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impossible wrote:
> I mean, really -- this isn't 1993. Once upon a time ago, Usenet served a
> purpose. But today!?! Nz.comp's use-by date has surely long since expired.
>
> Nine-out-of-ten posts in nz.comp start with someone referencing some web
> blog/article. The rest start with some provincial brain fart that
> inevitably turns out to be embarrassing for the OP. I leave it to you,
> dear reader, to decide which is the more pointless exercise.
>
> May I suggest: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en
>
> As for myself, my work is done here. I've succeeded in putting freetards
> in their rightful place -- cowering in the face of facts they were to lazy
> to uncover themselves. At this point, no one gives these Larry D'Losers a
> second thought. Such is the fate of drive-by trolls whose stock-in-trade
> is censorship and half-truths.
>
> Time for me to open my new iPad2 and read the Times. Bye-bye.

Can't the iPad do usenet?

Tony wrote:

> Bret <> wrote:
>> Peter wrote:
>>> impossible wrote:
[...]
>>>> Time for me to open my new iPad2 and read the Times. Bye-bye.
>>>
>>> Can't the iPad do usenet?
>>
>>I can see a nym shift coming.
>
> My word you are cynical (;
> Tony

You _still_ here (rhetorical)?

--
dee

Peter <> wrote:

> impossible wrote:
> > I mean, really -- this isn't 1993. Once upon a time ago, Usenet served a
> > purpose. But today!?! Nz.comp's use-by date has surely long since expired.
> >
> > Nine-out-of-ten posts in nz.comp start with someone referencing some web
> > blog/article. The rest start with some provincial brain fart that
> > inevitably turns out to be embarrassing for the OP. I leave it to you,
> > dear reader, to decide which is the more pointless exercise.
> >
> > May I suggest: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en
> >
> > As for myself, my work is done here. I've succeeded in putting freetards
> > in their rightful place -- cowering in the face of facts they were to lazy
> > to uncover themselves. At this point, no one gives these Larry D'Losers a
> > second thought. Such is the fate of drive-by trolls whose stock-in-trade
> > is censorship and half-truths.
> >
> > Time for me to open my new iPad2 and read the Times. Bye-bye.
>
> Can't the iPad do usenet?

Yes, there is an app called "NewsTap". (I've never tried it.)

--
David Empson

In article <>, Bret <> wrote:
(snip)

>Cynicism is the power of accurate observation as described by those who do
>not posess it

... excellent ... but apparently a rewording of GBS (see below) ? Do you
happen to know which is the 'real' quote ?


The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who
have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw

... and some others for your enjoyment ...


Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as
they ought to be.
- Ambrose Bierce

"Cynicism" is simply a dirty word for pattern recognition.

- ??

On 12/03/2011 8:39 p.m., Bret wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:01:31 +1300, Peter wrote:
>
>> impossible wrote:
>>> I mean, really -- this isn't 1993. Once upon a time ago, Usenet served a
>>> purpose. But today!?! Nz.comp's use-by date has surely long since expired.
>>>
>>> Nine-out-of-ten posts in nz.comp start with someone referencing some web
>>> blog/article. The rest start with some provincial brain fart that
>>> inevitably turns out to be embarrassing for the OP. I leave it to you,
>>> dear reader, to decide which is the more pointless exercise.
>>>
>>> May I suggest: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en
>>>
>>> As for myself, my work is done here. I've succeeded in putting freetards
>>> in their rightful place -- cowering in the face of facts they were to lazy
>>> to uncover themselves. At this point, no one gives these Larry D'Losers a
>>> second thought. Such is the fate of drive-by trolls whose stock-in-trade
>>> is censorship and half-truths.
>>>
>>> Time for me to open my new iPad2 and read the Times. Bye-bye.
>>
>> Can't the iPad do usenet?
>
> I can see a nym shift coming.

jerryleecooper