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  July 26 downtime
Posted by: classicdrogn - 07-26-2020, 01:02 AM - Forum: Forums - Replies (3)

Just a note to say the site was showing a "not available due to an internal server error" message from sometime between midnight and 1:30 and was back when I checked at 2 AM.

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  Taparip
Posted by: SignalAffairs - 07-23-2020, 05:55 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (37)

Hi! So I have Ubuntu installed with the latest version of Perl, Sqlite 3 and the Taparip repository. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.

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  24 Hours to Solve Crossovers That Should Not Be
Posted by: classicdrogn - 07-23-2020, 01:28 PM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction - Replies (299)

It's probably a title that should not be, but it gave me a grin at least.

Old thread is old, but it had an interesting combo game going: the last video game you played with the last TV show you watched. My answer still hasn't changed, though, since I mainly read.

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  Court says Canada's asylum agreement with US infringes Canadian Constitutional rights
Posted by: robkelk - 07-23-2020, 08:04 AM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun - Replies (15)

Canada's asylum agreement with the U.S. infringes on Charter, says Federal Court

Quote:A Federal Court justice says the Safe Third Country Agreement — Canada's asylum agreement with the United States — infringes upon the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is giving the federal government six months to respond.

tl;dr: Federal court says there's no guarantee of the right to life, liberty, or security of the person for ineligible refugee claimants returned to the USA.

(Aren't two of those three Constitutional guarantees also in the United States Constitution?)

Of course the left-wing NDP wants the government to abide by the ruling while the right-wing Conservative Party wants the ruling appealed. (There's only one court left to appeal to.) The government has six months to respond to the ruling.

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  Hello!
Posted by: SignalAffairs - 07-18-2020, 09:41 AM - Forum: Introductions - Replies (12)

I've been stalking your forums for a few weeks unable to register here until I sent Bob an email and he helped me out. I found this place by Googling "Taparip" after I found Labsters script on Github. I'm hoping I can get some help saving my forums that got taken over by Tapatalk. I want to be able to backup the forums into a MySQL database in a phpBB format so I can then import them to my new board. Or at least have a way to convert the database into a phpBB format. Whatever I have to do to make it work. Oh and I like to sleep in late when I can. Caffeine is my friend, without her in my life I'm vicious. The end. Feel free to ask me 20 questions!


- SignalAffairs

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  Quenta Isilaranyëo
Posted by: Labster - 07-18-2020, 05:07 AM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction - Replies (20)

Quenta Isilaranyëo - The Story of the Moon Kingdom

An account of the Moon Kingdom, as founded by Eärendil the Sailor and his crew, and the society they created there.  Tells the story of the Telperanda, or Silver Millenium, under his daughter, Queen Serenity --  from its height across the all worlds of Arda, save Earth, to its tragic fall at the end of the Fourth Age.


(Sailor Moon/Silmarilion (Lord of the Rings))


A year a half back I had an idea about a crossover where Usagi's Ginzuishou was actually a Silmaril.  There were a couple posts that probably still sum up my basic ideas:
http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/s...#pid176305
http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/s...#pid176395

Anyway, I finally decided to write a little something, which is featured in the next post.  I think I was indirectly inspired by a statue I saw while location scouting for my other fic, but that's how inspiration goes.

Right now, I'm trying to decide which fourteen Senshi were appointed by which of the fourteen Vala.  Some are super obvious, like Ulmo: lord of the sea, sometimes doesn't get along with the rest of the Vala, best musician of the group... okay that's definitely Neptune/Michiru.  Others are more questionable, like Aulë of the Earth -- he kind of goes with Mamoru's mineral theme, but also forged the chain that held Morgoth so I'm leaning towards Venus.  It, um, gets worse when trying to consider Ceres, Juno, Vesta, and Pallas.

The second draft looks like this:

Mercury  Ami      Vairë
Venus    Minako   Aulë
Earth    Mamoru   Tulkas
Moon     Usagi    Varda
Mars     Rei      Lórien
Ceres    Ceres    Vána
Vesta    Vesta    Oromë
Juno     Juno     Nessa
Pallas   Pallas   Estë
Jupiter  Makoto   Yavanna
Saturn   Hotaru   Nienna
Uranus   Haruka   Manwë
Neptune  Michiru  Ulmo
Pluto    Setsuna  Mandos


I feel like I may be under-using Estë, who represents healing, and that maybe Usagi should have her patronage rather than that of Varda Star-Queen.  But that kind of throws the whole thing into disarray.  I guess the good news is it doesn't have to match exactly, these are people not ideals.  I guess I'm asking, is anyone here a big Tolkien fan who might have a better idea how to sort it out?

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  So, anyone here in Portland?
Posted by: Matrix Dragon - 07-17-2020, 01:43 AM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun - Replies (70)

There's reports of unidentified military in unmarked vans grabbing people off the streets, no coordination with the local government or authorities. Please be careful.

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  So... that book.
Posted by: robkelk - 07-14-2020, 05:00 PM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun - Replies (3)

The one that the Nicknamer-in-Chief's niece wrote.

Is she qualified to write such a book?

According to this article in Forbes, Mary Trump earned a Master's and a Ph.D in clinical psychology at Adelphi University.

Also according to the same article in Forbes, she called her uncle's election win "one of the worst nights of my life".

While one would expect somebody who is trained in a field to be able to work in that same field, one would also expect somebody who made such a comment to dislike the person in question. The question here is whether she is sufficiently professional to keep her opinions out of her diagnosis.

So... CBC asked "about two dozen" clinical psychologists to comment.

Quote:Nearly all the experts contacted by CBC News declined to comment, several citing various reasons: ethical considerations, fear of professional consequences and fear of harassment from Trump supporters.

But they did find two who were willing to comment on the record, and a third who was willing to comment on the condition of anonymity. CBC asked two questions:
  • Is it ethically permissible to write what Mary Trump wrote?
  • Do they agree with what she's written about the president, based on excerpts they've seen from media reports on the book?

For the answers, please see the CBC article linked above.

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Question Looking for software suggestions
Posted by: robkelk - 07-13-2020, 02:52 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (25)

Picked up a new-to-me laptop late last week, and now it's time to configure it. The last time I did this, the machine was running Win7, 32-bit. The new laptop runs Win10 Pro, 64-bit.

What software do I want? The budget is tight, so legally-freeware is preferred.

I've already installed Panda Free Antivirus (I'm used to it), FireFox with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger, Notepad++, GIMP, and LibreOffice. Daz Studio is an all-weekend install job, so that's for later.

What do I want for email? Is the Mail program that comes with Win10 Pro good enough, do I want to replace it with Thunderbird, or should I be looking somewhere else?

The laptop's old enough to have a DVD-RW drive - do I want VLC Media Player or something else for media playback? And what do I want for DVD mastering (to turn legally-downloaded movies or movies I make myself with Daz Studio into playable DVDs)?

Is PuTTY still the most useful SSH/Telnet client out there?

What do I want for zip-file maintenance: 7zip, IZArc, or something else?

Should I install IrfanView, or is there a better lightweight image file viewer/converter out there? (It seems silly to me to fire up GIMP just to convert one file from BMP to JPG... which I've had to do a few times last week for All The Tropes.)

Acrobat Reader or something else for working with PDFs? Is the Win10 print-to-PDF function decent, or is there a better print-to-PDF driver available?

And have I missed anything obvious?

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  "Faithless" Supreme Court
Posted by: DHBirr - 07-09-2020, 11:59 AM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun - Replies (2)

Ooooh, I'm snickering about this.

So much for the president's — any U.S. president's — "absolute immunity."  Even the Justices he himself nominated turned against the Dotard's monarchical claims.  What?  Have they no obsequious loyalty to America's Chosen God-King?  Heresy and blasphemy!  Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!

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