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Quite a while ago there was a great article and following discussion with lots of pointers on kuroshin. Check it out. It motivated me to learn go a bit and play it against the computer here and there. I havent played against a real player yet though ..

Sadly the ones who can don't believe in democracy, because it dilutes their power to act decisively. An elected leader will always flip-flop to (aka respect) the nation's wishes (that's democracy) or else he has all the makings of a world changing dictator.

Remember Hitler was voted into power by a majority vote... In 2050 you might hear the same about George W .

Hey if this happens ,shorter version here.

It should make your dreams/ideas come out. Or like this guy put it The collapse of the dollar will be better for Americans.

And you will get what you asked for

Hey if this happens ,shorter version here.

It should make your dreams/ideas come out. Or like this guy put it The collapse of the dollar will be better for Americans.

And you will get what you asked for

The GM claim for car design theft sounds like FUD to me. The following is what I cut directly from the linked article. "But the Spark design, which GM obtained in its 2002 acquisition of South Korea's former Daewoo Motor Sales Corp., was never patented in China and thus isn't protected by China's intellectual property laws"... In addition, other than similar exterior look GM does not provide much evidence for copying. Most cars in the lower end of the market look similar anyway. It sounds like GM's FUD to me...

Remember the infamous GIF patent. Unisys has filed patent only in US, Japan, Canada, Germany, France, Britain and Italy. The above case was like Unisys boss cry foul for the use of unlicenced GIF tools by Scandinavian/ Australian/ New Zealander.

You're a completely off-topic troll, but just in case anyone's interested, there's a K5 story about that.

If your going to use a K5 artical as the basis for your post you could at least link it.

The final thought on the discussion of a "EULA Repository" on Kuro5hin is that this would make EULAs more acceptable. Ignoring EULAs is the right thing to do if you don't believe in them, and this means not analysing them at all (except maybe for statements about spyware and other nasty stuff the manufacturer admits the software does).

Fine, you're welcome to disagree with me. However, I've got to take issue with this:

First, I like the entertainment industry, and I don't see why an entire industry should be brought crashing to the ground because new technology allows people to break the law without getting caught. It's still breaking the law.

I'm sorry, but saying "it's wrong because it's against the law" is completely stupid and backwards -- only "it's against the law because it's wrong" is valid. Other than "it's against the law" and protecting the entertainment industry, do you have any good reasons why sharing information is wrong?

Also, keep in mind that you're talking about protectionism, not laissez-faire capitalism, and that in the long run the entertainment industry can't win, any more than the prohibitionists did in the 30s. Has the "War On Drugs" resulted in fewer drug users, or just more criminals?

Second, The entertainment industry has existed on these principles since it's inception. These are not old freedoms you're protecting, but new ones that have been acquired at someone else's expense. Nobody argued 20 years ago that people should be allowed to share any data they wanted in a completely unsupervised manner regardless of the owner or legal nature of that content.

Are you joking?! The entertainment industry -- or at least the Hollywood movie industry -- was founded on the principle of violating "Intellectual Property" rights. The whole reason it sprang up in California wasn't because of the weather, but to escape Thomas Edison's movie camera monopoly. They only managed to exist by ignoring his patents!

Moreover, these "new freedoms" of personal property and freedom of information have existed longer than "Intellectual Property" itself! Really, do you think writers ever deserved to have control over how their books were used?

And inclusion of "Intellectual Property" rights (Jefferson called them "monopolies") into the Constitution was by no means assured; in fact, Jefferson had to be persuaded, and even then only reluctantly included them. So no, nobody 20 years ago argued that, but 200 years ago they did!

The new technology that enables you to fast-forward through adverts is not the "forcible acquisition of a new right," it's actually the reassertion of an old one! It's both sad and disturbing that the entertainment industry has brainwashed the public into thinking otherwise.

In short, these systems can be useable and safe, and because they can, they should be in ALL cases. Anything less is gross negligence and incompetence and leaves the door wide open for massive undercover voting fraud, which leads to the wrong people taking positions of power, only to continue the cycle.

I'm not sure if people in charge of these elections are just not listening to the technology people or if the vendors are telling very different stories, but it saddens me that there isn't more homegrown competition in the market to help bring these issues front and center.

What law is Stallman trying to pervert? Copyright law? If that's what you're referring to, read this. I'd say that Jefferson's opinion is about the closest to the spirit of the law as you can get, since he helped write it into the Constitution!

A good counter-argument can be found at kuro5hin

But the greatest irony is that evidence is growing that Bush stole the election -- that the exit polls were in fact correct. I personally worked the polls handing out sample ballots for the Constitution Party, and the Republican standing next to me handing out his sample ballots told me he was expecting Kerry to win 2-1 at our precinct based on all those who preferred the sample ballots from the Democrat standing next to him than to his Republican sample ballots. Bush won in our precinct.

It's too early to make the claim that Bush stole the election. But it's also too early to say that the blogs were wrong for reporting the exit polls. It's doubly wrong the ignore the current blog focus on finding election anomalies, such as the one from kuro5hin that was finally proved out in the mass media (with credit going toward "callers" to Ohio election officials rather than to kuro5hin).

The mass media is supposed to be acting as the fourth branch of government, keeping the other three in check. Instead, the mass media is acting as a department of the executive branch, and it is now it is up to the blogs to keep the media in check.

go to kuro5hin.org

wherever you are on the political spectrum, the stuff there can be pretty laughable, or scary (everything from conspiracy theorists to extreme liberals to libertarians to racists to your obvious trolls)

First, I loaded your data into R from The R Project for Statistical Computing:

> ohio
county reg.voters precincts evoting turnout.2004 turnout.2000 bush.swing
1 Adams 17696 35 FALSE 65.94146 60.77620 -0.00219
2 Allen 68174 139 FALSE 69.60278 65.05813 -0.03396
3 Ashland 34847 65 FALSE 69.36322 69.49464 -0.01306
4 Ashtabula 62926 127 FALSE 70.18720 60.81940 -0.01259
5 Athens 45100 69 FALSE 60.49002 53.53627 -0.06889
6 Auglaize 33094 39 TRUE 66.97891 70.44227 0.01753
7 Belmont 44452 83 FALSE 73.18231 60.26522 0.03944
8 Brown 28922 35 FALSE 67.55411 62.55611 0.00865
9 Butler 238117 289 FALSE 67.58022 64.26633 0.07879
10 Carroll 20076 26 FALSE 68.34529 65.92923 -0.01509
11 Champaign 25376 29 FALSE 71.65826 59.84996 0.01343
12 Clark 89683 100 FALSE 75.00641 65.74651 0.03348
13 Clermont 125823 191 FALSE 69.15429 62.39119 0.08463
14 Clinton 25092 32 FALSE 71.21393 63.96370 0.02330
15 Columbiana 78536 103 FALSE 61.24070 60.96343 0.01846
16 Coshocton 22679 43 FALSE 70.03836 68.79806 -0.01573
17 Crawford 29591 46 FALSE 71.95769 62.60209 0.00060
18 Cuyahoga 1005807 1436 FALSE 64.51397 58.06637 -0.43531
19 Darke 38290 43 FALSE 66.68060 65.90556 0.02968
20 Defiance 25847 42 FALSE 68.48377 64.42229 0.00557
21 Delaware 100676 123 FALSE 78.19937 69.83352 0.04064
22 Erie 55517 62 FALSE 69.65614 64.24870 -0.01385
23 Fairfield 91498 118 FALSE 72.54585 67.34156 0.00302
24 Fayette 16093 38 FALSE 71.24215 64.46000 0.00296
25 Franklin 845720 788 TRUE 60.27633 61.26558 -0.68834
26 Fulton 28561 35 FALSE 75.42103 68.82543 -0.00806
27 Gallia 23567 35 FALSE 57.31744 60.89664 -0.00163
28 Geauga 65393 96 FALSE 75.73899 68.72101 -0.03420
29 Greene 105079 142 FALSE 72.50735 67.70133 0.03101
30 Guernsey 27129 37 FALSE 59.59306 64.84132 0.00374
31 Hamilton 573612 1013 FALSE 70.88328 65.58803 -0.54742
32 Hancock 49607 62 FALSE 69.09307 66.81487 -0.00663
33 Hardin 18921 38 FALSE 68.23107 61.67072 0.00914
34 Harrison 11769 24 FALSE 69.18175 66.77524 0.00746
35 Henry 19685 33 FALSE 75.16891 69.13808 -0.00666
36 Highland 28243 31 FALSE 63.31834 63.88105 0.00927
37 Hocking 18369 32 FALSE 70.15080 65.36343 -0.01329
38 Holmes 18089 19 FALSE 60.37371 59.26876 0.00001
39 Huron 37436 55 FALSE 66.53221 58.05025 -0.01538
40 Jackson 23997 38 FALSE 57.92807 55.87854 0.01179
41 Jefferson 49655 91 FALSE 71.61615 64.12859 0.02110
42 Knox 36971 56 TRUE 71.10979 61.14969 -0.00844
43 Lake 160165 217 TRUE 73.72772 67.60981 -0.05749
44 Lawrence 41424 84 FALSE 65.30514 57.18568 0.03291
45 Licking 111387 122 FALSE 69.52517 64.26959 0.03209
46 Logan 29406 52 FALSE 70.48902 61.72690 0.00504
47 Lorain 196601 239 FALSE 69.30941 61.55434 -0.05374
48 Lucas 302136 495 FALSE 70.92137 62.36231 -0.03023
49 Madison 23477 44 FALSE 72.45815 64.42444 0.00847
50 Mahoning 194673 312 TRUE 66.50537 65.10254 0.02792
51 Marion 43323 84 FALSE 65.14092 60.71360 0.02260
52 Medina 118330 149 FALSE 70.33212 66.17253 -0.02282
53 Meigs 15205 27 FA

Okay, fine -- s/is/should be/g. Of course, I believe in Amendments 9 and 10 (unlike the government including the Supreme Court), and I interpret the Constitution according to the intent of the Framers, in addition to what they actually wrote into it.

This article got posted some time ago, but it's still very relevant.

This is very exciting, alternative sources of energy are getting closer and closer to becoming more viable. After reading an article about how rising oil prices are helping alternative energy, I think the stage is getting set for a real revolution. Being realistic, we have a long way to go,

Miyasaka says that the next goal is to increase the charging voltage and the charge-discharge capacity to a practically and industrially useful level for applications.

You need to do some research. Start with the U.S. Constitution, section eight, paragraph eight:

[Congress shall have the power] "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"

See that "limited time" up there? "Property" rights are not thus limited, real property is for ever, as a matter of law. Whatever these limited rights are, they aren't property by definition.

And to quote a paper found online in under two minutes:

One of Jefferson's most famous statements on patent law was in his often-quoted letter of August 13, 1813 to Isaac McPherson, in which he wrote that, since there is no natural right to property in land, how much less is there a natural right to a property in ideas. I think Jefferson's words apply equally well to copyrights as to patents; to "expression" as well as to "ideas": "he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."

See that "receives light without darkening me", Jefferson understood. The legal phrase is "non rivalrous goods". If I can not deprive you of a thing, I can not commit "theft". Look it up.

Do I take it that Thomas Jefferson was a socialist and beneath your contempt on maters relating to the U.S. Constitution?

They're called books, laws, and legal opinions. You should read some before you start publicly voicing your opinion. You'll look smarter... 8-)

There's a lot of economists that tend to believe Kerry would be awful for the economy. Six of them are nobel laureates.

Kerry was endorsed by 10 nobel prize winners in economics. )And 38 more in the other nobel disciplines.) It may be true that "a lot" of economists were against Kerry, what "most" of them did was another story.

Scalia: "The Constitution just sets minimums, most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires."
And: In times of war, "the protections will be ratcheted right down to the constitutional minimum."

So why didn't CNN link to the Full transcript of bin Ladin's speech? Perhaps because CNN is still desperately trying to spin a story they didn't fully report on in the first place.

- obviously doesn't like me
- has murdered thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands
- has had desires for WMD his entire life
- flaunts UN inspections
- is Islamic
- waves a gun in the air berating western countries
- pretends he has what he doesn't for show purposes
- you name it, he did it

Though I'm starting to worry I was wrong as nobody has denounced this tape as fake.

Oh, don't worry--just give them time. The conspiracy theorists will have an undoubtably reasonable rebuttal ready soon. It's just takes a bit longer when the words are coming out of OBL's own mouth.

Lest we forget how the CIA actually commited Nick Berg's beheading rather than, God forbid, a benevolent muslim, or how Bush, being evil incarnate that he is, actually shot down one ofthe planes himself during 9/11.

-Grym

my comment was basically paraphrasing from a story i wrote a long time ago on kuro5hin

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/1/28/31758/7402

basically, my point is that the desire to create music is stronger than the desire to make money

we were banging on drums on front of campfires simply for the sheer joy of it tens of thousands of years before we were exchanging metal coins

do you love music?

no, really... do you love music?: because if you really do, then you will understand why making money or not off of music is not even a valid quesiton to ask

just because they might not become the next decimillionaire sean puffy combs doesn't mean teenage boys will stop trying to make music... your forgetting deeper motivations:

impressing girls

ego, being in the spotlight

etc.

so we won't have the next britney spears? who the fuck cares!

please, by all means, do not confuse the music industry with music itself

it existed long before vinyl, and it will exist long after bertelesmann and sony records are dust and even long after the internet is dust

i can prove it

i basically am paraphrasing from my kuro5hin story

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/1/28/31758/7402

Because some of us would rather people used MS SQL Server than MySQL. That's how much some of us hate it. It isn't a proprietary vs. open source thing. It's a complete RDBMS vs. incomplete RDBMS thing.

And I'm not even talking about stored procedures. This is what I mean.

When MySQL starts getting strict, I will stop using it as my whipping boy and start -- as you say -- promoting it as one of the various open source solutions in general.

• How Overseas US Citizens Can Register to Vote

Okay, not bad. Am too tired to continue the charade. Atleast one Slashdotter gets it.

This is more in league with the AST Troll.

Hook, line, sinker :-) Cheers, mate.

Get a 12 pack, or a big pot of your favorite libation, go over to k5, and read Prime Intellect Which is a little less obtuse about the 3 laws.

You earned it. Yep, you are a troll. You don't like Slashdot, and you spend lots of your time disrupting it with insults, advocating things you know free software people hate, and disinformation.

Let's have a look back at some of that long posting history of yours. Ouch, it's worse than I remember. Don't dish out what you can't take.

• FortKnox Hates Slashdot
• Calls people who don't like DRM "Rabid Zealots" and unrealistic
• Some kind words for the editors

Technically your "MS isn't always a problem" translates to lots of loud, insulting and misleading apologies for Microsoft. I think you know better, and that's what trolling is all about, right? Where there is crap flood, you will find FortKnox.

• Defense of Longhorn's projected breaking Samba, OO, Wine and invading user privacy as "innovation".
• Followed up by
• a love of M$ Word.
• Here's a beauty where you claim that Tomcat does not scale and that an "admin worth his salt" does not need a well written and reviewed book. This is followed by a bitch and moan about how free software does not come with adequate "support".

And, of course, like any good troll you reveal yourself.

• a hint of GNAA membership
• The obligatory "First Slashdot Troll Investigation Post", with more love for Slashdot. Pinball Wizard, Bungi, Diablo, recursiv, analogboy, and all the other nasties are there.

So there you have it. I remember some of those things I read. Your posts used to infuriate me until I remembered your posting name, but now I can just dimsis it, "Oh yeah, there's that FortKnox guy again."

The story of a geek and his Casino wins. One of the best articles on kuro5hin ever.

Don't expect any progress on that front. The moderation system used to be a little more transparent than it is now, but the editors tightened it up in response to dissent like this post. You can read more about that post on k5. The post was ultimately modded well over a thousand times, and the editors changed the system to report moderation in percentages, not number totals, as a response.

Kuro5hin.org

Like the system K5 has? Yes, it would be much better to have that but I don't see it coming.

It is not unusual for Americans to visit Asia to get cheap medical treatment + tourism. One of my uncles claim that the cost savings in medicine itself is enough to cover the ticket price. The drugstores don't ask for prescriptions, and you could buy a year's worth of stash easily. You could even buy Viagra over the counter.

Here's my personal experience from a drugstore in Bangkok. I see this dude walk to the employee of the drugstore and tell him that he has a rash and some other problems. The employee looks at the guy for a minute, and comes up with an ointment and some anti-histamines. The dude pays up and goes off. Cost of consultation = 0. He just paid for the medicine. I don't suppose this happens in the USA.

Heck, even Durex Fetherlites cost $2 for a pack of 10.

Rather interesting read, all in all.

Here's a good place to start. That'll give you an idea of how popular and personable Mr. Lockwood is. Most of Scott Lockwood's tomfoolery is lost in the long-deleted past of Trolltalk or other Slashdot discussions, or buried in archives of Geekizoid's previous incarnations that Emadinator is afraid to release to the public because he openly advocates and practices illegal activities in them, but you can dig out some of the old stuff with web.archive.org. For example, here. Or here (hacking story at the very top, but not one of the worst). Or here (Kuro5hin modbombing, and racism at the very top). Or here. Read the hacking / racist / goatsex / penisbird posts. Would you trust this man with your credit card number?

Both HD-DVD Video and Blu-ray Video formats use patents from the Windows Media, MPEG, and Dolby portfolios as well as the patent on the physical medium, and it appears the essential patents on both formats will expire at roughly the same time (provided the drug industry doesn't use Cher as the poster girl for extending them).

If you are interested in this sort of thing, check out this post from last year on getting dentistry done in Mexico.

On the subject of partisan sniping, I particularly like Bush's new ads, the one's with all the wolves circling the camera, implying that the terrorists want Kerry to win.

Never mind the fact that Bush just got endorsed by Iran; the link is in my .sig. In fact, Iran and Russia are the only countries that seem to be supporting Bush. The rest of the world loves America, but wants Bush out.

I hope it is made so on the 2nd.

Fun with Vladinator (Diaries)
By rusty
Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:09:14 AM EST

Well, I tried. I really, really tried. I was always good to Vlad. I listened to his ideas. I did an interview for his website. I enabled accounts for his friends that seemed to have been disabled for no good reason. I thought we had an understanding.

And this is what I get. Oh well.

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I know how you feel
by jelerial on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:26:41 AM EST

It's hard when someone someone who you trusted and thought was a 'friend' turns around and slanders you. Vlad is certainly an interesting character. This is not the first time he's done something similar, and I doubt it will be the last. It just shows you, that when you try and be nice to someone, they are most likely to turn around and expect to be above any rule you ask them to follow. I guess it pays to be mean...

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Blah
by rusty on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:51:15 AM EST

Anyway, I wouldn't be too hard on Vladinator. He's been on the receiving end of a modstorm for the past few days, and from what I've heard, he isn't the most rational in times like that.

And y'know what I've been doing the last few days? Keeping out the (persistent) nut who's been attacking him. I'm standing there barring the way, and he stabs me in the back.

Despite all this rhetoric, I deeply don't care about the actual ratings. They'll never do anything to me anyway. But it's the principle of the thing. I'm disappointed in him. Despite all the crap that gets talked about Vlad, I always thought he was an OK guy. I guess I was wrong, and they were right.

* * * *

been there (in fact, there now!)
by bobsquatch on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 03:49:54 AM EST

If you look a few days back, you'll find that Vlad did the same thing to me. He was under the mistaken impression that I had some "secular humanist agenda" for voting down his Catholicism (1 of 30) story -- and (horror of horrors!) for pointing out that it sucked.

So, the boy took a couple of hours and individually modded my 60ish most recent comments to 1. Remember, this is after he accused me of having some sort of speech-squelching agenda.

That's the reason why I now browse "Ignore Ratings, Oldest First, Don't Rate." Modbombing like this means two things: 1. ratings are too important (important enough to be worth attacking), and 2. ratings are unreliable (in that they can be attacked). Thus, best to just read everything and try to skim stuff that looks like crap.

Trusteduserland, I hardly knew ye... [shrug]

OOOOH, Hey! I just noticed... he's done it again! For no apparent reason! The boy has too much time on his hands.

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It's all your fault rusty
by Verminator on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 05:08:22 AM EST

Obviously something is wrong with Scoop and it won't allow Vladinator to rate a comment anything other than 1. Fix it.

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Fun with Vladinator (Diaries)
By rusty
Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:09:14 AM EST

Well, I tried. I really, really tried. I was always good to Vlad. I listened to his ideas. I did an interview for his website. I enabled accounts for his friends that seemed to have been disabled for no good reason. I thought we had an understanding.

And this is what I get. Oh well.

* * * *

I know how you feel
by jelerial on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:26:41 AM EST

It's hard when someone someone who you trusted and thought was a 'friend' turns around and slanders you. Vlad is certainly an interesting character. This is not the first time he's done something similar, and I doubt it will be the last. It just shows you, that when you try and be nice to someone, they are most likely to turn around and expect to be above any rule you ask them to follow. I guess it pays to be mean...

* * * *

Blah
by rusty on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:51:15 AM EST

Anyway, I wouldn't be too hard on Vladinator. He's been on the receiving end of a modstorm for the past few days, and from what I've heard, he isn't the most rational in times like that.

And y'know what I've been doing the last few days? Keeping out the (persistent) nut who's been attacking him. I'm standing there barring the way, and he stabs me in the back.

Despite all this rhetoric, I deeply don't care about the actual ratings. They'll never do anything to me anyway. But it's the principle of the thing. I'm disappointed in him. Despite all the crap that gets talked about Vlad, I always thought he was an OK guy. I guess I was wrong, and they were right.

* * * *

been there (in fact, there now!)
by bobsquatch on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 03:49:54 AM EST

If you look a few days back, you'll find that Vlad did the same thing to me. He was under the mistaken impression that I had some "secular humanist agenda" for voting down his Catholicism (1 of 30) story -- and (horror of horrors!) for pointing out that it sucked.

So, the boy took a couple of hours and individually modded my 60ish most recent comments to 1. Remember, this is after he accused me of having some sort of speech-squelching agenda.

That's the reason why I now browse "Ignore Ratings, Oldest First, Don't Rate." Modbombing like this means two things: 1. ratings are too important (important enough to be worth attacking), and 2. ratings are unreliable (in that they can be attacked). Thus, best to just read everything and try to skim stuff that looks like crap.

Trusteduserland, I hardly knew ye... [shrug]

OOOOH, Hey! I just noticed... he's done it again! For no apparent reason! The boy has too much time on his hands.

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It's all your fault rusty
by Verminator on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 05:08:22 AM EST

Obviously something is wrong with Scoop and it won't allow Vladinator to rate a comment anything other than 1. Fix it.

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Fun with Vladinator (Diaries)
By rusty
Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:09:14 AM EST

Well, I tried. I really, really tried. I was always good to Vlad. I listened to his ideas. I did an interview for his website. I enabled accounts for his friends that seemed to have been disabled for no good reason. I thought we had an understanding.

And this is what I get. Oh well.

* * * *

I know how you feel
by jelerial on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:26:41 AM EST

It's hard when someone someone who you trusted and thought was a 'friend' turns around and slanders you. Vlad is certainly an interesting character. This is not the first time he's done something similar, and I doubt it will be the last. It just shows you, that when you try and be nice to someone, they are most likely to turn around and expect to be above any rule you ask them to follow. I guess it pays to be mean...

* * * *

Blah
by rusty on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:51:15 AM EST

Anyway, I wouldn't be too hard on Vladinator. He's been on the receiving end of a modstorm for the past few days, and from what I've heard, he isn't the most rational in times like that.

And y'know what I've been doing the last few days? Keeping out the (persistent) nut who's been attacking him. I'm standing there barring the way, and he stabs me in the back.

Despite all this rhetoric, I deeply don't care about the actual ratings. They'll never do anything to me anyway. But it's the principle of the thing. I'm disappointed in him. Despite all the crap that gets talked about Vlad, I always thought he was an OK guy. I guess I was wrong, and they were right.

* * * *

been there (in fact, there now!)
by bobsquatch on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 03:49:54 AM EST

If you look a few days back, you'll find that Vlad did the same thing to me. He was under the mistaken impression that I had some "secular humanist agenda" for voting down his Catholicism (1 of 30) story -- and (horror of horrors!) for pointing out that it sucked.

So, the boy took a couple of hours and individually modded my 60ish most recent comments to 1. Remember, this is after he accused me of having some sort of speech-squelching agenda.

That's the reason why I now browse "Ignore Ratings, Oldest First, Don't Rate." Modbombing like this means two things: 1. ratings are too important (important enough to be worth attacking), and 2. ratings are unreliable (in that they can be attacked). Thus, best to just read everything and try to skim stuff that looks like crap.

Trusteduserland, I hardly knew ye... [shrug]

OOOOH, Hey! I just noticed... he's done it again! For no apparent reason! The boy has too much time on his hands.

* * * *

It's all your fault rusty
by Verminator on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 05:08:22 AM EST

Obviously something is wrong with Scoop and it won't allow Vladinator to rate a comment anything other than 1. Fix it.

* * * *

Fun with Vladinator (Diaries)
By rusty
Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:09:14 AM EST

Well, I tried. I really, really tried. I was always good to Vlad. I listened to his ideas. I did an interview for his website. I enabled accounts for his friends that seemed to have been disabled for no good reason. I thought we had an understanding.

And this is what I get. Oh well.

* * * *

I know how you feel
by jelerial on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:26:41 AM EST

It's hard when someone someone who you trusted and thought was a 'friend' turns around and slanders you. Vlad is certainly an interesting character. This is not the first time he's done something similar, and I doubt it will be the last. It just shows you, that when you try and be nice to someone, they are most likely to turn around and expect to be above any rule you ask them to follow. I guess it pays to be mean...

* * * *

Blah
by rusty on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:51:15 AM EST

Anyway, I wouldn't be too hard on Vladinator. He's been on the receiving end of a modstorm for the past few days, and from what I've heard, he isn't the most rational in times like that.

And y'know what I've been doing the last few days? Keeping out the (persistent) nut who's been attacking him. I'm standing there barring the way, and he stabs me in the back.

Despite all this rhetoric, I deeply don't care about the actual ratings. They'll never do anything to me anyway. But it's the principle of the thing. I'm disappointed in him. Despite all the crap that gets talked about Vlad, I always thought he was an OK guy. I guess I was wrong, and they were right.

* * * *

been there (in fact, there now!)
by bobsquatch on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 03:49:54 AM EST

If you look a few days back, you'll find that Vlad did the same thing to me. He was under the mistaken impression that I had some "secular humanist agenda" for voting down his Catholicism (1 of 30) story -- and (horror of horrors!) for pointing out that it sucked.

So, the boy took a couple of hours and individually modded my 60ish most recent comments to 1. Remember, this is after he accused me of having some sort of speech-squelching agenda.

That's the reason why I now browse "Ignore Ratings, Oldest First, Don't Rate." Modbombing like this means two things: 1. ratings are too important (important enough to be worth attacking), and 2. ratings are unreliable (in that they can be attacked). Thus, best to just read everything and try to skim stuff that looks like crap.

Trusteduserland, I hardly knew ye... [shrug]

OOOOH, Hey! I just noticed... he's done it again! For no apparent reason! The boy has too much time on his hands.

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It's all your fault rusty
by Verminator on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 05:08:22 AM EST

Obviously something is wrong with Scoop and it won't allow Vladinator to rate a comment anything other than 1. Fix it.

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Fun with Vladinator (Diaries)
By rusty
Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:09:14 AM EST

Well, I tried. I really, really tried. I was always good to Vlad. I listened to his ideas. I did an interview for his website. I enabled accounts for his friends that seemed to have been disabled for no good reason. I thought we had an understanding.

And this is what I get. Oh well.

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I know how you feel
by jelerial on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:26:41 AM EST

It's hard when someone someone who you trusted and thought was a 'friend' turns around and slanders you. Vlad is certainly an interesting character. This is not the first time he's done something similar, and I doubt it will be the last. It just shows you, that when you try and be nice to someone, they are most likely to turn around and expect to be above any rule you ask them to follow. I guess it pays to be mean...

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Blah
by rusty on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:51:15 AM EST

Anyway, I wouldn't be too hard on Vladinator. He's been on the receiving end of a modstorm for the past few days, and from what I've heard, he isn't the most rational in times like that.

And y'know what I've been doing the last few days? Keeping out the (persistent) nut who's been attacking him. I'm standing there barring the way, and he stabs me in the back.

Despite all this rhetoric, I deeply don't care about the actual ratings. They'll never do anything to me anyway. But it's the principle of the thing. I'm disappointed in him. Despite all the crap that gets talked about Vlad, I always thought he was an OK guy. I guess I was wrong, and they were right.

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been there (in fact, there now!)
by bobsquatch on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 03:49:54 AM EST

If you look a few days back, you'll find that Vlad did the same thing to me. He was under the mistaken impression that I had some "secular humanist agenda" for voting down his Catholicism (1 of 30) story -- and (horror of horrors!) for pointing out that it sucked.

So, the boy took a couple of hours and individually modded my 60ish most recent comments to 1. Remember, this is after he accused me of having some sort of speech-squelching agenda.

That's the reason why I now browse "Ignore Ratings, Oldest First, Don't Rate." Modbombing like this means two things: 1. ratings are too important (important enough to be worth attacking), and 2. ratings are unreliable (in that they can be attacked). Thus, best to just read everything and try to skim stuff that looks like crap.

Trusteduserland, I hardly knew ye... [shrug]

OOOOH, Hey! I just noticed... he's done it again! For no apparent reason! The boy has too much time on his hands.

* * * *

It's all your fault rusty
by Verminator on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 05:08:22 AM EST

Obviously something is wrong with Scoop and it won't allow Vladinator to rate a comment anything other than 1. Fix it.

* * * *

Fun with Vladinator (Diaries)
By rusty
Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:09:14 AM EST

Well, I tried. I really, really tried. I was always good to Vlad. I listened to his ideas. I did an interview for his website. I enabled accounts for his friends that seemed to have been disabled for no good reason. I thought we had an understanding.

And this is what I get. Oh well.

* * * *

I know how you feel
by jelerial on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:26:41 AM EST

It's hard when someone someone who you trusted and thought was a 'friend' turns around and slanders you. Vlad is certainly an interesting character. This is not the first time he's done something similar, and I doubt it will be the last. It just shows you, that when you try and be nice to someone, they are most likely to turn around and expect to be above any rule you ask them to follow. I guess it pays to be mean...

* * * *

Blah
by rusty on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:51:15 AM EST

Anyway, I wouldn't be too hard on Vladinator. He's been on the receiving end of a modstorm for the past few days, and from what I've heard, he isn't the most rational in times like that.

And y'know what I've been doing the last few days? Keeping out the (persistent) nut who's been attacking him. I'm standing there barring the way, and he stabs me in the back.

Despite all this rhetoric, I deeply don't care about the actual ratings. They'll never do anything to me anyway. But it's the principle of the thing. I'm disappointed in him. Despite all the crap that gets talked about Vlad, I always thought he was an OK guy. I guess I was wrong, and they were right.

* * * *

been there (in fact, there now!)
by bobsquatch on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 03:49:54 AM EST

If you look a few days back, you'll find that Vlad did the same thing to me. He was under the mistaken impression that I had some "secular humanist agenda" for voting down his Catholicism (1 of 30) story -- and (horror of horrors!) for pointing out that it sucked.

So, the boy took a couple of hours and individually modded my 60ish most recent comments to 1. Remember, this is after he accused me of having some sort of speech-squelching agenda.

That's the reason why I now browse "Ignore Ratings, Oldest First, Don't Rate." Modbombing like this means two things: 1. ratings are too important (important enough to be worth attacking), and 2. ratings are unreliable (in that they can be attacked). Thus, best to just read everything and try to skim stuff that looks like crap.

Trusteduserland, I hardly knew ye... [shrug]

OOOOH, Hey! I just noticed... he's done it again! For no apparent reason! The boy has too much time on his hands.

* * * *

It's all your fault rusty
by Verminator on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 05:08:22 AM EST

Obviously something is wrong with Scoop and it won't allow Vladinator to rate a comment anything other than 1. Fix it.

* * * *

Fun with Vladinator (Diaries)
By rusty
Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:09:14 AM EST

Well, I tried. I really, really tried. I was always good to Vlad. I listened to his ideas. I did an interview for his website. I enabled accounts for his friends that seemed to have been disabled for no good reason. I thought we had an understanding.

And this is what I get. Oh well.

* * * *

I know how you feel
by jelerial on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:26:41 AM EST

It's hard when someone someone who you trusted and thought was a 'friend' turns around and slanders you. Vlad is certainly an interesting character. This is not the first time he's done something similar, and I doubt it will be the last. It just shows you, that when you try and be nice to someone, they are most likely to turn around and expect to be above any rule you ask them to follow. I guess it pays to be mean...

* * * *

Blah
by rusty on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 12:51:15 AM EST

Anyway, I wouldn't be too hard on Vladinator. He's been on the receiving end of a modstorm for the past few days, and from what I've heard, he isn't the most rational in times like that.

And y'know what I've been doing the last few days? Keeping out the (persistent) nut who's been attacking him. I'm standing there barring the way, and he stabs me in the back.

Despite all this rhetoric, I deeply don't care about the actual ratings. They'll never do anything to me anyway. But it's the principle of the thing. I'm disappointed in him. Despite all the crap that gets talked about Vlad, I always thought he was an OK guy. I guess I was wrong, and they were right.

* * * *

been there (in fact, there now!)
by bobsquatch on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 03:49:54 AM EST

If you look a few days back, you'll find that Vlad did the same thing to me. He was under the mistaken impression that I had some "secular humanist agenda" for voting down his Catholicism (1 of 30) story -- and (horror of horrors!) for pointing out that it sucked.

So, the boy took a couple of hours and individually modded my 60ish most recent comments to 1. Remember, this is after he accused me of having some sort of speech-squelching agenda.

That's the reason why I now browse "Ignore Ratings, Oldest First, Don't Rate." Modbombing like this means two things: 1. ratings are too important (important enough to be worth attacking), and 2. ratings are unreliable (in that they can be attacked). Thus, best to just read everything and try to skim stuff that looks like crap.

Trusteduserland, I hardly knew ye... [shrug]

OOOOH, Hey! I just noticed... he's done it again! For no apparent reason! The boy has too much time on his hands.

* * * *

It's all your fault rusty
by Verminator on Wed Nov 14th, 2001 at 05:08:22 AM EST

Obviously something is wrong with Scoop and it won't allow Vladinator to rate a comment anything other than 1. Fix it.

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You need to read and inform yourself better.