THE TELLING!

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Not very long my friend.....not very long at all, on a positve note, all my helping with pc related stuff in school and what not has got me recommended for an adult I.T course even though i'm two years underage, so all the annoyances has it's benefits i suppose. :-D
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Compared to a lot of people, you actually have quite a good deal there. I say that should stay with him and milk him for all he's worth :D

I just remembered one of my favorites. I was giving tech support over the phone and said, "Now, go to 'My Computer'"... He was really confused... (If you don't get it, use your imagination)
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I'm often tempted to consider doing tech support as a part time job, then I remember all the stories I've heard from people who had the same idea before me. ;D
 
KM, I worked tech support before. I didn't do the phones, though. I had the fun job of actually physically repairing broken computers; swapping out parts...checking mobos for blown capacitors (apparently a very frequent problem with old dell midsize desktops), adding RAM, reformatting HDDs/installing software. It was a pretty sweet job for $14 an hour. Kinda wish I didn't move away from DC but I couldn't afford to keep studying at George Washington University.

I remember I would pretty much demolish my workload halfway through the day, so I'd have hours on end to myself. It's too bad I didn't start seriously working on FFVII until after I quit.
 
Not very long my friend.....not very long at all, on a positve note, all my helping with pc related stuff in school and what not has got me recommended for an adult I.T course even though i'm two years underage, so all the annoyances has it's benefits i suppose. :-D
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All my computer help around school just got me admin passwords...  I was so very tempted
 
KM, I worked tech support before. I didn't do the phones, though. I had the fun job of actually physically repairing broken computers; swapping out parts...checking mobos for blown capacitors (apparently a very frequent problem with old dell midsize desktops), adding RAM, reformatting HDDs/installing software. It was a pretty sweet job for $14 an hour. Kinda wish I didn't move away from DC but I couldn't afford to keep studying at George Washington University.

I remember I would pretty much demolish my workload halfway through the day, so I'd have hours on end to myself. It's too bad I didn't start seriously working on FFVII until after I quit.
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Ah, a different kind of tech support ;D

Yeah, that sounds like it would make a pretty nice part-time job
 
I too was much happier doing that... Love hardware. Just stay away from networking...
 
I got there right as they were "ruining lives" but after quiptext was closed down
 
I often wonder how badly people's lives really are affected when they are "ruined" by 4chan. Most of the time, I'm sure the people who are targeted must be able to get on with things after a while, but when anonymous finds actual incriminating evidence and passes it on to the right people, there must be serious consequences that we don't have the pleasure of seeing. Given all the sexual content being discovered, I'm sure that a few people must have been caught cheating or something like that; there's a chance that some marriages may have fallen apart.

It would be great (in a morbid and voyeuristic way) if there were a way of checking up on the people whose lives were supposedly ruined to see what actually became of anonymous' attempts to destroy them.
 
It's so nasty. But so entertaining. The shocking-ness of encyclopedia drammatica too has me laughing guiltily and hoping no one really knows I find it entertaining.
 
It's so nasty. But so entertaining. The shocking-ness of encyclopedia drammatica too has me laughing guiltily and hoping no one really knows I find it entertaining.
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Chances are that a lot of your friends enjoy sites like that as well.

Perhaps the most worrying things about the *chans and related sites such as ED is that they show us once again that humans can be much crueller than most people would like to believe, albeit when there is some separation between the person doing the tormenting and the victim. Incidentally, this is why Hermoor is so entertaining.
 
Incidentally, this is why Hermoor is so entertaining.
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... Because we only see his acts of social suicide and not the little boy crying behind the computer screen?
 
Incidentally, this is why Hermoor is so entertaining.
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... Because we only see his acts of social suicide and not the little boy crying behind the computer screen?
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That, and the fact that everyone is joining in. One of the sayings about anons on the Internet, "none of us are as cruel as all of us", despite being motivated by Internet tough-guy BS, is actually quite true. People are much more likely to be nasty to someone when they're part of a group.

Also, I think that Hermoor is probably screaming at his computer screen rather than crying behind it. He's a special case in that he actually does deserve what he gets because he acts the same way and because he was the one who escalated the war of words every time. Unlike us, he also doesn't have the peer-pressure excuse either. Any cruelty (well, attempts at cruelty) and hatred you see from him reflect how he really feels; no-one is egging him on and no-one else is tacitly approving of his behaviour by acting in the same way. He really is that much of an arse.
 
Well hey, we need people like him around.  Otherwise, who would we exercise our cruelty on?

Maybe, one day, he'll get to experience life from our position.

*Maybe.*

And I believe the group cruelty thing is called discrimination.  It may or may not serve a purpose, but as soon as it has got momentum, it has also got inertia.  It takes one person to start something, but then it takes everyone involved to end it, even after it has gone too far.

Don't worry, though.  I don't believe we've gone too far with Hermoor yet ;)
 
I cast Life2 on this thread!
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Hey!  I came up with that joke first!

As interesting as these articles are, I must ask: how do you find them?  Do people mail them to you or post them on other forums you visit?  Do you encounter them yourself while wandering around the internet?  Have you subscribed to the internet sources that provide them?
 
As interesting as these articles are, I must ask: how do you find them?  Do people mail them to you or post them on other forums you visit?  Do you encounter them yourself while wandering around the internet?  Have you subscribed to the internet sources that provide them?
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There's a site called suregottold.com, devoted to spreading news of Apple getting told. 4chan's /g/ board can also be helpful in finding funny tech-related news.
 
IT JUST WERKS
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Indeed. ;D

That's "just" as in "only just, as long as you hold it the right way".

Seriously though, Steve Jobs is a great innovator and has redefined the way we think of mobile phones. Before he came along, a phone was something you used to make phone calls. Today, phones are used for sharing your nudes with 4chan, buying $1000 apps and getting your house raided by the police. Thanks to Jobs' revolutionary thinking, phones are no longer devices used to make phone calls, so having good reception is completely unnecessary. Pfft, people who think that phones have to be capable of making and receiving phone calls are standing in the way of progress. thank you Steve, for redefining phones to such an extent that your phone is no longer functional as a phone and is just an iPad nano. :P

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Onion News Network tells Macfags once again ;D
 
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Necropost or great justice! (hey, the wording in the "Rules" post kind of imply it's accepted in Completely Unrelated)

Macs don't get viruses

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