I’m tempted to do it, just to get the picture. 
Where’s that blushing smilie when I need it? You are too kind, Sir.
Do you mean Mr. T or our very own BigT?
Then again they might be the same person. Have *you *ever seen them in the same place at the same time? I sure haven’t. 
He looks like Chumlee from Pawn Stars.
I’m thinking of a different Yoda photo (double-spoilered for strong adult content and possible triggering of a feeling of inadequacy.)
Link.
SamuelA, you had some very good advice for me when I was looking for a used car. I really appreciated it. So I’m saying this kindly: You’ve got to dial it down. I know you can be a great poster, but sometimes you really go off the rails with anger and insults. When you get that pissed off, step back for a bit, or get away from the computer for a couple hours. I know you can do better.
The thing that irks me is that it’s OK to be wrong if you have a bit of humility and can admit it, and you can get away with a bit of arrogance if you truly are a subject matter expert, but being consistently wrong AND arrogant is an insufferable combination.
Now that’s an excellent post + sig combo!
In this thread, he was absolutely convinced that it will soon be possible to scan a preserved human brain and then recover the personality and memories (the consciousness, in other words) and asked us what our excuse was. (He never did clarify why we needed to supply an excuse, or whether he was asking us why we’re not lining up today to have our brains extracted for retrieval or why we’re not throwing all our time and money at developing the technology.)
Seriously, that is L. Ron Hubbard shit right there. Thetan fantasy. Our friend is a Scientologist whether he knows it or not.
You mean The Final Cut wasn’t real?
I’ve seen that movie. It annoyed me. The editing deck wasn’t just artificially intelligent–it was able to view all of the memories and observations of a person’s lifetime, understand them, and index them by theme in a matter of minutes. That isn’t just AI–that is Weakly Godlike intelligence orders of magnitude beyond human. If a Weakly Godlike AI is something desktop-portable and affordable by a modest freelance professional, then society would be changed in profound ways, and yet the world in the movie was almost exactly like the one we actually live in.
I often have long absences from SD, so that thread, I believe was my first or second encounter with diaper stain. That wasn’t enough for me to dignify the ire that many were posting to him in the OTRU thread, but I certainly see why they are treating him that way, and also why he’s been pitted here.
Rarely look at the OTRU thread, but did find it worthwhile to read the last few pages, Tripler’s retort (#5044) was exceptionally brilliant. Interesting also to note is how he is crawfishing trying not to piss him off any further, but Tripler isn’t having it. Since he doesn’t seem to respect civility, his threads and posts should just stay in BBQ Pit, that way one can return in kind the same kind of assholery he often displays.
Oh well, I read where he is young, so if he can live long enough without having the shit kicked out of him, he might just learn something yet, and some of it might be how to have a civil discourse in other threads.
Every time I read one of his threads, I think of this old sketch, How To Do It:
It's all so simple! To colonize the moon you just invent self-replicating factories, send one to the moon, and you're done. To solve immortality, you just invent a way to extract the complete personality, thoughts and memory from a frozen human brain, and you're done. To solve economics, just build solar panels everywhere, use the excess power to create methane which you store for later, and you're done. Now, do I even need to show you all how to cure cancer?It’s so simple, why am I even bothering to explain it? And yet they called me mad bacl at the Academy! Fools! I’ll destroy them. I’ll destroy them all.
I only saw it once. Is it possible the implants tagged the memories in real time and the editing deck just sorted through them?
Maybe. But that isn’t less bad. It wouldn’t be a desktop device that can understand human feelings and interactions at thousands of times realtime, but it would be a chip small enough to implant and cheap enough to mass market that understands human feelings and interactions in real time and stores a lifetime worth of audio and video, which is still post-singularity level tech.
I feel I would be remiss if I didn’t take a moment to say that I concur with this. I consider LSLGuy to be among the most valuable members of this community, and his posts are invariably respectful, insightful, and informative.
Perfect! Throw in a Major Attitude Problem, and that sums up exactly why I find SamuelA so fucking annoying. But as I said to him in all sincerity in the Trolls R Us thread, we’ve had worse (although most of them are banned), so there may be hope for him yet if he can rapidly acquire some maturity and dial back the all-knowing obnoxiousness about 7000 degrees.
I haven’t contributed to this thread because I pretty much said what I had to say back in the OTRS thread (#5041), and besides, as already noted, it was completely overshadowed by Tripler’s masterful takedown in #5044 and later, but #5044 alone deserves some kind of plack.
But since I’m here I’ll just note my amusement at his claim that my criticism of his illiteracy was all over just a “minor typo”, because “you can’t argue with me on the points, so you hammer me because I missed a comma …”. And then the fuckwit had the audacity to claim:
I’m using tenet correctly in context. So which is it : I’m so illiterate I don’t know the difference between a dude who lives in a rental property and a belief or principle, or I accidentally typed it wrong and spellcheck didn’t warn me?
This after I did in fact criticize him on the points, notably his idiotic statement about capitalism and his racism, and more generally, I and many others have constantly hammered him on his useless oversimplifications of complex technologies and his cult-like belief in fantastical prognostications, as Lemur so succinctly summarized above.
And I would just note in passing, if only for my own entertainment, that he doesn’t seem to know what a typo is. Writing “teh” instead of “the” is a typo. It means rapidly typing fingers got out of sync. Writing “their” instead of “they’re” and similar mistakes with homographs can sometimes be just a mental slip, though sometimes an indicator of something more fundamental. But writing “tenant” instead of “tenet” in the same sentence that contains “per say” – those are not typos. Those are indicators of ignorance. A normal person would admit the mistake and move on – not really a huge deal in the larger scheme of things – but not SamuelA. He has to “prove” that not only was it not a mistake, but it’s his accuser who is mistaken.
Granted, those particular examples are very limited indicators of ignorance, but one makes assumptions, like one does when seeing a cockroach or two scurrying under the fridge when the light comes on. It may be just an unlikely happenstance, the entomological equivalent of a smart black person in SamuelA’s racist world, but the smart money says that when you’ve seen two, the place is probably infested with them.
There was some discussion in this thread of whether SamuelA was likely to dial back his juvenile pomposity or continue to be a jerk and a pretentious laughingstock who was wrong about practically everything. Now we have the answer.
And that answer is: he’s chosen to dial up the level of pretentious jerkness and take it to previously unimagined new heights. He got into an altercation with Stranger On A Train in this thread where the fucking douchebag’s lack of knowledge gets him on the wrong side of the argument and smacked down for it, to which the ignorant fuck reacts with renewed arrogant pomposity: “I dismiss it cavalierly because I know what I’m talking about.” Then he starts a whole new thread in GQ for the sole purpose of advertising the claim that he’s right (he isn’t) and that Stranger is wrong (he isn’t).
The basis of his claim is the usual SamuelA douchebaggery. He thinks he understands something based on some simplistic idea he picked up in high school or thought up himself, so he’s going to “prove” that Stranger – who I understand works on rocket design for a living and has worked on studies of asteroid deflection – doesn’t understand how momentum works, but he, SamuelA, is going to set him straight, just like he sets everyone else straight, lifting them out of their poor abject ignorance when they disagree with him.
So he’s now gone one better than the idea of threadshitting. SamuelA has invented the concept of forum-shitting, where he deposits his self-serving and incorrect bullshit like a giant steaming turd in the middle of GQ in order to prove how smart he is. Here’s how he’s doing so far:
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List of those who state that SamuelA is full of shit: Everyone. Including knowledgeable posters like Stranger On A Train and Francis Vaughan.
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List of those who agree with SamuelA: No one.
But he’s still at it, apparently oblivious to making a complete ass of himself. This is actually now a kind of pathology, more than just a bloviating pompous jerk, this is more a symptom of someone afflicted by a genuinely diagnosable mental illness: a grossly distorted view of reality amplified by delusions of grandeur about his understanding of it.
I did previously address this in my humble understated way in the Omnibus thread where I made the case that SamuelA was a pompous ignorant douchebag, but Tripler pulled no punches in his masterful assessment of SamuelA that bears repeating:
I think you are a goddamned bloviated moron that speaks more out of an anal sphincter than any other orifice. I have argued with you on the points, but you deflected. I think you’re so illiterate out of laziness. You, Sir, are the laziest bastard I have ever met.
You are a goddamned dogbreathed mother-(bless her soul for dealing with you)-loving fucktard. You make claims, provide a metric asston of bullshit, and provide absolutely zero proof. You grandstand from a position of opinion and not fact, and contribute nothing but wasted electrons to every online discussion you participate in.
I hadn’t call you out as a troll in other threads because I could not determine if: A) you were just a fucking moron, and/or B) there was malice behind your opinions/posts for motive. **I am now convinced ** you are a malicious, fucking moron (both A and B for your math, simplified for you).
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20638613&postcount=5044
I have nothing to add. You called it. I was wrong. Kid’s wacko. At this point I don’t know what to do except laugh and point.
On present trends soon he’ll have every engineer, scientist, and computer guru on the board on “ignore”. I suppose then he can consider the SDMB his private blog where he 'splains things to the unwashed masses.
The fools. The ignorant fools! They’ll all pay for mocking me. Me! ME!
At least Trump’s schtick would be funny if he was still only in real estate. This stuff is tiresome from the first twit.
You weren’t “wrong”, you were making the generous assumption that SamuelA might possibly possess some fragments of knowledge about something that could possibly result in useful posts if he could learn to act like some semblance of a decent human being. Turns out, he can’t, and if he does actually possess any knowledge about anything it is still not in evidence. Unless you want to colonize the galaxy with an army of autonomous self-replicating robots. That one he’s got perfectly figured out, and no one can touch him on that!
I just want to say that this paragraph perfectly encapsulates SamuelA’s entire schtick.