The phrase "tinfoil hat" is no longer clever. Thank you

Here is one reason I don't like OSS Nazis.

When they steal RIAA music and are accused of theft, they retort, "I didn't STEAL it, I just COPIED it. The owner still has their copy and I wouldn't have bought it anyway."

But when someone infringes on the GPL, they scream, "They STOLE our code!"

Can't have it both ways boys.

Is it good or is it whack?

You self-righteous fuckers are the scum of the fucking earth. If I ever see you I will kick your ass. Discuss

Did anyone else notice the ad for the new Slashdot Dating Service? I will be completely honest: I literally shat my pants, I was laughing so hard. Did you see that woman in the ad? What is the ad trying to say? "This is the kind of woman you will NOT meet using this service!" I was so curious, I did a search to see what kind of high-quality man-meat was available. I still haven't searched the ladies' personals (all 4 of them), but I'm expecting them to read something like this:

"SWF, seeking self-righteous, white, Libertarian asshole. Must be greasy and fat, have very long hair (both head and body), wear oversized glasses, and be very dirty. Preferred: Wears black jeans and black t-shirts advertising open-source software products. Primary language should be C. I admire sociopathic gun nuts like ESR and clinically insane Free Software zealots like RMS, and you should too. I consider my favorite mediocre sci-fi authors to be in the same league as Steinbeck and Tolstoy, and I so enjoy reading reviews of their books. Favorite activities include coding, role-playing games, and talking about Linux and Free Software. Here is my PGP key. Please write, open-source stud!"

Now, I know, I know, most of the people who will be using this service (and there will be a LOT of them) are gay men with tentacle rape fantasies. And that's OK. But I would like this journal entry to serve as a warning to all the not-quite-corrupted dudes who wandered onto this site a short while ago: GET OUT WHILE YOU'RE STILL HETERO. Otherwise your only hope to ever have sex while you're still alive is this guy.

See that guy with his mouth taped shut? That's the Slashdot user who wishes to express any kind of opinion contrary to Slashdotters' pre-programmed religious ideologies. Usually I think of this place as a cesspool of idiocy, lightly peppered by bright points of light: People like me, Fecal Troll Matter, Eric Ass Raymond, the late, great J. WIPO Troll (who is sadly no longer with us, but whose legacy lives on). I don't mean to say that I compete in the same league as these guys -- I only mean to say that a small group of enlightened souls is really the last holdout against the smashing waves of retardation squelching and eroding all forms of independent thought in this seaweed-green stinkhole.

But there are some (limited) times when I am given hope that the people around here are not really as stupid as they appear to be. Case in point. It's not normal that an anti-Establishment comment like that will get modded to +5 amid the braying of legions of open-source, pro-music-theft sycophants. I guess it's proof that there is still hope for reason in the world.