Jul -- General Chat: Well, that was a bucket of fun. (Round 4)

Xkeeper

Level: 263

Posts: 3682/25343
EXP: 296637055
For next: 2323398

Since: 07-03-07

Pronouns: they/them/????????

Since last post: 6 days
Last activity: 4 hours

Posted on 11-25-07 02:31:15 PM (last edited by Xkeeper at 11-25-07 11:31 AM)

Link | Quote

Originally posted by FirePhoenix
And why did you have a mall cart with you?

And what is "nuke the fountain"?

- There was a ranom mallcart (the ones you ride in) in front of an abandoned building, so we drove it back to the Fred Meyer it belonged to (across the street)

- There's a fountain at an apartment complex (next to the abandoned buliding, even) that hasn't turned off yet, even though it's below freezing. There's a ton of ice around it, and rocks, so... destruction!

____________________

— FPzero —
9590

Post 627/9597
Active 5.4 years ago

Posted on 11-25-07 02:36:55 PM

Link | Quote

Originally posted by Xkeeper
Originally posted by FirePhoenix
And why did you have a mall cart with you?

And what is "nuke the fountain"?

- There was a ranom mallcart (the ones you ride in) in front of an abandoned building, so we drove it back to the Fred Meyer it belonged to (across the street)

- There's a fountain at an apartment complex (next to the abandoned buliding, even) that hasn't turned off yet, even though it's below freezing. There's a ton of ice around it, and rocks, so... destruction!

That sounds like a lot of fun. Then again, breaking stuff usually is, as long as it's not yours.

____________________

Drag
2640

Level: 99

Posts: 432/2641
EXP: 9979084
For next: 20916

Since: 07-03-07

Since last post: 4.2 years
Last activity: 3.3 years

Posted on 11-29-07 07:46:12 PM

Link | Quote

Drag's Post #432

Gee! Guess what happened again, guys!

But yeah, History is a bullshit class. It's completely subjective. Also, what good is knowing history? I'm a CS major, and I was required to take a history class. I still don't know why I have to know US civilization history in order to program.

____________________

Rena
I had one (1) message in Discord deleted and proceeded to make a huge, huge mess about how it was a violation of free speech and how moderators are supposed to be spam janitors and nobody should have the right to tell me not to talk about school shootings
Level: 135

Posts: 1643/5390
EXP: 29043306
For next: 291699

Since: 07-22-07

Pronouns: he/him/whatever
From: RSP Segment 6

Since last post: 330 days
Last activity: 330 days

Posted on 11-29-07 07:51:46 PM

Link | Quote

JL2 - Post #1643 - 11-29-07 02:51:46pm

CS always does seem to have unusual prerequisites. I had to take English. Like I need to know what veracity is, or what the different types of irony are, to write software? I don't know how I've been managing all this time then.

____________________

Drag
2640

Level: 99

Posts: 435/2641
EXP: 9979084
For next: 20916

Since: 07-03-07

Since last post: 4.2 years
Last activity: 3.3 years

Posted on 11-29-07 07:54:19 PM

Link | Quote

Drag's Post #435

It's still better than years and years ago, where people were *REQUIRED* to read a certain book in order to graduate from *anything*.

The book? Just some kind of paranoia on how we're using up the Earth's resources and how they'll be completely depleted by 1984 or something. And *EVERYONE* was required to read it, despite it being fundamentally incorrect.

____________________

Skreeny
Member
I have a custom title.
Level: 54

Posts: 141/636
EXP: 1171226
For next: 62644

Since: 09-15-07

Since last post: 9.2 years
Last activity: 1.1 years

Posted on 11-29-07 08:08:33 PM

Link | Quote

Well, I think part of it is to make sure you can still function in a working environment. The days of "sit in a cube and cobble out programs while talking to NO ONE" are kinda over, you know?

(I myself have to take both public speaking, which is supposedly incredibly useful in the industry, and technical writing which would probably be good to know.)

Lyskar
12210

-The Chaos within trumps the Chaos without-
Level: 192

Posts: 813/12211
EXP: 99211357
For next: 662214

Since: 07-03-07

From: 52-2-88-7

Since last post: 7.4 years
Last activity: 7.3 years

Posted on 11-29-07 08:20:32 PM

Link | Quote

11-29-07 02:20:32pm 813 posts 149 days
Myself, I take my major, then I also take an extreme amount of additional classes. Yo hablo un poco de espanol ahora. Ich kann Deutsch ein bisschen! Languages, Anthropology, logic, electronics repair classes, English (enough to even minor in it), Interpersonal communications, Geography, Marketing, Piano playing, etc. Basically, I wanna do my thing with Computer Science and Engineering, while having a smattering of everything else in case it should come up. Of course it helps that I'm a polymath... if I wanted to specialize in any of those I could too. ____________________
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. -Shelley

Rena
I had one (1) message in Discord deleted and proceeded to make a huge, huge mess about how it was a violation of free speech and how moderators are supposed to be spam janitors and nobody should have the right to tell me not to talk about school shootings
Level: 135

Posts: 1646/5390
EXP: 29043306
For next: 291699

Since: 07-22-07

Pronouns: he/him/whatever
From: RSP Segment 6

Since last post: 330 days
Last activity: 330 days

Posted on 11-29-07 10:15:52 PM

Link | Quote

JL2 - Post #1646 - 11-29-07 05:15:52pm

Originally posted by Drag
It's still better than years and years ago, where people were *REQUIRED* to read a certain book in order to graduate from *anything*.

The book? Just some kind of paranoia on how we're using up the Earth's resources and how they'll be completely depleted by 1984 or something. And *EVERYONE* was required to read it, despite it being fundamentally incorrect.

Well the requiring specific expensive books part certainly hasn't changed.

____________________

Dprotp
GIRL'S GOT A PENITENTIARY BODY
Level: 107

Posts: 967/3147
EXP: 12979119
For next: 112192

Since: 07-04-07

Pronouns: he/him
From: FIRE STATE

Since last post: 1.5 years
Last activity: 93 days

Posted on 12-01-07 12:23:55 AM

Link | Quote


	Originally posted by Drag Gee! Guess what happened again, guys! But yeah, History is a bullshit class. It's completely subjective. Also, what good is knowing history? I'm a CS major, and I was required to take a history class. I still don't know why I have to know US civilization history in order to program. This post was looking good, but it broke and went back to historical off-topicness. You were so close, Drag. Then again, there's already another thread on the subject, so... yeah. Studying different types of arts in World History as of now (realist, neoclassical, romantic). Watched a bit of Fantasia/Fantasia 2000 to determine the selected piece's (along with its animation) "type". One of the sequences we watched contained topless female centaurs of a sort. ... It was a bit awkward. Then the naked babies/whatever (a la cupid, I guess) and the male centaurs, who run with their hands up to their chests (think April May from PW -- something like that. Possibly a ru--Popeye. Maybe they run like Popeye), came in. Overall, WH today was a bit strange. ____________________

Xkeeper

Level: 263

Posts: 3853/25343
EXP: 296637055
For next: 2323398

Since: 07-03-07

Pronouns: they/them/????????

Since last post: 6 days
Last activity: 4 hours

Posted on 12-06-07 08:30:52 PM

Link | Quote

I wish I could say there was some extravagant board bug that got abused, but there wasn't.

But I can place all the blame on Firefox for today's problems! Hooray!

(And yes, it's a very valid reason.)

____________________

Deleted User
Collection of nobodies

Posted on 12-06-07 08:34:04 PM

Link | Quote

Originally posted by Xkeeper
I wish I could say there was some extravagant board bug that got abused, but there wasn't.

But I can place all the blame on Firefox for today's problems! Hooray!

(And yes, it's a very valid reason.)

Being?

____________________

===================
[Posted by ArBeWhat]

Xkeeper

Level: 263

Posts: 3854/25343
EXP: 296637055
For next: 2323398

Since: 07-03-07

Pronouns: they/them/????????

Since last post: 6 days
Last activity: 4 hours

Posted on 12-06-07 08:35:49 PM

Link | Quote

Firefox's "overwrite the password in the box" lead to a password getting replaced to something old, easily guessed, and basically got us hacked again, because the more secure password somebody was using got reverted.

Not to mention all the other problems. "Well, shit, I turned him into xxxxx by accident because Firefox overwrote the empty box"

____________________

Kles

Level: 87

Posts: 1010/1947
EXP: 6304910
For next: 87864

Since: 07-23-07

Since last post: 66 days
Last activity: 17 hours

Posted on 12-06-07 08:43:39 PM

Link | Quote


	Firefox really is the greatest kind of fake Microsoft application. ____________________ ああああああああああぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁ

Darkdata
Ruins!? ♥
Level: 103

Posts: 332/2892
EXP: 11433400
For next: 38006

Since: 07-04-07

Since last post: 190 days
Last activity: 9 days

Posted on 12-06-07 08:54:25 PM

Link | Quote

DPP - [internet://board/post332.bit] - 12-06-07 08:54:25pm

File Edit View Settings ?

Ah firefox autofill, one of the worst ideas ever.
Opera really picks up the ball on that count.

____________________

— FPzero —
9590

Post 694/9597
Active 5.4 years ago

Posted on 12-06-07 09:05:19 PM

Link | Quote

So were there any casualties, i.e. posts, threads, etc. Or are we all accounted for?

____________________

Xkeeper

Level: 263

Posts: 3858/25343
EXP: 296637055
For next: 2323398

Since: 07-03-07

Pronouns: they/them/????????

Since last post: 6 days
Last activity: 4 hours

Posted on 12-06-07 09:13:37 PM

Link | Quote

I'm sure a lot of posts were lost, but the damage was like a shotgun: scattered around like some ADD-afflicted child's toys.

It was easier just to nuke the whole thing than try to assess damage. I'd estimate about 10-20 posts lost, total.

____________________

Register - Login
Views: 99321440	Main - Memberlist - Active users - Calendar - Wiki - IRC Chat - Online users Ranks - Rules/FAQ - Stats - Latest Posts - Color Chart - Smilies	04-21-22 07:48:08 AM

Query execution time:	0.104412 seconds
Script execution time:	0.039579 seconds
Total render time:	0.143991 seconds