I love Carlin, but this IS NOT STARTUP NEWS. The article was on digg, slashdot and wired. this feed used to be different. ;-(
George Carlin dies at 71
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#32Serious question: Why is this one OK, but the news of Tim Russert passing was not? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=217591
who says this one is ok.
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#33This is wonderful advice for my start-up. Thank you.
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#34Man was a genius! He hacked culture. Fondly remembered, badly missed.
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#35Amazingly, he did indeed "die," and not just "pass away." Perhaps he did indeed affect mainstream media slightly...
There are, however, plenty of people out there saying he passed away and "RIP."
I managed to find the bit where he talks about "passing away": http://youtube.com/watch?v=RrvyrxUpibg&feature=related (starting around 4:30).
I feel an impulse to post it in a comment on every blog or article that uses a death euphemism (I did http://searchengineland.com/080623-082447.php already :-)).
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#36Carlin used to do a straight stand-up kinda gig, with a suit and a tie and the lot. Used to play Saturday nights at the Holiday Inn to a bunch of middle-aged salesmen. Then he realized that he could do a 180 and instead do a routine attacking the system. That's when he really took off. He hit his stride during the late 60s/early 70s with a completely new and growing market: the kids. This is a good example of the sam…
"Ohhh the anti-system dollar, that's a big dollar!" Bill Hicks on marketing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
That clip was like... the anti-humor. Why is that guy so popular?
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#37I love Carlin, but this IS NOT STARTUP NEWS. The article was on digg, slashdot and wired. this feed used to be different. ;-(
This site isn't about startup news, it's about hacker news. Small reminder...
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Carlin was damn interesting and someone I'd bet many many hackers looked up to.
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#38Serious question: Why is this one OK, but the news of Tim Russert passing was not? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=217591
Because Tim Russert wasn't the genius Carlin was, and didn't make a living hacking our idiotic social norms like Carlin did. Carlin was a hacker in the truest sense, he was curious about everything and wasn't afraid to explore any topic, despite the consequences.
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#39Who is george carlin??