Favorite neckbeards through history

[bones]

Simple thread: post a pic and a little info about one or more of your favorite neckbeards through history.

One of mine: Lysander Spooner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner
http://www.lysanderspooner.org/

[DebianJoe]

I'd like to interject for a moment, but what you're referring to as "neckbeard" is actually "GNU / Neckbeard" or as I've recently taken to calling it "GNU + Neckbeard". Neckbeards are not an operating system unto themselves, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Neckbeard”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Neckbeard, and these people have it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
http://stallman.org/

[chilli]

^Oh my g0d. That was beautiful.

[machinebacon]

On the pic even the laptop has a neckbeard - though: Hey RMS, that laptop does NOT run an open-source BIOS!!!!1 Throw it into the sea!



Billy GNUbbons playing a GNUbson Lesb Paul.

[bones]

On the pic even the laptop has a neckbeard - though: Hey RMS, that laptop does NOT run an open-source BIOS!!!!1

Yeah, whoa! Is RMS rockin' a ThinkPad there? Doesn't he use a Lemote Yeelong or something?

[machinebacon]

He should, yes. The only computer with OSS BIOS. Which got stolen in Argentina (?). Unfortunately the thieves couldn't get online via wifi.

[DebianJoe]

If I recall correctly, a few years back, he was using a T60 with Debian. That's probably when this photo was taken. (Why do I know this? I should get outside more.)

[machinebacon]

Uhum, a T60, do we see it right that there's a clit over the 'B'? (It should actually be over the 'V' ;) )

[rhowaldt]

Alex Ebert, singer of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. hates on all things proprietary, plus has a good singing voice.

[DebianJoe]

Uhum, a T60, do we see it right that there's a clit over the 'B'? (It should actually be over the 'V' ;) )

I apparently can't see that well. You perhaps are correct...but this looks like an IBM logo to me, which is why I was thinking that he used one before the Lemote YYYYEEEEEEEEYYYong, or whatever the hell it was.
http://stallman.org/photos/rms-working/pages/127.html

Quote: "Before that I used machines that ran completely free GNU/Linux systems but had nonfree BIOSes. I tried for about 8 years to find a way to avoid the nonfree BIOS." RMS supports non-free!!!

Anyhow, back to neckbeards. ;)

[ivanovnegro]

Ива́н Васи́льевич, known as Ivan the Terrible.



http://annebobroffhajal.com/2011/12/rus ... r-failure/

[machinebacon]

GNUgori Emacsputin (RMS name: RasGNUtin; when running on ARM: RaspGNUtin, when released as OS: Rasputix, when released under the FLOSSGNUOSS: RasGNUtix, etc etc].

RasGNUtin was neither a monk nor a saint and never officially connected to the Orthodox Church, but was considered a "strannik" (or pilgrim) wandering from clistier to clistier.

[4eyes]

I may be being pedantic, or may be missing something obvious, (or even both) ..... but aren't these all 'beards' rather than 'neckbeards' ?

All the same to a pogonophobe - but crucially different to a pogonophile.

[rhowaldt]

4eyes just made a valid point.

[GekkoP]

Neil Fallon, Clutch vocalist. Not my favorite vocalist and not my favorite beard, but I like Clutch so here he is.

[rhowaldt]

Leo Tolstoy. wrote some good shit. has an awesome beard.

btw, this thread will, some day, be cross-linked with the Wiki-thread. look at the fancypancy link: Beards

[bones]

I may be being pedantic, or may be missing something obvious, (or even both) ..... but aren't these all 'beards' rather than 'neckbeards' ?

The neckbeards are hidden under the beards. ;)

[4eyes]

Wow - that's tricky - cloaking the neckbeards

[machinebacon]

As long as it covers the neck it is a neckbeard, no matter if it covers the lips :D
A short neckbeard is a beard and a short beard (also called "shortbread") is a mustache. And a short mustache is a "Penisface".

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[4eyes]

If we are going for personalised definitions - then I have a lip beard (which lesser people sometimes refer to as a moustache - pah!), a chinbeard, a cheekbeard, a neckbeard, and sometimes an earbeard (it comes with age).

I no longer have much of a headbeard, sadly... the age thing again, I think.