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The Dude
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Mar 1, 2002, 09:47 PM
 
whose would it be?

Surly there is somebody who's personal stuff you wouldn't mind taking a nice long look at.

Personally...it's a toss up. I'll post what I think later.

What about you?
     
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Mar 1, 2002, 09:51 PM
 
Since I have no real life friends and the Macs at work aren't quite "cutting edge" (Fastest they have is a G4/466 Gig Ethernet/Built-in CD-R) I can't say I'd steal one from anyone. I wouldn't mind swiping a nice Dual GHz G4 from a CompUSA or Apple Store though

And for the record the statement about not having any friends was not a desperate cry for help, just the facts.

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Mar 1, 2002, 09:55 PM
 
George W. Bush's computer. I would get a great Mac, and I could a huge expos� about the secret deals he has with big industries from the secret documents on his computer!

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Mar 1, 2002, 10:09 PM
 
Does bush even have a computer? anyway im sure those type of documents are kept in super protected mainframes in the pentegon.
     
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Mar 1, 2002, 10:27 PM
 
Originally posted by Jsnuff1:
<STRONG>Does bush even have a computer? anyway im sure those type of documents are kept in super protected mainframes in the pentegon.</STRONG>
I've heard that he (and Clinton) is a Mac user, but you're probably right about the secret documents. He probably only uses his Mac for Tetris!

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Mar 1, 2002, 10:31 PM
 
Linden Johnson (sp).

Now THAT could be interesting... (if he had a computer. Hypothetical).
     
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Mar 1, 2002, 10:33 PM
 
I would steel Steve Job's laptop and see what kinds of shit apple is going to come out with in the next year.
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Mar 1, 2002, 11:05 PM
 
Actually, maybe Steve Case. He must have one amazing porn collection.

Just for observations sake, of course...
     
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Mar 1, 2002, 11:09 PM
 
god's.

oh, i forgot. he doesn't exist. oh well... nevermind.

     
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Mar 1, 2002, 11:13 PM
 
MikeM32 wrote:
Since I have no real life friends...
Who the hell am I then?

I mean here I am, wife, kids, house, dog, and it turns out I'm just a figment of your imagination. All that effort I put in...

You could at least dream up a candy apple red '34 Ford and a bottomless beer fridge for me. And the garden needs work.

Sheesh! If you're making me up you could at the VERY least give me better in-laws.

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Mar 2, 2002, 12:10 AM
 
George Tenet - I bet that would be fun to read.

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Mar 2, 2002, 12:34 AM
 
I'd love to get Bill Gates MAC laptop and his MAC desktop so I could find some shit to ruin that little shits life...

or maybe just to have the satisfaction of taking the two best things in his life.
     
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Mar 2, 2002, 12:38 AM
 
Hehe, I'd steal erm... an ascii white from the local college

Ok, no, I'd raid apple's offices and steal all their prototypes!!!!
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Mar 2, 2002, 12:38 AM
 
Mike you need my new Instantapersona� application. Then you don't need friends.

Everyone has seen in these forums where I reply to myself with semi-witty commentary.

I've been beta-testing this app with various levels of success.
     
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Mar 2, 2002, 12:40 AM
 
beb, that is the stupidest thing I ever heard.
     
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Mar 2, 2002, 12:42 AM
 
ok, beb let's steal YOUR computer.
     
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Mar 2, 2002, 12:44 AM
 
I'm still waiting for it to arrive stupid.

     
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Mar 2, 2002, 12:46 AM
 
very funny
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Mar 2, 2002, 01:03 AM
 
i'd steal McZhithead's
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Mar 2, 2002, 01:51 AM
 
I'd grab a mac from the company that produces & archives all the porn for Vivid Video.

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Mar 2, 2002, 02:47 AM
 
I too would sneak into Steve's home and take his computer, then I would ransom his computer for a job at Apple!!!!

^ where of course I would steal a whole lot of computers (G5s) and have a nice Lan party of UT with me and all of beb's personas
     
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Mar 2, 2002, 03:01 AM
 
Originally posted by Mac Zealot:
<STRONG>Hehe, I'd steal erm... an ascii white from the local college
</STRONG>
ASCII White is the name of A computer. Think.
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Mar 2, 2002, 03:18 AM
 
Originally posted by Scotttheking:
<STRONG>

ASCII White is the name of A computer. Think.</STRONG>
ASCI (not ASCII) White would be incredibly boring for what information it contained... that was the purpose of this, I think

But hey, if I had a powerplant or something under my house, sure, I'd take it!!
     
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Mar 2, 2002, 03:19 AM
 
Twenty-something Lex Luthor's, on Smallville. He has a wicked powerbook G4 and who knows what else, with ingenius soon-to-be-evil mastermind sftware.
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Mar 2, 2002, 03:31 AM
 
amds 64bit machine at idf
     
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Mar 2, 2002, 08:20 AM
 
i'd steal ca$h's so he couldnt post anymore...............(well, at least for awhile)
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Mar 2, 2002, 10:39 AM
 
Jonathan Ives- head of Apple's ID group. I'm really curious what his desktop looks like.

Plus, I bet there are a few interesting peeks of the next Apple hardware designs lurking on his HD.
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Mar 2, 2002, 12:37 PM
 
Sleep deprived ramble removed.

[ 03-02-2002: Message edited by: ringo ]
     
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Mar 2, 2002, 01:44 PM
 
I think my choice would by Michael Dell, then the whole world could finally find out the truth - that he has no original ideas of his own and everything he comes up with is plagiarised from other people.
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Mar 2, 2002, 08:36 PM
 
the macnn forum server! that way i'd have all your passwords!
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Mar 2, 2002, 09:24 PM
 
Originally posted by AlbertWu:
<STRONG>the macnn forum server! that way i'd have all your passwords! </STRONG>
mine is the random one assigned to me. i run a few message boards, i know how easy it is to snoop on things like that, if you're easily tempted.

would you really want to log in and post as me?
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Mar 2, 2002, 09:36 PM
 
Osama.
     
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Mar 2, 2002, 09:39 PM
 
Parallax's computer so I can figure out why he gets black stars and nobody else does
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Mar 3, 2002, 02:38 AM
 
that would be the most powerful computer of a government agency, or etchalon.

I'd use either as a firewall and server for my G4.
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Mar 3, 2002, 04:18 AM
 
I'd steal Trent Reznor's Pismo.

I'd LOVE to see the stuff that that guy keeps on that machine. Notes, ideas, lyrics to new and unreleased songs...man, I bet that's a goldmine.
     
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Mar 3, 2002, 12:03 PM
 


I really like my computer. I'll take a Powerbook along with it.
     
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Mar 3, 2002, 05:04 PM
 
Originally posted by --Helen--:
<STRONG>

I really like my computer. I'll take a Powerbook along with it.</STRONG>
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Moved again?
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Mar 3, 2002, 09:51 PM
 
Originally posted by theolein:
<STRONG>Moved again?</STRONG>
Other possible locations:

From: Over yonder...
From: the Beta Quadrant
From: Pluto
From: Smurfville
From: the cotten fields
From: Detroit
From: El Paso, Texas
From: inside a filing Cabinet
From: Baker, Nevada
From: the 405
From: 5555 Melrose Avenue
From: blondesville
From: Zurich
From: a waffle cone
From: taken prisoner by swarms of invading ladybugs, and now reporting from inside ladybugsville prison
From: inside a vacumn cleaner
From: an Escape Pod
From: the bathroom, or back from
From: Arabia
From: the land of no pictures, no comments, no...
From: The White House Pressroom
From: the FBI basement ::cough:: What was your name again?
From: a rave
From: New York... It's Saturday... Ahem.
From: Prague
From: inside an alien cow starcrusier shhh. be wery wery quiet....
From: Secret Bunker at the Greenbriar Hotel in West Virginia
From: the witness protection program
From: the bottom of cloud city
From: Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, NC
From: the pool
From: the Ritz Carlton, Amelia Island Florida
From: under Steve Job's desk
From: a white Toyota pickup truck with license number X14...
From: the home office in Soux City Iowa
From: Moscone Center, San Francisco
From: being held hostage by swarms of very pissed off yellowjackets in a highly agitated state.
From: Where?

And so on...

     
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Mar 3, 2002, 09:59 PM
 
From: the undiscovered country, from who's bourne no traveler returns...
     
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Mar 3, 2002, 10:08 PM
 
I'd take one from the NRO Office. Get me the codes and access data for sattellites and I could possibly retask one. Next time I'm away on vacation and need a house sitter I could have Keyhole12! Of course the downside is that embarrassing moment when someone from the National Security Agency calls me up and asks, "Uh, Rambo47 - why is KH12 above Denville, New Jersey instead of Pakistan where we left it?" I hate when that happens.
     
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Mar 3, 2002, 10:28 PM
 
Originally posted by --Helen--:
<STRONG>

Other possible locations:

From: Over yonder...
From: the Beta Quadrant
From: Pluto
From: Smurfville
From: the cotten fields
From: Detroit
From: El Paso, Texas
From: inside a filing Cabinet
From: Baker, Nevada
From: the 405
From: 5555 Melrose Avenue
From: blondesville
From: Zurich
From: a waffle cone
From: taken prisoner by swarms of invading ladybugs, and now reporting from inside ladybugsville prison
From: inside a vacumn cleaner
From: an Escape Pod
From: the bathroom, or back from
From: Arabia
From: the land of no pictures, no comments, no...
From: The White House Pressroom
From: the FBI basement ::cough:: What was your name again?
From: a rave
From: New York... It's Saturday... Ahem.
From: Prague
From: inside an alien cow starcrusier shhh. be wery wery quiet....
From: Secret Bunker at the Greenbriar Hotel in West Virginia
From: the witness protection program
From: the bottom of cloud city
From: Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, NC
From: the pool
From: the Ritz Carlton, Amelia Island Florida
From: under Steve Job's desk
From: a white Toyota pickup truck with license number X14...
From: the home office in Soux City Iowa
From: Moscone Center, San Francisco
From: being held hostage by swarms of very pissed off yellowjackets in a highly agitated state.
From: Where?

And so on...

</STRONG>
Sweet sweet
Next question - What do yellowjackets, invading ladybugs and skijumping alien cows have in common?
Another next question - What would a rave be like in a place with no pictures and no comments?
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Mar 4, 2002, 12:01 AM
 
Jonathan Ives sounds just perfect; so Jonathan if you read this can we see some of your new designs.
     
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Mar 4, 2002, 12:25 AM
 
What do yellowjackets, invading ladybugs and skijumping alien cows have in common?

Beats me, a computer worth stealing?


Another next question - What would a rave be like in a place with no pictures and no comments?

East Berlin circa 1981.

[ 03-03-2002: Message edited by: --Helen-- ]
     
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Mar 4, 2002, 12:46 AM
 
I'd steal Trent Reznor's Pismo.

I'd LOVE to see the stuff that that guy keeps on that machine. Notes, ideas, lyrics to new and unreleased songs...man, I bet that's a goldmine
I heard he's got like two or three Dual G4s rack mounted on their tour bus, that would be rather sweet to play with, just imagin how much shit there would be on there, countless remixs, unreleased stuff. Then you could create your own shit right there, that would be rather amazing. He also droped some serious coin for his home studio. Set up a huge lan party and have great music going while we play RtCW.

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Mar 4, 2002, 01:09 AM
 
Originally posted by --Helen--:
<STRONG>What do yellowjackets, invading ladybugs and skijumping alien cows have in common?

Beats me, a computer worth stealing?
</STRONG>
A vivid imagination?

<STRONG>
Another next question - What would a rave be like in a place with no pictures and no comments?

East Berlin circa 1981.

[ 03-03-2002: Message edited by: --Helen-- ]</STRONG>
Would you remember that? I remember East Berlin, Alexander Platz, summer 1987. Lot's of concrete, lot's of tourists from East Bloc countries, strange cigarettes, cheap beer, unfriendly people. I was lost, didn't know what to make of it.
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Mar 4, 2002, 06:43 AM
 
I'd steal my own!

erm...
...yeah.
     
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Mar 4, 2002, 05:52 PM
 
I'd steal --Helen--'s.

Wait a minute, mine just shipped. WTF? From Taiwan?

     
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Mar 6, 2002, 05:14 PM
 
-Actually, I'm fine with the one I have. It arrived this morning. It's perfect.

     
   
 
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