Sir Dano Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 Enough nudie mangas. Knock it off already. Thanks Sorry, I've toned it down a bit. Quote
Dovchenko Posted June 30, 2008 Posted June 30, 2008 Yes, enough talk about big bricks and bulging blocks. Not that I'm not a fan of the ladies (not that there's anything with not being one... not going to get into detail), but hey, there are more important things to talk about, such as "where the heck did Peril in Peru go?!". Quote
Hinckley Posted June 30, 2008 Posted June 30, 2008 Yes, enough talk about big bricks and bulging blocks. Not that I'm not a fan of the ladies (not that there's anything with not being one... not going to get into detail), but hey, there are more important things to talk about, such as "where the heck did Peril in Peru go?!". Don't post in this thread unless you have a reason. Thank you. Quote
Sir Dano Posted July 1, 2008 Posted July 1, 2008 (edited) I knew it! /b/-tard !!! I think I'd prefer /EB/tard. Edited July 1, 2008 by sir dano Quote
Hinckley Posted July 1, 2008 Posted July 1, 2008 If you guys don't have anything to add to the title discussion, don't post it in this thread. Thank you. Quote
Admiral Blockbeard Posted July 1, 2008 Posted July 1, 2008 Im not sure this is 100% on topic but it is at least a start back onto the right road In peoples area are some special tags, like a country flag or a customizer logo, is there a place i can go to find out what all of them mean. For example i cant work out the country flag one... the best guess i can hazard is you get one when awarded the group of fellow. Regards, Cpt. PB Quote
Siegfried Posted July 1, 2008 Posted July 1, 2008 In peoples area are some special tags, like a country flag or a customizer logo, is there a place i can go to find out what all of them mean. Flags are given to Fellows and above. Most other tags are awards for being seen as a good customizer/MOCer/Whateverer. Any in particular that you find confusing? Quote
Admiral Blockbeard Posted July 1, 2008 Posted July 1, 2008 the Jar Jar binks-im guessing the winner of kill jar jar, the VOC - ship building contest?, your bucket- ??you found a bucket?? i am guessing there is no one stop shop (index) of the awards, a shame, i would like to know what people where awarded with... perhaps when someone has too much time on thier hands they could make one. I am sure im not the only member who would like to give credit where credit is due! Regrds Cpt. PB Quote
Siegfried Posted July 1, 2008 Posted July 1, 2008 the Jar Jar binks-im guessing the winner of kill jar jar, the VOC - ship building contest?, your bucket- ??you found a bucket?? Jar Jar binks - Kill Jar Jar VOC - That is because CGH is a talented shipbuilder Bucket - Not sure; could be a smackdown reward, but it could just be admin privilege No, there is no one-stop place to check what they all mean; often they mean nothing beyond the obvious. Quote
Norro Posted July 1, 2008 Posted July 1, 2008 I was going to add a humorous remark but was afraid of taking us off topic... Because eventually there will be someone with a legitimate question? Like how Chuck gets that really cool (and self inflating) double post effect. I want it. God Bless, Nathan Because eventually there will be someone with a legitimate question? Like how Chuck gets that really cool (and self inflating) double post effect. I want it. God Bless, Nathan Note how many divergences were squeezed into one post... retro EB... Quote
Hinckley Posted July 1, 2008 Posted July 1, 2008 I'm okay with humor, but naked bunnies and calling people tards was getting on my nerves. Sounds a little like an overly subjective rule to throw in and randomly enforce, I know...Apologies. I don't want to be like that. But that doesn't mean it's okay to come back with the booby bunnies! Quote
Norro Posted July 1, 2008 Posted July 1, 2008 I'm okay with humor, but naked bunnies and calling people tards was getting on my nerves. Sounds a little like an overly subjective rule to throw in and randomly enforce, I know...Apologies. I don't want to be like that. But that doesn't mean it's okay to come back with the booby bunnies! I was actually just trying to post a fresh start (not judge your judging...) God Bless, Nathan Quote
Shoc Posted July 1, 2008 Posted July 1, 2008 Bucket - Not sure; could be a smackdown reward, but it could just be admin privilege You mean you've never been on ihasabucket.com??! :skull: Quote
Lt. Col. Thok Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 (edited) You mean you've never been on ihasabucket.com??! :skull: Probably not, prior to the contest (the bucket originally came from the picture that someone posted.). Edited July 19, 2008 by Lt. Col. Thok Quote
Captain Green Hair Posted September 7, 2008 Posted September 7, 2008 VOC - That is because CGH is a talented shipbuilder No, it's because i'm a VOC pirate deamnit! Quote
Siegfried Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 No, it's because i'm a VOC pirate deamnit! You seem to be forgetting who made and who is hosting your VOC image.... What does VOC stand for? Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, otherwise known as the Dutch East India Company. Quote
Batbrick Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 Flags are given to Fellows and above. Most other tags are awards for being seen as a good customizer/MOCer/Whateverer. Any in particular that you find confusing? Not wanting to kick up dust here so don't take my post as an example of trying to gain something, but is there something special one has to do to recieve a flag? I'm just curious as there seems to be a little open endness to it Batbrick Away! Quote
Hinckley Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 Not wanting to kick up dust here so don't take my post as an example of trying to gain something, but is there something special one has to do to recieve a flag? I'm just curious as there seems to be a little open endness to it Batbrick Away! Sometimes we just need to be reminded... I was actually just trying to post a fresh start (not judge your judging...) God Bless, Nathan Oh wow, I missed this response. I'm so sorry! I actually didn't mean that towards you at all. I like your post. A double blushing post... Quote
samthelegoman1 Posted November 11, 2008 Posted November 11, 2008 You know, some people have like a sentence under their avatar pic. How do you get one? Is it like a special thing or what? Quote
Derek Posted November 11, 2008 Posted November 11, 2008 Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they're assigned by the staff when they deem you worthy of deserving one . I wish you could change what it said though... Quote
WhiteFang Posted November 12, 2008 Posted November 12, 2008 The thing under your avatar is called a "title". Refer to this topic for more in-depth information. I will lock this, as we have one to cater for a little Q and A. Quote
Skelotic Posted November 12, 2008 Posted November 12, 2008 It can help you build a better moc actually. It will make you have more self respect and the ability to moc to a greater extent is a power that it receives. Also, it will make you have the ability to put on decals. It is explained in this by Thoreau. There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries. There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean. We think that we can change our clothes only. It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind. Who knows what sort of seventeen-year locust will next come out of the ground? The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine. The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell. I see far inland the banks which the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets. Every one has heard the story which has gone the rounds of New England, of a strong and beautiful bug which came out of the dry leaf of an old table of apple-tree wood, which had stood in a farmer's kitchen for sixty years, first in Connecticut, and afterward in Massachusetts -- from an egg deposited in the living tree many years earlier still, as appeared by counting the annual layers beyond it; which was heard gnawing out for several weeks, hatched perchance by the heat of an urn. Who does not feel his faith in a resurrection and immortality strengthened by hearing of this? Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society, deposited at first in the alburnum of the green and living tree, which has been gradually converted into the semblance of its well-seasoned tomb -- heard perchance gnawing out now for years by the astonished family of man, as they sat round the festive board -- may unexpectedly come forth from amidst society's most trivial and handselled furniture, to enjoy its perfect summer life at last! I do not say that John or Jonathan will realize all this; but such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn. The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE I heartily accept the motto, -- "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, -- "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure. This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most let alone by it. Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and, if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions, and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads. But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule, is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience? -- in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power? Visit the Navy Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts -- a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried." The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others, as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders, serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated as enemies by it. A wise man will only be useful as a man, and will not submit to be "clay," and "stop a hole to keep the wind away," but leave that office to his dust at least:-- "I am too high-born to be propertied, To be a secondary at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world." He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist. How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave's government also. Quote
Guss Posted November 12, 2008 Posted November 12, 2008 mhmh.. ok.. that helps me a lot to understand how can title makes you build better mocs^^ I never understood some philosopher who speaks French (and I'm a native French speaker)... so an English philosophy text.. I think I'll try to understand it .. tomorrow..because now it's time to go to bed, and when I'll wake up tomorrow, I'll forgot to read it, so everything will be fine^^ Quote
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