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Total Commercialization Awareness

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Judging by that headline... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    JonKatz must be back.

  2. Wake up call! by saintan · · 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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  3. Come on Slashdot! by gpinzone · · 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!

  4. What a joke. by TheViffer · · 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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  5. Slashdot may sell out but ... by beanerspace · · 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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  6. Bah. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


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

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  7. Re:Snooze by melvin22 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Here it is...

  8. So they can find duplicates from 1999... by TheConfusedOne · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  9. Re:We'll always fnd a way around it!!! by Greedo · · 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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