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General Discussion => Other Discussions => Humour and Jokes => Topic started by: LDStudios on April 13, 2014, 01:22:39 pm
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http://adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
All these years using Lunix and dying my hair red, but I never knew the truth. This article enlightened me and I will be sure to turn myself in. Be sure to read the comments too.
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have you dyed your hair red?
sweet :)
also, that article is pretty funny XD
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have you dyed your hair red?
sweet :)
also, that article is pretty funny XD
No, I haven't, its just a reference to the article :P
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oh, haha i thought you were serious
my gf dyed her hair purple :P
(and it's beautiful ^.^)
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Phew. I dyed my hair green and use Ubuntu, which is Linux not Lunix, so everything is ok for me. Plus, I bought an ATI as a graphic card, not an AMD, and never asked my parents to change their ISP because I don't live in their house most of the time so I could choose one I like without asking them.
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Not sure if that's serious. But if it is, what a bunch of bullshit.
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Lunix is Little Unix for the commodore 64 :P
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This is quite funny.
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I always knew I was a computer hacker. I refuse to acknowledge the other meaning of the word Hacker though which is "internet/computer criminal". This is a misconception created by popular media.
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Yeah, when ever my cousin tells people he hacks machines they always assume he's doing something illegal, which he doesn't do.
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LOL the true meaning of hacking is cutting anyway. :P
Also, I /am/ a hacker and totally agree with Keoni. Hacking ain't pirating.
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Seems like i'm a hacker now :P
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That article gave me an aneurysm.
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Luckily, I use Nvidia, I'm safe from being a hacker :D
http://adequacy.org/stories/2001.10.10.18186.236.html
Oh my, I had no idea I am such a negative influence being an unregulated programmer, though. D:
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I almost stopped reading before finishing the first paragraph. >.<
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This person has nothing better to do:
http://adequacy.org/stories/2001.10.19.214327.36.html
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One hilarious part about this site is the footer. Take a quick look at it. :P
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They trademarked the rgb color D7D7D7. This is what I think of it.
edit: I just noticed these articles are at least 12 years old...
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LOL yeah they are. And the trademark is what I was talking about. :P Like I care about it.
/me runs
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This is a wysiwyg editor unless you disable it. As you can see I got it right the first time :P
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LOL you noticed ? XD
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Omg, that was hilarious! :blah:
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Dat emote again. :blah:
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why did I even remove it, seeing as popular as it is :blah:
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AHHH, DAT SMILEY >.<
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Dat emote again. :blah:
why did I even remove it, seeing as popular as it is :blah:
AHHH, DAT SMILEY >.<
Yus. With the power to derail entire threads. >:D
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One more for the road. :blah:
/me runs
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Oh... That smiley again... ._.
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THIS IS SOOOO FUNNY!!!! The author doesn't know what she is talking about. She said "Programming in Perl" is for hackers?! :D About half of the information in #8 about linux is completely wrong. She didn't even speed linux right or Linus's name and he isn't Russian (at the time that would have mattered because of the cold war I suppose) Not so mention that Microsoft isn't responsible for Linux's existence. It was AT&T at Bell Labs who originally made unix from which linux was derived. Epic history fail. :o Also what's wrong with being a "hacker"? It just depends on what you do with it. This forum is fulled with "hackers" but that doesn't mean it is bad.
Luckily, I use Nvidia, I'm safe from being a hacker :D
Lol. I have a lot of AMD graphics cards.... I must be a super hacker. (BTW how does hacking have to do with graphics cards? This person is crazy. ???) :D
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Not she but he. He says he is a father several times in the article. Also it's supposed to be trollish. ;)
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Why do you even need a better gfx card for hacking? You only need a good internet connection.
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Depends what you are hacking though. Better get a good GPU if you want to do crazy fast calculations and participate in this Folding@home hackerfest thing.
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Not she but he. He says he is a father several times in the article. Also it's supposed to be trollish. ;)
Actually not sure. I think this person might have been serious at the time, and incredibly ignorant too. That's what makes it funny.
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Yeah remember that this dates back to 2001. Internet users these days are more informed and less ignorant.
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Maybe then. But there are elements that show it's not entirely serious, like the way half of it is true (LILO is GrUB's ancestor, AMD makes weaker but cheaper CPUs, ...) and the rest is totally wrong (Linus's name for example). Unless it was really that bad back then. O.O
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Yeah remember that this dates back to 2001. Internet users these days are more informed and less ignorant.
in 1999 or so, over here I think there was a wave of murders involving a women meeting some guy she met IRL after meeting him via chatrooms. In one case, they found the women body completely dismantled. When this and the many occurences of credit card fraud became mainstream a lot of people sweared that they would never let Internet get into their home, even if their kids wanted to pay the entire bill. People were just too scared of it. However, once they use it properly they realize it's not that bad and can be very useful. Same for programming, I guess.
I also noticed the same thing about calcs lol. Back in 1999-2005 we didn't have TI-BD nor WikiTI, so the typical calculator user was sometimes pretty ignorant about the true capabilities of the calc. This resulted in some akward answers to people's questions and misleading info, especially LCD-related stuff. Even some hardcore ASM coders thought that a GB emulator would just be plain impossible. There were also some strange projects and achievements too that resulted from this.
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Hell, even teachers nowadays don't even know 1% of what a calc can do. Except for our (calc site members) teachers. :P
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Over here people who are technology illiterate are still very common and companies that are owned by very old people tend to not have a Twitter or Facebook still. My local shopping mall have both, but sometimes they don't tweet anything nor update their wall for months (although their facebook has been updated more often in recent months, but their last tweet dates back in 2012). Of course, some people just can't stand computers, though.
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There's a Wikipedia artice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequacy.org) about Adequacy.org; the site was started by some Slashdot trolls. I just read through a fair bit of their stuff and some of it's golden (like this article). This article was one of the few things on the internet to truly make me laugh out loud. :D
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Oh, so it is satire after all :P
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I'm pretty sure their troll level is at least over 9000, if not higher. They're good. :D
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Indeed. I'd even say they're over 90000. :P
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There's a Wikipedia artice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequacy.org) about Adequacy.org; the site was started by some Slashdot trolls. I just read through a fair bit of their stuff and some of it's golden (like this article). This article was one of the few things on the internet to truly make me laugh out loud. :D
Actually that article is a satire of what the website was about: Serious discussions on the world's most important matters. People who say this is satire don't know what satire is about.
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There's a Wikipedia artice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequacy.org) about Adequacy.org; the site was started by some Slashdot trolls. I just read through a fair bit of their stuff and some of it's golden (like this article). This article was one of the few things on the internet to truly make me laugh out loud. :D
Actually that article is a satire of what the website was about: Serious discussions on the world's most important matters. People who say this is satire don't know what satire is about.
Given that the website is filled with articles like these (http://adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.8.5.172749.2140.html), I'm pretty sure the entire site is satire. :P