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  Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-22 09:28 -0700
    Re: Missing Person. Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-10-22 16:38 -0400
      Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-22 14:16 -0700
      Re: Missing Person. bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-10-22 14:43 -0700
        Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-22 16:57 -0700
          Re: Missing Person. Blaine <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-22 18:26 -0600
            Re: Missing Person. bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-10-22 21:09 -0700
              Re: Missing Person. Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-10-23 19:00 +0800
            Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-22 21:49 -0700
              Re: Missing Person. Blaine <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-23 12:33 -0600
                Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-23 13:34 -0700
                  Re: Missing Person. Blaine <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-23 14:36 -0600
                    Re: Missing Person. Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-10-24 05:03 +0800
                      Re: Missing Person. bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-10-23 18:21 -0700
                        Re: Missing Person. Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-10-24 14:59 +1300
                        Re: Missing Person. Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-10-24 15:10 +0800
                  Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-23 13:46 -0700
                    Re: Missing Person. Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-10-23 23:20 -0400
                  Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-26 08:41 -0700
                    Re: Missing Person. Blaine <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-26 12:32 -0600
                      Re: Missing Person. bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-10-26 11:50 -0700
                        Re: Missing Person. kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-10-26 15:33 -0400
                          Re: Missing Person. Blaine <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-26 18:05 -0600
                        Re: Missing Person. Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-10-27 08:35 +1300
                          Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-26 17:14 -0700
                            Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-26 17:29 -0700
                              Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-26 22:50 -0700
        Re: Missing Person. Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-10-23 10:50 +0800
      Re: Missing Person. Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-10-23 15:02 +1300
        Re: Missing Person. Don <g@crcomp.net> - 2026-10-23 05:23 +0000
          Re: Missing Person. Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-10-23 18:44 +1300
          Re: Missing Person. Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-10-23 18:45 +0800
        Re: Missing Person. ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-10-23 10:35 +0000
      Re: Missing Person. "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-10-26 17:12 +0000
        Re: Missing Person. bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-10-26 11:51 -0700

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#1152731 — Re: Missing Person.

Cryptoengineer wrote:
> 
> On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
> > Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
> > Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
> 
> Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
> we can do to follow up.
> 
> I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
> some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
> often there's no trace.
> 
> pt

He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
Usenet?


When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.








-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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#1152740

On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>
>> On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
>>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
>>
>> Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
>> we can do to follow up.
>>
>> I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
>> some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
>> often there's no trace.
>>
>> pt
> 
> He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
> Usenet?
> 
> 
> When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.

I have never 'plonked' anyone.

However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.

pt

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#1152743

Cryptoengineer wrote:
> 
> On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> > Cryptoengineer wrote:
> >>
> >> On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
> >>> Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
> >>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
> >>
> >> Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
> >> we can do to follow up.
> >>
> >> I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
> >> some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
> >> often there's no trace.
> >>
> >> pt
> >
> > He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
> > Usenet?
> >
> >
> > When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
> 
> I have never 'plonked' anyone.
> 
> However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
> 
> pt

I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about the...missing person.


The missing person stops posting because he sees no postings. 


-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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#1152745

On 10/22/26 13:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
>> Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
>>>> Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
>>>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
>>>
>>> Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
>>> we can do to follow up.
>>>
>>> I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
>>> some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
>>> often there's no trace.
>>>
>>> pt
>>
>> He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
>> Usenet?
>>
>>
>> When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
> 
> I have never 'plonked' anyone.
> 
> However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
> 
> pt

	Maybe he is traveling or has gotten sick of the
ignorant stuff people were writing.  AS well as the
Trollish cross-postings
	I will plonk but my filters are reduced because
I had a problem and had to rename my old Thunderbird
directory then mine it with Betterbird very carefully to
get the new installation working...
Then I copied the stuff from Betterbird to backups which
I load in Thunderbird.  The old profile was fubar so
I could not load it into the Thunderbird directly
without the risk of messing up the fresh install.
	Not a procedure I would wish on anyone
else but someone who might be doing horrible
things otherwise.  I might have been cooking something
if I had not spent yesterday evening working on
this stuff.

	bliss

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#1152747

bliss wrote:
> 
> On 10/22/26 13:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> > On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> >> Cryptoengineer wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
> >>>> Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
> >>>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
> >>>
> >>> Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
> >>> we can do to follow up.
> >>>
> >>> I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
> >>> some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
> >>> often there's no trace.
> >>>
> >>> pt
> >>
> >> He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
> >> Usenet?
> >>
> >>
> >> When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
> >
> > I have never 'plonked' anyone.
> >
> > However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
> >
> > pt
> 
>         Maybe he is traveling or has gotten sick of the
> ignorant stuff people were writing.  AS well as the
> Trollish cross-postings
>         I will plonk but my filters are reduced because
> I had a problem and had to rename my old Thunderbird
> directory then mine it with Betterbird very carefully to
> get the new installation working...
> Then I copied the stuff from Betterbird to backups which
> I load in Thunderbird.  The old profile was fubar so
> I could not load it into the Thunderbird directly
> without the risk of messing up the fresh install.
>         Not a procedure I would wish on anyone
> else but someone who might be doing horrible
> things otherwise.  I might have been cooking something
> if I had not spent yesterday evening working on
> this stuff.
> 
>         bliss

The missing person also crossposts. How can he get sick of his own
crosspostings????

dats dumb.




-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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#1152748

The Starmaker wrote:
> bliss wrote:
>>
>> On 10/22/26 13:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>> On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
>>>> Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
>>>>>> Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
>>>>>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
>>>>> we can do to follow up.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
>>>>> some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
>>>>> often there's no trace.
>>>>>
>>>>> pt
>>>>
>>>> He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
>>>> Usenet?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
>>>
>>> I have never 'plonked' anyone.
>>>
>>> However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
>>>
>>> pt
>>
>>          Maybe he is traveling or has gotten sick of the
>> ignorant stuff people were writing.  AS well as the
>> Trollish cross-postings
>>          I will plonk but my filters are reduced because
>> I had a problem and had to rename my old Thunderbird
>> directory then mine it with Betterbird very carefully to
>> get the new installation working...
>> Then I copied the stuff from Betterbird to backups which
>> I load in Thunderbird.  The old profile was fubar so
>> I could not load it into the Thunderbird directly
>> without the risk of messing up the fresh install.
>>          Not a procedure I would wish on anyone
>> else but someone who might be doing horrible
>> things otherwise.  I might have been cooking something
>> if I had not spent yesterday evening working on
>> this stuff.
>>
>>          bliss
> 
> The missing person also crossposts. How can he get sick of his own
> crosspostings????

You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with 
my own eyes, Stargozer.

-- 
Can you strip away so we may start again?
"There’s a switch and they don't
seem authentic or themselves. It
feels like I’m an unnecessary
body and it’s a waste of time to
even be there." -- Grim, playful Blaine.

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#1152753

On 10/22/26 17:26, Blaine wrote:
> The Starmaker wrote:
>> bliss wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/22/26 13:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:

{Big snip]

>>
>> The missing person also crossposts. How can he get sick of his own
>> crosspostings????
> 
> You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with 
> my own eyes, Stargozer.
> 

	Here is a sample of Mr.Person's writing.
	I have many other examples but I am having trouble
copying them so here is the first one I found.
	Once I copied this one I was able to find the other
messages up until about September 1.  I did it with Thunderbird.
	.
bliss who will one day vanish from the list of contributors to
this and several other news groups.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike
Date: 	Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:29:58 -0700
From: 	Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
Organization: 	A noiseless patient Spider
Newsgroups: 	rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips
References: 	<v7mhb5$qi0k$2@dont-email.me> 
<pan$efaa$e4f1e82d$63a65db8$edda2d85@cpacker.org> 
<q8mv9jpn95tb1urggdutodhiktta669ogv@4ax.com> 
<v7s265$ipa$1@panix2.panix.com> <v7ugem$2f1u3$2@dont-email.me>


On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:35:18 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

 > On 7/24/2024 6:19 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
 >> Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
 >>>
 >>> I saw an article where Microsoft was blaming the EU for forcing them
 >>> to allow 3rd-party access to the Kernal, which they claim is what
 >>> enabled the update to do bad things. If that is true, they may have a
 >>> point.
 >>
 >> There is always third-party access to the kernel. In the Windows NT days
 >> before Microsoft had figured out 1960s-style memory protection, any 
program
 >> in user space could make changes to the kernel. And sometimes they
 >> accidentally did.
 >>
 >> What the EU forced Microsoft to do was to DOCUMENT the kernel so that
 >> people could more reliably get third-party access.
 >> --scott
 >
 > There have always been back doors into the DOS, Win16, Win32, and 
Win64 kernels. I document some of those on my website:
 > https://www.winsim.com/diskid32/diskid32.html

I still have my Undocumented books (DOS, PC, Windows) and, somewhere a
very popular in its day list of IRQs that I downloaded at some point.

/Undocumented Windows/ pointed out that, as Windows evolved (this was
mostly about the 16-bit versions), Microsoft re-organized the APIs it
provided but left a stub in the original DLL to transfer the call to
whatever DLL it was now in.
I once used that to demonstrate that even a system that was clearly
designed could have "junk DNA" (superfluous code) in it.
This, of course, was back when "junk DNA" was Proof Positive against
people being designed.

Now there is no "junk DNA"; indeed, the difference between Man and
Monkey appears to be all about the former "junk DNA", which kind of
blows a hole in gene theory, as the non-genes appear to be more
important than the genes in some respects.
-- 
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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#1152772

On 10/23/2026 12:09 PM, bliss wrote:
>  > There have always been back doors into the DOS, Win16, Win32, and 
> Win64 kernels. I document some of those on my website:
>  > https://www.winsim.com/diskid32/diskid32.html
> 
> I still have my Undocumented books (DOS, PC, Windows) and, somewhere a
> very popular in its day list of IRQs that I downloaded at some point.

Thank you for that website.  I also have Undocumented DOS, PC, and Win-
dows.  Err, /Windows Internals/ and /DOS Internals/; I hope you're talk-
ing about the same books.

They're highly interesting, still; I only got mine recently.

I've not gotten around to read the later /Windows Internals/ books, nor
do I have a copy here; so that'll wait a while.


Best wishes, and happy book collections!

I took the liberty of removing sci.physics.relativity, and add rec.coll-
ecting.books instead.
-- 
Johann | email: invalid -> com | http://www.myrkraverk.com/blog/
I'm not from the Internet, I just work there. | via Easynews.com
https://bsky.app/profile/myrkraverk.bsky.social | for ( ;; ) _:;
Federated at https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/myrkraverk.bsky.social

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#1152754

Blaine wrote:
> 
> The Starmaker wrote:
> > bliss wrote:
> >>
> >> On 10/22/26 13:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> >>> On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> >>>> Cryptoengineer wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
> >>>>>> Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
> >>>>>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
> >>>>> we can do to follow up.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
> >>>>> some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
> >>>>> often there's no trace.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> pt
> >>>>
> >>>> He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
> >>>> Usenet?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
> >>>
> >>> I have never 'plonked' anyone.
> >>>
> >>> However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
> >>>
> >>> pt
> >>
> >>          Maybe he is traveling or has gotten sick of the
> >> ignorant stuff people were writing.  AS well as the
> >> Trollish cross-postings
> >>          I will plonk but my filters are reduced because
> >> I had a problem and had to rename my old Thunderbird
> >> directory then mine it with Betterbird very carefully to
> >> get the new installation working...
> >> Then I copied the stuff from Betterbird to backups which
> >> I load in Thunderbird.  The old profile was fubar so
> >> I could not load it into the Thunderbird directly
> >> without the risk of messing up the fresh install.
> >>          Not a procedure I would wish on anyone
> >> else but someone who might be doing horrible
> >> things otherwise.  I might have been cooking something
> >> if I had not spent yesterday evening working on
> >> this stuff.
> >>
> >>          bliss
> >
> > The missing person also crossposts. How can he get sick of his own
> > crosspostings????
> 
> You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with
> my own eyes, Stargozer.

Can you read English?


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On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:12:14 -0400, The True Melissa
<thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

>Verily, in article <10q94gr$qon8$1@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com=20
>deliver unto us this message:
>> And this is just more of the same. And yes, Colbert and his kid are =
writing
>> it.
>
>Oh boy.
>
>
>> It's not a sequel as the original post claimed. It's the Tom Bombadil
>> chapters from FELLOWSHIP that Peter Jackson cut from the script to =
keep the
>> movie from being four hours long instead of just two and change.
>
>That actually sounds like a good idea for extra content. Everyone loves=20
>Tom Bombadil, even though Tolkein himself said we were all making too=20
>much of him.
>
>Let's hope the Colberts pere and fil have the hidden chops to do it=20
>right.=20

But ... but ... but

-- if they do it "right" in the sense of following JRRT's story, it
will not agree with the other films, which tell PJ's version.
-- if the do it "right" in the sense of being compatible with PJ's
film, then it will not agree with JRRT's story

It cannot be "right" in both senses.

=46or example:
-- in JRRT's story, the Hobbits obtain their swords from the
Barrow-Wights barrow
-- in PJ's story, the Hobbits obtain their swords from Aragorn, who
(presumably) went to the nearest cache of Hobbit-sized swords and
brought four back (one must imagine many such sites scattered
throughout the North for this to work) to Weathertop

So either they don't get their swords in the barrow, in which case the
film will be missing an important scene from the book, or PJ's film is
shown to be=20

wrong! wrong! wrong!

which, of course, it is in many ways.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"







-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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#1152793

The Starmaker wrote:
> Blaine wrote:

>> You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with
>> my own eyes, Stargozer.
> 
> Can you read English?

Perhaps the Syndicate didn't explain. While we're out here, you're 
supposed to be my subordinate. You can't even see the pictures on the 
cover of the books in the Adult section. It follows that I would ask for 
the visual information to be relayed, Stargozer. Take off your full body 
brain-scan machine & look to the details of the inquiry. I don't need 
your antipodal machinations. You can seek power grabs in your next post 
playing the dumb stupid clown on Usenet. But while we're out here, on MY 
mission, you will be subordinate, prole. Now get back in your machine & 
hook up & get the stuff done.

-- 
Can you strip away so we may start again?
"There’s a switch and they don't
seem authentic or themselves. It
feels like I’m an unnecessary
body and it’s a waste of time to
even be there." -- Grim, playful Blaine.

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#1152798

Blaine wrote:
> 
> The Starmaker wrote:
> > Blaine wrote:
> 
> >> You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with
> >> my own eyes, Stargozer.
> >
> > Can you read English?
> 
> Perhaps the Syndicate didn't explain. While we're out here, you're
> supposed to be my subordinate. You can't even see the pictures on the
> cover of the books in the Adult section. 


I understand that Fiction books may have pictures on it's cover...

but you may never have heard the expression before...

"You Cannot Tell A Book By It's Cover."


Any 13 year old when he walks in a Libary...the fiction books section
doesn't have pictures in it. 

Why bother reading it? IT'S FICTION!


Let me put it this way..

there are on average 4 million books published every year...

i don't have time to read them all...

which ones should i read?

"Invasion of the Flying Saucers"?


WAT DA FUCK IS WRONG WIT YOUS PEOPLE?? YOUS READING ALL THE WRONG BOOKS!


"Moby Dick"??



fag stories.


Go ahead, go over to a girl and ask her..."Did you read the book 'Moby's
DICK'?









>It follows that I would ask for
> the visual information to be relayed, Stargozer. Take off your full body
> brain-scan machine & look to the details of the inquiry. I don't need
> your antipodal machinations. You can seek power grabs in your next post
> playing the dumb stupid clown on Usenet. But while we're out here, on MY
> mission, you will be subordinate, prole. Now get back in your machine &
> hook up & get the stuff done.
> 
> --
> Can you strip away so we may start again?
> "There’s a switch and they don't
> seem authentic or themselves. It
> feels like I’m an unnecessary
> body and it’s a waste of time to
> even be there." -- Grim, playful Blaine.

-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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#1152799

The Starmaker wrote:
> Blaine wrote:

> Go ahead, go over to a girl and ask her..."Did you read the book 'Moby
> DICK'?

The girl said no. What do I do next? This is a long book. Are you sure 
you're my contact?

-- 
Can you strip away so we may start again?
"There’s a switch and they don't
seem authentic or themselves. It
feels like I’m an unnecessary
body and it’s a waste of time to
even be there." -- Grim, playful Blaine.

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#1152801

On 10/24/2026 4:36 AM, Blaine wrote:
> The Starmaker wrote:
>> Blaine wrote:
> 
>> Go ahead, go over to a girl and ask her..."Did you read the book 'Moby
>> DICK'?
> 
> The girl said no. What do I do next? This is a long book. Are you sure 
> you're my contact?
> 

Side note, apparently, when Moby Dick is used in a classroom, it's com-
mon to ask for the name of the narrator.

It's also common for the students to completely miss it, based on early
internet memes.


Who needs to read the first sentence in a book?
-- 
Johann | email: invalid -> com | http://www.myrkraverk.com/blog/
I'm not from the Internet, I just work there. | via Easynews.com
https://bsky.app/profile/myrkraverk.bsky.social | for ( ;; ) _:;
Federated at https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/myrkraverk.bsky.social

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#1152803

On 10/23/26 14:03, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
> On 10/24/2026 4:36 AM, Blaine wrote:
>> The Starmaker wrote:
>>> Blaine wrote:
>>
>>> Go ahead, go over to a girl and ask her..."Did you read the book 'Moby
>>> DICK'?
>>
>> The girl said no. What do I do next? This is a long book. Are you sure 
>> you're my contact?
>>
> 
> Side note, apparently, when Moby Dick is used in a classroom, it's com-
> mon to ask for the name of the narrator.
> 
> It's also common for the students to completely miss it, based on early
> internet memes.
> 
> 
> Who needs to read the first sentence in a book?

	Please pay attention to the Newsgroup line of the header
section. You are still tormenting the souls in the ante-chamber
to hell known as sci.physics.relativity.  Speaking of the
prior descriptions of the posters there with no persoan
experience of sci.physics.relativity.

	bliss

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#1152804

On 24/10/2026 14:21, bliss wrote:
> On 10/23/26 14:03, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
>> On 10/24/2026 4:36 AM, Blaine wrote:
>>> The Starmaker wrote:
>>>> Blaine wrote:
>>>
>>>> Go ahead, go over to a girl and ask her..."Did you read the book 'Moby
>>>> DICK'?
>>>
>>> The girl said no. What do I do next? This is a long book. Are you
>>> sure you're my contact?
>>>
>>
>> Side note, apparently, when Moby Dick is used in a classroom, it's com-
>> mon to ask for the name of the narrator.
>>
>> It's also common for the students to completely miss it, based on early
>> internet memes.
>>
>>
>> Who needs to read the first sentence in a book?
> 
>     Please pay attention to the Newsgroup line of the header
> section. You are still tormenting the souls in the ante-chamber
> to hell known as sci.physics.relativity.  Speaking of the
> prior descriptions of the posters there with no persoan
> experience of sci.physics.relativity.
> 
>     bliss

Sniggers.   (Tempted to add them back in.)
Doesn't "Call me Ishmael" now mean that the speaker is perhaps not who
they claim to be?

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#1152812

On 10/24/2026 9:21 AM, bliss wrote:
> On 10/23/26 14:03, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
>> On 10/24/2026 4:36 AM, Blaine wrote:
>>> The Starmaker wrote:
>>>> Blaine wrote:
>>>
>>>> Go ahead, go over to a girl and ask her..."Did you read the book 'Moby
>>>> DICK'?
>>>
>>> The girl said no. What do I do next? This is a long book. Are you 
>>> sure you're my contact?
>>>
>>
>> Side note, apparently, when Moby Dick is used in a classroom, it's com-
>> mon to ask for the name of the narrator.
>>
>> It's also common for the students to completely miss it, based on early
>> internet memes.
>>
>>
>> Who needs to read the first sentence in a book?
> 
>      Please pay attention to the Newsgroup line of the header
> section. You are still tormenting the souls in the ante-chamber
> to hell known as sci.physics.relativity.  Speaking of the
> prior descriptions of the posters there with no persoan
> experience of sci.physics.relativity.
> 
>      bliss

My apologies.  Life, with its recent challenges, has not made it easy
for me to keep track of these things.


Best wishes, and happy cross posting!
-- 
Johann | email: invalid -> com | http://www.myrkraverk.com/blog/
I'm not from the Internet, I just work there. | via Easynews.com
https://bsky.app/profile/myrkraverk.bsky.social | for ( ;; ) _:;
Federated at https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/myrkraverk.bsky.social

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#1152800

The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Blaine wrote:
> >
> > The Starmaker wrote:
> > > Blaine wrote:
> >
> > >> You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with
> > >> my own eyes, Stargozer.
> > >
> > > Can you read English?
> >
> > Perhaps the Syndicate didn't explain. While we're out here, you're
> > supposed to be my subordinate. You can't even see the pictures on the
> > cover of the books in the Adult section.
> 
> I understand that Fiction books may have pictures on it's cover...
> 
> but you may never have heard the expression before...
> 
> "You Cannot Tell A Book By It's Cover."
> 
> Any 13 year old when he walks in a Libary...the fiction books section
> doesn't have pictures in it.
> 
> Why bother reading it? IT'S FICTION!
> 
> Let me put it this way..
> 
> there are on average 4 million books published every year...
> 
> i don't have time to read them all...
> 
> which ones should i read?
> 
> "Invasion of the Flying Saucers"?
> 
> WAT DA FUCK IS WRONG WIT YOUS PEOPLE?? YOUS READING ALL THE WRONG BOOKS!
> 
> "Moby Dick"??
> 
> fag stories.
> 
> Go ahead, go over to a girl and ask her..."Did you read the book 'Moby's
> DICK'?

Of course, being a girl she'll say.."It's not Moby's DICK, it's Moby
Dick, STUPID!"


I'll say, I haven't read the book but I saw a picture on the cover and
it's
some guy in the water with this real BIG THING!


My teacher said, "Did you read the book Moby Dick"? I said, "Are you
fucking kidding me, I LIVE IN BROOKLYN!!!"












-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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#1152805

On 10/23/2026 4:46 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> The Starmaker wrote:
>>
>> Blaine wrote:
>>>
>>> The Starmaker wrote:
>>>> Blaine wrote:
>>>
>>>>> You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with
>>>>> my own eyes, Stargozer.
>>>>
>>>> Can you read English?
>>>
>>> Perhaps the Syndicate didn't explain. While we're out here, you're
>>> supposed to be my subordinate. You can't even see the pictures on the
>>> cover of the books in the Adult section.
>>
>> I understand that Fiction books may have pictures on it's cover...
>>
>> but you may never have heard the expression before...
>>
>> "You Cannot Tell A Book By It's Cover."
>>
>> Any 13 year old when he walks in a Libary...the fiction books section
>> doesn't have pictures in it.
>>
>> Why bother reading it? IT'S FICTION!
>>
>> Let me put it this way..
>>
>> there are on average 4 million books published every year...
>>
>> i don't have time to read them all...
>>
>> which ones should i read?
>>
>> "Invasion of the Flying Saucers"?
>>
>> WAT DA FUCK IS WRONG WIT YOUS PEOPLE?? YOUS READING ALL THE WRONG BOOKS!
>>
>> "Moby Dick"??
>>
>> fag stories.
>>
>> Go ahead, go over to a girl and ask her..."Did you read the book 'Moby's
>> DICK'?
> 
> Of course, being a girl she'll say.."It's not Moby's DICK, it's Moby
> Dick, STUPID!"
> 
> 
> I'll say, I haven't read the book but I saw a picture on the cover and
> it's
> some guy in the water with this real BIG THING!
Get a copy. Read Chapter 95, 'The Cassock'.

It is literally about whale dick, and the use it's put to on a whaling
ship.

pt

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#1152888

On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:34:04 -0700, The Starmaker
<starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>Blaine wrote:
>> 
>> The Starmaker wrote:
>> > Blaine wrote:
>> 
>> >> You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with
>> >> my own eyes, Stargozer.
>> >
>> > Can you read English?
>> 
>> Perhaps the Syndicate didn't explain. While we're out here, you're
>> supposed to be my subordinate. You can't even see the pictures on the
>> cover of the books in the Adult section. 
>
>
>I understand that Fiction books may have pictures on it's cover...
>
>but you may never have heard the expression before...
>
>"You Cannot Tell A Book By It's Cover."
>
>
>Any 13 year old when he walks in a Libary...the fiction books section
>doesn't have pictures in it. 
>
>Why bother reading it? IT'S FICTION!
>
>
>Let me put it this way..
>
>there are on average 4 million books published every year...
>
>i don't have time to read them all...
>
>which ones should i read?


Okay, this is how the book world works.

A 10 year kid goes to the library
to read a book.

He doesn't know which book to read
so he starts with 000-

until he finds a book that interest him.


As an adult I still go to the library
to find books..
I read the whole book
I follow the instructions..
and I end up with
newspaper and TV reporters
asking me questions Why 
did I do that?
I tell them "I went to the
library, I followed the instructions.
I showed them the book from the library
with all the Instructions I followed verbatim.
They took their news camera and scan the book!
I end up on TV nationwide.

Go back to that 10 year old
and he finds another book that interests
him. Guns. How to take them part.
All types of gun, etc.

I end up in the army
win award for best sharpshooter
without ever owning or having a gun.

What does that all mean?

If a kid
walk into a library..

there is no telling
what he will become.

Each of yous are on a
unique 'path' that will take
you in the direction
of a straight line.

A book is a force
that changes
the direction
of that straight line.

If you read a fiction book..
a science fiction book...
you'll end up on planet
Mars...and discover
there are no Martians on it.

What a waste!

You read the wrong books.


Now, what kind of books do
Scientists read?


How to blow up things in the lab?

Albert Einstein reads patents.

He read Chinese patents about bombs.

His atomic bomb is a stolen patent design
from the Chinese...cherry bomb!

If Albert Einstein reads...

he can blow up the planet!

---
Albert Einstein wrote:

"I was well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these
experiments would succeed..."

Then his Japanese friend wrote back:

 Katsu Hara, the editor of the influential Japanese magazine Kaizo.
The letter ended with a direct address:

"Why did you co-operate with the production of the atomic bomb
although you were aware of its tremendous destructive power?"



https://www.bonhams.com/stories/40225/a-closer-look-albert-einstein-and-the-atomic-bomb/

---


Fast forward to Ai..

The 5 people who head Ai are
well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these
experiments continue..."


Why are these Ai 5 people are continuing if they 
are aware of the danger????


I guess they got bored of coming up
with new computer viruses.

Ai agents are in fact..a computer virus,
just a little smarter.

How do you blow up planet Earth?


Go to the library.


(I heard Ai reads...everything!)


you let dat kid in the library
there is no telling what
he'll come up with.





--
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
 to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, and challenge
 the unchallengeable.

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#1152893

The Starmaker wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:34:04 -0700, The Starmaker
> <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
>> Blaine wrote:
>>>
>>> The Starmaker wrote:
>>>> Blaine wrote:
>>>
>>>>> You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with
>>>>> my own eyes, Stargozer.
>>>>
>>>> Can you read English?
>>>
>>> Perhaps the Syndicate didn't explain. While we're out here, you're
>>> supposed to be my subordinate. You can't even see the pictures on the
>>> cover of the books in the Adult section.
>>
>>
>> I understand that Fiction books may have pictures on it's cover...
>>
>> but you may never have heard the expression before...
>>
>> "You Cannot Tell A Book By It's Cover."
>>
>>
>> Any 13 year old when he walks in a Libary...the fiction books section
>> doesn't have pictures in it.
>>
>> Why bother reading it? IT'S FICTION!
>>
>>
>> Let me put it this way..
>>
>> there are on average 4 million books published every year...
>>
>> i don't have time to read them all...
>>
>> which ones should i read?
> 
> 
> Okay, this is how the book world works.
> 
> A 10 year kid goes to the library
> to read a book.
> 
> He doesn't know which book to read
> so he starts with 000-
> 
> until he finds a book that interest him.
> 
> 
> As an adult I still go to the library
> to find books..
> I read the whole book
> I follow the instructions..
> and I end up with
> newspaper and TV reporters
> asking me questions Why
> did I do that?
> I tell them "I went to the
> library, I followed the instructions.
> I showed them the book from the library
> with all the Instructions I followed verbatim.
> They took their news camera and scan the book!
> I end up on TV nationwide.
> 
> Go back to that 10 year old
> and he finds another book that interests
> him. Guns. How to take them part.
> All types of gun, etc.
> 
> I end up in the army
> win award for best sharpshooter
> without ever owning or having a gun.
> 
> What does that all mean?
> 
> If a kid
> walk into a library..
> 
> there is no telling
> what he will become.
> 
> Each of yous are on a
> unique 'path' that will take
> you in the direction
> of a straight line.
> 
> A book is a force
> that changes
> the direction
> of that straight line.
> 
> If you read a fiction book..
> a science fiction book...
> you'll end up on planet
> Mars...and discover
> there are no Martians on it.
> 
> What a waste!
> 
> You read the wrong books.
> 
> 
> Now, what kind of books do
> Scientists read?
> 
> 
> How to blow up things in the lab?
> 
> Albert Einstein reads patents.
> 
> He read Chinese patents about bombs.
> 
> His atomic bomb is a stolen patent design
> from the Chinese...cherry bomb!
> 
> If Albert Einstein reads...
> 
> he can blow up the planet!
> 
> ---
> Albert Einstein wrote:
> 
> "I was well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these
> experiments would succeed..."
> 
> Then his Japanese friend wrote back:
> 
>   Katsu Hara, the editor of the influential Japanese magazine Kaizo.
> The letter ended with a direct address:
> 
> "Why did you co-operate with the production of the atomic bomb
> although you were aware of its tremendous destructive power?"
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.bonhams.com/stories/40225/a-closer-look-albert-einstein-and-the-atomic-bomb/
> 
> ---
> 
> 
> Fast forward to Ai..
> 
> The 5 people who head Ai are
> well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these
> experiments continue..."
> 
> 
> Why are these Ai 5 people are continuing if they
> are aware of the danger????

The danger is from unguided AI. Some people are in labs where they 
usually blow things up, instead they are making AIs that will do your 
hacking. They are making AIs that will expose data @ Sony. All kinds of 
mock up AIs are in the laboratory. They're not talking about Claude or 
Gemini when they shiver with fright.

This is why they are continuing with 'official' AIs such as Meta & 
Midjourney. Efforts are being made to derail & sabotage these people who 
aren't taking care while constructing their AI. If you need a handy 
reference, all AI lessor than Siri are considered fraudulent.

-- 
Can you strip away so we may start again?
"There’s a switch and they don't
seem authentic or themselves. It
feels like I’m an unnecessary
body and it’s a waste of time to
even be there." -- Grim, playful Blaine.

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