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Problem is, you sound like a buddy of mine. He JUST finally at age 31 gave up, had a 1 night stand, and within a few months found a woman he loves and is planning to marry. He passed up many chances because he felt the girl didn't want a commitment, etc. Finally after breaking his akwardness he began dating many different girls (only slept with 1 other, doesn't always have to be sex...) and that is how he met her. The fact of the matter is, it has been proven again and again, no matter which side of the sex, virgins have the most trouble socially connecting with the opposite sex. Having a 1 night stand is nothing to be ashamed of, and in some cases can expand your horizon/take some stress off. The girl isn't a slut for wanting it, she is just normal. Females have the same urges males do, just not as constant as we do. Theirs just builds up, or a bit of alcohol, drugs, etc. helps bring it out. Ours is raging 24/7/365 for most all of our lives. My wife was a 1 night stand that repeated a few times, and then we eventually began dating, living together, getting engaged, and now married. So really, it isn't all about your social status, how smart you are, or if you are financially stable. It is about someone who is your best friend, someone you can connect with, have a good time with, enjoy yourself with, and spend time with. Just talk to the girls, even if you just become friends with them, typically they have friends who are, guess what? also girls. And normally, your friends friends are the ones you end up having some of the best relationships with.

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Sadly none saved the internet from rootbear. I wasn't going to reban you, but your spamminess is already getting annoying.

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Yeah, but might make it easier for Linux newbies/attracting them (and there is many of em).

fuck if I know... they didn't call, so good? lol. I'll have moria ask her friend to ask her cousin (new owner). Has been last thing on my mind with the obvious recent events lately. Between my bro in law committing suicide, my work priorities getting flipped on their head, overtime, putting Bear down, yeah. I'll find out.

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/ Anyone tried this out with Continuum? I've looked at it before, but just never have taken the time to toy with it...

no. You download the entire game, play the 1st episode, and then pay extra to unlock the rest of it.

Hmm let me guess; Having a squad tag Having a banner ?? (I would say usage but you just said that isn't a key factor) Nope, Nope, and I said it isn't a key factor, but it is a factor. And of course last login plays a role. The biller stores a lot more information than the stuff you can see.

It is based on a few things I can't really disclose... 1. Because Priit has never technically documented the entire program. 2. Even if we knew it 100% through, name whores would abuse the info. But what we do know from Priit, and other situations, there is 3 key factors.

I think that has become our biggest problem though. The Red State, Blue State, Democrats are all Liberals, Republicans are all Conservatives, bs has really split everything and caused a mess of politics. The bible belt has ALWAYS been more conservative, but until northern businessmen came to Texas, it was a conservative democrat state, as was a lot of the south. Granted that had a lot to do with the Civil War and the north being under a Republican President, but that is another long mess. There was a lot of conservative democrats in the south. And in the north, you had liberal republicans who believed in civil rights, and that government should stay small and leave them be. I guess that is why I have always been stuck in the middle when it comes to Politics. Cause since I was the age to begin understanding everything, the seperation of the parties went from the basic Democratic and Republican idealogy, to everyone in 1 party or the other had to have 1 thought process. Who knows how crazy our politics will get in the future, as so much more information and scrutiny is right at our fingertips.

Ignore them, usage isn't the key factor There is one zone listed as SSCI which isn't on SSC (though got approved now, just waiting on IP to be added to firewall). But if you had a prompt before entering that the zone wasn't connected to the central network this would be the 1st clue. Though you will notice hundreds of names reseting over the next year or 2, as most names actively used for a few years after the pop booms are hitting the point where their data meets the reset standards. Amongst the occasional hiccups where the reseter program goes nuts, kills a few extra names, and then crashes the biller for a couple days. But that has only happened once in the past year or so.

I hate Sarah Palin, but I like the idea behind the Tea Party. Being an independent I've always kind of seen the best and worst of both sides, but right now the republican party is a far cry from the values it preeches (sp?). In only 2yrs have we already forgotten who dug us into this mess? I read an interesting article the other day by a guy that normally drives me nuts with his talking bad of the democrats and independents, and blah blah blah. But he actually said for once he felt he was no longer behind the values the Republican Party now protrayed, and hit a lot of it head on. Mostly being he is still a republican by heart, but I feel he pointed out the flaws that the party who has dwelled more on big business has created in itself. I mean, it forced a new part of its own party to be created that wants to fix the problems it began. They are suppose to be for the little guy, but they support breaks for the top 1% of this country, and for the larger corporations which hurts the small businesses they so "support". Not saying all the democrats are anything better though, really I think most politicians are corrupt. It is just finding the least corrupt and most down to earth ones.

Can be more than that even, heh. We just had one put in that cost 1.9million once finished. Though chump change for the government. Got 3 more coming in that will be totaling near 2.5million once done and installed. But that is pretty sweet.

fixed link... http://files.ssgn.net/category.php?id=14

Moved

the bots moved to a different arena and there was 31 of em loaded, but now they're magically gone. They are AI bots for events, but they have just been loaded and left for a while now. Maybe a few months. I know I mentioned something about it to Mom one night when ss pop was barely over 400, and eg was mostly just those bots. Think that was back in July? Or like the one time TW's bots were down and the pop was barely over 100. I mean there is a 50-50 cause of so many automated sub arenas people couldn't play so they didn't get on, but really. I'd say its safe to say atleast 1/4 of SS's pop at any given time now is bots.

So as I've watched the pop dwindle over the past few months, I have noticed a trend. More and more bots in zones filling the "void". EG for instance in public arenas right now has 45+ bots. 25 or so in just 1 arena. Usually they just had 27 in their meteor arena, plus a few others. The zone pop being at 140 that means in reality there is only 90ish players. 60 or so being accountable, that leaves 30 or so in privs + bots in privs. Granted it isn't only EG. But just the one I have noticed doing it a lot lately with having so many bots in 1 arena that I have never seen hosted any of the various times I am in there. Have we really come to this?

mm. Well, with the new script we're using for SSGN files (was actually coded for SSDL, but when bajan left, he continued it publicly, and is now helping fix some of the minor bugs left in it for us) we can track downloads a lot better now, and see reliably if it is a player, bot, etc. Shows IP/Browser Info/Etc. of every download a lot more reliably and easier to read than a lot of other ways we have been trying to track them. So should help decipher if we're getting an influx or players, or just bots scanning the site/downloads again. Reminds me, need to finish moving DCME over to it.

On Another note. I've gone through quite a few downloads websites where Continuum is listed over the past few months. Total Downloads that are visible just cleared 750,000. Continuum 0.40 came out 3yrs ago. So the big question... where are all these players? How many ran into installer issues? How many saw virus warnings and gave up? How many are playing, but just not as many hours as people use to? I do run into a lot of new players. So it seems maybe we're just not keeping them as long as we use to, or playing as actively as they use to. I found this very interesting. Especially sites where the download was added pretty recently as it is the 7mbish installer I released. 1 I just looked at had almost 22,000 downloads of just that.

Scores Website... Me and Ghost Ship have been fighting for this for years. One point priit went as far to send the Biller DB Schema to begin work on the site. 16 months later, he finally said he'd be down to get it going, probably would do it the weekend he sent the e-mail. Been 3 months since that? It isn't for lack of effort. Mackie was trying before me. It is just lack of Priit dedicating his time.

Squad Names do reset when a name resets. Unless a squad has members, then it goes onto *UNKNOWN*. Priit has reset the squads on *UNKNOWN* before. There is a seperate program that runs on the billing server's server that handles name reseting. It actually crashed back in Feb/March (forget when that downtime was) and took the biller down, and reset some names by accident (boy that was fun clean up of squads that went to *UNKNOWN*, etc.). I remember for years squads had special characters in them all the time. Lots of major old squads in TW and EG had all sorts of chars. Same with usernames for quite some time. So honestly don't get the issue with this.

Sadly no setting for it.

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http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/aug/22/from-new-york-to-silverdale-twin-beams-of-light/ Watched it go by from behind my backyard fence (I live near the highway). 7miles of nothing but motorcycles, state patrol, etc. 8mins worth of vehicles passing by.