Comment Re:"Office Space" memories (Score 0) 731
If I can't even get a +1 Funny, on freakin' Slashdot, for an Office Space quote because it goes against "the political tide" here, something is really fucked up. ;P
Actually, I was going to make this just a "funny" reply, but then I realized that this really gets to me. The original article was absolutly opinionated and absolutely false. The administration has nothing to do with Google's search engine. For years, Slashdot has been a place where I've read interesting articles and fun opinions. Now, somebody has taken it upon themselves to turn Slashdot into a propaganda machine. It's crap. I never came to Slashdot to read propaganda. In fact, it's one of those sites where I come to mostly check out what's happening with Space, Apple computers, and Linux. Usually I read everything with a grain of salt when it comes to "hot button" topics like Microsoft's corporate maneuvering or the DMCA. I listen to people complain about not being able to steal music, and I think it's total crap because the case is that stealing is stealing. I listen to people complain about Microsoft without giving them ANY credit for some of the good stuff they have done. I'm not saying Microsoft, Bush, Patent Laws, or Copywrite Laws are all perfect. I'd say that would be far from the truth. But I'm not going to post an article saying, "My apple has a worm crawling in it, sounds like Microsoft's IE Browser security has failed again." Maybe I'm the rare geek that doesn't EVER believe a conspiracy theory.
It would be so easy to put forth the conspiracy theory that Slashdot altered it's election poll results to give Kerry a big win on Slashdot. I wouldn't do that though. I know that most of rural America just plain doesn't "do" Slashdot, and that urban dwellers (read Slashdot users) generally voted for Kerry (at least in the northeast and the west where Kerry had tons of support and probably the greatest number of Slashdot users reside).
Among my friends, we have a word for propagandists. The word is "Liars". It's a sad thing too. I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and guess that the person who posted the article and the staff at slashdot aren't much older or younger than I am, at 29 yrs. old. It's sad to see that you haven't learned enough honesty to admit your own mistakes by now. Maybe you're stuck where I was when I was 21, working in Silcon Valley and making more money than I could ever need. That's the kind of thing that'll keep you immature forever.
Yes, I did see the link to the explaination by Google of the problem. But, I'm very suprised that you still kept the sentence about the administration in the body of the article. Maybe, this is another case of the administration of Slashdot confusing "their ability to run a site about interesting techie articles" with "their egos".
Matt
Actually, I was going to make this just a "funny" reply, but then I realized that this really gets to me. The original article was absolutly opinionated and absolutely false. The administration has nothing to do with Google's search engine. For years, Slashdot has been a place where I've read interesting articles and fun opinions. Now, somebody has taken it upon themselves to turn Slashdot into a propaganda machine. It's crap. I never came to Slashdot to read propaganda. In fact, it's one of those sites where I come to mostly check out what's happening with Space, Apple computers, and Linux. Usually I read everything with a grain of salt when it comes to "hot button" topics like Microsoft's corporate maneuvering or the DMCA. I listen to people complain about not being able to steal music, and I think it's total crap because the case is that stealing is stealing. I listen to people complain about Microsoft without giving them ANY credit for some of the good stuff they have done. I'm not saying Microsoft, Bush, Patent Laws, or Copywrite Laws are all perfect. I'd say that would be far from the truth. But I'm not going to post an article saying, "My apple has a worm crawling in it, sounds like Microsoft's IE Browser security has failed again." Maybe I'm the rare geek that doesn't EVER believe a conspiracy theory.
It would be so easy to put forth the conspiracy theory that Slashdot altered it's election poll results to give Kerry a big win on Slashdot. I wouldn't do that though. I know that most of rural America just plain doesn't "do" Slashdot, and that urban dwellers (read Slashdot users) generally voted for Kerry (at least in the northeast and the west where Kerry had tons of support and probably the greatest number of Slashdot users reside).
Among my friends, we have a word for propagandists. The word is "Liars". It's a sad thing too. I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and guess that the person who posted the article and the staff at slashdot aren't much older or younger than I am, at 29 yrs. old. It's sad to see that you haven't learned enough honesty to admit your own mistakes by now. Maybe you're stuck where I was when I was 21, working in Silcon Valley and making more money than I could ever need. That's the kind of thing that'll keep you immature forever.
Yes, I did see the link to the explaination by Google of the problem. But, I'm very suprised that you still kept the sentence about the administration in the body of the article. Maybe, this is another case of the administration of Slashdot confusing "their ability to run a site about interesting techie articles" with "their egos".
Matt
