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Author Topic: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread  (Read 934672 times)

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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4425 on: October 22, 2009, 09:29:43 PM »
I do not shit all over my Opus Magnum with my ass
I shit all over it with my word processor
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4426 on: October 23, 2009, 01:30:49 AM »
 :-D Launched at the end of November is a new device called Else and it's gonna rock the mobile phone arena!


« Last Edit: October 25, 2009, 05:05:42 AM by Morin »
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4427 on: October 23, 2009, 08:08:30 AM »
Worst spam ever.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4428 on: October 23, 2009, 09:36:07 AM »
Quote from: Morin on October 23, 2009, 01:30:49 AM
:-D Launched at the end of November is a new device called Else and it's gonna rock the mobile phone arena!

I'm not one of those idiots who has to justify their existence by running out and buying a new phone every two weeks, so kindly screw off.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4429 on: October 23, 2009, 11:21:31 AM »
B-b-b-but it's LINUX!

And you call yourselves geeks.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4430 on: October 23, 2009, 12:23:58 PM »
Well, one sweet link on frak today, at least: A rundown of our favourite internet laws on Telegraph.co.uk.

Number 6, "Danth's Law", was one I hadn't heard of:

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States: “If you have to insist that you've won an internet argument, you've probably lost badly.” Named after a user on the role-playing gamers’ forum RPG.net.

Danth’s Law was most famously declared in “The Lenski Affair”, between microbiologist Richard Lenski and the editor of Conservapedia.com, Andrew Schlafly, who cast doubt upon Prof Lenski’s elegant experimental demonstration of evolution.

After what is widely held to be one of the greatest and most comprehensive put-downs in scientific argument from Prof Lenski, Mr Schlafly declared himself the winner.

Here is the Schlafly/Lenski email exchange: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lenski_dialog. It's lengthy, but I haven't read anything this satisfying in a long time.

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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4431 on: October 23, 2009, 01:24:02 PM »
I don't see how Schlafly didn't just admit defeat after the second reply. That's epic.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4432 on: October 23, 2009, 01:32:06 PM »
Only two things are infinite.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4433 on: October 23, 2009, 02:37:19 PM »
Quote from: ivan on October 23, 2009, 12:23:58 PM
Well, one sweet link on frak today, at least: A rundown of our favourite internet laws on Telegraph.co.uk.

Number 6, "Danth's Law", was one I hadn't heard of:

Here is the Schlafly/Lenski email exchange: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lenski_dialog. It's lengthy, but I haven't read anything this satisfying in a long time.



PNAS LOL
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4434 on: October 23, 2009, 02:40:30 PM »
Quote from: xolik on October 23, 2009, 02:37:19 PM
PNAS LOL
I totally typed that and then deleted it before posting it.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4435 on: October 23, 2009, 02:49:04 PM »
Quote from: BizB on October 23, 2009, 02:40:30 PM
I totally typed that and then deleted it before posting it.

 :-P

That little exchange was a good read.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4436 on: October 28, 2009, 07:00:41 PM »
« Last Edit: October 28, 2009, 07:04:19 PM by xolik »
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4437 on: October 28, 2009, 07:16:24 PM »
Actually, it might make sense. Similar tactics are used are used in Iraq.

A day or two after 9/11 a Pakistani guy I know said, in effect, "This is not driven by fanaticism. This is driven by poverty. Where you have poverty, you have fanatics."

This won't cure poverty, but it might plant seeds of dissent.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4438 on: October 28, 2009, 11:30:07 PM »
Quote from: ivan on October 28, 2009, 07:16:24 PM
Actually, it might make sense. Similar tactics are used are used in Iraq.

A day or two after 9/11 a Pakistani guy I know said, in effect, "This is not driven by fanaticism. This is driven by poverty. Where you have poverty, you have fanatics."

This won't cure poverty, but it might plant seeds of dissent.


They'll be 'loyal' until the money runs out. I dunno, it just seems odd to me. We bailing out the Taliban now?
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4439 on: October 29, 2009, 02:06:32 PM »


WHO LOCKED THE PHOTOSHOP THREAD?

*grumble grumble grumble*
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4440 on: October 29, 2009, 02:18:51 PM »
I did, after I was declared the winner.

WINNAR IS ME!
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4441 on: October 29, 2009, 02:26:43 PM »
You won a PS contest with WORDS?

Awesome.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4442 on: October 29, 2009, 02:35:47 PM »
I don't make the rules.  I just win by them.

You need to talk to Demo if you have issues with the judging.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4443 on: October 29, 2009, 03:13:39 PM »
No issues.

But I think I can claim second place.


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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4444 on: October 29, 2009, 03:22:17 PM »
W00000000000TERZZZ!!!!!!

2ND!
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4445 on: October 29, 2009, 03:23:34 PM »
Heh. Opera makes it look weird.
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4446 on: October 29, 2009, 03:52:27 PM »
Quote from: ivan on October 29, 2009, 02:06:32 PM


WHO LOCKED THE PHOTOSHOP THREAD?

*grumble grumble grumble*

LOOOOL!!!
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4447 on: October 29, 2009, 05:01:28 PM »
I always thought that adding extra Os to lol was really dumb. what are you doing, laughing out out out out out loud?
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4448 on: October 29, 2009, 05:27:14 PM »
I think it's pronounced "lool", as in "drool".
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Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread
« Reply #4449 on: October 29, 2009, 11:45:08 PM »
or fool
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