Comment Ahh Good Old Slashdot (Score 3, Insightful) 342
"Rich people should pay to entertain me" is possibly the single greatest populist cause in history! Demand those circuses!
"Rich people should pay to entertain me" is possibly the single greatest populist cause in history! Demand those circuses!
so the adult approach is to whine that you deserve Internet for free? oh slashdot I love you so...
No, you're just one of the few.
There is always the curmudgeonly luddite set who thinks it's cool to talk about how they hate everything new. Congrats! That's you this time.
Yeah, stand up to the man for your right to fuck with people and be entertained without personally earning it. That's compelling as fuck.
Boo hoo. If they want to play with the big boys, they can pony up enough cash to pretend they belong.
My assumption has always been that photons travel at c no matter the "medium" because there isn't really a "medium" per se, just collisions with things that occupy space.
I'm just a dreamer, though. I know nothing of physics.
Small correction for you - The world doesn't even care that it's open.
Well it's only been a few thousand years now, but I bet back in prehistoric times, politicians were fucking awesome.
Dammit, why do powerful people always have power? I want magic land were power goes to the disaffect lazy whiners who want everything handed to them for no effort.
Apparently it also encourages nerds to whine about people being social...
I gotta say, that's the effect I find most annoying.
We only elect the chief executive and what is essentially a bloated board of directors. Everyone else is appointed or simply hired.
If history has taught me anything, it's this: when Slashdot nerds are hostile towards a technology for reasons that boil down to "it's change, and I hate change" then it's probably going to be a winner.
Don't let your lack of any sort of understanding of reality prevent you from spewing your populist garbage on everything.
I know! I know! Unskilled line-workers are what really drives the economy. We need to get back to good old 19th century thinking.
Ahhh, the rare entitled Slashdot twat...
And you whiners will whine about it. It's the circle of life, man.
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