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Jul 14, 2004, 3:42pm

So as much as I hate Ashley, and consider her dumb as hell, that's nothing
> compared to your arrogance ;)

Ha ha, thanks :D

- Mark

Jul 14, 2004, 1:59am

haha, nice...

But you should have used frames on the pictures section instead of adding
the text to the actual picture graphics... for shame.

- MR

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Jul 14, 2004, 3:12pm

Under Directive 7, paragraph 2 line 1 of the Secret Active Worlds Community
Guidelines reading as below:

In any event that a problem develops on such a scale that normal tacticial
actions cannot solve it, command and authority of the AWA will be transfered
to the highest ranking General who shall gain situational control for the
length of time required to use the given power in a way that will rectify
the said problem.

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As the only 5 star'd Generals still in Active Worlds are Nel, MTD and Myself
I now invoke directive 7, paragraph 2 giving me full control over the AWA,
AWCA and SCESO. All former troops are now recalled to activy duty for the
length of time required to solve the following problem.

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The problem is defined as such:

Active Worlds is degrading faster than plutonium in a detonating nuclear
warhead. Worse more, it is openly turning into some God Foresaken AOL
chatroom with 12 year old kids coming into __EVERY__ GZ looking for 'hot
boys / girls / whatevers' flooding any proper conversations straight out
into the dev > nul.

Lets evaluate shall we:
We have several people clearly suffering from mental problems ranging from
between learning difficulties, though insanity, all the way up to some users
being clearly psycotic. People with learning difficulties I have no problem
with unless they are put in situations where they could potentially harm
other users, neither is it fair on them to have to try and deal with it...
As for the others well guess, I've lost track of how many times they have
been banned from various things (newsgroups, worlds, entire universes)...
yet theyre still here! Hell I know I've raised hell in the past (being goody
all the time just doesnt do it for me) but some of these users are making AW
literally DANGEROUS... and we all know how E N Z O likes his 'ActiveWorlds -
Its just safer' logos.

We have gatekeepers ejecting for including links to the Active Worlds
conduct guidelines in AWGate, thinking I have 20+ laptops (artistic license)
and thinking your computer automatically locks onto, downloads and executes
any hyperlink you see ANYWHERE, including you AW chat window!

Hmmm cant think of anything generally wrong with the PKs or SRT for now...
Scratch this one...

We have the 'clock' maniaks running around under 'Commander KoL' saying
phrases like "I want you to suck my great big huge CLOCK!"

We have the AOL'ers running around for hot this and that, "Omni" clones
appearing at all of the ground zeros simultainiously, random tourist
deleters creating gangs to go vandalise, stupid this and stupid that.

I mean for the love of all that is holy...

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Let me share a very recent experience with you, Ive known a person a very
long time, as do a lot of you know him, and I have seen his picture several
years ago in the various galleries... and a few days ago he showed me a more
up to date pic, and I loaded it up and I just looked at it and just couldent
take it in that he had aged so much from what I knew before and when I got
my bearings I couldent help but think 'what on earth has happened?' because
while my friend has got older... Active Worlds seems to be getting younger,
the average mental age is about 12 now... Its worrying.

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I think AW needs some good caring people to go out of their way to keep up
the community, I can think of 2 people who I thought were the cornerstones
of their relevant groups and helped make those groups the great things they
were back in the day in my first and 2nd years in here... I sadly refer to
Skyee and Daphne, and while Daphne could sometimes be a pain in the bum
while I was terrorising AWTeen, both of these people had an ability to make
you smile and knew how different people were and how to interact and be
friends with them, regardless of problems... but now we don't have people
like that who bind things together... its a true shame.

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After that rather memory-flooding last paragraph... back to business. AWA
and all ESO consider your new mission to find out who / how the heck these
AOL idiots are finding us, I like it that Active Worlds is getting new
users, I just wish they all had an IQ above 100 and at least actually knew
how to teleport before buying a cit! Once we have isolated them... I
suggest a good old fashioned burning at the sake.

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Say what you will, Ive brought up quite a few topics here to consider.

- Mark R

Jul 14, 2004, 4:13pm

http://www.activeworlds.com/products/rates.asp

Blimp: $500 a month
Sign: $50

So lets review... unless Active Worlds Inc is paying itself to put up
adverts for awcommunity.org this has to be the worst 3rd party marketing
setup I've ever seen :O Although I can't imagine anyone actually knows about
it considering for $500/m you can pay a bunch of annoying tourists to go
around spamming whatever URL's you want to every GZ in the universe :O

Posted this just for your amusement..

- Mark R

Jul 14, 2004, 7:27pm

I just thought of something else with this one... Someone who knows more
about the refresh and OP management tell me will you...

For the blimp image to be changed... you would need a cache reset, right?

- Mark R

Jul 14, 2004, 8:03pm

Its an avatar...

- Mark

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Jul 17, 2004, 10:09am

Its probably just a lost pricing plan, I think that while 3rd party
advertising *could* work I cant see AWI actually going out and themselves
promoting that the marketing arena is available. Hence noone uses it.

- Mark R

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Jul 15, 2004, 8:31pm

Ahhh so true.

- Mark R

Jul 16, 2004, 4:53pm

I found this out recently while talking to some friends and trying it.

Put both of your hands out infront of you, and ensure your elbows / arms are
not touching anything to support them. Now try clasping and opening your
hands as fast as you can, in sync with eachother. A normal person will last
typically only between 5 and 20 seconds before the rate of one of their
hands deminishes to just half the speed of their dominant hand, and that the
arm attached to their none-dominant hand will feel rather strange...

Try keeping this up for 2 minutes and then try typing as normal (presuming
you use both hands to type) and see how many spelling mistakes / typo's you
make in the next few minutes.

- Mark R

Jul 17, 2004, 12:25pm

Just been having a chat in AWGate and the babynames was brought up again...
I thought this was kinda funny...

My name, Mark Alan Randall if we look up...

http://www.babynamesworld.com/profile.php?seostats=1&name=Mark
Mark:
Origin: Latin
Meaning: warlike, hammer, defender

http://www.babynamesworld.com/profile.php?seostats=1&name=Alan
Alan:
Origin:Gaelic, Celtic
Meaning:handsome, cheerful, noble

http://www.babynamesworld.com/profile.php?seostats=1&name=Randall
Randall:
Origin:English
Meaning:From the name RALPH

.... So that would make me a ...

Handsome and Intelligent English Guy with Warlike tendencies and likes a
little Irish music... right?

:O Its amazing how accurate these things are.

- Mark R
Currently Listening To: Ill tell ma mam

Jul 17, 2004, 12:34pm

From: http://www.babynamesworld.com/profile.php?seostats=1&name=Rachael
meaning "innocent lamb"

Now I am no expert, but if my RE serves me right did'nt the same people as
the origin dictates slaughter lambs for protection against all kinds of
evil?... Well how would you feel if you were called Rachael back then and
your father came out with his axe going "Holy God protect us with this
Innocent Lamb we are about to kill!"...

Me thinks I would be getting bloody nervous if I was a Rachael back then....

- Mark R

Jul 17, 2004, 12:38pm

http://www.babynamesworld.com/profile.php?seostats=1&name=Rick

Gender: (male)
Origin: English
Meaning: Powerful, Rich
Rating: (4/5)

- Mark R

Jul 17, 2004, 1:30pm

AWI even has proper financial investors????

- Mark R

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Jul 17, 2004, 6:58pm

Yeah Yeah :O I just missread to be honest.

- Mark R

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Jul 19, 2004, 5:42pm

Only once they've been shot... Taste quite nice actually, my dad has brought
a few back to eat.

- Mark R

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Jul 17, 2004, 12:41pm

Remember what I told you: However much we would like to destroy France, you
are NOT... repeat NOT allowed to start a war with them by correcting their
poor spelling.

Jul 17, 2004, 1:00pm

Oh thats fine, annoy them as much as you want to, I will have the VSTOL
Harriers deployed there now.

- MR

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Jul 18, 2004, 5:39pm

AWTeen 2750n 0w...

its a bloody big theatre... just need a bloody big sign object to go with
it.

- MR

Jul 20, 2004, 5:22pm

[View Quote] He is trying to say she has made a dog that poo's, poo's come more, then
hads a puppy :O

LOL, come to AWTeen GZ :O

- Mark R

Aug 13, 2004, 1:44am

It is, Id have programmed the bloody thing myself by now :O How hard can it
be? *Rummages around for a few hundred .h files from World Core*

- MR


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Sep 16, 2004, 12:10am

Please at least snip your posts if you are going to make rediculously small
and unprompted ones.

- Mark R

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Sep 17, 2004, 3:43pm

The reason NewAW #1 never came out was because certain things never got
added, Transport etc (which I of coursed offered to make them when Bill was
still about, ha... ha... ha....).

Really though I don't know whats going on with the new one, unless they want
to impliment toilet cycles for your avatars... ? Should have been out months
and months ago in my not-so-humble opinion.

- Mark R

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Sep 17, 2004, 9:18pm

Mousty was contracted by AWI to do it which is madness because what they
should have done is contracted a team of 2 or 3 people to make components
for the plugin structure. Could have had the initial coding done in 2 week
or so.

- MR

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Jul 22, 2004, 5:38pm

No they can't get into trouble as its effectivly stopping what you could
probably take as 'attempting to disrupt the day to day business operations
of a competing company' - effective sabotage if it worked, AWI is in their
rights to protect against it in their own worlds... but couldent actually
ban it universally due to free speech malarky.

- Mark R



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Jul 22, 2004, 7:34pm

hahah, CEO with style.

- MR

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Jul 23, 2004, 12:41am

Argh AW to???

There went the last public place in AW you could have a convo without a bot
thinking you were corrupting the minds of small innocent 10 year old
children (which of course probably know more profanity than most of us put
together - damned society! What ever happened to kids being like... 14
before they started learning all these swears...)

- Mark R


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Jul 23, 2004, 10:29pm

www.th%65re.com

dum de dum de dum
tra la la...

Very bored, cant you tell?
All hail HTTP specs...

Although www.there.%63om isnt detected as a URL as it should be! Shame on
whoever made the parsing code...

Hint - Dont even think about blocking URLEncoded URL's, thats just degrading
the product!

- Mark R

Jul 24, 2004, 10:28am

its no trick, simply HTTP specification (and you know how I hate MOST
specifications).

Therefore, it can never be banned, so why make yourself out to be paranoid
and afraid in the first place? Yer know a little inward pointing "AW is
Good" advertising wouldent go amiss! Whats the point in banning people from
mentioning your competators if your not even taking steps to enforce how
good your product is to your customers?

- Mark


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Jul 24, 2004, 11:59pm

Tip: Paragraphs

- Mark R

Jul 24, 2004, 3:37pm

But regardless of what the IP says AW is hosted in Russia, so tough.

- Mark R

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