Doesnt belong here in hacker news. Lots of things may be interesting to hackers, that doesnt mean you put them on the tech/startup forum. So keep that crap on digg/reddit and let their community fall apart not this one.
Do you remember this photograph?: The Falling Man
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Re: Do you remember this photograph?: The Falling Man
#12Doesnt belong here in hacker news. Lots of things may be interesting to hackers, that doesnt mean you put them on the tech/startup forum. So keep that crap on digg/reddit and let their community fall apart not this one.
That, and the fact that the article is horribly written. It's like the editor went "Holy &#!! it's 9/11 coming up! Quick, someone write an article!" half an hour before going to press.
Re: Do you remember this photograph?: The Falling Man
#13I think I only ever saw it in the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I do remember it from that occasion, however. Pretty memorable photo. I have no idea what it has to do with startups or technology, though.
In the book, that falling man was the kids father? I read it awhile ago and can't really recall the exact details of his father's death.
Re: Do you remember this photograph?: The Falling Man
#14Doesnt belong here in hacker news. Lots of things may be interesting to hackers, that doesnt mean you put them on the tech/startup forum. So keep that crap on digg/reddit and let their community fall apart not this one.
That, and the fact that the article is horribly written. It's like the editor went "Holy &#!! it's 9/11 coming up! Quick, someone write an article!" half an hour before going to press.
I don't feel that way.
I particularly liked this paragraph:
There was no terror or confusion at the Associated Press. There was, instead, that feeling of history being manufactured; although the office was as crowded as he'd ever seen it, there was, instead, "the wonderful calm that comes into play when people are really doing their jobs."
Re: Do you remember this photograph?: The Falling Man
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you've missed the point. The photographic - in detail and in scope - is very far removed from "Fire hot, ground far, shit happens."
Photography is an artistic numbers game. When Michael Angelo plots out a creation over months, that's one thing. When a photographer grabs an aestetically pleasing bit of snuff porn in a lucky 0.5 millisecond window, that's another. Terrorism, you'll know when it works...they'll be talking about it 7 years later.
Terrorism, you'll know when it works...they'll be talking about it 7 years later.
This is definitely the most concise version of my very long rant about the mere premise of this article. Please, for the love of god, let. it. go. I know we gotta go with the whole culture of fear thing, but it's time for a new platform already.
Re: Do you remember this photograph?: The Falling Man
#16I think I only ever saw it in the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I do remember it from that occasion, however. Pretty memorable photo. I have no idea what it has to do with startups or technology, though.
In the book, that falling man was the kids father? I read it awhile ago and can't really recall the exact details of his father's death.
No (at least I didn't get that impression). I think it was just used as a symbol for everyone lost. The kids father did die in the WTC.
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#18"Each jumper, no matter how many there were, brought fresh horror, elicited shock, tested the spirit, struck a lasting blow."
That is a seriously overwritten article. There are few things worse in journalism than people who think they're making a big statement, just making the statement bigger. As if they needed to explain what 9/11 did to us all.
Re: Do you remember this photograph?: The Falling Man
#19Doesnt belong here in hacker news. Lots of things may be interesting to hackers, that doesnt mean you put them on the tech/startup forum. So keep that crap on digg/reddit and let their community fall apart not this one.
That, and the fact that the article is horribly written. It's like the editor went "Holy &#!! it's 9/11 coming up! Quick, someone write an article!" half an hour before going to press.
"Ed. Note: This article originally appeared in the September 2003 issue of Esquire."
the editor actually went "Holy &#!! it's 9/11 coming up! Quick, what can we post?!" five minutes before going to press.
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#20Suicide? With a lion facing you in one direction and a tiger at the other, rushing at the tiger isn't suicide. Stupid fucking journalists.
There's one mention of the word "suicide" in an article that should have been 1/10 the size.
I don't think that was suicide. The article described his posture and how he wasn't flailing around like the other jumpers. Rather here he falls, staring straight down, saying "fuck you. I choose." In those last moments he refused to have his freedom denied by awful circumstances.
At least that's what I got out of it.