[ADMIN] Future hosting of ILX (Part 8080)

No, it's exactly the same.

The basis for the poll tax was that every person eligible to vote would pay tax at the equal rate.

No, it's exactly the same.

Thank you! That's precisely what I was trying to say! (glances around guiltily)

it would kill ilf if you had to pay for every 'wayne rooney v. a sheep' type of poll.

couldn't hurt ilm tho

it would kill ilf if you had to pay for every 'wayne rooney v. a sheep' type of poll.

― big popppa hoy, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:10 (14 minutes ago)

that's not a poll it's a court case

The word poll is an English word that once meant "head" - and still does, in some specialised contexts - hence the name poll tax for a per-person tax. In the United States, however, the term has come to be used almost exclusively for a fixed tax applied to voting. Since "going to the polls" is a common idiom for voting (deriving from the fact that early voting involved head-counts), a new folk etymology has supplanted common knowledge of the phrase's true origins in America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_per_head

Okay, so we're back on in the sandbox...next step?

"we can have lots of fun" IIRC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqq3cgvZSTE

XD

so, "a poll" means "Head"?

Interesting....

Zaphod won't be happy to hear that.

reg ILX "back by last night" eh

I'm sure stet is doing all he can, but I'd go conservative on the press releases.

reg ILX "back by last night" eh

Stet never said that. He said only that the Sandbox would be back by last night. Which it was.

way I read it was that ILX was almost up, and until it came back up the Sandbox would be down

but that the Sandbox would be up by last night, so I thought there was an inference that ILX would be up even sooner

throw the bum out

Just about ready to bring ILX back up.

^This strongly implies hours, but c'est la vie

I too understood that regular ILX would be up by last night, and until then, the Sandbox would be down.

No worries, and definitely no complaints, but that is what I read.

but in the sentence construction the "it" directly refers to the sandbox...?

say what you will about st0rmfr*nt, their updates run on time

You're right. Now that I re-read the post, it's clear. Wishful thinking, I guess.

xp

Or I was just being Dr. M's yes man, as usual.

I'm sure stet is doing all he can, but I'd go conservative on the press releases.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:06 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

uhm this reads as being pretty ungrateful

well I retract it then! stet probably doesn't realize he's dealing with a slew of co-dependent loonies across the globe.

(OK, on second thought, I retract that too)

lol was gonna say

hah no worries. I mean I think it's just important to realize that

1) stet has a full-time job
2) stet is sacrificing his valuable free time to both put the sandbox up and to get ILX back up
3) status updates are just cherries on top

I mean, I jones just as much as the next ilxor when one or both are down but at the same time I'm not in the trenches rewriting the code! so it's all good

I kiss you, stet.

well I retract it then! stet probably doesn't realize he's dealing with a slew of co-dependent loonies across the globe.

(OK, on second thought, I retract that too)

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:36 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

lol

im enjoying the sandbox just as much as real ilx tbh who gives a fuck

^^^^^

besides finding the favicon somewhat unsettling of course

one day youre gonna miss it

i dunno, sb, y'know?

sb the favicon?

It's true that my main motive for wanting the Real ILX back is to get the goddamn Oscar nerding off the film detrius thread.

wow okay complete misread there

i kiss you all; sorry for raising hopes. I mean "just about ready" in the context of "this has taken many many days, only a few more".

I'm pretty certain it'll be open for business tomorrow or Sat latest. I will probably just post here when it is, so I can bring the users back in slowly, then let the hordes return when it's all stable.

we aren't the horde?!

I'm an attention horde.

It's true that my main motive for wanting the Real ILX back is to get the goddamn Oscar nerding off the film detrius thread.

All you had to do was create an Oscar thread, champ.

MOI???

that is hardly necessary for "a few day" anyhoo

I can only see the favicon as a scene from a Roadrunner cartoon.

Oh - will Sandbox posts be available (searchable) through regular ILX? The main reason I miss regular ILX is b/c this place feels ephemeral. And b/c identities are unclear to me.

sandbox is sandbox, so near yet so far

i am sad that some of the thread over here will be marooned.

those threads will be like voyager 1, tweeting into the vast emptiness of space w/ only a few stalwarts around to receive their transmissions

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who is that distinguished-looking woman that Johnny Fever is helping?

lol

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