To save y'all the time to read the MANY slashdot comments, I've filtered out
the funniest one for you here:
Don't Help Him, Carmack is a Menace to Society (Score:1, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05, @05:53PM (#5235414)
Lets talk about Jon Carmack. Jon is the legendary programmer of such
classic PC games as Wolfenstein, Doom, Duke nukem 3d, Quake 1, 2, and 3,
unreal, and the upcoming doom3. Jon has single handedly created the genre
known as the first-person-shooter. He has also popularized the Direct3d 3d
format over Microsoft's competing Opengl format, as well as caused public
interest in 3d cards when he first released accelerated quake for the s3
virge chipset. Jon carmack has redefined gaming on PC's.
Now stop for a moment and think, What would have happened if Albert
Einstein had worked creating amazing pinball games instead of creating the
theory of relativity? Humanity would suffer! Jon carmack is unfortunately
doing JUST THIS, using his gifts at computer coding to create games instead
of furthering the knowledge of humanity. Carmack could have been working for
NASA or the US military, but instead he simply sits around coding violent
computer games.
Is this a waste of a special and rare talent? Sadly, the answer is
yes.
Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. Not only is Jon carmack not
contributing to society, he is causing it's downfall. What was the main
reason for the mass murder of dozens of people in columbine? Doom. It's
always the same story: Troubled youth plays doom or quake, he arms himself
to the teeth, he kills his classmates. This has happened hundreds of times
in the US alone. Carmack is not only wasting his talents and intelligence;
he is single-handedly causing the deaths of many young men and women. How
does he sleep at night?
Carmack is a classic example of a very talented and intelligent human
being that is bent on total world destruction. Incredibly, he has made
millions of dollars getting people hooked on psychotic games where they
compete on the internet to see who can dismember the most people. I believe
there is something morally wrong when millions of people have computerized
murder fantasies, and we have Jon Carmack to thank. Carmack has used his
superior intellect to create mayhem in society. Many people play games such
as quake so much that their minds are permanently warped. A cousin of mine
has been in therapy for 6 months after he lost a 'death match' and became
catatonic.
It is unfortunate that most people do not realize how much this man
has damaged all the things we have worked hard for in America. Jon has
wasted his intelligence, caused the deaths of innocent children, and warped
this country forever. To top it off, he got rich in the process and is
revered by millions of computer users worldwide. Perhaps one day the US
government will see the light and confine Jon Carmack somewhere with no
computers so he can no longer use his intelligence to wreak havoc on
society.
****end of quoted slashdot post****
John, if only you had used your powers for good rather than evil... hehehe
Ahem, seriously now.. IF you end up having to seriously consider starting
up your own fair-sized H2O2 concentration plant, I recommend that you
consult with the guys who did exactly that for Rotary Rocket Co. due to
similar experience with procuring the stuff.
Here's their website with contact info: http://www.rocketprop.com I predict
that they would have little interest in starting up another concentration
plant right now, as they're busy with other work. But, paying them a
consult fee would be well worth the money spent for the advice.
Ken Doyle
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