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Trolls?

Started by	"gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid>
First post	2016-07-06 08:17 +0100
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  Trolls? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-07-06 08:17 +0100
    Re: Trolls? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-07-06 11:51 +0200
      Re: Trolls? The New Other Guy <Newsgnus@gmail.com> - 2016-07-06 03:00 -0700
        Re: Trolls? Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2016-07-06 11:53 +0100
          Re: Trolls? Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2016-07-06 12:25 +0100
            Re: Trolls? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-07-06 12:24 -0500
          Re: Trolls? Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-07-06 12:12 +0000
          Re: Trolls? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-07-06 19:20 +0200
            Re: Trolls? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-07-07 01:39 +0000
              Re: Trolls? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-07-07 12:52 +0000
                Re: Trolls? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-07-07 18:13 +0000
                Re: Trolls? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-07-07 12:15 -0700
                  Re: Trolls? Michael LeVine <mlevinespmfltr@redshift.com> - 2016-07-08 03:02 -0700
                  Re: Trolls? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-07-08 12:18 +0000
                  Re: Trolls? "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-07-08 14:45 +0100
    Re: Trolls? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-07-06 11:12 -0700
      Re: Trolls? mausg@mail.com - 2016-07-06 20:54 +0000
        Re: Trolls? Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2016-07-06 15:53 -0700
    Re: Trolls? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-07-06 11:16 -0700
      Re: Trolls? Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> - 2016-07-07 02:17 +0100

#166751 — Trolls?

From	"gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid>
Date	2016-07-06 08:17 +0100
Subject	Trolls?
Message-ID	<nlibb5$4a1$1@dont-email.me>

Perhaps the real trolls in this NG are those who pollute it with
OT posts about politics and not we who discuss computers
and computing personalities?

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#166765

From	Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid>
Date	2016-07-06 11:51 +0200
Message-ID	<0u0v4d-694.ln1@sambook.reistad.name>
In reply to	#166751

In article <nlibb5$4a1$1@dont-email.me>,
gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote:
>Perhaps the real trolls in this NG are those who pollute it with
>OT posts about politics and not we who discuss computers
>and computing personalities?

Welcome to the home of thread drift. 

The threads will get back to computers. Just wait.

-- mrr

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#166772

From	The New Other Guy <Newsgnus@gmail.com>
Date	2016-07-06 03:00 -0700
Message-ID	<2llpnb1d2qt6c6bmptpblthn3u3tpi7ppl@4ax.com>
In reply to	#166765

On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 11:51:28 +0200, Morten Reistad
<first@last.name.invalid> wrote:

>In article <nlibb5$4a1$1@dont-email.me>,
>gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote:
>>Perhaps the real trolls in this NG are those who pollute it with
>>OT posts about politics and not we who discuss computers
>>and computing personalities?
>
>Welcome to the home of thread drift. 
>
>The threads will get back to computers. Just wait.

Yeah, in mid November and later..

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#166774

From	Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com>
Date	2016-07-06 11:53 +0100
Message-ID	<mnopnbl4f7l0vbrallo1qq6e9lnjfl7dpa@4ax.com>
In reply to	#166772

On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 03:00:34 -0700, The New Other Guy
<Newsgnus@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 11:51:28 +0200, Morten Reistad
><first@last.name.invalid> wrote:
>
>>In article <nlibb5$4a1$1@dont-email.me>,
>>gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote:
>>>Perhaps the real trolls in this NG are those who pollute it with
>>>OT posts about politics and not we who discuss computers
>>>and computing personalities?
>>
>>Welcome to the home of thread drift. 
>>
>>The threads will get back to computers. Just wait.
>
>Yeah, in mid November and later..
>

What happens in mid November?

Steve

-- 
Neural Network Software for Windows                 http://www.npsnn.com

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#166776

From	Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com>
Date	2016-07-06 12:25 +0100
Message-ID	<jISdnRr0T5Afd-HKnZ2dnUU78R2dnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to	#166774

On 06/07/2016 11:53, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 03:00:34 -0700, The New Other Guy
> <Newsgnus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 11:51:28 +0200, Morten Reistad
>> <first@last.name.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <nlibb5$4a1$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote:
>>>> Perhaps the real trolls in this NG are those who pollute it with
>>>> OT posts about politics and not we who discuss computers
>>>> and computing personalities?
>>>
>>> Welcome to the home of thread drift.
>>>
>>> The threads will get back to computers. Just wait.
>>
>> Yeah, in mid November and later..
>>
>
> What happens in mid November?
>
> Steve
>
The Americans replace their President in mid November.

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#166809

From	JimP <solosam90@gmail.com>
Date	2016-07-06 12:24 -0500
Message-ID	<bkfqnbljodaev5ct0uagovfahto1ju0jdm@4ax.com>
In reply to	#166776

On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 12:25:20 +0100, Andrew Swallow
<am.swallow@btinternet.com> wrote:

>On 06/07/2016 11:53, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
>> On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 03:00:34 -0700, The New Other Guy
>> <Newsgnus@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 11:51:28 +0200, Morten Reistad
>>> <first@last.name.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <nlibb5$4a1$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>> gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> Perhaps the real trolls in this NG are those who pollute it with
>>>>> OT posts about politics and not we who discuss computers
>>>>> and computing personalities?
>>>>
>>>> Welcome to the home of thread drift.
>>>>
>>>> The threads will get back to computers. Just wait.
>>>
>>> Yeah, in mid November and later..
>>>
>>
>> What happens in mid November?
>>
>> Steve
>>
>The Americans replace their President in mid November.

No, we select Electors, who then vote. Their ballots are opened later,
and the person they elect to President is sworn in January, 2017.

-- 
JimP.

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#166780

From	Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid>
Date	2016-07-06 12:12 +0000
Message-ID	<20160706081004@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to	#166774

On 2016-07-06, Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> wrote:
> What happens in mid November?

The don to head up the criminal enterprise known as the "federal
government" is chosen. (Elected gangsters are still gangsters and the
lesser of two evils, if there is one, is still evil.)

-- 
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#166806

From	Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid>
Date	2016-07-06 19:20 +0200
Message-ID	<a8rv4d-sms.ln1@sambook.reistad.name>
In reply to	#166774

In article <mnopnbl4f7l0vbrallo1qq6e9lnjfl7dpa@4ax.com>,
Stephen Wolstenholme  <steve@easynn.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 03:00:34 -0700, The New Other Guy
><Newsgnus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 11:51:28 +0200, Morten Reistad
>><first@last.name.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>In article <nlibb5$4a1$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote:
>>>>Perhaps the real trolls in this NG are those who pollute it with
>>>>OT posts about politics and not we who discuss computers
>>>>and computing personalities?
>>>
>>>Welcome to the home of thread drift. 
>>>
>>>The threads will get back to computers. Just wait.
>>
>>Yeah, in mid November and later..
>>
>
>What happens in mid November?

This thread will come back to computers. Possibly for the nth time.

-- mrr

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#166831

From	Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Date	2016-07-07 01:39 +0000
Message-ID	<nlkbsp0jee@news3.newsguy.com>
In reply to	#166806

On 2016-07-06, Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> wrote:

> In article <mnopnbl4f7l0vbrallo1qq6e9lnjfl7dpa@4ax.com>,
> Stephen Wolstenholme  <steve@easynn.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 03:00:34 -0700, The New Other Guy
>> <Newsgnus@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 11:51:28 +0200, Morten Reistad
>>> <first@last.name.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <nlibb5$4a1$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>> gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps the real trolls in this NG are those who pollute it with
>>>>> OT posts about politics and not we who discuss computers
>>>>> and computing personalities?
>>>>
>>>> Welcome to the home of thread drift. 
>>>>
>>>> The threads will get back to computers. Just wait.
>>>
>>> Yeah, in mid November and later..
>>
>>What happens in mid November?
>
> This thread will come back to computers. Possibly for the nth time.

I think there'll be about a month of Trump jokes first.

-- 
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#166845

From	jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date	2016-07-07 12:52 +0000
Message-ID	<PM0005370AE720D8CE@aca40f79.ipt.aol.com>
In reply to	#166831

Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2016-07-06, Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> wrote:
>
>> In article <mnopnbl4f7l0vbrallo1qq6e9lnjfl7dpa@4ax.com>,
>> Stephen Wolstenholme  <steve@easynn.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 03:00:34 -0700, The New Other Guy
>>> <Newsgnus@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 11:51:28 +0200, Morten Reistad
>>>> <first@last.name.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In article <nlibb5$4a1$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>> gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Perhaps the real trolls in this NG are those who pollute it with
>>>>>> OT posts about politics and not we who discuss computers
>>>>>> and computing personalities?
>>>>>
>>>>> Welcome to the home of thread drift.
>>>>>
>>>>> The threads will get back to computers. Just wait.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, in mid November and later..
>>>
>>>What happens in mid November?
>>
>> This thread will come back to computers. Possibly for the nth time.
>
> I think there'll be about a month of Trump jokes first.

Which will be Hillaryious.

/BAH

>

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#166860

From	Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Date	2016-07-07 18:13 +0000
Message-ID	<nlm64k01jis@news3.newsguy.com>
In reply to	#166845

On 2016-07-07, jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:

> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On 2016-07-06, Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <mnopnbl4f7l0vbrallo1qq6e9lnjfl7dpa@4ax.com>,
>>> Stephen Wolstenholme  <steve@easynn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What happens in mid November?
>>>
>>> This thread will come back to computers. Possibly for the nth time.
>>
>> I think there'll be about a month of Trump jokes first.
>
> Which will be Hillaryious.

<snicker>

-- 
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#166863

From	Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net>
Date	2016-07-07 12:15 -0700
Message-ID	<5hatnbhpp9c42mcoh525cgskejjvvt3t7t@4ax.com>
In reply to	#166845

On 7 Jul 2016 12:52:07 GMT, jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:

[snip]

>> I think there'll be about a month of Trump jokes first.
>
>Which will be Hillaryious.

     Will the political jokes ever rest?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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#166868

From	Michael LeVine <mlevinespmfltr@redshift.com>
Date	2016-07-08 03:02 -0700
Message-ID	<2016070803025525694-mlevinespmfltr@redshift.com>
In reply to	#166863

On 2016-07-07 19:15:13 +0000, Gene Wirchenko said:

> On 7 Jul 2016 12:52:07 GMT, jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>> I think there'll be about a month of Trump jokes first.
>> 
>> Which will be Hillaryious.
> 
>      Will the political jokes ever rest?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Gene Wirchenko

Never, there is just too much good material there.
-- 
Michael LeVine
mlevinespmfltr@redshift.com

Politics is the art of looking for trouble,
finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly,
and applying the wrong remedies.
		Groucho Marx

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#166874

From	jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date	2016-07-08 12:18 +0000
Message-ID	<PM0005371EA980E460@aca40711.ipt.aol.com>
In reply to	#166863

Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> On 7 Jul 2016 12:52:07 GMT, jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>> I think there'll be about a month of Trump jokes first.
>>
>>Which will be Hillaryious.
>
>      Will the political jokes ever rest?

Probably not since there's only a year or so when someone isn't
running for President.

/BAH

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#166878

From	"Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
Date	2016-07-08 14:45 +0100
Message-ID	<op.ykaa6mylmsr2db@dell3100.workgroup>
In reply to	#166863

On Thu, 07 Jul 2016 20:15:13 +0100, Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> wrote:

> On 7 Jul 2016 12:52:07 GMT, jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>> I think there'll be about a month of Trump jokes first.
>>
>> Which will be Hillaryious.
>
>      Will the political jokes ever rest?
>
It's OK 2 make a mountain out of this molehill.

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#166811

From	hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Date	2016-07-06 11:12 -0700
Message-ID	<259e5ff6-0c78-4fda-9b9c-66d4817de0de@googlegroups.com>
In reply to	#166751

On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 3:17:58 AM UTC-4, gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 wrote:
> Perhaps the real trolls in this NG are those who pollute it with
> OT posts about politics and not we who discuss computers
> and computing personalities?

I dunno--I just read a detailed thread about stacks in Z series.

In any event, computers and government/politics have always been
deeply intertwined.  The Univac was utilized to predict the election
not long after it came out.  Other computers were used all along
for political analysis.  C&A is full of articles.

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#166821

From	mausg@mail.com
Date	2016-07-06 20:54 +0000
Message-ID	<slrnnnqog9.1rf.mausg@Smaus.org>
In reply to	#166811

On 2016-07-06, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 3:17:58 AM UTC-4, gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 wrote:
>> Perhaps the real trolls in this NG are those who pollute it with
>> OT posts about politics and not we who discuss computers
>> and computing personalities?
>
> I dunno--I just read a detailed thread about stacks in Z series.
>
> In any event, computers and government/politics have always been
> deeply intertwined.  The Univac was utilized to predict the election
> not long after it came out.  Other computers were used all along
> for political analysis.  C&A is full of articles.
>

That the 1948 one?  :)


-- 
greymaus.ireland.ie
 .
  .
...

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#166827

From	Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net>
Date	2016-07-06 15:53 -0700
Message-ID	<10661de2-6aa4-443a-9c45-e27b20e99ce3@googlegroups.com>
In reply to	#166821

On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 3:54:55 PM UTC-5, ma...@mail.com wrote:
> On 2016-07-06, hancock4 wrote:
> > On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 3:17:58 AM UTC-4, gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 wrote:
> >> Perhaps the real trolls in this NG are those who pollute it with
> >> OT posts about politics and not we who discuss computers
> >> and computing personalities?
> >
> > I dunno--I just read a detailed thread about stacks in Z series.
> >
> > In any event, computers and government/politics have always been
> > deeply intertwined.  The Univac was utilized to predict the election
> > not long after it came out.  Other computers were used all along
> > for political analysis.  C&A is full of articles.
> >
> 
> That the 1948 one?  :)
> -- 
> greymaus.ireland.ie

No, that prediction was done (the editor, political analysts?) by a 
particular newspaper,  the "Chicago Daily Tribune",  not a computer.
___________________________________________________ Gerard Schildberger

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#166812

From	hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Date	2016-07-06 11:16 -0700
Message-ID	<8e64af94-e85b-4a76-9ccd-1a1d35bf2ca5@googlegroups.com>
In reply to	#166751

On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 3:17:58 AM UTC-4, gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 wrote:
> Perhaps the real trolls in this NG are those who pollute it with
> OT posts about politics and not we who discuss computers
> and computing personalities?

When you post something like this, I don't think you're in a position
to complain about other posters:

> There is no confusion between those who understand how the computer 
> really works, the SEAL / SAS analogy, and those who do not and 
> are consumerist programmers, the ordinary squaddie analogy. 


>
>
>

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#166829

From	Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com>
Date	2016-07-07 02:17 +0100
Message-ID	<20160707021737.3272bd2a@Mars>
In reply to	#166812

On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 11:16:22 -0700 (PDT)
hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 3:17:58 AM UTC-4, gareth G4SDW GQRP
> #3339 wrote:
> > Perhaps the real trolls in this NG are those who pollute it with
> > OT posts about politics and not we who discuss computers
> > and computing personalities?  
> 
> When you post something like this, I don't think you're in a position
> to complain about other posters:
> 
Indeed, but don't expect him to understand that.

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