The Tyranny of Email

Circuit Breaker writes "Are you or your co-workers using email instead of phone, face to face conversations, or instant messaging? Read this article, and hand out copies to your mates."

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fp!

[Anonymous Coward]

nt.

If you support Slashdot, you support terrorism

[Anonymous Coward]

I wouldn't be surprised if VA Software itself was funneling money to Al Quaeda and other anti-American terrorist organizations, due to the rampant anti-American sentiment that runs rampant through both comments and the little snide remarks made by Michael, CmdrTaco, etc. in the story submissions.

Before you sign up for the subscription service so that you can continue to get your oh-so-beloved "FIRST POST!!!!!!", just ask yourself exactly where the money is going. Maybe to kill another 3,000 innocent Americans.

Remember what our President said: If you aren't for us, you are against us. They are tracking you. Slashdot and other anti-American, anti-capitalist websites ARE being watched, I can assure you. Watch what you say. Personally I hope the whole lot of you are arrested and subjected to sleep-deprivation interrogation techniques. Serves you right.

I suppose the big question is...

[Anonymous Coward]

...whether or not I scored a FIRST POST! in this thread? Because of the 20 second fucktard filter, I sadly doubt this.

Re:I suppose the big question is...

[guacamolefoo]

Because of the 20 second fucktard filter, I sadly doubt this.

What exactly is a "fucktard"?

Is it a retard that is available for being fucked or is it a retard that goes and fucks things? Is it a leotard that one wears to fuck or be fucked? Or is it a leotard that one uses for self-stimulation (i.e. you fuck the leotard, ergo it is a "fucktard")?

Now, speaking to the issue of what a "fucktard filter" is, again, I can only speculate. Is it a filter made from remnants of the above-referenced fucktard (in the sense that the fucktard is a leotard either used for self-gratification or worn during bouts of fucking or being fucked)? What would such a device filter? Grit from gasoline? Coffee grounds from coffee?

Is it a means of preventing retards from fucking or being fucked? Why is there a "20 second" version of the "fucktard filter"? What use would such a short-term device have? Why would anyone need a filter that works for only 20 seconds against the threat of a "fucktard"? For the potential risk that a fucktard would seem to pose, isn't it frightening that only twenty seconds of fucktard filtering are available at /.?

I demand more fucktard filtering! I demand more than 20 seconds of protection from vile fucktards!

GF. (burning karma today)

first post?

[Anonymous Coward]

first post?

moron refusing to become a meatpacker

[Anonymous Coward]

&/or, even paying for the 'training'. talk about having sum execrable FUDgePackers(tm) guarding the hen house.

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Re:Ehh

[TheEnglishPatient]

i'm not

Naked Post!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

I am completely naked!!!!!

-You can take away our first posts, but you will never take away our Naked Posts!!!!-

Slashdotters don't bathe

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sorry, but the above post being moderated as "redundant" is hilarious. I wonder if it was intentional.

Just an aside before my main mainness

[tenjah]

is the way in which e-mail can be maliciously exploited.

Its far too reliant upon the goodwill of the general populace vis-a-vis, hate someone? Spread their email through usenet.

Yet this situation rarely occurs. So what does that say about society/humanity?

OR rather, what does that say about my warped, paranoid mind?

But that is really an aside.

Really I'd like to bring up the topic of the use of "mate" in the main post. Good good, he is a brit(hate that term, but johnny-foreigner seems to use it alot)/aussie/kiwi/canuck. Language will be disseminated whatever the weather; and in the projects of where-the-fuckever east new york mad props will be given to nigga homey-"mates" down the "pub".

Cool enough, I was on a ship going around the bahamas and tuned into some US basketball game and the commentator called his fellow "mate".

But more importantly, I WISH TO HEREBY RECOMMEND THAT THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD (OR more relevantly to me, the UK populace as a whole accept defeat and adopt US spelling) Cos, I got to deal with americans and english people spelling differently, and I would be more than happy to drop colour for color if you see my point. It's just a fucking hassle.

Whoever the fuck thought that he was making a statement by fucking with the spelling back in the US civil war was right and I bow to him,

Fuck america, but let's adopt the spelling!

moron ignoring the flames coming out of your .asp

[Anonymous Coward]

& the smoke coming from the 'engine' room, the rat's jumping overbored, etc,,,

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Re:Well...

[Stackis]

How this received a 5 for funny is beyond me... How bout a 0 for lame...