Journal Journal: Selected unoriginal "jokes" from mindless Slashbots 1
It's fun when Slashdot posts a story pertaining to Microsoft. The claims by CmdrTaco that this site fosters insightful discussion are proved embarassingly false within 10 posts. Moronic Slashbots (like that git that posted a comment in my last journal) fall all over themselves to be the first to fire off one of the most-recently-upmodded anti-MS jokes.
Here's some selections, with links to the sloths posting them:
Who the hell wants a watch that crashes with the BSOD whenever I ask it to tell me the time! rehashed by: vyzar
Inflatable Hippo responds to vYz4R's wit, convienently forgetting the nearly weekly patches and updates to all that is GNU: Don't be churlish, the weekly service patches will solve that problem in no time.
supergiovane found this joke in several other MS stories, so he knew it was good for some karma: Obviously you will need a DRM compliant arm to wear it.
Zigg busts out I don't know about anyone else, but I sure as hell aren't wearing any Microsoft product with a metal side touching my skin. My wrist would probably develop a twitch from the "corrective" shocks coming from the watch whenever I sit down at my Linux box...
Jokes beginning with "I don't know about everyone else, but I..." must activate an ancient upmodding impulse in the Slashbot community.
When I surfed this story at a threshold of 3, those were some of the highest-modded posts.
Yeah, Taco, this sure is a site for insightful discussion about things that matter to nerds. Shitty humor, elitism, irrational zealotry and plain ol' FUD are what get encouraged here.
Edit:
From a newer article, there's this classic:
I just can't wait for the days when things are $1/TB.
Yeah, but by then, Super Windows XP Pro Ultimate Championship Edition will be out, will have backwards compatibility to all prior 8-, 16-, 32-, 64-, and 128-bit architectures, take 8 solar days to load, require 800 terabytes to install, and the neuro-holographic interface will crash regularly, wiping out more data than a human being can process in a lifetime, and throwing people into neural shock. You'll die, but it will be illegal to have any negative feelings towards the occasion, because of the Digital Oblivion Mind-Control Act.
Linux, of course, will still be around and install fine, but no one will care, because they get an extra 7 updates per second playing the Windows version of Quake 82, so it will still be considered a 'toy' OS.
Sometimes I scare myself...
--Dan
The classic Slashdot "joke" post - full of FUD, ignorance and zealotry. Brown-nosing like the geek you had in your science class. Hell, Dan probably IS the asskissing sycophant you had in Science class. You suck, Dan, but you're a king here.
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Edit2:
Another Microsoft-related article. I won't bother to summarize my disappointment. Rehash-O-Rama.
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YHBT. HAND.