Monday, March 15, 2004

As you know, Reprobates loves Above Top Secret. It now has a sister site - Above Top Secret News Network, not coming to a cable system near you any time, oh, say, this millennium - in addition to the existing message boards on ATS itself, where the tin-foil hatted kooks can discuss items in the news.

What I find particularly amusing is that while the fundamental premise that the ATS "community" is in the know, they have knowledge that has been withheld from the rest of us (by, you know, the UN, or the Liberal press, or whatever), the inane babblings posted to the BBS reveals many of the posters to be not only seriously out of the loop, but simply unacquainted with basic principals of physics, chemistry, computer science, and whatever other topic is at hand.

Not only that, but they way they parade their ignorance just makes it all the funnier - like watching two geeky twelve-year-olds trying to bluff their way through a dorky argument.

Here's a good example - see the follow-up postings on article about world's largest RAM disk (look for the interchange between swampfox and alternateheaven at the bottom of the page).

The icing on the cake is that this behavior is plausibly just the wholehearted application of ATS' stated credo of "deny ignorance" as in not admitting you know zip about something.

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