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1. RE: Jwstaton
Jun 26 2006, 2:48 PM EDT
I am trying to prohibit anon access but am finding it difficult. Can you help? I see no way to do this in wetpaint.
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2. RE: Jwstaton
Jun 26 2006, 5:14 PM EDT
"I am trying to prohibit anon access but am finding it difficult. Can you help? I see no way to do this in wetpaint."Sorry, didn't realise this feature was not part of wetpaint.... Do you find this valuable? |
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3. RE: Jwstaton
Jun 27 2006, 10:11 AM EDT
"Sorry, didn't realise this feature was not part of wetpaint...."It is a feature but can't be changed once the site is set up - this according to wetpaints' support team. They plan to make it a feature in a future version. Do you find this valuable? |
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4. Something substantial
Nov 8 2007, 7:08 PM EST
I started to read the posts, got through a few, then noticed I'd stopped caring.A recent Time article, at least on the internet--I can't say it's in the magazine--said Ron Paul supporters are nerds. That happened, then I was working my way through The Far Side Gallery 2 by Gary Larson, and it suddenly occured to me: Nerds are the ones who don't have a clue. Of course, there is an exception to every rule--except this one!--and there are nerds who do have a clue. But then they've had to put their clues together, and no two are entirely in agreement with each other. Makes dating rough, but it also makes the more adventurous among us--whether we consider ourselves nerds anymore or if we actually have started to think that we are cool, because there are so damned many of us--but the more adventurous among us fearlessly embrace new information. And we do this even if it has mind-reeling consequences. Of course, our thought-processes are so engaging--at least to ourselves anway--we might not notice our world-view shifting. Or if we do, as I did, it was fun. Can you believe there are people, apparently, who want things to stay the same? who feel threatened, supposedly, or--as I have seen more often--dismiss huge contradictions to their understanding of the world as beyond the pale of possibility: Ridiculous! But we keep coming back. We are like Neo in the Matrix. It is there, like a splinter in our minds, driving us mad. We feel it when we go outside--not, I would like to say, when I pay my taxes, because I don't, nor when I help the landlady take out her garbage, because I don't do that either, and the landlady is a pleasant enough woman, all in all. But Morpheus and Neo, and the whole gang of gun-slinging gothic trench-coat wearers, well, I don't know, but maybe we ARE supposed to be "cool" like that. Do you find this valuable? |
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5. Something substantial (continued)
Nov 8 2007, 7:08 PM EST
God knows I've been trying to get my mother to be cool for a while now... She pretends she doesn't get it, but she does. She's a nerd, with an unshakable thought-process of her own. And she's definitely blazed some trails, for sure... It was great to be able to blow her mind with September 11th research. She'd heard about it, but when her own son got excited when HE heard about it, well, it's become an obsession. We've moved on from 9/11. It's still on T-shirts I wear, and on the backside of both of our cars, my mother and me. But now we're Ron Paul activists. At first it bothered me that Paul wasn't coming right out and demanding a new investigation and all that. I guess the name-calling and, as my high school principal called it, "hazing" has once again discouraged us nerds... Then there's those with, shall we say, a little less sensitivity--the older activists who are inspired afresh with 9/11 research, even though NO ONE in government is picking up the ball, so to speak, and running with it. Still, it is having its effect on the country. Everybody seems to know by now, happy to say. Well, that's pretty much it. Anyone got anything to add? I'm all ears. Do you find this valuable? |
