cupocheer
Space Nigga
[unwillingly condescend the dp]
OP, you wipe your wet ass after a shower with a towel, don't you?
cupocheer
Space Nigga
[unwillingly condescend the dp]
OP, life is not supposed to be easy.
If it were so how would we know that we had nothing to learn?
2018-08-14 at 11:45 PM UTC
in
It's a Bad Idea to.......
cupocheer
Space Nigga
[unwillingly condescend the dp]
It's a bad idea to try to play POTUS while dressed as Tony Soprano.
2018-08-14 at 11:43 PM UTC
in
Reinventing Myself?
cupocheer
Space Nigga
[unwillingly condescend the dp]
Maintaining my status quo....
2018-08-14 at 11:36 PM UTC
in
Lanny -- Help Titles
cupocheer
Space Nigga
[unwillingly condescend the dp]
Lanny, you don't have the right (even from your position on your pedestal as admin) to be judgemental on other's opinion of what may, or may not, be a good, or bad, opinion.
2018-08-14 at 11:32 PM UTC
in
"Jeff Hunter" where are you?
cupocheer
Space Nigga
[unwillingly condescend the dp]
? -- Lanny -- a question, if you please -- why did you name this site NiS?
? -- Anyone -- a reference to Cheney = reference to Chennai, doesn't it?
2018-08-14 at 3:17 AM UTC
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Philosophy
cupocheer
Space Nigga
[unwillingly condescend the dp]
Good thread cupo, really generating the thought provoking questions with this one.
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Thanks, Lanny -- shhhhhhhh
I made it as a crumb -- hoping to entice Jeff Hunter in for a discussion
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I appreciate you recognizing why I was intending. smile
2018-08-14 at 2:55 AM UTC
in
"Jeff Hunter" where are you?
cupocheer
Space Nigga
[unwillingly condescend the dp]
1) nothing that will send Lanny to jail
2) forget #2 - err on side of doing nothing
LOL
.....AND HERES YOUR HOMEPAGE where you started the TOTSE stuff (not me) -- I would not know anything about Jeff Hunter if you didnt mention TOTSE to begin with.
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The Curious Case of TOTSE
TOTSE (sometimes &T), an acronym for "Temple of the Screaming Electron", was a dialup BBS and repository of text files started in the late 80s. You can read the wikipedia article for the just-the-facts version of this account. The text files it hosted covered a wide range of subjects, many of them objectionable to the prevailing sensibilities of the time. Some were detailed technical articles on exploiting phone or computer systems of the era, some were on the manufacture of drugs. As many were plainly false or posted for comedic effect (a fact not always understood by readers) as were legitimate but ultimately very little content was turned away.
The freedom of expression and "forbidden" content attracted a particular collection of people who participated on the BBS. The community was very large by the standards of the day, and had a lot of diversity, but I'll characterize participants as largely young males, often teenagers, middle class, and to a degree socially marginalized. The culture fluctuated with time, no small part of this story happened before the majority of posters on this site were born, but a persistent element of the community has been freedom of expression. Discourse was often crude, often misguided, frequently inane but fundamentally informed by the belief that given a critical audience and an level field for communication the best ideas would emerge. For many of us TOTSE was a formative experience.
There are a thousand stories of posters who have come and gone, pranks pulled, legends formed and forgotten and more than one death. Enough to bore you, more than are worth retelling here, make a post about the old days some time and someone is bound to talk your ear off. After many years of operation TOTSE was closed in 2009, a fact some of us still haven't gotten over.
2018-08-14 at 2:44 AM UTC
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"Jeff Hunter" where are you?
cupocheer
Space Nigga
[unwillingly condescend the dp]
"minimal set of rules" LMRAO -- there ARE NO RULES, Lanny. Read your own home page (or my earlier post here). And you call me confused
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ROTFF lolololololo
2018-08-14 at 2:17 AM UTC
in
"Jeff Hunter" where are you?
cupocheer
Space Nigga
[unwillingly condescend the dp]
That chunk of words proves my claim in my protest letter to you yesterday, doesn't it?
That chunk of words of yours proves several other things, also, doesn't it?
In fact, YOU, are the one who brought up the subject matter of TOTSE (et.al.) which you are now calling "conspiracy theory", isn't that correct? (HOME PAGE of this site)
Lanny, WTF do you want? What you posted on the site home page or what you feel like saying at any given time of the month whether your hormones are in balance, or not?
You sanction me (and other posters on this site) for posting in confusion because you dont have your shite together from post to post, day to day?
Damn! Monitor the site but take your prejudices and stuff them and get to running the site the way you set it up.
2018-08-14 at 2:03 AM UTC
in
"Jeff Hunter" where are you?
cupocheer
Space Nigga
[unwillingly condescend the dp]
Mission Statement
There is no mission statement. A lot of people a lot of ideas about what this community should be over the years, what should and shouldn't be allowed, what kind of culture should be fostered or shunned. I don't know if the world needs less censorship or a carefully cultivated attitude of intellectualism. But I do think there's real value, on a personal level if nowhere else, in having a place where you can speak your mind, or be angsty and outrageous, or call everyone a dumb cunt, and be judged on the content of your expression and nothing else. To that end, here are:
The Rules
1. No content which will get Lanny arrested. - I'm not a lawyer so I don't really know what that boils down to but we're going to play it by ear. When the cops show up at my door or I wake up with a C&D notice in my mail I'm going to be mad. When I see things which will obviously land me in jail (like child porn) I'll delete it and ban the poster.
2. No intentionally disrupting discussion. - This one is, admittedly, fuzzy. The site is here so people can have a place to talk about what they want to talk about. If you spam incoherent crap in a thread about something technical or specific then allowing that would just be defeating the point of the site. If you call someone a faggot for making a dumb thread, well that's probably alright. Listen, it's not a clear line when shitposting in good faith becomes intentional disruption but my pledge to you, gentle posters, is that I really don't care and will alway err on the site of not doing anything.
A note on the second rule, as it's become a point of rule lawyering: "erring on the side of not doing anything" is not the same as "will never do anything". Currently I (Lanny) am the only moderator in the site and can't read every thread. I'm not able to enforce this rule in every case because I simply won't see every case. If you feel a thread is being derailed you are encouraged to PM me or report the offending posts and I will moderate that thread more actively. This means the kind of posting that flies in one thread may not in another, or more minor off-topic posting that's acceptable earlier in a thread will not be acceptable later. I will always give a warning that a thread needs to be kept on topic before taking action, and I will try resolve threads going off topic as civily as possible. What I ask from posters is that they respect that not every thread will have the same level of moderation and that they help me in finding threads that are being derailed.
Are these your words, Lanny?
2018-08-14 at 12:57 AM UTC
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i fucking relapsed...
cupocheer
Space Nigga
[unwillingly condescend the dp]
Hey there, noob
Congratulations!
You're an old hand at this social forum stuff, huh?
Nice to see you.
cupocheer
Space Nigga
[unwillingly condescend the dp]
Really? For an electronic glitch?
Post the site rule on that one, please.
Now, let's go see how the Jeff Hunter collection is doing, shall we?
(I've found a way inside the old TOTSE site. I'm going to see if I can post there soon. smile)
