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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER SS I must say I really like your new bikini avatar.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Nothing like having a dead rat in the workplace for a week to get used to its musky aroma.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER And the Golden Mean is 1.618033988749895. The Golden Mean squared is 2.618033988749895. And Pi is (10/12)*2.618033988749895.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER For those who give a crap our WGAC is 0.711. In other news: Musings about Musing is 0.794 And Musings is 1.043

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER why not give it a trial run, say a week? (Another thread spun off from LRT EVER)?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Anyone notice the slight irony with Ben's sticky thread about reputation and we gav him heaps for his birthday? Does this mean the NGD's present to our BENevolent moderator is "ABSOLUTELY NOTHING"?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Here I am after another shopping trip. Upset. I remembered today while reading the boards, I forgot to do something I was going to do today -- get some chocolates for mother's day. My parents are at the moment picking up the gusts (their friends from London) that are the reason I'm sleeping next door tonight and until Sunday next week (they are boarding in my room*). (I may do a day by day musing sort of like a dirary entry kinda thing.) I quickly rush off to the supermarket, quickly get the chocolates (for me to eat also) and head to the checkout. Knowing that they are reasonably costly I use my credit card -- my first mistake. Unusualy for me, I swipe the card, select the account, yadda yadda yadda, I'm sure you know the drill. I then put my card away and put my wallet in my pocket. The checkout-chick says "I'll need to see your signature on the card". I gnore her and and sign the paper. She repeats her request, and I ignore her a second time. Just about to pcik the chocolates up and go, when a third time I get the card out flash it to her for a second (litterally, I don't know if the signature was upside down or not),put it away, grab the bag and get out of there as quickly as possible. I here the words as I'm leaving "do you want a receipt, but by then I've ignored her for a third time. Upset and very frustrated. Why simple. I'm tired of proving myself time and time again that I am the same person who owns this card and you treat me like I'm not -- a virtual or potential criminal. I feel like a bit of my dignity is being lost each time I make a simple transaction. Credit card purchases equals a sacrifice of a small part of human dignity. (The proverbial 'pound of flesh' from Merchant of Venice.) At least I don't have to go through this procedure with my friendly Comics Book Guy, who does know me. So my parents are unawares that I've been out and go my mum her mothers day present. All that would give it away are chocolates int he 'other' fridge. * I put up a sign "£150.00 per night" on my bedroom door.

Re: Nemesis Yes buy him as a follower. (side note: as a undergraduate accountant to a accountant/auditor, "buying a doctor" seems oh so wrong! )

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I thought seinfeld was funny. Although the funniest thing I heard about the show was that it was rating poorly a major German tv network replaced it with Hogan's Heroes. Sometimes the best laughs come not from the shows.

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Re: Nemesis Congratulations -- to *kicking butt.

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Re: Nemesis multinational. (I printed it off and was reading it in my Data Comms lecture and noticed the spelling/typo, thought I'd let you know).

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER [gollum] [/gollum] I tried posting the above but encounted this:

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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER saw it and hope to post to it, but got assignment due really soon. I hope to find time to post my thoughts. Bottomline Monterhunter is not a genre -- but a theme.

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Re: A Thread for Random Musings Random musing. Linux's mascot, the penguin. Were they aware when they chose it how ironic the penguin is for this open source community? How almost impossible it would be for Linux to be adopted as a desktop machine? Lets face it, one penguin looks like the next penguin, a photo of 100 penguins and each one would look alike – dressed in an identical tuxedo – hence the name of mascot Tux. You couldn’t get a more Big Brother looking group if you tried. A corporate mindset? No free radicals in this “corporate†penguin community. The Linux stereotypical appearance is a blue jeans, t-shirt radical/nerd, free spirited, anti-corporate change-the-world-for-the-better neo-hippy. The complete opposite to Big Blue’s famous corporate environment where they reputably dress alike (like penguins). If I read the Linux community right they want to replace the established corporate OS (Microsoft Windows) with a Linux version. In other words a change of clothes from Microsoft’s corporate dress wear to Linux’s tuxedo, but still in a “Big Brother†one mindset, all clothes are the same environment – penguin tuxedos. Does anybody else find this ironic – the “free radicals†of the open source community using a mascot that is the opposite of what they say they the want to accomplish? “From every open source project, a developer will emerge to be incorporated into the corporate ‘Big Brother’ environment.†And the fact that IBM is a keen promoter of Linux is an irony not lost on me – tuxedoes for everyone. Anyone who remembers Apple’s 1984 commercial that introduced Macintosh, Apple then had it right, they portrayed themselves the way the Linux community want to be seen now. Unlike them, Apple achieved it and they didn’t use a mascot where each person (or penguin) looked the same, they distanced themselves from that – pointed the finger at it – “look do you want to look like one of these corporate identicals, or would you like to use an apple, to think different?†(my words). Conclusion: Tux is a representation of the corporate “dress alike†environment. Granted penguins (the animals) don’t have much choice in the matter being black and white*, but I find it ironic that a community of hackers would adopt a symbol that they want to distance themselves from – yet infiltrate this same corporate environment and replace Windows with a Linux desktop. Ironic eh? T.U.X. Totally Under Xenophobia *when was the last time you saw a penguin off-colour?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER AA I was thinking of doing the saming thing...well thinking along the same lines anyway. thanks for calculating.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Why not ask Ben to create another custom view where an extra colum beside Views to show WGAC? This being entirely optional, and as a default turned off. Those who want WGAC turn it on. That could work.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Zorn, I'll have to reread it. Get back to you when less busy. (if not a week, pm me to remind me.) And about the stat work, no problems (yet, I'll tell you after my uvi exams )

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Board WGAC is.... 1.961

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I present the ultimate a board wide WGAC (more proof I should be doing an uni assignment) Hero Games Hero System 5th Edition Rules Questions 0.201 Hero System Discussion 1.397 Company Questions 0.976 Online Store & Cafe Press Questions 0.600 Legion of Heroes 0.322 Conventions 0.462 Genres Champions 2.124 Fantasy Hero 1.440 Star Hero 1.231 Other Genres 1.189 Software Hero Designer 0.571 Herosphere 0.459 Other Software & Online Resources 0.648 Digital Hero 0.591 Gaming Player Finder 0.492 General Roleplaying 1.750 Other Forums Non-Gaming Discussion 4.386 If you are wondering what a total figure is, well you are not alone. I forgot to total the above figures and then perform a WGAC on them AI present a WGAC for the board afew hours after those figures were gathered -- shortly.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Amusing.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER bouncing boobies emoticon. yes please