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The Washington Post has a story about the proliferation of extra fees tacked on to just about every product or service under the sun. A couple of good insights make it worth the read.

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  1. Second? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Naaah, couldn't be.

  2. Knowing your Pork Beasts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Knowing your Pork Beasts

    a NoPorkBeasts.Com public service announcement

    As many of you know Land Whales come in many shapes and sizes, this is also true about their personalities. Here at North American Anti Pork Beast Society we have gone to great lengths to study the Greater Northern American Homo-Erectus-Sapian-Glutonous, and discovered several subspecies with in the main Pork Beast group. We have gathered all the information and put it in a chart to help you the American public recognize what type of lard monster you are dealing with.

    Happy Smiling Pork Beast: (laeta risum intransit petaso beluae) AKA: HappyFatty or Tons'O'fun

    These monsters are the way we often think about fat asses, happy and smiling full of joy. Always appear to be laughing and having a good time in general. Often seen around skinny women, making light of the situation. This is a ploy, this landwhale is plotting against you and using a happy demeanor to get you to put your guard down. Often uses hot women to attract men to her, these skinny women have no idea how much danger they are in. This beast is using them to attack not only a mate, but food. One of the most dangerous porkers often found in bar or clubs. They pray on the drunkenness of the homo-sapian male. The best way to combat them is always drink with friends, make sure your one of your friends isn't drinking, and always know where the exits are in the location.

    Sully Sulking Land Whale: (reclamitare sulka terra pistricis orca) AKA: Depressed about her weight or Just needs some love

    Often seen in a depressed state these lard eaters have been know to cry at the drop of a hat. They normally hunt by themselves and sit in public areas looking sorry for themselves. Although they appear to be a non-threat, they are very dangerous. Often pray on people who want to help and when they get close enough to the creature an eat attack normally occurs. They are very slow and can be stopped with quick movements and attention be brought to them. They do not like to be found out and will leave the area if exposed.

    Angry militant Fat Monster: (iracundae pilus adipatus prodigium) AKA: Naafa Underling, Tons'O'Anger and Card Carry Member of Naafa

    A highly dangerous sub species of the Pork Beast. These creatures believe that not only it okay to be fat, but fat is better. They are often seen making a scene where ever they go, making unreasonable threats backed up with false information about the law. They love the attention and will not stop the attack until something else catches their small minded attention. These beast also have a huge amount of time which allows them to surf the web and write books of information on things that no one really cares about. These beast will not attack individuals but rather an establishment. They feel they are never wrong and the world must change to accommodate them. The best way to combat these nasty beasties is to carry shinny things, all dumb animals love shiny things. Never ever argue the facts with these creatures since they have been know to attack even in public when flustered with truth.

    Crying like a little bitch Pork beast: (vagitus canicula petaso beluae) AKA: Teary eyed, Oh look the fat girl is crying, and oh look what you have done

    Not to be confused with the Sully Sulking Land Whales, these flabby arms use tears to get what ever they want. If something is not going there way they will turn on the water works and cry until they get what they asked for or wanted. Often see with chocolate around their fat face they appear to be truly pathetic animals. These monster usually pray on the feelings of over sensitive people and girlfriends. Like the Militant fatties they believe they are always right, but use tears to get what they want. These creatures do not normally eat attack humans but will ask for food when a person helps them.

    Baby Eaters: (infantis comedesse) AKA: The Fat Day care worker, Fat Baby Sitter, and the Chubby Girl who will watch your kids

    The most dangerous of all the fatties, these monsters eat the young not only of humans but of cats and dogs too. They often appear as a Happy Smiling beasties but are not accompanied by the hot girls. They will smile and entertain your children and lead you to believe they care. They will build your trust and get you to leave your kids with them. They never eat with in the first few years of using them, but often kiss the children to taste them. Once they believe the child is ripe will eat it and disappears. They often eat as many as 12-13 babies in a year. When not eating children will eat puppies and kittens. They say the meat is soft and juicy. The best way to protect yourself is never to leave your children unattended around fat people. Although Baby eaters choose this as a lifestyle, all fatties will eat babies given half the chance.

    Proud to be Me Fatty: (celsus actito apud unguinis) AKA: Naafa Admin, Guest Speakers, Fat is Great, and Naafa Ministers of Propaganda

    These are the leading party of all the sub species. These monsters are not on;y devious but also accomplice all the other species in one. They often seen leading other soldier fatties around and seem to have mind control over them. They will eat attack when hungry, yell and scream when needed and cry if it is called for. These porkers are the most intelligent of the porkbeasts with IQ's as high as 70 they are the ruling party. Although rare can be found where ever fat people gather, i.e. all you can eat restaurant, amusement and water parks, Naafa conventions, and chubby chaser parties.

    Hopefully this will help you recognize these awful creatures and keep you safe. Remember never approach a pork beast alone and always be aware when pork beasts are around.

    Copyright 2002 North American Anti-Porkbeast Society. Everything you see on this page is owned by NoPorkbeasts.com/NAAPBS/Cobra. We will not sue you if you steal any of our images or intellectual property, but we will damn sure track your ass down and beat the living shit out of out.

  3. Let me add on to this discussion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck michael like he fucked the Censorware project.

  4. Teh Futar of Slashdot TSARKON Phirst Poast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The Future of SLASHDOT.

    2002. Slashdot publishes 1,000,000th rumor passed off as actual story. The story generates 480 comments, 263 of which agree with the article, and 107 of which point out it's a rumor and are modded down as redundant. The remaining comments are all "first posts." or posts that contain any rational insight are modded "troll."

    2002. CmdrTaco married to a human female, reports are that she does not have 46 chromosomes, however. Fent does display tendency to retardation.

    2002. Slashdot parent corporation VA Research^W Linux^W Software stock worth 35 cents. Rumors that AOL, Microsoft, or even Jimmy the hobo who lives under the Longfellow Bridge may buy it.

    2003. VA Software bought by Microsoft for a cup of coffee and a donut. All Microsoft-critical articles mysteriously disappear from Slashdot. Bill Gates as Borg logo replaced with Bill Gates as God. (Taco suggested that in order to be "God," or his vision of God, Gates would have to be seen in a NAMBLA T-shirt. Luckily good taste prevails in favor of the old man image in glowing aura.)

    2004. CmdrTaco loses virginity, well, not sex with men virginity, that's long since gone, and not sex with anime blow up dolls, this time, real sex.

    2004. The WIPO Troll returns again, showering Slashdot in 45,000 copies of the same post: "Lick my crotch hairs." Slashdot, despite running on 18 redundant IIS/8.0Beta6 servers, buckles under the load. The term "Slashdotted" is replaced with "WIPO-Trolled."

    2004. Slashdot officially shut down. Millions of screaming, unwashed geeks invade Redmond campus and lynch Bill Gates.

    2005. Linus Torvalds and Anal Cox found dead along with six penguins, a tub of crisco and several used condoms. FreeBSD users are glad the insanity is dying.

    2005. CmdrTaco rumored to have had sex again, even with constant Viagra therapy, it took this long. He complains, I can be ready to go again in five minutes if I was looking at a nude man, to the dyslexic Fent.

    2006. CowboiKneel found dead in hotel room with 56 pizza boxes covering his bloated corpse. Three suffocated gay prostitutes are extracted from beneath his body as police remove it with a backhoe.

    2007. CmdrTaco actually has sex again, this time plugging Fent in the ass for a more manlike feel.

    2007. BSD is still officially "dying." No word on when its demise will take place. FreeBSD 9 is delivered in perfect working order in a coherent superior, commercially viable and useable fashion with real documentation, the same practice followed since inception. Linux lunatics, after the death of Cox, are still trying to perfect the Trident driver while ignoring the existence of the GeForce 9. Netcraft dies along with all the surveys they held on Microsoft and Linux servers are lost as well.

    2007. CmdrTaco starts new weblog to replace Slashdot, creatively named Dotslash. Remainder of Linux users flock to the site and immediate WIPO-Troll it out of existence.

    2007. Box running FreeBSD for 6 years sets world record for Unix uptime on consumer hardware.

    2008. CmdrTaco has sex with his wife for the first time without thinking of men. He has dawned on the extra sexual pick me up for his twisted mind, small children.

    A long long fucking time from now. Malda, fat, poverty-stricken, unrespected and unremembered and living in an appliance box in Michigan with a pickle jar for a toilet comes to a series of epiphanies. The 8.3 file system that made him truncate his nick to an 8 letter series of characters has long been forgotten, and he finally realizes he looks like a fag using it. He also realizes that men's asses look like tacos, especially with the beef pouring out and that his name sounds more like Commander of Ass, since one can command asses because the belong potentially to sentient or living things, it is difficult to command inanimate objects such as food , so one can only conclude he was commanding ass.

    He also realized his site was a lame, fad, he sold out, he needed to refactor his shit code and never did it. He also realized that communites such as Fark don't have this complete asshole running it with gay lameness and compression filters and lame IP blocking bullshit and cheating, pissing and whining and barely anyone trolls it.

    We hate you, Fucking Robbie;

    he remembers as reams of pages of trolls cry for his expulsion. He also realizes he cant have a computer anymore because he hates the RIAA and MPAA but ran out and gave George Lucas and other shit media companies tons of money to ruin the laws in favor of the omnicorps. He also realizes his socialist and fascist fucking moderation system squelched all the real comments out of view. He also realizes that a full time crew "working" at Slashdot did a shittier job than anyone thought possible.

    He also realized he didn't do SHIT for subscribers and punished them as he would anyone else with page limits, IP blocks, compression and lameness filters. He also realizes Signal 11 is a better man than him and that he is a fucking loser for throwing out S11. He realizes despite being an Open Source advocated, his horrible, unusable unreadable pile of shit called Slashcode was one of the worst projects ever. He realized that retarded journalists are better at reporting the news than Slashdot, that Slashdot news was often inaccurate and unverified.

    He also realizes that Aprils fools jokes were really stupid and everyone hated them. He realizes bitchslapping, banner ads, ^H and ^W to show deletion and moderation $rtbl are fucking gay and lame. He realizes this all in a flash as the totalitarian regime he was a small part of constructing (through teaching mobocracy, populism as a rule, hordes of untrained and meritless swarms of people allowed to crucify those who would oppose the thinking of the state) determines his body is a waste of government resources and that he needs to be expelled to a concentration area of the worthless. I figures he would have been the first resident in the camp of the beings deemed worthless to society, along with Jon Katz, but the government, even as a fascist totalitarian regime takes a while to getting around to things.

    1. Re:Teh Futar of Slashdot TSARKON Phirst Poast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Another example of spineless cunt moderation here on Slashcrap.

      A few haikus to commemorate the sucktitude:
      Crack Pipe Moderators
      Crack smoke wafts though air
      Dumb shit moderator!
      Try to suck less, please

      The Humorless Moderator
      Crack smoke wafts through air
      Humorless moderator!
      Why do you hate me?

      The Plebian
      Slashdotting Commie
      Moderator fears new idea!
      Censor him quickly

      Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pinochet, Mussolini, Marshall Joseph Tito, Slobodan Milosevic, Idi Amin, Ho Chi Minh, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Juan Peron, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ferdinand Marcos, General Suharto, Pol Pot, Fransisco Franco, and certainly the worst of the bunch, SLASHDOT's editing/moderating [read: censoring] "community"(*) ALL AGREE on ONE THING:

      CENSORSHIP WORKS!


      So, you busy little plebian proletariats, get busy, you have some censoring to do!

      Good job you little neo-commies. Don't want to hear the other side, shoot the fucker in the head as an ENEMY OF THE STATE [In this case anyone who seeks to improve the sad state of /.].

      I have a Gun and the Constitution [Not the urinated-on pissed-on hacked fucked up one WashingTOON thinks exists, I mean the real one, with Jefferson and Madison at my side], please, give me an excuse to use them both.

      (*)Note, the word community used often on Slashdot, this is referring to a proto communist commune.
  5. Little late... by LilGuy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Too bad I already read this on fark.com ....

    --

    You're nothing; like me.
  6. trainspotting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    great movie

  7. Version 2.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    NAME: Burdge, Jonathan E-MAIL: jlb@io.com, jlbatdarc@w-link.net, elby@adequacy.org, darc@w-link.net ALIASES: lb, jlb, Elby

    NAME: Casillas, Luis E-MAIL: casillas@stanford.edu, em@adequacy.org ALIASES: em, Estanislao Martinez, Sylvain Tremblay

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    NAME: Dickson, Craig E-MAIL: crd@inversenet.com, mendaxveritas@yahoo.com, mendaxveritas@pacbell.net ALIASES: mv, Mendax Veritas

    NAME: Flickinger, Dan E-MAIL: flikx@geekizoid.com ALIASES: flikx

    NAME: Haberberger, George E-MAIL: ghaberbe@frontiernet.net, George.Haberberger@usa.xerox.com ALIASES: GeorgeHa, Hairy_Potter

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    NAME: Linwood, Rob E-MAIL: rcl@cs.csoft.net, rcl211@is9.nyu.edu ALIASES: AuntFloyd, Con Troll

    NAME: Mann, Warren E-MAIL: broken@warmann.com ALIASES: osm, OpenSourceMan

    NAME: McPherson, Craig E-MAIL: craig@laceyonline.com ALIASES: craig, naked&petrified guy

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    NAME: ???, Ernie E-MAIL: trollmastah@hotmail.com ALIASES: Trollmastah

    The lameness filter makes it impossible to post this in any sort of aesthetically-pleasing format. To paraphrase Final Fantasy Tactics, "Blame yourself or Rob." ;-)