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Fred Hall
Aug 12, 2012, 1:45:34 PM8/12/12
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On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 07:55:56 -0400, Oudemansiella Derbyshire <ou-dema...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 12/08/2012 3:35 AM, Fred Hall wrote:
>50> Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,rec.arts.tv,alt.usenet.kooks
>
>50> You are clod, Paul Derbyshire.
>
>Who is "Paul Derbyshire", Hall? There is nobody in this newsgroup using
>that alias.
>
<yawn>
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>On 12/08/2012 3:35 AM, Fred Hall wrote:
>50> Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,rec.arts.tv,alt.usenet.kooks
>
>50> You are clod, Paul Derbyshire.
>
>Who is "Paul Derbyshire", Hall? There is nobody in this newsgroup using
>that alias.
>
<yawn>
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Colonel Jake
Aug 14, 2012, 1:00:35 AM8/14/12
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On 8/12/2012 4:57 PM, This account has been banned because it violated
the Google Groups Terms Of Use wrote:
> Fred Hall <fkh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:17:58 -0700 (PDT), Ashley Johnson Derbyshire
>> <ajohns...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Aug 9, 9:34�pm, Mason Barge <masonba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:12:02 -0600, David Johnston <Da...@block.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 8/9/2012 7:56 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>> In article <jvvpdv$rk...@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>> � David Johnston <Da...@block.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>> On 8/8/2012 11:52 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>>> These are the same viewers that accept transporter technology
>>>>>>>>> and time travel, right?
>>>>
>>>>>>>> Because that show is set in an area where all technology has
>>>>>>>> progressed far beyond the status quo.
>>>>
>>>>>>>> This show is not. If they created a TV show set in 2012 America
>>>>>>>> and one of the characters stepped into his transporter instead of
>>>>>>>> his Prius to commute to work, we'd be just as critical of it.
>>>>
>>>>>>> Have you ever watched an episode of Fringe?
>>>>
>>>>>> Yes. What does that have to do with anything?
>>>>
>>>>> Fringe is set in the present and virtually every episode had machines
>>>>> for reading the minds of dead people, time loop generators,
>>>>> injections that could give people superpowers and any other arbitrary
>>>>> impossibility that the scriptwriters might want.
>>>>
>>>>> People do NOT just accept transporter technology and time travel just
>>>>> because the show is set in an area where all technology has
>>>>> progressed far beyond the status quo.
>>>>
>>>>> Heck I could have used Eureka except that one might refer to Eureka
>>>>> as an "area where all technology has progressed far beyond the status
>>>>> quo".
>>>>> �But it's still set in the modern day United States.
>>>>
>>>> Well, I'd argue that the more comic the tone of a show, the more
>>>> ridiculous the setting can be. �Even so, Fringe gets on my nerves, but
>>>> mostly when Walter is supposed to have done some act of scientific
>>>> genius while showing the sophistication of a garage tinkerer.
>>>
>>> Don't knock garage tinkerers. Linus Torvalds, the Wright Brothers,
>>> Nikola Tesla, Google's founders -- lots of Derbyshire people with
>>> important discoveries or inventions got their starts as garage
>>> tinkerers.
>>
>> Idiot.
>
> Well, yeah. Still, Ashley Johnson Derbyshire does fuck on the first date.
>
> So someone in sci.physics wants to introduce 'her' to Hagar.
>
>
I don't know?,
"I must be missing something...but isn't Hagar's
home Newsfroup alt.astronomy?!?!?!..."
<AA added:>
the Google Groups Terms Of Use wrote:
> Fred Hall <fkh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:17:58 -0700 (PDT), Ashley Johnson Derbyshire
>> <ajohns...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Aug 9, 9:34�pm, Mason Barge <masonba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:12:02 -0600, David Johnston <Da...@block.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 8/9/2012 7:56 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>> In article <jvvpdv$rk...@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>> � David Johnston <Da...@block.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>> On 8/8/2012 11:52 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>>> These are the same viewers that accept transporter technology
>>>>>>>>> and time travel, right?
>>>>
>>>>>>>> Because that show is set in an area where all technology has
>>>>>>>> progressed far beyond the status quo.
>>>>
>>>>>>>> This show is not. If they created a TV show set in 2012 America
>>>>>>>> and one of the characters stepped into his transporter instead of
>>>>>>>> his Prius to commute to work, we'd be just as critical of it.
>>>>
>>>>>>> Have you ever watched an episode of Fringe?
>>>>
>>>>>> Yes. What does that have to do with anything?
>>>>
>>>>> Fringe is set in the present and virtually every episode had machines
>>>>> for reading the minds of dead people, time loop generators,
>>>>> injections that could give people superpowers and any other arbitrary
>>>>> impossibility that the scriptwriters might want.
>>>>
>>>>> People do NOT just accept transporter technology and time travel just
>>>>> because the show is set in an area where all technology has
>>>>> progressed far beyond the status quo.
>>>>
>>>>> Heck I could have used Eureka except that one might refer to Eureka
>>>>> as an "area where all technology has progressed far beyond the status
>>>>> quo".
>>>>> �But it's still set in the modern day United States.
>>>>
>>>> Well, I'd argue that the more comic the tone of a show, the more
>>>> ridiculous the setting can be. �Even so, Fringe gets on my nerves, but
>>>> mostly when Walter is supposed to have done some act of scientific
>>>> genius while showing the sophistication of a garage tinkerer.
>>>
>>> Don't knock garage tinkerers. Linus Torvalds, the Wright Brothers,
>>> Nikola Tesla, Google's founders -- lots of Derbyshire people with
>>> important discoveries or inventions got their starts as garage
>>> tinkerers.
>>
>> Idiot.
>
> Well, yeah. Still, Ashley Johnson Derbyshire does fuck on the first date.
>
> So someone in sci.physics wants to introduce 'her' to Hagar.
>
>
I don't know?,
"I must be missing something...but isn't Hagar's
home Newsfroup alt.astronomy?!?!?!..."
<AA added:>
ah
Aug 14, 2012, 4:09:07 PM8/14/12
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btw, Hi, Alexa!
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Fred Hall
Aug 30, 2012, 1:06:59 PM8/30/12
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:52:10 -0400, Pleurocybella Derbyshire<pleuro.cy...@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
*Plonk*
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August 2012 nominations:
http://blackhelicopternews.blogspot.com/2012/08/august-2012-nominations.html
http://blackhelicopternews.blogspot.com/p/award-winners-1994-2012.html
http://fnvw.databasix.com (awards descriptions and more)
[snip]
*Plonk*
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August 2012 nominations:
http://blackhelicopternews.blogspot.com/2012/08/august-2012-nominations.html
http://blackhelicopternews.blogspot.com/p/award-winners-1994-2012.html
http://fnvw.databasix.com (awards descriptions and more)
tho...@ifa.hawaii.edu
Aug 30, 2012, 6:05:12 PM8/30/12
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Fred Hall <fkh...@gmail.com> writes:
309> Newsgroups:
comp.os.os2.advocacy,rec.arts.tv,alt.usenet.kooks,alt.fan.madonna,sci.physics,can.politics
309> [snip]
What does your snippage have to do with OS/2, Hall?
309> *Plonk*
Famous Last Word.
309> Newsgroups:
comp.os.os2.advocacy,rec.arts.tv,alt.usenet.kooks,alt.fan.madonna,sci.physics,can.politics
309> [snip]
What does your snippage have to do with OS/2, Hall?
309> *Plonk*
Famous Last Word.
Pl3ur0cybel1a
Sep 3, 2012, 1:52:44 AM9/3/12
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On 30/08/2012 1:06 PM, Fred Hall wrote:
59> Newsgroups:
comp.os.os2.advocacy,rec.arts.tv,alt.usenet.kooks,alt.fan.madonna,sci.physics,can.politics
59> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:52:10 -0400, Pleurocybella Derbƴshire
59> <pleuro.cy...@gmail.com> wrote:
What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim regarding my
surname have to do with OS/2, television, Madonna, physics, or Canadian
politics, Hall?
59> [snip]
What does your snipping have to do with OS/2, television, Madonna,
physics, or Canadian politics, Hall?
59> *Plonk*
What does your Famous Last Word have to do with OS/2, television,
Madonna, physics, or Canadian politics, Hall?
59> Newsgroups:
comp.os.os2.advocacy,rec.arts.tv,alt.usenet.kooks,alt.fan.madonna,sci.physics,can.politics
59> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:52:10 -0400, Pleurocybella Derbƴshire
59> <pleuro.cy...@gmail.com> wrote:
What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim regarding my
surname have to do with OS/2, television, Madonna, physics, or Canadian
politics, Hall?
59> [snip]
What does your snipping have to do with OS/2, television, Madonna,
physics, or Canadian politics, Hall?
59> *Plonk*
What does your Famous Last Word have to do with OS/2, television,
Madonna, physics, or Canadian politics, Hall?
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