Post by Norbert_Paul... lol)
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Having Fun?
have you heard of Anonymous?
〈Wikileaks, Bank of America, Anonymous, US Government, Espionage〉
http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/Wikileaks_Bank_of_America_Anonymous_espionage.html
〈4chan Picts — Internet Culture〉
http://xahlee.org/funny/4chan.html
〈Magibon, Boxxy (4chan personality video)〉
http://xahlee.org/funny/magibon.html
sure, perhaps you r USENET old school, but that's fashionable 20^H^H
30 years ago?
fashion is important, right?
check this one out:
〈What is a Tech Geeker?〉
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/tech_geeker.html
here's a excerpt:
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tech geeker: (noun) A elite programer nerd who severely lacks
literacy of social sciences yet persistently loud of his opinions on
many social issues related to programing, such as language popularity,
pros and cons of GUI, software engineering practices, software license
issues, IT industry practices, ethics of corporations.
Are You a Tech Geeker?
• Are you male?
• Are you proficient in a computer language or technology? perhaps
several?
• Is computer coding or sys admin your way of finding food?
• Do you love the term “hacker”? Have you been called a hacker?
• You do not have a degree in history, arts, philosophy, law,
economics, communication, psychology, or any credential from the field
of social sciences.
• You are keen on social issue of software. You read slashdot and
groklaw and reddit and hacker news.
• You have strong opinions on software licensing, the concept of
software freedom, user interface design, how social media should or
should not be (newsgroups, internet, blog, youtube) and how people
should use them. You have strong opinions on software design, computer
language design, and opinions on the cause and value of popularity.
• You are loud about your opinions on social issues of software. You
think your opinions are correct in some technical way.
• You can effortlessly name 20 top computer scientists or celebrity
programers of this decade.
• It'd be hard pressed for you to name 5 historians, philosopher, or
social scientists of this century.
• You are aversive to usages like “u” (you), 4 (for), omg, wtf, lol.
You find them annoying and childish.
• But you use and love argots such as the following: troll, plonk,
YMMV, IANAL, RTFM, RMS, *nix (as opposed to “unix”), unixen (instead
of unixes or unices), emacsen (as opposed to “emacs user” or (aghast)
“emacser”), lisperati (vs just “lisper”).
• Do you love to debate on grammar sometimes? such as split
infinitives, preposition.
• You never in your life ran a business, operated a store, or started
a organization.
Xah