Keep going! You're hot tonight! urged Wally.

[…] of all the sections of a ship's company, the forecastlemen, veterans for the most part and bigoted in their sea-prejudices, are the most jealous in resenting territorial encroachments […]

Thus the reason why the hacker ethos is disappearing is simple: people are doing what they do in the real world here in cyberspace, and the fact is, there are far more petty vandals (wannabes) in the real world than brilliant, ingenuitous intellectuals (hackers).

Master of the Seasons of the Year, I call upon you and ask you to be here with me in this, my ritual.