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Party Tonight In San Jose
Tonight at The Usual is our now traditional LWCE mega party. This time it's brought to us by OSDN, VA Linux, and all the assorted sites like Linux.com,
Themes.org,
SourceForge,
ThinkGeek and what have you. The party is of course to celebrate the Debian 2.2 release. Music will be provided by San 'NeTTwerk' Mehat DJing and featuring Jon 'CowboyNeal' Pater scratching. The party starts at 8pm and continues well past my bed time.
Where I'm from, there's a real movement to get the CBC (our state-sponsored TV network) privatized. You lot should consider the same thing!
The licence fee is used to fund the BBC. If we didn't have it, the government would just pay the BBC a certain amount every year, and we'd all pay more tax.
As for privatisation, how is the BBC to make money, other than from advertising. While merchandise and licencing do make it money, it's not enough to cover all the costs, which just leaves advertising. I, and, I'd imagine, many other people, would rather see the BBC continuing to operate without having to pander to what the advertisers would like - it really does make a difference to programme quality.
Oh, my. It seems that you need lessons in both geography and jargon.
First of all, its "Americans", not "USians." We live in the United States of America.
The continent with Canada, Mexico and the USA is not called "America", it is called "North America."
There is no continent that is just called America. There is only North America and South America. The two continents together are occationally called "the Americas" (sort of like people sometimes say "Eurasia"), but they are not called "America".
(The stip of land from Mexico to Panama is often infomally called "Central America", but it is not really a separate continent.)
Canadians are not called Americans. Many Canadians would be mildly offended if you did call them that. They are called either "Canadians" or "North Americans".
"NAFTA" stands for North America Free Trade Agreement; it is not called "AFTA", because that would imply that America is the only country involved.
As for Exctacy being called "E" rather than "X", the correct name for it is "3,4-METHYLENEDIOXY-N-METHYLAMPHETAMINE", and all other names for it are made-up slang. You can call it E, X, Xtacy, MDMA, "the hug drug", or whatever the hell you want. Just because people in your little tiny corner of the world agree that it should be called "E", does not mean that it goes by that name elsewhere.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
emmett is gonna be accompanying.
Just what we need. A techno version of Lawrence Welk.
...a beowulf cluster of these.
kwsNI
featuring Jon 'CowboyNeal' Pater scratching
Hope he'll use TerminatorX.
Try it or listen to this song's intro which was twiddled using it.
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Trolling using another account since 2005.
If the difference in the British and American versions of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' is any kind of indication of the general difference between British and American TV, I most wholeheartedly agree.
I'm an American, but you Brits have us beat in the humor(humour?) on TV department. By a long way.
No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?
-Davidu
# Hack the planet, it's important.
featuring Jon 'CowboyNeal' Pater scratching
Damned mosquitos... somebody give the guy some cortizone!
-- Dr. Eldarion --
SJlashDot
News for San Jose Nerds. West Coast stuff that matters.
http://sjlashdot.org
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I'll be over in a tick - now, when's the next flight from Gothenburg, Sweden?
DOH!!
"Give the anarchist a cigarette"
A little planning goes a long way...
Will this be the first real-world slashdot effect? Will the highways get clogged? Will the party run out of temporary storage space and have to refuse entry?
Will the fire(wall)marshall be at the door limiting entry for safety purposes?
Returned Peace Corps IT Volunteer
10. CowboyNeal Smells funny when he scratches
9. Haven't seen female/male ratio this low since the million man march
8. Prefer the warm glow of my monitor to people
7. Will take away too much time from Diablo 2
6. Debian GNU Linux gives me the willies
5. Can't buy a plane ticket, spent all my money on brand new 1992 Toyota Corolla
4. When people ask where I'm going, I'd have to explain what a "Slashdot Party" is
3. Would miss "Family Guy" Episode tonight.
2. Have to order my last minute VAX
1. Fear of viollently drunk Taco
my other penis is a vagina
I was about to start a rant on how so many top level stories have become, well, 'Off Topic'. ( Come on now, how the hell is a single party in the San Jose area "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters?" )
But then I got to thinking: this kind of post does have topicality to it, just only for the people in the greater Bay Area. So is it time to start thinking about regionalizing Slashdot the way that many of the larger DotComs have been?
Just add a "region preference" to people's user info that would flag stories about local events. Guys from Sweeden wouldn't have to read about non-global events happening in San Jose, and vice versa. You could have a "no-regions" flag for people who don't want to be bothered, and an "all-regions" for people who like reading about parties even if they can't be there.
So how about it?
And the difference between your description of a troll and the average /. poster is...?
It doesn't apply to me personally, but I know slashdot has many readers < 21.
Is it an all ages party?
It's because the trolls catch them early on. There are sids out there where there's constant cyberlesbo action going on that'd make Madonna on X blush.
Another thing: why is there such a passion for Nathalie Portman by the trolls?
Ever wondered why you never see Nathalie Portman and osm on the same sid?
It's called 'worshipping the Queen of Trolls'.
Google found this page (no dirty pictures, but your boss still might get the wrong idea if s/he sees you pull it up) on the subject. Apparently the "Hanky Code" is a system of wearing a colored handkerchief in your left or right pocket to indicate your gay sexual tastes.
I learn something new every day...
For more information, click here.
I don't have a Natalie Portman obsession (though I wouldn't say no), instead I have this thing called a real life! Hell, I don't even have a net connection at home... this means I have to engage in things like friends, sex and going out. What a bummer eh?
Yeah, this coming from the queen of trolls.
kwsNI
lets you know about tech cons and expos BEFORE they happen? like I use jambase.com to find out about cool shows BEFORE they happen... Nothing makes me more pissed off than to find out about an event I would go to when it has already started or is over.
YouTube & Google Video -> podcast http://castcluster.blogspot.com/
Nettwerk. Like Sarah McLachlan and Tara McLean's record company, right?
That's kind of rock music...
;)
What the hell do you drive!?!?! And where can I get one? :^)
More importantly, how do you avoid the cops at your average speed of 125mph?!?!?
Ender
Nothing to see here
Music will be provided by San 'NeTTwerk' Mehat DJing and featuring Jon 'CowboyNeal' Pater scratching.
Perhaps this "NeTTwerk" nickname was a joke, I fear it's not. Perhaps someone at the party should inform him that he ripped off the name of a record label which used to carry Skinny Puppy and some other cool projects, and politely change his name out of respect for the greatness of Skinny Puppy, or perhaps the Nettwerk label in general.
Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
(Maybe slashdot needs region codes, so some stories would only be visible inside the "ba"...)
I've only been there once but actually quite liked the place ;p
:)
However I do love that my original post was moderated +3 informative. I feel i've done something useful in informing people that it takes more than a few hours to traverse the globe
Why cant you silicon valley people appreciate just how long it takes us to actually get to your beloved san jose from our side of the world and give us just a tiny bit more notice.... 6 months would be good so i could get nice cheap flights :)
Is it just me or should
OT - where have all the trolls gone? I don't miss Ecstacy guy, or that avian cock bloke, but where is OSM, OOG, and the genuinely funny, offtopic and daft trolls?
Posting +2 because I care no more for karma...
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
Thanks for the advance notice for those of us who are nowhere near San Jose.
I knew Slashdot was just a weblog, but I didn't know it had become a San Jose weblog.
If I can finally get that damned IBM teleporter working, I'll be there around 8:30. (Easy with those cell modems guys, these are my electrons you're fooling with.)
It's nice to see Slashdot hasn't lost its Close Personal Friends of Taco aspect -- Hemos' wedding, Rob's parties, probably Robin's nephew's Bris or something will be next. Now I want a personal 300,000 user weblog too.
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Terrorists can attack freedom, but only Congress can destroy it.
CmdrTaco reports a problem with his bowel movements.
Katz has lost a contact lens - can anyone pop round to help him look for it.
Rob Limo had trouble sleeping last night.
:-)
"Give the anarchist a cigarette"
A little planning goes a long way...
So what exactly happens at these geek parties besides the normal consompution of large amounts of yellow liquid? Many laptops being used? Ideas being thrown around? Linux games (ya' know, like pin the beak on tux)?
Just curious... I was thinking about going out to California for a few weeks (just a random idea) and hopefully being able to attend something similar to this :-)
Oh welps, back to the old grint stone.
Who's the black private dick, who's a sex machine for all the chicks?
Well and then there would be the loud obnoxious ones who think they're totally clever and postmodern for being trolls.
Seriously though, can you imagine a more pathetic gathering than a troll convention? (QuakeCon doesn't count)
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See the "..for smart people" banners Wired runs here? Look elsewhere guys.
So, this time, CowboyNeal will 'scratch an itch'?
Have fun guys :-)
Every expression is true, for a given value of 'true'
It's at The Usual, which is at South 1st and San Salvador (first street south of San Carlos, the street the Convention Center is on). Used to be called FX, but that was a long time ago. Go out the east doors of the convention center, and it's less than half a block.
Plato seems wrong to me today
How about all the trolls get together and throw a big kegger?
I bet those guys could party the slashdot staff into a ditch. Even though all the testosterone buildup might cause an explosion.. unless there's a culture of females trolls I dont know about..
The Flying Saucer has pint-glass night on Wednesdays. The one in Addison is pretty cool...
Come on, you know you're going to be celebrating the Debian release *anyway*.
--Lenny
Just what sort of bad luck is that.
Hmmm. Doesn't sound like much of a party. Get thee some rock music! :-)
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown