Slashdot Mirror
Should Public Libraries Become Hacker Spaces?
ptorrone writes "Public libraries — the availability of free education for all — represent the collective commitment of a community to their future. They symbolize what is most important, a commitment to educating the next generation. The role of a public library should also adapt over time, and that time is finally here. It's time to plan how we're going to build the future and what place public libraries have, should have, or won't have. MAKE's latest article encourages everyone to start talking about one of our great resources, the public library, and its future."
Yeah, we saw your stupid opinion on libraries last time. It was as worthless as this one where you agreed with a sarcastic comment. Way to go, dumbass.
It is my opinion that you are some sort of puffer fish, most likely a dickless idjit puffer fish named c64_love. I am also of the opinion that black is white, two plus two equals five, and your mamma so fat they just upgraded her from "planetoid" to "dwarf planet" status. These are my opinions, and they are neither correct nor incorrect, as they are merely viewpoints. If you disagree with me, I will drag you down to a public library and horsewhip you with a VHS tape.
Given that people still ride horses (and whip other consenting adults) horsewhips aren't obsolete. Given that you can still buy VHS players, hook them up to modern hardware, and play tapes for which there is no DVD or Blu-Ray equivalent, VHS tapes aren't obsolete either. Given that you can not get most books for free online, libraries aren't obsolete, and only an elitist douchenozzle, libertarded wealth-licker, or Teahadist suicide boner would want to get rid of them. But given that most humans have evolved to be able to use logic, I would say YOU are obsolete.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Just because something is an opinion does not make it impervious to being factually incorrect. The viewpoint that women (or $yourrace) are less mentally capable than ($myrace) men was a generally accepted opinion. That opinion has been disproved in countless instances, as well as being proven morally wrong to all but the most retarded cultures. Opinions are not inconsequential or harmless when they influence reality as was the often the terrible case in this example- there's no place for "merely". We're not talking about whether chocolate or vanilla is the better ice-cream.
But this ignores the fact that Libraries are not and have never been (since their separation from simple archives), as c6502 premised above, just "storage". That statement is also a reversal of his earlier premises which admit that this one is overly simplistic by listing other activities of libraries. And since you cannot currently truly replace what libraries provide using "the web", they are quite obviously not yet obsolete, so yes such an opinion is wrong. You could argue about partial obsolescence or ways of improving libraries, but that's not what the prick is doing.