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Offline UAF_Lt_Brenton

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29 June 2005, 11:25:50
GUPT IX seems to have died.  Close this one if that's not the case though :)

I'm gonna start with a (possibly USEFUL) advertisement - click the link.

http://secondlife.com/ss/?u=61dc7f3fb0f6ad9ac7006d6513b96b45

Second life now has a teen grid.  Check it out :)



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Reply #1 - 29 June 2005, 14:33:30
The GUPT XI has only 35, so I think it's not the time to open the next.
Anyway, in GUPT VIII I claimed the GUPT X. Look at the bottom of the GUPT VIII. ;)


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Reply #2 - 29 June 2005, 19:24:43
You are forgetting the rule that no one can start a new GUPT without permission from the admin and/or
moderator. Permission wouldn't have been granted anyway because McBrain rightly claimed the next GUPT. :)



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Reply #3 - 29 June 2005, 21:03:25
Sooooooooooooooooo, this thread is against the rules, and may qualify as flooding.



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Reply #4 - 30 June 2005, 14:32:41
I agree wholly with the above 3 posts. We can't be going through one every week.



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Reply #5 - 30 June 2005, 14:37:44
:lol:

So what am I to do? Keel-haul, whip, and hang the guilty party?


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Reply #6 - 30 June 2005, 16:17:16
Nah, just close the thread already!



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Reply #7 - 01 July 2005, 01:38:56
I donno... It's been a long time since I've seen a good old fashioned Keel-hauling.  :lol:

then again, it may have been my free invite to Siggraph that caused the untimely death of GUPT IX. :(

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Reply #8 - 01 July 2005, 16:45:58
*keelhauls himself* WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, click my second life link! :)


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Reply #9 - 04 July 2005, 05:17:39
Happy America Day, to all people of the world! :) (A bit of irony in that statement. ;) )

No offense my British buddies, as nowadays all it really means to people is an excuse to get drunk, close stores early,
and make the whole damn country smell like gunpowder. (you laugh at that last one, but if only you knew...)

That is undoubtably why DocHoliday suspects that Slovenia will also be adopting the holiday this year. :)

And as to my komrade Americans, I paste a message I got as email to heighten your spirits. :badsmile:
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As we go out to celebrate our freedom this 4th of July,
let's go over a few things to make your celebration a success.
 
Before leaving home make sure you check the color coded Homeland Security alert status. Be especially careful if it is
orange or red.  Don't worry about yellow.  It's always yellow.


Don't use any illegal fireworks in your 4th Celebration. It is for your own safety. And the founding father's
implemented a government to protect you from yourselves. Didn't they? Besides, fireworks are explosive devices and
you might be considered a terrorist with weapons of mass destruction.  And although the government can't find any
in Iraq, you can rest assured they will find them in your car trunk.  But don't worry, getting arrested, imprisoned
indefinitely without formal charges, and a 5 year wait before the secret tribunal trial per the Patriot Act is a breeze.  
It's that secret summary execution that should make you nervous.

Make sure you are buckled up in your seat belts, there will be roadblocks and checkpoints to make sure you comply. It
is for the children.

If you are an airline employee, lighten up for the holiday, you can always look for a job tomorrow. Maybe you could
transfer over to a Federal Airport Security Screener job.  Big demand for those jobs and you don't have to be smart.

If you are a Haliburton employee, then celebrate, you probably have a raise coming from the Iraqi contract windfall.

If celebrating on any public property,
make no mention or religious ideals.  
Government is god there.
You will be aprehended.

Have your papers ready as you approach the holiday police checkpoints.
 
Don't criticize the President, or other government officials, you might be in violation of the Patriot Act and considered a
possible terrorist.

Don't mention the Constitution in any district court,
or you could be held in contempt.
 
If your children get out of line this holiday,
do not discipline them,
or they may be kidnapped by the Dept. of Social Services and held hostage until you receive approved psychological
therapy and are deemed acceptable.

Show compassion this Independence Day by bringing an illegal immigrant to your celebration, or by hugging a tree.

If an election is occurring in your locality within the next 90 days, do not talk about or publicly support any candidate,
as that is no longer lawful. Keep your mouth shut.

If an officer asks to search your vehicle at the "seat belt" checks, do not be belligerent and demand a search
warrant.  Standing up for your fourth amendment rights is anti-social and not in tune with the new American way.  Are
you with Al Quada or something?
 
Do not get upset when the searching officer will not help you pick up your belongings that he has strewn all over the
highway as he searched your vehicle.  It is not in his job description and complaining will get you charged with
obstructing justice.

Keep your guns at home.  You are not going hunting and besides, What on earth do guns have to do with American
Independence?  Better yet, turn your guns into the authorities to let them know that you are a true patriotic American.
 
Better yet, just STAY at home. BUT do not assume that you are safe,
because you are at home. If a government bureaucrat shows up at your home, he will probably be flashing a badge
at you. This makes him look like a constitutional law enforcement officer. He may even be armed. Do not ask to see a
warrant, and then tell him to leave if he does not have one. They will put a siege around your house. If you do not
come out soon enough, they may invade, with guns drawn, or even set your house on fire.
For more information, do a Google search using keywords like "Symbionese Liberation Army", "Philadelphia MOVE
group",  "Gordon Kahl", "The Order", "Robert Matthews", "Covenant of the Sword and Arm of the Lord",  "Randy
Weaver" , "Branch Davidian", or "Elian Gonzalez".
 
If you are counting on you congressman to protect you,
understand that the average congressman is ALSO afraid to resist.
For more information, do a Google search using keywords like "George Hanson" , "James Trafficant" or "Larry
McDonald".

If celebrating at the mall in Washington DC. you are probably safe as the mall is now monitored by hundreds of
surveillance cameras, watched by federal security forces.  Don't do anything that you wouldn't want them to see.

Bring lots of cash with you, there will be many taxes, fines, and fees to pay as you celebrate your freedoms this day.

Do not leave home without your driver's license, social security card, birth certificate, welfare card, medicare card,
medical records, W-2 Form, and two others forms of ID.  You may be asked for them at the police checkpoints.
Better yet, get micro-chipped, and avoid the hassle of carrying around your papers.

Bring your library card, the FBI may ask you for it.
 
Do not put any "anti-government" bumper stickers on your car. Especially not anything about the right to keep and
bear arms. Police have been trained by the FBI in "bumper sticker profiling".
This attracts their attention at the check points, and makes you look like a terrorist.
 
With regard to "bumper sticker profiling" you should be especially aware of the fact that "They will get my gun, when
they pry it from my cold dead fingers" is no longer mere semantics. At WACO, and at RUBY RIDGE,
we learned that they WILL kill you to take your guns

 
ALSO, be careful not to have any unauthorized THOUGHTS.
There are now serious penalties for "thought crime".
Be aware that "civil forfeiture" laws make it possible to take anything that you own, by alleging that it was "intended"
to be used for the commission of a crime. This could include transporting, or storing, a gun.
If "civil forfeiture" proceedings are initiated against you,
then you will have the burden of proof,
to show that your thoughts were in compliance with government standards.
 
Get to know some politicians, and bureacrats, so that you might be able to head off the taking of your private
property to be given to private developers for "public good".



If traveling by air, this Independence Day, do not give the airport screeners a hard time.  They are feeling you up, and
molesting your daughter, and wife, for the security of America.  If you complain you could be arrested.  You don't
support Bin Laden do you?

Keep an eye on your fellow Americans as you celebrate this 4th of July.  If you see anything supicious, take notes so
that when you get home you can call and report them to the Homeland Security Office.  And remember you are not a
nosey snitch, you are a great American Patriot.

Do not mention the signers of the Declaration of Independence this 4th of July.  Mentioning these white subversive
terrorists is not popular and could get you in big trouble.  Besides what do these guys have to do with the 4th of July
anyway?

Do not leave home without one or more little plastic American flags made by political slaves in Communist China.  
Make sure you have one flying from the antennae of your vehicle.  You don't want to seem un-American do you?

Do not take a copy of the Declaration of Independence with you as it advocates the overthrow of tyrannical
government.  It is a terrorist document and will be confiscated at the holiday police checkpoints.  Same advice for the
Constitution.

And remember, as you leave home for your 4th of July outing, that the second you stepped out of your door that you
probably broke hundreds of federal, state, and local laws that you are probably unaware of.  However, if you tow the
line, you will not be charged.

Don't even think about taxes on this great day.  The 50 per cent government confiscation of your income at the threat
of imprisonment or at the point of a gun should not even cross your mind as you revel in your freedom.  After all, April
15th is a long way off.

And whatever you do, do not let on that you really know that true freedom died a long time ago in America, just have
fun for the day and then go home and stick your head back in the sand and pretend America is not becoming a
socialist police state.

Now go out there and celebrate your freedom, and liberty,
and have a great sanitized, politically correct, and government approved and authorized Independence Day!

If you have a few decades with nothing better to do,
study up on "administrative law".
Laws are now made by the unelected bureaucrats,
in hundreds of "administrative agencies".
If you are charged with violating one of these "laws" you will not get a trial by a jury of your peers.
You will be tried by the agency that made the charge.
 
I hope this message gets past the Department of Homeland security approved internet filter.
How else can they protect us from unauthorized thought?

Now go out and celebrate your freedom,
and have a great Independence Day!

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This transmission screened prior to receipt by addressee pursuant to applicable sections of the USA PATRIOT Act.



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Reply #10 - 04 July 2005, 06:08:56
Hey, Freespace !!

Feeling a little bitter these days?

Remember what Heinlein said. In order to fight a police state, you have to become a police state. Since the heady days of the
Nuremburg Trials, it has taken the United States only sixty years to take on the vestiges of one.

Even though what you posted may be "tongue in cheek", it is precisely that way that the US is being viewed today by many
outside of the US.

At the present time, perhaps we have more to fear from the American "government" than from the pirates of Al Qaeda.

What ever happened to "Truth, Justice and the American Way"? Has it been replaced by Al Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay or Diego
Garcia (which in another time and another age could have been called Gulag, Dachau, and Belsen)?

Russia seems to be slowly exitting her "dark age" and growing up. What the hell has happened to America?


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Reply #11 - 06 July 2005, 04:16:21
Hey, Free-Thinker!   ...Go back to Russia!   :badsmile:  :wall:

~ the Reekchaa

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Reply #12 - 09 July 2005, 14:34:51
This is a bit of a technical question, but is possible to have my FX5200 and a GeForce 4 in my PC at the same time. Cos I
want some of the GeForce4 features and the memory of the FX5200.



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Reply #13 - 22 July 2005, 09:46:13
It's my B-day. july 22.

I'm officially an adult at 21 now, no matter how much I try to squirm out of it now... *swniff*

that just means more of those pesky "responsibility" thingies for me.

Boy, life would be a lot more fun without those.... maybe I can stall life by going in a star trek transporter with an
error that'll turn me into a kid again... just like picard did in that one episode... (I'm a half-trekkie, so I imagine such
things somethings. :))

anyways, I just started orbiter up after leaving it alone for so long, and I realized that I couldn't even dock with the
ISS! It was embarassing, so I'm gonna have to work on that.



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Reply #14 - 22 July 2005, 10:07:48
Congrats, Free. You're an old man now, enjoy it while it lasts, heheh.

I'm fooling around with Dan's FSP these days. It's just amazing! Making humanitarian aid runs over Bosnia and
Somalia. Iraq is a bit too hot for my Hercules atm :)


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Reply #15 - 22 July 2005, 16:05:31
I actually don't have FS 2004 installed right now because I'm suffering from a critical hard drive problem - I'm out of
space, with less than 2-3 gigs total free, so I really can't play around with FsP, because we all know how much space
Fs '04 takes up. I need to get some dvds and start burning stuff like there's no tomorrow.

Though I was thinking of making a parody of FsP of sorts once I get around to actually try it. complete with
freespacian humor in abundance. as to what form it would be in is anyone's guess, but I've got ideas... hehe..

anyways, to anybody that wants to give me money because it's my birthday only has to click below.
















disclaimer: that picture is not a link, I'm just having fun with the concept. And you thought it was real, didn't you?



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Reply #16 - 23 July 2005, 22:00:57
Here is your late birthday gift:

Disclaimer: This image is not a real money. And you thought it was real, didn't you?


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Reply #17 - 23 July 2005, 22:52:48
:lol:

Congrats, Free!! :)


Cheers,

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Reply #18 - 24 July 2005, 02:25:39
I only put that disclaimer in 'cuz i thought that dan might not appreciate it if hr thought it was real.



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Reply #19 - 24 July 2005, 06:16:19
happy birthday Free...

I'm glad that you were born in July scientific study has shown
that the best people are born this month.

(unfortunately you missed the top as it was proved that the best day is 25 july
but one can't have everything uh ? :)

:beer:

Dan

PS: I tried to donate 1'000'000'000'000 dollars but the button don't work
and it's now too late... tooooooooooooooooo bad :)



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Reply #20 - 25 July 2005, 23:35:45
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tried to donate 1'000'000'000'000 dollars but the button don't work
and it's now too late... tooooooooooooooooo bad
NOOOOOOOOOO!!! I could have used that money to pay off my student loans...

they seem to get bigger all the time... :(

;)

anyways, dan, I'm sorry, but while I agree july (the month of julius caesar, no less) is the best of them all, the 22nd is
a better day, because all one has to do is look up the birthdays of David Spade, Danny Glover, Alex Trebek, and even
Bob Dole.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_22

And what about the 25th, a portugeuse king born 900 years ago?

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

*pssshhh* ;)


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Reply #21 - 26 July 2005, 10:08:02
Bon anniversaire, too, free.

Don't let the 21 get you down. Looking at it from my advanced state, you're still a pup !! All 21 means is that you can
legally drink alcohol anywhere on the continent. Just remember about the mixture of young testosterone and too much alcohol.

And if it helps, the advice that I keep giving young females:

Remember, a male, IF he matures, it doesn't happen until he hits 40. Unless he goes through a specific trauma first, none of
us ever really grows up. (if you're wondering about that specific trauma, check my bio or ask Doc.)



...  but you will know that you have to grow up, when you look into the bright eyes of that little one in a crib, that you
helped put there with the whole hearty help of its mother, and it looks up at you ... and smiles ... and finally learn what is the true miracle and know the existance of God ... and know, like the rest of us ... that you are doomed. ;)



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Reply #22 - 27 July 2005, 01:38:36
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freespace2dotcom wrote:
anyways, dan, I'm sorry, but while I agree july (the month of julius caesar, no less) is the best of them all, the 22nd is
a better day, because all one has to do is look up the birthdays of David Spade, Danny Glover, Alex Trebek, and even
Bob Dole.

Sorry free but your totally wrong on this....

A bit of serious scientific calculus will prove that :

22=2+2=4 if you do the square root of this and add 7.6543 wich is the gold number
in astrology you get exactly 16.8764 wich was a really bad number for the aztec
(should I recall that they were in fact extra terrestrial coming from vega and that their
science  is 2000 years in front of our ?)

in contrary if you do the same with 25 you find exactly 23.2345 wich is
considered as the "gold number" of many civilisation.
Also 76.45% of crop circle have this angle in their drawing wich is for
me the ultimate scientific proof.

so 25 is THE day...

anyway don't be sad, you're born also in july and you had a litle part of the light
just by this fact.

Nothing is lost for you :)

Dan


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Reply #23 - 29 July 2005, 16:55:12
Hi, I'm currently using the free internet access at the Goonhilly Earth Station. Satelite dishes everywhere. :)



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Reply #24 - 02 August 2005, 03:30:04
I completed Far Cry. I just had to mention that because I'm quite happy about about it. And this IS GUPT so. I also got Halo
working decently, even though it's in 800x600, but it's still playable. I need that new processor. Ahhhhhhh 3.0GHz, can't wait.

That was a random news announcement. :)



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