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So, Zentei is a fucking moron at understanding economics. Not that suprising.

adr wrote:hehe i'm throwing dalton a laugh in my sig

he probably won't be as amused as i am

but oh well

Did your sig just get deleted on TEO?

i might not have had to wait until spring 2012 to get my rightfully earned history degree What proportion of this forum has/will soon have history degrees? It seems like a lot. Hey, despite starting a computer science degree in 2002, I finally graduated end of 2010 with a computer science degree! I...

No, supermods haven't been able to do that since have-a-very-nice-day-fgalkin abused it to ban datapacrat without any consultation with anybody else. Even Dalton is supposed to consult with Mike before banning anybody, and he is literally the only active admin at this point. At least that's what I'...

Hmm, apparently I was wrong. Supermoderators can ban people on sd.net, or so says the forum rules. The rules were revised when the report functionality was added. It's just that they didn't want to use it for maximum effectiveness. This post which RedImperator wrote back in 2008-10, compared to what...

So maybe I'm being too harsh, but again, I've seen that being given as advice from moderators, so I really think that there needs to be some sort of coordination between moderators as to what's acceptable and what's not, because it seems likely that good ol' Edi takes things a bit more seriously th...

Sometimes they say it's for actual rules violations but the mod staff is so inconsistent who knows? It's almost like the rules never got revised after they where layed down in concrete at the founding the forum, despite the technical capablities of the forum software being massively updated over an...

Will that actually affect folks up here? Stuff like ".net" and ".com" are controlled by US bound companies. And payment gateway processing, including paypal, visa & mastercard!, have demonstrated they are perfectly willing to cut someone off for daring to publish leaked US d...

Will that actually affect folks up here? Stuff like ".net" and ".com" are controlled by US bound companies. And payment gateway processing, including paypal, visa & mastercard!, have demonstrated they are perfectly willing to cut someone off for daring to publish leaked US d...

Aaron wrote:Though I'll laugh long and hard if teo got shut down because it violated the CC.

Wait till the US decides they will legalise allowing copyright holders turning off other people's domain names, it's almost to that stage as it is with music.

timmy wrote:<snip horror image>

Pretty sure smiling was the intent here

Author intent means little, I'm not a mind reader I can just judge on what I'm given.

but consolification is ridiculous The part I hate is the ridiculously small memory constraints on consoles, I'm looking at you Deus Ex:Invisible War with what felt like load screens every goddamn 10 steps. The flow-on effects of what this does for game engines is really anoying. It took ages for st...

Take the culture or xeelee stuff where it was on e scifi about stuff but nerds obsessed over numbers and pee pews and thus will describe it in acompletely divergen way Wow autocorrect fucking me up today The utterly amusing thing about the Xeelee from sd.net was seeing is The Nomad proudly claiming...

I got damn luck on 1 of the dozens of fastfood stores which I canvassed with my CV (customized per business type), in that the manager was actually willing to tell me why I was rejected rather than just getting blackholing my CV. He told me I was too damn old, and had fuckall chance of getting emplo...

What the hell is with people and thinking getting a job flipping burgers is easy?

Would you mind doing me a favor and find that rant? It was near the start of the year, and involved KS replying to Ford Prefect in the News forum. I remember it only because I was chatting with Ford on irc a few days later about it. Actually finding the thread again would be amazingly hard. Because...

It's sickening that Kamakazie Shit supports police brutality. OMG OUTSIDE THE PERMIT ZONE FUCK THOSE BITCHES/ I always found it a laught that Kamakazie Shit once went on a multi-post rant about judging the police force for the actions of an individual as off topic, when the entire thread was discus...

why doesn't someone just ask him why it cost that much The few images Starglider posts go a long way to describe why it costs that much. 6 top end gfx cards are expensive . That's about ~$5000 USD right there. +48gb of ram, and 24 cores means he is dealing with a multiprocessor Xeon with rather exp...

Woah, really? Over something specific or just a general "nah we're tired of you" thing? He used to be a VS Debate mod, but that ended when he started randomly banning people(from the vs forums) without a valid reason and banning people for questioning which reasons others where banned for...

adr wrote:Alyeska amuses me from time to time.

He got dropkicked as a sb.com moderator. Frankly you should PM one of the admin staff @ sd.net [edit]over how he treated you[/edit] and see what fuss that can kick up.

I had Dalton explode at me when I pointed out running a donation paid for fanfiction library is legally very dubious to illegal due to copyright issues.

Copyright issues really make a lot of people go so very silly.

Wow, there's a lot of shit in that thread. I got trolled hard. A fun thing on copyright: I take two opposite positions on it. On one hand is the legal or business viewpoint where I spend a lot of time defending it. It's there now, so we can see how and why it works the way it does. Oh there are rea...

Zod wrote:Has Broomstick reminded everyone that someone plagiarized one of her stories yet?

I kinda assumed that given we where talking about p2p filesharing copyright violation her sly example of being a creative writer impacted by it had some actual relevents.

What a silly assuption.

So apparently I'm a "thieving piece of shit" just because I dare to express a non-mainstream view about copyright laws.