Hat tip: Fallout3
Nicky’s in one of his cyclical manic phases. He started going ballistic last night with Disqus comments, mostly on the Peter Propaganda thread on The Dirty, but there is also this gem from pdf.wondershare.com:
I got this one asshole who plagiarized my novel then turned the novel into a pdf image then turned it into a pdf file. How can I turn a pdf image into a format where I can work on let’s say Freeoffice Text file so I can fix the byline to the rightful owner. Robert L. Baupader plagiarized my novel and if this can what you guys are saying this is able to do, you’re a Godsend. Robert L. Baupader is http://www.vampirefreaks.com/R… as I caught him do this twice before.
Bwahaha. Turning a .pdf “image” into a .pdf “file” must be an inordinately difficult trick. There are plenty of freeware OCR utilities out there to extract the text, but I have to wonder whether even the best of them will recognize the unreadable fonts Nicky loves so much. If it bungs them up in a similar manner to the way closed captioning translates the audio in his YouTube videos, will he even proofread it, and correct the errors? Will he even notice?
Mr. Manic is obviously off his meds again.
I spent a bit of time seeing how hard it is to convert pdf to text, and it took me maybe 15 minutes! That’s including the google search on ways to do it! 🙂
Even w/o having a subscription version of Adobe Reader, which could rip the text into Word for him, he could still copy the damn thing to clipboard, then paste it into his word processor. I just did that with an old .pdf concert ticket I had to print out to gain admission to the event, and it worked fine. Lost the graphics, but it ripped the text like a champ. It’s not rocket science.
Can someone give me the thumbnail version of this Robert L. Baupader story?
As I understand it, it’s a pdf e-book made from scan images of the pages of Nickolaus Albert Pacione’s “Game Over” with the running head author and title replaced with Robert Baupader and “GayMe Over”. It was sent as a prank or parody, and I suspect Pacione knew that but he acts like it is serious plagiarism.
It turns out that Nickolaus lost his .doc, .rtf, and .pdf files for “Game Over” and is trying to figure out how to use OCR optical character recognition software to recover the text from Baupader’s version. Pacione is trying to reissue the book under CreateSpace.
What? It’s on his desktop computer? The monitor of his desktop is out? He’s going through these OCR gyrations on a laptop? He could take a few hours mowing yards for neighbors and raise enough money for a used monitor. I don’t know what to believe about Pacione anymore.
That’s funny in a dumbass childish way. Props to Mr. Baupader.
Thank you for the explanation!
I got two love letters from Nick. I completely ignored them, and I think that made him “move on.” The guy feeds on attention like a leech feeds on blood….
As usual, being a dumbass doesn’t stop nimrod from claiming to be a genius…
https://www.createspace.com/5760296
“Rule of thumb if you’re going to plagiarize from someone, don’t go after someone who is a true to form cyber-techie.”
Hilarious…
So, I literally do not understand what the book is about or even if it is available. I think I’ve mentioned here before that I used to teach English as a Foreign Language, but Pacionese is beyond my abilities.
A cyber techie too inept to fix his own computer or figure out how to back up his all important work! hahahahahahahaha
It doesn’t take a cyber techie to figure out how to use Gorilla Glue to fix a mouse button that keeps popping out, yet that simple solution is beyond his abilities. Even a small wad of Silly Putty or plasticine might do the trick, as long as he doesn’t hurl the damn thing at a wall in a fit of rage.
But Pacione’s work is backed up … on his desktop computer’s harddrive … but the desktop’s monitor died.
Does anyone wonder if his writing might improve, even by 0.1% if he simply stayed on his Medes all the time?
Off his Medes, on his Persians, he’s a pussy either way.
(I fucking love auto correct. Ugh)
If I read him correctly, he was complaining that “Impaled Beauty Queen” was in the “Game Over” pdf as “Impaled Beauty Oueen” and he had to correct “O” to a “Q”.
So apparently he’s editing the OCR text.
I suspect the PDF was deliberately lo-res images (no printable commercial value) and the curlique was fuzzed off the “Q” making it OCR scan as “O”.
Someone sending him a doctored version “GayMe Over” was obviously a prank, not an attempt at plagiarism. That is not at all like what David Boyer did to his “Mind of Illness” but Pacione seems to equate the two acts.
Pacione thinks directly quoting him with attribution is plagiarism, despite the fact that it’s covered under Fair Use principle of copyright law. He also thinks his his story titles are copyrighted, despite the fact that he routinely rips off song titles from bands he likes. Several other authors, including Ray Garton, wrote books called “Game Over” years before he wrote his story using that title, yet Nikita thinks they’re violating his copyrights. No amount of explanation can pry that belief loose from his mnd.