🚀 go-pugleaf

Op 17-4-2011 17:31, ervaqre schreef:
>>> Hey, but this former Motzarella server allows me to post using an
>>> encrypted connection. And I am pretty sure, based on my experiences
>>> with all that represents the aptitude of the Celestial Empire when it
>>> comes to the internets, they're not even capable of finding out who it
>>> really is potsing all this stuff on the usenets. Hell, I am sure no
>>> person with slanted eyes even knows what the usenets are!
>>
>> Hurray for the Usenet not being cool and hip like twitter. This old and
>> obsolete technology that *doesn't* tie you down to 140 characters max
>> nicely flies below the radar. At least if you don't count the binaries.
>>
>> "They're not even capable of finding out who it really is potsing all
>> this stuff on the usenets." Hmmm, that has a ring of the "famous last
>> words".
>
> Yet here I am, replying to your reply to my post! Though, am I really
> who I am? Am I not some Chinese internet security clerk who has taken
> over my online usenet identity?

So there's a closet in China with Reinder's corpse gathering maggots? 
How LeChuck!

>>> extremely tiny desk with a huge sign on it stating he's a police
>>> officer in an empty, clinically white hallway all throughout the
>>> night. It's way beyond the seventeenth galaxy of absurdity. In fact,
>>> it's even craxy/I
>>>
>> Want absurd? How about a company where you could only get a new pen if
>> you returned your empty pen and filled out a form in triplicate. With
>> the empty pen. Very catch 22-y. If you could fill out the form, you
>> didn't need the pen, if you couldn't fill it out, you weren't eligible
>> to get a new pen. People who work in an environment like that tend to
>> wake up as a cockroach one day.
>
> Does that happen to be in a society where people only have one pen?
> One plant, one pen. While I do admit it is highly cost-effective and
> good for the environment, have you ever thought of buying another pen
> just as a back-up?
>
Well, "Mr I Had one glass for years and that was for guests, I drank 
from the bottle", I never worked at that actual company. It's just an 
anecdote from someone that did. The policy didn't last, unsurprisingly. 
I have worked at places where they were rather strict, understocked or 
just plain lazy about providing workers with their tools.

-- 
Danny.