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  3. Posted

     

    Did he fall out of the tree? I mean, a growing number of centenerians are dying after falls; these people used to lie or sit in a wheelchair in the past

    Well Slocombe was pictured in a wheelchair last year but died from complications from a fall last month.Could have fallen out of bed or when trying to get out the chair.

     

     

    Or perhaps he crashed his wheelchair. :wheelchair:

     

    (Finally a use for that smiley!)

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    MHDP - Multilingual Handicap Deadpool

    The rules version 0.9

    1. Competition period
    1.1 The competition runs during the tropical year that starts on the March equinox 2016, 20 March 2016 04:30 UTC and ends 20 March 2017 10:28 UTC.

    2. Competitors
    2.1 Competitors must be members of Deathlist Forum.
    2.2 Each member of Deathlist Forum may enter one team.
    2,3 A member becomes a competitor by posting a team in this topic ("MHDP"), or sending a PM containing the team to Magere Hein.

    2.4 Only teams entered before the Competition period compete.

    3. Teams and picks
    3.1 A competitor may choose to give his or her team a name. If no name is chosen, the competitor's Deathlist member name is used.
    3.2 Once posted or PM'd, the team is fixed.
    3.3 Each team consist of 20 picks. One of those picks may be assigned as Joker. If no Joker is assigned in the entry post or PM, the first pick mentioned is used as Joker.
    3.4 A competitor may assign up to two substitutes, and a substitute Joker, who will take the place of picks who die between posting or PMing the team and the start of the competition.
    3.5 Picks must be people aged 18 or older. Minors, animals, plants, corporations, mythical beings and anthropomorphic personifications cannot score and are not replaced by substitutions.
    3.6 Picks must be named unambiguously. In case of similar names for different people, additional information like day of birth, nationality or reason for celebrity must be supplied. In case of confusion the intended pick is considered to be the one who didn't die.

    4. Scores and standings
    4.1 All teams start the competion at a score of 0.
    4.2 When a pick dies within the competition period, teams who have that pick as a member may score points.
    4.3 To score, one or more Qualifying Obits must be posted in a separate topic ("MHDP obits") within the deadline. From the number of languages in which obits are found a multiplier is calculated that will be applied to the pick's basic score. Each team will be awarded that score. A team for which the pick was the Joker will awarded double that score.
    4.4 After all scores are added to previous scores, a new standing is calculated and posted in this topic.
    4.5 The team that has the highest score at the end of the competition period wins.
    4.6 In the event of a dead heat on points, the winner will be selected according to the following criteria, applied in this order:
    4.6.1 The most hits (i.e. correctly-chosen deceased celebs)
    4.6.2 The youngest average age of hits
    4.6.3 The most amusing team name

    5. Obit qualification
    5.1 To qualify as an obit, an online or printed text must mention the name of a particular and identifiable person and that that person died. More evidence may be required to convince me that the person mentioned is the one on a team claiming points.
    5.2 Anything in writing from a source that has status as a reliable news source qualifies, provided that:
    5.2.1 It can be identified as a news source, and
    5.2.2 it can be reasonably translated e.g. by Google translate.
    5.3 Reliable news sources are: newspapers, television stations, press agencies, government information agencies, both national and local, and the websites of all those. Dedicated news websites, sports news websites and such are ok. A corporation news page may qualify if it has a demonstrable history of reliable communications.
    5.4 The qualifying communication must be in text. Spoken messages do not qualify for reason of translation, stills or footage of text may do if the text can be easily converted to a translatable text. Scans of newsprint may qualify if the source can be identified from the scan.
    5.5 Social media like twitter, facebook and linkedin, encyclopedias like Wikipedia, advertisements, internet fora and anything that is user editable are not reliable news sources. Youtube may be, but only its content, not comments.
    5.6 In case of doubt, reliable news source must be demonstrated by evidence. For future reference lists will be maintained of internet domains that have been evaluated as reliable news source and unreliable (or not a news source) respectively.

     

    6. Scoring
    6.1 The value of the basic death depends on the person's age:

    • 18-29 years: 12 points
    • 30-49 years: 10 points
    • 50-59 years: 9 points
    • 60-69 years: 8 points
    • 70-79 years: 7 points
    • 80-89 years: 6 points
    • 90-99 years: 5 points
    • 100-109 years: 4 points
    • 110+ years: 3 points

    6.2 On top of this, bonus points are awarded as follows:

    • ghost.gif Unique pick: +3 if you were the only competitor to pick that person.
    • shock.gif Unnatural cause: +3 for murder, suicide or accident (but not state executions).

    6.3 Language multiplier

    6.3.1 A multiplier is calculated, according to the number of different languages in which an obit can be shown.

    6.3.2 Showing means posting a link to a website showing the obit, a picture or a scan, and a translation if required. I can read Dutch, English, German and French, so I won't need translations for obits in those languages. When there's reason for doubt, it's a claimant's duty to provide evidence that a proposed obit is written in a particular language.

    6.3.3 A dialect is, for scoring purposes, a language when it has a Wikipedia.

    6.3.4 Everybody may propose obits, not just contenders.

    6.3.5 Once an obit qualifies, it counts, it cannot be retracted.

    6.3.6 Of each dead pick only one obit counts for each language.

    6.3.7 The value of this multiplier is

    1 + log2(l)

    where log2 is the logarithm to base 2 and l is the number of different languages for which obits are found and approved. This means that each new language increases the multiplier, but by rapidly diminishing amounts:

     

    l multiplier

    1 1

    2 2

    3 2.585

    4 3

    10 4.322

    25 5.644

    32 6

    256 9

     

    6.4 The basic score from 6.2 is multiplied by the language multiplier.

    6.5 That score, rounded to the nearest integer, is the final score.

    6.6 joker.gif Joker: Take the total of all the above and double it.

     

    7. Deadline for obits
    7.1 After the death of a pick has been mentioned in this topic, (with or without an obit link) there's a limited time to propose obits.

    7.2 This period ends one week after UTC+0 following the first mention.

    7.3 Proposals entered after this time will be ignored.

    7.4 Only after this period the score for a pick will be calculated and a new score board posted.

    7.5 Additional time for evalutation of obits may be awarded as need demands and reason permits.

    7.6 For all time calculations the forum server time is used.

    As an example: Christy O'Donnell's death was mentioned first in the DDP topic on 09 Feb 2016 - 7:05 PM CET (UTC+1). That's 09 Feb 2016 - 18:05 PM UTC+0 (GMT). The deadline ends 10 Feb 2016 + 7 = 17 Feb 2016 - 0:00 UTC.

     

    8 Additional rules
    8.1 Prisoners on "Death Row" i.e. awaiting state execution can only score points if they die of other causes. Picks that are on trial or are put on trial and are found guilty and executed are not disqualified but will not claim the unnatural points bonus.

    8.2 Hostages of terrorist organisations. We have no absolute knowledge of whether they are alive, dead or when they supposedly died. Terrorist organisation members are included but there has to be official verification of when they died from both sides of the conflict (i.e. "The West" and the terrorists themselves).

    8.3 In all cases these rules don't cover Magere Hein is the sole arbitrator, but debate much encouraged.


    I dropped the party pooper bonus and the Unlucky 13. If somebody has a suggestion for a replacement: shoot!

     

    I decided to stay with the deadline starting when a death is mentioned first, not when the pick dies. Even in this day and age the news may take some time to travel.

     

    I suppose my new multiplier rule is the most important change. Not capped, but more languages rapidly diminish in value.

    Again, additions, comments and ridicule are welcome. From them I'll compile v 1.0 and it's game on!

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  5. Posted · Edited by Magere Hein
    Notification of title change

     

    This thread title reminds me...

     

    Why is it whenever a General Election is held outside of Britain, in the media when they are reported the s is tagged on at the end. For example "the Croatian president has dissolved parliament so there'll be fresh elections". Yet here it's always referred to as the General Election (no "s")?

     

    Always puzzled me that...

     

    (the things that get me riled up at half-eleven on a Saturday night. There must be more to life than this?)

    Context (maybe). Many MPs are elected, so there are elections all round the country, but only one parliament is elected so there's only one election.

    My two-penn'orth fwiw.

    (and I agree, this thread should refer to the Irish General Election).

     

    The Dutch word for election is verkiezing, plural verkiezingen. The election of the Dutch Tweede Kamer (the part of parliament that occasionally does something useful) is called Tweede Kamerverkiezingen, so I guess Dutch has the same problem.

     

    ETA: I changed this topic's title to "2016 Irish General Election" per official Dáil Éireann web page.

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    People, get used to President Trump. He's going to be the nominee, now it's just whether he can beat Hillary (or Bernie - but mostly Hillary). Cruz is giving another victory speech. Don't be fooled - he lost by a mile. It's Trump.

    We're not there yet, I mean primaries aren't the presidential elections, but should Mr. T. be elected, we (i.e. Western Europe) should reconsider the alliance.

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    Johnny Murphy, Joey 'The Lips' Fagan in The Commitments and Seamus in Angela's Ashes, has died aged 71.

     

    Edit: it's Johnny, FFS! and he was 71 not 72.

    The Commitments - absolutely one of my all time favorite movies forever and ever! :wub:

     

    Say it once, say it loud: "I'm black and I'm proud."

     

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    On Tuesday, following their Grammy loss, Rory wrote in his blog that Joey said she was "sorry we didn't win us a Grammy."

    "Then jokingly, I added, ' there's always next year,' " Rory wrote.

    She smiled back at me and said, 'Yes ... next year.'

     

    :blink:

    Told ya she was lying about her cancer. Thought it would win her the Grammy, make people notice them and their music. It didn't work. Now she's going to be magically cured!

     

     

    Serves us right, for being so naive.

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    So I'm signed on to a different computer. Asked to change my pw cuz of course it doesn't recognize me.

    So it sends email to me with new pw. I type in pw and sign on anew.

     

    So.... now I go into my settings to change my pw to something I would like, and enter the pw from the email, my new pw twice, and I keep getting told there's 'an error with your CURRENT pw'. Oh that's right...the one YOU sent me and that I am here signed on with! So I cut/paste it two more attempts, same fahkin thing. So I type the pw in the email by hand (just in case it didn't like cut/paste) and same thing.

     

    I'm sitting here with the email still open looking at the message with the pw YOU provided. Now DL says that's NOT my 'current pw'.

    So you managed to log in using the new pw provided by the forum, but you can't change it to something else. I have no idea why that is, but often it's a matter of typing (or copy and pasting) the required bits carefully.

     

    My advice is: log out, log in again and if that succeeds, try to change your pw again. If that fails, PM me, I can help.

    How exactly?

    You shouldn't be able to interfere with passwords?

    We're Admins. We can interfere with anything here.

     

     

    On all forum software I've ever come across you are only able to use email resets to change passwords, and admins certainly would never be able to know passwords of users or change them out of that system. The security's for this are obvious and I really hope they are in place on this forum.

     

     

    I cannot read passwords, they're not stored in the database. I can set passwords. That should suffice in this case.

  21. Posted

    Today in 1677 Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza died, aged 44, possibly from silicosis.

     

    413px-Spinoza.jpg

     

    In 1656 he was kicked out of the Sephardic Jewish congregation of Amsterdam for herecy. His ideas about an abstract God still are considered heretical by many monotheistic theologies. They're much alive today in debates among non-believers and non-orthodox Christians.

     

    I've read little of his work, just as I have read little philosophy, nor theology; not my hobbies.

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  22. Posted

    DL is leading the way in demonstrating its non racist credentials.

    Isn't that the same as saying: we're equal opportunity ghouls?

     

    Can we not have a thread titled 'Is it coz I is Black?' where we can discuss the famous and infamous 'non white' celebrities??

    Nah, better not. It might lead to awkward questions.

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  24. Posted

    So I'm signed on to a different computer. Asked to change my pw cuz of course it doesn't recognize me.

    So it sends email to me with new pw. I type in pw and sign on anew.

     

    So.... now I go into my settings to change my pw to something I would like, and enter the pw from the email, my new pw twice, and I keep getting told there's 'an error with your CURRENT pw'. Oh that's right...the one YOU sent me and that I am here signed on with! So I cut/paste it two more attempts, same fahkin thing. So I type the pw in the email by hand (just in case it didn't like cut/paste) and same thing.

     

    I'm sitting here with the email still open looking at the message with the pw YOU provided. Now DL says that's NOT my 'current pw'.

     

    So you managed to log in using the new pw provided by the forum, but you can't change it to something else. I have no idea why that is, but often it's a matter of typing (or copy and pasting) the required bits carefully.

     

    My advice is: log out, log in again and if that succeeds, try to change your pw again. If that fails, PM me, I can help.

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