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I doubt smokedot will fix it any time soon.. ;)

//rdj

Smoke pot! Programming while stoned is lots of fun, and it's easier to get things done. When I'm not stoned, my mind tends to wander and I read Kuro5hin and Smokedot all day :-) Smoking pot also does wonders to reduce stress.
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I hope he's not talking about the same type of pipe that they do on smokedot. (AHHH they are down! ahh!!)

Or Advogato or Bruce Perens's Technocrat.net or RootPrompt (of the Cracked! series), or even SmokeDot (though I don't frequent the last one). Slashdot alternatives are a dime a dozen, although I personally think Advogato is really neat, and that K5 was at or near its tipping point to gain equal stature with /. when it went down (which raises suspicions of /.-Andover.net-VALinux conspiracies in minds bogglier than mine). I have a paper I wrote about what makes /. popular, and what would make other sites replace /. Email me to get it.

Anyway, I don't believe Taco has an obligation to post what he thinks the /. readership is interested in. I think he should select what he's interested in and maybe then make a subselection of what he thinks would interest the readers. IMO the personality of the authors is what makes slashdot interesting and when you take that away it loses its charm.

Rob has a bit in the FAQ about that, as to why he won't do K5-type story moderation and submission. He basically says that he think /. is the way it is, and special, because of the unique, exclusive mix of editors and their interests, and he will only go so far in 'open-sourcing' the story posting process. I say, K5 was the first site to take OS philosophy all the way in a /.-style site, and the next one might be the "Slashdot-killer."

The government has no right to interfere with people's personal freedom as it is currently doing. Smoking marijuana only has the potential to hurt the health of the user. An individual should have the right to choose to use it.

That's why I want all drugs legalized - I don't like how the government can tell me what I can and can't put into my own body. It should be the choice of consenting adults. I don't care about being able to get fucked up legally - I'm careful enough about it that there's a very low chance I'm going to get busted, since I never smoke pot anywhere but my own living room.

This is why driving while stoned should remain illegal.

I think so too, but you may actually be less likely to get into an accident if you drive stoned as compared to sober, because you tend to drive more slowly and cautiously: Obligatory Smokedot story about this :-)
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The Libertarian candidate, Harry Browne, is much better than any of the other candidates this year. He views things with an open mind and seems to agree almost completely with me and most people I know on the issues. Of course, he is in favor of legalizing drugs, which I'm biased towards, but in general he seems to be a much more worthy candidate. He's obviously not going to win, but I'd rather give him my support than anybody else.

There was a big writeup about him on Smokedot a few weeks back: http://smokedot.org/article.pl? sid=00/07/26/0014226.
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The Libertarian candidate, Harry Browne, is much better than any of the other candidates this year. He views things with an open mind and seems to agree almost completely with me and most people I know on the issues. Of course, he is in favor of legalizing drugs, which I'm biased towards, but in general he seems to be a much more worthy candidate. He's obviously not going to win, but I'd rather give him my support than anybody else.

There was a big writeup about him on Smokedot a few weeks back: http://smokedot.org/article.pl? sid=00/07/26/0014226.
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This is clearly a weak troll. Slashdot are notoriously, even admirably, impassive about all the shit like this that they have to put up with. They've stoically ignored a lot of crap from ab/users; I can't imagine your beer ASCII posts would break them, unless their pet peeve is ASCII art that doesn't line up right. Further, I have a bit more respect for the Partnership for a Drug Free America (more than I have for you, anyway) than to believe that they would go after some pissant spammer on an internet message board which accepts anonymous posts. They would probably start harassing someone who was verifiably responsible for the offending content, like maybe Smokedot, before they would attack Slashdot for a flood of comments for which they were not responsible.

Hardcore free-speech zealot though I may be, I wouldn't mind one bit if Slashdot banned you. I wish they would, if there were a way to do it that wouldn't ban innocent users as well. Ordinarily I would be opposed to banning you because if we ban one person, where will it stop? But I'll make an exception in your case because of how badly you need a muzzle. You're the reason there needs to be a moderation system.

I've done some spamming before, myself. You know why my spam was better than yours? Because it was funny. People replied to it and told me so. I also limited it to one post per story.

Here's a short list of people I dislike less than you:

• Vladinator
• Signal 11
• Rob Malda
• The "'I am a goat fucker' -RMS" guy
• Penis Bird Guy
• All the Signal 11 and Vladinator clones

This "Slashdot is threatening me legally" crap is lame. It might be funny if osm hadn't done it already. But the important difference between him and you is that he never said he was being sued, he just planted evidence and got everyone else to invent a complete story themselves. Next time you feel the need to bite off someone else's style, try writing a play about Natalie Portman. It might be worth reading. I've never even been able to maintain the interest to read your MDMA posts all the way through, despite how short they are, and despite how much I love trolls (not that anything you've posted was ever as good as a real troll). 45 days of silence from you was hardly enough. I have little love for Slashdot, but even less for you. You make the karma whores look good.

I would suggest that you get off your ass and do something purposeful with your life, but it's obvious you lack the necessary creativity or intelligence. I'm amazed that you managed to craft a post with so few grammatical and typographical errors. That's probably what took you 45 days. Rejoice in the fact that you have probably made many people break down and raise their thresholds to 1. It's likely the most exciting accomplishment you'll ever achieve.

Please stop breathing so much. There are many others who could put all that oxygen to good use. Next time you take a breath, which should be in a couple of seconds, think about all the creative, funny, beautiful, and constructive things other people have done with all the other breaths they've taken. Think about following their example.

Congratulations. You've managed to suck enough that it makes me appreciate what a great place Slashdot was without you. It was easier to read the trolls. In short, the only remotely enjoyable or amusing thing about you is flaming you. I wish you would reply so I can do it some more. Unfortunately, you are most likely using a script, and may never read this. Well, to this script, I say, fuck you, script.

some good sites and thoughts on drug reform in general...

NORML
smokedot
Students for a sensible drug policy
Gov. Gary Johnson of New Mexico

just to get started at least -- have fun.

I agree with all of this except the comments about fluffy grue and spiralx. They were both very good members of the K5 community.

And spiralx was a very good member of Smokedot as well, until the DSL connection died for about three weeks. I haven't seen him back there since.
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http://slashdot.com
http://zanyantics.com
http://slashdork.org
http://smashdot.org
http://crashdot.org
http://splashdot.org //not set up yet...
http://splashdot.org
http://hashdot.org
http://slapdash.org
http://slashnot.org
http://slashrot.org //not set up yet...
http://slashpot.org
http://slashbot.org
http://hotgrits.org
http://slashroot.org
http://slashback.org
http://smokedot.org
http://crackdot.org

Those are the ones I've found so far anyways...