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Displayed name | Arancaytar |
Member number | 2984 |
Title | Law Bringer |
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Homepage | http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/ |
Registered | Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, February 24 2006 05:44
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quote:I use Google Reader and a feed to stay on top of things. No ocd-induced page-reloading for me, yay! :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, February 24 2006 05:05
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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. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, February 24 2006 03:52
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quote:I hope that if the word occurs in the banner, you spelt it Slithzerikai... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, February 24 2006 03:50
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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 ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 23:40
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Sorry, I should have marked it more clearly. In my defense, though, I did add a ' :P '. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 22:54
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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. :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 16:39
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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 ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 16:09
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quote: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 ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 15:11
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quote: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. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 11:10
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quote::D -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 08:59
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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." -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 06:11
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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. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 05:51
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quote: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 ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 05:46
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quote:Why say sorry? The death penalty is a disgusting piece of legislature and ought to be abolished! Sorry. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 05:13
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quote:On another note, WTF? -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 04:17
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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 -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 04:13
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Yes, it's me. I registered it, just never used it. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 03:28
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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? -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 03:25
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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? -- That line of argument seems like a very slippery slope indeed to me... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 03:21
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quote:So which of it is the Nanoism - the "Son--err, daughter", the "for with skill" or the "villainy" part? quote:'... 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? quote: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... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 02:32
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I am once again a tiny bit more knowledgeable. What a splendid feeling. :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 02:14
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quote:Whereas now, the only thing lacking is my comprehension. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 01:58
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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 ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 01:32
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Responding to a one-liner with a one-liner: What does it connote? -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 00:54
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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 ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |