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Good Bad Attitude
teidou writes "Paul Graham has posted a new essay titled 'Good Bad Attitude' talking about the hacker attitude toward rules and government regulation of Intellectual Property. Choice quote: "(Hackers) can sense totalitarianism approaching from a distance, as animals can sense an approaching thunderstorm.""
Hmm, batman, my spider sense must be out of whack. I thought it was an oligarchy approaching.
Yeah, I'm sure the animals are quite pissed.
totalitariansim coming a mile away"
Is it just me or is this one of the more ridiculous sounding things you've heard in a while? Let's see what other deep sounding vacuous statements we can come up with:
There is no group with such an ability for singleminded devotion to the pursuit of universal betterance than the New York Cab Drivers association.
More than any other group formed since the first descent of man from the trees, Sanitation Engineers are able to ensure the future of democracy in our nation.
I bet I have more support for either of these than he's got for his hackers. Too bad there's no taxidot.org or cleandot.org so I could get an article posted too.
The safest way to approach lava is to have another person with you and he goes first.
"This is a despotic system. I know this."
You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
... when a server can sense a Slashdoting approaching from over 4 hops away.
"Why everything I write gets posted on Slashdot"
[ I can not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presents danger, the solution is ignorance ] -- Isaac Asimov
pessimism doesn't exist. people who are labeled pessimistic simply know they way the world works and tell others about it.
Hackers are Anti-Sheep , while others are content to keep thier heads down grazing on what is fed to them
So this is why hackers shun social contact? They would disappear in a bright flash of light if exposed to sheep?
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I started crying out like an animal sensing a thunderstorm shortly after November 2000.
And therefore... hackers are witches!
Burn them!
Hacker's know Godwin's Law.
Or were clicked on too many times.
"A society in which people can do and say what they want will also tend to be one in which the most efficient solutions win, rather than those sponsored by the most influential people."
You are so dead in third period dodge ball, nerd!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
What do you mean? He mentioned slashdot in the article, so it must be cool... right? cause he used /. and hacker in like the same sentance, and y'know, hackers are cool, and we're both posting on /., so by implication, doesn't that mean that the president and congress should be reading slashdot in order to correctly form opinions on copyright and patent law? yeah, we're like, uhhhh.... cool and stuff.
That's just fine. However, stay away from my daughter. I mean it.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
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-David