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| srussell0018 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Pie
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Wow, you're good at that. |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
More importantly, it doesn't really matter if he's a totally different guy in the flesh, because we're not making fun of him in the flesh. If you present yourself as a clown on the Internet, you get mocked on the Internet. |
The essential assumption, supplied in his narrative, qualifying as part of Mr. Russel's participation in this and the Diplo thread.
| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
You're right, but to say that it's not possible for someone to completely invent an online persona which is almost entirely separate and different from their real-world persona is false as well. |
COR Version:
1. Yes you can, but it's hard.
2. Use vacuum distillation when obtaining isosafrole.
3. I am not sg_57.
I'm unable to find the article, but a while (years) back, as I was researching MDMA, I found an old usenet thread about its synthesis started by a user who called himself Ulysses (I think). The exchange that took place detailed Ulysses's attempts to synthesize MDMA without the use of vacuum distillation, initially, using a paraffin bath with which to heat a fractional distillation in order to attain isosafrole.
Ulysses had a friend (whose name I should but can't remember), with a clearly distinctive voice, apart from Ulysses' tone, which stood out as a more cavalier, devil may care persona, who'd report back on Ulysses' early synthesis routes that, in the case of the paraffin bath, took a humored, teasing tone when the super-heated paraffin exploded as the bottom of a glass round-bottom flask hit its surface. The exchange went on for quite a while with Ulysses eventually nailing the synthesis at which point, confirmation was given by his happy-go-lucky, free spirited counter-part.
Years later, according to the article I read, Ulysses had made purchases for precursors which aroused the attention of law enforcement. Ironically, all of his on-line activity, of which there was a considerable amount, went completely ignored by the DEA. He sat down for an interview where he disclosed that he was an English major who'd never taken a chemistry course in his life and decided, one day, to go to the library and read up on organic chemistry in order to make MDMA. He also disclosed that his counter-part was actually him masquerading as an alt.
Whether Ulysses was actually protecting a friend or if it really was him, I suppose, remains to be seen but I'm inclined to believe the latter, for some reason - but that's the only time I've ever been convinced that someone was capable of so astutely putting something together without leaving signs, apart from clearly literary influences within a series of posts in two distinct voices that, in retrospect, fit together incredibly well without much of the minute misunderstandings that can otherwise dither the exchange of two people who'd ostensibly never met.
The other side of the anecdotal coin is my sg_57 alt troll, where I was actually trying to convince people in Music Discussion that an actually new member was me, posting as an alt. There, I noticed a distinct similarity in writing styles. I would try and do things, such as posting and then deleting a post, he'd just posted, as though I'd made the mistake of authoring a post, in one browser, without deleting it after I'd moved it to another or going into edit one of my posts to remove his constant earmark of deleting the carrier return in the Originally Posted By DJ SAP part of the quote feature. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
What, because this dictionary definition magically overrides another? It's very common to use infer as a synonym for imply. Language use is not prescriptive, and I have a degree in English. If I want to know what the PC LOAD LETTER means, I'll call upon your expertise. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
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Haha, jesus christ. :wtf: |
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| Domesticated |
I really hate to do this to you, but you're actually wrong. Not that it matters, you've scored plenty of points this weekend.
One can't accidentally infer something, because inference is when one takes suggested meaning from received information. In contrast, implied is when the information supplier or creator actually intends additional meaning.
http://grammartips.homestead.com/imply.html |
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| srussell0018 |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
If I want to know what the PC LOAD LETTER means, I'll call upon your expertise. |
Good movie. |
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| bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
What, because this dictionary definition magically overrides another? It's very common to use infer as a synonym for imply. Language use is not prescriptive, and I have a degree in English. If I want to know what the PC LOAD LETTER means, I'll call upon your expertise. |
But not multiple degrees? |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| "Infer" can be used both ways, although generally using it to mean "draw a conclusion" rather than "imply something" is less confusing. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| HAHA SYSTEM J ONLY HAS ONE DEGREE!! IN ENGLISH! EVERYONE POST PICTURES OF BOOKS OMG WHAT A FAG!! |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Pie
HAHA SYSTEM J ONLY HAS ONE DEGREE!! IN ENGLISH! EVERYONE POST PICTURES OF BOOKS OMG WHAT A FAG!! |
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| Silky Johnson |
| I bet he loves Pride and Prejudice. :o |
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| bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
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YOU DON'T KNOW THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM?! |
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