On 2010-11-02, Winston wrote:
DoN. Nichols wrote:

(...)

And how many people do you expect to know how to decode that
these days given how few do bottom posting? :-)

Whfg ybt gb uggc://jjj.ebg13.pbz/vaqrk.cuc
naq cnfgr lbhe grkg vagb gur jvaqbj.

Lbh cbfg gur vafgehpgvbaf ba ubj gb ebg13 qrpbqr (be rapbqr,
fvapr vg vf n erirefvoyr cebprff) *va* ebg13.

Lbh zhfg ernyyl abg jnag gubfr jub qba'g xabj gb yrnea. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2010-11-02, Winston ? wrote:
? DoN. Nichols wrote:
?
? (...)
?
?? And how many people do you expect to know how to decode that
?? these days given how few do bottom posting? :-)
?
? Whfg ybt gb uggc://jjj.ebg13.pbz/vaqrk.cuc
? naq cnfgr lbhe grkg vagb gur jvaqbj.

Lbh cbfg gur vafgehpgvbaf ba ubj gb ebg13 qrpbqr (be rapbqr,
fvapr vg vf n erirefvoyr cebprff) *va* ebg13.

Lbh zhfg ernyyl abg jnag gubfr jub qba'g xabj gb yrnea. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.


No need to make it too easy on the NOOBS. ;-)


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DoN. Nichols wrote:
On 2010-11-02, wrote:
DoN. Nichols wrote:

(...)

And how many people do you expect to know how to decode that
these days given how few do bottom posting? :-)

Whfg ybt gb uggc://jjj.ebg13.pbz/vaqrk.cuc
naq cnfgr lbhe grkg vagb gur jvaqbj.

Lbh cbfg gur vafgehpgvbaf ba ubj gb ebg13 qrpbqr (be rapbqr,
fvapr vg vf n erirefvoyr cebprff) *va* ebg13.

Lbh zhfg ernyyl abg jnag gubfr jub qba'g xabj gb yrnea. :-)

Sometimes I'm overly recursive.



--Winston

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2010-11-02, Winston ? wrote:
? DoN. Nichols wrote:
?
? (...)
?
?? And how many people do you expect to know how to decode that
?? these days given how few do bottom posting? :-)
?
? Whfg ybt gb uggc://jjj.ebg13.pbz/vaqrk.cuc
? naq cnfgr lbhe grkg vagb gur jvaqbj.

Lbh cbfg gur vafgehpgvbaf ba ubj gb ebg13 qrpbqr (be rapbqr,
fvapr vg vf n erirefvoyr cebprff) *va* ebg13.

Lbh zhfg ernyyl abg jnag gubfr jub qba'g xabj gb yrnea. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.


No need to make it too easy on the NOOBS. ;-)

Think of the message as a reward, after someone spends
half an hour writing a decoder in BASIC.

Heh.

--Winston

Winston wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2010-11-02, Winston ? wrote:
? DoN. Nichols wrote:
?
? (...)
?
?? And how many people do you expect to know how to decode that
?? these days given how few do bottom posting? :-)
?
? Whfg ybt gb uggc://jjj.ebg13.pbz/vaqrk.cuc
? naq cnfgr lbhe grkg vagb gur jvaqbj.

Lbh cbfg gur vafgehpgvbaf ba ubj gb ebg13 qrpbqr (be rapbqr,
fvapr vg vf n erirefvoyr cebprff) *va* ebg13.

Lbh zhfg ernyyl abg jnag gubfr jub qba'g xabj gb yrnea. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.


No need to make it too easy on the NOOBS. ;-)

Think of the message as a reward, after someone spends
half an hour writing a decoder in BASIC.


The last decoder I wrote in basic was to disassemble the firmware OS
in a Commodre 1581 disk drive.


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enough left over to pay them.

On Nov 3, 3:55*am, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:45:17 -0400, J Burns wrote:

Millions of English used to live and make their living on public lands.
(snip)

Interesting world view *you have there. *Is that the result of a head
injury?

Gunner

Yeah, that IS kinda strange.

On 2010-11-03, Winston wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:

"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2010-11-02, Winston ? wrote:
? DoN. Nichols wrote:
?
? (...)
?
?? And how many people do you expect to know how to decode that
?? these days given how few do bottom posting? :-)
?
? Whfg ybt gb uggc://jjj.ebg13.pbz/vaqrk.cuc
? naq cnfgr lbhe grkg vagb gur jvaqbj.

Lbh cbfg gur vafgehpgvbaf ba ubj gb ebg13 qrpbqr (be rapbqr,
fvapr vg vf n erirefvoyr cebprff) *va* ebg13.

Lbh zhfg ernyyl abg jnag gubfr jub qba'g xabj gb yrnea. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.


No need to make it too easy on the NOOBS. ;-)

Think of the message as a reward, after someone spends
half an hour writing a decoder in BASIC.

Or -- sat down and decoded it by hand. (Not too difficult --
just tedious.)

Also -- not too difficult to write a decoder in C (or perl, or
pretty much any reasonable language). Lots of ways to do it.

I don't think that I would want to try it in INTERCAL, however. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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DoN. Nichols wrote:

(...)

I don't think that I would want to try it in INTERCAL, however. :-)

I had to look that one up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL

"Caution! Under no circumstances confuse the mesh with the interleave
operator, except under confusing circumstances!"

That is a Riot! Reminds me of Douglas Adams.

http://www.earthstar.co.uk/drive.htm



--Winston

In article ,
DoN. Nichols wrote:
On 2010-11-01, Ted Schuerzinger wrote:
On 1 Nov 2010 01:27:36 GMT, DoN. Nichols wrote:

Women normally take longer to do their thing with a normal
john, because of the extra layers which have to be removed and replaced,

Actually, it's because they all stop to gossip. ;-)

That is taken care of in the (long) line before getting into the
johns in the situation which I described (snipped).

I'm reminded of the old joke:

What are the three fastest forms of mass communication?
Gryrcubar, gryrtencu, gryy n jbzna.

And how many people do you expect to know how to decode that
these days given how few do bottom posting? :-)

Furrfu!


"For extra security, and to foil spammers, all my postings are double-rot13
encoded."

Robert Bonomi wrote:

(...)

"For extra security, and to foil spammers, all my postings are double-rot13
encoded."

I can't get to a browser right now. What did Bob say?
Can anybody decode this for me?

--Winston

On 11/3/10 7:21 AM, humunculus wrote:
On Nov 3, 3:55 am, Gunner wrote:
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:45:17 -0400, J wrote:

Millions of English used to live and make their living on public lands.
(snip)

Interesting world view you have there. Is that the result of a head
injury?

Gunner

Yeah, that IS kinda strange.


Kirkpatrick Sale
_Rebels_Against_the_Future_
Addison-Wesley Publishing 1995.

Some English lived in towns. Some owned land or were subjects of
landowners. The rest lived on public land. A big motive for turning
public land into private estates was to get rich producing wool.

Large numbers of displaced Scotch and Irish ended up in America, while
displaced English went to cities. Gin became popular as a cheap means
of slow suicide.

On 2010-11-03, Winston wrote:
DoN. Nichols wrote:

(...)

I don't think that I would want to try it in INTERCAL, however. :-)

I had to look that one up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL

"Caution! Under no circumstances confuse the mesh with the interleave
operator, except under confusing circumstances!"

That is a Riot! Reminds me of Douglas Adams.

Download the original paper on it and read that if you haven't.
I remember being introduced to it at an early local computer club
meeting, perhaps around 1978 or so.

Better -- it was written (in part) by one of the two programmer
responsible for the original Adventure. :-)

http://www.earthstar.co.uk/drive.htm

Hmm ... I don't remember reading that in _HHGTTG_ -- some
supplementary publication, or my failing memory?

Enjoy,
DoN.

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DoN. Nichols wrote:

(...)

Download the original paper on it and read that if you haven't.
I remember being introduced to it at an early local computer club
meeting, perhaps around 1978 or so.

That sure resonates with anyone who bashed their head against
a thorough but completely useless instruction manual or 'man entry'.
(Timidly raises hand.)

Better -- it was written (in part) by one of the two programmer
responsible for the original Adventure. :-)

...Who were bright enough to warrant sunscreen and shades.

http://www.earthstar.co.uk/drive.htm

Hmm ... I don't remember reading that in _HHGTTG_ -- some
supplementary publication, or my failing memory?

Perhaps you dismissed it as 'too improbable'.


See section 3.3:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy

Just now I realized that I want to be Douglas Adams
when I grow up.

http://www.douglasadams.com/

--Winston