Journal Fiver-rah's Journal: I must spend more time on slashdot.... 2
In actuality, it's Yet Another way to get sucked into an online forum. The good bit is that I've met a couple of people who love Linux and want to go to law school because they care about travesties like the DMCA, et cetera. The bad bit is that this message board is addictive like slashdot. Except there are no news stories, no moderation, no "friends" system. In short, it's addictive like slashdot but has no real redeeming value. And it's populated by elitists who want to go to law school. The ugly bits? Well, no real moderation. And there's a couple people who post this really ugly racist, sexist drivel. You know that you've been spending too much time when you get so inured to seeing shit like this that a thread entitled "I want to pluck out some Arab's eyeball" just makes you think, "Gross, General Lee outdid himself." Once the trolls get you to lose your sense of moral outrage, it's time to quit. Yes, occasionally semi-valuable information surfaces. But it's really not worth it.
For those of you who are morbidly curious, you can see the Princeton Review law school board in all its glory here.
I hereby resolve to start posting on slashdot more. After all, my time is finite, and if I waste it here, I can't waste it there.
On the uses of slashdot... (Score:2)
Yikes! A quick skim through obviously isn't a good substitute for detail analysis, but if that's representative of law students today, then no wonder the US legal system is so screwed (and getting worse). I mean, Slashdot may have its problems with trolls and the like, but it's head and shoulders above that!
I hereby resolve to start posting on slashdot more. After all, my time is finite, and if I waste it here, I can't waste it there.
Strange, I've sort of resolved to start posting less on Slashdot. After all, my time is finite and I'm wasting too much of it here already! I spend far too much time, just ambling along in life, not really doing anything.
Re:On the uses of slashdot... (Score:2)
To be fair, it's worse on weekends and holidays, because we don't get mail. So nobody has anything interesting to ask, and these couple of people go crazy with some stuff. But you're right. It's completely wrong. Luckily, it seems like the really terrible bits are caused by six or seven people.
My problem is that I spend a lot of time online anyways, waiting for short snippets of code to run to see if it's doing what I expect, et cetera. If I were truly a Virtuous Graduate Student I'd spend that time reading papers or something. I don't. Instead, I kind of nose around online....
Right now, my life seriously lacks direction. I'm in grad school, but I've done everything I need to get my master's. I've gotten into my first choice law school. So my ambition is low, the things which demand my time are near the bottom of my personal priority list. In short, I'm spinning my wheels waiting for this semester to end.
*Sigh.*