CmdrTaco sucks a lot of Vladinator's stretchy asshole
Hey, I am the goatse man! I stretch ass like noone can!
In the hole where I go poop, I can fit a can of soup!
Yes I have a wide ass-hole, stretched out by the giver's pole!
People tell me to go shove it, They don't know how much I love it!
Yes I am the goatse man! I stretch ass like noone can!
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Cowboy Neal yearns for the warmth of jsm's nine inch fuckstick
Hey, I am the goatse man! I stretch ass like noone can!
In the hole where I go poop, I can fit a can of soup!
Yes I have a wide ass-hole, stretched out by the giver's pole!
People tell me to go shove it, They don't know how much I love it!
Yes I am the goatse man! I stretch ass like noone can!
* g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g g o / \ \ / \ o a| | \ | | a t| `. | | : t s` | | \| | s e \ | / / \\\ --__ \\ : e x \ \/ _--~~ ~--__| \ | x * \ \_-~ ~-_\ | * g \_ \ _.--------.______\| | g o \ \______// _ ___ _ (_(__> \ | o a \ . C ___) ______ (_(____> | / a t/\ | C ____)/ \ (_____> |_/ t s //\| C_____) | (___> / \ s e | ( _C_____)\______/// _/ / \ e x | \ |__ \\_________// (__/ | x * | \ \____) `---- --' | * g | \_ ___\/_ _/ | g o | / | | \ | o a | | / \ \ | a t | / / | | \ |t s | / / \__/\___/ | |s e | / / | | | |e x | | | | | |x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x *
Vladinator can suck a fart out of Michael Sims' nine inch fuckstick
Hey, I am the goatse man! I stretch ass like noone can!
In the hole where I go poop, I can fit a can of soup!
Yes I have a wide ass-hole, stretched out by the giver's pole!
People tell me to go shove it, They don't know how much I love it!
Yes I am the goatse man! I stretch ass like noone can!
* g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g g o / \ \ / \ o a| | \ | | a t| `. | | : t s` | | \| | s e \ | / / \\\ --__ \\ : e x \ \/ _--~~ ~--__| \ | x * \ \_-~ ~-_\ | * g \_ \ _.--------.______\| | g o \ \______// _ ___ _ (_(__> \ | o a \ . C ___) ______ (_(____> | / a t/\ | C ____)/ \ (_____> |_/ t s //\| C_____) | (___> / \ s e | ( _C_____)\______/// _/ / \ e x | \ |__ \\_________// (__/ | x * | \ \____) `---- --' | * g | \_ ___\/_ _/ | g o | / | | \ | o a | | / \ \ | a t | / / | | \ |t s | / / \__/\___/ | |s e | / / | | | |e x | | | | | |x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x *
CmdrTaco loves the rich taste of Hemos's donkey dick
Hey, I am the goatse man! I stretch ass like noone can!
In the hole where I go poop, I can fit a can of soup!
Yes I have a wide ass-hole, stretched out by the giver's pole!
People tell me to go shove it, They don't know how much I love it!
Yes I am the goatse man! I stretch ass like noone can!
* g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g g o / \ \ / \ o a| | \ | | a t| `. | | : t s` | | \| | s e \ | / / \\\ --__ \\ : e x \ \/ _--~~ ~--__| \ | x * \ \_-~ ~-_\ | * g \_ \ _.--------.______\| | g o \ \______// _ ___ _ (_(__> \ | o a \ . C ___) ______ (_(____> | / a t/\ | C ____)/ \ (_____> |_/ t s //\| C_____) | (___> / \ s e | ( _C_____)\______/// _/ / \ e x | \ |__ \\_________// (__/ | x * | \ \____) `---- --' | * g | \_ ___\/_ _/ | g o | / | | \ | o a | | / \ \ | a t | / / | | \ |t s | / / \__/\___/ | |s e | / / | | | |e x | | | | | |x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x *
jsm can suck a fart out of Tim-MAY's grandmother's twat
Hey, I am the goatse man! I stretch ass like noone can!
In the hole where I go poop, I can fit a can of soup!
Yes I have a wide ass-hole, stretched out by the giver's pole!
People tell me to go shove it, They don't know how much I love it!
Yes I am the goatse man! I stretch ass like noone can!
* g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g g o / \ \ / \ o a| | \ | | a t| `. | | : t s` | | \| | s e \ | / / \\\ --__ \\ : e x \ \/ _--~~ ~--__| \ | x * \ \_-~ ~-_\ | * g \_ \ _.--------.______\| | g o \ \______// _ ___ _ (_(__> \ | o a \ . C ___) ______ (_(____> | / a t/\ | C ____)/ \ (_____> |_/ t s //\| C_____) | (___> / \ s e | ( _C_____)\______/// _/ / \ e x | \ |__ \\_________// (__/ | x * | \ \____) `---- --' | * g | \_ ___\/_ _/ | g o | / | | \ | o a | | / \ \ | a t | / / | | \ |t s | / / \__/\___/ | |s e | / / | | | |e x | | | | | |x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x *
Cowboy Neal sucks a lot of Tim-MAY's grandmother's twat
Hey, I am the goatse man! I stretch ass like noone can!
In the hole where I go poop, I can fit a can of soup!
Yes I have a wide ass-hole, stretched out by the giver's pole!
People tell me to go shove it, They don't know how much I love it!
Yes I am the goatse man! I stretch ass like noone can!
* g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g g o / \ \ / \ o a| | \ | | a t| `. | | : t s` | | \| | s e \ | / / \\\ --__ \\ : e x \ \/ _--~~ ~--__| \ | x * \ \_-~ ~-_\ | * g \_ \ _.--------.______\| | g o \ \______// _ ___ _ (_(__> \ | o a \ . C ___) ______ (_(____> | / a t/\ | C ____)/ \ (_____> |_/ t s //\| C_____) | (___> / \ s e | ( _C_____)\______/// _/ / \ e x | \ |__ \\_________// (__/ | x * | \ \____) `---- --' | * g | \_ ___\/_ _/ | g o | / | | \ | o a | | / \ \ | a t | / / | | \ |t s | / / \__/\___/ | |s e | / / | | | |e x | | | | | |x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x *
Nope, that has been suggested for a while, but is thwarted by the fact that Taco will occasionally post Katz's stories for him; it has happened before. The only logical reason I can come up with is that everyone hates Katz; if everyone is forced to read Katz, there will be a flame riot, and flamewars = page views = ad impressions = $$.
The fact of the matter is, if CmdrFuckwad wants you to read Katz, you will read Katz, like it or lump it.
Do you have some sort of perl script that generates this bullshit? I swear you must be spinning the Wheel-O-Buzzwords, because it sounds like you don't know what the fuck you are talking about, and you are talking out of your ass.
maybe you would make more sense if you ran Windows 2000.
The DOJ could nuke the Redmond, execute and toss the bodies of all international the Microsoft employees into the crater, and make the Windows use illegal and punishable by the death, and it still wouldn't help the Linux in the server or the the consumer markets.br
Linux appears to be the root of your problems. Format your hard drive and install a legal, licensed copy of Windows ME or Windows 2000 and everything should be great, not to mention more productive and fun.
If you need help with formatting your hard drive, contact your computer manufacturer's technical support.
First Whining Matrix-Fanboy Reply to Obvious Troll:
Wah!! Matrix had a plot! It wasn't all CGI! Wah! The Matrix will go down in history along with Star Wars and <insert name of obscure japanimation here> as one of the greatest movies of all time!!! You don't know what you are talking about!!
Populous is mentioned later in the runners up, but I would agree that to overlook Dungeon Master, Magic Carpet, Theme Park & Syndicate is pretty disappointing.
Do we know enough about Pluto to say that the weight of an inefficient Nasa ship won't be enough to knock it out of alignment? Can we say for sure that the dirty snowball won't come hurtling towards Earth, destroying future generations? The sooner one of the corporations starts their own Space program the better. I stand a better chance of getting into Space with Coke as opposed to getting there with NASA.
IIRC, there are 4 versions of Pitfall. The original Atari 2600 one, Pitfall 2, Pitfall the Arcade game(based on Pitfall 2 I think), then Pitfall 3D, or whatever it was called. The last one was awful.
Why don't, instead of spending a thousand dollars on something to make you happy (a Playstation 2), you contribute some money to a turkey sanctuary?
I don't think people think enough about turkey at Christmas. It's so selfish to go around buying presents and partying while, somewhere in Norfolk, turkeys are starving.
Is it only when you see those poor turkeys on TV, with their pot bellies looking fat, but actually a sign of their poor nourishment, that you can feel sorry for them.
Do we need to get Bob Geldof involved for you to do anything? Do you only care about yourself? Is your own amusement more important than the happiness of a turkey?
Have you not considered that while you're drinking the night away, there are millions of turkeys that won't even have a Christmas?
Please, don't buy any presents this year - just think how many turkeys you could save with the money.
And, please remember, a turkey is for life, not just for Christmas.
> The pace of cultural change in the western world has accelerated so rapidly that it's reached the breaking point, according to the late anthropologist Margaret Mead.
Sorry, but I have difficulty taking seriously anything that quotes Margaret Mead in the first sentence.
Margaret Mead's 'anthropology' largely consisted of her book 'Growing up in Samoa', which took a rosetinted view of life there, presenting it has a haven of peace and tranquility.
It became famous as something with which to compare - unfavorably - American society.
Now, it is only famous for being wrong, for she ignored all the evidence of massive problems, rape, murder, etc.
> most_ users simply wanting these things for their own gain
You're absolutely right. Example: one of my colleagues was going to buy the Nirvana singles box set because it had some rare tracks on it.
But because of Napster he didn't because he stole it for free.
But in any case, even if it didn't result in loss of sales CDs, it would still be theft - for one thing there is lost sales from legal mp3s - this is just the same as vinyl->cd, and the market is currently nonexistent event though by rights their should be a market.
And don't think that it's just a ripoff of the consumer selling new versions of what you've already got. It isn't.
Artists are paid for record and mp3 sales - therefore you are cheating them by stealing music.
Record companies are not evil. People seem to think that they are big corporate entities that just rip people off.
This is not true. The people working for them are being paid, just the same as you are, and they have a right to make money - after all, you wouldn't suggest that the man running the local bakery has no right to make a profit out of his wares.
Everything here is consensual:
you don't have to buy the music
the artists don't have to sign the contracts. But they do. Why? Because it's a damn good deal for them. Relatively talentless musicians make millions of dollars.
This isn't exploitation. In fact, many record companies have gone bust or are struggling.
In fact, the only non-consensual thing is the theft of the music, which you seem to think you have the right to do. And the only reason that is because you can get away with it.
The true test of whether someone is moral is not whether they don't steal physical things like cars - that has getting caught has a deterrent so morality is secondary.
It is that they do not steal where they cannot get caught. Those who do steal are immoral.
> Stand up now for true copyright protection as afforded under the U.S. constitution or risk giving it up forever to global monopolies such as this
Sorry? True copyright protection?
As in the true copyright protection that lets billions of stolen mp3s get downloaded each day?
As in the copyright protection that cheats artists out of the fruits of their labors?
As in the copyright protection of p2p tools, which are essentially tools of theft, analagous to slim jims or other criminal tools.
This stuff about the constitution is a lot of bull. Most people don't really care about this - as witnessed by the fact they don't do anything about real oppression under true fascist regimes - they're only concerned about their 'rights' regarding the theft of music.
It seems any post criticising Linux is marked troll.
Why - it's completely true. Linux is not even the best free Unix clone, never mind the best OS.
What Linux does have is:
a good name
a great publicity team
a cute penguin
Hell if FreeBSD was called Linux, it would do well too.
Why don't these morons who don't know shit about kernels or operating systems, but who just instinctively censor the anti-Linux posts keep their mod points to themselves.
The point about professionals is very true: a controlled program is the way it should be.
This isn't a troll - it's the truth - why the hell should companies like Adobe and Corel invest their money in Linux when they have three hundred different versions of Linux already - for example, Photopaint doesn't install with Mandrake 7.2.
This doesn't happen with Windows - with it, when you release a new program, you're pretty damn sure Microsoft have taken the trouble to make sure it works with all the software.
A controlled OS made by professionals is better for everyone - just try telling me that Linux is a good as Windows or OS X.
Although the established parts of Linux are often well written (the kernel, things like mail utilities), the newer stuff, like KDE, is cobbled together by a bunch of amateurs, many of whom are writing their first programs as KDE (e.g., see proof here).
PS. I'm sure that someone will mark this as troll as well, but it's not.
The fact is that Linux is a massive black hole of resources and effort - people trying to cobble layers of stuff onto decades of cruft - whereas a proper OS like Solaris, Windows or OSX is actually
managed - people say Windows sucks and Linux rules, but it's just a lie - you can't even configure the thing without using a hundred different text files, each with different formats; even projects like linuxconf have to be maintained separately because of the *massive* existing fragmentation.
Linux is already more fragmented than anything - how else can each different distribution be configured differently, therefore presenting a nightmare for developers.
Linux doesn't stand a chance while we have a hundred different, poorly tested, distributions deterring developers.
Those who say that Windows only succeeds through its publicity department are lying - the fact is that Linux has much better publicity than Windows - how else could people seriously promote it as a usable GUI when I can't even do something as simple as copying something from the best web browser, Mozilla, to the best interface, KDE, because of their using different toolkits.
I mean 'cmon people. If Windows' success is really due to MS' publicity, then Linux's publicity department must be run by an army of Goebells clones.
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Hey, I am the goatse man!
I stretch ass like noone can!
In the hole where I go poop,
I can fit a can of soup!
Yes I have a wide ass-hole,
stretched out by the giver's pole!
People tell me to go shove it,
They don't know how much I love it!
Yes I am the goatse man!
I stretch ass like noone can!
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Hey, I am the goatse man!
I stretch ass like noone can!
In the hole where I go poop,
I can fit a can of soup!
Yes I have a wide ass-hole,
stretched out by the giver's pole!
People tell me to go shove it,
They don't know how much I love it!
Yes I am the goatse man!
I stretch ass like noone can!
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* g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x *
Hey, I am the goatse man!
I stretch ass like noone can!
In the hole where I go poop,
I can fit a can of soup!
Yes I have a wide ass-hole,
stretched out by the giver's pole!
People tell me to go shove it,
They don't know how much I love it!
Yes I am the goatse man!
I stretch ass like noone can!
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Hey, I am the goatse man!
I stretch ass like noone can!
In the hole where I go poop,
I can fit a can of soup!
Yes I have a wide ass-hole,
stretched out by the giver's pole!
People tell me to go shove it,
They don't know how much I love it!
Yes I am the goatse man!
I stretch ass like noone can!
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Hey, I am the goatse man!
I stretch ass like noone can!
In the hole where I go poop,
I can fit a can of soup!
Yes I have a wide ass-hole,
stretched out by the giver's pole!
People tell me to go shove it,
They don't know how much I love it!
Yes I am the goatse man!
I stretch ass like noone can!
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Hey, I am the goatse man!
I stretch ass like noone can!
In the hole where I go poop,
I can fit a can of soup!
Yes I have a wide ass-hole,
stretched out by the giver's pole!
People tell me to go shove it,
They don't know how much I love it!
Yes I am the goatse man!
I stretch ass like noone can!
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Hey, I am the goatse man!
I stretch ass like noone can!
In the hole where I go poop,
I can fit a can of soup!
Yes I have a wide ass-hole,
stretched out by the giver's pole!
People tell me to go shove it,
They don't know how much I love it!
Yes I am the goatse man!
I stretch ass like noone can!
The fact of the matter is, if CmdrFuckwad wants you to read Katz, you will read Katz, like it or lump it.
HTH.
You are the STUPID FUCK.
This is such an obvious troll I won't even point it out...
maybe you would make more sense if you ran Windows 2000.
The DOJ could nuke the Redmond, execute and toss the bodies of all international the Microsoft employees into the crater, and make the Windows use illegal and punishable by the death, and it still wouldn't help the Linux in the server or the the consumer markets.br
If you need help with formatting your hard drive, contact your computer manufacturer's technical support.
Riight. Better luck next time with that whole making sense thing.
Wah!! Matrix had a plot! It wasn't all CGI! Wah! The Matrix will go down in history along with Star Wars and <insert name of obscure japanimation here> as one of the greatest movies of all time!!! You don't know what you are talking about!!
Populous is mentioned later in the runners up, but I would agree that to overlook Dungeon Master, Magic Carpet, Theme Park & Syndicate is pretty disappointing.
Nintendo are buying _a_ Sega to get tips on good games. And they are supposedly buying a PS2 to reach the cookie jar on the top shelf.
Do we know enough about Pluto to say that the weight of an inefficient Nasa ship won't be enough to knock it out of alignment? Can we say for sure that the dirty snowball won't come hurtling towards Earth, destroying future generations? The sooner one of the corporations starts their own Space program the better. I stand a better chance of getting into Space with Coke as opposed to getting there with NASA.
IIRC, there are 4 versions of Pitfall. The original Atari 2600 one, Pitfall 2, Pitfall the Arcade game(based on Pitfall 2 I think), then Pitfall 3D, or whatever it was called. The last one was awful.
Why don't, instead of spending a thousand dollars on something to make you happy (a Playstation 2), you contribute some money to a turkey sanctuary?
I don't think people think enough about turkey at Christmas. It's so selfish to go around buying presents and partying while, somewhere in Norfolk, turkeys are starving.
Is it only when you see those poor turkeys on TV, with their pot bellies looking fat, but actually a sign of their poor nourishment, that you can feel sorry for them.
Do we need to get Bob Geldof involved for you to do anything? Do you only care about yourself? Is your own amusement more important than the happiness of a turkey?
Have you not considered that while you're drinking the night away, there are millions of turkeys that won't even have a Christmas?
Please, don't buy any presents this year - just think how many turkeys you could save with the money.
And, please remember, a turkey is for life, not just for Christmas.
> scampering
No, he said it was 'Running Around'.
Strange, cos I thought, being a Penguin it would waddle.
PS. It appears Slashdot has already caught the virus, because it too is infected with Linux propaganda.
> The pace of cultural change in the western world has accelerated so rapidly that it's reached the breaking point, according to the late anthropologist Margaret Mead.
Sorry, but I have difficulty taking seriously anything that quotes Margaret Mead in the first sentence.
Margaret Mead's 'anthropology' largely consisted of her book 'Growing up in Samoa', which took a rosetinted view of life there, presenting it has a haven of peace and tranquility.
It became famous as something with which to compare - unfavorably - American society.
Now, it is only famous for being wrong, for she ignored all the evidence of massive problems, rape, murder, etc.
> most_ users simply wanting these things for their own gain
You're absolutely right. Example: one of my colleagues was going to buy the Nirvana singles box set because it had some rare tracks on it.
But because of Napster he didn't because he stole it for free.
But in any case, even if it didn't result in loss of sales CDs, it would still be theft - for one thing there is lost sales from legal mp3s - this is just the same as vinyl->cd, and the market is currently nonexistent event though by rights their should be a market.
And don't think that it's just a ripoff of the consumer selling new versions of what you've already got. It isn't.
Artists are paid for record and mp3 sales - therefore you are cheating them by stealing music.
Record companies are not evil. People seem to think that they are big corporate entities that just rip people off.
This is not true. The people working for them are being paid, just the same as you are, and they have a right to make money - after all, you wouldn't suggest that the man running the local bakery has no right to make a profit out of his wares.
Everything here is consensual:
you don't have to buy the music
the artists don't have to sign the contracts. But they do. Why? Because it's a damn good deal for them. Relatively talentless musicians make millions of dollars.
This isn't exploitation. In fact, many record companies have gone bust or are struggling.
In fact, the only non-consensual thing is the theft of the music, which you seem to think you have the right to do. And the only reason that is because you can get away with it.
The true test of whether someone is moral is not whether they don't steal physical things like cars - that has getting caught has a deterrent so morality is secondary.
It is that they do not steal where they cannot get caught. Those who do steal are immoral.
> Stand up now for true copyright protection as afforded under the U.S. constitution or risk giving it up forever to global monopolies such as this
Sorry? True copyright protection?
As in the true copyright protection that lets billions of stolen mp3s get downloaded each day?
As in the copyright protection that cheats artists out of the fruits of their labors?
As in the copyright protection of p2p tools, which are essentially tools of theft, analagous to slim jims or other criminal tools.
This stuff about the constitution is a lot of bull. Most people don't really care about this - as witnessed by the fact they don't do anything about real oppression under true fascist regimes - they're only concerned about their 'rights' regarding the theft of music.
Why has this post been marked as a troll?
It seems any post criticising Linux is marked troll.
Why - it's completely true. Linux is not even the best free Unix clone, never mind the best OS.
What Linux does have is:
a good name
a great publicity team
a cute penguin
Hell if FreeBSD was called Linux, it would do well too.
Why don't these morons who don't know shit about kernels or operating systems, but who just instinctively censor the anti-Linux posts keep their mod points to themselves.
The point about professionals is very true: a controlled program is the way it should be.
This isn't a troll - it's the truth - why the hell should companies like Adobe and Corel invest their money in Linux when they have three hundred different versions of Linux already - for example, Photopaint doesn't install with Mandrake 7.2.
This doesn't happen with Windows - with it, when you release a new program, you're pretty damn sure Microsoft have taken the trouble to make sure it works with all the software.
A controlled OS made by professionals is better for everyone - just try telling me that Linux is a good as Windows or OS X.
Although the established parts of Linux are often well written (the kernel, things like mail utilities), the newer stuff, like KDE, is cobbled together by a bunch of amateurs, many of whom are writing their first programs as KDE (e.g., see proof here).
PS. I'm sure that someone will mark this as troll as well, but it's not.
The fact is that Linux is a massive black hole of resources and effort - people trying to cobble layers of stuff onto decades of cruft - whereas a proper OS like Solaris, Windows or OSX is actually
managed - people say Windows sucks and Linux rules, but it's just a lie - you can't even configure the thing without using a hundred different text files, each with different formats; even projects like linuxconf have to be maintained separately because of the *massive* existing fragmentation.
Linux is already more fragmented than anything - how else can each different distribution be configured differently, therefore presenting a nightmare for developers.
Linux doesn't stand a chance while we have a hundred different, poorly tested, distributions deterring developers.
Those who say that Windows only succeeds through its publicity department are lying - the fact is that Linux has much better publicity than Windows - how else could people seriously promote it as a usable GUI when I can't even do something as simple as copying something from the best web browser, Mozilla, to the best interface, KDE, because of their using different toolkits.
I mean 'cmon people. If Windows' success is really due to MS' publicity, then Linux's publicity department must be run by an army of Goebells clones.