Satan Challenged to Fistfight

[Jas]

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37348

Does Mel's healthcare plan cover treatment at a psychiatric facility?

[Silicon]

He went on to say, "I had all these computers and synthesizers in my studio and the hard drives would go down and the digital picture that lives on the computer with the music would just freeze on his [Satan's] face. Then the volume would go to ten and it would happen all the time. "The first time it happened, it scared me," Debney said. "Once I got over the initial shock of that, I learned to work around it and learned to reboot the computers and so I would start talking to him.


BWAHAHAHAA... that's the funniest thing.

Because computers NEVER freeze up or do strange things on their own, it MUST be a supernatural cause!

What a computer novice, he JUST LEARNED how to reboot the computer? No wonder he's so supersticious. Ever teach a class of computer novices? A bunch of magical thinkers who think the machine is out to get them, or haunted or whatever. Most of the time it's user error.

Can someone please change his system so he gets a Red Screen of Death! That'd make him s**t!

[Abdul Alhazred]

Originally posted by Silicon
BWAHAHAHAA... that's the funniest thing.

Because computers NEVER freeze up or do strange things on their own, it MUST be a supernatural cause!


Well I'm no novice, yet sometimes my desktop freezes for no reason I can discern.

I won't say "on its own", that would be anthropomorphizing. :p

I never considered a supernatural cause. Is it a testable hypothesis? :D

[Zep]

Computers are nothing to do with it. This guy could just as easily be talking to the garage door remote control or the microwave if they "went wrong for no reason".

They guy thinks he is talking to Satan - an utterly invented personification of evil, hardly a "real" entity. THAT'S the problem.

[Abdul Alhazred]

Originally posted by Zep
Computers are nothing to do with it. This guy could just as easily be talking to the garage door remote control or the microwave if they "went wrong for no reason".

They guy thinks he is talking to Satan - an utterly invented personification of evil, hardly a "real" entity. THAT'S the problem.
I tend to agree, but if you stipulate his hypothesis, the rest follows logically. Yes even for garage door openers and toasters.

Why do machines fail in "unexplained" ways, anyway? :p

The Satan hypothesis is admittedly implausible. After all why would the Prince of Darkness bother with silly little tricks on mister nobody?

My money's on the elves hypothesis. Much more their speed. :D

[Earthborn]

Originally posted by Silicon
Can someone please change his system so he gets a Red Screen of Death! That'd make him s**t!Edit his SYSTEM.INI. Under [386Enh] add this:MessageTextCOLOR=0
MessageBackCOLOR=4This can be done by sending him a program that changes these settings, or by adding some vbscript code in an email message. :)

Not that I would do such a thing, nor am I encouraging anyone else to do it.

[Zep]

Why do machines fail in "unexplained" ways, anyway?Because if we knew why beforehand then they wouldn't be unexplained! DUH! :D

[Abdul Alhazred]

Originally posted by Zep
Because if we knew why beforehand then they wouldn't be unexplained! DUH! :D

I didn't say unexplained, I said "unexplained", which is quite another thing altogether.

There are said to be methods for propitiating elves. This suggests the possibility of a controlled experiment. :D

[ca3799]

Originally posted by Silicon



Most of the time it's user error.

And the rest of the time, it's evil computer pixies!!

[Ladewig]

Why do machines fail in "unexplained" ways, anyway?

Because products designed by Bill Gates and his minions are *****.

The computers froze for about the tenth time that day and it was about nine o'clock at night and so I got really mad, and I told Satan to manifest himself and I said, 'Let's go out into the parking lot and let's go.' It was a sea change in me. I knew that this was war. I am not a physical person, but I was really angry on this occasion.

If one's computers lock up ten times in one day then it is time to call a repair person. People unwilling to admit that are a bit off.

[Abdul Alhazred]

Originally posted by Ladewig
Because products designed by Bill Gates and his minions are *****.

'*****' is not the correct spelling for 'of the devil'. :p

Think about it. You must personally know several successful businessmen, if not as friends. They may have accomplices, or even henchmen. But do they have minions?

When speaking of Bill Gates, the proper term is 'myrmidons'. :D

[I'll_buy_that]

"It is a complete miracle that I became involved with the project ..."


wait, didn't he say just prior to this

John Debney explained that he was first brought into the movie by Stephen McEveety, a producer on the movie.

"This gentleman is a life-long friend who happens to work for Mel Gibson and Icon and he and I grew up on the same street together in Glendale, California."

where's the miracle? :con2:


he should have stopped into one of those psychiatrist offices.