One odd thing that seems to have happened in the import -- posts with quotes in them say "Quote:" twice, once in roman, once in italic.

Look at, for instance, http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/s...hp?tid=824 .

Compare with http://www.tapatalk.com/groups/drunkards...t1884.html .

Was gonna stick this in the funny videos thread but decided it may be too political for that, so here it is

http://www.facebook.com/user/posts/video...5501605819
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin

NZ law could disqualify all Australians from their Parliament

If you make your code depend too much on someone else's code, sometimes these pathological cases show up.-- ?×V

More international students choosing Ottawa to study computer science

And the job-placement rate for graduates from these programs is close to 100%, too.

So, yeah - if you don't want these people, we'll take them... and their tuition money.--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

The more things change, the more they stay the same...


"Sometimes you should pretend not to hear Mr. President."--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

The Register: Belarus declares war on imaginary country within borders of Belarus that is better than Belarus

First off: It's a war game.

The thing is, the territory that's been designated as the home of the opposing force is the part of Belarus that dislikes Belarus's current president the most. This is... shall we say "worrying"?

The best part, though, is that people have given the OPFOR's country a flag, a foreign ministry complete with a method of applying for citizenship, and a Wikipedia article (in Russian). If the war games were intended to be a show of intimidation, they pretty much backfired even before taking place.

So... if anyone online says they're from Veyshnoria, now you know the background.--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Virtually, at least.

Earlier this month, Terry Pratchett's unfinished works were destroyed - by being flattened by a steamroller - in accordance with his last wishes.

I'm a bit sad that we won't get to see those stories, but I'm happy that no hack with a lesser command of English than Pterry had will "improve" them.

(Recovering a post that was lost on the new forum, as well as I can remember it.)--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Anyone been watching this one?

The setting is Victorian-era Britain, with a Steampunk desktop theme.

The discovery of Cavorite (gravity-control phlebotinum) lead to the creation of an Aerial Navy, which in turn has somehow lead to a popular uprising against the Crown that managed to fail/succeed in the worst possible way. The country is now divided in half, between Royalists and Populists, complete with a Cold War Berlin style wall splitting London in two.

Into this we place the obligatory team of schoolgirls, which includes the aforementioned Princess, a second girl who is her apparent perfect double, a not-really-school-age Femme Fatale, a steampunk cyborg, and a ninja. (Apparently Japan is taking sides, or at least their Ambassador is...)

And they're spies. Who get up to all sorts of James Bond style caper-adventures of the sort you'd expect in Cold War Berlin, British Style. While maintaining their cover at their base of operations, a Properly Posh Young Ladies' Academy.
And of course each of them has her own secrets and her own agenda, and gets some nice character moments to explore them. And hopefully these will have interesting repercussions down the line.

Normally one would expect a story like this to go one of two ways -- cutesy moe and fanservice, or grimdark and twisted in ways that would make Gendo Ikari proud. Fortunately so far, Princess Principal treads a confident middle path between them, acknowledging the dark side of realistic espionage work while maintaining the cheerful optimism audiences have come to expect of schoolgirl-hijinx series.

Enjoy the opening animation:

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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

Anyone been watching this one?

The setting is Victorian-era Britain, with a Steampunk desktop theme.

The discovery of Cavorite (gravity-control phlebotinum) lead to the creation of an Aerial Navy, which in turn has somehow lead to a popular uprising against the Crown that managed to fail/succeed in the worst possible way. The country is now divided in half, between Royalists and Populists, complete with a Cold War Berlin style wall splitting London in two.

Into this we place the obligatory team of schoolgirls, which includes the aforementioned Princess, a second girl who is her apparent perfect double, a not-really-school-age Femme Fatale, a steampunk cyborg, and a ninja. (Apparently Japan is taking sides, or at least their Ambassador is...)

And they're spies. Who get up to all sorts of James Bond style caper-adventures of the sort you'd expect in Cold War Berlin, British Style. While maintaining their cover at their base of operations, a Properly Posh Young Ladies' Academy.
And of course each of them has her own secrets and her own agenda, and gets some nice character moments to explore them. And hopefully these will have interesting repercussions down the line.

Normally one would expect a story like this to go one of two ways -- cutesy moe and fanservice, or grimdark and twisted in ways that would make Gendo Ikari proud. Fortunately so far, Princess Principal treads a confident middle path between them, acknowledging the dark side of realistic espionage work while maintaining the cheerful optimism audiences have come to expect of schoolgirl-hijinx series.

Enjoy the opening animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjqkATvH9M

This is a warning ahead of time:  When I get home from work tonight, I'm going to reset the posts and threads tables completely, and clear out the last post info from the forums table, and start the whole thing over from scratch.  Hopefully I'll be able to get most of what I had in place yesterday morning back up by Friday night.

I'll repeat this:  All threads and posts will be deleted tonight to prepare for reloading transferred material.  That includes this thread and any posts anyone makes between now and then.  Thanks to my typoing a SQL statement we've lost all the new content on the board already, save for this thread and the one reporting the problem anyway.  I'm going to start with a clean slate.