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Thanks for doing that, tinjaw@Darwin - Thanks alot!Note that mouser has already commented about this in this thread.
-Darwin (January 05, 2008, 04:59 PM)
Iwas reading this thread again and when I got to your post, you put me in a recursive loop and I just now got out.
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Darwin, given you are a "Biological anthropologist interested in human variability at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition" how do you read tinjaw's anthropology, especially as one who has mutated a metallic lower mandible? Also, from the structure of the occipital cap and the coronal suture is there a clue as to the time of the metallic mutation? One thing for sure, the subject did see his dentist twice a year!
[/OFF-TOPIC]-CodeTRUCKER (January 05, 2008, 04:26 PM)
Results are inconclusive, but I'd say that the mutation likely occurred AFTER 1988-Darwin (January 05, 2008, 04:30 PM)
I am looking for the same thing. How do I stop new replies to certain topics from showing up in the "Unread topics" section of dc?-Josh (January 05, 2008, 04:21 PM)
[OFF-TOPIC]Is there also a way to ignore threads? I swear that there used to be, but it seems to have gone AWOL[/OFF-TOPIC]What are you talking about..."OFF TOPIC?!?" That's what this whole thread is about!-Darwin (January 05, 2008, 03:51 PM)
Look at your profile page. There is a way to block forums. I did it to block the SMF forum to avoid Gri posts.Good point - Thanks for the heads-up!
(see attachment in previous post)-tinjaw (January 05, 2008, 03:21 PM)
To me codeTRUCKER hit the essence of the argument - he know some people (and I'd guess around here it would be substabtial group of people) would be offended by overtly religious references - software related or not. For me, as a rational being and an atheist, religious belief is akin to "pornography of the mind which serves to remove thought and embed dogma" so promoting software that propagates such a belief system would be as objectionable to me as whole pages of pornographic images.
There I just proved the point!-Carol Haynes (January 05, 2008, 03:05 PM)
Nobody understands him anyway. And "Report to moderator" is sooo closePersonally, I think it's the language barrier, but his conception and vision of Grivitation is not too dis-similar from Galileo's, complete with the accompanying persecution.-Lashiec (January 05, 2008, 02:43 PM)
So, in this new light, try to simply consider sex/porn/vulgarity/cursing/etc. as just another "category", as just another topic that is sometimes interwoven with those explicitly focused upon by DC forums. And in this light I see this as "just another" Attention Economy issue.This sounds very innocuous on the surface, but it only serves those that participate in them. It is like someone lighting up a very pungent incense. Only one did it because he had a right to, but everyone there will be forced to "relish the bouquet" or split.
), but I will tell you that my NANY '08 app, "Trucker's Log Watch," was start to its present functional beta stage in two days and I didn't break a sweat AND it was my first try with EBASIC!. I used Emergence BASIC (SMACK!~ I knew it! f0dder, cut that out!) @Renegade
A preview before the tinyurl link should sort this out (e.g http://preview.tinyurl.com/p7a2v). See http://tinyurl.com/preview.php for details.-PhilB66 (January 04, 2008, 10:48 PM)
Good point. Done.-Renegade (January 04, 2008, 11:09 PM)
). Seriously, my concept of a "Preview" is essentially an abbreviated (size or duration) of the real deal. I don't get how that would help? I must be missing something. 
but the point for this thread is that porn is a very real factor in our daily lives with how it drives the market forwards.
The other thing that I find offensive (doesn't get me upset though), is personal attacks. Never needed. It's simply a low blow that can be better done by attacking someone's actions or words instead.-Renegade (January 04, 2008, 08:58 PM)
he inevitable fourth thing - me taking advantage of this thread as yet another opportunity to act like the class/forum clown and present my reply in a manner to get cheap laughs by using NSFW content throughout.-tinjaw (January 04, 2008, 06:53 PM)
Yup. Agreed - I'd meant to make that point in my post above - I am not against people listing non-computer/software/technology related interests as this gives me, and others, a better idea of who they are and what makes them tick!-Darwin (January 04, 2008, 05:56 PM)
Thank you for that thoughtful post, and I for one am glad you are going to stay around.Yes, I agree and I am at peace, but my phrase was more in an effort to say "Hey Guys, let's get back to the subject more insults aren't going to help us get to a resolution." Thanks for the input and again (as always) I appreciate your style of leadership.
Let me say something about this:I want to say one thing in regard to the jibes at my age and or behavioral expectations...I've been the whipping boy enough and we have had our fun and our say.
I have found that much of the stress of being "insulted" is within the control of the person who is feeling it. That is to say, much of the distress that one feels when one perceived themself to be insulted or under attack or made fun of on a forum or website, is due to the nature of the way you choose (or are in the habit of) extrapolating from such insults. If you read an insult (or 10) and say to yourself: "this person is trying to make a fool of me and everyone is going to laugh" then you're already on a bad path. Instead say to yourself what's much more likely, which is "eh, no one cares what this guy says about me, and the people i care about no better" and it just washes off your back.
One of the greatest "skills" one can learn in an online community is to let go and not feel like you have to answer every attack, have the last word on every thread, win every battle, aor comment on every issue. When you master that you have reached web2.0 zen state and you'll enjoy yourself more-mouser (January 04, 2008, 04:15 PM)
