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Old May 18, 2012 | 10:40 AM
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This hacks some people off...lol ...
 
Old May 18, 2012 | 10:48 AM
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I saw a cat hack up something once, does that count?
 
Old May 18, 2012 | 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by qtrracer
...No one really cares that you call a hacker a cracker or vice versa, or a chopper or whatever.
Thank God we have a spokesperson. For a minute there I was afraid I might have to think for myself.
 
Old May 18, 2012 | 11:26 AM
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Originally Posted by qtrracer
This forum is about as far away from the outlaw mentality as is possible. And get a life. No one really cares that you call a hacker a cracker or vice versa, or a chopper or whatever.
His point is that a thread was deleted because a moderator didn't understand what the thread was about. These ain't your Daddy's Harley.
 
Old May 18, 2012 | 11:28 AM
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I have a hacksaw. Does that mean I'm a hacker?
 
Old May 18, 2012 | 11:30 AM
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Wait, what? Who's hacking my bushes?

Seriously, though the term hacker is used so generically and in the negatice by news medias that people don't understand that there is a difference between the two.
 
Old May 18, 2012 | 11:35 AM
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Did someone say slacker? Oops wrong thread. Oh well guess I'll just stay here and slack :P
 
Old May 18, 2012 | 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by barkingspud
I have a hacksaw. Does that mean I'm a hacker?
no, that means you'll cut anything.
 
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Originally Posted by sportyforty8
Hacking my Harley is the same exact thing as chopping. And we all like choppers, don't we? But the new generation doesn't call it chopping anymore. We call it hacking.
Originally Posted by FX4
These ain't your Daddy's Harley.
HEY! Wait a minute! I'm old school, been riding these things way before anybody hacked a computer, but I was thinking about another project and building a chopper. But we don't chop bikes anymore? Will I be building a hacker? What about the TV shows? American Hacker? Orange County Hacker? Oh, F$%K ME! I am so confuzed!
 
Old May 18, 2012 | 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by frog13
HEY! Wait a minute! I'm old school, been riding these things way before anybody hacked a computer, but I was thinking about another project and building a chopper. But we don't chop bikes anymore? Will I be building a hacker? What about the TV shows? American Hacker? Orange County Hacker? Oh, F$%K ME! I am so confuzed!
Good point, and quite amusing, actually. Thanks for the humor.
 



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