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If this site disappears for the weekend it's to prevent the implosion it's headed for. Please folks, take your fingers off of the self destruct buttons.

Update: I'm joking about taking the site offline for the weekend, but I have to admit that it is tempting.

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hester's picture

leave. No big deal. Honestly.

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Don't believe everything you think.

that is a big deal to me. I would sincerely like to avoid it.

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hester's picture

If I'm no longer comfortable I'm guessing I won't be alone. So there's that. Thanks. For. All. You. Do.

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Don't believe everything you think.

tapu dali's picture

is down during a lovely Holiday weekend?

If people are that addicted to the toobz, may be they should take a good long break!

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There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.

hester's picture

Which I guess I need to stop posting in.

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Don't believe everything you think.

Raggedy Ann's picture

Breathe in

Breathe out

In

Out

Walk away and enjoy the evening. Smile

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

hester's picture

is the matter w me for pointing out what happened during WW11. Got skin in the game.

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Don't believe everything you think.

Raggedy Ann's picture

Out

In

Out

You can do it.

Smile

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

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the wrong place. You know it's pretty easy to respond to the wrong comment around here. You weren't being stupid, far from it.

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hester's picture

being clear how people can be systematically dehumanized.... the steps taken. the eliminationist malice afoot. Ah well

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Don't believe everything you think.

elenacarlena's picture

Holocaust Museum in DC. And I didn't mention over there, but I think it's important that that info be repeated regularly because it is a slippery slope that could happen anywhere.

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in addition to every possible subject that will tear us asunder that's been brought up the last several days. I keep hoping it will pass, but it keeps getting worse. And there's no way to moderate it as they are discussions that split us down the middle, so there's no solution for moderation that doesn't piss off half of the membership. Especially for a site that prides itself in free and open discussion.

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hester's picture

and don't worry about those that leave. Just don't. It's gonna happen. It's okay. I think it will sort itself out. So what if you loose some members.... really. I might have to leave, it's okay. My choice. You cannot prevent people from saying nasty stuff to others and cannot moderate it out of existence. Let it happen. It's beyond your control... Really it is.

It's all okay. Whatever happens.

hugs

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Don't believe everything you think.

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Beware the bullshit factories.

the last few days.

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Beware the bullshit factories.

tapu dali's picture

what y'all are talking about?

Will someone give me the secret password, or am I forever to be relegated to the not-koolz?

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There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.

Raggedy Ann's picture

What is the trigger that calms one? It's different for each of us, yet, shutting down for a breather breaks the mood for all. People are forgetting to breathe.
Look away.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
In.
Out.
You've got it now. Stop and breathe.
Thanks, JtC.
Pleasantry

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

shaharazade's picture

and breathing in and out did the trick for me today and yesterday. Something about a body in motion gives you a better perspective. Too much time on the tubes gives everyone a tainted perspective about life not to mention the willies.

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Raggedy Ann's picture

Knowing when to disengage is critical. Walk away. Look at the sky. Appreciate the flowers. A new perspective does wonders!

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

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It’s not TARS of Interstellar, but at least it’s something.

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the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.

tapu dali's picture

Out through the mouth.

Slowly.
Reee --lax ...

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There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.

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A body in motion to That one! Tyvm.

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Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .

Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .

If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
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shaharazade's picture

they just need to keep moving and not get hung up on the detours or the stop signs. We need some love in's right about now.

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Yeah, I am dating myself. This is probably my favorite of their songs. Smile

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

Raggedy Ann's picture

All together now,

Breathe in

Breathe out

In

Out

There you go!

Good

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

elenacarlena's picture

you gots discussion of the issues.

Tigers Wrestling d8904c7169df68c1236efd9e32980ff2[1].jpg

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Thanks for the chuckle. Lol

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elenacarlena's picture

Can't beat it. Biggrin

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divineorder's picture

Thanks JtC.

Hope you, and all take a chill pill and have a great weekend to boot!!!!!

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

elenacarlena's picture

Let's not go there. That'd hurt.

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WindDancer13's picture

Either the site goes down or everyone is busy arguing somewhere else. Maybe if I quit posting essays, the site will remain stable and everyone will get along?

[video:https://youtu.be/MPMmC0UAnj0]

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

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these disruptions? The lengths JtC has to go to. I mean really, WindDancer13, when will you snap? Mosking Wink

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

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My apologies to JtC. I know he works really hard to make c99 work for all of us, and yet I just keep throwing rocks in the pudding. *Sigh* I will now go contemplate my evil ways; though, from past experience, I don't think it will do any good.

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If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

Let me try.

Edit: and fail.

Any help on how to post pictures is welcome.

Well, I tried 3 different sources & all I'm posting is empty boxes. Thanks for the help; apparently I'm not destined to post pics here.

Thanks, everyone! I finally found one that would post.

hillaryWindsockClintonRGBMode.jpg

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elenacarlena's picture

furbutt, featherbutt, leatherbutt pics.

Click on the photo icon above the comment box. "Browse". Then wait for the file browser to fully load. It takes a while! Then Upload, browse for pics on your hard drive, upload, send to editor, OK.

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and the HTML code is correct so it must be a problem with the image URL.

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Is that a problem?

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elenacarlena's picture

for you? I would think Flickr would be okay, but I haven't tried any sources like that. I'm always afraid the photos will disappear at some point.

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in your first image the extension was .pngc, after removing the c it worked because .png is a proper image extension and .pngc is not.

Your second image doesn't have an extension at all. Is the image a .jpg, .png, or something similar? Without an extension the image will not display.

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I've been able to do that with some images on my hard drive when they didn't download properly on first go-round.

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.jpg, .jpeg, and .png and none of them worked so maybe the image name was wrong or had a less traditional extension.

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No idea why they are like that, but that must be the problem with the image.

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are you by any chance uploading the images from a pad or phone?

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But I was able to post a pic from Flickr finally - I need to not do it from the app.

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that iPads may strip out the image extension when you put them on your pad, but I may be wrong about that. If that is the case, when you upload them to our site they get uploaded without an extension. Google "Ipads+image extensions" and see if that helps.

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the only problem I have occasionally is it says that the image is too large, so I email it to myself at a lower size and that works.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

divineorder's picture

too large.
Fooled with it for a while but finally got it done.

Takes a while, but eventually can post. Good luck!

IMG_2058 (800x533).jpg Male leaves the kill site, marches toward us! heh. We were in a little rent car. Kruger NP, South Africa June 2016

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elenacarlena's picture

Almost any picture program can resize. Paint can do it. Just open your image with paint, click "resize," make it 50% or whatever will make it small enough, "save as" whatever you want, probably a jpeg file. It shouldn't take long or be too complicated.

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divineorder's picture

My images are all larger than 2mbs which is over the limit allowed. Takes about the same time as having to upload to photobucket then....

The process does take me longer --and has more steps -- than say, posting my images on FB does, etc .

But hey, it's all good.

Have a great weekend!

IMG_0120 (800x533)_1.jpg

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in the editor. Usually all you need to do is add (width="500") (without the parenthesis) right after the last quotation mark that wraps the image URL, make sure you skip a space. You can also add a height attribute in the same way if needed. It's easier and faster that way.

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here. A few, fortunately not many, of my pics have needed to be shrunk before I uploaded.

But yes, once loaded, after I hit "Send to Editor," I tell them "500" or whatever width makes them look best and erase the height attribute.

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you should be able to upload that size and it should automatically resize the image. That doesn't happen?

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my bad.

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2 gigs, that's some big ass images. Yes, images that size would break the site.

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I had to ask Jakkalbessie how many beers I had had. (3).

I just tried to upload another and it was 4.44mb and was rejected.

Look, sorry for taking up your time big guy.

Hugs, divineorder

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I put a 2mb limit on them in an attempt to save on storage space. I could increase the size limit but they would still be much to large pixel-wise and would still need to be resized. A 500p width image is generally in the kb size so 2mb is actually overkill in and of itself.

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Nope, it says the image is too large. Maximum 500 x 800. "Upload failed." The message fades pretty quickly, so I didn't quite read all of it. So that was a skunk image on my hard drive that says it's a jpeg file, 1600 x 1200, 604 KB. I shrunk it to 800 x 600 (114 KB) and that uploads fine. For the smaller image, your file browser says it resized it to fit max dimensions; as you can see, it is now 500 x 375. But I guess it can't resize from really large dimensions. To get it to upload, I shrunk the skunk.

Skunk Picnic small_0.jpg

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that's a good thing, we could eat up a lot of the site's storage space if size was unlimited.

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within the limits and I'm an old hand at adjusting images, multiple artsy softwares available to me.

Would it be possible to get the file browser ready to upload images faster and/or get the error messages to stay on the screen longer? Those might be confusing for newbies, if they can't quite see what's going wrong.

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the file browser is a third party entity, it is what it is.

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when they have trouble, until everyone figures it out.

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will have one way to embed an image, the old standard HTML code way. We at least try to give alternative methods, easier or not.

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I can see us trying to explain html to people who are used to point and click. Dash 1

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Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

On the sites image loader. It''s almost hidden, but it is there.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

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to be shrunk first. The site can't accept unlimited size, it would take too much memory.

Few photos are that big. But I've done it with a few. It's not difficult, pretty intuitive even on a basic program like Paint.

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Any help on how to post pictures is welcome.

In the row of buttons above the frame where you type your text, click the left-most button. A dialog box will open up, the first line of which is labeled "Image URL". If the image file is online, supply its URL (web address) in the space provided and click OK. If the image file is on your own computer rather than on the Internet, you'll need to upload it. To do that, click the "Browse" button to the right of the "Image URL" field. Another dialog box will open with a list of files we've already uploaded. In the upper-left corner of this box is a link labeled "Upload"; click that and follow the instructions to upload your image file to c99p. Once uploaded, you should see your file listed by name on the list; select it and click OK. Your image should now be in your message.

I hope this helps.

Smile

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

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If so, please disregard my last message! Smile

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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

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Love the pootie behind the pillow!

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

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IMG_2073 (800x533).jpg

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This is how to do it.

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Mine totally freak out in a vehicle. I wonder if the little fella has been into the nip?

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Introduced early and often to a car will grow up to take the ride almost like this one. Ours cried, drooled, vomited. This cat in the video is an ideal passenger.

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rescue organizations because they're relatively hard to place. And I am probably too much of a softie to train a kitten. So I'll probably just have to put up with nervous car riders.

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so he can get his belly rubbed. He's not *quite* this mellow, but close.

Then he'll start teething and chewing on any of my body parts he can get in his mouth. (Mini rawhide only works a little as a distraction.)

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hangin1

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

jus' like a dat!

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That I'm missing?

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I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."

~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,

Been away on vacay for a few days and......
Holy Hoppin' Hoohahs!

Site being shut down? People telling each other to breathe (FFS) and judging the BeJesus out of each other?!?!!! Has the site been hacked? What happened to the C99ers?
Can't, don't want to, believe it.

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JtC's kidding about shutting down. Sort of a "don't make me stop this car, kids!" moment.

Most of us still like a decent conversation/debate.

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