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Sared - Retired  |
Okay, first: I know this has probably been circulated around enough to get old but hell, I just now saw it and think its cool, second: well, its not funny, but hey, its still cool.  Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager arrested in computer crime scandal", "Hacker arrested after bank tampering"... damn kids. They're all alike. But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's techno brain, ever take a look behind the eyes or the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have moulded him? I am a hacker, enter my world... mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me... damn underachiever. They're all alike. I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to the teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..." damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike. I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... or feels threatened by me... or thinks I'm a smart ass... or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here... damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike. And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addicts veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetence is sought…a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know every one here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all... damn kid tying up the phone line again. They're all alike... you bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert. This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin colour, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike. _______________ I'm crazy, not stupid. This post was edited by Sared on Mar 22 2005 05:23am. |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger 
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Deep. Deep like the grass in my back yard. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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Thomasooo - Student 
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Nice one!  _______________ In the navy and LOVING it! 
Recipient of comment no. 1000 and heart-warming words from Ataris!
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DJK - Student 
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Yup, my everyday life. (not hacking but the other stuff in the text) |
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Sared - Retired 
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Then keep it teh bumped! _______________ I'm crazy, not stupid. |
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solitude - Jedi Council 
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old stuff mate, very old  but good for those too young to see it when it first came out _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
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Bubu - Hubbub 
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I know this from somewhere. Definitely worthy of a shirt, if it wasn't so damn long.  _______________ make install -not war |
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Sared - Retired 
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This was from ages ago. Thought some could still get some use out of it. _______________ I'm crazy, not stupid. |
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Acey Spadey - Student 
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nice _______________ .Lag Bro to Xanatos. Adopted Twin to Bubu. Big-Brother to SmilyKrazy ---- JATSRAD Guru, JASE Member, JA SP Mod Staff ---- The Order of the Stick -- Big thanks to Mango for my avatar -- Quote: Sometimes you've got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun.
Quote: (Random hella old quote) <Fizz of Belouve> .. in sovjet russia, cereals spit at YOU!
Quote: whats the point of growing up, if your not allowed to act childish!
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SirBizNatch - Student 
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and you should prob make som pants thta continue it fizz. dammed long.
btw, where did you get this from? was it Hackers? _______________ Personal body guard to teh 1337 Jacen Aratan! Midbie Council Memeber||Member of the Almighty FiZZsters |
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Plo Koon - Student 
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**Bows** _______________ Free Tibet! Click this link,and learn Here too |
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Fizz of Belouve - Student 
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I bow to that piece of text, brother.
that should be on my next shirt. _______________ One of the Belouve boys, founder of the mighty FiZZsters Midbie council #20 - Fizz - #1933 - Jan '03 - Aug '04 "Renfield, you idiot!" |
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