Does really enjoying Bobby's adventures constitute a total break with reality or merely a rather pathetic fascination regarding a sub-culture within a sub-culture?
Remarkable, actually what will regale the rabble. Slashdot, like any self-organizing, self-interested entity, e.g., nation-states or multi-national corporations - - - must, I suspect, - - - control the coinage and the courts. The karma debate illuminates this issue quite well. What is the "coinage" of slashdot? What are the courts? How are they structured? Tangentially, (and having little inclination to provide the support for this claim) appeals to logic aren't particularly useful for these sorts of discussions. One can only suggest alternate systems, perhaps with an appeal to historical, anecdotal evidence, i.e., "I'd rather live in contemporary amsterdam than in Nazi Germany." I don't believe slashdot, or any other entity of its kind, *could* implement any of your suggestions. In spite of (because?) points 3 and 4 would destabilize the coinage and court system underpinning the structure.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought I sensed a great disturbance in the force.
Does really enjoying Bobby's adventures
constitute a total break with reality
or merely a rather pathetic fascination
regarding a sub-culture within
a sub-culture?
Maybe I lack clarity of vision regarding this(?).
The strategy is not particularly complicated: Money today is worth more than money tomorrow.
Basic economics in the so-called freemarket place.
Batteries, we don't need no stinkin' batteries.
Just check out these fremen type, power your mobile phone not vapor-ware "Maxwell Smart would be proud" shoes.
Sigh if only that whole Y2K scare hadn't already been over. . .
Remarkable, actually what will regale the rabble. Slashdot, like any self-organizing, self-interested entity, e.g., nation-states or multi-national corporations - - - must, I suspect, - - - control the coinage and the courts. The karma debate illuminates this issue quite well. What is the "coinage" of slashdot? What are the courts? How are they structured? Tangentially, (and having little inclination to provide the support for this claim) appeals to logic aren't particularly useful for these sorts of discussions. One can only suggest alternate systems, perhaps with an appeal to historical, anecdotal evidence, i.e., "I'd rather live in contemporary amsterdam than in Nazi Germany." I don't believe slashdot, or any other entity of its kind, *could* implement any of your suggestions. In spite of (because?) points 3 and 4 would destabilize the coinage and court system underpinning the structure.