Persecuting people for lying but not for telling the truth just isn’t Fair and Balanced!
You know… I apprecaite all of you paying attention to Sam_Stone-headed, so that he’s been making fewer useful threads the SS show. Good work!
Maybe his ex-wife hacked into his computer and posted all that bullshit. Could be.
I already said I’m banning myself from P&E. Spent some time today having to turn off notifications for all the threads I was in. So mission accomplished for you, and you can now back off any time,.
Yeah, whatever guys. Not being able to remember if you first met your wife online, or by saving her from being bullied at a baseball game, or because you were chatting with fiends about Warren Zevon, and she was physically within earshot, and it was like the two of you immediately old friends are all the exact same thing.
We should all be hanging our heads in shame. Its normal to be this confused about how you met your wife. It’s even more normal to try to mash these three contradictory stories into a single event to cover your tracks, forgetting in the immediacy of coming up with a coherent way to weave them all together that in one story you met your wife when she physically overheard you because she was in literal earshot. Confusing that with a teleconference you had 35 years ago is perfectly normal. I mean, people teleconferenced all the time in 1989, right? Oh… yeah… oopsie!
The only thing I may have forgotten was an extra user meet we both attended 30 odd years ago.
But yeah, feel free to hang your head in shame. You’ve done lots to warrant it.
That was never the “mission”. So, yet again, you’re lying.
It really is quite uncool
That you’re so
Preoccupied
With 19
19
1989
I appreciated your posts in the Amazon Pit thread. They were good posts and had good info.
Thanks a lot. I appreciate that.
Tell it to this guy:
Umm, the phrase ‘the PosterX show’ has a specific meaning.
Here’s an idea: Instead of a self-banning from P&E, how about if you CHECK your information BEFORE posting, and don’t rely on stuff that is half-remembered, or came from a dubious source. How about if you do a bit of research BEFORE posting something that simply comports with a pre-conceived notion of how things should be?
And also, READ the full citation you post, before posting. Don’t rely on the headline. Read. The. Article. It often transpires that a headline is misleading or gives incomplete information.
Finally, ADMIT when you’ve made a mistake. It’s not a sign of weakness to be wrong. We are all wrong sometimes. “Whoops, it seems I was wrong. Nevermind.” That’s OK.
If you can commit to doing these things, an amazing thing will happen. The amount of bad things being said about you will diminish. Wow! That would be a good thing. Right?
Psst: you also forgot that teleconferencing wasn’t a thing people did back in 1989. So, you can’t be mistaking a teleconference you were in with her for your reason she was in earshot and you can’t have seen her perk up and say, “You like Warren Zevon??” in a teleconference. Or have you already forgotten that you said you misremembered a teleconference as a face-to-face conversation?
Like Judge Judy said, you don’t need a good memory if you’re telling the truth.
in 1982, Compression Labs, an AT&T competitor, launched CLI T1 as the first commercial group video conferencing system. Its hardware took up an entire room, and it had a hefty upfront cost of $250,000. Each call also cost $1,000/hour.
Maybe Sam and future bride were early adopters of videoconferencing, and had lots of money! Hmmmm?
But, also:
It’s not out of the question that a serious computer hobbyist would have that by 1989.
Oh yeah? Explain this:
Instead of calling you a liar and demanding an apology, or calling you an idiot for not knowing what you are talking about, I am going to be charitable and assume you are talking about something other than multi-user realtime chat, which back in the day was called ‘teleconferencing’. Several vendors offered multi-user teleconferencing software in the mid-80’s. The first came out in 1986 or thereabouts. The term ‘chat’ for chat rooms I think probably started with IRC - Internet Relay Chat, which came along a little later.
So back to sleuthing, Encyclopedia Brown. Your last gotcha failed.
(Meanwhile, somewhere downtown Edmonton)
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Hey, remember that guy that used to work here, you know… that guy who thought he knew everything?
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Oh ya. Mister Knowitall. Every single fucking meeting, he used to tell a bullshit story. Thought he had to instruct us poor plebs about what was what. Once when I called him on his bullshit he sent me a 12 paragraph email “proving” he was right. And it was also full of crap.
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Whatever happened to him?
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Retired I guess. Good riddance.
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Ya, I thought that the meetings were much more pleasant now. Fuck that guy.
Around the two minute mark he says the “digital equipment needed in the telephone exchanges for a dial up network won’t be available for three or four years”