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August 06, 2002
Haunted Hills
Haven't regularly read Slashdot for a while.
I can tell you precisely which post drove me off, too.
n8willis writes: "Well, it was probably only a matter of time, but Reuters reports that Napster has licensed an "acoustic fingerprinting" technology from someone called Relatable to insert into its filtering system. Boy, I just can't wait for the opportunity to pay Napster a monthly fee to share my music with other people. And have them censor me for my trouble, too."
Geek buzzword bingo. "share", "my music" (what, you created it, then?), "censor".
Well, gee, Timmy, who could be against sharing? Who could be in favor of censorship? I guess your position must be the right one, then.
I'd been getting annoyed with the comments for a while before that (and made the mistake of switching to karma=-1 to moderate, and got even more annoyed), but that pushed me over the edge. Not my tribe, not my language, not my space.
I have the same reaction to "Islamofascist", "Paleostinian", "race hustler" and "poverty pimp". Figure anyone so comfortable with their prejudices that they wear them like the blank badge ain't worth listening to or treating with respect.
Maybe it's the linguistics background. Even without getting all Sapir-Whorf, language use can alter an argument, with the form distorting the content. Which is why we get abominations like the American Serviceman Protection Act or, just signed into law, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
If you can say that last name with a straight face, please kill yourself.
It's National Night Out, which in my case is a damn good reason to keep indoors. The less I deal with Minnesotans, the more I'm able to tolerate them. And since my very deliberately bad acting job at being polite does not register with them (do I strike you as the sort of person who would honestly say, "Oh, I'm so happy for you!"? No? Then why do these motherfuckers not recognize this as a not-so-subtle hint to fuck off?), best to avoid the unpleasantries entirely.
Besides, tonight The Rerun Show is doing "Facts of Life" and "The Jeffersons".
Huh. Go out and find reasons to kill Minnesotans, or stay home and find reasons to kill my tv. Or, wacky idea, I could finish Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, since I won't be seeing The Business of Fancydancing any time soon. . .
The new Elvira film opens here on the 24th, though. Yay Cassandra Peterson.
Posted by Aaron at August 6, 2002 05:49 PM
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