Total Commercialization Awareness

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Total Commercialization Awareness

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday January 2, 2003 @02:09AM from the it's-for-your-own-good,-consumer dept.

jjohnston writes "Salon just posted its technology and business predictions for 2003: Total Commercialization Awareness. Includes: Al-Qaida online, Slashdot sells out, and pets: the new white meat. Cute ..." That's so 1999.

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Judging by that headline... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-02 02:13 · Score: 4, Funny

JonKatz must be back.
Wake up call! by saintan · 2003-01-02 02:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Is it me or is that picture of Jack Nicholson a bit disturbing for first thing in the morning?

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Pets - the new white meat? by BeatlesForum.com · 2003-01-02 02:15 · Score: 3, Funny

So does Fluffy really taste like chicken?

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Come on Slashdot! by gpinzone · 2003-01-02 02:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Nice try putting this in the "It's Funny, Laugh" section! Salon uncovers your scheme and you guys try to play it off as a farce!
What a joke. by TheViffer · 2003-01-02 02:22 · Score: 5, Funny

The only reason slashdot was mentioned in the article was so it WOULD get posted here knowing full well that it would get dismissed as drivel.

Katharine Mieszkowski: "No one is going to read this crap."

Farhad Manjoo: "You know your right. But how can we get more publicity from it?"

Katharine Mieszkowski: "I know, lets metion slashdot!"

Farhad Manjoo: "Hey, and I know. Go grabs Salon's 2003 plan and replace all mentions of Salon with Slashdot."

Katharine Mieszkowski: "We are going to be famous!"

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Slashdot may sell out but ... by beanerspace · 2003-01-02 02:28 · Score: 4, Funny

The author of the article got it wrong. It should read The popular discussion site for fans of open source software will disclose that it's perilously close to bankruptcy and will rewrite and abstract SlashCode into .NET components using Visual Basic which it will license and monitor through Microsoft Passort ...

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Bah. by grub · 2003-01-02 02:30 · Score: 5, Funny

Where's my goddamn Flying Car that I was promised in 2000?

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1. Re:Bah. by grub · 2003-01-02 02:55 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Where are the robot slaves?
  
  You can get an alpha version here. These early models don't do much though.
  
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Re:Slashdot Timeline by halftrack · 2003-01-02 02:36 · Score: 3, Funny

Present time: First time the parent troll is slightly on topic and has been modded up as funny.

(We've all seen it before, haven't we?)

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Re:Snooze by melvin22 · 2003-01-02 02:36 · Score: 5, Funny

Just thought I'd put a link to Dave Barry's recap.

Here it is...
So they can find duplicates from 1999... by TheConfusedOne · 2003-01-02 02:44 · Score: 4, Funny

But they can't search for duplicate articles from a week ago? :-D

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too bad you can't mod Salon by josephgrossberg · 2003-01-02 03:16 · Score: 3, Funny

They'd get a Score: -1, Troll

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Re:We'll always fnd a way around it!!! by Greedo · 2003-01-02 03:18 · Score: 4, Funny

Now if only everyone else would be smart enough to follow suite of a few thousand MPOG players ...

MPOG players? How many little milk carton caps can you fit in one of those?

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