There's a lot of weird shit going on out there....

From jkib@chiche.com Fri Jul 11 09:11:13 2003
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 03 09:19:24 GMT
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To: stone@rps.net
Subject: Dimensional Warp Generator Needed f ei wuxnwrkadcjyu

Greetings,

We need a vendor who can offer immediate supply. I'm offering $5,000 US dollars just for referring a vender which is (Actually RELIABLE in providing the below equipment) Contact details of vendor required, including name and phone #. If they turn out to be reliable in supplying the below equipment I'll immediately pay you $5,000. We prefer to work with vendor in the Boston/New York area.

1. The mind warper generation 4 Dimensional Warp Generator # 52 4350a series wrist watch with z80 or better memory adapter. If in stock the AMD Dimensional Warp Generator module containing the GRC79 induction motor, two I80200 warp stabilizers, 256GB of SRAM, and two Analog Devices isolinear modules, This unit also has a menu driven GUI accessible on the front panel XID display. All in 1 units would be great if reliable models are available

2. The special 23200 or Acme 5X24 series time transducing capacitor with built in temporal displacement. Needed with complete jumper/auxiliary system

3. A reliable crystal Ionizor with unlimited memory backup.

4. I will also pay for Schematics, layouts, and designs directly from the manufature which can be used to build this equipment from readily available parts.

If your vendor turns out to be reliable, I owe you $5,000.

Email his details to me at: info@################.com

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More fun with Moore. And here too.

Michael Moore: is he just someone who puts his ideology above all else (integrity, honesty, common sense, logic) or is it simply that he lives in a fantasy world where he actually believes all of the manipulations of truth that he espouses? The man is an avowed Trotskyite who is opposed to pretty much everything that America stands for. He is virulently against capitalism in all forms, and so it follows that he rages against America's current system of property ownership, commerce, not to mention the general liberty to do as you damn well feel as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. No: like all Communists, he would rather everyone live the way he demands, following his rules, even though Communism has been proven to be a disasterous failure again and again. Dirt-poor China can only be called Communist in the loosest terms, and Cuba is a dying society propped up only by the American dollars funneled from tourists and Americans sending hard currency to relatives in Havanna. Even though capitalism and plain old liberty have given humanity all of its wonderful human comforts and medical advancements, Michael Moore schemes in his million-dollar mansion for ways to take that all away from America and the rest of the free world. Well, Michael, you slovenly hypocrite, we're not all as stupid as the vacuous-faced dullards who worship you and gave standing ovations for your various works of fiction that you try and pass off as documentaries. You're not a member of mainstream America, Al Gore didn't win any of the Florida recounts, and eventually you'll die miserable and pissed because your dreams of an American Bolshevik revolution will never come to pass. And I hope to someday piss on your grave.

Those of us that attended Epic's mod conference at the end of June in 2002 each received a GeForce 4 graphics card. This was extremely generous of them! Unfortunately, my card, a PNY Verto GeForce 4 Ti4400, died at the end of May. What happened is first that it was unable to support 4x, so I ran my AGP port at 2x for a while. Then after several days, 2x died as well and the card was completely useless. A call to PNY's tech support got me nowhere, as they made it clear the card could not be exchanged without a receipt (which I obviously do not have). Good game, PNY. Now I know never to buy your crappy products. Damn thing didn't even last a year.

Today I saw X-Men 2 and was pleasantly surprised. It's at least as good as the first, and in an age of craptacular sequels, this is quite unexpected. Decent actors for pretty much every part. Nothing too over the top. The script was tight and I didn't once stop and ask myself, "Why are they doing this?" This is especially unusual in a comic-based movie, where characters often act with inexplicable irrationality. Also surprising were the numerous "cameos" of famous Marvel heroes that go unnamed in the movie. No names, no explanations. It was wonderful! Siryn, Colossus, Jubilee... even Gambit's real name showed up on a roster of mutants. Just a bit of a treat for those of us in the know... those of us who know what's coming up next.