Slashdot Mirror
Ukrainian Computer Destruction Championship
Alien54 writes "Over 300 self-confessed computer addicts have participated in a competition in the central Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya to destroy their own hardware in a spectacular fashion. The event, dubbed the "First Open Computer Destruction Championship", was organised by a local FM radio station with the professed aim of raising young people's awareness of the dangers of spending too much time in front of a computer."
How many kittens will be involved here?
Nero-burning ROM for Linux!
In (former) Soviet Russia you destroy your computer....
but...
(runs away from keyboard)
In Soviet Russia,
your coat gets YOU!
Computer-controlled nuclear power plants meltdown YOU!
"I am slashbot, hear me roar!"
Go ahead, finish it... "computer destroys YOU!"
Strangely enough, that's the point they were trying to make!!!
"the computer destroys you!" is perfectly applicable to those that suffer from a form of Repetetetive Strain Injury, such as Tendonditis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Cubital Tunnel syndrome, DeQuervain's Disease, etc...
Although, it's always funny when it's not you.
do() || do_not();
My computer gives me life, since the stuff I do on it allows me to buy food and shelter. If it wants to make my wrists hurt, that's okay.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
They're already IN Soviet Russia (well that's what it was....14 years ago), you insensitive clod!
Trolls actually at one time were neccessary for open net conversation, but troll has become more of a "how to best offend" a person. While the standard "RMS Is just a dumb hippie" comments on ANYTHING open/free mentioned on slashdot is a fair representation of Stallmans personality to some, the biggotry posts have taken it too far.
I think that there needs to be a new "modifier" of "SuperTroll" where the threshold is actually taken below -1 for such a modifier, but can only be applied to a -1 troll comment essentially making a -2 "Super Troll". Let the little kiddies be happy to hit "Super Troll" and let the "not the status quo comment" -1 Troll stay where they are.
There is a difference between a "troll" and a "little shit". The "GNAA"/Penis Bird/"Step 1 this ... step 2 ???? ... step 3 profit"/In Soviet Russia/Imagine a beowulf/Natalie Portman/whatever posts are non-essential to a conversation, but a differing opinion should be available even if it is located at -1, so long as you can still get both sides of the story.
So that's my proposal, stick it to the trolls and let the users who "Aren't afraid to burn karma" be seperated.
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
That's the joke, you insensitive moron.
The miserable S.O.B. who hot linked me there without warning me. PS - I have a hot poker all ready for you, you b******!
Destory? Is that anything like defenestration?
Oh, I get it! They're throwing the computers out of second-story windows!
Nitpick! They never were in Soviet Russia, but in the Soviet Union. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) consisted of 15 republics which had some degree of local power. Russia and Ukraine were two of the republics. This is also the reason that they became separate individual states after the break-up of the Soviet Union.
The miserable S.O.B. who hot linked me there without warning me. PS - I have a hot poker all ready for you, you b******!
If you went to live in soviet russia, you would have disgusted http://goatse.cx, and not the other way round.
Or was it if soviet russia went to live to you?
"I am slashbot, hear me roar!"
Amazing that ISR jokes still get modded up. I guess its an "inside joke" for slashdotters and that makes it funnier. Used on the right occasion I guess they can still be funny.
What post? The one you're carrying inside your rusty innards!
FYI, Ukraine is not Russia and is very far from being Soviet.
I suppose you can consider a nuclear power plant to be "hardware."