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If BALTHOR were an acronym, what would it stand for? Please include any theories you hold as to what BALTHOR is, or what is up with him/ her/ them/ it.

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by seanferd

Awesome! If you can do better, I'll need to make sure I'm not drinking anything when I read any further posts from you, Palmetto. Damn fast response, too. You're on First!

by w2ktechman

Baseless Alcoholic Loser Theorizes His Own Replies

Baseless Alcoholic Loser Trashes His Own Reputation

by seanferd

These look a bit crisper. I forgot to convert those files before I uploaded them, and they were auto-converted to a rather fuzzy looking jpeg. So here:

Edit: I didn't realize anyone used "drain bamage" like I do. Then again, I was surprised the first time I heard someone besides myself use "bass ackwards", as I sometimes had to explain the usage to some people. Really.

Edit2: Animation: GIF animators. Just convert the file to a bitmap if you need to to edit it. There are some GIF animators out there you can use to string multiple images into an animation. For Windows, the is always the free MS GIF Animator. Just search that on the 'net, you can choose where to download it from (lots of places have it, MS may still host a copy). If you search 'GIF animator' you can get some other free or trial versions from other sources. I had one for Linux, but I can't recall the name of it (my Linux drive died). Probably got it from SourceForge.

by jamesrl

He can drive someone insane trying to understand what he is driving at.

Many people honestly thought he was a bot.

James

by dr dij

being on drugs or primary speaker of another language, when I flat out asked.

And it does provide hours of fascination trying to decode his posts. (h3) apparently enjoys posting.

by seanferd

Balthor is a mystery to be savored, poked, prodded. It just seems that, as an all-caps username, it might be an acronym. (For the bot that might be BALTHOR?)

edit: Because B posts as B posts, I assume B is looking for reactions. So here is a B thread all to itself. BALTHOR is welcome to add his (that is gender-neutral "his") own theories. :)

by the scummy one

IS BECAUSE BALTHORS EARLIERPOSTS WERE ALL IN CAPS. iT TOOK SEVERAL MONTHS FOR THIS BEHAVIOUR TO CHANGE, DURING THAT TIME, HE WAS CALLED A TROLL BY QUITE A FEW, AND A BOT BY THE REST.
SEE, ISNT THIS ANNOYING???

by dr dij

Balthor was the evil scientist guy on BattleStar Galactica, infected with Cylon nanobots that made him crazy, see things and say things he didn't want to.

BALTHOR is a Cylon linked (intelligence?), infected with a virus. There was one episode where the Cylon chick was jabbering, sitting in a bath, infected with something that infected the whole Cylon ship. Just wait till new episode comes out, I'm sure they'll mention his infiltrating TR.

by w2ktechman

As I do not recall ever seeing BALTHOR reply to anyone directly. Always to an article or blog.

by dr dij

at the very beginning of when the posts started. May have been under another screen name if we have two brain damaged posters.

Not sure if it shows on my early history still. I hinted that I'd love to get some of what (s)he was smoking, and said employer had drug test.

by dumphrey

"I DON'T THINK THAT MICROSOFT IS A CORPORATION"
Is an obvious reference to the fact that M$ is a front for a large body of Aliens from somewhere in the area of Orion's belt, come to earth for the soul purpose of destroying our ability to perform safe, reliable, private, personal computing, and thus render us a non-threat in future expansions across the galaxy, or at least give them selves a huge head start. Also, their pricing scheme is designed to keep us tied up figuring out licensing and cost structures instead of noticing that 90% of our governing body in the US of A are half alien half human cross breads (the other 10% are "undisclosed").
Simple really.
As for "Somebody is hacking BitTorrent."
This gets a little more complicated...
It all started when LHO (was accused of)/(did) shoot JFK. This was the opening move of the the entire Social Freedom Never, Except on Wednesdays movement. They in turn developed crack cocaine and used the proceeds to purchase controlling interests in many movie production establishments, recording industry labels, and politicians and judges. After Stage 2 was finally realized in 1998, they began plans for stage 3. Stage 3 was "prepared" and ready to implement on Nov 12, 2006. The SFNEW (now know as SNORE) hired a 9 year old hacker named JB Dodd to re-write the bittorent protocol so that it would send copies of every downloaded/completed torrent to their home server (last I checked, this was still located around Betelgeuse). Apparently they have reallly bad television in outer space.
As you can see, that clearly explains all of BALTHOR's comments.

by tig2

Which is probably why I like you!

Can you explain the DST issue? I never understood that one. All I know is that it is a government plot. I'm not even clear on what is to be accomplished.

:D

by the scummy one

that sometimes I do try to decode his messages.
Or even to find the relevent article that it should go to.
Often, he posts a reply to one article into a totally different one. I do see a genius behind it. To help everyone else go crazy!!!

by thevirtualone

but I don't want any of you to do anything abusive to BALTHOR. He obviosly has issues that are not able to be explained.

by seanferd

that we aren't going to do anything abusive to B. Aside from the normal TR "abuse" some may receive, I've only seen serious flaming unto serious trolls. B may not have any kind of "issues". Consider B as poet/artist. Think Salvador Dali or something.

I certainly don't want to start anything that would lead to real abuse. I, for one, am highly entertained by BALTHOR. I was just shooting for a BALTHOR specific discussion.

If someone wants to rip away at me, have at it.

by w2ktechman

and yes, I target anyone/everyone.
As for Balthor, I have no problems with him/her, because I often read his posts. Then scratch my head for a few minutes....

by seanferd

That has to be him.

Q: Why does my Rottweiler emit a horrible odor when he's scared?

BALTHOR's Answer: They're neuter meteor creatures.They exude a poison stench.

by boxfiddler Hot topic

How do I protect my strawberries?
Fruit of the Loom.

I can't stop laughing! Thank you Balthor!

by charliespencer

So does Brittany Spears. Neither of them make any sense, but at least Brit looks good without her undies.

by danlm

From working too many late hours, drinking too many cups of coffee, and being woke up in the middle of the night for those production support calls.

He is what we all dread we will become when we finally burn out.... A babling source of trivia information that doesn't make any sense to anyone including ourselves(we will never admit that though). Because we no longer have the faintest bloody idea what we are talking about but we keep trying...

Dan

by dumphrey

Bal of old testament biblical fame and Thor from the comic books..which would make him an evil gold cow with thunder shooting out his a...

by absolutely

[u]B[/u]elligerent [u]A[/u]utomaton [u]L[/u]earning [u]T[/u]o [u]H[/u]url [u]O[/u]ratory [u]R[/u]efuse.

The bot is programmed to say that it is very grateful that one of you finally had the sense to ask this question.

by charliespencer

Thank you all for playing. Vanna has some lovely parting gifts for you. Abs will be back next week to defend his championship.

by charliespencer

I consider his Feb '07 "Daylight Saving Time schedule changes will destroy global commerce" to be among the all-time classic multi-post rants.

by dr dij

Guess you're right.
Think my associative memory nanobots need an overhaul.

by the scummy one

since there are several similarities between the 2....
and more than 1 person had made the same associations(s)

by absolutely

On ball four, the batter is issued a free pass to first base, called a "walk", a reference in turn to the saying "Money talks and bull$#!+ walks." Anyway, when I read his messages, I frequently think things like "Take a walk!" and "What a lot of BS!". Hopefully, he gives that impression deliberately.

by the scummy one

I ran across the first one and laughed... The second I do not recall seeing, but just got done laughing (planetary disaster -- LOL).

And I really do not remember the U.N. law on time changes :^0

Looks like BALTHOR is really against screwing with the time. So am I, but this was pretty funny...

by the scummy one

by charliespencer

The link does indeed go to Dell's Linux forum. However, I can't find any mention of Dell discontinuing Ubuntu in Europe. Of course, that lack may indicate this is indeed another false rumor.

by the scummy one

irrelevance of that link, but decided not to upset anyone...
Instead, Abs's link shows that it was just a rumour, as the UK Dell site DOES offer Linux.

by gsg

I've never paid attention to this guy. He is completely insane. I really like his comment that the United Nations would have to approve the time change. This idjit must not read the news to know that Bush signed the law to make the change. Also, States can opt out. Isn't Indiana one of the states that never does the time change?

by charliespencer

In '05 they decided they'd start participating in '06. In other words, they switched from their "No DST" in '05 to the old DST in '06, just to have to switch to the new DST in '07. So for the rest of you who thought you had it bad this spring, the Hoosiers went through it two years running.

by seanferd

that the DST change was such a big deal to B.

Next thing you know, those silent, black U.N. helicopters will be showing up at locations where someone has forgotten or refused to set their clocks back. Planes, trains and busses will drop from the sky, along with frogs and twenty-pound hailstones. THEY will shut off the gas and electricity. Intel has patented the electron, and they will take them all back.

edit=sp?

by tig2

Arizona still don't play clock change.

Balthor needs a grip. He should follow that with a clue.

by tig2

Gerry uses the same icon as HAL9000.

Okay. I need a drink. WAY too strange!

by seanferd

Didn't want to get HAL upset that his camera lens was used elsewhere by mentioning it. I had actually thought of using it in the past, (I am a huge 2001 fan), but it seemed best to leave it occupied by the one and only HAL9000. (Both our 9000 series computers on the ground concurr.)

by ontheropes

THE HAL9000's avatar is different from everyone else's because it moves. Even at TR's 45x60 pixel avatar size you can see motion if you look closely. This is what Colin's avatar looks like "full-size".



This is what it looks like at TR's avatar size.



Sorry but I can't say that a static image is equal to one with subtle motion. I haven't seen the moving avatar posted anywhere but at TR.

Edited: Yep. I've just discovered that I really like barley-wine style ale. Good shtuff.

by w2ktechman

silent black UN helicopters, looking for people that havent changed their clocks...just LOL :^0

ok, are you sure that you arent BALTHOR in disguise???

by thevirtualone

I was being cruel a couple of posts back posted the same information. I ended up editing the post and decided to honor his dignity by removing his personal information.

It would be honorable to do the same.

by seanferd

Yeah, see, anyone can do it! I've always been rather good at being weird, I just don't try to force it down people's throats. You just have to use weirdness where applicable. Hanging with weird-minded or humorous folks, parties, writing fiction, that kind of stuff. I really don't see much use for it on TR, except maybe the Friday Yuk, or perhaps for starting a discussion with balthor, if he would respond. "Don't try to out-weird me four-eyes, I get stranger things than you with my breakfast cereal," said Zaphod.

by seanferd

I just don't want to be seen as having some sort of "vendetta" against Balthor. Good, clean, American fun. You were all doing just fine, I think.

by seanferd

to say so. I personally think he's just looking for a rise, and probably doesn't care if he attracts negative attention.

Correct me if I am wrong, Balthor!

I am not trying to over-inflate his ego here (POP!), but, like I said, think Salvador Dali ("Hitler has three balls!"). Any reaction is a good reaction. Especially considering the nature of his statements. ;)

by seanferd

Mission control has the other 2 9000s. They have a perfect operational record, and enjoy concurring with HAL. They also concurr with anyone who doesn't want to invoke an imposter of HAL 9000's avatar, which is the only avatar on TR that MOVES. It also reads lips, and can see the trolls' mouths move as they type.

by seanferd

that your avatar doesn't move? Or does it just moo. (Maybe all avatars should have a sound-bite.) I see that it says you're in Michigan, but an avatar like that makes me think: Beloit, Wisconson. Barley-wine style ale sure sounds interesting right about now. |) edit: that was supposed to look like a squinty smile.

by ontheropes

Posted here for reference as I change my avatar a lot.

Sorry for the bad joke. I'm posting before my first cup of coffee again. Usually a bad idea.

Just for your edification, below is a chart of all of the TR emoticons.

They have a page around here somewhere but I'm too lazy to look it up. It has errors in it anyway, that's why I made the chart.

Of course you can always fill up your post with pictures/emoticons by using an online photo-sharing account such as photobucket.com which I use.

Now to the important bit, barley-wine style ale. :x I do believe that I've found a new love.

I must've lived a sheltered life :0 because I had my first one the other day. Excellent brew! I've had hundreds of different beers over the years but I'll say that Dogfish Head Craft Brewery's-Old School Ale is the single best beer I've ever had. It's made for sipping not gulping. Great stuff!

Since I'm on a weight loss program I limit myself to one beer per day if I have one at all and I only had the one Dogfish. The place where I bought it has several other barley-wines and I'll be checking them all out sometime in the future. So good. Long after-taste of caramel. Best served at warmer temperatures than the usual American swill.

Working on my first coffee so I'm going to post this before I decide that this reply is too short.

Oscar

by seanferd

I've seen the emoticon chart before, but thanks for the fixed version. I was actually just going for the ASCII look (if it correlates with an emoticon, that's cool too). It looked better in the text-input box than it did in the final post, where the text tends to "squish" together. Maybe a nose would've helped.

I'll have to look for some barley-wine style ale. Never had it before. I am not a big beer drinker, and not very fond of American (read: U.s.) "witch's piss" either. I do like the more common Canadian ice beers, but mostly I am a fan of Porters and Stouts. Maybe the bev shop down the road has something good...

(Moooooving along- Sean)

edit: this would be the emoticon equivalent of what I was trying to do Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
Would you also happen to have a tutorial on maintaining white space?

by ontheropes

When you use bold, underline, italics, emoticons or any HTML in a reply you have to use the break tag to maintain white space.


by seanferd

Now, I can't explain why this didn't occurr to me. I should know enough simple HTML to do that. Odd thing is, in the past, I've lost white space when I hadn't used any tags at all. I believe it was jmgarvin who made a comment about my whitespace once. At the time, whenever I hit Enter, it would't give me a cr, it would submit the (unfinished) post. This changed for me at some point, and I've been wondering if it didn't have something to do with my strangely sensitive optical mouse.
Thanks, I needed that.

by danlm

Will he/they/it/she/sheit make an appearance in a thread dedicated to them?

Dan

by danlm

How could they not.

They are probably sitting there with a bottle of beer going... If only you people had the faintest idea...

Dan

by w2ktechman

LOL -- I think it is 1 person, highly intelligent, just messing with everyone....

Probably having all kinds of fun with it as well.

But then again, since you mention it, I can almost visualize THEM all sitting around drinking beer while trying to figure out what to post next!

by danlm

Its meant in a singular way just non gender.

Never know though.

Here's a conspiracy thought for you w2k. Chuckle... Its one of the staff of TR who is just busten our chops in a major way. Come on, you know TR staffers are just as warped as the rest of us are. I could see them doing this to bust the regulars that tend to rip their blogs apart. Chuckle, I'm sorry... I just can't resist the thought of one of the TR staff going... Yea, go ahead. Give me crap. Make heads or tails of this then.

Dan

by danlm

I never thought of it that way... But, your right. How often is the very first post to a blog.....

by dumphrey

as we all know. Sposedly it means we save electricity by changing how we use fans, lights, AC and heat. But the reality is that its all about keeping our internal clocks off balance to maintain a certain social "fuzzyness" that allows us as a population to not notice the aliens at work. We are constantly in s state of "not-enough-sleep" (here after NES). In response to this, many people feel the need to self medicate with alcohol, drugs, and cabbage in attempts to achieve homeostasis. This once again allows the aliens to profit tremendously as all alcohol distillers/brewers, tobacco companies, legal pharmaceuticals, cabbage fields, and Mentos (tm), are owned by said aliens. The money thus produced is then channeled into development of ways to make modern mankind lazy and ignorant to prevent our natural ascendancy in outer space. And thus NES triumphs over early to bed, early to rise pap.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/03/1734252&from=rss

Or

DST is a way for the government, and by extension all citizens (defined by the 1792 Congress of Missouri) to save a ton of money on energy usage, or so said some guy (a certain J.B. Dobbs Sr.III)they paid way to much to decide if it was viable or not.
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/

you choose.

but its obvious that option 1 makes waaaay more sense.
note: all links provided are only marginally applicable, as I just googled and took 2 options at semi-random (ie 2 min or less to find them). links are provided solely as an add-on, and as such, are not covered by any warranty, insurance, common-sense, sense of smell, or Cabbage Farmers Union (thanks for the kick backs guys!). Read the links at your own risk.

by jcitizen

I'm going here everytime I have some spare time and catch up on my reading; just for pure entertainment!

by jcitizen

I don't know how I'm going to pay you back for all this! Hopefully the tech story research I try to do for you will make up for it a little.

I can't say THANKS!!! enough to show how truely I appreciate this!

I love this little booger!

by seanferd

I like messin' around with stuff. Lately, I'm mostly reading TR and a couple other sites, and the only other use I get out of computers is fixing them. So, it was nice to actually use one for something. Enjoy.

by w2ktechman

No Really!!! Think about it a little. S/He has an odd set of followers (like me), an interesting view of things (from another dimension), and can confuse the facts and change subjects quickly.
S/He is very unpredictable, and nobody would be able to determine what The BALTHOR was going to do next. It would generate a morbid excitement among his followers, while simultaneously scaring the crap out of his enemies :0
Nobody would be able to fing The Balthor, unless s/he wants to be found! The country would save money on press conferences because they would realize that it was a waste of time to attempt a Q&A or even cover any speech (incomprehensible without lots of thought). And we all know just how much thought goes into the media these days :0
His views would be un-challenged by all, mainly due to there would be too much bickering about what was actually stated...

and finally, it would be better for the country than the current candidates!!!

by jcitizen

My brain hurts!

The sun rotates on its axis.

The manufacturers must have known what they were doing!?

;)