Thread Killer Champions: Franzbear & Moonbear

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The discussion revolves around the humorous concept of "thread killers" on a forum, where participants analyze who tends to end conversations with their posts. The top offenders identified include franznietzsche, Moonbear, and tribdog, with a playful tone suggesting a competition for the title of "thread killer." Participants debate the validity of counting last posts as a measure of thread-killing ability, arguing that it should be adjusted based on the total number of posts each user has made. The conversation shifts into a light-hearted narrative, likening thread-killing to a horror movie scenario, with participants playfully accusing each other of sabotaging discussions and attempting to "steal" the thread. The banter includes references to fictional scenarios involving dramatic rescues and humorous characterizations, maintaining a light and comedic atmosphere throughout.
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Math Is Hard said:
Oddly enough, I used to take cayenne pepper capsules to ward off digestive ailments. I had my first ulcers at age five and have always had a cranky stomach. The cayenne does seem to help. Go figure!
It could be something in cayenne pepper besides capsaisin maybe. When I eat spicy foods I generally feel better too. Now I'm curious what the health benefits/hazards are.
Hmm, interesting. Seems spicy food can cause a condition called Gastritis (which sounds like what I had) that can cause ulcers, but it can also hamper the bacteria H. Pylori which causes ulcers.
negative effects- http://askmen.com/sports/foodcourt_60/74b_eating_well.html
positive effects-http://www.sweatnspice.com/hotfoods_healthinfo.php
Don't know how accurate those sites are.
 
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Like many issues in human toxicology and natural substances the jury is still out on capsaicin. Searches are further complicated by the fact that capsaicin is used in neuroscience as a pharmacological agent. I can't check these citations since I'm at home but the abstracts look interesting. Medical Hypotheses, Life Science review
 
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O' Great! Now some of my favorite foods are cancerous too. :cry:
I hope they turn out to be safe because I don't think I'm going to stop eating spicy foods.
 
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Moonbear said:
Yeah, that's the way I do it. I just thought I'd check if it worked differently for others since some things seem to be different depending on computer or browser.

My biggest problem with the copy/paste method of quoting is I end up misspelling user names, especially some of the more challenging ones.
I find the easiest way to do multiple quotes is to hit "quote" for the first post that I want to reply to, then scroll down to the next post in topic review, highlight what I want to quote "control c" then "control v" it into my post and put quotes around it, and so on for as many as I want to add. No need to use a clipboard, no need to edit out text, no need to search through pages.

Moonbear can you use "cut and paste" shortcuts with a Mac?
 
  • #4,595
Evo said:
Moonbear can you use "cut and paste" shortcuts with a Mac?
You can't do anything on a mac. :-p What kind of mac do you have moonbear?
 
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Evo said:
No need to use a clipboard, no need to edit out text, no need to search through pages.

Moonbear can you use "cut and paste" shortcuts with a Mac?
Maybe a misunderstanding when I use the term 'clipboard'. I don't know what that means in a PC. In a Mac, it's just where things go when you cut or copy them. No need to actually access it, although you can in order to see what's there. I don't like keyboard shortcuts because I can never remember them and clicking is just as easy.

yomamma said:
You can't do anything on a mac. :-p What kind of mac do you have moonbear?
Fie on you, you little ****! :-p You can do anything on a Mac that you can on a Windows-crasher, and usually better. The only exception is downloading from a site where some idiot set it up to need a right-hand mouse button.
 
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Danger said:
Fie on you, you little ****! :-p You can do anything on a Mac that you can on a Windows-crasher, and usually better. The only exception is downloading from a site where some idiot set it up to need a right-hand mouse button.
Stop whining because we stole mac's idea and made it better. Now mac has surrendered! Microsoft software for all macs! bwahaha!
 
  • #4,598
Evo said:
I find the easiest way to do multiple quotes is to hit "quote" for the first post that I want to reply to, then scroll down to the next post in topic review, highlight what I want to quote "control c" then "control v" it into my post and put quotes around it, and so on for as many as I want to add. No need to use a clipboard, no need to edit out text, no need to search through pages.

Moonbear can you use "cut and paste" shortcuts with a Mac?

Yes, that's what I use. On a mac, it's just command c and command v, same idea. The biggest problem is really when the posts you want to quote are on multiple pages (like on this rapidly growing thread), so everything I want to quote isn't just down at the bottom of the page. That, and after I quote the first person, in order to quote more people you have to cut and paste and then insert the quote tags, etc. Yeah, I'll live. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing an easier way.
 
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yomamma said:
Stop whining because we stole mac's idea and made it better. Now mac has surrendered! Microsoft software for all macs! bwahaha!

More like stole it and made it worse. I love my macs. My old PCs are good as doorstops though. :smile:
 
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Moonbear said:
Yes, that's what I use. On a mac, it's just command c and command v, same idea. The biggest problem is really when the posts you want to quote are on multiple pages (like on this rapidly growing thread), so everything I want to quote isn't just down at the bottom of the page. That, and after I quote the first person, in order to quote more people you have to cut and paste and then insert the quote tags, etc. Yeah, I'll live. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing an easier way.
No easier way. The prior "quotes" disappeared with the last upgrade. Before then they would be still be visible. Without them a lot of responses don't make sense, forcing you to manually add them back. :devil:
 
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yomamma said:
Stop whining because we stole mac's idea and made it better. Now mac has surrendered! Microsoft software for all macs! bwahaha!
You have a pretty screwy idea of 'better'. My boss gave me her old 900mHz Pentium 4 machine, and all I use it for is to run my watch software and a couple of games. This G3 at 233mHz puts it absolutely to shame for speed of actually doing something useful. It's twice as fast on Excel or Word. I have no way to compare Photoshop, because the PC doesn't have it, but it's damned fast (loads and opens Photoshop 6 in 7 seconds). :approve:
And if you call a dual-processor 2.7mHz G5 Power Mac 'surrendering', you should seriously consider getting professional care. :-p

Moonbear said:
More like stole it and made it worse. I love my macs. My old PCs are good as doorstops though. :smile:
Damn straight. I wouldn't bother with the PC at all if Timex had made Mac software for the watch.
 
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Evo said:
No easier way. The prior "quotes" disappeared with the last upgrade. Before then they would be still be visible. Without them a lot of responses don't make sense, forcing you to manually add them back. :devil:

Okay. I thought I remembered that working before. Must have been prior to the upgrade. Is it no longer possible with the new version, or do we just need to ask Greg and Chroot nicely to add it back?
 
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QUESTION!

is anyone here a musician?

or plays around with MIDI-based equipment?
 
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Danger said:
I have no way to compare Photoshop, because the PC doesn't have it, but it's damned fast (loads and opens Photoshop 6 in 7 seconds). :approve:
I've used Photoshop on both Macs and PCs (the most recent version for each). There are features on the Mac version that I don't think exist on the PC version (or they are hidden in some horribly non-obvious menu somewhere). I kindly allowed my PC-using colleagues to use one of our Macs when they wanted to do some Photoshop work and we couldn't figure out how to do stuff on their PC that seemed like pretty basic functions to me. :approve:

And if you call a dual-processor 2.7mHz G5 Power Mac 'surrendering', you should seriously consider getting professional care. :-p
Stop making me drool. I haven't upgraded to a G5 yet. But one of my colleagues got one and it was like watching a bunch of guys admiring a new car the way we all gathered around in awe! But stay away from that anemic Mac mini. What a waste! They really screwed up on that one.
 
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cronxeh said:
QUESTION!

is anyone here a musician?

or plays around with MIDI-based equipment?
I'm kind of a musician, if you've got a musicy music question I could probably help, but if it's a MIDI question, I'll be of no help at all.
 
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Moonbear said:
Okay. I thought I remembered that working before. Must have been prior to the upgrade. Is it no longer possible with the new version, or do we just need to ask Greg and Chroot nicely to add it back?
Hmmm, good question... It sure would be nice to have that back.
 
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so again, moonbear, and danger, what types of macs do you use?
 
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Huckleberry said:
I thought it was strange that he came by here too. I feel like someone took a quick dip in the backyard pool while I was asleep. When the motion detector lights woke me up I looked out there to see what was going on, but the culprit was gone. Then I notice this little note that says "Astronuc was here" and a little picture of Kilroy underneath it. And I was like "WHAT!"
Ninja training. :biggrin:
 
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yomamma said:
so again, moonbear, and danger, what types of macs do you use?

PowerBook G4 is what I use from home, but it travels with me everywhere and is my primary computer unless I need the larger monitor for working with images, and a G4 Power Mac at the office.
 
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My school has a lot of iMacs. :rolleyes: I, personally find them to be terrible and time wasting computers. "control" "copy image" "hide internet explorer" "show microsoft power point" "control" "paste image" :rolleyes:
 
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yomamma said:
so again, moonbear, and danger, what types of macs do you use?
Sorry, dude. I wasn't ignoring you. I answered this, but somehow it ended up in the McDonald's thread.:confused:
G3 Power Mac, at least 5 years old. 233 mHz, but I can overclock it to 300 if I want to. (I don't want to because it's in a confined area and might overheat.) 95 Mb onboard RAM with 150 Mb virtual. 1Gb hard drive. Sometimes I link it to my old Quadra because it has some programmes on it that this doesn't, such as Quark Express. It can also link to the docking station for my Duo Books, and my co-worker is giving me an old Mac of hers tomorrow, but she doesn't know what kind it is. If it's hotter than the Quadra, I'll probably hook it up to this permanently. (Most importantly, it's got a 17" monitor, because this 13" thing had been driving me nuts.)
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yomamma said:
My school has a lot of iMacs. :rolleyes: I, personally find them to be terrible and time wasting computers. "control" "copy image" "hide internet explorer" "show microsoft power point" "control" "paste image" :rolleyes:
I have no idea what you're talking about. I've certainly never run across anything like that. :confused:
 
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Danger said:
I have no idea what you're talking about. I've certainly never run across anything like that. :confused:
Haven't you ever used an iMac?
 
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yomamma said:
My school has a lot of iMacs. :rolleyes: I, personally find them to be terrible and time wasting computers. "control" "copy image" "hide internet explorer" "show microsoft power point" "control" "paste image" :rolleyes:

Huh? You seem to need to learn to use the Mac! Are they still running OS 9.x? In OS 9, the task bar isn't as convenient, but in OS X, you can have a bunch of applications all open at once and just use the task bar to bring whichever one you want to the top. If you're copying a lot of things back and forth between two applications, you don't need to minimize one to open the other, just open them slightly offset from one another and you can click back and forth, or resize the view so they are side by side. You can also just drag images onto the desktop without copying, and then insert the files from the desktop. That way you don't have to keep switching back and forth between applications at all, just do everything in one, then everything in the other. You can even get a 2- or 4-button mouse and program it to do what you are used to using those buttons for on a PC until you've learned the shortcuts.
 
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yomamma said:
Haven't you ever used an iMac?
No... only Power Macs, LCII's, Quadras, and Duo Books.

Moonbear said:
but in OS X, you can have a bunch of applications all open at once and just use the task bar to bring whichever one you want to the top
Now you've got me confused. I do that in OS9, except just clicking on a window brings it to the front with no task bar involved. If it's hidden, Finder brings it forward with one click. If I want to copy or move something from, say, my games folder to my blueprints folder, I just click on it and drag it to 'Documents'. After it's been sitting on that for a couple of seconds, 'Documents' opens and I continue dragging to 'Art Files'. A couple of seconds on that opens it, and I continue dragging it to 'Blueprints' then drop it.
 
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Wow this has a lot of pages :bugeye: , going for 149! :biggrin:
 
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yomamma said:
Wow this has a lot of pages :bugeye: , going for 149! :biggrin:
Your preferences are set differently. It's page 394 on mine.
 
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Danger said:
Now you've got me confused. I do that in OS9, except just clicking on a window brings it to the front with no task bar involved. If it's hidden, Finder brings it forward with one click. If I want to copy or move something from, say, my games folder to my blueprints folder, I just click on it and drag it to 'Documents'. After it's been sitting on that for a couple of seconds, 'Documents' opens and I continue dragging to 'Art Files'. A couple of seconds on that opens it, and I continue dragging it to 'Blueprints' then drop it.

In OSX, you don't have to click on "Finder" for a drop-down menu of open applications anymore. Instead, they show up in a task bar that you can position at the bottom or side of the screen. And unlike that task bar that OS 9 uses that gets in the way a lot, you can set the one in OSX to hide until you mouse over where it should be (yes, I use mouse as a verb, hopefully the grammar police aren't watching). You can also set it so it magnifies whichever icon you're pointing at, so if you want to keep it small, you can still see what you're hovering over to decide what to click on (good feature for aging eyes).
 
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Moonbear said:
In OSX, you don't have to click on "Finder" for a drop-down menu of open applications anymore.
I'm getting confused again. I responded to this about 10 minutes ago, and now it's not there. That's what happened to the response to yommama's question before, and I found it posted in the McDonalds thread. I wonder if this one went somewhere else too. :confused:
 
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No, this one is here. I saw the one in the McDonalds thread too and was wondering what it was doing there. Maybe you have 2 PF windows open and clicked on the wrong one somehow? I've done that before when reading long threads.

Argh, I'm being bombarded by popups tonight.