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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on July 03, 2006, 09:44:19 pm

Title: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Kosh on July 03, 2006, 09:44:19 pm: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499

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I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.

Just wow.

I also remember watching something on the Daily Show where some old geezer politicians were talking about gaming. One of them said something like "I am an avid gamer, I am an expert at Pong".

These people should seriously be barred from voting on anything related to technology. They don't understand it, the don't care about the publics' opinions about it, and the only people they will listen to about it are the damn lobbyists (like the MPAA and RIAA). Having these people vote on anything related to technology is just asking for trouble.

Anyone else want to chip in on this?
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Mars on July 03, 2006, 10:15:19 pm: *Pictures George Bush playing Rainbow Six and "Nucleaar"Apocalypsee, cackling madly*
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Backslash on July 03, 2006, 11:22:47 pm: An entertaining 'informational' message -- Keep Your Parents off the Internet (http://www.deadtroll.com/video/parents.html).
"Surfing up the e-mail!" :lol:
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: aldo_14 on July 04, 2006, 02:45:58 am: Quote from: Mars on July 03, 2006, 10:15:19 pm
*Pictures George Bush playing Rainbow Six and "Nucleaar"Apocalypsee, cackling madly*

Nuke-u-lar, it's pronounced nuke-u-lar!
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Bobboau on July 04, 2006, 09:21:42 am: hey! we invented it, we can call it whatever the **** we want! :hopping:
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Flipside on July 04, 2006, 09:45:18 am: You invented the weapon, not the physics that make it work :p
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: aldo_14 on July 04, 2006, 09:46:34 am: i got one of those internet things yesterday. but I couldn't catch any inters in it, so i sent it back and asked for an interweb instead.
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Flipside on July 04, 2006, 02:25:42 pm: I downloaded a whole Internet yesterday, that's why the forums were hard to access I guess, I was blocking the Senators' tubes....
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: achtung on July 04, 2006, 03:09:19 pm: He stutters like porky the pig the whole time.

*Hears Looney Toon music*
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Turambar on July 04, 2006, 05:27:34 pm: so we have people who have no idea what theyre talking about debating on an issue which could have huge ramifications about how the internets work today.

wonderful
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Cobra on July 04, 2006, 07:33:34 pm: :wakka:

reminds me of the bash.org quote about the guy saying that his grandparents asked them to send an email to someone and giving him the person's P.O. Box number.
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Rictor on July 04, 2006, 08:59:05 pm: (http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2002/20020701h.gif)

"You-need-to-buy-more-bandwith" says the senator, and the telecos agree.
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Scuddie on July 05, 2006, 02:51:36 pm: Rictor wins two internets! This thread is made of win and moar.

*gouges eyes out with a spoon*
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Axem on July 05, 2006, 04:59:25 pm: Anyone have a torrent of this "Internets"? I found a direct link but its pretty slow.

http://www.onzin.nl/internetdownload/
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: watsisname on July 05, 2006, 05:41:18 pm: D-ohh! Not enough memory. Anyone got any spare floppy disks?
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Post by: NGTM-1R on July 05, 2006, 07:42:07 pm: You all sound somehow surprised...
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Cobra on July 05, 2006, 09:27:26 pm: Of course, we didn't know it was savable to hard drive. :nervous:
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Descenterace on July 06, 2006, 01:23:24 am: BWAHAHAHA! Brilliant! Site bookmarked for use on grandparents...

If I were to write a site like that, I'd make it actually provide a 'file' for download. Randomly generated and effectively of infinite size. That way, the download window would be right for the browser and OS, but I suppose anyone ignorant enough to fall for that site is probably still using Windows and IE anyway.
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: karajorma on July 06, 2006, 05:19:45 pm: (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/Misc-Pics/norton2.jpg)
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Cobra on July 06, 2006, 06:40:36 pm: :lol:
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Kosh on July 06, 2006, 09:40:23 pm: Quote from: Cobra on July 06, 2006, 06:40:36 pm
:lol:
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: achtung on July 06, 2006, 10:02:29 pm: Quote from: Kosh on July 06, 2006, 09:40:23 pm
Quote from: Cobra on July 06, 2006, 06:40:36 pm
:lol:
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 07, 2006, 12:14:29 am: :wtf: I don't really like Norton anymore, not after they started forcing you to use an upgraded version of IE.
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Gortef on July 07, 2006, 02:33:49 am: :lol:
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Mars on July 07, 2006, 01:18:21 pm: Quote from: aldo_14 on July 04, 2006, 02:45:58 am
Quote from: Mars on July 03, 2006, 10:15:19 pm
*Pictures George Bush playing Rainbow Six and "Nucleaar"Apocalypsee, cackling madly*

Nuke-u-lar, it's pronounced nuke-u-lar!

I was trying to write it George Bush phonetically, but failed *sigh*
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: aldo_14 on July 07, 2006, 05:21:01 pm: Quote from: Mars on July 07, 2006, 01:18:21 pm
Quote from: aldo_14 on July 04, 2006, 02:45:58 am
Quote from: Mars on July 03, 2006, 10:15:19 pm
*Pictures George Bush playing Rainbow Six and "Nucleaar"Apocalypsee, cackling madly*

Nuke-u-lar, it's pronounced nuke-u-lar!

I was trying to write it George Bush phonetically, but failed *sigh*

tut-tut.

What you have to remember, is that Bush pronounces it exactly the same as Homer Simpson.
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: Mars on July 07, 2006, 06:15:23 pm: I wonder how many t/b/millions of terrabytes the internet is at this point.
Title: Re: "My staff just sent me and internet"
Post by: aldo_14 on July 07, 2006, 06:25:21 pm: Well, it was over 500,000 TB in 2002 and has been growing pretty much exponentially.....