I hate the idea of age checks, but OS is the next best thing if they don’t share the information beyond. In truth it is pointless other than tracking people.

I’m going to comment this sperate to ask about rules/prefrences. As I learn/watch/view what do you guys consider the difference between conversation, hype, and spoilers. If I posted wins/losses or such, should there be a time period before so to make sure it does not spoil anyones viewing experience, should it be immediate for commentary and excitement or should I avoid until post tournament to ensure someone who recorded or watches them in another available format doesn’t get a moment ruined by seeing a comment?

Will do thanks!

That would put you around ~87, and 14 years old in 2001. Google came out in late 1998 I think. So it really isn’t all that hard to believe there was slow adoption in some areas, and 3 years I’m not even sure if I’d call it slow when it comes to school systems and such. In that time period schools were just acquiring computers and setting up labs/figuring out how to introduce them into curriculums. They knew typing was going to be needed for all of the students but most didn’t have the budgets to bring about all the changes they wanted. I think I had 2 or 3 essays in 1998 that we were brought to the lab of about 15 computers and had to type and print them out to turn in. They had 1 lab they set up and they rotated half the class went in the morning, half in the afternoon. Then they rotated which class/grade needed had access to make sure everyone grade 3-5 had access a couple times a year.

I was born in 89, so a couple years behind you. By the time we got to middle school though we had a required typing course with those black covers over the keyboards to force all the kids to type without looking. Think that was 6th grade for me

Thanks for the mention. I said I’d like to learn more about it because I knew near nothing so I guess now is the time!

So 15 days of tournaments, start and end on Sunday (Saturday for me because I’m 14 hours behind Japan time). So they start here 6:30, 12:30, 1:45, 2:00am it appears).

Bouts (if you call them that?)

Participation by Division

Now I just need to catch some matches tonight and start to figure out the rules/moves, and what to really watch out for!

Look, instant messages were instant, but getting the computer to boot up, connecting to the Internet and logging in were not.

I’m on the younger end but I remember so Many people having routines like prep the coffee machine the night before, when the alarm went off you would get up youd hit the power button on the computer, turn on the coffee machine, then hop in the shower. When you got out of the shower you would log in, and go grab a cup of coffee, then come back and connect to the Internet. Drink your coffee and you could check the 2 items and emails you needed before running out the door

If they did that they would have a lot more paperwork to forge. The U.S. was claiming that they were running cocaine, but there were reports after one of the bombings that a lot of weed washed up on shore. With a large part of the U.S. population believing weed shouldn’t be illegal, and clearly making it legal would take away any reason for someone to smuggle weed into our country selling the idea of attacking their country for it would have been harder. So they would have had to dispose of all the weed, bag up fake cocaine or acquire real cocaine and submit it all to evidence and fake all the paperwork.

Instead they just bomb them and don’t have to lie anymore, the evidence was supposed to gone and they could tell the media whatver story they wanted.

Pretty easy for them to claim. They went to war with Afghanistan with a deck of cards and Bin Laden as the Ace of Spades. 48/52 of those cards were executed or in custody.

This time Israel and the U.S. started the war by killing who they would claim is the Ace of Spades.

The U.S. isn’t going to try to colonize Iran, they could back out tomorrow and already call the war a win. They won’t though, because people aren’t the reason they are there, they are their to funnel money, and Israel is there so they can expand their borders, not into Iran, down through Gaza and into the West Bank, maybe part of Lebanon who knows what with Jordan… but when the Iran war ends they will hold more land and the world will say they lost.

It’s like if Russia and Ukraine reached peace tomorrow, people will say Russia lost because they dont control Ukraine. But Russia will have expanded its borders, and Ukraine would have shrunk a lot. Russia will have “won” all of that land, and wouldn’t give a shit that all those people died. (Because Putin got what he wanted, to keep appearing strong to his people, which he only cares about because it keeps his head on his neck, and stays rich beyond imagine)

From the GOPs point of view they won all of them. This war will be no different. The world will call it a loss because the U.S. won’t take control of Iran and hold it permanently, which the U.S. never has any intent of holding these countries permanently. They don’t care how many soldiers die, they don’t even really care who ends up controlling that area when they leave. Did they destabilize the region and get approval to funnel mass amounts of money into defense company contracts. Yes and yes. U.S. oil comes from the U.S. yet gas prices are rising in the U.S., why… Because wars with countries that control oil elsewhere help line the pockets of oil companies who fund these politicians campaigns. If you have oil, lift it at costs less than the U.S. and don’t have nuclear weapons, you are a target to exploit. It’ll raise costs for every working class sod in the world, but they couldn’t give a shit about us. They are winning. We are losing.

I had a talk with God last night, he told me every church that accepts donations or makes money should be burned to the ground and those who preach there are all heretics

damn, I knew there was an alterior motive to the knee pads, no one liked those things.

Yeah meanwhile I was over in the corner trying to figure out how all my laces are tangled in the Velcro of my roller blades. I swear whoever designed Velcro and laces to exist on the same contraption was just trying to be a dick

Yo we almost there

So many pedestrians would be in trouble come Manhattan. The roads just not big enough for 5 of them

Not much, just the part where it helped clear small companies out of the market if their margins were thin and had to raise their prices they may have just went under in the last year. I wonder if companies that declared bankruptcy in the last 12 months can also start lawsuits separately

Imagine prescribing weight loss drugs to a meth addict to curb his addiction. Jeff’s over there walking out of the clinic like

/s, obviously if it helps that’s great but I’m still going to joke about it

Just give the researchers cocaine, then figure out how to ween them off. You can cut out the middleman who is you, by making yourself the addicts.

Is this not the way you wanted to accelerate the research?

I vote we give him 5 licenses and start cloning him.

I have to deduct a merit for myself, as I now see I spelled meritable with a typo.

They weren’t kidding when they said the photos were low resolution.

Honestly I find it worse if I say sir or ma’am or such and someone gets upset. “My mother was ma’am don’t call me that!”