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quote:
Originally written by Selima:

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Originally written by Slartucker:

I can't believe I'm going to spend my Friday night doing this. *facepalm*
It's better than pathetically re-loading the SW page again and again and again.

I use Google Reader and a feed to stay on top of things. No ocd-induced page-reloading for me, yay! :)

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I do believe I read somewhere that this picture is photoshopped, and the cat is actually far smaller. But that might have been a different picture.

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Slitherakai
I hope that if the word occurs in the banner, you spelt it Slithzerikai...

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Given that General already makes up between 75-80% of Spiderweb postage, unlike BoA, which makes up around 5%, I really don't see the point for this chat.
The BoA chat seems necessary because communication is otherwise so slow, but don't we hang around enough on General that we don't need additional gatherings?

Ah well, I'll be there I guess. :)

Edit: This might fit here, since it's about General.

Say, Drakey, how would you react to a proposal that html be re-enabled here? I was browsing the archives and saw that last time this happened, much fun was had by all. :D

I guess not.

[ Friday, February 24, 2006 04:01: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ]

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Sorry, I should have marked it more clearly. In my defense, though, I did add a ' :P '.

:P

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Well, so far I'm not sure which way I want to go with the archive structure. Basically, I can keep it as it is now - "hybrid" in a way, or half database-driven (the topic list) and half flat-file based (the saved pages themselves). Or, as I once intended, I can go all the way and enter the posts into the database as well, and then generate the archived pages from the database instead of using the flat files.

The second has the advantage of adaptability and searchability, but it also uses more database space - which is usually more limited and more expensive than flat file space when it comes to hosting.

However, some things are redundant - take the ever-repeating signatures for example. I entered about 40,000 General posts in the database (the ones that got dumped last month), and that took 50 MB.

However, 20% of this space is taken up by signatures (which I stored in a separate field for each post).

Applying the rules of database normalization, I should make a new table that stores all *different* signatures used by each member, and then have the original table refer to this table. This table, as I have found out, has roughly 800 rows (or 2% of all posts), and uses a negligible amount of space - less that 100 KB.

In other words, of the estimated 250 MB, about 50 MB could be saved merely by normalizing the signature field. :)

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I've put in your Javscript change, and I hope it works for you now. :)

Also, the main site is now extended a bit, including a page for browsing all threads in the forum, and the profile page from the endeavor.

Edit: My apologies. I spelt "archives" with an s when I made the rudimentary cms system, and I spelt it "archive" in the link. :rolleyes:

[ Thursday, February 23, 2006 21:54: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ]

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quote:
Originally written by Ash Lael:

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Originally written by Arancaytar the Grey:

Why say sorry? The death penalty is a disgusting piece of legislature and ought to be abolished!

Sorry. :P

But would you be in favour of a situation where it was illegal to even support the death penalty?

Even in the case of a Hitler or a guy who kidnapped, raped, and cannibalised 11 young children?

Now wait, which are you arguing - the legality of supporting it, or the penalty itself? In accordance with freedom of speech, supporting it should be legal. The crime of the one it is being advocated for has no bearing on the matter though.

Your first argument can stand well on its own, and does not need what I think is an out-of-place appeal to emotion or popular opinion.

1. By far the minority of deathrow inmates are criminals of the magnitude you described.
2. Many of them have never had their guilt properly proven. An example is the executed murderer who was recently - posthumously - proven to be guilty by a DNA sample.

It turned out he was guilty, sure - but the fact alone that there was sufficient doubt about his guilt that this had to be tested, and that it happened after his execution, shows how flawed the system is.

You are attempting to argue that anyone who argues against the death penalty is valuing the right to life of a murderer (a "cannibal", no less!) higher than that of a lot of innocent children. This is wrong. Killing or not killing the criminal is not the only way to deter, prevent repeat offenses, and punish - and that are the primary objectives in penalties, right? A life sentence is perfectly practical.

[ Thursday, February 23, 2006 16:25: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ]

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Originally written by Ash Lael:

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

I saw mine once years ago, at the end of an e-mail message, attributed to Niels Bohr. I never heard from the sender again, have never found the quote anywhere else, and have never been able to confirm that Bohr said it. I keep it now partly in fading hope that someone will recognize it and tell me where it really comes from.
Brett Bixler had the same quote in his sig for a while.

Wasn't Brett's quote "All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream"?

I'm sure I saw that around somewhere. It's from a poem by Poe.

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I don't have any real proof of its effectiveness, but on the other hand, I haven't seen a certain newbie around recently...)
:D

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I just realized this will be a double post, but they're about half a day apart and on different things, so...

A few minute ago, I saw someone saying "All publicity is good publicity." Now, that is plain false, unless you're a figure like all those pop singers who seem to live off their scandals. So I retort: "All good publicity is good publicity."

Seconds later, I realize this sounds awkward and useless, and jokingly add:

"You can never go wrong with a tautology."

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Augh. Sometimes I'm so dense.

I'd thought his image was a comment on the post above his; that put me off-track.

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Well, if everyone up to 5000 had 1000 posts, all together that would be almost as much as Alorael, which is absurd. Therefore there must be many low-numbered members with surprisingly low post counts.
5000*1000 = 5,000,000

Alorael's postcount < 11,000

A nice definition of 'almost'. :P

Also, there are nearly 2500 members who never posted. And iirc, I once calculated how many top posters share how many posts, and I think it was the top 5% sharing 95% of all posts or something.

[ Thursday, February 23, 2006 05:52: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ]

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quote:
Originally written by Ash Lael:

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Originally written by Zeviz:

...parties advocating killing groups of people shouldn't be legal in any country.
So the Republicans should be banned because they advocate the death penalty for murderers? :P

Sorry.

Why say sorry? The death penalty is a disgusting piece of legislature and ought to be abolished!

Sorry. :P

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quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

IMAGE(http://progshop.com/photos/power_supply_us.jpg)
On another note, WTF?

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You botch your dexterity check. You receive a paper cut, slashing your pulse arteries, and die painfully.

Roll up a new character. :P

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Yes, it's me. I registered it, just never used it. :P

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You know how the release of a new game will always bring a rush of newbies?

I wonder if it would be feasible to measure the quality of the game by the noobishness of the ones who join in its wake.

On the other hand, I wasn't around for the release of BoE, so maybe the noobs were just as bad then?

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At what age are the people though? If you are going to look at it economically, then some of them will have already contributed a lot of those ten million and are thus of no further use to the country - abolish pensions! Or those who have (economically) contributed very little so far - would it be irrational to assume they will not contribute much more in the future, and therefore are of little value?

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That line of argument seems like a very slippery slope indeed to me...

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Originally written by Hanttiworker:

[QB]*goes off to check what the hell is in the signature from an another thread*

So, it starts with a quote from the NaNoisms thread from the NaNoWriMo boards. They're these funny things you write when you're half asleep, half in another world and you're just struggling to make your quota for the today. The father and the girl were supposedly knights and the author wrote 'with skill for great villainy'. It was a popular one and amused me also.
So which of it is the Nanoism - the "Son--err, daughter", the "for with skill" or the "villainy" part?

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I've had some other things in there also, like a non-existant quote from a story of mine (I haven't actually gotten that far into the story yet), an Eddings quote to rival an old one of Khoth's (his was from Tolkien), and probably some other nonsense.
'... I had you once, and I can take you again any time I want to. You're not strong enough to refuse me." - Asharak the murgo (Pawn of Prophecy, by Eddings)'

Which indeed is a bit ambiguous when taken out of context. Wasn't Khoth's quote something about Frodo hugging Sam and breathing hard?

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Then links. Homepage's clear enough. I have a blog, which I update rarely (Aran, why'd you get one if you never use it, and is it even you?).
I have more blogs registered than I care to count, mostly to try a certain blog service until I forget about it. I have a blogspot one that I update almost monthly (used to be more frequent). I assume you mean the Xanga blog, since yours is hosted there. Never used that...

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From the desk of Mitt Romney: in General
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I am once again a tiny bit more knowledgeable. What a splendid feeling. :)

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quote:
Originally written by Infernal666hate:

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Originally written by Arancaytar the Grey:

Didn't you have the same thing in English earlier - something about dashing infants against rocks?
...

Yes, it's the same thing, just in the origional language because there was just something lacking with the translation.

Whereas now, the only thing lacking is my comprehension. :P

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I last ate two cheese sandwiches, hastily prepared this morning. I am about to go off to the cafeteria to acquire some more calories that I need to survive this day.

On the subject of clothing, I'm wearing hiking boots (I usually have only one pair of shoes in any kind of wearable condition, and currently these are...), a pair of jeans, and the very same jeans jacket I mentioned in the last thread of this kind, a year and a half ago.

I can't find that topic right now, unfortunately. Probably had some funky title. I can only find the old "inhaling" and "eating" topics, and the clothes one must be in that vicinity.

Edit: Left out the third point.

You enter the room through a door from the north. The room is shaped like a square, it has a window on the southern wall, and a door on the eastern end of the northern wall that you just passed through. There are four desks, two each facing each other, two facing west and two east.

I am sitting at the northeastern computer. The whole room is vaguely grey, as most offices. There is a telephone that will ring at the worst time sitting next to me, and a heap of paper next to the keyboard in front of me.

The door opens and the boss of the dungeon enters. You ready your weapons for the final battle.

No wait, actually he just wants to ask if I'm done with fixing that program.

[ Thursday, February 23, 2006 02:27: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ]

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Responding to a one-liner with a one-liner: What does it connote?

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At the risk of revealing my incomplete knowledge of internet slang, what does "O RLY" mean? "oh really"?

[ Thursday, February 23, 2006 00:55: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ]

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