TROLL WAR!!!
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...I don't think they gather much in groups, though attention is their heroin.
...Bait? Where's the troll bait?...[;)]
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Lions and Tigers and Trolls, Oh my! 0 -
...Man, I stay away from those, but I tried to chime in. By the time my two finger pecking was done, the thread was gone. Dang! That was the nastiest response I've ever tried to post. That azz jumped down the wrong hole that time. I'll be nice now. Promise. 0 -
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What did I miss now?[:p] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by MT357
What did I miss now?[:p]
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...A newbie (maybe) ripped on JamesRK. 'nuff said. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by tapwater
...Man, I stay away from those, but I tried to chime in. By the time my two finger pecking was done, the thread was gone. Dang! That was the nastiest response I've ever tried to post. That azz jumped down the wrong hole that time. I'll be nice now. Promise.
same here,i posted a message and poof.....it was GONE!! NEVER EVEN MADE,[:D] IT GOT CUT OFF IN MID AIR [^]0 -
The day old troll was ripping on the week old troll and I am not so sure it isn't the same troll ripping on himself with different names.
These latest trolls are not nearly as fun as the cloop troll.0 -
I don't know why we never seem to get a droll troll. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by He Dog
I don't know why we never seem to get a droll troll.
No demand. Don0 -
Alright, I demand we get a droll troll!
SAXON!!
Please get us a droll troll of our very own.0 -
quote:Originally posted by He Dog
Alright, I demand we get a droll troll!
quote:SAXON!!
Please get us a droll troll of our very own.
He damn sure ought to have a fine collection in his poofmachine by now. Don0 -
No sxxt Shurlock![:p][:p] 0 -
dog quote:Please get us a droll troll of our very own.
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quote:Originally posted by tapwater
...A newbie (maybe) ripped on JamesRK. 'nuff said.
Chief Warrant James was bestowed as a man of honor, an Officer an a Gentleman if you may.
He deserves our respect.
Death to the Troll!!!0 -
I like trolls they taste nice and gamey 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Sephiroth
I like trolls they taste nice and gamey
Soak em in milk first. Don0 -
quote:Originally posted by dcon12
quote:Originally posted by Sephiroth
I like trolls they taste nice and gamey
Soak em in milk first. Don
maybe in rum i dont think i could do it with milk just look at him[:D]0 -
But I said \"I like trolls, they taste nice and gamey\". 0 -
I thing I do like about trolls is that you can insult them all you want. First I hint at it, then get a little stronger, finally blunt. 0 -
BOOK HIM! [:D] [:D] [:D]
http://news.com.com/Create+an+e-annoyance,+go+to+jail/2010-1028_3-6022491.html
Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
By Dean McCullagh
Published: January 9, 2006, 4:00 AM PST
Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.
It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.
In other words, it's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess.
This ridiculous prohibition, which would likely imperil much of Usenet, is buried in the so-called Violence Against Women Department of Justice Reauthorization Act. Criminal penalties include stiff fines and two years in prison.
"The use of the word 'annoy' is particularly problematic," says Marv Johnson, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "What's annoying to one person may not be annoying to someone else."
Buried deep in the new law is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit called "Preventing Cyberstalking." It rewrites existing telephone harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet "without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy."
To grease the rails for this idea, Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, and the section's other sponsors slipped it into an unrelated, must-pass bill to fund the Department of Justice. The plan: to make it politically infeasible for politicians to oppose the measure.
The tactic worked. The bill cleared the House of Representatives by voice vote, and the Senate unanimously approved it Dec. 16.
There's an interesting side note. An earlier version that the House approved in September had radically different wording. It was reasonable by comparison, and criminalized only using an "interactive computer service" to cause someone "substantial emotional harm."
That kind of prohibition might make sense. But why should merely annoying someone be illegal?
There are perfectly legitimate reasons to set up a Web site or write something incendiary without telling everyone exactly who you are.
Think about it: A woman fired by a manager who demanded sexual favors wants to blog about it without divulging her full name. An aspiring pundit hopes to set up the next suck.com. A frustrated citizen wants to send e-mail describing corruption in local government without worrying about reprisals.
In each of those three cases, someone's probably going to be annoyed. That's enough to make the action a crime. (The Justice Department won't file charges in every case, of course, but trusting prosecutorial discretion is hardly reassuring.)
Clinton Fein, a San Francisco resident who runs the annoy.com site, says a feature permitting visitors to send obnoxious and profane postcards through e-mail could be imperiled.
"Who decides what's annoying? That's the ultimate question," Fein said. He added: "If you send an annoying message via the United States Post Office, do you have to reveal your identity?"
Fein once sued to overturn part of the Communications Decency Act that outlawed transmitting indecent material "with intent to annoy." But the courts ruled the law applied only to obscene material, so Annoy.com didn't have to worry.
"I'm certainly not going to close the site down," Fein said on Friday. "I would fight it on First Amendment grounds."
He's right. Our esteemed politicians can't seem to grasp this simple point, but the First Amendment protects our right to write something that annoys someone else.
It even shields our right to do it anonymously. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas defended this principle magnificently in a 1995 case involving an Ohio woman who was punished for distributing anonymous political pamphlets.
If President Bush truly believed in the principle of limited government (it is in his official Bio), he'd realize that the law he signed cannot be squared with the Constitution he swore to uphold.
And then he'd repeat what President Clinton did a decade ago when he felt compelled to sign a massive telecommunications law. Clinton realized that the section of the law punishing abortion-related material on the Internet was unconstitutional, and he directed the Justice Department not to enforce it.
Bush has the chance to show his respect for what he calls Americans' personal freedoms. Now we'll see if the president rises to the occasion.
Biography
Declan McCullagh is CNET News.com's chief political correspondent. He spent more than a decade in Washington, D.C., chronicling the busy intersection between technology and politics. Previously, he was the Washington bureau chief for Wired News, and a reporter for Time.com, Time magazine and HotWired. McCullagh has taught journalism at American University and been an adjunct professor at Case Western University.0 -
guess ill be in trouble again...i annoy lots of people! 0 -
better than an "on the dole troll" 0 -
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According to the new law, guess I'm in trouble, I annoy the hell out of everyone. COurse I don't care who knows who I am. 0 -
Kristov, get under your bed.
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