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Response to Spider Robinson on the State of Sci-Fi

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the future-is-now dept.

Garund writes "A day or so ago Slashdot posted a story on Spider Robinson and his lament for Science Fiction. Well, other people, including Mark Oakley, publisher of one of my favorite independant comics, posted a response to Spider on his Thieves & Kings website (scroll about a third of the way down the page). Interesting take on it, I thought."

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  1. spiders are gay. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anything that has silk squirt out its ass is gay.

  2. SLASHDOT MYTHS VS. REALITY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    MYTH #2: "New, innovative companies won't start up overseas."

    Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

    MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

    REALITY:

    MYTH #4: "If you're truly working on something high-tech, today's high-tech, you'll never have to worry about your job moving."

    REALITY: Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

    MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

    REALITY: "Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

  3. MYTH #1? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Uh what's myth #1?

    Oh I know...

    The New Economy will just continue to grow faster and faster forever, if you don't agree and try to show basic market fundamentals you "just don't get it" and are old school.

    Since that myth is about as busted as the Sun revolving around the Earth I guess there's no reason to lnclude it?

  4. Submitters think now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    w00t

  5. Response to THREATS to my SELF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I warned you before. This is the last you're going to hear from me....directly. If you don't stop your campaign of stalking and harassment, then you better should keep one eye over your shoulder.

    We go back a long way, you KNOW what I am CAPABLE OF.

  6. Saturday Night with Michael and CmdrTaco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It's Saturday night and CmdrTaco is home and snug in his flop. The good Commander's "wife" Michael is in the other room watching television. CmdrTaco is really wound up from a hard week of Slashdottin'. He's so, so, WOUND UP, and so, so, bottled up that he's gonna explode any minute now, so da man needs some instant relief. So he yells to Michael in the other room:
    HEY BITCH!
    THE TENT POLE IS UP,
    THE CANVAS IS SPREAD,
    TO HELL WITH THE TROLLS,
    COME BACK TO BED!
    Michael, too caught up watching the Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, yells back:
    TAKE THE TENT POLE DOWN
    PUT THE CANVAS AWAY
    THE MONKEY HAD A HEMORRHAGE
    NO CIRCUS TODAY.
    CmdrTaco feels so, so "under pressure", so he yells back
    THE TENT POLE'S STILL UP
    AND THE CANVAS STILL SPREAD
    SO STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING
    AND COME GIVE ME SOME HEAD
    To which his "wife" Michael replied:
    I'M SURE THAT YOUR POLE'S
    THE BEST IN THE LAND
    BUT I'M BUSY RIGHT NOW
    SO DO IT BY HAND!
    Well, we all know the sordid details of what transpired....
  7. The difference being by RLiegh · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In roman times, not even half of the world had been explored, and they had conquered that. In our times, the entire world has been mapped out and america has conquered it, economically if not physically (physically, in the cases of afghanistan, iraq and syria).

  8. OH YES YOU KNOW IT ALL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HA Ha, you suck PENIS and COCK and you slurp it down, slurp it down like Abu at the corner station with a slurpee. Abu is taking your jobs, you know, you fagzors. Abu is sending his Injun (dot, not feather) children to the school and they are the new doctors and you are nothing but the COCK and BALLS sucker, you exist to give pleasure to the ball sack of your betters. How does it make you feel, to have the sperms flowing down your chin and throat like a good facial whore?

  9. Who Cares? Canterbury Lost to SOUTHLAND by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Let us mourn for all the men in Canterbury who have now been proven unworthy to fuck a woman again. Not only did they lose, they lost through tackles so limp that it makes you wonder whether they had a wee trip up to Auckland. Let the Southland men enjoy their spoils with a fuckfest of the (now quite willing and receptive) Canterbury women, and watch the Canterbury team honorably drown themselves in the waters off Akaroa, having forgotten that Rugby truely is war.