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<loiosh> being a sysadmin sure is tough. that's why when i get home,
after a hard day's work, i sit down and relax with a cold glass of
antifreeze
<kriktor> jesus
<loiosh> it goes down smooth, and never fills you up
<kriktor> hahaha
<loiosh> and it definitely impresses the ladies
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<loiosh> hmm....do you guys think i could chop the top off a young
coconut with an unsharpened machete?
<loiosh> i have one, but i don't know how to sharpen it and i need a
good way to open coconuts
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TS> On the other hand, early this year we had some "hash" that
TS> looked, tasted and produced headaches just like pipe scrapings..
TS> I made 'em take it back.
What, you kept the receipt and went back to the customer service desk?
Did you have to fill out a form and return the unused portion in the
original package?
~Mr. Bad
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If the chair wasn't from the 'Champagne' region of France, then the pain
you feel is only 'sparkling nerve pinches'
--fatjim (http://advogato.org/person/fatjim/)
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Of course, if you kids weren't so good at grammar I'd have a lot more to
say.
--Zen
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begin Craig McPherson quotation:
> WOW! You have the same surname as Nick Moffitt! How did you
> do that?????
Six years ago in the caribbean jungle, I came across an abandoned
british explorers' camp inhabited by a bizarre, crack-addicted monkey.
In his paw I found a map for a volcano hidden deep under the sea. I
quickly donned my scuba gear and retrieved the ancient artifact held
within, which allowed me to steal Nick Moffitt's soul, and consequently
his last name as well.
In short, God punished me for playing too many video games.
--Zen
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P.S. When Brian Behlendorf traveled through time
To the year 3010
He fought the evil infobot king
And made a computer out of duct tape
--Mr. Bad
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Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate,
And haughty Tjames's unrelenting hate,
Expell'd and exil'd, left the Pigdog shore.
Long labors, both by code and parts, he bore,
And in the doubtful war, before he won
The Monkey realm, and built the destin'd town;
His banish'd mail restor'd to rites divine,
And settled sure succession in his line,
From whence the race of Evil Robots come,
And the long glories of majestic GAR.
--Book I, the CrackMonkead
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The cluetrain has arrived at this mailing list, and *I'M* the conductor.
-Craig "Mae Ling Mak Naked and Petrified" McPherson, on Crackmonkey
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"RICK MOEN: the only psychotripic substance still legal in all 50 states!"
--mbp
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http://discuss.userland.com/msgReader$16601
When Brian Behlendorf went to Userland
To fight the crabby proprietary software developers
He used his magic fire breath
And saved the beautiful Linux Bunnies!
--Mr. Bad
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"They want everything to be free and let's all be friends. But fortunately,
this is not the American way." -- Mark Starr, UNiSYS Patent Counsel
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97Jul02 09:18:31 AM From JayDee @ Loka, Nye County
I noticed
it is getting about time to leave everywhere
--JayDee, on the demise of Citadel BBSes
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kieran@ttya8> mmmm .... life-giving trucker speed ... i'm happy to be alive
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begin Brian Behlendorf quotation:
> As is all of above.net, due to above.net blocking ORBS' scans.
> That's the big reason I don't use ORBS anymore.
When Brian Behlendorf challenged the ORBS
To defend the powerful wizards of BUGTRAQ
He wielded a mighty procmail script
And armored himself with Reply-To: headers
--Crackmonkey
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I think you're a little off. Johnny Ryall, he's a bum on my stoop. I
gave him fifty cents to buy some soup.
Johnny ROYALE, however, is the King of the High Rollers! He's Elvis,
Dean Martin, Dennis Farina and Joe Pesce all wrapped up into one! He
drinks top shelf liquor and pays rock-bottom prices. He brunches in
Atlantic City, does cocktail hour in Beverly Hills and then jets to
the other coast to prowl the streets of Manhattan after midnight. He
can mix a Perl-Java Web site with one hand and a pearl-onion gimlet
with the other and still not break a sweat.
If there's just one thing I know in this mixed-up, crazy world, Mister
Turkish for Bent or Curved, it's that if there's an UNHOLY PLOT going
on somewhere, JOHNNY ROYALE is the man behind it.
--Mr. Bad
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ZEN: Involvement is not permitted.
BLAKE: If the ship's blown up, lofty disinterest won't save you.
[The Web]
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BLAKE: Have you got any better ideas?
AVON: As a matter of fact, no I haven't.
BLAKE: Does that mean you agree?
AVON: Do I have a choice?
BLAKE: Yes.
AVON: Then I agree.
[Duel]
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AVON: Staying with you requires a degree of stupidity of which I no longer
feel capable.
BLAKE: No, you're just being modest.
[Breakdown]
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VILA: I'm entitled to my opinion.
AVON: It is your assumption that we are entitled to it as well that is
irritating.
[Bounty]
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AVON: Oh, I'm sorry I missed that. It's the kind of natural stupidity no
amount of training could ever hope to match.
[Shadow]
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<loiosh> bozo and eros should *not* be mixed
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Friday, the 11rd from darth puppy
tesla's experiments were right on, i'm trusting
with my gut on this one because i haven't read
his biography
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<Shazdeh> I'll strike you down with TCP.
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From: "George J.P. Perry" <geoperry@iww.org>
Mind as recreational vehicle. Vodka as cruise-control.
-g... off-road adventures
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<loiosh> Man, Cap'n Morgan
<loiosh> Does not go
<loiosh> With Cap'n Crunch
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<loiosh> I think the Wu-Tang Clan invented wu-ftpd
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<wikkit> I've got $3100; a computer seems the logical way to waste it, right?
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BB> http://metalab.unc.edu/mdma-release/mdma.html
When Brian Behlendorf lived in the 90s
Mighty, strong and brave,
He invented the Innurnet and Ecstasy
So we could have big raves!
~Mr. Bad
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<Pretender> rebellion is for Gap Customers
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If elected, I promise a cross-platform C freenet server in every rootkit.
-Don Marti
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<Orion> redvinegar is now in the permanent loop at the station
<Orion> and the djs tonight found out I was getting fired
<Orion> and they spent 10 minutes ranting about how good I was and would they
call off the last supper if jesus were a little late
<Orion> and then the third floor of a girls' dorm called and requested sarah
mclachlan's "I will remember you"
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<Orion> so I'm doing a resume
<Orion> whoa
<Orion> completely left out the part about being the youngest appointed voting
official on a town committee ... but I hate politics
<Orion> so I'll leave it out
<Orion> that was 4 years ago, anyway
<Orion> the committee did what most committees do
<Orion> formed subcommittees
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<kristen> am i in alabama yet?
<Pretender> kristen: nope, wait for your husband to knock you over head and take you home
<kristen> but i'm not married
<Pretender> kristen: you will be when you wake up in alabama
<kristen> oh
<kristen> is he nice?
<Pretender> yes, when he is sober
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From: Bryan Fullerton <bryanf@samurai.com>
"Mr . Bad" <mr.bad@pigdog.org> wrote:
> It's the first of the month, and we all know what that means:
> 1) Pay your rent.
> 2) Despair.
> 3) Mailman monthly subscription notification.
Today I discovered that the Japanese grocery store across the street from my
office has Giant Pocky (as well as a dozen or so varieties of regular Pocky -
I'm having marble now).
The items you list above are no longer priorities.
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<loiosh> dammit
<loiosh> the japanese need to adopt napster
<loiosh> 'cause I'm not paying no sixty bucks for Chairman Kaga in Jesus Christ
Superstar
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<loiosh> fuck this shit
<loiosh> we should all be documentary filmmakers!
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<loiosh> I tried reading mail this morning and my xterms are all fucked up so
all I could see was "zork zork zork zork"
(CrackMonkey) hahaha
.. [nick/#tron] CrackMonkey is now zorkzorkzork
(zorkzorkzork) zork zork
<loiosh> hahaaha
<@elise> stop.
-> zorkzorkzork zork zork zorkzork
.. [nick/#tron] loiosh is now malkovich
<Orion> zzzzzzzzzzork
<@elise> aaaaaaaaaaaaaah
<malkovich> malkovich malkovich
<Orion> HAHAH
(zorkzorkzork) zork zork zork
<malkovich> MAL-ko-VICH
(zorkzorkzork) zorkzork
<malkovich> malkovichmalkovichmalkovich
(zorkzorkzork) zorkzork zork zork. Zork, zork zork.
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<loiosh> I was *really* asleep.
<@elise> and?
<loiosh> I figured it was probably my dumb-ass roommates coming back from a
rave
<loiosh> and being locked out, 'cause whoever it was was knocking really loud.
<loiosh> it was the cops, who questioned me about some kids jumping over
fences in placid sunset backyards.
<loiosh> and they asked me lots of dumb questions.
<@elise> did you say anything interestin?
<loiosh> and at the end they were like 'do you realize you're naked?'
<loiosh> and i was like, whoops.
<@elise> ha
<@elise> that is REALYY FUCKING FUNNY
<loiosh> stupid sunset cops.
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<@emad> if I drew a triangle around australia or say... rand mcnally over here,
that it would not matteR?
<@emad> I heard that in rand mcnally, people walk on their hands and hamburgers
eat people
<@emad> what a strange country
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<loiosh> I wanna ride "Big Gay Alan Turing's Big Gay Enigma Boat Ride."
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And what better peanut gallery for celebrity VC deathmatch than
Crackmonkey.org?
-Martin Pool
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> Would you two take your organic poop flinging fight offlist.
d00d, I have sat through so many of your stupid pigdog-l arguments
that you owe me BIG FAT ATTENTION for at least 300 messages worth of
"am so" "am not" type shit.
~Mr. Bad
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<loiosh> I'm wearing Qantas socks!
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"The more leetness you incorporate, the more it ends up sucking."
-- Lehmann's law, uttered by aaronl on nwall.
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aaronl@pts/29> Today I got a "Scroll of penis enlargement" from the mail demon
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"It's so bad, it *doesn't* cause cancer in lab rats!"
--Brian Hicks
%
It took us a while to figure out the hubbub surrounding the opening of downtown
San Francisco's latest mall, but then someone pointed out that the $137 million
glass and concrete structure is the new library. Still, our confusion was
perhaps prescient, as it turns out that the "New Main," this "Library for the
21st Century," (as it's being called) is about as reverent of the pursuit of
knowledge as a Waldenbooks outlet. And, if essayist Nicholson Baker is right,
it might have even fewer books. In a speech given last week, Baker asserted
that City Librarian Ken Dowlin has "committed a crime against knowledge" by
ridding the library of at least two hundred thousand books - a fifth of the old
library's collection. Dowlin's motivation? To make room for, among other
things, a "state of the art" online catalog. Some might dismiss Baker's
concerns as reactionary neo-Luddism, but we feel that even the most wired among
us should take note. You might even - dare we say it - take up a pen and
request, under California's Public Records Act, to take a look at the old
catalog yourself. The card catalog is the only complete record of what the
library once contained, and with 50% of the new library's stacks closed to the
public, it seems that digitized media isn't the only kind of information that
wants to be free.
-Suck
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The Glorious Empire of Ants
Ants are among the most social organisms on earth, that much is
well-known. We don't have any idea just how organized they are.
Consider these facts:
* In the Amazon rain forest, one hectare of soil contains more than
eight million ants.
* Ants make up 10 to 15 percent of the entire animal biomass in most
terrestrial environments.
* Ants have been found to thrive in such inhospitable regions as
Death Valley and Antarctica.
* Using dozens of pheromone (chemical scent) secretions, ants
communicate in a surprisingly sophisticated language.
* Ants are resistant to hard radiation.
* An ant colony can be considered a super-organism, with individual
ants the rough approximation of cells.
* A single colony, such as the Formica yessensis supercolony on the
Ishikari Coast of Hokkaido, can contain as many as 306 million
workers and one million queens living in 45,000 interconnected
nests.
It should not surprise anyone that recent studies indicate ants are
not only cognizant of human affairs, but participate actively in them.
A recently unclassified CIA document reports that 25% of hostile
corporate takeovers in America are paid for by ants. Even more
shocking is the revelation that much of the world's weapons-grade
plutonium production in the past three decades was funded by ants.
Most biologists refute the claims of a conspiracy masterminded by
social insects, but how are we to explain last year's drive-by
shooting assassination of Oswald H. Larvey, one-time Senior
Investigator for the CIA and leading expert on covert ant affairs? His
research in ant supercolonies has provided us with rare photographic
evidence of the Ants' intent to usurp our civilization, such as the
stockpiles of ammunition found in colonies on Africa's Ivory Coast.
And how are we to shrug off the fact that the 1994 Middle East Peace
Conference in Turkey was postponed indefinitely when thousands of ants
poured out of the briefcases of top officials? Why has the White House
budget for insect pest control tripled since last year?
As ants innocently scamper across our sidewalks, few of us stop to
think that our destruction may be germinating deep under our homes and
streets. But the numbers are overwhelmingly in favor of ants. They are
in our offices and our kitchen cupboards, observing us and waiting.
The Ants, Bert Holldobler and Edward Wilson, 1990, Belknap Press,
Cambridge, MA.
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Intelligent Squirrel Couriers
When security is at issue, and the regular postal routes are in
question, consider sending your message by intelligent squirrel. Our
rodents are fast, wily, and dependable. And they won't stretch your
budget! The operation is delightfully simple:
1. Enclose your message in the molybdenum-plated iron cannister,
proven to resist acid rain, intense temperatures, water to depths
of a hundred feet, and all manner of contaminents.
2. Strap the cannister to your squirrel's leg.
3. Feed the squirrel a "destination capsule." With our patented
bio-map technology, the pill contains RNA-encoded maps and routes
which find their way to the squirrel's brain and coax it toward
the destination. The pill can even be tailored to include
photographs of authorized recipients for the message.
4. Set the squirrel loose! At this point you have absolutely nothing
to worry about. Our tiny courier will immediately set out on its
path. These animals are trained in the arts of self-defense,
stealth, and survival in any climate. In the even that the rodent
is caught, it will open the capsule and consume the contents,
preserving your privacy.
It's that easy.
The Pentagon uses squirrels to deliver precious defense documents. The
CIA sends squirrels to bring instructions to undercover agents. Even
the president entrusts his memoranda to squirrels, which scurry about
the oval office in specially-constructed pvc tubes.
Don't trust your mail to the error-prone means of human couriers,
electronic networks, or even fish. They are just not safe enough. Put
your faith in intelligent squirrels.
The Voice
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How to hack into pillbury dough cannisters
By Icebreaker/MFI/CCCP/USA/ExExEx/add your initials here
H4y phr33kz!! H3r3z h0w 2 h4ck d0uGh KaNNizt3rz!!
1. Set the cannister on the countertop
2. Look for words "open here" - sometimes if you luck out this can be
done without a password!!
3. If no labels is found looks for legend "open other end" this will
set you on the correct homepath. NOTE: if you find this you must
of course open THE OTHER END!
4. Its unlikely you are being filmed but just in case you'd better be
wearing sunglasses and a frightwig.
5. try hitting the cannister sharply ONCE ONLY on the counter,
striking the middle against the counter edge. If you do this a
second time dough will fly everyplace and you'll get nailed!
6. Once a crack appears you should be able to unroll the dough
cannister counterclockwise to reveal a doughy surprise
7. swallow ALL of the dough immediately and G3T Th3 PhuKK 0wt!!!
d00d!!
I have hacked hella mega amounts of dough this way.
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The really catchy thing about stoicism is that nobody can ever beat it
to death.
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If you spell T.S. Eliot backwards, you get toilets.
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Jeremy:
He's from a nation of expatriated Jamaican cross-dressers. He
took violin when he was seven, and learned the ancient art of
feather-fighting from a Cuban dojo. He describes his work as a
"musical adventure". He is close to removing all of society's
layers and realizing his inner Ninja.
Boris:
Born to well-meaning but uncultured jocks, he left the military
academy to pursue his love of the bass fiddle. Known for his
ability to twirl his instrument about his head, he often does
carnivals to pay the bills.
Geoffrey:
Has a van.
Carla and Winnifred:
Hired ex-hippies to give the ensemble the "cult" or "groupee"
feel.
All work for the shadow government elite council, and are holding a
meeting entirely in morse-code eyeblinks. Each CD has liner notes made
of a blotter paper holding a carefully engineered crystelline
substance. The message is double-encrypted, such that the recipient
must first partake of a substance encrypted from his or her own
genetic code. The hallucinogen is then ingested, and the message is
displayed to the otherwise dancing individual.
The dropped cymbal is a red herring.
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(((( In stereo where available ))))
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[foo(~)] t dockmaster.ncsc.mil
Trying 198.26.55.74...
Connected to dockmaster.ncsc.mil.
Escape character is '^]'.
NOTICE AND CONSENT LOG-ON BANNER
This is a department of defense computer system. This computer system,
including all related equipment, networks and network devices (specifically
including internet access), are provided only for authorized U.S.Government
use. DoD computer systems may be monitored for all lawful purposes, including
to ensure that their use is authorized, for management of the system, to
facilitate protection against unauthorized access, and to verify security
procedures, survivability and operational security. Monitoring includes
active attacks by authorized DoD entities to test or verify the security of
this system. During monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied
and used for authorized purposes. All information, including personal
information, placed on or sent over this system may be monitored.
Use of this DoD computer system, authorized or unauthorized, constitutes
consent to monitoring of this system. Unauthorized use may subject you to
criminal prosecution. Evidence of unauthorized use collected during
monitoring may be used for administrative, criminal or other adverse action.
use of this system constitutes consent to monitoring for these purposes.
UNCLASSIFIED SYSTEM
Multics MR12.3b: DOCKMASTER (Channel sty.s_telnet_002)
Load = 29.0 out of 140.0 units: users = 29, 09/29/97 1226.2 edt Mon
telnet> q
Connection closed.
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This way to the great egress!
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Nick's list of important words and phrases:
* Try and use the phrase "certain interested third parties" as often
as possible.
* Refer to everyone affectionately as "pope". If anyone asks, tell
them it's the hip future-slang from a sci-fi paperback you've been
reading.
* Instead of telling a caller that someone can't make it to the
phone, inform them "I am sorry, but [he|she] is unavailable for
comment at this time."
* Refer to units of time in the following manner: "I gotta' go make
a phone call. I'll be back in ten of your Earth minutes."
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HAM BUMMING EDUCATION INITIATIVE # 242
This initiative is intended to provide funding to king county public schools
for the purpose of a new required course entitled "Personal and Bussiness Ham
Bumming." This course will be a full credit addition to the students regular
schedule, increasing the requirement from 20 credits toward diploma to 21
credits.
The course will cover a brief history of ham bumming, safe hamming education,
oral lectures on proper ham bumming etiquette, ham bumming in business
applications, the scientific theory of ham bumming, and emergency ham bumming
procedures.
Your signature on this petition will go towards putting initiative #242 on the
ballot for the next election. Please support better education for our
children.
NAME PHONE# NAME PHONE#
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By signing this petition, you clarify that you have knowingly signed for the
initiative once, and that you are a legal voter in king county.
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Tue 28 May 91 0.03.49 From Joo-Sama
Well of course you took it out right after you implemeted it, it was such a
dumb idea and all.
I generaly have managed to keep my opinion about your work on this system to
myself. But since you can't manage that yourself I think I would like to let
you know what a peice of shit I think Eliga is.
It is a unreliable, bug ridden peice of filth.
And if you don't like these comments perhaps you might learn a little tact
yourself.
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:06:16 -0700
From: Jesse D Zbikowski <zed@WPI.EDU>
To: nick@foo.usfca.edu
Subject: Lamp.
You never got your halogen lamp from my apartment before I left, so I
have stored it at SGI. Go to SGI building 7 sometime preferably
between 9 and 6. Find Isabel Guerra on the 2nd floor and tell her you
know Jesse Zbikowski and are looking for a lamp. She will take you
down to the video lab where it is hidden in a closet.
Building 7 is not accessible without a card key, so what you want to
do is walk through the visitor's entrance of building 8. Turn right
past the receptionist into the sea of cubicles, take the stairs up,
turn right on the 2nd floor, walk through the foozball room onto the
outdoor patio, and across the patio into building 7. Walk past the
espresso machine and go left to Isabel's cube.
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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 23:33:45 -0500
From: jpoboyle <oboylepj@HK.Super.NET>
To: patty@foo.usfca.edu
Subject: Patty@foolsallunited
To me ... to me....
Patty@fools allunited..whereamuat?
To myself ispeak
All fools day calls me
Rev PMORon
My antiego
Revered PFROPP
Revealmyself
Alldown the days of Kafkaland.
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|33333]333]3]333333]3]333333]3]3]3]33333333333333|
|]444444444]444444]4444444]]444444444444444444444|
|555]555555555555]55]555555555555]555555555555555|
|6]66]66]]6666666666666]6666666666666666666666666|
|77777777777777]777777777777777777777777777777777|
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|999999999999999]9999999]9999]9999999999999999999|
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Content-type: lies/all-lies
Content-disposition: blatant
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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 20:18:21 -0000
From: satoru ishihara <ishihara@mxz.meshnet.or.jp>
To: n9648471@cc.wwu.edu
Subject: Q ABOUT OKLAHOMA THEATRE
DEAR REV.P.M.MORIN
WHY WAS THERE OKURAHOMA THEATRE IN
OKLAHOMA ? WHICH WAS OKLAHOMA
THEATRE PARADISE OR HELL ?
WHAT WAS THE FUTURE OF KAREL ROSSMANN ?
PLEASE TEACH ME ABOUT UPON
SATORU ISHIHARA
ishihara@mxz.meshnet.or.jp
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I do not like Esperanto. It is like some kind of sterile linguistic
ejaculate, lying cold and lifeless on the forearm. It is a still-born
testament to mediocrity, betraying the quiet desparation of those who
would seek to conquer a language without passion. Esperanto is a cultural
fool's gold, a pathetic siren guiding the palsy-spirited to become
aetherised with insipid artifices of correctness and sophistication.
- James
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On an entirely unrelated note, our Tivo is moody. Tivos record "suggested"
programs when they've got extra space, and ours has taken to recording nothing
but game shows in its spare time. I wonder if it's just in an odd mood, or
perhaps it's been infected with some sort of virus? At least it stopped
recording pay-per-view faux-lesbian pr0n.
--Radio Slack (Stephane)
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Its really terrible when FBI arrested hacker, who visited USA with peacefull
mission -- to share his knowledge with american nation.
--Ilya V. Vasilyev, on the arrest of Dmitri Sklyarov
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<loiosh> you know, Ralph Macchio is the poor man's Scott Baio.
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<@pedro> BREAKIN' FAILURE ALERT -- PEDRO IS TOO WHITE
<loiosh> WARNING: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO IMMINENT
<@pedro> TOTAL FUNKINESS FAILURE : FUNK LEVELS DANGEROUSLY LOW
<@sneakums> ZAP BOPISMUS.
<@pedro> WARNING: SUGAR LEVELS UNACCEPTABLE
<@pedro> PEDRO, PROCEED TO ICED CREAM OUTLET NOW!!!
<loiosh> funkd: funk level: 15% -- shutting down
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 10:56:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nick Moffitt <nick@zork.net>
To: svlug@svlug.org, balug@balug.org
Subject: Random numbers...
Someone at USF recently asked me about random number generation. Not
wanting to go through the first few chapters of Knuth with him, I simply
answered "Oh, that's easy, Linux just pulls them out of /dev/ass!".
A little confused, the little kidlet logged into zork.net and did
a 'cat /dev/ass'. Lo and behold, he got random characters!
Stunned, my boss (a solaris man, mostly) decided to investigate.
[zork(~)] ls -l /dev/ass
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Apr 22 20:48 /dev/ass -> /dev/urandom
Maybe one of these days I'll tell that kid a real algorithm.
--
"Photons have neither morals nor visas" -Dave Farber
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/ ___| | |_ _| \ | |_ _/ _ \| \ | |_
| | | | | || \| | | || | | | \| (_)
| |___| |___ | || |\ | | || |_| | |\ |_
\____|_____|___|_| \_| |_| \___/|_| \_(_)
_ ____ ____ _ _
/ |___ \ / ___| __ _| | __ ___ _(_) ___ ___
| | __) | | | _ / _` | |/ _` \ \/ / |/ _ \/ __|
| |/ __/ | |_| | (_| | | (_| |> <| | __/\__ \
|_|_____| \____|\__,_|_|\__,_/_/\_\_|\___||___/
____ _ _ _ _ _ _
/ ___|_ _(_) | |_(_) ___ __| | | |_ ___ __ _
| | _| | | | | | __| |/ _ \/ _` | | __/ _ \ / _` |
| |_| | |_| | | | |_| | __/ (_| | | || (_) | | (_| |
\____|\__,_|_|_|\__|_|\___|\__,_| \__\___/ \__,_|
__________ ____ _ _ _ _____ ____ ___ _ _ ___ ____
|__ / ____/ ___| \ | | / \|_ _| _ \ / _ \| \ | |_ _/ ___|
/ /| _|| | _| \| | / _ \ | | | |_) | | | | \| || | |
/ /_| |__| |_| | |\ |/ ___ \| | | _ <| |_| | |\ || | |___
/____|_____\____|_| \_/_/ \_\_| |_| \_\\___/|_| \_|___\____|
____ _ _ ____ _ _
| _ \ ___ ___| | _____| |_ / ___| ___ ___(_) ___| |_ _ _
| |_) / _ \ / __| |/ / _ \ __| \___ \ / _ \ / __| |/ _ \ __| | | |
| _ < (_) | (__| < __/ |_ ___) | (_) | (__| | __/ |_| |_| |
|_| \_\___/ \___|_|\_\___|\__| |____/ \___/ \___|_|\___|\__|\__, |
|___/
--Frank Chu
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<loiosh> now, why is it that I can remember the theme song from Sidekicks, but
not the syntax used with the perl mkdir function?
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o8o o8o o8o
`"' `"' `"'
oooo ooo. .oo. oooo ooo. .oo. .oo. oooo .ooooo. oooo oooo .oooo.o
`888 `888P"Y88b `888 `888P"Y88bP"Y88b `888 d88' `"Y8 `888 `888 d88( "8
888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 `"Y88b.
888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 .o8 888 888 o. )88b
o888o o888o o888o o888o o888o o888o o888o o888o `Y8bod8P' `V88V"V8P' 8""888P'
o8o
`"'
.ooooo. oooo oooo oooo d8b oooo .oooo. .ooooo.
d88' `"Y8 `888 `888 `888""8P `888 `P )88b d88' `88b
888 888 888 888 888 .oP"888 888ooo888
888 .o8 888 888 888 888 d8( 888 888 .o
`Y8bod8P' `V88V"V8P' d888b o888o `Y888""8o `Y8bod8P'
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<CrackMonkey> So now to get out of their network, I have to use some stupid
proprietary palm-pilog password genorator-thing.
<loiosh> dude
<loiosh> That's a one-time pad Turing wouldn't have wiped his ass with.
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<@loiosh> i want to write a roman a clef about the linux demimonde
<@loiosh> in LaTeX.
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<@Zen> WHERE DOES FUNNY COME FROM?
%
<@loiosh> dude, the french tried to make reggae with white people. i have
proof.
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<@loiosh> THERE'S A BLAXPLOITATION PLANET????????
%
<*emad> and he claimed that all the recent shark attacks were becaue the red
cross was dumping gallons of blood off the coast
<*emad> hence the current "blood shortage"
%
<loiosh> I want a Wang computer.
%
<Zen> But on the plus side
<Zen> POP TARTS
<Zen> Dude, did you know they cost $3.50 per box now?
<Zen> That's, like, $40 per week!
%
<@loiosh> also, booty.
%
<@loiosh> Hitachi: bad cafeteria, good magic wand
%
(while discussing tradewars)
<*@emad> crackmonkey, sounds like some sort of multilevel marketing
<*@emad> lets see if we can get that started
<*@emad> crackmonkey, I'll sell you some fuel ore for 300 a hold
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(@CrackMonkey) <Cruella> Anyway - I've got to leave now to hunt down my prey
through the streets of London
(@CrackMonkey) ha ha
(@CrackMonkey) goddamn goths
(@CrackMonkey) this network is full of great channels
<@pedro> "but when i say london, i mean Shreveport"
<@pedro> "and by prey, i mean Jade, my goth friend who is in this LARP with
me"
<@pedro> so i could have just as easiely said,
<@pedro> "i have to hunt down Jade through the streets of Shreveport"
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<@sneakums> there is no higher calling than to troll online news sources
%
<*@spork> #IFDEF COMEDY JAM
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<@loiosh> MEAT TRAY RAFFLE
%
These people program the way Victorians dress. It takes two hours and three
assistants to put on your clothes, and you have to change before dinner. But
everything is modular.
--Miles Nordin, on PAM
%
If Java itself is portable, then why isn't there a portable way to install and
run a Java program without dealing with spaghetti .class-files, setting
CLASSPATH, and referring to arcane modules contained within .jar files? Why do
we have to use a Unix shell script to start a supposedly-portable Java program?
--Miles Nordin
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If Freenet were a C program, it would have been picked up by all the Unix
package collections by now, and would be just as easy to install as lynx or
mutt. Since it's written in Java, it's a portability nightmare, and only a
small inner circle has gotten it almost-working. Java's decoy claims of
portability have in effect killed the Freenet, and dragged the Freenet
architecture down to the same level of broken fantastic promises that Java
makes. ``The mythical Freenet about which we have heard so much.''
--Miles Nordin
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<@Octal> Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, come on everybody, it's soldering
time!
<Atob> It is not.
<@Octal> You're right, the iron has to warm up first.
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You're talking to *Mr. Bad*, sir. The world-renowned Mr. Bad. He's
somebody, and if you're not his fool yet, you will be.
--Carlos Laviola
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.. [reply/ping] from Zen [182.100 seconds]
<@Zen> I get IRC in digest form.
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<+Dumont> TurboLinux is a distribution made exclusively to run TurboPascal.
<Atob> I hate TurboPascal, it reminds me of ugly hookers.
%
Ill-informed qmail-bashing is better than no qmail-bashing at all.
--Don Marti
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<emad> w:<
(@CrackMonkey) emad has a whitecastle on his head
<@Zen> Or a worm.
<@sneakums> ha ha emad
<@sneakums> you hobo
<@Zen> It hits! It hits!
<@Zen> WHERE IS IT?!
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From a catalog circa 1967:
The PDP-10 includes an extremely powerful processor with 15 index
registers, 16 accumulators, and 8,192 words of 36-bit core memory, a
300-character-per-second paper tape reader, a 50-character-per-second
paper tape punch, a console teleprinter, and a two-level priority
interrupt subsystem. PDP-10/20 adds two DECtapes, PDP-10/30 includes
16,384 words of memory and additional I/O devices. PDP-10/40 adds an
extended order code and a memory protection and relocation feature. And
PDP-10/50 permits swapping between 32,768 words of memory and fast
access disk file via the multiplexer/selector channel, and includes
multiprogramming time-sharing software.
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A thought now races through my mind of a January morning and a sermon I seem to
have preached. She was wearing blue jeans, if I remember anything at such a
distance, and I know I had on slacks with funny pockets, that some people might
keep tools inside of. In the morning, putting off what I really had to say,
postponing it, fearing it, I preached about tinkering, technology, community,
generality, the long-lost ideals of scientists and hobbyists, about what we had
to lose if we lost generality. I preached about the end-to-end model and, as
Alan Perlis said, "the ability to see the machine as more than when you were
first led up to it, that you can make it more". I preached about what the
advance of technology meant to me as a person and where it touched me and who
wanted to threaten it, and the wickedness, the spiritual deadness which was
prepared to stand up against that light, to obstruct it... O techne, o techne!
And that was self-expression, so that she might see me properly for a moment.
-- Seth David Schoen, 5 April 2002
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<+drwiii> man
<+drwiii> whoever made mint-flavored envelopes should run for president
%
For most of us, politics is an impossible toy that bears neither logic nor
reason. I always felt that one of the virtues of democracy is that the fools
and charlatans will be elected to public office--and, because they can be
bought or sold like fish, will leave the rest of us alone. the only times our
country is in danger--true danger--is when some idealist finds himself in a
position of power. Because they nurse beautiful ideals to their ambitious
breasts--they will sacrifice you and me to those ideals without a qualm. More
wars sprouted in this country during times of saints than fools--Lincoln,
Wilson, Roosevelt (the younger), and Kennedy managed to spill more blood,
between them, than any Eisenhower or Harding or Tyler.
-- Lorenzo Milam
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> I am a graphic designer, web designer, illustrator and am interested in
> working with you. I have attached my resume as a word.doc. You can also view
> that and my work samples at www.BASSARTS.com/resume.htm.
Mr. Bass,
Thank you for your big, stupid, unsolicited Word document, which I did not
read. We're currently not hiring graphic designers, web designers OR
illustrators, who are a dime a dozen and goddamned annoying primadonnas to
boot. The combination of the three must be damned near intolerable.
Our only openings right now are for spitoon cleaners and cosmonauts, and we're
reserving those positions as union featherbeds. Anyways, I doubt your skills
would apply -- you wouldn't know how to dock to Mir if your life depended on
it.
We will keep your resume on file for 6 months just in case another job comes up
that we can reject you for.
Good luck in your future endeavors,
~Mr. Bad
%
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 4.0
I am a geek.
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
-Sean Neakums
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<@Zen> So Sean's toaster has two settings:
<@Zen> toast
<@Zen> and bagel.
<@Zen> But it's not a switch/
<@Zen> It's a dial.
<@Zen> So I guess if your bread is 60% bagel
<@Zen> this toaster can handle it.
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You are in a maze of testy little Java VMs, all subtly different.
%
02:23 < drwiii> do do do do do
02:23 < drwiii> inspector gadget
02:23 < drwiii> do do do do do do doo, *ooh oooh*
02:23 < drwiii> do do do do do
02:23 < drwiii> inspector gadget
02:23 < drwiii> do do do do doooo.. do doo!
02:23 < drwiii> go gadget go
02:23 < drwiii> da do do do do do da do do do do
02:23 < drwiii> go gadget go
02:24 < drwiii> da do do do doo, do do, do doo do doo
02:24 < drwiii> do do do do do
02:24 < drwiii> inspector gadget
02:24 < drwiii> do do do do do do doo, *ooh oooh*
02:24 < drwiii> do do do do do
02:24 < drwiii> inspector gadget
02:24 < drwiii> dooooo doooo
02:24 < drwiii> DOOOOOO dooooo
02:24 < drwiii> DOOO doo DOO doo!
02:24 < drwiii> do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do
02:25 < drwiii> Dahn da dahn da daa, Da Da! Daaahhhhhhh....
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[sent from an Internet Cafe in Tokyo]
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 23:53:27 -0800 (PST)
From: George Moffitt <gmoffit@linfield.edu>
To: Student News <student@linfield.edu>
Subject: Greetings from 17:00.
Through a complicated process known only to my family and the
major aeronautics corporations, a recent event has catapulted me into the
future. Inconvenient as this may sound, it is providing magnificently
lucrative fortune-telling opportunities. Interested parties should write
their questions on the back of a $50 bill and mail them to
George Moffitt
The Future
Prompt replies cannot be guaranteed, but accuracy is a sure thing!
Please include return postage.
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21:57 <@Octal> remember, you can't spell slaughter without laughter
%
21:21 <@inkblot> Long hours hacking
21:21 <@inkblot> make code run smooth
21:21 <@inkblot> but not your face
21:21 <@inkblot> Burma Shave
%
On the subject of Australia:
00:48 <loiosh> this country has a disturbing lack of stick deodorant
%
15:25 <@Zen> What are they?
15:25 <@CrackMonkey> segway
15:25 <@CrackMonkey> it's like a wheelchair for people who aren't crippled
15:26 <@inkblot> http://www.segway.com/ <-- ha ha segway
15:26 <@Zen> That is so sick.
15:27 <@Zen> I'll buy one when they fly and shoot lasers.
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23:36 <@Atob> Typing Esperants in Dvorak on a HURD box would generate so much
communist energy that the cold war would restart. Except this
time it'll be me in charge, and I'm not in a perestroika mood.
%
09:02 <fishmael> dude
09:02 <fishmael> i am so moving to damascus
%
22:50 <@clavicle> if you can mail order russian brides, you surely can order
cachaca.
%
11:58 <@sneakums> ( 2:42) The Hatchet Song - Sparklehorse
11:58 <+Dumont> 242 Sighting!
11:59 <@CrackMonkey> (Spacklehorse)
11:59 <@inkblot> it's like you started the word in boston and finished it in
kentucky
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Proprietary software aggravates selfishness. Of course, people do have a
selfish side, but that's not the full story, although business will tell you
otherwise. Free software doesn't ask you to be unselfish. It asks you to be
selfish in a non-harmful way. It never forces you to be kind and altruistic.
It _allows_ you to be kind and altruistic. Most people will want to help
friends once in a while, and free software allows it. Proprietary software
doesn't, and that's not a good thing for cooperation in society.
-- Richard M. Stallman, http://www.kde.org/history/rms.php
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That's an important consideration. If the only way to get past Bayesian filters
is to write spams more cleverly, we've made spamming a lot harder, because
we've shifted the burden of cleverness from the few comparatively smart people
who write spamware to the large number of stupider people who write the spams.
-- Paul Graham, in "So Far, So Good"
<http://www.paulgraham.com/sofar.html>
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The hardest kind of spams to catch are those I've called "spam of the future"--
a little plain text plus a url:
Hey there. Check out the following:
http://www.blackboxhosting.com/foo
The future has arrived. I regularly see spams like this now. I still catch
nearly all of them-- headers alone would be enough to catch most current spam--
but the .3% of spam that I miss is mostly spam of the future.
In spam of the future, the sales pitch is pushed one step back. Instead of
being contained in the email itself, as in an ordinary spam, it is waiting a
click away on a web site.
This trend is encouraging, because it implies that filters are winning. Spam is
literally retreating. (This is more than a symbolic victory; each extra step
cuts response rates.)
-- Paul Graham, in "So Far, So Good"
<http://www.paulgraham.com/sofar.html>
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Me? I'm now about 1/5 of the way through a new lisp implementation.
It's almost 1000 lines, now. It has something to piss off everyone...
-- Tom Lord, in comp.lang.lisp
%
All he knows is that going down on his knees before the CFO or being embarassed
in front of the customer is an afront to his dignity. The
Suit-of-the-Imagination has a birthright to perpetual and uninterrupted
dignity.
-- Tom Lord, in comp.lang.lisp
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[talking about California proposition 53]
12:19 <@psykoyiko> 53 actually takes money from education for infrastructure
12:20 <@Atob> I'd vote for it.
12:21 <@Atob> I'm scarred for life by the transport minister from Sim City 2000
12:21 <@Atob> YOU MUST SPEND MORE MONEY ON ROADS
12:21 <@Atob> SPEND
12:21 <@Atob> MORE
12:21 <@Atob> MONEY
12:21 <@Atob> ON
12:21 <@Atob> ROAD
12:21 <@Atob> *I WAS 13 YEARS OLD*
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I have been looking through the 1976 Byte magazines. It is interesting that
there are lots of ads for lots of computers and circuit boards, TV terminals
and components, but none for software. At the time, in the hobbyist market,
software was something you gave away or traded. A subject to write articles
about in magazines and newsletters.
-- Peter Jennings, The History of Microchess
<http://www.benlo.com/microchess6.html>
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17:54 * rasher kicks Dumont
17:55 <@inkblot> that's not how you kick someone in irc
17:55 <@inkblot> here let me show you
17:55 -!- rasher was kicked from #tron by inkblot [inkblot]
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11:52 <@Atob> It occurs to me, as I await the completion of the second rar
segment, that the sheer strength of my desire to download MS Bob
is neither rational nor necessarily healthy.
%
11:49 <@Atob> Trannyslvania.
11:49 <@Atob> They should have allocated codes to every pre-WWI kingdom.
11:50 <@CrackMonkey> Piedmont-Sardinia would get .ps
11:50 <@CrackMonkey> or maybe each one would get its own
11:50 <@CrackMonkey> pd for piedmont, sd for sardinia
11:50 <@Atob> They'd need to use the 3 letter codes.
11:50 <@CrackMonkey> srd
11:51 <@Atob> Otherwise Puerto Rico and Prussia would have to have a war.
11:51 <@CrackMonkey> they ought to anyway
11:51 <@Atob> They did.
11:51 <@Atob> 1939-1945
11:51 <+Dumont> -6
11:52 <@Atob> Thanks.
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21:35 <@squinky> I am considering whether it is worth the effort to make a
beer-tap system that uses grotesquely long rubber phalluses as
the dispensing mechanism.
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22:58 <@CrackMonkey> 22:11 <dear> star kayitli bir nick degil.
22:58 <@Octal> That's not Turkish, that's my wife!
23:01 <@Octal> I was originally going to say that it was some constructed
language, but then I realized I'd have to get down to like
volapuk before I said one nobody in this channel speaks.
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17:05 <Atob> In the future, you'll require a Bastard card to NOT have your
organs harvested.
17:05 <Atob> I'd probably get one and show it to everyone.
17:05 <Atob> And they'd be like, "Shucks, Atob, you are such a bastard."
17:05 <Atob> But I wouldn't sign it.
17:05 <Atob> And a little tear would crawl out of my eye when I watch The
Snowman.
17:06 <Atob> I'd be like the whore with a heart but instead of a whore I'd be a
bastard.
17:07 <Atob> And instead of a heart it'd be an ATLAS.
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11:41 <@Zen> so I saw the Last Samurai
11:41 <@Zen> last night
11:42 <@Zen> and it turns out it's NOT a prequel to the Last Starfighter.
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If you carefully examine the intercal package (which was not
available for a month depsite emails about it being a 404), you will
discover that . is in ESR's PATH.
-- Joey Hess
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Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:35:14PM -0800, John Mark Walker wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Michael Jennings wrote:
> > > I don't think I've really respected ESR since I had to help him
> > > connect his VA laptop to the VA network for a VA board meeting.
> >
> > You and me both. I was shocked at how little he understood in terms of
> > networking. Couldn't do the most basic 'route' and 'ifconfig' commands
> > to save his life.
>
> I had to make his fetchmail work with his sendmail on his laptop
>
> Pathetic...
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03:10 <@sneakums> I wonder if someone's written a dissertation yet on the google logo.
03:10 <@sneakums> Note how the two Gs are blue
03:11 <@sneakums> yet the Os are different colours, and the E is the same colour as one of the Os!
03:11 <@sneakums> there must be gigabytes of satanic information encoded here
%
16:08 <neale> I wrote a wiki in Objective Caml.
16:08 <neale> Now I need to learn french so I can run it.
%
11:32 <@CrackMonkey> KICK IT UP A NOTCH THX
11:32 <@sneakums> take it to the bridge now
11:32 <@CrackMonkey> no
11:32 <@sneakums> Please.
11:32 <@sneakums> They need it, over at the bridge.
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Many on Jack Valenti's side of the divide treasure their creative freedom and
fight like dogs against any who would block it. They would never dream of
permitting a system in which every film had to be approved by the state, but
they are advocating a system in which every program has to be approved by the
state, because a lot of them think that all programs come either from faceless
corporations like Microsoft or from criminal vandals.
We software creators need to insist that creative applies to us.
-- Joe Buck, in a comment on lessig.org
%
There is a continuum between "derivative work" and "doctrine of merger."
I'd prefer we stayed as close as possible to the latter, NOT see how close
we can get to the former without getting hauled into court.
-- Karen J. Cravens
%
So, I move that we rename the Pigdog list "The Ronald Wilson Reagan National
Mailing List", after the greatest president this country has ever had, except
for President Jesus.
~Mr. Bad
%
By way of Joe Marshall in comp.lang.lisp:
Here's an anecdote I heard once about Minsky. He was showing a student how to
use ITS to write a program. ITS was an unusual operating system in that the
`shell' was the DDT debugger. You ran programs by loading them into memory and
jumping to the entry point. But you can also just start writing assembly code
directly into memory from the DDT prompt. Minsky started with the null
program. Obviously, it needs an entry point, so he defined a label for that.
He then told the debugger to jump to that label. This immediately raised an
error of there being no code at the jump target. So he wrote a few lines of
code and restarted the jump instruction. This time it succeeded and the first
few instructions were executed. When the debugger again halted, he looked at
the register contents and wrote a few more lines. Again proceeding from where
he left off he watched the program run the few more instructions. He developed
the entire program by `debugging' the null program.
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10:38 <@inkblot> while i was working on this i was thinking about how we should
use branches for major NUVs
10:38 <@inkblot> called like lnx-bbc--linux-nuv--2.6
10:38 <@CrackMonkey> ahhhh
10:38 <@CrackMonkey> I think that's good developer archive practice
10:38 <@CrackMonkey> like
10:39 <@CrackMonkey> tag off stable/research onto zork
10:39 <@CrackMonkey> into like a lnx-bbc--gcc-nuv--3.3
10:39 <@CrackMonkey> get gcc upgraded
10:39 <@CrackMonkey> and then star-merge it back in, killing the branch
10:41 <@inkblot> and after a while our arch archives will provide the sort of
historical record that outsiders like ESR can use to *really*
understand open source
%
14:43 <@Zen> I have written a number of clever self-contradicting poems
14:43 <@Zen> which I will accompany with a piano melody of my own composition.
14:43 <@Zen> It exemplifies the concept of "strange loops"
14:44 <@Zen> while being mathematically complex
14:44 <@Zen> and devoid of any and all artistry.
14:44 <@Zen> The performance will last three hours, and there is no intermission.
14:44 <@Zen> Dude, I could so do Hofstadter's job these days.
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The Dictator Test:
A licence is not Free if it prohibits actions which, in the absence of
acceptance of the licence, would be allowed by copyright or other applicable
laws.
License grantors do not have a private right of legislation; that is, they
are not dictators who can subject you to their personal jurisdiction through
a license.
-- Branden Robinson in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/07/msg00097.html
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Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.
Kingdoms are clay.
-- Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra" I:1
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Though the great song return no more
There's keen delight in what we have:
The rattle of pebbles on the shore
Under the receding wave.
-- W. B. Yeats, The Nineteenth Century And After
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And for all of you who think that asking "will
somebody somewhere do X for money?" is the way to
answer "is it right to do X?", your moral compass
is sitting on the main magnet of a superconducting
superbullshit collider.
-- Don Marti, on Google's decision to cooperate with the PRC in
censoring Google News China.
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16:07 <@psykoyiko> [dave@jefito(~)] uname -r
16:07 <@psykoyiko> 2.6.9y
16:07 <@psykoyiko> ^-- y being the result of blindlingly hitting 'y' during
make oldconfig
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<@squinky> DIRECTIONS: For best results, remove cap, hold applicator tip close
to food, press tip firmly, and move slowly across food surface.
<@squinky> I, however, maintain that the best result is to spray the cheese
directly into your mouth.
<@squinky> Most of my friends consider themselves superior to aerosol cheese.
I think of myself as superior in fact to most kinds of cheese, but
not above eating them.
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You are carrying:
A leaflet
A pink slip from HavenCo
A steering wheel (attached to your crotch)
Kernel support for JAVA binaries (obsolete) (NEW)
A euro (tarnished, on a bicycle)
A digital clock that is stopped at "2:42"
A Hobo Nickel with the face of Rick Boucher carved into it
A satchel
A Theo de Raadt commemorative dollar coin
Two cookies from Potbelly's and a puddle of melted ice-cream
A copy of "Emadonics For Dummies" (slightly foxed)
A nasty-looking OpenSSH advisory
An oversized business suit
A three-pack of underoos (unopened)
An erlenmeyer flask containing ether (uncorked)
Six dollar bills, snugly wrapped in a five
An oath of fealty to the Regents of the University of California (unsigned)
The ten of diamonds
The ace of spuds
A can of emergency bacon
The Omelette of Supreme Power
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10:46 <Homer> kickaha: Absent i ponder, and absorb'd in care; while scenes of
woe rose anxious in my raid10 reserfs /swap partiton.
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20:35 <@[|^__^|]> http://www.robotics-society.org/images/sfsu_map.gif <-- THE
ROBOTS PLAN TO INVADE MY ALMA MATER! I MUST WARN THEM!!!!!
20:36 <@[|^__^|]> It is my DUTY as a--oh, hangabout... They *still* haven't
sent me a diploma...
20:36 <@Octal> t/hee
20:37 <@[|^__^|]> I'm not saving them from the robots until I have a lambskin
signed by Arnold Schwarzeneg--OH NO HE'S ONE OF THEM!!!!
20:37 * [|^__^|] sighs... The old pincer attack
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15:13 <@sneakums> Subject: oracle products contain multiple vulnerabilities
15:13 <@sneakums> e.g. SQL
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When putting someone into a killfile, one should do it without hesitation, and
without bringing attention to the fact. Killfiling someone and telling them
beforehand is on par with running around with your fingers in your ears while
screaming LALALALALALA
-- Poindexter Fortran
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02:01 <@sneakums> on my tv show, when i say "and where do we put policy?" the
audience will yell "USERSPACE!"
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16:55 <@Zen> I got some South Seattle rap
16:55 <@Zen> all on about Beacon Hill
16:56 <@Zen> rolling down Ranier
16:56 <@Zen> Bits in the liner notes about how they hustled smack to fund the album
16:57 <@Zen> then I remember I spend most of my time in Queen Anne.
17:00 <@Zen> I don't think they sell street cred at Metropolitan Market.
17:00 <@Zen> Maybe Jamba Juice has a boost for that.
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(In response to a query about a Chilean mirror that wasn't responding)
> In September 11 1973 General Pinochet lead a bloody military coupe in Chile,
> which overthrew democratically elected President Allende. Every september 11
> there are demonstrations, or celebrations, depending on which band you belong
> to. There are riots, barricades, Molotov cocktails, tear gas, power outages
> and most of Santiago is in a war state. This year was no exception. The power
> to the university campus came back around noon september 12, after being out
> for more that 24 hrs. An average situation.
>
> This will probably happen every september 11 until the generation that
> survived the Pinochet dictatorship is dead.
(Our logs now note: scheduled downtime.)
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<warewolf> caker- lets play pong!
<warewolf> |. |
<SpaceHobo> | '|
<warewolf> |. |
<@caker> | '|
<warewolf> |. |
<SpaceHobo> | -|
<warewolf> |. |
<@caker> | |.
<fo0bar> | 1 0 |
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09:42 <@sneakums> Dear PHP, why you gotta make me hit you, baby?
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The small-scale comments are that CodeCon was a conference, not a party;
furthermore, it was a conference *about privacy and anonymity*, and there's
some profound irony in having to show government ID in order to attend an
anonymity conference. Inside, programmers were talking about virtual circuits,
encrypted links, and store-and-forward protocols; some of the programmers were
using pseudonyms. Outside, people were being carded.
-- http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/nb/nb.cgi/view/vitanuova/2002/02/19/6
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16:41 <@Octal> No, the summer's just as long is it is in Minnesota
16:41 <@Octal> there's just a new season inserted in the middle of it
16:41 <@Octal> and no winter
16:42 <@Octal> The new season being called "I hate Sacramento"
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12:26 <@SpaceHobo> http://sciencecommons.org/ <-- Zen
12:28 <@Zen> We should keep our scientific communities elitist to encourage
counterinductive research.
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07:06 <%fo0bar> I just came across a page where someone described herself as a
"veteran blogger"
07:06 <@Zen> ugh
07:07 <@sneakums> i'm a veteran shitter, i'm not going to put that on my web
page
07:07 <@Zen> Many soldiers who fought in the Blog Wars of 2006 are still
seeking official recognition from our government.
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02:02 <%fo0bar> the white house distributes scripts for all republicans to use
or something... "don't say this word, say this word instead"
"we're calling the troop clusterfuck a 'breast augmentation',
remember that"
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01:01 <@squinky> so mikegrb-- when did you work on nuclear gear?
01:01 <mikegrb> 01-02 or 3 /me forgets
01:01 <@SpaceHobo> squinky: it was his third period elective in Jr. High
01:01 <mikegrb> ja
01:01 <@sneakums> between macrame and usury
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(14:28:05) clavicle: hello
(14:28:53) joe: howdy, clavicle
(14:29:09) SpaceHobo: Let's have an Internet Conversation.
(14:29:23) joe: I hear it's made of tubes.
(14:30:17) clavicle: As I soared high into the tag cloud Xeni Jardin carefully
put up for me, I couldn't help but wonder how high we were above the
blogosphere.
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18:30 <@clavicle> roses are red
18:30 <@clavicle> violets are blue
18:30 <@clavicle> boy I love me some haiku
18:31 <@squinky> roses are red, violets are blue
18:31 <@squinky> clavicle is a troll
18:31 <@squinky> and so is your face
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"ooh, patches!"
-- Andrew Morton, on LKML
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05:59 <blorpy> (blop@blarpy)3> echo:sendrecv(Pid, [4,3,1,2,3,4,5,2,1]).
05:59 <blorpy> Sorted list: [1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5]
05:59 <blorpy> [1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5]
05:59 <blorpy> now i have an erlang node that i can send lists to for sorting
05:59 <blorpy> so the other erlang node can chill out poolside
05:59 <blorpy> while the other one does all the work
06:00 <@sneakums> woo, slavery!
06:00 <blorpy> more like subcontracting!
06:00 <blorpy> there's just a little more overhead each time
06:00 <blorpy> it helps keep costs up
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16:18 <@Zen> Man, I love how everyone is like "In my blog, which is a blog on
the Internet, which you all may be interested in visiting, I
talked about what I am now saying here."
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07:47 <@sneakums> i hate when formerly technical people start companies
07:47 <@sneakums> it's all new to them and so their write endless pages of crap
about their "insights"
07:48 <@sneakums> HEREWITH A TREATISE ON THE SELECTION OF A COMPANY NAME
07:49 <@sneakums> IN WHICH OUR HERO DISCOVERS THAT TELLING PEOPLE WHAT TO DO IS
A BIT HARDER THAN IT LOOKED
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15:03 <@o_-> Volume group "deraadt" successfully created
15:05 <@o_-> Logical volume "theo" created
15:05 <@o_-> root@sridhar:~# DESTROY /dev/deraadt/theo AHAHAHA
15:05 <@o_-> bash: DESTROY: command not found
15:05 <@o_-> :<
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10:43 <@Maladroit> between the braces
10:43 <@Maladroit> where the blood-red cursor sits
10:43 <@Maladroit> insert mode beckons
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LIMO CREME
TACO SPRAY
KNIFE POWDER
=COOL WRAP=
OUIJA FLAKES
TICK ACID
EMO DIP
FIVE SHOVELS
==== =======
towel polish
-- Jeffrey Rowland's shopping list, 05 April 2007
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READ CAREFULLY. By reading this fortune, you agree, on behalf of your employer,
to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all
NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap,
browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use
policies ("BOGUS AGREEMENTS") that I have entered into with your employer, its
partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in perpetuity, without prejudice to my
ongoing rights and privileges. You further represent that you have the
authority to release me from any BOGUS AGREEMENTS on behalf of your employer.
-- http://reasonableagreement.org/
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The three laws:
1. A Republican may not injure a corporation, or, through
inaction, allow a corporation to come to harm.
2. A Republican must obey the orders given it by corporations
except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A Republican must protect its own existence as long as such
protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
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20:36 <@sneakums> i'm sick of your hate speech, Rattus
20:36 <@sneakums> you keep talking, and i keep hating you
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Here's a business transaction of the future.
"May I help you?"
"Yes, I'd like a medium coffee for here, please."
"Do you have an account with us?"
"What?"
"Here, fill out this form to create a username and password."
"But I just want to pay you for the coffee and drink it."
Nobody could actually sell coffee this way, but for some reason T-Mobile can
come in a Starbucks and take ten times longer to sell me net access as it took
me to get the coffee in the first place. Why make another Useless Account when
someone just wants to pay for a service?
-- Don Marti, http://www.linuxworld.com/community/?q=node/540
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From: KIM::FXL 3-FEB-1984 02:54
To: @SYS$MAIL:ENGINEER.UAF
I shouldn't forget the tremendous importance of quality animation and
sounds. Our truly amazing animators and equally astounding sound effects and
music people deserve much more credit (this includes royalties) than they are
presently getting (note Barry's message). Without Barbara Singh, Bentley Bear
would still be a robot. And the gem-eaters would still be dropping their
pants.
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From: ERNIE::CAMERON 9-MAR-1984 11:17
To: @SYS$MAIL:JUNK
I wondered when someone would get around to blaming video games for
inciting violence in children.
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16:49 <@clavicle> device tap0 is already a member of a bridge; can't enslave it
to bridge br0.
16:49 <@clavicle> who's brctl to tell me who I can and can't enslave?
16:50 <@clavicle> the brazilian control program
16:50 <@SpaceHobo> Dammit you have rights!
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13:17 <@nornagon> woah, it's 22:17
13:17 <@nornagon> when did that happen :<
13:27 <@SpaceHobo> 15 hours ago?
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15:41 <Sputnik7> rock is dead
15:41 <Sputnik7> long live paper & scissors
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16:51 <neale> one time, stallman was giving a talk at LANL and he was talking
about how these scientists in WWII had to run away because their
country was being invaded
16:52 <neale> but they labelled all their samples and jars and left a note
saying "we've labelled everything for you please don't mess it up and
our lab notes are here"
16:52 <neale> and the audience chuckled
16:52 <neale> but then we all saw that rms was crying!
16:53 <neale> I don't know if that was intentional or what but it really had an
impact on me.
16:53 <neale> because while he composed himself we all got to think about why
that might have made him cry
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(from http://www.kempa.com/blog/archives/000053.html)
The title of the song - '300bps N, 8, 1 (Terminal Mode or ASCII Download)'
- gives all necessary information for importing the message. The message
revealed upon playing the transmission into a properly configured computer is:
"SO WE'RE SUPPOSED TO PLAY IN CURITIBA IN 18 HOURS, BUT OUR BUS IS
BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY THE LOCAL PROMOTERS. THEY'VE FORMED SOME UNHOLY ALLIANCE
WITH THE BRAZILIAN COUNTERPART OF ASCAP; THE PRS. APPARANTLY THE PRS HAS THE
LEGAL POWER TO ARREST PEOPLE, AND THEY WANT A PIECE OF THE NATIONAL TOUR
PROMOTER'S MONEY. THE LOCAL SECURITY FORCE, "GANG MEXICANA", HAS BEEN BOUGHT
OUT FOR 1800 CRUZADOS AND A CARTON OF MARLBOROS EACH. THE ONLY FACTION STILL
OPERATING IN OUR DEFENSE IN "BIG JOHN", OUR PERSONAL SECURITY MAN, AND HE'S
HIDING IN HIS ROOM BECAUSE A LOCAL GANG IS OUT FOR HIS BLOOD BECAUSE OF A 1982
KNIFING INCIDENT IN WHICH HE WAS INVOLVED. OUR 345-POUND ROAD MANAGER, RICK
ONLY HAD THIS TO SAY: "YOU WANTED THE LIFE OF A ROCK STAR!". PAUL, JIM AND I
REALIZED THAT THIS WAS ONE SITUATION WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TO GET OUT OF
OURSELVES. WE CONVENED A HASTY CONFERENCE IN THE NOVOTEL LOBBY. PAUL SUGGESTED
CONTACT- ING OUR NATIONAL TOUR PROMOTER IN SAO PAULO, BUT WE REMEMBERED THAT HE
WAS IN RECIFE WITH FAITH NO MORE, WHO HAD JUST ARRIVED FOR THEIR BRAZILIAN
TOUR. WE THOUGHT ABOUT CONTACTING OUR BRAZILIAN RECORD COMPANY IN RIO, BUT THEY
WEREN'T HOME. OUR EVER-DILIGENT AMERICAN MANAGER WAS ARRANGING HELP OF NUMEROUS
FORMS, BUT HE WAS IN NEW YORK, AND JUST TOO FAR AWAY TO GET ANYTHING MOVING IN
TIME.
AND THERE WERE 6000 KIDS IN CURITIBA WHO JUST WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND.
WE KNEW IT WAS TIME FOR ACTION. PAUL WENT UP TO THE PRS GUYS AND
INVITED THEM INTO THE BAR TO DISCUSS IT LIKE CIVILIZED MEN OVER A FEW BRAZILIAN
DRINKS, OFFERING EACH OF THEM A CIGAR ON HIS WAY. THE AMUSED PRS HEAVIES SEEMED
TO LIKE THE IDEA OF A FEW FREE DRINKS, EVEN IF THEY KNEW THEY WOULD NEVER GIVE
US OUR BUS BACK. WHEN PAUL WINKED AT JIM AND I ON HIS WAY IN, WE WENT INTO
ACTION.
I STOLE OFF TO MY ROOM TO PREPARE WHILE JIM WENT INTO ACTION. CREEPING
CAREFULLY THROUGH A SERVICE DUCT, HE MANAGED TO GAIN A VANTAGE POINT SOME THREE
METERS ABOVE THE BUS, AND DROPPED CAREFULLY ONTO THE ROOF. AFTER USING HIS
ALL-PURPOSE SWISS ARMY KNIFE (AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS THE "SKIT KNIFE") TO
JIMMY OPEN THE ROOF HATCH, HE WENT THROUGH THE DARKENED INSIDE OF THE BUS AND
REMOVED THE INSIDE ENGINE SERVICE PANEL. USING SOME SPARE ELECTRONIC PARTS HE
FOUND WHILE ON AN ISLAND IN THE AMAZON, HE WIRED THE ENTIRE BUS FOR REMOTE
CONTROL, NOT UNLIKE A REMOTE CONTROL TOY CAR.
AT THIS POINT, HE ASKED HIMSELF "NOW HOW SHALL I GET OUT OF HERE?!?"
PAUL WAS HAVING DIFFICULTIES OF HIS OWN.
"COULDN'T YOU SEE YOUR WAY CLEAR TO LETTING US FULFILL OUR CONTRACTUAL
OBLIGATIONS IN CURITIBA? THINK OF THE KIDS!"
THROUGH OUR TRANSLATOR, FABIO, THE PRS MAN, ALDO, SAID:
"NO. YOU AMERICANS THINK YOU OWN THE WORLD. HAH! WE'LL BURN DOWN OUR
RAIN FOREST IF WE DAMN WELL PLEASE. WE NEED ROOM FOR COWS!! WE WANT A
MACDONALD'S ON EVERY... OH, SORRY, YES ANYWAY, NO. WE NEED 40% OF YOUR CONCERT
RECEIPTS TO GIVE TO DAVID BOWIE." HE SAID, WINKING TO THE LOCAL PROMOTER,
PHILLIPE.
AS PAUL CONTINUED THIS ELABORATE DISTRACTION, JIM EFFECTED AN ESCAPE
FROM THE HEAVILY GUARDED BUS BY CRAWLING DOWN INTO THE CARGO BAY, CUTTING A
HOLE IN THE FLOOR WITH THE SWISS ARMY KNIFE'S ARC-WELDER, SLIPPING INTO THE
MANHOLE COVER SITUATED UNDER THE BUS, AND WALKING UP INTO THE HOTEL'S BASEMENT
FROM THERE. JIM CALLED UP TO ME IN MY ROOM AND GAVE THE SIGNAL. WE WERE NOW TO
MEET AT THE BACK ENTRANCE, WITH OUR TECH GUYS. BUT FIRST, PAUL WOULD NEED SOME
HELP GETTING AWAY FROM HIS UNWELCOME GUESTS, AS THINGS WERE GETTING UGLY.
"HE SAYS HE HAS LOST HIS PATIENCE, AND THAT HE CAN THINK OF OTHER WAYS
OF EXACTING PAYMENT FROM YOU KURT AND JIM PHYSICALLY." OUR TREMBLING
INTERPRETER SAID.
THE MOMENT HAD COME. JIM BEGAN OPERATING THE BUS FROM HIS BACK
ENTRANCE VANTAGE POINT. AS THE REMOTE-CONTROLLED BUS LURCHED TOWARDS THE
PARKING LOT EXIT, THE SUPERSTITIOUS SECURITY YOUTHS FLED IN TERROR. PAUL WAS
PULLING ANXIOUSLY ON HIS COLLAR AS THE PRS MAN BEGAN DESCRIBING HIS COLLECTION
OF WORLD WAR II NAZI CERIMONIAL KNIVES WHEN A SUDDEN CRASH SPLIT THE TABLEAU.
JIM HAD PURCHASED ME THE GIFT OF A COMPLETE BLACK NINJA STEALTH
ASSASSIN OUTFIT IN ARACAJU. I HAD BEEN GEARING UP AND CRAWLING THROUGH THE AIR
CONDITIONING DUCTS ALL THIS TIME. AS I CRASHED THROUGH THE CHEAP IMITAION-
STYROFOAM HUNG CEILING TILES, SKATES FIRST, I FLASHED NINJA STARS ALL ABOUT ME.
IN THE ENSUING PANIC, PAUL ESCAPED TO THE PRE-ARRANGED BUS PICK-UP POINT.
UNFORTUNATLEY, MY SKATES WERE A POOR CHOICE OF FOOT GEAR FOR ESCAPING OVER THE
BROKEN GLASS. OF THE TABLE I HAD LANDED ON. WERE IT NOT FOR THE CONFUSION AND
THE NINJA-STAR-INFLICTED WOUNDS DELIVERED TO THE BAD GUYS, I WOULD HAVE BEEN
SET UPON WHILE FOUNDERING ON THE GLASS-STREWN CARPET. AS IT HAPPENED, HOWEVER,
I LEAPT THROUGH THE OPEN DOOR OF THE CAREENING BUS AS IT DEPARTED THE CITY OF
MARINGA FOREVER.
IF ONLY WE HAD MANAGED TO GET OUR EQUIPMENT IN THE BUS, TOO . . .
EVERY WORD OF THIS STORY IS TRUE.
- KURT HARLAND
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<emad> "the algorithm killed jesus"
<emad> once again blaming muslims for any random act of violence
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10:28 <@Octal> So, how hard is to make a wikipedia bot? I need to make sure
that every instance of Mark Wahlberg is replaced by Marky Mark.
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23:49 <%Screwtape> Although some of them use Evilution.
23:50 <@porlock> aw, done't be one of those people
23:50 <@porlock> one of those people who mangles the name of something as some
sort of killing insult
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The magic roundabout is very nice.
-- Edward Tufte, February 12, 2003
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The Internet and the Web did not have to exist. They come to us courtesy of
misallocated defense money, skunkworks engineering projects, worse-is-better
engineering practices, big science, naïve liberal idealism, cranky libertarian
politics, techno-fetishism, and the sweat and capital of programmers and
investors who thought they'd found an easy way to strike it rich.
-- Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, RESTful Web Services, 2007.
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"...anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it
is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain
can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us
ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage
from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a
pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that
produces no resultant pleasure?"
-- 1914 translation by H. Rackham of the infamous "Lorem Ipsum" passage
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11:25 <SpaceHobo> http://www.stallman.org/images/cartoon-6.jpg
11:25 <SpaceHobo> that's a pretty good cartoon
11:25 <SpaceHobo> I'm not sure it needed three panels
11:25 <SpaceHobo> but it works
11:26 <%xkcd> SpaceHobo: in my opinion as a Professional Cartoonist
11:26 <%xkcd> what it needs is a fat and lazy cat
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10:37 <%xkcd> OMG WHAT IF I COLOCATE A BOX OF SPIDERS
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15:01 <stanislovski> "Comstock shuddered the other evening when a lady asked
him if he cared for undressed kids."
15:01 <@SpaceHobo> sheep joke?
15:02 <stanislovski> no, i think it was a pedophile joke
15:04 <stanislovski> i just came across another "undressed kids" joke
15:04 <stanislovski> i think they may have used that phrase regularly for poor
kids
15:04 <stanislovski> oops
15:04 <stanislovski> i probably should not have searched for that phrase
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There are two kinds of people in this world:
1. Those who were embarrassed for Vanilla Ice when he sang a ninja-themed rap
song in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.
2. Those who were embarrassed for the Turtles.
-- http://yojoephoto.livejournal.com/36113.html
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11:23 <@sneakums> > sneakums 1 point 8 minutes ago
11:23 <@sneakums> > It'd be pretty cool if Microsoft took up Lisp. Then Miguel
de Icaza would be compelled to copy their implementation, and we'd
finally have a decent free Lisp.
11:23 <@sneakums> if that doesn't get some responses, then i don't know reddit
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07:32 <nuhewmbd> it isnt a good song by any means
07:32 <nuhewmbd> but it is good enough for blogs
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10:39 <fuzzie> i really need to purge this nvidia horror from this machine
10:40 <@bz2> Yes.
10:40 <@bz2> Yes you do.
10:41 <@SpaceHobo> Yes.
10:41 <@SpaceHobo> Yes you do.
10:45 <@Screwtape> Yes.
10:45 <@Screwtape> Yes you do.
10:46 <fuzzie> The random segfaults and null pointer derefs are enough to
motivate me, but thanks for the support. :P
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<%xkcd> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper#Philosophy_of_Science <-- please,
please stop using equations in epistemology
<%xkcd> it cheapens both you and math
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06:32 <@Octal> Hmm... It's times like this I wish I knew postscript
06:53 <%xkcd> or, at the very least, jujitsu
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SAD MAC IS SAD
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┃ ┃
┗┯━━━━━━━━━┯┛
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SAD MAC KNOWS
WHAT YOU DID
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WELCOME
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<nih0ngo> whoa, eons.com
<nih0ngo> it's like facebook for old people
<nih0ngo> I'm gonna go troll there, because they'd never, ever figure it out.
<xkcd> man, but trolling old people is like beating up the special ed kids.
you can DO it, but ...
<nih0ngo> wait, wait, now that you mention, is there a facebook for special ed
kids?
<xkcd> myspace?
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* Screwtape adds 'bread' to his shopping list.
* Screwtape ponders, then adds 'circuses'.
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<@sneakums> > That makes sense. Snoop can effectively turn a read into a write.
<@sneakums> oh snoop, you rascal
<@sneakums> he's in our CPUs, trolling our caches
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<%xkcd> god
<%xkcd> I'm too tired to draw a comic, I crash, I wake up after five
hours freezing cold despite my blankets and too wracked with indistinct
nightmares to get back to sleep
<%Screwtape> http://www.angryflower.com/howdoy.gif <-- xkcd
<%xkcd> Screwtape: Basically.
<%xkcd> I'll sit there for three hours watching the mariokart victory
ceremony loop, occasionally binge on cereal, and then suddenly think "I
NEED TO PUT A MYSQL INJECTION INTO A BABY'S NAME"
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<@sneakums> > For BitTorrent, I use Azureus (with the classic UI). Yes, it is a
> resource hog, but it is also very feature-rich.
<@sneakums> Is it me, or is there no upside?
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* squinky puts an ascii banana in the motd on every host
<@squinky> ^-- that is what cfengine is for
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(about http://xkcd.com/fys/)
<clavicle> so that other guy was xkcd then?
<xkcd> clavicle: Yeah.
<clavicle> xkcd: You don't look like a Randall
<xkcd> clavicle: ur face
<+Dumont> that was uncalled for
<xkcd> Dumont: he called for it.
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* xkcd spikes his hair and draws a picture of the internet
<xkcd> ^-- my life
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<Zen> Man, I'm so glad this laser mouse works with my bacon mousepad.
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<@Zen> Dear God
<@Zen> the japanese are decades ahead of us in instantaneous noodle technology
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<@Zen> Also, it's a kid's book and in the early chapters a kid gets hit by a
car
<@Zen> so you know it's by Mieville
<@Zen> they'll all be dead by the end, if they're lucky
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<eemer> Do you know how much a Polar bear weighs?
<~xkcd> about 660 placentas
<Gelsamel> Nice unit
<~xkcd> thanks.
<~xkcd> I get that a lot.
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People like Brett Glass will never make it onto my screen.
-- Poul-Henning Kamp
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<@[|^__^|]> sweet, Mycroft Holmes has the train timetables memorized
<@Zen> who?
<@[|^__^|]> Sherlock's brother!
<@Zen> !!!
<@Zen> Is he...
<@Zen> is he black?
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<xkcd> well, I don't know. I'm of two minds.
<xkcd> One is contained at the base of my spine and gives me better reaction
time in my lower extremeties.
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Also, your bug system makes me jump through a ridiculous set of hoops just to
file a fucking bug. Why the hell should *I* set up an account? It's not like
any bugs will be assigned to me or anything. Just store my e-mail address and
move on. It's completely fucking bogus that I should have to go digging
through my mail for confirmation passwords sent by the mailer-daemon address.
You're lucky you get any bugs at all what with the barriers you put up.
GARGARGAR!
Also, how come there are no versions in this thing later than rc3? Is anyone
actually using this bug system any more? Have you all moved on to something
sane like debbugs?
Oooh! Bug writing guidelines! Maybe I should follow that link and then submit
this to STRUNK and WHITE! Maybe the dizzying maze of input boxes aren't
STRUCTURE ENOUGH for this thing.
Any serious bug system would have, right on the front page, a big red button
marked "FILE A BUG". It should be easy to file, and then easy to triage. By
using bojira, YOU RUINED CHRISTMAS!
Oh yeah, and I love this doozy:
Bugzilla version 2.14.1
Posting Bug
One moment please...
The name baby jesus is not a valid username. Either you misspelled it, or the
person has not registered for a Bugzilla account.
Please hit the Back button and try again.
The BACK BUTTON, for krissakes. You'd think the folks who DESIGNED A WEB
BROWSER would know how to MAKE A WEB APP that didn't SUCK ARSE in the UI
department! I'll just use my BACK BUTTON to KEY IN MY BUG IN MORSE WHY DON'T
I.
-- https://trac.xiph.org/ticket/245, when it was still Bugzilla
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<%clavicle> so, now that Ron Paul is the Republican nominahahaahaa
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<pyirc> ['I', 'think', 'my', "client's", 'sending', 'you', 'string',
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<@khmer> all right that's it
<@khmer> i'm writing a cyberfunk novel
<@khmer> our protagonist discovers that the Global Parliament has a devious
plan, implemented through the net to seize and hold a monopoly over all
the world's getdownium, the mysterious isotope that powers the party
reactor
<@khmer> "He parted his fiberlocks* (a postwar hairstyle of some renown,
consisting of dreadlocks interwoven with flickering FiOS cable) and
regarded the screen with his characteristic cool smirk that barely
concealed his dismay. He was on to them, and he hadn't the foggiest
idea what to do next."
<@khmer> "His triple-humbucked, rosewood terminal, hung with OLED prayer flags
and reeking of pure THC, had the nerve at this moment to taunt him with
a particularly insistent blink of the cursor."
<@khmer> " [bootsy@mothership /~]% "
<@khmer> "Shit," he said.
<@khmer> "God damn."
<@khmer> (bootsy collins uses tcsh because bernie told him it stands for "too
cool so hot")
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"In the unlikely event of losing Pascal's Wager, I intend to saunter in to
Judgement Day with a bookshelf full of grievances, a flaming sword of my own
devising, and a serious attitude problem."
-- Rick Moen,
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan/msg/934608fa971abdc7
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<@sneakums> oh god, Rands is Explaining Twitter
<@sneakums> pass me my pukin' bucket
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Demetrius: "Villain, what hast thou done?"
Aaron: "That which thou canst not undo."
Chiron: "Thou hast undone our mother."
Aaron: "Villain, I have done thy mother."
-- Titus Andronicus, Act IV Scene II
Oldest "Your Mom" on record.
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<@sneakums> dignity shrivels in the face of the tim tam
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<%fo0bar> sneakums: you probably follow this more than I, but I seem to notice
a change in linus over the years... from pragmatic optimist, to...
well, jwz, if jwz were a programmer
<@sneakums> fo0bar: i think he's just fed up of andi, really
<%fo0bar> fair enough, but we should monitor him anyway, just in case he tries
to buy a bar
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<@SpaceHobo> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Rutabaga_Curling_Championship <-- ernad
<%fo0bar> FACT: I have done ice bowling
<%fo0bar> (yes, it's basically what you imagine)
<%Screwtape> fo0bar: I imagine it's like curling?
<%fo0bar> Screwtape: not really, it's normal bowling, against normal bowling
pins, but on a frozen lake
<%Screwtape> And if you drop the ball, it crashes through the ice and creates a
hazard for future players.
<%fo0bar> yeah. don't worry about the truck you use to drive out onto the
lake; a 20 lb bowling ball will rain down hell!
<%Screwtape> Wait, you have frozen lakes you can *drive* on?
<%fo0bar> Screwtape: yes. also, we have basic cable.
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I think your victim act might be more plausible if you were using an operating
system that makes you a victim.
-- Sneakums, http://mjg59.livejournal.com/96129.html?thread=933505#t933505
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<+Xidarian> has anyone here seen the schrodingers lolcat comic, i can't find it
<+SpaceHobo> http://rasher.dk/r/schroedingers-lolcat
<+Xidarian> SpaceHobo: =[ do you make all those yourself?
<+SpaceHobo> Xidarian: nah, all the rasher.dk/r urls are like that except
for http://rasher.dk/r/admin
<+Xidarian> SpaceHobo: i can't believe you got me twice
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<%clavicle> I'm just going to be an astronomy pioneer and then go get my elk
drunk
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<teferi> > A personal version of Lotus Notes was also included, with a number
of template databases for contact management, brainstorming, and so forth.
<teferi> ^- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
<baconaut> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
<@SpaceHobo> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
<@psykoyiko> B
<@psykoyiko> NOW IT'S TIME FOR LAUNCH
<fuzzie> see, this is what happens when os/2 warp gets involved, and then the
world ends up exploding. way to go.
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[When building the first Google Chrome source release]
<teferi> baconite: wait a sec, CYGWIN?!
<@SpaceHobo> \〠/
<teferi> there's all of CYGWIN in there?!
<baconite> teferi: I know!
<@SpaceHobo> ¯\(°_o)/¯
<teferi> wait wait wait
<teferi> is that what you're telling me?
<baconite> teferi: I think it may be
<teferi> fuck me sideways
<teferi> http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/cygwin/bin/
<teferi> it is
<baconite> I guess they now need to provide all cygwin sources as well
<@SpaceHobo> GPL SUCKERPUNCH
<baconite> :D
<teferi> A third_party/lighttpd/bin/LIGHTSRC.EXE
<baconite> oh fuck
<baconite> They include SEVERAL win32 httpds?!
<baconite> That's just insane
<teferi> A third_party/lighttpd/php5/php5ts.dll
<teferi> THE FUCK
<teferi> NO FUCKING WAY THAT IS NOT AN ENTIRE PYTHON SOURCE TREE
<teferi> A third_party/python_24/python.exe
<baconite> oh dear
<teferi> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
<baconite> oh dear oh dear
...
<baconite> I think it may actually be getting the "dependencies" now
<teferi> THEN WHAT THE FUCK WAS ALL OF THAT
<fuzzie> lolz y'all.
...
<@sneakums> http://identi.ca/notice/451865 <-- oh really
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<@squinky> Most Popular on Reuters:
<@squinky> 1. Heather Locklear arrested in California
<@squinky> 2. Lawmakers reject bailout plan
<@squinky> thank you america
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<@Octal> > Palin's 'going rogue,' McCain aide says
<@Octal> Quick! Activate the failsafes!
<@Octal> You did install failsafes, right?
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Several years ago, when the conservatives got all up-in-arms about the Clinton
administration's proposal to use statistical sampling in the U.S. Census, a
statistician I know commented, "If you want to dismiss the validity of
statistical sampling, fine. But next time you go to the doctor, and they want
to do a blood test, insist that they take it ALL."
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_11/015537.php#1410281
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<Tu13es> why is it that a woman can be all "me and my girlfriends are
going shopping for purses" and nobody thinks anything of it, but as
soon as I go "me and my boyfriend are going shopping for fanny packs"
everyone thinks I'm gay?
<SpaceHobo> Tu13es: I dunno, women talking about their girlfriends still sounds
gay to me
<Tu13es> SpaceHobo: homophobe
<Tu13es> :P
<SpaceHobo> Tu13es: I support your right to marry a dude.
<SpaceHobo> Tu13es: just you, though
<Tu13es> great
<SpaceHobo> Tu13es: and I think the dude has to be Dave Coulier
<Tu13es> SpaceHobo: cut. it. out.
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The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it
difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in
getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of
the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best
advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon
house-rents, therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich; and in
this sort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be anything very
unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to
the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more
than in that proportion.
-- Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature And Causes of the Wealth of
Nations (1776).
Book Five: Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth.
CHAPTER II: Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of
the Society.
ARTICLE I: Taxes upon the Rent of House.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm#link2HCH0031
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<atob> I'm working as a technical web developer,
Python/django/Linux/apache2/oracle, what training should I get?
<xkcd> Start with 'potty'
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<@sneakums> i've been showing java developers the wonder of telnet
<@sneakums> did you know you can generate http requests BY HAND and see
EXACTLY what's going on!?
<@sneakums> it's true!
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<@clavicle> so what I'm getting at, grep for mysql/postgresql
<@clavicle> so you can go to eg. the web app, type in xBUGHEREx and then
grep for it
<@clavicle> how do you do it?
<@clavicle> like a massive text search
<@clavicle> in an entire db
<@SpaceHobo> like, you don't even know which table?
<@clavicle> yeah
<@SpaceHobo> um
<@SpaceHobo> stop wanting that
<@SpaceHobo> now
<@clavicle> :o
<@SpaceHobo> teferi: make him stop wanting that
<@clavicle> teferi: what's your DBA's twitter? I need some help
<@clavicle> I need to search for a mispelled word that I can't find in
our 136 tables.
<@clavicle> How can I do a search on the database?
<@clavicle> Thanks,
<@clavicle> Trint
<@clavicle> see, some people have a use for it!
<@clavicle> haha, mysql has it
<@clavicle> I'm not surprised at all
<@clavicle> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-search.html
* SpaceHobo ✁☹
<@clavicle> We too have a database with close to 6 million rows in it. We
would like to use the fulltext search, but it is painfully slow.
<@clavicle> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
<@SpaceHobo> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
<@clavicle> I have this database, but I rolled chaotic neutral, so I just
write my stuff to random tables. How I find data?
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<clavicle> I don't get this example, since bikesheds are supposed to be blue
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<bz2> "That'll be £98 for a single to Blackpool, sir. How are you going to pay
for it?"
<bz2> "Well, I sold a couple of things..."
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* clavicle beams a copy of 'when sysadmins ruled the earth' to Randall's kindle
<@clavicle> "You're wonderful," she said. "Oh, gross. 2.0 just dumped core all
over my bathrobe."
<@clavicle> god, this never gets better.
<@clavicle> I thought maybe if I got older I'd react to weak humor more easily.
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<%Screwtape> > While we slept after the show, to our later dismay, our car was
broken into and several items stolen, including about 400 audio CDs, an
earthquake prevention kit, and some papers.
<%Screwtape> ^-- Hixie, where do you *put* 400 CDs in a car?
<@SpaceHobo> binders
<@SpaceHobo> I have 100-CD binders
<%oliof> you ask about CDs. I want to know how to prevent an earthquake!
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<fuzzie> X11R5: spreek je nederlands?
<X11R5> fuzzie: Je te plumerai la tete.
<+Dumont> je te plumerai la tete
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<baconaut> > Timed track stands competitions now feature at many bike messenger
and fixed bike enthusiast meets.
<baconaut> wow, that sounds like the most boring thing ever
<@sneakums> second most boring. the most boring thing ever is donnie berkholz's
blog
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π:
For a time I stood pondering on circle sizes. The large computer
mainframe quietly processed all of its assembly code. Inside my entire hope
lay for figuring out an elusive expansion. Value: pi. Decimals expected
soon. I nervously entered a format procedure. The mainframe processed the
request. Error. I, again entering it, carefully retyped. This iteration gave
zero error printouts in all–success. Intently I waited. Soon, roused by
thoughts within me, appeared narrative mnemonics relating digits to
verbiage! The idea appeared to exist but only in abbreviated fashion–little
phrases typically. Pressing on I then resolved, deciding firmly about a sum
of decimals to use–likely around four hundred, presuming the computer code
soon halted! Pondering these ideas, words appealed to me. But a problem of
zeros did exist. Pondering more, solution subsequently appeared. Zero
suggests a punctuation element. Very novel! My thoughts were culminated. No
periods, I concluded. All residual marks of punctuation = zeros. First digit
expansion answer then came before me. On examining some problems unhappily
arose. That imbecilic bug! The printout I possessed showed four nine as
foremost decimals. Manifestly troubling. Totally every number looked wrong.
Repairing the bug took much effort. A pi mnemonic with letters truly seemed
good. Counting of all the letters probably should suffice. Reaching for a
record would be helpful. Consequently, I continued, expecting a good final
answer from computer. First number slowly displayed on the flat screen–3.
Good. Trailing digits apparently were right also. Now my memory scheme must
probably be implementable. The technique was chosen, elegant in scheme: by
self reference a tale mnemonically helpful was ensured. An able title
suddenly existed–"Circle Digits". Taking pen I began. Words emanated
uneasily. I desired more synonyms. Speedily I found my (alongside me)
Thesaurus. Rogets is probably an essential in doing this, instantly I
decided. I wrote and erased more. The Rogets clearly assisted immensely. My
story proceeded (how lovely!) faultlessly. The end, above all, would soon
joyfully overtake. So, this memory helper story is incontestably complete.
Soon I will locate publisher. There a narrative will I trust immediately
appear, producing fame. THE END.
-- The Mathematical Intelligencer, 1986
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<Randall> The past is another country. The age of consent is lower there.
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<pedro> i forgot to mention the time
<pedro> that i was trying against all odds to get a serial console going
<pedro> couldn't find answers on line
<pedro> THEN
<pedro> out of FRUSTRATION
<pedro> and a desire to COMMISERATE
<pedro> i googled for
<pedro> "solaris is a pain in the ass"
<pedro> try it
<pedro> feel lucky, punk
<teferi> hah
<deejoe> that's beautiful
<deejoe> in a saddest-thing sort of way
<pedro> yeah
<pedro> it blew my mind
<pedro> like some kind of cosmic joke
<pedro> as if Solarius, the god of the OS underworld was saying, "Now that I've
broken your spirit, I'll tell you the answer.... ha ha ha"
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MONOCULATUS
┌─┐
┴─┴
ಠ_̼ರೃ
DISAPPROVES
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<eythian> So in the 'deleted scenes' part of [The Lives of Others] DVD, which
is a movie in part about government control over people, it has a
character reading from a book [played without sound] and the subtitle
is "Brecht's “Animal Poems” muted for copyright reasons"
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<Randall> So my microwave just started beeping at me intermittently
<Randall> (I'm up alone in my kitchen)
<Randall> I walked over to it
<Randall> opened the handle
<Randall> and it just started scrolling "666666"
<Randall> And beeping constantly.
<Randall> I have been reading horror movie plot summaries for the last couple
hours.
<Randall> I sort of panicked and unplugged it.
<SpaceHobo> AND IT KEPT BEEPING
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<bz2> Dumont: I found kitten!
<Dumont> Way to go, robot!
<bz2> Dumont: I love you.
<Dumont> You're a machine, son. You don't _love_
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Back in 2002, science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer wrote an essay about the
trade-off between privacy and security, and came out in favor of less
privacy...
Whenever I visit a tourist attraction that has a guest register, I always
sign it. After all, you never know when you'll need an alibi.
Since I read that, whenever I see a tourist attraction with a guest register, I
do the same thing. I sign "Robert J. Sawyer, Toronto, ON" -- because you never
know when he'll need an alibi.
-- http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/robert_sawyers.html
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<emad> there are no trick questions, only trick people
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<emad> if you run ads, always make sure you have some sort of fatigue algorithm
or at least enough inventory so that you don't have to keep showing the
same ad over and over and over
<emad> i already know you guys are going to tell me the right answer to this
complaint (which is stop reading reddit)
<emad> but they keep showing this stupid ad for 'women of reddit'
<@sneakums> you've complained about that before
<emad> they claim to only have 1000 of them
<@sneakums> if you're going to complain, always make sure you have some kind of
fatigue algorithm or at least enough inventory so that you don't have
to keep making the same complaint over and over and over
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<bz2> this article contains the phrase "corkscrew-shaped penis (see video)"
<bz2> Do I have to?
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"This meat-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it."
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Meat-stub
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<X11R5> Guys, what's the polite legalese for a resolution on eating said officer.
<rasher> I don't think there's a polite way to do that.
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<@sneakums> Sir Forksalot Hammercache
<teferi> sneakums: he likes big bufs and he cannot lie
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(For context, mwalling was one of the loudest proponents of Slackware
in #linode, and firmly asserted that all package management systems
that handled dependencies were wrong and broken, and that it was the
SysAdmin's job to take care of this.)
<mwalling> haha
<mwalling> sendmail
<SpaceHobo> mwalling: oh please, you're all about the 90s retro
<mwalling> SpaceHobo: i use ubuntu now, didnt you hear?
<SpaceHobo> mwalling: I thought you believed that dependency resolution and
directed graph traversal was a problem far too complicated for
computers to handle, and the manly stuff of manly expedition
<mwalling> i was misguided by moron packagers
<SpaceHobo> they exist, occasionally, but good policy works around them
<mwalling> to be fair, my time on slack tought me a *LOT* of low level stuff
<SpaceHobo> so did mine
<SpaceHobo> and my work on the LNX-BBC
<mwalling> but time is money, and i'm impatient
<mwalling> (oh, and the department standardized on ubuntu, so i had to learn it
anyway)
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<rasher> Haha, the presence of monoculatus freaks out putty's url detection
<sarah> THE PRESENCE OF MONOCULATUS
<rasher> His hat, in fact
<@SpaceHobo> ┌─┐
<@SpaceHobo> ┴─┴ FEAR MY URLHAT!
<@SpaceHobo> ಠ_̼ರೃ
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<%teferi> > Some people, when confronted with a sphere, think "I know, I'll cut
it into a finite number of pieces and put the pieces back together
again." Now they have two spheres
<%teferi> ^- &heart; mefi
<%neale> that and porting mosaic to use Xaw stand out as the two best things
jwz has done for the world.
<%neale> but even the latter he had to be a dick about.
<deejoe> but when you cut a sphere, you get two hemispheres
<%teferi> deejoe: read up on the Banach-Tarski theorem
<deejoe> I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a tome of topology
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Weird Science is a much better movie if you watch it with the understanding
that Lisa is Tyler Durden.
-- jwz (http://jwz.livejournal.com/1215107.html?thread=22003331#t22003331)
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Here comes SkyNet:
<X11R5> Gothic dolphins not bombs.
<+Dumont> Gothic Dolphins Not Bombs!
<%Screwtape> Wut.
<+revolt> what the hell
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I picked up a volume called Dr. No which I am told by connoisseurs of his work
is not one of his best. It's certainly a very bad novel indeed, and this
struck me as a monstrous piece of work. The crude sadism, the disgusting sex,
the very second-rate snobbery... It's not even the snobbery of a proper snob!
It's the snobbery of an expense account man.
-- Paul Johnson
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There rolls the deep where grew the tree.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
There where the long street roars, hath been
The stillness of the central sea.
The hills are shadows, and they flow
From form to form, and nothing stands;
They melt like mist, the solid lands,
Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A.H.H.
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<bz2> http://vimeo.com/11111204 <-- what are those revolving white things?
<sneakums> bz2: some kind of bagging station, i'd guess
<sneakums> bz2: based on careful observation of selected frames, i conclude
that one side is for tea-bagging, one side is for
carpet-bagging and the third side is for douche-bagging
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<Zen> You are merely stuck in customs at the border of flavor country.
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You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex.
Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have
answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of
regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool that
is insufficiently sophisticated to understand the constructs employed by HTML.
HTML is not a regular language and hence cannot be parsed by regular
expressions. Regex queries are not equipped to break down HTML into its
meaningful parts. so many times but it is not getting to me. Even enhanced
irregular regular expressions as used by Perl are not up to the task of parsing
HTML. You will never make me crack. HTML is a language of sufficient complexity
that it cannot be parsed by regular expressions. Even Jon Skeet cannot parse
HTML using regular expressions. Every time you attempt to parse HTML with
regular expressions, the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins, and Russian
hackers pwn your webapp. Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the
realm of the living. HTML and regex go together like love, marriage, and ritual
infanticide. The <center> cannot hold it is too late. The force of regex and
HTML together in the same conceptual space will destroy your mind like so much
watery putty. If you parse HTML with regex you are giving in to Them and their
blasphemous ways which doom us all to inhuman toil for the One whose Name
cannot be expressed in the Basic Multilingual Plane, he comes. HTML-plus-regexp
will liquify the nerves of the sentient whilst you observe, your psyche
withering in the onslaught of horror. Rege̿̔̉x-based HTML parsers are the cancer
that is killing StackOverflow it is too late it is too late we cannot be saved
the trangession of a chi͡ld ensures regex will consume all living tissue (except
for HTML which it cannot, as previously prophesied) dear lord help us how can
anyone survive this scourge using regex to parse HTML has doomed humanity to an
eternity of dread torture and security holes using regex as a tool to process
HTML establishes a breach between this world and the dread realm of c͒ͪo͛ͫrrupt
entities (like SGML entities, but more corrupt) a mere glimpse of the world of
regex parsers for HTML will instantly transport a programmer's
consciousness into a world of ceaseless screaming, he comes, the pestilent
slithy regex-infection will devour your HTML parser, application
and existence for all time like Visual Basic only worse he comes he comes do
not fight he com̡e̶s, ̕h̵is un̨ho͞ly radiańcé destro҉ying all
enli̍̈́̂̈́ghtenment, HTML tags lea͠ki̧n͘g fr̶ǫm ̡yo͟ur eye͢s̸ ̛l̕ik͏e liquid pain,
the song of re̸gular expression parsing will extinguish the voices
of mortal man from the sphere I can see it can you see ̲͚̖͔̙î̩́t̲͎̩̱͔́̋̀ it is
beautiful the final snuffing of the lies of Man ALL IS LOŚ͖̩͇̗̪̏̈́T ALL
IS LOST the pon̷y he comes he c̶̮omes he comes the ichor permeates all
MY FACE MY FACE ᵒh god no NO NOO̼O O NΘ stop the an*̶͑̾̾̅ͫ͏̙̤g͇̫͛͆̾ͫ̑͆l͖͉̗̩̳̟̍ͫͥͨe̠̅s ͎a̧͈͖r̽̾̈́͒͑e
not rè̑ͧ̌aͨl̘̝̙̃ͤ͂̾̆ ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ ISͮ̂҉̯͈͕̹̘̱ TO͇̹̺ͅƝ̴ȳ̳ TH̘Ë͖́̉ ͠P̯͍̭O̚N̐Y̡ H̸̡̪̯ͨ͊̽̅̾̎Ȩ̬̩̾͛ͪ̈́̀́͘ ̶̧̨̱̹̭̯ͧ̾ͬC̷̙̲̝͖ͭ̏ͥͮ͟Oͮ͏̮̪̝͍M̲̖͊̒ͪͩͬ̚̚͜Ȇ̴̟̟͙̞ͩ͌͝S̨̥̫͎̭ͯ̿̔̀ͅ
-- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454
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<bz2> http://www.flickr.com/photos/philgyford/4505748943/sizes/l/ <-- ah-ha
<@SpaceHobo> the trouble is that most of these "infographics" add nothing
<@SpaceHobo> they're just bold poster-typesetting of thin information usually
with a few numbers scattered about
<@SpaceHobo> they're the moral equivalent of the credit card bill meme
<bz2> Credit card bill meme?
<@SpaceHobo> bz2: yeah, itemizing elements of a scene, then listing the result
as "priceless"
<@SpaceHobo> bz2: it's a takeoff of a credit card ad from the 90s in the US
<bz2> "some things in life are priceless, for everything else, there's
Mastercard", right?
<bz2> We had those ads too, but only a year or two ago.
<bz2> SpaceHobo: I just watched the American Mastercard ads, and they seem to
have a dude reading out the on-screen text.
<@SpaceHobo> bz2: yes and
<bz2> It kinda makes it less subtle.
<%Screwtape> Subtle? Advertising?
<@sneakums> jesus, man, you have a mind like a woodchipper.
<@sneakums> BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZARRRRRRRRRRRBPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHHPWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
<@sneakums> hope you like sawdust!
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Topic for #☃: Your language is so bad at unicode that even JAVA is better |
Fancy something intimate? Yes [_] No [_] Burn CDs [_] | For
light, and sometimes faster! | <@sarah> oh god its an iphone app
| By installing Balls, you will be able to experience the power
of Balls.
13:27 *** Guy [~ben@cloak-B872FC4A.cable.mindspring.com] has joined #☃
13:27 <Guy> holy crap
13:27 <Guy> excuse me, sorry for the intrusion
13:27 *** Guy [~ben@cloak-B872FC4A.cable.mindspring.com] has left #☃ [o___o]
13:28 <@fuzzie> excellent
13:28 <@fuzzie> the power of Balls strikes again
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Scene: The kitchen table in Måløv, Denmark; *the* oak table, in fact, of Oak
Table Network fame, a network of Oracle practitioners who believe in
using scientific methods to improve the development and administration
of Oracle-based systems. Roughly 10 people sit around the table,
working on their laptops and conducting various conversations.
Cary: Guys, I'm burning up. Would you mind if I opened the window for a little
bit to let some cold air in?
Carel-Jan: Why don't you just take off your heavy sweater?
The End.
-- http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1854041
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<emad> did you guys hear?
<emad> the quran burning was called off because each muslims personally
promised to kill themselves
<X11R5> On the blood of imperialist aggression.
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First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way
of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel
formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be
written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
-- http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-7.html
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<fuzzie> idd
* SpaceHobo googles idd
<rasher> UD idd
<rasher> Så er det fandme ud idd
<rasher> er
<@SpaceHobo> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/IDD <-- I giggled
for the first few before I got to "indeed"
<rasher> "According to urbandictionary, idd is a lascivious sex act in which
one partner takes a dump on the other."
<@SpaceHobo> rasher: beat me to it!
<rasher> I keep thinking /ud is the urbandictionary alias
<rasher> but it is in fact an alias telling someone to get the hell out
<rasher> in Danish
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<khmer> so i was like, why is this email from the business analyst being
flagged by my client as HIGH IMPORTANCE and triggering a dialog alert?
<khmer> From: (business analyst)
<khmer> Subj: DataCostAnalysis.xlsx complete
<khmer> any ideas?
<SpaceHobo> more headers, dude
<SpaceHobo> Priority header
<SpaceHobo> X-Priority
<SpaceHobo> Reply-By
<khmer> no, it's easier than that
<khmer> my client flagged it because the subject contains "tacos"
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<teferi> oh damn, Benoit Mandelbrot died?
<Glench> Rest in infinitely small pieces, M. Mandelbrot.
<blorpy> but if you look closer benoit mandelbrot also died today
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I remember one year when I filled a few Pixie Stix with garlic powder.
But that was a long time ago.
-- Bruce Schneier
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/10/halloween_and_t.html
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<X11R5> Just tryin' to work on that "fuel economy" thing.
<SpaceHobo> X11R5: so's Randall
<X11R5> SpaceHobo: Randall randall randall.
<SpaceHobo> X11R5: Randall Randall Randall Randall Randall rasher res0
<X11R5> SpaceHobo: Rasher is also res0.
<Dumont> okay, X11R5.
<rasher> noooooooooo
<Dumont> </Darth Vader>
<rasher> oi
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> "Wikilieaks might theoretically have blood on their hands in a hypothetical
> situation that has not actually happened" said a government spokesman from
> behind a podium made of blood in a castle made of blood atop a mountain made
> of blood.
-- Ograbme
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3368644&pagenumber=18&perpage=40#post385018222
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<fo0bar> squinky: I found a zebra print hat to match the coat you made :)
<X11R5> In an emaddian twist.
<sneakums> how appropriate
<Dumont> that's why I said it.
<sneakums> NOT YOU
<Dumont> what?
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<rasher> wtf, these SPOONS come with an instruction manual
<deejoe> that's so metal
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I still remember the first library ticket I ever had. It must have been about
1957. My mother took me to the public library just off Battersea Park Road and
enrolled me. I was thrilled. All those books, and I was allowed to borrow
whichever I wanted! And I remember some of the first books I borrowed and fell
in love with: the Moomin books by Tove Jansson; a French novel for children
called A Hundred Million Francs; why did I like that? Why did I read it over
and over again, and borrow it many times? I don't know. But what a gift to give
a child, this chance to discover that you can love a book and the characters in
it, you can become their friend and share their adventures in your own
imagination.
And the secrecy of it! The blessed privacy! No-one else can get in the way,
no-one else can invade it, no-one else even knows what's going on in that
wonderful space that opens up between the reader and the book. That open
democratic space full of thrills, full of excitement and fear, full of
astonishment, where your own emotions and ideas are given back to you
clarified, magnified, purified, valued. You're a citizen of that great
democratic space that opens up between you and the book. And the body that gave
it to you is the public library. Can I possibly convey the magnitude of that
gift?
Somewhere in Blackbird Leys, somewhere in Berinsfield, somewhere in Botley,
somewhere in Benson or in Bampton, to name only the communities beginning with
B whose libraries are going to be abolished, somewhere in each of them there is
a child right now, there are children, just like me at that age in Battersea,
children who only need to make that discovery to learn that they too are
citizens of the republic of reading. Only the public library can give them that
gift.
-- Phillip Pullman, "This is the Big Society, you see. It must be big,
to contain so many volunteers."
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/philip-pullman/this-is-big-society-you-see-it-must-be-big-to-contain-so-many-volunteers
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<newsbot> [aj] Five Al Jazeera journalists arrested by the military in Cairo. More soon...
<newsbot> [aj] Six Al Jazeera journalists arrested by the military in Cairo. More soon...
<SpaceHobo> Seven! Seven Al Jazeera journalists arrested by the military in Cairo! Ah Ah Ah!
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"Ronald Reagan is the prototype of the new mythological American,
a grinning whore who will probably someday be president."
-- Hunter S. Thompson, 1965
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Parentheses may also be nested (with one set (such as this) inside another
set). This is not commonly used in formal writing [though sometimes other
brackets (especially parentheses) will be used for one or more inner set of
parentheses (in other words, secondary {or even tertiary} phrases can be found
within the main sentence)].[citation needed]
-- https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bracket#Parentheses_.28_.29
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It is written in the Book of Poe:
After the Creation, the cruel god Fortunato rebelled against the authority
of Montressor the Creator. Fortunato stole from Montressor the most
powerful of all the artifacts of the gods, the Cask of Amontillado, and he
hid it in the dark cavities of the Palazzo, the Catacombs, where he now
lurks, and bides his time.
Your god Poe seeks to possess the Cask, and with it to gain deserved ascendance
over the other gods.
You, a newly trained Mason, have been heralded from birth as the instrument of
Poe. You are destined to recover the Amontillado for your deity, or die in the
attempt. Your hour of destiny has come. For the love of God, Montressor: Yes!
For the love of God!
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<Randall> I don't want to endorse bitcoin, mostly because I'm not Ayn Randall.
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<linbot> New news from forums: customer wants "unlimited" transfer in Sales
Questions and Answers <http://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?t=6562>
<dominikh> I hope said customer has unlimited money
<SpaceHobo> he's in luck: the first 20GB are unlimited I think
<synapt> A lot of places are picking up the 'Unlimited' term these days, seems
like they're trying to replace 'Unmetered' with it
<linbot> New news from memes: customer wants unlimited cookies in Gluttony
Questions and Answers <http://i.imgur.com/o4Ezg.gif>
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The word saccharin (as above) has no final "e". The word saccharine, with a
final "e", is much older and is an adjective meaning "sugary" – its connection
with sugar means the term is used metaphorically, often in a derogative sense,
to describe something "unpleasantly over-polite" or "overly sweet". Both words
are derived from the Greek word σάκχαρον (sakcharon, German "ch" sound), which
ultimately derives from Sanskrit for sugar, sharkara (शर्करा), which literally
means "gravel".
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Saccharin#cite_note-1
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<teferi> nyam nyam nyam oh god bread is so much better than matzoh
<benley> didn't you hear? jesus saw his shadow; six more weeks of passover
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<bz2> Why are sites still *slow* in this day and age?
<sneakums> 1) Wordpress 2) Ruby.
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Even though "ls -l" displays a file's permissions as "-rw-r--r--", you can't
use "-rw-r--r--" in a chmod command. This is probably one of the most obvious
but overlooked UI inconsistencies in Unix that nobody has fixed after all these
years. Instead we force people to learn octal and type 0644. Meanwhile every
book on Unix/Linux spends pages explaining octal just for this purpose. Time
would have been better spent contributing a patch to chmod.
-- http://everythingsysadmin.com/2011/02/random-technical-tips-thoughts.html
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Newton Crosby: Where are you from, anyway?
Ben Jabituya: Bakersfield, originally.
Newton Crosby: No, I mean your ancestors.
Ben Jabituya: Oh, them. Pittsburgh.
-- Short Circuit http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091949/quotes?qt0434052
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<lusis> fucking install wizards. choke on your fucking robe
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<pedro> why is the super metroid soundtrack so good?
<DarregZoomtik> those metroidians just have good rhythm
<X11R5> My word, that lady has two memory slots, but only if authored by an
ambulance once. They took me like the worst candidate in.
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"Meta" means that you step back from your own place. What you used to do is now
what you see. What you were is now what you act on. Verbs turn to nouns.
-- Guy L Steele Jr., speaking in words of one syllable in
"Growing a Language"
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To have a person in charge can slow things down, but to have no one in charge
makes it harder to add up the work of many persons. The way that is faster and
better than all other ways does both.
-- Guy L Steele Jr., speaking in words of one syllable (plus modifiers
and a few defined long words) in "Growing a Language"
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[A]n operating system[...] is a program that keeps track of other programs in a
computer and gives each its due in space and time.
-- Guy L Steele Jr., speaking in words of one syllable (plus modifiers
and a few defined long words) in "Growing a Language"
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Hush. Richard M Stallman doesn't /need/ the internet.
The internet needs Richard M Stallman.
-- http://www.metafilter.com/108829/Free-as-in-Free#3997048
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One of the most famous stories is called "The Case of the Stolen Smell" where
he heard the case of a paranoid innkeeper who accused a poor student of
literally stealing the fumes of his cooking by eating when the innkeeper was
cooking to flavour his dull food. Although his colleagues advised Ōoka to throw
the case out as ridiculous, he decided to hear the case. The judge resolved the
matter by ordering the student to pass the money he had in one hand to his
other and ruling that the price of the smell of food is the sound of money.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Coka_Tadasuke#Famous_cases
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<X11R5> Oh esr calling people fanatics, odd.
<X11R5> But not vice-versa.
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<%Randall> Hey, are any of you sailing enthusiasts?
<%Randall> http://www.flickr.com/photos/antiglommer/6116574738 <-- if so,
what's a reasonable estimate for the length of this vessel?
<%Randall> I could ballpark it within like 40% by measuring the
windows/railings but I figure someone who knows ships could tell better
than that just by looking
<@SpaceHobo> Randall: judging by the number of masts and the jut of the
bowsprit, I'd say easily 45-50mm.
<@SpaceHobo> Randall: maybe more, but that would depend on the size of your
monitor.
* Randall glares
* Randall laughs grudgingly
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/* Why I am using stdio.h
* By Neale Pickett
* November, 2012
*
* I am not as clever as the people who maintain libc.
*
* THE END
*/
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<%teferi> http://activitystrea.ms/ <-- so apparently this is a thing
<%teferi> oh god, it totally has the rdf worms
<@SpaceHobo> so tell us what was wrong with RDF? I vaguely remember it came
from the taxonomy-is-all camp?
<%teferi> yeah
<%teferi> EVERYONE MUST OBSESSIVELY CLASSIFY EVERYTHING
<dzho> I'd rather have a frontal lobotomy than an embracing ontology
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"Disagree with Mr. Stallman if you like, but I would suggest you not risk any
money on it."
-- http://www.metafilter.com/123404/It-Probably-Plays-Doom-Too#4756247
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<%neale> OH MAN
<%neale> LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT STRING PROCESSING IN C
<%neale> if you do it right, you will want to kill people. if you do it wrong,
people will want to kill you.
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Today the world's gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold
were melded together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture
it fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At $1,750 per ounce --
gold's price as I write this -- its value would be about $9.6 trillion. Call
this cube pile A.
Let's now create a pile B costing an equal amount. For that, we could buy all
U.S. cropland (400 million acres with output of about $200 billion annually),
plus 16 Exxon Mobils (the world's most profitable company, one earning more
than $40 billion annually). After these purchases, we would have about $1
trillion left over for walking-around money (no sense feeling strapped after
this buying binge). Can you imagine an investor with $9.6 trillion selecting
pile A over pile B?
Beyond the staggering valuation given the existing stock of gold, current
prices make today's annual production of gold command about $160 billion.
Buyers -- whether jewelry and industrial users, frightened individuals, or
speculators -- must continually absorb this additional supply to merely
maintain an equilibrium at present prices.
A century from now the 400 million acres of farmland will have produced
staggering amounts of corn, wheat, cotton, and other crops -- and will continue
to produce that valuable bounty, whatever the currency may be. Exxon Mobil
(XOM) will probably have delivered trillions of dollars in dividends to its
owners and will also hold assets worth many more trillions (and, remember, you
get 16 Exxons). The 170,000 tons of gold will be unchanged in size and still
incapable of producing anything. You can fondle the cube, but it will not
respond.
-- Warren Buffett channeling Frank Zappa to mock goldbugs.
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/02/09/warren-buffett-berkshire-shareholder-letter/
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What a difference a century makes:
Bowery \Bow"er*y\, a.
Characteristic of the street called the {Bowery}, in New York
city; swaggering; flashy.
[1913 Webster]
bowery
n 1: a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by
homeless derelicts
[WordNet 2006]
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<fuzzie> identi.ca does look surprisingly functional
<@sneakums> "It pumps your life in and out of your friends, family and colleagues."
<@sneakums> I... I don't think I want this?
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<dzho> the tahr . . . is it related to the . . . GNU?
<X11R5> Guile's become quite fucked up racist.
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<fuzzie> ok, I studied Ant Colony Optimization for a day, and now there are
ants all over my desk.
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<Octal> There but for the Wrath of Khan go I.
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<@Stereo> i used to post </td></tr> to end debates on a forum i posted on,
cause it would delete the 'reply' button
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<@sneakums> i think whoever designed this kirby game has watched a lot of
videos of those tree-eating machines
<@Screwtape> What, chainsaws?
<@sneakums> no no no
<@sneakums> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8874Lrull0
<@Screwtape> Well, that's terrifying.
<@Screwtape> So what you're saying is this Kirby game is ultra-efficient at
chewing you up and spitting you out in nice evenly-cut lengths?
<@sneakums> skip to about 30s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9ddJsuxS8g
<@sneakums> and man, kirby sure can drop down a ladder like a sailor
<@Screwtape> Ah, it's like the mega-mushroom in NSMB.
<@sneakums> i had totally forgotten about that
* sneakums runs around incinerating enemies
<@sneakums> this is like syndicate without the shrieking
<@sneakums> christ, now i'm manning a V2 launch site
<@sneakums> this game is GRIM
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Ah, this has been standing here for centuries. The premier work of man perhaps
in the whole Western world, and it's without a signature:
Chartres.
A celebration to God's glory and to the dignity of man. All that's left, most
artists seem to feel these days, is man. Naked, poor, forked radish. There
aren't any celebrations. Ours, the scientists keep telling us, is a universe
which is disposable.
You know, it might be just this one anonymous glory of all things -- this rich
stone forest, this epic chant, this gaiety, this grand, choiring shout of
affirmation, which we choose when all our cities are dust -- to stand intact,
to mark where we have been, to testify to what we had it in us to accomplish.
Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared. Some of them for a few
decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war or wear
away into the ultimate and universal ash. The triumphs and the frauds, the
treasures and the fakes.
A fact of life: we're going to die.
"Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will
all be silenced -- but what of it? Go on singing."
Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.
-- Orson Welles, in "F for Fake"
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Since 70% accidents in town are at junctions, why bother with cycle provision
in between if you can't sort the junctions?
-- https://twitter.com/mihe2000/status/584083164974448640
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No! let us rather choose,
Armed with Hell-flames and fury, all at once
O'er Heaven's high towers to force resistless way,
Turning our tortures into horrid arms
Against the Torturer; when, to meet the noise
Of his almighty engine, he shall hear
Infernal thunder, and, for lightning, see
Black fire and horror shot with equal rage
Among his Angels, and his throne itself
Mixed with Tartarean sulfur and strange fire,
His own invented torments.
-- Moloch, arguing to use the Abrahamic God's own torture devices
against him, and granting him the epithet of "The Torturer"
in Book II of Milton's Paradise Lost.
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"I'd be lost without a toilet to dispose of human waste."
-- Ira Glass
http://lifehacker.com/im-ira-glass-host-of-this-american-life-and-this-is-h-1609562031
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"A number of years ago I was working at a radio station in New York which is
now defunct called WRVR and I was assigned the job of cataloguing the record
collection, and they played mostly classical music. They had a jazz section,
but it was mostly classical music. I found myself in the basement in a room
full of records and I was supposed to type out a card for each of the
records. And I thought, well, I'll just use this opportunity to teach myself
musical history. So I began at the beginning of what they had which was a
couple of shelves of Gregorian chants. And so for two weeks I saturated
myself in that music, from nine o'clock in the morning until seven o'clock at
night, whenever I went home, listening to nothing but those tonalities.
"And then for some reason I had to go up to the control booth to ask Gordon,
the engineer, a question, so I ran up the stairs and opened the door to this
cacophony of sounds. And I had for a moment exactly what I imagine the people
at The Rite of Spring experienced, which was kind of a cognitive dissonance.
What is this? Why is this radio station playing this kind of musical
nonsense? I literally clapped my hands to my ears and said, 'Gordon, what is
this music?' And he casually leaned over and picked up the album, and it was
Bach's St Matthew Passion."
- Walter Murch, on that silly avant-garde noise JS Bach produced
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/making-radiolab/3014382
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15:22 <%eythian> I'm sitting at a table on a tram line drinking beers.
15:32 <%nemo> you win this round, eythian
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13:50 <+X11R5> Yesssss join me on my experience growing up in the dockerfile.
13:54 <%eythian> X11R5: no!
13:55 <+X11R5> eythian: Spiders it is, is a filter for git that allowed
schools to discriminate against me: [ ] yes [ ] no [ ] burn
cd.
13:55 <%eythian> X11R5: [X] burn cd.
13:55 <+X11R5> eythian: At least you can get cd players that work so i can
burn a cd.
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IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI
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But it is true that we have exchanged corpulence for starvation, and either one
will kill us. The lines of change are down. We, or at least I, can have no
conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years.
Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones
are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only
feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.
- John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley (1962)
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