Why Slashdot Sucks
I work with a bunch of geeks. And that's okay. They do their thing and I do mine. Most of the time I'm happy for them, that they get joy and happiness out of playing with electronics. Admittedly I disagree with a lot of their thoughts about life. People used to believe that the Earth was the center of the universe, then it was the sun, but now we all know that the computer is the focal point of the universe, projecting its cathode ray goodness on our souls. You can't eat, sleep, breathe, live or run a business without one, or so we're told.
--->
But if there's one thing I have no tolerance for, it's the geek phenomenon known as slashdot.org, the sorriest case for content on the web I've ever seen pawned off and gleefully accepted by the masses.
When I look at magazines, newspapers, or any other source of information, I judge them on three items: usefulness/uniqueness of content, quality of that content, and the depth of coverage regarding that content.
Slashdot has none of these things. And yet people try to convince me that the people who run that website are working hard at it.
Say what?
That's right - when Andover.net filed its IPO, making the editors of Slashdot instant wannabe millionaires, someone in the office said "Those guys put in a lot of hard work, and they deserve the success."
Now, I write code for a living, and I work hard at it, so I have a good idea of how slashdot operates. I guarantee you that the entire website is little more than leftover code from college projects and other unrelated work. At the very best, it is ill-conceived and poorly developed, which explains in part why the interface is so miserably awful, and the site is unbelievably slow.
Let's theorize what goes on in the average day of the slashdot editors:
10:42 AM - get out of bed.
10:45 AM - first Dr Pepper of the day.
10:46 AM - unglue keyboard from desk, check stock market.
10:56 AM - find a few interesting tech stories on the web. This is easy, since users send them to us all the time.
11:04 AM - post said stories to slashdot, disregarding spelling and journalistic impartiality.
11:08 AM - start playing Quake 3 (or whatever the game of the moment is).
3:15 AM - go to sleep.
If I'm wrong about anything, it's that they get up even later than that. And I couldn't figure out what time that order the pizza for dinner. But they have pepperoni on them.
Content - The content of slashdot is, admittedly, targeted towards geeks. But apparently not very smart ones. Regardless of the target audience, the content is never challenging - it never pushes the reader to think. Have we become a society where the last place you really exercise your brain is in grammar school? The average news article on slashdot is little more than a snippet from some tech rag about a new product that everyone loves, usually with an editorial comment tossed in telling everyone how they should feel about it.
I can get that same crap anywhere else. The TV tells me what to think, newspapers and magazines back them up, and slashdot does the same exact thing and is somehow worshipped as a haven for free thinking.
Quality - Why not try out that spellchecker? One word for you slashdot folks: dictionary. Try one on for size. Work on your spelling and grammar, and once those improve I'll attack the quality of your writing.
Consider this - Jon Katz is the best writer on slashdot. If you're familiar with his work, then you might appreciate that, or you might realize how lousy the writing must be if that's the case.
Katz has written some decent articles for slashdot (In particular, his Hellmouth series). But he's too wrapped up in the medium to see what he writes about. He's too busy dropping buzzwords that define his writing more than his actual content.
But the truly amazing thing about him is - almost everyone who reads slashdot hates Katz. They loathe him. The self-proclaimed geeks who read slashdot don't want to be challenged by his writing. There are people who attack every article he writes, regardless of the content.
Depth - unless its the updated release schedule for the new linux kernel or a new game, you're not going to get much repeat coverage on slashdot. And you're not likely to extract much from an article unless you already knew a certain amount of information about the topic. Once again, the exception might be Katz, who writes multi-part articles, but mostly that's because he's a hopeless wheezebag.
The thing that really scares me is that all sorts of little slashdots are popping up all over the web, popular sources of sludge pawned off on the accepting readers, and we readily accept is all as verse. Is this what 200 years of the Industrial Revolution primed us for? 50 years of television? Or was it something else? In my short lifetime I've watched the quality of information sources decline to a point where coverage is simplistic enough that it could be fictionalized and no one would notice the difference. While people ignore the WTO or slaughters in Burundi, Angola, Cambodia, anywhere else to devote coverage to wonder drugs, the newest Internet craze, the Hollywood minute, or any other sort of "News you can use."
And now, in a time when information should be even more readily available, so much of it is crap that finding the gems is rarely worth the shit you need to shovel. The sort of crap you find at slashdot instead of insightful knowledge about this increasingly impersonal, computerized world that we all blithely accept and even embrace.
And that is why slashdot sucks. That website isn't encouraging any free thought, any independent thinking, and certainly not any dissenting viewpoints on the information age. And we all accept it, even 'credible' websites like Wired frequently link to slashdot as their source of expert information and news updates.
If you're not directly connected to the information you want, you're not likely to find anything of depth nowadays. And if you have that sort of connection, then why do you need the web in the first place?
As if cars, skyscrapers, television, mini malls, supermarkets, drugs, war, and McRainForest (brought to you by the Big Mac!) weren't enough, now we have to venture out on the web with millions of other people, and not once challenge out horizons or open our minds.
Don't make fun of Emmy award winning retardChris Burke. His moving role as Corky on ABC's Life Goes On has won the accolades of his peers both in Hollywood and in the Retard Sanitorium.
a) CmdrTaco:Cocksnot
b) JonKatz:Child Feces
c) Michael:Adolf Hitler's cryogenically preserved semen
d) Hemos:Tacosnot
e) All of the above are equally analogous
Just what we need. First, the open sores proponents steal code and release it to the public(linux), then they support open-source technology that enables them to steal music(mp3), and now they want to open sores the software used for anti-theft devices so that they can steal cars. Maybe we should close sores the open soresers by putting them where they belong - jail.
As I said earlier on the site that Bukkake is from Japan. The term of Bukkake is
not a sexual term at all. After this explanation of bukkake hopefully you will understand
why the term is not and why it could be a sexual term and fetish. So let me get on to the
explanation of this hot new fetish racing through the American continent.
Bukkake in Japanese is base form of a verb, as it stands alone it is a noun.
Bukkake means splash or heavy squirt. This being said let me give you an example of this
misunderstood word:
SIMPLE EXAMPLE:
Japanese:
boku ha kanojo ni mizu wo bukkaketa.
I& nbsp; her
water splashed
English:
I splashed her with the water.
When adding something to the end of bukkake such as: ta (makes it past tense)
te(command, such as do it) or teru(present) or tai(want to do)
With that being said you could say as well: SIMPLE EXAMPLE:
Japanese:
boku ha kanojo ni mizu wo bukkaketai
I& nbsp; her
water want to splash
English:
I want to splash her with the water.
Either way you know what bukkake means as a word. believe it or not
Japan even has a soup called bukkake udon. That's how much of a normal word it is. This
soup has nothing to do with sex at all. It is a soup that Japanese call bukkake because it
makes the soup sound more appetizing. They put a lot of vegetables and liquid in the soup,
and by calling it bukkake it gives the feeling that the soup was made quickly and its
fresh. As if they splashed the soup together. So maybe that will give you more of an
insight as to the meaning or feeling of the word as well. Now on the the sexual meaning of
it.....
Sexual Definition and History of Bukkake:
Now that you know that bukkake is a term from Japan that means
splash, let me tell you why it is a new sexual fetish.
Around the late 80's early 90's a couple of video companies were
trying to make videos that catered to facial and sperm lovers in Japan. So they decided to
make videos that would consist of a girl getting facial after facial over and over
again.There are many videos series and companies from Japan that do nothing but bukkake
specific videos such as: Soft on Demand, Shuttle, M's video group, Deeps and a few more
smaller companies (these videos are hard to find, but do exist). There are also a list of
great sites and magazines that show this Japanese bukkake fetish such as: gotcum.com or
the magazine Gal's shower. With this information you can do your own research as well as
see examples to cure your own curiosity or sexual desire.
After these Japanese companies did such extreme facial and cum play
videos, pictures and websites; the world caught on like a bon fire in the Evergreen
Forest. Now all countries around the world are trying to emulate what the Japanese have
done with this new and exciting sexual fetish.There are many American videos out as well
other great key players of bukkake media such as Germany or the U.K. Although these
countries have tried to emulate the Japanese, nobody does quite like Japan. so far Japan
has the most exciting and extreme bukkake out.
The Japanese usually have a cute girl sit down in front of a line of
up to 200 men. From there she awaits her huge sperm shower. These men repeatedly give her
facial after facial. These is where the term bukkake is used because it is like they are
splashing her with sperm!! This is not the usual facial you see at the end of a video but
rather a shower of facials over and over again on a willing person. This is what makes the
fetish a group project rather than just something that two people do together. With this
being said, bukkake is not only a fetish but also a sort of orgy.
If you would like to know the different types of bukkake click here.
Now that the fetish on video has blown up so big there are many
parties through out the U.S. being thrown by amateurs doing large bukkake parties. You can
go to the yahoo groups and find many types of bukkake groups who throw parties all the
time. Just do a little research and you are on your way to even being in one of these
parties. You could be a giver or a receiver!!! Its up to you and it is no holds
barred.
So now you know exactly what bukkake means. The true meaning (in the
sexual term) is to splash or squirt a large amount of sperm on a girl (or man, if you are
gay) This being said you are well on your way to knowing more about this great phenomenon
that is bukkake. Go out and have a good time....but please make sure before you do any
parties to make sure everyone is tested for STD's (although they say that aids is
difficult to pass through saliva or semen) Be sure to use your best judgment, or just join
a site or buy videos and be completely safe.
There aren't really a lot of genres of Bukkake, but rather a different way or
additions to them. Here is a simple list that I have came across in the past of this style
of sex.
Forced
Bukkake:
This is were a willing participant acts or seem unwilling to get a facial shower from
several men.
Bukkake
Summit: Here is where a person receives a bukkake shower but tilts their
head back and opens their mouth for the full experience, trying to catch it all. At the
end of all the facials the cum is collected and drank by the target of the bukkake shower.
Costume
Play Bukkake: Here is where a party or video is made in a theme setting
such as a girl wearing a schoolgirl uniform in a schoolroom. She would sit and suck off
each guy in a line waiting. The men repeatedly cum in her mouth or face.
Dream
Shower Bukkake: This is where the group of men have sex with the target. As
one man is having sex the other men watch and cum on the girls face. When the man comes to
his climax he cums on her face and the next man in line has sex with her. This one can
last a while depending on how many men the target is willing to have sex with.
Snowball
or Trade Bukkake: This style of bukkake has two or more targets, which when
receive facials swap the cum from mouth to mouth or lick it off of eat others faces.
Cum
Play Bukkake: Here is where many men cum on the girls face, after which she
plays with the cum. Also the men cum on the girls food and the proceeds to eat the food
with the sperm glazing.
The genre of Bukkake that I listed above are just a few. There are
many more and there are many that are created everyday. You might want to check back to
get new ideas on what can be done with bukkake. I will be listing more styles of bukkake
in the future.
As I said earlier on the site that Bukkake is from Japan. The term of Bukkake is
not a sexual term at all. After this explanation of bukkake hopefully you will understand
why the term is not and why it could be a sexual term and fetish. So let me get on to the
explanation of this hot new fetish racing through the American continent.
Bukkake in Japanese is base form of a verb, as it stands alone it is a noun.
Bukkake means splash or heavy squirt. This being said let me give you an example of this
misunderstood word:
SIMPLE EXAMPLE:
Japanese:
boku ha kanojo ni mizu wo bukkaketa.
I& nbsp; her
water splashed
English:
I splashed her with the water.
When adding something to the end of bukkake such as: ta (makes it past tense)
te(command, such as do it) or teru(present) or tai(want to do)
With that being said you could say as well: SIMPLE EXAMPLE:
Japanese:
boku ha kanojo ni mizu wo bukkaketai
I& nbsp; her
water want to splash
English:
I want to splash her with the water.
Either way you know what bukkake means as a word. believe it or not
Japan even has a soup called bukkake udon. That's how much of a normal word it is. This
soup has nothing to do with sex at all. It is a soup that Japanese call bukkake because it
makes the soup sound more appetizing. They put a lot of vegetables and liquid in the soup,
and by calling it bukkake it gives the feeling that the soup was made quickly and its
fresh. As if they splashed the soup together. So maybe that will give you more of an
insight as to the meaning or feeling of the word as well. Now on the the sexual meaning of
it.....
Sexual Definition and History of Bukkake:
Now that you know that bukkake is a term from Japan that means
splash, let me tell you why it is a new sexual fetish.
Around the late 80's early 90's a couple of video companies were
trying to make videos that catered to facial and sperm lovers in Japan. So they decided to
make videos that would consist of a girl getting facial after facial over and over
again.There are many videos series and companies from Japan that do nothing but bukkake
specific videos such as: Soft on Demand, Shuttle, M's video group, Deeps and a few more
smaller companies (these videos are hard to find, but do exist). There are also a list of
great sites and magazines that show this Japanese bukkake fetish such as: gotcum.com or
the magazine Gal's shower. With this information you can do your own research as well as
see examples to cure your own curiosity or sexual desire.
After these Japanese companies did such extreme facial and cum play
videos, pictures and websites; the world caught on like a bon fire in the Evergreen
Forest. Now all countries around the world are trying to emulate what the Japanese have
done with this new and exciting sexual fetish.There are many American videos out as well
other great key players of bukkake media such as Germany or the U.K. Although these
countries have tried to emulate the Japanese, nobody does quite like Japan. so far Japan
has the most exciting and extreme bukkake out.
The Japanese usually have a cute girl sit down in front of a line of
up to 200 men. From there she awaits her huge sperm shower. These men repeatedly give her
facial after facial. These is where the term bukkake is used because it is like they are
splashing her with sperm!! This is not the usual facial you see at the end of a video but
rather a shower of facials over and over again on a willing person. This is what makes the
fetish a group project rather than just something that two people do together. With this
being said, bukkake is not only a fetish but also a sort of orgy.
If you would like to know the different types of bukkake click here.
Now that the fetish on video has blown up so big there are many
parties through out the U.S. being thrown by amateurs doing large bukkake parties. You can
go to the yahoo groups and find many types of bukkake groups who throw parties all the
time. Just do a little research and you are on your way to even being in one of these
parties. You could be a giver or a receiver!!! Its up to you and it is no holds
barred.
So now you know exactly what bukkake means. The true meaning (in the
sexual term) is to splash or squirt a large amount of sperm on a girl (or man, if you are
gay) This being said you are well on your way to knowing more about this great phenomenon
that is bukkake. Go out and have a good time....but please make sure before you do any
parties to make sure everyone is tested for STD's (although they say that aids is
difficult to pass through saliva or semen) Be sure to use your best judgment, or just join
a site or buy videos and be completely safe.
someone will be able to patch those holes up like the one VA Lunix^H^H^H^H^HSoftware has with its money reserve. Oh wait, they haven't patched that... nevermind.
i like to open sores candy bars and 40oz of old-e at the liquor store. i found out i can make money on open sores, too; i sold some stereo equipment from some guy's car that i open soresed. what about you?
Slashdot Mirror
Not really. Please read this insightful article by Willow John of Journ.com, of which I conveniently reposted here in its entirety.
Why Slashdot Sucks
I work with a bunch of geeks. And that's okay. They do their thing and I do mine. Most of the time I'm happy for them, that they get joy and happiness out of playing with electronics. Admittedly I disagree with a lot of their thoughts about life. People used to believe that the Earth was the center of the universe, then it was the sun, but now we all know that the computer is the focal point of the universe, projecting its cathode ray goodness on our souls. You can't eat, sleep, breathe, live or run a business without one, or so we're told.
---> But if there's one thing I have no tolerance for, it's the geek phenomenon known as slashdot.org, the sorriest case for content on the web I've ever seen pawned off and gleefully accepted by the masses.
When I look at magazines, newspapers, or any other source of information, I judge them on three items: usefulness/uniqueness of content, quality of that content, and the depth of coverage regarding that content.
Slashdot has none of these things. And yet people try to convince me that the people who run that website are working hard at it.
Say what?
That's right - when Andover.net filed its IPO, making the editors of Slashdot instant wannabe millionaires, someone in the office said "Those guys put in a lot of hard work, and they deserve the success."
Now, I write code for a living, and I work hard at it, so I have a good idea of how slashdot operates. I guarantee you that the entire website is little more than leftover code from college projects and other unrelated work. At the very best, it is ill-conceived and poorly developed, which explains in part why the interface is so miserably awful, and the site is unbelievably slow.
Let's theorize what goes on in the average day of the slashdot editors:
10:42 AM - get out of bed.
10:45 AM - first Dr Pepper of the day.
10:46 AM - unglue keyboard from desk, check stock market.
10:56 AM - find a few interesting tech stories on the web. This is easy, since users send them to us all the time.
11:04 AM - post said stories to slashdot, disregarding spelling and journalistic impartiality.
11:08 AM - start playing Quake 3 (or whatever the game of the moment is).
3:15 AM - go to sleep.
If I'm wrong about anything, it's that they get up even later than that. And I couldn't figure out what time that order the pizza for dinner. But they have pepperoni on them.
Content - The content of slashdot is, admittedly, targeted towards geeks. But apparently not very smart ones. Regardless of the target audience, the content is never challenging - it never pushes the reader to think. Have we become a society where the last place you really exercise your brain is in grammar school? The average news article on slashdot is little more than a snippet from some tech rag about a new product that everyone loves, usually with an editorial comment tossed in telling everyone how they should feel about it.
I can get that same crap anywhere else. The TV tells me what to think, newspapers and magazines back them up, and slashdot does the same exact thing and is somehow worshipped as a haven for free thinking.
Quality - Why not try out that spellchecker? One word for you slashdot folks: dictionary. Try one on for size. Work on your spelling and grammar, and once those improve I'll attack the quality of your writing.
Consider this - Jon Katz is the best writer on slashdot. If you're familiar with his work, then you might appreciate that, or you might realize how lousy the writing must be if that's the case.
Katz has written some decent articles for slashdot (In particular, his Hellmouth series). But he's too wrapped up in the medium to see what he writes about. He's too busy dropping buzzwords that define his writing more than his actual content.
But the truly amazing thing about him is - almost everyone who reads slashdot hates Katz. They loathe him. The self-proclaimed geeks who read slashdot don't want to be challenged by his writing. There are people who attack every article he writes, regardless of the content.
Depth - unless its the updated release schedule for the new linux kernel or a new game, you're not going to get much repeat coverage on slashdot. And you're not likely to extract much from an article unless you already knew a certain amount of information about the topic. Once again, the exception might be Katz, who writes multi-part articles, but mostly that's because he's a hopeless wheezebag.
The thing that really scares me is that all sorts of little slashdots are popping up all over the web, popular sources of sludge pawned off on the accepting readers, and we readily accept is all as verse. Is this what 200 years of the Industrial Revolution primed us for? 50 years of television? Or was it something else? In my short lifetime I've watched the quality of information sources decline to a point where coverage is simplistic enough that it could be fictionalized and no one would notice the difference. While people ignore the WTO or slaughters in Burundi, Angola, Cambodia, anywhere else to devote coverage to wonder drugs, the newest Internet craze, the Hollywood minute, or any other sort of "News you can use."
And now, in a time when information should be even more readily available, so much of it is crap that finding the gems is rarely worth the shit you need to shovel. The sort of crap you find at slashdot instead of insightful knowledge about this increasingly impersonal, computerized world that we all blithely accept and even embrace.
And that is why slashdot sucks. That website isn't encouraging any free thought, any independent thinking, and certainly not any dissenting viewpoints on the information age. And we all accept it, even 'credible' websites like Wired frequently link to slashdot as their source of expert information and news updates.
If you're not directly connected to the information you want, you're not likely to find anything of depth nowadays. And if you have that sort of connection, then why do you need the web in the first place?
As if cars, skyscrapers, television, mini malls, supermarkets, drugs, war, and McRainForest (brought to you by the Big Mac!) weren't enough, now we have to venture out on the web with millions of other people, and not once challenge out horizons or open our minds.
Willow John
Obsolete technology lunix perl fags use when they run out of Anal-Eze. Endemic amongst the slashdot editorial community.
Slashdot also has AIDS and syphillis. Not to mention a lot of karma whores like u...
Don't make fun of Emmy award winning retard Chris Burke. His moving role as Corky on ABC's Life Goes On has won the accolades of his peers both in Hollywood and in the Retard Sanitorium.
These parts?
I was a big fan of yours from "Life Goes On"! Will you sign my post? I'll send you a dog biscuit to chew on if you do, mongo!
I thought that was when the stomy gets infected from improper cleaning of the collection bag ring?
Here's a picture
Analogy section:
CowboiKneel:Cold Pork Grease,
a) CmdrTaco:Cocksnot
b) JonKatz:Child Feces
c) Michael:Adolf Hitler's cryogenically preserved semen
d) Hemos:Tacosnot
e) All of the above are equally analogous
how about a lo-fat slashdot? fire katz and cowboikneel today.
hey p_k! how's icy cold canada?
congratulations on getting first post. now, please, do us all a favor and get AIDS you flaming turd-burgler. k thx!
from santa clauses across the world. wow strong is acid is!
Just what we need. First, the open sores proponents steal code and release it to the public(linux), then they support open-source technology that enables them to steal music(mp3), and now they want to open sores the software used for anti-theft devices so that they can steal cars. Maybe we should close sores the open soresers by putting them where they belong - jail.
how far up was it? did you leave the kernel up your willy hole for a few hours, giving the internal wounds time to scab up? then try pissing it out?
or do all you faggots lack a sense of humor?
you work in D-FENS?
fucking post bitches.
boku ha kanojo ni mizu wo bukkaketa.
I& nbsp; her water splashed English:
I splashed her with the water. With that being said you could say as well:
SIMPLE EXAMPLE: Japanese:
boku ha kanojo ni mizu wo bukkaketai
I& nbsp; her water want to splash English:
I want to splash her with the water. Sexual Definition and History of Bukkake:
boku ha kanojo ni mizu wo bukkaketa.
I& nbsp; her water splashed English:
I splashed her with the water. With that being said you could say as well:
SIMPLE EXAMPLE: Japanese:
boku ha kanojo ni mizu wo bukkaketai
I& nbsp; her water want to splash English:
I want to splash her with the water. Sexual Definition and History of Bukkake:
someone will be able to patch those holes up like the one VA Lunix^H^H^H^H^HSoftware has with its money reserve. Oh wait, they haven't patched that... nevermind.
I think I'd rather have to nibble the dingleberries off Ron Jeremy's taint than to have to use Linux again.
To each their own.
what the fuck is an AssClown? did you perform at Mr.'s birthday?
"open sores" means free as in "access to sarcasta's gloryhole", right?
i like to open sores candy bars and 40oz of old-e at the liquor store. i found out i can make money on open sores, too; i sold some stereo equipment from some guy's car that i open soresed. what about you?