I think I've found where WTFs come from.



  • Now the question is, what do we do about it?



  • Quick.... kill it!



  • So it's called WTF Consulting?  And it's listed as a Pawn Shop?  Name and what it's listed as don't match so it's probably a joke.



  • That's in the middle of the jewelry district in Boston, so a pawn shop would be expected there. Not sure what to make of it otherwise.



  • That's like three blocks away from where I work, I'll check it out on the way home and report back.



  • Also, Google street view is waaaaaaay out of date. There's still Borders banners.



  • @mikeTheLiar said:

    That's like three blocks away from where I work, I'll check it out on the way home and report back.

    I think that's the Jewelry Building, meaning looking would involve actually going inside and finding the correct suite, so nobody would blame you if you thought it was too much trouble for just a few yuks.



  •  I always thought they came from here:  http://goo.gl/maps/36uHi



  • I DON'T UNDERSTAND! I'M CLICKING THE LINKS ON THIS FORUM BUT THEY DON'T WORK!


  • Trolleybus Mechanic

     I thought WTFs came [url="https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=inedo&hl=en-CA&ll=41.366251,-81.853148&spn=0.001112,0.002064&gbv=1&fb=1&gl=ca&hq=inedo&cid=0,0,9645871348971499694&t=h&z=20&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=41.366251,-81.853148&panoid=LTfbFzLyrD-iPgi950NQmA&cbp=12,38.24,,0,4.12"]from here:[/url].

    [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/7Lqpc28.png[/IMG]



  • @Zecc said:

    I DON'T UNDERSTAND! I'M CLICKING THE LINKS ON THIS FORUM BUT THEY DON'T WORK!

    lol how i a href?



  • @Zecc said:

    I DON'T UNDERSTAND! I'M CLICKING THE LINKS ON THIS FORUM BUT THEY DON'T WORK!

    Look, the Web's only been with us for, what, 22 years? You can't really blame people for still treating it like a 7-bit-ASCII-only BBS, can you?



  • @morbiuswilters said:

    @Zecc said:
    I DON'T UNDERSTAND! I'M CLICKING THE LINKS ON THIS FORUM BUT THEY DON'T WORK!

    Look, the Web's only been with us for, what, 22 years? You can't really blame people for still treating it like a 7-bit-ASCII-only BBS, can you?

    ‧̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼͇͈͉͍͎̀́̂̄̃̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́͆͊͋͌̕̚ͅ͏͓͔͕͖͙͚͐͑͒͗͛ͣͤͥͦͧͨͩͪͫͬͭͮͯ͘͜͟͢͝͞͠͡

  • ♿ (Parody)

    @Ben L. said:

    ‧̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼͇͈͉͍͎̀́̂̄̃̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́͆͊͋͌̕̚ͅ͏͓͔͕͖͙͚͐͑͒͗͛ͣͤͥͦͧͨͩͪͫͬͭͮͯ͘͜͟͢͝͞͠͡

    Yikes. Are the tags leaking into the forum?



  • @spacecadet said:

    @mikeTheLiar said:
    That's like three blocks away from where I work, I'll check it out on the way home and report back.
    I think that's the Jewelry Building, meaning looking would involve actually going inside and finding the correct suite, so nobody would blame you if you thought it was too much trouble for just a few yuks.

    I failed. It is the Jewelry Building, and I was all set to go inside and at least try to find a directory or something, but muscling my way through the four crackhead townies arguing outside the door about plastic grocery bags and who they belonged too (yes, really) didn't seem worth it. There is a limit to what I'll do for the lulz.


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    Wonderful - a piece of forum-abuse that actually made it to gmail.



    Twat.


  • Considered Harmful

    [mod - PJH] Removing that piece of twattage. I didn't realise that CS was quite that broken....

    Edit: Yeah, sorry, I had to see what would happen. I've been wondering ever since Signature Guy showed up.



  • @joe.edwards said:

    [mod - PJH] Removing that piece of twattage. I didn't realise that CS was quite that broken....
    Edit: Yeah, sorry, I had to see what would happen. I've been wondering ever since Signature Guy showed up.

    Now I'm curious to see what it did to email notifications.



  • I fail to see how that was worse than the <p></blockquote></p> shit that's in every goddamn post

  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    @locallunatic said:

    Now I'm curious to see what it did to email notifications.



  • @PJH said:

    @locallunatic said:
    Now I'm curious to see what it did to email notifications.
    Holy fuck, man. Turn down your Aero settings before you hurt someone!



  • @PJH said:

    @locallunatic said:
    Now I'm curious to see what it did to email notifications.
    Yeah, mine was similar except with another theme and without the bluriness. The characters were behind the contact "photos" preceding each email subject, by the way.


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    @Ben L. said:

    @PJH said:
    @locallunatic said:
    Now I'm curious to see what it did to email notifications.
    Holy fuck, man. Turn down your Aero settings before you hurt someone!
    Aero? Isn't that Windows bollocks? Nowt to do with me. (For the interested, that was a screenshot of gmail under FF23.0, on Linux, very crudely blurred to remove hide irrelevant stuff.)



    I see what you mean however....



  • @PJH said:

    @Ben L. said:
    @PJH said:
    @locallunatic said:
    Now I'm curious to see what it did to email notifications.
    Holy fuck, man. Turn down your Aero settings before you hurt someone!
    Aero? Isn't that Windows bollocks? Nowt to do with me. (For the interested, that was a screenshot of gmail under FF23.0, on Linux, very crudely blurred to remove hide irrelevant stuff my goat porn collection.)



    I see what you mean however....

    FTFY



  • @morbiuswilters said:

    @Zecc said:
    I DON'T UNDERSTAND! I'M CLICKING THE LINKS ON THIS FORUM BUT THEY DON'T WORK!

    Look, the Web's only been with us for, what, 22 years? You can't really blame people for still treating it like a 7-bit-ASCII-only BBS, can you?

    Considering where the Web has brought us, I can't say it's much an improvement over the 7-bit-etc.-etc.

    I spent the maximum amount of time I cared to spend (15 seconds) to try to figure out how to embed a link in a forum post with no luck, so, y'know, copy and paste.

    Unless..wait...do you really just put an a tag in?

    (edit: son of a bitch, you totally just do.)



  • @spacecadet said:

    @morbiuswilters said:
    @Zecc said:
    I DON'T UNDERSTAND! I'M CLICKING THE LINKS ON THIS FORUM BUT THEY DON'T WORK!

    Look, the Web's only been with us for, what, 22 years? You can't really blame people for still treating it like a 7-bit-ASCII-only BBS, can you?

    Considering where the Web has brought us, I can't say it's much an improvement over the 7-bit-etc.-etc.

    I spent the maximum amount of time I cared to spend (15 seconds) to try to figure out how to embed a link in a forum post with no luck, so, y'know, copy and paste.

    Unless..wait...do you really just put an a tag in?

    (edit: son of a bitch, you totally just do.)

    Just to recap:

    You're on a website

    and it took you 30 posts to try to use HTML.

    On the internet



  • Just to recap:

    You're on a website

    and it took you 30 posts to try to

    No, it took me 30 posts to care.

    <blink>If this text is blinking, it's 1997 again, and "Bob" help us all. (P.S. Buy AAPL).</blink>



  • @spacecadet said:

    Just to recap:

    You're on a website

    and it took you 30 posts to try to

    No, it took me 30 posts to care.

    If this text is blinking, it's 1997 again, and "Bob" help us all. (P.S. Buy AAPL).


    It's like he's trying to insert line breaks but he doesn't know how to make a line break or a new paragraph...



  • @Ben L. said:

    @spacecadet said:
    Just to recap:

    You're on a website

    and it took you 30 posts to try to

    No, it took me 30 posts to care.

    If this text is blinking, it's 1997 again, and "Bob" help us all. (P.S. Buy AAPL).


    It's like he's trying to insert line breaks but he doesn't know how to make a line break or a new paragraph...

    Fascinating. Do you have some kind of...newsletter or something that I could sign up for?



  • @mikeTheLiar said:

    I failed. It is the Jewelry Building, and I was all set to go inside and at least try to find a directory or something, but muscling my way through the four crackhead townies arguing outside the door about plastic grocery bags and who they belonged too (yes, really) didn't seem worth it. There is a limit to what I'll do for the lulz.

    Ah, Downtown Crossing. Where you've got to be really specific about just what kind of rock you're in the market for.



  • @spacecadet said:

    Considering where the Web has brought us, I can't say it's much an improvement over the 7-bit-etc.-etc.

    Sometimes I think I'm a cynical asshole who bashes entire technologies just to make his own pitiful life seem less empty, but then I meet someone like spacecadet and I'm like "Well, I guess I'm well-adjusted after all."

    You wouldn't happen to be Richard Stallman by any chance, would you?

    @spacecadet's Location said:

    Cambridge, MA

    Egads, it's true: he's come to repay my insults to FOSS in blood!! Somebody protect me! Quick, distract him with a mountain of unpalatable pizzas from that god-awful place on the corner of Mass Ave and Windsor while I go in for the kill!



  • @morbiuswilters said:

    "Well, I guess I'm well-adjusted after all."

    Let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

    You wouldn't happen to be Richard Stallman by any chance, would you?

    I will have to check this and get back to you. It's Thursday, right?



  • Also I think you're thinking of Clifford "Cuckoo's Egg" Stoll, who went on to write a book called Silicon Snake Oil about how nobody would ever buy things over the Internet or use it for video or music because come on, get real.



  • @spacecadet said:

    Also I think you're thinking of Clifford "Cuckoo's Egg" Stoll, who went on to write a book called Silicon Snake Oil about how nobody would ever buy things over the Internet or use it for video or music because come on, get real.

    I like Clifford Stoll, but, no, I meant Stallman. I think it's pretty clear the guy prefers a BBS to the web: http://stallman.org/.

    About the only thing on there that requires post-1990 technology is that sweet comic that he/you made:



  • I made you some image macros:








  • One more:



  • @morbiuswilters said:

    One more:
     

    MOAR PLZ. I am LOLd.



  • @Ben L. said:

    Just to recap:

    You're on a website

    and it took you 30 posts to try to

    use HTML.

    On the internet

    That's understandable, considering no other websites on the internet require you to type HTML ever.

    Also your post is leaking out of its box.



  • Yeah not me then. I'm only moderately overweight and there are no vertebrates nesting in my beard.

    But if you felt like making more Stallman image macros, I wouldn't be opposed.



  • @spacecadet said:

    No, it took me 30 posts to care.

    If this text is blinking, it's 1997 again, and "Bob" help us all. (P.S. Buy AAPL).

     

    If it's 1997 again, buy CSCO, hold until about March of 2000. Buy defense stocks then and ride out the next 18 months. Wait to buy AAPL until about 2003.


     



  • @RichP said:

    @spacecadet said:

    No, it took me 30 posts to care.

    If this text is blinking, it's 1997 again, and "Bob" help us all. (P.S. Buy AAPL).

     

    If it's 1997 again, buy CSCO, hold until about March of 2000. Buy defense stocks then and ride out the next 18 months. Wait to buy AAPL until about 2003.


     




  • Stallman Thread



  • @mikeTheLiar said:

    pic

    Oh, you're still new so not sure if you know but all XKCD images get changed to Rosie.



  • @locallunatic said:

    @mikeTheLiar said:

    pic

    Oh, you're still new so not sure if you know but all XKCD images get changed to Rosie.

    Or was that my intention all along?



  • @spacecadet said:

    Just to recap:

    You're on a website

    and it took you 30 posts to try to

    No, it took me 30 posts to care.

    If this text is blinking, it's 1997 again, and "Bob" help us all. (P.S. Buy AAPL).

    Welcome to time travel!



  • @spamcourt said:

    Yeah... the OS is really nano, grep, less, etc. /sarcasm


    Seriously, Richard, I'm a fan... but if you wanted to be known as a guy who led the development of an OS, you should have led the (successful) development of an OS.



  • @bridget99 said:

    Seriously, Richard, I'm a fan... but if you wanted to be known as a guy who led the development of an OS, you should have led the (successful) development of an OS.

    What do you mean it wasn't successful? They have a logo and everything!



  • @Ben L. said:

    @bridget99 said:
    Seriously, Richard, I'm a fan... but if you wanted to be known as a guy who led the development of an OS, you should have led the (successful) development of an OS.

    What do you mean it wasn't successful? They have a logo and everything!

    Having a logo before an actual product is the definition of failure in my opinion.


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