Not any more. The same spirit that sysops built and maintained BBSes and the communities that formed around them in the 80s and 90s is what used to drive the web. That sense of fun, enjoyment, contribution, community, education. Where you paid for these things out of your pocket and put in the long hours setting everything up and keeping it running, because you enjoyed the experience and you enjoyed building something that people wanted to use.
Today, every fucking two-bit mommy-blogger has to plaster ads all over their shitty little 5-hits-per-month blog, just to monetize every last possible fucking cent. Spend $5-$100/mo of your own money to fund your project/web-site/whatever? Crazy! Just throw up some ads so that your site looks like shit. And if you can't get rich doing it, fuck it and move on! It's not worth doing if you can't make five cents from it, even if the cost of making that nickel is molesting your site with obnoxious ads.
I spent at least $25k over a period of a dozen years building and maintaining a community for about 100k people. I could have monetized it. I could have charged fees. Subscriptions. Or plastered it in ads. But I didn't. Zero ads. No fees. Even though my site allowed other people to make money and start businesses along the way. But I didn't. Why? Well, it never really even occurred to me. I did it because it was fun. Because I learned things from it. Because it was great to watch so many people form around something *I* did. And then to see it benefit their lives. To see people form friendships (even relationships) out of it. To see cons/gatherings form every year or two out of it. To see external sites around it spring up from other people.
I could have made cash from it, but I didn't. I didn't need to. Not everything has to be done to get rich. Not every fucking inch and second of everything in life has to be done for a buck. And, frankly, fuck these guys for suggesting that it's the only way we get any content on the internet.
Yes, but the target's name is Leo Traynor; not Lisa Traynor. Therefore, he won't get as much traction or sympathy as he possibly could. If his name was Lisa, the internet would have a white-knight-shit-storm and there'd be an endless stream of navel-gazing articles visiting the tired old trope of "the internet is sexist, vile, misogynistic, blah blah durp durp" and Twitter and Facebook would be called to the floor for not protecting him. Er... "her".
Well, yeah, if you are a genius mathematician or astronomer or physicist or programmer, why would you waste time you could spend making money, exploring the world, or reaching new intellectual heights so that you can write a book for a bunch of students to learn stuff that has become trivial to you (because you're probably working in a realm that wont' be relevant to a codified educational content for twenty more years).
Anyway, in America, this would be deemed as something that should be presumed illegal to preserve old business models.
Why would you donate to PBS/NPR, anyway? They are supported by advertising. Including pretty egregious companies like Exxon, Siemens, and Monsanto.
(And before you defend them by saying it's "underwriting", note that they even refer to it themselves behind the scenes and in hearings as *advertising*. Not exactly "non-biased", after all, eh?).
Not only do you get the best beers in the world in the states, but you get the widest selection of them. If you're talking about big breweries like Coors and Budweiser, sure . . . but acting like you can't go into a beer-house in Portland and get any of 150 different fantastic beers from around the world all over the same bar-counter (not to mention the endless variety of awesome local micro-brews) is just feigning willful ignorance.
I disagree. I ride, and standing next to a harley with loud pipes is crazy. They're ridiculous, such that you can't even talk over them at a stop light.
Such that you can't even talk over them at a stop light? Dude, you can't even talk over them from a mile away in your own home. These mother fuckers are so god damn fucking loud that, even in the comfort of your own quiet home, you have to pause the conversation for 30+ seconds while they finish arriving from a mile or two away and then get a mile or two away to the other side and out of ear-shot. This shit is so ungodly loud that it should not only be a fucking ticketable (and patrolled-for) offense, but a fucking jailable one.
You might not get cut off in traffic in this theoretical world of yours, but in the real world you're sure as fuck going to get shot in the face if you ride your little gay-pride-machine down my street again late at night or on a peaceful afternoon. The rumble of a bike is fine, but it shouldn't sound like the whole god damn mother fucking planet is cracking in half.
I am always surprised when, every two or three years, someone sends me a link to a story on The Onion. Before even clicking the link, I just pause for a moment and think "wow, how the fuck is that site still around?". I mean, it's not the worst thing ever or anything, but it's kind of like CSI or LA Law or The Three Stooges. You only need to see a couple episodes to get the gist of it and it loses all its steam after that. In this case, you only needed to read The Onion for about two weeks in the late 90s and you sort of got all there was to get from it. Everything since then is just sort of . . . the same expected rehash. Occasionally worth a guffaw or two, but so few in-between that it's not worth the time it takes to stumble across them.
It's kind of like David Letterman. A witty and clever guy and occasionally you hear something about him, but you don't need to see his show to know what you're going to get with it -- and it's always going to be the same predictable shtick.
Suicides are not covered by the news. You may think of a particular story or two that you have seen which involves the report of a suicide, but as a general rule, they are not covered in your local news paper or your local radio station or your local television news. They are ignored. Journalists do not cover suicides. So, this entire event is one huge taboo.
I mean, not as huge a taboo as if someone had shown a breast on live television, but still kind of bad.
I suggest you read some of the comment sections of articles on this chase/suicide. The typical response is that this guy -- that nobody knows anything about -- is an animal and deserved a bullet to the face. They're flat out cheering for it.
Uh. Of course it would. Cable news -- all televised news, actually -- is completely and utter shit. As demonstrated by "durp durp look at this car chase" substitution for "news". It just happens to be that Fox was the shitty network to get caught on it, this time. There is little difference between what they were showing prior to the suicide and then showing the suicide, itself. Showing a rape is no less vile, as long as you cut away during the money-shot. It's still sensationalism, disgusting, chilling bullshit.
Fortunately, however, it was just a man shooting himself in the head on live television. It wasn't anything we Americans find off-putting, like a split-second of nipple.
Are you kidding? With the rate that they've been buying drones (not to mention local police departments and the military), the only way you'll be dead before they "get too popular" is if you're already in your mid 70s.
And, like the best of DHS to date, these will be used to terrorize evil teenagers engaging in low-level copyright infringement and people exercising their right to assemble and protest.
It's cute how we're all "Obama durp durp". Because it didn't all happen under Bush, also. And it won't all happen under whoever the next leader -- republican or democrat -- is, either.
Anyway, Assange is going to die in a plane crash, car crash, die of some sort of weird poisoning like those guys in Russia/Ukraine/whatever a few years ago, or magically have some sort of heart-attack (possibly while in a hot-tub). It'll all be very convenient.
Ninety percent of the reason? I haven't used Microsoft Office in over a decade and every company I've worked at has primarily used OpenOffice and StarOffice. There is almost nothing that ever *really* needs to be done in a proprietary MS document format. Hell, almost nothing ever really needs to be done in a full blown word processor, period.
I would suggest that, if your workflow depends on eventual conversion to or from the specific MS Office format, then your workflow is wrong.
It's also amusing that people are saying "this is the risk with the cloud". No, there are a lot of risks with the cloud. Privacy, data loss, security breach. However, issues with exporting to a specific proprietary-ish file format is not due to "the cloud".
The problem is that everyone has the right to an opinion and the right to voice it. Unfortunately, when you have some notoriety, doing so can cost you. If I were anyone of importance, I would tend to practice the whole thing about keeping your mouth shit about religion and politics, in polite company. Opening your mouth about it can only cost you and won't particularly influence or impact anything positively.
As to his particular comments . . . I don't see any issue with them. The airplane comment from Romney is (if serious) just fucking dumb. And the comment about religion is entirely fair. Most people say "that other religion is fucking NUTS . . . not my religion -- my religion is totally sane... we just eat our savior's bones and drink his blood and celebrate his resurrection is all... but that OTHER religion.. oh boy, what a bunch of crazies!". And if that were what Linus said, I would take issue with his comment. But since he is not a theist, his comment is consistent and would surely be espoused with regard to *any* religion. Though, perhaps, more strongly toward religions that actively proselytize and also heavily influence government and politics.
Comments like this and the several above it are a great example of why coming to Slashdot sucks, anymore. This is the kind of "republithug/libtard" kindergarten retardation that you see vomited in the comments section of youtube and every news article ever linked to by Matt Drudge on his website. This is what Slashdot is devolving into. A place with little tech, where all those tech-less vacuums are filled in by mouth-breathing dumb-fucks carrying on like the conversationally lowest of the low on the internet.
Exactly. Not only is it old news, but . . . WHO GIVES A FUCK?
Seriously, we send people over to Afghanistan, Iraq, and other countries to conduct "military actions" resulting in thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of casualties over a decade and we don't give them enough resources on the ground to protect themselves while they protect our various assets and interests (and by "our", I mean government and corporate interests) . . . and the wrong fucking ship in a piece of promotional backdrop at a showboating convention full of twits is what gets the panties of a bunch of tough military guys in a twist?
When I heard about this (when it was reported in the news WEEKS ago), all I could think was "nobody seriously has so little to worry about in their life that they are giving even a fractional fuck about this".
Seriously, there is an unending supply of lies and deceit and un-American, un-Constutional, anti-citizen bullshit in the actual content of messages from both sides of the part and, in our own typical American fashion, we ignore all of that and focus like a pit-bull on the most trivial bullshit.
Are you high? Every professional and college basketball and football championship is followed by throngs of retards fighting cops, flipping cars over, setting shit on fire, shooting into the air, and smashing store windows -- both in the winning and losing cities. If you can't wait a few more weeks to see the next news reports of the next idiotic sports-related riot, just go search youtube for the ones in the past.
Your dumb ideas are yours to have, but I've no obligation to hold them up to any sort of esteem any more than I'm obligated to respect the idea that the earth sits on a stack of turtles in space or that Santa squeezes down six billion chimneys every year. The sooner we stop giving ideas a retreat by couching them in "my belief system", the sooner we can get on with common sense.
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Yes, but as an extension of himself, so the double-standard has still been applied to her by extension, unfortunately.
Not any more. The same spirit that sysops built and maintained BBSes and the communities that formed around them in the 80s and 90s is what used to drive the web. That sense of fun, enjoyment, contribution, community, education. Where you paid for these things out of your pocket and put in the long hours setting everything up and keeping it running, because you enjoyed the experience and you enjoyed building something that people wanted to use.
Today, every fucking two-bit mommy-blogger has to plaster ads all over their shitty little 5-hits-per-month blog, just to monetize every last possible fucking cent. Spend $5-$100/mo of your own money to fund your project/web-site/whatever? Crazy! Just throw up some ads so that your site looks like shit. And if you can't get rich doing it, fuck it and move on! It's not worth doing if you can't make five cents from it, even if the cost of making that nickel is molesting your site with obnoxious ads.
I spent at least $25k over a period of a dozen years building and maintaining a community for about 100k people. I could have monetized it. I could have charged fees. Subscriptions. Or plastered it in ads. But I didn't. Zero ads. No fees. Even though my site allowed other people to make money and start businesses along the way. But I didn't. Why? Well, it never really even occurred to me. I did it because it was fun. Because I learned things from it. Because it was great to watch so many people form around something *I* did. And then to see it benefit their lives. To see people form friendships (even relationships) out of it. To see cons/gatherings form every year or two out of it. To see external sites around it spring up from other people.
I could have made cash from it, but I didn't. I didn't need to. Not everything has to be done to get rich. Not every fucking inch and second of everything in life has to be done for a buck. And, frankly, fuck these guys for suggesting that it's the only way we get any content on the internet.
Yes, but the target's name is Leo Traynor; not Lisa Traynor. Therefore, he won't get as much traction or sympathy as he possibly could. If his name was Lisa, the internet would have a white-knight-shit-storm and there'd be an endless stream of navel-gazing articles visiting the tired old trope of "the internet is sexist, vile, misogynistic, blah blah durp durp" and Twitter and Facebook would be called to the floor for not protecting him. Er... "her".
Well, yeah, if you are a genius mathematician or astronomer or physicist or programmer, why would you waste time you could spend making money, exploring the world, or reaching new intellectual heights so that you can write a book for a bunch of students to learn stuff that has become trivial to you (because you're probably working in a realm that wont' be relevant to a codified educational content for twenty more years).
Anyway, in America, this would be deemed as something that should be presumed illegal to preserve old business models.
They didn't have much time for meal breaks. They were so Hungary.
Why would you donate to PBS/NPR, anyway? They are supported by advertising. Including pretty egregious companies like Exxon, Siemens, and Monsanto.
(And before you defend them by saying it's "underwriting", note that they even refer to it themselves behind the scenes and in hearings as *advertising*. Not exactly "non-biased", after all, eh?).
No, actually it's all a joke.
Not only do you get the best beers in the world in the states, but you get the widest selection of them. If you're talking about big breweries like Coors and Budweiser, sure . . . but acting like you can't go into a beer-house in Portland and get any of 150 different fantastic beers from around the world all over the same bar-counter (not to mention the endless variety of awesome local micro-brews) is just feigning willful ignorance.
I disagree. I ride, and standing next to a harley with loud pipes is crazy. They're ridiculous, such that you can't even talk over them at a stop light.
Such that you can't even talk over them at a stop light? Dude, you can't even talk over them from a mile away in your own home. These mother fuckers are so god damn fucking loud that, even in the comfort of your own quiet home, you have to pause the conversation for 30+ seconds while they finish arriving from a mile or two away and then get a mile or two away to the other side and out of ear-shot. This shit is so ungodly loud that it should not only be a fucking ticketable (and patrolled-for) offense, but a fucking jailable one.
You might not get cut off in traffic in this theoretical world of yours, but in the real world you're sure as fuck going to get shot in the face if you ride your little gay-pride-machine down my street again late at night or on a peaceful afternoon. The rumble of a bike is fine, but it shouldn't sound like the whole god damn mother fucking planet is cracking in half.
Motorcycles aren't about narcissism, they're about freedom.
Bullshit. I don't need to hear your "freedom" in a residential neighborhood at 3am on a Saturday morning from five miles away.
I am always surprised when, every two or three years, someone sends me a link to a story on The Onion. Before even clicking the link, I just pause for a moment and think "wow, how the fuck is that site still around?". I mean, it's not the worst thing ever or anything, but it's kind of like CSI or LA Law or The Three Stooges. You only need to see a couple episodes to get the gist of it and it loses all its steam after that. In this case, you only needed to read The Onion for about two weeks in the late 90s and you sort of got all there was to get from it. Everything since then is just sort of . . . the same expected rehash. Occasionally worth a guffaw or two, but so few in-between that it's not worth the time it takes to stumble across them.
It's kind of like David Letterman. A witty and clever guy and occasionally you hear something about him, but you don't need to see his show to know what you're going to get with it -- and it's always going to be the same predictable shtick.
Suicides are not covered by the news. You may think of a particular story or two that you have seen which involves the report of a suicide, but as a general rule, they are not covered in your local news paper or your local radio station or your local television news. They are ignored. Journalists do not cover suicides. So, this entire event is one huge taboo.
I mean, not as huge a taboo as if someone had shown a breast on live television, but still kind of bad.
Because they're animals, not people.
I suggest you read some of the comment sections of articles on this chase/suicide. The typical response is that this guy -- that nobody knows anything about -- is an animal and deserved a bullet to the face. They're flat out cheering for it.
Uh. Of course it would. Cable news -- all televised news, actually -- is completely and utter shit. As demonstrated by "durp durp look at this car chase" substitution for "news". It just happens to be that Fox was the shitty network to get caught on it, this time. There is little difference between what they were showing prior to the suicide and then showing the suicide, itself. Showing a rape is no less vile, as long as you cut away during the money-shot. It's still sensationalism, disgusting, chilling bullshit.
Fortunately, however, it was just a man shooting himself in the head on live television. It wasn't anything we Americans find off-putting, like a split-second of nipple.
Are you kidding? With the rate that they've been buying drones (not to mention local police departments and the military), the only way you'll be dead before they "get too popular" is if you're already in your mid 70s.
And, like the best of DHS to date, these will be used to terrorize evil teenagers engaging in low-level copyright infringement and people exercising their right to assemble and protest.
It's cute how we're all "Obama durp durp". Because it didn't all happen under Bush, also. And it won't all happen under whoever the next leader -- republican or democrat -- is, either.
Anyway, Assange is going to die in a plane crash, car crash, die of some sort of weird poisoning like those guys in Russia/Ukraine/whatever a few years ago, or magically have some sort of heart-attack (possibly while in a hot-tub). It'll all be very convenient.
Ninety percent of the reason? I haven't used Microsoft Office in over a decade and every company I've worked at has primarily used OpenOffice and StarOffice. There is almost nothing that ever *really* needs to be done in a proprietary MS document format. Hell, almost nothing ever really needs to be done in a full blown word processor, period.
I would suggest that, if your workflow depends on eventual conversion to or from the specific MS Office format, then your workflow is wrong.
It's also amusing that people are saying "this is the risk with the cloud". No, there are a lot of risks with the cloud. Privacy, data loss, security breach. However, issues with exporting to a specific proprietary-ish file format is not due to "the cloud".
I don't give a fuck, either.
The problem is that everyone has the right to an opinion and the right to voice it. Unfortunately, when you have some notoriety, doing so can cost you. If I were anyone of importance, I would tend to practice the whole thing about keeping your mouth shit about religion and politics, in polite company. Opening your mouth about it can only cost you and won't particularly influence or impact anything positively.
As to his particular comments . . . I don't see any issue with them. The airplane comment from Romney is (if serious) just fucking dumb. And the comment about religion is entirely fair. Most people say "that other religion is fucking NUTS . . . not my religion -- my religion is totally sane... we just eat our savior's bones and drink his blood and celebrate his resurrection is all... but that OTHER religion.. oh boy, what a bunch of crazies!". And if that were what Linus said, I would take issue with his comment. But since he is not a theist, his comment is consistent and would surely be espoused with regard to *any* religion. Though, perhaps, more strongly toward religions that actively proselytize and also heavily influence government and politics.
Comments like this and the several above it are a great example of why coming to Slashdot sucks, anymore. This is the kind of "republithug/libtard" kindergarten retardation that you see vomited in the comments section of youtube and every news article ever linked to by Matt Drudge on his website. This is what Slashdot is devolving into. A place with little tech, where all those tech-less vacuums are filled in by mouth-breathing dumb-fucks carrying on like the conversationally lowest of the low on the internet.
Exactly. Not only is it old news, but . . . WHO GIVES A FUCK?
Seriously, we send people over to Afghanistan, Iraq, and other countries to conduct "military actions" resulting in thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of casualties over a decade and we don't give them enough resources on the ground to protect themselves while they protect our various assets and interests (and by "our", I mean government and corporate interests) . . . and the wrong fucking ship in a piece of promotional backdrop at a showboating convention full of twits is what gets the panties of a bunch of tough military guys in a twist?
When I heard about this (when it was reported in the news WEEKS ago), all I could think was "nobody seriously has so little to worry about in their life that they are giving even a fractional fuck about this".
Seriously, there is an unending supply of lies and deceit and un-American, un-Constutional, anti-citizen bullshit in the actual content of messages from both sides of the part and, in our own typical American fashion, we ignore all of that and focus like a pit-bull on the most trivial bullshit.
Yes, but have you used it on a computer?
Are you high? Every professional and college basketball and football championship is followed by throngs of retards fighting cops, flipping cars over, setting shit on fire, shooting into the air, and smashing store windows -- both in the winning and losing cities. If you can't wait a few more weeks to see the next news reports of the next idiotic sports-related riot, just go search youtube for the ones in the past.
Shut up. It's different. We're mostly white.
It's okay to hate fags, but don't you dare say anything about the make-believe magic-man behind my faith that I use to enable my hatred!
Respect for what?
Your dumb ideas are yours to have, but I've no obligation to hold them up to any sort of esteem any more than I'm obligated to respect the idea that the earth sits on a stack of turtles in space or that Santa squeezes down six billion chimneys every year. The sooner we stop giving ideas a retreat by couching them in "my belief system", the sooner we can get on with common sense.