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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: datamanc3r on November 23, 2008, 08:47:10 am
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Resolved: That on-balance social networking websites have a positive impact on the United States
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Okay, so I guess I'm not debating health care. Frickin' school where the next tourny was supposed to be called me up and said that they were CHANGING THE RESOLUTION. Yeah, so after I spent at LEAST 15 hours researching Canadian, US, and French health care, they arbitrarily decide to shove their SNOBBY, ELITIST FOOT UP MY ASS and change the topic to "BLULZ internet?" My partner and I are so pissed.
Rant aside, this resolution's a fricking cakewalk compared to health care. Obviously, social networking sites like Myspace, Facebook, and lo! GW, allow we the people to fully exercise our right to free speech, organize politically, etc etc. At the same time however, these networks have allowed child molesters to cyberstalk kids, enabled terrorists to communicate, and generally promote an unhealthy sedentary life style.
So what do you think? Do you think that GW contributes to the downfall of mankind? Is your fatass post count really worth the loss of life and/or sex? Have you seen your "TOTAL TIME LOGGED IN" lately? Do you believe that the current security measures against predators today are fine, or do they need work?
Allez posting!
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Have you seen your "TOTAL TIME LOGGED IN" lately?
This post doesn't address the rest of the topic, but--this doesn't really mean anything man, besides I haven't clicked "logout" in 81 days. Considering I have it set to keep me logged in forever, it just keeps racking that up.
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This post doesn't address the rest of the topic, but--this doesn't really mean anything man, besides I haven't clicked "logout" in 81 days. Considering I have it set to keep me logged in forever, it just keeps racking that up.
It stops logging after 15 mins of inactivity, even if you're logged in.
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My browser's on auto-refresh every 5 mins so I'm pretty much logged in 24/7
I browse GW and Facebook on my phone when I'm out and about as well but aside from that I don't spend that much time sitting here posting.
Depends how fast you type I guess...
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exercise our right to free speech
Mob rule will prevent you from doing so!
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It stops logging after 15 mins of inactivity, even if you're logged in.
its funny how thats in there so dorks like me with huge login times cant use it as an excuse.
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120 days :(
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Considering GW is my homepage, that would mean that every time I open a browser I'm on GW :fogetunsure:
But yeah I do spend a lot of time here I'm just not here for 81 days straight. I sleep sometimes, you know.
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I have 42 days. Which is scary because thats 11% of a year pretty much.
Sigh.
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Jesus christ are you guys serious. Holy crap. I have like 8 days and I feel pretty bad about that -- but wow! This is...sad.
Mob rule will prevent you from doing so!
Hah.
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I have 12 days and it's constantly going up. I am on this forum for a good 6 -8 hours a day. It's ridiculous sometimes.
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Jesus christ are you guys serious. Holy crap. I have like 8 days and I feel pretty bad about that -- but wow! This is...sad.
Hah.
some of these people have been on gw for several years, I'm not sure you've been actively posting over a year!
also you should have never asked that question, GW loves this fucking question and now the topic will become POST YOUR LOG IN TIMES.
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i have been on gw for almost half a year :(
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damn dude thats about as bad as my real number probably is.
and I had CANCER so I seriously do nothing but sit around all day for the most part jeez louise.
I think DS has the record though.
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It stops logging after 15 mins of inactivity, even if you're logged in.
but wouldn't that mean that if you just log in and then leave GW immediately that it counts as 15 minutes? Many times I click on the bookmark in my bookmarks menu, take a quick look around for a couple of minutes, then go on and do something else.
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i have not left gw since the trogg of 83
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but wouldn't that mean that if you just log in and then leave GW immediately that it counts as 15 minutes? Many times I click on the bookmark in my bookmarks menu, take a quick look around for a couple of minutes, then go on and do something else.
no it has to be fifteen minutes of inactivity and then it STOPS logging time, not that all inactivity counts as 15 minutes. you cant just pop in twice and add half an hour.
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142 days... but I had a gap year so suck my dick.
But yeah While it's cool at times it's a real timehog and it's like I don't mean to spend time here, I just wanna check one topic... Whoa Shit Hundley's posted, I've gotta check that out, hmm Some idiot's started an arguement with Steel *spends three hours reading what ends up being a pointless topic being stretched out to quite funny but ends with some gay comment about "Hah I hope cancer kills you"* and then by that time the G7D crowd have started up another "youhateus" racket and Mog's stirring up more shit, so there's another five hours wasted. I know GW's had a detrimental effect on what I've een doing during my gapyear, but I did enough so it's groovy.
It sucks and I'm kinda gunna cut down from GW a lot for prettymuch that reason (I can't waste time laughing at rpgmaker when I have cocks to draw)
*writes ten page essay about why Fallout 3 is vastly... vastly inferior to the other two, detailing every single connection as if it was part of a series or something*
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I feel better about my 14 days now, but I still think that most of that is from me leaving the gaming world window up while I look at something else, I bet it's really only about 5 days.
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I have: 1 days, 13 hours and 49 minutes. Which will have gone up... In about my 37/38 (or whatever it is) days since I've been registered... I have used up a WHOLE day. Jeeze...
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I have a great quote. Myspace is where the internet goes to die.
Also: 57 days, 19 hours and 0 minutes.
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some of these people have been on gw for several years, I'm not sure you've been actively posting over a year!
also you should have never asked that question, GW loves this fucking question and now the topic will become POST YOUR LOG IN TIMES.
Yeah, I mostly lurked for the first 4 years, so I can't say that I've 'successfully abstained' from GW, but even so this is pretty bad. I could be doing something productive. I guess I'll probably feel better about wasting time here once I finish high school so I can actually finish my projects. I can't believe that GD is still foreign to me. Ugh.
At any rate, this is actually helpful because it's given me a new angle for the neg. I could argue the whole child-molester point, but I think facebook's system pretty much beats that into the ground. No reason why other networks shouldn't be as strict. At any rate, I think I'll point out the general amount of time people spend on forums and
wait. I could bring up 4chan or something.
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hahaha what a great derail
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I think GW does wonders for helping me find underage children to molest. *Eyes S4D hungrily*
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my dick is 34 days long
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Mine is 67 days strong
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I love my evidence packet.
"Affirmative Turn: Talking to Strangers is Bad"
They give me evidence on why talking to strangers is bad. Christ I'ma love arguing this topic. By the way, if I ever post a topic up here that you're currently researching or whatever, go ahead and PM me and I'll send you my evidence packet for it. Lately though, my evidence packets've been sucking.
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77 days, 9 hours and 22 minutes
Surprising.
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420 days 69 mins
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57 days, 13 hours and 44 minutes.
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:blarg: 14 days, 19 hours... :blarg:
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420 days 69 mins
Wait WHAT
Are you serious?
No, you have to be joking. For the love of GOD you have to be joking.
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*blunt*
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The top 10:
ase 172d 9h 52m
leafo 157d 18h 52m
DragonSlayer 157d 4h 57m
HL 151d 5h 17m
Danny 'Danny' Anime 146d 14h 19m
Psyburn 142d 11h 49m
The Octave Doctor 142d 8h 25m
Strangeluv 132d 10h 29m
RPG 128d 21h 35m
KBJGXLM 126d 11h 33m
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Ok, just a question that is entirely unrelated to the topic, but to debate itself. I too, am a debater, but in Canada, rather than the US. What style do you guys use down there? I would assume it's completely different from what we use, thought I may be wrong.
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how i have 18 days logged in doesn't even make sense to me. 18 days? that's fucking scary shit.
and that's just for THIS forum incarnation, isn't it? throw in back when i actually went to gw a lot and it'd be probably disgustingly high.
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Ok, just a question that is entirely unrelated to the topic, but to debate itself. I too, am a debater, but in Canada, rather than the US. What style do you guys use down there? I would assume it's completely different from what we use, thought I may be wrong.
That's awesome! It's great to know that we've got debaters. Then at least I know SOMEONE will be arguing constructively here.
We have a wide range of debate styles down here:
Lincoln-Douglas: I'm sure you don't call it LD, but it's your basic 1 on 1 debate. I prefer this style. The timing (I think) is 6-3-7-3-4-6-3 (aff, negcx, neg, affcx, closing aff, closing neg, closing aff).
Public Forum: 2 on 2. I don't really remember the timing, but it's a lot less depthy because the constructive speeches last only about 4 minutes.
Policy Debate: 2 on 2. Really long-winded, and the resolutions are chosen for the entire year. I haven't debated in this one yet, because the style's basically degenerated into WHOEVER CAN SAY THE MOST ARGUMENTS WINS.
Congress: It's really an IE, but I like to call it a debate because it has debate elements. Basically we all act like senators and we debate about certain bills. Constructive speeches are only 3 minutes. Fun thing is, before the round starts we can motion for stupid stuff. A friend of mine once motioned for everyone to be known as "Lords and Ladies" instead of senators. Fun!
The resolutions for LD, PF, and Policy are found on the national forensic league website @ nflonline.org. Congress resolutions are found there too (I think). They're issued in bulk, and the Presiding Officers overseeing each debate pick which ones to debate about.
And that's just about it as far as the debates go. So -- you guys have a single style, or...?
EDIT:
By the way, if I ever do congress, I'ma motion to be known as "Senator McCain"
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We really only have one major style that gets used at every tournament. It's called Canadian Parliamentary. 2 vs 2. Speech times are 8-8-8-8-4-4. Proposition Constructive - Opposition Constructive - Prop - Opp - Opposition Rebuttal - Proposition Rebuttal. Points of information are allowed, which gives it some diversity.
We also have British Parliamentary but that's only used about twice the whole year and I have no idea how to do it yet (this is my first year in debate). I do know that it's 2 and 2 vs 2 and 2. It's kind of complicated to explain. This (http://www.britishdebate.com/universities/resources/guide_deane.pdf) is a good guide, though it doesn't really explain the timing. Also it's entirely impromptu apparently.
Actually we also use Worlds Style, which is three on three. I haven't done this yet either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Schools_Style_debate
So, apparently we do use entirely different styles, then. I don't know how in the world you would be able to do a public forum debate, 4 minutes is absolutely no time to do anything.
Oh, also, all our resolutions are phrased as "This House Believes That <insert resolution here>."
Also, one of the kids who was on the Canadian national team last year went to my school. So it's really good to be able to get advice from him. On that note, do you have any idea how the US does in international competition? Or if they even do international competition?