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Re: Dial-up Modem Speed of 56 Mbps? - Can't believe anyone took this seriously...

#279
From: thanatoid
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:57
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kony <spam@spam.com> wrote in
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> On 27 Apr 2007 01:44:40 GMT, thanatoid
> <waiting@the.exit.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>That being said, can we change the name of the thread to
>>"anal- retentive geeks with nothing to do talk about
>>totally irrelevant things"... Oh wait... That would pretty
>>much apply to 95% of Usenet text posts, wouldn't it...
> 
> Do you not even have the slighest fathom of why a thread
> subject line is to stay UNCHANGED?

Do you not even have the slightest amount of a sense of humor?
As to changing thread subject names, I believe another 
respondent put it rather succinctly... Check again if you 
haven't seen it.

>>As I gently suggested in a previous post, "troll methods"
>>are just a normal part of human/semi-human communication
>>which some people with 12 MB hard drives up their asses
>>seem to arbitrarily have occasional problems with.
> 
> 
> Wrong.  "Troll methods" are employed by those who have no
> useful purpose, who only aim to cause waste or elicit
> emotion from others who had a useful goal.

You REALLY should try to get a life.

>>(Speaking of trolls, the REAL troll in this mess, the OP,
>>was EXTREMELY successful in baiting us to drag this on for
>>this long. S/he must be peeing his/her pants.)
> 
> Then why did you take the bait?  

I have nothing better to do. Yes, *I* have NO life, which 
doesn't mean everyone should be like me.

> One the very first post by the troll, a trend is set.  We
> could see instantaneously that there was no purpose.  Of
> course if one wrote an elaborate enough proxy, all these
> modems could be teamed to achive a higher bitrate.  Even
> so, it would be an incredible waste since broadband exists
> and could achieve so much higher with far fewer slave
> systems. 
> 
> To concentrate on an unrealistic scenario, the OP began
> with an obvious attempt at unfruitful discourse.

And so the OP keeps on peeing his/her pants...

Next?


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Subject: Re: Dial-up Modem Speed of 56 Mbps? - Can't believe anyone took this     seriously...
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