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2024-10-21 at 8:07 PM UTC in What are you doing at the momentThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-22 at 1:16 PM UTC in This Sunay's ConfessionBe careful, too. When you dump a control freak, there's no telling what they might do next.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-21 at 12:32 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....
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2024-10-20 at 3:50 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....Meth is very bad for you, kids.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-20 at 3:20 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-20 at 3:21 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-19 at 1:30 AM UTC in i have a perennial hatred of fat peopleTo Whom It May Concern:
As the System Operator of & the Temple of the Screaming Electron and
the network co-ordinator for NIRVANAnet(tm) I wanted to thank your
paper for the extra publicity that Michael Liedtke's sensationalistic
article "MODEM OPERANDI: Tips On Crime Go On-line" has provided for our
BBS network.
I helped to start NIRVANAnet(tm) four years ago because I wanted to
create a computer network where ideas, any ideas, could be freely
exchanged between people. I wanted to create a network that was open,
free, and easily accessable.
When you exchange messages with people on NIRVANAnet(tm), you do not
know the age, gender, race, religious affiliation, political party,
hair length, mode of dress, or sexual orientation of the person you are
talking to. Because of this, people cannot be pigeon-holed into neat
little categories and you end up learning an amazing amount about the
thoughts, feelings, and beliefs of a much wider array of people than
you would encounter in everyday life. On our network teenagers talk to
grandparents, bikers talk with born-again Christians, and Socialists
talk to Republicans. These people would never speak to one another if
they met on the street, but because they can use computers, they freely
exchange thoughts, ideas, dreams and hopes.
Mr. Liedtke stated that we are "Using the First Amendment as a legal
shield" and that "The bulletin boards remain open by straddling a fine
line between the legal definitions of free speech and criminal
behavior."
I'm surprised that a newspaper reporter, of all people, has such a
callous disregard for the First Ammendment. There is no "fine line". We
are not engaged in criminal activities, period. We are engaged in
speech, period. Speech is protected, period. When the day comes where
people can be imprisoned merely for what they say or what they think,
it's time to move to another country. As Pacific Bell spokesman Craig
Watts stated in the article "You can't prosecute someone for bad
thoughts."
The information in the "criminal" text files that Mr. Liedtke refers to
can be found in any well-stocked library, or ordered from any number of
book publishers in this country. Many of our files were found on the
Internet, a worldwide government/university/industry network funded in
part by the National Science Foundation.
The article also stated that "The Times isn't publishing the phone
numbers of the rebel bulletin boards as a children's safeguard."
Another reason might be that people would actually call the systems in
question and find out that Mr. Liedtke did not tell the whole story,
and as everyone knows, the most effective way to lie is to only tell
part of the truth.
Sincerely,
Jeff Hunter
Sysop, & the Temple of the Screaming ElectronThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-10-17 at 9:48 PM UTC in Ranking the most and least welcoming members of the forum- would not Jigaboo Johnson againThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-19 at 10:18 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....Soon, you will not be able to verify anything. Your entire existence will be based merely upon assumption.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-19 at 9:56 PM UTC in Is it a sin to...If it's a 24-hour fitness, they should force you to exercise for 24 hours, otherwise it's false advertising.
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2024-10-18 at 8:28 PM UTC in THE OFISH 2017 COLLAGE THREAD!!!
Originally posted by RisiR † I'm well familiar with it.
Unchain the colors, before my eyes
Yesterday's sorrows, tomorrow's white lies
Scan the horizon, the clouds take me higher
I shall return from out of the fire
Tears for remembrance, and tears for joy
Tears for somebody, for this lonely boy
Out in the madness, the All-Seeing Eye
Flickers above us, to light up the skyThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-08 at 1:08 AM UTC in The Fly Incident or How I finally accepted God into my lifeLord of the Flies.
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2024-10-18 at 10:30 PM UTC in NiS In court, in a NutshellThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-18 at 8:19 PM UTC in THE OFISH 2017 COLLAGE THREAD!!!The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-18 at 7:18 PM UTC in Is it a sin to...The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-17 at 9:55 PM UTC in i have a perennial hatred of fat peopleNASA in Hebrew translates as "to deceive". That's why they have a forked serpent's tongue as their logo. Minions of Satan the Devil himself, the Father of the Lie. Sometimes real life is stranger than fiction.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-17 at 6:38 PM UTC in For Trump supportersThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-17 at 5:43 PM UTC in Ranking the most and least welcoming members of the forumAt the end of Totse, you literally had the Feelings Police. That's why I took them all out. They were embarrassing.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-17 at 3:46 PM UTC in This Sunay's ConfessionVinny... have you been threatening to eat members' cats and dogs again?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-17 at 3:44 PM UTC in What happened to fox and solstice?
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