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>General fanfic writing groups also know what the
>produces think about the fanfic world and try to
>work with them (read MST3K :-) ).

I'm glad someone mentioned MST3K. Everyone who's ever lurked in creative newsgroups knows that 90% of fanfics are crap, right? A lot of people give some of the worst ones the Mystery Science Theatre treatment, known as MSTings. If you're into anime, give SVAM a try. A lot of the stuff they do is screamingly funny. They're under reconstruction right now, but it's worth seeing when it's back up.

I have watched every single episode, subtitled of course, and both movies. And it was easy to get the overall story, since it only advanced about a half centimeter every episode, and there might have as well have been blinking words on the screen saying "overall story arc now advancing" when it did.

I recommend you visit Evangelion Thumbnail Theatre to see a listless, overhyped series made fun of. :)

Of course, your mileage may vary. If you enjoyed it, I certainly don't wish to rain on your parade. But I enjoyed Patlabor about ten billion times more.

Jon

For those interested in Robotech 3000 (which will hopefully be japanese-quality animation), check out the survey on The Robotech Page. And for music type, vote for Macross Plus or Macross 7 style

Lynn-Minmei (American Version) must die (or go mute. Either is fine!). ;-)

Lurking behind every Red Hat site is a Woody user.

HEADLINE: Woody penetrates server market, Microsoft falls flat.

For the first time ever, Finnish Wood is better than Norwegian Wood. (With apologies to Linus) :)
[Hint for those under 30: Look at http://rmb.simplenet.com/publi c/files/faqs/said.html]

The Imperial March

Perhaps the best song that I heard to describe corporations and industrialisation in general was with Dire Straits' Industrial Disease

I guess I just kinda struck a chord with me :-)

"To the average person, it's just going to be another full moon," said Bob Bonadurer, director of the Minneapolis Planetarium.

That is from an excellent debunking and explanation of this e-mail, which can be found here, at the Urban Legends Reference Pages, an excellent source of well-researched debunking. (I was a couple of days shy of being the first one to debunk the violent kangaroo myth.)

Apparently, the last time the moon was at perigee during the full moon was...last month. It just wasn't the solstice.

Like I said, whoop. Dee. Doo. (I'll have to at least take a look anyway...I actually set my alarm to get up in the middle of the night to watch the Leonid meteor shower, which turned out to be a total bust.)

"To the average person, it's just going to be another full moon," said Bob Bonadurer, director of the Minneapolis Planetarium.

That is from an excellent debunking and explanation of this e-mail, which can be found here, at the Urban Legends Reference Pages, an excellent source of well-researched debunking. (I was a couple of days shy of being the first one to debunk the violent kangaroo myth.)

Apparently, the last time the moon was at perigee during the full moon was...last month. It just wasn't the solstice.

Like I said, whoop. Dee. Doo. (I'll have to at least take a look anyway...I actually set my alarm to get up in the middle of the night to watch the Leonid meteor shower, which turned out to be a total bust.)

"To the average person, it's just going to be another full moon," said Bob Bonadurer, director of the Minneapolis Planetarium.

That is from an excellent debunking and explanation of this e-mail, which can be found here, at the Urban Legends Reference Pages, an excellent source of well-researched debunking. (I was a couple of days shy of being the first one to debunk the violent kangaroo myth.)

Apparently, the last time the moon was at perigee during the full moon was...last month. It just wasn't the solstice.

Like I said, whoop. Dee. Doo. (I'll have to at least take a look anyway...I actually set my alarm to get up in the middle of the night to watch the Leonid meteor shower, which turned out to be a total bust.)

• Titrax (hour tallying program)
• PocketMoney (keep track of my spending habits)
• Strip (secure storage of my passwords)
• Date Mate (make me remember birthdays!)
• DiddleBug (paint package)
• Nag Screen (really useful utility!)

• Titrax (hour tallying program)
• PocketMoney (keep track of my spending habits)
• Strip (secure storage of my passwords)
• Date Mate (make me remember birthdays!)
• DiddleBug (paint package)
• Nag Screen (really useful utility!)

Hello. This, like many other comments here, is meta-discussion, and thus not really on topic. I wish there was a better place for it, but I cannot think of any. Pardon.

I don't find the several derogatory messages appearing here a disastrous problem. Practically all of them have been moderated down, and I must commend the moderators for such prompt action. Everyone is aware, hopefully, that at threshold -1 you do get to see utter crap. This time there is more of it, mostly because of a few persistent flamebaiters. However, as always, you get what you ask for, if you don't want to see the worst of the worst, keep your threshold higher. The moderation system works, in my opinion, remarkably well in general.

However, please, people, do not feed the flames by replying to completely obvious trolls. Trust the moderators to do their job. Flaming flamers is just a waste of mutual resources, most notably reading time.

I suspect that starting IP banning would not be worthwhile. It would open yet another can of worms about censorship, and IP banning is not a foolproof protection against misbehaving individuals in any case. Like I said, I find the current moderation system doing its job commendably well. The only problem that I see that the comments on this story have revealed is that people who really see effort to abuse the system may overwhelm, or at least overload the moderators, and it must be frustrating for them. I cannot really see an obvious way to remedy the situation.

There is one thing that I actually am worried about, though, perhaps reflecting the frustration of the moderators. There seem to be several comments that have been moderated down, that I for one really don't see deserving it. Please, moderators, remember that you should only consider the topicality, language, and information content of a comment, not the opinions it expresses.

In addition to the hordes of (quite appropriately downmoderated) comments mainly concerned with bodily fluids, there are some comments which merely criticize the late Mr. Stevens and point out that something good may, in their opinion, result from his demise. I find it most unsettling to see posts such as these, not blatantly offensive and quite topical, moderated down. Yes, the dead should be respected, because it's unfair to abuse someone who cannot defend himself. But that doesn't mean that one should suddenly only start saying positive things about the dead. People have a right to their opinions unbiased by their subject's death, and as long as they are expressed with dignity, and are topical, I see no reason to moderate them down, even if the moderators are offended by them.

Like some comments have already pointed out, had Bill Gates died, it's doubtful that comments remarking that his demise might be positive for Linux would get moderated down. As a more extreme example, consider the phrases "Good riddance, Hitler", and "Good riddance, Stevens", uttered right after the deaths of the respective individuals. If you are to be impartial, you should moderate both the same way.

Actually, I cannot help being reminded of the Daria episode "The Misery Chick" where a local celebrity dies, and Daria, being the only one criticizing him after his death, gets shunned by everyone. I wouldn't like to compare Slashdot readership to the students of Lawndale High...

Lauri Alanko
la@iki.fi

PS. I wouldn't be at all surprised if JonKatz were to write a piece about this story, and all this discussion that followed, and again try to psychoanalyze the readership of slashdot..

*BOOM*

Poor server..

A winner is you! Very thanks!
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Last night, my friends and I held a wake for MST3K, then signed on-line to mourn in bits and bytes. It was sad, but a ten year run is a damn good run for any show.

We take comfort in the fact that it isn't dead, however. There are websites that have text 'MiSTings' such as (Website #9 and SVAM, and there are rabid MST3K fans everywhere. Some of us circulate amateur MiSTings on video or audio tape as well.

Dead? Hardly. As long as there's drivel, ranting, and shallow pop culture, we'll be there with quips.

I phrased that incorrectly.. Here's what I meant to say there: MSN messenger offers incompatable features that AIM doesn't have. Those features may not be very desirable, but if you don't use MSNM the people that do will be able to do more things than you. It's just like Internet Explorer 4.0, it did a lot of the same things Netscape did, but the codes to do them weren't always the same. That fragmented the Web development community and did a lot of damage to Netscape.

That said, I should also correct another thing I said.. It turns out that AOl is blocking the Yahoo! software too, since that's the only way to keep MSNM users out. That was incorrect, but I stand by my original statement: MSN Messenger is just Microsoft's latest embrace, extend and smother move, aimed squarely at America Online.

Paul Rickard, President of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign - MSBC.SimpleNet.com

*sigh* When will there be fruition on the 'OpenSource in a handheld' front?

There are a growing number of Free applications for the PalmPilot. Check out my page at
http://blevins.simplenet.com/palm/

Also, see openhandheld.org

-Mitch

I went to the DaVinci site and davinciworld.com...
They only have 25 shareware applications available (mostly games) for it. Compare this with the thousands and thousands of 3rd party applications available for the Palm. If you are satisfied with just using the built-in apps for a dayplanner replacement, the maybe DaVinci is an alternative to the Palm. But for anything else, the Palm rules. (even the built-in apps have 3rd party replacements that really improve the functionality of it).

-Mitch
(see my palm apps... www.blevins.simplenet.com/palm)

Check this. That quote is from a Hollywood scriptwriter.

208. The fine people at _dELiA*s_ should wish your team luck on their website. Show us that they do. [240 points]

My team only got an e-mail from them; and slashdot is too little too late. *sigh*

--neil, representative of the Ward's roadtrip team

ObScavHunt: for a few pictures, see my scant few digital images of the roadtrip and a few pictures from an observer.

Now, in a recent poll of parents by CNN ( http://www. cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/04/22/school.viol ence.poll/), the parents received a 51% for "deserving a great deal of blame." Right behind it, in third rank, was TV, movies, and music, with 49%. Two ranks down is the Internet itself (god I hate capitalizing that word).

Am I the only person that sees anything wrong with this?

We all get pissed off because people are pointing fingers, but think about it. What can come of it, when 34% of the parents polled point a a mass collection of electrons transmitting themselves from connection port to connection port and blame it some how. That's not even scraping into the whole bypass of the person actually watching/listening to the entertainment media's condition. Those kids listened to KMFDM, therefore KMFDM is evil! Sha. Okie.
Human are stupid, panickey animals. This has to be expected. Not enjoyed, but expected. I guess that's it...

Oh, one other thing. This is pure hearsay, but I've been told that that Christian guy who started that whole gay Teletubbie thing shot his big, fat mouth off on the topic. Something like RPGs are the root of all evil. Like we haven't heard that before... Gah.

Eric Kolb
http://dygel.weyland-yutani.net
http://rpgc.simplenet.com

I'm still not sure if this is cool or really really sad, but a few friends and I have decided to combat the death of Pokey with a few episodes of our own. Check them out here. Tata.

-William Hunt

I just tried this out last week. xcopilot, pilot-link and the pilot dev tools are great. Here is a screenshot of my very first app... http://blevins.simplenet.com/bean.jpg Or you can download the actual app here: http://blevins.simplenet.com/bean.zip

I just tried this out last week. xcopilot, pilot-link and the pilot dev tools are great. Here is a screenshot of my very first app... http://blevins.simplenet.com/bean.jpg Or you can download the actual app here: http://blevins.simplenet.com/bean.zip

hehe try this

take-my-job-please

The guy who posted the link about plagerism had forgot the http:// - so here it is: take-my-job-please Eerily plagerized - is this a joke on the part of ESR?

If you still really want to read the article (and I wouldnt waste my time if I were you) try the actual correct link: http://blevins.simplenet.com/t ake-my-job-please.html

Here is the correct one:
http://blevins.simplenet.com/take-my-job.html

ESR must have copied this letter.
I saw a suspiciously similar letter here over a month ago, written by Jack Stipple. The problem with Jack was (besides being a little psychotic) that he didn't understand that maybe the job that he had wasn't really needed or wanted. He had a noble goal of saving all the nuts and acorns in the world, but killing squirrels was not the best way to approach it. Maybe ESR needs to understand that expanding the marketshare of OpenSource(tm) software is a worthy goal, but not if it means compromise.

We already have two worthy replacements already in place:
Tim 0'Reilly can tout the benefits of a "Collaborative Software Development Environment".
RMS can preach the value of Freedom in software.

ESR can now take a break from trying to confuse the public on the difference between these two.

I got the same errors as Jake for BeOS... both with a virtual disk and a previously installed version in /dev/hdc.

WinNT worked fine tho...
http://blevins.simplenet.com/vmware.jpg

A cool piece of information on Softporn and Sierra can be found at http://psycho.simplenet.com/home/softp orn.mv. It would be neat to have this version ported to Linux as well.

There is a well-known urban legend that the FCC is considering treating ISP calls like long-distance calls, and putting tariffs on them. This particular Urban Legend, which frequently makes the rounds on Email, has been debunked here:

http://snopes.simplenet.com/s poons/faxlore/congress.htm

So, every time I hear anything about the FCC and charging extra fees for ISP access, I immediately think "oh know. Not this UL again."

- Sam Trenholme

I don't expect MST3K to die away - it's an idea as well as a show - the idea of making humorous but insightful commentary on various forms of media. The idea is there, and exists and will survive in on-line form at:

Web Site #9
SVAM
MSTie Web Ring
And a ton of other sites.

Because of increased bigotry directed against Europeans, the Euro-American Student Union Civil Rights organization was founded. Discrimination and hate directed against Europeans and Euro-Americans is increasing, but the Euro-American Student Union is at the forefront in the struggle to insure that the civil rights of Euro-Americans are not trampled.

the two-headed eagle and the shield, sporting a nice bunch of twigs and axe - both a symbol from Roman times, but in modern times also a sign of the facists

The Euro-American Student Union is a Civil Rights organization devoted to protecting the civil rights of European Americans. Your hateful remarks are evidence enough that the Euro-American Student Union must continue its mission to protect Euro-Americans from bigots like you.

The Euro-American Student Union fights anti-European hate speech. Check out their docs on countering defamation directed against Europeans and those of European heritage.