I would like to share with you a story - a story of pain, rejection, denial,
loneliness, and perhaps, at the end, triumph and a happy ending. This story
begins just three short years ago...
I was in my senior year of highschool, and as was the style at the time, I was
very much interested in computers. I loved to take them apart, figure out how
they worked, write programs with Microsoft's fine development environment,
Visual Studio. As was also the
style at the time, I loved to read webpages, in particularly, Slashdot.org. Perhaps you can guess what happened
next. I began to slowly change - I developed an unhealthy obsession with
computers, began to dislike and openly question America's policies, started
shamelessly pirating music and software, and most dangerously, got turned on to
that most deviant operating system of all - Linux.
Now I know many of you must be shaking your head in disgust at this point -
"This must just be another one of those M$ trolls, hardee har har," but please,
hear me out. This is very important.
As time went on, I got deeper and deeper in the Linux underground. I progressed
through the various levels of "distros," from Mandrake, to Suse, to RedHat,
finally to Debian, like a drug user going from harmless marijuana to cocaine and
heroin. I thought I was so smart; I began sneering at other people who didn't
use Linux - "Clueless Windo$e luzers," I would say. I was changing outwardly as
well. I became a loner, hunched over the keyboard late into the night with the
lights off, listening to my illegally downloaded music. All my friends left
me after I broke their computers trying to install Linux on them. My hair grew
long and unkempt, I stopped bathing and using deodorant, calling them "tools of
capitalism and American greed." I got fired from my sysadmin job for installing
slackware over the Solaris servers, and installing Debian over the Windows
desktops. My bosses told me I cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars,
but I would not listen. "How could I be wrong, I'm using Linux?" I thought,
"They must be M$ shills." You can see how far gone I was. No girls would look at
me, let alone speak to me. I was in a world of pain, anger, and confusion.
But, then one day, I took a long hard look at myself. I saw that something was
wrong, but did not know what. I must confess, for a long time I denied what I
knew deep down inside my heart - Linux was the cause of all my troubles. I saw
what I had allowed myself to become. I was no longer a human being, I was a
Linux Zealot. Instead of judging people by their thoughts, feelings, and
actions, I judged them by their choice of Operating System. And so began the
long road toward recovery...
I am still not fully recovered from my affliction, for you see, I have only
one desktop machine, and cannot install Windows without losing much of my data.
That's right, I am healthy enough to admit it, Linux is not for desktop use. I
am planning my next desktop machine purchase, which will be an Apple iBook. The
one good thing that came out of my years of torment is that I learned the power
of Unix. Therefore, I will use MacOSX - a true Unix with excellent support and
commercial software backing, something Linux will never have. By paying for my
software from now on, I will be supporting the American economy. I want to help
get America out of this economic tailspin
brought on by open source software and
the dot com bust. More importantly, I
will no longer be an operating system zealot. I will be friendly, kind, and
generous to my fellow humans, no matter which operating system they use. I am
now slowly regaining my friends, and last weekend I actually got invited to a
party - my first party! Perhaps this weekend I will ask a cute girl out
on a date. Since I have cleaned myself up and changed my attitude, I have
noticed a few girls giving me flirty looks around campus. I'm so excited about
my new life!
Please, Fellow Readers of Slashdot, I implore you to look at what you have
become. Although it will be long and difficult, you too can change. I have faith
in that. You can start by saying this with me - "Microsoft is not evil, Linux is
not good for the desktop." Repeat that every time you feel yourself slipping.
Together, we can right this horrible wrong.
I would like to share with you a story - a story of pain, rejection, denial,
loneliness, and perhaps, at the end, triumph and a happy ending. This story
begins just three short years ago...
I was in my senior year of highschool, and as was the style at the time, I was
very much interested in computers. I loved to take them apart, figure out how
they worked, write programs with Microsoft's fine development environment,
Visual Studio. As was also the
style at the time, I loved to read webpages, in particularly, Slashdot.org. Perhaps you can guess what happened
next. I began to slowly change - I developed an unhealthy obsession with
computers, began to dislike and openly question America's policies, started
shamelessly pirating music and software, and most dangerously, got turned on to
that most deviant operating system of all - Linux.
Now I know many of you must be shaking your head in disgust at this point -
"This must just be another one of those M$ trolls, hardee har har," but please,
hear me out. This is very important.
As time went on, I got deeper and deeper in the Linux underground. I progressed
through the various levels of "distros," from Mandrake, to Suse, to RedHat,
finally to Debian, like a drug user going from harmless marijuana to cocaine and
heroin. I thought I was so smart; I began sneering at other people who didn't
use Linux - "Clueless Windo$e luzers," I would say. I was changing outwardly as
well. I became a loner, hunched over the keyboard late into the night with the
lights off, listening to my illegally downloaded music. All my friends left
me after I broke their computers trying to install Linux on them. My hair grew
long and unkempt, I stopped bathing and using deodorant, calling them "tools of
capitalism and American greed." I got fired from my sysadmin job for installing
slackware over the Solaris servers, and installing Debian over the Windows
desktops. My bosses told me I cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars,
but I would not listen. "How could I be wrong, I'm using Linux?" I thought,
"They must be M$ shills." You can see how far gone I was. No girls would look at
me, let alone speak to me. I was in a world of pain, anger, and confusion.
But, then one day, I took a long hard look at myself. I saw that something was
wrong, but did not know what. I must confess, for a long time I denied what I
knew deep down inside my heart - Linux was the cause of all my troubles. I saw
what I had allowed myself to become. I was no longer a human being, I was a
Linux Zealot. Instead of judging people by their thoughts, feelings, and
actions, I judged them by their choice of Operating System. And so began the
long road toward recovery...
I am still not fully recovered from my affliction, for you see, I have only
one desktop machine, and cannot install Windows without losing much of my data.
That's right, I am healthy enough to admit it, Linux is not for desktop use. I
am planning my next desktop machine purchase, which will be an Apple iBook. The
one good thing that came out of my years of torment is that I learned the power
of Unix. Therefore, I will use MacOSX - a true Unix with excellent support and
commercial software backing, something Linux will never have. By paying for my
software from now on, I will be supporting the American economy. I want to help
get America out of this economic tailspin
brought on by open source software and
the dot com bust. More importantly, I
will no longer be an operating system zealot. I will be friendly, kind, and
generous to my fellow humans, no matter which operating system they use. I am
now slowly regaining my friends, and last weekend I actually got invited to a
party - my first party! Perhaps this weekend I will ask a cute girl out
on a date. Since I have cleaned myself up and changed my attitude, I have
noticed a few girls giving me flirty looks around campus. I'm so excited about
my new life!
Please, Fellow Readers of Slashdot, I implore you to look at what you have
become. Although it will be long and difficult, you too can change. I have faith
in that. You can start by saying this with me - "Microsoft is not evil, Linux is
not good for the desktop." Repeat that every time you feel yourself slipping.
Together, we can right this horrible wrong.
I would like to share with you a story - a story of pain, rejection, denial,
loneliness, and perhaps, at the end, triumph and a happy ending. This story
begins just three short years ago...
I was in my senior year of highschool, and as was the style at the time, I was
very much interested in computers. I loved to take them apart, figure out how
they worked, write programs with Microsoft's fine development environment,
Visual Studio. As was also the
style at the time, I loved to read webpages, in particularly, Slashdot.org. Perhaps you can guess what happened
next. I began to slowly change - I developed an unhealthy obsession with
computers, began to dislike and openly question America's policies, started
shamelessly pirating music and software, and most dangerously, got turned on to
that most deviant operating system of all - Linux.
Now I know many of you must be shaking your head in disgust at this point -
"This must just be another one of those M$ trolls, hardee har har," but please,
hear me out. This is very important.
As time went on, I got deeper and deeper in the Linux underground. I progressed
through the various levels of "distros," from Mandrake, to Suse, to RedHat,
finally to Debian, like a drug user going from harmless marijuana to cocaine and
heroin. I thought I was so smart; I began sneering at other people who didn't
use Linux - "Clueless Windo$e luzers," I would say. I was changing outwardly as
well. I became a loner, hunched over the keyboard late into the night with the
lights off, listening to my illegally downloaded music. All my friends left
me after I broke their computers trying to install Linux on them. My hair grew
long and unkempt, I stopped bathing and using deodorant, calling them "tools of
capitalism and American greed." I got fired from my sysadmin job for installing
slackware over the Solaris servers, and installing Debian over the Windows
desktops. My bosses told me I cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars,
but I would not listen. "How could I be wrong, I'm using Linux?" I thought,
"They must be M$ shills." You can see how far gone I was. No girls would look at
me, let alone speak to me. I was in a world of pain, anger, and confusion.
But, then one day, I took a long hard look at myself. I saw that something was
wrong, but did not know what. I must confess, for a long time I denied what I
knew deep down inside my heart - Linux was the cause of all my troubles. I saw
what I had allowed myself to become. I was no longer a human being, I was a
Linux Zealot. Instead of judging people by their thoughts, feelings, and
actions, I judged them by their choice of Operating System. And so began the
long road toward recovery...
I am still not fully recovered from my affliction, for you see, I have only
one desktop machine, and cannot install Windows without losing much of my data.
That's right, I am healthy enough to admit it, Linux is not for desktop use. I
am planning my next desktop machine purchase, which will be an Apple iBook. The
one good thing that came out of my years of torment is that I learned the power
of Unix. Therefore, I will use MacOSX - a true Unix with excellent support and
commercial software backing, something Linux will never have. By paying for my
software from now on, I will be supporting the American economy. I want to help
get America out of this economic tailspin
brought on by open source software and
the dot com bust. More importantly, I
will no longer be an operating system zealot. I will be friendly, kind, and
generous to my fellow humans, no matter which operating system they use. I am
now slowly regaining my friends, and last weekend I actually got invited to a
party - my first party! Perhaps this weekend I will ask a cute girl out
on a date. Since I have cleaned myself up and changed my attitude, I have
noticed a few girls giving me flirty looks around campus. I'm so excited about
my new life!
Please, Fellow Readers of Slashdot, I implore you to look at what you have
become. Although it will be long and difficult, you too can change. I have faith
in that. You can start by saying this with me - "Microsoft is not evil, Linux is
not good for the desktop." Repeat that every time you feel yourself slipping.
Together, we can right this horrible wrong.
I would like to share with you a story - a story of pain, rejection, denial,
loneliness, and perhaps, at the end, triumph and a happy ending. This story
begins just three short years ago...
I was in my senior year of highschool, and as was the style at the time, I was
very much interested in computers. I loved to take them apart, figure out how
they worked, write programs with Microsoft's fine development environment,
Visual Studio. As was also the
style at the time, I loved to read webpages, in particularly, Slashdot.org. Perhaps you can guess what happened
next. I began to slowly change - I developed an unhealthy obsession with
computers, began to dislike and openly question America's policies, started
shamelessly pirating music and software, and most dangerously, got turned on to
that most deviant operating system of all - Linux.
Now I know many of you must be shaking your head in disgust at this point -
"This must just be another one of those M$ trolls, hardee har har," but please,
hear me out. This is very important.
As time went on, I got deeper and deeper in the Linux underground. I progressed
through the various levels of "distros," from Mandrake, to Suse, to RedHat,
finally to Debian, like a drug user going from harmless marijuana to cocaine and
heroin. I thought I was so smart; I began sneering at other people who didn't
use Linux - "Clueless Windo$e luzers," I would say. I was changing outwardly as
well. I became a loner, hunched over the keyboard late into the night with the
lights off, listening to my illegally downloaded music. All my friends left
me after I broke their computers trying to install Linux on them. My hair grew
long and unkempt, I stopped bathing and using deodorant, calling them "tools of
capitalism and American greed." I got fired from my sysadmin job for installing
slackware over the Solaris servers, and installing Debian over the Windows
desktops. My bosses told me I cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars,
but I would not listen. "How could I be wrong, I'm using Linux?" I thought,
"They must be M$ shills." You can see how far gone I was. No girls would look at
me, let alone speak to me. I was in a world of pain, anger, and confusion.
But, then one day, I took a long hard look at myself. I saw that something was
wrong, but did not know what. I must confess, for a long time I denied what I
knew deep down inside my heart - Linux was the cause of all my troubles. I saw
what I had allowed myself to become. I was no longer a human being, I was a
Linux Zealot. Instead of judging people by their thoughts, feelings, and
actions, I judged them by their choice of Operating System. And so began the
long road toward recovery...
I am still not fully recovered from my affliction, for you see, I have only
one desktop machine, and cannot install Windows without losing much of my data.
That's right, I am healthy enough to admit it, Linux is not for desktop use. I
am planning my next desktop machine purchase, which will be an Apple iBook. The
one good thing that came out of my years of torment is that I learned the power
of Unix. Therefore, I will use MacOSX - a true Unix with excellent support and
commercial software backing, something Linux will never have. By paying for my
software from now on, I will be supporting the American economy. I want to help
get America out of this economic tailspin
brought on by open source software and
the dot com bust. More importantly, I
will no longer be an operating system zealot. I will be friendly, kind, and
generous to my fellow humans, no matter which operating system they use. I am
now slowly regaining my friends, and last weekend I actually got invited to a
party - my first party! Perhaps this weekend I will ask a cute girl out
on a date. Since I have cleaned myself up and changed my attitude, I have
noticed a few girls giving me flirty looks around campus. I'm so excited about
my new life!
Please, Fellow Readers of Slashdot, I implore you to look at what you have
become. Although it will be long and difficult, you too can change. I have faith
in that. You can start by saying this with me - "Microsoft is not evil, Linux is
not good for the desktop." Repeat that every time you feel yourself slipping.
Together, we can right this horrible wrong.
I would like to share with you a story - a story of pain, rejection, denial,
loneliness, and perhaps, at the end, triumph and a happy ending. This story
begins just three short years ago...
I was in my senior year of highschool, and as was the style at the time, I was
very much interested in computers. I loved to take them apart, figure out how
they worked, write programs with Microsoft's fine development environment,
Visual Studio. As was also the
style at the time, I loved to read webpages, in particularly, Slashdot.org. Perhaps you can guess what happened
next. I began to slowly change - I developed an unhealthy obsession with
computers, began to dislike and openly question America's policies, started
shamelessly pirating music and software, and most dangerously, got turned on to
that most deviant operating system of all - Linux.
Now I know many of you must be shaking your head in disgust at this point -
"This must just be another one of those M$ trolls, hardee har har," but please,
hear me out. This is very important.
As time went on, I got deeper and deeper in the Linux underground. I progressed
through the various levels of "distros," from Mandrake, to Suse, to RedHat,
finally to Debian, like a drug user going from harmless marijuana to cocaine and
heroin. I thought I was so smart; I began sneering at other people who didn't
use Linux - "Clueless Windo$e luzers," I would say. I was changing outwardly as
well. I became a loner, hunched over the keyboard late into the night with the
lights off, listening to my illegally downloaded music. All my friends left
me after I broke their computers trying to install Linux on them. My hair grew
long and unkempt, I stopped bathing and using deodorant, calling them "tools of
capitalism and American greed." I got fired from my sysadmin job for installing
slackware over the Solaris servers, and installing Debian over the Windows
desktops. My bosses told me I cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars,
but I would not listen. "How could I be wrong, I'm using Linux?" I thought,
"They must be M$ shills." You can see how far gone I was. No girls would look at
me, let alone speak to me. I was in a world of pain, anger, and confusion.
But, then one day, I took a long hard look at myself. I saw that something was
wrong, but did not know what. I must confess, for a long time I denied what I
knew deep down inside my heart - Linux was the cause of all my troubles. I saw
what I had allowed myself to become. I was no longer a human being, I was a
Linux Zealot. Instead of judging people by their thoughts, feelings, and
actions, I judged them by their choice of Operating System. And so began the
long road toward recovery...
I am still not fully recovered from my affliction, for you see, I have only
one desktop machine, and cannot install Windows without losing much of my data.
That's right, I am healthy enough to admit it, Linux is not for desktop use. I
am planning my next desktop machine purchase, which will be an Apple iBook. The
one good thing that came out of my years of torment is that I learned the power
of Unix. Therefore, I will use MacOSX - a true Unix with excellent support and
commercial software backing, something Linux will never have. By paying for my
software from now on, I will be supporting the American economy. I want to help
get America out of this economic tailspin
brought on by open source software and
the dot com bust. More importantly, I
will no longer be an operating system zealot. I will be friendly, kind, and
generous to my fellow humans, no matter which operating system they use. I am
now slowly regaining my friends, and last weekend I actually got invited to a
party - my first party! Perhaps this weekend I will ask a cute girl out
on a date. Since I have cleaned myself up and changed my attitude, I have
noticed a few girls giving me flirty looks around campus. I'm so excited about
my new life!
Please, Fellow Readers of Slashdot, I implore you to look at what you have
become. Although it will be long and difficult, you too can change. I have faith
in that. You can start by saying this with me - "Microsoft is not evil, Linux is
not good for the desktop." Repeat that every time you feel yourself slipping.
Together, we can right this horrible wrong.
And you, Good Sir, are a prime example of everything that is right with Slashdot, which is little. If moderation had any bearing on reality, this post would be modded up to +5(Insightful). Unfortunately, I fear this will not happen, and the +1 viewing masses will go on clueless as always.
Well, according to the First Post Convention 1947, ACs are not allowed to retain the FP, so they are always stripped and given to the rightful Logged In Troll.
However, I fully support this effort.
In Eros and Civilization, Marcuse stated that in advanced industrial society, with its rationalization of authority as administration, "Rebellion now appears as the crime against the whole of human society and therefore as beyond reward and beyond redemption."
That statement appears quaint after Margaret Thatcher enlightened western civilization about the non-existence of society. When the wealthy rebel against society, the only sense in which their crime seems to be "beyond reward" is that it cannot be rewarded highly enough.
In the 1961 preface to the Vintage Edition of E&C, Marcuse gave us a key to solving this paradox: he proposed the concept of "repressive de-sublimation" as the converse to the "non-repressive sublimation" he had discussed in the text. "The most telling illustration is provided by the methodical introduction of sexiness into business, politics, propaganda, etc."
Substitute 'rebelliousness' for 'sexiness' and you get the right-wing libertarian ethos. The dot.com phantasmagoria brims with both commercialized fuck me sexiness and totalitarian fuck you rebelliousness. What, then, remains for those who would genuinely oppose a 'non-society' of de-sublimated surplus-repression?
In accordance with the First Post Convention, 1947, you will have to be stripped of the FP. I hearby award this FP to it's rightful owner, Pr0n K1ng. Please log in next time.
Sorry, but you're an idiot. A libertarian government would be the worst thing that could happen to us. The libertarian nut-jobs would turn us over to the coporate powerhouses much quicker than the Democrats and Republicans. I'd much rather live under incompetent boobs like Bush Jr. than the efficient empire-building of McNealy, Ellison, Gates, and Case.
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There is something to be said about killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, as well.
I would like to share with you a story - a story of pain, rejection, denial, loneliness, and perhaps, at the end, triumph and a happy ending. This story begins just three short years ago...
I was in my senior year of highschool, and as was the style at the time, I was very much interested in computers. I loved to take them apart, figure out how they worked, write programs with Microsoft's fine development environment, Visual Studio. As was also the style at the time, I loved to read webpages, in particularly, Slashdot.org. Perhaps you can guess what happened next. I began to slowly change - I developed an unhealthy obsession with computers, began to dislike and openly question America's policies, started shamelessly pirating music and software, and most dangerously, got turned on to that most deviant operating system of all - Linux.
Now I know many of you must be shaking your head in disgust at this point - "This must just be another one of those M$ trolls, hardee har har," but please, hear me out. This is very important.
As time went on, I got deeper and deeper in the Linux underground. I progressed through the various levels of "distros," from Mandrake, to Suse, to RedHat, finally to Debian, like a drug user going from harmless marijuana to cocaine and heroin. I thought I was so smart; I began sneering at other people who didn't use Linux - "Clueless Windo$e luzers," I would say. I was changing outwardly as well. I became a loner, hunched over the keyboard late into the night with the lights off, listening to my illegally downloaded music. All my friends left me after I broke their computers trying to install Linux on them. My hair grew long and unkempt, I stopped bathing and using deodorant, calling them "tools of capitalism and American greed." I got fired from my sysadmin job for installing slackware over the Solaris servers, and installing Debian over the Windows desktops. My bosses told me I cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars, but I would not listen. "How could I be wrong, I'm using Linux?" I thought, "They must be M$ shills." You can see how far gone I was. No girls would look at me, let alone speak to me. I was in a world of pain, anger, and confusion.
But, then one day, I took a long hard look at myself. I saw that something was wrong, but did not know what. I must confess, for a long time I denied what I knew deep down inside my heart - Linux was the cause of all my troubles. I saw what I had allowed myself to become. I was no longer a human being, I was a Linux Zealot. Instead of judging people by their thoughts, feelings, and actions, I judged them by their choice of Operating System. And so began the long road toward recovery...
I am still not fully recovered from my affliction, for you see, I have only one desktop machine, and cannot install Windows without losing much of my data. That's right, I am healthy enough to admit it, Linux is not for desktop use. I am planning my next desktop machine purchase, which will be an Apple iBook. The one good thing that came out of my years of torment is that I learned the power of Unix. Therefore, I will use MacOSX - a true Unix with excellent support and commercial software backing, something Linux will never have. By paying for my software from now on, I will be supporting the American economy. I want to help get America out of this economic tailspin brought on by open source software and the dot com bust. More importantly, I will no longer be an operating system zealot. I will be friendly, kind, and generous to my fellow humans, no matter which operating system they use. I am now slowly regaining my friends, and last weekend I actually got invited to a party - my first party! Perhaps this weekend I will ask a cute girl out on a date. Since I have cleaned myself up and changed my attitude, I have noticed a few girls giving me flirty looks around campus. I'm so excited about my new life!
Please, Fellow Readers of Slashdot, I implore you to look at what you have become. Although it will be long and difficult, you too can change. I have faith in that. You can start by saying this with me - "Microsoft is not evil, Linux is not good for the desktop." Repeat that every time you feel yourself slipping. Together, we can right this horrible wrong.
Thank You.
Companies that give away their product for free don't last long! Who would'a thunk it?
I would like to share with you a story - a story of pain, rejection, denial, loneliness, and perhaps, at the end, triumph and a happy ending. This story begins just three short years ago...
I was in my senior year of highschool, and as was the style at the time, I was very much interested in computers. I loved to take them apart, figure out how they worked, write programs with Microsoft's fine development environment, Visual Studio. As was also the style at the time, I loved to read webpages, in particularly, Slashdot.org. Perhaps you can guess what happened next. I began to slowly change - I developed an unhealthy obsession with computers, began to dislike and openly question America's policies, started shamelessly pirating music and software, and most dangerously, got turned on to that most deviant operating system of all - Linux.
Now I know many of you must be shaking your head in disgust at this point - "This must just be another one of those M$ trolls, hardee har har," but please, hear me out. This is very important.
As time went on, I got deeper and deeper in the Linux underground. I progressed through the various levels of "distros," from Mandrake, to Suse, to RedHat, finally to Debian, like a drug user going from harmless marijuana to cocaine and heroin. I thought I was so smart; I began sneering at other people who didn't use Linux - "Clueless Windo$e luzers," I would say. I was changing outwardly as well. I became a loner, hunched over the keyboard late into the night with the lights off, listening to my illegally downloaded music. All my friends left me after I broke their computers trying to install Linux on them. My hair grew long and unkempt, I stopped bathing and using deodorant, calling them "tools of capitalism and American greed." I got fired from my sysadmin job for installing slackware over the Solaris servers, and installing Debian over the Windows desktops. My bosses told me I cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars, but I would not listen. "How could I be wrong, I'm using Linux?" I thought, "They must be M$ shills." You can see how far gone I was. No girls would look at me, let alone speak to me. I was in a world of pain, anger, and confusion.
But, then one day, I took a long hard look at myself. I saw that something was wrong, but did not know what. I must confess, for a long time I denied what I knew deep down inside my heart - Linux was the cause of all my troubles. I saw what I had allowed myself to become. I was no longer a human being, I was a Linux Zealot. Instead of judging people by their thoughts, feelings, and actions, I judged them by their choice of Operating System. And so began the long road toward recovery...
I am still not fully recovered from my affliction, for you see, I have only one desktop machine, and cannot install Windows without losing much of my data. That's right, I am healthy enough to admit it, Linux is not for desktop use. I am planning my next desktop machine purchase, which will be an Apple iBook. The one good thing that came out of my years of torment is that I learned the power of Unix. Therefore, I will use MacOSX - a true Unix with excellent support and commercial software backing, something Linux will never have. By paying for my software from now on, I will be supporting the American economy. I want to help get America out of this economic tailspin brought on by open source software and the dot com bust. More importantly, I will no longer be an operating system zealot. I will be friendly, kind, and generous to my fellow humans, no matter which operating system they use. I am now slowly regaining my friends, and last weekend I actually got invited to a party - my first party! Perhaps this weekend I will ask a cute girl out on a date. Since I have cleaned myself up and changed my attitude, I have noticed a few girls giving me flirty looks around campus. I'm so excited about my new life!
Please, Fellow Readers of Slashdot, I implore you to look at what you have become. Although it will be long and difficult, you too can change. I have faith in that. You can start by saying this with me - "Microsoft is not evil, Linux is not good for the desktop." Repeat that every time you feel yourself slipping. Together, we can right this horrible wrong.
Thank You.
I would like to share with you a story - a story of pain, rejection, denial, loneliness, and perhaps, at the end, triumph and a happy ending. This story begins just three short years ago...
I was in my senior year of highschool, and as was the style at the time, I was very much interested in computers. I loved to take them apart, figure out how they worked, write programs with Microsoft's fine development environment, Visual Studio. As was also the style at the time, I loved to read webpages, in particularly, Slashdot.org. Perhaps you can guess what happened next. I began to slowly change - I developed an unhealthy obsession with computers, began to dislike and openly question America's policies, started shamelessly pirating music and software, and most dangerously, got turned on to that most deviant operating system of all - Linux.
Now I know many of you must be shaking your head in disgust at this point - "This must just be another one of those M$ trolls, hardee har har," but please, hear me out. This is very important.
As time went on, I got deeper and deeper in the Linux underground. I progressed through the various levels of "distros," from Mandrake, to Suse, to RedHat, finally to Debian, like a drug user going from harmless marijuana to cocaine and heroin. I thought I was so smart; I began sneering at other people who didn't use Linux - "Clueless Windo$e luzers," I would say. I was changing outwardly as well. I became a loner, hunched over the keyboard late into the night with the lights off, listening to my illegally downloaded music. All my friends left me after I broke their computers trying to install Linux on them. My hair grew long and unkempt, I stopped bathing and using deodorant, calling them "tools of capitalism and American greed." I got fired from my sysadmin job for installing slackware over the Solaris servers, and installing Debian over the Windows desktops. My bosses told me I cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars, but I would not listen. "How could I be wrong, I'm using Linux?" I thought, "They must be M$ shills." You can see how far gone I was. No girls would look at me, let alone speak to me. I was in a world of pain, anger, and confusion.
But, then one day, I took a long hard look at myself. I saw that something was wrong, but did not know what. I must confess, for a long time I denied what I knew deep down inside my heart - Linux was the cause of all my troubles. I saw what I had allowed myself to become. I was no longer a human being, I was a Linux Zealot. Instead of judging people by their thoughts, feelings, and actions, I judged them by their choice of Operating System. And so began the long road toward recovery...
I am still not fully recovered from my affliction, for you see, I have only one desktop machine, and cannot install Windows without losing much of my data. That's right, I am healthy enough to admit it, Linux is not for desktop use. I am planning my next desktop machine purchase, which will be an Apple iBook. The one good thing that came out of my years of torment is that I learned the power of Unix. Therefore, I will use MacOSX - a true Unix with excellent support and commercial software backing, something Linux will never have. By paying for my software from now on, I will be supporting the American economy. I want to help get America out of this economic tailspin brought on by open source software and the dot com bust. More importantly, I will no longer be an operating system zealot. I will be friendly, kind, and generous to my fellow humans, no matter which operating system they use. I am now slowly regaining my friends, and last weekend I actually got invited to a party - my first party! Perhaps this weekend I will ask a cute girl out on a date. Since I have cleaned myself up and changed my attitude, I have noticed a few girls giving me flirty looks around campus. I'm so excited about my new life!
Please, Fellow Readers of Slashdot, I implore you to look at what you have become. Although it will be long and difficult, you too can change. I have faith in that. You can start by saying this with me - "Microsoft is not evil, Linux is not good for the desktop." Repeat that every time you feel yourself slipping. Together, we can right this horrible wrong.
Thank You.
The parent post should be modded +5(Insightful) because it mentions the Dead Kennedys. Thank you.
I would like to share with you a story - a story of pain, rejection, denial, loneliness, and perhaps, at the end, triumph and a happy ending. This story begins just three short years ago...
I was in my senior year of highschool, and as was the style at the time, I was very much interested in computers. I loved to take them apart, figure out how they worked, write programs with Microsoft's fine development environment, Visual Studio. As was also the style at the time, I loved to read webpages, in particularly, Slashdot.org. Perhaps you can guess what happened next. I began to slowly change - I developed an unhealthy obsession with computers, began to dislike and openly question America's policies, started shamelessly pirating music and software, and most dangerously, got turned on to that most deviant operating system of all - Linux.
Now I know many of you must be shaking your head in disgust at this point - "This must just be another one of those M$ trolls, hardee har har," but please, hear me out. This is very important.
As time went on, I got deeper and deeper in the Linux underground. I progressed through the various levels of "distros," from Mandrake, to Suse, to RedHat, finally to Debian, like a drug user going from harmless marijuana to cocaine and heroin. I thought I was so smart; I began sneering at other people who didn't use Linux - "Clueless Windo$e luzers," I would say. I was changing outwardly as well. I became a loner, hunched over the keyboard late into the night with the lights off, listening to my illegally downloaded music. All my friends left me after I broke their computers trying to install Linux on them. My hair grew long and unkempt, I stopped bathing and using deodorant, calling them "tools of capitalism and American greed." I got fired from my sysadmin job for installing slackware over the Solaris servers, and installing Debian over the Windows desktops. My bosses told me I cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars, but I would not listen. "How could I be wrong, I'm using Linux?" I thought, "They must be M$ shills." You can see how far gone I was. No girls would look at me, let alone speak to me. I was in a world of pain, anger, and confusion.
But, then one day, I took a long hard look at myself. I saw that something was wrong, but did not know what. I must confess, for a long time I denied what I knew deep down inside my heart - Linux was the cause of all my troubles. I saw what I had allowed myself to become. I was no longer a human being, I was a Linux Zealot. Instead of judging people by their thoughts, feelings, and actions, I judged them by their choice of Operating System. And so began the long road toward recovery...
I am still not fully recovered from my affliction, for you see, I have only one desktop machine, and cannot install Windows without losing much of my data. That's right, I am healthy enough to admit it, Linux is not for desktop use. I am planning my next desktop machine purchase, which will be an Apple iBook. The one good thing that came out of my years of torment is that I learned the power of Unix. Therefore, I will use MacOSX - a true Unix with excellent support and commercial software backing, something Linux will never have. By paying for my software from now on, I will be supporting the American economy. I want to help get America out of this economic tailspin brought on by open source software and the dot com bust. More importantly, I will no longer be an operating system zealot. I will be friendly, kind, and generous to my fellow humans, no matter which operating system they use. I am now slowly regaining my friends, and last weekend I actually got invited to a party - my first party! Perhaps this weekend I will ask a cute girl out on a date. Since I have cleaned myself up and changed my attitude, I have noticed a few girls giving me flirty looks around campus. I'm so excited about my new life!
Please, Fellow Readers of Slashdot, I implore you to look at what you have become. Although it will be long and difficult, you too can change. I have faith in that. You can start by saying this with me - "Microsoft is not evil, Linux is not good for the desktop." Repeat that every time you feel yourself slipping. Together, we can right this horrible wrong.
Thank You.
I would like to share with you a story - a story of pain, rejection, denial, loneliness, and perhaps, at the end, triumph and a happy ending. This story begins just three short years ago...
I was in my senior year of highschool, and as was the style at the time, I was very much interested in computers. I loved to take them apart, figure out how they worked, write programs with Microsoft's fine development environment, Visual Studio. As was also the style at the time, I loved to read webpages, in particularly, Slashdot.org. Perhaps you can guess what happened next. I began to slowly change - I developed an unhealthy obsession with computers, began to dislike and openly question America's policies, started shamelessly pirating music and software, and most dangerously, got turned on to that most deviant operating system of all - Linux.
Now I know many of you must be shaking your head in disgust at this point - "This must just be another one of those M$ trolls, hardee har har," but please, hear me out. This is very important.
As time went on, I got deeper and deeper in the Linux underground. I progressed through the various levels of "distros," from Mandrake, to Suse, to RedHat, finally to Debian, like a drug user going from harmless marijuana to cocaine and heroin. I thought I was so smart; I began sneering at other people who didn't use Linux - "Clueless Windo$e luzers," I would say. I was changing outwardly as well. I became a loner, hunched over the keyboard late into the night with the lights off, listening to my illegally downloaded music. All my friends left me after I broke their computers trying to install Linux on them. My hair grew long and unkempt, I stopped bathing and using deodorant, calling them "tools of capitalism and American greed." I got fired from my sysadmin job for installing slackware over the Solaris servers, and installing Debian over the Windows desktops. My bosses told me I cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars, but I would not listen. "How could I be wrong, I'm using Linux?" I thought, "They must be M$ shills." You can see how far gone I was. No girls would look at me, let alone speak to me. I was in a world of pain, anger, and confusion.
But, then one day, I took a long hard look at myself. I saw that something was wrong, but did not know what. I must confess, for a long time I denied what I knew deep down inside my heart - Linux was the cause of all my troubles. I saw what I had allowed myself to become. I was no longer a human being, I was a Linux Zealot. Instead of judging people by their thoughts, feelings, and actions, I judged them by their choice of Operating System. And so began the long road toward recovery...
I am still not fully recovered from my affliction, for you see, I have only one desktop machine, and cannot install Windows without losing much of my data. That's right, I am healthy enough to admit it, Linux is not for desktop use. I am planning my next desktop machine purchase, which will be an Apple iBook. The one good thing that came out of my years of torment is that I learned the power of Unix. Therefore, I will use MacOSX - a true Unix with excellent support and commercial software backing, something Linux will never have. By paying for my software from now on, I will be supporting the American economy. I want to help get America out of this economic tailspin brought on by open source software and the dot com bust. More importantly, I will no longer be an operating system zealot. I will be friendly, kind, and generous to my fellow humans, no matter which operating system they use. I am now slowly regaining my friends, and last weekend I actually got invited to a party - my first party! Perhaps this weekend I will ask a cute girl out on a date. Since I have cleaned myself up and changed my attitude, I have noticed a few girls giving me flirty looks around campus. I'm so excited about my new life!
Please, Fellow Readers of Slashdot, I implore you to look at what you have become. Although it will be long and difficult, you too can change. I have faith in that. You can start by saying this with me - "Microsoft is not evil, Linux is not good for the desktop." Repeat that every time you feel yourself slipping. Together, we can right this horrible wrong.
Thank You.
Good Day to you, Sir.
Here comes the bus!
Hey Fuck You!!!!
Good day to you, Sir.
Fuck You!!! Yeah, you. Thanks.
Well, according to the First Post Convention 1947, ACs are not allowed to retain the FP, so they are always stripped and given to the rightful Logged In Troll. However, I fully support this effort.
Hey, get off my lawn!!!
and ACs cannot have the FP. YOINK!
In Eros and Civilization, Marcuse stated that in advanced industrial
society, with its rationalization of authority as administration,
"Rebellion now appears as the crime against the whole of human society and
therefore as beyond reward and beyond redemption."
That statement appears quaint after Margaret Thatcher enlightened western
civilization about the non-existence of society. When the wealthy rebel
against society, the only sense in which their crime seems to be "beyond
reward" is that it cannot be rewarded highly enough.
In the 1961 preface to the Vintage Edition of E&C, Marcuse gave us a key
to solving this paradox: he proposed the concept of "repressive
de-sublimation" as the converse to the "non-repressive sublimation" he had
discussed in the text. "The most telling illustration is provided by the
methodical introduction of sexiness into business, politics, propaganda,
etc."
Substitute 'rebelliousness' for 'sexiness' and you get the right-wing
libertarian ethos. The dot.com phantasmagoria brims with both
commercialized fuck me sexiness and totalitarian fuck you
rebelliousness. What, then, remains for those who would genuinely oppose a
'non-society' of de-sublimated surplus-repression?
In accordance with the First Post Convention, 1947, you will have to be stripped of the FP. I hearby award this FP to it's rightful owner, Pr0n K1ng. Please log in next time.
Thank you.
GNOME is already dead. Viva KDE!!
Sorry, but you're an idiot. A libertarian government would be the worst thing that could happen to us. The libertarian nut-jobs would turn us over to the coporate powerhouses much quicker than the Democrats and Republicans. I'd much rather live under incompetent boobs like Bush Jr. than the efficient empire-building of McNealy, Ellison, Gates, and Case.
filler
IAgreeWithThisPost.
Excellent First, Sir. Although I am not a fan of the squarepants, I applaud your fine effort to keep the FP away from the AC troglodytes.
Mod this post up. I need some points. Wednesday is my birthday. Thank you.
Congrats on the excellent FP!