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

[jim]

    i think your definition of "hack" is too limited. 
i like a definition of "hack" that applies to pretty 
much anything, like, for instance, writing. 


On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 20:55 -0700, Evan Bangham 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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