As a desperate ploy, try suckering Jay with something like "The board you are posting on is run with GPLv2/GPLv3 software. By registering and using this board's software functions, any product of said software, including generated alpha-numeric characters, HTML code, etc... are by proxy considered GPL contributions, and are inherently non-copyrightable. They are automatically and irrevocably public domain, freely disseminatable. Under GPL, acknowledgement of the source is not even required."

Now, that's alot of techno-mumbojumbo that's true if he were a programmer using certain programs in certain situations, and contributing source code, but if he only googles a little bit, we might trick him. Not much of a chance, granted, but it's the only one I can think of.

However, I hear that Jay's a sharp chap...

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"Those are the people that wonder how a thermos knows whether to keep something hot or keep something cold." ~ NeoWatcher

However, I hear that Jay's a sharp chap... I'm of kind of the same opinion. That, or a very well programmed bulletin-board AI.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

No, no, all wrong!

Jay is really Psi-puff.

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I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid...and I went ahead anyway. - Crow T. Robot

Godspeed, John Glenn. - Scott Carpenter

And these atomic bombs that science burst upon the world that night were strange even to the men that used them.
- H.G Wells, The World Set Free

To the conspiracy crowd, radiation is a big Boogey Man that inspires terror and death in all who encounter it. - JayUtah

Don't hold your breath!

Trademarks are widely misunderstood. There was a discussion on the Catapults Message Board some years ago; the Punkin Chunkin Association (http://www.punkinchunkin.com/) had registered the term "Punkin Chunkin". The registration was restricted to use of the term in association with competitions for hurling vegetables. They (or at least their vice president who was posting) interpreted this as giving them the right to regulate all competitions in which vegetables might be hurled. Not the case at all.

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I think, based on the OP's past experience, the OP will assume that he has been banned already.

Wayne

he's just hiding from all the CIA operatives that hang out here..

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Smart move.

After all, if he gets gitmo'ed, who's left to run the "ISA"?

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i could probably run it, but i'd need a free uniform as part of my compensation package.

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A quick check of the ISA website shows they're all out of those free uniforms.

However for a small fee they still have available this spiffy colonel's uniform



as well as this utilitarian white shirt outfit

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I like the top one. I always wanted to serve Lord Helmet.

But there's something vaguely disturbing about the glow in the second one. I can't place my finger on it. Or, on second thought, I wouldn't place my finger on it.

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"Those are the people that wonder how a thermos knows whether to keep something hot or keep something cold." ~ NeoWatcher

i'll take the second outfit- there's just something about wearing a white plastic dome for a hat that appeals to me for some reason.
but i will NOT change my last name just to fit in with all the other officers.

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I always wanted to be the engineer on that ship...

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Asimov's addition - "Or ignorance."

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage

You're already better- a captain!

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

Yeah, but you need to see Spaceballs to know what I'm talking about.

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Hanlon's Razor - "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
Asimov's addition - "Or ignorance."

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage

Och, laddie, Ah canna agrrrree morre!



Look at the tam!



Ah canna ga plaid now, she'll blow!

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