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rileydog22 wrote: Pffffftt... Wavefunctions are SO easy.  I was manipulating the Schrodinger equation like that when I was 10 years old.

Oh yeah, Mr Smarty pants?

Such has been the patient sufferance of these progholes; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of Prog Archives is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these our forums. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid (if uncaring) world.

Tony has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the Progressive good.

Tony has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

Tony has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of progholes, unless those dweebs would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

Tony has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures, and to mincingly model frilly women's undergarments for their unbelieving eyes.

Tony has locked and/or deleted representative threads repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

Tony has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the pimpled masses at large for their exercise; the forum remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

Tony has endeavored to prevent the quivering members of these forums; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of Bowie fans; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of their lagers and ales.

Terrible Tony has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

Tony has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their payola and graft.

Tony has errected (ohh! Er! I SAY!) a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of peevish, unsmiling metalheads to harass our fey, wan, proggy people, and eat out their substance.

Tony has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies of moronic moderators without the consent of our One True King Peter.

Tony has affected to render the moderators independent of and superior to civility and good Peter's power.

Tony has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our remembrance of all things prog, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended "progression":

• For quartering large bodies of armed Abba fans among us:
• For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any sodomite indignities which they should commit on the members of these forums:
• For cutting off our hitherto unlimited beer and pretzels tab in the members' lounge:
• For imposing make-believe genres on us without our consent:
• For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by bikini-clad, buxom, plus-size lingerie models:
• For transporting us beyond seas to be tickled for pretended offenses:
• For abolishing the free system of Progressive laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary moderation, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these forums:
• For taking away our whoopie cushions, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the settings on the members' sacred mellotron:
• For suspending us by our skivvies, and declaring themselves invested with power to seize our lunch monies in all cases whatsoever.

TONY has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, leered most unseemly at (all three of) our womenfolk, burned our towns, eaten all the pies, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign metalheads to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized prog forum.

He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands, and to listen unceasingly to Dreame Theatere.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless and corpulent Belgian beurocrats, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, ravishing of all and sundry sexes and untoward, perfidious twiddling  of the said knobs of Mellotron.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A hulking Bolton bully, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free progholian people.

Nor have we been wanting in attention to our Prog Metal brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their lummox of a leather-clad leader to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and signing on here. We have appealed to their naive justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our (supposed) common kindred to  progressive music to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace (grudging) friends.

We, therefore, the representatives of the Free Progholes of King Peter, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world (Max? Ron? Maani?) for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these forums, solemnly publish and declare, that these Prog archives Forums are, and of right ought to be free and independent; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the Tony R Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of "Great" Tony, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent (if rather neurotic, obsessive and long-windedly, exhaustively argumentive) progholes, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, drink all the beer, establish commerce, post girly pictures, and to do all other acts and things which incontinent, flatulent reprobates may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of good King Peter, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, our Pallas CDs, our Greg lake posters, and our sacred honor.

So there! Nya nya nya!