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Here, take 2 spoonfulls of it:

Francis Fukuyama

Marx

Ever heard of Google?

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering

Several voodoo variations are missing, all by Quantum3D.

Obsidian Pro 100DB-4440: I remember reading a magazine review of this thing, noting how the reviewer said something like "GLQuake at 120FPS is unplayable". This was a single card SLI **Voodoo 1** card.

Obsidian2 X-24: Single card Voodoo 2 SLI. Two Voodoo 2's on one board in SLI configuration.

Obsidian2 S-12: The only Voodoo2 made on an AGP card. The only reason I remember this thing is because I actually own one. It's in storage right now, but a pic of it can be seen here: http://www.geocities.com/subject28/mystery2.txt

I bought it to compliment my Matrox Mystique 220 w/Rainbow Runner which I was completely unwilling to give up.

She probably wants a pony too, try getting that to run in a browser !

No problemo.

Dude, you don't even need to be a reputable company -- the guy has invited everyone to call him:

Telephone (if you are bored, give me a call, whether i know you or not):

That page is loaded with stuff no one in their right mind would put up on a totally public web page.
Talk about spectacularly poor judgement. I think there is something wrong with the guy.

Ha ha, nice find! Snookie has been revealed! OWNED! http://www.geocities.com/brandon_excell/ // Let this be a lesson, Brandon: don't post flames along with your unique email address, or you will incur the wrath of the internet!

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering

Grumman billed North American Aerospace for towing the crippled Apollo 13 command module back from the moon. Make it worth enough and I'm sure someone will be up there shortly

F-Secure points out that .PIF files will have their extension hidden even if you change the display option.

Q: Will that make all file extensions visible?
A: Well, no. There are executable extensions that will STILL be hidden even if you turn the option off.

Q: What?
A: For example PIF. This file type was meant to be a shortcut to old MS-DOS programs. Problem is, you can rename any modern Windows Executable to .PIF and it will happily run when double-clicked.

Q: How do you I make PIF files visible then?
A: Via a registry key called "NeverShowExt". We'd link you to an article in the Microsoft Knowledgebase... except we couldn't find any. But here's a Web page on the topic, from GeoCities, made by some hobbyist a couple of years ago. Maybe it's the best source of information on the topic.

Of course this never happens in western comics at all, it's a uniquely Japanese phenomenon not found in comics produced
by such reputable companies as Marvel, DC and the like.

I could go on... in fact, I could probably just make every letter a link and it'd still work.

Special bonus: http://forums.comicbookresources.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31045&d=1167172520

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering

FYI... The 'ma na ma na' song IS NOT MUPPETS, or JIM HENSON, but was written in 1968 for an Italian Porn movie and has been in several movies since then. The muppets used it LOOOOONG after its creation, while that does not ensure that Warner doesn't own it now.

http://www.geocities.com/pieroumiliani/

BTW, these are the sort of geocities pages we need to archive.

I am a social anarchist

Great. I'll try to speak slowly.

I am self employed

Maybe if the government didn't take 30% of your paycheck to pay for health care for old people, you could afford a hospital visit every now and then? I'm sure you don't mind, though. Anything for glorious socialism, right?

I have health care coverage... and pay for my health care expenses out of pocket like you suggest

What? So which is it?

But we're talking about your wife, right? Was her $6000 broken ankle paid for by "health care coverage" or "out of pocket"? And hopefully that bill includes an ambulance ride and a some physical therapy, because this random page puts the average cost of a broken ankle at $1400 in 2003. Even at 20% annual growth*, the cost shouldn't be $6000.

*Caused in part by employers over-providing untaxed health benefits, over-insured patients burdening the system with non-essential doctor visits, and of course the state-sanctioned licensing monopoly failing to keep up with demand for doctors. But of course none of that could be solved by anything as silly as the "free market", right?

[*** HELP *** anyone know of a way for non-premium members to download a geocities site quickly? I can get most of it with wget but have some older pages that aren't linked in. Cheers!]

My page was in Research Triangle, IIRC, I stopped using it in about '99 (again IIRC) though I backported some info to it and used it for testing and ultimately updated it to do a redirect to my privately hosted pages on http://alicious.com/ which is now my blog.

Amazingly nedstatbasic isn't that anymore it's some other company but still has stats and reports 6000 page views since 2003 (which must be when motigo took over?).

6 visitors in 2009,
98 visitors in 2008,

On motigo.com they have lots of geocities pages in their stats listing, this is a pretty good example of the type of thing:
* http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/trails/3543/ a horse page
* http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Facility/9209/ electronics page

This second one has a frame-breaker, webring adverts but is missing the "under construction" gif that would of completed the set ... C..C..C..Combo-BREAKER!

[*** HELP *** anyone know of a way for non-premium members to download a geocities site quickly? I can get most of it with wget but have some older pages that aren't linked in. Cheers!]

My page was in Research Triangle, IIRC, I stopped using it in about '99 (again IIRC) though I backported some info to it and used it for testing and ultimately updated it to do a redirect to my privately hosted pages on http://alicious.com/ which is now my blog.

Amazingly nedstatbasic isn't that anymore it's some other company but still has stats and reports 6000 page views since 2003 (which must be when motigo took over?).

6 visitors in 2009,
98 visitors in 2008,

On motigo.com they have lots of geocities pages in their stats listing, this is a pretty good example of the type of thing:
* http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/trails/3543/ a horse page
* http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Facility/9209/ electronics page

This second one has a frame-breaker, webring adverts but is missing the "under construction" gif that would of completed the set ... C..C..C..Combo-BREAKER!

I spent years building that little site full of goodies for scientific document preparation. I kept it on geocities so it would have a permanent home. It is the number one site for several google searches. No @#$%in blink tags. HTML 4.01 strict compliant. Haven't updated it for a few years but still get over a thousand views a month.

It angers me when smarmy elitists dismiss Geocities out of hand. I for one am glad someone wants to archive my page. I needed a free, stable web hosting site. Geocities did that. Now there is no other option.

How to connect an Atari 2600 Paddle to the PC, by means of the use of a standard PC mouse board as the interface

Maybe not important, maybe not knowledge that will be irretrievably lost, but interesting nonetheless. I also seriously digg the homemade tiling background ;-)

This is a good example. Extremely specialised interest, not available anywhere else (unless it's been mirrored in the last couple of years), and covers its subject in better detail than I've encountered in any of the standard histories. Certainly much more detail than the Wikipedia article.

Come on now, http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/Bay/5707/index.html is not all that bad. Sure, the blue background makes my eyes bleed in pain in an attempt to read the text, and the drivers license picture included is painful to look at, but overall it is not bad.

This site has been of enormous value to me and friends who are also soy intolerant and/or allergic to soy:

http://www.geocities.com/hotsprings/4620/decoder.htm

Funny, but true. I did forget my login information (email/username and password) to this site, which is just the one image.

For those who don't know, this is a parody of Chick religious tracts (God, what a waste of a domain name!) that has often been the target of the Chick lawyers.

Note to the Chick legal team: I'll be glad to take it down if you give me my password! :)

Here is just one example of content on Geocities that has value.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/8682/
These old documents are still of value to people modding the old games.

Agreed, in fact there is still some good content up on Geocites that I just recently discovered. Case and point would be a fairly inclusive reverence to the Cokin Filter System. I'm not sure if it is still being updated, but it would be a loss if it is the only site like it on the internet.

The first web page I ever created (never finished though) was on Geocities, what's left is here http://www.geocities.com/brad1138/ but it is disappearing fast. Had pictures of kids and family etc.... I always wondered how long it would last, over 10 years isn't bad I guess.

To see this consult an FFT near you (just the first plot).

Great link!

Sure it's baseband as opposed to modulated up to some RF carrier frequency, but if your bits are carrying random data as opposed to 1010101010, then it will be a broadband signal relative to the maximum frequency required. To see this consult an FFT near you (just the first plot). You can get easily away with throwing away the humps past the first two or so, but the point is that within even just the first hump it's a wide range of frequencies with significant power.

I have a geocities site which I've not updated since circa 2002, but I still use it for storing documents online which I can access from any place in the world. Here's a site that has been updated in just the last half-year. It's obviously a hobbyist site but whoever owns it is likely to be disappointed to see it go.

http://www.geocities.com/kshavo/index.HTML

Gems like this? VF Designer Unfortunately the pain isn't limited to geocities... more pain here.

Too funny!
--
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something - Plato

Those of you who don't read Portuguese might be missing on the irony of the first site (WARNING: epileptastic!). It's advertising a web site design and creation service. You know, you pay the guy, and he makes you a website like that...

But, what will happen to the beloved Seizure Robots?!

http://www.geocities.com/james_sager2/

and

http://www.geocities.com/james_sager_PA/

this one dissapeared:

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~sager/

but it's still on archive.org

Fascinating stuff James, to a clinical psychologist maybe!

Yes, move your 'crazy' pages - there must be loads of free hosting out there. In fact, that's quite apt - the internet NEEDS sites like yours! I'm fascinated anyway - did you ever build your AI?

http://www.geocities.com/james_sager2/

and

http://www.geocities.com/james_sager_PA/

this one dissapeared:

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~sager/

but it's still on archive.org

Fascinating stuff James, to a clinical psychologist maybe!

Yes, move your 'crazy' pages - there must be loads of free hosting out there. In fact, that's quite apt - the internet NEEDS sites like yours! I'm fascinated anyway - did you ever build your AI?

Yeah, for those who read comics on their computers, you might want to stop by CDisplay's site & get it before it goes. Not aware of any other Windows comic readers offhand.

There were great attempt at open work like ESOLScale, which tried to create a mapping between different English test scores around the world in order to make evaluation standard.

I still find (well, found, at this point) myself on Geocities two or three times a year, not for crap, but for real research.

Witness the Fierce beauty of this Soon to be Lost Art form:
Evangelion Runescape Clan

Geocities was one of the first online communities that I really participated in. I remember the fun I had setting up my first homepage in Cape Canaveral.

I was on there just the other day looking up some STVOY trivia:

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9299/index.html

the top google result for "vim regex" is a geocities page, and a useful one at that.

Goodbye http://geocities.com/dbz_final_flash/

You taught me how to roleplay.

Goodbye http://geocities.com/dbchronicles/

You taught me how to make my own roleplaying games.

Goodbye http://news.cnet.com/GeoCities-porn-ads-spark-controversy/2100-1023_3-225226.html

You taught me that too much roleplaying means I should be spending my time on better things, like clicking porn ads.

Goodbye http://geocities.com/dbz_final_flash/

You taught me how to roleplay.

Goodbye http://geocities.com/dbchronicles/

You taught me how to make my own roleplaying games.

Goodbye http://news.cnet.com/GeoCities-porn-ads-spark-controversy/2100-1023_3-225226.html

You taught me that too much roleplaying means I should be spending my time on better things, like clicking porn ads.

Years ago I started a site there to put out information about my flight sim (nothing great, in fact, nothing much any more, just a redirect to my blog).

What amazes me is that after about 3 or 4 years, I still get 1 or 2 hits with geocities.com/ehud42 in the referring URL!

It is sad to see it go in a mild, nostalgic sort of way.

RIP. May your users find happier places to display their wares without the annoying ads...

My first web page was on Geocities - http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/1928 . Page info says it was last modified 10/17/1995 10:29:40 PM - over 13 years ago. It's a page of links to other pages on Noam Chomsky, because the main page out on the net at that time was down at that time. Every link is now broken (except perhaps the Usenet one). I even have gopher links in there. Can't say the net has improved much since then - the level of intelligent discussion has lessened, so in most ways it is worse.

Geocities had a lot of content. A huge amount of useful information. Especially the pre-Yahoo stuff. Many times over the last decade I've ended up on a Geocities website when researching particular subjects (sorry - can't give any examples, but more than a couple dozen times when looking at some obscure stuff).

This was in my browser history.

Bit outdated, but indicative of the fact that useful stuff resides on geocities.

Oh, just remembered zx32 which I used to use back in my Windows days.

Geocities had a lot of content. A huge amount of useful information. Especially the pre-Yahoo stuff. Many times over the last decade I've ended up on a Geocities website when researching particular subjects (sorry - can't give any examples, but more than a couple dozen times when looking at some obscure stuff).

This was in my browser history.

Bit outdated, but indicative of the fact that useful stuff resides on geocities.

Oh, just remembered zx32 which I used to use back in my Windows days.

Gems like this?
VF Designer
Unfortunately the pain isn't limited to geocities... more pain here.

Enough Said

Cartoon Girls That I Wanna Nail - http://www.geocities.com/televisioncity/1356/
Now say that again knowing what will be lost!

You CAN'T DO THAT.

Many nations have internationally-binding agreements or understandings that doing such a thing could cause the ship to be placed under arrest (yes, a ship can be arrested), the crew detained or held pending a trial, and the ship owners sent an extraordinarly expensive bill for being held fast (secured, or for you landluppers, "tied up" or "docked") to a pier, taking up space pending judicial proceedings.

The in-jurisdiction discovery of a shooting or killing anyone, even pirates or people not part of said nation's waters, puts that ship in the jeopardy. It's why learned, experienced and astute non-military/non-police vessel sailors (civilian yacht and merchant ships) do not carry weapons, or at least secure them and discharge them only in waters in which there is no question of legal risk.

Now, as for the foam that makes the ladders (inclined ladders, etc) nearly impossible to climb, well, they better hope the pirates don't haul sandbags up the ship and use some sort of modified spray applicators to make the foam useless. Or, they better hope the pirates don't have backers who fund them well enough to wear cleated or magnetic shoes that avert the issue of slipping.

As for rifles, the M-16 may be ubiquitous and the darling of movies and numerous police agencies and even the basis of modified K-1 & K-2:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daewoo_K2

and of other nations, but Belgians and others have rifles to offer. Besides, the best RIFLE to use would be a well-camouflaged sniper rifle, some of which can be seen here:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/3864/sniper.htm

ifff... iffff the use of them can be applied to snipers outside of their own protected waters. If the international laws can be changed to allow carrying of contracted/hired guns (privateers) to defend them against pirates and piratical activities, then you can really, responsibly, seriously talk about using deadly force outward from and aboard the merchant and passenger ships at risk of piracy.

So if they obtained court authorization to deploy Sarin gas that'd be ok too right?

I'm guessing that you are referring to Operation Tailwind which has largely been debunked. It hasn't been completely proven that the gas wasn't sarin but it seems improbable that it was.