In article <vag5tr$233sh$3@dont-email.me>, bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com
says...
>
> Klaus Schadenfreude <klaus.schadenfreude.Zwergentöter.@gmail.com> wrote
> in
> news:0n2ncjhb5obi733dhpti70gnmhah9l3pqu@Rudy.Canoza.is.a.forging.cocksuck
> ing.dwarf.com:
>
> > [Default] Baxter <bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com> typed:
> >
> >>You are still evading the point - the primary purpose of a gun is that
> >>it is a tool for killing
> >
> > Wrong, as you usually are, Admitted Pedophile Groomer Nazi Baxter. The
> > gun doesn't decide its purpose.
>
> So what, then, does the gun decide is it's purpose - weird gun-pimp
> groomer KKKlaun?

You dumb ass. Can't you understand anything?
>
> Who said the gun decided anything? It is a tool - and like any tool it is
> designed for a specific purpose. A screwdriver is not designed for
> driving nails, a nail is not designed for picking oranges. Every tool has
> a specific purpose and guns are designed/invented for killing.

So? It still doesn't kill anyone. The person pulling the trigger does.
>
> >
> >>- some variations are for killing game, other
> >>variations are for killing people --
> >
> > So what, Admitted Pedophile Groomer Nazi Baxter?
> >
> >>it was still invented for the
> >>purpose of killing people (arrows and snares worked better for game
> >>back then.)
> >
> > You have no idea what you're talking about, city boy.
> >
> I grew up on the farm with guns. My dad was a Marine, then in the
> Sheriffs Reserve.

So? You didn't do shit but cry.

In article <vahri1$24i6v$1@dont-email.me>,
recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
>
> On 8/25/24 5:01 PM, max headroom wrote:
> > In news:vafqk3$210a8$2@dont-email.me, -hh typed:
> >
> >> On 8/20/24 12:49 AM, max headroom wrote:
> >
> >>> You think all the CMSes weren't notified by their commander?
> >
> >> What you're trying to get people to believe is that a CSM was notified
> >> by DA HQ of the deployment *before* the Unit Commander was notified.
> >
> > Is English not your mother tongue?
> >
> >
>
> Your attempted insult shows the readers that you read the above and that
> you know that your argument is invalid.
>
> Indeed, ridiculously so.
>
>
> You've clearly never learned how the US Army operates: likely because
> the comic strip "Beetle Bailey" is the limit of your knowledge.
>
>
You never served coward.

In article <m45ocjlco0funkntjan87cmr0dmfh5e2tm@4ax.com>,
governor.swill@gmail.com says...
>
> On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 13:27:47 -0400, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
>
> >On 8/24/24 4:04 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> >> -hh says...
> >>> ...
> >>> In any event, the saga of the popular civilian adoption of the AR is an
> >>> interesting one, particularly in light of how little the DoD pays for
> >>> them relative to how much they retail for in the civilian market...
> >>
> >> It's just a gun.
> >
> >Doesn't matter: a poor value product is still a poor value product.
> >
> >
> >>> ...and that's despite how the MIL contracts has significantly higher QA
> >>> and testing expenses in their manufacturing overhead.
> >>
> >> It's still just a gun.
> >
> >
> >So? The point is that there's a large bunch of fools who pay too much.
>
> It's the styling. It's basically a .22 rifle. But when they start piling on
> the scope, the military stock and all the other pretty junk, it's like ordering
> a three ton pickup with chrome, fins, auto tranny, led headlights and
> taillights, a 157 speaker, 50,000 watt stereo and a four cylinder engine.

So?
>
> >>> It comes down to marketing hype for a profitable product, just like how
> >>> automakers push SUVs because they're more profitable for them too.
> >>
> >> Guns don't kill people.
> >
> >So then if they're so harmless, you're saying that you're also willing
> >to take the same risk of being hit by a few rounds...right?
> >
> >After all, you've defended the claim that "its just a fancy .22!" /s
>
> (waiting for his reply to this one ...)

It is and nothing more.
>
> How to handle crooked cops
> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ogzxe7hRFVQ

In article <vahrqn$24i6v$2@dont-email.me>,
recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
>
> On 8/25/24 2:16 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> > In article <vafpij$210a8$1@dont-email.me>,
> > recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
> >>
> >> On 8/24/24 4:04 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> >>> -hh says...
> >>>> ...
> >>>> In any event, the saga of the popular civilian adoption of the AR is an
> >>>> interesting one, particularly in light of how little the DoD pays for
> >>>> them relative to how much they retail for in the civilian market...
> >>>
> >>> It's just a gun.
> >>
> >> Doesn't matter: a poor value product is still a poor value product.
> >
> > Maybe you buy cheap shit.
>
> Quite the opposite: the manufacturing which fails to meet MIL standards
> gets re-binned & sold off in the civilian market distribution channel.
>
>
> >>>> ...and that's despite how the MIL contracts has significantly higher QA
> >>>> and testing expenses in their manufacturing overhead.
> >>>
> >>> It's still just a gun.
> >>
> >>
> >> So? The point is that there's a large bunch of fools who pay too much.
> >
> > So? Why do you care?
>
> Its the same fools who try the "derp! it wasn't an M16, but an M16A2!"
>
> >>
> >>>> It comes down to marketing hype for a profitable product, just like how
> >>>> automakers push SUVs because they're more profitable for them too.
> >>>
> >>> Guns don't kill people.
> >>
> >> So then if they're so harmless, you're saying that you're also willing
> >> to take the same risk of being hit by a few rounds...right?
> >
> > The gun didn't shoot them. The person holding the gun did.
> >>
> >> After all, you've defended the claim that "its just a fancy .22!" /s
> >
> > It is. and how it's used is up to the person holding it.
>
> So you going to stand downrange to take a few 'mosquito bites' or not?
>
>
> -hh

It's still just a gun.

In article <vai61m$2ggu5$1@dont-email.me>,
recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
>
> On 8/26/24 9:53 AM, Skeeter wrote:
> > -hh says...
> >>
> >> On 8/25/24 5:01 PM, max headroom wrote:
> >>> In news:vafqk3$210a8$2@dont-email.me, -hh typed:
> >>>
> >>>> On 8/20/24 12:49 AM, max headroom wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> You think all the CMSes weren't notified by their commander?
> >>>
> >>>> What you're trying to get people to believe is that a CSM was notified
> >>>> by DA HQ of the deployment *before* the Unit Commander was notified.
> >>>
> >>> Is English not your mother tongue?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Your attempted insult shows the readers that you read the above and that
> >> you know that your argument is invalid.
> >>
> >> Indeed, ridiculously so.
> >>
> >>
> >> You've clearly never learned how the US Army operates: likely because
> >> the comic strip "Beetle Bailey" is the limit of your knowledge.
> >>
> >>
> > You never served coward.
>
> I've just gotten back to my desk from a morning workout at the gym on
> Post...what did you do this morning, cupcake? Drool on your cheerios?
>
>
> I've used this old photo before to STFU the poseurs & the "3 and out"
> chickenhawks; one can check the archives for more:
>
> <http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2010/OTAN.jpg>
>
> YMMV on how that level of service compares in your dick-measuring
> contest attempt, but the bottom line remains unchanged: "Max" doesn't
> know how the Chain of Command works. Seems like you don't know either.
>
>
> -hh

You still never served.

In article <vai6p3$2ggu5$2@dont-email.me>,
recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
>
> On 8/26/24 9:56 AM, Skeeter wrote:
> > -hh says...
> >>
> >> On 8/25/24 2:16 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> >>> In article <vafpij$210a8$1@dont-email.me>,
> >>> recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
> >>>>
> >>>> On 8/24/24 4:04 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> >>>>> -hh says...
> >>>>>> ...
> >>>>>> In any event, the saga of the popular civilian adoption of the AR is an
> >>>>>> interesting one, particularly in light of how little the DoD pays for
> >>>>>> them relative to how much they retail for in the civilian market...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It's just a gun.
> >>>>
> >>>> Doesn't matter: a poor value product is still a poor value product.
> >>>
> >>> Maybe you buy cheap shit.
> >>
> >> Quite the opposite: the manufacturing which fails to meet MIL standards
> >> gets re-binned & sold off in the civilian market distribution channel.
> >>
> >>
> >>>>>> ...and that's despite how the MIL contracts has significantly higher QA
> >>>>>> and testing expenses in their manufacturing overhead.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It's still just a gun.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> So? The point is that there's a large bunch of fools who pay too much.
> >>>
> >>> So? Why do you care?
> >>
> >> Its the same fools who try the "derp! it wasn't an M16, but an M16A2!"
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>>>> It comes down to marketing hype for a profitable product, just like how
> >>>>>> automakers push SUVs because they're more profitable for them too.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Guns don't kill people.
> >>>>
> >>>> So then if they're so harmless, you're saying that you're also willing
> >>>> to take the same risk of being hit by a few rounds...right?
> >>>
> >>> The gun didn't shoot them. The person holding the gun did.
> >>>>
> >>>> After all, you've defended the claim that "its just a fancy .22!" /s
> >>>
> >>> It is. and how it's used is up to the person holding it.
> >>
> >> So you going to stand downrange to take a few 'mosquito bites' or not?
> >>
> >>
> >> -hh
> >
> > It's still just a gun.
>
> Sure is. My point is to not get mad at those who *laugh* at those who
> fail to do their homework & pay twice as much as its actually worth.
>
>
> -hh

Why do you care what someone else spends?

Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
news:66ccade8$0$212421$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:

> In article <vai61m$2ggu5$1@dont-email.me>,
> recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
>>
>> On 8/26/24 9:53 AM, Skeeter wrote:
>> > -hh says...
>> >>
>> >> On 8/25/24 5:01 PM, max headroom wrote:
>> >>> In news:vafqk3$210a8$2@dont-email.me, -hh typed:
>> >>>
>> >>>> On 8/20/24 12:49 AM, max headroom wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>>> You think all the CMSes weren't notified by their commander?
>> >>>
>> >>>> What you're trying to get people to believe is that a CSM was
>> >>>> notified by DA HQ of the deployment *before* the Unit Commander
>> >>>> was notified.
>> >>>
>> >>> Is English not your mother tongue?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Your attempted insult shows the readers that you read the above
>> >> and that you know that your argument is invalid.
>> >>
>> >> Indeed, ridiculously so.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> You've clearly never learned how the US Army operates: likely
>> >> because the comic strip "Beetle Bailey" is the limit of your
>> >> knowledge.
>> >>
>> >>
>> > You never served coward.
>>
>> I've just gotten back to my desk from a morning workout at the gym on
>> Post...what did you do this morning, cupcake? Drool on your
>> cheerios?
>>
>>
>> I've used this old photo before to STFU the poseurs & the "3 and out"
>> chickenhawks; one can check the archives for more:
>>
>> <http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2010/OTAN.jpg>
>>
>> YMMV on how that level of service compares in your dick-measuring
>> contest attempt, but the bottom line remains unchanged: "Max" doesn't
>> know how the Chain of Command works. Seems like you don't know
>> either.
>>
>>
>> -hh
>
> You still never served.

http://www.neverwalz.com

Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
news:66ccae75$0$212421$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:

> In article <vai6p3$2ggu5$2@dont-email.me>,
> recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
>>
>> On 8/26/24 9:56 AM, Skeeter wrote:
>> > -hh says...
>> >>
>> >> On 8/25/24 2:16 PM, Skeeter wrote:
>> >>> In article <vafpij$210a8$1@dont-email.me>,
>> >>> recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On 8/24/24 4:04 PM, Skeeter wrote:
>> >>>>> -hh says...
>> >>>>>> ...
>> >>>>>> In any event, the saga of the popular civilian adoption of the
>> >>>>>> AR is an interesting one, particularly in light of how little
>> >>>>>> the DoD pays for them relative to how much they retail for in
>> >>>>>> the civilian market...
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> It's just a gun.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Doesn't matter: a poor value product is still a poor value
>> >>>> product.
>> >>>
>> >>> Maybe you buy cheap shit.
>> >>
>> >> Quite the opposite: the manufacturing which fails to meet MIL
>> >> standards gets re-binned & sold off in the civilian market
>> >> distribution channel.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>>>> ...and that's despite how the MIL contracts has significantly
>> >>>>>> higher QA and testing expenses in their manufacturing
>> >>>>>> overhead.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> It's still just a gun.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> So? The point is that there's a large bunch of fools who pay
>> >>>> too much.
>> >>>
>> >>> So? Why do you care?
>> >>
>> >> Its the same fools who try the "derp! it wasn't an M16, but an
>> >> M16A2!"
>> >>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>> It comes down to marketing hype for a profitable product, just
>> >>>>>> like how automakers push SUVs because they're more profitable
>> >>>>>> for them too.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Guns don't kill people.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> So then if they're so harmless, you're saying that you're also
>> >>>> willing to take the same risk of being hit by a few
>> >>>> rounds...right?
>> >>>
>> >>> The gun didn't shoot them. The person holding the gun did.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> After all, you've defended the claim that "its just a fancy
>> >>>> .22!" /s
>> >>>
>> >>> It is. and how it's used is up to the person holding it.
>> >>
>> >> So you going to stand downrange to take a few 'mosquito bites' or
>> >> not?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -hh
>> >
>> > It's still just a gun.
>>
>> Sure is. My point is to not get mad at those who *laugh* at those who
>> fail to do their homework & pay twice as much as its actually worth.
>>
>>
>> -hh
>
> Why do you care what someone else spends?

http://www.neverwalz.com

On 8/26/24 12:33 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> In article <vai6p3$2ggu5$2@dont-email.me>,
> recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
>>
>> On 8/26/24 9:56 AM, Skeeter wrote:
>>> -hh says...
>>>>
>>>> On 8/25/24 2:16 PM, Skeeter wrote:
>>>>> In article <vafpij$210a8$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>> recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 8/24/24 4:04 PM, Skeeter wrote:
>>>>>>> -hh says...
>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> In any event, the saga of the popular civilian adoption of the AR is an
>>>>>>>> interesting one, particularly in light of how little the DoD pays for
>>>>>>>> them relative to how much they retail for in the civilian market...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's just a gun.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Doesn't matter: a poor value product is still a poor value product.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe you buy cheap shit.
>>>>
>>>> Quite the opposite: the manufacturing which fails to meet MIL standards
>>>> gets re-binned & sold off in the civilian market distribution channel.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>> ...and that's despite how the MIL contracts has significantly higher QA
>>>>>>>> and testing expenses in their manufacturing overhead.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's still just a gun.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So? The point is that there's a large bunch of fools who pay too much.
>>>>>
>>>>> So? Why do you care?
>>>>
>>>> Its the same fools who try the "derp! it wasn't an M16, but an M16A2!"
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It comes down to marketing hype for a profitable product, just like how
>>>>>>>> automakers push SUVs because they're more profitable for them too.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Guns don't kill people.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So then if they're so harmless, you're saying that you're also willing
>>>>>> to take the same risk of being hit by a few rounds...right?
>>>>>
>>>>> The gun didn't shoot them. The person holding the gun did.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After all, you've defended the claim that "its just a fancy .22!" /s
>>>>>
>>>>> It is. and how it's used is up to the person holding it.
>>>>
>>>> So you going to stand downrange to take a few 'mosquito bites' or not?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -hh
>>>
>>> It's still just a gun.
>>
>> Sure is. My point is to not get mad at those who *laugh* at those who
>> fail to do their homework & pay twice as much as its actually worth.
>>
>>
>> -hh
>
> Why do you care what someone else spends?

Why are you getting mad when you're being laughed at?
/s

-hh

Skeeter wrote:

> -highhorse wrote:
>>
>> Sure is. My point is to not get mad at those who *laugh* at those who
>> fail to do their homework & pay twice as much as its actually worth.
>
> Why do you care what someone else spends?

-highhorse knows better than the free market. Others are to be
ridiculed for making the "wrong" choice. I'm somewhat surprised that
he hasn't whined about "too much choice" in the gun market, and tasked
you with producing a "definitive guide" to which gun to buy.

--
"don't make the same gross mistake that chrisv did, namely claiming
that 59K dead "proves" the projected ~2M deaths wrong" - lying
asshole "-hh", lying shamelessly

On 8/26/24 11:48 AM, Creon wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 11:12:54 -0400, -hh wrote:
>
>> On 8/26/24 9:53 AM, Skeeter wrote:
>>> -hh says...
>>>>
>>>> On 8/25/24 5:01 PM, max headroom wrote:
>>>>> In news:vafqk3$210a8$2@dont-email.me, -hh typed:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 8/20/24 12:49 AM, max headroom wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> You think all the CMSes weren't notified by their commander?
>>>>>
>>>>>> What you're trying to get people to believe is that a CSM was
>>>>>> notified by DA HQ of the deployment *before* the Unit Commander was
>>>>>> notified.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is English not your mother tongue?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Your attempted insult shows the readers that you read the above and
>>>> that you know that your argument is invalid.
>>>>
>>>> Indeed, ridiculously so.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You've clearly never learned how the US Army operates: likely because
>>>> the comic strip "Beetle Bailey" is the limit of your knowledge.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You never served coward.
>>
>> I've just gotten back to my desk from a morning workout at the gym on
>> Post...what did you do this morning, cupcake? Drool on your cheerios?
>>
>>
>> I've used this old photo before to STFU the poseurs & the "3 and out"
>> chickenhawks; one can check the archives for more:
>>
>> <http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2010/OTAN.jpg>
>>
>> YMMV on how that level of service compares in your dick-measuring
>> contest attempt, but the bottom line remains unchanged: "Max" doesn't
>> know how the Chain of Command works. Seems like you don't know either.
>>
>>
>> -hh
>
> Smile when you say "3 and out" -- I did my 4 years active duty, and even
> extended by a few months. Was in for Panama and GWI. No combat; we
> guarded Valdez[*] and lent technical support to the Navy.

Oh, I certainly do smile at the one-timers who chose that course, for
they were usually stepping up to take an opportunity to make a better
life for themself (and many did).

That's because for nearly all of them, they grew up and today have a
healthy perspective about their time in, understanding that it was just
a chapter in their life from 30 years ago that's in the past, not to be
regaled at the VFW every friday night while wearing "Iron Man" PJ's.

> I think our longest patrol was during the Exxon Valdez cleanup. Back
> then, we were the biggest ship in the area for a while, so took over C3;
> meant we were the one of the busiest radio rooms on the west
> coast for a while. HF communications and Model 40 Teletypes.
> (One RMC remarked that our technology was "rapidly moving into
> the 70's".)
>
> Trivia: One of the piece of online crypto we used had the code
> name "Creon".
>
> [*] Hussein had made threats to U.S. oil assets, so this was srs bzns.
>

Prince William Sound is pretty picturesque, but it isn't all that
expansive, so I can see it becoming pretty confining pretty quick too:
"Welcome to Whittier - Now What?" <g>

-hh

Baxter wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
> news:66ccade8$0$212421$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:
>
>> <shitsnip>
>
> http://www.neverwalz.com

Heh heh. +1

--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from
the mouths of people who have had to live.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

Creon wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

>>> On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:27:36 -0700, Lou Bricano wrote:
>>>
>>>> All he does, all fucking day long, is post to Usenet, usually more
>>>> than 200 times a day.
>>>
>>> Confirmed.
>>>
>>> I have an old tally program to count posts. Here's the "top 20" count
>>> for everything with the date "25 Aug 2024".
>>>
>>> 476 Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com>
>>> 207 Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com>
>>> 153 Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@www.yahoo.com>
>>> 153 AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
>>> 128 NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com>
>>> 126 Lil dwarf Rudey <dumbasastump@invalid.org>
>>> 122 Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com>
>>> 98 Chips Loral <loralandclinton@invalid.co>
>>> 96 Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
>>> 91 pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> How did you write the tally program? What's it written in?
>
> I use leafnode to grab the articles.
>
> I wrote a script, "headgrep.pl", that only greps the
> header (not the body). If I give it the -l switch, it
> outputs the filename in front of the match, separated by "|".
>
> So the meat of my newstally.sh shell script looks like this:
>
> headgrep.pl '^From:' `headgrep.pl -l "^Date: .*$1" * | cut -d\| -f1 | sort
> -nu` \
> | cut -d: -f2 \
> | sort \
> | uniq -c \
> | sort -rn
>
> The numbers for the actual counts come from the "uniq -c" command.
>
> Unix. Kicks. Ass.

<cola added since this is kind of a Linux thang>

--
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt
of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He
brought death into the world.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:11:28 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> Creon wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>>>> On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:27:36 -0700, Lou Bricano wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> All he does, all fucking day long, is post to Usenet, usually more
>>>>> than 200 times a day.
>>>>
>>>> Confirmed.
>>>>
>>>> I have an old tally program to count posts. Here's the "top 20"
>>>> count for everything with the date "25 Aug 2024".
>>>>
>>>> 476 Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> 207 Skeeter
>>>> <skeeterweed@photonmail.com>
>>>> 153 Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@www.yahoo.com> 153 AlleyCat
>>>> <katt@gmail.com>
>>>> 128 NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com>
>>>> 126 Lil dwarf Rudey <dumbasastump@invalid.org>
>>>> 122 Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com>
>>>> 98 Chips Loral <loralandclinton@invalid.co>
>>>> 96 Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
>>>> 91 pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> How did you write the tally program? What's it written in?
>>
>> I use leafnode to grab the articles.
>>
>> I wrote a script, "headgrep.pl", that only greps the header (not the
>> body). If I give it the -l switch, it outputs the filename in front of
>> the match, separated by "|".
>>
>> So the meat of my newstally.sh shell script looks like this:
>>
>> headgrep.pl '^From:' `headgrep.pl -l "^Date: .*$1" * | cut -d\| -f1 |
>> sort -nu` \
>> | cut -d: -f2 \
>> | sort \
>> | uniq -c \
>> | sort -rn
>>
>> The numbers for the actual counts come from the "uniq -c" command.
>>
>> Unix. Kicks. Ass.
>
> <cola added since this is kind of a Linux thang>

I had to fight with scoring in order to see it in cola.

And...what you posted was a shell script, Chris. ;)

Here's the perl part though:

$ cat headgrep.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

$pat = shift || die;

if($pat eq '-l') { $showfile = 1; $pat = shift || die; }

FILE:
while(1)
{
$fn = shift;
if($fn eq '') { last FILE; }
if(!open($fn,$fn))
{
warn "$fn:$!\n";
next FILE;
}

LINE:
while(<$fn>)
{
$line = $_;
chomp;
last LINE if (/^$/);
next LINE unless (/$pat/o);
if($showfile)
{
print $fn,'|',$line;
}
else
{
print $line;
}
}
close($fn);
}
exit 0;

--
-c

On 2024-08-26, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Skeeter wrote:
>
>> -highhorse wrote:
>>>
>>> Sure is. My point is to not get mad at those who *laugh* at those who
>>> fail to do their homework & pay twice as much as its actually worth.
>>
>> Why do you care what someone else spends?
>
> -highhorse knows better than the free market. Others are to be
> ridiculed for making the "wrong" choice. I'm somewhat surprised that
> he hasn't whined about "too much choice" in the gun market, and tasked
> you with producing a "definitive guide" to which gun to buy.
>
That ass clown seems to be an even bigger Nimrod than snit is.
That's not an easy task.

--
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Tommy Chong For President 2024
Lifetime Member of "The Prescott Parasite Eradication Team"
Ask snit how he pissed on his cat.
All about snit read below. Links courtesy of Ron:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181028000459/http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/snit.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20190529043314/http://cosmicpenguin.com/snitlist.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20190529062255/http://cosmicpenguin.com/snitLieMethods.html

Creon wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> I had to fight with scoring in order to see it in cola.
> And...what you posted was a shell script, Chris. ;)
> Here's the perl part though:
>
> $ cat headgrep.pl
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> $pat = shift || die;
>
> if($pat eq '-l') { $showfile = 1; $pat = shift || die; }
>
> FILE:
> while(1)
> {
> $fn = shift;
> if($fn eq '') { last FILE; }
> if(!open($fn,$fn))
> {
> warn "$fn:$!\n";
> next FILE;
> }
>
> LINE:
> while(<$fn>)
> {
> $line = $_;
> chomp;
> last LINE if (/^$/);
> next LINE unless (/$pat/o);
> if($showfile)
> {
> print $fn,'|',$line;
> }
> else
> {
> print $line;
> }
> }
> close($fn);
> }
> exit 0;

<rush limbaugh ng snipped>

Chomp!
Chomp!
Chomp!

--
Q: Why do people who live near Niagara Falls have flat foreheads?
A: Because every morning they wake up thinking "What *is* that noise?
Oh, right, *of course*!

In article <vaiens$2i5c4$2@dont-email.me>, bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com
says...
>
> Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
> news:66ccade8$0$212421$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:
>
> > In article <vai61m$2ggu5$1@dont-email.me>,
> > recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
> >>
> >> On 8/26/24 9:53 AM, Skeeter wrote:
> >> > -hh says...
> >> >>
> >> >> On 8/25/24 5:01 PM, max headroom wrote:
> >> >>> In news:vafqk3$210a8$2@dont-email.me, -hh typed:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> On 8/20/24 12:49 AM, max headroom wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>>> You think all the CMSes weren't notified by their commander?
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> What you're trying to get people to believe is that a CSM was
> >> >>>> notified by DA HQ of the deployment *before* the Unit Commander
> >> >>>> was notified.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Is English not your mother tongue?
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >> Your attempted insult shows the readers that you read the above
> >> >> and that you know that your argument is invalid.
> >> >>
> >> >> Indeed, ridiculously so.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> You've clearly never learned how the US Army operates: likely
> >> >> because the comic strip "Beetle Bailey" is the limit of your
> >> >> knowledge.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> > You never served coward.
> >>
> >> I've just gotten back to my desk from a morning workout at the gym on
> >> Post...what did you do this morning, cupcake? Drool on your
> >> cheerios?
> >>
> >>
> >> I've used this old photo before to STFU the poseurs & the "3 and out"
> >> chickenhawks; one can check the archives for more:
> >>
> >> <http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2010/OTAN.jpg>
> >>
> >> YMMV on how that level of service compares in your dick-measuring
> >> contest attempt, but the bottom line remains unchanged: "Max" doesn't
> >> know how the Chain of Command works. Seems like you don't know
> >> either.
> >>
> >>
> >> -hh
> >
> > You still never served.
>
> http://www.neverwalz.com

You still never served.

Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

>Baxter wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> http://www.neverwalz.com
>
>Heh heh. +1

Or 2.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

In article <vaiepa$2i5c4$4@dont-email.me>, bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com
says...
>
> Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
> news:66ccae75$0$212421$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:
>
> > In article <vai6p3$2ggu5$2@dont-email.me>,
> > recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
> >>
> >> On 8/26/24 9:56 AM, Skeeter wrote:
> >> > -hh says...
> >> >>
> >> >> On 8/25/24 2:16 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> >> >>> In article <vafpij$210a8$1@dont-email.me>,
> >> >>> recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> On 8/24/24 4:04 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> >> >>>>> -hh says...
> >> >>>>>> ...
> >> >>>>>> In any event, the saga of the popular civilian adoption of the
> >> >>>>>> AR is an interesting one, particularly in light of how little
> >> >>>>>> the DoD pays for them relative to how much they retail for in
> >> >>>>>> the civilian market...
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> It's just a gun.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Doesn't matter: a poor value product is still a poor value
> >> >>>> product.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Maybe you buy cheap shit.
> >> >>
> >> >> Quite the opposite: the manufacturing which fails to meet MIL
> >> >> standards gets re-binned & sold off in the civilian market
> >> >> distribution channel.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>>>>> ...and that's despite how the MIL contracts has significantly
> >> >>>>>> higher QA and testing expenses in their manufacturing
> >> >>>>>> overhead.
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> It's still just a gun.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> So? The point is that there's a large bunch of fools who pay
> >> >>>> too much.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> So? Why do you care?
> >> >>
> >> >> Its the same fools who try the "derp! it wasn't an M16, but an
> >> >> M16A2!"
> >> >>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>>> It comes down to marketing hype for a profitable product, just
> >> >>>>>> like how automakers push SUVs because they're more profitable
> >> >>>>>> for them too.
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> Guns don't kill people.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> So then if they're so harmless, you're saying that you're also
> >> >>>> willing to take the same risk of being hit by a few
> >> >>>> rounds...right?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> The gun didn't shoot them. The person holding the gun did.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> After all, you've defended the claim that "its just a fancy
> >> >>>> .22!" /s
> >> >>>
> >> >>> It is. and how it's used is up to the person holding it.
> >> >>
> >> >> So you going to stand downrange to take a few 'mosquito bites' or
> >> >> not?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> -hh
> >> >
> >> > It's still just a gun.
> >>
> >> Sure is. My point is to not get mad at those who *laugh* at those who
> >> fail to do their homework & pay twice as much as its actually worth.
> >>
> >>
> >> -hh
> >
> > Why do you care what someone else spends?
>
> http://www.neverwalz.com

I made you do it again. You're melting down because of me.

You still never served coward.

In article <vaiij6$2ggu5$6@dont-email.me>,
recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
>
> On 8/26/24 12:33 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> > In article <vai6p3$2ggu5$2@dont-email.me>,
> > recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
> >>
> >> On 8/26/24 9:56 AM, Skeeter wrote:
> >>> -hh says...
> >>>>
> >>>> On 8/25/24 2:16 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> >>>>> In article <vafpij$210a8$1@dont-email.me>,
> >>>>> recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 8/24/24 4:04 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> >>>>>>> -hh says...
> >>>>>>>> ...
> >>>>>>>> In any event, the saga of the popular civilian adoption of the AR is an
> >>>>>>>> interesting one, particularly in light of how little the DoD pays for
> >>>>>>>> them relative to how much they retail for in the civilian market...
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> It's just a gun.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Doesn't matter: a poor value product is still a poor value product.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Maybe you buy cheap shit.
> >>>>
> >>>> Quite the opposite: the manufacturing which fails to meet MIL standards
> >>>> gets re-binned & sold off in the civilian market distribution channel.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>>> ...and that's despite how the MIL contracts has significantly higher QA
> >>>>>>>> and testing expenses in their manufacturing overhead.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> It's still just a gun.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> So? The point is that there's a large bunch of fools who pay too much.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So? Why do you care?
> >>>>
> >>>> Its the same fools who try the "derp! it wasn't an M16, but an M16A2!"
> >>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> It comes down to marketing hype for a profitable product, just like how
> >>>>>>>> automakers push SUVs because they're more profitable for them too.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Guns don't kill people.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> So then if they're so harmless, you're saying that you're also willing
> >>>>>> to take the same risk of being hit by a few rounds...right?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The gun didn't shoot them. The person holding the gun did.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> After all, you've defended the claim that "its just a fancy .22!" /s
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It is. and how it's used is up to the person holding it.
> >>>>
> >>>> So you going to stand downrange to take a few 'mosquito bites' or not?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> -hh
> >>>
> >>> It's still just a gun.
> >>
> >> Sure is. My point is to not get mad at those who *laugh* at those who
> >> fail to do their homework & pay twice as much as its actually worth.
> >>
> >>
> >> -hh
> >
> > Why do you care what someone else spends?
>
> Why are you getting mad when you're being laughed at?
> /s
>
I knew you would run from that.

On 2024-08-26, Creon <creon@creon.earth> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:11:28 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> Creon wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>>>> On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:27:36 -0700, Lou Bricano wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> All he does, all fucking day long, is post to Usenet, usually more
>>>>>> than 200 times a day.
>>>>>
>>>>> Confirmed.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have an old tally program to count posts. Here's the "top 20"
>>>>> count for everything with the date "25 Aug 2024".
>>>>>
>>>>> 476 Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> 207 Skeeter
>>>>> <skeeterweed@photonmail.com>
>>>>> 153 Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@www.yahoo.com> 153 AlleyCat
>>>>> <katt@gmail.com>
>>>>> 128 NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com>
>>>>> 126 Lil dwarf Rudey <dumbasastump@invalid.org>
>>>>> 122 Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com>
>>>>> 98 Chips Loral <loralandclinton@invalid.co>
>>>>> 96 Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
>>>>> 91 pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> How did you write the tally program? What's it written in?
>>>
>>> I use leafnode to grab the articles.
>>>
>>> I wrote a script, "headgrep.pl", that only greps the header (not the
>>> body). If I give it the -l switch, it outputs the filename in front of
>>> the match, separated by "|".
>>>
>>> So the meat of my newstally.sh shell script looks like this:
>>>
>>> headgrep.pl '^From:' `headgrep.pl -l "^Date: .*$1" * | cut -d\| -f1 |
>>> sort -nu` \
>>> | cut -d: -f2 \
>>> | sort \
>>> | uniq -c \
>>> | sort -rn
>>>
>>> The numbers for the actual counts come from the "uniq -c" command.
>>>
>>> Unix. Kicks. Ass.
>>
>> <cola added since this is kind of a Linux thang>
>
> I had to fight with scoring in order to see it in cola.
>
> And...what you posted was a shell script, Chris. ;)
>
> Here's the perl part though:
>
> $ cat headgrep.pl
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> $pat = shift || die;
>
> if($pat eq '-l') { $showfile = 1; $pat = shift || die; }
>
> FILE:
> while(1)
> {
> $fn = shift;
> if($fn eq '') { last FILE; }
> if(!open($fn,$fn))
> {
> warn "$fn:$!\n";
> next FILE;
> }
>
> LINE:
> while(<$fn>)
> {
> $line = $_;
> chomp;
> last LINE if (/^$/);
> next LINE unless (/$pat/o);
> if($showfile)
> {
> print $fn,'|',$line;
> }
> else
> {
> print $line;
> }
> }
> close($fn);
> }
> exit 0;
>
Cool beans.
You do realize that that your person who you claim posts useful information has about 1000+ nyms
and also uses other people's nyms?
Does your script account for that?

--
pothead
Tommy Chong For President 2024
Lifetime Member of "The Prescott Parasite Eradication Team"
Ask snit how he pissed on his cat.
All about snit read below. Links courtesy of Ron:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181028000459/http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/snit.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20190529043314/http://cosmicpenguin.com/snitlist.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20190529062255/http://cosmicpenguin.com/snitLieMethods.html

On 8/26/24 2:53 PM, chrisv wrote:
> Skeeter wrote:
>
>> -highhorse wrote:
>>>
>>> Sure is. My point is to not get mad at those who *laugh* at those who
>>> fail to do their homework & pay twice as much as its actually worth.
>>
>> Why do you care what someone else spends?
>
> -highhorse knows better than the free market. Others are to be
> ridiculed for making the "wrong" choice. I'm somewhat surprised that
> he hasn't whined about "too much choice" in the gun market, and tasked
> you with producing a "definitive guide" to which gun to buy.
>

On the contrary: I'm acknowledging that marketing hype works.

Case in point - how's your "Ultimate Driving Machine" these days?

....because its still at 3rd place on the Autobahn social hierarchy,
despite how much they've invested in their marketing slogan. Golly!

-hh

On 2024-08-26, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
> On 8/26/24 2:53 PM, chrisv wrote:
>> Skeeter wrote:
>>
>>> -highhorse wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sure is. My point is to not get mad at those who *laugh* at those who
>>>> fail to do their homework & pay twice as much as its actually worth.
>>>
>>> Why do you care what someone else spends?
>>
>> -highhorse knows better than the free market. Others are to be
>> ridiculed for making the "wrong" choice. I'm somewhat surprised that
>> he hasn't whined about "too much choice" in the gun market, and tasked
>> you with producing a "definitive guide" to which gun to buy.
>>
>
> On the contrary: I'm acknowledging that marketing hype works.
>
> Case in point - how's your "Ultimate Driving Machine" these days?
>
> ...because its still at 3rd place on the Autobahn social hierarchy,
> despite how much they've invested in their marketing slogan. Golly!
>
>
> -hh

The media is very powerful and those who control the media control the people.
That aside, at some point I did watch a program where they compared military spec guns for the
elite like snipers, seal team, etc to the civilian versions and the conclusions were that the
military versions were far superior but only in the hands of a skilled, trained person.

It would be like giving Serena Williams tennis racquet to even an above average tennis player.
Will it really improve her game?
Doubtful.

--
pothead
Tommy Chong For President 2024
Lifetime Member of "The Prescott Parasite Eradication Team"
Ask snit how he pissed on his cat.
All about snit read below. Links courtesy of Ron:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181028000459/http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/snit.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20190529043314/http://cosmicpenguin.com/snitlist.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20190529062255/http://cosmicpenguin.com/snitLieMethods.html

On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:47:12 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
wrote in <vaipkg$2jfbk$7@dont-email.me>:

> Creon wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> I had to fight with scoring in order to see it in cola. And...what you
>> posted was a shell script, Chris. ;) Here's the perl part though:
>>
>> $ cat headgrep.pl #!/usr/bin/perl
>>
>> $pat = shift || die;
>>
>> if($pat eq '-l') { $showfile = 1; $pat = shift || die; }
>>
>> FILE:
>> while(1)
>> {
>> $fn = shift;
>> if($fn eq '') { last FILE; }
>> if(!open($fn,$fn))
>> {
>> warn "$fn:$!\n";
>> next FILE;
>> }
>>
>> LINE:
>> while(<$fn>)
>> {
>> $line = $_;
>> chomp;
>> last LINE if (/^$/);
>> next LINE unless (/$pat/o);
>> if($showfile)
>> {
>> print $fn,'|',$line;
>> }
>> else {
>> print $line;
>> }
>> }
>> close($fn);
>> }
>> exit 0;
>
> <rush limbaugh ng snipped>
>
> Chomp!
> Chomp!
> Chomp!

A handy perl verb, to be sure.

For those who don't want to refer to perlfunc(1), it removes
the terminating line ending from a line ($_ by default), but
only if it _is_ a newline. "chop" takes the last character,
regardless if it's a newline or not.

--
-v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
OS: Linux 6.11.0-rc5 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
"Time was invented by an Irish guy named O'Clock."

On 26 Aug 2024 22:19:59 GMT, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote in
<lj4dcfFasmaU2@mid.individual.net>:

> On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:47:12 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom
> <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
> wrote in <vaipkg$2jfbk$7@dont-email.me>:
>
>> Creon wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> I had to fight with scoring in order to see it in cola. And...what you
>>> posted was a shell script, Chris. ;) Here's the perl part though:
>>>
>>> $ cat headgrep.pl #!/usr/bin/perl
>>>
>>> $pat = shift || die;
>>>
>>> if($pat eq '-l') { $showfile = 1; $pat = shift || die; }
>>>
>>> FILE:
>>> while(1)
>>> {
>>> $fn = shift;
>>> if($fn eq '') { last FILE; }
>>> if(!open($fn,$fn))
>>> {
>>> warn "$fn:$!\n";
>>> next FILE;
>>> }
>>>
>>> LINE:
>>> while(<$fn>)
>>> {
>>> $line = $_;
>>> chomp;
>>> last LINE if (/^$/);
>>> next LINE unless (/$pat/o);
>>> if($showfile)
>>> {
>>> print $fn,'|',$line;
>>> }
>>> else {
>>> print $line;
>>> }
>>> }
>>> close($fn);
>>> }
>>> exit 0;
>>
>> <rush limbaugh ng snipped>
>>
>> Chomp!
>> Chomp!
>> Chomp!
>
> A handy perl verb, to be sure.
>
> For those who don't want to refer to perlfunc(1), it removes the
> terminating line ending from a line ($_ by default), but only if it _is_
> a newline. "chop" takes the last character,
> regardless if it's a newline or not.

Incidentally, I've re-thought this, and decided it might work better
to grab xover data from the nntp server -- saves the effort of
fighting with leafnode to get the articles, and avoids the overhead
of getting entire articles. Having said that, I'm unmotivated to
haul-off and do it.

--
-v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
OS: Linux 6.11.0-rc5 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
"Do invisible cats drink evaporated milk?"