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  1. I really don't know why people don't like him. Yes... he IS 15 and 16. Yes, his voice isn't low. And yes... he hasn't hit puberty. But still. Is it because people are jealous about his singing talent or something? Because really, he does have a singing talent, and while his songs are all about love and he probably don't know enough about love, sometimes, I just think that people are jealous of his success and that is the main reason for all of the hate towards him.
    Just saying.

    And no, I'm not a Justin Bieber fan. It's just something I noticed.


    He doesn't have a singing talent, really, if you compare him to other artists (and even to people who aren't famous). He just has a good publicist.


    I know a lot of people won't like him because of his image (an annoying prepubescent boy who came from an affluent family but talks about lovin' up his "honies"). But a lot of his fans make the assumption that 'haters' are jealous of his success, rather than contemptuous. We hold contempt for his success because we know it's not all good: he shifts CDs like nobodies business and makes out like a bandit, yet he one of the most hated figures in music, and potentially the most hated teenager of all time (unless France used to have a teenage monarch during the 18th century, I don't know).
    I personally don't like him because he represents everything wrong with modern music. His songs are commercialized, produced in about 2 hours, and sell in excess of a million copies: all thanks to image. His fans claim to like his music, but if Justin Bieber didn't look like a non-threatening whiteboy with a punchable face (apparently it's quite sexy for 12 year old girls) he wouldn't have a career, nor would he have been noticed by Usher. The message is, if you have some sort of physical trait that appeals to the masses, you can succeed in a career that previously required talent.


    True that. If he wasn't such a "bishie", he would never be famous, really. First time I heard him sing, I thought it was a girl. He really doesn't compare to other singers: like Charice Pempengco for instance. Charice can actually sing (I don't like her because she's from my country); she has actual talent. The only reason Charice doesn't have as many fans as Justin Bieber is because 1) she's Asian (and a lot of Westerners, in my very, very honest opinion, could care less about Asians and would worship an American/Canadian/European more) and 2) she's a girl (boys won't openly declare being a fan as quick as girls).

    Anyway, lulz timez! The Onion on Justin Bieber.

  2. Well, I find out that Xisto - Web Hosting has been banning my members IP addresses so that they couldn't even access my site. So how the heck do we keep up the activity? So I ask them politely and professionally why they keep banning my members. This is their reply:

    Thank you for contacting Xisto - Web Hosting.com. I have unblocked this IP address(aa.bb.cc.dd). This IP was banned due to High SMTP connection and this IP was creating load on our server.
    I request you Please inform your members not to access multiple SMTP connection because it is creating load on our server. Otherwise we will be forced to ban your IP.

    Feel free to update this ticket if you have any further questions or queries regarding this issue.
    Thank you for your time and patience.


    Regards,

    Nik
    Support Executive
    Xisto - Web Hosting.com



    So, what IS high SMTP and multiple SMTP connections because it is being a very huge inconvenience?

  3. I only know the html code for this.

     

    <img src="imagelink" width="x" height="y">

    So, it'll appear something like this... And it seems to not work here, either. But anyway, yeah, this is a code example.

     

    <img src="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/404.png; width="550" height="316">

     

    When the original is like this:

     

    Posted Image

     

    Just, instead of making it smaller like I did, input bigger values to make it bigger.


  4. Well, this is getting a bit annoying and it's really affecting my site. My members (and sometimes even I) can't access our Xisto site and we're usually faced with TCP or 404 errors and it's decreasing our chances at maintaining the activity. Is there a problem with the server right now? We tried a lot of things from resetting our modems, flushing DNS and so on and so forth. Sometimes it would happen for a day and sometimes it would happen for a week. One of my moderators came to me saying that he hasn't been able to access the site for three days straight.Any known solution to this?


  5. no, i just use it in case i don't get the meaning of a word here or there. and it is the fastest way i know :). and if you checked my profile you will know that i am not a native english speaker, english is my second language. but between it is not helpful when others start using american accent, then i should google words and google's translation not useful at all :P.


    Oh, I see. I'm not a native English speaker too and it's also my second language. ^_^ The fastest way I learned is to write stories and/or roleplay. It isn't too obvious now that my English was bad, compared to back then - at least when it comes to writing. I stumble when I speak English (although I stumble when speaking my native language too xD I don't speak a lot).


    I don't use any homepage at all. I'm accessing the internet with my GPRS these days and that makes it hard for me to play within bandwidth range. So no homepage not even google. If i were to use any homepage i'll choose forum or some feedreader to keep track of blogs and sites.


    That's a bummer. D: GPRS is that slow?

    Looks like nobody else is about to post their homepages xD We're about the only ones active here.

  6. It is the mysterious Pokemon site of doom!

    - Balanced Pokemon Roleplaying that gives you the freedom you get when you write, yet balancing it out with game mechanics for a fair overall feel.

    Profit: -1.95$ (Seeing as I need to pay for Logic Plan Hosting xD)

    Visitor Count: 10 persons/a day

    Google Keyword: ...What is this?

    Promotion Tactics: ...None...

    Satisified? There's always room for more improvement and it needs more of it

    That's all? I think...


  7. Hello Adell :D Thanks for reply, I would prefer option no. 1 as I can't leave this site :P but I wouldn't be posting like crazy to earn quick mycents, so that I can renew my domain name, but surely will be posting, all I now need to know, will I get some grace period to renew my domain name and what will happen after invoice due date is over??


    Not sure, seeing as I'm much newer than you. But from what I've heard floating around here and there in the forums, I remember seeing something like they give a month or more warning before they cancel the service? But officially, no idea. You'll just have to hang in there until someone jumps in with the actual answer (probably anwii or web_designer to the rescue!) and keep on posting to keep on getting money.

    But no spamming, you hear me? Or I will hunt you down with a water gun.

  8. Hello everyone!
    I purchased a domain name last year i.e. on 2009/10/08, which is now going to expire within few days, and the best part of the story is I don't have enough mycents to renew it, I have money in alertpay but can't use it to add funds to Xisto - Support billing area as it doesn't support alertpay.
    So today, I was just playing with my client area and I clicked on order renewal for my domain name and an invoice was generated, all the mycents present in my client area were deducted and now I have $9.39 USD due invoices balance with due date: 2010/10/07
    So, just want to know if I failed to collect enough mycents what will happen after 2010/10/07?? Will I get the invoice cancelled and the deducted mycents back to my client area after this date? Will I get some extra days to renew my domain name after 2010/10/07 ?

    Also, when did the price of domain names rise??

    Thank you :D



    Well, there are two ways I can think of to fix this problem:

    1) Post here in Xisto for the next few days until you do get enough MyCents to pay for the domain name. Bring in the cash and bring in the domain name, cha ching.

    Or...

    2) Find another place that can give domain names (prolly a free but less better one) and e-mail all your members to tell them that you've changed domains in case they go looking for your site. (Optional) Then go back to solution number one and do it so you can revert it to the old domain name if you want to.

  9. I had a best friend, let?s call her Nikki. Nikki was my best friend back in high school. She still is a good friend, but now that she?s in California (or Texas, I?m not so sure), we barely have contact and we rarely get to chat online because of the different time zones. During high school, I felt that she was my only real friend because the other girls I hung out with were insincere. When she left, I stuck to hanging out with guy friends since they were easier to be with.First off, Nikki was supposed to be our batch?s valedictorian, if she hadn?t left for America that is. She was like a ?super student?? wait, no, she was THE ?super student?, having high grades in every subject without even trying ? and without even cheating, like a few other students on the honor roll that I know of; she was a genius and everybody liked her. Well, no one could hate her really, because she was good and humble towards everyone and she was like the tough baby of the batch (being the youngest, because she skipped a few grades). She was truly a spectacular gal.She was just another brain to compete with in the first few months of school, but by the second quarter, we became friends ? not best friends yet, but friends nonetheless. I was ?best friends? with this Japanese girl who?ve I?ve known since the fifth grade and Nikki was just another friend I could hang out with during break time. But then, I got to know her more as the weeks passed and soon ? we were virtually inseparable. We both like anime, computer games, reading, cooking and a lot of other stuff. We basically had the same hobbies and a lot more in common. When we found out that we lived so near to each other, it was a great revelation and we would visit each other and sleep over at each other?s house almost every weekend.She was practically the best friend I was looking for ? I mean, look at it from where I stood; my Japanese ?best friend? was an egotistical diva wannabe, who had no respect for others and only talked about herself. I was nothing but a ?sidekick? to her and it was all about her, her and her for the past four years. During our recess time, she talked about her morning, during our lunch break, she talked about her afternoon and before we go home, she talked of her plans that afternoon; it was all a monotonous and dreadful cycle where the day revolved around her and she didn?t even bother to ask ?How was your day?? If she DID talk about someone else, it would usually be in the nature of nasty gossip and things that would probably hurt someone else. Who wouldn?t get sick and tired of that? Who wouldn?t want to break free from that horror? Nikki was that big break from being just another of Sara?s (let?s call her that) ?sidekicks? and aside from being my big break, it was also a saving grace that opened my eyes and told me; ?What in hell have you been doing all these years with that friend abuser?!? and ?What the hell have you been thinking?!?By the end of the year, we were practically sisters (not in a girly way), since we hung out a lot both in and out of school? we were with each other almost 24/7 and yet, we never had a dull moment together ? we never got tired of each other?s company. Whether it was burning our fingers on a video game console, watching anime on television, reading books that were five hundred pages long or making a huge mess in the kitchen, it was never boring. We would always find something to do or something to talk about ? not some mindless, girly chat like others do though (we were like total tomboys anyway). We would talk about big things like our dreams and our plans, or we would talk about small, trivial things like what movie we should watch or about a joke we had heard. Every second together was fun, even more fun than the years I had with my Japanese ?best friend?. If talking failed, she would take out her guitar and I would start drawing ? It was a blissful sort of silence.?Why do I keep pointing out the good things about this?? some people ask; ?There must be a downside to this.? But I really can?t point out anything bad that has happened when we were friends and I believe that that is the point. When I?m friends with and especially when I am the best of friends with someone, it makes me forget about their faults and what they lack. It doesn?t matter if they were a bit dumb or had a bad habit I didn?t like, because if we were real friends ? and I mean really, REALLY real friends, it won?t matter as much anymore. The moment I look at someone and not judge them for their flaws, that is the moment that I know; ?This person is a real friend and someone I can trust and rely on.? And that?s how I am with Nikki. I do not think I can name a single aspect that I don?t like about her.I really, really, REALLY miss Nikki now that I think about it. During the days when there are no classes, I would stay up really late just to see if she was online, so we can catch up and chat. If there was one thing I wish that hadn?t happen, I wish Nikki hadn?t moved to America.


  10. To understand what I'm talking about, you may research Jack Connor's Will Spelling Count?

     

     

    Jack Connor is not your typical English teacher ? and no, I am not going to reveal that he is actually the real Superman?s alter ego nor does he have superpowers. He is just an ordinary and everyday person who teaches at Drexel University for a living in a rather different way.

     

    In his first few years of teaching, he is the laid back and fun professor everyone wants to have but nobody really listens to. Mr. Connor was ? he said and I quote; ?convinced that to have a significant effect on my students? writing, I had to demonstrate that I was not the stereotypical English teacher?. This shows him using the tactic of ?reverse psychology? on his student where he cares less for the students to probably care more? But this tactic quickly backfires and explodes in his face with rather bland and mediocre results from his too laidback students. He as quickly as the tactic explodes in his face just as fast realizes his mistakes and decides to shape up (or probably ship himself out and forget about teaching altogether). He adopts the total opposite of his previous little act and dons the intimidation tactic, which makes him the devil students so hate to see, but get slightly better results when it comes to their output, the worse in him bringing out the best in them.

     

    ?Will spelling count?? is how our essay opens up and it brings our attention to look for the answer. This is mainly because this is not a question you really just ask in an everyday situation ? most of us jump to the conclusion that when it comes to an English or a composition class that, spelling does count; but this essay throws Jack Connor in our face and he tells his students ?No. Of course it won?t? and we get to think ?Why?? It grabs our attention in a rather strange way.

     

    He tells us through time, helping us see how this man, Jack Connor, relays his experience as time passes and how he had changed overtime. He points out the difference of his ways in his first year of teaching freshman composition and how he went through his weekly classes. It goes on like that through his second year of teaching, then his third and until four years of teaching have passed where he finishes his narration until ?last year? (which would be 2002 if this was written in 2003, etc.) This chronological unraveling is clearly pointed out when he states things such as ?In my first year of teaching?, ?So, in my second year? and so on.

     

    Meanwhile, as commonly as the chronological approach is utilized in this essay, Jack Connor also utilizes rather simple yet effective modes of development such as narration, illustration and comparison and contrast.

     

    The narration is most likely the easiest and the most effective (as well as the most eye catching) form of development any writer (whether amateur or professional) can use. We can easily relate to a story rather than any explanation of quantum mechanics a genius may try to tell us. The use of quotation indicating the use of speech is the easiest way we could spot the use of narration (although this is not always the case), something really evident mostly in Jack Connor?s first, sixteenth and last paragraph.

     

    Frowning, taking a pipe out of my mouth and hesitating, I would try to look like a man coming down from some higher mental plane. Then, with what I hoped sounded like a mixture of confidence and disdain, I would answer; ?No. Of course it won?t.?

    But of course, narration would not be the only mode of development utilized by our writer. He also illustrates examples of how his tactics had affected those who he had taught. Situations where his authority over his students was lax and ignored led to poor outputs from his tutelages, while a stricter and more aggressive front had them scratching their pens on papers like there was no tomorrow for even a decent grade resulting in better work.

     

    In that first year, I was convinced that to have a significant effect on my students? writing, I had to demonstrate that I was not the stereotypical English teacher ? It was not to be. Week after week, students handed in papers that had obviously been dashed off in 30 or 40 minutes.- I stopped trying to make the class interesting. ? The students spent more and more time pushing their pen across paper in class.

    And just like how he had illustrated certain situations and certain outcomes, he had compared and contrasted those two different events ? his initial tactic of reverse psychology and his more recent intimidation tactic. He had told us how each and every action he had done had affected it ? both situations garnering different results. So to speak, he had shown simple causes and their simple effects, as quoted previously.

     

    Then we have the notoriously strange paragraph fourteen. We see a list of questions and followed with Jack?s answers to said questions and I find myself laughing at how silly yet how serious the answers are. We find the man?s rather subtle sense of humor, though his students must probably found him to be uptight. It would take a true genius to even think of doing a syllabus such as this (or so I believe). But, when comparing that paragraph with the rest of the essay, we see that the inevitable question; ?Does spelling count?? does not appear in the syllabus, prompting one of the student?s to ask it. It could have been done on purpose on Connor?s part.

     

    Finally, we get to the last paragraph and when we do a once over of the whole essay, we see that the introduction and the conclusion, we see the similarities and the differences. ?Will spelling count?? and he replies ?No. Of course it won?t.? or ?Yes. Of course it will.? and we see how greatly the change of two words (Yes or No and Won?t and Will) affects practically the whole idea of the content itself. It leaves us (or at least me) to wonder which one he felt was truly correct. I just want to read it again and again, just trying to figure out which is which and I could probably never get any closer to ?his? truth because it is his. I guess, when it comes to the importance of spelling, you?ll have to ask that question to yourself, won?t you? It probably does for me, but it?s a little instinctual on my part.

     

    ?Will spelling count?? Yes. No. Maybe? I could still never figure out what Connor?s was truly trying to say even if I had read it about a couple dozen times, which may mean that I am being rather dense or that was how he intended it to be. He might have intended it to be rather open ended ? a question floating in the air, just right there in front of you, but you can never grasp wholly. But I guess it does really take a true genius to write up something that keeps you wondering, doesn't it?


  11. When Japan went against the Western powers, specifically America, it was a great shock to those who were watching the world events as they happened. They weren?t expecting Japan to attack this super power, especially when these two were technically ?allies?. How did the West view Japanese ?imperialism?? What were the preparations made by the Japanese to go against the Americans? What were the reasons of Japan?s engagement of war with the West? What was the aftermath of the behavior of Japan as an imperial power?

     

    Perhaps, to the Americans, Japanese ?trying? to be an imperial power as a silly joke to them; the Westerners had all the power, whereas Asia was all but a hunting ground for them. They probably viewed Japanese ?imperialism? like they would a child who was throwing a tantrum and taking toys from other children. But, they could have also viewed it as a threat ? Japan was a very patriotic nation and their armies were forces to be reckoned with.

     

    Japan, with its long history of war, knew that they would not stand a chance with Western powers during a long term battle, but they had an opening in a short term one. So, while planning the battle out, they were said to take over certain parts of China and Korea, in order to have more resources and territory to give up if ever they lost ? war was a zero sum game of land and money after all, sometimes even more than just those.

     

    Nationalism?s focus may be the closest we can get to understanding why the Japanese had fought against these Western powers. The Western were considered great and powerful and if they were to win a war against them, that would make them equal in ranks with these super powers. America, Europe, Russia and other countries had power, prestige and wealth and they saw war as an opportunity to take these ? But they had to gamble some of their own as well, thus the taking of lands from China and Korea (and soon after the Russo-Japanese War, they got control over Russian territories as well). When they would win, it would bring in more opportunities for them, most likely in the economic sector.

     

    Japan trying to be an imperial power and taking territories from China, Korea and Russia was a good thing? Going against America and probably initiating World War II was a bad thing. Not only did they lose a lot of their territories, but they are now under American rule and such. They are not allowed to form a military power and do a pre-emptive strike nor can they wield nuclear weapons, like most other current super powers of the world today. Needless to say, the aftermath of Japan?s actions had been a downfall for them.

     

    How about you? What do you think was the reason Japan attacked America?


  12. Have you had any experience teaching little devils? A whole bunch of them? I have, and I don't think I would become a teacher... EVER.Teaching at a nearby barangay?s Day Care Center has been an eventful and a promising experience; never have I before done actual civil service nor did anything that was outside of my comfort zone ? which teaching kids was.I, being the eldest sister among three siblings, I have experience dealing with children ? but not a whole class full of them? it was really overwhelming.Children of day care age are tricky little imps that are hard to manage. Their attention span is as short as it can ever be for a human being and their tempers are unmanageable if given the reason to spark. They are volatile things in a small bundle that I dare not to try and break (not that I would try).I taught kids along with classmates for two semesters as required by the University (although I am not taking Education and we got the easier of the tasks given to classes as others were tasked with more manual labor). With the aid of the kid?s teachers, we could manage to go through the three hours without any ugly results. I am happy to say that I had gotten through this ?obstacle?.Me being part of the story telling group, our usual routine would consist of an opening prayer, having the kids use clay or paper to create an object ? with which we would create the story from. Myself, being a writer of horror and gore (and all the other dark topics you might be able to think of) had a hard time adjusting to the younger audience, my readers usually being people of my age and older. I found that making stories for children was not my forte (nor anyone else?s from our group)... My German classmate even tried to "brainwash" the kids and taught them politics, although they really did not take him seriously.We, of course, did not have that routine all the time ? because it was a case-to-case thing. During Valentines Day, we had the children make Valentines card for their parents while our last day together, the children were practicing for their graduation so we took to watching their song and dance numbers.I am honestly? still not very fond of children and the only little kid I can truly tolerate and love is my younger sister, although this experience may have taught me to tolerate them a bit more (even by just a little).Moving on to other experiences I had during my time at the Day Care Center, I learned to respect teachers more. They have such a hard job taking care of and teaching kids (I bet high school teachers have it worst). The teachers at the center were very helpful to us during our ordeals.Aside from that, there were times where we went to the center, ready to teach and found that the students weren?t there because they had no classes. They really should have informed us before hand because it is troublesome to travel to there (especially to those with homes far away) and find that we came there for nothing. There were times that the minutes seemed to pass so slowly and there were times that an hour felt like a minute. It is always a different experience. The children were? tolerable during the course.All in all, I wouldn?t mind teaching kids again, but I probably won?t be volunteering for it either. I?m just happy I got through this. :3


  13. I've been browsing the forum and all that, when under Entertainment I see the words 'Naruto Forum & Game' and I immediately clicked it because I am a Naruto fan, so I was curious as to why Naruto has its own category. Turns out, it's not a category but a link to an entirely different forum.So, bells were ringing in my mind and I asked myself if Xisto affiliated with other sites?So, I want to ask how and what are the requirements to be affiliated with Xisto?I know it's somewhat ironic when I hate people who advertise, but affiliating is a totally different thing. Advertising is parasitic, but affiliating is a mutual give and take relationship, so I am interested in affiliating with Xisto.


  14. Those are probably your 2 MyCents.
    Interesting point of view. There are some free webhosts without advertisements. I don't like free webhosts who put advertisments on the pages of the users. This is because I like to decide myself what appears on my webpages.


    :D


    One thing about that reply that pissed me off, if you think Post 4 Host is so 1995 and it's so outdated, then WHAT IN HELL'S BLAZES ARE YOU DOING HERE ANNOYING US WITH YOUR POINTLESS ****? If you love those free hosting so much, get out of here, get their services and leave us be, we like it here. All you're doing is offending a forum that you're new to, dissing it and advertising other hosting places, REALLY, it's annoying.

    I would understand topics like this and the other topics related to this that you started from an old customer of Xisto and Xisto who tried this for a long time and other free hosting because they actually COMPARED the two, but you're a new person who just got here and you're already "complaining" about the services.

    I'm new here, and I've had their service a for a few weeks and I have to say it's been great. The prices are understandable and their customer service is fast, so no complaining from me.

  15. Gaia Online - I come on here occasionally


    D: Gaia = Hate

    They banned me and accused me for being a bot, that's why I usually tell people that "I am a living and breathing human being" and they banned me after I just payed some dollars for the stuff there (which is very expensive because my 50 of my currency is equal to one US dollar), but this is not a rant thread on how I hate Gaia

    Not to mention there are a lot of lurking perverts there.

    Again, not a rant thread about Gaia Online and its hidden evils so I'll shut up about that.

    @deadmad
    Bit.ly is for making long urls shorter? Cool, I've been looking for something like that.

    @webdesigner
    You use the Google Translator for studies?

  16. lul adell last time i checked farmers go on farmville? and I didn't know farmers had computers xD i thought they used wifi imbedded in there brains :)/End off topic randomness
    /watches sunset with dab and adell then goes walking on the beach with dab and adell then goes dancing in the rain by himself :(
    /End lies


    You know I have a funny story.

    My grandma was addicted to Farmville and played it twenty four seven for a year (YES! My grandma.) But I think she realized her addiction, so you know what she did? She made a mini "farm" in her backyard and plants herbs and vegetables she can actually use for cooking.

    Moral story?

    Farmville can actually teach people to farm... lollllllllll

    I do like sunsets though (not in the romantic way but taking photos of them - my family is a very "photographic" family, we all love taking photos and my parents invests in cameras since we also use them for the family business, although I'm more into editing the photos). And I like the beach (again, not in the romantic sense but because I love the water!). But I don't dance in the rain, I'll get sick D:

  17. Over the the summer, I pretty much spent all my time on video games (I kind of regret it though). Anyway, I usually just played MMOs on the computer like Maplestory, Mabinogi, etc. Sometimes, I went to my friends house to play Modern Warfare 2 but that's about it. Now that school has begun, I seldom play video games.
    I also watch some Naruto Shippuden when I get bored. Right now, I am around episode 80ish right now so I am pretty far away from where most people are.


    I used to play a lot of MMORPG like Ragnarok Online, MU, Tantra, Gunbound, ROSE and everything that was out there during 2000 until 2006 or so, but I ended up being an addict and spending so much money that sometimes I skipped meals, that's why I stopped. It was fun back then, but now that I look at it, the money I spent could have been used for something more worth it. (On estimate I spent 50k of my currency or 1000 US dollars? So horrible) I still do play, sometimes, on the free Ragnarok servers like DarkRO, but not so much, I'm sticking to console games nowadays... (I have a PSP, our PSX, PS1 and PS2 are now broken so I'm looking forward to buying a PS3)

    Busy with Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep and Little Big Planet on PSP.

    My little brother plays Modern Warfare when he's at our uncle's house, since we're still saving for a PS3.

    And I don't watch the anime anymore, because my net is as slow as heck so I just stick to the manga which is just awesome (no fillers!).

    I usually just spend extra money on cosplays nowadays. (I cosplayed all the Akatsuki members and I'm looking forward to get enough money to cosplay a Munak).

    Oh, sorry, I talked too much, keh.

    And yeh, there are a lot of interesting topics here (old ones anyway, the quality of topics has been decreasing lately *cough*). The first semester at my university is almost done (15 more days) so I'm trying to think of making a debate topic somewhere here for the fun of it.
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