I have finished writing this post, it is long, yes, sorry, it meanders and digresses, again, I am sorry. It is late, I must go, so walk though this the best you can. I digress a bit from the response of the post... ok, I digress a whole lot. But I still hope the message is taken. Enjoy. Its a brave new world. My age, my name, anything I say does not matter. I have been online since I was 11, actually, on a BBS. I was often told I was one of the youngest and most active users on the BBSes I frequented and I guess I was. I was a shy kid then, I didn't talk with my classmates much, I acted a bit weird, in 5th grade I would get bored with the teacher and pick up the encylopedia and start reading it. I knew about gluons and tried to explain it to my teacher. AHHAHAHA. What the BBS taught me was that people would talk to me, treat me as a peer regardless of my physical appearance. My age was not a barrier to me except by my maturity. I could often be mature, I could often be immature, I was inexperienced but eager to learn, eager to show the world who I was. I still am. I'd often chat with sysops late into the night just asking questions or talking, about what I can't remember. What I'm trying to get at here is this: online, age does not matter, sex does not matter, appearance does not matter, if you are to be treated the same in an intellectual forum. If you want to be an amaetuer porn freak, yes, sex and age and appearance does matter, if you want to get into the jocksonline.com site what you say you are matters. Your credit card matters. While you still do not require a deep caucasian male voice to be an equal online, it is rapidly become a place where age and sex does matter. having my forumlative years take place on a free BBS I am extremely offended by this, but I always remember that I can put down what I wish. I still wish to see the net as a place where it is pure information, where your -self- is a sexless ageless collection of packets that form into what seems to be an entity. I also wish to see the public's internet, what this place is now becoming, to be separated, two internets. But this is a vision that is not ready now. I digress. I would like to point out we, the geeks, the computer users, the online intellectuals, we are freed from our physical form online, I am without sex and body , I am not male, I am not female, I am not any other sex, I am not any age, I am not beautiful, cute, ugly, homely. Do remember this, we are minds here, we have interests, we have our dimentias of what our sex and age and name is in the corporal realm. What do I mean by this? Katz pointed out that we do not have much codes of ethics, us geeks, we require them, yes. At what price do ethics come at? freedom of the mind? In a sense, yes, with ethics we feel we are required to perform a certain way, but this is for the community's benefit in the end, and hopefully, our benefit though the community. If this free world that we have which as we all know is in danger is to continue to exist we must unite, we must show ourselves and the outside that we are united and responsible enough to not be a threat, to propagate ourselves, and to become the old guards of the information age and the new pioneers of the information culture. There is much more which I do not say, but do not forget them. I digress too much. Look, we are all here, how many other groups are there, almost as large as slashdot, some smaller, that comprise of most of us? The intellectuals, the outcasts, the wisened, the eggs of a new world. How can we unite geekdom within a single forum, The Forum? How can we speak with a single voice? How can we create a way to safeguard our culture and our ways? We must always allow for progress in how we execute our vision, but our vision is our reason for existing. So I ask you, what is our vision? How are we to do it? I really what to see more ethics and morals than the hazy libertarian and communist ideas that exist among us. Voice, and flesh out these thoughts, let ALL of the geeks have a say in creating them, let us all say how they should function. Can we create a geek bible? Us? All of us? Slashdotters and non, everyone who is part of the internet, who knows it, who believes in open source and information? Can we at least build the foundations for a culture, which with our input, may or may not exist, which may exist in many different forms depending on our own actions at this moment in time? This is what I want, Bring Us together. Let us decide our goals and motivations and dreams. Let us voice them, and voice the ethics and morals we shall uphold and use to accomplish and guard them. Let us decide how to use these morals and how they will fit into the information net as we know them. No single person should speak for us, I want to somehow bring us together and let us all speak. Of course, we need to be organized. This is the dawn of a new age, the sun has been rising for over 4 decades, and it is still rising. It is possible for us to choose the path of all humanity until the end of people and machines. Do you not wish to participate? Every person counts, respond, discuss, talk. Figure out who your leaders are, but first we have to bring us together. I have to go, talk and let me see what you do.
Slashdot Mirror
I have finished writing this post, it is long, yes, sorry, it meanders and digresses, again, I am sorry. It is late, I must go, so walk though this the best you can. I digress a bit from the response of the post... ok, I digress a whole lot. But I still hope the message is taken. Enjoy. Its a brave new world. My age, my name, anything I say does not matter. I have been online since I was 11, actually, on a BBS. I was often told I was one of the youngest and most active users on the BBSes I frequented and I guess I was. I was a shy kid then, I didn't talk with my classmates much, I acted a bit weird, in 5th grade I would get bored with the teacher and pick up the encylopedia and start reading it. I knew about gluons and tried to explain it to my teacher. AHHAHAHA. What the BBS taught me was that people would talk to me, treat me as a peer regardless of my physical appearance. My age was not a barrier to me except by my maturity. I could often be mature, I could often be immature, I was inexperienced but eager to learn, eager to show the world who I was. I still am. I'd often chat with sysops late into the night just asking questions or talking, about what I can't remember. What I'm trying to get at here is this: online, age does not matter, sex does not matter, appearance does not matter, if you are to be treated the same in an intellectual forum. If you want to be an amaetuer porn freak, yes, sex and age and appearance does matter, if you want to get into the jocksonline.com site what you say you are matters. Your credit card matters. While you still do not require a deep caucasian male voice to be an equal online, it is rapidly become a place where age and sex does matter. having my forumlative years take place on a free BBS I am extremely offended by this, but I always remember that I can put down what I wish. I still wish to see the net as a place where it is pure information, where your -self- is a sexless ageless collection of packets that form into what seems to be an entity. I also wish to see the public's internet, what this place is now becoming, to be separated, two internets. But this is a vision that is not ready now. I digress. I would like to point out we, the geeks, the computer users, the online intellectuals, we are freed from our physical form online, I am without sex and body , I am not male, I am not female, I am not any other sex, I am not any age, I am not beautiful, cute, ugly, homely. Do remember this, we are minds here, we have interests, we have our dimentias of what our sex and age and name is in the corporal realm. What do I mean by this? Katz pointed out that we do not have much codes of ethics, us geeks, we require them, yes. At what price do ethics come at? freedom of the mind? In a sense, yes, with ethics we feel we are required to perform a certain way, but this is for the community's benefit in the end, and hopefully, our benefit though the community. If this free world that we have which as we all know is in danger is to continue to exist we must unite, we must show ourselves and the outside that we are united and responsible enough to not be a threat, to propagate ourselves, and to become the old guards of the information age and the new pioneers of the information culture. There is much more which I do not say, but do not forget them. I digress too much. Look, we are all here, how many other groups are there, almost as large as slashdot, some smaller, that comprise of most of us? The intellectuals, the outcasts, the wisened, the eggs of a new world. How can we unite geekdom within a single forum, The Forum? How can we speak with a single voice? How can we create a way to safeguard our culture and our ways? We must always allow for progress in how we execute our vision, but our vision is our reason for existing. So I ask you, what is our vision? How are we to do it? I really what to see more ethics and morals than the hazy libertarian and communist ideas that exist among us. Voice, and flesh out these thoughts, let ALL of the geeks have a say in creating them, let us all say how they should function. Can we create a geek bible? Us? All of us? Slashdotters and non, everyone who is part of the internet, who knows it, who believes in open source and information? Can we at least build the foundations for a culture, which with our input, may or may not exist, which may exist in many different forms depending on our own actions at this moment in time? This is what I want, Bring Us together. Let us decide our goals and motivations and dreams. Let us voice them, and voice the ethics and morals we shall uphold and use to accomplish and guard them. Let us decide how to use these morals and how they will fit into the information net as we know them. No single person should speak for us, I want to somehow bring us together and let us all speak. Of course, we need to be organized. This is the dawn of a new age, the sun has been rising for over 4 decades, and it is still rising. It is possible for us to choose the path of all humanity until the end of people and machines. Do you not wish to participate? Every person counts, respond, discuss, talk. Figure out who your leaders are, but first we have to bring us together. I have to go, talk and let me see what you do.