Word: rottener
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That's the rotten part of it. Now I feel even more confused than ever...
...matter of satisfaction. It's just a matter of sheer ability. I am just a rotten writer when it comes right down to it. I just can't do it terribly well...
...booms and busts of the Internet economy have taken on an almost seasonal aspect. Callow start-ups--initially apples in venture capitalists' eyes--become in a few short months rotten e-commerce or business-to-business fruit. Portals, community sites, e-commerce companies, business-to-business (B2B) verticals--all are Web sectors once hyped as the next big thing; all are Web sectors in which stock prices have gone off the cliff...
...psychoanalytic terms, these hackers have a fantasy about what's going to happen. They probably imagine their victims thinking they're going to have a pleasurable experience (like opening a love letter or reading a joke) and it turns into something really rotten. It's kind of like leaving an unpleasant package in someone's mailbox and watching them open it. Hacking is, of course, a huge power trip for a young kid who gets to inflict this kind of inconvenience or actual discomfort on a whole lot of grown-ups, including the heads of the same corporations many...
...Forrest Gump. It's more like boxing. Hanks clambers, panting, onto the command ship Aftershock, barking, "Big ones! Those were great!" Like a prizefighter, he's wrapped in a towel. He takes a few slugs of Diet Coke, has a mouthpiece popped in--actually a set of prosthetic rotten teeth--gets his scars and scabs touched up and then swings overboard again. Perhaps out of patriotism, I avert my eyes from his skimpy loincloth. I mean, that'd be like checking out Thomas Jefferson's package...