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Living Room / Re: It's about ... the clock (mouser)

« Last post by app103 on November 16, 2012, 11:19 AM »

You made the mistake of thinking that CST stood for "Central Standard Time", which is an honest mistake.

What mouser really meant was "Cody Space Time". 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Two classes of membership here?

« Last post by app103 on November 13, 2012, 01:51 PM »

- Some people with many posts here often express very strong opinions and get away with it, they ain't banned and not even reprimanded - so it seems they have the "right" to do so

-clean (November 13, 2012, 11:22 AM)

Everyone has a right to their opinions, even strong ones. As long as you express yourself with respect and refrain from making personal attacks, nobody will think badly of you merely for having an opinion. If you do engage in personal attacks, we will let you know you are being out of line, but not by deleting your posts. Deleting and banning is strictly reserved for spammers.

- I jumped in here, some days ago, not because of virtual kvm's, all the less so because of a given offering, but bec of another thread which treated censorship on bits, and MANY people here had been very astonished by this - this was TOO MUCH for me to not speak out, so I related my censorship history with bits, tongue-in-cheek, but the real reason was my having been TOTALLY CENSORED HERE: Some time ago, under another avatar, I had dared to make some posts where I had related bad experiences with software, and instead of triggering other posts on these subjects - perhaps with better experiences than mine -, I got deleted my posts within minutes, AND got my "account" deleted, i.e. no further posting possible, without getting the slightest explanation, which would have perfectly been possible since I had given my real mail account (which is certainly not the case with this current account that will probably be deleted within minutes from my clicking on the "Post" button.

If your posts have been deleted and your account banned, then it is most likely you posted something that a moderator thought was spam. If the moderator was mistaken, the simple solution is to contact mouser and give him the info he asked for, and he will look into it.

- At the time, I had been totally surprised by that move, since I had thought to write about subjects of not too remote interest, and since I had not in any way been agressive, cynical or something in this order; on the other hand, this current "censorship at bits" thread here had made me laugh out loud, since people who do heavy censorship themselves shouldn't complain about them being censored elsewhere, right?

There is no censorship here. If there was, I would not be here. I would be among the first to leave. Mouser's views on censorship pretty much match my own, which is one of the reasons why I am very comfortable here. I know I can speak my mind freely and there is no risk of having my posts deleted. If it had been otherwise, I wouldn't have invested my time here, making the number of posts that I have over the years.

- You speak about "mouser" - who is "mouser", did he ever gave his name, or is anonymity important to him? I suppose he's the creator of this forum, right? Allow for another question: Why is he considered "God" or similar, here? Has he done exceptional things? Get me right, please, I'm not suggesting he didn't, I'm just in total absence of knowledge, so I'm asking.

Mouser is the site founder, it's first software author, site administrator, and the captain at the wheel of the community, steering it through fair weather and the storms. He has earned our trust, our respect, and our love... many times over.

- Then, is he funding this forum? It seems that for the financing of the servers, this forum relies upon public funding, by donations, so there might not be any (more) funding by "mouser", or is there? So here again, I haven't been successful in getting why "mouser" is considered "above it all", instead of this forum being sort of a democratic one.

He started this site with his initial investment, out of his own pocket, and funded it himself until it became established and self supporting. Today, we fund it. And by we, I am referring to the members, both seen and unseen, that have considered this site, our software, and our community something worth supporting, that have generously opened their pockets and made a contribution to ensure that we can continue doing what we do here.

- When I see the kind of speak of the "very frequent posters" here, addressing newcomers or "infrequent posters", I see sort of condescension and patronizing and which does NOT seem to be related to the respective content of the respective postings of either side, but simply to a "rule" or something that the former would have the "better rights" as the latter ones - of course, I don't discover this phenomenon in any thread and any exchange of posts, but it appears rather often and much more frequently than being coincidental or unintentionally.

This isn't something I have noticed. I am not saying that your observations are incorrect, it's just that I am not aware of it happening. There might be a certain amount of distrust to new members, especially ones that drag up very old threads, and post links to another site as their first post. The community will tend to look at them as possible spammers and might behave a bit less than throwing their arms open and hugging them to death.

- So what's going on here? What is the reason behind "unworthy" contributors here being treated like schoolboys were fifty years ago in civilised countries, especially in view of the fact that, as said, "regular" posters, the "masters" here, are allowed LOTS of "strong opinioning", so there does NOT seem to be a general rule of utmost complacency and attenuation, etc. that'd apply to everyone, far from that?

As I stated before, strong opinions are welcome, from anyone and everyone, regardless of how long they have been a member here.

- What is the general idea behind this allowing to freely discuss things for a minority here when for everybody else, it's permanent self-censorship in order to avoid reprimands or even kick-out?

There is no fear of being kicked out unless you are a spammer. As far as being reprimanded, it might happen in the case of a heated discussion that mouser will step in and make a post reminding us to be nice to each other and not make personal attacks, or he may send someone a private message to discuss a post one has made that might not be suitable. He will express his opinions and discuss things fairly with you. You may or may not see eye to eye on an issue. But he won't ban you or delete your posts over it.

- This being a discussion forum with lots of participation, it seems to me that the questions I ask here are of some relevance, since for many a potential poster to such a forum, it's a question of adhering to such rules that need some explanation, or to shut up to begin with. There are many countries in this world where people ain't equal, and much worse, but for a forum where you'd instinctively presume equality among the participants, this blatant non-equality in the treatment different classes of participants are granting each other, mutually, seems astonishing and worthwile a little more info about the underlying reasons for all this than you can get by simple observation, hence my request to get some background to all this.

You have every right in the world to voice your concerns and ask for clarification if there is something you do not understand. Our community prides itself in being respectful of other's opinions and allowing all participants to have their say. We are all equals here, more equal here than we would be considered elsewhere. We enjoy helping each other and answering each other's questions, including yours.

- Is there a chance go get this, or will the censor act first?

There is no censor here.

^give the OP some time and benefit of the doubt to read all the "litanies" that just got posted.

I'm sure it was a simple misunderstanding that will get worked out. I have high hopes clean will become a valued and regular visitor. I also give him/her credit for airing his/her concerns rather than just packing up and going elsewhere. That takes character as well, and it's one more reason why I hope to see him/her stay with us.

-40hz (November 13, 2012, 01:17 PM)

I agree. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Strategies to stay with Windows 7 as long as possible

« Last post by app103 on November 13, 2012, 04:22 AM »

Adobe Acrobat 6 and Paint Shop Pro Versions X and earlier will not run properly, or at all, under Windows 7.

-xtabber (November 12, 2012, 04:05 PM)

This is why I would run XP or an older version of Windows in a VM. I am not willing to give up my beloved PSP7 for any reason.

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Living Room / Re: Remember Buckyballs? They Are Now Gone

« Last post by app103 on November 13, 2012, 04:08 AM »

Once an actual recall has been issued on a product, it becomes illegal to sell that product anywhere in the US, even 2nd hand at a yard sale.

There is currently a war on products containing magnets. It is semi-justified. In homes where there are young children that put things in their mouths, one magnet won't do any harm, but 2 can kill a child. But the CPSC harassment of companies and their magnet containing products is unevenly applied. Some companies and product categories get hit while others do not. Toy companies of course get hit more often, while manufacturers of refrigerator magnets rarely get hit. And some of those magnets are more toy-like than the actual toys that are being recalled.

This is from a line of refrigerator magnets that is still in production and still available in many stores, and has never been the issue of a recall:



There is a whole line of them, many different kitchen appliances. While they make really cute fridge magnets, they are the perfect size for a child's doll house, and I can remember buying the entire line for my daughter's doll house.

If you are going to pressure companies to recall products containing magnets, especially toys, then it needs to be applied evenly, with fridge magnets like these also being recalled.

But I think the issue I have with the whole idea of recalling everything that has a magnet in it is that in places where there are no young children that put things in their mouths, the magnets pose no danger at all. The pressure to recall both Bucky Balls and Zen magnets is very unfair to those companies and their customers that have no young children at all. The CPSC wants to make it illegal for a teenager that's an only child to have a set of these, wants to make it illegal for a childless adult to have a set, wants to make it illegal for a CEO to have a set on the desk in his office.

While I will agree with a warning label to alert parents of young children of the dangers of magnets, I don't agree with a recall to remove the product from the market and out of the homes of existing owners, by forcing the companies to buy back at full retail price, every set they have sold since the beginning of time.

And that's what a CPSC mandated recall does. It forces companies to pay out more than they made from the products they sold, and if the company is a small one, with a single product, not only will it put them out of business due to no longer having something to sell, it can bankrupt them by forcing them to liquidate all their assets to cover the costs of the recall. They won't even have the chance to stay in business by coming out with another product.

Now, I am not against all recalls. Exploding laptop batteries need to be recalled, as well as other unsafe products. But products that are only unsafe when the consumer doesn't exercise common sense shouldn't be recalled. Maybe a warning label should be required on a lot of those products, but not a full out recall to banish every trace of the product from the country and bankrupt the companies that made them.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting Internet Defamation Lawsuit - Statute of Limitations Reset Online?

« Last post by app103 on November 12, 2012, 08:15 AM »

So, if you are going to count each day that a defamatory statement appears on a blog as "republishing it" each and every day that it remains on the site, for the purposes of nullifying the idea of a SOL then you will also have to count each day as a separate incident, so that if a defamatory statement remains on a blog for a year, you have 365 individual counts of defamation, as if it were 365 different statements, one published each day?

-app103 (November 12, 2012, 06:12 AM)

You're committing the exact same fallacy that I outlined above - confusing discrete and indiscrete systems.

No. They are not separate incidents - it is a continuum and not an isolated event.

To twist it another way (RAA - Reductio Ad Absurdum) - Choosing any unit of time can just as easily be chosen as half whatever you've chosen. So, why not half a day... and so on... and then why not by the yottasecond? (1 * 10^-24) Or, why not double the day to 2 days... and so on... oops - we've not completed an eternity, so the defamation cannot have happened as 1 unit of time hasn't even been accomplished. Either way - infinite charges, or never charged. (This is again the same fallacy I mentioned above.)

If you asked someone to turn a light on, and they rubbed their feet across the carpet, then touched you, there would be light. Would you call that having the lights on? Again - same relative issue about an event as a temporal continuum as opposed to an event as being temporally discrete.

-Renegade (November 12, 2012, 06:38 AM)

And you'd feel comfortable trying to explain that to a jury of average people and feel confident that they would understand what you are saying?

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Living Room / Re: Interesting Internet Defamation Lawsuit - Statute of Limitations Reset Online?

« Last post by app103 on November 12, 2012, 06:12 AM »

So, if you are going to count each day that a defamatory statement appears on a blog as "republishing it" each and every day that it remains on the site, for the purposes of nullifying the idea of a SOL then you will also have to count each day as a separate incident, so that if a defamatory statement remains on a blog for a year, you have 365 individual counts of defamation, as if it were 365 different statements, one published each day?

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Living Room / Re: SkyDrive: Apple iCloud : Google Drive: Dropbox - comparison (FREE versions)

« Last post by app103 on November 11, 2012, 10:30 PM »

Just to throw this question out there because many people will want to know, which of these various services are accessible natively by those running XP or Linux on their desktop? (and I am not referring to being able to use the services from a web browser)

The SkyDrive app will not install on systems running WinXP. And as far as I know, no app to offer Linux desktop support, either.

Also missing from the chart is SugarSync, which offers 5G free, allows sharing of files and folders, public sharing through links, and some other nice features.

I am actually using SugarSync to host downloadable files for one of my Blogger based sites. While it is not as seamless as using Dropbox and requires a little bit more fussing to make a file public and then get the links to publish on my site, it does have the advantage of letting me know the total number of downloads, which is something Dropbox doesn't do. That alone made the fuss worth it and why I switched from using Dropbox links to the same files.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting Internet Defamation Lawsuit - Statute of Limitations Reset Online?

« Last post by app103 on November 11, 2012, 09:51 PM »

Let's take the internet out of the discussion for a moment and go back to the world that existed when these laws were originally written.

Q: Is there anything that could compare to a website in longevity, where masses of people could easily access potentially defamatory statements long past the statute of limitations?
A: Yes, there is. If the statements appeared in print, like say a book, and that book were on a library shelf, or thousands of library shelves, it could be accessed by the public long after the SOL.

Q: Would being able to access it change the original publish date?
A: No, it would not.

Q: Would the presence of it on a library shelf extend the SOL?
A: No, it would not.

Q: Would each day that a library opened with the book still on the shelf constitute a republication, for each day that it remained accessible to the public?
A: No, it would not.

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Living Room / Re: Popular Wrench Fights a Chinese Rival

« Last post by app103 on November 11, 2012, 02:45 AM »

The company that makes the Max Axess wrench and other tools for Craftsman, the Apex Tool Group, is being acquired by Bain Capital, the company founded by Mitt Romney, in a $1.6 billion deal.

Throughout the presidential campaign, Bain was criticized on the grounds that it encouraged outsourcing by companies it buys at the expense of American workers. Apex makes many of its tools overseas. A company spokesman referred all questions to Sears.

Figures!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Awesome User Feedback :D

« Last post by app103 on November 09, 2012, 03:18 PM »

There was a personal development blog where the author used technology as a parable. In one of his articles, he called my software "elegant". I consider that a very high compliment.

http://web.archive.o...27/elegant-approach/

Unfortunately, a catastrophic loss and an improperly preserved backup obliterated all the posts on his blog, and rather than rebuilding it manually, with a copy of the original content preserved on archive.org, he chose to start over from scratch, without any of his old content.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Strategies to stay with Windows 7 as long as possible

« Last post by app103 on November 09, 2012, 11:42 AM »

If you plan on skipping Win8, or plan on sticking with Win7 forever (or any other version of Windows, for that matter), you might want to get a real retail installation disk and not an OEM restore disk made specifically for your pc. With a retail version, you could install and run it in a VM, and the host OS could be either the latest version of Windows that will come with your next PC, or even some flavor of Linux (a better choice). Just make sure you have plenty of RAM installed, as you will need enough for both the host OS and the one running in the VM.

It's easy to back up, easy to restore, easy to transfer the image from one PC to the next, and the next, and the next, without having to "reinstall Windows and all your software".

Whatever OS my next PC is running, I plan on doing this with XP, just so I can keep things how I like it and run all my older software that won't run on anything newer. Might even create another image with WinME, just for the heck of it, and so I won't have to use the ancient snail pc to run a few old apps and games that won't even install, never mind run on XP.

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Living Room / Re: You Might Be A Terrorist

« Last post by app103 on November 08, 2012, 01:15 AM »

You guys might like this collection of FBI posters, targeted at specific types of businesses, instructing those that work in those businesses on how to spot potential terrorists.

http://publicintelli...ty-reporting-flyers/

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Living Room / Re: You Might Be A Terrorist

« Last post by app103 on November 08, 2012, 12:57 AM »

I have posted this link before, but you might be considered a terrorist in NJ if you are tired or cold: http://now.msn.com/n...lags-such-as-yawning

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can 'Captor' go LITE like "Greenshot"!?

« Last post by app103 on November 05, 2012, 07:22 PM »

There is mouser's MiniCap.

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Living Room / Re: Hurricane Sandy Discussion Thread

« Last post by app103 on November 04, 2012, 04:25 PM »

Well, martial law has been declared on the barrier islands of NJ. They are not letting any home owners onto the islands and the National Guard is assisting in a door to door search for survivors and those that were reported missing.

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Living Room / Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction

« Last post by app103 on November 02, 2012, 03:35 AM »

What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they'll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa.

The One Laptop Per Child project started as a way of delivering technology and resources to schools in countries with little or no education infrastructure, using inexpensive computers to improve traditional curricula. What the OLPC Project has realized over the last five or six years, though, is that teaching kids stuff is really not that valuable. Yes, knowing all your state capitols how to spell "neighborhood" properly and whatnot isn't a bad thing, but memorizing facts and procedures isn't going to inspire kids to go out and learn by teaching themselves, which is the key to a good education. Instead, OLPC is trying to figure out a way to teach kids to learn, which is what this experiment is all about.

Rather than give out laptops (they're actually Motorola Zoom tablets plus solar chargers running custom software) to kids in schools with teachers, the OLPC Project decided to try something completely different: it delivered some boxes of tablets to two villages in Ethiopia, taped shut, with no instructions whatsoever. Just like, "hey kids, here's this box, you can open it if you want, see ya!"

Just to give you a sense of what these villages in Ethiopia are like, the kids (and most of the adults) there have never seen a word. No books, no newspapers, no street signs, no labels on packaged foods or goods. Nothing. And these villages aren't unique in that respect; there are many of them in Africa where the literacy rate is close to zero. So you might think that if you're going to give out fancy tablet computers, it would be helpful to have someone along to show these people how to use them, right?

But that's not what OLPC did. They just left the boxes there, sealed up, containing one tablet for every kid in each of the villages (nearly a thousand tablets in total), pre-loaded with a custom English-language operating system and SD cards with tracking software on them to record how the tablets were used.

http://dvice.com/arc...0/ethiopian-kids.php

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Living Room / Re: Hurricane Sandy Discussion Thread

« Last post by app103 on November 01, 2012, 02:27 PM »

Unfortunately, in our current "gimmee" culture, some people will routinely have trouble understanding the difference.

-40hz (November 01, 2012, 02:21 PM)

And that falls right into what I said about bringing out the best in some people and the worst in others.

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Living Room / Re: Hurricane Sandy Discussion Thread

« Last post by app103 on November 01, 2012, 01:56 PM »

Storms like this tend to bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.

There was stories of people having their generators stolen before the storm even hit, and sightings of Craigslist ads selling generators worth about $500 new, jacked up to as much as $2000. Also stories about criminals posing as utility workers, knocking on people's doors, tricking them into letting them in and then robbing them.

There is a local curfew here, to help prevent looting and robberies.

They DID give preferential treatment when restoring power to various neighborhoods around here, and continue to, but for VERY GOOD reasons. They restored parts of towns that were considered more important than others. Anybody that lived very close to a hospital were among the first to get their power restored. Hospitals have backup generators, but they can't run them forever. They were given top priority to get them back on the grid. This was followed by major chain drug stores, where people need to fill vital prescriptions, like Wallgreens (which also sells food, batteries, candles, ice, etc.), then supermarkets, some gas stations, convenience stores like 7-11, Quick Check, libraries (they have internet, too), etc. Residential service in general isn't a priority, and only gets restored as a result of something else important in the neighborhood needing to be restored.

The poorest of the poor were kind of taken care of before the storm hit. Most church run food pantries in my area were giving out bags of canned goods and other nonperishables, the weekend before the storm hit.

Another thing that seems to be popular here is businesses with power advertising the fact and allowing people to come in and charge their laptops and cell phones, for free. In addition to Wallgreens doing it (no purchase necessary), there is a nearby Thai restaurant telling people to come on in and charge their electronics, while they enjoy their meal.

Wallgreens had a "buy one, get one free" sale on big jar candles, as soon as they could open again.

And if the power outage continued longer, I would have found myself cooking 10 lbs of chicken legs and sharing the leftovers with my neighbors in my building, due to not being able to properly store them without electricity.

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Living Room / Re: Hurricane Sandy Discussion Thread

« Last post by app103 on November 01, 2012, 03:56 AM »

Back from my vacation to the 19th century. It was kind of fun! Played a LOT of board games with the family.

We had enough fun that we are going to institute a weekly family board game night.

My daughter went to sleep before the power was restored, so she doesn't know she is going to wake up back in the 21st century.

Also discovered that popovers are the perfect low fat baked item for making during an extended blackout. They come out best when you use room temperature eggs and room temperature milk, both of which can be mixed up with powdered versions and your stored bottled water. 

As far as damage goes, my town still has a lot of downed power lines and there was quite a bit of flooding down by the river. A few people I know will be out of a job indefinitely due to their place of employment being severely damaged. And one friend had an unspecified amount of damage done to his home, when a large tree fell on it.

We were originally quoted as Monday being the date of power restoration for us, but really happy that it is back on 5 days ahead of schedule.

Really glad I was prepared for this, packed the freezer and fridge full of bottles of water, and loaded cans of fruit in the fridge to take up as much of the empty space as possible, when I ran out of bottles. There was enough large "blocks" of ice in my freezer that even though I was without power for 2 days, and opened the freezer a few times to check on things, not even the ice in the ice cube trays melted and the ice cream remained firm.

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Living Room / Re: Just for Fun - Cliché Movie Plots

« Last post by app103 on October 27, 2012, 02:21 AM »

"Powers of darkness" - Documentary of behind the scenes with lobbyists and their corporate agendas.

-Renegade (October 27, 2012, 02:08 AM)

A documentary about a power company's hand in a massive blackout, seems a bit more literal.

"Pour the Kool-Aid" - In a world of financial collapse, where infrastructure has been rendered useless, electricity and running water are only memories, a group of Apple fanbois go in search of cyanide as the battery power in their iPads has run out, and they can no longer get their Angry Birds fix...

-Renegade (October 27, 2012, 02:08 AM)

Not literal enough. There is no actual pouring of Kool-Aid in your plot.

"Drunk as a skunk" - Animated adult comedy about a group of alcoholic animals in the woods that pick on poor Mr. Skunk who doesn't seem to be able to hold down a job, and is rarely ever seen sober anymore. The hero of the story is a bear who shits in the woods, and starts to wipe his ass with all the other animals for being so mean to Mr. Skunk. Suddenly, Mr. Skunk doesn't seem so bad anymore and manages to get a job and sober up.

-Renegade (October 27, 2012, 02:08 AM)

  You got two in there...bravo!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Bid for Fix

« Last post by app103 on October 27, 2012, 02:12 AM »

Wouldn't this be better of an idea for open source projects, where any developer could volunteer to create the fix or feature, and claim the reward? Almost in a similar way that coding snacks are done here?

Each project could have a page where people post their wishes and bid on them, with other users also posting theirs, and being able to add to a bid to give it an up vote. Original developers could also post bids to solicit help on their projects.

Developers could browse the site and see which features, fixes, and open source projects they would like to contribute work towards.

Sounds like a feature that would fit in well on the Sourceforge site.

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Living Room / Re: You like science fiction, don't you? Of course you do!

« Last post by app103 on October 27, 2012, 01:58 AM »

...Do you want to know the address of the site (and the moral ambiguities of and viral dangers of it's offerings)...?

-Arizona Hot (October 25, 2012, 09:25 AM)

Yes please - the URL would do fine. Ta.
I am always interested in looking at websites offering books to download.If it looks like a dodgy site, then I won't usually access it beyond the initial exploration.

-IainB (October 25, 2012, 07:14 PM)

Might not be wise to post that link publicly on the forum, lest we are perceived to endorse piracy.

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Living Room / Just for Fun - Cliché Movie Plots

« Last post by app103 on October 27, 2012, 01:45 AM »

Select a cliché and create a movie plot idea for it, interpreting it literally. If you need some help coming up with clichés, try here.

Example 1: "As tender as a mother's heart" would be a movie about a serial killer/up and coming super chef that enters a game show cook-off, needing an extra special "secret ingredient" for his dish, goes to local parks to find and murder mothers, which he then cooks their hearts to win the grand prize.

Example 2: "All hands on deck" would be a movie about a psycho killer running loose on a cruise ship, who chops off hands for trophies.




_{Yes, I do like horror movies. Why do you ask?}

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Found Deals and Discounts / Stop Zombie Mouth - Free Plants vs Zombies game giveaway codes for everybody!

« Last post by app103 on October 26, 2012, 08:50 PM »

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Now go out and give PvZ fun as a Halloween treat to kids of all ages. And thanks for helping Stop Zombie Mouth!

You can print as many of the coupons as you want, to give away to the kids in your neighborhood, your child's school, friends, family, or yourself.

http://www.stopzombiemouth.com/

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Living Room / Re: Dumbing-down of the educational system?

« Last post by app103 on October 21, 2012, 08:34 AM »

In Victory for Common Sense, Minnesota Will Allow Free Online Courses After All