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Thanks to all of you who bothers to read this useless page

Criticism

I don't mind be criticized myself, though you should do it on the talk page. Thanks. Hyacinth 08:17, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Smokies

Nice work at the new smokie article - I don't really know much about it but thought it required an article seeing as how it's been in the news a bit. Cheers, violet/riga (t) 15:00, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Picture

What a nice picture of gumbo! It makes me want to have some sent in for lunch right now!! 67.100.50.200 16:53, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

No, these pictures were taken by Jon Sullivan (http://www.jonsullivan.com/) not me. He kindly publishes these images on his PDphoto.org (http://www.pdphoto.org/) so we can use it. His food photos are fantastic! -- Toytoy 19:16, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

Wikistory

I'm utterly confused by your latest entry - aurochs is a noun, not an adjdective! Thryduulf 14:11, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I used Random Page to fetch a keyword. And I liked Sofia Rivera so much that I just ignored every grammar rules. I feel guilty about it. Are you going to sue me? -- Toytoy 16:33, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Image talk:Village pump clear.png

Comment. Sinreg SV|t 04:41, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Leonardos

You said on VFD, "I found three duplicate high school stubs that I think the subject itself is not noteworthy. How do you think?".

Please read Wikipedia:Schools, it may give you the answer you seek. Yours, Radiant_* 08:48, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Did you know?

Golf balls and 333 dimples

I saw your comment on Talk:Golf balls. I've asked the question on the reference desk as I'm interested in the answer too. Maybe it has something to do with 3*3*37? --HappyCamper 00:48, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Executive Order 13233

Kudos and thanks for your contributions to the EO 13233 article, Toytoy!. Please look at the link, on the Robots exclusion file article, to a webpage describing the extensive use of such coding by the White House website - to veil the scope of malfeasance perpetrated by the illegitimate administration. The Robots article hasn't been fleshed out yet, but there is a tangible degree of relevance perhaps meriting inclusion of a Wikilink in the EO 13233 article. Perhaps you would consider revisiting the issue after the Robots article is better developed? Ombudsman 04:22, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I did not notice that! If I were a watchdog, I'll use a website grabber to dowwnload every possible WH pages everyday, and post it on my website, say, www.whitehouseforrobots.com, and let Google, Yahoo!, MSN, everyone index it. You can configure your own site grabber to ignore robot.txt. I think most WH pages belong to public domain. Am I right?

The robot.txt, I guess, is not a part of the Executive Order 13233. It may not even have a legal background. Anyway, laws are irrelevant when it comes to the Bushland. I guess you may want to put this information in some other relevant pages, say White House. Don't forget to recheck if the robot.txt files are still there. -- My true identity: The Depth-Challenged Throat 04:37, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

What about ...

... a master article, Torture and abduction by the U.S. Government? Drawing together all documented cases, spotlighting rendition and (as far as possible) the existence of a network of secret police camps? AI, Red Cross, Human Rights Watch could be sources, and of course it would have to summarize and link to Bagram et al... thoughts? BrandonYusufToropov 12:25, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I think some people will not like it. That's why we create individual articles for each exposed, alleged or proven case of abuse. During and after the WW2, many German POWs were well-treated by U.S. soldiers. They became friends of the U.S. As a Chinese Christian, I am amused by the generally sub-standard treatment of non-POWs offered by the U.S. today. Maybe it's because the Iraqis and Afghans lack the power to retaliate. If U.S. soldiers abused German POWs, German soldiers would had abused U.S. POWs as well. Therefore they evolved a live and let live mutual respect. However, this is not the case with this unfair war. Also not the case with most invasions after the Vietnam war. If the North Vietnamese had a strategic air force, the U.S. would not dare to do the carpet bombing and chemical warefare.

I think one article at a time is what we can do today. The U.S. involvement will end someday. Possibly not much better than the Vietnam retreat. But the Iraqi civil war among conflicting factions may continue for years to come. I hate to see it happen. -- Toytoy 13:23, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

I take your point, but I can't see the fact that such an article would not be popular as a reason it shouldn't exist. (Each article for each individual case is not necessarily popular, but together they add up to a trend, and it's an important trend the mainstream US media is, for whatever reasons, not reporting.) Anyway, it's worth thinking about ... many thanks for your insights, which I wish policymakers shared ... BrandonYusufToropov 13:58, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

That's why I used the term "pattern of abuse" by the New York Times. -- Toytoy 14:24, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Adam Lopez

I have heard him pitch a B7 (under C8), but not a C#8. The same person has made three edits. I'm trying to verify if the top of the piano is C7 or C8 (we hear talk of people pitching above the top of a piano, but at c8, it would be ridiculous). I'm calling music stores now! I would suspect that Guinness would have updated the website, if the record were true? Antares33712 14:14, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The order is C D E F G A B, am I right? I hated music classes when I was a kid. I am placing links that lead to our discussion on several related pages. Hopefully people in the know will answer the questions in a few days. God, they are not human. How could you sing like them? -- Toytoy 14:31, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

So right. If you can, go to www.minnieriperton.com. See if you can listen to You Take My Breath Away, and imagine a MAN being able to pitch almost one octave higher than her high note (which sounds appropriate for advertising the arctic tundra :-) Antares33712 15:38, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oh, if you go, click on lyrics and audio (upper left corner), then the fifth album cover from the left on the top row. She is wearing a black hat and red blouse with curly shoulder-length hair. Then select You Take My Breath Away. The high note she hits is not near what Adam Lopez is reputed to being able to do. Antares33712 15:44, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The direct link to Riperton's You Take My Breath Away is http://www.minnieriperton.com/sub/1sub/musica/music/takemybreath.rm . However, http://www.freehostz.com/notes_and_octaves/minnieriperton.html says Riperton could only reach C7, that's much lower than F#7. -- Toytoy 16:02, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Record for C#8, but he hit an E8 on TV?

• Question, if Adam Lopez hit an E8 (E four octaves above Middle C), which is higher than C#8 (the notes start C,D,E,F,G,A,B, then C one octave higher than the starting C, with a # being halfway between the C and the D), why isn't the Guiness Record for E8? I mean, if he hit the E8 on television, shouldn't he have gotten credit for the E8, not the C#8. If you listen to Minnie Riperton's You Take MY Breath Away, the piercing, fresh from the Arctic high note she hits is F#7 for comparison. I don't doubt his abilities, I have heard and am convinced of his coloratura, but this is getting more contradictory by the second. Antares33712 15:34, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yes, my childhood memory of music theories is coming back :). I know an octave higher is frequency doubled. I just don't have the mental picture of all these sounds. -- Toytoy 16:02, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Re: octaves, Adam Lopez and the like.

I read your comments (in Adam Lopez and whistle register) and posted and article on the octave scale. Read it and tell me if you like it, if not I'll speedy it.

Antares33712 22:51, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My vote is keep. However, I think we can stll make that article a little bit less demanding to those musically challenged people like me. How about a list of piano keyboard notes with names and frequencies and singers? I mean we may list singers in the highest and lowest ranges. -- Toytoy 00:59, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Why did you edit my signature?

Why, on Talk:McDojo, did you edit my signature everywhere on the page? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 08:50, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I have setup my Privoxy to filter some annoying HTML tags including "color=" because I hate to read cluttered pages (large, small, blinking and colorful texts in several fonts). On my computer, I only see 16-point amber-colored Trebuchet on a black background flowing from left to right (no indents). When I edit talk pages, I may switch off the filter if people use these complex signatures. But sometimes I just forgot it. -- Toytoy 09:57, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure what happened, though; I mean, your Privoxy setting shouldn't alter the content, only filter it. If it's leading to this sort of incident, you might think about altering its settings; while this case was more perplexing than annoying, you might run into more significant problems in other cases. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:01, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

When you hit edit, the server will send your web browser an edit box filled with text. With Privoxy in the middle, it will filter the text and give the browser a filtered version.

• Server: [[User talk:Mel Etitis|<font color="green">Μελ Ετητης</font>)]]
• Privoxy: [[User talk:Mel Etitis|<font color="green">Μελ Ετητης</font>)]]
• Browser: [[User talk:Mel Etitis|<font "green">Μελ Ετητης</font>)]]
• You edit the text and hit "save page".
• The browser sends the filtered and then edited text to the server.

This is what happend with my setting. Since I don't visit most other web forums, this setting is OK with me. Even though I have to disable it when I am usinjg some other paid databade. In the late 1990s, when I was using Macintosh, I used another more extreme set of filters. I used to remove all table tags. Sorry for my unintended edits. -- Toytoy 16:07, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

That's OK; I didn't mean to nag, I was just worried that you might hit a bigger problem later. So long as you're happy it won't, that's fine. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 16:29, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Al Qaeda and Guantanamo

World Press Review (VOL. 49, No. 4) makes reference to "Al-Qaeda prisoners being transported to the X-Ray camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba." [1] (http://www.worldpress.org/print_article.cfm?article_id=462&dont=yes) Are there any other detainees there I should be aware of?

I ask this without prejudice to any of the other issues being discussed there. If it's a mix of Al Qaeda and other fighters, then I would be wrong to lump them all together as Al Qaeda. There might even be some non-combatants who got swept up in the dragnet. -- Uncle Ed (talk) 17:07, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Ed, you're quite liberal with evidence around here. Do not play double standard. You may want to step back. -- Toytoy 17:26, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

You got my attention with the reference to "double standard". What do you have in mind? -- Uncle Ed (talk) 19:33, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Cray-3 edit

Apple never had a Cray-3. They couldn't have, only one was built and it was used at NCAR. The article clearly outlines all of this... did you read it?

Maury 21:50, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I noticed that mistake and stopped editing. I will check out the type of Cray purchased by Apple. -- Toytoy 00:43, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Category:Causes célèbres

I notice you added Chu Mei-Feng to this category. It's been voted for deletion but I am trying to save it. Please come to Votes for undeletion to express your view. David | Talk 17:46, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ed Poor has been kind enough to nominate me for an adminship

Anyone who is interested in voting one way or the other is invited to the discussion here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/BrandonYusufToropov#.5B.5BUser:BrandonYusufToropov.5D.5D). BrandonYusufToropov 17:08, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Brandon, except for the Qu'ran desecration article, I haven't had working experience with you. I'd like to vote support based on the friendship and what I have learned during the past couple of weeks about you. But this nomination is inproper in my opinion. I think I'll respect Ed Poor even less. If the mediation is finished, Ed is lost and suspended/de-admined and he still likes you afterall, I'll cast a support vote. However, based on Ed's past lack of integrity, I am reluctant to cast my vote. Nor will I question it in your vote page or anywhere else save for this page which is monitored by very few people I guess.

Sorry, if you are nominated by anyone else unrelated with Ed Poor, I'll vote for you. But currently, based on what I observed during the past couple of weeks, I think Ed wants to something. Sorry, I don't want to vote this time. Good luck! Hope you win your adminship my friend. After the vote is finished, I'll raise the issue of nomination abuse on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). -- Toytoy 04:40, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)