Always remember September for stundie noms

Here you go, my pleasure.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83445

He changed his forum name to Somerled after a couple of posters tracked him down on the internet and found he wasn't quite what he said he was. That's all in the thread too. Moral of the story, if you're going to claim to be an affluent retired businessman, don't post under your real name when the details of your mortgage repossession are right there to be found. Along with your current address and telephone number....

It's a forum classic. Should be savoured slowly, like a mature brandy or something.

Rolfe.
 
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Another nugget of the good stuff from Clayton.

Straw Man said:
I've just asked 3, and heard many tales from these people being treated as kids for childhood diseases by their doctor.

Clayton Moore said:
That's crap. Doctors had no medicine to cure common childhood diseases. Bed rest and chicken soup were the order of the day.

You didn't go to the doctors so you wouldn't spread the disease to already ill children.
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Rolfe said:
Here you go, my pleasure.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83445

He changed his forum name to Somerled after a couple of posters tracked him down on the internet and found he wasn't quite what he said he was. That's all in the thread too. Moral of the story, if you're going to claim to be an affluent retired businessman, don't post under your real name when the details of your mortgage repossession are right there to be found. Along with your current address and telephone number....

It's a forum classic. Should be savoured slowly, like a mature brandy or something.

Rolfe.
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To this date, I consider his argument that gravity needs a travel medium and cannot work in a vacuum to be one of the greatest gems of stupid to ever grace these forums.
 
Robrob said:
Alareth said:
To this date, I consider his argument that gravity needs a travel medium and cannot work in a vacuum to be one of the greatest gems of stupid to ever grace these forums.
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That doesn't do his argument justice. Basically, he argued that gravity needed an opening to, in effect, "get in". Find the Stundie win for details.
 
For your consideration, digital images on the internet are digital.
Robert Prey said:
The optimization argument is a straw man by reason of the fact that no serious birther has denied that there may well be evidence of optimization. But together with the evidence of a digitized image, what we have here in the COLB is a digitized forgery that may well have been optimized.
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Here's one I just found, from a reference in an e-mail newsletter I receive.


There has been a suggestion that colonies or communities
should be provided outside the reach of territorial
government jurisdictions so that the community can develop
its own rules and governance free of the stricture of
traditional governmental regulations.
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Moreover, because of national copyright, patent and
trademark laws within a nation, one goal is to
establish libraries and manufacturing plants that
are free of intrusion from the intellectual property
laws of a land-based society.
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What's so funny about this? It's found in US Patent 8,007,204.


That's right: They got a patent on a method for creating new communities in places where patents can't be enforced.
 
There has been a suggestion that colonies or communities
should be provided outside the reach of territorial
government jurisdictions so that the community can develop
its own rules and governance free of the stricture of
traditional governmental regulations.
...
Moreover, because of national copyright, patent and
trademark laws within a nation, one goal is to
establish libraries and manufacturing plants that
are free of intrusion from the intellectual property
laws of a land-based society.
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Is it just me or is this completely self contradictory? They want to be outside the law so they can create laws so they can be free to pirate other people's intellectual property?

Why is every FOTL a thief?
 
JayUtah said:
A more likely explanation is the staffer who was assigned to make copies for the press quickly realized that the safety paper would make this difficult. He therefore fiddled with the contrast and image-quality settings on the copier until enough of the safety-paper pattern had been eliminated, although you can still see vestiges of it in the shade of the gutter margin -- i.e., where the contrast break-point would differ.

Robert Prey said:
Which would make the certified copy handed to the AP not a copy of the original document.
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:jaw-dropp:jaw-dropp:jaw-dropp

Did you get that? The copy is not a copy. This is absurd on a level I can't describe. I'd love to see Robert in school. "But teacher, I didn't copy off my neighbor's paper. Sure the answers are exactly the same but look! The handwriting is different!"
 
From the computer subforum, of all places. It's kind of subtle, but still.


Walabio said:
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The only reason MicroSoft.Com can get away with selling such a shoddy product is because IBM.Com handed MicroSoft.Com a monopoly back in 1981 when IBM.Com decided to use MSDOS as the operating system for its new desktops (none ever get fired for buying IBM).

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