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General Discussion / My most recent, and undoubtedly censored, post.
« Last post by MKing on October 11, 2014, 09:03:36 pm »
After having been informed that all posts telling the truth will be erased, posts detailing any insults against money handling as anything other than a character building profession will be erased, posts of any length will be erased because...well....they are long, and obviously any posts detailing factual errors by the owners cannot be allowed, well, I figured it was time to sum up my most recent knowledge on the doomer known as RE, and wish him well.

I assume it, as with hundreds of others, will never see the light of day, so I thought I would drop a copy here until RE uses a backdoor to erase it here as well, or just makes the entire site disappear.

Quote from: RE
I will probably write a full blown Blog about this, but this instant I had to get this sadness off my chest.  I really can't believe the Stage Delicatessen is GONE.  Those Pastrami Sandwiches were a Gift of the Gods.  I find it hard now to see a good reason to live anymore.  :(

RE

So perhaps this is the final piece? In your waning years, you are reenacting the "good ol' days" of your youth, and experience actual sadness as time tears away the remnants of that time and those memories? I noticed your comparison to your Stony Stevinson days, and how you think of your audio rants. It fits. I had been wondering about the similarities between the mediums, and the way you wrote about that time of your life with such enthusiasm.

And now those memories, of that time, is all you have left to console yourself with. Those memories when you were the smartest,
that time of your life when you had all that potential, education, and the world would be your oyster. As opposed to the life you went and created, and the disappointment in it that you cannot escape.

No wife or children to hang on your stories of work or daring do, to laugh with you about the crazies you meet on the internet (as mine certainly do), no job you can revel in your success in with friends and neighbors, no one asks your professional opinion on anything because you don't have one of value, you have no reason to wake up in the morning except for drinking and smoking, and those fleeting moments, perhaps with a good buzz on, when for a split second you pretend that internet blogging popularity changes the balance, makes up for all those hopes and dreams dashed by reality.


I write this, knowing it may be erased for no other reason than its length, because I believe I might be done here. What you had to offer, those interesting stories of your life, have been replaced by audio rants similar in nature and quality to what radio shock jocks feed the masses, right down to farting/burping noises. I certainly didn't come here for near illiterate levels of analysis, demonstrations of zero ability to tolerate a dissenting point of view, requirements that posters telling the truth be censored for doing so, or the warped point of view of someone so scared of the world that they hide at the end of the road, as terrified of what lies beyond it as they are of authority figures, or adversity, or hell, even their own shadow.

You have all the answers you need for the rest of your life. Just some guy nobody remembers, washed away by the passage of time just like his favorite sandwich shop, sitting in some uncleaned shithole with a beer in one hand, a cigarette in another, with neither the time nor inclination to even attempt to escape his own insignificance.


So I think I shall stop bothering your little webshow now. Not quit, because as I have demonstrated, I don't ever really quit, I just have varying levels of activity based on curiosity. And my curiosity around the doomer faking his interest in the topic, alone and besotted at the end of the road, living in self created squalor, has run its course. I know too many people who have ended this way, having wasted their lives and arrived at this end. I've seen this windup many times, I don't have to wait around for the pitch.

Ultimately, the real sorrow is that those people had far less to start with than you, and ultimately, that is the real pity. You had so much raw material to begin with compared to the hillbillies I grew up with, such a grand beginning, and yet ended up in the same place.

I feel pity for you RE, for all the things you could have done but didn't, could have been, but aren't, for having the time and ability to actually change your path but choosing not to. I hope you successfully monetize the Diner and that it makes you happy, or your construction company does, or SUN. Even those worthy of pity might have hopes and dreams that no matter how small or insignificant, if achieved, will make them happy. I hope you find that happiness for yourself, before the end. Thank you for the times you were occasionally honest, as compared to the hyperbole and grandstanding that you use as a defense mechanism against the world. Thank you for the stories you shared with all of us, and the moments where your grandstanding didn't get in the way of an honest argument.

I will probably continue to stop in, but stories are why I began participating here, and there are no more. Good luck becoming the superstar of doom on the internet.

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General Discussion / Re: The Commons Forum
« Last post by Golden Oxen on July 18, 2014, 07:41:55 am »
Someone is modifying posts here, a picture has been removed from mine by someone.
I'm not convinced "someone is modifying posts" because I experienced the same thing many times back in the days of my Doom Newz reporting at the diner. I just found a way to make it work or I went out and found something else that worked as well.  There is no conspiracy theory to work with here...it's always been hit or miss with images.
Actually, GO, you are probably quite correct to be paranoid, someone is out to get you; however, in this case, unless it is an image you took hosted on your own server, it is likely to be the copyright holder that is doing it.  They are not modifying the posts here, but rather, they do have clever ways to prevent servers from delivering the images if the requesting website isn't an authorized one.

The easy way to tell if this is happening is to post the image URL directly in the browser bar.  The image will generally not be blocked in that case.  Then when you go back to the page, the image will show up, because your browser is using the cached image.  As soon as you exit the browser and come back, however, the image will be gone again.

Thanks for the heads up my friend. It is pretty sad to be in that situation for joining a forum that was dedicated to free expression and mutual understanding of how different we all are and our views on matters as well.  :-[

You find yourself right back in the situation you tried to escape from. Only in two places, instead of one, being the only difference.   ???
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General Discussion / Re: The Commons Forum
« Last post by 24releehwdj on July 18, 2014, 12:06:36 am »
Someone is modifying posts here, a picture has been removed from mine by someone.
I'm not convinced "someone is modifying posts" because I experienced the same thing many times back in the days of my Doom Newz reporting at the diner. I just found a way to make it work or I went out and found something else that worked as well.  There is no conspiracy theory to work with here...it's always been hit or miss with images.
Actually, GO, you are probably quite correct to be paranoid, someone is out to get you; however, in this case, unless it is an image you took hosted on your own server, it is likely to be the copyright holder that is doing it.  They are not modifying the posts here, but rather, they do have clever ways to prevent servers from delivering the images if the requesting website isn't an authorized one.

The easy way to tell if this is happening is to post the image URL directly in the browser bar.  The image will generally not be blocked in that case.  Then when you go back to the page, the image will show up, because your browser is using the cached image.  As soon as you exit the browser and come back, however, the image will be gone again.
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General Discussion / Re: The Commons Forum
« Last post by JoeP on July 11, 2014, 08:33:48 pm »
Someone is modifying posts here, a picture has been removed from mine by someone.

I'm not convinced "someone is modifying posts" because I experienced the same thing many times back in the days of my Doom Newz reporting at the diner. I just found a way to make it work or I went out and found something else that worked as well.  There is no conspiracy theory to work with here...it's always been hit or miss with images.
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General Discussion / Re: The Commons Forum
« Last post by Karpatok on July 11, 2014, 05:57:20 pm »
Someone is modifying posts here, a picture has been removed from mine by someone.
    I guess that explains why I couldn't make heads or tails of your post for the life of me. Why don't you try reposting it again.
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General Discussion / Re: The Commons Forum
« Last post by Golden Oxen on July 11, 2014, 03:30:16 pm »
Someone is modifying posts here, a picture has been removed from mine by someone.
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General Discussion / Re: The Commons Forum
« Last post by Golden Oxen on July 11, 2014, 03:22:08 pm »
What group does the last two on the list remind you of?   ;D ;D :D ;)

                                       
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General Discussion / Re: The Commons Forum
« Last post by MKing on July 11, 2014, 01:20:48 pm »
Yeah maybe, black swans notwithstanding. Ive had itpointed out to me  the latest figures reported nationwide that 3/4 employers are not planning to lose any workers and 1/4 are planning on hiring more, thats nationally.

Maybe what?   I personally have absolutely no worries about my job security.  Two of my close work companions retired from "work" in the past week..on their terms.
 

Some of us are fortunate to be in this position. But most are not. Now, I worked really hard to NOT be in that other group for a reason, but some folks disagree that working hard be the only answer. Unions sometimes get entangled in this debate, respect and security in exchange for time on the job, when in my experience time on the job is no guarantee of actual knowledge, or the ability to think, or improve the job or increase its efficiency. Tenure strikes me as a similar racket.

Once someone becomes comfortable with competing for...well...everything...and gets good at it...they have a tendency to like those sorts of systems rather than the "he who is here the longest wins" systems...longevity not equating with talent, and by extension, reward.

Having die hard union parents, we have interesting conversations. One problem being that I was outearning them, combined, before I was 30, and am now in what they consider the enviable position of having security and rewards without needing any organization or set of rules to protect me. Or restrict what I do, or how I do it.

Once you reach the position where you are judged on just results...and can get those results cheaper, or better, or faster, than everyone else, no one really gives a crap about how. You can. Others cannot. Pay the man, because there is no alternative.

Works for me, and should carry right through retirement age without any trouble.

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General Discussion / Re: The Commons Forum
« Last post by Golden Oxen on July 11, 2014, 06:03:13 am »
What group does the last two on the list remind you of?   ;D ;D :D ;)

                                       
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General Discussion / Re: Banned Post Topics in Diner
« Last post by MKing on July 09, 2014, 09:15:29 pm »
But... but... they're cats!!  Who can compete with this?

LOL

Certainly NOT the Diner.  ;D
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