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Implemented Enable Gravatar

If you're one of those that uses the same avatar across every forum you visit, like me when I'm "Amaury," then Gravatar is for you.

Basically, you create an account on Gravatar and upload things you want for avatars. On sites that have Gravatar enabled, if you choose that option, it will get your avatar information from Gravatar, using your e-mail address.

Thoughts?

Thread by: Amaury, Feb 7, 2014, 7 replies, in forum: Feedback & Assistance
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Amaury Is Happy

And there's supposed to be more through tomorrow.

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Thread by: Amaury, Feb 7, 2014, 4 replies, in forum: The Spam Zone
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Ordering YouTube Playlists

How do you order your YouTube playlists?

I currently just do the default "Newest created" (I've actually never changed it), but I was wondering if you guys think other orders are better.

Thread by: Amaury, Feb 6, 2014, 1 replies, in forum: The Spam Zone
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Help Completely Bizarre

I created this today at 12:00 AM (PST), but it's saying yesterday. However, if I hover over it, which you can do with any date / time stamp, to get the exact information, the date (February 6) is correct, so I'm not sure what happened.

Thread by: Amaury, Feb 6, 2014, 2 replies, in forum: Feedback & Assistance
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Happy Birthday, Mish!

@Mish

Have a wonderful birthday!

Thread by: Amaury, Feb 6, 2014, 5 replies, in forum: The Spam Zone
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Does Anyone Know How to Sharpen Images?

Can someone get this? It's 335 x 360, so it should be big enough for something this simple.

Kinda need it as soon as possible. Thanks. :)

Thread by: Amaury, Feb 6, 2014, 2 replies, in forum: The Spam Zone
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Congratulations, Ienzo and Llave!

@Twelve, @Llave

Llave, that was fast!

Thread by: Amaury, Feb 5, 2014, 27 replies, in forum: The Spam Zone
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South Dakota Storm
Apparently there was a pretty bad storm in South Dakota that barely got media attention because all focus was on the government shutdown at the time.

I just found about it via our local news site. Local people are helping those affected.

Thousands of Cattle Dead after Freak Winter Storm in South Dakota
- Source: Huffington Post
- Published: October 14, 2013
The storm was just so sudden, South Dakota cattle rancher Kathy Jobgen remembers.

A freezing rain, followed by an avalanche of four feet of snow and winds of 70 miles an hour, hit thousands of cattle still grazing on "summer pastures" at a time when the animals had not yet grown their protective winter coats and were ill prepared for the harsh conditions.

Swirling snow lodged in some of the animals' lungs, suffocating them. Hypothermia killed more. And others were caught in gullies, or plunged off slickened rock ledges, livestock experts said.

"I've been in this business 50 years and I've never seen anything like this," said Jobgen, who estimated her family lost nearly half of its herd of 350 when the storm swept through Oct. 3-5. "The vision of seeing all these cattle dead is something you can't wipe out of our eyes."

South Dakota had the sixth-largest cattle herd in the United States with some 3.85 million head in January 2013, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. Most of those are in the western part of the state, where the storm struck, leaving carcasses strewn on the Plains and hitting ranchers with tens of millions of dollars in losses.

Dustin Oedekoven, South Dakota state veterinarian, said reports to his office so far total about 3,300 head of cattle dead. But he estimates the number will eventually reach 20,000.

"It really is going to take a hit on the industry here," Oedekoven said.

South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard on Friday issued an executive order allowing truckers carrying cattle carcasses in the state to exceed normal weight limits to help expedite removal of the dead animals.

"The weekend blizzard already has caused untold devastation," the governor said in a statement. "The number of livestock actually lost in the storm isn't certain, but it will range in the thousands of head."

Ranchers are both trying to bury animals and haul them to roadways where renderers will remove the bodies. But while the snow melt has allowed for roadways to be cleared, the pastures in many areas are flooded or too muddy to access, making it hard to collect carcasses and to care for surviving animals.

Silvia Christen, executive director of the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association, said most cattle ranchers do not carry private insurance policies because they are cost prohibitive and have exclusions that would have ruled out coverage in this situation anyway.

She said the ranchers' only financial assistance would be found in a disaster program that is part of a proposed U.S. farm bill. But the U.S. government shutdown and delays in passing a new farm bill have left ranchers with no assistance.

Ranchers are not able to even consult with their U.S. Farm Service Agency representatives on how to document their cattle losses, since the FSA workers are on furlough because of the shutdown, she said.

Christen said each calf lost has a market value of roughly $800-$900 and each cow is valued at about $1,800, so the total losses could easily be in the tens of millions of dollars.

"This is a major financial loss for these ranchers," she said. As well, she said, the emotional loss has been wrenching.

"The ranchers care deeply for these animals. To find so many of them have perished in this storm is really emotionally devastating," she said.

The South Dakota disaster could compound an already tight U.S. cattle supply situation in the spring, which could keep beef prices at or near record levels, Chicago Mercantile Exchange livestock traders said on Monday.

The spring is when a lot of the calves that were lost would have come to market. That is likely to help put a floor beneath prices for April 2014 delivery of feeder cattle. The April contract settled on Monday at 135.650 cents per pound, up 0.375 cent.

U.S. Senator Tim Johnson, a South Dakota Democrat, has been urging Congress to reopen the government so livestock disaster aid programs can move forward. Johnson's spokesman, Perry Plumart, said Monday that the senator's office has been in touch with ranchers from around the state and heard losses as high as 80,000 animals.

Gary Cammack, a rancher from Union Center, South Dakota, who runs about 500 cows on 10,000 acres, said the suddenness and severity of the storm caught everyone off guard. So far, Cammack and his family have counted about 120 animals dead.

"Within 24 hours after the storm broke, we knew it was going to be bad. When we went out looking for them, there were cattle stacked up in every fence corner. They just gave up and died there," said Cammack.
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Thread by: Amaury, Feb 5, 2014, 0 replies, in forum: Discussion
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My Prayers Have Been Answered

Thread by: Amaury, Feb 4, 2014, 22 replies, in forum: The Spam Zone
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AT&T's New Patent
Why AT&T's New Patent Is Terrible for the Internet
- Source: Huffington Post
- Published: February 4, 2014
Huffington Post said:

A newly published patent from AT&T would allow the company to bill customers not just based on how much they use the Web, but also what they use the Web for.

Patent US 20140010082 A1 describes a setup in which AT&T would be able, for example, to charge more to Netflix patrons and other high-bandwidth customers than to subscribers who mostly go online to check their email (h/t TorrentFreak).

The patent would also allow the company to sell its customers certain kinds of service plans, then monitor their Web activity and punish users who appear to be in violation:

When a user communicates over a channel, the type of communication is checked to determine if it is of a type that will use an excessive amount of bandwidth. For example, a subscriber using more bandwidth than allowed by the subscription service plan, or a user not subscribing to the appropriate service plan, would be considered excessive use of the bandwidth. If it is determined that the type is a non-permissible type (e.g., use excessive bandwidth), the user's access to the channel is restricted.
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Such a system would fly in the face of net neutrality principles, which call upon Internet service providers to treat all types of websites the same -- whether they're big or small, complex or simple, corporate or independent.

AT&T's patent has surfaced at a heated moment in the debate over how and by whom Internet use should be regulated. Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the Federal Communications Commission could no longer enforce net neutrality, a set of principles that, among other things, prevents Internet service providers from blocking or discriminating against whatever websites they want. With net neutrality dead, ISPs are in theory free to block even law-abiding websites like Netflix -- which they might have incentive to do, since many ISPs are also cable TV providers.

Unsurprisingly, not everyone is thrilled with the appeals court's decision. Just last week, activists dropped off more than 1 million signed petitions to the FCC demanding the return of net neutrality. The protesters also delivered a letter signed on behalf of 86 nonprofits demanding net neutrality's resurrection.

When FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler saw the petitions, he reportedly responded, "That's boffo."

Anshel Sag at the tech blog Bright Side of News points out that while AT&T's patent was only published in January, it was first filed way back in 2006, and two earlier versions of the patent have already been approved. Sag writes that the patent dates from the era when AT&T was looking to sell "unlimited" data plans for cellphones, and that these plans would have excluded bandwidth-gulping user actions like file-sharing and streaming movies.

But in 2010, AT&T stopped selling unlimited data plans for mobile phones, and the issue became moot. The fight over net neutrality, though, may end up giving the patent new life.

What's in store for the Web if net neutrality doesn't come back? To many commentators and activists, the future looks grim. Already, concerns have been raised that ISPs may begin blocking or restricting subscriber access to bandwidth-intensive services like Netflix. AT&T's patent, if implemented, would be one way to make such feared restrictions a reality.

AT&T did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
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Thread by: Amaury, Feb 4, 2014, 0 replies, in forum: Current Events
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Just Not Fair II

@Misty, @Okabe Rintarou, @Plums, @Kites, @Llave, @Mike, you guys have all the fun. You should give me some of that.

http://weather.yahoo.com/photos/another-winter-storm-bears-down-on-eastern-u-s-slideshow/

Thread by: Amaury, Feb 4, 2014, 9 replies, in forum: The Spam Zone
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More Snow

Yup, I'm happy. Happy, happy, happy!

Thread by: Amaury, Feb 3, 2014, 10 replies, in forum: The Spam Zone
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Kingdom Hearts II Donald and Goofy's Action Abilities
Something I've been curious about. Why do all of this magic abilities have "Donald" before them?
- Donald Fire
- Donald Thunder
- Donald Blizzard
- Donald Cure
Instead, why didn't they just have Fire, Thunder, Blizzard and cure?

Edit: Oops. This is the same case for Goofy. His abilities are Goofy Bash, Goofy Turbo and Goofy Tornado, but why not just Bash, Turbo and Tornado?

Will edit the title.
Thread by: Amaury, Feb 3, 2014, 0 replies, in forum: Kingdom Hearts HD II.5 ReMIX
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Request Sharp Avatar

Would it be possible for someone to make this crystal clear and sharp?

I can take care of the re-sizing, but if anyone wants to get that, too, alongside the sharpening, by all means, feel free. :)

Thread by: Amaury, Feb 2, 2014, 5 replies, in forum: Art Shop
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Happy Birthday, Sean!

@Sean0202

Happy birthday!

Thread by: Amaury, Feb 2, 2014, 1 replies, in forum: The Spam Zone
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Just Not Fair

I can get past Sephiroth, but not rounds 31 through 40 of The Hades Paradox Cup?

Thread by: Amaury, Feb 1, 2014, 87 replies, in forum: The Spam Zone
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KH-Vids

You're kind of dead today.

Thread by: Amaury, Jan 31, 2014, 22 replies, in forum: The Spam Zone
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Chronological Order

What is the chronological order of the Kingdom Hearts games thus far?

Usually, I just order by release date, but I'm curious.

Thread by: Amaury, Jan 31, 2014, 8 replies, in forum: General & Upcoming Kingdom Hearts
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Help Kingdom Hearts Console Games and Kingdom Hearts Handheld Games

I'm able to post new threads here and here, and I shouldn't be able to because they're just for listing the individual games.

Thread by: Amaury, Jan 31, 2014, 4 replies, in forum: Feedback & Assistance
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Kingdom Hearts II The Hades Paradox Cup Rounds 31-40

I'm having trouble getting past this section, but I don't think it's my level. You can see my stats here.

Any tips?

Thread by: Amaury, Jan 31, 2014, 4 replies, in forum: Kingdom Hearts Help

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