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by dotxen

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by nighthawk808

... Yep, it's the middle of the month. Time for yet another "TechRepublic forums have jumped the shark" discussion. Nice to see some things never change.

by ontheropes

for my TR discussion calculations.

"The Moon meets Saturn on the 3rd and Jupiter on the 11th, before coming close to Venus on the 24th. It passes just to the right of Mercury in a conjunction on the 27th and meets Saturn again on the 31st."

Using a polynomial equation with multiple variables in conjunction with the above information, and my unpublished secret fudge factor, is much more scientifically accurate than just checking the calendar.

I have noticed too that the frequency of change is barely measurable yet it is still ever so slightly changing. I'll search Google for the possibilty that someone has already developed a constant for me to use that may provide even greater accuracy.

by nighthawk808

Until you go to TR's website, the probability of a new "good old days" post being there and one not being there are equal, or, more accurately, there both is and is not a new discussion about it at the same time. Once you go to the website, you collapse the waveform and TR is no longer bad in infinitely many ways, but simultaneously becomes bad in one specific way. I think HTML has a meta tag for it somewhere.

Also, you cannot accurately measure both the number of new "bad TR" posts and their rate of creation at the same time.

In addition, if there is one bad discussion started, another good one is automagically created. If this did not happen, the universe would explode as anticontent particles overwhelmed it.

Furthermore, two discrete "TR sucks now" discussions cannot both think TR has gone downhill for the same reason at the same time. I call this Larry's Exclusion Principle.

by nighthawk808

We were all noobs here once. The more intelligent posters we get, the better. As long as you've taken the time to lurk a bit and get to know who's who (and since you've been here almost a year, you probably have), and you have something meaningful to contribute (even if it's not Earth-shattering, but interesting nonetheless), the old-timers are always happy to see a fresh poster.

We may not always agree (for example, I have a very high regard for jdclyde's posts, and I agree with most of them, but I still had to call one of them "moronic"), but if you can give a good reason why you think what you do, most of us will listen. I've even admitted I was wrong about something--the horror! I think every time Palmetto has replied to one of my posts, it has been to disagree with me. However, since he usually gives some good reasons, I still have a lot of respect for him. However, when you talk to rickk, he usually responds with something you'd expect from a poorly-written Microsoft Propagandabot(tm), and most of us have little-to-no patience with him. Perhaps you could use him as a paragon of what not to do.

Have you read Apotheon's Top 10 TR Newbie Indicators?
https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5254-6257-0.html?forumID=99&threadID=173898&messageID=1987156&id=3923716

Steer clear of those and you'll probably have nothing to fear. Welcome and, as we say in SuSELaND, Have a lot of fun!

by jardinier

1. Failing to psychoanalyse the smilies in order to determine your true intent;

2. Sounding overly terse.

jd, ya know I loves ya. :x

by jdclyde

is when you start taking me so seriously in a discussion like this..... :D

What fun is it to have sticks if I can't poke people with them? ;\

I DO hope after realizing my intent, you went back and reread my posts?

Be well.

by jdclyde

If you go into a political discussion, be prepared to back up what you say with some kind of documentation and links. Sources that are non-bias, or at least mainstream.

If a leftie nutcase, don't quote moveon.org for anything.

If a rightie nutcase, don't guote Rush for anything.

If an econut, greenpeace is also not a credible source.

All of these have stated agendas and anything that is in conterdiction to their agendas will be "modified".

Be friendly, but don't be assuming until the people you have gotten to know, have gotten to know you.

Be respectful of the women. With the exception of 1UNaw, they are very intellegent and will put a shovel upside your head if you forget it. ;\

Here is another discussion that will help to DE-noob you. :D

http://tinyurl.com/9jmyg

by jardinier

that I am mostly interested in serious discussion at TR. I get my repartee with real, corporeal people at the various shops, cafes etc that I visit each day, as well as the various people who live in my block of 16 apartments.

And there is my gardening client, Mary Ann Arnott, who has boobs that would no doubt rival GG's, and usually wears a flimsy nightie or pajamas. Although it is "no touchie," she really enjoys my sexual innuendos.

I do not need these discussions to let off steam or take a break from work.

So please insert the smilies, and I will pay more attention to them in the future.

by thisisfutile

I see both sides on this one. I?m relatively new to TR. I don?t post much, and I get two emails on M-F and one or two on the weekend (geekend). I probably click one email link every two weeks. Just a couple weeks ago I remember seeing a sophomoric topic and I thought, ?Perhaps this isn?t a professional IT congregation after all?. I currently belong to a small forum for our distribution (ERP) software that we use and out of several hundred posts, not one of them talks about ?My favorite color of underwear?. Everyone on that forum just understands we have an obligation to not water-down the forum with relatively worthless posts. (I just referenced underwear and water-down in two consecutive statements?AND THEN CALLED IT?how?s that for sophomoric) :-P

Conversely, since I tend to gravitate to the neutral, I?ll end my post with simply taking jdclyde?s advice and I?m going to go search for some posts that are useful to my trade?and then on occasion, ?build one, so they come? ;-)

by jdclyde

Then why are you in this discussion in the first place?

One of the posters big complaints is the new line of "fill in the blank" discussion that TR has started to try to bring more people to the table that generally don't feel qualified to add input to the technical discussions.

This is a crying session, not a serious post.

When we are in a serious post about politics/tech/religion/sex, I am serious as the situation calls for.

But even with the search of the serious topic, there is always room for some light hearted conversation. didn't I see you in the "men of TR calendar" discussion? :0 Quit trying to take yourself so seriously as you have stepped up and been as "silly" as just about anyone, when given the chance.

And I will try to not be "silly" (pull a 1UNaw) in a serious discussion, provided the people that are suppose to be discussing something serious are not just being stupid. ( we have seen that all too often, and the only cure for stupid is ridicule! :D )

Cheers! The sun is shining and life is good.

by nighthawk808

Although we called it "Some wild-ass guess." I'm not sure where "scientific" came from; I've never heard that before.

by nighthawk808

You forgot to put "You owe the Oracle a joke" at the end. But if by "they" you're referring to who I think you're referring to, I'll say this: I smacked "them" down long before you got here, old man. Do you think I didn't know exactly what I was doing when I wrote that post?

Perhaps for the physically-challenged like yourself, I should perhaps paraphrase my paragraphs here:
Paragraph 1: Schroedinger's Cat
2: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
3: Matter/Antimatter
4: Pauli's Exclusion Principle

Post edited to add forgotten sentence.

by ontheropes

If I read your next post will it still be stupid simply because I read it? If I don?t read it would it be brilliant simply because I didn?t read it or, would it still be stupid?

If I don?t read it and/or respond to it I won?t know if you?ll think you?re even more of a frigging genius than you do now and/or have more or less of an over-inflated ego than you already do. If I do read what you post and it doesn?t seem that your ego is growing that may only be because I read your post.

If this is the only possible Universe then my facts cannot be correct if your facts are correct and they are diametrically opposed to the data available in this Universe. So if I am correct you must be getting your facts from another Universe through some type of tunneling effect or perhaps use of a quantum-dynamic ansible with your equal yet opposite over-blown ego in another Universe.

?Physically-challenged? ? beats mentally challenged hands down, not that I am either. The evidence of my dimensions must be apparent in my posts to you. I call that phenomenon the emotionally-challenged inclusion principle.

Let's see...
1.Check
2.Check
3.Check
4.Check

My answer is yes.

edited to add "."

by nighthawk808

Go get some sleep, then, once you're coherent, read your post and explain to us what it was supposed to mean. I'm sure somewhere in there was four kilotons of wit dying to get out, and I'd love to hear what it was. All I'm getting out of it right now is a poor, fragmented, logorrheic imitation of my original quantum post, but based on what you've written elsewhere, I know you're capable of much better. Maybe you're just having a bad day.

by ontheropes

that you wouldn't comprehend but don't concern yourself.

I do believe that it's not good judgment on your part to think that other people at TR require me to dissect my post. There's no doubt in my mind that my point of responding to you as I did is perfectly clear to many.

Thank you for the compliment. If I ever see anything worthy of even the slightest compliment in any of your writing I will be sure to be as graceful.

by nighthawk808

Plenty of people have already done that before you got here, and plenty of people probably will when you're long gone.

Now, my bin of preprepared content-free posts for individuals like you is running low, and my patience for reading your content-free posts is running just as low, so that's enough of this subthread for me. You get the last word.

by falling burrito brother

....I've been awol for the last week, so haven't been able to thank you and jdclyde for your responses & encouragement. Even if you don't get to read this - your comments have been much appreciated & notes taken.

by deepsand

Hell, I was MIA for 8 to 9 months; I'm still playing catch-up.

As for being a "newbie," we all start out that way, in all our endeavors; it can't be avoided, unless we kill ourselves immediately after birth.

Keep in mind the old adage that there's no shame in trying and failing, only in failing to try.

May the future be kind.

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