Posted on 02/22/2003 5:15:14 AM PST by kurtkloppenburg
I have a similar system for the sites I've developed. I use a binary suspend field (0 or 1) - when someone signs up, they're assigned a 0. However, I can quickly bring the person up on a special admin screen to flip it to 1, which the post/reply screen looks at before allowing the person to proceed.
In addition, a subroutine of the suspend process drops their email address into a banned list (so they can't re-register under a different name with the same confirm email address), as well as scrambling their existing password. That way, noone can re-use the user ID, and the existing user ID can't login without the new (30 digit) password.
While many FReepers like to critisize liberals for lacking a mean IQ, this post demonstrates that many times they are capable of stringing a fact pattern together. That being said, there is a certain point where one's approach towards these facts determines whether they are conservative or liberal.
The liberal cites these facts as a damning indictment of Amercica. The conservative realizes that certain decisions are made at certain times to advance US interests. However, the one thing libs don't seem to realize is that conservatives are willing to admit that situations have changed, and two, are willing to recify them.
I posit that the majority of FReepers where libs or toyed with lib ideas when they were younger. Blaming some deep conspiracy is simply an extension of one's life up until that point: parents, teachers, school admins, etc. It's only after you get a little older, oftentimes when you are now one of those 'authority' figures, that you discover it's all very much like Oz: there's no one behind the curtain.
Humans stumble from one situation to another - no one is really in control. It's a testament to our system that we have the checks & balances in place to help preserve our basic liberties. This is why, at it's foundation, libs live in a fantasy world: there entire wordview is based on a fallacy, that is, that someone or something is in ultimate control.
Wisdom is an acquired virtue.
Double your pleasure, Double your fun.
My question is:
"If it's really about oil, why don't we just drill ANWR?"
Never gotten an answer, and it really pisses off the greenie weenies...
I like that! May I use it???
Please outline what terror bill clinton perpetrated upon the world and where.
Zowie!!!
....From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
On we sweep, with threashing oar,
Our only goal will be the Western Shore.....
Will drive our ships to new lands,
to fight the horde, singing and crying:
Vahala, I am coming!
So are you then advocating snatching the third world farmer's melons before he can dump them on the market?
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