"...The RIAA is suing a morally-corrupt child-eating pirate today after finding four hard-disks stashed away in his den of villainy:
'These disks could potentially be used to store copyright-infringing material! We must stamp out these pirates before they starve honest artists of their income!'"
> If you want to convey more information than is > contained in about 2 paragraphs of text, it's > called a lecture, and nobody likes it.
Erm... I must be very strange... I like conversations where I actually _learn_ something, be it installing Debian without resorting to dselect, or the different meanings a particular word in Japanese might have (eg. a colloquialism, or an insult, or...), or something about $AstronomicalPhenomena, or...
You get what I mean.
Maybe I should partake in pointless ego-stroking instead?:-)
(Well... The above could be considered ego-stroking on the part of the speaker... But I'm talking about the "Well _I_ just got a haircut. Doesn't it look great?" sort of conversations.)
> Rather, additional data or some > interesting interpretation of facts > presented is what is hoped for.
EXACTLY. You try and give a _little_ more info on the topic of conversation, and (depending on the age of the people you're talking to) you either get a ruder version of 'Fob Off', or the conversation dies.
What really pisses me off are the laptop dealers who offer to put Linux on when you buy an over-priced box from them (which in itself isn't all that bad - spread of Linux and all that), but they do the following:
+$0 Windows XP +$49 Redhat (Downloaded) +$## Redhat Boxed Set
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> UN should have reserved Article 5 for peace conditions.
What's to stop a 1984-like state of constant war, eh?
Oh. Too late.
A lot of the _great_ stuff isn't exported at all, so you end up with Dragonball of all things. *Shudder*
("Hare nouchi Guu" -- w00t.
Stolen from the Jargon File, paraphrased, butchered horribly. Good job, troll.
> ...and I now do have a social/sex life in addition to geeky pursuits. /. has just disowned you.
> (Score:2, Informative)
> This wouldn't be a problem if everyone just
> started setting the "Evil bit" on their spam
> packets....
I want some of what the mods are having.
"...The RIAA is suing a morally-corrupt child-eating pirate today after finding four hard-disks stashed away in his den of villainy:
'These disks could potentially be used to store copyright-infringing material! We must stamp out these pirates before they starve honest artists of their income!'"
Etc?
Could something be implemented with MD5 hashes, ala TPFW (as you mentioned)?
Ooooh! I'm in Australia. Gimme. :-D
</Joke>
(Where are you, by the way?)
*Ouch*
...rot13?
...Unless you are an 'ex-'Japanese living in America, yes? And you didn't have a playstation when you came.
Or you learnt Japanese at school/uni/tutoring.
Better yet, write one in F*ck F*ck.
You know you want to.
...Go on then. Post it up.
You know you want to.
Make sure to post it as 'Plain Old Text' instead of 'HTML Formatted' next time.
And make use of the handy 'Preview' button while you're at it.
Bunch of necrophiliacs.
(Well... Erm. Do they count as 'dead'? What's the word for a fetish with inanimate objects that resemble people?)
> If you want to convey more information than is
:-)
> contained in about 2 paragraphs of text, it's
> called a lecture, and nobody likes it.
Erm... I must be very strange... I like conversations where I actually _learn_ something, be it installing Debian without resorting to dselect, or the different meanings a particular word in Japanese might have (eg. a colloquialism, or an insult, or...), or something about $AstronomicalPhenomena, or...
You get what I mean.
Maybe I should partake in pointless ego-stroking instead?
(Well... The above could be considered ego-stroking on the part of the speaker... But I'm talking about the "Well _I_ just got a haircut. Doesn't it look great?" sort of conversations.)
> Rather, additional data or some
:-D
> interesting interpretation of facts
> presented is what is hoped for.
EXACTLY. You try and give a _little_ more info on the topic of conversation, and (depending on the age of the people you're talking to) you either get a ruder version of 'Fob Off', or the conversation dies.
I'm the official conversation-killer here.
Insightful? INSIGHTFUL!?
I want some of what the mods have.
Ok. I think you might be trolling, but I'll bite:
Homer = From 'The Simpsons' (popular American cartoon).
Is very long-running. Is very funny.
What really pisses me off are the laptop dealers who offer to put Linux on when you buy an over-priced box from them (which in itself isn't all that bad - spread of Linux and all that), but they do the following:
+$0 Windows XP
+$49 Redhat (Downloaded)
+$## Redhat Boxed Set
And so on.
Say _what_?
A Star Trek RPG (no dice, all free-form).
Loved it.
(Same with a Diceless D&D-alike. Good stuff.)
That's "football", wankers.
- Australia