curator companies are nothing but 30% parasites, all trying to put their own little drm enforced tax on the computing ecosystem, filthy middlemen who hold in bondage your applications and thoughts

Put them on the 'B' Ark, I say!

Put them on the B Ark!

That's fine by me, so long as we keep a few telephone sanitisers around.

Lawyers? No. Like K said in MiB: "Keep them on *this* planet".

Put them on the B Ark!

I opened slashdot while wrapping Christmas presents and read the headline as "Nasa May Send Lawyers to Europa." My thought was, "Be sure to send them all."

That must be the 'B' Ark

I thought the lawyers went with the B Ark...

karma whoring, had to look up b-ark, good analogy btw

I am against the population reduction proposal, we should look ahead. It is time to send our colonies to outer space, history have proven, human are good at colonizing new world when resources run low back home.

That is unfeasible. The population is going to grow by 2 BILLION in the next 40 years. We cannot send 2 billion people into space, even if we dedicated every resource we have to it. We would have to send 136,000 people into space every day, starting today.

No, I say we stick to plan A, and reduce population growth. Then we might look at space too, but for smaller groups of people.

Just put them in the "B" Ark.

Actually, it's the 'B' Ark they're putting him on, but they keep telling him it's for the "rich and influential" or else he wouldn't get on board.

This is just the weekly Slashdot outburst by bitter HD-DVD fans.

The Net is getting more and more clogged up with these fanboys of dead platforms and formats. Something like a 'B' Arc ala Douglas Adams is really needed for these sad and pathetic HD-DVD, Xbox, Dreamcast, and Amiga fanboys:

The 'B' Ark:
http://www.geoffwilkins.net/fragments/Adams.htm

Pepsi-Cola announced Friday that the labels of its Aquafina brand bottled water will be changed to make it clear the product is tap water.

The new bottles will say, "The Aquafina in this bottle is purified water that originates from a public water source," or something similar, Pepsi-Cola North America spokeswoman Nicole Bradley told CNN.

Pepsi will change current labels on water bottles to say the water comes from a public water source.

The bottles are currently labeled: "Bottled at the source P.W.S." Americans spent about $2.17 billion on Aquafina last year, according to Beverage Digest, an independent company that tracks the global beverage industry. The U.S. bottled water business in 2006 totaled roughly $15 billion, it said.

This whole Eau de P.W.S. saga brings to mind H.L. Mencken's quote:

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.