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Dec 20, 2002, 4:04am

There all opinions. That's what makes vigilantes work. o_O

--Bowen--

Dec 21, 2002, 3:23pm

[View Quote] Wimp, I downloaded it all with AOL dialup on barely above 14.4 kbps.

--Bowen--

Dec 21, 2002, 9:58pm

[View Quote] Yes, if I want to view HTML I'll open mozilla.

--Bowen--

Dec 24, 2002, 12:07am

[View Quote] Uh ok.

--Bowen--

Dec 28, 2002, 6:29pm

[View Quote] Goober King called you a she, not KAH.

--Bowen--

Dec 28, 2002, 11:55pm

[View Quote] Happens to the best of us. :P

I think KAH's too busy with his freeciv hacking to care anyways.

--Bowen--

Jan 4, 2003, 4:10pm

[View Quote] People take English words and use them to write sentences, but foreigners don't
always get them grammatically correct.

--Bowe--

Jan 4, 2003, 6:55pm

[View Quote] Grammar is based on the general assumption of what's right by the majority of those
that use the language natively? Just because all the Chinese people learn English
and decide "the" should be changed to "oleyumption" doesn't make it right. :O

--Bowen--

Jan 5, 2003, 4:28pm

> We tend to correct children when they say things in a way that makes sense rather
than the way they're "supposed to" say it, but I often wonder if we should pay more
attention and learn from them as much as we teach them. For example, the verb forms
"gooder" and "goodest" are logical enough even though we're used to something else,
they would be easier for people learning English as a second language, and I don't
see how a native English speaker could fail to recognize their meaning let alone
think they meant something else unless they had learned a dialect of English that's
WAY different from any I've ever heard of. What makes such words "wrong" anyway?
The words we use now and think of as correct were all wrong "everywhere" at some
point in time.

What makes it "wrong" is just how people feel. Believe it or not, it's usually how
it sounds in a sentence that determines it to be wrong. "It's gooder than cheese."
just doesn't sound good, maybe it's growing up with the language and knowing it's not
right but I just don't think it sounds good at all.

--Bowen--

Jan 5, 2003, 11:32pm

[View Quote] I saw DLP... if I remember correctly KAH said there was some uber-flame war with DLP
with JFK2 and chucksparty? This predates me though so I can't give you info.

--Bowen--

Jan 9, 2003, 7:05pm

[View Quote] Only about 20-30% of people in the Central New York area have broadband.

--Bowen--

Jan 9, 2003, 2:08am

[View Quote] It's not just China. Do you have some unfledged discrimination of China in your
system or something?

My I also ask what is so breathtaking of Iceland and Greenland? Such as well known
structures or landmarks that could be included in the Gate.

--Bowen--

Jan 9, 2003, 1:48pm

[View Quote] That's in my minifridge. Let's put that in AWGate, my minifridge.

--Bowen--

Jan 9, 2003, 1:51pm

[View Quote] It is modeled after the Great Wall of China. If you look around the world, there are
a couple of landmarks from other places in the world, like Hollywood, just redone a
little. Enzo said the globe above the center of GZ is modeled after the Epcot
center. I think we already had this conversation though.

--Bowen--
Freaking déjà vu.

Jan 11, 2003, 5:02pm

[View Quote] The death popup. Alt+F4 kills popups and popunders if they're the foremost.

--Bowen--

Jan 11, 2003, 5:24pm

[View Quote] Wussy!

--Bowen--

Jan 11, 2003, 5:33pm

[View Quote] Yup. It is a funny popup though.

--Bowen--

Jan 11, 2003, 10:45pm

[View Quote] LoL Oprah could've also eaten them, or bring Dr. Phil to consult it's marriage
problems. Mozilla forever.

--Bowen--

Jan 19, 2003, 2:36pm

[View Quote] Uh no. It doesn't work like that.

--Bowen--

Jan 19, 2003, 3:27pm

[View Quote] No, they just mark you as "possible threats" MP5's aren't the greatest sub-machine
guns in the world. A real terrorist uses box-cutters since they're so 1337.

--Bowen--

Jan 19, 2003, 9:55pm

[View Quote] "Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Fat Ass Off!!!" ? :P

--Bowen--

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Jan 17, 2003, 9:45pm

[View Quote] Well I would definately say US is # 1 on the population majority of AW.

--Bowen--

Jan 17, 2003, 11:52pm

[View Quote] Amazing how you threw Italians in there. The point of events is to get the maximum
turn-outs, honestly, that's best done by picking a time inbetween US and UK as it
would yield the most people. As you argued earlier the timezones between the UK and
the rest of Europe isn't very much. So I would say EST+2 would be a great time for
maximum turnout events.

--Bowen--

Jan 18, 2003, 12:05am

[View Quote] Sure, but the US is larger than just the East coast... I was trying to include them
as well. It's relatively hard for people on the West coast to attend VRT oriented
events sometimes. As you can imagine, that's quite a time difference.

--Bowen--

Jan 18, 2003, 12:13am

[View Quote] The population from those areas is relatively low in comparison to the US and Europe.
Australia might be equal to the total from all of those countries. And those that
want to attend the events will be even smaller than the total popluation. Therefore
it'd be stupid to try and make it accessable to that extreme when your aiming for the
_MAXIMUM_ turnout possible. I would estimate, as ihnk said, that US and Europe makes
at least 80% of AW's VR population.

2 am EST is better for the West coast than the East coast. I'm guessing 2 am EST
events is aimed towards Australia. Since they don't want the maximum turnout
possible, it's not at a better time.

--Bowen--

Jan 18, 2003, 12:42am

[View Quote] I think UK and Germany make up majority of European population on AW.

--Bowen--

Jan 18, 2003, 12:57am

[View Quote] Regardless of it's many words it's one of the easiest languages to learn. That
should be true since 25% + of the world speaks it (approx). That's a lot of
people...

I see nothing wrong with English being the universal language. As long as it's not
Ebonics...

--Bowen--

Jan 18, 2003, 1:06am

[View Quote] Most people learn English just because too. It's not really that hard if we were to
compare it to most oriental languages. I'd say English is about a half way point.
Oriental - English | Germanic languages - Latin derivatives

That seems like a nice representation.

--Bowen--

Jan 18, 2003, 1:27am

[View Quote] I don't remember anymore. Eep not having a job?

--Bowen--

Jan 18, 2003, 2:34am

[View Quote] It was a rough classification. People like challenges.

--Bowen--

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