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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The new "Family Jewels"

« on: January 19, 2014, 11:29:10 PM »

That sounds preferable to having the energy go to waste.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The new "Family Jewels"

« on: January 19, 2014, 09:42:47 PM »

I even saw a family turn their relative into energy, store him on a battery and powered a little light bulb in some kind of memorial thing.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Mathjax support

« on: January 19, 2014, 12:43:49 AM »

Bump so I don't forget.

bro

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Return of the Messiah!

« on: January 19, 2014, 12:37:47 AM »

What the fuck is even going on in this thread?

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Flat Earth Community / Re: The Zetetic Council

« on: January 18, 2014, 09:15:09 PM »

You can't just wait for input forever. Make a draft and show it to others for discussion.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: The Zetetic Council

« on: January 18, 2014, 01:04:12 PM »

As I said, I was expecting more people to actually give some input on the council. I'd like to have a more concrete idea of our role, responsibilities, rights, etc. before saying something official.

To my understanding, writing a constitution was supposed to be the first task of the Council, but this is being ignored for some reason.

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Technology & Information / Re: Coinye, a Bitcoin spin-off, is being sued by Kanye West

« on: January 15, 2014, 03:01:54 PM »

Who actually uses bitcoins, anyway?

Rushy

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Flat Earth Community / Re: The Zetetic Council

« on: January 15, 2014, 10:44:54 AM »

I'll do it. I'm not expecting to have any classes tomorrow anyway, because snow. I'll post it here for peer edit.

Any progress on that? The news is becoming somewhat stale by now.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: The Zetetic Council

« on: January 15, 2014, 10:33:24 AM »

Right, so you're complaining about the Wiki and talking about stuff that you'd like to show people, which should logically belong to the Wiki. Have you considered contributing to the Wiki?

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Zetetic Council Election Thread.

« on: January 12, 2014, 10:07:50 AM »

This thread has long run its course, and apparently people can't resist the temptation of spamming here. Locking.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8.1 update

« on: January 11, 2014, 05:31:13 PM »

I bought a new laptop yesterday, and decided to give Windows 8.1 a try (the machine came with Windows 8). I did not encounter Thork's problem, but fuck, that was the most ridiculous upgrade procedure I've seen in my life.

First of all, the upgrade file is 3.6GB. Just... what. Seriously, what. If the upgrade fails for whatever reason (not like it'll tell you the reason anyway), the temp files are deleted. Super helpful, thanks Windows.

Oh, and it failed 3 times. Because why not?

Anyway, eventually it didn't fail, or rather it failed less massively. It then proceeded to show me unmoving progress bars with helpful descriptions of what's currently going on. Examples include:

• Preparing upgrade
• Making changes
• Getting info
• Finishing up a few things
• Taking care of a few things

Oh, and the successful upgrade itself took 2 hours and a half, not including download times.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Zetetic Council Election Thread.

« on: January 09, 2014, 02:04:31 AM »

Why is everyone in the Zetetic Council board showing up as Moderators?

Well, that would be because they are moderators of that board. I'm not entirely sure what you expected my answer to be.

Perhaps a clarification of their permissions profile will be of help: Within that board only, they have privileges that are slightly higher than those of regular users in other boards. For example, they can sticky/unsticky threads, move their own topics from that board to other boards, or add polls to threads.

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Technology & Information / Re: New Chrome update question

« on: January 09, 2014, 01:42:32 AM »

Change browsers. Chrome is the new IE - the seemingly most popular browser on the market that shits all over any and all standards.

If you insist on using Chrome, I believe their scrolling was always chunky. Perhaps you used to have an extension to change that and that got deleted somehow? Something along the lines of this?

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Zetetic Council Election Thread.

« on: January 08, 2014, 08:44:19 PM »

Are members suppose to be able to sticky threads in the Zetetic Council board?

Gah. Fixed.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Zetetic Council Election Thread.

« on: January 08, 2014, 06:21:21 PM »

Also, should I be able to vote in polls in that section? Because I totes did.

Uh oh, fixed.

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Flat Earth Projects / Re: Should we vote on fine details or broad proposals?

« on: January 08, 2014, 06:20:55 PM »

It has come to my attention that any non-council member can vote in these polls, making the poll invalid. We will have to manually post our vote.

Sorry, this has now been rectified. Only councilors have voting privileges now.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Zetetic Council Election Thread.

« on: January 07, 2014, 11:22:23 PM »

I can post in that forum.

Yes, you're a Planar Moderator. You can post everywhere.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Zetetic Council Election Thread.

« on: January 07, 2014, 07:24:23 PM »

Done. Only the 5 of you should be able to post there, but everyone should be able to view it. Let me know if there are any issues.

http://forum.tfes.org/index.php?board=19.0

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Zetetic Council Election Thread.

« on: January 07, 2014, 07:18:27 PM »

All right, with 3 members of the council being in agreement about this, I reckon I can just go ahead and set that up.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Zetetic Council Election Thread.

« on: January 07, 2014, 12:39:10 AM »

In the mean time, can we get the Zetetic forum up and running so the Council actually has a place to discuss ideas?

Yes, as soon as we collect enough feedback from the councilors for me to understand what we actually need to set up.

http://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=1054.msg11469#msg11469

If we don't get more comments by the end of this week, I'll just set it up based on my own guesses.