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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	...One's gotta hate being the "computer guy". In real or virtual worlds, I get inquiries from people who compromise their own operating system, then I do fix the problems, only to see them come back a month later whining that "it has stopped working again and it's my fault". I stopped taking that kind of bullshit a few months ago. It did start here, when I stopped giving consideration to many morons around, gave them anger and a sincere insight into my esteem for them. I had kept one or two personal projects in the works, though... Automod, and another project Webshaman used to beg for. The latter only convinced me further that the only worthy way to feed gold to pigs was at a high price - because, consumerism and mankind are made so that... In any business, consumers want immediate confort in answer to needs that, nowadays, are close to whims. They don't care about the consequences of what it takes to bring that confort to them. Don't care about what's possible, what's realistic, what's not - and don't take responsibilities for their actions. So I started doing the stuff that earns bucks to me more. Yuppers, the more boring stuff that sells. And it does sell. And I am there, closer than ever to what I always wanted, eg. unlocking massive private and public funds for inventions I hold pattents for - without a boss in-between. ...So what's a promise worth? What are all the promises worth now? At some point, I offered mas to hand in the source code to Automod, because a promise still was worth more than gold in my code of honor. To which he blurted that I should make a goodbye post and propose it myself, and confused my move for a "seeking for apology" kind of move. But I am not : I definitely don't give a shit about the average Asylumnite - at best. And a promise? Is worth something still, but if I was to hand in the code to Automod, I'd face the usual bullshit... TP trying to despise me out of his general lack of abilities and overall frustration. Some trying, failing to make it work, and whining at me. Just the exact same reactions I get when I fix a wireless connection gone bad and the end user wreckages it again a month later. Idiots are, after all... idiots. So what? Unbinding myself from the Asylum, good : I don't support this place, am against it's current existence as it is -empty- to me. Empty of common sense, creativity, and intelligence - recyclage, ego boasters, and kiddies - I don't want to advertise, and don't want to link to, or have backlinks. Making an automod : good, a bot of this kind can only do good, if I have it at my fingertips, why not? Handing the source code? No way. Feeding gold to pigs, by experience, only leads to trouble. Automod will, therefore, evolve into a different web service : as I am rebuilding the xml layer of my homesite, www.beyondwonderland.com , I will finally post web services and more recent, public domain code, and will teach automod to recognize -any- discussion, Asylum related or not. I am not setting timely boundaries on personal projects anymore, I am not making childish promises, not seeking for praises, just notifying you that among the beauties of the internet, you'll soon get one more charming "chat semantics" widget which was born to serve this place, and got free. You can freely consider this as a goodbye post. You can answer, do the belly dance, but I am not likely to come back to it, so don't expect answers - and don't expect me to read. You can go to www.beyondwonderland.com and check the changes in the next days, or you can email me, at my first name @beyondwonderland.com For the rest, don't believe the hype, weigh every single bit of information you receive, don't follow gurus, don't praise false idols, believe in yourselves, and take responsibilities for your actions. Or, in Mr. Kipling's words : [quote] If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream--and not make dreams your master, If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! [/quote] Loading...
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