While I often found his stories and comments to be far reaching, overstated, overly optimistic & sometimes bordered on religious zealotry [wiktionary.org], I will miss his contributions and wish his family and friends well. I hope they know that Roland was a man committed to the proliferation of technology and advancements has done great things for both our community & society.
It is also comforting to see a soul survive and prosper in a technological field and end up where they want to live blogging peaceful
Come on, Bruce.
Its slashdot for God's sake. If you can't laugh at someone's death here where can you?
Oh, anywhere that it's fashionable to have absolutely no taste or sense of the appropriate, and where flaunting your a sense of bankruptcy is in style.
Piquepaille was a dick who tried to get rich by posting ad-laden no-content stories to/. He was a dick and you don't get a free pass on "legacy" just cuz you're dead.
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
-- Quentin Crisp
Rest in Peace, rpiquepa (Score:5, Insightful)
It is also comforting to see a soul survive and prosper in a technological field and end up where they want to live blogging peaceful
Slashdot (Score:3, Insightful)
I don't have them, and I'm not looking at this story again, because I'm grossed out by some of the folks here.
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Come on, Bruce.
Its slashdot for God's sake. If you can't laugh at someone's death here where can you?
FWIW, I didn't care one way or the other for Roland, but I'm still sorry to hear of his passing.
Re:Slashdot (Score:2, Insightful)
Oh, anywhere that it's fashionable to have absolutely no taste or sense of the appropriate, and where flaunting your a sense of bankruptcy is in style.
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Re:Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Moral bankruptcy was so 2008 - fiscal bankruptcy is all the rage in 2009!
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No! FUCK good taste... (Score:-1, Troll)
Piquepaille was a dick who tried to get rich by posting ad-laden no-content stories to /. He was a dick and you don't get a free pass on "legacy" just cuz you're dead.