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| 2005/12/6-7 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:40875 Activity:high |
12/6 Sigh, finding my current kchang alias. -emarkp
So now I'm "reagan". Just so you know kchang, I've sent an email to
root asking for your access to motd to be terminated. I have no idea
if it will happen or not, but I thought you'd like to know. -emarkp
\_ Jesus christ you really are pathetic aren't you?
if it will happen or not, but I thought you'd like to know. -emarkp
\_ Ooh. Now I'm hirohito! You're so clever! -emarkp
\_ it's random. it's clear that someone has no sense of humor.
\_ Beats me. I'm emarkp on mine.
\_ I realized after refreshing it a few times that my alias is
rotating through several choices. It's not totally random
AFAICT though, because none of the aliases I'm getting are
neutral. Apparently kchang's maturity level is at about 5
years old. -emarkp
\_ likewise, your intelligence is at about 5 years old.
It took you how long to figure out that you're not
being singled out?
\_ It's not as deterministic as that. I get mostly super
villain names, but so do other posters who posted
when I wasn't online. So it's not a strict mapping.
Different users can share the same kchang identity.
\_ I suspect there are different classifications. If
you've criticized kchang in the past, you only get names
that are negative in his hierarchy. My alias of
"reagan" isn't evil to me, but I'll bet it is to kchang.
-emarkp
\_ And I suspect you are being paranoid. I am biased
though, since I am enjoying all the bad guy names
he's finding. He hasn't even ventured into the
Reagan- or Nixon-era names, yet, but admPoindexter
may be coming soon. Or perhaps he'll stick to the more
simplified comic book villains and slurs. -- megatron
\_ It took about 2 minutes to write a script to log
the names I'm given. Here are the top 4:
109 reagan
17 redneck
13 miniMe
11 hannibalLector
Now I suppose kchang might simply be incompetent
and his use of a random number generator is
flawed, but the above doesn't look random to me.
-emarkp
\_ You're being a fucking idiot. The vast
majority of names are some type of villain.
Maybe you'd rather be Stalin? or theWickedOne?
How exactly are these names non-random? What
could you possibly have in common with mini-me?
The world does not revolve around you.
\_ I think he wants "theHumorlessOne"
\_ Hi kchang! It looks like you've changed
your script since I posted this. Now
suddenly (within the last few minutes) I've
been assigned many more names. Did you fix
your random number usage? Or did you move
me off your "bad" list? -emarkp
\_ you are such a paranoid. and you've
been trolled. congrats.
\_ I'm not kchang. For fucks sake, man,
THINK.
\_ Cool. Would you mind posting the script so we
can all check it out? -- theTempter (as of
a minute ago)
\_ Where is this kchang namecalling down? Is this a new KAIS MOTD
site?
\_ http://csua.com/24/?incr=1
\_ Mehlhaff has been doing it for years with cvs. It was still
there last time I checked.
\_ I use RCS. -ERic
\_ FWIW, I like it. I think it's hilarious. Also, I'm glad the
archive and search functions are back.
\_ Me too! Lighten up, dude. The mapping of name to kchang name
seems pretty random to me. I doubt there is a line:
if (login == emarkp) name = something_negative;
I bet it's just the luck of the draw. - magneto
\_ It still seems random to me. Are you at all sure it can tell who
is posting what? I'm still not even sure what my own alias is. I
assume we all have one or they're assigned randomly.
\_ I'm getting positive characters, like megatron -- w00t!
\_ Megatron is the leader of the Decepticons in the cartoon.
Decepticon is um, evil. Megatron combines brute strength,
military cunning, ruthlessness and terror. Aches to return to
Cybertron to conquest after destroying all Autobots on earth.
Plans to possess all Earth resources. Incredibly powerful and
intelligent. Fires nuclear- charged fusion cannon. Can link up
interdimensionally to a black hole and draw antimatter from it
for use as a weapon. No known weakness.
\_ He was cool though! Turned into a gun and everything
\_ He got pwned by Optimus Prime. Repeatedly. Even
after he became Galvatron. -mice
\_ Acutally if you watch the the first movie very
closely although Optimus Prime is still "standing"
after the fight, he is the first one to die.
Megatron is still in good enough shape to talk
back to Unicron and doesn't ever "die" like
Optimus Prime. So if anyone got pwnd, it was
Prime. [ Yes, Galvatron was beaten by Rodimus
Prime, but that was only b/c Unicorn weakened
Megatron to the point where he could be beaten
by the autobots; Rodimus couldn't hope to beat
Megatron ] - Megatr0n #1 fan
\_ Oh puhLEEEAZE -- the only reason Optimus Prime
didn't waste megatron was because of that useless
interfering twit Hot Rod. Dude, megatron got
tossed out on his ear by freakin' Starscream.
Starscream!, man -- how wussy is *that*? At least
Optimus got resurrected as himself, rather than
absorbed like megatron. -mice
\_ Optimus got resurrected? Did we watch
different movies? Optimus dies and turns
gray in the one I watched and Hot Rod
is given the crystal of power (or whatever).
Cf. Megatron who doesn't die, but is
repaired by Unicron. The part where
Megatron is tossed out by Starscream
is the sadest part of the movie, but
he makes up for any whimpyness in the
very next scene w/ Unicron.
Cf also, Megatron's battle cry "Dece-
pticons Attack!" to "Autobots Rollout!"
No comparison. Its like "Warp Speed Mr.
Scott!" and "Beam me up Scotty" vs.
"Engage" and "Energize." :-)
\_ Optimus eventually got resurrected (twice!)
in the TV show.
\_ Optimus eventually got resurrected
(twice!) in the TV show.
\_ The original tv show? Or one of
the more recent updates? I don't
remember Optimus dying until the
movie (but then again the last
time I watched transformers was
more than 15+ yrs ago).
\_ Yes, the old TV show, a little while
after the movie came out. Not the
new CG/anime stuff.
\_ I'm getting Dr. Evil or Cobra Cmdr, but I'd prefer Dr. Claw!
All in all the names are cool.
\_ Not the kwah... the kwah!
\_ How long do you think it will take kchang to add 'emarkp' to the
list of supervillains? Will emarkp have a fit when he
randomly gets labeled with the horrible moniker emarkp?
Why do you read the motd so much if it offends you? Weren't
you the guy filtering out curse words from the motd?
\_ Hi anonymous troll! -emarkp
\_ It's random for me ... I went from megatron to LeftWingNut to bush
to MaoZedong. I think kchang is just trying to identify the
same posters without identifying the identity of the posters,
pretty cool. Is his degree going to be in social studies of geek
to MaoZedong. Is his degree going to be in social studies of geek
clics?
\_ It now appears to be random for me as well. The distribution was
very much /not/ uniform before, now it appears to be. -emarkp
\_ Uhm, welcome to the nature of randomness.
\_ 7 is the most random number!
\_ Is there a way to add nicknames?
\_ How about "moroni"
\_ Before some politburo individual reads this and overreacts, there is
nothing inherently wrong with kchang archiving the motd, attempting
to guess posters' identities, and posting insulting names in their
places (if he were doing so, which is not the case). If you don't
like kchang's sense of humor, don't bother going to his website.
This is not high school; hell, this is not even college. This is
a globally editable message board which is sometimes informative,
but often irrelevant, like most of the Internet. Get over it.
--erikred
\_ politburo should squish darthVader and Megatron the same way
amckee squished brett. |
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| csua.com/24/?incr=1 org/u/e6u (article from Atlantic Monthly) 12/5 My WinXP laptop sometimes doesn't come out of hibernate. doing the resume thing, but the login screen never shows up. I'm guessing maybe if I waited long enough, it would eventually come up, but I've been too lazy to wait for hours (I've tried 30-60 minutes). org/u/e6p "A jury next year will decide how much the county must pay for the land, unless the owners agree on a sale price. "Gidaro's group bought the property last year for $60 million from National Gas and Energy Transmission, a successor to PG&E Properties. The Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians, which operates the Cache Creek Casino Resort in Yolo County, has said it would finance the purchase of the ranch." read the entries in order, but because they're posted recent-first, I have to scroll down to the end, then read top-to-bottom, then scroll up one post and read down again. Is there any way to reformat them to be the latest at the bottom? was maybe one half decent line in it but otherwise it was sophomoric trash. The followup comments on the first page or two were all one liners going off about how brilliant it is but it just isn't. I'm happy to leave it at "your sense of humor is remarkably different than mine". Ask yourself this: if the same piece were written with different names and reverse political point of view would it still be "fucking hilarious" for you or the other commenters? The joke works *because* someone as nonsensically rabidly anti-liberal as Ann Coulter could only be this driven if she had as huge a well of repressed feelings as this satire purports. No, it wouldn't work if it were Michael Moore and some Young Republican because we all know lefties are perverts anyway (that, and the imagery would be terribly unsettling). Yes, the website and its title are puerile, but yes, it's funny. if you spend more than 10 seconds a year thinking about Ann Coulter and you share a sense of humor with the typical 16 year old. Anyway, Ann, Moore, and all the rest are super rabid because it makes them money. If you seriously believe they're that rabid in real life in private, I've got a bridge for you. That's not part of their recent history except a bit of inter-European movement. most European countries having large-ish immigrant populations, it is actually pretty difficult in a lot of places to assimilate, even for second-generation kids. The "barriers" aren't really conscious, but there have been a lot of studies recently about job discrimination against people with non-European names. This in no way excuses the honor killings and shit like that, but there was a good E'ist letter to the editor recently by a guy who'd taught in Italy--a group of ethnic Japanese students was referred to only as "the Japanese" by other students, even though they'd all been born in Italy. True or not, this is pretty typical and explains some of the failure to integrate. Given that, there's also a _lot_ of un- willingness on the part of a lot of Balkan and Arab/Muslim immigrants to integrate. Not that Japan would even let large colonies of immigrants set up their own cultural islands the way immigrants do in Europe. Other countries don't work the way America does and that's ok. Japanese in Italy will always stand out until so many immigrants eventually change the face of Europe (already happening). I don't think they should be forced to be perfectly accepting of immigrants. I guess it comes down to the idea of people having a homeland attached to their ethnicity. This traditional notion is simply incompatible with "integration". I would not expect to feel like a native Chinese if I moved to some random Chinese town, or if I was one of 3 white kids in a Chinese school, and first generation kids aren't gonna suddenly be Chinese either when they don't have Chinese parents and cultural tradition. I think immigrating is a choice and some of the negative aspects are to be expected. Obviously they should be protected law and tolerance should be taught. You can't force it though without trampling somewhat on the native people's lives. the immigrants would only become "acculturized" after several generations; but natives don't really want to deal with non-acculturized immigrants. I figure I'll actually field this question: I actually intentionally did not keep old-soda's keys. I'll post the new keys on the website when I am a bit more conscious. to the point of become unbearably slow before the hardware upgrade. out of curiousity, what went wrong with the old Soda again \_ Run soda inside a VM, and then VMOtion it to the other machine 12:26 lexluthor2 annCoulter? that there hasn't been a good Star Trek show since DS9 ended. I'm also struggling w/ the fact that 1st Contact was the last watchable Star Trek movie. I desperately need an infusion of new Star Trek content (Enterprise failed spectacularly in this regard b/c even SeaQuest was more watchable). and I thought it was a given that national restrictions on who links to what online are silly, "make a buck on it" is not a bad thing, but for some reason it has a negative connotation--not making a buck == no google, who judges what "no one should need to see"? lies is, c) germany has banned nazi stuff, are you opposed to that? unrelated is google's answer to a faq on image and link hosting for people who want an image pulled down: they duck the issue of removing it from their index and punt it to the user to go ask the webmaster to remove it when in many cases the webmaster has posted something maliciously or just doesn't care what their users post and isn't subject to the reach of the law. there were search engines before, there will be search engines after. they're just one search engine of many that all return roughly the same quality of results. In their position I wouldn't even have posted the disclaimer, although I can understand why they saw it as a prudent thing to do. is unwilling to provide a means to people to have potentially damaging and false information removed. I'm firmly in favor of that but why draw the line there? I don't see why Germany's ban on Nazi stuff is ok as a 'special case'. As if by out lawing references to the Nazis they will magically make the past go away. Anyway, once you draw a line there's no difference where yo draw it. You don't get to claim you're a big pro-information freedom person when you've made an arbitrary decision that there really is some information that shouldn't be seen. Women/ families should be not allowed to sneak across the border or go on a shopping trip in San Diego, give birth, and subsequently become a lifetime ward of the US Fed. But I guess strict construction is only useful when convenient. the same to all observers, did he ever consider that it contradicted with Newton's laws? I read some Einstein biography and it sounded like Einstein was the first to consider the contradiction. lieberman goes over there and thinks everything is rosy. murtha goes over there and thinks iraq is about to dissolve into civil war. i read the paper today and see more news of suicide bombings. i think of how much the iraqi people must be in on it for insurgents to attack our troops with such impunity. and let me amend this, I cannot think of any reasonable way for america to 'win'. I think gwbush wants to create a democratic magic land where the kurds, sunnis and shiites all live together in harmony and provide the US with cheap oil for the next 50 years. he must not have noticed the sunnis and shiites hate each other over an event that happened almost 2000 years ago, they're not going to start being nice to each other after we throw several cluster bombs at them. we fucked up, the sooner we're out of iraq, the sooner it can split into three countries. It's a shame those who try to voice the evidence they see of things getting beter are being silenced. If I am a neo-nazi I should get equal time to "debate" my side of the issue? and 2) you have the right to say what you want, but you don't have the right to force others to listen. In this case, we're talking about national issues of foreign policy as debated by federal level elected officials and it is absolutely neces... |