From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Aug 28 2002 - 08:14:19 MDT
A short stroy by Cory Doctorow. Not exactly anything new to us (and a
bit simplistic IMHO), but fun:
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/index.html
A great quote:
"For forty years now, doctors have been telling us that the way to
keep fit is to exercise more and eat less. That's great fucking
advice, as can be demonstrated by the number of trim, fit residents of
Northern California that can be found waddling around any shopping
mall off Interstate 101. Look at exercise, Jesus, what could be
stupider? Exercise doesn't burn fat, exercise just satisfies the
condition in which your body is prepared to burn fat off. It's like a
computer that won't boot unless you restart it twice, switch off the
monitor, open the CD drive and stand on one foot. If you're a luser,
you do all this shit every time you want to boot your box, but if
you're a leet hax0r like you and me, you just figure out what's wrong
with the computer and fix it. You don't sacrifice a chicken twice a
day, you 0wn the box, so you make it dance to your tune.
"But your meat, it's not under your control. You know you have to
exercise for 20 minutes before you start burning any fat at all? In
other words, the first twenty minutes are just a goddamned waste of
time. It's sacrificing a chicken to your metabolism. Eat less,
exercise more is a giant chicken-sacrifice, so I say screw it. I say,
you should be super-user in your own body. You should be leet as you
want to be. Every cell in your body should be end-user modifiable."
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