Position Encoding.

Netcop you are not. Netkkkop wannabe retard, you are.

The Irony alarm just went super critical!

OMG! What a funny post you have made here, you pissy little BITCH!

Thank goodness you're AlwaysWrong.

John

He was talking to you, dumbfuck.

Firefox/8.0,gzip(gfe)

If what you say is true, and this is your last gas, then why does it have to smell like Sulfur?

If your heart is set on filtering, just FOAD.

Then, your heart can feeds worms and do more for the world than it ever has!

That actually was good. Note that author of the wiki uses a z in "recognize".

Gotta admit that every now and then (nearly never actually), Thompson's wit and humor actually hits a fresh nerve. That was hilarious.

Nanner, nanner, nanner!

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John's actually a damn fine engineer, and an overall great guy. Cheerful, witty, and smart, with an Irish twinkle in his eye that doesn't survive e-mail well. Heart of gold. He rubs some people the wrong way, but that's just the way the world is.

USENET makes things worse. Something about written words leads to misunderstandings you'd never have person-to-person.

Anyway, to quote that famous wife-beater, Rodney King, can't we all just get along?

We all screw up or fall short one way or another (except Phil Hobbs :-). Let's learn from each other, raise each other up, build on our collective strengths, and celebrate the best in all of us.

"If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." --Sir Issac Newton

"We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours." --John of Salisbury (1120-1180 AD)

-- Cheers, James Arthur

Firefox 9.0.1. It was 8.0 when I started looking, but proceeded to update itself to 9.0.1 sd I watched.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Actually a snide dig at Robert Hooke, who was not only very short, but also had a twisted spine. If he and Christopher Wren had been as good at math as Newton, they would have worked out the law of gravity first. Hooke is on record as proposing an inverse square law, but he didn't have the math to predict elliptical orbits.

Are you telling us that Newton plagiarised his shoulders of giants quote?

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

No, it wasn't an act of plagiarism, just something he said, which was a variation on a common theme, an idiom of his time, that was later quoted. Newton can't control that.

-- Cheers, James Arthur

Wikipedia isn't proud. They'll take help from anywhere, even the ex- colonies.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Yoo septiks can spel wirds enny way yoo lyke. But pleez don't korl it Inglish.

^^ So why don't you turn on the built-in spell checker?

Firefox/8.0,gzip(gfe)

Didn't look at the headers.

With a little bit of Yoda.

Didn't know it was there, and now that I know - and have downloaded a dictionary - it still doesn't seem to be working. Firefox claims that spell-checking is automatically enabled.

Hmm. It now does seem to be enabled - it doesn't recognise "Firefox" as a legitimate word.

Thanks.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

I criticized one of John's circuits... rightfully so, it was crap... as most of his "circuit" posts have been... and I posted a simulation refuting his weaseling (Larkin provided no component values, as usual).

John doesn't take well to criticism... he's quite a lot like Slowman in that respect.

I offered a truce last week. He retorted that I was an asshole forever:

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So the gloves remain off. ANYTHING that Larkin opines that is incorrect will be promptly excoriated. ...Jim Thompson