2002-05-25T23:24-0700 Evenly matched, this battle is.

So we all went to Baycon SF convention as part of my early conditioning prior to visiting WorldCon in September. I suffered only minor culture shock (primarily over the Sailor Moon ladies and a women dressed in slightly less than a sheet).

Then we went to watch Brad Templeton, chair of the EFF, get called a "motherfucker" by Harlon Ellison in a debate about copyright issues. Admittedly, Harlon's primary critique of Brad at that point was that he was "looking at [Harlon] funny". But he didn't have much good to say about the Net either.

I channelled the whole thing to the scofflaws on "an Internet" (as Harlon called it in passing) via the #infoanarchy IRC channel. For those who like garbled transliterations, here's the log.


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wmf        hey malaclyps 
malaclyps  i'm sitting watching Cory Doctorow and Brad Templeton duke 
           it out with Harlon Ellison at Baycon!
wmf        awesome
*        malaclyps plays "Horns of Shatner" trek fight music
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wmf        Ellison needs a load of clue dropped on him
malaclyps  i'll be your SMACKDOWN commentator for the next 30 
           fist-filled minutes!
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kherr      Cool, Ellison is awesome.
kherr      He's outdated in his thinking of copyright, but.
dnm        malaclyps: Over what?
jkl        hey dnm :)
malaclyps  over DMCA and "Son of DMCA" --- weirdly, Harlon's dead 
           against the DMCA ...
wmf        doesn't he use it against ISPs?
malaclyps  because he says that it stops him suing AOL for allowing 
           his text to appear on their newsgroups
wmf        ah
AccordionGuySend in the ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
malaclyps  Wait - Harlon's revealed his Sith Master - AIiiiieee
Loki       Zerotheos "I pulled over a thousand feet of cat5 cable
           scraps out of my school's dumpster recently. A crimper and a few
Loki       handfuls of rj-45 plugs later, my apartment is a neon-blue 
           rat's nest of network love. I have a cable going from
Loki       my fridge to my coffee maker just because I can!"
malaclyps  and Cory plays the "Brewster Kahle" trump card
malaclyps  Harlon mutters that Brewster Kahle is "arrogant", pots and 
           kettles walking out in protest
malaclyps  it's a packed crowd tonight: lots of slightly overloud 
           laughing and mullets in the audience
kherr      Where are you watching this?
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AccordionGuyIs cory bouncing around like Yoda?
wmf        aw, what a cute nick
AccordionGuyIs Cory delivering pimp-slaps from a distance using The Force?
kherr      Crap, forgot to summon pizza.
malaclyps  Cory is doing the looking broody, pre-bitchslap preparatory 
           yoda phase
kherr      Harlan Ellison isn't someone to mess with. I saw him
           verbally flay someone at a lecture once, because the hapless 
           fool made a crack
           about Ellison's height.
AccordionGuyEvenly matched, this battle is.
malaclyps  Harlon taking out the EFF, is. -- he's asking the EFF to 
           get down that pirate that he and Jerry Pournelle are trying to 
           hunt down
kherr      What's Pournelle up to these days? Does he still pretend to be 
           a technology pundit?
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malaclyps  www.jerrypournelle.com
malaclyps  Harlon says that the EFF is the "police"
wmf        no, the Police put out much better music
malaclyps  Cory points out that they're a "free speech" organisation
kherr      Augh, the Chaos Manor lives.
quinnums   i'm just logging in to find out what's going on in this  
           conference
malaclyps  Harlon is accusing the *EFF* of "shooting off their mouths". 
           Pot and kettle form legal copyright action against him.
quinnums   <antinews> wow this harlan guy is looney as a
koot</antinews>
Loki       anyone got a url to this ellison thing?
malaclyps  brrr-proot fruit the crazyman said
malaclyps  Harlon sez: make citizen arrests of copyright pirates
quinnums   harlon
stuff here
Loki       ugh
Loki       that url is WAY ugly.
malaclyps  google cache
*        tvoj thinks he came back home just in time
kherr      Sigh. He's such a good writer, but he's so wrong about this.
quinnums   its the eff's fault that people violate copyright, cause they 
           could stop it, cause they are smarter than him about electronics
wmf        lol!
tvoj       heh ellison mentions me in his statment:
tvoj       "...WHEN LITTLE INTERNET THIEVES, RODENTS WITHOUT ETHIC OR 
           UNDERSTANDING, STEA..."
malaclyps  tvoj: oh, *you're* that russian pirate, huh
quinnums   brad blamed him for a child's death in africa, but harlan 
           got out of it
tvoj       no, I am The Vole of Justice
quinnums   he said that no, he adopted umbawe and he's doing very well now
silentfury I'd tell that guy he should be put in a mental institution
silentfury putting people in jail over copyright vs violent crimes?
silentfury "Mr. Ellison, do you think that rapists should get less time 
           in jail than people who violate copyright?"
tvoj       that is a rather looney rant
quinnums   oh, it's so far before even that
tvoj       for one thing, he's screaming in ALL CAPS.  he belongs on AOL.
silentfury the trick is to show how much of a lunatic he really is
quinnums   i wanna know how much money harland thinks he's lost to 
           copyright violation
quinnums   that not a trick
dnm        malaclyps: Where is this? What is this?
quinnums   it's not even worthwhile to do anymore
silentfury "Mr. Ellison, do you believe that murderers should get less 
           time in jail than copyright violators?
wmf        malaclyps i'm sitting watching Cory Doctorow and Brad 
           Templeton duke it out
wmf                         with Harlon Ellison at Baycon!
tvoj       what's happening  now malaclyps?
dnm        I am not hip with the Baycon. WTF is it?
quinnums   everyone knows what an idiot/asshole ellison is
wmf        I'm guessing it's a sci-fi convention
dnm        He writes decent stories.
quinnums   yes, he does
malaclyps  kinda dull questions from the audience
tvoj       yeah it's a big annual scifi convention
stevej has quit ("gotta run. bbl")
dnm        malaclyps: Who is left on the panel or whatever to 
           answer questions?
silentfury yea but you need to keep emphasizing how looney he is
malaclyps  someone made good answer to Harlon who says that techies 
           should hunt down copyright infringers - pointed out that
quinnums   and has a hard time getting them published cause he's 
           alienated half the publishing industry
silentfury otherwise ppl forget.
malaclyps  they've been trying to hunt down spammers, unsuccessfully
dnm        quinnums: Funny, that.
kherr      Ellison is actually pretty cool. Remember that he was 
           effectively banned by Spiro Agnew.
malaclyps  dnm: panel is = harlon, brad templeton chair of eff, laura 
           majerus who is a IP lawyer, cory
silentfury I've spoken with Brad before
silentfury very cool guy.
dnm        What I want to know is 1) Where's Ray Bradbury to call the 
           Internet a pinball machine when we need him, and 2) "Where 
           are the Snowdens of yesteryear"?
kherr      He's just really wrong about copyright.
malaclyps  and an academic moderator (who seems weirdly biased toward 
           the harlon viewpoint)
dnm        malaclyps: Has Cory (or anyone else) talked about ebooks yet?
silentfury just get harlon to say that rapists should get less time 
           in jail than copyright violators
quinnums   he's also a genuinely mean person a lot of the time, and 
           another notorious sci-fi misogenist
malaclyps  Lara already said that it's weird that there's no 
           *anti*copyright people on stage
silentfury now that would be icing on the cake.
malaclyps  dnm: not yet
dnm        Is anyone really anti-copyright? I'm not, I don't think.
malaclyps  quinnums is
quinnums   there aren't many of us anti-copyright people out there
dnm        malaclyps: Can you perhaps proxy ask a question for me?
malaclyps  dnm: sure
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wmf        Ian Clarke is anti-copyright
malaclyps  John Perry Barlow is anti-copyright. I ... waver
kherr      I am, I know of at least one other who is.
malaclyps  harlon is sitting quiet, looking like he's surrounded by 
           idiot humans. again.
silentfury malaclyps: ask ellison if rapists should be given less time 
           in jail than copyright violators.
dnm        malaclyps: This is pretty general, but I'm curious to know 
           what everyone thinks of eBooks as applies to copyright, but 
           in the context of, if I write an eBook and claim copyright, 
           where do I stand today. Or, for hillarious effect, alter 
           the question to rile people up.
malaclyps  dnm: not sure i understand your question
quinnums   he has a dent in his forehead from where he holds his head 
           in frustration all the time
dnm        malaclyps: I'm out of the loop on what would be the most 
           incindiary eBook related question to ask.
dnm        malaclyps: Well, I'm curious to know what each of the 
           panel thinks about eBooks, but I want to stir the shit.
dnm        malaclyps: And just asking "what about eBooks" is too general.
silentfury also, ask ellison what he thinks of a microchip implanted 
           in each human being that would kill them if they violated 
           copyright.
silentfury if he was for that, that would be hilarious.
dnm        malaclyps: I'll try to think of something more apropos.
malaclyps  silentfury: have you read Noir by K. W. Jeter? Now there's a 
          guy who actually thinks people should be killed for copyright 
          infringement
quinnums   i think even harlan might notice that kind of baiting
dnm        quinnums: What's your elevator pitch about anti-copyright?
silentfury malaclyps: seriously?
silentfury I didn't think anyone was that bad
quinnums   i don't have an elevator pitch, but i suppose i should
malaclyps  silentfury: seriously.
*        silentfury labels K.W. Jeter as a threat to the human race.
silentfury hey Dubya! go get em!
malaclyps  i think the feeling may be mutual, unfortunately :(
malaclyps  good author though
malaclyps  god this moderator is annoying
quinnums   how about: in an age of ubitqutous access to info, copyright 
           becomes a repressive regine to keep information out of the 
           hands of the people who need it most, for instance minorities 
           and the third world populations
dnm        malaclyps: Ooh. How long does each member of the panel who 
           writes material covered under copyright and who earns money 
           from such expect to make a living off of his or her copyright 
           in say, ten years.
malaclyps  Harlon: an "audience of scofflaws"
malaclyps  Harlon to Brad: "do not pull funny faces, motherfucker, when 
           I'm talking"
dnm        malaclyps: I'd retort with "we keep you in bread and circuses"
silentfury he called him a motherfucker?
malaclyps  yup
silentfury not smart.
quinnums   fuuuuuck
[ Aahz Manuch saw this incident
a little differently - dob, 2002-06-24 ]
silentfury what i wouldn't do for force-grip sometimes.
dnm        malaclyps: If I had money, I'd pay you a vast sum to rush the 
           stage and either pie or punch Ellison the fuck out right now.
dnm        malaclyps: What questions is the audience asking?
malaclyps  harlon: "I have never taken anything out of an internet"
silentfury how can people take this guy seriously
malaclyps  harlon *really* winning over the audience now
dnm        quinnums: Hrm. I'd say that's only excessive copyright 
           enforcement. I see copyright as legal credit where credit 
           is due, and a defense against having people purloin one's work.
quinnums   ah
quinnums   i don't believe in the author's right to credit
quinnums   but like i siad
dnm        malaclyps: Really? What is he speaking to that the audience 
           agrees with so much?
malaclyps  i wish i was taping this
quinnums   i don't have an elevator pitch
malaclyps  dnm: no, being sarcastic. he just accused them all of being 
           scofflaws
dnm        quinnums: Agreed to a point, which is why I was somewhat 
           ambivalent about putting myself firmly on either side of the 
           fence.
dnm        malaclyps: And they liked that? I guess I'd have to be there 
           to understand.
dnm        malaclyps: Oh wait. Duh. Never mind, I'm dumb.
malaclyps  dnm: no, i was just joking. at that point the audience was 
           shouting at harlon
*        dnm nods
silentfury this Ellison guy needs to be drawn and quartered.
dnm        quinnums: I think, more basically, that a culture of credit 
           is pretty piss-poor.
dnm        quinnums: But I haven't done enough serious thinking and 
           debate to shore up my position and outlook.
*        tvoj thinks we will all be happier if we just chip in for halan's 
         medication and be done with t
tvoj       it
silentfury the only rights i think an author should have is recognition 
           for their work.. or moral rights.
*        dnm tries to think of a half-decent question
silentfury hm
malaclyps  dnm: if i can, i'll ask the question about making money in 
           ten years time
silentfury do you think Ellison would know about Noir by Jeter?
malaclyps  not sure
dnm        malaclyps: Cool, thanks.
dnm        You NTK people go to all the cool shows. ;]
silentfury "What do you think of KW. Jeter's views on violating copyright 
           in "Noir" ?
silentfury if he doesn't know and agree, boom
dnm        How old is Ellison now? I forget. I last saw him on what I 
           think was the last Late Late Show with Tom Snyder years back.
malaclyps  dnm: he's about 68
malaclyps  he was really young when he started
silentfury hrm. so how's his heart?
dnm        I think that still makes him junior to Bradbury, who is 
           like 80 now, IIRC.
silentfury maybe we could induce a heart attack by getting him riled up.
Loki       Hard to get him riled up, I'd imagine.
dnm        How old is Delaney? I wish he was there. He'd probably have 
           somethign more intelligent to say.
silentfury "death by copyright"
malaclyps  harlon is claiming that he can hack down any user
dnm        ?
silentfury hack down any user? or track
dnm        H4r10n 311i50n
malaclyps  hack into their computers and shut down pirates
quinnums   dnm: i'm thought about it a lot about it, but not enough to 
           encapsulate it in a short speech
silentfury heh
dnm        quinnums: Sounds like a conversation best had over good beer.
silentfury doesn't he know it's a life sentence in jail for hacking ? :)
malaclyps  a question from a librarian (she said she was a librarian 
           and got an *instant* round of applause)
silentfury librarian's rock
malaclyps  silentfury: ISP guy in the audience promised to "take him down 
           if he does that to my customers"
quinnums   it's just something i've got to write up and put on the net. 
           with no name on it :)
malaclyps  librarian asks about doctrine of fair sale, and how that 
           works in the digital world
wmf        that reminds me... I noticed that whywork has no name on it
silentfury malaclyps: ask him if he's aware of the laws regarding hacking 
           in the USA Patriot Act
dnm        silentfury: That gets off topic quickly.
quinnums   why work needs more love
quinnums   there isn't anyone behind it anymore
silentfury not if he said he could hack any user
dnm        I'm still curious about what such an ensemble of _speculative 
           thinkers_ who make money by the good graces of profitable 
           copyright plan to do to continue to eat in a decade.
malaclyps  dnm: will ask now
dnm        malaclyps: You rock.
silentfury you know what would be funny
dnm        I hope Ellison gets into a tiff. I'd have for him to reply 
           with something lame and off the cuff.
silentfury doesn't Turkey have really really really strict computer laws
silentfury like hacking is death 
quinnums   they almost called security on him ealier... it was wild...
dnm        silentfury: I think Turkey has really really strict everything 
           laws.
dnm        quinnums: You there as well?
silentfury be funny if ellison "hacked" someone in turkey
silentfury and they extradited him.
quinnums   yes
quinnums   next to mala
dnm        quinnums: Sweet.
dnm        quinnums: Sad to have missed meeting you folks at ETCON. 
           Cory's talked about you and I was looking forward to it.
*        silentfury thinks the strategy should be to induce a heart attack by 
         riling him up.
quinnums   harlan is useful
silentfury now that would be poetic justice.
silentfury useful? sounds like the idiot is useful at wasting space 
           and resources
silentfury nothing more.
tvoj       silentfury: would matter little, since a crotchety-old-coot 
           vacuum would form and be filled instantly
dnm        You need a Devil's Advocate.
malaclyps  dnm: harlon says you've asked a stupid question
dnm        Preferrably a smart one too, like Ellison.
quinnums   harlan exists in a space that could be oppupied by someone 
           far more dangerous
malaclyps  moderator has rewritten it
dnm        malaclyps: I would expect nothing less.
dnm        malaclyps: Oh? To what?
dnm        malaclyps: Moderator?
malaclyps  mderator says "What would life be like without copyright"
dnm        malaclyps: Lame!
dnm        malaclyps: That's not very bright.
dnm        malaclyps: And it's also not what I asked. *sigh*
tvoj       rather swift moderator there
dnm        malaclyps: Thanks for trying though, I do appreciate it.
silentfury hm
malaclyps  harlon: pan and columbian univ did study of freelance writers 
           - reavealed that 6000 authors create all of the published 
           content
dnm        malaclyps: This reminds me of those question and answer 
           sessions where the questions are all palateable and the 
           answers all rhetoric.
quinnums   no, 90%
quinnums   he said 90%
malaclyps  ok
silentfury how about "If you claim you can track down and hack any 
           pirate, how come you haven't located Osama Bin Laden?"
malaclyps  harlon says, in summary, authors do not make much money
quinnums   and he said they earn 2600 a year, but i think he accidently 
           left off a 0
silentfury duh, that's the publishers who rape them
quinnums   and every thinks they make a fortune
Loki       Harlan Ellison prolly has a decent fortune, and stephen king.
Loki       Most authors don't.
malaclyps  i don't understand why this helps his argument
silentfury malaclyps: do you think that would be a good q regarding 
           bin laden?
dnm        malaclyps: How do you go about asking questions? Is there 
           some mediated interface people are typing them into for 
           the moderator?
malaclyps  no, i raised my hand and asked
tvoj       i guess he doesn't express much confidence that other 
           means of distributing creative works could result i a 
           living wage
malaclyps  they liked it that the internet had a question to ask
silentfury i would expect one of two responses
silentfury "Who is osama bin laden"
dnm        malaclyps: Ah. And only Ellison had a non-response?
dnm        malaclyps: Indeed. The Internet has many questions.
malaclyps  dnm: harlon's kinda hijacked the answer
silentfury malaclyps: how about "If you claim you can track down and 
           hack any pirate, how come you haven't located Osama Bin Laden?"
*        dnm wonders if feedharlonellison.com is taken
quinnums   heheheheheh gooooood dnm
malaclyps  feedharlonellison to cyber pirates
silentfury wipo would fuck u over tho
tvoj       heh
silentfury :(
silentfury malaclyps: is my question a little too out-there? :)
malaclyps  silentfury: i think i've blown my wad in the question asking 
           capacity
dnm        malaclyps: The Internet would like to know what it has done 
           to Harlon Ellison to invoke such unmititgated wrath beyond 
           provide such services as amazon.com with which he continues 
           to rake in the bucks.
silentfury quinn?
malaclyps  dnm: he says he's not pissed off at the Internet
dnm        silentfury: I'd hate to ask an Osama bin Question at a scifi con.
silentfury this is a sci-fi con?
malaclyps  harlon - "my outrage would be the same as if i was talking 
           to someone living under a tyrant, saying they can't change 
           anything, and making money out of the current situation"
silentfury wtf is ellison doing there
dnm        malaclyps: Oh? Is this like child abuse then? He's not really 
           hurting me, he loves me?
malaclyps  harlon: "you don't understand that there are *people* involved"
dnm        I understand he doesn't understand there are people involved, 
           and you are but one.
malaclyps  silentfury: harlon ellison is "Special Guest" here
malaclyps  wooh it's getting hot in here
malaclyps  harlon promises this will be the last thing he will say
dnm        s/you are/he is/
silentfury dnm: my point by asking that type of question would be to show 
           how much of an idiot he already is. :)
dnm        silentfury: Yeah, but you need to at least wage war on the 
           same relevant turf. Comments like him hacking users are just 
           meant as misdirection anyway.
malaclyps  harlon summary: most of the people who come to this con don't 
           give a shit about science fiction
malaclyps  harlon: sf has become the feeding ground for many small 
           fandoms, videogamers, wargamers
silentfury people also come to sf cons to dream about a world of which 
           he isn't a part of.
dnm        malaclyps: harlon doubletalk descrambled: "most of the people 
           who came to this con don't give a shit about my science 
           fiction, the only science fiction worth anything"
dnm        My opinion of Harlon Ellison has dropped like 
           92304572934574392349e39 percentage points in the last 
           half hour.
silentfury be funny if someone called the county mental health centre 
           on this guy
tvoj       that's it for harlan?
tvoj       er harlon. 
malaclyps  quinn asked what about people who can't afford stuff that's 
           under copyright
dnm        malaclyps/quinnums: What was the reaction/fallout from Ellison 
           calling Templeton a motherfucker anyway?
malaclyps  moderator has rewritten the question again
dnm        And will someone fucking gag this Stalinist moderating bitch?!
malaclyps  dnm: everyone worked really hard to calm them down
malaclyps  dnm: i'm probably being a bit hard on him
silentfury really?
malaclyps  dnm: he's got a scary job
*        silentfury would like to see Brad kick his ass.
dnm        malaclyps: True.
silentfury how can you re-write the question if your asking out loud
silentfury ...
dnm        malaclyps: Did anyone talk about the Creative Commons effort?
dnm        silentfury: Moderator can re-phrase.
malaclyps  dnm: cory mentioned the creative commons earlier
silentfury but ellison hears the question doesn't he
dnm        silentfury: I don't know. The moderator may get a question 
           from the audience and then ask it into the mic edited.
dnm        silentfury: i.e., questioner does not speak directly into mic.
*        dnm shrugs
silentfury that's a pretty in-efficient way of doing things.. at the 
           copyright conference I was at they just took down our table 
           number and let us ask the questions from the mic we had at 
           the table.
dnm        silentfury: It's inefficient if you want to ask questions. 
           It's efficient if you want to control ruckus and lame 
           questions deisgned to troll.
silentfury true.
dnm        quinnums's question is important, I wish someone had actually 
           asked it verbatim and gotten an intelligent answer.
dnm        I suppose Ellison, being the age he is, is all about 
           Capitalism Now
malaclyps  basically the last five minutes has been quinn trying to 
           ask her question again, and have it elided over
dnm        But that's perhaps a bit hasty of me.
tvoj       dnm: which question?
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dnm        tvoj: What about people who can't afford works under coypright
AaronSw    did somebody say copyright panel?
malaclyps  hehe
tvoj       dnm: oh yeah
malaclyps  question to audience: how many have infringed copyright 
           (lots), how many felt bad about it (not many), how many 
           did when they were ignorant and now won't do it again (a few)
wmf        hey AaronSw, you're in the right channel
malaclyps  harlon is still after citizen 513
dnm        malaclyps: That pre-supposes a working knowledge of all of 
           copyright law everywhere. The logic is faulty. Ellison has 
           surely jay-walked in his lifetime without feeling guilty about 
           it.
silentfury how many people think harlon ellison is a total lunatic who 
           doesn't deserve to be human
*        silentfury sees everyones hand up
dnm        silentfury: You're ad hominem-ing
malaclyps  harlon offers five grand for citizen 513 leading to his arrest 
           and condition
dnm        "I am Citizen 513" a la Sparticus.
Loki       I am TK-421!
silentfury I am Darth Vader
*        dnm makes t-shirts on CafePress reading "I am Citizen 513"
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quinnums   is anyone blogging the 5k reward? must happen... quickly... :)
quinnums   can't get to my damn server... argh!
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ntkboy     oh, btw, harlon says you're all "very funny" for the Spartacus 
           joke and that he'll talk to you after puberty
Loki       Puberty scares me.  I don't plan on doing it.  Ever.
dnm        http://www.cafepress.com/citizen513
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Loki       So, it's Ellison's joke about "any random citizen" ?
silentfury anyway it's been fun
silentfury i'm hittin the sack
dnm        It's time like this I wish I had Photoshop.
dnm        Microsoft Photo Editor wont let me insert text.
dnm        But I do have Paint.
malaclyps  phew!
malaclyps  okay, fights over...
malaclyps  he's just exchanged cards with the ISP guy
dnm        Why are all my generic close dialog warnings in German now? I 
           blame Qpad.
malaclyps  he says he's going to sue those motherfuckers as soon as his 
           "hellhounds" see anything infringing on their site
malaclyps  i don't know, i think the most interesting bit about this was 
           the audience
dnm        I really don't like it when my PowerBook randomly decides 
           not to power on.
malaclyps  who were admitted infringers, but pro-authors - harlon got 
           applause and booed
malaclyps  in equal measures, i think
dnm        Hrm.
dnm        Ejecting the battery allows me to turn it on. Strange.
Loki       odd
dnm        This is the second time it's done this.
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dnm        The battery is only holding an hours worth of charge too, but 
           this was in sleep mode and on mains.
dnm        And when I go to turn it on, it's _off_, but the battery is 
           fully charged and it's still on mains.
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dnm        Only ejecting the battery and then pressing power on gives 
           me any joy.
dnm        malaclyps: Weird. What's the mood like now?
Loki       What a lonely life.
*        dnm heads straight back to #bbokwarez
dnm        err, s/bbokwarez/bookwarez/
dnm        I don't like this repetitve churning disk noise on boot up.
malaclyps  dnm: just talked to the moderator ... he was saying that 
           harlon is a smart guy, but just doesn't understand the tech
malaclyps  well, du
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malaclyps  is someone going to blog the $5 for citizen 513?
dnm        malaclyps: Apparently.
malaclyps  i think jerrypournelle has already publicised the case
dnm        malaclyps: I would, but no one reads my blog for that kind of 
           thing.
malaclyps  i was going to do a story about citizen 513 in NTK about a 
           year ago, but we couldn't see the news angle - they've been 
           going after that guy for years
dnm        I'm still trying to make an image of text so I can make 
           Citizen 513 shirts
malaclyps  hehe
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malaclyps  okay, i'm going to go hang out with the klingons and the 
           girls dressed in anime schoolgirl costumes
dnm        I wonder if I can do this in Quark.
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dnm        Later malaclyps, thanks again!
malaclyps  s'fun!
tvoj       later malaclyps
Loki       I wish I could find girls dressed in anime schoolgirl costumes 
           *without* the klingons.