2005 Foot In Mouth Awards

jollyroger1210 writes "Wired is running a story on the 2005 Foot In Mouth Awards." From the article: "Tech execs say the darndest things. And so do shuffling presidents, and disgraced scientists, and Wikipedia fakers. It's time to relive 2005's biggest spoken gaffes."

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Re:-5, Redundant

[sopuli]

I don't consider myself anti-slashdot, but must say that now with reddit I just skim slashdot as most of the interesting headlines already appeared on reddit long before slashdot.

Please come forward

[nyri]

From the article:
"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google."

I have a hard time beliving that anyone would get offended by the real use of the word fuck:
"I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google."

So, please, prove me wrong and come forward if you would get offended if Wired prited "fuck" instead of "f***".

Seriously, why is printing "fuck" so difficult? I'm from Europe and I really can't understand you Americans.

Re:Please come forward

[silverbax]

I'm not offended by 'fuck', but I'm sure there are things that will offend me that I'm glad nobody prints. But I could just follow your lead and claim to be mentally superior and more tolerant and understanding simply because I know a euphemism for sex and have no inhibitions about spouting it.

Maybe I could make a blanket statement about a whole country based on the fact that I think I'm so deep simply because I can liberally use the word 'fuck' without remorse.

Re:-5, Redundant

[Tim Browse]

The one time I visited Digg, I found the comments worthless.

Ah, it's not just me then. Good. Most of them seemed to be "Cool! I love this! Digg!!"

Slashdot comments are not by any stretch of the imagination uniformly good, but I have picked up an awful lot of information (or some combination of those words, at least) from comments over the years.

(Plus, I'm still not entirely sure how Digg's revolutionary system for readers voting on stories is different/better to kuro5hin's.)

(I'm not asking.)

Re:Pay Again For Telecoms?

[Atario]

You know what I love about that quote? Here, let's look at it again:

"(Telecoms) and the cable companies have made an investment, and for a Google or Yahoo or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes (for) free is nuts!"

-- SBC Communications CEO Ed Whitacre

See what they did there? The guy actually used the word free correctly, and they "corrected" it to the wrong usage: for free.

Good going, Wired.</sarcasm> Now, how about some real journalism?

Re:$100 laptop

[bobcave]

Negroponte is Italian for black 'ponte'.