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Talk To Xanth Creator Piers Anthony
Not only is Piers Anthony one of the world's most popular fantasy authors (his books have been science fiction and fantasy staples for decades) but he has been using Linux and StarOffice 5.2 for the past year. This is your opportunity to ask Piers about either the technical aspects of using Linux and StarOffice to produce fiction or about his upcoming work (new Xanth novels coming soon!) or almost anything else. We'll forward 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Piers tomorrow, and will run his answers (verbatim, as always) as soon as he gets them back to us.
what happened to this story....why is it down
here?
And what are you supposed to do with a manically depressed robot...
What do you think of Ian M. Bank's writings, in particular the Culture series of post-scarcity sci-fi ?
posts like this are stupid, because by the time you click the submit button, you are no longer the second (or first post) but the third. idiot.
geek n performer who performs morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken
Dead Fart Warrior 2D+4 sexual power
AC faggot 9D+5 sexual power
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AC casts gay lighting.
Dead Fart Warrior fails saving throw.
Dead Fart Warrior is surrounded by pink light.
Dead Fart Warrior is blinded.
Dead Fart Warrior is stunned.
Dead Fart Warrior is stumbles.
AC cast protection from FP claims.
AC is protected.
Dead Fart Warrior fires FP claim.
AC is not affected.
FP claim fails.
You're a faggot roblimo.
Oh sure, it's largely due to Linux.
Riiiiiiiiight!
You're such an obvious karma-whore you should be taken out back and turned into a lookalike for the goatse.cx boy!
We all KNOW that Mac's are shitty machines. The ONLY reason they have any following at all, is that Apple distributed them to schools for free or low cost to introduce the masses to computers, Apple computers.
Well, the first 10 or so were amusing, but...
I picked up "Lords and Ladies" and got about three pages in and said to myself "Uh
IT'S NOT EASY BEING DEATH. YOU HAVE TO SPEAK IN CAPITALS ALL THE TIME.
Sa-Tan! Sa-Tan! FIRST WE EAT THE MEAT... AND THEN WE BURN...
(Remembers "Nine Inch Nails - Heresy")
"God Is Dead... And Noone Cares... If The Is A Hell... I'll See You There"
Uh Yea... And The Words "Under God" Breach The Church And State Ruling... No Matter What You Think!
--Oogle
One his authors notes (back when I actually read his stuff, so quite some time ago - maybe 8 years or more) mentioned how he was adjusting to a new computer he'd gotten - I believe it was a VAX machine, and I think he also mentioned a Dvorak keyboard. He's been using computers for a long time, certainly pre-dating Linux. This was right around the time I was getting into computers myself, and I remember being impressed when he talked about setting up user directories and such.
Moderators, please mod parent up.
Editors, please include this question.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered trolling community when recently Slashdot confirmed that, after several changes were made to production Slashcode, wide posts account for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Slashdot posts. Coming on the heels of the latest verions of IE which make page-widening more difficult, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. the wide posts that we love are collapsing into the narrow posts that we are used to, as further exemplified by the lack of Slashbots complaining about difficulty reading Slashdot's articles.
/. since 7/8/02
You don't need to be a Klerck to predict PWP's future. The hand writing is on the wall: PWP faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for PWP because PWP is dying. Things are looking very bad for PWP. As many of us are already aware, PWP continues to be defeated by users with thresholds of 1 or higher. Mod points flow like a river of blood. Klerck's PWP-bot posts are the most endangered of them all, having been filtered early on because of their uniformity.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
PWP leader Klerck states that there are 7 wide posts in the average Slashdot article. How many non-wide crapflood posts are there? Let's see. The number of crapflood versus wide posts on Slahdot is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7*5 = 35 non-wide crapflood posts in every Slashdot article. Tacosnotting posts on Slashdot are about half of the volume of crapflood posts. Therefore there are about 17 tacosnotting posts per article. A recent article put Goatse.cx trolls at about 80 percent of total troll posts. Therefore there are a hell of a lot of homosexual trolls. This is consistent with the number of Goatse.cx Slashdot posts.
But Slashdot is only part of the picture. Due to the troubles at Slashdot, negative revenue and so on, the site will soon go out of business and many users will flock to alternative weblogs, where PWP is almost completely unknown. Trollaxor.com, the popular troll hangout, is also dying, its corpse sodomized in yet another Greek bath house.
All major surveys show that PWP has steadily declined in the scope of all troll posts. PWP is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If PWP is to survive at all it will be among Blog faggot using outdated versions of Slashcode. PWP continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, PWP is dead.
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