I've decided to judge everybody on /. and make a list using the friends/foes features.

No, this is not the Troll Blacklist, or any other type of fan whoring.

I used to post a lot, but I've become a lurker lately, posting nothing but one-liners. I feel like Crumb's older brother. Once a sane, talented person now reduced to paranoia and meaningless ramblings in what was once an art form--posting to /.

So now I'm just going to read at -1, nested, and judge you all, friend or foe.

For the AC's:

RPN guy -- I hate you and hope you die a slow death.

Gay erotica search and replace trolls -- you should also be killed.

I love the rest of you AC's , unless, of course, you suck. :P

This is a screengrab of an actual advertisement in Yahoo! movies.

Coincidence?

Fluke?

I did replace my zip code with 'KGB's Soviet Russia,' but that is the only thing I altered.

Slashdot has over half a million registered users.

Think about that for a moment. Half a million. That's to say, with 250 million people in the US, every 500th person you meet has a Slashdot account. That's a remarkable number. And, of course, Slashdot has thousands more readers who have never registered.

But consider also what that means. Half a million people have considered Slashdot important enough to them to enter extremely private and personal information, such as their email address and a "nick name" they believe reflects the kind of person they are, on to Slashdot, together with a password that, in all probability, is the same one they use to access their Hotmail account, their eBay account, their PayPal account, and login to their work PC.

Half a million! Crikey!

Which would be great, if that half million could be mobilised to do something positive. If you're willing to put the effort into typing these details into a website, and then logging in and all that stuff, then it stands to reason you'll be more than willing to do other stuff where you believe it will benefit you. Maybe you'll change your long distance provider from AT&T to MCI, or from MCI to Sprint. Or maybe back to AT&T again when they send you checks, two times in as many months, first for $50 then for $80, as a blatent bribe to have you switch back to them.

The point I'm trying to make, is that there are half a million people here who are willing to get off their rears and do something. And while that half million may often disagree - is it GNU/Linux or just "Linux"? Is Linux ready for the desktop? Is BSD? Would we better off using Macs and if so, how what about that one mouse button, eh? - there are things we can agree on. Things we can sit down, and maybe not all of us, but, say, 400,000 of us, can say "Hey. Look, I may disagree with you about, say, GNOME being a big bloated pile of crap, but when it comes to the DMCA, I say, 'Oi! Bush! Nooooooo! You may be the Supreme Court's choice to be President of the US, and I admire your version of "Fool me once", but you do not enforce laws that prevent me from watching my own DVDs!' and give people like that a slap."

(And you'd be well in order to.)

So, I guess, what I'm trying to say is this: when someone says "I think blah and whatever and so-there and hel-lo! Get out! I am soooo there! And what I think is we should write to our reps and senators, and tell them this", you ought to listen to them. If you agree with what they're saying, well, go ahead! Do it!

Because if everyone thinks like that, that's 400,000 Slashdotters writing intelligent, well formed, gramatical and impresife emails and letters to influential people who can do something to help make things better.

Half a million! Wow.

Sealab is beginning its second season, but the fan art just hasn't quite arrived yet, not like it has for Space Ghost and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I'm doing what I can, though, and I'm sure there are others out there.

If you do not know anything about the programs I just mentioned I highly reccomend taking a look in your favorite search engine or cable TV listings. Sealab is all I watch.

Okay, college has been in session for quite some time now, and the programs that intest me are beginning to begin meeting. Apart from the Quiz Bowl team and the Math Club, which I fully understand, are the Young Democrats. This is a very important election year in my adopted home. Three major positions are being contested, Senator, Govenor, and Leutenant Govenor. The US Senator is the position most important to me, as the senate has such an even distribution of Democrats and Republicans. I want to be involved with politics, and I am generally liberal, but before I volunteer my time and energy on assisting with the campaign I need to know about isues that are every important to me, but not clearly defined along party lines. At the meeting, I asked another student the position of the senate candidate in regards to the DMCA and the Hollings Bill. He didn't know, but he referred me to an Email address, saying he or someone else could find out later. Again, I care a lot about My Rights Online, so I ask you, what are considerations I need to take into account when writing this question. What have you found to be the best way to ask candidates about their stance in relation to electronic freedom?