Count to a Million

[mtmerrick]

And so, the universe ended.

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[MsRowdyRedhead]

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and on a new day...

[Saturn2.0]

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who doesn't use the quick-reply feature? If so, why not?

[MsRowdyRedhead]

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I do not use it all the time...

[mtmerrick]

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who doesn't use the quick-reply feature? If so, why not?

nope. Every time I think to use it (Rarely) I always wins up toggling into the main editor for the advanced features, tags, smileys, ect.

Our I just wanna type out a huge paragraph.

It's just too barebones for me to make it my standard thing.

Plus, no notification of when you've been ninja'd is freakin annoying.

[Trijhak]

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NUMBERS. This is a consistent problem with you, I have noticed.

Also, er, the quick reply editor has all the features of the 'advanced editor'.

It's not bare bones. Look at it before you speak next time. And also, it does notify you when you are ninja'd; it'll take you directly to the 'main editor'.

Read before you think.

[MsRowdyRedhead]

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Uh oh.. someone needs a diaper change.... ^

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who doesn't use the quick-reply feature? If so, why not?

nope.
Plus, no notification of when you've been ninja'd is freakin annoying.

Indeed

[The Truth]

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Truth's first semi-somewhat-maybe-more-maybe-less annual awards:

Best Plot:
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. (Runner up: The Big O.)

Best Music:
The Big O. (Runner up: Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood)

Most Incomprehensible:
FLCL (obviously)

Laziest artists:
Requiem from the Darkness.

Biggest mecha/most MANLY:
Gurren Lagann

Best demon butler:
Black Butler

Best adaption of a video game:
Tales of the Abyss. (Runner up: Senran Kagura)

Most Awesomeness per episode:
Haiyore! Nyaruko-San. (runner up: Black Butler)

Best stuffed weasel:
Vividred Operation.

Best "better than it sounds" guilty pleasure:
Senran Kagura. (Runner up: Kore wa Zombie desu ka)

Best episode about a pudding cup:
Kore wa Zombie desu ka.

Most Batman references:
Big O.

Most references to all things nerdy:
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san.

Worst second season:
Black Butler II. (Runner up: Kore wa Zombie desu ka of the dead)

Best villain protagonist:
Death Note. (Runner up: Black Lagoon)

Best opening theme:
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san. (Runner up: It's a 20-way tie...)

Strangest/Most Unique music:
Durarara!!

Most random title:
FLCL. (Runner up: Kore wa Zombie desu ka of the dead)

Best second season:
Black Lagoon: 2nd Barrage.




Best Overall:
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. (Runner up: Haiyore! Nyaruko-san).




This concludes the wall of text that nobody read despite all the thought I put into it.
 Most of you have stopped reading already, but if you haven't, stop now, because this is the end of the post.

[Saturn2.0]

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Haven't been ninja-ed in a while....considering all the inactivity!

[MsRowdyRedhead]

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I was ninja'd two days ago...

[Magical Girl Mimi]

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The only time you really don't get notified in some way with the Quick Reply, is if you have the notify feature off for Happy Mousing.

Also, Skrief actually is correct. I should know, given that I use the Quick Reply for pretty much everything... The only version without an actual good Quick Reply is the SMF 2.0 version, which I don't understand at all. =P

[Trijhak]

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*jumps off of chair and hugs Blade*

Wait, what am I doing?

[MsRowdyRedhead]

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WANT this



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/27/leap-motion-gesture-control-release-date-price_n_2773778.html?icid=maing-grid10|htmlws-main-bb|dl15|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D278224

[mtmerrick]

The problem with comparing writing a song, performing a song, writing a book, taking a photograph, etc to someone who works a "regular" job, is that for some bizarre reason it's been decided that any of the above vocations are so amazing that the creator should get paid forever for doing one job, and after he's dead, his family should continue to get paid for his work, and then, most likely part of the next generation too. Lets compare, for a moment a songwriter to a mechanic who performs brake jobs. Do you believe that the brake mechanic should get paid for his work. Of course. Just as a song writer should get paid for his song. that's where the similarity ends. The song writer goes on to collect royalties forever. If someone else uses his song, he gets paid again. Every time someone "benefits" from his song, he gets paid again. And for his lifetime, this never ends. The mechanic fixes your brakes and gets paid once. To even things out, he should perhaps get a penny every time the brakes are used. After all, you are continuing to benefit from his work. Sure, he got paid to fix them once. Just as the song writer got paid for his song. Then, if someone else tries to use those brakes they should be locked out and not function. Unless of course the second driver also pays the full price of that brake job. And then also pays the penny each time he uses them. But wait. When that car comes to a stop at a four way intersection, all the other cars at that intersection benefitted from those brakes, as that car stopped and didn't crash into those other cars, so they too have benefitted, so they too should pay a fee, lets say 1/2 a cent for every time their car didn't get hit by the first car. of course, each of these cars drivers are also paying their own penny to their brake mechanic because their brakes worked too, and of course our original driver would also owe a half a penny to the other three for his benefit from their brakes as well. This would make things fair. If others who provide services and goods also continue to get paid as their work is used and enjoyed. Why is it, when Carl Perkins grabbed a paper potato sack and jotted down "Blue Suede Shoes" he, or his family, or his record company, or his publisher, should get paid basically forever for everyoone listening to that song, while working brakes that save hundreds of lives daily per car only need to be paid for once? Did Carl also pay the guy at the dance who yelled to his friends "Hey, don't step on my blue suede shoes?" get a cut of the money? Nope. Do you pay a fee to the heart surgeon yearly for the operation that keeps you alive? No, because "Blue Suede Shoes" is more important.

Copyright in the USA originally lasted for one year. Long enough to allow the original creator to earn a living from his work. then publishers and corporations came along and look at the mess we're in now. Remember, the RIAA does NOTHING for the independent musician, writer or performer. They collect millions for the largest companies in the industry. Small labels and companies are forbidden from joining their organization.

Imagine if you bought a chair. You enjoyed it every day. then, you got invited to a friends house for dinner but one of his chairs broke, and you brought one from home. but when you got there it wouldn't work. the legs would just splay out and you'd go flat to the floor. This is a rights managed chair. It works in your dining room but no where else. when things have DRM it's because YOU don't OWN it, you simply LICENSE it. THEY control how and when you use it. They don't WANT you to own it anymore. they want to control it, and be sure that no one else can enjoy what you bought.

When folks scream that they're protecting the creator of that song, game, book or whatever. Umm, didn't they get paid in the beginning? How much is a song worth? Millions of songs get written every year. Most are not hits, but have the same copyright and protection. If someone copies, shares or bootlegs a ****** song that no one wants, that has never sold, and that only 3 people on the planet even know exists, the fine, punishment, and legalities are exactly the same as if you had stolen one of the greatest songs of all time!

There have been books written on how to write songs, books, articles, etc to create a lifetime income on a couple years work. Oddly, the very books that explain the details, have also created a lifetime of income for those books as well!

Perhaps all people should be paid forever for everything they do!

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[MsRowdyRedhead]

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Soooo an author should be paid for the first book sold only?
You cannot logically compare single sale items like a chair with multi sale items like books or CD's...

[mtmerrick]

You cannot logically compare single sale items like a chair with multi sale items like books or CD's...

.... o_O

wut?

i go to the store and buy a chair.
there are hundreds of these same chairs made
i use it in my house for 4 years
many people sit on it
i give it to my friend when he wants to have it (the chairmaker makes no money)
when he's done with it he sells it to someone else (the chairmaker makes no money)

i go to the store and buy a cd.
there are hundreds of these same cds made
i play it in my house for 4 years.
many people listen to it
i give it to my friend when he wants to have it (the cd-maker/artist makes no money)
when he's done with it he sells it to someone else  (the cd-maker/artist makes no money)

i go to the store and buy a book.
there are hundreds of these same books made
i keep it it in my house for 4 years.
many people read it
i give it to my friend when i no longer want it  (the publisher/autonr makes no money)
when he's done with it he sells it to someone else (the publisher/autonr makes no money)

i go to a website and buy a song.
there are an infinite amount of these same songs "made"
i keep it it in my on my computer for 4 years.
many people hear it
i send it to my friend when i no longer want it (the recording company/author makes no money)
he sends it to someone else - and makes no money! (the recording company/author makes no money either)




how are these not all the exactly same thing?

[MsRowdyRedhead]

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Original sale and resale are different. For first time sale there is a drastic difference. Chairmaker gets paid full for each chair, songwriter gets small percentage of a sale. IRL It can take a FULL year of sales just to recoup the cost of recording a CD.

on another note..

[mtmerrick]

if you (any people like you) don't understand the extreme benefits of being constantly connected, well then, yes, we do have a generation of idiots. but its not my generation.

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(also, the cost of that original recording is so much why? oh yeah. record companies scamming people. anyone can record anything for, oh yeah, next to nothing.)


EDIT: yes, there are ALWAYS people who misuse what's given to them. but just as a few violent individuals should not ban guns for the world, a few druggies should not cripple pharmacudicals for the world, a few facebook addicts do not make smartphones evil. jeez. you call yourself an intelligent person.

[The Truth]

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That awkward moment when you realise you just used your most powerful water attack on a water-type enemy...

A game called Epic Battle Fantasy 4 will be on Steam eventually, I hear. Give it all your money.

[Saturn2.0]

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FUS RO DAH!