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emcee Red Super Koopa                    Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| What thread layout are you using? Maybe that has something do with it. Other than that I'm out of ideas, maybe Alaster can remove his layout and readd things one at a time between sending you PMs, and you can click through them until you find where the problem starts. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Well, there is a simple way to know for sure, Alaster can remove the CSS file from his layout, and send Danielle a PM, and see if it still happens. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Ah, forgot that.
http://ipods.freepay.com/?r=26399522 |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| This board has incredibly broken html, there are table rows outside of tables, and table data cells outsides of rows. Its crazy. Anyway, I see your layout uses a table cell without starting a row, which is normally ok, although not technically valid html. Your table may be having problems with the already broken table code on the page, atleast with whatever rendering engine you're using (there's no Mozilla 2.0, but whatever version you're using its out of date since Mozilla isn't being developed anymore). So like Danielle said, see what it looks like in IE, and get the latest lololol (1.5). I would also suggest you change your table for a div, since there's no way it can interfere with board code.
Also, you set background=00000, I think what you mean is bgcolor="#000000", background is for an image, atleast when used as an attribute, instead of css. You background color isn't showing up for me, and probably no one else either, oddly though, it shows up in your screenshot. Try this for your header: <div style="background:black;color:white;font-family:tahoma;width:100%;height:100%"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/xsadbutruex/inverted.jpg" style="padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:10px;float:left"> and this for your signature: </div> That should work better. (edited by emcee on 01-19-06 03:37 AM) |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Its odd. I never really thought about it until reading this thread, but I don't own any CDs or movies. And I never have. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Yes, I'm a machinist. I had my first job at 16, working at KFC. Not only was it the worst job ever, I'm pretty sure it was the worst thing ever. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone with a central nervous system.
When I was 19, (long, long after quitting the chicken joint) I got a job at a small machine shop with about 20 machines and 10 employees. I did simple repetitive work for quite awhile, before being trained to run Brown and Sharpe screw machines. Eventually I was taught to sharpen and set the tools on the those machines and eventually set-up new jobs and repair them. Training was very difficult, especially when you're being trained by a 65 year old German guy with very little patience (he's a good guy, just some people aren't meant to teach). He retired at the end of last year so now I run the Brown and Sharpe department by myself. If you're interested a screw machine is it's another name for an automatic metal lathe. If you've taken wood shop you should know what a lathe is, you use them to make table legs. Basically you put a board in it and it spins it, then you slowly move a cutter along the outside to create concentric contours. An automatic metal lathe is basically the same concept, except it cuts a long bar of metal (normally about 12 feat long). The machine will feed some of the spinning bar out and cutters controlled by cams will move in a machine metal off the outside of the bar. At the same time it switches between tools in the front such as drills, taps (for internal threading), and die heads (for external threading) which move in and machine from the front. As a last step a tool comes in and cuts the machined part off from the rest of the bar, and it feeds in more of the bar for the next part. The finished part can be anything from a small bolt, valve or bushing, to a foot long shaft, depending on what the customer orders. All the dimensions on the part have to be very accurate, normally within 3-5 thousandths of an inch depending on the specs, or the customer will send them back. When we complete an order, we change the cams and tooling and retime the feeding and tool changes for different part. Its good work, since I run the department by myself its very independent (no boss hanging over your shoulder). And there's more thinking involved than anything else. Sometimes I'll have to come up with a new way of getting a tool centered, or designing a better way of catching parts when they cut off. Stuff like that. It can also be very stressful though, when I can't get a tool centered properly or I can't get a dimension in right. Or if I screw up and make a bunch of bad parts or crash a machine. A few months ago we got a new Tsugami CNC swiss style lathe, me and the guy who owns the company spent a week in Conneticut learning to program and run it before it came, but we're still learning now as we run it. Its been over booked since the day we got it. Since me and the boss are the only ones who can run it, I put in alot of hours, normally about 55 hours a week. But the pay's good especially with all the over time. Its a career for now, but I won't do it forever. I invest alot of what I make so I maybe one day I'll start my own business (not machining related). Or go into early semi-retirement, working somewhere less stressful, and less hours, and live partially off my investments. Wow this is alot longer than I thought it would be. Oh well, if you made it this far, good for you, you're alot more patient than me. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| To me it seemed like he really likes you, but doesn't want to let on that he does. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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Originally posted by Jin Dogan I figure if I'm going to spend ages hand pixeling something it might as well be something related to the greatest television show of all time. 
CROOOOOW! |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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Originally posted by Legault Only to those who can't tell the difference between Arabs. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Pixar was looking to partner with a different company, so Disney fired most of their animators, and retrained the rest to do computer animation, because they believe the public just isn't interested in old fashioned 2D graphics anymore. After that they made Chicken Little, which bombed, so they moved to plan B: buying Pixar. But it's only a matter of time before another company makes a great 2D animated movie, which will respark interest in hand drawn animation, the 3D fad will die out, and Disney will realise they made a horrible mistake. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I don't get profanity. For every obscenity there's another word that means exactly the same thing, but its perfectly ok to say that word. What's the difference if they mean the same thing? Is it just because at one time it was decided that one word is ok and the other isn't. It's so abitrary.
It goes both ways, though. A joke isn't any funnier just because it contains obscenities. I think alot of people got so excited when they were finally allowed to use "bad words" that they began using them just because they're considered obscene. And they never really got over the novelty, so now they cram as many as they can in to every sentence whether its approriate for what they're trying to say or not. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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Originally posted by PikawilOriginally posted by emcee Well I didn't mean business-wise. Besides, compared to the last few Disney/Pixar films it didn't do to well in the box office either. The incredibles was making more in its last week than Chicken Little did opening day. Originally posted by Zamboni Ice Cleaner By that, you mean they helped pay for them? (edited by emcee on 01-27-06 10:55 PM) |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Reeses' are overrated. If I want peanut butter I'll go make a sandwich.
Now Zeros, those are good candy.  |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Now to way over analyze this:
An 8 place setting dishwasher from Wal-Mart will run you $298.77 According to this site the average life expectancy of a dishwasher is 10 years. So it will cost about 8 cents a day. Since its a 8 place unit an averaged sized family of 4 would need to run it an average of 1.5 times a day (washing their cups, silverware and bowls at the same time). A set of ten plates (extras since several will likely break over 10 years) will run you maybe 20 bucks. Or about 1/2 a cent a day over 10 years. According to this site a dishwasher uses about 700 watts for washing and 1400 for drying. So if you figure the first hour of running is washing and the last 30 minutes is drying it will cost you about 10 cents per load, or 15 cents a day at 7 cents per kwh. Alot of cities, like mine, charge a flat rate for residental sewer and water (in which case it wouldn't count since you need it anyway reguardless of washing dishes). If you live in the country, your cost would be for the electricity to pump up the water (the cost of the pump doesn't count, since you need it anyway). Looking around I found the average price of water to be about a dollar for 500 gallons. A dishwasher uses about 10 gallons of water per load, so if you pay for water it would cost another 2 cent a load, or 3 cents a day. Then there's the price of the detergent. You can get a 20 load box for about 3 bucks. So that's about 22 and a half cents a day. So total that's: 8+.5+15+3+22.5=49 cents a day. Paper plates is alot easier to figure out. They're about 4 bucks for a 100 pack, or 4 cents a piece, so for 3 meals for 4 people would be 48 cents a day, just a little less than reusable plates. But you still need to wash the rest of your dishes, or buy all disposible dishes, with figuring the cost of reusuable dishes, that includes the cost of washing your other dishes too (but not the cost of buying them). Also your cost of washing dishes would be much less if you hand wash, since you the soap is cheaper, it would use less water, and of course less electricity. So your cost of using reusable dishware would be a little less overall. I also believe it would be much better for the environment, but I don't feel like doing all the math and research behind that. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Movies should be entertaining. That's the point. Yes, there's a certain artistic element to them, but I've always looked at art as a personal thing, something created for the creator, as a way of exp That said, I don't think a movie must be funny or amusing to be entertaining. I'm using a very broad definition of entertaining. I look at it as just something that's enjoyable and holds your attention. And people must enjoy experiencing different emotions, or they wouldn't watch movies that bring them on. Even if those emotions are considered "bad" emotions when experienced involving real things. Emotions such as fear, sadness, or anger. But I don't like movies that are just "sad". Anybody can make a sad movie. Show innocent people getting killed. Show two people build a relationship, then kill one off. It's easy. A truly good movie uses sadness as a tool. Take Schindler's List. It's very sad in the beginning. When the old one armed machinist is saved when he get a job in Schindler's factory, only to be shot in the street. Or when the girl in the red coat is wondering around the ghetto, and later is shown in a pile of bodies. But this sadness and inhumanity is there create contrast to the humanity that Schindler finds in himself. The "happy ending" is that much more fulfilling because shows that good can exist despite evil. To me, that's good movie making. It's similar with The Shawshank Redemption. Andy Dufresne is beat, raped, and kept in solitairy confinement for months at a time. But these things are there to show how hope can overcome even some of the worst things imaginable. But back on topic: Bad movies. First of all, I have to agree with [GSS] about horror films with "creepy kids". Every other horror movie has one of these kids with blank stares, who talk real slow and quiet, and always know things they shouldn't. I bet that was scary as hell in the first movie to use that. The other four hundred though, not so much. I can't see counting out and entire genre for good movies. I mean sure most every video game adaption have been bad, but that doesn't mean they have to be. I think its that the movie makers feel the demographic they're aiming for wouldn't appeciate any real depth. I think they're wrong. And sequals get a bad rap. I mean historically they've been a studio's way of cashing in on the success of a good film, without having to put the same effort into it. But once again, they don't have to be. The Matrix sequals, Godfather II, the Star Wars Sequels (not prequels), the second and third movies in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, are all counter-examples. What annoys me is watching a movie that the filmmakers clearly didn't put much effort into. Which brings me to one of the worst movies I have seen in years (and I've watched nearly every episode of MST3K): Fantastic 4. Wow. It was so bad, it was just amazing to watch. I don't know if it was editing or script rewrites or what, but there were entire scenes that didn't make any sense. But they were in there anyway. They just didn't care. It reminded me of that part in Space Mutiny when a character was killed off and they show her at her desk working in the very next scene. For instance: Three of the four are standing on a bridge, there are a bunch cops in front of them that they want to sneak by. So one of them says to the woman who can go invisible, "hey, go invisible and strip down, so you can get past them and see what's going on". So she does, and when she gets over there, she says to the other guys "I cant believe you made me do that". What? How'd they get over there? And the heroes did absolutely nothing heroic the entire movie, the closest they came was save some people on a bridge, from a multicar pile up that one of them caused. The rest of the time they set around in a penthouse fighting with each other and whining about the amazing powers they had been "cursed" with. The only reason they actually fought the villian of the movie was because he was posing a threat to them personally. Then there was the love life of "The Thing". That was actually quite funny. I laughed out loud when his fiance came out of nowhere on the bridge (was she involved in the pile up?) and set the ring on the ground, then his fingers are too big to pick it up (maybe that was supposed to be symbolic in some way). After that he spend most of the rest of movie all weepy because he lost his shallow, unsupportive girlfriend. But it all works out ok, since he eventually finds a nice blind girl. Because, as we all know, only the blind can love the ugly. Originally posted by [GSS] Cruel Justice Gary? |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I got grounded middle. I haved no problem admitting I'm cheap. I never spend more than I have to (brand names and labels are just stupid tricks to seperate dumb people from their money), and I hate being ripped-off. But I'm not greedy either. I don't mind lending people money, even if I know I might not get it back (assuming I know they atleast plan on paying it back). But I wouldn't have any money to lend if I let people rip me off or overcharge me. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Wow, even your middle name. I think I'll change my user name to Jonathan Barkwell Smithers. Except yours makes more sense because it's actually your name. (edited by emcee on 01-31-06 05:43 AM) |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Mexican pizzas are great. True, they're not really Mexican, or pizzas, but they're good. Their tacos are good too, just be sure to get the supreme, they don't put sour creme or tomatoes on the normal ones.
I like the packets. The first set they had were funnier. But like the fact they're even trying to do something original with their packaging. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5908 days |
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Originally posted by XkeeperOriginally posted by emceefixed Yeah, that would make more sense, but that's not how it went. |
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