Comments on: Er, just who are the Neocrats, anyway?(Or: I want my five minutes back) http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:38:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Sanisha http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-680 Sanisha Thu, 25 May 2006 12:17:35 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-680 'The Neocrats is more the preserve of the self-appointed global elite.' i like it. stop, think,and laugh... (you forgot the laughing :) ‘The Neocrats is more the preserve of the self-appointed global elite.’

i like it.

stop, think,and laugh…
(you forgot the laughing :)

]]> By: Original Sin http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-682 Original Sin Thu, 25 May 2006 12:32:25 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-682 Three cheers to the Neocrats. Three cheers to the Neocrats.

]]> By: Saleem http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-685 Saleem Thu, 25 May 2006 13:25:44 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-685 Ask us questions! Ask us questions!

]]> By: Humble Owl http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-686 Humble Owl Thu, 25 May 2006 16:37:24 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-686 Apparently I don't contribute enough. Apparently I don’t contribute enough.

]]> By: Oscar de Clavier http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-687 Oscar de Clavier Thu, 25 May 2006 16:51:52 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-687 Say hello to Revisionism. Say hello to Revisionism.

]]> By: Humble Owl http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-688 Humble Owl Thu, 25 May 2006 17:07:16 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-688 Neocrats are truly a voice of the people! Neocrats are truly a voice of the people!

]]> By: Oscar de Clavier http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-689 Oscar de Clavier Thu, 25 May 2006 17:18:49 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-689 Did you get my "pellets of wisdom" joke? It's so neocratic. Did you get my “pellets of wisdom” joke? It’s so neocratic.

]]> By: Enema http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-691 Enema Thu, 25 May 2006 19:44:09 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-691 An amusing pasttime on the Neocrats is guessing which of the regulars is posing as Oscar. Now, who could it possibly have been this time...? An amusing pasttime on the Neocrats is guessing which of the regulars is posing as Oscar. Now, who could it possibly have been this time…?

]]> By: Saleem http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-693 Saleem Thu, 25 May 2006 20:28:16 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-693 Yes I'm wondering too; I finger Mogogo. Yes I’m wondering too; I finger Mogogo.

]]> By: Sanisha http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-694 Sanisha Thu, 25 May 2006 20:30:21 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-694 i'd like to speak for all Neocrats, now...ahem ..*batting eyelids* when i say that: we do not try to guess who Oscar is, he just says, & he is. just like > we do not need enema's , you force me to contemplate such a yucky image, because we EAT FIBRE , and we DRINK SMOOTHIES..haha,we are all healthy !?! and so, i ask you, Oscar, do we flush such comments away ?no !we use them ! we enron them ( a new word) meaning: we enrole them, if they embezzle and steal ideas and try cheat us out of billions...we find them guilty and flush them!I hope that does not happen to you En, shit happens but please do find a new name and be happy, be a neocrat. *cackling again* ps: Owl, you are so funny, humble or human, you are a hoot ;) ...and Mogogo,welcome back :) i’d like to speak for all Neocrats, now…ahem ..*batting eyelids* when i say that:

we do not try to guess who Oscar is, he just says, & he is.

just like > we do not need enema’s , you force me to contemplate such a yucky image, because we EAT FIBRE , and we DRINK SMOOTHIES..haha,we are all healthy !?!

and so, i ask you, Oscar, do we flush such comments away ?no !we use them ! we enron them ( a new word) meaning:
we enrole them, if they embezzle and steal ideas and try cheat us out of billions…we find them guilty and flush them!I hope that does not happen to you En, shit happens but please do find a new name and be happy, be a neocrat.

*cackling again*

ps: Owl, you are so funny, humble or human, you are a hoot ;) …and Mogogo,welcome back :)

]]> By: Original Sin http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-697 Original Sin Thu, 25 May 2006 20:56:17 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-697 Mr Owl, you have been quiet of late, I for one miss your thoughtful ramblings. And Oscar, well, I think it's best it's kept a secret. Mr Owl, you have been quiet of late, I for one miss your thoughtful ramblings.

And Oscar, well, I think it’s best it’s kept a secret.

]]> By: Humbled Owl http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-707 Humbled Owl Fri, 26 May 2006 22:47:26 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-707 Yes ''pellets of wisdom'' nice...Sanisha and O.S salutations. Yes ”pellets of wisdom” nice…Sanisha and O.S salutations.

]]> By: Sanisha http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-719 Sanisha Sun, 28 May 2006 20:58:28 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-719 hey,where is everyone? is there a party i was not invited to? again ? er, reading your manifesto again I have a correction to make ; i only went byone alias, for good reasons> qwerty but it was a very brief reign. fyi, this weekend i had a bit of the flu, i listened to Sigur Ròs recommended by a friend, brilliant. I missed home , and my lovepod, i even contemplated for a few seconds what brangelina may look like when i am a 40 somthing mother, which made me wonder about the point about maternity leave , on the right : still thinking ....but maybe ppl should not be encouraged to bring children into the world, right now. hey,where is everyone? is there a party i was not invited to? again ? er, reading your manifesto again I have a correction to make ; i only went byone alias, for good reasons> qwerty but it was a very brief reign.

fyi, this weekend i had a bit of the
flu, i listened to Sigur Ròs recommended by a friend, brilliant. I missed home , and my lovepod, i even contemplated for a few seconds what brangelina may look like when i am a 40 somthing mother, which made me wonder about the point about maternity leave , on the right : still thinking ….but maybe ppl should not be encouraged to bring children into the world, right now.

]]> By: Saleem http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-721 Saleem Mon, 29 May 2006 02:58:31 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-721 It's a long weekend in the neocratic lands; we're all boozed up. It’s a long weekend in the neocratic lands; we’re all boozed up.

]]> By: Sarmad http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-722 Sarmad Mon, 29 May 2006 16:11:41 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-722 Sarmad is not a musicologist. They are the ones who study music. They are the boring ones. Sarmad is not a musicologist. They are the ones who study music. They are the boring ones.

]]> By: Oscar de Clavier http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-723 Oscar de Clavier Mon, 29 May 2006 19:01:32 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-723 My apologies; a composer. Revisionism shall strike again. My apologies; a composer. Revisionism shall strike again.

]]> By: Sanisha http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-724 Sanisha Mon, 29 May 2006 20:41:32 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-724 Oscar...for your constant, tireless revising of portfolio's > I have a pressie for you, and only you, especially for you: http://www.fractalus.com/kerry/gallery9/oscar.html Oscar…for your constant, tireless revising of portfolio’s >

I have a pressie for you, and only you, especially for you:

http://www.fractalus.com/kerry/gallery9/oscar.html

]]> By: Oscar de Clavier http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-725 Oscar de Clavier Mon, 29 May 2006 20:43:03 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-725 Sanisha, thank you, that's quite cool. Sanisha, thank you, that’s quite cool.

]]> By: Original Sin http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-729 Original Sin Tue, 30 May 2006 12:13:41 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-729 Fractals are so 1995. Fractals are so 1995.

]]> By: Saleem http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-731 Saleem Tue, 30 May 2006 13:10:46 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-731 The very nature of the fractal is infinite recurrence; a mere decade is nothing to the fractal. Besides, those fractals are even prettier than a Mandelbrot rendered in 365 colours. The very nature of the fractal is infinite recurrence; a mere decade is nothing to the fractal. Besides, those fractals are even prettier than a Mandelbrot rendered in 365 colours.

]]> By: Sanisha http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-734 Sanisha Tue, 30 May 2006 13:19:39 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-734 i was just thinking thats the weather in the neocratic lands was far too balmy...and then a gust Oriinal Sin blew in , wiping away all traces of the delicate, fine fractal i was preparing for you Sin, yes , i thought i would try kill you with kindness....but that is so 1980's ... i was just thinking thats the weather in the neocratic lands was far too balmy…and then a gust Oriinal Sin blew in , wiping away all traces of the delicate, fine fractal i was preparing for you Sin, yes , i thought i would try kill you with kindness….but that is so 1980’s …

]]> By: Sanisha http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-736 Sanisha Tue, 30 May 2006 13:28:55 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-736 sorry for the above slopiness , I admit, it is atrocious. Have y'all ever had the feeling that your mind is becoming fractal ? sorry for the above slopiness , I admit, it is atrocious.

Have y’all ever had the feeling that your mind is becoming fractal ?

]]> By: Saleem http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-737 Saleem Tue, 30 May 2006 13:59:57 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-737 Actually it might be that I never saw Mandelbrot set fractals in VGA graphics; it might have necessitated at least 64,000. And am I incorrectly remembering 365 colours? There are 365 days in a year; how many colours to VGA? Actually it might be that I never saw Mandelbrot set fractals in VGA graphics; it might have necessitated at least 64,000. And am I incorrectly remembering 365 colours? There are 365 days in a year; how many colours to VGA?

]]> By: Saleem http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-738 Saleem Tue, 30 May 2006 14:00:25 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-738 256! 256!

]]> By: Original Sin http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-751 Original Sin Wed, 31 May 2006 09:47:32 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-751 VGA is a reference to the number of pixels displayed (640x480) rather than the colour depth of those pixels, although "VGA" is often used as a colloquial term for archaic graphics performance which often (as you write) was rendered with only 256 or (God forbid we ever return to that time) 16 colours [1]. [1] "Video Graphics Array." Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 2005. Answers.com 31 May. 2006. http://www.answers.com/topic/video-graphics-array VGA is a reference to the number of pixels displayed (640×480) rather than the colour depth of those pixels, although “VGA” is often used as a colloquial term for archaic graphics performance which often (as you write) was rendered with only 256 or (God forbid we ever return to that time) 16 colours [1].

[1] “Video Graphics Array.” Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 2005. Answers.com 31 May. 2006. http://www.answers.com/topic/video-graphics-array

]]> By: Saleem http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-755 Saleem Wed, 31 May 2006 10:16:04 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-755 I am dismayed that none of our readers answered the call in this entry: ask the Neocrats your most untoward, most difficult, abstruse questions regarding Life, the Universe and Everything (hello, Mr Adams), and we shall endeavour to thoughtfully, sincerely, substantively reply. I am dismayed that none of our readers answered the call in this entry: ask the Neocrats your most untoward, most difficult, abstruse questions regarding Life, the Universe and Everything (hello, Mr Adams), and we shall endeavour to thoughtfully, sincerely, substantively reply.

]]> By: Mogogo http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-759 Mogogo Wed, 31 May 2006 11:33:32 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-759 Sal, i think you are either getting ideas above our station, or having delusions of being an agony aunt. either way, i think our public have voted with their feet, or fingers. Sal, i think you are either getting ideas above our station, or having delusions of being an agony aunt. either way, i think our public have voted with their feet, or fingers.

]]> By: Saleem http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-760 Saleem Wed, 31 May 2006 11:36:45 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-760 Not agony aunt, I don't mean "my hamster keeps turning down my propositions"; I mean bigger, better, more important questions. Not agony aunt, I don’t mean “my hamster keeps turning down my propositions”; I mean bigger, better, more important questions.

]]> By: Original Sin http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-762 Original Sin Wed, 31 May 2006 14:39:45 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-762 It helps if you dip your propositions in chocolate. It helps if you dip your propositions in chocolate.

]]> By: Humanite Owl http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-765 Humanite Owl Wed, 31 May 2006 19:38:58 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-765 So you admit you see your station even higher than that of an agony aunt, I think Mogogo's delusions of grandeur point is made. So you admit you see your station even higher than that of an agony aunt, I think Mogogo’s delusions of grandeur point is made.

]]> By: Saleem http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-766 Saleem Wed, 31 May 2006 20:55:14 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2006/05/25/er-just-who-are-the-neocrats-anywayor-i-want-my-five-minutes-back/#comment-766 I didn't say that my answers would be correct, just that I'd give it a shot! I didn’t say that my answers would be correct, just that I’d give it a shot!

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