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thor

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« on: 2 November 2003, 14:00 »
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/000748.html
Revolution is not an AOL Keyword*
You will not be able to stay home, dear Netizen.
You will not be able to plug in, log on and opt out.
You will not be able to lose yourself in Final Fantasy,
Or hold your Kazaa download queues,
Because revolution is not an AOL Keyword.
Revolution is not an AOL Keyword.
Revolution will not be brought to you on Hi-Def TV
Encrypted with a warning from the FBI.
Revolution will not have a jpeg slideshow of Dubya
Calling the cattle and leading the incursion by
Secretary Rumsfeld, General Ashcroft and Dick Cheney
Riding nuclear warheads on their way to Iraq,
Or North Korea, or Iran.
Revolution is not an AOL Keyword.
Revolution will not be powered by Microsoft on
The Next-Generation Secure Computing Base
And will not star Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee
Or Larry Lessig and Martha Stewart.
Revolution will not promise penile enlargement.
Revolution will not get rid of spam.
Revolution will not earn you up to $5000 a month
Working from home, because revolution is not
An AOL Keyword, Brother.
There will be no screen grabs of you and
Jeeves the Butler one-click shopping at My Yahoo,
Or outbidding a shady grandma on eBay for
That refurbished iPod 20-gig.
MSNBC.com will not predict election results in Florida
Or fact-check the Drudge Report.
Revolution is not an AOL Keyword.
There will be no webcast of Wil Wheaton boxing
Barney the Dinosaur on the dancefloor at DNA.
There will be no mob- or wiki- blog of Richard Stallman
Strolling through Redmond in a medieval robe and halo
As St. iGNUcious of the Church of Emacs
That he has been saving
For just the proper occasion.
Survivor, The Osbournes, and Joe Millionaire
Will no longer be so damned relevant, and
People will not care if Carrie hooks up again with
Mr. Big on Sex and the City because Information
Wants To Be Free even while Knowledge Is Power.
Revolution is not an AOL Keyword.
There will be no final pictures from inside the
World Trade Center in the instant replay.
There will be no final pictures from inside the
World Trade Center in the instant replay.
There will be no RealVideo of 2600-reading,
Linux-booting white hat hacktivists
And Mickey Mouse in the public domain.
The theme song will not be written by Jack Valenti or
Hilary Rosen, nor sung by Metallica, Dr. Dre,
Christina Aguilera, Matchbox 20, or Blink-182.
Revolution is not an AOL Keyword.
Revolution will not be right back after
Pop-up ads about eCommerce, eTailers, or eContent.
You will not have to worry about a
Cookie in your browser, a bug in your email, or a
Worm in your recycling bin.
Revolution will not run faster with Intel inside.
Revolution, dude, is not getting a Dell.
Revolution will increase your Google rank.
Revolution is not an AOL Keyword, is not an AOL Keyword,
Is not an AOL Keyword, is not an AOL Keyword.
Revolution will be no stream or download, dear Netizen;
Revolution must still be live.
*See generally Gil Scott-Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything,
but I can't prove it.

Great_Satan

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« Reply #1 on: 3 November 2003, 05:14 »
Edited. Please don't post obcene images.

[ November 02, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]


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« Reply #2 on: 3 November 2003, 06:47 »
quote:
Originally posted by Great_Satan:
Edited. Please don't post obcene images.

[ November 02, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]



obscene language? If you're going to edit out his entire post just delete it. I don't see what language could have been so awful to not be allowed though.

fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck   ;)

Xeen

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« Reply #3 on: 3 November 2003, 06:52 »
quote:
Originally posted by Stryker:


obscene language? If you're going to edit out his entire post just delete it. I don't see what language could have been so awful to not be allowed though.

fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck    ;)  



Umm..it says obscene IMAGES not language

Laukev7

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« Reply #4 on: 3 November 2003, 07:04 »
That was the third one he tried to post, actually. I deleted the first two, because of their content, then edited the third one to make the message clear.

Stryker

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« Reply #5 on: 3 November 2003, 11:06 »
quote:
Originally posted by xeen:


Umm..it says obscene IMAGES not language



i see... my mistake

 
quote:

That was the third one he tried to post, actually. I deleted the first two, because of their content, then edited the third one to make the message clear.



kind of sad he wouldn't figure it out the first time, didn't he used to contribute?

cahult

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« Reply #6 on: 3 November 2003, 11:07 »
Getting back on track...

I read the lyrics to the original. What wisdom, such style. Why are writers and composers today such idiots in comparison?
"The gentleman is dead, the feminists killed him" Anonymous