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Historic Bucky Dome Needs Help
Anonymous Coward writes "Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome is falling apart and one man hopes to save it. Read more at http://www.msnbc.com/news/748889.asp?0bl=-0" The Buckminster Fuller Institute has a page on the dome, which has contact info for donations.
ya faggot!!! these 'editors' here are a bunch of fucking cocklicking faggots who post up some of the most boring shit that gets submitted. i want news for nerds NOW YOU FUCKIN NIGGER LOVING ASS RAPISTS!!@!@
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This is a landmark that should be preserved at all costs. I don't think any of us will have a problem giving a small portion of our incomes to such a worthy cause. Since we are all good Americans, none of us should mind paying a nominal tax in honor of the greatest Buckminster than we have ever known.
God bless.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Hummm, the perfect tree-huger structure is falling apart much quicker than my presure-treated-wood ad brick home? Hey, send me the cash and cut your losses!
Lemme tell ya 'bout my hydrogen powered Jeep...
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
It seems that back in the late 1800's in America (I mention this for those /.ers who don't happen to live in the U.S.) there was this saloon in the
West that was kind of a run-down, ramshackle joint that was frequented by
a few loyal patrons and not too many others. I think it was California, but
it could have been Oregon or someplace similar -- well, the location isn't
really relevant to the story but if you're really interested you might
be able to dig a bit on Google to find out. Basically, while the saloon
didn't go out of its way to publicize itself to out-of-towners (not much
point given that it was in a fairly remote area) it managed to do a fairly
steady trade despite the occasional brawl that caused property damage and
the persistent requests from a particular fellow for free drinks.
More nights than not, the proprietor of the saloon would watch this drunk come wandering in through the doors, sit down, and lay a line on him about how he's trying to pull things together and how he'd just make enough to keep himself in beans and couldn't the bartender just pour him a shot or two to fuzz the edges and whatnot. And again, more nights than not, the bartender would take pity on the poor guy and pull out the whiskey.
Now, this went on for some time, and while the bartender was an easy mark even he had his limit. So one night, after the bartender already gave the fellow three shots on the house, he decides to cut the guy off.
"Look," he says, "while I'm really sorry to hear that things still aren't working out for you I don't think that I can keep giving you free drinks. I've got to make ends meet too, you know."
So the drunk says, "I don't suppose you've got anything I can do to get another drink tonight?"
The proprietor, not particularly wanting the fellow to hang around all night and certainly not expecting him to take him up on his proposition, says "Well, you see that spittoon over there? If you take a swig out of that I suppose I could give you a drink to wash it down."
No sooner did he finish his last sentence than the drunk walked over to the spittoon and hefted it off of the floor. Before the bartender could stop him, the fellow put the rim to his lips, tipped the bottom of the metal container up into the air, and began to swallow. To the bartender's dismayal, the guy continued to slowly chug the thick contents of the spittoon. When he had finally gulped the final remnants of the container, he threw it to the ground, wiped off his lips with his shirt cuff, and gagged, "So, do I get the drink?"
"You can have the bottle!" exclaimed the bartender, immediately pouring the first shot. "But tell me, why did you swallow the whole damn thing? You only needed to swig it to earn the drink."
The drunk replies: "It was all one long string."
And it smells like this guy.
Another great dome that citizens are trying to save is the Golden Dome in Oklahoma: www.savethedome.com. Can't believe that this country (I live in USA) allows its great structures to be demolished so easily! That Kaiser aluminum dome will become a Walgreens. Not long ago, Hilton Corp. demolished the great Hawaii dome, the tiki paradise dome in Honolulu.
Even more pathetic reading over these comments that the first "engineer-saint" gets such a disrespectful treatment on Slashdot, the "news for nerds" site. Are most "nerds" today rich kids who wallow in shallow culture? Are the geeks of the net pro-consumerist, anti-USA, anti-preservationist, anti-environmentalists? And if so, are they being opposed by anyone, or will they be allowed to continue their pattern of sprawl and decadence?