Care to hear what complaining to Verizon buys you?

Unsolicited robo calls pitching their newest high speed service. Those cunts will hear from my congressman if I have to wait in his office all day. Heads up, Barney.

OMG - USENet

Didn't I see something about them on the history channel?

choad wrote:

Laugh, clowns, laugh.

I would but laughing takes up too much bandwidth over my dialup internet.

Oh wait it's the year 2008 I don't have a modem anymore.  I can use modern communication technologies to laugh at you.


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Yeah, I mean seriously, even in the age OF USENET nobody with any sense used their ISP.  We all subscribed to external news reading services that did not censor or monitor you.

I haven’t used Usenet in years!  I downloaded encrypted porn files using a 14k or later a 28k modem, and decrypted them with a program that I would have to reinstall periodically in order to avoid paying the shareware fee.  It was like receiving messages from a secret subversive group that required using a decoder ring to translate them.  I stopped when my favorite newsgroups became little more than spam repositories.

USENET????

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pALEPHx wrote:

tojo2000 wrote:

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Ooh, I think I just came!

UUEncoding R0x0Rz my $oXoRz.

This mildly entertaining thread has been brought to you by old farts everywhere:

whosasailorthen wrote:

That is all I have to say.

What, no 'shift', no 'if' tests, or 'for' arrays?

Abort, Retry, Shit, Go Blind!

tojo2000 wrote:

I've been using PowerShell lately.  I was so sad when I discovered they'd broken "copy con".

That's rubbish. Seriously, take a look at 4NT/Take Command. I've used one or another of its incarnations for 20 years. It's still actively supported by its author... who will probably dispute my enormous contributions to his product but he lies.

Ahhh DOS, the special command line for special people.

whosasailorthen wrote:

I don't know... but I don't see any console command operator here....

Dogshit, you're right. Guess I'm stuck with the previous release. Never mind.

USENET. Archimedes Plutonium.

In Choad's defense, Usenet was until recently still the best way to grab pirated content.

Recently being about 10 years ago :)

tojo2000 wrote:

DOS was awesome.   I don't know what I would have done with myself if it wasn't for having to figure out the difference between conventional, high, upper, extended, and expanded memory.

DOS was stable.  I ran a BBS for years at a time without a reboot.  That was with several batch files causing dozens of programs to run everyday.  Windoze still isn't that stable. My love for the English docs put out by the Dutch Independent Shareware Programmers has not been tarnished.

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hedgewizard wrote:

DOS was stable.  I ran a BBS for years at a time without a reboot.  That was with several batch files causing dozens of programs to run everyday.  Windoze still isn't that stable.

Errorlevel exit and take a peek over here.

On an entirely different subject, you notice two other hedge wizards got their perp walk this morning?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/business/20bear.htm

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choad wrote:

Errorlevel exit and take a peek over here.

On an entirely different subject, you notice two other hedge wizards got their perp walk this morning?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/business/20bear.htm

What errorlevel?  Can't do the right thing without knowing.  Different kind of hedge wizards.  I had something more like this in mind:



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choad wrote:

opsec wrote:

In Choad's defense, Usenet was until recently still the best way to grab pirated content.

Recently being about 10 years ago :)

What, you didn't like the video I sent?

Nothing rivals the throughput of your own ISPs servers - not P2P, not nothin' - if you've got a rock bottom subscription like mine.

The Alt binaries were the only television I've ever had. There, I confessed.

People like you are the reason half the movies I pirate come to me in the form of several dozen .rar files.  Hate.

choad wrote:

jesusluvspegging wrote:

choad wrote:

The Alt binaries were the only television I've ever had. There, I confessed.

People like you are the reason half the movies I pirate come to me in the form of several dozen .rar files.  Hate.

https://cruelery.com/img/btc.jpg

PFFT!!! Cats like me are the only reason you aren't watching video crumbs and fragments.

Oh?  Did you lay all that optical fiber yourself?  Thanks grandpa, you're the greatest.

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