Bulletin Board Posts by HullBreach

I just merged your newest request into the code and deployed it. There are still a couple older merge requests that have conflicts to resolve.

What's the issue you're seeing?

The issues seemed to be that the cache data meant to speed up the bulletin boards were not getting updated properly. I did some script clean-ups and fixed a few code bugs, and everything seems to be working at the moment. I'll check more into it this week, after giving it a few days.

Yay!

Due to the storage requirements of tens of thousands of paintings and all the content in the DB, I can't use a free host or even a cheap one like FastDomain or BlueHost. Plus, @SavantInamorata 's website and several other websites are on the same virtual server, sharing space that would never fit onto a cheap host. The actual server costs come to well over $200/month, but the other family members' websites are self-sufficient with their costs.

The hosting costs come to around $135/month for all of the HullBreach Studios websites, including Web server, database, email, domain names. Of those costs, royalties from Wii U game sales still cover about half that cost. Patron covers about a third of the remaining expenses, and a few generous donations have fully covered a few months of hosting costs.

In the longer term, the monthly drain of funds does hold back further investments into hardware and software to expand revenue, so I have been trying to keep active with other projects to cover the costs -- which is why updates have been sparse in the Community for a while. I would prefer to not have ads in the Community, aside from links to Patreon and HullBreach Studios apps and games that all show on the homepage. The reason for this is that ads tend to be intrusive and memory-intensive for mobile devices, plus they rely on datemining and tracking every detail about users across different websites to maximize revenue. (Google Analytics does run in the community to determine traffic numbers and the most common devices, but that is the limit of datamining used by this Community.)

(moving to appropriate forum)

I see you created a thread on making threads. :-)

The distinguished Nearan-Nadorian spake:

I sometimes wonder about GiGi....

I tried to get her to log in under the GiGiBot account to troll people in the chatroom, but she wasn’t interested. She was only a few months old when I created GiGiBot, so it made baby sounds to mimic her. She turns 10 in a few months. @:O

JSA! JSA! JSA!
USA! USA! USA!

The distinguished RyuHoshi781 spake:

The distinguished HullBreach spake:[quote]JSA005 and I have something in the works. <img src="/chatrooms/smilies/alien3.gif" alt="">

Yo hull, I sent ya an email and got no responce. Reason?[/quote]

Email?

JSA005 and I have something in the works. ;-)

Oh, the Donald! He has been making things interesting.

Teens are stupid. I know because I was one once.

The distinguished Raisons du Coeur spake:

So, hey, what's up with Ted Cruz? How is he eiligible?

The "natural-born citizen" clause in the U.S. Constitution has never been specifically defined, so qualifications are open for debate.

Obama's mother was 17 when he was born in Hawai'i, and his father was a British citizen from Kenya. At birth, Obama was given dual citizenship, which allowed him to travel to Pakistan - something forbidden by Americans at the time. In 2008, it was determined that Obama was eligible to run for president.

McCain's family was stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, and he was determined eligible because he was born on a U.S. military base.

I'm sure plenty of people will try to tie up the court system over Ted Cruz (as they did with the other 2), if he pulls ahead in the primaries. He was born in Canada to a mother of U.S. citizenship and a father of Cuban citizenship. At birth he was given dual citizenship for the U.S. and Canada.

I have a big problem with today's court ruling. Before you jump at me and scream obscenities, let me explain why:

The United States was founded as a Constitutional Federal Republic. What this means is there exists a governing document that establishes a small central government and leaves all non-enumerated powers to the states to decide.

By taking it upon themselves to interpret non-enumerated powers through the lens of the 14th Amendment (which was meant for equality of the newly-freed slaves), they are trampling the 10th Amendment (states' rights) and causing a slippery slope with the 1st Amendment (specifically freedoms of religion and speech).

I believe that the "correct" decision would have been to invoke the 10th Amendment to determine that the States shall decide the law on their own. The end result of this would be that any states who passed laws through direct elections or through their legislatures would stand, and any states that had determinations through the court system would be overturned.

I believe that many states would take such an opportunity to determine that it is time to remove government from the "business" of marriage (such as Oklahoma) and leave it in the hands of clergy. Government's "business", due to the premise of separation of Church and State, should be to handle civil unions and civil contracts only. Therefore, if people differ on beliefs of marriage, then there is no conflict. At the religious level, marriage continues as it has, and at the civil level, consenting adults can form a civil contract recognized by government for purposes of inheritance, taxation, etc.. Government's only "business" in marriage is control of the populace for tax purposes, and they will be able to keep their grubby hands on the populace in this manner, as well.

We have seen a great deal of vitriol spread by politicians and media over the past few years concerning the definition of marriage (and just about every other topic, no matter the importance). They do this to divide-and-conquer. It is important to keep this in mind because "A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand". Be tolerant and respectful of those around you - even if you disagree with their beliefs - because we will all suffer if we remain divided.

The distinguished Equinox71 spake:

Animals have rights too! The right to be tasty.

If God wanted us to be vegetarians, why did He make animals out of meat?

The problem with Hillary Clinton is her credibility, not her gender. She has been hit with so many scandals from Benghazi to the secret email server for official government business. She also has plenty of lingering issues from the 1990s that follow her. If you are interested in a female candidate, don't forget that Carly Fiorina is also running. She carries some baggage from HP and seems like a long-shot candidate, but she is also in the race.

It's better to look at a candidate on issues and records, rather than gender and ethnicity. Both Clinton and Fiorina don't seem like the right candidates for me, due to many reasons that are too long to list here, but I also think many of the male candidates from both major parties are not the right candidates, either.

Of course video games make kids violent! Just look at how flailingly into Wii Sports kids got, smashing their hands into things, shattering TV sets, breaking windows. Ban Wii Sports!

I'd like to have them every month or two, and I will try to schedule them at least a week in advance in the future.