When pirates pirate pirates

I don’t know if this has been discussed here, but I found it quite amusing.

Some hackers hacked the Apple App store, and released the hack for free. Another group noticed this, stole the hack and started selling it causing the original hackers to get mad. I wonder what their reasoning is.

You know the saying about not attributing to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity?

Doesn’t apply here. The makers of Crackulous are assholes.

I find it amusing that people who aren’t willing to pay for software are willing to freely donate their money to an organization dedicated to stealing software. People will go to great lengths to find shortcuts. :smiley:

Is that kind of like when Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo?

It reminds me of video link sites complaining another video link site is stealing their bandwidth.

Jenaroph,

Perhaps with the collective help of the SDMB vocabulary brigade we could strecth it - but at the moment we are stuck at 3 repeating words…

Haha. Paybackulous.

good thing I didn’t include the other three then.

You’ve just made that Wiki article to back up your crazy sentence! :stuck_out_tongue:

If that was the case, he’d of written this one.

Well… Now my head hurts.

And I’m going to have very strange dreams about buffalo.

The city. Or the animal… I just don’t know.

These guys aren’t merely pirates, they’re pirates’ pirates. So the headline is pirates’ pirates pirate pirates.

And since they guys got mad, it could be pirates’ pirates pirate irate pirates.

JimNightshade, that’s easy.

Pirate pirates pirate pirate pirate pirates.

That is:

  1. Pirate pirates

Noun phrase. The pirates who steal from pirates

  1. pirate

Verb.

  1. pirate pirate pirates

The pirates who steal from pirates who pirate pirates.

This sentence describes a recursive retaliatory act which could pretty much stretch out forever. You could easily have:

Pirate pirate pirates pirate pirate pirate pirates

Pirate pirate pirate pirates pirate pirate pirate pirates

Pirate pirate pirate pirates pirating pirate pirate pirates pirate pirate pirates pirating pirate pirate pirates.

ninjas

Perhaps Pirates[sup]2[/sup], Pirates[sup]3[/sup], Pirates[sup]4[/sup] and so on . . .

Or an illustrated version; one of those drawings with the little fish about to be eaten by a bigger fish, which is about to be eaten by a yet bigger fish. Except they all have eyepatches.

Piratical pirates piratically pirate piratical pirates practically and perniciously.

Får får får? Får får får.

(Why? Because Norwegian is insane.)

Nej, får får ikke får, får får lam.

sorry

Smurf you, you smurfing smurfing smurfy smurph smurph.