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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 23:39 Profile Homepage #45
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

People are stupid enough to call phone numbers they hear in songs and ask to speak with the person who was mentioned in the song, either seriously or as a prank. There are enough people who do this that anyone unlucky enough to have a identical phone number is generally forced to get a new number.

Dikiyoba.
There is this Urban Legend about a woman whose number was just one digit away from the hotel's next door. She spent some time complaining to the hotel and asking them to change their number (since she got calls all the time). After being ignored, she took the hotel's orders and caused havoc.

In different variations of the story, the hotel either changed its number, or went bankrupt and was bought out by her, or went bankrupt and was sold to another chain that mistakenly called her.

I doubt it's true, because firstly the details are vague, secondly it has a punchline (the fewest real stories do), and thirdly because it is almost custom-tailored to give warm fuzzies to each of us who has experienced big evil corporations stomping on them.

But it's still funny.

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 23:23 Profile Homepage #23
I seem to suffer from mild hypochondria and frequently panic when I'm feeling the slightest bit ill. Once, I even went to the trouble of setting up a dead man's switch on my website once that would display a list of passwords if I didn't deactivate it once a day.

I eventually took it off because the risk of being unable to come online one day and compromising all my accounts outweighed the small risk of dying and leaving things locked behind me.

A combination of Google and a keylogger ensures that there is precious little about my life that would remain private once I'm gone. Fine with me, I won't be there to be embarassed.

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 21:31 Profile Homepage #5
Congratulations.

If I posted a celebratory topic every 500 posts, it would be far too frequent, I'm afraid.

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 21:29 Profile Homepage #21
Inflated ego + bad spelling = noob, I fear. One or the other will have to go.

It was the spelling for me. :P

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 14:10 Profile Homepage #7
I am very thankful you didn't. I like jokes, but there are some things I'd find it hard to laugh about. ;) Here's hoping that your wit and rifle will remain with us for yet another half of a century. :)

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 12:11 Profile Homepage #0
In spite of the ominous title, this is not supposed to be yet another quasi-religious debate. The topic stays firmly in the tangible world, as far as the internet can be called tangible.

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I saw an interesting topic on Slashdot recently, which I thought would be very interesting to see Spiderweb's reaction to.

So, once you die, what happens to your online identity and your data? Have you made any preparations/clauses in your will/lists of online accounts? I realize this is unfamiliar territory for a community whose average age is around 20, but some people plan ahead. I also knew a girl who was murdered a year ago at age 26. Some things happen unexpectedly...

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 09:35 Profile Homepage #47
I am very certain that in 2004, Custer would not have begun to think about renaming himself Belisarius.

That said, it was a historical inevitability of sorts.

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 09:25 Profile Homepage #24
Unfortunately, I do not have a mustache by any reasonable definition of the word. I am growing one however. Since I am blond, so will the beard. :P

And much as I hate to disappoint people, today appears to be the bimonthly cleaning day in our floor. I won't be available for phone sessions, unfortunately.

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 09:20 Profile Homepage #4
Eph, obviously everything is cooler if it's "Apocalypse such-and-such". It's like "of Doom".

The Knowledge of DOOM!!

See?

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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 08:50 Profile Homepage #21
"Sext"? How did you come up with that?

Oh right. Qwerty keyboard. :P

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 08:48 Profile Homepage #45
quote:
Originally written by spy-there:


Redstart and Aran, thanks for digging up the Spiderweb's map. But I cannot see it. Neither in IE nor in Mozilla.
BTW: Who made that beautiful banner?
That's strange. Can you get http://maps.google.com to load? Frappr uses that as an interface, I think.

Also, if you mean the Frappr banner... well... just check the top of this forum. :P

[ Thursday, April 06, 2006 08:49: Message edited by: Kuranes- ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 08:45 Profile Homepage #19
quote:
Originally written by Dominican Desire:


*Spends hours changing it* *Tries it in Spanish* *hates it* *obsesses over it* Gahh, now I’ll be doing this all day
Marlenny, I diagnose you with phone addiction. :P

So. Anyone up to taking the Spiderweb chats one step further and scheduling a Skype conference? I'm varnink yu, mie akzennt iss terrible.

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 07:22 Profile Homepage #42
Spy: It was Alec who started it. It started a trend though...

Also, as a point of interest, Firefox 1.5 displays my whole post backwards. When I was at work, I was using 1.0.4 which doesn't recognize the symbol.

[ Thursday, April 06, 2006 07:24: Message edited by: Kuranes- ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 06:57 Profile Homepage #6
It gets worse. My father has a voice recording that sounds so authentic I can hardly tell the difference - and there is a brief pause after the greeting.

quote:

Recording: Hello?

Me: Hi Dad! I--

Recording: ... I am currently not able to take your call, [...]
I still fall for it on occasion.
:rolleyes:

On that note, if you are not limited in length, try recording a message that consists mainly of silence broken by occasional "Oh really?", "Wow, you don't say!", "That's awful!", and see how long it takes until the caller catches on. ^_^

[ Thursday, April 06, 2006 06:59: Message edited by: Kuranes- ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 06:06 Profile Homepage #40
I don't see it backwards, actually. However, I remember a certain unicode symbol that would do it. This symbol is present in Redstart's location bar.

This is the symbol code:

‮This is what it looks like:

‮

Firefox doesn't do this, however. Perhaps IE still does, or Opera.

Edit: It doesn't mess up this post in IE, although it does mess up Redstart's location bar. Behold the madness of the UBB.

‮Edit2: On the same line, perhaps?

Edit3: That's the solution (it still only works in IE, btw). Apparently line breaks stop the reversal now - a definite improvement. Back in the day when it was all the rage it would mess up the whole topic sometimes... :rolleyes:

[ Thursday, April 06, 2006 06:14: Message edited by: Kuranes- ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 6 2006 03:17 Profile Homepage #81
Which is assuming that there is actually a ball in the center of that tetrahedron. I can't see it, but I don't know of any molecule in this shape that doesn't have such a center, so I assume it's in there. ;)

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, April 5 2006 20:50 Profile Homepage #78
As well as the atomic model of NH4 on your head, unless I am mistaken?

[ Wednesday, April 05, 2006 20:51: Message edited by: Kuranes- ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, April 5 2006 15:40 Profile Homepage #250
Since I am one continent removed from the scene, all I can add is ooc support, but I agree with what you are doing. Agree a lot, that is.

Also, the IC post planned for today is cancelled. I just managed to finish homework and have lectures tomorrow, so the earliest I can write is tomorrow night.

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, April 5 2006 10:55 Profile Homepage #243
An IC is in the making. Will be ready in a couple hours at most.

Apologies for taking control of the "Nightly Visitors" scene, but this is taking too long.

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, April 5 2006 10:37 Profile Homepage #4
The fluffy turtles like geckos.

They're tasty.

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, April 5 2006 05:40 Profile Homepage #31
That sounds easy in theory, but disabilities - especially mental disabilities - are quite hard to define, especially when you add additional criteria such as "serious". I'm not saying it wouldn't work at all, just saying it would work no better than any other system that is judged on a case-by-case basis. You're not going to close loop-holes with it (which is not the worst thing, necessarily).

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, April 5 2006 05:32 Profile Homepage #35
Chats are being held all the time, they are just not scheduled. In fact, just last night I slept through a most interesting discussion Tyranicus and Zephyr had on cats. :)

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, April 5 2006 05:22 Profile Homepage #29
quote:
Originally written by Smugglers' Alliance, Chief of the:

1) The problem is that when you allow for such contingencies, people will find loopholes. What, for instance constitutes a risk to the mothers health? I would say that it should be allowed only when the mother is at risk of death or serious disability.
Then will you at least allow psychological concerns as "serious disability"?

quote:
Due to physiological and psychological concerns, (the discussion of which might violate the CoC), women who are raped rarely conceive children.
While the reasons might violate the CoC, scientifically credible sources and some statistics would not.

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, April 5 2006 00:05 Profile Homepage #20
quote:
Originally written by Redstart:

quote:
From context, I gather this should be "pro-life". ;)
Oops, you're right. It's fixed now. You know, it would be easier if both sides didn't name themselves 'pro-something'. I mean, can't the abortion supporters just call themselves anti-life? I'm sure that wouldn't cause them to lose support.
Well, I'm sure the proliferators (ouch!) wouldn't want to call themselves anti-choice, either. :P

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