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Wikipedia Semi-Protection Begins
seanvaandering writes "Admins began applying their recently announced 'Wikipedia semi-protection' feature this week. The first articles to be semi-protected were George W. Bush, Hitler, and Jesus Christ, barring the newest 1% of all users and anonymous visitors from modifying the article (apparently Satan didn't make the cut). Does this mark the end of the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit?"
I wrote this sick microstory for slashdot, but you're right... it's perfect for Wikipedia too :-)
and probably the reason they're adding protection :-) :-)
Anyway this is what I had in mind for slashdot today:
The computers had been doing their jobs for hundreds of years. The mission computers coordinating thousands of subservient slaves charged with occasionally activating the ships propulsion systems or checking the vital signs of the colonist's suspended animations cocoons - everything had performed its set duties without fail. The mission was just about to reach its conclusion as the ship entered the orbit of an earth-like world thousands of lightyears away from the lonely planet of humanities gestation. The mission computers sent orders to the computers in charge of the suspension cocoons to begin with the reanimation process. One program, a last minute addition to the vast store of binary codes comprising the mission software had cheerfully run to its conclusion hundred years ago only shortly after the ship left the lunar docks. It had gleefully run down the roster of colonists and deactivated the life support of every single black, colored, asian or jew and then turned to the ship's library and performing likewise cleansing. The new world was pristine. Among the colonist there were people that were determined that it would stay that way, at all cost.
Looking at the menu of the ship's library, Maya Grunwald shook her head in disbelieve. She had woken to a nightmare. None of the people that had been close to her had survived suspended animation. While the first whisps of suspicion had cast a chill down her spine her careful review of the colonists roster all but confirmed it. A look at what remained of the ship's library only followed. Hartmut Prieger entered the room with purposes grabbed her by the hair and shoved her head against the wall knocking her unconcious. As a white female her genetic contribution to the Volk was too valuable to squander.. however she would never have the opportunity to administer her mental poison to her offspring.
It's like Dennis Miller said: "Everybody in the world is Hitler. Bush is Hitler, Ashcroft is Hitler, Rumsfeld is Hitler. The only guy who isn't Hitler is the foreign guy with a mustache dropping people who disagree with him into the wood chipper. He's not Hitler."
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.