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Amateur Revolution?
Ant writes "Fast Company's article mentions that networks of amateurs are displacing the pros and spawning some of the greatest innovations from from astronomy to computing. Rap inflects global popular culture from music to fashion. Linux poses a real threat to Microsoft. The Sims is among the most popular computer games ever. These far-flung developments have all been driven by Pro-Ams -- committed, networked amateurs working to professional standards. Pro-Am workers, their networks and movements, will help reshape society in the next two decades."
Jon Katz? Is that you in there??
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Plus, if amateurs were so great the flood of high quality home-made porno would be a ton better than what Vivid puts out. Personally, I'd rather watch the oversized men fuck women with over-sized Nip/Tuck'd boobs and airbrushed looking bodies than watching a fat, hairy, man fuck some underaged looking dark-circle eyed skank on the floor of a Super8 hotel room. That's me though
I've wondered about this, too.
I mean, if I had the access to people willing to act in an amatuer porn movie, the first thing I'd do is hop over to asstr.org (NSFW, duh), dig out some plot outlines from the stories there, and at least get a half decent plotline.
The submitter appears to have misspelled 'infects'.
All employees must wash hands before seeking equitable relief.
Rap inflects global popular culture from music to fashion. Linux poses a real threat to Microsoft. The Sims is among the most popular computer games ever. These far-flung developments have all been driven by Pro-Ams
<sigh> and then there is Slashdot...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
If you have a .pro domain, you're a professional. If you have a .am domain, you're an amateur. It's that simple. :)
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I've always thought amateur porn was WAY better than the professional stuff!
So you're saying that corporate stuctures somehow ruin productivity, stifle innovation and creativity, and turn the skills you once loved into the job you dread from the first moment you wake up in the morning? It's news to me but OK, if you say so...
You know, there's a web site that addresses this spcific fetish...
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
It works, too, but the damn things eat so many batteries it's hardly worth it.
link?
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
- People like insipid Gestalt psychology explanations.
- People like to feel like they are in the "know" about things.
- People will always try to organize random occurrences into coherent theories so they don't have to remember quite as many things as seperate entities.
hey, i just came up with a social revelation to write down in pop-psychology texts now too, didn't I?Good link, but small correction needed...
Christians _are_ sheep, just God's sheep.
You're probably right, if only because eventually rap artists will run out of other music to sample.
46. The Hobo smiles, his eyes glaze over, and he burps. "Beware the man who has lived longer than the Wasteland."
The words "Amateur" and "Revolution" bring another large industry to mind...
All your Sybase are belong to us.