DU3 has .... Uhhhh I don't know what this is!

[Texacon]

 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1002

I think they've got a problem.

KC

[Chris_]

It's an improvement.

[BlueStateSaint]

Nadin did it--she doesn't want to brek that six-digit barrier!

[franksolich]

Whoa.

The whole entire forum "General Discussion" evaporated.

One wonders if the elusive enigmatic Elad can find it, and restore it.

[franksolich]

Ooops.

It doesn't look like Elad's found it yet.  Still missing, other than the ones added after "General Discussion" mysteriously evaporated.

[GOBUCKS]

Whoa.

The whole entire forum "General Discussion" evaporated.

One wonders if the elusive enigmatic Elad can find it, and restore it.

Maybe Elad got laid off, and put it in his backpack when he left.

Still expecting Skimmer to DUmp one of the Bobbsey Twins.

[franksolich]

Maybe Elad got laid off, and put it in his backpack when he left.

Still expecting Skimmer to DUmp one of the Bobbsey Twins.

If my fellow alum dumps anybody, it should be Lord Marblehead EarlG, who adds nothing to Skins's island.

Lord Marblehead imagines himself another Fanny Trollope or Charles Dickens or Randolph Churchill, coming ashore here and becoming an "instant" expert on America and Americans, even before the soles of his shoes are dry.

And it was Lord Marblehead, when Skins and Elad were out of the office having lunch together, who gave Doug's stupid ex-wife Beth the "okay" to start up the scam on Skins's island, which turned out such a black eye for my fellow alum that Lord Marblehead's never been left alone in the office since then.

[Texacon]

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 UPDATE: DATA LOSS IN THE GENERAL DISCUSSION FORUM.
Last edited Thu Dec 22, 2011, 05:56 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

This discussion thread is pinned.
At approximately 3:30 PM ET this afternoon, we had a glitch -- an unfortunate combination of software and human error -- which deleted the original post (OP) of every thread in the General Discussion forum. Replies were not affected.

The bug has been fixed so this will never happen again.

Fortunately we keep nightly backups, so we were able to recover every original post that was posted here up until approximately 3:30 AM ET this morning. Unfortunately, this leaves approximately 12 hours of OPs that we were unable to completely recover.

For the missing 12 hours of OPs, we were able to recover the thread titles, along with other data about the thread. But we were unable to recover the full message text. On these threads, the missing text has been replaced with the following notification:


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So, if the message text of your OP is missing, you have options:

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Again, we are very sorry. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

David Allen
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/100259992

Uh oh.  Someone's gettin' fired!  Those elitist DUmmies don't put up with that shit.

KC

[JohnnyReb]

Where's Nadin the movie director?......"The Bug That Ate DU".

[Revolution]

^ She has to examine it first. It might be a new species.

[franksolich]

Now wait a minute.

This made me laugh, or snort in derision, or something:

.....you spent time and effort crafting an OP.....

Copying-and-pasting stories from offbeat news sources, "lol"ing, and hollering slogans is "crafting an original post"?

Yeah, right.

[Aristotelian]

If my fellow alum dumps anybody, it should be Lord Marblehead EarlG, who adds nothing to Skins's island.

EarlG is certainly the odd one out. Skinner is obviously the head-honcho, elad is the techie, but what of EarlG?

Even having programmed the magnificent success which is DUmp3, there's clearly more for elad to do...clearly demonstrated by the number of functions which he has dangled in front of the DUmmies but not yet added.

BTW - love the picture of Durham Cathedral.

[franksolich]

EarlG is certainly the odd one out. Skinner is obviously the head-honcho, elad is the techie, but what of EarlG?

Even having programmed the magnificent success which is DUmp3, there's clearly more for elad to do...clearly demonstrated by the number of functions which he has dangled in front of the DUmmies but not yet added.

BTW - love the picture of Durham Cathedral.

When Lord Marblehead EarlG was younger, he did some work for the British military or intelligence services, or something.  I wish I'd saved that link, but it was a long time ago.  He was much thinner and trimmer as a schoolboy.

Durham Cathedral is great in wintertime.  I was there three winters.

[franksolich]

EarlG is certainly the odd one out. Skinner is obviously the head-honcho, elad is the techie, but what of EarlG?

I'm not having any luck finding the story of Lord Marblehead's days as head boy at a public school in England; he was the usual typical bully like the one in Tom Brown's Schooldays.

I did however find this stuff:

DAVID B. ALLEN
President, Web Designer/Developer

David Allen was introduced to website design as a Press Secretary on Capitol Hill, where he created and maintained a website for a senior member of the U.S. House of Representatives. In early 1998 he started Online Workshop, which offers Web design services primarily to small businesses and non-profits.

David has had a long-standing interest in both computers and design, going back all the way to junior high school, where he and three friends wrote an educational computer game for the Apple II. Later he won an invitation to study art at the Delaware Governor's School for Excellence.

David's professional background is in political communications. He has worked on Capitol Hill, and is a veteran of three U.S. Senate campaigns, in Delaware, Oregon, and Michigan. David has worked for a government relations and strategic communications firm, where he created a client development computer database.

He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University.

DAVE ALLSOPP
Web Designer/Developer

A professional musician since 1992, Dave created his first website in 1997 in conjunction with his record company to promote his band. As an avid computer user since the age of 8, he quickly caught the HTML bug and began designing sites for other musicians, both in the US and in the UK.

Through his belief that the best way to learn is by doing, Dave honed his HTML skills over three years by designing and maintaining a large number of websites for free. When he began to pick up contract work from local businesses he decided that the time was right to move into a full-time career in web design.

Dave was educated at King Edward VI College in Stourbridge, England - the city in which he was born and grew up. He moved to the US in 1998.

BRIAN LEITNER
Programmer

Brian started programming computers at age 15, teaching himself the C programming language through books, trial and error, and guidance from more experienced programmers. Not long after, he opened an online interactive gaming system written in C, and continued to hone his skills over the years.

Taking a deep interest in computer technology, Brian studied hardware and software issues, networking, and system administration, and succeeded in obtaining the Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) award for Windows NT 4.0.

After working as a contract consultant for various technology firms, Brian accepted a job offer at a Linux consulting company, which unfortunately went bankrupt shortly thereafter.

Brian went on to learn C++, Perl and PHP programming languages, and continues to further his computer education however he can.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,5880.0/

[franksolich]

EarlG is certainly the odd one out.

Okay, I found it.  It was at a campfire where the brain-damaged primitive was insultive of the management of Skins's island.

In case anyone isn't aware, yes, Lord Marblehead EarlG is a British subject, not an American citizen.

My fellow alum Skins wanted to be more "euro," and so adopted Lord Marblehead as his friend.  Sort of like how liberals adopt a token black or token Hebraic or token oppressed woman or token manual laborer as a friend.

Anyway.

Lord Marblehead is a product of a public school in England.

A public school in England is the opposite of a public school in the United States.  A public school in England is a place where the children of the affluent and wealthy are boarded and educated, actually more resembling our private academies such as Phillips or Andover.  I dunno why this is, but it's the way it is; a "public school" in England is actually an expensive exclusive chi-chi private academy.

Lord Marblehead is from no proletariat or working class background.

I thought of Lord Marblehead a few weeks ago, when I was reading something, the memoirs of a guy who had been in an English public school.  This is not from Tom Brown's School Days or even from the later Dickensian era; this is actually from the twentieth century.

I need to caution those of the female persuasion to NOT read any further, to go on to another thread or something, as the description might trouble their sensibilities.  This is not anything for ladies to read.

This is not fiction; this is from real life, and it actually happened all the time, in English public schools.

One imagines Lord Marblehead as having been one of the "holders-down" of little boys.

.....Mr. Sneyd-Kynnersley explained to us with solemn gusto the first morning that we were all gathered together before him he reserved himself the right to a good sound flogging with the birch rod.

But as I was from the first and all through either first or second in school I was bound ex officio to assist at the executions and hold down the culprit.  The ritual was very precise and solemn--every Monday morning the whole school assembled in Hall and every boy's report was read aloud.

After reading a bad report from a form master Mr. Sneyd-Kynnersley would stop and after a moment's solemn silence say "Harrison minor you will come up to my study afterwards."

And so afterwards the culprits were led up by the two top boys.  In the middle of the room was a large box draped in black cloth and in austere tones the culprit was told to take down his trousers and kneel before the block over which I and the other head boy held him down.

The swishing was given with the master's full strength and it took only two or three strokes for drops of blood to form everywhere and it continued for 15 or 20 strokes when the wretched boy's bottom was a mass of blood.

Generally of course the boys endured it with fortitude but sometimes there were scenes of screaming, howling and struggling which made one almost sick with disgust.  Nor did the horrors even stop there.

There was a wild red-haired Irish boy, himself a rather cruel brute, who whether deliberately or as a result of the pain or whether he had diarrhoea, let fly.

The irate clergyman instead of stopping at once went on with increased fury until the whole ceiling and walls of his study were spattered with filth.

I suppose he was afterwards somewhat ashamed of this for he did not call in the servants to clean up but spent hours doing it himself with the assistance of a boy who was his special favorite.....

Forget about Lord Marblehead having been one of the "holders-down;" he was probably actually the schoolmaster's special favorite, and one can envision the master and the 10-year-old Lord Marblehead, grinning and snickering at each other while taking of tea and scones in the library.

[BadCat]

The bug has been fixed so this will never happen again.

Skins shows us that he really DOES NOT understand software.

[Texacon]

Skins shows us that he really DOES NOT understand software.

LOL!  I was wondering about that use of the word 'NEVER' there.

Good to see you BC!  Hope you're doing well.

KC