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Unwashed Village / Drivers license prank
« on: August 27, 2007, 06:26:16 PM »
This is pretty funny. A couple of guys dress up for their drivers license photo just to see what passes. This is especially funny to me, as here, you   won't get far trying this. Even if you're at a slight angle, they'll have you find a new photo.

http://www.break.com/index/dmv_drivers_license_photo_prank.html

http://www.break.com/index/dmv_drivers_license_photo_prank_part2.html

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Unwashed Village / The best political system
« on: August 27, 2007, 06:06:18 PM »
What spurs this system is some recent events in Denmark, that has caused a new party to form. There's nothing wrong with that, but I find it unethical for elected members to change party during the election period.

That led me to the thought of the various democratic systems that has existed around the World:

- The US (practically) two-party system
- The UK (slightly less practically) two-party system
- The Danish many-party, two sides system
Above all being examples or representative democracy.

- Direct Democracy
- Technocracy

Personally, I think what works on paper doesn't necessarily work well in reality.

Technocracy and representative democracy both have problems of decision makers taking bribes or having personal opinions that are different from what is "for the greater good".

Direct democracy looks good on paper, but I can see several problems:
- The media could gain a large influence but swaying people using the power of press.
- Those making the decisions don't actually know anything about what they're voting for or against.

I don't know what the best solution is, but I am certainly sick and tired of having people making decisions they have no domain knowledge about. I guess my best candidate is a representative democracy, where ministers (or equivalent depending on system) must have actual knowledge about the areas they are ministers for.

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Unwashed Village / Religion - Good or Bad?
« on: August 27, 2007, 05:46:47 PM »
Take your pick in the poll, and state your opinions below:

I'll state my somewhat controversial viewpoint here:

I am, at best, an agnostic. I think all religious books are written by men, and as such, tell more about the society in which they were written than they do of the deity they portray, if such an entity exists.

I think religion is a major contributor to conflict around the World. - Protestant/Catholic in Northern Ireland, Muslim/Anything else in the Middle East, Christian/Anything else during the Crusades, Something/Something else a million times throughout history.

Now, I'm not saying that religion is responsible for all war, humans manage that on their own - but it is just another thing we can disagree on and fight wars over. I think the prime contributor is territorial disputes/power.

Aside wars, many other bad things has happened in the name of religion: The Inquisition and various other witch hunts, Tom Cruise becoming a complete idiot and various acts of terrorism.

Humans seem to have a almost tribal like trend to band together against "the enemy", but question is:

If we had no religion (or to some extent, everyone had the same), would there be less terrorism/war/Tom Cruises?

My view is Yes. Most recently, religion is being using as a distraction by dictators to turn the peoples anger towards external enemies rather than the problem that occur in their own country.

Please note that all religion should be counted the same. IMO the only difference between Christianity and Islam is 400 years of technological and sociological progress.

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Unwashed Village / Al Gore's: The inconvenient truth
« on: August 27, 2007, 04:48:04 PM »
I don't even know if this is debate worthy, but does anyone here doubt that global warming exists? Or that it is caused by humans?

While I think the movie/documentary only showed one side of the arguments, Gore is right on most points - and he has some pretty impressive numbers to prove it.

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Unwashed Village / Member rankings (Suggestions wanted)
« on: August 15, 2007, 11:36:09 PM »
Ok, so I kinda revisited the Ranking system, but given the number of posts here, it won't last long..

So give me your suggestions for rankings and the number of posts required to attain them.

Example:
Posts Rank
0 Tangerine Target
50 Unwashed Initiate
-- etc --

Feel free to suggest others than the two above.

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Unwashed Village / An idea concerning board pics
« on: August 08, 2007, 02:59:32 PM »
For those of you using the Sullen Madness skin, I have an idea for board pics. See the "Hello User" bar at the top of the screen. What if we were to conform our board pics to the dimensions of that - force board pics to have a faded/darker box at the top left - and show the board pics there?

This way they will actually be on the board while not being in the way.

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Unwashed Village / You wanted smileys?
« on: August 08, 2007, 11:22:41 AM »
Here ya friggin go.

 :) ;) :D ;D >:( :( :o 8) ??? ::) :P :-X :-\ :-* :'( :!blank: :2thumbsup: :alien: :angel: :annoyed: :antlers: :balloon: :bandana: :beatnik: :beatnik2: :behead: :bigcry: :biker: :bobby: :bomb: :bomb2: :book: :book2: :bow: :bucktooth: :builder: :builder2: :gorgeous: :goofy: :glasses2: :glasses: :furious3: :furious: :freak: :fireman: :evilgrin: :evil3: :evil2: :elvis: :elf: :egypt: :ears: :earmuffs: :dunce2: :dunce: :drunk: :drummer: :dozey: :dizzy2: :disguise: :disappointed: :devilish: :devil: :deal2: :deal: :dead: :daisy: :cyclist: :curtain: :cry2: :crowngrin: :crown: :cowboy: :cool4: :cool3: :computer: :clown: :chinese: :chef: :charming: :bulb2: :bulb: :gossip: :greedy: :guitarist: :hair: :hair2: :hanged: :hat: :hat2: :heart: :helmet: :hippy: :huh2: :argue: :army: :artist: :baby:

Bleh.. Do the rest yourself..

Anyway, I will remove most of these, unless we can somehow compact the board so they won't show all the smileys at once. So pick yer favourites.

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Unwashed Village / Skins for the board
« on: August 07, 2007, 11:10:19 PM »
So the default skin is nice and all, but it's rather vanilla.

Please feel free to explore the following site and suggest other themes:

http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/

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Unwashed Village / Known bugs
« on: August 07, 2007, 08:43:28 PM »
If anyone should notice anything that should be changed in this board, reply to this thread, and it will be looked into.

Bugs so far:
-- All reported bugs dealt with --

Possible bugs:
- Update functionality of profile lags. As does the "Mark as read" link. I'll keep an eye on these.

Resolved issues:
- Replying/posting returns to index instead of topic: Not actually an issue, this can be changed by users in their profiles.
- Members not able to reply in Construction site forum
- Censored words list updated: The words "El Hombre muy Magnifico", "prawn" and "ill dressed person" are now censored.
- Classic forum now operational again. Had apparantly not been working for a long time. www.unwashed.org/classic
- E-mails not being hidden on the member list. (Guest can't see them)

Issues that aren't mine to deal with:
- Sylvin has misspelled her name.
- So has Paladin ;) (Man, I never tire from that joke)

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Unwashed Village / Old forum locations
« on: August 06, 2007, 11:46:00 PM »
There are now two old forum instances - they are located at:

http://www.unwashed.org/classic <-- The oldest
http://www.unwashed.org/archive <-- The one we just left

It is my plan that in some distant future, where this board is completely as it should be, that I will try to write my own script that will convert all previous posts to this board. Meaning that we will have no archives - just one board. One board to rule them all.

If anyone should know how to get data from even older instances, I will try to convert that too, however raw that data might be.

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Unwashed Village / Nifty features of the new board
« on: August 06, 2007, 11:43:55 PM »
Ok, so I found one cool thing so far: when you're typing and someone posts before you, you'll get a warning when posting.

As there might be a few features that some users might miss, please share if you find anything.

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Unwashed Village / Todo list for the new forum
« on: August 06, 2007, 11:38:29 PM »
Here is a list of things that I can think of we need to do in order to be fully running on the new board:

- Add Spoiler tag functionality
- Other (please suggest)

Already taken care of:

- Have all admins create accounts
- Make said accounts administrators / moderators
- Find a few skins that will cover most people's tastes.
- Force everyone to use the skin I like the most, because I'm a bastard
- Add smileys
- Revisit "Newbie - Hero Member" system (To be revisited if old post come back)

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Unwashed Village / PLEASE READ: Welcome to the new forum
« on: August 06, 2007, 11:34:42 PM »
Welcome to Simple Machines Forum.

Seeing as it was somewhat cumbersome to move the old posts here, we have started from scratch. You will need to reregister in order to use the board. Hope I won't scare anyone away - at least not beyond the reach of the bungee.

Things will change a lot over the next few weeks: We will look at new skins, smileys etc. To gain influence, please visit the Construction Site forum here

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