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porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

All talk no tech.

And it still 'works'.

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 05:30

porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

pookel posted:

I'm pretty sure I used every single one of those.

Me too, and DCLite (Direct Connect) on the Mac, which was a cesspool of fakes, porn and drama.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2015 19:46

porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

How do people not get that these forums have been--since day 1--populated by shittons of cynical, sarcastic people who are very fond of hyperbole?

He didn't mean that literally all etymologies are fabricated. The obvious message was that most times, when someone says "Hey do you know why it's called that?" and then recites a too-good-to-be-true story about how a word or phrase came about, that poo poo's all made up.

Actually on day 1, we were all pretty happy go lucky folks, bright eyed and ready for knowledge and adventure. Then we found out the OED was an elaborate hoax from 1chan, and the whole thing fell apart.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2015 14:36

porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

Samizdata posted:

Many years ago, there was a multiline BBS in the town I lived in. It had, I think, 4 lines? I used to have a special dialing list in my terminal program that had the number for BBS user in town I knew that had call waiting. It would ring them then immediately dial the BBS. (Back in the day, a call waiting beep could kill a modem connection.)

I ran a 2 line BBS in KC, that was the underground feed for the latest Terminate program, an innocuos terminal on the surface, but if you got into the secret area and answered "Do you want to play a game" correctly (global thermonuclear war) - it became the best war dialer ever.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2015 03:56

porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

Dick Trauma posted:

That's biggest CD I've ever seen.

No, she's just got really small hands.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2015 03:07

porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

Tunicate posted:

so yeah stealing from jewelry stores apparently isn't that hard because the cops won't do poo poo.

I'm gonna need some links here, because this sounds like bullshit.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2015 16:38

porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

Tunicate posted:

Heard it from the man himself.

The scam itself is really easy to pull off, because the 'authorization code' given by a bank over the phone doesn't actually get checked at the cash register - any number with the correct length will work. Which is a good example of failed technology.

Well I don't doubt it's a scam that has happened (2012 article), I do doubt the police won't do anything. A friend of mine lived next to a neighbor who's brothers' wife's sister saw this same thing.....

# ¿ Nov 17, 2015 17:07

porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

Tunicate posted:

I've been selling through this guy for a while, man. This is firsthand, not some thirdhand urban legend.

But hey I guess you have a lot of faith in the united states local police forces, and I don't want to take that away from you.

I'm sorry man, I'm sure it totally happened. And the police totally don't care about crimes because that's not their job. And he totally closed his business because he didn't want to support criminals. The whole story makes total sense, man.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2015 17:40

porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

Intoluene posted:

To be honest, I seriously miss that sound whenever I connect to the internet.

It's the ringtone on my phone.

# ¿ Dec 24, 2015 16:33

porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

Grumbletron 4000 posted:

I recently came across this little beauty...

It appears to work and I could still get film for it but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. I'm probably still going to try it though.

Thats a pretty sweet camera. It will take some great pics. And of course you can get film for it. Analog photography is not dead.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2017 15:44

porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

Spy_Guy posted:

Here's an interesting thing I acquired recently. A Facit CA2-16, one of the most advanced desktop electromechanical calculators ever made.

These were manufactured during the 1960s and were the culmination of Facit's development in calculating machine technology.
They look quite nice internally, too.

The problem with these machines is that they were made just before the transistor and smaller electronics took the market by storm. In that sense the CA2-16 took the wrong fork in the path of computing history and became obsolete almost immediately.
I've been wanting to get a hold of one of these marvels for years now, and it's currently sat in my living room.

This is so loving cool.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2018 21:47

porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

RC and Moon Pie posted:

Can't remember if it was this thread or another one that I just talked about that demo album. My parents bought a Ford Tempo in 1988ish and this was included. The car was a possessed nightmare and was traded in within 18 months. The tape stayed, though, as Dad adored the harmony on Africa.

My folks had an album (1970ish) called "Chevrolet Sings Safe Driving and You" - best track was "Rain is a gentle thing but not when you're driving". Lost forever in a fire.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2018 16:37

porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

Platystemon posted:

My car has many engines.

There is one in each door to raise and lower the windows.

I too have multiple tiny combustion engines to raise and lower my windows. They can be hard to start in the winter.

# ¿ Nov 28, 2018 17:46

porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

Cojawfee posted:

For me, Calculus didn't really seem to have a good use until I took Physics. And in a way, physics didn't make much sense until after I took calculus. Before I took calculus, physics just had these equations you have to remember and they didn't seem to have any connection. Then I realized that position, velocity, and acceleration are all just derivatives/integrals of each other. Then it all clicked.

Same. The definition of epiphany.

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 05:30

porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

Dick Trauma posted:

My brother and I each had an Instamatic and carried them with us when we'd travel. Went through so much film, and so many flashcubes.

Here's one of my mother and brother sleeping on the train outside of Paris. 1976.

She died last month. But now I see her as all of her ages.

Not only a great story, but that's on helluva picture.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2024 21:54

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