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| | Hogs of Entropy Text Files Present... | |
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| | "Fucked up things" | |
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| | "My Venting Dream" | |
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| | By: chal e. mac | |
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ArrrrGH! Have you ever had one of those days when you feel like
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everyone but you is a fuckin' moron? I'm sure you've had. My problem is I
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have whole weeks when I feel like that. Turning on the TV, reading the
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newspaper, buying my lunch, all these things tend to bring me into contact
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with people and/or situations where I just have to step back and say "This
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is fucked up!". I've decided to share a mere sliver of my experiences and
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thoughts with you, not because I like you, no...I don't even know you, for
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all I know you can be one of these fuckin' morons I run into every day, but
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strictly for a more selfish reason, to keep myself sane. So have fun.
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* * * * *
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ANSI ART POSTING!
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Why is it that every board has a base for ansi art or ansi bbs ads
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and NO ONE one can figure out how to upload ansi? I mean it's not that
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FUCKING HARD. I don't even do ansi and I know how to fucking upload some
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just from reading the same fucking replies over and over till my fucking
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eyes bleed and I wanna scream. Turn off the full screen editor, save it in
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so many line mode, blah blah blah fucking blah. You don't believe me? You
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think the mac man is just lookin' to bitch about somethin'? Then take this
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test, if ye be so brave. Call up a local board, switch to the ansi art sub,
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and check to see how many uploads actually came out right. The ratio is like
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1 to 10....and on Nets it's even worse. I mean these ansi guys (and you
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know who you are) are "talented" enough to make a decent drawing (well, some
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of you anyway), or an ad, but they can't figure out how to upload the fucking
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thing. And another thing, when they try to upload it and they fuck up, they
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SEE the fuckin' messed up codes all over the screen and then they don't
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DELETE the fuckin' thing! I mean how fucking dumb is that? Are you that
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fuckin' stupid to think we all want to see your fucked up ansi codes? What's
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even dumber are the next five fucking guys who quote the whole thing and
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reply "It didn't come out right". No fuckin' shit Sherlock. Thanks for that
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news update.
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* * *
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WAREZ COURIERZ!
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Most people who know me know that I have a ton of pirated programs.
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I know the ethical and moral implications of making such a statement. I'll
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tackle the issue of copyright infringement and piracy in another article as
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they themselves are deserving of a separate forum. For today I want to talk
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a little bit about the people who make the amassing of such a pirate library
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possible. I'm talking about the lowly warez courier.
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Warez couriers have long been regarded as the dregs of the warez
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underground. They usually possess little or no programming talents that they
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can call their own. They can't circumvent the copy protection schemes themselves.
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Their job in the underground heirarchy is to spread the pirate files to
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bulletin boards all over this great land so that users, as long as they have
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the necessary file points, may also have an opportunity to own a copy of the
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program, sometimes before it's even released in stores.
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And what a job they do. Although some files are spread by users
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looking to boost their file points, there is usually at least one board per
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area code that relies solely on the couriers to supply them with files.
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These files are usually spread far and wide within days of their cracking.
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So quickly, in fact, that some boards don't accept any pirated material
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after 30 (or even fewer) days of it's cracking.
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You would think that performing such a necessary duty, and
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performing it well, would entail the members of the courier a some measure
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of respect in the underground. Au Contrair, as the snooty people who use
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foreign phrases would say. Why is this the case?
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For most of the reasons listed in my second paragraph actually. As I
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said earlier, couriers tend to have little or no talents themselves. For
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this reason alone their jobs could be performed by anyone willing to make
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the long distance calls to transfer the files. The people who supply the
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uncracked programs are tough to replace because they either buy the programs
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or work for a distributor or a store that gives them access to the programs.
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They also ask for little if any recognition for their contribution. The
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people who crack the copy protection are tough to replace for obvious
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reasons. That leaves the courier as the only link in the chain that is
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absolutely expendable. Because of the non-technical requirements for the
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job, people could be replaced at will with little or no effect on the
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distribution. The intelligence requirements drop even less when there can
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be a script system set-up to logon and upload the files without the user
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even being there.
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But there's also a less than obvious reason. Warez couriers, for the
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most part, tend to be annoying little dickless rodents. Most of the couriers
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that I've had the misfortune of speaking to, never in person mind you, tend
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to be overbearing, chest-thumping little geeks. They are possessed of a
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self-importance that has little to do with reality. Their egos tend to be
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over-inflated to the point of obnoxiousness. And if that's not enough for
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you, they tend to never let a conversation end without mentioning that they
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are a member of X, Y, Z, and <fill in courier group name here> and that
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somehow that not only makes them better than you, but also entitles them to
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all the faults listed above, and you'd better like it. Now that doesn't mean
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that ALL couriers are like this. I know for a fact that the couriers serving
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the 215 Area Code are nothing like this :) (shameless ass-covering). So the
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next time you have the overwhelming urge to thank a courier group,
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resist it.
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A LESSON IN TOLERANCE
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ArrrGH! The other day I went to rent a post office box from a
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storage place (not the Post Office) in my neighborhood. The sign outside
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this place says the prices start at $10/month. So, I go inside to inquire
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about renting a box. There's a girl behind the counter about 22 to 25 years
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old. Here's the conversation that took place:
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Me: I'm interested in renting a mailbox. Can you give me some
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info.
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Her: Ya, it's $12 a month.
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Me: The sign outside says they start at $10.
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Her: What sign?
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Me: The sign next to the front
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door. You wanna see? (At this point she walks out from
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behind the counter following me thru the front door.
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I point at the sign) Right here. (She looks at the sign,
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then turns around and walks back inside without saying a
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word)
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Her: They're $12 a month, you have to pay for 3 months up
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front, the whole thing comes to $62.
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Me: Wait a minute. You just saw the sign. It says $10.
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Her: Well it's wrong. They're $12.
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Me: Okay, $12 a month for 3 months is $36 not $62.
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Her: There's a security deposit of $25.
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Me: (Ignoring the fact that $36 + $25 =$61, and not $62)
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Security deposit for what?
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Her: For the mailbox.
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Me: I know for the mailbox. I mean what's the deposit for?
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I'm not taking the thing home with me.
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Her: I don't know. Do you want one or not?
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I'll stop here because at this point I really went ballistic and
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reprinting my comments wouldn't enhance the story anyway. You tell me
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there's a security deposit on an item that never leaves the fucking store?
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Why? I mean what's the fuckin' logic behind that? What am I gonna do, blow
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up my own fuckin' mailbox? I mean is it me? Why do I run into all the
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fuckin' problems? We're supposed to be living in a service economy and
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THERE'S NO FUCKIN' SERVICE! Am I expecting too much? I mean this
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conversation is typical of the attitudes and intelligence you encounter on a
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daily basis. I really wanted to rent the fuckin' mailbox and have one of
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these little anarchy dudez blow the fuckin' thing up for me. Then they could
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have kept the lousy $25 security deposit.
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A RAPE IN CYBERSPACE...
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I, for one, am losing patience with the popular press and their
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stories regarding the evil things happening in "cyberspace". First it
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started out with the evil hackers and what they were doing to your privacy
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and how much they were costing big business (I guess you can tell who decided
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that deserved column space $$$). Then it degenerated rapidly into a whole
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Pedophilia scare. I mean really. If mommy and daddy are so worried about
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junior being seduced by a pedophile shouldn't they sit down with him and have
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some heart-to-hearts? Wouldn't that be the best way to alleviate their fears?
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Recently the mainstream media have joined the tabloid TV shows with stories
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regarding the harassment of women in on-line chat areas of CompuServe and
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other commercial services.
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First things first, I am in no way condoning the harassment of women
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in any forum, whether it be on-line or in-person. But, if you're willing to
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pay the outlandish prices that C$erve charges to be in on-line chat areas
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you deserve to be harassed, no matter your sex.
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I mean I just don't see news worthiness of such a story. Does it come
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as a surprise to anyone that women are verbally harassed in what is
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basically an anonymous forum? Isn't everyone aware by now of the fact that
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anonymity begets and, some could argue, actually encourages behavior that
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otherwise wouldn't occur? Surely I am not the only one aware of this
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troubling aspect of human behavior. Do you think that maybe the news media
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is ignoring this fact because it doesn't "fit" into what their view of the
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issues should be? Naw, they wouldn't do that, would they?
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And on a related front, are women the only ones being harassed? I
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seriously doubt it. Most flamers are equal opportunity assholes. If you do
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one thing to upset them the flames start, no matter what your sex. So if the
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aim of these articles is to inform and/or warn new users to these on-line
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services about these troubling side effects of the chat rooms or forums,
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where are the stories on the people who are obsessive flamers? In my opinion
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this can be just as much of a nuisance as the infantile come-ons that these
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articles warn about. They're obviously more abusive, and can be much more of
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a shock to the uninitiated user. So where are these stories? They're left
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in the editors delete box (or trash can if they're Mac users..heh..),
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because they don't contain the necessary sex angle. You have to have that
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sexual harassment, with the emphasis on sexual, you have to have that
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struggle between the sexes, with the emphasis on sexes, angle to justify
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your column space. It has to be sexy, it has to titillate, and if it informs
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in the process, so be it, but that's not the main concern.
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My only question to the women who complain about being sexually
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harassed on-line, and to the writers who devote their column space to it:
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"Maybe you should learn the /ignore command?"
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WHY MOST TEXT FILES SUCK NOW
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I think that bad text files are symptomatic of the whole scene in the
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last few years. I've gotten really discouraged about the state of affairs
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in the "computer underground". IMO it's really degenerated.
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It used to be just the usual sniping between the hack/phreak crowd
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and the wares doodz. Then we had the k0dez kids to deal with. Now this whole
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"anarchy" thing has blossomed. It wouldn't be bad if it wasn't so....I'm
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searching for a phrase here...intellectually lacking, I guess is good. I
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mean I'm really tired of these fuckin' lame text files about such shit as
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how to fuck with a car. I mean, if you're predisposed to that kind of
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behavior, are you really that stupid that you need a text file to tell you
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how to do it? I know I'm an older person to this scene, but isn't this type
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of thing a grade-school-fantasy, I-wanna-blow-something-up-shit; tatamount
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to sending magazine subscriptions to someone you dislike?
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I can't tell you how fuckin' mad I get when I see the shit that
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passes for .txt files these days. Most of the topics are beyond lame. They
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read like they were written, and I use that word loosely, by some adolescent
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with a mistaken view of his importance and/or knowledge. It's hard to find a
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group that puts out quality information. A majority of the .txt files are
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about topics I find to be too simplistic to even warrant the time to write a
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file at all. I mean, do you really need someone to tell you how to fuck with
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a locker? And how many groups are going to make a text file about it? How
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many versions of this idea can there be?! The number of "groups" that are
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springing up are also a source of annoyment for me too. It seems like every
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other week some "group" springs onto the scene in my area code and proclaims
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themselves to be the kewlest, the k-raddiest, the phatest, the whatever word
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is new this week, and, of course, proclaims that they will take over the
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entire scene in two weeks and we all should bow before them and be
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assimiliated. If you've been in the scene for any length of time and have
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been paying attention, you know what the next step is. They put out five or
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so files with such thought provoking contents as: fun with school lockers,
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how to take hostages the fool proof way(one of my favorites), how to fuck
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with cars, and of course, how to blow things up real good! They insert high
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ascii characters whenever they can and of course substitute "ph" for "f"
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whenever possible. (My theory: the obsessive use of high ascii characters is
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a reaction from the pimple medication, and the substitution is genetc.
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Again, just a theory.) We all know that these "groups" are formed for one
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purpose only: so that their "members" can add some kewl, k-rad, phat,
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whatever TLA (3 letter acronym) to their macros and feel mega-important in
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the scene.
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At first I thought that this was strictly a local phenomenon. After
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all, there always seem to be more lamers in your area code than anywhere
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else in the world. But I was wrong. It's starting to permeate the whole
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scene. In Phrack 45, a publication that I thought was the pinnacle, they
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had a submission about how to fuck with your local Mcdonald's. What kind of
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great info was contained therein? Putting a closed sign on the drive thru,
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ripping the trash bags while their still in the can, and other really
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adolescent shit. I mean, this kind of shit I expect on the local bbs that
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caters to the pre-puberty set, but Phrack? I did submit a letter to the
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editor but I doubt that it'll get published. Eric B. doesn't take criticism,
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no matter how constructive, very well.
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I'm glad I had the chance to Vent. I write text files just to get the
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girlies! Well that's all for now. If anyone is offended by anything here:
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FUCK YOU.
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| Mogel-Land........2157323413 /I'm a PiG\ Paranoia Subnormal.2153395831 |
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| Hacker Crackdown..2159451907 |H )\@_@/( P| Stellar Nights.....6108969140 |
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| T.E.K.A.T.........9088132738 |o ( (o) ) i| phunkyphatphreashphunkphunk!! |
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| I Forget..........6105448001 |G <_O_> G| the NEXT generation |
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| /<RaD-/<-/< House.8103480421 |s BuUuRP! s| of stoopid... |
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| The Complex.......4107205305 \I'm a PiG/ |
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Copyright (c) 1994 HoE Publications and Chal E. Mac #29 --> 11/27/94
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All rights are Reserved and Stuff.
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