Slaves to Passion, Freedom, Creativity
Posted Wed Jun 13 12:41:43 2001 by orooney |
By Spartacus
Look closely at your shackles. Study each grimy link in the chain.
You'll want to remember everything about this time, with the exception
of Pop music, in the not-so-distant future. Burn the image in your
brain as a monument to a patient struggle. It will be both inspiring
and humbling. And it won't look like a giant penis so there's that.
My electronic friends, I've never peered through rose-tinted
glasses and my glass is, invariably, half-empty. But, as I sip this
ever-dwindling single malt, something wonderful this way comes. Like my
faithful dog when a thunderstorm approaches, I feel a nervous energy
that compels me to write this now, that shapes the corners of my mouth
into a tentative smile, and that tells me we will
rise up against the tyranny of ignorance, fear, and Wall Street. Which
is not to say that my dog actually writes or anything but you get my
point.
I'm not an oracle, just an observer. And I see talented, gifted
people everywhere revolutionizing the way we work, create, grow, and
evolve, even as they're pink-slipped, downsized, and cast-off by a
stagnant, weakening regime.
You are Spartacus! "They" will choke on those same slips and they
will scurry for your cast-off crumbs. I write to say there will be a
dizzying paradigm shift. The Industrial Revolution will someday be
viewed as a blip in comparison
- the modern-day equivalent of a slightly faster microprocessor.
Imagine it. It will be real. Economic systems come and go, as they
must, and the new, "new" economy of which I speak will be pervious to
change in kind. But it will, I believe, reward its smart and nimble
citizens. It will punish, in its way, incompetence, stagnation,
complacency, and conservatism. And by conservatism I mean mostly the
absurd death-grip on "tradition." Republicans, like roaches, are
a hearty lot.
You'll see people like my friend, eBitch, assigning her potent,
crinkled cranium (in a sexy way) to tasks of her own design. She'll be
doing the work she was born to do - and she will bring joy to us all -
if only as one more example of unshackled, fierce freedom. You, too,
will accomplish great, unimaginable things. I've listened to your minds
work on this page and I'm so thankful for
your number.
And let me say this to those that would dismiss this forum as a
place for petty whining - here you'll read the most cathartic,
restorative prose in the ether - swim in the soothing waters of this,
our "Bitch Lit." Floods make pools and ours not the first. We're just
the first to conserve
paper. From this Bitch Lit, I believe, will come refined, distinctive
voices. Voices like Langston Hughes, Albert Camus, and Bob Dylan.
Voices perfectly cooked by the formative fire of struggle. Of course,
you'll have to get out of the pool first as I realize I am starting to
mix metaphors.
Know this Spartacuses (Spartaci?), the dinosaurs will have their
day, but I can hear a terrible mass speeding toward the planet. I hear,
plainly, tired air being sucked from tired lungs.
eBitch, and I don't even know her real name, but perhaps it befits
my "Bitch Lit" muse, recently sent me a T-Shirt that I wear proudly and
I think it illustrates an important point. We are a generation of
"self-managed humans."
Contrary to the smug suggestion that the phrase is a euphemism for the
unemployed (this person was throttled), what it really means is we are
the CEOs of ourselves. The "I" I run is a public interest lawyer, an
editor for the
technology news filter, Corante.com, an insatiable Blogger, a freelance
writer, and, perhaps most importantly an expectant father. This "I" I
run reports to no shareholders but it's a deadly serious enterprise.
And so are you.
I say bitch as loudly, as often, and as articulately as you can.
This page alone is a testament to the gathering storm clouds that will
usher in a high-octane, brain-driven world. Until our time comes, I
implore the many talented writers, artists, and thinkers to trust me
when I say, our time is near. I want to break something expensive when
I hear of yet another creative, generous mind, giving
up, giving in, and getting out of the only "world" that matters - and
to pimp paper for the likes of Solomon Smith Barney. Just writing of
such a crime makes me want to spit so pardon me a moment.
There. "NetSlaves," it seems to me, are slaves to freedom, passion,
creativity, ingenuity, cooperation, innovation, self-development, and
vision. We are mind-miners and knowledge-croppers. And we will have our
harvest feast.
In the meantime, buy a sturdy umbrella as I realize I've forecasted
a number of inconsistent meterological events in this missive and it's
bound to, in the very least, rain.
Onward!
|
Name:
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 20 18:20:30 2001
Comment: just testing, y'all. nothing to see here, really...
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Name: Harvard Hunter
Email:
Date: Tue Jun 19 13:36:20 2001
Comment:
I love to see this one Harvard MBA try and justify who he is to us. I
have the lovely experience of being not only a product of Ivy-league
society but also a cast away living ghetto fabulous with my Flavor aid
and Judge Judy. One of the most appalling things I find about this
rhetoric with MBAs bashing us common IT laborers because we're poor and
angry is that- THEY created this mess, and THEY hired us because THEY
need US. It became a mess because THEY told US what to do. It should
also become painfully obvious that poor people are not just ignorant
stupid people. We learned design, and IT while shoveling your shit, and
saying yes sir, no ma'am, flip the burger, FLIP THE BURGER. We worked
as we learned, not for "spending money" or to learn a "work ethic" but
to survive. The poor and the rich are the same, both classes have
assholes. Both have good and bad. Stupid and smart, those who feel
entitled and those who empower. Bottom line is there are more of us
then there are of you. Call us sheep, call us the masses, take our
bread and call us ignorant, laugh at our misfortune and our wooden
spoon, and eventually the masses will have had enough, you will pay.
Doubt me? I have one thing to say, "Let them eat cake". |
Name:
Email:
Date: Mon Jun 18 15:36:10 2001
Comment: Pefect Latte-
This little 'plunger type gizmo'
check it oout.
|
Name:
Email:
Date: Fri Jun 15 11:22:34 2001
Comment:
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Name: Luca Brazzi
Email:
Date: Fri Jun 15 08:29:34 2001
Comment: I never intimated that anyone should follow me.
I certainly harbor no delusional claim to prophetude.
And as far as the ?cast of millions? is concerned, there is no
?role? for you, that?s YOUR responsibility. I don't want minions. Act
on your own. Your feigned postmodernist irony and detachment only
places you in the legion of people who ?think? they?re smart because .
. .well. . . they don?t know what they haven?t been told to do yet. . .
and so think thay?re not just ?following orders?.
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Name: Dogfaced moonboy
Email:
Date: Fri Jun 15 04:33:23 2001
Comment:
Snnnnzzz..snore...snuk! huh? What? Oh, another self-indulgent
"prophet." Star of a self-directed movie with a cast of millions (the
rest of the world) as humble, adoring minions, right? Always a Han Solo
but never a Chewbacca, no? Ego.
I'm going back to bed.
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Name:
Email:
Date: Fri Jun 15 04:33:13 2001
Comment:
Snnnnzzz..snore...snuk! huh? What? Oh, another self-indulgent
"prophet." Star of a self-directed movie with a cast of millions (the
rest of the world) as humble, adoring minions, right? Always a Han Solo
but never a Chewbacca, no? Ego.
I'm going back to bed.
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Name: Lucca Brazzi
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 16:21:09 2001
Comment: Well. . . I guess I've been told. . .
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Name: Harvard MBA
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 15:35:58 2001
Comment: Luca,
What exactly was this insight of yours that I am supposed to insult
you for? Perhaps it was lost amid one of your run-on sentences.
If Harvard MBAs are flies, then you proletarians are the dung upon which we feast.
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Name: Harvard MBA
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 15:24:35 2001
Comment: gary,
"Writers" get laid more? Then how do you explain the Netslaves
staff? Are you saying they are not really writers, or are they the
exception to the rule? |
Name: Luca Brazzi
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 15:21:36 2001
Comment:
It's not difficult to figure this Harvard person out, I don't see why
so many of you can't. If you respond you fan the flame. If you ignore
it, it won't go away. It's like a gnat that keeps buzzing in your ear
in the dark in your tent as you try to find a comfortable position in
your sleeping bag on the ground. It's like the fly that keeps dive
strafing the chicken platter at the first spring barbecue, young, small
and nimble, not one of those fat early autumn bombers, so easy to kill.
. . It won't go away. . . ever.
The task before you is to tolerate his presence. If you are lucky
enough to get the opportunity to get you hand around the larynx of one
at some chance encounter, (maybe slumming in an attempt to get the
hooks into one of the cute proletarian chicks daddy wouldn't entertain
unless alone on a business trip because he's decided that it either
hurts too much to part with 2000.00 for a good call girl or he's
decided that he'd like to see if someone can actually be attracted to
an attitude without having to get cash up front) don't make the
Odyssian mistake of taunting him upon parting. They ARE connected and
usually poor sports to boot.
He can insult me as the result of my having this insight but I must
then not respond, so he may bait me in an attempt to arouse my ire and
so puff himself up further.
He can also elect not to respond, in which case He'll be doing so
out of having recognized the superior intelligence of a certain
contingent of the proletariat, of which I may or may not be a
representative.
but he'll just convince himself that he couldn't deign to respond, It's a class thing that only he can know. . .
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Name: gary
Email: gary@corante.com
Date: Thu Jun 14 15:15:33 2001
Comment:
harvard, i am actually starting to like you in spite of myself. that
comment about the head and the fat was top-notch stuff and i'm not
being a smartass. when you get bored playing businessman, and how could
you not, perhaps you should join the society of shiftless, broke, but
ecstatic writers. plus, "writers" get laid more. that's a fact. and to
answer your question from the other day, i do not own either a 7-eleven
or a kinkos. instead i am a public interest lawyer practicing appellate
law before my state's supreme court.
plus, shouldn't we all be talking about my damn column anyway!
:)
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Name: Harvard MBA
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 14:10:16 2001
Comment: bob,
Your father's money might get you into Wharton or Columbia, but HBS
takes only the best. They aren't the best because they have Harvard
MBAs, but rather they get Harvard MBAs because they are the best. See
the difference?
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Name: bob
Email: pale_13@usa.net
Date: Thu Jun 14 13:15:43 2001
Comment:
Once again, harvard confuses his father's money with intelligence. You
may have a pedigree, but in the real world, you produce, or you leave.
You might get in the door with an MBA, but you have to be good at what
you do to stay there.
BTW, why are you still at Harvard if you are so worldly and wise? As you a prof of some sort, a grad student?
Those who can't do, teach.
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Name: Harvard MBA
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 12:37:56 2001
Comment: MasterPo,
That WSJ article was probably written in the early/mid 90's, during
the whole downsizing craze. That was a temporary anomaly, kind of like
the Stanford MBA fad that came a few years later. Basically, any
organization who would dare "lay off" a Harvard MBA would quickly find
itself locked out of the market for real managerial talent. Bad move. |
Name: MasterPo
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 12:25:19 2001
Comment:
Harvard,
There was an article some years ago in WSJ about how Harvard MBA's
aren't safe anymore. Basically it said (including interviews) that
people with Harvard and other Ivy League degrees thought they were safe
from layoffs. They weren't and were caught very much off guard.
|
Name: Harvard MBA
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 12:21:13 2001
Comment: MasterPo,
When you decide you need to lose some weight, do you go and chop
off your head? No, you go get the fat sucked out of your butt. It's the
same in business. The Harvard MBA is the last person you want to cut
loose, no matter how expensive he is, because he is the brain of your
organization. In fact, if you're smart you'll fire a couple more code
monkeys just so you can up his salary and bonus, because he's probably
got ten job offers and might jump ship. |
Name: MasterPo
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 09:00:17 2001
Comment:
Harvard - There was a time when that may have been so. Not not today.
In today's economy having an IVY League MBa does not protect
you from reorgs, layoffs and the corporate politiclal BS. Infact,
you're probably going to be the first to get it since you'll be
perceived as too expensive.
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Name: Stephen Hawking
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 22:20:28 2001
Comment:
I laugh at every idiot that thinks Harvard MBA is legit. He's a fucking
troll. Even in the remote case that he actually does hold that degree
from that institute (c'mon, he'd have better things to do), he's still
a troll. |
Name: jaded
Email: jaded@toughpull.com
Date: Wed Jun 13 21:54:43 2001
Comment: You're welcome to rag on those that work at 7-11 and Taco-Hell...it's a free country.
But aren't you glad they're there?
Who else is going to sell you a corn dog at 4am when you've got the munchies?
|
Name: SecretAgent
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 21:05:17 2001
Comment: Aikibu !!!!!!!!!!!
I'm with you! Power to the people!!!!!!!!!
|
Name:
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 20:43:53 2001
Comment:
I was going to post a comment but I'm checking my facts straighter and
I've called a proctologist to help me get my head out so the head of
dotcompoop will be happy. |
Name: wonderwench
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 19:55:16 2001
Comment: Where's ebitch at?
I'm tired of anti-capitlistic rantings. The old "new" economy
basically proved that profits matter. But enough of that. I'm much more
interested in laundry tips and rhapsodies about the perfect latte. And
what about the mashed potatoes? |
Name: Harvard MBA
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 18:05:24 2001
Comment:
gary, whether or not you would ever hire a Harvard MBA is a rather moot
question, because the only way a Harvard resume would ever cross your
desk is if a tornado struck an executive's limo before making its way
to your trailer park. What do you run anyways, a Kinko's franchise, a
7-eleven? As for the rise of the Stanford MBA, this is only a temporary
anomaly caused by the market hysteria of the late 90's. As I said,
things are returning to their natural order, with Harvard MBAs on top
and Stanford MBAs one rung below us. |
Name: gary
Email: gary@corante.com
Date: Wed Jun 13 16:15:59 2001
Comment:
i've got something for you in my "lower middle." harvard is now a
parody of itself so the smart people all go to yale and stanford. this
isn't a new phenomenon either. and an MBA, from anywhere, is as useless
as your mother's IUD. the bad news is that you've wasted time and
money, the good news, well there's no good news for you I'm afraid. I
wouldn't hire a harvard mba to change the toner in my copier. |
Name:
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 15:46:14 2001
Comment: To Aikibu:
Two words: Martin Luther
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Name: Realist
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 15:39:46 2001
Comment: To Harvard MBA:
I feel you. When will the unwashed, undereducated masses in America
realize that there is no "American Dream". You will always be the
underclass living only to serve at the whim of superior beings educated
in 'The Ivy'.
MuHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!(Evil Grin)
|
Name:
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 15:38:28 2001
Comment: harvard mba raises colonoscopic gerbils
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Name: Harvard MBA
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 14:57:45 2001
Comment:
I am a certified business genius. The sooner you come to accept this
and start doing my bidding, the sooner you will start to realize
whatever limited success your life has the potential to offer. This
whole dotcom meltdown thing is just a natural reordering process which
will eventually leave me and people like me at the top, where they
belong, and state-school educated code monkeys like you in the lower
middle where you belong. |
Name: A Minion
Email: newleaf@justicemail.com
Date: Wed Jun 13 14:44:43 2001
Comment:
I'm feeling you Spartacus! I'll be a minion. Where is eBitch by the
way? Nothing in weeks. Your pep talk made my day. Down with the
capitalist pigdogs! I am an artiste. |
Name: Aikibu
Email: whazen@earthlink.net
Date: Wed Jun 13 14:33:07 2001
Comment:
I love Spartacus too! Thanks for the hanky but what I would really like
is "lawyers,guns,and money" cause "the shit has hit the fan"lol Can you
feel my love :-) |
Name: gary wimsett
Email: gary@corante.com
Date: Wed Jun 13 13:57:38 2001
Comment:
The "Bitchee" retorts: Let it all out, Aikibu. That's it, on my
shoulder, here's a hanky. I didn't realize I had crossed genres into
the realm of the "ditty" (or is it an ode to faux freedom) but I
appreciate your remarks. Of course, you are right in many respects. But
we won't get anywhere hurling stones at each other, I don't presume.
But, I've no minions, just bunions. And I've never smoked anything from IKEA - well maybe once.
Will you join us Aikibu? Spartacus loves you.
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Name: Aikibu
Email: whazen@earthlink.net
Date: Wed Jun 13 13:44:38 2001
Comment:
The more time you waste bitching or boasting on Netslaves will serve
no-one other than the coporations you wish to change....It is time to
take to the streets. Our "problems" run much deeper than your little
ditty (but are as old as time...) The Rich and Priviledged against
everyone else, Slave Labor( wear Nikes?), the destruction of the
environment,globalization, The commercial exploitation of the internet
by corporations, The consolidation of mass-media into the hands of 5 or
6 billionares. I can go on and on. Are you blind to this...I think so.
You suffer from the illusion that because you have "CHOICES" you have
freedom. "Self Managed"?... uh huh... "Bitch-lit"? as long as you don't
piss off the wrong people...Netslaves is the perfect way to allow you
(the "Bitchee") to let off a little steam without addressing the real
issues... Ahh the ignorance of youth ha ha ha ha ha. Actions speak
louder than words my friend. Spartacus lead a revolt not by posting
little odes to faux-freedom on the Coliseum Wall, but by (once again)
taking to the streets (or Appian Way in this case LOL). And guess
what... Folks doing it all over the world as we speak! You and your
minions are most likely too doped up on tachnology,nightclubs,and Ikea
to even notice what is up. Please change soon. OPEN YOUR EYES... we
need you! |
Name:
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 13:36:41 2001
Comment: That's all great, but can we fit paying the rent and maintaining some health insurance in there too?
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Name: Marc Andreeson
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 13:32:15 2001
Comment:
Loudcloud is already revolutionizing the way people work. So please
just go buy the stock already, I'm tired of being the laughing stock of
valley cocktail parties. |
Name:
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 13:08:28 2001
Comment: Jetson. . . you're FIRED!!!
|
Name:
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 12:57:52 2001
Comment:
I have an umbrella. It looks like a duck. Actually I have two. One of
them had coke poured in it as a joke so it doesn't open. I believe a
couple of those people are some of your future readers. |
Name:
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 12:54:56 2001
Comment:
| Slaves to Passion, Freedom, Creativity
Posted Wed Jun 13 12:41:43 2001 by orooney |
By Spartacus
Look closely at your shackles. Study each grimy link in the chain.
You'll want to remember everything about this time, with the exception
of Pop music, in the not-so-distant future. Burn the image in your
brain as a monument to a patient struggle. It will be both inspiring
and humbling. And it won't look like a giant penis so there's that.
My electronic friends, I've never peered through rose-tinted
glasses and my glass is, invariably, half-empty. But, as I sip this
ever-dwindling single malt, something wonderful this way comes. Like my
faithful dog when a thunderstorm approaches, I feel a nervous energy
that compels me to write this now, that shapes the corners of my mouth
into a tentative smile, and that tells me we will
rise up against the tyranny of ignorance, fear, and Wall Street. Which
is not to say that my dog actually writes or anything but you get my
point.
I'm not an oracle, just an observer. And I see talented, gifted
people everywhere revolutionizing the way we work, create, grow, and
evolve, even as they're pink-slipped, downsized, and cast-off by a
stagnant, weakening regime.
You are Spartacus! "They" will choke on those same slips and they
will scurry for your cast-off crumbs. I write to say there will be a
dizzying paradigm shift. The Industrial Revolution will someday be
viewed as a blip in comparison
- the modern-day equivalent of a slightly faster microprocessor.
Imagine it. It will be real. Economic systems come and go, as they
must, and the new, "new" economy of which I speak will be pervious to
change in kind. But it will, I believe, reward its smart and nimble
citizens. It will punish, in its way, incompetence, stagnation,
complacency, and conservatism. And by conservatism I mean mostly the
absurd death-grip on "tradition." Republicans, like roaches, are
a hearty lot.
You'll see people like my friend, eBitch, assigning her potent,
crinkled cranium (in a sexy way) to tasks of her own design. She'll be
doing the work she was born to do - and she will bring joy to us all -
if only as one more example of unshackled, fierce freedom. You, too,
will accomplish great, unimaginable things. I've listened to your minds
work on this page and I'm so thankful for
your number.
And let me say this to those that would dismiss this forum as a
place for petty whining - here you'll read the most cathartic,
restorative prose in the ether - swim in the soothing waters of this,
our "Bitch Lit." Floods make pools and ours not the first. We're just
the first to conserve
paper. From this Bitch Lit, I believe, will come refined, distinctive
voices. Voices like Langston Hughes, Albert Camus, and Bob Dylan.
Voices perfectly cooked by the formative fire of struggle. Of course,
you'll have to get out of the pool first as I realize I am starting to
mix metaphors.
Know this Spartacuses (Spartaci?), the dinosaurs will have their
day, but I can hear a terrible mass speeding toward the planet. I hear,
plainly, tired air being sucked from tired lungs.
eBitch, and I don't even know her real name, but perhaps it befits
my "Bitch Lit" muse, recently sent me a T-Shirt that I wear proudly and
I think it illustrates an important point. We are a generation of
"self-managed humans."
Contrary to the smug suggestion that the phrase is a euphemism for the
unemployed (this person was throttled), what it really means is we are
the CEOs of ourselves. The "I" I run is a public interest lawyer, an
editor for the
technology news filter, Corante.com, an insatiable Blogger, a freelance
writer, and, perhaps most importantly an expectant father. This "I" I
run reports to no shareholders but it's a deadly serious enterprise.
And so are you.
I say bitch as loudly, as often, and as articulately as you can.
This page alone is a testament to the gathering storm clouds that will
usher in a high-octane, brain-driven world. Until our time comes, I
implore the many talented writers, artists, and thinkers to trust me
when I say, our time is near. I want to break something expensive when
I hear of yet another creative, generous mind, giving
up, giving in, and getting out of the only "world" that matters - and
to pimp paper for the likes of Solomon Smith Barney. Just writing of
such a crime makes me want to spit so pardon me a moment.
There. "NetSlaves," it seems to me, are slaves to freedom, passion,
creativity, ingenuity, cooperation, innovation, self-development, and
vision. We are mind-miners and knowledge-croppers. And we will have our
harvest feast.
In the meantime, buy a sturdy umbrella as I realize I've forecasted
a number of inconsistent meterological events in this missive and it's
bound to, in the very least, rain.
Onward!
|
Name:
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 20 18:20:30 2001
Comment: just testing, y'all. nothing to see here, really...
|
Name: Harvard Hunter
Email:
Date: Tue Jun 19 13:36:20 2001
Comment:
I love to see this one Harvard MBA try and justify who he is to us. I
have the lovely experience of being not only a product of Ivy-league
society but also a cast away living ghetto fabulous with my Flavor aid
and Judge Judy. One of the most appalling things I find about this
rhetoric with MBAs bashing us common IT laborers because we're poor and
angry is that- THEY created this mess, and THEY hired us because THEY
need US. It became a mess because THEY told US what to do. It should
also become painfully obvious that poor people are not just ignorant
stupid people. We learned design, and IT while shoveling your shit, and
saying yes sir, no ma'am, flip the burger, FLIP THE BURGER. We worked
as we learned, not for "spending money" or to learn a "work ethic" but
to survive. The poor and the rich are the same, both classes have
assholes. Both have good and bad. Stupid and smart, those who feel
entitled and those who empower. Bottom line is there are more of us
then there are of you. Call us sheep, call us the masses, take our
bread and call us ignorant, laugh at our misfortune and our wooden
spoon, and eventually the masses will have had enough, you will pay.
Doubt me? I have one thing to say, "Let them eat cake". |
Name:
Email:
Date: Mon Jun 18 15:36:10 2001
Comment: Pefect Latte-
This little 'plunger type gizmo'
check it oout.
|
Name:
Email:
Date: Fri Jun 15 11:22:34 2001
Comment:
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Name: Luca Brazzi
Email:
Date: Fri Jun 15 08:29:34 2001
Comment: I never intimated that anyone should follow me.
I certainly harbor no delusional claim to prophetude.
And as far as the ?cast of millions? is concerned, there is no
?role? for you, that?s YOUR responsibility. I don't want minions. Act
on your own. Your feigned postmodernist irony and detachment only
places you in the legion of people who ?think? they?re smart because .
. .well. . . they don?t know what they haven?t been told to do yet. . .
and so think thay?re not just ?following orders?.
|
Name: Dogfaced moonboy
Email:
Date: Fri Jun 15 04:33:23 2001
Comment:
Snnnnzzz..snore...snuk! huh? What? Oh, another self-indulgent
"prophet." Star of a self-directed movie with a cast of millions (the
rest of the world) as humble, adoring minions, right? Always a Han Solo
but never a Chewbacca, no? Ego.
I'm going back to bed.
|
Name:
Email:
Date: Fri Jun 15 04:33:13 2001
Comment:
Snnnnzzz..snore...snuk! huh? What? Oh, another self-indulgent
"prophet." Star of a self-directed movie with a cast of millions (the
rest of the world) as humble, adoring minions, right? Always a Han Solo
but never a Chewbacca, no? Ego.
I'm going back to bed.
|
Name: Lucca Brazzi
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 16:21:09 2001
Comment: Well. . . I guess I've been told. . .
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Name: Harvard MBA
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 15:35:58 2001
Comment: Luca,
What exactly was this insight of yours that I am supposed to insult
you for? Perhaps it was lost amid one of your run-on sentences.
If Harvard MBAs are flies, then you proletarians are the dung upon which we feast.
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Name: Harvard MBA
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 15:24:35 2001
Comment: gary,
"Writers" get laid more? Then how do you explain the Netslaves
staff? Are you saying they are not really writers, or are they the
exception to the rule? |
Name: Luca Brazzi
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 15:21:36 2001
Comment:
It's not difficult to figure this Harvard person out, I don't see why
so many of you can't. If you respond you fan the flame. If you ignore
it, it won't go away. It's like a gnat that keeps buzzing in your ear
in the dark in your tent as you try to find a comfortable position in
your sleeping bag on the ground. It's like the fly that keeps dive
strafing the chicken platter at the first spring barbecue, young, small
and nimble, not one of those fat early autumn bombers, so easy to kill.
. . It won't go away. . . ever.
The task before you is to tolerate his presence. If you are lucky
enough to get the opportunity to get you hand around the larynx of one
at some chance encounter, (maybe slumming in an attempt to get the
hooks into one of the cute proletarian chicks daddy wouldn't entertain
unless alone on a business trip because he's decided that it either
hurts too much to part with 2000.00 for a good call girl or he's
decided that he'd like to see if someone can actually be attracted to
an attitude without having to get cash up front) don't make the
Odyssian mistake of taunting him upon parting. They ARE connected and
usually poor sports to boot.
He can insult me as the result of my having this insight but I must
then not respond, so he may bait me in an attempt to arouse my ire and
so puff himself up further.
He can also elect not to respond, in which case He'll be doing so
out of having recognized the superior intelligence of a certain
contingent of the proletariat, of which I may or may not be a
representative.
but he'll just convince himself that he couldn't deign to respond, It's a class thing that only he can know. . .
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Name: gary
Email: gary@corante.com
Date: Thu Jun 14 15:15:33 2001
Comment:
harvard, i am actually starting to like you in spite of myself. that
comment about the head and the fat was top-notch stuff and i'm not
being a smartass. when you get bored playing businessman, and how could
you not, perhaps you should join the society of shiftless, broke, but
ecstatic writers. plus, "writers" get laid more. that's a fact. and to
answer your question from the other day, i do not own either a 7-eleven
or a kinkos. instead i am a public interest lawyer practicing appellate
law before my state's supreme court.
plus, shouldn't we all be talking about my damn column anyway!
:)
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Name: Harvard MBA
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 14:10:16 2001
Comment: bob,
Your father's money might get you into Wharton or Columbia, but HBS
takes only the best. They aren't the best because they have Harvard
MBAs, but rather they get Harvard MBAs because they are the best. See
the difference?
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Name: bob
Email: pale_13@usa.net
Date: Thu Jun 14 13:15:43 2001
Comment:
Once again, harvard confuses his father's money with intelligence. You
may have a pedigree, but in the real world, you produce, or you leave.
You might get in the door with an MBA, but you have to be good at what
you do to stay there.
BTW, why are you still at Harvard if you are so worldly and wise? As you a prof of some sort, a grad student?
Those who can't do, teach.
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Name: Harvard MBA
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 12:37:56 2001
Comment: MasterPo,
That WSJ article was probably written in the early/mid 90's, during
the whole downsizing craze. That was a temporary anomaly, kind of like
the Stanford MBA fad that came a few years later. Basically, any
organization who would dare "lay off" a Harvard MBA would quickly find
itself locked out of the market for real managerial talent. Bad move. |
Name: MasterPo
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 12:25:19 2001
Comment:
Harvard,
There was an article some years ago in WSJ about how Harvard MBA's
aren't safe anymore. Basically it said (including interviews) that
people with Harvard and other Ivy League degrees thought they were safe
from layoffs. They weren't and were caught very much off guard.
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Name: Harvard MBA
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 12:21:13 2001
Comment: MasterPo,
When you decide you need to lose some weight, do you go and chop
off your head? No, you go get the fat sucked out of your butt. It's the
same in business. The Harvard MBA is the last person you want to cut
loose, no matter how expensive he is, because he is the brain of your
organization. In fact, if you're smart you'll fire a couple more code
monkeys just so you can up his salary and bonus, because he's probably
got ten job offers and might jump ship. |
Name: MasterPo
Email:
Date: Thu Jun 14 09:00:17 2001
Comment:
Harvard - There was a time when that may have been so. Not not today.
In today's economy having an IVY League MBa does not protect
you from reorgs, layoffs and the corporate politiclal BS. Infact,
you're probably going to be the first to get it since you'll be
perceived as too expensive.
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Name: Stephen Hawking
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 22:20:28 2001
Comment:
I laugh at every idiot that thinks Harvard MBA is legit. He's a fucking
troll. Even in the remote case that he actually does hold that degree
from that institute (c'mon, he'd have better things to do), he's still
a troll. |
Name: jaded
Email: jaded@toughpull.com
Date: Wed Jun 13 21:54:43 2001
Comment: You're welcome to rag on those that work at 7-11 and Taco-Hell...it's a free country.
But aren't you glad they're there?
Who else is going to sell you a corn dog at 4am when you've got the munchies?
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Name: SecretAgent
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 21:05:17 2001
Comment: Aikibu !!!!!!!!!!!
I'm with you! Power to the people!!!!!!!!!
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Name:
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 20:43:53 2001
Comment:
I was going to post a comment but I'm checking my facts straighter and
I've called a proctologist to help me get my head out so the head of
dotcompoop will be happy. |
Name: wonderwench
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 19:55:16 2001
Comment: Where's ebitch at?
I'm tired of anti-capitlistic rantings. The old "new" economy
basically proved that profits matter. But enough of that. I'm much more
interested in laundry tips and rhapsodies about the perfect latte. And
what about the mashed potatoes? |
Name: Harvard MBA
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 18:05:24 2001
Comment:
gary, whether or not you would ever hire a Harvard MBA is a rather moot
question, because the only way a Harvard resume would ever cross your
desk is if a tornado struck an executive's limo before making its way
to your trailer park. What do you run anyways, a Kinko's franchise, a
7-eleven? As for the rise of the Stanford MBA, this is only a temporary
anomaly caused by the market hysteria of the late 90's. As I said,
things are returning to their natural order, with Harvard MBAs on top
and Stanford MBAs one rung below us. |
Name: gary
Email: gary@corante.com
Date: Wed Jun 13 16:15:59 2001
Comment:
i've got something for you in my "lower middle." harvard is now a
parody of itself so the smart people all go to yale and stanford. this
isn't a new phenomenon either. and an MBA, from anywhere, is as useless
as your mother's IUD. the bad news is that you've wasted time and
money, the good news, well there's no good news for you I'm afraid. I
wouldn't hire a harvard mba to change the toner in my copier. |
Name:
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 15:46:14 2001
Comment: To Aikibu:
Two words: Martin Luther
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Name: Realist
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 15:39:46 2001
Comment: To Harvard MBA:
I feel you. When will the unwashed, undereducated masses in America
realize that there is no "American Dream". You will always be the
underclass living only to serve at the whim of superior beings educated
in 'The Ivy'.
MuHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!(Evil Grin)
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Name:
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 15:38:28 2001
Comment: harvard mba raises colonoscopic gerbils
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Name: Harvard MBA
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 14:57:45 2001
Comment:
I am a certified business genius. The sooner you come to accept this
and start doing my bidding, the sooner you will start to realize
whatever limited success your life has the potential to offer. This
whole dotcom meltdown thing is just a natural reordering process which
will eventually leave me and people like me at the top, where they
belong, and state-school educated code monkeys like you in the lower
middle where you belong. |
Name: A Minion
Email: newleaf@justicemail.com
Date: Wed Jun 13 14:44:43 2001
Comment:
I'm feeling you Spartacus! I'll be a minion. Where is eBitch by the
way? Nothing in weeks. Your pep talk made my day. Down with the
capitalist pigdogs! I am an artiste. |
Name: Aikibu
Email: whazen@earthlink.net
Date: Wed Jun 13 14:33:07 2001
Comment:
I love Spartacus too! Thanks for the hanky but what I would really like
is "lawyers,guns,and money" cause "the shit has hit the fan"lol Can you
feel my love :-) |
Name: gary wimsett
Email: gary@corante.com
Date: Wed Jun 13 13:57:38 2001
Comment:
The "Bitchee" retorts: Let it all out, Aikibu. That's it, on my
shoulder, here's a hanky. I didn't realize I had crossed genres into
the realm of the "ditty" (or is it an ode to faux freedom) but I
appreciate your remarks. Of course, you are right in many respects. But
we won't get anywhere hurling stones at each other, I don't presume.
But, I've no minions, just bunions. And I've never smoked anything from IKEA - well maybe once.
Will you join us Aikibu? Spartacus loves you.
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Name: Aikibu
Email: whazen@earthlink.net
Date: Wed Jun 13 13:44:38 2001
Comment:
The more time you waste bitching or boasting on Netslaves will serve
no-one other than the coporations you wish to change....It is time to
take to the streets. Our "problems" run much deeper than your little
ditty (but are as old as time...) The Rich and Priviledged against
everyone else, Slave Labor( wear Nikes?), the destruction of the
environment,globalization, The commercial exploitation of the internet
by corporations, The consolidation of mass-media into the hands of 5 or
6 billionares. I can go on and on. Are you blind to this...I think so.
You suffer from the illusion that because you have "CHOICES" you have
freedom. "Self Managed"?... uh huh... "Bitch-lit"? as long as you don't
piss off the wrong people...Netslaves is the perfect way to allow you
(the "Bitchee") to let off a little steam without addressing the real
issues... Ahh the ignorance of youth ha ha ha ha ha. Actions speak
louder than words my friend. Spartacus lead a revolt not by posting
little odes to faux-freedom on the Coliseum Wall, but by (once again)
taking to the streets (or Appian Way in this case LOL). And guess
what... Folks doing it all over the world as we speak! You and your
minions are most likely too doped up on tachnology,nightclubs,and Ikea
to even notice what is up. Please change soon. OPEN YOUR EYES... we
need you! |
Name:
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 13:36:41 2001
Comment: That's all great, but can we fit paying the rent and maintaining some health insurance in there too?
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Name: Marc Andreeson
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 13:32:15 2001
Comment:
Loudcloud is already revolutionizing the way people work. So please
just go buy the stock already, I'm tired of being the laughing stock of
valley cocktail parties. |
Name:
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 13:08:28 2001
Comment: Jetson. . . you're FIRED!!!
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Name:
Email:
Date: Wed Jun 13 12:57:52 2001
Comment:
I have an umbrella. It looks like a duck. Actually I have two. One of
them had coke poured in it as a joke so it doesn't open. I believe a
couple of those people are some of your future readers. |
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Date: Wed Jun 13 12:54:56 2001
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