http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrnZSLwfzVs
PUMP UP THE VOLUME. TAKE THAT MAP AND FIND YOURSELF A NICE GOAT.
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Feb 23, 2010
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#143
TheGrobe wrote: . . . my mission to eat one of every ungulate.
A whole one of each? That whale's gonna take you a while. And speaking of even-toed ungulates, what does hippopotamus taste like?
--Cystem
Like a regular popotamus only much cooler.
blackfirestorm666 wrote:
OK me and my friend have just been checking on this interactive map thing and it actually shows my location as being over 25 miles away from my actual location where I am sitting right now?!
Well, Manchester is a technological black hole, after all...
Where do we go to request better emoticons, by the way?
Feb 23, 2010
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#146
I've seen some people posting super cool emoticons...Retguvvie, I think or goldendog. Not sure who it was...but I have no idea how they get them. Wait, they must be copy pasting... lol. These emoticons are pretty bad. Blackberry has some good ones.
Here's some Afaf - I just got them from a GIF image site. 
Feb 23, 2010
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#148
theoreticalboy wrote: Where do we go to request better emoticons, by the way?
Ya gotta add yer own . . . 
--Cystem
Looks like my niece...
The usual small faces are okay with me, but the selection here is pretty dire. The last message board had ones so good I kept coming back even after my infatuation with the subject had waned (of course I lied to myself, claiming it was the quality of people, but really I hate everyone. There's just nothing like a good :wtf: face appended to a post!)
Feb 23, 2010
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#150
below made me think of flags. It's the expression I imagine on his face while he types.
Feb 23, 2010
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#151
On other websites, when people have a problem with the privacy policy, they ask about it, and rally support around it. And more often than not, the site takes notice. Facebook has learned this lesson many times. Google just re-learned it recently with Google Buzz.
Feb 23, 2010
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#152
ozzie_c_cobblepot wrote:
On other websites, when people have a problem with the privacy policy, they ask about it, and rally support around it. And more often than not, the site takes notice. Facebook has learned this lesson many times. Google just re-learned it recently with Google Buzz.
Lol I think that I can see some contradiction in rallying public support to protect privacy... but that's the Internet. Maybe even life.
Well, it is only your decision and your wish that matter, after all is said and done.
I like to think that goodness in people come from a strong desire to survive what is bad out there. We all have the unspoken responsibility to look out for each other, because it is the human decent thing to do. We can write in jest or be serious in our posts. But we cannot be assured how our posts will be accepted, no matter how many applicable inserted emotions we include to send messages.
Reasonable people take on life with a grain of salt, usually. But we must recognize that there are unreasonable people who go ape crazy enough to do crazy things like stalking and spying on people in and out of the internet.
The need to feel safe is basic human nature.
Are we all safe from the big, bad wolf? Does anybody care!?!
I wish you ALL that You want out of life. Have fun!
Feb 24, 2010
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#155
muchotoro wrote:
what happens to all the deleted information or knowledge or insight is it lost forever?
Yes it is ...
wikstrom wrote:
buster47 wrote:
wikstrom wrote:
Dear Afaf,
let me say this:
I've got accustomed to your face,
I've got accustomed to your voice (i.e. threads).....
Please, do not leave. You are one of the truly exciting persons on the site.
Unfortunately, I know far too little about your reasons to leave. I played a game with Chetumal (and had no idea she is no longer around). Neither did I see the beheading of a goat (look: perhaps a LITTLE unnecessary to show on a chess site, but OK with me).
About location: Sorry, I may be (certainly must be) dumb, but I always thought your data showed Rabat, Morocco. And I have not seen any other information. Anyways, I don't think this is very crucial.
Please stay!
Marten (wikstrom)
After the map your location should be near or on Karamzininkatu, not so nice that everybody can see where you are connected from or?
Many others have already responded. There is no accuracy whatsoever in the location given. I have no idea why my location is given at Karamzininkatu (Karamzin street) in Helsinki. The distance from there to me is some 10 km. I suspect that all players from Helsinki are put at Karamzininkatu
Yes but if you told your wife that you were doing a job in Copenhagen and she by looking at the map find out that you still are in Helsinki playing chess (or doing some other suspicious thing) she might not meet you with a kiss and a smile when heading back home. 
blackfirestorm666 wrote:
muchotoro wrote:
what happens to all the deleted information or knowledge or insight is it lost forever?
Yes it is ...
When a member close their own account the staff occasionally reopens it.
Feb 24, 2010
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#158
When a member account is closed ( for whatever reason) everything they have posted disappears from public view. Its not deleted, nor is it lost forever :)
Feb 24, 2010
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#159
wikstrom wrote:
But even the scenario you suggest seems impossible to me (but I am ready to learn if I am mistaken). If I go to Copenhagen (with my laptop) and log in to chess.com from there, I suspect that the map will still show me at Karamzininkatu in Helsinki?
Yes, it will, because it makes a search on the location information you have provided and display that result. If you hadn't input any information, however, or simply delete it and leave it blank, it will track your IP and display the location of your ISP.
Anyway, glad to see Erik took notice and decided to change this.
Now the next station should be the "hide/reveal my online status" option. Let's press on
For the record: I could live on seafood without ever eating beef, chicken, or mutton. Mmm mmm.