SO OLD IT'S NEW AGAIN
21 Aug 2010 [Filed by Surly Bob]


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 BOB SCHOOLS A CORPORATE HOUSE SLAVE
19 Aug 2010 [Filed by Surly Bob]
Some dipshit on some comment thread:

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Your screaming squad cars image is laughable. As an author, I am all but powerless to protect my copyright from piracy. Anyone can check the little box that says they have permission to upload my ebooks, but if I want them taken down, I have to go through an arduous snail-mail process with a webhost based in Rumania to prove that I own the copyright and that I did not authorize its upload. If (BIG IF) they're subsequently removed, they're uploaded again within hours and the whole goddamn process starts over.

I'd be fascinated to know how this "all IP should be free" model will work for someone like me, who's barely eeking out a (very) modest living as it is. If I can also get the things I need free, we've got a deal.



That's cute how you think because you are a "white" collar member of the "creative class" that you are entitled to a "living". Have you seen the unemployment rate, lately? What about all those "obsolete" useless eaters who can't even get unemployment and are living on the streets or mooching off friends and family? Nobody seems to give a crap about them. A bunch of them actually created things that were tangible before they got replaced with Indians and Chinese.

On the other hand, we're supposed to get the vapors at the prospect of your vanity publication being ripped off by teenagers? Please. Besides, if you are now spending all day sending DMCA takedown notices, you aren't creating anything new, anyways, so what difference does it make if you've "lost your incentive" to be "productive"?

Heck, I'm not even making the case that what you call the "all IP should be free model" is great or anything. I'm just laughing about your entitlement mentality and wondering: What makes you better than all those other people who had their "living" destroyed by new technology?

You think you are special? You are not. You just happened to be further down the "to get screwed" list due to your race and/or social class and mistook that for being somehow different. Wrong.

You think that by snuggling up to the corporates and arguing in favor of their sovereign right to take our free culture and turn it into monopolized "products", they are gonna throw you a bone, someday? Hah, what a joke. Like I said before, the GOP is full of morons like you who think that the rich will give you their crumbs.

Here's a newsflash though: The rich don't even consider you human. Can you really blame them, though? What kind of pathetic creature argues that people with control over 99% of the world's resources are in need of MORE POWER and EXTRA PRIVILEGES?

Nothing but a self-hating house slave.

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 PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING!!
19 Aug 2010 [Filed by Surly Bob]
Of course, by "people", I mean "white Christians". You see, on that horrible day of nine to the eleven, when everyone blew off work for a day to sit on their butts and watch CNN show two buildings falling over and over again, our SOULS were SEARED.

Take me, for example. Not only did I see NineOneOne on the TV, but I also saw the Oklahoma City Bombings, the Virginia Tech shootings, AND the earthquake in Haiti! That last one was in HD too, so it was extra traumatic.

The televised horrors that I witnessed make me and my feelings important. In fact, if I ever forget those horrors, I only need to tune in on their respective anniversaries to relive the terror!

You see, America now has PTSD due to their horrible through-the-tv experiences. It's kinda like everyone in the whole country served a tour in Vietnam, only a hundred times worse. To commemorate the day when we all became victims (and Israelis!) there is an office building construction site that we have declared "hallowed ground" (and by "we", I mean the TV).

Like Stonehenge, Chichen Itza, or that corn field where they held Woodstock, this Hallowed Ground emanates a magickal aura of arbitrary size. Therefore, it is a known fact that if any towelheads establish places of worship within that aura - our hoodoo is totally compromised and any spells we cast may fizzle or even backfire!

So, next time you bust out your dirty "principles" and start yappin about "rights", you need to think of the REAL victims here - all those seared souls who experienced nineoneone over the TV. Protecting their feelings is pretty much the only social service the US has left!

Even Howard Dean wants the evil sand monkeys to respect the wishes of America's TV viewers!!

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 THEY HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOMS
06 Apr 2010 [Filed by Surly Bob]
Next time some evil-doin' terr'ist blows up a building, go watch this video and thank our brave troops for all that freedom they are exporting to the savage Arab. Also, find the nearest Bush-voting cocksucker and slash their tires, because this shit didn't use to be what America was about. However, thanks to the Chimp and his pea-brained supporters (PROTIP: they call themselves teabaggers, nowadays), this is now what we stand for and what our tax dollars finance. See also: exhibit 1-1,000,000 of Israel doing the same kind of shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0

Did any of us vote for this? Is it supposed to be fucking "democracy" when we get the "choice" of picking between the party of mouthbreathers who get off on this stuff and the party of spineless cowards who make excuses for this stuff? I challenge anyone to watch that fucking video, start to fucking finish and then tell me that we didn't deserve 9-11. Here's the fun part - this video was leaked to wikileaks from the Pentagon. The same Pentagon, who were blocking its release and lying about the attack. They said that this massacre "followed the rules of engagement" and "only struck insurgents". What a crock, just like "weapons of mass destruction", huh? How many more fun turkey shoots like this have they successfully covered up? How many more "insurgents" in this illegal war of lies are actually victims of the USian Empire?

I also wonder how many brainwashed cunts are gonna email me about this post like I'm some sort of bad guy for being pissed at murder done in my name? I hope at least a couple keep their cars nearby.

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 I TOLD YOU SO!!!
26 Jan 2010 [Filed by Surly Bob]
See!? the TSA didn't even keep that guy from trying to blow up his underwear! They sure as hell harassed thousands of law-abiding Americans while they were NOT PROTECTING US, though!!

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 TSA (airport nazis) HAVE A BLOG
01 Nov 2009 [Filed by Surly Bob]
That "blog" is pathetic. All comments are screened. Anyone who posts something "subversive" is reported to DHS, no doubt. In every comment thread, there's "Anonymous" posters writing tripe like "They are only trying to save you from the ebil terrorists!" and any attempts to convince anyone that routine violations of fundamental human rights and dignity might maybe be a bad thing are met with a dry "We're only doing our jobs (comrade)" and "Don't blame us! We don't make the rules!!" Then, they have the unmitigated gall to ask why people argue with them and give them mean looks and say mean things about them?

Let me tell you why -- We want your life to be just a little bit more miserable. We want you to cry during breaks because a 6-year old girl called you trash. We want you to have to change clothes in your car after work, because showing up in your spiffy uniform at a bar will get your ass beat. You see, us lowly law-abiding citizens might not be able to do anything to those motherfuckers in Washington and the banks who own them, but God damn it, we can punish the subhuman trolls who carry out their dirty work. I don't know the whole story about what went down in New York 50-years ago or whenever the fuck 9/11 happened, but I know about some terrorism going on, right this minute. The group that's claimed responsibility goes by the name of "TSA". This shit is going down BY YOUR HAND, and if there's such a thing as hell, karma or justice in this world, you will be living in interesting times.

At least Osama bin Laden didn't tell me that I should be grateful. Fuck you.

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 WHO KILLED UO?
23 Jul 2009 [Filed by Surly Bob]
If you were one of those pathetic cowards who loathed direct competition and demanded that developers turn UO into a graphical chatroom, you killed UO.

If you were one of those faggy guildies who plotted and schemed over IRC/IM to get anyone who wasn't a member of your gay little club banned from the game just because you are a catty bitch, you killed UO.

If you were one of those crybaby simpletons who constantly demanded changes on dev messageboards and then took your ball and left whenever anyone had integrity and ignored your demands, you killed UO.

If you are this guy:

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Actually AI is not an emulation of any pre-existing ruleset, but more an expression of Adam's vision for what UO should have been.

And just like when OSI used to change things that people didn't want changed, or didn't change things that people did want changed, or banned people for things that seemed trivial, or didn't ban people for things that seemed serious ... folks quit, and the population dwindled.

The difference for OSI is that they were still able to draw in new people to the game and the new expansions were a big part of that. If you have a new game on the shelves, people will buy it.

In the case of AI, if you want to know what should have been done differently, you'd have to talk to the backbone guilds that supplied the constant population necessary to support the server. Guilds like PAG, GUL, Orc, Und, KV, EV, and many others that have basically come, morphed, and passed.

..then you killed AI. Also UO. Enjoy getting dicked around by whatever whore is setting up your "we do it our way" shard, and don't forget to donate BIG TIME.

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 WE TOLD YOU THAT THERE WAS GONNA BE A DEPRESSION
09 Jul 2009 [Filed by Surly Bob]
"..and you didn't listen!!"

That's the crap I've been hearing from all of the Ron Paul fans and every jackass Randroid on the internet. In this article some knob-slobber wrote that him and his chappies "predicted the recession with astonishing precision", and uses some speech that Ron Paul wrote in 2002 as evidence.

Wow, that was so totally DEAD ON. Everyone would have been SO MUCH better off putting all their money in a mattress back in 2002 in anticipation of a recession that struck in 2008. Brilliant!

Honestly, they've been cranking this crap out for years. I remember reading editorials on gold-eagle.com back in the '90s predicting the imminent collapse of the US dollar and telling me to spend all my useless "fiat currency" on survival seeds and gold mining company stocks. Even a broken watch is right twice a day, and I'm supposed to be impressed when these guys were running around crying about certain future doom? Please.

Since predicting that something bad will happen, at some unspecified point in the future, makes you a guru and qualifies you for the presidency, allow me to make the following dire predictions (praise me and nominate me once they come to pass):

** If America doesn't wave their magic nuke wand and make all the nukes go away, someone is gonna nuke something. WHY WON'T YOU LISTEN!? MAKE THEM GO AWAY OR IT'LL BE BIG TROUBLE!!!"

** If we don't stop making CO2 and somehow convince the Chinese to call off their industrial revolution, it might get hotter GODDAMMIT DO SOMETHING YOU FOOLS DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU!@!!

Yep, making specific and bold predictions and then being totally 100% right about everything is SO overrated! That's why I'm now a proud member of the Nostradamus school of punditry and I'm loving it! If you read this far, you're probably going to die someday.

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 NOW I DID IT!
09 Jul 2009 [Filed by Surly Bob]
Damn, I make one frontpage post about MJ and the Google ads go all ethnic on me! Someone call an exorcist cuz my website is haunted!

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 HAY GUISE DID YOU HEAR THAT JACKO DIED!?
09 Jul 2009 [Filed by Surly Bob]
Since Michael Jackson's death hundreds of children have gathered at the gates of Neverland. Police have said that they will let them out once they find a locksmith.

In other news, I paid the hosting bill. Sorry if the site was offline for 3 months. :(

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