# Protocol question **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 19, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248 "2005-03-19T01:09:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/261 "2005-03-19T07:14:40Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > From you? Nah. > > It’s Straight Dope Synergy at its finest, and you’re today’s catalyst. It’s quite likely the most noble role you’ll ever play, so take pride in it. I’ll raise a toast to that. publix brand root beer ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/262 "2005-03-19T07:14:49Z")
> [@mattmorgan64](#): > > FINALLY! > > **Is it OK to steal Music?** > > No, it’s wrong, and those who can be caught should be punished. > Next? I for one hope you get caught. You limpdick. ---
**Author:** ![mattmorgan64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@mattmorgan64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattmorgan64)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/263 "2005-03-19T07:15:35Z")
> [@bob fortuna](#): > > I’ll raise a toast to that. > publix brand root beer I said it before, I’ll say it again: **Bryan is a fucking idiot.** ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/264 "2005-03-19T07:16:42Z")
> [@mattmorgan64](#): > > FINALLY! > > **Is it OK to steal Music?** > > No, it’s wrong, and those who can be caught should be punished. > \*\* > Is it okay to steal a loaf of bread for a starving child?\*\* > > No, it’s wrong, and those who can be caught should be punished. > > Next? What does this mean? \*Originally Posted by **mattmorgan64** The 80s was also the decade that I replaced my vinyl with cassettes, only to replace those with CDs in the 90s. That whole experience completely SUCKED, and to be honest, I still think vinyl sounds far better than any CD ever could hope to. I won’t mention where I get my music from now, as I have read some more of the forum rules stickies. \* ---
**Author:** ![mattmorgan64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@mattmorgan64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattmorgan64)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/265 "2005-03-19T07:17:08Z")
> [@rolandgunslinger](#): > > I for one hope you get caught. > > You limpdick. Good. At least I no longer have to listen to you bitch at me to answer questions you never asked. Turn me in to the state you all so much seem to despise, why don’t you? Fuckhead. ---
**Author:** ![mattmorgan64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@mattmorgan64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattmorgan64)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/266 "2005-03-19T07:18:13Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > What does this mean? > > \*Originally Posted by **mattmorgan64** > The 80s was also the decade that I replaced my vinyl with cassettes, only to replace those with CDs in the 90s. > > That whole experience completely SUCKED, and to be honest, I still think vinyl sounds far better than any CD ever could hope to. I won’t mention where I get my music from now, as I have read some more of the forum rules stickies. \* It means you spend ENTIRELY TOO MUCH time looking for meaning where there is NO MEANING. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/267 "2005-03-19T07:18:26Z")
> [@mattmorgan64](#): > > Oh, Woody, you are truly a piece of work. > > Hmmmm wait… putting on some iron butterfly… wait…hmmmm… OK. > > Inna Gadda Da Vida Baby… > > OK, Minds right now, boss. Promise I wont go sawing off no parking meters now. > > Now, you jaded, worthless, leftover hippie who never had a clue, never had the common sense to jump to the next decade, and never had any friends or family who would help you make the jump: > > What the FUCK does cognitive dissonance (your misspelling of a topic you know NOTHING ABOUT, included) > > Have to do with, as you hippies used to say, the price of rice in china? > > Now don’t mess with my groove baby. I gotta get back to the human thing and animals and peace signs and stuff. You really should read my post explaining my username before you dig yourself more into the clueless hole you’re burying yourself in. Maybe check my location, too - we eat little entitled bitches like you for breakfast out here. And if you’d read my responses in your lame 80s thread, you’d probably pick up that I grew up on hardcore and punk, not stoned-out psych bullshit. Cognitive dissonance has everything to do with your case, since you apparently can’t see the contradiction in saying lying and stealing is wrong while lying to the authorities about stealing music. Are you that fucking dense? Also, please point out my misspelling. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/268 "2005-03-19T07:18:34Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > What does this mean? > > \*Originally Posted by **mattmorgan64** > The 80s was also the decade that I replaced my vinyl with cassettes, only to replace those with CDs in the 90s. > > That whole experience completely SUCKED, and to be honest, I still think vinyl sounds far better than any CD ever could hope to. I won’t mention where I get my music from now, as I have read some more of the forum rules stickies. \* It means he’s a fucking hypocrite. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/269 "2005-03-19T07:19:02Z")
> [@mattmorgan64](#): > > FINALLY! > > **Is it OK to steal Music?** > > No, it’s wrong, and those who can be caught should be punished. > \*\* > Is it okay to steal a loaf of bread for a starving child?\*\* > > No, it’s wrong, and those who can be caught should be punished. > > Next? Who _can_ be caught? Isn’t it the moral duty of a music- or bread-stealer to confess their crime to the state and take whatever punishment is mandated by law? For that matter, can you give us an example of what law is actually being broken if a couple voluntarily dissolves their marriage, and how the state **can** catch them at it? ---
**Author:** ![mattmorgan64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@mattmorgan64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattmorgan64)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/270 "2005-03-19T07:19:32Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > You really should read my post explaining my username before you dig yourself more into the clueless hole you’re burying yourself in. Maybe check my location, too - we eat little entitled bitches like you for breakfast out here. And if you’d read my responses in your lame 80s thread, you’d probably pick up that I grew up on hardcore and punk, not stoned-out psych bullshit. > > Cognitive dissonance has everything to do with your case, since you apparently can’t see the contradiction in saying lying and stealing is wrong while lying to the authorities about stealing music. Are you that fucking dense? > > Also, please point out my misspelling. If you were worth the time, I might do just that. Alas, you are not. ---
**Author:** ![mattmorgan64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@mattmorgan64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattmorgan64)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/271 "2005-03-19T07:20:55Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Who _can_ be caught? Isn’t it the moral duty of a music- or bread-stealer to confess their crime to the state and take whatever punishment is mandated by law? > > For that matter, can you give us an example of what law is actually being broken if a couple voluntarily dissolves their marriage, and how the state **can** catch them at it? Bryan, you have become tiresome. Would you like to pet my monkey? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/272 "2005-03-19T07:22:22Z")
> [@mattmorgan64](#): > > If you were worth the time, I might do just that. Alas, you are not. I’ll say it again: you’re a fucking pussy. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/273 "2005-03-19T07:22:55Z")
Go to bed, mate. This thing has really veered way out of control. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/274 "2005-03-19T07:23:55Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > I’ll say it again: you’re a fucking pussy. Seconded! ---
**Author:** ![mattmorgan64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@mattmorgan64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattmorgan64)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/275 "2005-03-19T07:25:15Z")
> [@leander](#): > > Go to bed, mate. This thing has really veered way out of control. Can’t do it. Woodstock promised to dissolve me with a cognitive dissonance beam or something, and I wanna groove on it, baby. ---
**Author:** ![mattmorgan64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@mattmorgan64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattmorgan64)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/276 "2005-03-19T07:26:50Z")
> [@rolandgunslinger](#): > > Seconded! For a gunslinger, its funny how you can only ask to shoot other people’s guns. Are you the gunslinger on the fake horsey outside the supermarket? It is you! Well, hello! ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/277 "2005-03-19T07:28:17Z")
> [@mattmorgan64](#): > > It means you spend ENTIRELY TOO MUCH time looking for meaning where there is NO MEANING. \*Originally Posted by mattmorgan64 The 80s was also the decade that I replaced my vinyl with cassettes, only to replace those with CDs in the 90s. That whole experience completely SUCKED, and to be honest, I still think vinyl sounds far better than any CD ever could hope to. I won’t mention where I get my music from now, as I have read some more of the forum rules stickies. \* There is no meaning there? Those are just empty words? Are there any other of your posts that fail the content test? Because a whole lot of misunderstanding could have been avoided if we had simply understood from the beginning that you are blowing smoke. Up our asses. With a straw. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/278 "2005-03-19T07:29:12Z")
> [@mattmorgan64](#): > > For a gunslinger, its funny how you can only ask to shoot other people’s guns. > > Are you the gunslinger on the fake horsey outside the supermarket? > > It is you! > > Well, hello! WTF? :wally ---
**Author:** ![mattmorgan64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@mattmorgan64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattmorgan64)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/279 "2005-03-19T07:32:09Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > \*Originally Posted by mattmorgan64 > The 80s was also the decade that I replaced my vinyl with cassettes, only to replace those with CDs in the 90s. > > That whole experience completely SUCKED, and to be honest, I still think vinyl sounds far better than any CD ever could hope to. I won’t mention where I get my music from now, as I have read some more of the forum rules stickies. \* > > There is no meaning there? Those are just empty words? Are there any other of your posts that fail the content test? Because a whole lot of misunderstanding could have been avoided if we had simply understood from the beginning that you are blowing smoke. Up our asses. With a straw. Apparently you didnt read my response to YOUR question where I SAID what I am doing is WRONG. I do so wish you people didn’t judge the value of a person on wheter or not the used Kazaa, vs smallish topics like lying to get benefits. Oh well. Can’t have everything, I suppose. Let’s simplify this now, shall we? I STEAL MUSIC OFF THE INTERNET AND I DO IT REGULARLY. I USE KAZAA, AND GROKSTER, AND I USE EMULE AND I USE I MESH. Now, tell me why it’s ok to lie about a divorce to get benefits from the man. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248/280 "2005-03-19T07:32:52Z")
> [@mattmorgan64](#): > > QUite the moral dilemna for you , isn’t it? > > You know the question was wring, you know I AM right, but you dont want to alienate the crowd. > > Best bet is for you to crawl back in your shell and just keep you pussy ass mouth shut. Dumbfuck, I WAS saying that you were right. I just didn’t feel like I had to insult the whole board to make the point. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protocol-question/295248.md?page=15)