I must say, I'm flattered that you did the research to figure out my obsession with trolls and trolling, it can't have been that interesting reading all my rants out of context and if you read them in context, it took you AGES!
I'm also impressed with the fact that you came to the correct conclusions - some other users actually think I'm a guy playing a typical gender troll, and I always bite at those!
And last but most amusing and amazing, we have coined the phrase "webmistressrachel studies" - which made me laugh so much I ended up spluttering Relentless (it's like red bull only cheaper and nicer!) all over my keyboard!
So, to summarize, thank you so much for your interest and razor-sharp analysis, please enclose p+p and $2.99 if you would like to subscribe to my journal!!;-D
True, and I was angry yesterday when I typed all that without thinking too much, so I will try again to explain the angry flamebait I posted.
It's simply a very easily made mistake, and you can always tell from context what's meant.
However, I'm not sure that most people know what canon means - I was in top set at school and in Religious Studies (ugh! Don't worry, as I mentioned in another post canon for me is the Star Trek universe lol!) most people didn't know what that meant in questions and would ask me (or the teacher) to explain.. I was ridiculed through most of school and college because I always did know what I was being asked and to be honest, I do think most people are thick compared to me - because that is what I observe and put up with 24/7 - propping up inadequate people in order to maintain a social existence which I would not have if I were not "useful" to people.
Oh well, rambling nearly done, and yes you are correct. But the GP, I believe, was just being pedantic about it because my post was a correction. I saw a real need for the correction to take place - BECAUSE THE GRANDPARENT HAD VALUE but could have been brushed aside by the top-set idiots who dominate this world... Thanks for listening.
I like this comment, although I must admit to hearing a little sound of "whoosh" - it appears that what you are saying is that I only ever troll slashdot. You are correct, however, I do exist IRL, and I was stupid enough to out my REAL self here recently whilst posting in anger - and was royally put down for doing so. Someone even called me a man.
However, I'm not always trolling, I am sometimes just angry, like the grandparent for example. The post I replied to took the really simple and easily made mistake and used it to negate my original point - simply that the meaning of the word canon is poorly understood and perhaps needed crarification in order for readers to fully appreciate the badly-typed but insightful parent.
Oh, and I NEVER post AC. However, AC can and does come to my defence, which I take as rather flattering. Sometimes I have even thanked him, even though he'll never see the message!
Anyway, nice to meet you, love the language, and thank you.
No. Why the hell should I? The difference between it's and its is far more mistakable, and context ALWAYS tells you the difference anyway.
With canon and cannon, yes I know it's just a typo, but I don't think the words are ever, EVER interchangable like its and it's are.
Fundamental language understanding vs. easy to make common mistake. Most people don't even have a wide enough vocabulary to understand what canon means, so my post isn't a correction, it's a fuckin' clarification - not for the poster's sake, for the reader's sake!
Now fuck off with you Karma mod and your smug easily done correction (you probably correct its and it's everywhere you see it, I have never and will never be so pedantic!).
Shit after all that perfect grammar there's a simple typo, with no excuse whatsover for it's existence, in my otherwise great comment....synonym of "scripture", namely "canon"...
FTFM (Fixed That For Me, before someone else claims the points for doing so!)
Sorry to do this to you, but as an avid Star Trek fan I can most assuredly tell you that the word you are looking for is a synonym of "scripture", name "canon", which we trekkies moan about more than Star Wars fans since bloody Enterprise, and then WORSE, the new "movie", tear our canon to shreds on more than one occasion...
The cannon you are using fires projectiles, I doubt you meant to say that the new Social Network film will break these antique weapons somehow.
They paint a picture of Mark Zuckerberg which is more sinister than that portrayed in the movie "The Social Network", seeming to suggest that he was actively out to sucker the investors on that site, including this "Ceglia" character (I assume he's the jock?).
The Borg, Star Trek and the vision contained within are just as relevent as they ever were.
Bill Gates is still the "figurehead" of M$ and always will be, long after death.
And last, but not least, we all WANT it really, so I think we've left it there as a reminder of things to come - Star Trek-type travels, and possibly even the ultimate evolution of biotech and networking - the Borg.
This raises more questions than answers. For a start, this really is on vault.fbi.gov servers, so either it's real or a VERY risky hoax.
However, assuming it's real for now, WHY HAS THIS NOT LEAD TO A FLURRY OF OTHER EVIDENCE FROM ELSEWHERE?
Clearly the mask is off now? The government know about saucers, otherwise there wouldn't be such a casual write-off at the end of the doc.
So were they short Russians? Germans who found it in a barn after WWII and got it working? COME ON FBI, do your jobs and give us a proper INVESTIGATION!
It's worse than that for me. Mine EXPIRE today, and I have 5 of them to waste on this crapflood they call "April Fool's". Oh well, woe is me. Mod me down...
I don't have a clue, I noticed this phenomenon recently, and nobody can explain it.
Can bots really post to slashdot? Maybe a user creates an account, then gives each bot a un and pw. The bot parses the form/. offers then submits the random values, remembering to select the check-box closest to the AC box.
No, I didn't write the damn thing, I hated it when I first saw it but I got to thinking whether it was person or not. I saw your comment and realised that broken CAPTCHAs were less likely than the solution above. It only seems to appear a few times at most on each article, so it's possible some very bored pest could do it alone, or a bot which waits for the next article or number of comments could do it.
In fact, I suspect two accounts and two bots are involved, because one always replies to the other (at least recently)
"kept a secret so the CIA would not assassinate him"
The CIA must have been completely hopeless at the time if they couldn't simply plant operatives, get (physically) close to the space program launch site which was in present-day Kazakstan, suss out who was giving orders (Sergev), and snipe him.
Additionally, I don't think that's the reason at all. The intention was probably more idealogical than security related, implying to the world that communism itself, collective effort and group planning, made this possible rather than the ideas and ambitions of one (quite priveleged) man.
What the fuck is this thread? It can hardly be called a Troll or Flamebait, esp. the GP, and there's no affiliate site that appears to be benefitting from it, so it's not spam. Can someone please explain the parent post and it's grandparent post?
No, actually I didn't. The previous troll was a well-constructed, succint reply to a dumb, rednecked comment about gender, and it didn't mention anything of the sort. And it was responded to in the fashion I described in the post you were trolled by - an attempt to use my gender to imply that I couldn't possibly have administered a virus-free Windows server on a top-level.org domain for 6 years with no trouble whatsoever, ever.
I take it the "sunglasses" are actually heavy duty laser safety goggles, to protect you from the geeky laser light backlash from the audience of this "joke"?
Despite being slightly trolly about your opinion of PS3 games, you are probably nonetheless correct.
The PS3 is massively parallelised (spelling Nazis - go!) compared to XBOX, and is therefore harder to fully utilize by games progammers than the more serial XBOX but for supercomputing there is likely a notable difference, hence the adoption.
The parent troll's comment about RROD probably had a ring of truth to it, too, as the Cell CPU is on IBM originally intended for, you guessed it, supercomputing and re-purposed for this task.
This is just another of those occasions when you WISH for a better content filter system... in the same library, when you try to look at a little bit of sleaze like Facebook you are told "Fortinet blah blah forget it".
Since when is a simple spelling correction a troll? The OP's spelling of the word "Fallout" was so bad, that unless you knew what Rad-X and Rad-Away were, you wouldn't know that they were referring to that game! So if anything, I was informative!
I call you, and raise you the clients in that particular office - Pentium 233s with MMX and 128Megs of RAM - and original 5-10gig hard drives, with 10/100 network cards added in the last 5 years!
Windows 2000 Pro is a great client OS if properly locked down and firewalled / firefoxed - heh heh I just coined a pun! (is that a pun?)
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I must say, I'm flattered that you did the research to figure out my obsession with trolls and trolling, it can't have been that interesting reading all my rants out of context and if you read them in context, it took you AGES!
I'm also impressed with the fact that you came to the correct conclusions - some other users actually think I'm a guy playing a typical gender troll, and I always bite at those!
And last but most amusing and amazing, we have coined the phrase "webmistressrachel studies" - which made me laugh so much I ended up spluttering Relentless (it's like red bull only cheaper and nicer!) all over my keyboard!
So, to summarize, thank you so much for your interest and razor-sharp analysis, please enclose p+p and $2.99 if you would like to subscribe to my journal!! ;-D
True, and I was angry yesterday when I typed all that without thinking too much, so I will try again to explain the angry flamebait I posted.
It's simply a very easily made mistake, and you can always tell from context what's meant.
However, I'm not sure that most people know what canon means - I was in top set at school and in Religious Studies (ugh! Don't worry, as I mentioned in another post canon for me is the Star Trek universe lol!) most people didn't know what that meant in questions and would ask me (or the teacher) to explain.. I was ridiculed through most of school and college because I always did know what I was being asked and to be honest, I do think most people are thick compared to me - because that is what I observe and put up with 24/7 - propping up inadequate people in order to maintain a social existence which I would not have if I were not "useful" to people.
Oh well, rambling nearly done, and yes you are correct. But the GP, I believe, was just being pedantic about it because my post was a correction. I saw a real need for the correction to take place - BECAUSE THE GRANDPARENT HAD VALUE but could have been brushed aside by the top-set idiots who dominate this world... Thanks for listening.
I like this comment, although I must admit to hearing a little sound of "whoosh" - it appears that what you are saying is that I only ever troll slashdot. You are correct, however, I do exist IRL, and I was stupid enough to out my REAL self here recently whilst posting in anger - and was royally put down for doing so. Someone even called me a man.
However, I'm not always trolling, I am sometimes just angry, like the grandparent for example. The post I replied to took the really simple and easily made mistake and used it to negate my original point - simply that the meaning of the word canon is poorly understood and perhaps needed crarification in order for readers to fully appreciate the badly-typed but insightful parent.
Oh, and I NEVER post AC. However, AC can and does come to my defence, which I take as rather flattering. Sometimes I have even thanked him, even though he'll never see the message!
Anyway, nice to meet you, love the language, and thank you.
"You should quit correcting stuff now".
No. Why the hell should I? The difference between it's and its is far more mistakable, and context ALWAYS tells you the difference anyway.
With canon and cannon, yes I know it's just a typo, but I don't think the words are ever, EVER interchangable like its and it's are.
Fundamental language understanding vs. easy to make common mistake. Most people don't even have a wide enough vocabulary to understand what canon means, so my post isn't a correction, it's a fuckin' clarification - not for the poster's sake, for the reader's sake!
Now fuck off with you Karma mod and your smug easily done correction (you probably correct its and it's everywhere you see it, I have never and will never be so pedantic!).
Shit after all that perfect grammar there's a simple typo, with no excuse whatsover for it's existence, in my otherwise great comment. ...synonym of "scripture", namely "canon"...
FTFM (Fixed That For Me, before someone else claims the points for doing so!)
Sorry to do this to you, but as an avid Star Trek fan I can most assuredly tell you that the word you are looking for is a synonym of "scripture", name "canon", which we trekkies moan about more than Star Wars fans since bloody Enterprise, and then WORSE, the new "movie", tear our canon to shreds on more than one occasion...
The cannon you are using fires projectiles, I doubt you meant to say that the new Social Network film will break these antique weapons somehow.
They paint a picture of Mark Zuckerberg which is more sinister than that portrayed in the movie "The Social Network", seeming to suggest that he was actively out to sucker the investors on that site, including this "Ceglia" character (I assume he's the jock?).
There, FTFY.
The Borg, Star Trek and the vision contained within are just as relevent as they ever were.
Bill Gates is still the "figurehead" of M$ and always will be, long after death.
And last, but not least, we all WANT it really, so I think we've left it there as a reminder of things to come - Star Trek-type travels, and possibly even the ultimate evolution of biotech and networking - the Borg.
No, but it used to be a "Secret FBI Memo" until someone got hold of details of the names and dates, and requested it under Freedom of Info laws.
It was then published under the FOIA, rendering it an "Ex-Secret FBI Memo". Thanks for playing.
This raises more questions than answers. For a start, this really is on vault.fbi.gov servers, so either it's real or a VERY risky hoax.
However, assuming it's real for now, WHY HAS THIS NOT LEAD TO A FLURRY OF OTHER EVIDENCE FROM ELSEWHERE?
Clearly the mask is off now? The government know about saucers, otherwise there wouldn't be such a casual write-off at the end of the doc.
So were they short Russians? Germans who found it in a barn after WWII and got it working? COME ON FBI, do your jobs and give us a proper INVESTIGATION!
Can I have them please? Don't throw away good hardware just because you hate the people that made it...
It's worse than that for me. Mine EXPIRE today, and I have 5 of them to waste on this crapflood they call "April Fool's". Oh well, woe is me. Mod me down...
Wow, here's another one of those encrypted messages. But no reply. There's usually a reply (an encrypted one, not just me trollin'!)
"where the woman are men, the men are 10 year old boys and the 10 year old boys are FBI agents"
Hang on a minute, if this is correct, then it must mean that there are no men on the internets!
Hmmm... If I were Vulcan I'd simply say "illogical" and peer into some sensor display dismissively...
I don't have a clue, I noticed this phenomenon recently, and nobody can explain it.
Can bots really post to slashdot? Maybe a user creates an account, then gives each bot a un and pw. The bot parses the form /. offers then submits the random values, remembering to select the check-box closest to the AC box.
No, I didn't write the damn thing, I hated it when I first saw it but I got to thinking whether it was person or not. I saw your comment and realised that broken CAPTCHAs were less likely than the solution above. It only seems to appear a few times at most on each article, so it's possible some very bored pest could do it alone, or a bot which waits for the next article or number of comments could do it.
In fact, I suspect two accounts and two bots are involved, because one always replies to the other (at least recently)
"kept a secret so the CIA would not assassinate him"
The CIA must have been completely hopeless at the time if they couldn't simply plant operatives, get (physically) close to the space program launch site which was in present-day Kazakstan, suss out who was giving orders (Sergev), and snipe him.
Additionally, I don't think that's the reason at all. The intention was probably more idealogical than security related, implying to the world that communism itself, collective effort and group planning, made this possible rather than the ideas and ambitions of one (quite priveleged) man.
An advert for communism, if you will.
On this rare occasion, I accused nobody of being a troll. However, I did point out, in an amusing manner, that the joke was crap and he knew it....
What the fuck is this thread? It can hardly be called a Troll or Flamebait, esp. the GP, and there's no affiliate site that appears to be benefitting from it, so it's not spam. Can someone please explain the parent post and it's grandparent post?
No, actually I didn't. The previous troll was a well-constructed, succint reply to a dumb, rednecked comment about gender, and it didn't mention anything of the sort. And it was responded to in the fashion I described in the post you were trolled by - an attempt to use my gender to imply that I couldn't possibly have administered a virus-free Windows server on a top-level .org domain for 6 years with no trouble whatsoever, ever.
But thanks for playing.
I take it the "sunglasses" are actually heavy duty laser safety goggles, to protect you from the geeky laser light backlash from the audience of this "joke"?
Damn. 3am mistakes --
"the Cell CPU is ONE IBM originally intended for, you guessed it, supercomputing, and re-purposed for the task of gaming".
Sorry about that.
Despite being slightly trolly about your opinion of PS3 games, you are probably nonetheless correct.
The PS3 is massively parallelised (spelling Nazis - go!) compared to XBOX, and is therefore harder to fully utilize by games progammers than the more serial XBOX but for supercomputing there is likely a notable difference, hence the adoption.
The parent troll's comment about RROD probably had a ring of truth to it, too, as the Cell CPU is on IBM originally intended for, you guessed it, supercomputing and re-purposed for this task.
Fuckin' Goatse in the library again!!!
This is just another of those occasions when you WISH for a better content filter system... in the same library, when you try to look at a little bit of sleaze like Facebook you are told "Fortinet blah blah forget it".
Since when is a simple spelling correction a troll? The OP's spelling of the word "Fallout" was so bad, that unless you knew what Rad-X and Rad-Away were, you wouldn't know that they were referring to that game! So if anything, I was informative!
I call you, and raise you the clients in that particular office - Pentium 233s with MMX and 128Megs of RAM - and original 5-10gig hard drives, with 10/100 network cards added in the last 5 years!
Windows 2000 Pro is a great client OS if properly locked down and firewalled / firefoxed - heh heh I just coined a pun! (is that a pun?)