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Re: MOAR!!!

#240873
From: DG
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:53
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ervaqre schreef:
>>> No! This is a family newsgroup!
>> That has never stopped you before. You've made an 180 on censorship since you 
>> went to China. Coincidence? Me thinks not!
> 
> Shut up! Sometimes it is better to counter counter-revolutionary 
> thoughts by obfuscation rather than downright punishment of the 
> perpetrators though. The same goes for the information flow. There is 
> a lot of material that can be found, even by ordinary Chinese, that 
> can be labelled as counter-revolutionary, but there is at least 100 
> times as much information in favor of the government. So now all I 
> need to do is find somebody who is going to write a hundred-page essay 
> and post it here on Aglami.

I hear the Chines food is good there.

>>> Uhh..I always associate corruption with socialism. In a completely 
>>> free market with no regulation whatsoever, corruption wouldn't exist 
>>> because there are no government officials involved that can be bribed.
>> Corruption need not be limited to government officials. One can bribe a worker 
>> of another company to get company secrets. One may hand over a wad of cash just 
>> so someone will go away.
> 
> That's not corruption, that's just either smart or stupid, depending 
> on the outcome of the attempt at bribery.

The intelligence of the perpetrator has nothing to do with whether or not it is 
corruption.

>>> Rataplan always makes me think of Mexican food.
>> Mexican food always makes me think of the picture Reinder made of his toilet.
> 
> The picture I made of my toilet always makes me think of sandy 
> beaches.

Who is Sandy Beaches? And why do you think of her at the toilet?

>>>> You mean the bit after the comma? Or the whole line.
>>>
>>>
>> That's not much of an answer.
> 
> But it is what many original JISBU's were like. From the AGC FAQ:
> 
> JISBU: John Ievins Style Bugger Up. Luke writes:
>   "These occur when you are replying to a post with multiple
>   discussions contained therein. A JISBU is either when you
>   leave a space blank intending to write a reply to that segment
>   later or begin writing a reply and then decide to finish it off 
>   after the rest of the post is written, but then forget about the spaces
>   and send it, unfinished, leaving unsightly gaps." 
> 
That's got Reinder written all over it. He's all about the unsightly gaps.

-- 
Danny.
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From: DG <dammygerritsen@censored.zzn.com>
Newsgroups: alt.games.lucas-arts.monkey-island
Subject: Re: MOAR!!!
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:53:24 +0200
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