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You're all a bunch of suckers
Thank you. Before you bunch of women get too hysterical, you might want to take a look at this. http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2009/08/11 I'll just assume _why is vacationing in Europe.
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Intresting! Also that implies his real name is K. Roford (I went to the University of Utah as well, so I'm familiar with their naming scheme).
Googling "kroford" returns a few results related to Star Wars, and the server is named "deathstar". I thought that at first too, but now I doubt it.
Ken Roford has an account on facebook, but no details revealed to the outside world.
His GitHub account is back! http://github.com/why
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Did he literally put out a challenge or do you actually see a person's privacy as a game?
The wikipedia page shows an image of him apparently giving a public speech. If his privacy was so precious to him I don't think he would do things like that. Hence I would say this was just a little game - and he lost.
But you don't know, and neither do I. It looks like someone played this game, and we lost.
I just noticed that _why apparently deleted his twitter account. I then found that that wasn't all he deleted: http://twitter.com/_why http://github.com/why http://whytheluckystiff.net/ http://poignantguide.net/ http://hackety.org/ http://shoooes.net/ All disappeared... For those who don't know who I'm talking about: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff
I wanted to try Potion, it might be too late now.
A few years back I read Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. Somewhere in the middle of the book someone says "why the lucky stiff!" Does anyone know what that means?
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If you're referring to moot's supposed identity "Christopher Poole," you're wrong. There's no verification that that is his real name, and I think it's just a joke. Just look at the initials: CP. For those of you who are uninitiated, "CP" is a 4chan meme for child pornography, and is closely associated with Pedobear.
Is there any reason to believe that Time, WSJ, etc., DIDN'T do any fact checking on the name they printed?
Yes, they admitted they weren't sure.
- Nobody died. How can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?
- Then what died? Who are you mourning?
- A point of view.
Cain, Elbis O'Shaughnessy, and Abel, in Sandman: The Wake
(yes i'm double posting this, i feel that it is also appropriate here in the original thread)