Posts made by MrMazda

It's about time… Only how many more states to go now?

@geographer:

To combat the impression that moderator geographer is a douchebag that doesn't like uploaders and doesn't appreciate their contribution to GT.ru, I've been brainstorming this night about some ways to maintain a balance between rewarding uploaders for their torrents and dumping the site with trash. And I've come up with some ideas which lead to a steady compromise, and also solve a few other problems.

Now who would say something like that? It would truly take either an act of douchebaggery or an act of f***ery to make such a comment. I'd sure like to know the user who made that implication because they're wrong wrong wrong about it.

too funny

WOW! That's kind of scary when you think about it. I wonder if that will actually fly.

It's a sad reality, but unfortunately it is true that there are a lot of people who should get tested, but don't.

Hmmm… Maybe we should start a "straight cure" program and see how well that flies in society :lolp:

@notquiteme:

i wonder why some people are hellbent on us not having the same rights as they do.  if for the visitation rights alone, i would think that most of the legislators will understand that we're more than just boyfriends, we're partners.  and i would definitely call my partner my next of kin.  why can't people understand that?

Sadly, most people (especially the uneducated or under-educated) are afraid of things that they are ignorant[nb]Ignorance is the lack of education or knowledge of a particular subject.[/nb] about. This is a big part of why homophobia is most often found in males, and is not found anywhere near as frequently in females.

This is very true… Although, if we underwent some intense surgery, we could be the next best thing... Cyborgs :lolp:

@ultmate:

Millions of people would be in heaven but at the same time, those modified engineered cells will probably cost a fortune for they would have to be (I believe) made for each individual as no human reacts the same or has the same type of virus with the same level of mutation, right?

Sadly, that is the reality. There are two different main "types" (or strains as it were) of HIV. Type 1 is more common in gay men, which originated in North America. Type 2 on the other hand is more common to heterosexuals or inter-Venus drug users, which originated in Africa. The other down side is that even in a case where the same strain is passed from one person to another, it can mutate when it reaches the new host body, largely due to the way that it replicates its DNA in order to infuse with the CD4 cells. The problem there lies that such mutations can cause a resistance to certain treatments. Logically, this would suggest that it could also mutate to develop a resistance to this "treatment" as it were.

Don't get me wrong though, that being said, it is still possible to find a cure. The cure on the other hand due to the nature of the virus can be rather complicated all unto itself.

Such a hard choice to decide between S&M and Older Men… In a perfect world, it would be S&M with Older Men :lolp:

Another point to add is that with the mass volume of torrents, and the number of torrents that contain collections, it is sometimes possible for moderators to make a mistake and overlook something. As well, the other thing to take into account is that we do also have users with auto-approval status. The problem that this presents is that sometimes users with auto-approval do not always follow the rules as closely as they should. This sometimes results in torrents reaching the list of torrents visible to all users that do not follow the rules.

Again as Uwe suggested, please report such torrents because it helps us enforce the rules. It is never a problem to report a torrent if it is in violation of one of the rules.

@tjm7077:

Spintendo, you can still do this if you use utorrent. It's in the 'peers' tab down at the bottom. Granted, you have to actually connect to the torrent to see the details, but it's not as if you have to keep downloading it if you don't like the stats — just stop the torrent and/or delete it.

Actually, this will not give you the complete list unfortunately. Using the "Peers" tab will only provide you with a list of the peers for which you are presently connected. Depending on the torrent, it may not always be possible to connect to all of the peers in the swarm for a number of possible reasons. Again as I said, although it is gone for now, this does not necessarily mean that it will be forever that way. I cannot say for sure as there is no set plan, however it is something that can be discussed among the staff as a possibility to implement in a slightly different manner.

Before the several price increases in the last few years, if you bought the equivalent of a Tim Horton's XL and paid with a $5 bill, you got a nickle back. For those that don't know, a nickle is $0.05. This was the reason for the band name "Nickleback". The funny thing is though that at a place like Tim Hortons, you can get that same size coffee for the CURRENT price in the same province in Ontario for only $1.80… See where I'm going with this? Same amount of coffee, only it's $1.80 VS $4.95. That's what I call a rip off.

I wonder if their packages are as impressive as their form

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Part of why I'm glad I've been a "Timmy's Hoe" as it were because I'm addicted to my THC (Tim Hortons Coffee). I've never found the price at Starbucks to be worth what you get for it.

@ballard1:

Hi guys,

is it possible to get the statistics back?
Now that all users of the tracker are ANONYMOUS anyway it shouldn't matter. The stats wouldn't show any identifiable data.
I find the seeders/leechers stats quite useful to monitor an upload from another computer.

Thanks,
B.

That may be something that is implemented in a slightly different way, however as we are in a transition process making security changes up the wazoo at the moment, I cannot say whether or not that will actually come to happen.

So apparently, Canada Post has decided to go from a rolling strike where Canadians were only receiving mail delivery Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, however now have gone to a full out lock out, so there's no absolutely no mail delivery at all anywhere in the country. The only problem is that some of us receive their drug coverage cards by mail every month. The problem with this is that I am one such person, and I have quite the need for that handy little thing.

I bet you didn't know that in a case such as mine, the cost of just the HIV medications that keep me alive alone is a whopping $1533.53 every month. This doesn't even take into account the cost of the medications that take care of the side effects, among other things. The bigger problem is that given that I am limited in the type of work I can do, I'm currently reduced to the disability cheque every month, which only accounts for $1053.00 every month. This means that just for the medications that keep me alive, this leaves me very short for the medications that I need to live.

What's worse is that our lovely government doesn't seem to give a rat's ass about the fact that there are now many people placed into such a situation. Since when is an "essential service" as it has been deemed allowed to pull such a thing on their people? For that matter, since when is it acceptable for a government to simply dismiss their people, leaving them in a situation where the cost of a month of their life (quite literally) is more than they are able to bring in, in a month, without anyone caring about it or doing anything to make such vital things that are needed available to them?

Quite frankly, it only goes to show that our government officials are concerned with noting more than collecting their pay cheques, and not about the welfare of their people. What's worse is that when I inquired on how to go about getting this card, and the only way in which for me to get a replacement is to go into the disability office and pick it up. The problem that I have with that is that under the terms of the house arrest, I can do no such thing. When I presented this problem, the answer that I got was "that's not our problem".

Since when is a live or die situation for which people like myself are facing "not their problem" when they have ways in which to get around this problem. I suggested both a courier service, or sending a letter of authorization allowing my pharmacist to be able to pick up my drug card for me, and in both cases, they flat out refused, saying that they had to deal with only me. Can anyone provide me with an explanation as to the message this sends, other than our lovely government workers only care about their pay cheques, and nothing more?

I always had good luck with a Cavalier. I had a 1996 Cavalier for a couple of years, and it was the most die-hard car I had ever owned up until I totalled it. It had some 185,000kms on it when I first got my hands on it, but two years later, I had racked it to just over 410,000kms and it still ran like a dream. I actually recall having laughed at my room mate the one day because his brand new Pontiac G6 wouldn't start when in the insulated garage with the fuel line anti-freeze, but no block heater plugged in. I went out to my trusty old rust bucket of a Cavalier in the -42 C weather, and tried to start it. The funny thing was that it sounded like a dying animal at first, but it started on the first try. They really are the iron horse.

I realize that this may be an inconvenience, however in light of certain recent events, we have made this change in effort to better protect the privacy of our users. At GT.ru, we strive to take every reasonable step possible to protect the identity and privacy of our users. This way, other than obtaining an IP address from their BitTorrent client, it makes it virtually impossible to obtain access to information that can provide a more definitive link to you as the end user.