I'm not going to go into Edison here. Too much of a can of worms. Bell is a good example though. Essentially, Bell's lawyer and Bell himself seem to have pulled some dirty tricks to get his patent filing in before Elisha Gray (they came in on the same day, but a lot of evidence says Gray's was actually in first). The nature of the entire affair exposes the complete ridiculousness of a system of government granted monopolies on inventions in the first place.
That was a fun refresher. I once tried to compile for myself a list of all the things on Earth people eat. I knew there was no way I could list everything, but I gave it a shot for the educational value. The fungi were interesting for the small number of species that are straightforward edible, but the large number of species that are edible with special precautions or are edible by some people who are naturally immune, but not by others, etc. The ones that you couldn't eat with alcohol stood out, but I had forgotten that it wasn't likely to be fatal. Mea Culpa.
I have to dig up that list. I remember there were a lot of foods on it that I promised myself I'd get around to trying some day. Some of the fungi were on there, but I'm not sure I have the courage for many of them considering the range of poisons they can have and how hard to identify some of them can be. Not to mention how many fungi there may be out there that haven't even been identified yet.
Ok. So you've posted the same copy and pasted reply here, here, here, here, here and here. Both to threads you've been signing in as APK, and those where you were pretending to be some random AC with a grudge against me and a massive admiration for you and sympathy for your goals. Thankfully, this seems to cap off this mess. I'm posting this reply (also copy and pasted) to each of those posts to focus things again. Just in case you feel you need to post again, no need to carry on each of these frayed ends, just reply to this post.
Ok. So you've posted the same copy and pasted reply here, here, here, here, here and here. Both to threads you've been signing in as APK, and those where you were pretending to be some random AC with a grudge against me and a massive admiration for you and sympathy for your goals. Thankfully, this seems to cap off this mess. I'm posting this reply (also copy and pasted) to each of those posts to focus things again. Just in case you feel you need to post again, no need to carry on each of these frayed ends, just reply to this post.
Ok. So you've posted the same copy and pasted reply here, here, here, here, here and here. Both to threads you've been signing in as APK, and those where you were pretending to be some random AC with a grudge against me and a massive admiration for you and sympathy for your goals. Thankfully, this seems to cap off this mess. I'm posting this reply (also copy and pasted) to each of those posts to focus things again. Just in case you feel you need to post again, no need to carry on each of these frayed ends, just reply to this post.
Ok. So you've posted the same copy and pasted reply here, here, here, here, here and here. Both to threads you've been signing in as APK, and those where you were pretending to be some random AC with a grudge against me and a massive admiration for you and sympathy for your goals. Thankfully, this seems to cap off this mess. I'm posting this reply (also copy and pasted) to each of those posts to focus things again. Just in case you feel you need to post again, no need to carry on each of these frayed ends, just reply to this post.
Ok. So you've posted the same copy and pasted reply here, here, here, here, here and here. Both to threads you've been signing in as APK, and those where you were pretending to be some random AC with a grudge against me and a massive admiration for you and sympathy for your goals. Thankfully, this seems to cap off this mess. I'm posting this reply (also copy and pasted) to each of those posts to focus things again. Just in case you feel you need to post again, no need to carry on each of these frayed ends, just reply to this post.
Ok. So you've posted the same copy and pasted reply here, here, here, here, here and here. Both to threads you've been signing in as APK, and those where you were pretending to be some random AC with a grudge against me and a massive admiration for you and sympathy for your goals. Thankfully, this seems to cap off this mess. I'm posting this reply (also copy and pasted) to each of those posts to focus things again. Just in case you feel you need to post again, no need to carry on each of these frayed ends, just reply to this post.
Ah yes. The huge number of fungi that are edible with special preparation and consideration are interesting. Which ones are too gross for anyone to ever test though? People even eat the ones that are always full of maggots. My personal favorites (not to eat because I value life too much to try, plus I have no idea where to get them) are the ones that are totally safe to eat without parboiling or even any sort of preparation, unless you have alcohol with your meal, in which case you die.
No stalking, although I did do some information gathering once we were already deep into our discussion and it became very clear there was something very wrong with him. Stalking him would be looking around for other places he's posted, then posting anonymously to rant about goings on in the original thread. Like you're doing.
Calling APK crazy is not libel, it's an opinion. A very, very well founded opinion. Also, psychiatrists have an MD, not a PHD.
Me being older than APK (you) was a typo, I started typing that you were older than me, but then I inverted the sentence to say instead, that I was younger than you, but I accidentally left the word older. I explained this in this post, which you didn't reply to. That's actually pretty bizarre for you.
Wow, multiple reply posts (this one and this one), but of which are also copy and paste posted to the thread I had with APK. If you're not APK (as if), then you're doing an amazing job of imitating him.
I'm not clear on this one since you didn't sign it. Is this you pretending to not be you, yet posting a circular link back to the grandparent post, or did you just forget to sign?
1) I saw fit to say that a post of you looked like an automatically generated troll. Then, when you made it clear you were actually a human, I responded to the three links you were posting at the time which you challenged anyone to show were incorrect. I showed that all of the security exploits in those posts were fixed. Mostly long, long ago. I never challenged you to put up your resume or claimed that mine was somehow superior. That's just your personal fetish. You must have an extreme inferiority complex to need to overcompensate so much.
2) Blah, blah. Same old, same old. Ridiculous claim that compromise of the kernel.org website might have compromised the kernel source itself as if it's not possible to check.
3) I simply haven't been banned from any web-based forums, moderated Usenet newsgroups, etc.That sort of thing generally only happens to a small minority of people. Perhaps I'm just not as adventurous as you. I'm certainly not as prolific a poster as you.
As for you not having posted pretending to be someone else on this thread, what about this post where you pretend to be some third party who's just a really big fan of APK or something. I reply to say that it's you, then you reply, still pretending not to be you, then I reply again, then you reply again, but this time you sign as yourself. Duh. Pretty obvious.
"You're crazy if you think that people can't see through it when you post and pretend to be some other person defending you." - by tragedy (27079) on Monday November 14, @01:24AM (#38045756)
You keep using "crazy/insane" etc./et al - you can stop projecting now, & please - see the bolded statement of mine above, lol, ok? Thank you.
Before you call others insane/crazy etc. online? Be aware that without a formal examination in a professional environs done by a PhD in Psychiatric sciences with a license to practice, you are indeed, libeling myself... & you say you have NEVER BEEN BANNED? Somehow, based on your reprehensible behavior, I doubt that.
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Psychiatrists are MDs, psychologists are the ones with PHDs. As for libel, expressing an opinion that someone is crazy isn't libel, especially with a conditional such as "if you think that". Not that I don't think you have a psychological disorder. At the very least you seem to have some sort of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
"Cybordeath was obviously you, for example. " - by tragedy (27079) on Monday November 14, @01:24AM (#38045756)
Again, do you have PROOF of that? Again, more folks than myself post on forums, and see the above (about your meds please, thanks, lol).
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Proof? The language, form and content of Cybordeath's posts compared to yours is pretty good proof. Answer this: why would Cybordeath sign up right after you were banned to defend you and vilify your enemies and carry on your feuds? What possible motivation would someone who isn't you have to be so obsessed with you and your activities on that forum to the exclusion of all else? Everyone knew it was you. You can't pretend your way out of it.
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"4) To be very clear. You did not think of it first, no need to trust me on this." - by tragedy (27079) on Monday November 14, @01:24AM (#38045756)
Did I say I did? However, I have to say I haven't seen it done before myself because ramdisk/ramdrive software for Windows wasn't around that would do UNLIMITED SIZED ramdisks before the EEC Systems SuperDisk-NT came about... at least not afaik, but later others did come out (but lacked data mirroring back to state keeping files on HDD etc.)
(I saw that somebody called you paranoid in another post of yours via your post history today & it truly made me laugh)
Uh, yeah. That was you Alexander. Watching you pretend it wasn't is hilarious.
LMAO, especially how you're accusing myself of being others who are busting on you and your contradictions, especially about LONG posts of yours & how you "recorded" our post times here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2517968&cid=38045988 but noted them in that thread, completely NOT related to this one!
Yeah. Not related. Except that the AC posting there was obviously you, and amazingly posted at the exact same times you were on Slashdot replying to me. You're deranged if you think you're not completely obvious when you do that.
Yes, it is TRULY hilarious!
Plus - your "projecting" on things you obviously do DO yourself? Please... dead give away that, accusing myself of doing what you must do yourself!
I post under a psuedonym partly because there are crazies out there like you that I wouldn't want to give my real name to, but I have principles which you seem to lack. I don't post as multiple people to support myself. How do I "obviously" do it myself? Is this just some sort of ridiculous schoolyard rules along the lines of "he who smelt it dealt it"?
* Clue/New NEWS/NewsFlash - not everyone posting here on/. is myself you know!
Of course. It's just the ones that are obviously you that are you. I mean, it's not as if you haven't, in this thread, posted a few unsigned AC comments pretending to be a third party, then switched back to replying as you. Moron.
SEEING YOU RUN LIKE A WHIPPED DOG WITH HIS TAIL BETWEEN HIS LEGS FROM THIS POSTS' QUESTIONS THOUGH?
* Priceless - Absolutely priceless, lol... & especially after all of your NUMEROUS off-topic illogical adhominem attacks you directed MY WAY here in this very exchange...
Riiight. Because I didn't reply to that here, you buffoon.
Errr, yeah, I'm running from the post in that link. Got it. I mean, I replied to it late last night in this post, but that doesn't mean anything. I'm just running. Uh huh. Just like my so called "sources" were "shot down in flames". Riiight. Since my sources are pretty much every forum you've ever posted to, they wouldn't be discredited just by a few rebuttals from you, even if those rebuttals were rational rather than being based on pure crazy.
Also, once again, if I was in diapers while you were out achieving adult accomplishments, then you realize that what you're doing is equivalent to mocking a baby for not being able to do the things an adult can. I can picture you doing that, actually. You, standing there, yelling at a baby in crib that he's not as good as you and that you've shot all his arguments down in flames and demanding that he show a list of publications that he's been mentioned in. You really do strike me as being possibly that crazy.
Uh yeah. More APK crazy. Seriously, you had the right idea trying to at least refocus the thread. Don't reply to this message. For the sake of coherency I'll try not to reply to any reply to this one and only reply to the current two main branches of this tree.
Yeah, Anonymous Coward, it's just a coincidence that during those 4 time blocks when APK was replying to me that you happened to be active on Slashdot replying to me as well. I'm not picking and choosing data points that fit. Those are all of APK's posts addressed to me on those dates and all of your posts addressed to me on those dates. They comprise 4 time blocks 40,17,85 and 54 minutes long. The odds of all of your posts and APK's posts to me occurring in such tight formation by coincidence are astronomical. The most likely explanation, even without looking at the contents of your post, is that you are APK.
If we actually look at the content of your posts, it's even more likely. You use the same expressions as him. The very fact that you replied to me so many times and with such vehemence seems strange for someone with no connection to me. It's true that it's easy to look up a person's other posts on Slashdot, but most people don't bother in response to what was originally just a one line post, so your knowledge of my exchange with APK is unusual if you aren't him.
Let's face it, your ruse is transparent. If anyone else were reading this, it would be obvious to them right off the bat that you're not just some random poster responding to one of my comments, but rather someone with an ax to grind specifically against me. The fact that you persist in pretending to be someone else when it's so incredibly obvious that you're APK is just sad. Sick and sad.
Under enough tension, a stretched piece of gut or hair won't bend much. Prefec2 gave a pretty good process below. That's exactly what tilers, for example do today, use a stretched line coated with colored chalk, pull it up and snap it against a surface. Makes a good, straight line. You could carve a stick into a roughly straight, flat piece, then use a method like that to mark a line, then carve along the line.
f()rk()_Bomb is completely correct that you can also just do it by eye. Either just by approximation, or, to do it precisely, by closing one eye and looking at it along the edge as you carve.
Also, you can use the same method I mentioned for blocks of stone with wood and bone. Find an existing flat surface that's harder than what you want to shape, then grind your piece of wood or bone across it. You can also find in nature some quite large rocks that have broken along a cleavage plane to form a perfectly straight edge. You can press your piece of wood hard against that edge to make an impression, then take the piece of wood and carve along the impression. For that matter, maybe you can find a long enough piece of light rock with a naturally perfectly straight edge, such as a long quartz crystal, and use that as your ruler. As for measurement marks on the ruler, that's traditionally done through subdivision. You make two marks, approximate a halfway point, then get a length of something else and mark on it the distance between one edge of your ruler and the halfway point, then you compare that against the length between the other edge and the halfway point. Then you adjust the halfway point accordingly and repeat. Once you've made one measuring stick that way, you can use it as a template for others.
But that would scare people away from calling 911. People often need to call the police about things that aren't immediate emergencies, but still need to reach them quickly and don't have the police phone number on hand. Sometimes those situations can turn into emergencies. So, generally what actually happens is that people calling 911 for non-emergencies don't get in trouble unless they keep calling and ignore warnings to stop.
What happened here is unclear. It's possible that this person really did call 911 for help with his phone. That seems unlikely though. It's more likely to be hyperbole on the part of those reporting it. Probably what happened is that he was trying to dial 611, or some other assistance number as others suggested and kept getting it wrong. Or, there might have been some sort of automatic emergency call feature that he kept accidentally activating and, when the 911 operator asked him why he was calling, he drunkenly explained that he was having trouble with his phone.
Personally, I'm always uncomfortable when I hear that someone was arrested for not following a police officers orders. The authority of the police to give orders to people is supposed to be very limited. If they had simply arrested him for making false emergency calls, I could see that. The fact that they didn't use that reason to arrest him suggests that they probably couldn't due to the circumstances. More likely, they were ordering him to come out of his house to talk to them or ordering him to let them into his house to search it, etc. Probably they have a policy to treat 911 hangups, etc. as emergencies by default (for example, kidnap victim managed to call 911 and the kidnapper snatched the phone away and hung up), giving them probable cause to search his house, etc. Still whenever I hear that someone has been arrested for the sole crime of not obeying police orders or resisting arrest it rankles me.
Do you mean straight lines in drawings, or straight lines in large works, or in things like blocks of stone? It's quite easy on the small scale, all you need is something string-like you can apply tension to. If you didn't have some sort of fiber, you could use a piece of stretched animal intestine. For larger scale things, you just put marker sticks in the ground and visually line them up. All you have to do is close one eye and look to see if they all disappear behind the front one if you stand in the right spot. Not that I'm claiming that it's easy to do in practice, but the ideas are quite simple. For blocks of stone, if you pick the right stone, and know what you're doing, you can get it to cleave along a very flat plane. If you're chiseling or wearing down the edge, you can use the previously mentioned stretched piece of gut as a guide and work your way along. Or, you can use a pre-existing hard flat surface and some hard grit, and grind down some sort of softer rock on it. Aside from those suggestions, I'm sure there are plenty of other ways to do these things if you're imaginative and good with your hands.
I'm not paranoid. You really are out to get me, apparently. Your stalking is pathetically transparent. You're clearly Alexander Peter Kowalski, also known as APK, also known as Alec Staar, also known as Cybordeath. You're one of the most prolific trolls on the Internet. Your writing style, and your obsession with yourself makes it obvious. I'm currently engaged in an absolutely stupid and pointless thread with you in a different article that's long off the front page. I don't know what's wrong with me that I even bother replying to you at all. You're just so not worth it. However, the fact that I'm engaged in that long conversation with you on Slashdot gives plenty of proof that the AC posting nasty attacks on me here is in fact you. Here's a list of all the recent posts APK has made to me and of the posts you've made in this thread:
Notice anything? Like the fact that your posts always occur in the same block of time as the APK posts to me? It would be an amazing coincidence if your posts just happened to occur at the exact same time that APK happened to be on Slashdot posting specifically to me.
You're pretending to be someone else just to attack me and support yourself. It's just pathetic. You've been spotted doing it time and time again before, and it's obvious to everyone who sees it. Why do you even bother? I mean, these aren't even really public conversations we're having. Not really. Everyone else has already left, it's just you and me talking. Inventing supporters to bolster you when the only person reading knows it's just you is pointless.
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I'm not going to go into Edison here. Too much of a can of worms. Bell is a good example though. Essentially, Bell's lawyer and Bell himself seem to have pulled some dirty tricks to get his patent filing in before Elisha Gray (they came in on the same day, but a lot of evidence says Gray's was actually in first). The nature of the entire affair exposes the complete ridiculousness of a system of government granted monopolies on inventions in the first place.
Sounds delicious.
That was a fun refresher. I once tried to compile for myself a list of all the things on Earth people eat. I knew there was no way I could list everything, but I gave it a shot for the educational value. The fungi were interesting for the small number of species that are straightforward edible, but the large number of species that are edible with special precautions or are edible by some people who are naturally immune, but not by others, etc. The ones that you couldn't eat with alcohol stood out, but I had forgotten that it wasn't likely to be fatal. Mea Culpa.
I have to dig up that list. I remember there were a lot of foods on it that I promised myself I'd get around to trying some day. Some of the fungi were on there, but I'm not sure I have the courage for many of them considering the range of poisons they can have and how hard to identify some of them can be. Not to mention how many fungi there may be out there that haven't even been identified yet.
Ok. So you've posted the same copy and pasted reply here, here, here, here, here and here. Both to threads you've been signing in as APK, and those where you were pretending to be some random AC with a grudge against me and a massive admiration for you and sympathy for your goals. Thankfully, this seems to cap off this mess. I'm posting this reply (also copy and pasted) to each of those posts to focus things again. Just in case you feel you need to post again, no need to carry on each of these frayed ends, just reply to this post.
Ok. So you've posted the same copy and pasted reply here, here, here, here, here and here. Both to threads you've been signing in as APK, and those where you were pretending to be some random AC with a grudge against me and a massive admiration for you and sympathy for your goals. Thankfully, this seems to cap off this mess. I'm posting this reply (also copy and pasted) to each of those posts to focus things again. Just in case you feel you need to post again, no need to carry on each of these frayed ends, just reply to this post.
Ok. So you've posted the same copy and pasted reply here, here, here, here, here and here. Both to threads you've been signing in as APK, and those where you were pretending to be some random AC with a grudge against me and a massive admiration for you and sympathy for your goals. Thankfully, this seems to cap off this mess. I'm posting this reply (also copy and pasted) to each of those posts to focus things again. Just in case you feel you need to post again, no need to carry on each of these frayed ends, just reply to this post.
Ok. So you've posted the same copy and pasted reply here, here, here, here, here and here. Both to threads you've been signing in as APK, and those where you were pretending to be some random AC with a grudge against me and a massive admiration for you and sympathy for your goals. Thankfully, this seems to cap off this mess. I'm posting this reply (also copy and pasted) to each of those posts to focus things again. Just in case you feel you need to post again, no need to carry on each of these frayed ends, just reply to this post.
Ok. So you've posted the same copy and pasted reply here, here, here, here, here and here. Both to threads you've been signing in as APK, and those where you were pretending to be some random AC with a grudge against me and a massive admiration for you and sympathy for your goals. Thankfully, this seems to cap off this mess. I'm posting this reply (also copy and pasted) to each of those posts to focus things again. Just in case you feel you need to post again, no need to carry on each of these frayed ends, just reply to this post.
Ok. So you've posted the same copy and pasted reply here, here, here, here, here and here. Both to threads you've been signing in as APK, and those where you were pretending to be some random AC with a grudge against me and a massive admiration for you and sympathy for your goals. Thankfully, this seems to cap off this mess. I'm posting this reply (also copy and pasted) to each of those posts to focus things again. Just in case you feel you need to post again, no need to carry on each of these frayed ends, just reply to this post.
Ah yes. The huge number of fungi that are edible with special preparation and consideration are interesting. Which ones are too gross for anyone to ever test though? People even eat the ones that are always full of maggots. My personal favorites (not to eat because I value life too much to try, plus I have no idea where to get them) are the ones that are totally safe to eat without parboiling or even any sort of preparation, unless you have alcohol with your meal, in which case you die.
No stalking, although I did do some information gathering once we were already deep into our discussion and it became very clear there was something very wrong with him. Stalking him would be looking around for other places he's posted, then posting anonymously to rant about goings on in the original thread. Like you're doing.
Calling APK crazy is not libel, it's an opinion. A very, very well founded opinion. Also, psychiatrists have an MD, not a PHD.
Me being older than APK (you) was a typo, I started typing that you were older than me, but then I inverted the sentence to say instead, that I was younger than you, but I accidentally left the word older. I explained this in this post, which you didn't reply to. That's actually pretty bizarre for you.
Posting with a link to the parent post. Alexander, you really have gone off the deep end.
Wow, multiple reply posts (this one and this one), but of which are also copy and paste posted to the thread I had with APK. If you're not APK (as if), then you're doing an amazing job of imitating him.
I'm not clear on this one since you didn't sign it. Is this you pretending to not be you, yet posting a circular link back to the grandparent post, or did you just forget to sign?
1) I saw fit to say that a post of you looked like an automatically generated troll. Then, when you made it clear you were actually a human, I responded to the three links you were posting at the time which you challenged anyone to show were incorrect. I showed that all of the security exploits in those posts were fixed. Mostly long, long ago. I never challenged you to put up your resume or claimed that mine was somehow superior. That's just your personal fetish. You must have an extreme inferiority complex to need to overcompensate so much.
2) Blah, blah. Same old, same old. Ridiculous claim that compromise of the kernel.org website might have compromised the kernel source itself as if it's not possible to check.
3) I simply haven't been banned from any web-based forums, moderated Usenet newsgroups, etc.That sort of thing generally only happens to a small minority of people. Perhaps I'm just not as adventurous as you. I'm certainly not as prolific a poster as you.
As for you not having posted pretending to be someone else on this thread, what about this post where you pretend to be some third party who's just a really big fan of APK or something. I reply to say that it's you, then you reply, still pretending not to be you, then I reply again, then you reply again, but this time you sign as yourself. Duh. Pretty obvious.
"You're crazy if you think that people can't see through it when you post and pretend to be some other person defending you." - by tragedy (27079) on Monday November 14, @01:24AM (#38045756)
You keep using "crazy/insane" etc./et al - you can stop projecting now, & please - see the bolded statement of mine above, lol, ok? Thank you.
Before you call others insane/crazy etc. online? Be aware that without a formal examination in a professional environs done by a PhD in Psychiatric sciences with a license to practice, you are indeed, libeling myself... & you say you have NEVER BEEN BANNED? Somehow, based on your reprehensible behavior, I doubt that.
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Psychiatrists are MDs, psychologists are the ones with PHDs. As for libel, expressing an opinion that someone is crazy isn't libel, especially with a conditional such as "if you think that". Not that I don't think you have a psychological disorder. At the very least you seem to have some sort of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
"Cybordeath was obviously you, for example. " - by tragedy (27079) on Monday November 14, @01:24AM (#38045756)
Again, do you have PROOF of that? Again, more folks than myself post on forums, and see the above (about your meds please, thanks, lol).
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Proof? The language, form and content of Cybordeath's posts compared to yours is pretty good proof. Answer this: why would Cybordeath sign up right after you were banned to defend you and vilify your enemies and carry on your feuds? What possible motivation would someone who isn't you have to be so obsessed with you and your activities on that forum to the exclusion of all else? Everyone knew it was you. You can't pretend your way out of it.
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"4) To be very clear. You did not think of it first, no need to trust me on this." - by tragedy (27079) on Monday November 14, @01:24AM (#38045756)
Did I say I did? However, I have to say I haven't seen it done before myself because ramdisk/ramdrive software for Windows wasn't around that would do UNLIMITED SIZED ramdisks before the EEC Systems SuperDisk-NT came about... at least not afaik, but later others did come out (but lacked data mirroring back to state keeping files on HDD etc.)
I suppose YOU did though... right?
Take your meds "CaPTaiN-PaRaNoiA"
(I saw that somebody called you paranoid in another post of yours via your post history today & it truly made me laugh)
Uh, yeah. That was you Alexander. Watching you pretend it wasn't is hilarious.
LMAO, especially how you're accusing myself of being others who are busting on you and your contradictions, especially about LONG posts of yours & how you "recorded" our post times here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2517968&cid=38045988 but noted them in that thread, completely NOT related to this one!
Yeah. Not related. Except that the AC posting there was obviously you, and amazingly posted at the exact same times you were on Slashdot replying to me. You're deranged if you think you're not completely obvious when you do that.
Yes, it is TRULY hilarious!
Plus - your "projecting" on things you obviously do DO yourself? Please... dead give away that, accusing myself of doing what you must do yourself!
I post under a psuedonym partly because there are crazies out there like you that I wouldn't want to give my real name to, but I have principles which you seem to lack. I don't post as multiple people to support myself. How do I "obviously" do it myself? Is this just some sort of ridiculous schoolyard rules along the lines of "he who smelt it dealt it"?
* Clue/New NEWS/NewsFlash - not everyone posting here on /. is myself you know!
Of course. It's just the ones that are obviously you that are you. I mean, it's not as if you haven't, in this thread, posted a few unsigned AC comments pretending to be a third party, then switched back to replying as you. Moron.
SEEING YOU RUN LIKE A WHIPPED DOG WITH HIS TAIL BETWEEN HIS LEGS FROM THIS POSTS' QUESTIONS THOUGH?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2506468&cid=38045106
* Priceless - Absolutely priceless, lol... & especially after all of your NUMEROUS off-topic illogical adhominem attacks you directed MY WAY here in this very exchange...
Riiight. Because I didn't reply to that here, you buffoon.
Errr, yeah, I'm running from the post in that link. Got it. I mean, I replied to it late last night in this post, but that doesn't mean anything. I'm just running. Uh huh. Just like my so called "sources" were "shot down in flames". Riiight. Since my sources are pretty much every forum you've ever posted to, they wouldn't be discredited just by a few rebuttals from you, even if those rebuttals were rational rather than being based on pure crazy.
Also, once again, if I was in diapers while you were out achieving adult accomplishments, then you realize that what you're doing is equivalent to mocking a baby for not being able to do the things an adult can. I can picture you doing that, actually. You, standing there, yelling at a baby in crib that he's not as good as you and that you've shot all his arguments down in flames and demanding that he show a list of publications that he's been mentioned in. You really do strike me as being possibly that crazy.
Uh yeah. More APK crazy. Seriously, you had the right idea trying to at least refocus the thread. Don't reply to this message. For the sake of coherency I'll try not to reply to any reply to this one and only reply to the current two main branches of this tree.
Yeah, Anonymous Coward, it's just a coincidence that during those 4 time blocks when APK was replying to me that you happened to be active on Slashdot replying to me as well. I'm not picking and choosing data points that fit. Those are all of APK's posts addressed to me on those dates and all of your posts addressed to me on those dates. They comprise 4 time blocks 40,17,85 and 54 minutes long. The odds of all of your posts and APK's posts to me occurring in such tight formation by coincidence are astronomical. The most likely explanation, even without looking at the contents of your post, is that you are APK.
If we actually look at the content of your posts, it's even more likely. You use the same expressions as him. The very fact that you replied to me so many times and with such vehemence seems strange for someone with no connection to me. It's true that it's easy to look up a person's other posts on Slashdot, but most people don't bother in response to what was originally just a one line post, so your knowledge of my exchange with APK is unusual if you aren't him.
Let's face it, your ruse is transparent. If anyone else were reading this, it would be obvious to them right off the bat that you're not just some random poster responding to one of my comments, but rather someone with an ax to grind specifically against me. The fact that you persist in pretending to be someone else when it's so incredibly obvious that you're APK is just sad. Sick and sad.
Under enough tension, a stretched piece of gut or hair won't bend much. Prefec2 gave a pretty good process below. That's exactly what tilers, for example do today, use a stretched line coated with colored chalk, pull it up and snap it against a surface. Makes a good, straight line. You could carve a stick into a roughly straight, flat piece, then use a method like that to mark a line, then carve along the line.
f()rk()_Bomb is completely correct that you can also just do it by eye. Either just by approximation, or, to do it precisely, by closing one eye and looking at it along the edge as you carve.
Also, you can use the same method I mentioned for blocks of stone with wood and bone. Find an existing flat surface that's harder than what you want to shape, then grind your piece of wood or bone across it. You can also find in nature some quite large rocks that have broken along a cleavage plane to form a perfectly straight edge. You can press your piece of wood hard against that edge to make an impression, then take the piece of wood and carve along the impression. For that matter, maybe you can find a long enough piece of light rock with a naturally perfectly straight edge, such as a long quartz crystal, and use that as your ruler. As for measurement marks on the ruler, that's traditionally done through subdivision. You make two marks, approximate a halfway point, then get a length of something else and mark on it the distance between one edge of your ruler and the halfway point, then you compare that against the length between the other edge and the halfway point. Then you adjust the halfway point accordingly and repeat. Once you've made one measuring stick that way, you can use it as a template for others.
Yes Alexander (APK), I must have issues with authority figures. I think I also have issues with creepy, crazy cyber-stalkers.
But that would scare people away from calling 911. People often need to call the police about things that aren't immediate emergencies, but still need to reach them quickly and don't have the police phone number on hand. Sometimes those situations can turn into emergencies. So, generally what actually happens is that people calling 911 for non-emergencies don't get in trouble unless they keep calling and ignore warnings to stop.
What happened here is unclear. It's possible that this person really did call 911 for help with his phone. That seems unlikely though. It's more likely to be hyperbole on the part of those reporting it. Probably what happened is that he was trying to dial 611, or some other assistance number as others suggested and kept getting it wrong. Or, there might have been some sort of automatic emergency call feature that he kept accidentally activating and, when the 911 operator asked him why he was calling, he drunkenly explained that he was having trouble with his phone.
Personally, I'm always uncomfortable when I hear that someone was arrested for not following a police officers orders. The authority of the police to give orders to people is supposed to be very limited. If they had simply arrested him for making false emergency calls, I could see that. The fact that they didn't use that reason to arrest him suggests that they probably couldn't due to the circumstances. More likely, they were ordering him to come out of his house to talk to them or ordering him to let them into his house to search it, etc. Probably they have a policy to treat 911 hangups, etc. as emergencies by default (for example, kidnap victim managed to call 911 and the kidnapper snatched the phone away and hung up), giving them probable cause to search his house, etc. Still whenever I hear that someone has been arrested for the sole crime of not obeying police orders or resisting arrest it rankles me.
Do you mean straight lines in drawings, or straight lines in large works, or in things like blocks of stone? It's quite easy on the small scale, all you need is something string-like you can apply tension to. If you didn't have some sort of fiber, you could use a piece of stretched animal intestine. For larger scale things, you just put marker sticks in the ground and visually line them up. All you have to do is close one eye and look to see if they all disappear behind the front one if you stand in the right spot. Not that I'm claiming that it's easy to do in practice, but the ideas are quite simple. For blocks of stone, if you pick the right stone, and know what you're doing, you can get it to cleave along a very flat plane. If you're chiseling or wearing down the edge, you can use the previously mentioned stretched piece of gut as a guide and work your way along. Or, you can use a pre-existing hard flat surface and some hard grit, and grind down some sort of softer rock on it. Aside from those suggestions, I'm sure there are plenty of other ways to do these things if you're imaginative and good with your hands.
I'm not paranoid. You really are out to get me, apparently. Your stalking is pathetically transparent. You're clearly Alexander Peter Kowalski, also known as APK, also known as Alec Staar, also known as Cybordeath. You're one of the most prolific trolls on the Internet. Your writing style, and your obsession with yourself makes it obvious. I'm currently engaged in an absolutely stupid and pointless thread with you in a different article that's long off the front page. I don't know what's wrong with me that I even bother replying to you at all. You're just so not worth it. However, the fact that I'm engaged in that long conversation with you on Slashdot gives plenty of proof that the AC posting nasty attacks on me here is in fact you. Here's a list of all the recent posts APK has made to me and of the posts you've made in this thread:
12th
8:54 AM APK post to me.
9:18 AM APK post to me.
9:23 AM One of your posts to me on this thread.
9:34 AM APK post to me.
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3:39 PM One of your posts to me on this thread.
3:56 PM APK post to me.
13th
9:03 AM APK post to me.
9:55 AM APK post to me.
10:01 AM APK post to me.
10:07 AM APK post to me.
10:20 AM APK post to me.
10:28 AM One of your posts to me on this thread.
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9:55 PM APK post to me.
10:07 PM One of your posts to me on this thread.
10:20 PM APK post to me.
10:39 PM APK post to me.
10:43 PM APK post to me.
10:49 PM APK post to me.
Notice anything? Like the fact that your posts always occur in the same block of time as the APK posts to me? It would be an amazing coincidence if your posts just happened to occur at the exact same time that APK happened to be on Slashdot posting specifically to me.
You're pretending to be someone else just to attack me and support yourself. It's just pathetic. You've been spotted doing it time and time again before, and it's obvious to everyone who sees it. Why do you even bother? I mean, these aren't even really public conversations we're having. Not really. Everyone else has already left, it's just you and me talking. Inventing supporters to bolster you when the only person reading knows it's just you is pointless.
What's the point of this link? If it's to try to focus the thread that you've split back into one thread, then I applaud you for that.