Journal mercedo's Journal: The Meaning Of Slashdot 6
'Slashdot' means '/' life and its '.' period. -Slashdot means ourselves.
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The Meaning Of Slashdot
I use technology in order to hate it more properly. -- Nam June Paik
/. == Dead End? (Score:1)
Re:/. == Dead End? (Score:1)
To Explain a Joke... (Score:2)
Maybe /. == social death?
Re:/. == Dead End? (Score:1)
As is usual we live, play, love, but it will not last forever. We are not immortal. There's a start for everything, and an end as well. I'm now 44, a season of fruition of my life, we hope our life lasts forever, but it is a dream we all cannot accomplish.
Now then Slashdot, since this journal system started just few years ago, almost all people who have been keeping their journals here are alive, but how about 50 years
Re:/. == Dead End? (Score:2)
I had a Lagavulin and two pints of Oyster Stout [ratebeer.com] last night, after going to a talk on Braque [wikipedia.org], and cubism.
My comment was toungue-in-cheek (hence posted without Karma), but maybe our words are semi-permanent. I have to admit, though, that I find it hard to consider the internet as being anything other than transitory. Politics becoming ever-more conservative and censorous by the day...
Re:/. == Dead End? (Score:1)
Look at the examples as Buddha, Socrates, Confucious.
At the age of paper culture, it might have been a matter of luck for any manuscripts to be published and known to the world. We cannot confirm whether we've got what we couldn't get, but we can easily assume many precious, epoch-making inventions, literary works, art were lost before they were known to public. We used to live in the world a drop of bomb not only killed many people