Especially considering the recent and mostly positive reaction to the clever "hack" of selling fake facebook girlfriends, haha? It's almost as if we like our bu

Especially considering the recent and mostly positive reaction to the clever "hack" of selling fake facebook girlfriends, haha? It's almost as if we like our bullshit constant, in-your-face, and without any apologies or interruptions whatsoever (as George Carlin pointed out talking about Bill Clinton ^^). Burn those who come clean, suck up to those who don't. Anyway, this is between her and the people she deceived, and I am hopeful that people closer to it would react less petty... I mean, maybe I missed something, but what's even the big deal? What, exactly, was the huge harm that was done here? Oh god, she TOOK away jobs others should have had; it's not like she was given them, no no no, she snatched them with her decepta-claws, people were helpless against the might of photoshop. Instead of, say, people giving a fuck about who you know too much, and about what people supposedly did, more than they care (or even pay attention to) what people are saying or doing this moment causing those job mis-allocations, having caused them before that, and still being causing them. The in crowd is not the problem, faking membership is. It's a meritocracy, after all! You couldn't make this stuff up, really. It's not like she became a brain surgeon or president under false pretenses, it was just some web crap, right? Right?! Just consider Bush and Mr. Hope & Change, and this quote, which is so depressingly accurate today as it probably was then: "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." (Aesop) It's easy to bash a young girl who got caught, lost her job, is seeking counseling; that is the lowest hanging fruit there is. Sure, one doesn't exclude the other, and I'm not claiming anyone bashing her isn't also bashing other deception; but still, I call bollocks on this. She got found out, she came clean, she basically only just started working on herself; what more do you want? Hopefully she'll find the strength (support is nice, inner strength is nicer) to open new doors for herself; she always missed out on being the same person on the inside as on the outside, so she has a lot of cool things to discover.. who wouldn't be happy for that? So to Mr. and Mrs. Snarky Pants I have to say something else Nietzsche said (about Christianity), something along the lines of something that crawls on the ground snatching at anything attempting to fly. It's just disgusting to flaunt Nietzsche to be petty and small-minded. That's some serious clown shit. Remember the soul searching about Aaron asking for help on HN? I don't bring that up to play with emotions; Someone asking for help, someone asking for forgiveness, same fucking thing. "You broke it, you own it", "I am not convinced until I really see anything, like, she has to contribute to open source and shit, and until then I'm going to be an ass" -- yeah, right. I really have to stress, who even asked any of you, how can you forgive something that was not done to you? The answer is of course nobody, and not at all. Good we cleared that up then huh ^^