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    Cory Doctorow To Fans: "Stop Pinging Your Whuffie"

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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/26/08

    In reply to Cory Doctorow To Fans: "Stop Pinging Your Whuffie"
    OK, somebody please clue me in. Is he opposed to gay marriage, a pro-lifer in favor of teen abstinence, or a Mormon? Or God Forbid, all three? Why the hate?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    11/26/08

    @RAHfanboy for one, welcomes his Marxist overlords.: I'm kind of confused too.
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Cory Doctorow To Fans: "Stop Pinging Your Whuffie"
    Doctorow. Probably my fastest personal "Read all his stuff" to "Just go the fuck away" to date.
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Cory Doctorow To Fans: "Stop Pinging Your Whuffie"
    Cory is a gutless pseudo-intellectual hack with delusions of grandeur is a at best marginal genre
    his idiotic babbling about politics smacks of childish wish fulfillment and hard core Marxism
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    11/26/08

    @OliveJebbies: ...speaking of idiotic babble...
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    Image of t3knomanser t3knomanser
    11/26/08

    In reply to Cory Doctorow To Fans: "Stop Pinging Your Whuffie"
    I always thought Down and Out was a cautionary tale about the dangers of reputation economies, not a suggestion on an option.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/26/08

    @t3knomanser: I agree. The world he portrayed seemed pretty screwed up, like a society run on 7th grade cafeteria politics.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/26/08

    @Grey_Area: the quilifier here is superfulous, politics is politics weither it's the 7th grade cafeteria or running for presedent.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/26/08

    In reply to Cory Doctorow To Fans: "Stop Pinging Your Whuffie"
    C'mon, Cory's got his own 'I-Love-Me' site; part of the reason I come here is because this isn't it.
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Cory Doctorow To Fans: "Stop Pinging Your Whuffie"
    Yah, kind of a dumb name too. Economics used to have cool sounding terms like "Invisible Hand" or "Communisim". But "Wuffie"? Please.

    Maybe Cory could hire one of those professional naming experts to give it something with a bit more zazz.

    Unfortunately, "Bronx Mowgli" is already taken.
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    Image of Mister Adequate Mister Adequate
    11/26/08

    In reply to Cory Doctorow To Fans: "Stop Pinging Your Whuffie"
    It always makes me wonder how the system by far the most friendly to social mobility, the system which generates more for everyone, so the pie is bigger even if nobody gets a bigger share, is the one which is lambasted for being so unjust. Have these people never read an economics, politics, or history book?
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/26/08

    @Mister Adequate: Apparently not.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/26/08

    In reply to Cory Doctorow To Fans: "Stop Pinging Your Whuffie"
    The thing about Whuffie is, no one—not Bob, not Mr. Hooper, not Gordon, not even Maria—believes it exists, because it always wanders off before Big Bird brings them back to the nest.
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    11/26/08

    In reply to Cory Doctorow To Fans: "Stop Pinging Your Whuffie"
    I don't care if it dooms us, Cory: I'm not protecting Whuffie.
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