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Re: And this is what is called a SPANK

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On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:06:47 -0400, kensi wrote:
> On 18/07/2012 9:11 PM, Nadegda wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:44:12 -0400, kensi wrote:
>>> And an even bigger meltdown *last* night. What did you do to get
>>> Account Banned into such a lather?
>>
>> I honestly don't know. I didn't aim anything particularly pointy at
>> him. I think he's very protective of Ferd, or possibly even that twat
>> Morphy.
> 
> Maybe he's Morphy's father. I can't imagine anyone else feeling 
> protective of *that* jerk than a family member.

"A Usenet face only a mother could love"?

>>> He'd been dropping a few Elbereth-laced kookfarts a day for a while,
>>> but suddenly, last night, some sort of busted containment vessel? And
>>> the steam explosion sprayed froth into a whole bunch of other
>>> newsgroups too!
>>
>> Believe me, I noticed.
> 
> Less activity last night from *all* of them. Their behavior is clearly 
> coordinated. (Or they're all sockp....nah, that's their insane
> delusion. Best not to fall into that trap.)

Or albasani closed the door in their faces in mid-meltdown ... except 
that I think I've seen albasani posts that were made later.

>>>>> So, what's wrong with Java, exactly?
>>>>
>>>> Well, one way to put it is that writing a compilable "Hello, World"
>>>> program in it immediately puts you in contention for a Unabomber
>>>> Surprise award here.
>>>
>>> Ouch. I don't suppose the opposite extreme also occurs -- concise but
>>> unreadably dense and abbreviated?
>>
>> But of course! That one's called perl. ;)
> 
> Wow, even the name is pointlessly abbreviated to be missing one vowel. 
> Does it date back to when machines had a few KB of core and even one 
> byte of extra computer code could be a storage problem?

Of course not. Not that that would have been an excuse even so. The old 
Commodore VIC-20 had a BASIC interpreter and that language had full, 
readable keywords like PRINT rather than abbreviated garbage like, say, 
PRN. Commodore employed a clever trick: BASIC programs were stored (on 
disk and in memory) *compressed*, with all of the common keywords 
replaced with graphics characters with the high bit set. So, they were 
abbreviated when the program was stored and manipulated *under the hood*, 
but the source code the user worked with was nice and readable.

If they could figure out how to have their cake and eat it too in that 
manner 30 years or so ago for a *toy computer*, they sure as hell could 
have for all the tiny computers used for *real business*, nevermind for 
modern machines with generous memory and disk space.

> [thoolen]
>>> He's ba-aaaack!
>>
>> And given Morphy another ass-paddling too, the same screeder I lit a
>> cherry bomb under last night. Thoolen definitely believes in
>> thoroughness -- that it's already been blown away doesn't matter to
>> him, he has to dissect it piece by piece and declare it all to be
>> wrong, delusional, ironic, and etc. :)
> 
> He's relentless. To Morphy he must be like the Terminator come to get 
> him. Here's a Morphy gem from last night:
> 
> thus all your gyro spin-outs are deleted, no bodies retrieved.
> that practise denies your BS cluttering up hits on grep search for
> posts.
> 
> "gyro" here appears to refer to thoolen's Gyromitra nym of last night 
> (another mushroom species, natch). So Morphy is basically admitting to 
> the cowardly snip of dozens of entire news articles in one go, here, in 
> preference to facing the Thoolenator in combat.

Maybe Morphy ought to be nominated for Coward of the ... hrm, 
interesting, seems he already has. By me. And nobody has seconded it 
yet. ;)

>>> Oh, don't worry. I've run into *that* site before. Bookmarked for
>>> sometime around Christmas, or maybe Doomsday, or whenever I get the
>>> time.
>>
>> Whew! Thought I might've lost you there for a minute. :)
> 
> You're not getting rid of me *that* easily, sister!

:)

>> On the other hand, maybe one of the kooks around here'll trip over that
>> link like a land mine and be out of the action for a week or so. That'd
>> be convenient.
> 
> And no doubt you intended that to be one of the possible consequences 
> all along.

Of course.

> Fortunate that thoolen's disappearance for a day didn't turn 
> out to be your link-mine claiming a friendly fire casualty.

Thoolen's such a Determinator, he'd have plowed through the entire site 
in mere hours and been back even if he did step on it, which he therefore 
very well might have.

Uh-oh, I think I just did it again. Argh ...

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  Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-16 03:04 +0000
  Re: And this is what is called a SPANK ent0loma <ent.0_l0m-4@gmail.com> - 2012-07-16 02:08 -0400
    Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-16 07:27 +0000
      Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-16 13:07 -0400
        Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-16 22:06 +0000
          Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-17 15:57 -0400
            Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-17 21:40 +0000
              Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-18 16:44 -0400
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-19 01:11 +0000
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-19 03:18 +0000
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-19 16:06 -0400
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-19 23:55 +0000
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-19 20:36 -0400
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-20 01:26 +0000
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-19 23:59 -0400
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-20 04:44 +0000
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK "%" <persent@gmail.com> - 2012-07-19 21:55 -0700
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-20 03:09 -0400
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK [Tor] Phoenix <tahosa@usa.TAKETHISOUT.net> - 2012-07-20 04:30 +0000
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-20 00:38 -0400
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-07-20 04:58 +0000
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                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-20 05:55 +0000
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