Automaton

Vanderzyden: You clearly can't post any sort of a substantial response to our demolitions of your simple-minded tripe, so why do you embarass yourself further by continuing to post these irrelevent morsels?

Oolon Colluphid

Now, I realise that it takes time to concoct ad hoc rationalisations, but this is obviously some strange usage of the word ‘immediately’ I wasn’t previously aware of.

Oolon

Albion

You must not have had much contact with government bureaucracy, then!

Nice to see you over on the BBC boards, btw.

Oolon Colluphid

Ha! I work for one! Difference here is, the wheels of government may grind slow, but they get there and generally deliver something worthwhile. We’ll wait and see with Vanderzyden...

Ah, you’re there too?! Who do you post as? Flag yourself up for me next time

I’ve only just discovered them. I’m surprised at Auntie getting involved... though I suppose they have to have a creation board, to keep the crap off the ordinary science ones! Have you noticed a certain disparity in number of posts between the E/C one and all the others?

The BBC board is atrocious to use compared to here -- no linking or pics, quoting is difficult, and you’re not supposed to post more than 500 words cos it ‘inhibits discussion’ -- but they do have some tenacious cretinists to smack around. And they mostly seem to be British, so maybe there’s some interesting contrasts.
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?state=threads&board=science.created&" target="_blank">BBC’s E/C board</a>

Cheers, Oolon

Albion

Be a good chap and wander over to the BBC Evolution board and give me a bit of support in my thread asking the mods to keep creationist posts off the Evolution board!


Heh heh! There's also a thread on the Q&A board asking for input on possible revamps of teh science boards (actually there's a couple, the original and a follow-up). It's probably on page three by now, but if you want to go and add your vote for keeping the two boards separate, please do. There were a coupldof suggestions to merge them, and I think that would be a shame.

BTW, you also can't link to outside sites but you can link to BBC sites, and they don't like long quotes and they don't like disrespectful attitudes, and the system will have a hissy fit at terms like "cockroach" and "shatter" cos of unfortunate four-letter strings. But you can get reasonable conversations going, and the more people who show up there with a working knowledge of science, the better. Glad to see you found them!

Don't forget to explore the Religion boards too - E/C threads sometimes start up there as well.

Asha'man

A clarification on the technology of the internet:

The http protocol includes a “referrer” tag, where any request for a file includes the page that generated the request. So, if you embed a link (in a iidb message) to an image file on tripod, the tripod http server will be able to see that the link came from a page on the iidb server. The tripod server can be configured not to respond to such requests, and the image will not be visible inside iidb pages. The tripod server is configured this way to force you to actually start at a tripod page, so tripod can display ads and collect revenue.

Clicking on a link directly, or on a shortcut, doesn’t set the referrer tag in the same way, so the image can be visible. When Ipetrich posted his reply, only the link within his reply was edited, and it became such a shortcut.

A few of us are running software that is designed to protect privacy, and therefore blocks the referrer tag in many circumstances. If you have such software, the original beavis and butthead image would be visible. Also, if the image had previously been viewed, and was therefore located in the browser cache, it might still be visible even when embedded within an iidb message.

Blinn

I could see it only when I clicked on "properties," copied the address, and put it into the address window. When I came back to the Infidels forum, then the image would appear. Regardless, we still haven't gotten Vanderzyden's "immediate" response.

Richiyaado

Thanks for the explanation, Asha'man. While we continue to await Vanderzyden's immediate reply, I'm wondering if my being on a Mac has anything to do with not seeing the B&B image.

Dan828

If you want to see the picture, copy the link, and then paste it into the url at the top of your browser. That way, you aren't linking from another site and the picture will come up.

lpetrich

I got the "Hosted by Tripod" image with OSX Internet Explorer, but I got the Beavis & Butthead goggle picture with OSX Chimera (Mozilla-based browser).