Kaida23

Woot! Another Halloween event is almost upon us. :grin:

I got INTJ as well.

A big congrats to all of you! :thumbsup: =D>

Have the J-Mods do a bit of "flying the flag"? Not a bad idea. Even if they don't do anything, just knowing that they're there and patrolling the game would have an effect.

This would have made a nice Tip.It Times article, Wessan. :thumbup:

I'll play sax and trumpet. Horns make everything better. :shades:

Actually, that's exactly what child pornography is defined as: sexual images of minors.

So would the bot makers. :wink:

Now there's an idea. Bring back the stocks and let us throw rotten fruit at criminals. :lol:

Very nice, Med. Congrats. :thumbsup:

Pretty much. That said, I still agree with Jagex's decision to pull support from the site, just not the way they did it. Although, the fact that they gave us information into their decision was a refreshing change.

Could you explain to me in the legislation at hand, where it says he cannot run a fan site for a game which may have or may not have kids involved? I'm not in the US so I don't know the law there like I do here. Generally, people who are convicted of crimes that would require registration as a sex offender come with restrictions relative to their crimes. The most common of which are things like being prevented from working around children (like in a school), volunteering for groups that work with children (Boy Scouts/Girl Guides, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, etc...), not living within a certain distance of school or playground...that kind of thing. Considering one of the things he was convicted of was distribution of pornographic pictures of minors, I'm sure he has similar restrictions placed upon him. While starting up a fansite for a game aimed at minors might not be technically violating any of his restrictions, I'm sure it easily falls into a grey area that a man of his age should have known well enough to avoid. Especially if he is simply trying to put such things behind him and move on with his life as a law abiding citizen (a commendable course that we should all be supportive of). Edit: I just realized he may have restrictions against him forbidding him from initiating contact with minors, or communicating with minors who are not family over the internet (not unreasonable considering he distributed the offensive pictures via email). If so, then starting up the fansite would easily fall under the list of things he shouldn't be doing.

The problem with sex offender registries is that everyone from rapists to the guy who had sex with his 17 year old girlfriend can end up on them. That said, this guy surely must have been aware of the restrictions, fair or otherwise, placed upon people in such a position and should have known better than to start up a fan site for an online game at a point when the majority of it's player base was underage. I'll agree that sometimes people make mistakes, and sometimes they go to prison simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and once you've done your time you deserve a second chance but this is one of those crimes that follows you for the rest of your days. As for how Jagex handled it, I agree that it may not have been the best way of doing things but we don't know how this information was brought to their attention or if they had been receiving complaints about it. Publicly stating that they were distancing themselves from RuneVillage and it's founder may have been the only way of silencing the complainants.

She's very hot, but I hate the style of pockets on her shorts. When did it become fashionable to make women look like their pants are on backwards? <_<

1300 duel kills and I didn't pay for a single one. It's not hard to find people to trade kills with you. Gratz on the levels, Sonic. :thumbsup: What kind of xp/hr rate are you getting at the Boneyard?

Redheads ftw. :wub:

Use the same email address to sign up for everything.

Neither do I. I'm starting to feel unpopular... :cry:

Standing around waiting for someone who's supposed to be a professional is even worse. Especially when you have to explain their job to them. <_< At least I got paid for browsing TIF and posting in this blog for the first time in months. :lol: If the AC in my truck worked, I could have been playing RS as well.

And a cunning one, I'll bet. :wink: Go for it dude. As inspiration, I bring you wisdom from The Tao of Rayne: If you're not familiar with Least I Could Do, check it out. It's freaking hilarious.

Oh wow. I'd completely forgotten about this blog. Good to see you're back. :grin: But how did you gain 15 thieving levels at once? :blink:

Unfortunately, it wouldn't help much. I saw a p-mod come into the GE once, mute every spambot there and then say "There. That's a bit quieter" (or something such) to let us all know he'd done it. I was happy at first, but within 2 minutes new spambots started popping up. We'd have to have mods standing in the GE and Lumbridge on each world 24/7 doing nothing but muting/banning spambots to eradicate the problem.

Not everyone is in it for the fastest xp or the most gp/hr, but I have to agree that there would need to be extra rewards for completing the tasks. Personally, I'd welcome not only a way to break up the monotony of skilling but a reason to do it.

Update: Shortly after I posted about this, they opened the site to find...that the pumps were running too slow if more than one person at a time tried to use them - a big problem when there's 14 fueling positions. So after spending the rest of the afternoon checking and rechecking everything I found that the electrician is not only useless (see Days 1 and 2), but he's also color blind. He got the black and the blue wires backwards when hooking up the motor controls, so they were only running on 60% power. #-o It's really a shame that an installation manual doesn't come with EVERY FREAKING PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. :angry: So the tally for Day 4 comes to: Time onsite: 8.5 hours Time doing actual work: 0 hours. Time chasing someone else's mistake: 4.5 hours. :wall: If have to keep doing the electrician's job as well as my own, I really need to ask for a raise. :lol:

So, once again I'm being paid to sit on a site waiting for Ultramar to get their act together. <_< For those who don't know, I do gas station repairs and installs. My job when starting up a new station is to program and test the pumps and monitoring equipment. I'm on day 4 of this particular startup, and I've only done about a day and a half of actual work. With 2 hours of travel. Each way. Each day. Here's a breakdown of how I've spent my days of "work": Day 1 - Nothing was ready. Spent over half the day telling the electrician how to do things he should have already known. Spent the other half actually doing part of what I was there to do. Time onsite: 8 hours. Time doing actual work: 3 hours. Day 2 - Again, spent part of the day explaining things to people who should have already known how to do them. Spent the rest of the day finishing what I would have gotten done on Day 1 if the electrician had been ready. Time onsite: 7.5 hours. Time doing actual work: 5 hours. Day 3 - Waited for the inspector to arrive so he could sign off on the operation of the equipment I set up on Day 1 and tested on Day 2, then stood around while he glad handed with everyone. He signed off on the approval without testing a thing or even really looking around. :blink: Once he left, I hooked the monitoring system into the phone line because Bell can't seem to comprehend what we're asking them to do and since I've gotten tired of trying to explain it to them I just it myself now. Time onsite: 7.5 hours. Time doing actual work: 1.5 hours. Day 4 - So here I am today, the day the station is supposed to open. I've been here for over 4 hours and haven't done anything yet except stand around with the other people who were here at 9am for the "opening". It's not going to be happening anytime soon either; they're still paving one of the entrances and haven't finished testing the fire hydrants yet. :wall: If you're not keeping score, that's three 11+ hour days (and counting) for less than 10 hours of actually doing something. Did I mention I get paid by the hour? :grin: Is this the greatest job in the world, or the worst? Sometimes it's hard to tell. :wink: