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Since I didn't hold it quite as highly as some of you, a sequel isn't unattractive. Since they'll be revolving the story on someone other than Maximus (I'm guessing) the story could involve something interesting. How often do we get to see Hollywood-sized blockbusters about ancient Rome?
I do realize that people won't have an incentive to register if they can do everything that a normal member can. Right now I have it so that they can only post replies to posts that they started; they can't join in just any old thread. They also can't post polls and I think do some other things that members can. Of course they can't earn highly-coveted shekels. 🙂
Dali is quite well known these days, and his painting of the drooping clocks comes to mind. I haven't studied him very much at all, though, and so I'm not sure of his place in the history of art in terms of impact or influence.
Perhaps moderators are best on boards that I will open up to the public. The reason for moderators (at least at this point) is primarily to stop spammers from posting. A neglected forum is a spammy forum. I open certain boards up to the general public because I think it's easier for them to want to post without registering…..they don't feel committed to it so they might like it more. I have implemented some features to prevent spam to a certain degree. First off, when members of the public post, they have to bypass the CAPTCHA feature, which is simply that box that has letters and numbers is it that look all squiggly. The reasoning is that since bots can't read those very well they cannot bypass it and therefore can't post. Second, I have installed a feature so that guests can't post urls in their posts; the main reason that bots spam forums is to have backlinks to their sites which they hope will increase business. I think with these two functions, spam by guest posters will be cut down quite a bit. I have so far opened two forums (I think) to public postings - Early Colonies and I think General History. I wouldn't mind opening more if I think it will induce more people to post. In such circumstances I would need moderators to help out. While I can police the board myself, I think it's better having some additional eyes while I'm not here (contrary to popular belief, I'm not on this forum 24x7 🙂 ). So, do you all think we should open more boards to public posting? Yay or Nay? If so, which boards should I open up? Select few? Should I do it gradually? Or should I open them all up?
Here's more information:Looks like Russell Crowe isn't going to be in the movie, unless it's just a cameo appearance.
What can we expect to see or feel with the upgrade?
More of the same? Actually I don't know yet. Probably nothing immediately, but only things gradually. It's more of an infrastructure thing than anything else.
Well, in my defense I saw the show back around February. Also, if you had put up the photo of the actor who played Mitchell Paige in the re-enactment, I might have gotten it.
Whenever I give someone directions to New Hampshire, I say take 95N and when the towns start sounding like the Revolutionary War, the exit is close.
That could be problematic if you're directing someone to Concord, New Hampshire, and they wind up exiting at Concord, Mass.
I think we will all get a taste of what the Mayan empire was like when Apocolypto finally comes out pretty soon. It's supposed to be a very good movie. The press is saying that it's excessively gory, though they said the same about The Passion of the Christ and I didn't think that was the case.
I heard yesterday that Thomas Nast had taken the story of St. Nicholas and got it mixed up with a legend of a Norse god to come up with the story of Santa Claus. That's why he's depicted as living in the North Pole, whereas the real-life St. Nicholas was from Myra, Turkey.
I didn't realize that Mitchell Paige was a well-known figure. I had written a post about him after I saw a show with him on it that really impressed me. Nobody had responded to the post though…. 😥
I think it might be remembered in a similar way that Rome is remembered now. I think it would be remembered for its demonstration that democracy can exist in a leading nation. I don't know how many democracies existed at the time America was founded, but from what I understand there were very few, if any. Most were probably monarchies or some form or aristocratic government rather than true democracies. From that democracy was born a recognition of a set of inalienable rights that protected dissent, self-protection, privacy, and religious practice. I think that really helped shape the world and continues to do so even into this century.I think that the economic and military power aspects of America would be remembered more as results which flowed from the political structure. We can point to Napoleon's France or Charles of Spain's empire during the 16th Century as being examples of nations with strong armies, but we don't really talk about any long-lasting effect that they had on the world (as we speak of Rome). I think that ideas and institutions are more influential in the long term than economic or military feats.
There you go. It's not easy to find a John Browning image that's free for the use, and here I'm assuming it's a public domain image: John Browning at age 18. Lol, not quite what you were expecting I'm sure, but hopefully you won't despise it too much. Incidentally, I got it from a comic book-like story about John Browning that you (or some of the other NJO guys) might find interesting: http://www.m1911.org/jmbtribute.pdf
