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Oct 31, 2001
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Works here much better than in the 'guided' democracy of Wank5est where unless you are a some sort of Linux/Perl freak, you views on the 'look and feel' of the site are ignored.
diaries

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Blood thirsty Brits get on board
It looks like cigars
Question For The People Here
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My money pit, rust bucket MGB sportscar
A new golden age for Adequacy?
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Autism and geeks
Xmas Decorations On Adequacy

Being a Microsoft Visual Basic programmer, I am used to designing user interfaces which follow the latest usuabilty research coming out of Redmond, WA. So my suggestion of changing 'Who's Online', which is very impersonal and unfriendly, to 'My Online Buddies' which is combines the consumer friendliness of AOL and Microsoft Windows XP and is truer reflection of the spirit of amiable discourse that prevails on this site.

So anyone suggesting that Editors are a bunch of fascist control freaks will get short shrift from me. Good work, fellas...

May I remind... (none / 0) (#1)
by tkatchev on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 02:37:24 AM PST
...may I remind the less net-savvy readership of this site that adequacy.org is a strictly editor-censored web board. This is not a democracy, more like an enlightened oligarchy.


--
Peace and much love...

Yes this (none / 0) (#2)
by nobbystyles on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 03:22:04 AM PST
Is definitely an enlightenment project in the spirit of Voltaire, Adam Smith and Catherine the Great...

Sure. (none / 0) (#3)
by tkatchev on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 04:20:18 AM PST
Have you been enlightened yet!? We'll get you goose-stepping yet...


--
Peace and much love...

Maybe (none / 0) (#4)
by nobbystyles on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 06:57:25 AM PST
Is there a secret handshake or anything?

He said 'enlightened' not 'illuminated' (5.00 / 1) (#5)
by dmg on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 07:08:18 AM PST
There is a difference.

time to give a Newtonian demonstration - of a bullet, its mass and its acceleration.
-- MC Hawking

There IS a difference (none / 0) (#20)
by Anonymous Reader on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 02:32:46 PM PST
Like the difference between GRIND-CORE and DEATH METAL. My good friend that passed away on SEPT. 11th in New York was a huge ANTHRAX fan. He had no interest in GRIND-CORE or DEATH METAL. We miss him dearly and know the following for a fact:

He would not want ANTHRAX to change their name.




WHAT IS THIS?? (none / 0) (#21)
by Anonymous Reader on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 02:41:33 PM PST
HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT ANYONE IS A 'FAN' OF THE TERRIBLE DISEASE THAT IS INFECTING OUR NATION!!! ANTHRAX HAS KILLED THREE PEOPLE SO FAR!! IS THIS SOME BAD RAP GROUP THAT IS TRYING TO CASH IN ON THE SUFFERING OF OUR NATION!! I INSIST THAT THIS MC ANTHRAX CHANGE HIS NAME! I WILL HOLD A RECORD AND BOOK BURNING CEREMONY OF ALL OF DJ ANTHRAX'S RECORDS AND HIP-HOP MAGAZINES!! THESE RAPPERS HAVE GONE TOO FAR THIS TIME!!!


quick retort (none / 0) (#22)
by Anonymous Reader on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 03:31:29 PM PST
Yo Dog

This MC High Colonic with the bubonic chronic all up in da houz!!

Snoop Dogg records is all up on the tip of the phattest rapper to hit Krenshaw. woo woo

MC ANTHRAX and his spore boy posse got mad skills. Straght from da ghetto of Oakland. West side - best side baby. True.

Word

Lots of smart people at this website. You are so clever. Each and everyone of you. Smile. News for grown-ups...please.




Jesus Christ (none / 0) (#23)
by Hammurabi on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 09:12:14 PM PST
I had no idea they let you people out of the particular stories you were summoned for. Something really ought to be done about that.


Only the most dangerous and hardened of criminals attempts to blame the law when he is the one who broke it.

 
you horrid bastard (none / 0) (#6)
by alprazolam on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 07:22:15 AM PST
before you know it theres going to blinky lights and exclamation points everywhere. NEW!! HOT!!! COOL!!!!!!!!!111

Good idea (none / 0) (#7)
by nobbystyles on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 07:39:19 AM PST
We need change the links at top.

Front Page = What's new and cool

Diaries = My bullshit

Search = My things that I need to find

Submit = My bullshit but better written

Meta Page = My adequacy

Who = Adequacy d00dz

Mission statement = My creed




 
Maybe its just me, (3.00 / 2) (#8)
by chloedancer on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 07:43:21 AM PST
but for some reason I've yet to identify, the "My Online Buddies" thing makes me think of AOL instead of Microsoft. It inspires a vague nausea that I am artfully attempting to ignore.

I have acknowleged (none / 0) (#9)
by nobbystyles on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 07:51:44 AM PST
The debt to AOL in my diary above.

Another AOL idea to promote even greater user friendliness is that when you go to the front page, it play the words "You've got contraversy"

 
You're probably feeling like it's too generic. (5.00 / 1) (#10)
by elenchos on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 09:43:53 AM PST
This site has an excessively common look and feel in many ways. It doesn't discriminate between the various browsers, for example, giving those using one of the slapdash "home-brew" web browsers all sorts of disruptive ideas.

And there is nothing special for users of the Internet proper (A.O.L.), meaning that the site is wantonly allowing literally anybody come walking in and kick over the furniture.

Never fear. In no time I expect Adequcay will have its primary content set up in an A.O.L.-only fashion, and leave the 1337 with a sort of "service entrance" version of the site.

Yes, some will complain loudly, and we should be prepared to take their names and pass them on to the F.B.I.


I do, I do, I do
--Bikini Kill

Oh yes. (none / 0) (#11)
by tkatchev on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 10:30:35 AM PST
3.2 seconds before you are massively DoSed.

(Yes, damn it, I said DoSed!!!)


--
Peace and much love...

That is to be expected. (none / 0) (#12)
by elenchos on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 11:25:04 AM PST
Or would you have us give in to the hackers and other terrorists? Perhaps Adequacy can serve as a lightning rod to smoke them out of their rat-holes before they attack our nuclear plants and water supply with their cowardly and vile hack attacks. Perhaps we should make arrangements ahead of time with the F.B.I. so as to be ready for them.

We live in times when everyone must choose sides.


I do, I do, I do
--Bikini Kill

Definitely. (none / 0) (#13)
by tkatchev on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 11:31:46 AM PST
For, as we all know, the Earth is flat and centered in Wichita Falls, Arkansas.

But seriously, do you think script kiddies in Romania give two shits about the FBI, CIA, IRS, and NSA combined?


--
Peace and much love...

wichita falls is in texas (none / 0) (#15)
by alprazolam on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 12:47:34 PM PST



Well, guess what: (4.00 / 1) (#19)
by tkatchev on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 01:25:08 PM PST
The rest of the world could care less.


--
Peace and much love...

Ah (none / 0) (#24)
by Anonymous Reader on Fri Nov 2nd, 2001 at 08:07:37 AM PST
So you mean that they do, in fact, care some amount about the location of Wichita Falls?

Yes. (none / 0) (#25)
by tkatchev on Fri Nov 2nd, 2001 at 11:26:48 AM PST
It's about as important to the rest of the world as the number of follicles on a deer-gnat's exoskeleton.


--
Peace and much love...

 
you are arguing amongst (none / 0) (#14)
by Anonymous Reader on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 12:07:49 PM PST
yourselves! Can't you see, this mean the DoS terrorists have ALREADY won!

No, he's one of them. (none / 0) (#18)
by elenchos on Thu Nov 1st, 2001 at 01:24:38 PM PST
Tkatchev is a known terrorist, not one of us. Our long-established policy of monitoring and reporting all his activities is where I got the idea in the first place. Look at the kind of company he keeps: "script kiddies in Romania"!


I do, I do, I do
--Bikini Kill

 

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