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Citizen Premier
in spite of public outcry Apr 12, 2005
Don't go crazy over this story, but it looks like Wisconsin is considering legalizing cat-hunting. I presume people being bothered by cats coming onto their property is the driving factor. The article doesn't state if any special rules would be enacted to regulate cat hunting, or if it would be done just like the hunting of any other wildlife.
Proposing a bill like this just seems like asking for trouble. Yes, cats kill lots of local wildlife, but addressing the issue in this manner will just make pet owners paranoid and cat-hunters ostracized.
Maybe it's just a purposeful distraction bill, like when Bush tried to apply health insurance to pets.
(n.b.: Yahoo! is a cruddy news source. When San Diego was host to the Painted Lady migrations, Yahoo! News identified them as monarch butterflies. There may be important elements of the story left out.)
Random Guy, your avatar is a pretty big file. 700kb that has to load every time someone opens the page. Is that okay? Because it has the potential to max out someone's bandwidth pretty quickly (not mine... whoever is hosting the file).
Just a random guy
in in a hospital, out of a long coma Member
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 08:23 AM
Should be, i can always check. It seems alot of people on this one game forum have big avatar files and use the same hosting server.
Just a random guy
in in a hospital, out of a long coma Member
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 08:23 AM
I could always take it down if it's causing a problem here, though. I just like it cuz its flashy
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA Member
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 08:53 AM
Alex, you could create a standard for avs. Like...N x N pixels only. My friend did that on his page, and a few people got pissed, but then changed their avs...and no one complained after. Anyone new just played by the rules or had their avs removed by site administrator.
It's not causing a problem here. But people don't like it if you hotlink images from their server without their permission, especially big image files. It's considered stealing their bandwidth. Just make sure that whoever is hosting this image is okay with it being used like this.
Hairy Houdini
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 09:41 AM
People often ask me: "Hairy, will you show us your avatar?". No. "Don't you HAVE an avatar?" Yes. "Then why can't we see it?" Hmmm. Noneya.
I've started to think of people in terms of their avatars. They're as representative as faces, if somewhat more open to misrepresentation - for example, I may be large, but I'm not stellar sized ,well, maybe some parts
Since Hairy won't share his avatar I've just sorta created one in my mind for him. Something akin to Marty Ingels on a bad hair day, but hey, it got him Shirley Jones. (Marty, not Hairy - unless there's a side to Hairy we haven't seen yet)
Winona
in USA Member
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 11:17 AM
I'm fatter than my avatar, brown-green eyes instead of blue, and the hair was right till a week or two ago.
