Swimmin' Salmon

Why did you run with VUM instead of VUW?

It hasn't been 3 months yet.

Cats make good dog toys.

Perhaps then, a simple anagram of infocom?

Interesting notion Jeff has. I'd like to see it done without mention of Avernum at all, but just from the POV of the Empire being oppressive on the surface, with people disappearing as they express dissent. There would really be no call to go underground at all, except for a passing reference that the Empire is searching for a prison. Hmm. Even more interesting if he did it Nethergate fashion, allowing you to pick Empire or dissident. It might take 5 or so years to forget that he's more or less done this in Geneforge and ASR.

Nah, the vector showing the original thread should be a lot shorter.

Originally Posted By: Concave Cubine Did you just say there are no problems in the world? Do we have a problem here?

Originally Posted By: Celtic Minstrel Originally Posted By: Thuryl Oh, hey, you guys finally fixed that thing where people with a custom title got two titles. Actually, that's a feature, not a bug. One which can be enabled or disabled. Whatever happened to implementing that delete-random-posts feature? That one showed promise.

Also, add some difficulty. Use a cipher or something.

Originally Posted By: Zo Logick It disappeared at the same time a number of other custom titles did, due to some UBB.threads hiccups that still haven't been worked out. Cthulic indigestion. I mention that only because I don't know who else has the Drakey issued titles. I see that SoT doesn't have his, but don't know when it was lost. What about Drew? Who else got the drunken nod from Drakey?

It was granted by Drakey, and taken away after he left his administrative position. while it's a bit puzzling, it's nothing to lose sleep over.

Anyone who bribes Tyranicus with cheesecake in exchange for a custom title deserves ... something.

This (and the Labyrinth) seem like they would belong in the Misc forum. Any particular reason they don't live there?

Bigfoot is Rastafarian.

Only misleading at the local level, as the data seems to show an average planet temperature increase. Many clever people, and many more people who think they are being clever, point at the record snowfalls and cold summers and laugh, sure that this is indeed evidence that global warming is <fill in the blank>. Global warming causes global climate change, which has resulted in climate shift over the past few decades. It may be that it is easier to just call it climate change, since that does relieve a rather large burden from some unimaginative minds.

Absolutely. But Ash hasn't posted in aeons, we haven't talked about this subject in months, and then this thread appears. We aren't even talking about the implications of climate change, and how we, as humans, should be preparing and reacting. We're just digesting the startling fact that some tainted information of unknown heritage has been leaked to the media, and making excuses for it. What is the value in this discussion, except to excite the spleen? (I've not dismissed his skepticism, just the value of this data he is using to either add bouyancy to his skepticism, and its applicability to the same. Remember, 61Mb of data out of how many Tb have been leaked?)

This whole thread strikes me as rabble rousing to be honest. Nothing is more fulfilling to a skeptic than to toss a live grenade in a room of altruists and walk away. Ash might not check this "discussion" for a year or more. The direction it takes is pre-ordained, why bother?

You say you have a dog in this fight as a skeptic. No offense, but I still don't see how that makes you involved. If anything, it would make you uninterested and uninvolved. The world is a big place filled with lots of people. Why do you care so much what a bunch of folks are talking about? What is it about this particular issue that concerns you? Now, what concerns me is that someone released exactly those files which would cause the most controversy. It's obvious that that person has a dog in this fight, and they are trying to discredit something. I guarantee that there are more than 61 MEGAbytes of files at whatever University it was that you quoted. This whole thing strikes me as their typical blogosphere rabble-rousing and hysteria. No offense, but you seem to have taken your previously undefined prejudice against attribution of climate change and used this "release" of information as fuel. Instead, why not look around your own country, and tell us if the climate seems to have changed in the past 100 years. I'm much more convinced of you position if you can tell me about average annual temperatures staying the same, rainfall staying the same, extreme weather being unusual. I know that media report on the weird and fascinating, so will discount the numerous reports of drying rivers, extremely high summer temperatures, forest fire maelstroms, and species extinction that are happening in Australia. Edit - Does anyone know if Universities are even subject to the UK Freedom of Information Act 2000? My understanding was that it only applied to rule and law making bodies within the government. This whole "story" is starting to smell more and more like herring.

No one on the internets are wrong.

1 star! Yay me!

This makes me miss the karma topics.

We need a Nalyd vs the world thread.

Originally Posted By: Thuryl you realise that's not even what teabagging is, right i suppose that is why i made note of that particular achievement of american culture in the pet peeve thread

The term teabagger is now in the New Oxford American Dictionary, referring to those that take part in the so-called tea parties. Of course, that is just a small example of what is wrong with American news media. Who invented the insane need to catch phrase every single last event no matter the importance? If I was in charge I would change the laws so that that person would be executed. Immediately, so that there was no surprise at all.

Neither was altruistic. Both were effective at fooling you. Long live advertising!