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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Grey Wolf on December 21, 2001, 08:08:00 pm
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starting tomorrow until after New Year's.
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You better have a damn good excuse you man. If it's anything but an 8 day drinking binge I shall be very dissapointed.
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No. Unfortunately, I'm underage. I'm going on Christmas vacation to my grandparents whose computer is being replaced.
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Hahah, underaged. I'm 16 and drink vodka infront of my parents. I love my life...err...anyway, what? Computer being replaced? Explain.
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Oh you mean it's in the shop so you can't get on the internet. Right I get ya.
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No, I mean it went haywire and Dell is sending them a new one.
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meh..
once you hit the legal age it isnt fun anymore...
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Old people shouldn't have computers. No offence to yer grandparents or anything. I don't think that anyone should be able to just buy a computer. It should have to be earned.
Please tell me they don't have a website....or use AOL (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/mad.gif).
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No...and no.
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009:
No...and no.
No AOHell... lucky
(oh and as you can see, I dont use AOHell, I was talking about my grand parents (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif) )
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Ion bars do not imprison me!
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AOL, Geocities, Yahoo and Compuserve (and Microsoft to a lesser extent) are responsible for the present state of the internet. It use to be that clever people bought computers because they realised that this secret little group was a valuable tool. You used to own a computer for 5 years and then make the bold step of buying a modem to get on the immense gathering of minds known as the 'Information Super-Highway'.
Now little 6 year old's get laptops for christmas, fill the internet with a site that looks like it's been hax0red and is just pictures ripped from other sites. They buy massive domain names that some poor company needed to make sure they didn't have to lay off 2000 workers and they sell all their old crap at extortionate prices on the auctions. Eventually the porn dealers decide to flood the place with completely crap, over-priced pornography. The invention of the first pop-up window is not seen for the demon that it is. Companies, porn sites and six year olds barrage search engines with meta-tags that have nothing to do with their sites. The internet descencds into chaos, a hunting ground for script-kiddies and a hell in cyberspace for the real computer geeks.
I know this sounds like the rant of a kiddy whose about 10 minutes away from being shot-down by a real vet but it ain't. I've had a computer for like 11 years. I can type about eight times faster than I write. I use to open stuff in Dosshell. I remember reading an article on the CD and how it would revolutionise computing and kill of the measly 3.5's just as the 5 1/4's had been wiped out. I owned the first commercially available home CD drive, that crappy one where you had to push it and it clicked out. I remember looking in awe at my uncles 2mb video card and joking about 128mb's being holographic. The internet revolution has become an internet revulsion and soon it will come to an end. Either those who were there at the beginning will rise up and take back the internet or corporate whores will reing supreme and preside over the demise of the greatest acheivement of human kind to date. Just wait....
Wow, I'm posting some deep **** tonight.
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Talk about computers here = good.
Talk about underage drinking here = funny, but bad.
Just thought you ought to know (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
Oh - and have a good Chistmas Grey Wolf!
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Hmm in Britian its either 16 or 18. Cant remember which.
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18.
ahhhh...the days when i walked into the pub and used to be pleased when i got a pint of fosters.
(bleurgh)
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have you ANY idea of how much trouble you're in?
assault on a police officer.
Theft of police property.
Illegal possesion of a firearm.
FIVE counts of attempted murder.
That comes to...
twenty-nine dollars and 14 cents.
cash, cheque or credit card?
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It only took a half hour, but I managed to actually get online here without MSN or IE going haywire. I may actually be able to check here every few days (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
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Beginning to sound like Th3 B4r in here. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
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Technically in your home with parental concent,..you can drink at just about any age. Long as you stay in the house.
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Originally posted by Setekh:
Beginning to sound like Th3 B4r in here. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
Believe me, we've a long way to go before that - for one thing we don't have Blade here posting hundreds of SMG pictures.