A Toast to Banned and Disappeared Posters

[stefano]

compared2what? - sorry to see you go again and very sorry I started my last post to you with "bullshit". Cheers to a happy 2011.

[Joe Hillshoist]

For some reason dugoboy popped into my head today.

[nathan28]

Percival, is that you?

Huh. So a hardcore hacker who carried on a lengthy coorespondance with one of the world's most notorious terrorists just got scared off by a nice lady from our forum.

I guess 4chan ain't makin' 'em like they used to.

[JackRiddler]

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Huh. So a hardcore hacker who carried on a lengthy coorespondance with one of the world's most notorious terrorists just got scared off by a nice lady from our forum.

I guess 4chan ain't makin' 'em like they used to.

You know you probably killed her when you called her a "nice lady." Bastard.

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[lupercal]

I am just here to chat like anyone else but when I see peopel saying things about the org that are clearly not true I need to correct that, especially now when the org is being villified and made out to be something other than what it is.

Above all else we care about human rights and protecting them for all people no matter who they are or where they live, when we see abuse of those rights or corruption among those who are charged with protecting those rights, WE WILL EXPOSE IT AND WE WILL DO SO IN A WAY THAT WILL MAKE YOU THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU DO IT AGAIN.

Hack

Percy, we hardly knew ye.

[lupercal]

Is this elsewhere on the Web? Are we actually breaking stories on this thread?

[JackRiddler]

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Apparently this is the place for Flamewar by Other Means, and/or Slowdogs Who Wish They Ran At All.

Anyway, questions:

1. What's the case that Hacktivist = Percival, and do I care?

2. Are we allowed to anticipate toasts to the banned and disappeared of the future? 'Cos that could make for a really lively thread, you know?

3. Or should we just do an annual ostracism thread, like in ancient Athens? The mob casts stone ballots (into a box, not at a human target) and whoever gets the most votes is exiled for 10 years! Yay!

(You know I'd be a contender. Thucydides was the winner one year early in the Peloponesian Wars, the knowledge of which makes reading his history of it all the more interesting.)

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[nathan28]

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Apparently this is the place for Flamewar by Other Means, and/or Slowdogs Who Wish They Ran At All.

Anyway, questions:

1. What's the case that Hacktivist = Percival, and do I care?

2. Are we allowed to anticipate toasts to the banned and disappeared of the future? 'Cos that could make for a really lively thread, you know?

3. Or should we just do an annual ostracism thread, like in ancient Athens? The mob casts stone ballots (into a box, not at a human target) and whoever gets the most votes is exiled for 10 years! Yay!

(You know I'd be a contender. Thucydides was the winner one year early in the Peloponesian Wars, the knowledge of which makes reading his history of it all the more interesting.)

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No, apparently the Percival connection is at present unfounded, though both shared a fondness for the writings of Ted Kaczynski and resorted to the "inside knowledge I can't tell you about" thing.

[Jeff]

Point taken, Jack. Let's keep the thread toasty, not flamey.

[lupercal]

Point taken, Jack. Let's keep the thread toasty, not flamey.

Oh dang. I was just getting started. But of course you're right Jeff so in that vein,

A frosty toast to all once and future B, D, & SPP!

[Project Willow]

No, apparently the Percival connection is at present unfounded, though both shared a fondness for the writings of Ted Kaczynski and resorted to the "inside knowledge I can't tell you about" thing.

Don't forget the easily wounded journalist who likes to dis RI bit.

Here's a wee (and somewhat entertaining) lesson in trolling, dig how she roils it up in the comment section:

http://www.theladiesmonthly.com/2010/07/how-to-set-your-gay-daughter-straight/

[norton ash]

Since someone will forever be surprising
A hunger in himself to be more serious,
And gravitating with it to this ground,
Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in,
If only that so many dead lie round.

Yeah, cheers! To all the dead and missing.

[catbirdsteed]

I'd delete my account now, at the rate this is going, but than I would (presumably) lose the ability to delete all or any of my posts. I certainly would not want to ask the mods to do so. Oh well, back to lurking!

[§ê¢rꆧ]

Actually catbirdsteed, I think the ability to edit posts after a short window of time has been rescinded, in the interests of maintaining continuity of discussion, I believe. So either way you can't delete what you've said.

Still, I hope you don't leave, I have enjoyed your threads and posts. There's nothing wrong with lurking. A toast to all the lurkers!

[mentalgongfu2]

I'm still alive, in case anyone was wondering.

Computer died in November and I have thus far chosen not to fix it because I am about 1000 percent more productive and have been playing music again after a long break. It's amazing what a person can find time for when the only media appliance in the home is a radio/cd player.