Anti-slash confirms: Slashdot's editors are dying.
In another devistating blow to slashdot's editors, it was learned that Michael was fired as an editor on slashdot. We at anti-slash are proud to have brought about this partial victory by our unrelenting jihad of bringing their injustices to light.
I got this from a verified source who's in the know:
Long story short, michael was canned for his abusive and egotistical personality.
Rob's been building a list of complaints by users about michael's abusive patterns but he never acted on it. Well, michael managed to bitchslap one of Rob's old college buddies' accounts along with a couple of paid accounts, word eventually filtered down to Rob, and he had kittens. He convinced michael's OSTG manager to track him down and drag him into a conference call.
Rob laid down the law and started reading off complaints and michael raised his voice, saying that if Rob had a personal problem with him that he didn't need to go over his head and involve his manager in it.
During the shouting match, michael's editor flag was revoked. He was in the admin area at the time and he noticed.
At this point he went totally ballistic and started screaming about how this was why he moved, to get away from "arrogant elitist bullshit". (this is a direct quote.. michael actually did move from New York to Canada to protest George W. Bush's inauguration in 2001. Andover kept him on since it was only an all-remote job anyway.)
michael's manager ducked out of the call to page (read: wake up) Hemos (overseas on business) to three-way him into the call, to try and calm everyone down.
There was some more shouting, and michael's manager told him that things aren't working out well, and that he's going to recommend that his employment be terminated.
michael just hung up, and that was the end of the call as well as michael's employment with OSTG.
Anti-slash confirms: Slashdot's editors are dying.
In another devistating blow to slashdot's editors, it was learned that Michael was fired as an editor on slashdot. We at anti-slash are proud to have brought about this partial victory by our unrelenting jihad of bringing their injustices to light.
I got this from a verified source who's in the know:
Long story short, michael was canned for his abusive and egotistical personality.
Rob's been building a list of complaints by users about michael's abusive patterns but he never acted on it. Well, michael managed to bitchslap one of Rob's old college buddies' accounts along with a couple of paid accounts, word eventually filtered down to Rob, and he had kittens. He convinced michael's OSTG manager to track him down and drag him into a conference call.
Rob laid down the law and started reading off complaints and michael raised his voice, saying that if Rob had a personal problem with him that he didn't need to go over his head and involve his manager in it.
During the shouting match, michael's editor flag was revoked. He was in the admin area at the time and he noticed.
At this point he went totally ballistic and started screaming about how this was why he moved, to get away from "arrogant elitist bullshit". (this is a direct quote.. michael actually did move from New York to Canada to protest George W. Bush's inauguration in 2001. Andover kept him on since it was only an all-remote job anyway.)
michael's manager ducked out of the call to page (read: wake up) Hemos (overseas on business) to three-way him into the call, to try and calm everyone down.
There was some more shouting, and michael's manager told him that things aren't working out well, and that he's going to recommend that his employment be terminated.
michael just hung up, and that was the end of the call as well as michael's employment with OSTG.
don't you people have anything better to do on a Sunday than slashdot a poor news site???:)
FCC declines to censor satellite radio
By JENNIFER C. KERR ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission rejected a request Wednesday to begin imposing indecency standards on satellite radio, where frequent agency target Howard Stern is taking his show.
The FCC's media bureau turned aside a radio station owner's request that broadcast indecency regulations apply to subscription satellite services.
Saul Levine, who owns three radio stations in California, asked the commission in October to modify its satellite radio rules to include an indecency provision similar to the one that governs broadcast stations using public airwaves.
In a letter to the FCC, Levine complained that the commission needed to create a "level playing field" in protecting the public interest. "Indecent programming has been and continues to be an ongoing problem - as clearly evidenced by the number of monetary sanctions over the past few years," he wrote.
The agency, in a letter from media bureau chief Kenneth Ferree, declined Levine's request.
"The commission has previously ruled that subscription-based services do not call into play the issue of indecency," Ferree wrote.
Levine, who is president of Mt. Wilson FM Broadcasters Inc. in Los Angeles, says the dismissal amounted to a double standard by the FCC.
"The commission is saying it's fine to have obscenity any time of the day or night on satellite radio even though satellite radio is being made available to people without subscriptions," such as in rental cars that come with free service, Levine said in a telephone interview.
Stern, who has repeatedly railed against the "censorship" of the FCC, has been involved in the two biggest radio fines imposed by the agency. That includes a record $1.75 million settlement reached over the summer.
In October, he announced his move to satellite radio and said "the FCC... has stopped me from doing business." He debuts in January 2006 on Sirius Satellite Radio.
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Anti-slash confirms: Slashdot's editors are dying.
In another devistating blow to slashdot's editors, it was learned that Michael was fired as an editor on slashdot. We at anti-slash are proud to have brought about this partial victory by our unrelenting jihad of bringing their injustices to light.
The specifics of this case are documented in this post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=138099&cid=11
Quote:
This can be confirmed by visiting http://slashdot.org/authors.pl. Michael is not listed.
Fact: Slashdot's editors are dying
Anti-slash confirms: Slashdot's editors are dying.
In another devistating blow to slashdot's editors, it was learned that Michael was fired as an editor on slashdot. We at anti-slash are proud to have brought about this partial victory by our unrelenting jihad of bringing their injustices to light.
The specifics of this case are documented in this post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=138099&cid=11
Quote:
Fact: Slashdot's editors are dying
You mean like Medicine?
I was having a bad day with google, and I was getting really frustrated. I submitted:
/boot to mount by default on gentoo?"
:|
"How the fuck can I get
It came back with a bunch of pr0n because of the F word...mount probably didn't help either
In these trying times, consider the anti-slash jihad and bring justice to slashdot's editors. jihadi_31337
don't you people have anything better to do on a Sunday than slashdot a poor news site??? :)
... has stopped me from doing business." He debuts in January 2006 on Sirius Satellite Radio.
FCC declines to censor satellite radio
By JENNIFER C. KERR
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission rejected a request Wednesday to begin imposing indecency standards on satellite radio, where frequent agency target Howard Stern is taking his show.
The FCC's media bureau turned aside a radio station owner's request that broadcast indecency regulations apply to subscription satellite services.
Saul Levine, who owns three radio stations in California, asked the commission in October to modify its satellite radio rules to include an indecency provision similar to the one that governs broadcast stations using public airwaves.
In a letter to the FCC, Levine complained that the commission needed to create a "level playing field" in protecting the public interest. "Indecent programming has been and continues to be an ongoing problem - as clearly evidenced by the number of monetary sanctions over the past few years," he wrote.
The agency, in a letter from media bureau chief Kenneth Ferree, declined Levine's request.
"The commission has previously ruled that subscription-based services do not call into play the issue of indecency," Ferree wrote.
Levine, who is president of Mt. Wilson FM Broadcasters Inc. in Los Angeles, says the dismissal amounted to a double standard by the FCC.
"The commission is saying it's fine to have obscenity any time of the day or night on satellite radio even though satellite radio is being made available to people without subscriptions," such as in rental cars that come with free service, Levine said in a telephone interview.
Stern, who has repeatedly railed against the "censorship" of the FCC, has been involved in the two biggest radio fines imposed by the agency. That includes a record $1.75 million settlement reached over the summer.
In October, he announced his move to satellite radio and said "the FCC
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