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Marxist in Nebraska
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Post subject: Delete postless accounts after 3 months?  Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:28 am |
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| Commie Punk |
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Joined: Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:53 am
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Location: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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I look through the memberlist from time to time, and lately I have been noticing all of the postless accounts. While I know a few of these people personally, I suspect that most of them are spambots too glitchy to even perform their miserable function. I propose that those accounts which no member can attach to an actual person be deleted if they remain postless for three months after their registration. To be safe, I could send out a PM a week ahead of time and make sure there is no real person there.
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"Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we expected, but in the second and third places it has quite different, unforeseen effects which only too often cancel the first. The people who, in Mesopotamia, Greece, Asia Minor and elsewhere, destroyed the forests to obtain cultivable land, never dreamed that by removing along with the forests the collecting centres and reservoirs of moisture they were laying the basis for the present forlorn state of those countries. When the Italians of the Alps used up the pine forests on the southern slopes, so carefully cherished on the northern slopes, they had no inkling that by doing so they were cutting at the roots of the dairy industry in their region; they had still less inkling that they were thereby depriving their mountain springs of water for the greater part of the year, and making it possible for them to pour still more furious torrents on the plains during the rainy seasons. Those who spread the potato in Europe were not aware that with these farinaceous tubers they were at the same time spreading scrofula. Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature – but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly." -- Engels, Dialectics of Nature
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Freigemachten
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:22 pm |
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| Y'all's Renegade |
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Joined: Fri Aug 05, 2005 2:59 pm
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Location: Ohio
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Absolutely a reasonable policy, especially if all members up for being deleted get a PM or warning of some other sort. Sounds like a plan to me.
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I'm a college student living on a meal plan and ramen noodles, what more reason do I need to be politically active?
The state calls its own violence law, & that of the individual, crime.
Max Stirner
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience & through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde
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hegemonicretribution
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:37 am |
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Joined: Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:40 pm
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I certainly support this, having lots of unused accounts just cloggs the member list.
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Fabulous Socialist
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:11 pm |
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Joined: Sun May 14, 2006 2:21 pm
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Location: Helena, MT
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Sure. Can them.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
My Political Compass:
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Elect Marx
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:35 pm |
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Joined: Fri Jun 17, 2005 2:50 pm
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Location: Lincoln@Nebraska.usa
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Good plan MiN; I've wanted these mystery people gone for a while. Most are probably failed spammers.
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“The art of leadership. . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention." --Adolf Hitler
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Oppression isn't necessarily violence, but is more broadly described as systemic effort to limit a person's potential.
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Marxist in Nebraska
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:47 am |
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Joined: Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:53 am
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Location: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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It looks like my motion has plenty of support. I will begin sending the warning PMs today to the accounts I intend to delete.
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"Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we expected, but in the second and third places it has quite different, unforeseen effects which only too often cancel the first. The people who, in Mesopotamia, Greece, Asia Minor and elsewhere, destroyed the forests to obtain cultivable land, never dreamed that by removing along with the forests the collecting centres and reservoirs of moisture they were laying the basis for the present forlorn state of those countries. When the Italians of the Alps used up the pine forests on the southern slopes, so carefully cherished on the northern slopes, they had no inkling that by doing so they were cutting at the roots of the dairy industry in their region; they had still less inkling that they were thereby depriving their mountain springs of water for the greater part of the year, and making it possible for them to pour still more furious torrents on the plains during the rainy seasons. Those who spread the potato in Europe were not aware that with these farinaceous tubers they were at the same time spreading scrofula. Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature – but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly." -- Engels, Dialectics of Nature
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which doctor
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:48 pm |
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Joined: Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:10 pm
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Location: Chicago
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Yeah, go ahead and delete them.
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the nightmare cruelty of life is not in the remote and fantastic, but in the probable - the horror of love, loss, marriage, the ninety seconds of treason in the dark - thomas wolfe
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Marxist in Nebraska
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:10 am |
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| Commie Punk |
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Joined: Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:53 am
Posts: 1971
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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I am curious who voted against this measure yesterday. Identify yourself, and state your grievances.
Yesterday, I sent the warning PMs to 10 dubious accounts from July 2006 and older. I consciously excluded sending the PMs to five or six postless accounts that I can attach to an actual person. One day later, I have not received a reply from any of the ten.
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"Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we expected, but in the second and third places it has quite different, unforeseen effects which only too often cancel the first. The people who, in Mesopotamia, Greece, Asia Minor and elsewhere, destroyed the forests to obtain cultivable land, never dreamed that by removing along with the forests the collecting centres and reservoirs of moisture they were laying the basis for the present forlorn state of those countries. When the Italians of the Alps used up the pine forests on the southern slopes, so carefully cherished on the northern slopes, they had no inkling that by doing so they were cutting at the roots of the dairy industry in their region; they had still less inkling that they were thereby depriving their mountain springs of water for the greater part of the year, and making it possible for them to pour still more furious torrents on the plains during the rainy seasons. Those who spread the potato in Europe were not aware that with these farinaceous tubers they were at the same time spreading scrofula. Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature – but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly." -- Engels, Dialectics of Nature
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ThisAnarchistKillsNazis
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:54 am |
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Joined: Sun Jun 11, 2006 2:07 am
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Dischordia
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:53 am |
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Joined: Sun Jun 19, 2005 6:41 pm
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Location: Lincoln, NE
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That was me. I was just thinking about the fact that I have, on more than one occasion, lurked a forum quite a bit and created a count but rarely if ever posted for quite a while, then came back at a later date and started participating readily.
But then, if the account is deleted, one could recreate it with no difficulty.
Oh, and I was half asleeep when I voted. Feel free to disregard it.
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"...if man is doomed to wind cotton around a spool, or dig coal, or build roads for thirty years of his life, there can be no talk of wealth. What he gives to the world is only gray and hideous things, reflecting a dull and hideous existence..." -Emma Goldman
Bless the misfits, the weirdos, the eccentrics, the tricksters, the jokers, the geeks, and the slackers--for through them has come much that is good and joyful in this world.
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Marxist in Nebraska
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 5:36 am |
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| Commie Punk |
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Joined: Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:53 am
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Location: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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Big D,
I was hoping to avoid the issue you seem to have by sending warning PMs first. I sent the first batch out last Saturday, and will delete the accounts tomorrow if I get no replies or other signs of life.
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"Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we expected, but in the second and third places it has quite different, unforeseen effects which only too often cancel the first. The people who, in Mesopotamia, Greece, Asia Minor and elsewhere, destroyed the forests to obtain cultivable land, never dreamed that by removing along with the forests the collecting centres and reservoirs of moisture they were laying the basis for the present forlorn state of those countries. When the Italians of the Alps used up the pine forests on the southern slopes, so carefully cherished on the northern slopes, they had no inkling that by doing so they were cutting at the roots of the dairy industry in their region; they had still less inkling that they were thereby depriving their mountain springs of water for the greater part of the year, and making it possible for them to pour still more furious torrents on the plains during the rainy seasons. Those who spread the potato in Europe were not aware that with these farinaceous tubers they were at the same time spreading scrofula. Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature – but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly." -- Engels, Dialectics of Nature
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Dischordia
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:15 am |
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Joined: Sun Jun 19, 2005 6:41 pm
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Location: Lincoln, NE
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Yeah, after thinking about it more, I agree. Consider my vote retracted.
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"...if man is doomed to wind cotton around a spool, or dig coal, or build roads for thirty years of his life, there can be no talk of wealth. What he gives to the world is only gray and hideous things, reflecting a dull and hideous existence..." -Emma Goldman
Bless the misfits, the weirdos, the eccentrics, the tricksters, the jokers, the geeks, and the slackers--for through them has come much that is good and joyful in this world.
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Marxist in Nebraska
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 7:56 pm |
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| Commie Punk |
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Joined: Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:53 am
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Location: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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Ok, I think conversation has ended on this matter. I am locking the thread.
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"Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we expected, but in the second and third places it has quite different, unforeseen effects which only too often cancel the first. The people who, in Mesopotamia, Greece, Asia Minor and elsewhere, destroyed the forests to obtain cultivable land, never dreamed that by removing along with the forests the collecting centres and reservoirs of moisture they were laying the basis for the present forlorn state of those countries. When the Italians of the Alps used up the pine forests on the southern slopes, so carefully cherished on the northern slopes, they had no inkling that by doing so they were cutting at the roots of the dairy industry in their region; they had still less inkling that they were thereby depriving their mountain springs of water for the greater part of the year, and making it possible for them to pour still more furious torrents on the plains during the rainy seasons. Those who spread the potato in Europe were not aware that with these farinaceous tubers they were at the same time spreading scrofula. Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature – but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly." -- Engels, Dialectics of Nature
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