State of the Onion 7

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Posted by michael on Thursday July 17, 2003 @12:35AM from the cry-cry-cry dept.

chromatic writes "One of the highlights of every OSCON is Larry Wall's annual State of the Onion address, covering Perl, philosophy, linguistics, music, theology, science, and usually a few other things thrown in for good measure. His talk from OSCON 2003, State of the Onion 7, is now online."

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First State by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-17 00:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

True.
Is the answer... by MySpleenHurts · 2003-07-17 00:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Idaho?
Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-17 00:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I think it's time for another article about the oppression of the evil RIAA, so we can all justify stealing music and stealing software.
The Onion? by tomzyk · 2003-07-17 00:51 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Anyone else expecting a link to a cover story from The Onion?

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+5, Funny by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-17 00:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Screw the *AA's! Oh and don't forget to buy the new super special 75 dollar "I got five more minutes of unfinished film this time" Matrix and LOTR DVDs!!!
Deconstruction by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-17 01:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

From article : ..Of course, in Soviet Russia it's the other way around. Which is why they managed to deconstruct themselves, I guess.
In USA the quality of the public school system is beeing deconstructed. The average PhD student in USA is not an american citizen, nor has any US style high school "education". What little social security US citizens had is actively deconstructed as well.
And all those millions americans without medical insurance, oh yeah, their economy is also beeing deconstructed.
From Profits Not Patients : ...Tenet Healthcare Corp., the USA's second largest hospital chain, charges uninsured patients three to 10 times more than HMOs. (Wall Street Journal, June 19)
What luck! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-17 01:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Its not just fun, its good for you too!
Re:my favorite by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-17 02:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Thanks to Bill Clinton I guess.

Bush's economic policies did't even take effect until September 2001, so how is responsible for the economy(which is improving) is beyond anyone with half a brain cell or more.

Sorry to infuse some logic and facts here at Slashdunce...
On a more (or less) serious note by harley_frog · 2003-07-17 02:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The Surgeon General's Office has that webmasters of humor sites, such as The Onion and Ebaynham to post the following warning on their websites:
Surgeon General's Warning Viewing the following site may possible serious health risks, including breathing irregularity, stomach cramps, watery eyes, and loss of bladder control.

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Too Many Ads by ajs318 · 2003-07-17 02:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's not hard to keep adverts off the internet! Just install squid proxy server {the best place to put it is on your firewall machine}, and block out doubleclick.*, fastclick.net, servedby.advertising.com and any other site that chucks banners and/or cookies at you. If you're very, very nice to your ISP {or you work for your ISP and have all their root passwords}, they might even do this for you on one of their servers.

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Re:unintentionally insightful by Mooncaller · 2003-07-17 06:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I never asked my color blind roommate to make sure the cloths I picked look all right. On the other hand, he always insited on doing the driving when we needed to go somewhere at night.