Comments on: Open Thread Saturday

By: kadaka

kadaka — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:24:19 +0000

Message boards that work are normally found on the originating site's servers, and running Linux BTW. Since BH is using the ID service your mileage may vary.

By: El_Gordo

El_Gordo — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:13:10 +0000

There is a little of that shrewd politician in the movie, too, at least in the way he deals with reporters and dictates his "soundbites" to them. Milius is a great romantic first, history buff second; and so "The Wind and the Lion" is first of all a perfect "boy´s own" adventure movie. This one has it all – magnificient score, magnificient setting, great acting, quotable dialogue, horse stunts, dastardly Germans, romance in all its variants – and needs to come out on Blu Ray asap.

Milius revisited TR in his TV movie "The Rough Riders", which gives us a similar view. Fine performance by Tom Berenger.

By: AndrewPrice

AndrewPrice — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:10:45 +0000

Sorry Ken, when I hit 101, I went to the IntenseDebate offices and yanked out their chip-fluid hoses, so that no one could catch me.

I agree with you though, I'd like to see them fix this.

By: EdGi

EdGi — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:30:11 +0000

Andy, you might try to find an abode near the White House Correspondents or MSNBC studios to find flocks of preening parrots to entertain you.

By: What?

What? — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:12:55 +0000

Abortion is the murder!!!!!!!!!!
!st Degree – Pre-Meditated Murder is not teh Murder
John Roeder is the RW nuts biggest Idol Now I guess.
Can I hear an Amen?
CAN I hear an AMEN?
CAN I HEAR AN AAAAAMEN?????

By: Dogness

Dogness — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:51:24 +0000

1. I checked. It is still activated. I will try unchecking and rechecking it. Doing that, it told me that my email address was not verified. I went ahead and did that. Perhaps this will fix the problem.

2 & 3. Whatever the cause, the fact that these are still broken is quite lame. Internet message boards with this functionality have been available for about a decade. I could understand these things being broken for a few days or even a week. But it has been like this for months.

By: Hootie -Blowfish

Hootie -Blowfish — Sun, 31 May 2009 11:44:28 +0000

I remember that clip fondly from TBS, first time I saw the whole movie to put it into context

My favorite anectdote about TR, was the time in Milwaukee in 1912 on his way to a speech, when he was shot by a would-be assassin. The bullet passed through the manuscript he was carrying, and lodged in his chest. Nonetheless, TR insisted on giving the speech, whipping out the bloody, perforated papers, declaring, "It takes more than this to kill a Bull Moose!"

By: kadaka

kadaka — Sun, 31 May 2009 07:32:15 +0000

1. Someone else mentioned that. Call up your ID page and Edit Profile, see if that option is still activated (lower right side).

2. AndrewPrice broke it when he hit 100. I strongly suspect the ID system is overloaded and they have turned off certain "unneeded" features to reduce overhead while hopefully they are fixing things behind the scenes. AP was pegged at 101 and likewise all ratings are now static until they fix it, however due to the enormous volume of old replies that would have to be tabulated it seems likely there will be an "oops" and everyone may be reset.

3. Thumbs up or down, same result. The system is walking wounded and appears to forget what it was doing, such as properly saving a reply and updating the thread thus it ends up disappearing, which can be "fixed" by posting again at the same spot which forces the update, except if you delete the "fix" the system reverts and the reply hides again. You may notice by a short reply count that it has not fully accounted for one or more replies. Likewise doing something to the page forces it to re-form the displayed page, whether a thumbs up or posting a comment, neither of which I have found to work consistently. My best results come from changing the Sort By order, although sometimes nothing works and it is best to leave the page for awhile until the system sorts itself out.

By: sharpshiny

sharpshiny — Sun, 31 May 2009 07:05:56 +0000

No one can write quite like Harry, that's for sure—grammatical errors notwithstanding.

By: Peter Montbriand

Peter Montbriand — Sun, 31 May 2009 06:38:20 +0000

Initially communists, who later realized that the young, strong, and capable workers had no incentive to work hard. So they instituted a more market based approach to the colony and found themselves flourishing.