After seeing a poster of a sysadm bombarded with WHAT?
The only way for a sysadm to get a present is writing "rm -r/*" at the prompt and hovering the middle finger over the return key while looking at his employer and saying: "Won't you give me a pwesent, pwetty pwease?"
> Few parents, teachers, pols or reporters
> have any clear idea what these kids are
> doing online, or just how significant
> cultures like gaming and coding have become.
I'm not so inclined as you seem to be to consider this a Bad Thing.
I know I would like to be able to see what could happen when something labeled as a "kids' thing" (secret meetings in treehouses spring to my mind) is so similar to the mainstream culture of our future. I'm curious to see what would happen if kids are left alone (and this almost always happened, one way or the other) talking and meeting over things that will actually shape our world (and this never happened, as far as I know).
I'm not sure that the "help" adults would like to provide wouldn't be more like passing them their prejudices and imagination boundaries.
> Although they consider themselves
> ferocious defenders of free speech, in
> theory, in practice many find
> differing opinions infuriating.
Maybe, but so what? There is a big difference between defending freedom of speech and agreeing with everyone. There are many opinions that I don't like at all and some of them make me want to puke, but I consider myself a defender of free speech, too. Freedom of speech is not made for protecting speech you like, it's for protecting the one you DON'T like.
I would even go as far as saying that a self-appointed advocate of free speech who violently (metaphorically speaking, of course) argues all the time is much more "wise" than those who never seriously argued with anyone.
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I saw Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa in a supermarket yesterday.
They were giving away copies of the new AmigaOS.
Long live the Pelvis!
Back in the Telix days we had a BBS which, after showing the MOTD, said "press Alt-H to continue".
:)
Even some experienced users fell for that one.
riaa.org is reported as inaccessible.
So there.
Go To http://www.namebase.org/ -> "The document contains no data"
It's not the best way to attain the highest positions on Google (nor on other engines, for that matter) if you ask me...
>> Nike (child-labor in 3rd world countries)
> Yes, they love to advertise this fact.
Yes, they do
After seeing a poster of a sysadm bombarded with WHAT?
/*" at the prompt and hovering the middle finger over the return key while looking at his employer and saying: "Won't you give me a pwesent, pwetty pwease?"
The only way for a sysadm to get a present is writing "rm -r
> have any clear idea what these kids are
> doing online, or just how significant
> cultures like gaming and coding have become.
I'm not so inclined as you seem to be to consider this a Bad Thing.
I know I would like to be able to see what could happen when something labeled as a "kids' thing" (secret meetings in treehouses spring to my mind) is so similar to the mainstream culture of our future. I'm curious to see what would happen if kids are left alone (and this almost always happened, one way or the other) talking and meeting over things that will actually shape our world (and this never happened, as far as I know).
I'm not sure that the "help" adults would like to provide wouldn't be more like passing them their prejudices and imagination boundaries.
> Although they consider themselves
> ferocious defenders of free speech, in
> theory, in practice many find
> differing opinions infuriating.
Maybe, but so what? There is a big difference between defending freedom of speech and agreeing with everyone. There are many opinions that I don't like at all and some of them make me want to puke, but I consider myself a defender of free speech, too. Freedom of speech is not made for protecting speech you like, it's for protecting the one you DON'T like.
I would even go as far as saying that a self-appointed advocate of free speech who violently (metaphorically speaking, of course) argues all the time is much more "wise" than those who never seriously argued with anyone.