Have you noticed how quickly our administration jumped at the chance to start ripping away our freedoms after the 9/11 attacks? Everywhere you turn you hear another government official screaming that we must protect our freedom at all costs. Yet, as soon as they step off the podium they go vote another freedom destroying bill into law. I knew the government was paranoid, but I really thought they at least had the slightest bit of common sense left.
I fear the future more than ever. Not because of the possibility of attacks that come from without, but because of the obvious attacks that now come every single day, from within. We are in some serious trouble here. And no one seems willing to do anything about it. Support the government? Not as long as they keep fucking with us and our freedoms. And to do so in the name of "freedom everywhere" is the hieghth of hypocracy. We need new leadership. We need leadership that actually cares about the people. Hell, we need people that actually care about themselves. Oh lord, what a mess.
That's so fucking hilarious. If you could just look at yourself from the outside. Oh god.
So, your reasoning goes, "I'll say the same thing every other lamer piece of garbage on this site says, and throw in a joke to boot, and that won't make me look like a karma whore."
Right. Tell it someone that hasn't watched the slashdot daytime soap opera unfold countless hundreds of times over and over again. Fucking trash like you are the reason this site started sucking in the first place. K5 died because some fuckwad in a worthless hosting facility couldn't pull his peter out of his hand long enough to remember to inform the K5 crew that they were moving the servers.
I'm not as clueless as you think. Kind of funny how someone with a lower slashdot UID than you is just some K5 lamer because he disagrees with you, isn't it?
You call the Slashdot ranking process something that's "working"? Even somewhat? Are you mad?
I wouldn't call this working. Not in a million years would I say that. It depends entirely on the mentality of the original moderators. Dissident opinions (or in Google's case, if they were fucking stupid enough to implement such a system, sites promoting different views) from the original moderators are not modded up, thus you never gain the ability to moderate. Meta-moderation is a hack job at best, a fucking beast of a problem at worst. And nothing fixes the original problem of Slashdot's moderation system. Groupthink is promoted, dissident views are demoted, no matter how well reasoned. You don't believe me? Check the score of this post after a few hours.
That wouldn't matter if it was a negative or positive voting system that just figured up a number based on votes. A good older site would have a higher rating than a good newer site, but they would both be positive. A bad new site would hit negative very quickly, and drop out of site.
Yeah. That'd be great. We really need to take the broken piece of garbage moderation system that is in place here and use it to rank google results. Should we start it out with a bunch of clueless fuckwits that will determine what is "proper" and what is "improper" too?
Unless we lose the mind-numbing "you must agree with me" bullshit that this moderation system employs and allows everyone a voice in the "ranking" system, it will be a useless tool. Maybe the K5 moderation system would be a better place to start.
Of course, since you're a karma whoring piece of shit just out for a quick "+5 funny" rating I suppose I shouldn't have gotten so worked up. But heh, what else am I gonna do this afternoon?
But the young have come to believe, with increasing justification, that their elders know much less than they do
I stopped reading right there. Katz is going out of his way to try to suck up to the "techno-elite" youth and it's failing miserably. Or at least it should be. Just because the older people in America don't know computers doesn't mean they don't have anything of value to teach us. Good god, that is the stupidest thing I have ever seen Katz write, and believe me, I've read enough Katz to know that is no small statement.
Katz really, really, REALLY needs to pull his head out of his computer room for a few days and just LIVE! Damn dude, a vacation in Colorado would do him wonders, as long as he didn't insist on dragging some stupid laptop with cell connection with him. Look around, walk outside, realize that the Internet is not the only place to gather knowledge. Jesus, this really pisses me off. Katz!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have found that the best music in the world is found only in people's basements/bedrooms and smoke filled crappy bars. If you think the radio plays "good" music, you really need to get out more.
Good luck to you in your musical endeavours. My story is similar to yours. I too still write/perform and such, and have come up with other ways to "circulate" my music. I won't be famous, but at least I'll get to do what I do.;-)
You made the mistake of expressing an opinion. That's something that just isn't accepted around these parts. Especially when it is an opinion that doesn't just praise the almighty (whatever the story is about). It's really kind of sick the way the moderators cling to the "ideal" of slashdot, while completely ignoring the "intent" (which I thought was supposed to be a free-for-all of communication). Ah well, that's slashdot for ya.
I've often wondered about this possibility. Perhaps we are just decendants of some simple life form from another planet. Now, maybe, just maybe there was an intelligent race that sent out "seed meteorites" or something with very, very simple life forms from their own planet/solar system/whatever and this was a form of "seedship". Instead of sending out complicated life forms that required very, very specific living conditions, they instead sent out massive quantities of very, very simple life that could live within a wide variety of conditions. Once this simple life was "revived" by our relatively warm and wet planet, it slowly evolved into the life that we see all around us.
The "others" goal in all of this may simply have been to ensure that whatever happened to them, life, in some form, would continue. And eventually this life would grow to maturity somewhere, somehow, and begin asking some of the same questions they had asked. Perhaps this was a last ditch effort before their planet was destroyed by some cosmological catastrophe. Or perhaps the simple life arrived without anyone "guiding" it in any way, but a life rich planet was destroyed and remains of it made their way to earth.
OK, sorry, early morning philosophy is causing me to overthink.
While you say that religion can act as a positive (as a security blanket) I think you have missed the "real" intention of any religion: control. Religions (all of them) were invented by people that wanted control of others. Read any religious text and they all have one thing in common: the honor your parents/gaurdians/government/religious leaders part. Religion is as damaging to human rights as any other "ideal" in existence. The truly sad part is that religious apologists will go out of their way to "prove" that they are right by pointing to their propoganda and saying it is the word of "god" (in whatever manifestation they are worshipping him/her/it). When confronted with reality, religious people tend to get a little psycho-spastic and just completely lose it if questioned in a rational way. That's how I was thrown out of church by the time I was twelve. I asked too many questions and was told that religion is not to be questioned. If I couldn't just accept that it was the truth, then I was to avoid sullying the religious teachings by stepping foot in the church. I was told this by my pastor at the time. Gotta love that wonderful warm reception you get at church;-).
I always thought rage was along the lines of cussing up a storm and basically YELLING so much that you make absolutely no sense at all. I'm just here for the entertainment. But of course, I'm guessing that sort of thing totally escapes the mentality of the common AC that thinks he can judge a person based on one conversation thread.
1. I am 27.
2. I live in my own home that I have paid for.
3. My acne problems disappeared about twelve years ago.
4. I shower nightly, and occassionally take a "wake up" shower in the morning.
5. I don't have a sister, or a brother.
6. My parents are very much alive, and are such idiots that I do not understand how I even survived childhood, let alone developed any mental skills at all. But, that's probably true of most people.
The fact that I'm bored enough this afternoon to even dignify you with a reply is pretty amazing in and of itself. But, it is obvious that slashdot is pretty much for trolling and spamming anyway. No need to behave like a rational human being. You sure as shit are living proof of that aren't you?
If you read the entire article they said something about Microsoft's Chief Privacy (blah, blah, blah) is a good example of someone "stepping up to the challenge". So I'm guessing that means that the challenge is to convince people they aren't losing control while slowly slipping the knife in between their ribs.
I know the last time that I was stupid enough to send my name to MS as a registered user I got junk mail for about six months from places I'd never heard of before. Good privacy there!
Please, mark me down. We can't have a negative thought about Microsoft on Slashdot.;-)
I think the perspective of the media companies being "boogeymen" is far more realistic than the idea that all "hackers" are boogeymen. But you're right in a way. It is just perspective. I'm quite sure that the people in charge of the large media conglomerates go home at night utterly convinced that "hackers" should all be shot for not liking them. After all, without their humanitarian efforts at brainwashing, er, educating us, we would all be stupid wandering neanderthals. It's only through their power and money that we have the ability to stand upright.
Well, karma burning time I guess. To quote Queensryche:
I used to trust the media to tell us the truth, tell me the truth
But now I see the payoffs, everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Sorry, but I think the entire idea of "free" press is eventually going to lead to what we have in corporatized America. The only thing free about the press is the bidding process. Unless you got the cash to back you, the story will be told from the other guy's perspective. That's why hackers are still seen as "the big bad bogeymen" of the Internet.
That wasn't me, if I was going to belittle you I would do it with my account. After all, it's not as if it would be difficult to tear you apart. But I'm not that bored today, and I'm getting ready to start a new project.
If the above AC would have got your name right though, that might have been funny. Personally, I think he or she could have done better though.
Thank you for setting me straight. As always, your insightful comments have left me wishing that I could be even remotely as cool as you. Please forgive my lame attempts to aspire to your greatness. Your anger and hostility towards me are obviously justified as I am but a poor, stupid and idiotic person. This should be made obvious by the fact that I post to slashdot at all.
You shouldn't need to use a search engine. Just go to your favorite porn site (with sick fetishes) and you can see all the photographic proof you need that women can pee standing up. Of course, in these pictures they aren't usually aiming at a "proper" urine receptacle, but what the hell, to each his/her own.
Yet your brilliant comment makes it seem as though you also fall prey to the belief that Star Trek (and all of its offspring) are simply documentaries that somehow wandered backwards through time to become 20th century entertainment.
Sorry, gotta go, there's a re-run of Voyager with seven-of-nine running down a corridor*drool*.
Slashdot Mirror
(This may be slightly off-topic, so sue me.)
Have you noticed how quickly our administration jumped at the chance to start ripping away our freedoms after the 9/11 attacks? Everywhere you turn you hear another government official screaming that we must protect our freedom at all costs. Yet, as soon as they step off the podium they go vote another freedom destroying bill into law. I knew the government was paranoid, but I really thought they at least had the slightest bit of common sense left.
I fear the future more than ever. Not because of the possibility of attacks that come from without, but because of the obvious attacks that now come every single day, from within. We are in some serious trouble here. And no one seems willing to do anything about it. Support the government? Not as long as they keep fucking with us and our freedoms. And to do so in the name of "freedom everywhere" is the hieghth of hypocracy. We need new leadership. We need leadership that actually cares about the people. Hell, we need people that actually care about themselves. Oh lord, what a mess.
A) Yes, I am a shithead. I am, and have been for quite some time, well aware of that.
B) I'm fucking bored since the only community actually worth participating in is down.
C) Actually reading comments before replying to them is against the rules. Jesus, next thing you know you'll be telling me I need to follow links!
D) Blah blah blah blah.
And you are pretty much proving my point. Groupthink is in. Actual thought is out.
God, I fucking hate slashdot.
So, your reasoning goes, "I'll say the same thing every other lamer piece of garbage on this site says, and throw in a joke to boot, and that won't make me look like a karma whore."
Right. Tell it someone that hasn't watched the slashdot daytime soap opera unfold countless hundreds of times over and over again. Fucking trash like you are the reason this site started sucking in the first place. K5 died because some fuckwad in a worthless hosting facility couldn't pull his peter out of his hand long enough to remember to inform the K5 crew that they were moving the servers.
I'm not as clueless as you think. Kind of funny how someone with a lower slashdot UID than you is just some K5 lamer because he disagrees with you, isn't it?
I wouldn't call this working. Not in a million years would I say that. It depends entirely on the mentality of the original moderators. Dissident opinions (or in Google's case, if they were fucking stupid enough to implement such a system, sites promoting different views) from the original moderators are not modded up, thus you never gain the ability to moderate. Meta-moderation is a hack job at best, a fucking beast of a problem at worst. And nothing fixes the original problem of Slashdot's moderation system. Groupthink is promoted, dissident views are demoted, no matter how well reasoned. You don't believe me? Check the score of this post after a few hours.
That wouldn't matter if it was a negative or positive voting system that just figured up a number based on votes. A good older site would have a higher rating than a good newer site, but they would both be positive. A bad new site would hit negative very quickly, and drop out of site.
Unless we lose the mind-numbing "you must agree with me" bullshit that this moderation system employs and allows everyone a voice in the "ranking" system, it will be a useless tool. Maybe the K5 moderation system would be a better place to start.
Of course, since you're a karma whoring piece of shit just out for a quick "+5 funny" rating I suppose I shouldn't have gotten so worked up. But heh, what else am I gonna do this afternoon?
I stopped reading right there. Katz is going out of his way to try to suck up to the "techno-elite" youth and it's failing miserably. Or at least it should be. Just because the older people in America don't know computers doesn't mean they don't have anything of value to teach us. Good god, that is the stupidest thing I have ever seen Katz write, and believe me, I've read enough Katz to know that is no small statement.
Katz really, really, REALLY needs to pull his head out of his computer room for a few days and just LIVE! Damn dude, a vacation in Colorado would do him wonders, as long as he didn't insist on dragging some stupid laptop with cell connection with him. Look around, walk outside, realize that the Internet is not the only place to gather knowledge. Jesus, this really pisses me off. Katz!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have found that the best music in the world is found only in people's basements/bedrooms and smoke filled crappy bars. If you think the radio plays "good" music, you really need to get out more.
Good luck to you in your musical endeavours. My story is similar to yours. I too still write/perform and such, and have come up with other ways to "circulate" my music. I won't be famous, but at least I'll get to do what I do.;-)
My time on slashdot. If my time on earth was limited (well more limited than a few more decades) I probably wouldn't be responding to you.
You made the mistake of expressing an opinion. That's something that just isn't accepted around these parts. Especially when it is an opinion that doesn't just praise the almighty (whatever the story is about). It's really kind of sick the way the moderators cling to the "ideal" of slashdot, while completely ignoring the "intent" (which I thought was supposed to be a free-for-all of communication). Ah well, that's slashdot for ya.
I've often wondered about this possibility. Perhaps we are just decendants of some simple life form from another planet. Now, maybe, just maybe there was an intelligent race that sent out "seed meteorites" or something with very, very simple life forms from their own planet/solar system/whatever and this was a form of "seedship". Instead of sending out complicated life forms that required very, very specific living conditions, they instead sent out massive quantities of very, very simple life that could live within a wide variety of conditions. Once this simple life was "revived" by our relatively warm and wet planet, it slowly evolved into the life that we see all around us.
The "others" goal in all of this may simply have been to ensure that whatever happened to them, life, in some form, would continue. And eventually this life would grow to maturity somewhere, somehow, and begin asking some of the same questions they had asked. Perhaps this was a last ditch effort before their planet was destroyed by some cosmological catastrophe. Or perhaps the simple life arrived without anyone "guiding" it in any way, but a life rich planet was destroyed and remains of it made their way to earth.
OK, sorry, early morning philosophy is causing me to overthink.
While you say that religion can act as a positive (as a security blanket) I think you have missed the "real" intention of any religion: control. Religions (all of them) were invented by people that wanted control of others. Read any religious text and they all have one thing in common: the honor your parents/gaurdians/government/religious leaders part. Religion is as damaging to human rights as any other "ideal" in existence. The truly sad part is that religious apologists will go out of their way to "prove" that they are right by pointing to their propoganda and saying it is the word of "god" (in whatever manifestation they are worshipping him/her/it). When confronted with reality, religious people tend to get a little psycho-spastic and just completely lose it if questioned in a rational way. That's how I was thrown out of church by the time I was twelve. I asked too many questions and was told that religion is not to be questioned. If I couldn't just accept that it was the truth, then I was to avoid sullying the religious teachings by stepping foot in the church. I was told this by my pastor at the time. Gotta love that wonderful warm reception you get at church;-).
Boy, you really are feeling frisky today aren't you? Ah well, troll away cyborg_monkey. My time here is limited (obviously quite unlike yours).
Um, did that really seem like rage to you?
I always thought rage was along the lines of cussing up a storm and basically YELLING so much that you make absolutely no sense at all. I'm just here for the entertainment. But of course, I'm guessing that sort of thing totally escapes the mentality of the common AC that thinks he can judge a person based on one conversation thread.
Hmm, me thinks some moderator is a bit overzealous with the "Microsoft is good" drugs today.
Oh well, slashdot=100000000000 talesout=shit.
I believe your projecting again dumbass.
Fact:
1. I am 27.
2. I live in my own home that I have paid for.
3. My acne problems disappeared about twelve years ago.
4. I shower nightly, and occassionally take a "wake up" shower in the morning.
5. I don't have a sister, or a brother.
6. My parents are very much alive, and are such idiots that I do not understand how I even survived childhood, let alone developed any mental skills at all. But, that's probably true of most people.
The fact that I'm bored enough this afternoon to even dignify you with a reply is pretty amazing in and of itself. But, it is obvious that slashdot is pretty much for trolling and spamming anyway. No need to behave like a rational human being. You sure as shit are living proof of that aren't you?
If you read the entire article they said something about Microsoft's Chief Privacy (blah, blah, blah) is a good example of someone "stepping up to the challenge". So I'm guessing that means that the challenge is to convince people they aren't losing control while slowly slipping the knife in between their ribs.
I know the last time that I was stupid enough to send my name to MS as a registered user I got junk mail for about six months from places I'd never heard of before. Good privacy there!
Please, mark me down. We can't have a negative thought about Microsoft on Slashdot.;-)
I think the perspective of the media companies being "boogeymen" is far more realistic than the idea that all "hackers" are boogeymen. But you're right in a way. It is just perspective. I'm quite sure that the people in charge of the large media conglomerates go home at night utterly convinced that "hackers" should all be shot for not liking them. After all, without their humanitarian efforts at brainwashing, er, educating us, we would all be stupid wandering neanderthals. It's only through their power and money that we have the ability to stand upright.
*****WARNING*****
sarcasm above
*****WARNING*****
Hehe, isn't perspective great;-).
Well, karma burning time I guess. To quote Queensryche:
I used to trust the media to tell us the truth, tell me the truth
But now I see the payoffs, everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Sorry, but I think the entire idea of "free" press is eventually going to lead to what we have in corporatized America. The only thing free about the press is the bidding process. Unless you got the cash to back you, the story will be told from the other guy's perspective. That's why hackers are still seen as "the big bad bogeymen" of the Internet.
That wasn't me, if I was going to belittle you I would do it with my account. After all, it's not as if it would be difficult to tear you apart. But I'm not that bored today, and I'm getting ready to start a new project.
If the above AC would have got your name right though, that might have been funny. Personally, I think he or she could have done better though.
Well, well you just fi....
Ah hell, never mind. It isn't worth the effort.
Thank you for setting me straight. As always, your insightful comments have left me wishing that I could be even remotely as cool as you. Please forgive my lame attempts to aspire to your greatness. Your anger and hostility towards me are obviously justified as I am but a poor, stupid and idiotic person. This should be made obvious by the fact that I post to slashdot at all.
You shouldn't need to use a search engine. Just go to your favorite porn site (with sick fetishes) and you can see all the photographic proof you need that women can pee standing up. Of course, in these pictures they aren't usually aiming at a "proper" urine receptacle, but what the hell, to each his/her own.
Yet your brilliant comment makes it seem as though you also fall prey to the belief that Star Trek (and all of its offspring) are simply documentaries that somehow wandered backwards through time to become 20th century entertainment.
Sorry, gotta go, there's a re-run of Voyager with seven-of-nine running down a corridor*drool*.