"I may not go down in history, but I may go down on your daughter." 
-David Lee Roth 

The white zone is for loading and unloading only.

People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” –George Orwell

The cake is a lie. There is only despair and emptiness at the end of the rainbow.

Give a man a fish, he knows where to come for another.

Teach him to fish, you destroy your market base and go bankrupt. 

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.  Give him a baseball bat and he will go steal real food for a lifetime, since people suck.

There's probably nothing more ironic than libertarian moral outrage.

--Some guy called "pav" on Undernet.

The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading.

Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most dire.

Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to be shunned by all, as centres of pestilence.

All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself.

There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.

“If a meme is dank a man is not only right to steal it, he is obligated to do so.”
– Thomas Jefferson

Ah... not heard of that. you scared me :) 

Wed Nov 20 2024 01:22:37 UTC from zelgomer

is a bit campy due to being late 60s.  And no, no reboot please.

I didn't mean to suggest they should reboot the prisoner. ReBoot was a CGI cartoon that aired in the 90s and frequently made references to classics, that quote being one of them.

i suggest you do. its not long and well worth your time. Even if it is a bit campy due to being late 60s.  And no, no reboot please. Without PMG, the show would suck.  ( that reboot sort of thing they did in the 2000s', was bad. Really really really, bad ) I was ( still am ) a HUGE fan of the real thing..  Rover ( when you watch you will get the reference ) is one of my earliest memories as a child. I think i was like 3 when it came on.  My dad liked the show too and was a PMG fan so it was on our TV. 

And you can tell why my BBS was called 'The Village'....

Sat Nov 16 2024 01:24:13 UTC from zelgomer

 Never saw The Prisoner.

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.

Reality is often disappointing. Thanos, 2018

There is no darker place, than the one  you create for yourself.

There is no justice 

Just us.....

"Democracy is two wolves and one sheep deciding what's for dinner"

He who is obsessed with something, often is one themselves, but afraid to admit it, even to themselves. 

A Goth sees darkness in the world and embraces it as their own.

An Emo sees it and internalizes it as their fault.

And a Punk, brings gasoline for the fire...

When I bake bread, I give thousands of yest organisms false hope by feeding them sugar, before ruthlessly baking them to death in an oven and eating their corpses.

"Our constitutional republic is hanging by a string, and Edward Scissorhands is rushing to save it"  - Glenn Beck

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

--Abraham Lincoln

“If they were having his last wake, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being given last rites, I would still vote for Joe Biden,” Mark Cuban

I can feel your anger. It makes you stronger, gives you focus. - Palpatine

Anger, properly harnessed, can keep you warm at night - me

"If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism." - Ronald Reagan 1975

"If I lived in New York, I would smoke marijuana. Perhaps under communism we will be able to do that here in Cuba, but for now, the revolution cannot permit it."

 - Roberto Retamar

"A Republic is the road to Democracy" - Me
"Democracy is the road to Socialism." - Marx
"Socialism is the road to Communism."- Lenin
"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer with which we crush the enemy." ~ Mao

Mon Jan 29 2024 09:52:37 PM EST from IGnatius T Foobar

Free will is a funny thing.  Faith is nothing without it.  And yet, evil exists in the world because of it.

Why do bad things happen to good people?  Someone else's free will collided with yours.

There's bad enemy who also works through human accomplices. Base human nature is pretty perverse and the demonic has easy access, its easy to be on team satan. Bad happens, good happens. The sun shines and the rain falls on the wicked and the good.  Those on team jesus overall have better outcomes especially when they are walking in a relationship. Miracles happen, too many on team jesus are stuck in baby land- even till they die.

careful inspection of the scriptures will reveal this is where MAN plays a key supporting role. otherwise God is a lucky rabbits foot and man has no free will. God is able to overcome evil on earth - through the action of an obedient servant -YOU!  You have to make a choice and God will HONOR your choice. Team Jesus, Team Lucifer.  Different things happen when you are members of either team. 

Free will is a funny thing.  Faith is nothing without it.  And yet, evil exists in the world because of it.

Why do bad things happen to good people?  Someone else's free will collided with yours.

Nothing but the rain, Sir.

maybe.  technically its a Fourier series, a set of frequencies.  a little more complex than what even analog would imply.  unfortunately it doesn't apply to the team jesus / team lucifer metaphor.  ya, the binary computer metaphor may strain on deeper exploration.  suffice it to say, most of humanity will be born, live and die under the power of team lucifer and will never experience team jesus.  you may hear about team jesus all your life and many think they're on team jesus, but they arent. team lucifer is sneaky that way (talkin bout business churches here).  scripture implies that way more than 50% of humanity will die under team lucifer. The road is narrow.

Sat Jan 13 2024 06:08:34 PM EST from Nurb432

Except.. when i was young i played a lot with analog computers. Much like life, nothing was 1 or 0 , it was all shades of voltage.

Does that count as a quote... by myself? :)

Except.. when i was young i played a lot with analog computers. Much like life, nothing was 1 or 0 , it was all shades of voltage.

Does that count as a quote... by myself? :) 

Sat Jan 13 2024 17:23:54 EST from test2

 you're a computer guy- you know what binary is. it can't get simpler. you just haven't experienced 1 yet.

 

careful inspection of the scriptures will reveal this is where MAN plays a key supporting role. otherwise God is a lucky rabbits foot and man has no free will. God is able to overcome evil on earth - through the action of an obedient servant -YOU!  You have to make a choice and God will HONOR your choice. Team Jesus, Team Lucifer.  Different things happen when you are members of either team. Team Jesus will look like the book of Acts- even today. If you're on Team Jesus and the you dont see the book of Acts manifesting in your walk. you need to make some adjustments. Not on Team Jesus yet? you by definition are operating under the power of Team Lucifer- it never ends well, you will always lament like just like Epicurus. you're a computer guy- you know what binary is. it can't get simpler. you just haven't experienced 1 yet.

Fri Jan 12 2024 06:24:03 PM EST from Nurb432

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

― Epicurus

"Asked, and answered."

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

― Epicurus

"Il est dangereux d'avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrédités ont tort."

("It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.")

    -- Voltaire

" There are only 2 things you can count on in life.  Death and loss.  Sometimes they are the same thing."    ( by myself )

OOF

Fri Sep 22 2023 17:33:29 EDT from Nurb432

If life was supposed to be a test. i got the kobayashi maru.

If life was supposed to be a test. i got the kobayashi maru.

The economy, is um Ukrainian ceiling fans, hey, ice cream..  jack.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force.

It wasn't me, jack. 

When all you have is yesterday, how can you have a tomorow? 

“Ich aufgehen Strüdel. Unser Gebuscheitstaufenß! Kollinflakedankebingel! Heiptessengrospeitelhüberzingel! NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN! KRAßßGEWEG24*01$95*#0@1!”

  -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1st ed. 1925)

Mon Oct 24 2022 16:34:44 EDT from LoanShark

winner winner chicken dinner

dinner dinner chicken winner

My citadel was on there for a while, as was a free file sharing service i provided ( until CP started showing up, then i shut it down. even i have limits ).  But i can see entry points and client downloads to networks like that being hit hard soon due to ip/port/github/DNS/etc blocking ordered by governments, and besides, 99% of the world wont have a clue.

( and sorry for veering OT on this for the room..  my bad )

Sun Oct 09 2022 07:30:10 PM EDT from zelgomer

You need to get on the i2p train!

(to be clear, there's not much there besides torrents, irc, and uncensored, and a few blogs and radio stations I think. but there's no reason there can't be more, it's just not very popular)

im thinking from the aspect of centralized DNS and routing.  Free flow days are coming to a close.

Sun Oct 09 2022 07:00:37 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

The Internet still does. People, on the other hand, have placed themselves under the authority of a few sites who don't.

"The Internet interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it."

I wish that was still true.. 

"I think we as citizens have lost interest and that's been my disappointment. That certainly was something that bothered Justice Scalia, that people tend to be more interested in their iPhones than their Constitution. They're interested in what they want rather than what is right as a country.” -Justice Clarence Thomas

"watch this"

"It just so happens that I have anxiety.  That means I have trouble being around assholes who won't leave me alone."

   -- Eric Cartman

Well, fug. 

"I frequently feel like I'm an older, uglier Charlton Heston and my spacecraft has somehow managed to trap me on the Planet of the Assholes."

   -- Stilton Jarlsberg

I would like to mention that if anyone is watching from the health and safety board that is concerned that I have cobbled something together that operates at 3000 volts, it's okay I do have beer.

https://youtu.be/yfmWGl1DRWI?t=696

"The back of my hand smells like burnt pork."
    -Big Clive

"While it is true that you learn with age, the down side is that what you learn is often what a damn fool you were before."

  -- Thomas Sowell

"everyone involved in that dispute has obviously been huffing unicorn farts for so long that oxygen no longer reaches their brains in appreciable quantities"

  -- ESR

"Sometimes if you want to have fun you have to dress lame."
 -Danzig.

"OWWWWW!  I think I hurt my ankle!"

Wonder if this matador would agree with that poster...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/18/world/spanish-matador-gored-to-death/index.html

"Proof that these jihadists don't go to heaven but they go to hell and burn for all of eternity. "
-some comment from the internet.

 4271644@Uncensored

“In a democratic society the existence of large centers of private power is dangerous to the continuing vitality of a free people.”

  -- Louis Brandeis, counselor to President Wilson, pointing out the obvious fact that some 100 years hence, Amazon would become a threat to the universe and should be broken up

I no longer have freedom of expression in the way that most of you still do because the social media platforms throttle my ideas.

- Scott Adams

I really love his Dilbert comics, but he seems to earn so much money, that his cocaine consumption inflated his ego to planet size. He is smart, he writes good, but what he writes is utter cowcrap. Whining in a blog that some people are too stupid to read his tweets is exactly the opposite of diminished freedom of expression. As Randall Munroe says:

Twitter has every right to do what it wants with its service and the more I read from his blog, the more I am able to understand the company.

Persuasion is often divorced from facts.
-Scott Adams

"Close but no cigar!"
-Bill Clinton to Hillary.

Yep, and I can't think of any common words in german, which use these roots. I mean in history, we learn the "egalité, fraternité et jenesaisquoi" of the french revolution. Maybe from religious context, there might enter a word coming from frater- enter your life. But in general we'd have a harder time recognizing french influences.

Btw, ever heard the French swear? My experience is that they are much more likely to use swearwords and they escalate drastically into a territory which would be considered really rude in germany. And probably in america, too.

Fri Oct 14 2016 13:03:35 EDTfrom fleeb

So cleave to the Germanic wordhoard, lest your swearing grow romantic.

-- http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/06/swear-words-etymology-and-the-history-of-english/

Hm, this is a rather odd article in the sense, that it seems to introduce an ad-hoc hypothesis "vulgar is germanic" and then goes to great length in order to find examples. Especially two claims strike me as odd:

to scatological and sexual verbs (doubtless you can spot what scheissen and ficken mean, but might have been more stumped by chier and baiser)

Ok, ficken and fuck are easy to guess, but both are only one instance of this word. In french, baiser is just one and originally meant to kiss, iirc. There is also niquer, wich probably comes from forniquer. I guess you have no problem recognizing that one.

Now, shit and scheissen are a bit more difficult, yet also easy to guess. But I think chier can easily be recognized, especially when used in swearing. Especially when you spot the common root of the word, which is an old proto-indo-germanic root. It is the same in the german word Scheidung (divorce) and Schisma (shism) and also in your word science. It means to part or separate things. So in this case, french, english, german, normanic, latin and germanic have the same ancient root.

See:

Scheiße: From Middle High German schīze, from Scire: From Proto-Italic *skijō, from Proto-Indo-European