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coffeetable
Feb 5, 2006

TELL ME AGAIN HOW GREAT BRITAIN WOULD BE IF IT WAS RULED BY THE MERCILESS JACKBOOT OF PRINCE CHARLES

YES I DO TALK TO PLANTS ACTUALLY
fishmech what do you do for a living

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coffeetable
Feb 5, 2006

TELL ME AGAIN HOW GREAT BRITAIN WOULD BE IF IT WAS RULED BY THE MERCILESS JACKBOOT OF PRINCE CHARLES

YES I DO TALK TO PLANTS ACTUALLY
(this is got nothing to do with the thread, im just curious b/c ive seen you post about p much every topic on the planet except yourself)

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice
he lives off of his smartest kid in american prize winnings and posts on the forums.somethingawful.com

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


coffeetable posted:

fishmech what do you do for a living

He's our assigned Secret Service monitor.

ultramiraculous
Nov 12, 2003

"No..."
Grimey Drawer

cremnob posted:

timb sends his regards

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Citizen Tayne posted:

He's our assigned Secret Service monitor.

i thought it was nsa

reminder: people in D&D internet spying thread literally thought he was a NSA plant

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

coffeetable posted:

fishmech what do you do for a living
people pay him not to talk to them

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

coffeetable posted:

fishmech what do you do for a living

he's brent spiner irl

lol if you thought data was an act

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


hobbesmaster posted:

i thought it was nsa

reminder: people in D&D internet spying thread literally thought he was a NSA plant

lol i never knew about that

Squinty Applebottom
Jan 1, 2013

That lady is a patriot

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

hobbesmaster posted:

i thought it was nsa

reminder: people in D&D internet spying thread literally thought he was a NSA plant

Fuckin lol

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Nintendo Kid posted:

they do change though.

everything changes all the time.

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

FMguru posted:

people pay him not to talk to them

does he accept bitcoin?

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


ufarn posted:

honest question, did any service ever get better after Amazon bought it?

no it gets worse until only jeff bezos uses it op

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


rotor posted:

everything changes all the time.

Much like your posts!

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
Yeah, IMDB has gotten much better in the last 10 years, with such features as

Joe Law
Jun 30, 2008

i thought it was common knowledge fishmech is a university experiment, testing if a robot that googles random words on a page and c/ps the first entry from wikipedia can pass for a human being.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

The Management posted:

Yeah, IMDB has gotten much better in the last 10 years, with such features as

they bought it in 1998, so pretty much everything it has now came from after amazon buying them

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

ummm...what about endless?



oh

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

coffeetable posted:

fishmech what do you do for a living

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

imdb's interface is ugly and bad, amazon plz fix

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice
now i'm kinda curious about fishmech's irl job too

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


Joe Law posted:

i thought it was common knowledge fishmech is a university experiment, testing if a robot that googles random words on a page and c/ps the first entry from wikipedia can pass for a human being.

fishmech came online on the 4th august 2001

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


there have been no hardware upgrades

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

theadder posted:

fishmech came online on the 4th august 2001

i literally celebrated august 4th 1997

didn't actually watch that movie but we went in the woods and smoked the hell out of some drugs

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake
suddenly want to pick up another carl hiassen book for some reason. hrm

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/social-networking-stock-exploded-25-215433473.html

this company has one employee, no products, no revenue, is traded OTC, hasn't filed an SEC form since 2013, and may not even exist anymore

it's up 25,000% since last month

tech bubble lol

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
that's not a bubble that's just some pump & dump penny stock

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Luigi Thirty posted:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/social-networking-stock-exploded-25-215433473.html

this company has one employee, no products, no revenue, is traded OTC, hasn't filed an SEC form since 2013, and may not even exist anymore

it's up 25,000% since last month

tech bubble lol

thats just a classic pump and dump

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

Luigi Thirty posted:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/social-networking-stock-exploded-25-215433473.html

this company has one employee, no products, no revenue, is traded OTC, hasn't filed an SEC form since 2013, and may not even exist anymore

it's up 25,000% since last month

tech bubble lol

i dunno anything about them fancy stocks or anything but whoever is buying stock right now at this price, can they even sell it if they want to?

doesn't there have to be a buyer out there for it to be sold?

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts
whatever happened to greg evans and Lord Is Good All The Time security

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake

mishaq posted:

i dunno anything about them fancy stocks or anything but whoever is buying stock right now at this price, can they even sell it if they want to?

doesn't there have to be a buyer out there for it to be sold?

yes. people who run wall st. pump & dumps are military-grade hucksters

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

mishaq posted:

i dunno anything about them fancy stocks or anything but whoever is buying stock right now at this price, can they even sell it if they want to?

doesn't there have to be a buyer out there for it to be sold?

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

mishaq posted:

i dunno anything about them fancy stocks or anything but whoever is buying stock right now at this price, can they even sell it if they want to?

doesn't there have to be a buyer out there for it to be sold?

it's traded off exchange so

:iiam:

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

The Management posted:

Yeah, IMDB has gotten much better in the last 10 years, with such features as

Nintendo Kid posted:

they bought it in 1998, so pretty much everything it has now came from after amazon buying them

i assume all new features in imdb are exclusively behind the paywall

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

mishaq posted:

i dunno anything about them fancy stocks or anything but whoever is buying stock right now at this price, can they even sell it if they want to?

doesn't there have to be a buyer out there for it to be sold?

it's on the pink sheets, so trade volume probably averages 0 transactions a day. for all you know, a single straw buyer created the 25000% figure with a single purchase.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Cold on a Cob posted:

now i'm kinda curious about fishmech's irl job too

i assume he's still living on the america's smartest teenager money. six and a half figures could last quite a while if you're living in some shitbox $300 basement room in rural new jersey and your only bill is the wikipedia connection

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

but seriously imagine what it would be like for fishmech if wikipedia had never existed.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Sagebrush posted:

but seriously imagine what it would be like for fishmech if wikipedia had never existed.

without Wikipedia he'd have to live in a university library

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H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Luigi Thirty posted:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/social-networking-stock-exploded-25-215433473.html

this company has one employee, no products, no revenue, is traded OTC, hasn't filed an SEC form since 2013, and may not even exist anymore

it's up 25,000% since last month

tech bubble lol

reminds me of when twitter had their ipo and tweeter stocks exploded

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