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A kid walks into a candy store and steals a candy bar. Later that day, he walks into the same store eating the candy bar. When the store clerk asks where he got the candy, he says he stole it earlier. What should the store clerk do?Quote:
Originally Posted by Merri
Say "Ah that's alright, those ones taste bad anyway."
Obviously, you are not entitled to consume the candy bar until the financial transaction has taken place. As soon as it enters the human digestive system the chemical composition of said confection changes, thus causing physical damage to the store-owners property. The youth should be charged with willful damage and tresspass and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And then shot.
hmmmm..... I don't think Merri is going to like your response to my analogy..... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by wossname
wossname is always getting a little carried away.
I think that prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law is a bit over the top.
I'm not here to be liked, I'm here to be re-elected.
4 more years! 4 more years! Kill shoplifters, free money, free taxis, raise the price of dialysis. (something has to pay for all the good stuff)
I wouldn't compare bloated flash ads to candy.
The analogy is really on the the 'admissions of guilt' ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by grilkip
I know ;)
Fishing, are we?Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
A kid walks into a bicycle shop and is harrassed by the owner of said shop. And the name of that kid was...you guessed it, Gary Coleman.
Kind of puts things in perspective...
Not my Gary Coleman?!! :eek2:
No, no. My gary Coleman. Your's is still pure as the white driven snow...Quote:
Originally Posted by grilkip
:rolleyes:
Were you asking us permission to ban Merri? Would you also like us to suggest an appropriate time for his punishment? i know, lets take a vote ... :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
You know, he only blocked the ads because you guys put them up. So really its you are guilty of entrapment. Crucifixions all around...Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
Auurgggh Merri must walk the plank!
Feed 'em to the sharrrks!!
Its just a matter of not performing a few HTTP GET requests, and all the adverts vanish as if they had never been there at all. You can't punish people for getting value for money.
Actually, I was hoping his posting would simply disappear, then the whole issue would go away..... Plausble deniability. If I were to delete it, then I'd have to put a ban in place at the same time - which I'd prefer not to do. :eek2:Quote:
Originally Posted by visualAd
Slapping him around publicly also raises the point to others that there are some topics best to be avoided in a public forum. Besides, since he made the post, he deserves bit of grief at a minimum ;)
Don't you think he has enough grief because of his ridiculously gay username? He's named after a camp hobbit for Kevin's sake.
:D
Brad needs a Pirate Av!
or this one:
I think I missed the memo on the pirates theme :D. Does anyone have animation software? If so, modifying my current one to show with the two pirate ones would be really cool. Do my normal one for a second, then one of the above for a moment, then back to my normal, then the other one for a moment. That would be different.... :D
could we have a good old fashioned public stoning? they used to be all the rage
Nobody cares enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
Rocks cost money. Money provided by Solaris adverts.Quote:
Originally Posted by bushmobile
I'm almost positive that this is how REO Speedwagon got started.
can't we just throw Solaris install disks then?Quote:
Originally Posted by wossname
Arrrrr... ye landlubbers demand to much! Shiver me timbers. Blistering blue barnacles.Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
As for the admission of guilt, tell him to remove the perpetrating software and not to use it again or 'mention its existence.'
Adblockers are NOT available at the single click of a google search button. VBF does NOT condone the use of such software.
At least one of the above statements evaluates true.
How about this one?Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
:)
Hmmm...
seems to have been mendhacked...
Let me try again...
This one takes typos to a whole new level.Quote:
Originally Posted by NotLKH
I have NoScript extension installed for an extra browsing security and for development and testing purposes, to ensure a site works even without JavaScript. By default the extension disables all scripts, unless I allow a script from certain domain to run. I have allowed VBForums JavaScript to run. But I haven't allowed VBWire (never visit there) and the (multitude of?) advertisement providers; on this page that loaded it would be eyewonder.
NoScript is not specifically an adblocker: I do see advertisements and I can't choose to disable a certain ad. I just don't see the ones that require JavaScript to display in the first place. Because I never visit the advertiser sites and need to have JavaScript running there, I have no reason to enable their domain on NoScript.
If an advertiser decides to make an advertisement dependant of JavaScript, it is their own fault. It is not a fault of an user to have JavaScript disabled. Props to Hewlett-Packard: atleast their ad works even without JavaScript.
VBF could require advertisers to ensure their ad works without JS. Or you could change things so that the script files are on VBF server, in which case you'd skip the "feature" of NoScript for individual domain disabling; although that would be just a workaround.
The only grief I get of this is the increased delay until I can play Civilization IV :) I don't see how I could have done something wrong, for the above reasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
I have to agree with Merri here, he's not using and adblocker at all, he's just running with the equivalent of having Javascript disabled.
No malicious intent with that.
Good point - but the moral of the story is don't post that you aren't seeing ads or I might have to give you some grief ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by thegreatone
The ads should degrade down to a picture if required features aren't supported. As such - I agree, javascript shouldn't be required for an ad :thumb:
Brad!
Wear your pirate avatar if you wish to be taken seriously. Everyone knows that people with eyepatches and parrots on their shoulders have important things to say.Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
people have morals these days, what is this witch craft you speak of?
woa i will join the pirates club, the only time i put up a avatar on this forum was in when ad's were first introduced on this furm, it was a BLACK avatar, anyone remember those days?
If I didn't post, you wouldn't know they're not displaying. Also, this is the only forum I know that cares about talking about the ads; which is why I don't pay attention on the subject.Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
How interesting, I think I've seen much more ads lately on the site... I wonder why...
Maybe there is a setting for "Merri's ad-level from 0%-100%, set at: 200%".
The advertisers must be fixing their ads, since I don't believe we've added any new spots in a while. ;) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Merri
Brad!
the ads made my buy coconut computers :afrog:
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Originally Posted by kovan
wasnt it vbworld.com back then?
John was the owner/admin or something... the guy who developed vBulletin and made us all test it?? ;)
Can I get a job at your marketing department?Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
When we get avatar ads, signature ads, mouse-hovers-on-page-so-display-an-ad-at-the-middle ads, popupmenu click ad, menudropdown ad, click any button ads, hold special keyboard key down ads and last but not least: escape button ads, for those who stop animation (and thus GIF ads) by pushing it.
I have ideas.
Better still...get rid of all but one forum and fill up all the real estate you gained with new ads. The one forum left will be able discussion of which ads you like best and why. And the above ideas will apply to the posts in that forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merri
I forgot one. One important. An ad that floats more or less transparently with the scrolling of a page, and sometimes flashes to fully opaque and then fades away again.
That'd be effective.
You should ban all the blind users. They can't see the ad's :)
Yep John was the owner, we all helped him become a millionareQuote:
Originally Posted by Static
now vB is all over the place, if i want a license i have to pay for it.. shame shame..
yes it was vbworld just as i was coming i think then it became vb forums.
I've never heard of a blind programmer. Care to link into an article about one if one really exists?Quote:
Originally Posted by visualAd
Just because you cannot see them, doesn't mean they do not exist. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Merri
One does indeed exist and here is an article about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merri
Can we still have 'gay day'? http://www.vbforums.com/
Ne, onee-chan... visuaruado-san wa baka desu... so so. Ichi arutikuro wa taihen desu. Eto... Watashi no nihongo wa überu-l33to desu. menduhakku-san wa haippooru genki to ureshii desu.
I've been watching too much anime the last few days. It is starting to melt my brains. I already have severe problems to distinct L and R from eachother.