Now this, is a mystery.....

[freaKs]

Originally Posted by selders59

If you don't mind, please remove the quote from devils rejects as it is alittle offensive especially with the "gd" word in it. After all young people use this site to. So please remove.I respect freedom of speech and religion but also respect my freedom not tto wantt things like quotes from devils rejects on these sites.

if uou find that offensive, or anyo e elses sig or avatar for that matter, you can coose, in your optio s, not to view others avatars or sig. but, out of respect for those who find it offensive, I have removed it. frankly, I do find itpretty lame. Simply don't look at it, is my opinion. besides all that, i removed it to elliminate controversy. It took alot for me to do that, since I usually stand for freedom of speach.

[overbyc1]

Not to start a war, but just as much as you don't like his sig, I care nothing for yours. It does go both ways. But as John says, just block the sigs.

[pastert33]

Originally Posted by overbyc1

Not to start a war, but just as much as you don't like his sig, I care nothing for yours. It does go both ways. But as John says, just block the sigs.

Everyone has different opinions...now as far as this problem goes, I had a problem like this before where my storage card got corupted somehow. I reformatted the card and put everything back on it and then I was good to go.

[Laos101]

Sounds to me like your backup battery is bad. This is the battery that stores your BIOS info (like Time) between batteries or a hard reset, but I could be wrong.

Something seems to be causing a half hard reset or sorts.

[patrickgies]

Hello, this is a topic that bothers me greatly.

I don't like how our country has become so quick to be offended over something that they don't need to look at or read or listen to. I am not picking on anyone here because I don't even see the sig. anymore, but I am saying it in general. Since when has our country became so lame and have no back bone. If we have a song on the radio and someone calls in saying that this song offends them, bam its off. Yet, the other listeners that liked it, can't hear it anymore unless they buy it. So, this one person ruins it for many more masses. Which, since when has our country became someone that goes by the minorities. Don't we elect a president by the majority of votes, not the minority of the votes. This should be the same way for public speech, television and radio. They all have means of being turned off and ignored.

If one person doesn't like it, why should the rest suffer.

[kayfouroh]

Originally Posted by freaKs

I have removed it.

I wouldn't have. Just because someone doesn't agree with what you are saying doesn't mean you should stop saying it.

I mean, that's even how Christianity started.. people didn't like what Judism was preaching so rather than stopping what they were saying, they did their own thing.


(I bring up Christianity because that's what really sparked this garbage martyr posting train)

[nuguy]

For better or worse, that is how this country 'protects' itself from offensive things.

And no, the last two loosing presidents had the most actual votes.

I nearly always view from my titan, so I haven't seen the sigs in this or any other post, but the long and short is - we have a wide variety of people here and I would hope that we as users could keep the profain and offensive off the site by our own choices.

Saying that you don't have to read it is a cop-out. This is a forum - people read in a form - there is really no other way to fully utilize a forum except to read it.

IF I punched you in the face and you said; hey knock it off I don't like that. Would it really work to say; hey if you don't like it you don't have to stand there?

There are unwritten rules called morays - they basicly are the unwritten personal laws of life today - while they are not punishable by law - they are generally shunned by most people.

There is no law against walking down a street in Sturgis, WI with a t-shirt that says "all bikers are big gay fags and should have a brick stuffed where the sun don't shine" yet if you choose to do so the morays dictate that someone would ask you (most likely not very nicely) to take it off (i.e. stop displaying that offensive stuff) and I'm guessing you would remove it. If not and you chose to stand up for freedom of all speech, you might be left a bit... speechless.

The above is an example of a moray in action, and to a much lesser degree so is this thread.

When it comes down to it this is actually a private forum and Mike has the final say. Yet this is also a community and standard morays apply - more people find "gd" offensive than a christian statement, that doesn't make one right and one wrong, however one will draw more fire than the other. If someone chooses to display there freedom of speech that goes against common morays they will atract more attention.

Most of the time those going against morays with there free speech are looking for attention, I.e. the person who dyes there hair pink and shaves it into a mohawk is not necessarily a bad person - however don't get offended when people look at your head like you just got out of a spaceship....

note: I am not threatening to punch anyone, just trying to make a point.

[kayfouroh]

Originally Posted by nuguy

IF I punched you in the face and you said; hey knock it off I don't like that. Would it really work to say; hey if you don't like it you don't have to stand there?

There are unwritten rules called morays - they basicly are the unwritten personal laws of life today - while they are not punishable by law - they are generally shunned by most people.

Last time I checked, assault is punishable by law and generally shunned by most people.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by nuguy

This is a forum - people read in a form - there is really no other way to fully utilize a forum except to read it.

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Sure, but you DON'T have to look at all these sigs, you simply block them in your preferences.

I did that at least a year ago & it made the forum FAR more enjoyeable (& a lot faster to load also)

It annoys me a little bit that I had to do this, as some of the sigs contain valuable info/links to ROMS, links to handy programs etc & those I wouldn't mind reading. I just got totally fed up with waiting for these half page flash sigs to load that where nothing but a scene from some idiots favorite movie & had nothing whatever to do with PPC's however........

~John

[nuguy]

Agreed, that wasn't my best example there was it...

The only point of that snippet was a parallel to "if you don't like it, don't read it".

I certainly see your point though...