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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 2:47 pm

I hadn't been around much for a while, but my parent-slash-bosses are in Greece for two weeks, so I can get away with posting more from work.

Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 5:15 pm

Why would anyone want to spend two weeks in Greece in May?

Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 332 Location: CLEVELAND

continue reading for a rad message!

Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 332 Location: CLEVELAND

Chadwick Wellingsworth wrote:

yr ROBOT crush wrote:

one of Chadwick Wellingsworth's avatars shows up in google images if you search for robot 40.

Out of vain arrogance, I tried this out but gave up after five hours.

yr ROBOT crush, u r now out of my top 8.

all i know is i search myself regularly... and some avatar (not the one you have now) popped up in later pages with the caption Chadwick Wellingsworth under it.

Sad

plz4gvme?

Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 1:47 pm

Kilgore Trout wrote:

Westacular, I love your avatar so much that I seriously considered stealing it for another forum. But t-that would be stealing. And stealing is wrong.

Point is, I really enjoy your avatar, and I keep that warning in mind every waking second.

Thank you! You can borrow it with my permission, if you like. Spread the message, that's what's important.

Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:35 am

Faid wrote:

Why would anyone want to spend two weeks in Greece in May?

My sister is actually in a repertory theater troupe which for the past eight months has been travelling the state performing either Alice in Wonderland or Oedipus Rex. They are now taking the latter production on a four-week tour of your homeland.

And since I'm sure their audience consists entirely of tourists, the real question is: Why would anyone want to go to Greece to watch American college students perform Greek theater?

Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 11:15 am

No, the REAL question is "Why haven't you told me when and where they're performing yet".

Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 12:46 pm

Then I guess the real answer is "Because I don't have the itinerary and really I looked all over the Internet and everything but I just couldn't find it anywhere."

If you happen to hear about any theater festivals going on, they are the Gainesville Theatre Alliance Repertory Company, and my sister is playing Jocasta. That's pretty much all I know, unfortunately.

Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 278 Location: Terra Firma

I like Dezro's new avatar.

Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 11:45 pm

Normally this isn't the sort of thread I'd bother to write in, but since I just saw Octobites' avatar and was like, "Hey, I like Octobites' avatar, because really, who doesn't like Sun Wukong?" I thought I'd post here and say so.

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:17 pm

Principle Ass, your new avatar is funny, but I miss the old one. Brent yours is good too. Also Chad I like yours ;D

Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 533 Location: Mineola, NY

miles' gives me miles of smiles :))))))))))))

sometimes you guyses avatars and you guyses posts just combine to form one big hilarity bomb and i like that a lot

it keeps me coming back

Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 2468 Location: Utah

samx

samx your avatar makes me laugh although 300 has been so done
it is so awesome

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 991

King Carl kind of has an Emperor's New Clothing Avatar thing going on, but dont tell him.

Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 9009 Location: SOMEWHERE EXTREME

Kundor, in response to your avatar I must change my sig to distance myself from you politically.

edit:
and then he changes it to something else?
or it's on the random cycle?
anyway, he knows what I'm talking about.

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:07 pm

thanks aether

Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 3741 Location: Cumming

Thene wrote:

King Carl kind of has an Emperor's New Clothing Avatar thing going on, but dont tell him.

this is actually really appropriate [:

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:31 am

Haha Welcome Dude

why

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:31 am

wait when did klaw get his name changed

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:50 am

Draylorn wrote:

Haha Welcome Dude

why

jus' playin'

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 1:12 am

Eidam wrote:

wait when did klaw get his name changed

When he decided to have a Complete Personality Overhaul.

Also, uh, when he hit a million posts or whatever.

Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 9009 Location: SOMEWHERE EXTREME

I was kind of disappointed 'cause right before he changed I had an awesome idea for an avatar for him. There'd be a pile of pictures of ladies with all the right hands cut out and a klaw cutting out the hand of another picture and there'd be a stack of cut out klaws in the corner next to some scotch tape and the caption is of course "PIXX PLZ".

Unless someone already did that.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:52 pm

Dezro wrote:

Kundor, in response to your avatar I must change my sig to distance myself from you politically.

edit:
and then he changes it to something else?
or it's on the random cycle?
anyway, he knows what I'm talking about.

Nice "I want my work to be used to further the production of oppressive software which claims to own you, not the other way around" license there bud

Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 277

When I think about Future Skeleton's avatar, I touch myself.

Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 9009 Location: SOMEWHERE EXTREME

Much like Internet, I prefer to further all purposes.

But really, how can software itself be oppressive? Unless it was a driver for a USB jackboot or something.

One of the beauties of the DWTFYWTPL is that if you Wanted to, you could take all my code and relicense it as GPL or whatever. Now that's freedom.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:04 pm

but the sheeple will say "durr i am going to stick with my vendor-locked-in crudware unless something totally ridiculous shakes me out of my hostage-data-enforced imprisonment; this totally awesome thing you programmed would have done it but since you DWTFYWTPL'd it my proprietary vendor just tossed it in their product"

Or: It is impossible for the advantages of free software to affect the market so long as proprietary software can freely benefit from it, by using and copying it at will, but free software can't use proprietary software at all. In such a situation, obviously proprietary software will remain at a state of the art equal to that of free software plus the benefit of extra time invested on their part.

Or: A one-way information flow (knowledge goes from FOSS to proprietary; nothing comes back) breaks cultural advancement models.

Or: It's just unfair. (And since the net runs on merit recognition, it's punitive to creators.)

Software is oppressive if it determines what you are and are not allowed to do with your computer, rather than the other way around; if it denies you knowledge of the workings of your own property; if it attempts to prevent you from using, storing, exchanging, and copying data as you see fit; especially if it attempts to do so beyond the restrictions allowed by law; if it obfuscates itself and its output in a manner intended to prevent you from using other software, and thus forcing you to either remain with a particular solution or throw away decades of information. Information is more vital to a modern intricate corporation than any other resource; the nature of software is politically and ethically more significant than many things which do have required disclosures under law.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:08 pm

What are you guys even discussing?

Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 278 Location: The Future

green curry wrote:

When I think about Future Skeleton's avatar, I touch myself.

Well, I'm glad you like it!

Although I'd be a bit more comfortable if you didn't like it quite so much!

Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 9009 Location: SOMEWHERE EXTREME

Quote:

Software is oppressive if it...

Oh, right. Duh. My bad.

Anyway, I'd rather have my code free completely and inspire freedom by example instead of by (many times ignored) legalese. I don't want my code used to further a political ideology, I just want it used.

Or, I would if I ever gained the courage to publish it. ;) I think Roast Beef said it best, "My code is a dog's code."

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:08 pm

kundor wrote:

sheeple

Really hope kundor is just doing an annoying linux guy character here :\