FreeSocrates! wrote:
You can do whatever you want with your own car.

You can drive it off a cliff, you can set it on fire, you can run people over with it.

(What happens afterwards is an entirely different question).

FreeSocrates! wrote:
You can do whatever you want with your own car.

You can drive it off a cliff, you can set it on fire, you can run people over with it.

(What happens afterwards is an entirely different question).

bendix wrote:Well that failed spectacularly, didn't it red dragon?

For the record he was banned for:

1) copying a PM into a thread, and
2) compounding it by starting a second thread by copying the same PM again.

I suspect any forum would do the same. It seems the consensus here supports that view.

The ban isn't permanent. It was initially for one month, but I have been persuaded that was too harsh and it has been reduced to a week.

Bomber wrote:

FreeSocrates! wrote:
You can do whatever you want with your own car.

You can drive it off a cliff, you can set it on fire, you can run people over with it.

(What happens afterwards is an entirely different question).

Hey Free Socrates. Applied logic can be a pain in the ass. It even can be dangerous. Read this:



A judge tells a condemned prisoner that he will be hanged at noon on one weekday in the following week but that the execution will be a surprise to the prisoner. He will not know the day of the hanging until the executioner knocks on his cell door at noon that day.

Having reflected on his sentence, the prisoner draws the conclusion that he will escape from the hanging. His reasoning is in several parts. He begins by concluding that the "surprise hanging" can't be on Friday, as if he hasn't been hanged by Thursday, there is only one day left - and so it won't be a surprise if he's hanged on Friday. Since the judge's sentence stipulated that the hanging would be a surprise to him, he concludes it cannot occur on Friday.

He then reasons that the surprise hanging cannot be on Thursday either, because Friday has already been eliminated and if he hasn't been hanged by Wednesday night, the hanging must occur on Thursday, making a Thursday hanging not a surprise either. By similar reasoning he concludes that the hanging can also not occur on Wednesday, Tuesday or Monday. Joyfully he retires to his cell confident that the hanging will not occur at all.

The next week, the executioner knocks on the prisoner's door at noon on Wednesday — which, despite all the above, was an utter surprise to him. Everything the judge said came true.

Cowshed Cowboy wrote:A couple of points because I followed the thread :

1) Isn't the purpose of private mails exactly that. Part of my initial reason at joining here originally was because there seemed to be a question mark over previous management divulging content of private mail, it added to my discontent at the time.

However

2) Having seen the content of the private mail you received and posted before it was deleted amused and slightly concerns me. Your comment that instigated the PM was the exact same that a well placed poster made to me after a question I asked on a separate thread. I'm left wondering whether his comment received a similar PM from admin. It wasn't a big issue at the time for me but Insee it in a different light from what has just happened to you. If not is it because of his position or the fact that you were taking a view against the group norm. Have you rocked the boat by not attacking Splinter like everyone else and stating a reality that sits uncomfortably for some reason with others.

It's certainly got me thinking a bit, as much as these things matter in the grand scheme of things. Food for thought.

I presume you've been banned for sharing the contents of a private email and unfortunately that I agree with even though I agreed with some of your sentiments in your very original post. I actually thought Splinter's post was one of the funniest and best for a long time, his views on the infrastructure are reality. I know he's wound people up, he took it in return, and came back with a good post albeit a bit personal.

I'm replying on here because Red Dragon is apparently banned over there if anyone misunderstands.

Username Taken wrote:

FreeSocrates! wrote:The fact that red dragon cannot take a message he received on a totally different website (NOT THIS ONE) and post it on here, is ridiculous and absurd.

I would agree with that.

What was your point? Drag 440 through the mud?
[not necessary. they can do it by themselves]