**Welcome! Say hello and introduce yourself on this thread**
Feb 10 2005 00:41
Welcome!
This is a thread for new users to say hi, say how they found the site and ask any questions which they may not want to post a new thread about.
Coming into a community where everybody is throwing their Kropotkins and Bakunins about like tennis balls can often be daunting. In-jokes and people's cliques can seem off-putting, but every community has them - you will find that most people are pretty friendly once you start posting.
Don't forget to fill out your profile information by click on 'my account' at the top of the page.
Try and keep complex crap, in-jokes, flames and arguments off this thread and lets let newcomers feel at home 
A good way to get a basic introduction is to check out our posting guidelines.
Cheers, and welcome to our new users from the libcom.org crew 
Feb 25 2005 18:25
#2
y'know, this thread just isn't working. maybe its because theres only one post on it and its like walking into a party first and being stuck near the lukewarm pizza in an empty room.....
Feb 28 2005 20:06
#3
Well, being a fan of luke-warm pizza and also being new here I'll say Hi.
I'm currently a student studying software engineering. I have a big interest in Free (libre) software and from that have developed an interest in anarchy (My first real introduction to anarchism was finding an anarchist FAQ in the Debian GNU/Linux package repositories).
Feb 28 2005 20:18
#4
Welcome to the forums....
If you havent already seen them elsewhere there are a couple of links to interesting radical tech. links on our page at :
http://enrager.net/culture/computer/index.htm
Which is embarrisngly out of date 
Feb 28 2005 23:53
#5
rkn wrote:
If you havent already seen them elsewhere there are a couple of links to interesting radical tech. links on our page at :
Thanks, there were a couple of quite interesting articles that I hadn't read before.
Mar 1 2005 10:27
#6
Welcome to the boards elleo! 8)
Mar 1 2005 12:16
#7
Elleo wrote:
(My first real introduction to anarchism was finding an anarchist FAQ in the Debian GNU/Linux package repositories).
Hey - me too! When I came across that I think it was the first time I actually realised that anarchism was a serious philosophy and movement, rather than just masked-up rioters who just want chaos for its own sake as news coverage of May Days implied!
Shameless self promotion: my follow-up to that article on free software as anarchism in action is called The Limits of Free Software. Worth a read if I do say so myself.
Updates needed to that link page: add:
AktiviX: free email and mailing lists for activists. Maybe webhosting soon. A riseup.net style collective here in the UK. - www.aktivix.org
Bittorrent, the most efficient and most decentralised P2P system currently in existance - http://bittorrent.com
Wikipedia: a great project with some problems (e.g. the Zionists tend to rule the Israel/Palestine stuff) - www.wikipedia.org
Mar 1 2005 13:23
#8
asa wrote:
Shameless self promotion: my follow-up to that article on free software as anarchism in action is called The Limits of Free Software. Worth a read if I do say so myself.
Nice article. Shows quite well how Free software is only one small part of the neccessary social/economic changes and how Free software itself is constrained in the freedom it can offer by external factors.
Mar 1 2005 14:34
#9
Elleo wrote:
Nice article. Shows quite well how Free software is only one small part of the neccessary social/economic changes and how Free software itself is constrained in the freedom it can offer by external factors.
Thanks. Yea I thought that was somthing important to talk about after writing the first article singing the praises of FLOSS. Freedom published that first article in two parts, interested in the second John?
Mar 3 2005 19:55
#10
Hello there,
I would be happy with a nine-to-five, a plasma telly, and twenty pints of Stella at Yates Wine Lodge of a saturday night, but I am a sad loser with no job, no money and no friends, so I decided to be a trouble-maker instead. Here is some trivia that you may not find interesting:
I am a bit older than my teeth.
I collect stones and spanners when I am not busy thinking, eating or sleeping.
I can't play the cazoo.
Paul the Pixie
Mar 3 2005 20:00
#11
Hi new people.
Mar 10 2005 14:17
#12
Apparently the newest regeistered user is God, just wanted to be the first to say hi to the big man himself, 'bout ye God?
Mar 15 2005 12:12
#13
Hi,all.I'm new here and thought i'd introduce myselff! 
Mar 15 2005 12:15
#14
theungovernableforce wrote:
Hi,all.I'm new here and thought i'd introduce myselff!
Welcome. Tell us all about yourself...
Mar 15 2005 12:32
#15
deja vu...
are you by any chance a Conflict fan, Ungovernable?
Mar 15 2005 16:01
#16
Yeah,mate,I am!
Mar 20 2005 14:13
#17
Hello there. I like the idea of a new peoples thread. Nice and friendly. Now where's the nibbles?
Mar 20 2005 15:14
#18
hi dash-of-lime, welcome to the boards!
Mar 20 2005 16:59
#19
Cheers Gav
Mar 20 2005 17:55
#20
Mar 30 2005 14:56
#21
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Mar 30 2005 14:59
#22
Hello swarthy thug
Mar 30 2005 15:02
#23
After being held inbetween mike slowcums thighs,im back and rejuvinated.
Mar 30 2005 15:04
#24
yeah, well welcome. I'm kropotkin on That Other Site.
Let the bagelling and cobwebbing commence
Mar 30 2005 15:09
#25
Do you flit between both sites then.
is kroptkin a more sedate creature than pingtiao?.
Do you wear dreadful dreads.
Apr 17 2005 21:31
#26
MR LUSTBATHER wrote:
Do i want some? Yes I do swarthy boy . Feed me , feed me!
Apr 18 2005 10:22
#27
Bob Ebay wrote:
MR LUSTBATHER wrote:
Do i want some? Yes I do swarthy boy . Feed me , feed me!
not coming from the cosmopollitain south ive never actully had a bagel.
So go ahead stuff yer face and spit them out in galloways ugly mush.
Apr 18 2005 10:55
#28
As I've had cause to point out elsewhere on these boards, caramelised onion & poppy-seed bagels are the weekend breakfast of choice for all class-conscious workers.
Apr 18 2005 10:58
#29
the button wrote:
As I've had cause to point out elsewhere on these boards, caramelised onion & poppy-seed bagels are the weekend breakfast of choice for all class-conscious workers.
You sound like "the beast" lindsey german.
Apr 18 2005 11:37
#30
MR LUSTBATHER wrote:
You sound like "the beast" lindsey german.
Damn.... exposed. And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those pesky U-75 exiles. 
Hi there.
I would like a nice quiet life with a wife and kids and a boring job. Thanks in roughly equal measures to capitalism's ongoing destruction of the earth and the human mind, as well as this poxy revolution everyone keeps talking about, this easy life of mine will never come. This makes me angry and mad all at once. So i decided it's best to be inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in, so here i am trying to learn and develop with only the pretentious swine on this forum for help.
Yay.