03-07-2001 18:42									#31
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Actually it could be accomplished quite easily here.

1. We need a header line for every post, but since there's already the "subject" line, and all new threads need subjects, a little JavaScript code can be used to generate "Re: subject" and "Re: Re: subject" etc.

2. Add a threading mechanism to the database. I think one field will do.

3. Create a template for the format.

	03-07-2001 22:11									#32
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Wombat, why do you have a knife next to your teddy bear in your avatar?

	04-07-2001 01:31									#33
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I am a fan of the branching thread format in hwo it has been used on Slashdot and different news sites. I do not believe that it would be practical here on Apolyton.

There are not enough posters to justify the use of such a format. Also, I believe branching threads work best when the thread is discussing a news item or what is provided on that page. uBB/vBB work best when their is a forum page that allows everyone to discuss topics that you can create.

Imagine using uBB on Slashdot. It wouldn't work as a new topic would have to be created on a linked page from the news page. Likewise, here on Apolyton branched threads would not work because it would be hard to find new topics among all of the replies and posts.

In summary, GP I support your mission, I just don't think you will win concession nor do I even think it would even work.

	04-07-2001 01:33									#34
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quote: Originally posted by GP Wombat, why do you have a knife next to your teddy bear in your avatar?

Because he's a sick, twisted little man. Note the proper use of the apostrophe.

	04-07-2001 03:07									#35
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quote: Originally posted by GP Wombat, why do you have a knife next to your teddy bear in your avatar?

Oooh now I'm mad

1) Its a wombat
2) Its a dagger



It is a wombat, I took the graphic from an australian search engine called wombat search or something. It is a dagger to signify that the wombat is the immortal wombat. Didn't you watch the cartoon?
A wombat, visits a wise-woman, is told he is immortal, then with the help of his marsupial friends, battles russian zombies to avenge his father's death, then finally defeats the evil Welsh emperor Zhu Kiang-che in a great showdown. Later on, his mission accomplished, he dies, but its only funny if you watch the cartoon. Which I'm in the process of making.

Never insult the Immortal Wombat again, please

	04-07-2001 05:03									#36
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Hey Wombat, no offense. It's really cute.

	04-07-2001 05:10									#37
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didnt realise our damn Wombats were so dangerous

	04-07-2001 17:19									#38
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Yeah, beware the wombat

None taken GP, just kiddin', maybe I should use some more smilies for the more serious posters

	04-07-2001 18:20									#39
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they are usually such docile animals, hardly cuase any trouble, unless you run over them in your car, can do hell of a lot of damge to your undercariiage

	04-07-2001 18:46									#40
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quote: Originally posted by Immortal Wombat ...then finally defeats the evil Welsh emperor Zhu Kiang-che in a great showdown.

Don't get me wrong but that name doesn't sound very Welsh. Taffy Jones or Iestyn Lloyd maybe, but not those two

AND WE DO NOT WANT BRANCHING THREADS. STOP IT BEFORE I HAVE TO KILL YOU ALL!

	04-07-2001 18:52									#41
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Woops Provost is possessed by CivNation's ghost.

Okay see what you have done. You made me spam

	04-07-2001 19:06									#42
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To GP, I thought this image was appropriate for you

Attachment: homer2.jpg
This has been downloaded 26 time(s).

	04-07-2001 19:20									#43
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quote: Don't get me wrong but that name doesn't sound very Welsh. Taffy Jones or Iestyn Lloyd maybe, but not those two

Ah the subtle humour is lost on Provost

And he looks a little like this:

	04-07-2001 19:27									#44
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Obviously the humour has been lost on me, I never saw this cartoon you mention.

Although on that picture, he looks decidedly gay Didn't he sing in Village People

	04-07-2001 19:32									#45
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and wahts wrong with th evilalge people, i used to love their music, but you cant say that anymore without people thinking you are gay too !!!

	04-07-2001 19:40									#46
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quote: I never saw this cartoon you mention.

Course you didn't, I haven't finished making it yet

quote: Although on that picture, he looks decidedly gay

Not a plot-twist I had planned, though I suppose I could incorporate his band, the hamlet lads or something.
and I admit I drew the picture rather quickly... If anyone has any better cartoon pictures of fat comedy Chinese-looking emperors, please let me know

	04-07-2001 20:16									#47
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Looking closely, he could also be a Scouser if he wore a turquoise and purple shellsuit

	04-07-2001 20:25									#48
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hey i forgot why are they called scousers again >????

	05-07-2001 00:39									#49
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quote: Originally posted by KrazyHorse Because he's a sick, twisted little man. Note the proper use of the apostrophe.

Good boy! I will not have to give you the "Greek treatment". Which the Spanish and Babylonians are currently receiving.

	05-07-2001 00:41									#50
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison Don't get me wrong but that name doesn't sound very Welsh. Taffy Jones or Iestyn Lloyd maybe, but not those two AND WE DO NOT WANT BRANCHING THREADS. STOP IT BEFORE I HAVE TO KILL YOU ALL!

Hey who brought up branching threads? It's good to share this common interest with you guys. Makes me feel closer to you, PH. Maybe I need to retake that test...

	05-07-2001 00:44									#51
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison To GP, I thought this image was appropriate for you

no comprende... Must be too much formaldyde you've been sniffing. You should watch it with those =O group solvents.

	05-07-2001 00:47									#52
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quote: Originally posted by GP Good boy! I will not have to give you the "Greek treatment". Which the Spanish and Babylonians are currently receiving.

Hmmm another sexual reference perhpas ???

	05-07-2001 00:48									#53
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Actually, the knife next to the teddy bear made me think of another cartoon and Elmer Fudd's rendition of "Kill the Wombat! Kill the Wombat".

	05-07-2001 00:57									#54
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hey you got your 500 posts KH.. i see you got your avatar, who is it ???

	05-07-2001 01:18									#55
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Kurt Godel

	05-07-2001 02:10									#56
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who dat?

	05-07-2001 02:17									#57
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Och! You're all nekulturny. Godel's Theorem: In any formal system capable of supporting the Peano axioms there exist unproveable statements whose contradictions are also unproveable.

	05-07-2001 02:29									#58
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Was he the guy who proved some intereesting problem was unsolvable? What was the problem?

	05-07-2001 02:39									#59
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Reread. "In any formal system capable of supporting the Peano axioms" is in reference to any reasonable form of number theory, the branch of mathematics which deals with the natural number system. "there exist unprovable statements whose contradictions are also unprovable" means that I can come up with a proposition which can't be proven to be true, but which can't be proven to be false, either. So, it is possible to find a statement about the natural numbers which can't be proven true and which can't be proven false either. And Godel proved that this was the case in 1935 or so.

	05-07-2001 02:46									#60
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Yeah...I go that from your first post...but had also read something about a famous problem that this applies to...which people no longer tried to solve after he did his thereom.