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Israeli Army Frowns on D&D

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gotta-cancel-my-tuesday-night-campaign dept.

Big Rob found us a gem of a story about the Israeli Army frowning on D&D players. Apparently '18-year-olds who tell recruiters they play the popular fantasy game are automatically given low security clearance.' I especially enjoyed the pictures of D&D players with swords, as generally the only thing in my hand during D&D is soda and/or swiss cake rolls. I'm thinking that a few generals should meet up with Jack Chick and have a good long discussion about the evils of role playing.

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  1. This just in... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot Users Frown on Dupes.

    FP! :P

  2. *Linux is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *Linux is dying

    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *Linux community when last month IDC confirmed that *Linux accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by falling dead last in the recent Kreskin test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *Linux because *Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for *Linux. As many of us are already aware, *Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Debianis the most endangered of them all.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    Red Hat leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Red Hat. How many users of Mandrake are there? Let's see. The number of Red Hat versus Mandrake posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Mandrake users. Slackware posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Mandrake posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Slackware. Arecent article put Debian at about 80 percent of the *Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Debian users. This is consistent with the number of Debian Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek,abysmal sales and so on,Debian went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled *Linux. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *Linux has steadily declined in market share. *Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *Linux is survive at all it will be among *Linux hobbyist dabblers. *Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *Linux is dead.

    *Linux is dying

  3. Slashdot on the ball again! by The_Incubator · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I read about this elsewhere on Monday.

    Remember *NEW*s For Nerds?

    Only thing left to do is dupe it tomorrow.

    Nick