The internet, was Argentina
 

On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:51:25 -0400, Wayne B wrote:

On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:47:02 -0400, wrote:

These days usenet is really the only wild west left.
The alt.binary groups are still virtually unregulated again, for
better or worse.

====

It's not clear to me how Usenet manages to survive. It has certainly
become a rather small niche. The MP3 binaries were mostly garbage the
last time I looked, helped along by the RIAA and MPAA no doubt. P2P
sharing seems to be the wave of the future.

There's a lot of good Bluegrass music out there!


Salmonbait

--
'Name-calling' - the liberals' last stand.

The internet, was Argentina
 

J Herring wrote:
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:51:25 -0400, Wayne B wrote:

On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:47:02 -0400, wrote:

These days usenet is really the only wild west left.
The alt.binary groups are still virtually unregulated again, for
better or worse.

====

It's not clear to me how Usenet manages to survive. It has certainly
become a rather small niche. The MP3 binaries were mostly garbage the
last time I looked, helped along by the RIAA and MPAA no doubt. P2P
sharing seems to be the wave of the future.

There's a lot of good Bluegrass music out there!


Salmonbait

--
'Name-calling' - the liberals' last stand.

Why do you like bluegrass?

The internet, was Argentina
 

On 3 Apr 2013 15:33:40 GMT, F.O.A.D. wrote:

J Herring wrote:
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:51:25 -0400, Wayne B wrote:

On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:47:02 -0400, wrote:

These days usenet is really the only wild west left.
The alt.binary groups are still virtually unregulated again, for
better or worse.

====

It's not clear to me how Usenet manages to survive. It has certainly
become a rather small niche. The MP3 binaries were mostly garbage the
last time I looked, helped along by the RIAA and MPAA no doubt. P2P
sharing seems to be the wave of the future.

There's a lot of good Bluegrass music out there!


Salmonbait

--
'Name-calling' - the liberals' last stand.

Why do you like bluegrass?

Why do you like to bull**** about safeties?

And, didn't you mean to say, "...when *we* were making war...", ESAD?

I'm surprised to see that the reason safeties are so important to you is because the military uses
them. You should have just stated that up front, rather than attempt to impress everyone with your
bull**** rationale. And, by the way, I don't recall *ever* using the thumb safety on my ,45 - either
on or off the range.

Just what do you do with your pistol on the range after you've chambered a round and are ready to
fire, but need to put the thumb safety on? Huh?


Salmonbait

--
'Name-calling' - the liberals' last stand.

The internet, was Argentina
 

On 4/3/13 11:50 AM, J Herring wrote:
On 3 Apr 2013 15:33:40 GMT, F.O.A.D. wrote:

J Herring wrote:
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:51:25 -0400, Wayne B wrote:

On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:47:02 -0400, wrote:

These days usenet is really the only wild west left.
The alt.binary groups are still virtually unregulated again, for
better or worse.

====

It's not clear to me how Usenet manages to survive. It has certainly
become a rather small niche. The MP3 binaries were mostly garbage the
last time I looked, helped along by the RIAA and MPAA no doubt. P2P
sharing seems to be the wave of the future.

There's a lot of good Bluegrass music out there!


Salmonbait

--
'Name-calling' - the liberals' last stand.

Why do you like bluegrass?

Why do you like to bull**** about safeties?

And, didn't you mean to say, "...when *we* were making war...", ESAD?

I'm surprised to see that the reason safeties are so important to you is because the military uses
them. You should have just stated that up front, rather than attempt to impress everyone with your
bull**** rationale. And, by the way, I don't recall *ever* using the thumb safety on my ,45 - either
on or off the range.

Just what do you do with your pistol on the range after you've chambered a round and are ready to
fire, but need to put the thumb safety on? Huh?


Salmonbait

--
'Name-calling' - the liberals' last stand.


I'm still not going to play your idiotic game here, herring, no matter
how many times you try. And my guess is that you know so little about
firearms, you didn't know what that lever on your 45 was for.

Have you figured out the difference between polymer and alloy yet? Or
whether you should winterize your outboard's innards with WD 40? Or
whether you should use two cycle oil in your four stroke outboard?

Don't keep crying for me, Argentina!
 

On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 08:07:56 -0400, BAR wrote:

In article , says...

On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 07:27:17 -0400, BAR wrote:

In article , says...

On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:46:32 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

On 4/1/2013 1:52 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:33:31 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 4/1/13 1:30 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:52:02 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Mark Sanford well positioned to win South Carolina GOP runoff

It looks like marital infidelity is not an issue anymore for
politicians ... if it ever really was.

Bunga Bunga


Nor is lying to the voters about where you were and who was paying for it.

True
I think the same guy who made extramarital sex OK made lying about it
OK too. I don't remember who that was.


I think it was the one that let the economy ride on the phony dot coms
and took credit for it along with Al Gore of course.. Without Al and his
inventing the internet, Clinton could have never invented the mortgage
crisis.... er I mean, dot com boom...LOL!

You ****ing moron. Gore was one of the driving forces behind the
internet.

Ah, no! Gore was not one of the driving forces behind the Internet. Electronic Commerce was
the driving force behind the Internet's ascendency. The ability to reduce variable costs was
and inprove communications was the the driving force.

Try again. You're just wrong.

No, I am not. I worked for companies who were developing equipment for the Internet in the
late 80's and early 90's. I have the Lucite trinkets to prove it. Most of our potential sales
were to commercial corporations who needed to inter-connect their internal PCs and other
computer assets to make far greater use of their compute investments. Bridges and Routers
where the needed items within and at the borders of the Intranets to enable the Internet to
explode.

Which has nothing to do with the subject at hand, namely that Gore was
a driving force behind the internet. Your "experience" has nothing to
do with the underlying reasons for the internet's creation and
nurturing.

The internet, was Argentina
 

On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:53:07 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 4/3/13 11:50 AM, J Herring wrote:
On 3 Apr 2013 15:33:40 GMT, F.O.A.D. wrote:

J Herring wrote:
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:51:25 -0400, Wayne B wrote:

On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:47:02 -0400, wrote:

These days usenet is really the only wild west left.
The alt.binary groups are still virtually unregulated again, for
better or worse.

====

It's not clear to me how Usenet manages to survive. It has certainly
become a rather small niche. The MP3 binaries were mostly garbage the
last time I looked, helped along by the RIAA and MPAA no doubt. P2P
sharing seems to be the wave of the future.

There's a lot of good Bluegrass music out there!


Salmonbait

--
'Name-calling' - the liberals' last stand.

Why do you like bluegrass?

Why do you like to bull**** about safeties?

And, didn't you mean to say, "...when *we* were making war...", ESAD?

I'm surprised to see that the reason safeties are so important to you is because the military uses
them. You should have just stated that up front, rather than attempt to impress everyone with your
bull**** rationale. And, by the way, I don't recall *ever* using the thumb safety on my ,45 - either
on or off the range.

Just what do you do with your pistol on the range after you've chambered a round and are ready to
fire, but need to put the thumb safety on? Huh?


Salmonbait

--
'Name-calling' - the liberals' last stand.


I'm still not going to play your idiotic game here, herring, no matter
how many times you try. And my guess is that you know so little about
firearms, you didn't know what that lever on your 45 was for.

Of course you're not. You made a fool of yourself. Quitting is the best out for you.

Have you figured out the difference between polymer and alloy yet? Or
whether you should winterize your outboard's innards with WD 40? Or
whether you should use two cycle oil in your four stroke outboard?


Changing the subject? Hee, hee!

Why don't you give us your 'safety' rationale again. It was cute. Might have even impressed a few
folks.

Donnie, were you impressed?


Salmonbait

--
'Name-calling' - the liberals' last stand.

The internet, was Argentina
 

On 4/3/13 1:03 PM, J Herring wrote:
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:53:07 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 4/3/13 11:50 AM, J Herring wrote:
On 3 Apr 2013 15:33:40 GMT, F.O.A.D. wrote:

J Herring wrote:
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:51:25 -0400, Wayne B wrote:

On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:47:02 -0400, wrote:

These days usenet is really the only wild west left.
The alt.binary groups are still virtually unregulated again, for
better or worse.

====

It's not clear to me how Usenet manages to survive. It has certainly
become a rather small niche. The MP3 binaries were mostly garbage the
last time I looked, helped along by the RIAA and MPAA no doubt. P2P
sharing seems to be the wave of the future.

There's a lot of good Bluegrass music out there!


Salmonbait

--
'Name-calling' - the liberals' last stand.

Why do you like bluegrass?

Why do you like to bull**** about safeties?

And, didn't you mean to say, "...when *we* were making war...", ESAD?

I'm surprised to see that the reason safeties are so important to you is because the military uses
them. You should have just stated that up front, rather than attempt to impress everyone with your
bull**** rationale. And, by the way, I don't recall *ever* using the thumb safety on my ,45 - either
on or off the range.

Just what do you do with your pistol on the range after you've chambered a round and are ready to
fire, but need to put the thumb safety on? Huh?


Salmonbait

--
'Name-calling' - the liberals' last stand.


I'm still not going to play your idiotic game here, herring, no matter
how many times you try. And my guess is that you know so little about
firearms, you didn't know what that lever on your 45 was for.

Of course you're not. You made a fool of yourself. Quitting is the best out for you.

Have you figured out the difference between polymer and alloy yet? Or
whether you should winterize your outboard's innards with WD 40? Or
whether you should use two cycle oil in your four stroke outboard?


Changing the subject? Hee, hee!

Why don't you give us your 'safety' rationale again. It was cute. Might have even impressed a few
folks.

Donnie, were you impressed?


Salmonbait

--
'Name-calling' - the liberals' last stand.

Have you figured out the difference between polymer and alloy yet? Or
whether you should winterize your outboard's innards with WD 40? Or
whether you should use two cycle oil in your four stroke outboard?

The internet, was Argentina
 

On 4/3/13 1:37 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:02:39 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 4/3/13 9:51 AM, Wayne B wrote:
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:47:02 -0400, wrote:

These days usenet is really the only wild west left.
The alt.binary groups are still virtually unregulated again, for
better or worse.

====

It's not clear to me how Usenet manages to survive. It has certainly
become a rather small niche. The MP3 binaries were mostly garbage the
last time I looked, helped along by the RIAA and MPAA no doubt. P2P
sharing seems to be the wave of the future.


As a conversational medium, usenet is dead, dead, dead. Perfect example:
rec.boats.cruising. Other than Skip's continuing saga of the rebuilding
of his sailboat, the only other commentaries in there come from a bunch
of anonymous posters whining about another poster, and a guy selling
books or something like it.

I'm still in rec.boats because I actually want to be here on the day it
finally dies.

For "conversation" and exchanging of information, moderated groups are
the way to go. Hell, even Facebook is better than usenet. And with
moderated groups and Facebook, you can include photos, maps, directions,
whatever, along with your posts. I go up to Connecticut shoreline towns
twice a year now to attend gatherings, parties, et cetera, with old
classmates and other friends from the area, and these social events are
a result of our finding each other on Facebook.


There are still some moderated newsgroups. There are also quite a few
that do not attract much OT content.

Most of my professional conversations are on moderated forums.


I visit moderated sites for discussions or information about boats,
computers, cellphones, firearms, photography, politics, et cetera, and I
visit Facebook for badinage. I like venues where one can also post
photos, maps, charts, cartoons, whatever, directly, without having to
deal with URLs and offsite posting facilities. There are only a couple
of posters here whose scribblings interest me. I read several others
just for giggles.

The internet, was Argentina
 

On 4/3/2013 1:05 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:


Have you figured out the difference between polymer and alloy yet? Or
whether you should winterize your outboard's innards with WD 40? Or
whether you should use two cycle oil in your four stroke outboard?

He hasn't mentioned any problems with his outboard. You're a smart boy.
I'm sure you can figure it out.

The internet, was Argentina
 

On 4/3/2013 1:45 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 4/3/13 1:37 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:02:39 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 4/3/13 9:51 AM, Wayne B wrote:
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:47:02 -0400, wrote:

These days usenet is really the only wild west left.
The alt.binary groups are still virtually unregulated again, for
better or worse.

====

It's not clear to me how Usenet manages to survive. It has certainly
become a rather small niche. The MP3 binaries were mostly garbage the
last time I looked, helped along by the RIAA and MPAA no doubt. P2P
sharing seems to be the wave of the future.


As a conversational medium, usenet is dead, dead, dead. Perfect example:
rec.boats.cruising. Other than Skip's continuing saga of the rebuilding
of his sailboat, the only other commentaries in there come from a bunch
of anonymous posters whining about another poster, and a guy selling
books or something like it.

I'm still in rec.boats because I actually want to be here on the day it
finally dies.

For "conversation" and exchanging of information, moderated groups are
the way to go. Hell, even Facebook is better than usenet. And with
moderated groups and Facebook, you can include photos, maps, directions,
whatever, along with your posts. I go up to Connecticut shoreline towns
twice a year now to attend gatherings, parties, et cetera, with old
classmates and other friends from the area, and these social events are
a result of our finding each other on Facebook.


There are still some moderated newsgroups. There are also quite a few
that do not attract much OT content.

Most of my professional conversations are on moderated forums.


I visit moderated sites for discussions or information about boats,
computers, cellphones, firearms, photography, politics, et cetera, and I
visit Facebook for badinage. I like venues where one can also post
photos, maps, charts, cartoons, whatever, directly, without having to
deal with URLs and offsite posting facilities. There are only a couple
of posters here whose scribblings interest me. I read several others
just for giggles.

Here's one you should try, that is if you haven't been thrown off it
already.

http://www.mdshooters.com/

Oops. I guess we know the answer to that one.

Here's the site you put up in retaliation. What a bitter old fart.

http://www.marylandshooter.com/