A-chew!
Excuse me, but i'm allergic to bullshit.
A-chew!
Excuse me, but i'm allergic to bullshit.
Very good.
Now pretty-please learn to (a) simply ignore generic MMF spam, (b) NOT to top-post a two-line response with the ENTIRE SPAMSPEW APPENDED. You'll find even Outcrock Distress - your chosen 'newsreader' - does offer the option of starting your response *after* the previous article
- which affords you the opportunity to trim it down to the fragment(s) you're responding to, so that your readers (of whom there are hundreds or more) have an easier time following the thread of the conversation; and also that there are a number of other newsreaders which you can try
- Thunderbird, over at
Thank you for playing - Stefek
A. Top-posters.
Q. What's the most annoying thing about Usenet?
Also spare a thought for those of us who are on newsfeeds that get spam filtered by our ISPs. For we only ever get to see these posts when someone a) replies to one, and b) quotes the whole sodding thing.
Ah - so he's doing you a *favour* by routing around your ISP's fascist censorship, and allowing to experience the full flavour of the group ;-)
Great! Spam and followed by an impromptu, patronising lecture.
Aren't newsgroups a joy!
Stefek very kindly and politely explained why your actions were undesirable. Accept the advice in the spirit in which it was given, or piss off.
Free advice. Here's some more that might help your skills:
Oh no, i've crossed swords with the DIY police. Big mistake or what!? And you lot are sure to be well tooled up what with an arsenal of deadly power tools to choose from your sheds.
I suppose saying sorry and a confession of it was simple over sight are going to be not good enough for you lot?
Just don't strap me to a work bench with a slow moving circular saw approaching my goolies! Mind you, that would be preferable to another patronising lecture or re-education assistance.
Would a £20 circular saw from the sheds be suitable for that or is it worth spending more money?
Owain
Na, good enough for me.... ;-)
(only mentioned it since a good number of folks who post responses to spam, do not seem to realise that the originators of the messages are programs (probably running on compromised computers) and not people, and hence the originators will never see the responses)
Sounds nasty.... I think an angle grinder with a wire brush would make a more interesting mess though ;-)
Hey, that's my knackers you're talking about there! :-(
I would love to see the expression on the spotty youth's face in B&Q when you tell him what all that gunk over the saw is ;-)
(Might be a way of getting rapid service out of them though) ;-)
Nah, no police here (except the Part-Pee Poliss ;-)
Hey, just one of the above is plenty!
That'd be Cruel And Unusual Punishment, and would remind us too much of
007 films, which in turn would remind us too much of our regular bugbear. Nah, you're safe: by the time we've discussed what sort of death-dealing device to build, how to wire it up (allowing for voltage drop, and the need for a Type C or Type D MCB to handle the startup surge), whether to use bargain-basement or last-a-lifetime tools to build it, whether to build one great one or two (or was it three?) cheap ones, decided what format to write it up in for the FAQ, argued whether the wasps' nest is a fear-inducing element or all part of the wunnerful world of naycher, ditto the chickens, OH and whether the discussion's top-or-bottom-posted ;-) - you'd have time to not only walk quietly away but handbuild an entire (small) housing estate...
Actually I think he might be referring to your ex-knackers :)
Andrew
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Which raises the question - under what legislation is forging other countries currency illegal? AIUI, the actual act of forgery for pound notes is a criminal offence. Is this the same for Dollars/Yen/Baht?
Certainly under US law, making repros of dollar bills is very strictly controlled; the US Treasury website has details, which include stuff like "you can do novelty ripoffs based on currency BUT it has to be distinctly different in size and/or aspect-ratio and/or colo[u]r": it carves out the 'design space' around real currency and says Thou Shalt Not Walk Here. And they've apparently encouraged photocopier and scanner manufacturers to detect and deliberately spoil/low-fi-ify (IYSWIM) images of The Holy Greenback...
You just reminded me to try an experiment...
Stuck a £20 note "This application does not support the unauthorised processing of banknote images
For more information select the information button below for internet-based information on restrictions for copying and distributing banknote images or go to
Works fine in Photoshop 7 or lower however.... (older versions scan quicker as well - wonder why )
(interesting to note there is no way of telling it that you are authorised to process such images - perhaps there is a registry tweak)
It's interesting how we've seamlessly moved from hacking my knackers off with either a circular saw or angle grinder to flat-bed scanning in bank notes.
I appreciate the diversion of attention though.
I wonder how it knows? You could create a pattern library for existing notes but what about new designs?
Well, I thought we may as well get some interesting discussion from the thread ;-)
If nothing else, it will give you something to think about as the someone gets the chainsaw running ;-)
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