Fri Mar 15 22:24:42 2002
It's getting so bad that I'm dreaming of another price comparison thread...
WHAT'S WEETH YOU PEOPLE!
ps I don't mean you people, I mean BF people.
Fri Mar 15 23:48:50 2002
other than that, I think the fact that were discussing bundled calculators and the same old public BSOD from a half a decade ago doesn't bode well for any prospects of finding any good weekend entertainment there.
Sat Mar 16 03:01:59 2002
from Jeremy Reimer posted at 4:24 pm on Mar. 15, 2002So what else is new? The BF is rarely worth the time these days.
There are NO GOOD THREADS in the Battlefront right now, other than ones I have started.
It's getting so bad that I'm dreaming of another price comparison thread...No, not that! You wouldn't!
Sat Mar 16 05:20:06 2002
And, I agree. I'm glad that an arogant, windows loving ass like yourself, has branched out, and tried different os.
There is hope for you yet...;-)
g
Sat Mar 16 07:28:27 2002
I only read it now to see the occasional Mac bash, and the Netscape 4.x thread; which has gone on far too long in itself.
Sat Mar 16 15:04:48 2002
Christ almighty, some of them are advocating NW 6! Assume the position, Netwarelots!
Sat Mar 16 17:54:21 2002
It's getting so bad that I'm dreaming of another price comparison thread...
Well, Mr. Miagi just started one a little while ago, so now you don't have to!
Sat Mar 16 18:21:05 2002
Sat Mar 16 23:27:04 2002
push_battlestyle(PeterB);Look harder.
pop();
Sun Mar 17 03:00:40 2002
Now nibs on the other hand... :shudder:
Sun Mar 17 03:45:08 2002
Now nibs on the other hand...
nibs scares me.
Sun Mar 17 04:11:42 2002
from Imitation Gruel posted at 10:45 pm on Mar. 16, 2002Now nibs on the other hand...nibs scares me.
He recently referred to OSX as "the one true os." I find I have a hard time taking anything he says seriously, even if he stumbles onto something that, albeit coincidental, is correct. His reputation precludes him. ;)
Sun Mar 17 04:33:36 2002
My company is in deep shitora and I may have to look for more work soon. I need all the advice I can get. I don't want to do programming. :(
Sun Mar 17 16:42:05 2002
Sun Mar 17 18:21:22 2002
Sun Mar 17 21:47:12 2002
EM: When isn't he on the pipe? ;) (In the BF, of course.)
Sun Mar 17 22:39:47 2002
Paul, what does your new job entail? Do you do programming, admin, etc?
Almost entirely development, but now I do System Architecture, which means i have little boxes that I spec out and get other people to do. It's probably the long slow road to me becoming a non-technical fathead like MWNH.
Sun Mar 17 23:19:14 2002
from PaulHill posted at 5:39 pm on Mar. 17, 2002It's probably the long slow road to me becoming a non-technical fathead like MWNH.
Hm. That sounds damning. ;)
Mon Mar 18 12:35:10 2002
M.
Mon Mar 18 13:02:04 2002
It is a troll pit of festering morons.
Mon Mar 18 15:02:43 2002
Mon Mar 18 15:05:09 2002
(Edited by DrPizza at 3:06 pm on Mar. 18, 2002)
Mon Mar 18 15:14:34 2002
Mon Mar 18 15:26:30 2002
poptones.respect points = -all (x) IF x>0
Mon Mar 18 15:28:49 2002
The world will be a better place.
Mon Mar 18 15:31:01 2002
I say we put Poptones, Nibs, BEIGE, Fester and HitMan all in the same room and then drop a diasy cutter on them.The world will be a better place.
You'll get no argument from me. But what's a "diasy cutter"?
Mon Mar 18 15:34:44 2002
A big fucking FAE bomb.
Mon Mar 18 15:41:54 2002
A big fucking FAE bomb.
I will take that to mean a powerful explosive, which would logically annihilate them provided it's detonated in a confined area.
No argument here.
Mon Mar 18 16:51:36 2002
from Evil Merlin posted at 10:34 am on Mar. 18, 2002
Sorry it's a Daisy Cutter.A big fucking FAE bomb.
IIRC, doesn't it take out everything within something like a 100-yard radius? My only exposure to it has been from CNN using it as the latest buzz phrase, sorry.
Mon Mar 18 18:25:33 2002
Basiclly how a daisy cutter works (the actual designation is the BLU-82). The daisy cutter is a 15,000 pound "conventional" bomb. It's so fuckign big, not a lot of planes can carry, let alone drop the mother fucker. The warhead contains 12,600 pounds ammonium nitrate, aluminum powder, and polystyrene. Using special instruments the bomb plane sets the bomb before dropping it. It's most important to take into consideration air speed, air density, ambient air tempeature, and such. At a set altitude the bomb starts "spraying" this mixture in VERY fine bursts and sprays. Then it is ignited. BOOOOOM! The Daisy cutter can create an overpressure of 1,000 psi; humans can endure 40 psi. Anything within 300-1000 feet is blown flatter than flat. Best thing is too... no crater.
Oh yeah it is rather cheap too, to make one of these things only cost the tax payers a bit less than $30,000. Compare that to a BGM-109 Tomahawk which usually carries a conventional bomb now, and costs just about 1.5 million bucks. Or the AGM-136 Tacit Rainbow (air launched cruise missle) which costs you about 1/4th of a million (if it ever gets made).
Mon Mar 18 18:49:22 2002
A perfectly "nice" thread until Ventroll rears his ugly and brutally moronic head:
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=48409524&m=1460913304
Or prowlerguy?
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=48409524&m=6570900404
This idiot should be banned. This thread *should* be locked.
What about this comedy gold?
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=48409524&m=5270949404
M.
Mon Mar 18 19:08:00 2002
EDIT: Madan, those threads are not even remotely funny. They should not be locked, they should be beshamed.
ENTERTAIN ME, DAMNIT!
Mon Mar 18 19:37:00 2002
Hey man, we got the nuke first, why not be the best at something?
What is Canada the best at anyways?
Mon Mar 18 21:07:49 2002
And comedy.
Mon Mar 18 22:14:42 2002
Hockey, duh.And comedy.
Hockey, that's probably true,
but comedy, I'd have to give it to the British. :)
Tue Mar 19 01:08:08 2002
Since when? Most Canadians come down to America to play...
=)
Tue Mar 19 09:40:40 2002
from Evil Merlin posted at 3:14 pm on Mar. 18, 2002
Ars seems to be going downhill. I have been a supporter for a LONG time, but I just pulled my Subscription last week. Unless Ceasar and crew clean it up I am going to just forget it even exists.
:rolleyes:
Clean up *what*?
I don't see you e-mailing mods@arstechnica.com over problems you have. If you don't speak, you have no voice, and no-one knows that the hell your problems are.
Wed Mar 20 03:42:50 2002
Wed Mar 20 04:47:48 2002
I think EM means that the peeps that now populate the BF are not contributing towards an interesting debatable platform.
Besides, other then price performance ratio, and some quirks in OS X, the debate for which platform is better has become futile at best since any platform are almost equal in function and form.
Thu Mar 21 00:41:46 2002
Congratulations PeterB: a major clean up effort has succeeded.
EM: You were loosing it anyway. Even mentioning buying an iMac, and all the fruity reasons you gave.
We all know the REAL reason: Why don't you admit you are coming out of the closet?
s
Thu Mar 21 00:46:57 2002
I never once mentioned buying an iMac or G3/4. I have, however been looking for one to replace one for a friend.
Now kindly fuck off and die.
(Edited by Evil Merlin at 2:27 am on Mar. 21, 2002)
Thu Mar 21 21:53:29 2002
They always make me giggle.
Thu Mar 21 23:22:45 2002
They're going to sue Microsoft for <DrEvil>One Million Dollars</DrEvil> and then use their new fortune to buy back the assets from Palm, re-start the company, release BeOS v6 with BONE and OpenGL and proper networking and 3D browser windows and TAKE OVER THE WORLD WITH OPERA!!!1111
Fri Mar 22 04:21:09 2002
Fri Mar 22 05:57:28 2002
What's up with your hatred of all things ifruity???
I'm glad you are here, making obscene comments, because here, your sorry ass is mine, since there aren't any moderators likely to cover your foul comments, like Peter, and MWNH did in ARS.
However, I perfer the high road here, and don't really want to get into some sort of obscenity conflict with your happy arse. I don't know why, but, perhaps it's a new found respect for JR, since he bought an ibook.
s
Fri Mar 22 06:00:36 2002
At least if you are going to bitch so much about em, have lost money, time, or some sort of resource, so you have ACTUAL harm.
You know, something like buying a 3 grand g3, on the promise that the computer would be OS X compatible, and having apple turn around, and screw you in the arse on it...
Same with the 540 c, and, same with a Lombard.
When's Job's lieing? When his mouth is moving...
gs
Fri Mar 22 06:03:55 2002
I never once mentioned buying an iMac or G3/4. I have, however been looking for one to replace one for a friend.
Now kindly fuck off and die.
"
EM: we have 12 step programs for such denial. Admit you need to come out of the closet, and we will forgive you.
Is it the new Jobs Dildo design that did you in?
Or, the new imac reminds you have Linda Lovelace???
Whatever, ....
gs
Fri Mar 22 10:24:50 2002
I'm a lesbian.
There I am out of the closet.
Fri Mar 22 17:45:33 2002
I'm a lesbian.
Fri Mar 22 20:05:10 2002
when I was in college, before the whole college scene got the whole politically correct thing going, I had a black teeshirt that said Lesbian and Proud on the front and the pink upsidedown triangle on the back.
Fri Mar 22 20:26:20 2002
said Lesbian and Proud on the front and the pink upsidedown triangle on the back.
Fri Mar 22 21:38:58 2002
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