Anesthesia

Whoopee ding dong diddly doo...

Can you still ping the other machines when the problem occurs?

Why not look for the screenshots yourself? They would be very easy to find. Easier than asking other people to post them again and again.

There is if you want to play MORE THAN ONE GAME at those settings.

The users foot the bill, as I said before - they are served adverts which pay the costs. Other than that, if there are any extra costs I believe Silverion pays - and as far as I know he has virtually nothing to do with the rulemaking.

Do you not think that many of them will join just because its big? Just because this is 'the institute' and one needs to be a part of it to get something done - to get help with the game and to buy and sell wares. A huge number will join just because its got lots of users.

We all contribute to the costs of running costs of this forum by being served adverts. Also, if myspace is censored in message bodies, how come it is allowed in a person's 'website' section in their profile? Anyway, I very much appreciate that this has been left open for comments.

True, that. And each step one tries to take to get closer to zero risk, one takes away liberties, fun features and basically reasons to visit the board. It is important for the administration to remember that they are not the board users parents. It is the parents' job to ensure the safety of their children - its not like its a board filled with independent 12 year olds. This is one of hundreds of sites any child will frequent, it is impossible to stop them doing something. I've seen this board change a huge amount in the nearly 5 years I have been a member and sometimes I think that whilst the basis of decisions is obviously safety, there's only so much you can do to protect people from their own stupidity. And only so much until we have a whitelist of topics allowed to be discussed. Anyone remember the 'new' runescape chat filter where it only allowed you to say preprogrammed words?

Oh my god Sunli, that was meant to be a PM to you! Honestly didn't mean to post it :oops: Apologies!

So surely any photos that people have taken shouldn't be allowed as someone might know the place it was taken and realise that the poster frequents it? That's just a joke. But this isn't - what about pet pictures? Surely they are in the same boat? I get really frustrated with the nanny-state feeling of this board, how some of the rules make the admins seem like parents/teachers. Doesn't mean I don't understand why it's done though. It's just frustrating.

The several that existed in the past didn't seem to be a problem? Or are you saying they were a problem, just undiagnosed :P

Does your attitude stem from a feeling of inadeqacy? Is that why you have to be so hostile to people? It doesn't make people respect you, you know. Just makes you look like a belligerent tweenager who is incapable of having a proper discussion.

How come a dual-core CPU and 2GB of fancy RAM but only a 6800GS?

He's had a solo carreer for a fair while... I've got his DVD.

I think that this is a good thing. I really like their first two albums, but I think that X&Y is a bit boring, a bit pop-y. I think its much better for them to burn out than to fade into the rest of the pap you see on top of the pops.

Neither did he. I think its you putting words in his mouth.

Keanu Reeves and Alex winter. The first film was Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, and the second was Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.

Dude, if you die, can I have your Megadeth collection?

Rick, you just explained why it's censored - not why it's patronising. If the admins were literally trying to stop people knowing of the site or going there it would make much more sense to censor it to something generic, if someone sees NotSafeForYou they know exactly what site is being mentioned thanks to the context. It was mentioned in a discussion with an admin I had recently that some of the unique censors for words had turned into insults themselves - that is what comes of this, the censor-replacements just become a substitute for the word. Though I sometimes forget just how young this forum's userbase is. As an adult yourself I'm sure you'll agree how annoying it can be to be treated as an idiot or a schoolchild.

I don't require you to. As for the rest of your reply, it looks like you just quoted my post and didn't even read it.

My point is not the fact that it is censored, that much was just by the wayside. My point is that what it is censored to is unnecessarily patronising. If someone can give me a good reason why it is that as opposed to something neutral such as "CensoredSite" or similar then I'll gladly retract my statements.

Heh, "NotSafeForYou" - interesting... I'm old enough to drive a car off a cliff or into a shop window I'm old enough to buy a gun and shoot myself or someone else I'm old enough to drink myself to death I'm old enough to buy a knife and stab myself or someone else ... But I'm not old enough to visit a website. It's one thing to censor things, its insulting when you censor them in such a patronising way though.

Some of the jobs I'd consider in the future: Cowboy, astronaut, warlock, more powerful astronaut...

I'm halfway through a computer science degree specialising in internet computing, I'm interested in becoming a unix sysadmin.

I find it interesting how so many people have SLI - I wonder how many of them actually have it.