You forgot my favorite:
Re-writing your hard drive in braille.
My own personal addition :)
Glen
On Thursday 13 September 2001 15:47, you wrote:
> Finally some humor on a day with such depressing news.
>
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Derek Glidden wrote:
> > Mark wrote:
> > > Yeah, it's been mine as well. Some people in the past regularly never
> > > posted anything concerning Linux, yet they were not un_sub_scribed, nor
> > > were spoken to by the powers at be. I guess if you are a *friend* it is
> > > ok and if you are not - you get a tongue lashing.
> >
> > Yes, that's exactly it. Because there's a secret underground conspiracy
> > of SLUG "elite core members" that regularly conspire to squash the
> > creativity of anyone else on this mailing list, and it has nothing to do
> > with the fact that some off-topic messges posted are only off-topic and
> > nobody much seems to mind, while others will tend to stir up high
> > emotional states and are therefore asked to move to the politics list
> > and that some people tends towards one direction or the other just by
> > the nature of their personalities and not because of any ulterior
> > motives.
> >
> > The truth is that ALL non-Linux related messages are in fact specially
> > coded messages between members of this secret "unter-SLUG" group,
> > designed to pass information on which non-core SLUG list member is going
> > to be given the next "tongue lashing", generated by an
> > ultra-sophisticated psychological AI/expert system (Linux-based of
> > course) that analyses all traffic that comes through this list to see
> > who would be most vulnerable to this type of subversion.
> >
> > Not only that, but this AI/expert system also employs modern electronic
> > security and countermeasure technologies so that it has infiltrated the
> > personal and work computers of everyone who has ever sent or received
> > email from this list and has done a complete analysis of everyone's
> > personality including their Myers-Briggs personality type and MMPI
> > scores. It uses this information to determine what sort of SPAM to send
> > to those people for maximum agitation, as all SPAM on the internet is in
> > fact generated by this system and is designed to annoy people in
> > specific psychological fashion to leave them emotionally vulnerable to
> > unter-SLUG manipulation.
> >
> > This AI/expert system has not only infiltrated home and work PCs but
> > anything involved with these individuals that contains a microchip. At
> > random times it makes your VCRs stop recording your favorite shows,
> > leaves your car headlights on, and turns the hot water heater off during
> > showers. It makes long distance phone calls that it charges to your
> > number, runs the battery down on your cellphone at times you most need
> > it, and hangs up your modem 95% of the way through an hour-long
> > download. It calls your mom and tells her you don't love her anymore,
> > calls your boss and tells him you think he's a jerk, and calls the local
> > convenience store and asks the person working the counter if their
> > refrigerator is running. It makes your toaster burn your toast, your
> > coffeepot make your coffee too weak, and tells your freezer to make your
> > ice cream go all squishy instead of firm the way you like it.
> >
> > ALL of this is designed to weaken the wills of the people selected by
> > this system so that the unter-SLUG can subvert them into willing zombies
> > without their knowledge so that the unter-SLUG will eventually have a
> > whole army of soulless zombies with which they can use to ... hey...
> > who are you? How did you get in here? What are you doing with that
> > taser? No, it was a joke, really! I'll send a retraction! I swear!
> > I... ASDFHHFUYT*#$*&KA<SDCASD...
> >
> > NO CARRIER
> >
> > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Brigitte wrote:
> > > > You will find that some people on this list can say anything they
> > > > want, whether it pertains to Linux or not, and others are quickly
> > > > snuffed out or ignored. Apparently there is a hierarchy of some
> > > > sort, but personally I don't have the time or interest to even
> > > > attempt to figure it out. If this offends anyone, so be it .. but
> > > > that's been my experience.
> >
> > --
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> > #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> > $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map
> > {$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;
> > $t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)
> > [$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join
> > "",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=
> > unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d
> >
> > >>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*
> >
> > 8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}
> > print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval
> >
> > usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \
> >
> > | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -
> >
> > http://www.eff.org/ http://www.opendvd.org/
> > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
>
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>
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