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The Frozen Minority - The most infamous clan borne from the Seventh Column.

If it isn't broken _________.

Someone finish my sentence. You get a prize.

  • 09.21.2006 9:47 PM PDT
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Mourne not your comrades who must dwell / too strong to strive -
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell, / Buried alive;
But rather mourne the apathetic throng / The cowed, and the meek -
Who see the world’s great anguish and its wrong / And dare not speak.

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Posted by: Pezza
If it isn't broken _________.

Someone finish my sentence. You get a prize.


...the webmaster hasn't gotten ahold of it yet.



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  • 09.21.2006 9:49 PM PDT

$x='print chr(36),"x=",chr(39),$x,chr(39),";\n",$x; ';
print chr(36),"x=",chr(39),$x,chr(39),";\n",$x;

I work at Microsoft. I have nothing to do with Halo and nothing I say is "the official word".

A lot of people have links to dead threads in their sigs.

  • 09.21.2006 9:51 PM PDT

Facts are the enemy of tru7h....

Posted by: Mattbluhalofan

You cannot compare those two. One is historical events and happenings that everyone should know, the other is threads on a website that are inactive, dead, taking up space, and can be easily recreated.


I would tend to disagree... The threads are a record of the state of the community and, in a broader sense, society of the time... I know it sounds pretentious but forums and blogs are going to be invaluable to historians of the future. People just aren't keeping diaries anymore... they don't physically write things down... so online communities are going to be a valuable resource for someone looking back to see the state of events at a particular time... and it may not even be that far into the future that someone would be interested in doing so...

To give a kind of modern day analogy... Think about world war 2... we wouldn't know half of what we know about what it was like at that time if it hadn't been for war diaries and war poems written at that time... What if we'd never found the diary of Anne Frank??... history books can only record so much and are often skewed but the perspective of the victor....To really know what it was like you have to be able to ask the people.... and if no people are around, it's going to be stuff like forums and blogs that people will turn to....

Now i know you're saying "But something like World War 2 was this huge historical event that shaped the outlook of the entire world... how is anything we write here going to compare to those events..."

... All you have to do is look at the times that we live in for an answer to that....

I disagree that these threads can simply be recreated.... of course some can... "How do i make a link?", "When is halo 3 coming out?", "OMG ROXXORS 'N' TEH SOXXORS!!!" can all be recreated... and are... every day... but some of the important threads that are created as a reaction to something out with of the community and that have a genuine emotional response can never be recreated.....

I know, i know... sounds ridiculous...but it's just to illustrate a point... the threads might be useful.... there is a record of what people have said... so you can call them on the BS some people try and pull...

-Stu

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  • 09.21.2006 9:56 PM PDT

Facts are the enemy of tru7h....

Posted by: Pezza
If it isn't broken _________.

Someone finish my sentence. You get a prize.


Get a sledge hammer and a bottle of tequila... it'll be broken by morning....

-Stu

  • 09.21.2006 9:57 PM PDT
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Osmosis!

Posted by: Pezza
If it isn't broken _________.

Someone finish my sentence. You get a prize.

Oh oh oh! If it isn't broken... Don't fix it! Can I have my cookie now?

But anyway, B.net was full of "Stop saying things people have already said! *flame* *flame* *flame*." And "This was already said you N...! Go look in the forums before you post! *flame* *flame* *flame*." The Search box means you can look for old threads, to see if your question, query, whatever has already been discussed. Then we don't have more flames about how "oh your so friggen ignorant bla bla bla."

And it is fun to look at the good old past :)

  • 09.21.2006 10:02 PM PDT

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