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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.
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?
No, but there will be copper vats, hops and water. You have to make your own, but the source is all there.
Syllable : It's an Operating System