HA!!! I'm just getting caught up on the lists and I come across this... I wonder if John posted that to Slashdot himself? :)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Doyle Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; John Carmack Subject: Re: [ERPS] Slashdot article 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Carmack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 8:09 PM Subject: Re: [ERPS] Slashdot article > At 06:59 PM 2/10/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/05/2243243&mode=thread&tid =134&tid=126&tid=160 > > > >We got slashdotted and we didn't even feel a thing. (At least, so I > >conclude from the lack of mention of it.) > > > >_______________________________________________ > >ERPS-list mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list > > It wrecks us at Id Software (where the Armadillo site is hosted) every time > slashdot links to us. Evidently, the erps server bogged down just serving > the email text. We get hit up for 45 meg videos... We have a fractional > T3, but it isn't nearly enough. > > John Carmack > > _______________________________________________ > ERPS-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
