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Beefy
11-10-2007, 01:16 AM
The history of how I'm here is as follows:

In late September of 2003, I entered into my url "politics.com" and stumbled acros a lively and animated debte. Over the course of the next year I became very identified with capital "L" libertarianism and started webcamming with Care. I then met Damocles at a bar and got bombed with him.

Then, politics.com started to tank, and SR picked up the slack, so I joined fullpolitics.com. He had a great lively board, awesome members and no moderation. Then he introduced the idea of a security council, which I embraced. But no sooner did he embrace it than he started reading, on the board, other people's IM's.

Then, my man G started this board, and most of us are still here. And we can be here and dig it here because there is nothin but a board here.

Care4all
11-10-2007, 01:33 AM
The history of how I'm here is as follows:

In late September of 2003, I entered into my url "politics.com" and stumbled acros a lively and animated debte. Over the course of the next year I became very identified with capital "L" libertarianism and started webcamming with Care. I then met Damocles at a bar and got bombed with him.

Then, politics.com started to tank, and SR picked up the slack, so I joined fullpolitics.com. He had a great lively board, awesome members and no moderation. Then he introduced the idea of a security council, which I embraced. But no sooner did he embrace it than he started reading, on the board, other people's IM's.

Then, my man G started this board, and most of us are still here. And we can be here and dig it here because there is nothin but a board here.
and i will never forget those days cutie pie!

i pretty much have the same path as you! started in december of 2003, started ym'ing with you and immie and buster, moved to fp when politics. com went down, then moved to jpp when the crap hit the fan at fp! now i am playing at another site, but you all and this, will always be what i consider home, with my cyber family!

care

FUCK THE POLICE
11-10-2007, 01:37 AM
OK guys.

I'm going to introduce a radical concept.

I GOOGLED "politics". I assumed that if I typed "www.politics.com" into the URL I'd get porn. Pretty much that way with any obvious URL.

For about 5 years I pretended I was 18 until I became 18. Whenever I first came on, I kind of played socialist, but I never really believed the government should own everything.

Then we all got annoyed at that stupid guy, so we went with SR. I got elected to the security council, realised how pointless it was, got kind of bored after people couldn't stop whining about the trolling of CK, so I came over here. Warren followed me. Midcan, like the snob he is, really and truly refuses to give up on the site.

FUCK THE POLICE
11-10-2007, 01:37 AM
Man, Beefy, I really hated you whenever I first got on politics.com.

Care4all
11-10-2007, 01:43 AM
Man, Beefy, I really hated you whenever I first got on politics.com. i think you admitted to being 15 when you first got there, or at least to me you did? BUT are you saying you were 13 then? and ARE YOU REALLY 18 now? holy crap, am i getting old! i have enjoyed seeing you change your political stances over the years....

Adam Weinberg's progression too! he was 18 or 19 when i first met him at Po;itics.com

care

/MSG/
11-10-2007, 11:37 AM
I viewed politics.com but never posted there. Then watched the move to Fullpolitics and became more intriqued. So I started posting as the revolutionary biker pirate that was captjack. The site started to tank while I was deployed so I packed up and moved the S.S. Ballbuster over here. And have been kicking ass ever since.

evince
11-10-2007, 12:58 PM
I typed in politcal chat in the fall of 2003 and politics.com was the first hit so I went to it and started my chickenscratch typing of a word or two at a time because I could not type (had not done it since junior high). I had to have somewhere to fume because of what was going on.

I then followed this basic group of people from site to site while trying many ohters. This was the one group of people who seemed like home. I still try others but like Care said this is the best site out there. Say whatever you want and see what others say.

FUCK THE POLICE
11-10-2007, 05:59 PM
It's kind of funny, we've still got the same basic community after all of these years. Kind of stuck together. But, then again, we have lost a lot. Like, maybe half of the people, during the changing of sites and in between periods.

I wonder who's going to be the last one left. O_o

Diuretic
11-10-2007, 06:30 PM
The history of how I'm here is as follows:

In late September of 2003, I entered into my url "politics.com" and stumbled acros a lively and animated debte. Over the course of the next year I became very identified with capital "L" libertarianism and started webcamming with Care. I then met Damocles at a bar and got bombed with him.

Then, politics.com started to tank, and SR picked up the slack, so I joined fullpolitics.com. He had a great lively board, awesome members and no moderation. Then he introduced the idea of a security council, which I embraced. But no sooner did he embrace it than he started reading, on the board, other people's IM's.

Then, my man G started this board, and most of us are still here. And we can be here and dig it here because there is nothin but a board here.

Since I have no idea who the owner is I feel a bit like one of the cast members of Zardoz.

I also don't know anyone here - either in a cyber-manner or in real life. But that's okay because I'm a misanthropic bastard. However if you were ever in a bar in the US somewhere and a drunken, loud-mouthed Australian was anywhere near you.........it wasn't me. I never let my side down when I travel, even when I get off my face.

FUCK THE POLICE
11-10-2007, 06:35 PM
Damocles is the owner.

SR is the owner of the dead "Fullpolitics.com". Howard (Baher?) was the owner of Politics.com, but he didn't talk on the forums like the others. He'd just post stupid polls every now and again and we'd all laugh at his idiotic rants that he'd post front page.

Diuretic
11-10-2007, 07:22 PM
Damocles is the owner.

SR is the owner of the dead "Fullpolitics.com". Howard (Baher?) was the owner of Politics.com, but he didn't talk on the forums like the others. He'd just post stupid polls every now and again and we'd all laugh at his idiotic rants that he'd post front page.

Thanks for the info.

Epicurus
11-10-2007, 09:04 PM
OK guys.
Warren followed me.

Yes.

That...

Beefy
11-10-2007, 09:05 PM
It's kind of funny, we've still got the same basic community after all of these years. Kind of stuck together. But, then again, we have lost a lot. Like, maybe half of the people, during the changing of sites and in between periods.

I wonder who's going to be the last one left. O_o

Yeah, remember "ihateconservatives", "thef0rk", "rushisanass", "truthseeker"? There were some others as well. Its good to see magpie floating around here from time to time.

I wish wanderingbear would come around from time to time.

gonzojournals
11-10-2007, 09:17 PM
Yes.

That...

And I followed Warren.

Beefy
11-10-2007, 09:21 PM
And I followed Warren.

And I followed gonzo.

Beefy
11-10-2007, 09:27 PM
Man, Beefy, I really hated you whenever I first got on politics.com.

Yeah, I was pretty much a dano for libertarianism. Just blindly married to it.

Care4all
11-11-2007, 02:13 AM
Yeah, I was pretty much a dano for libertarianism. Just blindly married to it. And BOY! were you! Just a Dano jr.....almost pulled me and Immie in to it too!!!!! Thank God better heads prevailed!!!! hahahahahahaha!

Care

charver
11-11-2007, 04:49 AM
How did i get here?

I'm afraid i'm another of the Politics.com crowd. Strangely enough i used to talk about politics in a sober and serious manner. It was wartime and we were all as stoical as hell with our ration books, I.D. cards and iraqi agents hiding in the drains.

I joined the great long march to fullpolitics.com and retreated into the off-topic section, where all us cool kids used to hang out with our leather jackets on our backs and a roll-up behind our ears, whilst we flicked through dirty magazines making clever comments and wishing some real ladies would come along and let us touch their bras and that.

After the great schism i turned up here after Damo promised me a car.

Diuretic
11-11-2007, 05:27 AM
How did i get here?

I'm afraid i'm another of the Politics.com crowd. Strangely enough i used to talk about politics in a sober and serious manner. It was wartime and we were all as stoical as hell with our ration books, I.D. cards and iraqi agents hiding in the drains.

I joined the great long march to fullpolitics.com and retreated into the off-topic section, where all us cool kids used to hang out with our leather jackets on our backs and a roll-up behind our ears, whilst we flicked through dirty magazines making clever comments and wishing some real ladies would come along and let us touch their bras and that.

After the great schism i turned up here after Damo promised me a car.

Bloody hell, I didn't know Michael Palin was a member :D

As for promises, it used to be ponies, now it's cars. They grow up so quickly....

Cancel7
11-11-2007, 06:06 AM
How did i get here?

I'm afraid i'm another of the Politics.com crowd. Strangely enough i used to talk about politics in a sober and serious manner. It was wartime and we were all as stoical as hell with our ration books, I.D. cards and iraqi agents hiding in the drains.

I joined the great long march to fullpolitics.com and retreated into the off-topic section, where all us cool kids used to hang out with our leather jackets on our backs and a roll-up behind our ears, whilst we flicked through dirty magazines making clever comments and wishing some real ladies would come along and let us touch their bras and that.

After the great schism i turned up here after Damo promised me a car.

Damo's a con artist! He promised you a car did he? Well, he promised me my picture on the front page of JPP with the banner "Posting Home of Internet Legend DARLA" over it.

Look at the home page...do you see anything or does it look as empty as your driveway, hmmm?

Cypress
11-11-2007, 08:18 AM
Yeah, I was pretty much a dano for libertarianism. Just blindly married to it.

Ah, now I understand why you are fond of Dano! :)

I was a refugee from a board, in which criticizing dear leader or questioning the run up to the war was tantamount to treason. For some strange reason, when the WMD went missing, Bush fans on the board went insane and the board devolved into a slew of ad hominem attacks and personal insults. That's when I found politics.com, and followed the same path everyone else did to here. :cof1:

OrnotBitwise
11-11-2007, 09:39 AM
Ah, now I understand why you are fond of Dano! :)

I was a refugee from a board, in which criticizing dear leader or questioning the run up to the war was tantamount to treason. For some strange reason, when the WMD went missing, Bush fans on the board went insane and the board devolved into a slew of ad hominem attacks and personal insults. That's when I found politics.com, and followed the same path everyone else did to here. :cof1:As I recall, Darla, Froggie and I all followed you here . . . which, incidentally, makes it all your fault. :cool:

Personally, I'm both an internet anachronism and something of a political BBS remora*. I got addicted to flame-throwing partisan bickering back in the 800 Baud days of Usenet. Talk.politics and all that virtual Victoriana.

Fast forward to 1999 or thereabouts. Usenet had descended through many circles of Heck to a domain of uber-geeks either even more relentlessly wonky than I or development arrested perpetual thirteen year olds swapping pron and Warez files. Looking for greener pastures, I stumbled across that fabled nest of rightwing nutcases in which I found you, Darla, Froggie.

The circle is closed and here we all are. Wherever that may be. As I say, it's still your fault.







*Look it up, for all the good that will do you. I'll give you a hint, though: it's an oblique reference to Neil Stephenson's (nearly forgotten) first novel.

BRUTALITOPS
11-11-2007, 09:45 AM
sr was a retard and it was only a matter of time before his stupidity would reach critical mass.

same story as everyone else cept I also posted at politics.com in 2001 briefly. I still think stories4u is alive.

Cypress
11-11-2007, 09:47 AM
As I recall, Darla, Froggie and I all followed you here . . . which, incidentally, makes it all your fault. :cool:

Personally, I'm both an internet anachronism and something of a political BBS remora*. I got addicted to flame-throwing partisan bickering back in the 800 Baud days of Usenet. Talk.politics and all that virtual Victoriana.

Fast forward to 1999 or thereabouts. Usenet had descended through many circles of Heck to a domain of uber-geeks either even more relentlessly wonky than I or development arrested perpetual thirteen year olds swapping pron and Warez files. Looking for greener pastures, I stumbled across that fabled nest of rightwing nutcases in which I found you, Darla, Froggie.

The circle is closed and here we all are. Wherever that may be. As I say, it's still your fault.




*Look it up, for all the good that will do you. I'll give you a hint, though: it's an oblique reference to Neil Stephenson's (nearly forgotten) first novel.


I got Cawacko to follow me here too! Little did I know, that he'd get drunk and post homoerotic thoughts about me here, at 2am in the morning! Yikes! :eek: (just teasing, cawacko!).


ps, Ornot, I hope everything is well for you and your family :clink:

OrnotBitwise
11-11-2007, 09:56 AM
I got Cawacko to follow me here too! Little did I know, that he'd get drunk and post homoerotic thoughts about me here, at 2am in the morning! Yikes! :eek: (just teasing, cawacko!).


ps, Ornot, I hope everything is well for you and your family :clink:
Thanks. Could be better but also could be much, much worse. KC tried to drive for the first time since the operation yesterday. It was raining, which makes my going along with the idea even more stupid. Suffice it to say that we no longer have to worry about getting the first scratch on our brand new Prius. No problem, it's taken care of.

*sigh*

I'm indebted to Cawacko, actually. I went down to my sister's place in La Honda last night because our dad's in town for a ceremony at which they tore down his old lab. Long story, probably not worth telling.

Anyway, the conversation somehow warped around to the phenomenon of drunken blackouts: don't ask as I've no idea how. We were watching the Stanford - Washington State game at the time and that might well have done it. At any rate, I was presented with a golden opportunity at which to relate the "You're all Bitches" saga, as I like to think of it.

Tip o' the hat, wacko. ;)

evince
11-11-2007, 10:16 AM
Bloody hell, I didn't know Michael Palin was a member :D

As for promises, it used to be ponies, now it's cars. They grow up so quickly....


This guy has to be a comedy writer. He is just too funny.

FUCK THE POLICE
11-11-2007, 10:26 AM
As I recall, Darla, Froggie and I all followed you here . . . which, incidentally, makes it all your fault. :cool:

Personally, I'm both an internet anachronism and something of a political BBS remora*. I got addicted to flame-throwing partisan bickering back in the 800 Baud days of Usenet. Talk.politics and all that virtual Victoriana.

Fast forward to 1999 or thereabouts. Usenet had descended through many circles of Heck to a domain of uber-geeks either even more relentlessly wonky than I or development arrested perpetual thirteen year olds swapping pron and Warez files. Looking for greener pastures, I stumbled across that fabled nest of rightwing nutcases in which I found you, Darla, Froggie.

The circle is closed and here we all are. Wherever that may be. As I say, it's still your fault.







*Look it up, for all the good that will do you. I'll give you a hint, though: it's an oblique reference to Neil Stephenson's (nearly forgotten) first novel.

Noun

remora (plural remoras)

1. Any of various elongate brown fish from the family Echeneidae whose dorsal fin is in the form of a suction disc that can take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals.

FUCK THE POLICE
11-11-2007, 10:28 AM
And I followed gonzo.

God knows the damage I've done.

FUCK THE POLICE
11-11-2007, 10:28 AM
Hey, IHG doesn't post here anymore either. That's one big guy.

FUCK THE POLICE
11-11-2007, 10:29 AM
As I recall, Darla, Froggie and I all followed you here . . . which, incidentally, makes it all your fault. :cool:

Personally, I'm both an internet anachronism and something of a political BBS remora*. I got addicted to flame-throwing partisan bickering back in the 800 Baud days of Usenet. Talk.politics and all that virtual Victoriana.

Fast forward to 1999 or thereabouts. Usenet had descended through many circles of Heck to a domain of uber-geeks either even more relentlessly wonky than I or development arrested perpetual thirteen year olds swapping pron and Warez files. Looking for greener pastures, I stumbled across that fabled nest of rightwing nutcases in which I found you, Darla, Froggie.

The circle is closed and here we all are. Wherever that may be. As I say, it's still your fault.







*Look it up, for all the good that will do you. I'll give you a hint, though: it's an oblique reference to Neil Stephenson's (nearly forgotten) first novel.

Usenet is basically a fancy way to trade pirated material these days. The RIAA is trying to shut it down.

OrnotBitwise
11-11-2007, 10:32 AM
Usenet is basically a fancy way to trade pirated material these days. The RIAA is trying to shut it down.
Yah. Sad, how the mighty have fallen. In its day, it rocked. Days end though.

;)

FUCK THE POLICE
11-11-2007, 10:38 AM
Yah. Sad, how the mighty have fallen. In its day, it rocked. Days end though.

;)

Do ANY discussions even happen there anymore, besides "Hey teh u got the new jenna jameson vid?" and "YAH!" followed by a list of links?

OrnotBitwise
11-11-2007, 10:42 AM
Do ANY discussions even happen there anymore, besides "Hey teh u got the new jenna jameson vid?" and "YAH!" followed by a list of links?
Sure. It's a statistical thing, though: the shear number of groups is working against you when you're trying to find something with some substance.

Last time I checked, talk.politics was still pretty good. On the other hand, alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.spork.spork.spork isn't worth the time. :)

FUCK THE POLICE
11-11-2007, 10:48 AM
Do you still talk on talk.politics?

uscitizen
11-11-2007, 10:49 AM
I am not here and never have been.

OrnotBitwise
11-11-2007, 10:50 AM
Do you still talk on talk.politics?Nope. It's been many years, in fact.

I only have so much attention to spend, as it were. I don't even participate in FP anymore, even when I do check in. This is the only place I do any posting anymore.

FUCK THE POLICE
11-11-2007, 10:56 AM
Nope. It's been many years, in fact.

I only have so much attention to spend, as it were. I don't even participate in FP anymore, even when I do check in. This is the only place I do any posting anymore.

Me too.

Fullpolitics.com is a ghostown. I'm just waiting until SR shuts it down.

OrnotBitwise
11-11-2007, 11:02 AM
Noun

remora (plural remoras)

1. Any of various elongate brown fish from the family Echeneidae whose dorsal fin is in the form of a suction disc that can take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals.Good. Google is your friend.

Now, have you ever read any Stephenson? And can you unearth a copy of his first novel? :cof1:

FUCK THE POLICE
11-11-2007, 04:38 PM
Good. Google is your friend.

Now, have you ever read any Stephenson? And can you unearth a copy of his first novel? :cof1:

Wikitionary is your friend, my friend ;)

FUCK THE POLICE
11-11-2007, 04:39 PM
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk genre with a penchant for explorations of society, mathematics, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired Magazine, and has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system.
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* 1 Background
* 2 Literary works
* 3 Style
* 4 Bibliography
* 5 References
* 6 External links

[edit] Background

Born in Fort Meade, Maryland, Stephenson came from a family comprising engineers and hard scientists he dubs "propeller heads". His father is a professor of electrical engineering whose father was a physics professor; his mother worked in a biochemistry laboratory, while her father was a biochemistry professor. Stephenson's family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in 1960 and then to Ames, Iowa in 1966 where he graduated from Ames High School in 1977. Stephenson furthered his studies at Boston University. He first specialized in physics, then switched to geography after he found that it would allow him to spend more time on the university mainframe. He graduated in 1981 with a B.A. in Geography with a minor in physics. His first novel, The Big U, was published in 1984. The Big U received very little attention when it first came out, and was subsequently out of print until Stephenson allowed it to be reprinted in 2001. Since 1984 Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Seattle with his family.

[edit] Literary works

After The Big U, Stephenson published the eco-thriller Zodiac before rising to prominence in the early 1990s with the novel Snow Crash (1992), which fuses memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology, along with an analysis of the differences between ideologies such as libertarianism, laissez-faire capitalism, and communism. Averaging one novel every four years, he has written several subsequent novels:

* The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (1995), which deals with a future with extensive nanotechnology and dynabooks. The SciFi Channel and George Clooney will be producing a miniseries adaptation of The Diamond Age, to be penned by Stephenson.[1]
* Cryptonomicon (1999), a novel concerned with concepts ranging from computing and Alan Turing's research into codebreaking and cryptography during the Second World War at Bletchley Park, to a modern attempt to set up a data haven. It has subsequently been reissued in three separate volumes in some countries, including in French and Spanish translations.
* The Baroque Cycle is a series of historical novels and is in some respects a prequel to Cryptonomicon. Consisting of eight books, it was originally published in three volumes:
o Quicksilver (2003) (containing the books Quicksilver, King of the Vagabonds, and Odalisque);
o The Confusion (2004) (containing the books Bonanza and Juncto);
o The System of the World (2004) (containing the books Solomon's Gold, Currency, and System of the World).
* The Baroque Cycle has subsequently been republished as eight separate books (both in English and in Spanish translation).

With the 2003 publication of Quicksilver, Stephenson debuted The Metaweb (main page as partially preserved in the Wayback Machine at 5 April 2006), a wiki (using the same software as Wikipedia) annotating the ideas and historical period explored in the novel. As of April 25, 2007 the metaweb.com site is no longer an active wiki.

[edit] Style
This section may contain original research or unverified claims.
Please improve the article by adding references. See the talk page for details. (August 2007)

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

—Neal Stephenson

Stephenson, at least in his earlier novels, deals heavily in pop culture-laden metaphors and imagery, and in quick, hip dialogue, as well as in extended narrative monologues. The tone of his books generally is more irreverent and less self-serious than in previous cyberpunk novels, notably those of William Gibson.

Stephenson's books tend to have elaborate, inventive plots drawing on numerous technological and sociological ideas at the same time. This distinguishes him from other mainstream science fiction authors who tend to focus on a few technological or social changes in isolation from others. This penchant for complexity and detail suggests a baroque writer. His book The Diamond Age features "neo-Victorian" characters and employs Victorian-era literary conceits, and perhaps could be considered as falling into the steampunk genre. In keeping with the baroque style, Stephenson's books have become longer as he has gained recognition. (At least one printing of Cryptonomicon is well over one thousand pages long and the novel contains various digressions, including a lengthy erotic story about antique furniture and stockings.)

Characteristic of his style is the "breakdown in events", typically about three quarters into the novel. This is an acceleration in plot development, accompanied by chaos, confusion, and often violence, and an abrupt ending with no conventional denouement and many loose ends. This pattern holds for all of Stephenson's books, including (when taken as a whole) The Baroque Cycle.

[edit] Bibliography

* Fiction:
o The Big U (1984)
o Zodiac (1988)
o Snow Crash (1992)
o Interface (1994) as Stephen Bury with J. Frederick George
o Short story: "Spew" (1994)
o Short story: "The Great Simoleon Caper" (1995)
o The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (1995) Winner, Hugo Award for Best Novel. Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel
o The Cobweb (1996) as Stephen Bury with J. Frederick George
o Short story: "Jipi and the paranoid chip" (1997)
o Cryptonomicon (1999) Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel
o Quicksilver (2003), volume I of The Baroque Cycle
o The Confusion (2004), volume II of The Baroque Cycle
o The System of the World (2004), volume III of The Baroque Cycle and winner 2005 Prometheus Award
* Non-fiction:
o "Smiley's people". 1993.
o "In the Kingdom of Mao Bell". 1994. A billion Chinese are using new technology to create the fastest growing economy on the planet. But while the information wants to be free, do they?
o "Mother Earth Mother Board". 1996. In which the Hacker Tourist ventures forth across three continents, telling the story of the business and technology of undersea fiber-optic cables, as well as an account of the laying of the longest wire on Earth.
o "Global Neighborhood Watch". 1998. Stopping street crime in the global village.
o In the Beginning...was the Command Line. Perennial. 1999. ISBN 0-380-81593-1. (Homepage)
o "Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out". New York Times, June 17, 2005.
o "It's All Geek To Me". New York Times, March 18, 2007.

FUCK THE POLICE
11-11-2007, 04:40 PM
http://books.google.com/books?id=dPtgrK0piu4C&dq=the+big+u&pg=PP1&ots=9MDt5Hnvah&sig=RdQ68XwVaFaZCqLfxc2LKnjwB7c&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3DThe%2Bbig%2BU%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26aq%3Dt%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26client%3Dfirefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail

FUCK THE POLICE
11-11-2007, 04:41 PM
I pwn.

Damocles
11-11-2007, 04:44 PM
Well, I actually just typed in politics.com when I was seeking a website that no longer exists that was almost magical in its ability to find your local government contacts, all the way up to your US reps. That was voter.com... don't go there now, it is something else now...

Anyway, I registered and hovered for a bit then started posting. Mostly arguing with the insane like wanderingbear (he should come over here too if anybody knows how to contact him) about the need for a military at all...

I wound up sticking, then moving to jpp.com when SR created it. By that time I wanted to create my own site and started posting on other places, most of which have now been found by members here, seeking the best software.

When I finally decided to just do it, SR's site also was having the "Security Council" argument. I created it, some followed over, and here we are today.

We are actually growing with some new users, even recent ones like Kingraw, Demosthenes, and others...

The site is doing well and I am glad my cyberfriends came on over here as well...

:D

Battleborne
11-11-2007, 05:09 PM
How did I get here?...I think it was a invite from No#1(AKA Damo):cof1:....from the old USMB...then followed to Sir Evils fun House...on and on started back about 2003....could be wrong...naw it is correct....!:cool:

LadyT
11-12-2007, 10:59 AM
The history of how I'm here is as follows:

In late September of 2003, I entered into my url "politics.com" and stumbled acros a lively and animated debte. Over the course of the next year I became very identified with capital "L" libertarianism and started webcamming with Care. I then met Damocles at a bar and got bombed with him.

Then, politics.com started to tank, and SR picked up the slack, so I joined fullpolitics.com. He had a great lively board, awesome members and no moderation. Then he introduced the idea of a security council, which I embraced. But no sooner did he embrace it than he started reading, on the board, other people's IM's.

Then, my man G started this board, and most of us are still here. And we can be here and dig it here because there is nothin but a board here.

Didn't the persona of Beefy start with making fun of dano?

Cypress
11-12-2007, 11:05 AM
Well, I actually just typed in politics.com when I was seeking a website that no longer exists that was almost magical in its ability to find your local government contacts, all the way up to your US reps. That was voter.com... don't go there now, it is something else now...

Anyway, I registered and hovered for a bit then started posting. Mostly arguing with the insane like wanderingbear (he should come over here too if anybody knows how to contact him) about the need for a military at all...

I wound up sticking, then moving to jpp.com when SR created it. By that time I wanted to create my own site and started posting on other places, most of which have now been found by members here, seeking the best software.

When I finally decided to just do it, SR's site also was having the "Security Council" argument. I created it, some followed over, and here we are today.

We are actually growing with some new users, even recent ones like Kingraw, Demosthenes, and others...

The site is doing well and I am glad my cyberfriends came on over here as well...

:D

I think I remember voter.com. Wasn't it a political message board too? I actually posted on there in 2000, during the Bush Gore campaign.

Anyway, props to you Damo. this is the best political board I've ever been on. Its the perfect combination of freedom of speech, and good oversight and management. well done. :clink:

evince
11-12-2007, 11:09 AM
Agreed.

Beefy
11-12-2007, 09:19 PM
Didn't the persona of Beefy start with making fun of dano?

Yes. It was BeefyBastard and I just emulated the McDonalds thing.

Hermes Thoth
11-12-2007, 09:25 PM
Im from the USMB / DP side of the family. Damo was no1tovote4 on usmb. Said1, the most beautiful girl on the internet, told me he had started his own board. Here I is.

FUCK THE POLICE
11-12-2007, 10:25 PM
I actually just registered at USMB. It's odd most of us came from P.com... and then... wait.. here comes the USMB losers!

Beefy
11-12-2007, 11:34 PM
What is DP?

Damocles
11-12-2007, 11:36 PM
What is DP?
Another message board. Debate Policy...

LadyT
11-13-2007, 08:06 AM
Another message board. Debate Policy...

you don't want to know what I thought it was.

Damocles
11-13-2007, 08:18 AM
you don't want to know what I thought it was.
Yes I do.

LadyT
11-13-2007, 08:23 AM
Well given your history as a "writer" I'm sure you do ;)

FUCK THE POLICE
11-13-2007, 12:20 PM
How big is JPP, Damo, compared to the other political messageboards? Are we one of the biggest?

Damocles
11-13-2007, 12:31 PM
How big is JPP, Damo, compared to the other political messageboards? Are we one of the biggest?
We are relatively average at the moment, but we've had some growth recently.

I'm trying to figure out where the new people found us from. To see if any of my advertising is working.

FUCK THE POLICE
11-13-2007, 12:37 PM
We are relatively average at the moment, but we've had some growth recently.

I'm trying to figure out where the new people found us from. To see if any of my advertising is working.

I think you have by far the most dedicated membership. The big ones may come and go but this group is here forever. I've never seen a forum with as dedicated a membership as this one.

Just try not to do anything stupid, like SR or Baer. But it would be nice to have more outsiders come in...

Cancel7
11-13-2007, 12:56 PM
I think you have by far the most dedicated membership. The big ones may come and go but this group is here forever. I've never seen a forum with as dedicated a membership as this one.

Just try not to do anything stupid, like SR or Baer. But it would be nice to have more outsiders come in...

Damo doesn’t have the temperament to do anything like that. Even when he gets mad, he hardly gets mad. Maybe that’s why he has a dedicated membership

Epicurus
11-13-2007, 12:58 PM
Mostly arguing with the insane like wanderingbear (he should come over here too if anybody knows how to contact him)

It's my understanding that to contact wanderingbear, you must first learn the secret language of the forest.

Hermes Thoth
11-13-2007, 01:02 PM
Even when he gets mad, he hardly gets mad.
His posts just get a tad longer, and he's starts saying 'disingenuous' a lot.

Damo runs the best board on the internet.

Beefy
11-13-2007, 01:13 PM
His posts just get a tad longer, and he's starts saying 'disingenuous' a lot.

Damo runs the best board on the internet.

I saw him use the word "hell" at Cypress the other day. Thats about as pissed as I've ever seen him.

Epicurus
11-13-2007, 01:16 PM
I saw him use the word "hell" at Cypress the other day. Thats about as pissed as I've ever seen him.

To be fair, it's easier to get mad at Cypress than almost anyone.

Cypress
11-13-2007, 01:19 PM
To be fair, it's easier to get mad at Cypress than almost anyone.

LOL

I think Tiana said it best, when she laughed and said that I rarely ever lose my cool, rarely ever curse, and rarely ever rant - and yet some NeoCons get their panties in a wad over me, and discuss me on other threads.

I'm cool that way. :cool:

Epicurus
11-13-2007, 01:20 PM
I'm cool that way. :cool:

Whatever you wanna call it man.

Epicurus
11-13-2007, 01:23 PM
Ha, you were stretching like a motherfucker in our debate yesterday.

That's the only thing that irked me.

You pulled a couple of usc's, when you started to lose the issue we were discussing you would jump to another premise.

Cancel7
11-13-2007, 02:04 PM
I don't have a good temperment. The men here are afraid of me. I kicked the crap out of SF yesterday, he was begging for mercy.

It's funny.

I mean, man, I hope we never get invaded and have to fight an actual defensive war with these men.

Cypress
11-13-2007, 02:23 PM
Quite the spanking you gave SF!

But, you're still not as legendary as I am. I'm constantly running across threads, where Neocons are gossiping about how much they hate me!

Cancel7
11-13-2007, 03:43 PM
Quite the spanking you gave SF!

But, you're still not as legendary as I am. I'm constantly running across threads, where Neocons are gossiping about how much they hate me!

LOL

Chickenshits!

Epicurus
11-13-2007, 03:52 PM
Cypress is still mad I burned him yesterday.

Hermes Thoth
11-13-2007, 04:58 PM
I don't have a good temperment. The men here are afraid of me. I kicked the crap out of SF yesterday, he was begging for mercy.

It's funny.

I mean, man, I hope we never get invaded and have to fight an actual defensive war with these men.

There's no need for a war to defeat america. People like you already believe the nation should be disbanded anyway. We're dying from a virulent nihilist/globalist brainwash.

Battleborne
11-13-2007, 05:10 PM
There's no need for a war to defeat america. People like you already believe the nation should be disbanded anyway. We're dying from a virulent nihilist/globalist brainwash.


Give poor darla a break...she is ugly...on the inside and wants so much to emulate Jane(Hanoi) Fonda...she needs a real lay... Hawaii comes to mind...maybe Beefy can help her...dunno!

LadyT
11-13-2007, 07:55 PM
:rolleyes::cof1:
Damo doesn’t have the temperament to do anything like that. Even when he gets mad, he hardly gets mad. Maybe that’s why he has a dedicated membership

LOL. I don't know Darla. When he starts mouthing off and saying "rubbish" and "obtuse" I get a little intimidated.

LadyT
11-13-2007, 07:56 PM
LOL

I think Tiana said it best, when she laughed and said that I rarely ever lose my cool, rarely ever curse, and rarely ever rant - and yet some NeoCons get their panties in a wad over me, and discuss me on other threads.

I'm cool that way. :cool:

LOL. Of course I did.

Beefy
11-13-2007, 08:19 PM
:rolleyes::cof1:

LOL. I don't know Darla. When he starts mouthing off and saying "rubbish" and "obtuse" I get a little intimidated.

Yeah. Its pretty frightening when he busts out with "nonsense" as well. :D

Damocles
11-13-2007, 09:46 PM
It's my understanding that to contact wanderingbear, you must first learn the secret language of the forest.

I think that language consists of mostly the word "duuuuude" and otherwise ending all nouns with the suffix of "age"...

Here, we'll give it a try:

Duuuuude! Dude! No, Duuuude... You have the lightage? This doobage went out. I need a hittage, duuuuude...

Sound about right?

FUCK THE POLICE
11-13-2007, 10:28 PM
I think that language consists of mostly the word "duuuuude" and otherwise ending all nouns with the suffix of "age"...

Here, we'll give it a try:

Duuuuude! Dude! No, Duuuude... You have the lightage? This doobage went out. I need a hittage, duuuuude...

Sound about right?

Nonsense. You're so obtuse.

Epicurus
11-13-2007, 10:41 PM
Nonsense. You're so obtuse.

Rubbish.