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Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Threatens Ghostface Killah
Martin Shkreli, of pharmaceutical drug price-gouging fame, threatens Ghostface Killah, whom he calls by his real name, in a recent video. The video features Shkreli threatening to destroy his rare Wu-Tang album and "erase him from the history books of rap." Shkreli, flanked by his masked associates, also demands a written apology from Ghostface Killah.
Shkreli was notoriously arrested on suspicion of fraud in December of 2015.
Shkreli was notoriously arrested on suspicion of fraud in December of 2015.
Congrats. Slashdot hit a new low. I didn't think it was possible. Time to close up shop!
of backstory? I'm sure you could have fit that in with the 2 line summary...
As stated above
You need one for "stupidly uninteresting and irrelevant." Sorry, but I'm calling this one as I see it.
I thought Slashdot was supposed to be "News for Nerds. Stuff tha..."
Hey, where'd that slogan go?
He's the most totally gnarly dude to ever exist.
...is this shit ????
Oh...a "lameness" filter just told me not to use caps.....
The irony !
two nothings are news.
This is worth it just to see the /. commenters trip over themselves to lose their shit.
*puts on some Ghostface Killah, grabs popcorn*
"Old man yells at systemd"
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bizx-subsidiary-sourceforge-media-llc-140000193.html
Yuck. Hope someone takes notice before stories like this run /. completely into the ground.
"What is X and why should I care?" means "I know exactly what X is, but I hope to impress strangers by acting as though knowing that is somehow beneath me"
There has never been an occasion where it has meant anything else.
Of all the "News For Nerds" and tech stuff going on, this is the story the Slashdot "editors" decide to post?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
... individuals with the mental and emotional age of 12 year olds in the executive of large companies? Most of them have longer careers than this Shkreli kid.
Regardless if Schedkdkkhkhrelli or whatever his name is a tool, does /. use "Pharma Bro" in a headline now?
I HATE to be an ageist dick, but which sub 25 y/o redditor copied and pasted shit they saw there, here?
I actually follow some idiotic entertainment news but I don't expect it here. You've also not said who Ghostface toolbag is and why they are 'beefing' (Note: we don't care) but you could've at least explained the purchase of the album, you didn't even do that.
We don't care.
Someone post some of the following things PLEASE
Major security exploits.
Upcoming linux kernel improvements
Upcoming android improvements.
SSD and storage technology leaps / improvements.
Renewable energy articles.
Self driving car articles.
How to code guides.
Future of working in tech, how to deal with outsourcing.
Hell, even "list of underrated, surprisingly cool utilities and programs, for Windows even" would be better.
Here's some random Windows bullshit from me to make up for this atrocious article.
Duplicate Cleaner Pro is still the best dupe file checker I've found (the UK one)
Firefox Nightly still isn't particularly fast for a multi-threaded version of Firefox.
If you use Firefox nightly, be prepared to also run dev / nightly builds of your plugins, otherwise odd bugs occur (yet surprisingly FF nightly is shockingly stable)
Paint.NET is surprisingly good for a free graphics app.
"Remove empty directories" is good for cleaning up empty directories on your drive
Display Fusion is still without question the best multi-monitor app out there, if you thought Ultramon was useful, you ain't seen shit.
FreeNAS 9.3 is still humming along nicely for me, boy do I wish someone would release a 6+ TB SSD which is cheap though, spinning disks are hot and noisy (and I mean a semi- cheap one, even if it's slower)
That's all I got, it's better than fucking Martin SHSKSSKHSKRELLI articles.
This is the worst story I've seen on here in years.
Years.
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bizx-subsidiary-sourceforge-media-llc-140000193.html
Hopefully they don't run /. right into the ground.
There has never been an occasion where it has meant anything else.
Except when it really means what it says. I came to read the comments because I had never heard of Ghostface Killa. What is it, or who is it? Why is it/he being mentioned on /.?
And now, having read the comments, and learned what this is all about, I think I'll return to a more valuable source of news, like, say, Facebook.
>Major security exploits.
>Upcoming linux kernel improvements
>Upcoming android improvements.
>SSD and storage technology leaps / improvements.
>Renewable energy articles.
>Self driving car articles.
>How to code guides.
>Future of working in tech, how to deal with outsourcing.
>Hell, even "list of underrated, surprisingly cool utilities and programs, for Windows even" would be better.
Guess we could fix this by starting a web site. It could have a slogan: News for nerds, stuff that matters.
We could call it "Chips and Dips." As in computer chips and DIP switches? Clever, eh?
Maybe we could even have a "Bill Gates as Borg" icon for Microsoft stories?
He might as well have said, "I don't even *own* a Ghostface Killah!"
"Old man yells at systemd"
As opposed to the counter - "Whoo-hoo, I'm putting the smack down on X." means "I don't care if you know what X is, but I hope to impress strangers by acting as though I'm cool shit because I'm better than X"
There has never been an occasion where it has meant anything else.
For slashdot to blast that as "news worthy" - indicates that they think they're hip and in the know.
When, in reality, they're just clucking, gossiping, hens. There has never been an occasion where that has meant anything else.
But please... continue to think you're hip and in the know because you spend brain cells debating how awesomly awesome "Ghostface Killah" is because he certainly doesn't have his picture on bubblegum cards.
Never insult rap guys when you're about to be sent to PMITA prison.
Brain and brain! What is brain?
Okay, you are probably as confused about this story as I was, as the title is nonsense and the names look like line noise. So basically, here's the summary the story didn't provide:
So basically, we have this guy. Martin Shkreli. On its own, that name probably means nothing: but you've heard of him before. He's a pharmaceutical exec, and he recieved widespread attention when his company bought a daraprim, an anti-parasitic drug. He raised the price from $13.50 to $750: Mmmhmm, he's that man, and he's the subject of the article. So then, we have a rapper here: Mr. Ghostface Killah... Also known as Dennis Coles. Our Mr. Shkreli bought a one of a kind album from this rapper. The very esteemed Mr. Killah called this horrible person out for the son of a bitch he is, and in response, Shkreli made a video threatening to destroy the album unless he recieves "a heart felt written apology expressing the sorrow and sadness" the rapper simply must be feeling right now to insult such an honorable and upstanding citizen.
And seriously, our rich jackass really is a bastard. Condeming people to die is a horrible thing to do, and controlling samples so no new drug can be authorized is a gross abuse of an admittedly flawed system. This man should go burn in hell. Bernie Sanders refused to take his campaign donation (he gave the money away to a healthcare clinic rather than accept it), and Mrs. Clinton made it one of her goals to deal wiith this asshole if she's elected. Even Donald Trump himself doesn't like Shkreli, and these two are perfect fits for each other.
"Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
/. is up for sale, so anything that improves traffic is good for business.
But not necessarily good for reading
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
I literally have no idea what this sentence is suppose to mean...
Martin better watch out.
So, like I said, never.
Nope, no idea. I've heard of "Wu-Tang Clan" before and know they're a music group of some sort, and that Shkreli had bought an album they made only one copy of and sold for some stupid amount. Inferring from the article, I come to the conclusion that "Ghostface Killa" is a member of Wu-Tang Clan, but it would've been nice to tell me that.
Why would anyone here care about that shit?
Captcha: Comeback.
Not likely if this is the kind of story I can expect in the future...
I think it's a review of a Pokemans movie.
All you need to know is that a disgusting sociopath is going down the shitter, but his ego demands that he keep looking like a winner all the way down.
At least Charlie Sheen was amusing (though if I were one of the people he'd slept with, I'd probably not be quite so amused). This guy is just a worthless piece of shit that I doubt anyone will ever miss.
But he'll be back. Once he's out of prison, he'll start some mail order fraud scheme. Short of locking them in a dungeon and melting down the key, or just simply putting a bullet in their head, these kind of disgusting monsters always resurface, and always with some new scheme to steal other peoples' money and self-aggrandize.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Let me google that for you...
Title should be, "Dueling Douchebags".
Sorry, is this "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters"? How so?
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
For those that don't know "Ghostface Killah" is a barely subtle way of saying "White People Killer". "Ghost face" is what the native americans called white people when they first saw them. It's not racist, he's black. Now when I release my country album "We be Coonin" under the name "Darky Stomper", different story.
Stoopid waste of time
How did it come to this :(
I think it's a review of a Pokemans movie.
Nah, prison movie. Once Hollywood is done with it, they should name it "The Brown Mile."
Why should anyone who isn't a greedy corporate raider or rapper wannabe care about "Greedy corporate raider threatens rapper"?
Let's see, I have zero desire to buy a company, jack up prices or dismantle it.
I wear my pants up around my waist where they belong.
If I wear a ball cap, it isn't set on my head cockeyed.
I don't drown myself in bling. Hell, I don't wear bling in the first place.
I don't talk funny.
I don't shoot people over a pair of Air Jordans or some silly east/west coast rivalry that is ALMOST as meaningless as the rivalry between democrat and republican.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
You didn't care who he was but read through the comments to find out because you "didn't care" that much. You're just another boob tube babies. Your parents probably sat you in front of the electronic babysitter while they drank fine red wine. Myself, I don't even own a tv. I feel the same way about Ghostface Killah as I do any other celebrety du jour. For example, just last week, in one of the magazines, there was a picture of Calista Flockhart. I had to ask a coworker who she was, I told her "I have absolutely no idea who this woman is. Calista who? Am I supposed to have heard of her? I'm sorry, but I haven't." That showed her. She knew right then that I didn't care about what's her name just like I don't care about Ghostface Killah. That's why I skipped over a story I didn't care about and didn't read the comments and, most certainly, didn't write a comment about how much I didn't care but then asking who he was so I could then just tell people how much I didn't care.
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I have it on good authority that Mr. Killah is a member of a famous clan around with which one does not fuck.
Believe it or not, some people don't give a fuck about rap. This article has nothing to do with Slashdot and it's completely acceptable that a reader wouldn't know about some dumb fucking rapper or care about him.
So fuck you.
To be honest, for a lot of us it just means "Who the f---? Oh my god, I'm getting old aren't I? I have no idea who half the celebrities are these days."
Oddly enough, when I was a kid, I didn't think people in their mid-forties were as out of touch then as I feel today.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Uh, you've been out of touch since '93. Ghostface Killah is a member of the Wu Tang Clan.
This doesn't sound like it's going to end in an epic rap battle between Neil deGrasse Tyson and Mr Killah over recreational drugs.
Surely they still have the music and can create more copies if they wanted.
https://soylentnews.org/
So yeah, if Wu Tang Clan dates back to 1993 and was well known then, I guess I've always been out of touch. Carry on there...
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Then i am overjoyed to inform you, my condescending friend, that on this occasion you are incorrect for i had no knowledge of this Mr 'Killa' and only a passing familiarity with the clan of 'Wu-Tang' but not their works or achievements.