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The most off-topic WCDT discussion ever
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 10 May 2013, 12:51 ---pwhodges added a soundcloud tag not long ago. Does it work on Apple devices yet?
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No; it uses Flash. Soundcloud has an HTML5 interface available, but converting the mod to use it is a lot more work than the things I did to the YouTube mod. However, the fact that I know this means I have looked at it seriously... ;)
So, sometime - but don't hold your breath (I have to plan and rehearse a recital and talk over the next few weeks, as well as helping to set up another forum, and - oh - work 'n all).
ankhtahr:
Picking up this "talking" topic from above, would there be interest in a Mumble Server? I've always wanted to try and host a Mumble server, but I never found any reason for it if it was only for me, talking to myself.
For everybody who doesn't know what Mumble is: Mumble is a VoIP system similar to TeamSpeak, completely Open Source, using open codecs. I don't know for how many users my bandwidth will suffice (ADSL), but it might be worth a try.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 10 May 2013, 18:10 ---"Colonialist" is clearly right, but if the creator of Henry Gladstone Kiku and Dr. Royce Worthington was "racist", he deserves much credit for overcoming it.
EDIT: with a little more thought, it's inevitable that someone born in Missouri in 1907 would start out racist. He's a shining example of growing past it.
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I just remembered Sixth Column. It's inexcusable and proves me wrong.
Kugai:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 11 May 2013, 14:39 ---Not my bulla!
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I wonder if we're fulla bulla?
:-D
Akima:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 11 May 2013, 06:01 ---In 1941... there was no China as a nation.
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There certainly was a de jure nation of China in 1941. The USA recognised what you call the "Kuomintang regime" as the legitimate government of the Republic Of China at the time, had diplomatic relations with it, and continued to recognise it until 1979, when it controlled no territory beyond Taiwan. It is perfectly true that the Republic had lost de facto control of much of the territory it nominally ruled in 1941, but it had no more ceased to exist as a nation than the USA did during the American Civil War.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 11 May 2013, 11:58 ---How fair is it to criticize someone for not transcending his entire time and culture?
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I don't know. I had never even heard of We Also Walk Dogs until Zoe linked it, and its unreconstructed attitudes took me by surprise. The story's attitude to the artefacts of non-European cultures is still widespread today. Should we give our museum curators a free pass because they are merely reflecting the attitudes of their time and culture?
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