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2600: The Hacker Quarterly is an American publication that specializes in publishing technical information on a variety of subjects including telephone switching systems, Internet protocols and services, as well as general news concerning the computer "underground" and left wing, and sometimes (but not recently), anarchist issues snype
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Jonny 290 posted:2600: The Hacker Quarterly is an American publication that specializes in publishing technical information on a variety of subjects including telephone switching systems, Internet protocols and services, as well as general news concerning the computer "underground" and left wing, and sometimes (but not recently), anarchist issues I have a friend who literally still goes to their meetings.
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# ? Mar 14, 2011 15:07 |
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my friend from college used to host 2600 meetings. he also carried a printed out copy of the jargon file everywhere with him, and was an ordained subgenius minister.
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Sweevo posted:my friend from college used to host 2600 meetings. he also carried a printed out copy of the jargon file everywhere with him, and was an ordained subgenius minister. your friend huh
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poo poo i've been rumbled, it was me all along. *invites 10 greaseball strangers into his house* *performs discordian wedding*
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i always thought discordianism was a bit more chill than subgenius
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lazar wulf posted:imitation dews: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_citrus_sodas Hillbilly Holler Hillbilly Holler is a generic version of Mountain Dew sold at Fareway stores under the Fastco brand name. Rather than being a direct play on the name Mountain Dew, this name and some other generics make reference to the song, Good Old Mountain Dew, which praises the moonshine brewed in the Appalachian Mountains. Hillbilly and Holler are words referring to Appalachian Mountain life. The taste falls somewhere between Mello Yello and Mountain Dew.
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# ? Mar 15, 2011 09:02 |
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quote:Types of Satire
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# ? Mar 15, 2011 19:45 |
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Has anyone mentioned the Scotch Wiki yet http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Spellin Here at Wikipaedia it's recommendit that fowk uises "tradeetional" pan-dialect spellins. Awtho thir isna sae strict as in Inglis we ettle tae come up wi writin that's easy tae read an can be soondit bi readers in thair ain dialect. Ae thing tae mynd is that maist fowk that kens better disna uise the apologetic apostrophe onymair. Mair oot ower evyte slang in an encyclopaedia. O coorse maist awbody haesna been teached siclike at the schuil but wi practice it shoudna be ower deeficult. A wheen resoorces is aboot that expounds on whit "tradeetional" spellins is an hou tae applee thaim in a conseestant mainer. We ettle tae follae the wey set oot bi the Report an Recommends o the Scots Spellin Comatee, itherwise kent as the RRSSC. Fowk that writes airticles but disna hae the Scots can eik the {{fixscots}} template or the {{Translation}} template.
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Ae thing tae mynd is that maist fowk that kens better disna uise the apologetic apostrophe onymair
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http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_that_wis_written_by_a_body_that's_mither_tongue_isna_Scots gently caress yes: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/sco/e/e5/ScotlandSCO.ogg somebody who certainly isn't a true scotsman who can't speak worth a gently caress reading the Scotland article! also here's a word-for-word spoken version of the GFDL, it's terrible. like really bad http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/GFDL_%28English%29.ogg
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# ? Mar 15, 2011 22:26 |
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it's nice to see the demoman from tf2 has a side hobby of editing wikipedia pages
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# ? Mar 15, 2011 22:32 |
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its cute the way the scotch make out like that's a real language so they can pretend to have a culture that doesn't involve heroin and deep-frying
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# ? Mar 15, 2011 22:48 |
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quote:I am a fairly advanced end-user running WinXP Pro SP3 on a six-year old fairly powerful quite standard Win PC. A new ATI video card required .NET 2.0 for it's "Catalyst" drivers so I tried it. Next I was bedeviled by error messages that were indecipherable (it had made at least 100 registry entries). So not knowing what to do, I uninstalled both .NET 2.0 and the ATI catalyst drivers. Someone who thinks they are a writer posted:My Firefox browser informed me today that Microsoft had installed an add-on to the browser I am using. I did not ask for it. But is that not the usual modus operandi of this rapacious company? I am not a techie, a programmer, or any other sort of computer geek. However, I am a writer, and quite a good one. In my occupation I take complex situations or topics and make them readable and understandable. Now here I was, labouring under the received wisdom that Wikipedia could possibly provide me with a clear and understandable article about the .NET Framework, specifically why I, as a layman with no interest in programming, should require it to take up so much space, so surreptitiously, on my computer. What I read is opaque, nearly impenetrable jargon that - in those sections that are understandable to a non-programmer - sounds like an angel chorus singing its praises.
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Sweevo posted:its cute the way the scotch make out like that's a real language so they can pretend to have a culture that doesn't involve heroin and deep-frying yeah but have you tried the fried heroin? it's fabulous
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# ? Mar 15, 2011 23:45 |
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but i thought joan of arc was french?
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Someone who thinks they are a writer posted:My Firefox browser informed me today that Microsoft had installed an add-on to the browser I am using. I did not ask for it. But is that not the usual modus operandi of this rapacious company? I am not a techie, a programmer, or any other sort of computer geek. However, I am a writer, and quite a good one. In my occupation I take complex situations or topics and make them readable and understandable. Now here I was, labouring under the received wisdom that Wikipedia could possibly provide me with a clear and understandable article about the .NET Framework, specifically why I, as a layman with no interest in programming, should require it to take up so much space, so surreptitiously, on my computer. What I read is opaque, nearly impenetrable jargon that - in those sections that are understandable to a non-programmer - sounds like an angel chorus singing its praises. quote:Now here I was, labouring under the received wisdom that Wikipedia could possibly provide me with a clear and understandable article about the .NET Framework, specifically why I, as a layman with no interest in programming, should require it to take up so much space, so surreptitiously, on my computer. Look at this sentence. A writer wrote this sentence.
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# ? Mar 15, 2011 23:56 |
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I don't think he knows what commas are actually for.
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# ? Mar 15, 2011 23:58 |
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idk man, the commas look appropriate to me. the only thing that seems wrong about the sentence is the "specifically why I" (specifically why i what?)
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Hammerite posted:idk man, the commas look appropriate to me. the only thing that seems wrong about the sentence is the "specifically why I" (specifically why i what?) specifically, "why i oughta..."
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Hammerite posted:idk man, the commas look appropriate to me. the only thing that seems wrong about the sentence is the "specifically why I" (specifically why i what?) It's appropriate right up until about three commas in, at which point it becomes really loving excessive. There are six commas in what could easily be expressed more clearly in two or three sentences.
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Hammerite posted:idk man, the commas look appropriate to me. the only thing that seems wrong about the sentence is the "specifically why I" (specifically why i what?) my brain keeps bailing on parsing it around "labouring under the received wisdom that Wikipedia could possibly provide me with a clear and understandable article about the .NET Framework" it's missing a word or has an extra or idk
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JawnV6 posted:my brain keeps bailing on parsing it around "labouring under the received wisdom that Wikipedia could possibly provide me with a clear and understandable article about the .NET Framework" Purple prose is a term of literary criticism used to describe passages, or sometimes entire literary works, written in prose so overly extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw attention to itself. Purple prose is sensually evocative beyond the requirements of its context. It also refers to writing that employs certain rhetorical effects such as exaggerated sentiment or pathos in an attempt to manipulate a reader's response.
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Sweevo posted:its cute the way the scotch make out like that's a real language so they can pretend to have a culture that doesn't involve heroin and deep-frying no you see the spelling "mynd" somehow reflects things about scotch pronunciation that "mind" does not
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# ? Mar 16, 2011 01:15 |
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the things you say your purple prose just gives you away the things you say you're unbelievable
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Eegah posted:the things heh
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Eegah posted:the things Whoa
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Nevergirls posted:I have a friend who literally still goes to their meetings. i remember that the meetings near me printed in the back and said to be "at the mall in the food court by the big clock"
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oh i didnt know there was a term for that, tyvm
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# ? Mar 16, 2011 03:28 |
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Eegah posted:the things a record executive swam across a lake naked at 3 AM to sign that lovely band
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Sweevo posted:its cute the way the scotch make out like that's a real language so they can pretend to have a culture that doesn't involve heroin and deep-frying and making GBS threads in the world's worst toilets
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# ? Mar 16, 2011 04:38 |
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Luigi Thirty posted:and making GBS threads in the world's worst toilets whats up with the toilets are they worse then the german poopshelf ones or what
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Barack Pwnbama posted:whats up with the toilets
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Luigi Thirty posted:oh i see a man bites ur balls when ur shittin i havent seen trainspottin yet
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# ? Mar 16, 2011 05:00 |
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Barack Pwnbama posted:oh i see a man bites ur balls when ur shittin its me
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TOOT BOOT posted:its me ur gross
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Barack Pwnbama posted:
the book is great and after reading it you'll be nearly ready to read sco.wikipedia.org and understand it
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Nevergirls posted:the book is great and after reading it you'll be nearly ready to read sco.wikipedia.org and understand it i read filth and must have been two hundred pages into it before i finally figured out what fitbah was
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DaTroof posted:i read filth and must have been two hundred pages into it before i finally figured out what fitbah was http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitba also lol http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#OUTRAGED
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A'v ne'er unnerstuid ootrage aboot Scots projects like this Wikipedia. Thinkin the hail thing's stupit an a waste o time is ae thing, A'll no begrudge fowk an opeenion aboot thon, but actively wastin emotional energy on gettin angry aboot it? Dinna see why a body'd fash thairsels aboot that tae be honest. (A unnerstaund oor contreebutor abuin thinks he's bein satirical but A'v seen ither fowk get angry aboot Scots afore.) Mendor 17:11, 26 November 2007 (UTC) People get angry. Mendor, because they are threatened by it. BryanAJParry
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