USA - the land of crazy people driving on the wrong side of the road...
USA - the land of crazy people driving on the wrong side of the road...
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If you think usa driving is bad, I invite you to try DR
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. -Marie Curie
Any place with left-handed-steering-wheel cars are a little crazy. DR included.
No amount of GTA will get me used to this.
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Registration? For the forums? I didn't even know it was closedOriginally Posted by Abdula
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
FOR YEARS MAN. How did you not notice this? The total absence of any new members was a dead giveaway, there was more than one reason why this place was slowly fading away.
Dreaming impossible dreams.
Sapphire is awesome!
is that just because forums are a dying medium and there's barely enough content to keep this place afloat?
Registrations were closed to stop an influx of bots. They ruined our server reputation to the point where all emails were blacklisted, including legit admin and registration emails. The former was a problem and the latter stopped registrations anyway.
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In fairness, in the two prior years we got like ... one or two new members ... but yeah. Forums are a dying medium regardless. We had trouble bringing in pretty much since aone died, and moreso since gw-subs dissolved into their real lives too.
I finally got enough ahead of the unpatched hacked wordpress and drupal instances on the server to get it de-blacklisted most places, so we can actually send an email now and then. Not expecting an influx of good users, but hey, at least the seo-spambots can log in and fail to meet their objectives
When I turned registration off, we were bouncing about 40,000 bogus registration attempts per day that didn't even bother trying to deal with the weak 1-question verification test, but about a hundred a day were getting through at peak.
I had the most random muscle memory and typed in forums.gotwoot.net. It made me smile to see a familiar user names still hanging around.
You could afford to post more! Like once a year instead of once every five years.
Came in late today for a late shift, everyone gets sent home early due to inclement weather. There is so much I love about working for a public school system.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Inclement weather? Did it hail briefly or something? I know you close schools there when there is a dusting of snow.
edit:
I see that it is TS Bill.
Our schools stay open for tropical storms. I mean shit, we don't even always close schools/businesses for hurricanes (depending on precise location) and blizzards (depending on overnight or during the day).
Over here closing a school due to some kind of weather is unheard of. Outdoor sports may be replaced with indoor ones if the temperature drops low enough, though. I can't recall if the limit for ice hockey was -15C (5F) or -20C (-4F), but I guess such things depend on the school and teacher.
In my home country, people close schools when the flood goes higher than most of the students' heights.
Peace.
We had significant (record breaking) floods 2-3 weeks ago, so it is feared that TS Bill will bring more flooding. Also, two winters ago we had a late decision for a snow day that turned into a clusterf*ck for many who went to work at 8am, were sent home at 10am, then sat in traffic for hours in the cold trying to get back home because of ice "accumulation". Since then the administration has erred on the side of not pissing people off and will close the school more readily than not.
I applaud your people for that resiliency and dedication, but I do enjoy the random days off that come with living in a candy ass city of hipsters who don't want to get their well-manicured beards wet.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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