Per aspera ~ Testing, by Christ.

Testing, by Christ.

Published 1:43AM, Wednesday, 09/13/2006 in Uncategorized

Someone write a comment, and tell me if the pirate filter I just installed in anticipation of Talk Like a Pirate Day is working.

15 Responses to “Testing, by Christ.”

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1 pedro Sep 13th, 2006 at 10:22 am

I hate you, Steve. Talk like a pirate day is like the stupidest thing ever. A holiday created by 2 idiots who thought it’d be funny to play a game of racquetball in pirate lingo.

Pirates do not talk like Talk Like a Pirate Day. Pirates are bad ass motherfuckers. Talk Like a Pirate Day mocks pirates.

When you mock pirates, you put your own ass on the line! You’ve been warned.
2 Steve Sep 13th, 2006 at 3:34 pm

Well it’s better than Talk Like a Ninja Day, when everyone just stands around going,

“…”

all day.
3 pedro Sep 13th, 2006 at 4:27 pm

I was just kidding. I wanted to see what a rant looked like with pirate translation.

Arrrr!
4 Steve Sep 13th, 2006 at 5:23 pm

Is the pirate translation working for you at all? ‘Cause I get nothin’, even though the appropriate plugins are activated.
5 pedro Sep 14th, 2006 at 9:12 am

Oh. I get nothing. I should have said it doesn’t work, but I thought it would clear to you!
6 Jennifer Sep 14th, 2006 at 1:19 pm

Hey, have you seen this?

http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/
7 Nicole Sep 14th, 2006 at 1:48 pm

Is it supposed to translate boring everyday conversation into pirate lingo? Is Johnny Depp involved at all? Will the magic happen when I click submit?
8 Nicole Sep 14th, 2006 at 1:49 pm

I don’t get it.
9 Steve Sep 14th, 2006 at 3:45 pm

Hey, have you seen this?

http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/

Yup. I suspect that’s not a bug, but a feature.
10 Steve Sep 14th, 2006 at 3:48 pm

Is it supposed to translate boring everyday conversation into pirate lingo?

That was the idea, yeah. Although nothing seems to be happening.
11 Ananth Sep 14th, 2006 at 3:59 pm

I don’t want to nitpick this or anything, but some of these problems are problems with any and all voting systems. They may be amplifeid by using technology, but things like poll workers tampering machines are problems everywhere, and to some extent, the higher skill set needed to commit the fraud undetected makes it less likely, than say some just ‘losing’ a bunch of ballots or ballot stuffing. That being said, sure you do everything you can to tighten up the security once you see what the problems are. Software systems are iterative processes. You come up with functionality, then you change it as the requirements warrant. The thing about the voting machines that will be better than other forms of voting is that these changes will happen faster and better than traditional voting methods.

Also, there is ZERO proof that this voting machines have had any fraud done thus far. Contrary to Robert Kennedy assertions. If we are concerned with voting fraud let start somewhere like Chicago….
12 Eric Sep 15th, 2006 at 2:02 am

Johnny Depp is not a pirate. And Ananth’s (and Pedro’s) rant would have been much cooler in Pirate speak. Although the political blabber should quit cloggin up the important pirate post.
13 pedro Sep 15th, 2006 at 10:22 am

Often times, I wait until my apartment has been robbed before I finally lock the door.

Yaaarrrr!
14 Tom Sep 19th, 2006 at 10:25 am

I watched wife swap for a bit last night and that couple from the ‘talk like a pirate’ website were a couple of douches and not pirates at all. They were Ren Fair rejects and I seriously doubt either of them ever bent a cabin boy over a powder keg.

They probably add Coke to their rum, instead of seawater.
15 Steve Sep 20th, 2006 at 12:05 am

They probably add Coke to their rum, instead of seawater.

And lime! Jesus, the lime! Scurvy, y’know!