Short version: it’s not really anonymous, and you won’t be 25 years old forever. You might even, in fact, end up dreading that all that stuff you wrote back then might surface at the worst possible moment. Because it does that, you know.
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They won’t listen. Still, nice try.
I once accused the junior Senator of Hawaii of bestiality. Should I be worried?
Only if you own sheep.
I routinely refer to the senior senator from Nevada as ‘accused pederast Harry Reid’.
Any thing you say in a public place is beyond much of the protection the 4th Amendment provides. If you stand on the public street and discuss your plans to rob a store, then that conversation is not protected because – hey, stupid.
The internet is a public street with all of the good and bad that entails. Stay civil, people. It’s a real good idea.
(If you wouldn’t say that in a bar to some random person sitting next to you, don’t say it on the internet.)
(If you wouldn’t say that in a bar to some random person sitting next to you, don’t say it on the internet.)
How late in the evening? Sometimes that’s not a very high bar.
I wonder if I would’ve conducted myself much different back in the day if I had known my Usenet posts would still be around 25 or 30 years later. Maybe…
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Thankfully, I mostly didn’t post anything too idiotic (and also thankfully Google’s Usenet archives are behind a wall of obscurity and search functions that are hard to use even if you have a pretty good idea of what you’re looking for).
Heh. I remember looking at my saved Usenet posts of what I wrote from September to December 1988, mostly arguing in talk.politics.misc, and finding that it was 500K long.