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Dancing in the streets!

I do hope there's a way to fix it, though, if say Trish gets there first and registers herself as Deathbyinches.

On second thought, let her do it. After seeing herself signed DBI a few times she's be like a vampire in the sunlight.

Will the blog be otherwise the same? Oh, don't answer. I'll wait and see...

Sounds great. Hope all the bugs are worked out quickly. You know how technology can be...

I think it's a fine idea! And I love George W. Bush!

Trish

Halleluiah, halleluiah, halleluiah

Thank you MaxWick, no more replies to Anonymous 10:42 AM or Anonymous 2:32 PM.

Anyway to sign up early? I see the Repukes trying to grab the long held noms de blog of their adversaries.

I thought we were already signing in to post comments.

I thought we were already signing in to post comments.
Posted by: RickBaber

Nope. If you leave the Name field empty the blog software just posts you as "Anonymous". That's the problem they're trying to fix.

Damn-it, now I have to decide who I am!

good! That will save me from making posts criticizing other people for posting anonymously and forgetting to sign my own name. but hey, I only did that once, in my defense.

Whatever makes the blog work better and keeps the crazies at bay is fine with me.

obviously Im behind, though I have seen some posts by "DBI" that I figured were not his. Who's trish?

How about also requiring proof of sanity, or would that disqualify DBI and a few others?

Baring that, an ethics test-------woops, there goes Drew.

Since I sign in under various pseudonyms depending on whose voice I'm channeling at the time, how will that work?!

Thank you Max & Warrick!! I hope that this raises the bar on genuine discourse & overall civility. Trolls-be-gone!

Seems like a less restrictive solution would have been for the blogmeister to just reject any posting that was blank in the name field.

I guess AT was jealous of the administration's ability to track telephone and email transmissions -- so now AT can do the same.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!

This is terrible news

does that mean I cant stir the pot and remain annonymous like the coward I Am by just using one letter. Will I have to use my name. How can I safely take both sides of an issue and start arguments (my sole purpose for being here) if I actually have to use my name.

This will help with the multiple anon problem but will no doubt discourage new posters and conspiracy theorist Ludites.

I won't miss the anons but the "black choppers on whisper mode" crowd and new posters will be missed.

Plus I expect we will be able to make multiple registrations for different personalities.

Since this line looks open, and this news seems to have been only reported on a less-trafficked post, and since it's still free speech for now on the AT Blog, check out this:

Rod Bryan stood directly in front of ASA and the lecturn at Don's Weaponry today. As soon as ASA finished speaking, Rod's hand shot up and ASA had to be told to take the question or comment. With checkbook in hand, Rod offered to be the first in line to sponsor the debate in Jonesboro, of which he has been excluded. Rod Bryan wondered to whom the check should be written. ASA dodged the question, of course, and said the press conference was only about the 2nd amendment... apparently the 1st amendment is simply a bother to the republican candidate.

I wonder if the Dem-Gaz will write about this event as it happened? I'm positive that Channel 4 got it on tape.

I'm all for it cause 2:07 wasn't me! Since I've been on the road who knows what else as well has been written w said initial.

Maybe you should require us to show our driver's license as well.

What was the announcement from ASA today at 1:00????

Who's trish?
Posted by: tina

There's a trollette who's been around for months, loves to belittle people by calling them "little feller" and tell them to get out of Hillcrest and pay some taxes so she won't have to keep supporting them.

She's been signing her posts "Trish" of late, and even entering her location, although she still leaves the Name field empty so the ID line still says Posted by: Anonymous

though I have seen some posts by "DBI" that I figured were not his. Who's trish?

Trish is a new arrival from Bumfuk;but alas, she's out today shopping for a "Ball Gown."

quit crying P - there is no you until you sign your name chicken shit. you've come in here and started fights over car inspections and the threat of co2 levels in the atmoshpere- you claimed there was no science proving a danger from it, then you tried to attack sources someone posted proving vehicle emissions are a serious danger. then in another forum you embraced the idea of vehicle inspections. you are nothing but a trouble maker and a bother and many here wish you'd leave - being the pot stiring moron you are and considering that your sole purpose being hee is to argue - there'e sadly no hope that you will, but you aren't welcome here.

"What was the announcement from ASA today at 1:00????"

Read "BIG BANG" on the AT blog, just scan down a few...

Dang P...the other day you came onto a thread and denounced all the research on 2nd hand smoke. You said you were sucking on a big Cuban cigar as you typed. You apologized to me and invited me to dinner.

You mean that wasn't you? What am I going to do with this whole bottle of Viagra I bought just for the occasion? Damn it, the back seat of my car is full of cartons of cigarettes since I didn't know which brand you preferred. I am so screwed! I hope the new software settings prevent this from ever happening again.

Anyone want to buy some Viagra...I have to get rid of it before the wife finds it. It's Kryptonite to her.

I regret the need for the policy, but obviously it is overdue. "Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis." (Times change, and we change with them, too.) Perhaps we can now return to civil debate.

I guess there's a P3! So Sorry Inch man. I'll come up w a really distinctive handle beyond my initial, which to any who knows me is enough. So to all those poser Ps, bite me!

Big Brother? Or are the Arkansas Times becoming CENCORSHIP FASCIST? JOE STALIN WOULD BE PROUD!!!!!

I assume you will list the Anonymous posters with a number in registration order.

It will be nice to know if there are multiple CCRRR' s obsessed with Coulter and a desire to stay in the shadows or just one with too much spare time.

This is spectacularly good news.

No Shit, P2. I do not know what you are talking about.

and the funny thing is - the night he claimed Co2 from cars wan't a problem - he spent the whole night railing against smoking and claiming the law banning it in public places wa a great victory - to hear him talk that night the greates danger to mankind was eradicated.

P2, I am certainly involved in in smoke free efforts and secondhand smoke would be the third greatest danger, (cause of preventable death) but I've never claimed CO2 wasn't a problem.
Rag on, dude. I'll check back from time to time to see what substantive remarks i might offer. But I think you've got me confused w a poser or just confused. Perhaps if I knew which particular moniker you were using that evening I'd recall what you are talking about.
I've been P all my life.

I hate to interrupt a good boost in the blood pressure, young'un, but you're just incorrect about the effect this law can have. Go back and check out that Repace site again. And while you are at it you might note that the first people who started regulating tailpipe emissions and leaded gas (before the feds), the California Air Resources Board classified not 6 months ago secondhand smoke as a Toxic Air Contaminant and as such subject to regulation outside citing studies showing a 68% increased risk of breast cancer in primarily pre menopausal women. Research done in Helena, Montana and Pueblo, Colorado demonstrated a 20 to 40% drop in heart attacks with the implementation of smoke free ordinances. Should Arkansas see a quarter of that kind of result over 1,000 heart attacks will be prevented.
Auto emissions are simply another issue. Worth your time or at least frenzy for now it seems but Act 8 will challenge an industry less regulated than the auto industry , will protect nonsmokers, help smokers quit, become the example to children that tobacco smoke is always dangerous, and will save lives.
Not so hard to grok

Posted by: P | July 23, 2006 09:59 PM

"you breath in far more toxins due to out unwillingness to insist on vehicle inspections than you do from the miniscule amount of second hand smoke you encounter in your average day."

Please cite your sources.Thank you.

Posted by: p | July 23, 2006 10:09 PM

Listen Quasimodo, I just spent the last couple of weeks monitoring air for a before and after Act 8 study and without exception, even where there was no tobacco smoke at all, the air quality inside was worse than outside. Go back to Repace. He does this for a living. Americans spend more time inside than out. Unless you can afford, like the casinos, to blow straight oxygen on the craps tables, smoke free air is cheaper than not. Auto emissions are not good, but the acute effects on our society are from where people spend most of their time, inside.
This is like real old news. The effects of secondhand smoke are not miniscule only your unwarranted and uneducated estimation.

Posted by: P | July 23, 2006 10:33 PM

here's the one where you dispute the sources sited

here's the link
No. I'm not angry at all. I have a commitment to education, even for the least among us. I'm still waiting on something new. What I really wonder is what is your ulterior motive? Just stubborn? That's cool. But people will pay more attention to a consistent logic supported by coherent research. You cite reporting the "first" and "novel" research from that bastion of legitimacy USA Today. Can you say Rupert Murdoch?
Where was it you said had the required signage for smoking exemptions that was so full, Wiggles? Hell, squeeze on in there. Tell 'em how clever you are. You might get laid.

Posted by: P | July 23, 2006 11:03 PM

Posted by: P's | August 19, 2006 04:50 PM

Ah, yes, I remember you're the vitriolic lad that was pissed because they now card in bars more stridently. Did you ever go to the Repace site? http://repace.com/factsheet.html. Maybe a more recent article will encourage you: COSTA MESA - Smog technician Christopher Delo pulls a long, coiled probe out of the exhaust pipe of a late-model Volvo. The car passed smog certification, so it's time for his smoke break.

Delo lights a Marlboro, still holding the pollution-measuring nozzle. He takes a drag and puffs directly into the end of the probe to "smog" himself.

Flashing across the computer screen at Newport Smog are readings for air-polluting molecules from partially burned fuel, including hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. The 1997 Volvo measured 50 parts per million of hydrocarbon emissions. Delo's breath reads 351.

In car terms, he's a spewing, gross polluter.

"I know over 2,000 chemicals are in a cigarette, but like a dummy, I still have to use them," says Delo, a two-pack-a-day smoker. "If you're pushing out more readings than your car, something's wrong. We don't run on combustion."

This year, California became the only state in the nation to classify second-hand smoke as a toxic air contaminant that causes premature births, heart disease and asthma.

"We've done such a good job of controlling auto exhaust that they're very clean, while someone blowing out cigarette exhaust is blowing out smoke," said Gennet Paauwe, spokeswoman for the state Air Resources Board.

Delo, 37, says he started smoking at 11. He watched his musician father perform in smoky bars. He had no trouble buying 50-cent packs from vending machines and liquor stores.

He knows all the health risks and can recite the anti-smoking statistics. But he has a hard habit to break.

Delo was married last month, and his wife wants him to quit. His doctor wants him to quit. His boss, a former smoker, wants him to quit. Delo's gone cold turkey several times, the longest for three years

"Nicotine only stays in your body three days," Delo says. "It's all mental."

Delo doesn't have health insurance and wants to avoid costly medical bills. He also estimates he's spending about $300 a month on his smokes.

"All the money I use for smoking, I could use for a vacation or saving to buy a home," he says. "That's thousands of dollars."

Delo explains that everyone exhales some contaminants because of the air they breathe. But when a non-smoking visitor took the test, the hydrocarbon reading came out at only 12 parts per million, about one-thirtieth of Delo's reading.

His high smog readings have stunned him and pushed his desire to beat his addiction.

Laura Garcia, a cardiovascular nurse at Anaheim Memorial Medical Center and a coordinator for the county's smoking-cessation program, said sometimes it's hard to find a fresh way of conveying the message against smoking.

"You've heard it over and over again," she said. "This is different - the way he's pursuing his experiment. We know how much we depend on our cars, and we look at our emissions and do our smog every year. That's something we can all relate to as adults."

Delo drives a Toyota Forerunner that has passed the smog test. He hopes to soon qualify for his own certificate.

"You've got to practice what you preach," he says. "This gives me some incentive."

I just got on here and none of these comments were made by me.

yes, registration will be a good thing. signed
The one and only living P.

If we had registration, I wouldn't have to put up with people using the letter P. That's my letter and you know it.

No, It's mine! Was your mother's maiden name wiliams!?

What? Was yours Jackson? I've had it up to here with you using my name.

Oh, Yeah what's your dog's name!!!?

What's your dog's name? What does that prove?

What is the air speed velocity of a laden swallow?

Stir Stir Stir,

gotta let me have my fun while I can

up to here I Say!!!!!

How laden and what did he swallow?

Is there a prize for the most posts before registration?

I mean like, consecutive?

the prize goes to the first person to register as P on registration day.

'Won't be me. I'm retiring my neck brace and all region jersey. My shot put is a garden decoration in my mother's yard and the discus is somewhere. I do wish i knew where my fucking knees went. See y'all on the other sde.

Thanks, Max. I hope the registration process works, but I fear it will fail to completely deter the jerks who are determined to spoil the AT Blog for the rest of us. Do you plan to add e-mail addresses (rather than URLs) to the signature, as was once the system? Also, does anyone know if Patrick, Pocahontas is OK. I miss him. And I miss Cold Blue.

Is that an African Swallow or a European Swallow?

I've been wondering about Patrick, Pocahontas, too. And now that you mention it, Cold Blue.

Anyone have a report?

p.s. I think I'm glad about the registration, but I only thought I was glad about the last change--I ended up not liking it.

Just make it easy...please...my attention span's not what it use to be!

I was dreading the pre-November flood of political posting by campaign staffers...so maybe this'll help keep all those pseudo 'word on the street' attempts to a minimum...though they were good for a laugh.

Also, does anyone know if Patrick, Pocahontas is OK. I miss him.
Posted by: Pavel

Thanks Pavel. I'm fine. Just pulled a "Suzie/Zelda" and changed my pseudonym.

thanks for the explanations about Trish. and patrick, good to know youre okay.

I faxed my drivers license to Max already this afternoon, and boy did that little piece of plastic gum up the works of the poor fax. I just wanted to be first, you know. Oh well.

and zelda, i have missed telling you that im sorry to read about your dog. we lost our chocolate Lab a year ago this month, while I was too sick to know what was what, and I miss him still every day. I know you will too.

Citizen at 1-something:
>>

Probably not, I only belong to a few internet boards but the ones I visit all read your IP address or something technical like that and you can't register twice on the same computer. My kids done splained that to me so I know its true.

Spirit, I just assumed everyone of the "old timers" knew your style well enough to know you had changed handles. The same with Hunkahillbilly.

Spirit, I just assumed everyone of the "old timers" knew your style well enough to know you had changed handles. The same with Hunkahillbilly.
Posted by: Cato

Yeah, I spotted Suzie's switch to Zelda within 24 hours, but then it was me who told her about Zelda on Dobie Gillis!

There has been a rash of pseudonym-stealing today. Perhaps it's a final rush before registration on the blog sets in.

I've had a really strong urge to make a tree-hugging post under Hunkahillbilly or an "I hope my daughter marries an Mexican" post under Dr. Strangelove, but I've resisted.

Hey Max. Any heads-up on when, exactly, the registration process will begin? I'd like to snatch-up my name before any would-be troll beats me to it.

I'd like to snatch-up my name before any would-be troll beats me to it.
Posted by: Anonymous

Good point. Who will the lucky one be who gets to use the pseudonym "Anonymous"?

Yeah, I spotted Suzie's switch to Zelda within 24 hours, but then it was me who told her about Zelda on Dobie Gillis!...

One of several reasons I've always just let it flow...warts 'n all. Subterfuge/lying are too much work, take too much time and waay beyond my natural abilities!

But most people who offer more than 2-3 sentences of anything other than the generic and redundant anon crap will eventually give away their unique writing style...and even anons eventually reveal themselves. In fact, I'll go out on a limb (ha) and say ole Trish is none other than the same transparent and prolific male anon who's obsessed with commies and Cuba.

I have a suggestion after the first week, can the Times make a 24 hour waiting period before someone can post after registering. This might prevent people from registering names only to attack someone, and then never use them again.

can the Times make a 24 hour waiting period...
Posted by: Anonymous

I vote no.

But most people who offer more than 2-3 sentences of anything other than the generic and redundant anon crap...
Posted by: zelda

Ain't it the truth. Has Trish...(see the benefit of using some name rather than Anonymous)...has Trish ever said more than, "leave Hillcrest, get a job and pay some taxes"?

And Trish may be the same one who says, "GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK! NOW! ALL OF IT!!! AND THEN SOME!!!"

OK, I added the "then some".

Trish=Billy=Brad

Same style: signed at the bottom of the absurd post--not signed in the signature line. I figure they print out their idiotic missives and show them to the boss before collecting their rock of crack.

I vote NO on the 24 hour wait, too.

Now Drew Pritt won't be able to make multiple posts all pretending to be different people (Pritt supporters!)

Can you also add a rule where no mention (pro or con) is made of Drew Pritt?

As for the whole scenario, I would like to be surprised at the way people act, but it's too late for that. I worked two jobs while I was in college, and one of them was at a school. Not long after the bossman punished a guy for smoking in a school vehicle, said guy ran into the office to "tattle" on a woman he had seen smoking in a school vehicle. He wasn't concerned about the smoke or the school property. His exact words were "If I'm gonna' get in trouble for smoking, I'm gonna' turn in every person I see doin' the same thing."

The "guy" making this statement was a mid-to-late-50's armed services veteran, and he made me realize for the first time that many people never really "grow up." The more years they spend on Earth, the more they see and do, but they still often act like petulant children without a concept of or value for personal maturity.

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Thank you so much.

I like to trade cars every 18 or 20 years and I was thinking maybe it's time to say goodbye to DBI. I like the name Leland, it's such a nice pleasant sounding name. But it lacks a certain amount of macho that one needs on this blog.

I went the other way and thought about Nuoo-Ting Molitor 1, but what a chore to write that in when my computer forgets to remember. I thought maybe one of those soft gentle new words big companies pay money to be invented..... Adjulent or Softfreea or Blogulence. All that sounds like girly hand soap.

I was going to use my real name and then I decided I'd rather have another liver biopsy. Just how badly do I want some former nony to set my dogs on fire in the back yard? Or Asa visiting my girls school. Not smart.

Crunt sounds nasty. Scandar Akbar is cool, but I'm a pasty old white guy. Spunky the Inseminator doesn't go with my belly and comb-over. Shitler, no. Cornholio, no. Gesus, no. Donna Axum, no she'd sue. Van Lingo Mungo, no his heirs would sue. Gay Daddio (inside joke), Pia's Man.................

Well....nothing works, I can't drink enough to be inspired or hear voices any more. I guess I'll just have to stick with DBI and maybe figure out enough html to make my fonts look different, I like that blue writing. I just hope we all grow up enough to vote all the Republicans out this November.

If registration cuts down on the 7th-grade level behavior, I'm for it. But most of the time you have to admit that only requires more scrolling to sort the wheat from the chaff here. I like the banter and even the serious arguments we have here, as long as it stops short of real hurtfulness. Registration will be an interesting experiment.

I'm cool with it. I register just about everywhere else I post, so why not here?

Course, I may pick a different handle...

Another procedural question: Will those of us who post from more than one computer be able to use the same pseudonym no matter where we are?

ARK. BLOG I believe the answer is yes. We'll be testing tomorrow.

pavel,

I think so, but I dont know much about computers. I know I can do that on another board, and thats all I know.

DBI, I'm thinking about upgrading to "Rasputin." That cat knew what it was all about. A self-proclaimed holy man, he told the wimmen of the court to obtain salvation they had to redeem thenselves and repent and the best way to do that was through sexual activity with him.

After going to this name, all I have to do is convince zelda, pj and a couple of others how it works. *wink.*

the blog ia dead

what this will really stop is any negative comments about the Times itself - oh well - it was a good media while it lasted

You guys really don't know what this registration is all about. All it does is to give you one name to use for posting and that's all. Nothing else changes, although I wish the time it takes to post could be faster.

Apparently you don't visit other chat forums or you would know there's nothing to it.

Apparently I need to get out more, but the AT Blog is the only blog that I participate in, if that's the correct term. Perhaps I'm too easy to please, but the only complaint I have about this blog has nothing to do with Max or Warwick, and they are trying to fix that problem with the registration process. I hope it works.

I guess the next step is turning the names over to NSA or TSA....or even worse the DNC. Bye Bye!!!

I post and several blogs. And I'll tell you this, of all the blogs I comment on, the ARTimes is the one I least worry about having my ipa address shared with anyone. I figure Max would go to the mat rather than cough up that information.

Oh, noooo! The anonytrolls are leaving. What will we do without them? Save us, Max. Save us!

I have discovered that when you hit "post" you can immediately hit "back" and the post will go through immediately. Saves time.

I'll just try it and see, pj.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, you little darlin'. Hoorah for the "weaker" sex........

Cato, LOL,