cyranoVR's Journal: Explanations

I read Slashdot journals during my evening commute, which is why I don't usually reply to stuff. I use Plucker to download three pages of journal.pl?op=friendview&uid=[myuid] to my Tungsten E2.

Right now I have a pretty interesting stimulating job, so I don't really surf at work. At my old job, I often would think "hmmm...I wonder what people have posted on their journals" and go make comments for an hour. Now, it doesn't occur to me.

Arguing about politics or "philosophy" (more accurately described as "ethics") is a waste of time, in my opinion, online. Even moreso when you're trying to converse with boorish types who are fond of stock phrases such as "you've missed the point."

Also, I've been fencing three nights a week, so I usually don't have time/energy to sit down, fire up the laptop, and post comments / JEs.

I've seen some posts the effect of "the Slashdot JE circle is dying." Big deal. There is a whole word out there besides Slashdot. Very few people on slashdot write anything interesting as neurobashing or deadprogrammer

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Re:Your bold end-of-JE

[buffer-overflowed]

Ehh, the proper term is drifting apart. Which is what is happening. We're not a tight knit lil group o' miscreants anymore. Some of us contact and stay in touch with each other outside of the journals, and that feeds a cycle of not bothering to check the journals because you already talk to all the important peeps. The circle has just reached a point where we're starting to gradumate.

No big. Life goes on.

Now excuse me while I go claim you all violated some obscure rule, or "code" and thus I'm going to

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Re:Your bold end-of-JE

[gmhowell]

Maybe we're comfortable enough...

I didn't know until today that we were comfortable enough to discuss that weird copper taste...

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Ethics

[Morosoph]

Arguing about politics or "philosophy" (more accurately described as "ethics") is a waste of time, in my opinion, online. Even moreso when you're trying to converse with boorish types who are fond of stock phrases such as "you've missed the point."

Only if you're expecting to have an immediate effect upon other's thinking. Longer term, some things stick in the mind as one initially tries to refute them. The authour does (usually) his best, but will still be unsatisfied with his response. There are a f

circle

[eglamkowski]

I've noticed the slow death of the circle, but I avoided getting too invested in it in the first place. Enjoyed it, but as you say, there's more to life than slashdot journals...