It's not hard to selectively backup a MySQL database...

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Doesn't he (jermboy) already have an account? Why did he make a new one to post this? Further investigation is required...

Edit: Ah, yes... "that guy".

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Considering the internet is effectively "the" route to information/everything now - hell, it's a key technology that's binding the entire world together - it kind of has to be.

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The internet is not going to go away. It may migrate technologies (as it has already done before, both in terms of hardware and software), but the underlying concept, that of a world (or, perhaps eventually, even more) having easy and (more or less) free access to information without regard to location (well, eventually... we're not "quite" there yet), is here to stay.

Which is to say, the "Internet", as it exists as a concept, should be a human right; the technology is irrelevant.

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True, true. Then again, plenty of businesses also rely on it (Google, anyone?), so perhaps the corporate morons will cancel each other out.

Alternately, we can just assassinate the entire management/whatever staff of the RIAA/MPAA!
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If only...

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Yes, it's his birthday today too!

Hooray!

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Obvious lack of knowledge is obvious

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Well, I'm #2 in postcount (damn you Kawa!) and also not too far off from alt in IRC

[19:55:10] <MillyBot> NightKev's line count: 104717 - Rank 31/33058 - Next: 1583, Prev: 4255

"Good luck"

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If only it counted characters...

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Posted by blackhole89

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One day, perhaps, something more might be made out of it.

Apart from that, some items do have special effects that are of some relevance in everyday board usage...

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Translation: None, except for a very few specially coded items, half of which should probably be profile options instead.

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You and Kiro would rank somewhere in that 0-30 spot, I predict.

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Ah yes, total number of words is basically the same as total number of posts, except it's perhaps even easier to "game the system" that way.

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Posted by blackhole89

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Posted by NightKev

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Posted by blackhole89

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One day, perhaps, something more might be made out of it.

Apart from that, some items do have special effects that are of some relevance in everyday board usage...

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Translation: None, except for a very few specially coded items, half of which should probably be profile options instead.

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Unrelenting as ever, aren't you

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I am truly a force of nature the internet.

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Posted by Nick

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actually the amount of time it takes for people to reach high line ranks in IRC, you are very far away from alt.

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Well, maybe. Back when I was much more active here/on the IRC it wouldn't really be all that far.

Although now regardless, it seems alt is suddenly active... here, at least.

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I'll say the useful one, at least.

Jedi Training Helmet - No one's layout will show for you. Useful if you have dial-up slow internet.

I think there was perhaps another useful one, but I don't recall what it is/does...

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Posted by AnAxemRanger

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Posted by blackhole89

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...which is why I linked its Wikipedia page. Very roughly speaking, it is supposed to be a measure of what level of education the reader needs to have attained to deal with the sesquipedalian loquaciousness of a given text.

And well, you could argue in a similar way that a postcount-based regime encourages pointless posting and/or does not acknowledge scarce, but quality posting to the same degree as it acknowledges frequent empty smalltalk... but then, given the prerequisite laziness of anyone ever getting involved with the board code, it's quite unlikely we ever would get such an elaborate scheme anyway.

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Yes, you linked the wiki page, but what did I just say before? No one has the patience to read walls of text. At least not me. I'm a 20 year old kid with the attention span of a... look, a pine cone! /bad joke
Anyway, that page was way to wordy.

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I just read the summary text and understood what it was right away... only a paragraph or so to read.
There's "tl;dr" and then there's just outright unabridged laziness.

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Heh, I saw the Yogscast videos on it and got re-interested as well. Perhaps you'll see me too!

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An appropriate time to revive that old tradition, eh?
Looks like you're running out of usernames though.

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You can't really compare ASMT, because the new registrations were probably caused by people who watch raocow's videos. He made a lot of "hey look we're doing a thing!" videos for ASMT/A2MT, and the talkhaus is, y'know, based on him and stuff.

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That's pretty much exactly right.

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