Re:Not everyone uses IRC for illegal things...
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i was going to reply with "spell checker", but you've had enough abuse tonight. not sure how many words the other term is supposed to be. you go play with yours and i'll go play with mine.
Re:IRC still not gender balanced yet
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i don't expect it would reflect the gender balance of the general population. it's a geek medium. but that can have its entertaining side. connect with a nick that sounds like you're a girl and watch the messages come flooding in. no, not a porn girl. just something like 'pc-girl'.
i was referring to the fact that you didn't just post your sig to generate hits on the 'free' ipod scheme. you actually made up some sentences. to me, they had nothing to do with the thread, but at least you went to the trouble to do that.
i'm not retarded. just different from you.
Re:Not everyone uses IRC for illegal things...
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if only you hadn't typed 'noone' instead of 'no one'. *sigh* and i do do other things, like support myself without having a 'real' job. each of us has one or more issues with what the world around us presents to us. one of mine is that kids are allowed to exit our education system writing things like "alot of time noone even notices."
it's not your fault, but it is your problem. employers aren't going to be too impressed with a resume that speaks to "alot of my projects..." and "i left because noone...".
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well, at least this 'free ipod' loser is creative or imaginative. but still a loser. get a job, son. pyramid schemes are for losers. go to www.losers.org and register there to troll for people to sign up.
fret not grasshopper. you don't ever have to realise you'll never be a teenager. and i'm presuming an 'again' in there. i can tell you from the vantage point of an age you can't comprehend, that you never have to think of yourself as any older than the best year of your life. just don't do it.
btw, i'm an American old fart, and you'll notice i spelt realisation without our 'z' -- twice now. but in neither of our versions of English is 'definitely' spelt with an 'a'. (we also spell spelt spelled.) it isn't even pronounced that way. one of the great mysteries of the last century, extending into this one, is why so many people who grew up in the last 20 years or so of the 1900s spell that word with an 'a'. do any of them say "i am deaf-in-at-lee going to that party"? no, they/you all say deaf-in-it-lee. so why do you spell it definately? it's so common, it almost seems as if some spelling book was wrong 20 years ago, and now it's just accepted. don't you ever wonder why newspapers and magazines spell it 'wrong'?
i'm not coming down on you personally. as i said, lots and lots of young people spell it that way. where did that come from, and why do none of you notice that stuff written by older people spell it 'definitely'?
they (the US 'authorities' already know WAY, WAY more about you than the place where you'll be staying. well, at least they know about anybody with your same name. or one similar. or one they think is similar. they're not checking on you, they're collecting information. information that no airline nor government has the right to demand. if they really need to know where you're going, they can and will follow you. if they don't follow you, they didn't really need to know where you were going, did they? so be prepared to give them useless information.
sober up. it's condyloma rice. look it up. but you're on the right track. i don't think the idiots at the airport would believe you're going to go see georgie baby, nor that his address is www.white house.com. but they also have no business knowing where you're going. terrorists are just going to say they're going to florida to learn to fly jumbo jets. the rest would be giving out addresess of people who might get visited by the short-haired guys in dark trenchcoats.
i can sum this up with a comment made to me long, long ago: regarding that AA employee - "fucking little kings and their fucking little kingdoms."
a.k.a., give 'em a badge and they think they're wyatt earp.
i was once screamed at by a TSA nazi, "don't stop, keep moving, don't stop." And i'm muttering, well then how the hell are we supposed to take our shoes off and put them in the bins? it's winter, we have jackets on, tennis shoes you have to x-ray. how the hell are we supposed to take all this stuff off and not stop moving?
i had it easy compared to the people here being made to give out personal info when it has no value.
whoa, settle down cowboy. uh, first, i don't watch much tv, and almost never yell at it. that's the reason i don't watch it in the first place. 2nd, the article is about asking flyers to give out friends' names and addresses, not whether or not the flyers are carrying a virus or dirty bomb.
i don't think most of the posters are saying we shouldn't be super security conscious. but a lot uf us have a problem with the idea that giving out the name and address of who we will be visiting is any security measure. i really believe from your posts that you've fibbed a time or two to authorities. and you're not even making dirty bombs, just stupid rhetoric.
and did you notice this is a place for nerds, not flaming anti-war zealots?
the rest of us have to let the government snoop into more and more of our private lives.
NO YOU DON'T! Lie just like the bad guys do. They're not going to check it. Or, if you're paranoid, before you leave, use the Internet, go to some telephone directory and get the name and address of someone in the area where you'll be landing. Write it out as if it's directions you'll use for the taxi driver.
They don't need to be doing this. It's stupid to think that any 'bad guy' is going to give out any useful info. (Unless he's the Canada-basher I replied to earlier:-) )
hmmmm. well, either you know a 'large' number of people very well, or you don't really have a 'large number' of guests over, or... well, think about it. oh, and don't ever invite me over. or hide all the pr0n.
but all this is missing the points of the article. 1) should anyone have to give out friends' addresses to rent-a-cops just to travel on an airplane when the addresses are surely going to be real for the honest people and fake for the terrorists; and 2) why would 'platinum card' members be excluded from that when getting a platinum card means you've travelled a lot, perhaps testing security procedures? oh, and 3) i'm not even getting into the privacy issue, because i'm still up in the air about it myself.
i can't tell... are you a Canadian? or an anti-Canadian? either way, you should do yourself a favor and move 10,000 miles away from North America. then you'll be in a nice, safe, free... oh, wait. uh, do you care about the free part? no, i guess if you're still worked up about the french and indian war, then you don't. just go. move. leave. find a better place than the countries in north america. send us a card when you get there. bye-bye.
and, boy, if you're a terrorist, you'd better not fib. 'cause in a couple of weeks, they might have checked on that address and found out it doesn't exist, or that no one there knows you. that'll be embarassing, won't it?
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i was going to reply with "spell checker", but you've had enough abuse tonight. not sure how many words the other term is supposed to be. you go play with yours and i'll go play with mine.
i'll let that one slide :)
i don't expect it would reflect the gender balance of the general population. it's a geek medium. but that can have its entertaining side. connect with a nick that sounds like you're a girl and watch the messages come flooding in. no, not a porn girl. just something like 'pc-girl'.
i'm not retarded. just different from you.
"and other things thAn correcting...
it's not your fault, but it is your problem. employers aren't going to be too impressed with a resume that speaks to "alot of my projects..." and "i left because noone...".
YEAH BABY
...because that 99.9% is for DOWNLOADING. :)
ALOT isn't an English word. you probably meant 'a lot'.
you mean all that stuff i've downloaded wasn't legal??? ok, how do i give it all back?
no! quick, run the other way. don't even have a 24th!
well, at least this 'free ipod' loser is creative or imaginative. but still a loser. get a job, son. pyramid schemes are for losers. go to www.losers.org and register there to troll for people to sign up.
btw, i'm an American old fart, and you'll notice i spelt realisation without our 'z' -- twice now. but in neither of our versions of English is 'definitely' spelt with an 'a'. (we also spell spelt spelled.) it isn't even pronounced that way. one of the great mysteries of the last century, extending into this one, is why so many people who grew up in the last 20 years or so of the 1900s spell that word with an 'a'. do any of them say "i am deaf-in-at-lee going to that party"? no, they/you all say deaf-in-it-lee. so why do you spell it definately? it's so common, it almost seems as if some spelling book was wrong 20 years ago, and now it's just accepted. don't you ever wonder why newspapers and magazines spell it 'wrong'?
i'm not coming down on you personally. as i said, lots and lots of young people spell it that way. where did that come from, and why do none of you notice that stuff written by older people spell it 'definitely'?
and why am i going on about it so? weird.
Harvey! Is that you? Where did you go?
if you said that for the points, cool! but if you meant it, lighten up. hmmm. will we ever know?
actually the expression is palm it off. but that's ok.
they (the US 'authorities' already know WAY, WAY more about you than the place where you'll be staying. well, at least they know about anybody with your same name. or one similar. or one they think is similar. they're not checking on you, they're collecting information. information that no airline nor government has the right to demand. if they really need to know where you're going, they can and will follow you. if they don't follow you, they didn't really need to know where you were going, did they? so be prepared to give them useless information.
sober up. it's condyloma rice. look it up. but you're on the right track. i don't think the idiots at the airport would believe you're going to go see georgie baby, nor that his address is www.white house.com. but they also have no business knowing where you're going. terrorists are just going to say they're going to florida to learn to fly jumbo jets. the rest would be giving out addresess of people who might get visited by the short-haired guys in dark trenchcoats.
no, the guy. singular. billy gates, i think is his name. and it just got better and better after W2K, didn't it. :)
a.k.a., give 'em a badge and they think they're wyatt earp.
i was once screamed at by a TSA nazi, "don't stop, keep moving, don't stop." And i'm muttering, well then how the hell are we supposed to take our shoes off and put them in the bins? it's winter, we have jackets on, tennis shoes you have to x-ray. how the hell are we supposed to take all this stuff off and not stop moving?
i had it easy compared to the people here being made to give out personal info when it has no value.
i don't think most of the posters are saying we shouldn't be super security conscious. but a lot uf us have a problem with the idea that giving out the name and address of who we will be visiting is any security measure. i really believe from your posts that you've fibbed a time or two to authorities. and you're not even making dirty bombs, just stupid rhetoric.
and did you notice this is a place for nerds, not flaming anti-war zealots?
NO YOU DON'T! Lie just like the bad guys do. They're not going to check it. Or, if you're paranoid, before you leave, use the Internet, go to some telephone directory and get the name and address of someone in the area where you'll be landing. Write it out as if it's directions you'll use for the taxi driver.
They don't need to be doing this. It's stupid to think that any 'bad guy' is going to give out any useful info. (Unless he's the Canada-basher I replied to earlier :-) )
but all this is missing the points of the article. 1) should anyone have to give out friends' addresses to rent-a-cops just to travel on an airplane when the addresses are surely going to be real for the honest people and fake for the terrorists; and 2) why would 'platinum card' members be excluded from that when getting a platinum card means you've travelled a lot, perhaps testing security procedures? oh, and 3) i'm not even getting into the privacy issue, because i'm still up in the air about it myself.
freedom is not free.
i can't tell... are you a Canadian? or an anti-Canadian? either way, you should do yourself a favor and move 10,000 miles away from North America. then you'll be in a nice, safe, free... oh, wait. uh, do you care about the free part? no, i guess if you're still worked up about the french and indian war, then you don't. just go. move. leave. find a better place than the countries in north america. send us a card when you get there. bye-bye.
and, boy, if you're a terrorist, you'd better not fib. 'cause in a couple of weeks, they might have checked on that address and found out it doesn't exist, or that no one there knows you. that'll be embarassing, won't it?