[Noisebridge-discuss] [drama] My Hair Is On Fire - Current events that are shaping your rights as we speak

[Rigel Christian]

what if i'm simply trying to hack your prescriptive linguistics?

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Evan Bangham <ebangham at gmail.com> wrote:
> Attention, you cannot 'hack' politics, you cannot hack political parties,
> you cannot hack politicians, you cannot hack social issues, or fiscal
> policy. Please for the love of everything holey, stop it with this over
> application of the word 'hack'. If you do not write code, design circuits or
> at the very least create mechanical devices, you are not a hacker. Thats
> right, it's true, the jib is up, you're not a Non hacking hacker, not a anti
> hacking hacker, a sub hacker, or anything else. You're not a hacker, plain
> and simple.
>
> If people keep on using the word so loosely it will soon be devoid of all
> meaning and become, semantically speaking, a steaming dead carcass of the
> word it once was. Soon in the not so distant future we'll be saying shit
> like "I need to hack my underwear in the washing machine, because I forgot
> hack my ass when I was on the toilet taking a hack."
>
> I've had a lot of free time lately and I will start repeating this message
> everytime I see the word, or any derivatives thereof applied in a way that
> doesn't follow this simple definition.
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Wladyslaw Zbikowski
> <embeddedlinuxguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com>
>> wrote:
>> > If you care about your right to vote you need to watch this. This will
>> > be the most informative hour of your life:
>>
>> I believe in direct action, not voting; that's why I became a hacker
>> instead of an activist. I don't know (or care) what the fuck you are
>> talking about, but if watching a video on MSNBC is really the most
>> informative hour of my life, please drive to 2475 3rd St and kill me
>> right now. Thanks.
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