From quinn@fazigu.org Fri Dec 28 11:14:10 2001 Received: from (yami.57thstreet.com) [66.100.224.110] by requiem.netsville.com with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16Jze6-0004Yh-00; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:14:10 -0500 Received: (qmail 54604 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2001 16:14:03 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO moo.ghostmoo.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Dec 2001 16:14:03 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:14:03 -0400 From: "Quinn@Ghostwheel" To: quinn@fazigu.org Subject: Ghostwheel Message(s) 8918 - 8925 from *Chat (#5391) X-Mail-Agent: Ghostwheel (moo.ghostmoo.org 6969) Message-Id: Status: RO Content-Length: 8855 Lines: 199 Message 8918 from *Chat (#5391): Date: Sun Dec 2 01:29:34 2001 EST From: Clayson (#17237) To: *Chat (#5391) Subject: Don't go see Rahte IRL, he will call the po-lice! The good side is, if you tell the po-lice that you know your rights, they will ask your sister why do they hate you? Fucking idiots. Know your rights, tell the po-lice to fuck off and they will run away. And Rathe, you're stupid. Grow up a bit. [to x]: -------------------------- Message 8919 from *Chat (#5391): Date: Sun Dec 2 01:31:46 2001 EST From: Raichu (#3791) To: *Chat (#5391) Subject: Clayson. Lay off the bottle. Or the crackpipe, whichever. -------------------------- Message 8920 from *Chat (#5391): Date: Mon Dec 3 14:33:33 2001 EST From: Nny (#25135) To: *Chat (#5391) Subject: Right. I had no desire to spread this all over the game. But when you came to my house, got exceedingly drunk, and then demanded that you drive home, after insulting my roommates and house guests, I should have let you. Basic concern for human life, however, prevented me from allowing a very drunk woman onto the road, where she could kill herself or others. I apologize for showing concern for a human being, Clayson. :) Nny -------------------------- Message 8921 from *Chat (#5391): Date: Mon Dec 10 16:15:01 2001 EST From: DragonBabe (#5288) To: *Chat (#5391) Subject: Taliban(dits) Here is a little insight on what is really happening in the war in Afghanistan and what the place is really like. This is from an American special forces solider in Afghanistan, so the language is "colorful" so to speak. Hello Just outside of Ab Gach (in the northwest panhandle of Afghanistan between Tajikstan and Pakistan) November 11, 2001 Bizarre, It's fucking freezing here. I'm sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush mountains along the Dar 'yoi Pomir River watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles. I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given up battling the chiggers ants, and fleas, but them goddamn scorpions give a jolt like a cattle prod. Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like transmission fluid but God bless the Marine Corps for the 5 vials of it in my pack. One truth the Taliban(dits) cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water. That requires couriers and that's where an old bounty hunter like me comes in handy; I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where to drop the hardware, we bash some heads for a while, then I track and record the new movement. It's all about intelligence. We haven't even brought in the snipers yet. These scurrying rats have no idea what they're in for. We are but days away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to begin. I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over him with my boot on his throat as I spit a bloody ear into his face and plunge my nickel-plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. But you know me, I'm a romantic. I've said it before and I'll say it again: This country blows, man. It's not even a country. There are no roads, there's no infrastructure, there's no government. This is an inhospitable, rock-pit hole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know jobs. Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are your options. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu if that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those "tent cities of the walking dead" is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day. And let me tell you something else. I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks and Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtins for over a month and a half now and this much I can say for sure: These guys, all of em, are Huns. Actual, living Huns. They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. It's ALL they do. They have no respect for anything, not for their families or for each other or for themselves. They claw at one another as a way of life. They play polo with dead calves and force their five year old sons into human cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other's barbarism. Goddamn cavemen with AK 47's. Then again, maybe I'm just cranky. I'm freezing my ass off on this stupid hill because my lap warmer is running out of juice and I can't recharge it until the sun comes up in a few hours. Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me a favor: Write a letter to CNN and tell Judy and Bernie and that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban "smart." They are not smart. I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they are looking for is "cunning." The Taliban(dits) are cunning, like jackals and hyenas and wolverines; they are sneaky and ruthless and, when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent, cowardly parasites who create nothing and destroy everything else. Smart. Pfft!! Yeah, they're real smart. They've spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen; eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it. OK, enough. Sun'll be up soon so I have to get back to my hole. Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice but I'm getting good at it. Please tell my fellow Americans to turn off their TV sets and move on with their lives. The story line you are getting from CNN is utter bullshit and designed not to deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the commercials. We've got this one under control. The worst thing you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing what we're doing over here because you have no idea what we're doing and, really, you don't want to know. We are your military and we are doing what you sent us here to do. You wanna help? Buy some fucking stocks, America. ------- -------------------------- Message 8922 from *Chat (#5391): Date: Tue Dec 18 17:12:35 2001 EST From: Shaelin (#18284) To: *Chat (#5391) Subject: One more done Just felt like sharing a bit of good Christmas news (for me anyway) I passed my networking+ exam today with a score of 94.5%. No studying over the holidays for me! Have to thank Stal for his help on routers/bridges etc. Thanks Stal! -------------------------- Message 8923 from *Chat (#5391): Date: Wed Dec 19 13:54:44 2001 EST From: Akeashar (#20348) To: *Chat (#5391) Subject: Re: Networking+ exam Congrats! I was leaning towards going for that, but since I haven't really messed with networking since doing the Cisco Networking Academy last year, I've been out of the loop :P Ake -------------------------- Message 8924 from *Chat (#5391): Date: Thu Dec 20 02:38:48 2001 EST From: Matt (#24497) To: *Chat (#5391) Subject: cisco I did about 3 terms of the cisco CCNA course. They had the course at my highschool and i thought they did a pretty good job at teaching the stuff. If you are into that kinda thing I think its a valuable course but I found myself gettin bored of it after the first half. It interesting stuff if you are into sitting in front of computers for the rest of your life and making good money, but i cant handle sitting for that long. Personally Id rather being driving forklifts and lifting heavy shit. -------------------------- Message 8925 from *Chat (#5391): Date: Thu Dec 20 02:57:45 2001 EST From: Shaelin (#18284) To: *Chat (#5391) Subject: Net+ For me, I found Net+ to be a great all around course. Accepted equally by Novell for their CNE, Cisco prepares their students for Net+ and CCNA, and Lotus accepts it for their CLP Domino MAR4. Think it has other benefits, but I dont feel like checking atm. After 8 years working in the forest industry and on my feet 10+ hours a day rain or snow.. I want my ass to sit in a chair. Just my two canadian cents. Few more exams and I'll be buying me the leather chair with wheels to keep me warm. MCSE here i come *grin* --------------------------