QT3 post conversation by post #

[XPav]

Let’s have a conversation with round numbered posts from QT3’s past, shall we? Posts 1, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 500000, 1000000, 1500000, 200000.

@imported_admin

This is our new board. We need to fix some stuff, but you can start posting.

We’ll keep the old boards up as view-only for an undetermined length of time. If there’s something there you cherish, copy it. At some point it will vanish into the haze.

@TomChick

Fuck Star Wars.

“What the hell kind of a way is that to act?”

 -Tom

@Editer

Xaroc,

I think it depends on your providers/area. I had more DSL downtime than I have had cable. But the worst was email… Verizon’s email servers had chronic problems. When they weren’t bouncing or eating my email, they’d stop allowing non-Verizon.net return addresses for days at a time after they got the server up. Really frustrating.

I’ve seen horror stories about Adelphia in some areas, but in Vermont (perhaps because we have a low population and probably a low percentage of cable-modem users compared to some areas), they’ve been pretty reliable. I’m sure the DSL vs. cable decision depends very much on your local situation. In Vermont, Cable’s the clear choice. (Although once Adelphia goes into bankruptcy after their recent wacky financial revelations, it’ll be interesting to see if the service worses. I do still have my DSL modem in the attic… Didn’t eBay it just in case things get bad with cable someday.)

Tim,

PPoE is “Point-to-Point over Ethernet.” Some kind of funky protocol that Verizon and some other DSL providers use. Can occasionally cause weirdness, such as when trying to use a VPN to access a work network.

@Matthew Gallant

Yep, X-Box, but the editor will be stripped out.

@Jason Lutes

Thanks, Jeff. I think you’re one of those aforementioned “people who are smarter than me,” and I appreciate your take on the situation.

@bago

I didn’t know men could go bubble butt too.

@worm

Honestly, there’s no double jump?

@Tim James

Hmm, had to think about this one. I assume you’re talking about someone trying to push liberty and the free market into a seat at the Republican table but having to overcome the FUD about Truthers and racists. I think the party elite is probably a lost cause, but I see what you’re saying in terms of grassroots spread of ideas. The increase in young, energized people that care about liberty is probably offset by the cynical dismissals from people that hear the FUD, so your statement about him “not helping the process at all” is probably accurate. And I’ve always said he sucked at explaining the slow steps and compromises he’d take; the radical ideas play well to the choir but everyone (including the man himself) understands the IRS won’t lock its doors overnight, but he didn’t qualify or explain it enough to sound like a reasonable person.

@mouselock

It’s going to be even more fun through and across Utah judging by what our weather folk are saying.

I’d say that pretty much covers it. We were off from the start, because the old blue boards ARE STILL here, despite what Post #1 said. Post 100 really set the stage though.

[Raife]

Koontz would have used a much more complex formula. I give this two bongs out of ten.