I've just posted an enormous experience update with I think around 520 new stories, which almost entirely clears the backlog. I'm sorry if it means some slipped through that shouldn't have, but I didn't think it was right to make people wait so long for their memberships. Thank you so much to the small number of dedicated reviewers who have continued to help with reviewing. Thanks also to Anna for the cover photo… not of her, but by her (at Punkteur in Missouri). I guess that quote really sums up a lot of the beliefs of many tattooed people. I'm surprised I don't see it inked onto people more often.
PS. One step closer to the draft.
Even the cover of Slashdot these days is filled with more and more corruption. The way people behave gets more sickening all the time. Or maybe it's just more obvious. I don't know. Yahoo has released its own “spyware fighting” toolbar to compete with Google. No suprise there. But looking closer at it, it doesn't actually uninstall all spyware… just the spyware that competes with Yahoo's business partners (more). Then over in patent insanity land, Microsoft has been granted a patent on double clicking (more) which they claim they invented in 2002 (more). Also sourcing in 2002, December to be specific, Network Associates (aka McAfee) has been granted a patent on Bayesian filtering and other combined filtering (more)… nice of them to “invent” it in December of 2002… I guess it only took them three months after reading “A plan for spam” to reword it as a patent and write their own name on it.
I don't even know why I bother writing this stuff. It seems like either people get it or they don't. And the fact is that if it continues this way (not just in America, but in Canada as well, with Steven Harper promising Bush-style tax cuts to the rich), there is only going to be one way to live with any semblence of independence: become extremely wealthy. Your only other options are revolution or slavery.
Sadly I suspect most people prefer slavery and are already enjoying it.
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