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Cloud-9 Crew going dark to protest SOPA & PIPA
First off, I would like to thank all of you for visiting our site and being the active part of the community that you are. thanks! :)
Secondly, We will be going dark (killing the website) for January 18th to Protest SOPA and PIPA. We are joining many other websites like Wikipedia, Reddit, Possibly Google, in this serious effort to let the American Government know, THAT THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!
We as the American people are not interested in having our actions monitored nor our free speech impeded!
- It is the opinion of the English Wikipedia community that both of these bills, if passed, would be devastating to the free and open web.
- Over the course of the past 72 hours, over 1800 Wikipedians have joined together to discuss proposed actions that the community might wish to take against SOPA and PIPA. This is by far the largest level of participation in a community discussion ever seen on Wikipedia, which illustrates the level of concern that Wikipedians feel about this proposed legislation. The overwhelming majority of participants support community action to encourage greater public action in response to these two bills. Of the proposals considered by Wikipedians, those that would result in a “blackout” of the English Wikipedia, in concert with similar blackouts on other websites opposed to SOPA and PIPA, received the strongest support.
- On careful review of this discussion, the closing administrators note the broad-based support for action from Wikipedians around the world, not just from within the United States. The primary objection to a global blackout came from those who preferred that the blackout be limited to readers from the United States, with the rest of the world seeing a simple banner notice instead. We also noted that roughly 55% of those supporting a blackout preferred that it be a global one, with many pointing to concerns about similar legislation in other nations.
New Jump Server!
Looking for a place to brush up on your jumping skills?
Look no further!
The {C9} Jump Special server is Cloud-9’s newly improved jump server. It has all of the features you’d expect from a high quality jump server as well as many new and useful features that don’t exist on any other server!
IP: jump.cloud9crew.com
Some of these features include:
- A great selection of up-to-date maps
- /save and /load commands
- Automatic health regeneration
- Fast stamina regeneration (less waiting between jumps)
- Anti-telefrag system (helps if you get killed by spawning on another player)
- A Newb team with 4 walljumps (to help new jumpers learn)
- Global spectator chat
- Fair and active moderators and admins
- A personal timer (useful for timing how fast you can beat jumps)
- A fully rebuilt voting system with map name completion and more
- A map blacklist to prevent cycling to broken or non-jump maps
This is only the beginning. Even more cool features are in development and coming soon!
Coming soon:
- A racing timer that times how fast you complete a map
- Server wide high scores for players’ map completion times
- A race mode to have 1 on 1 races with a friend
- And more!
Whether you’re a pro jumper, or you are just learning the basics, come check out the server! You’re bound to have a good time.
How to connect:
Search for the server called “{C9} Jump Special!” in the server browser.
Or type “/connect jump.cloud9crew.com” in your game console.
Thanks for reading and of course,
Happy Jumping!
Site Changes
As I am sure you can tell, things have been changing a little bit around here! Well, thats a good thing! Right now we have updated the site a new version of Joomla with all additional Components upgraded as well.
I hope you guys find everything to your liking! If you see any errors or have some recommendations, or I just plain missed something, let me know!
Gigglez
Many of you (it should be ALL of you), have been on IRC at one time or another and have met Gigglez, my wonderful, loveable, asshole of an IRC bot.
Gigglez was given to me by Tek as a bot script with two commands. One I didn't need, and the !uptime command. From there, a combination of constant source code perusing and online research set me on my way to learning PHP. At first I made a few simple commands. Things such as telling the current date. Essentially useless. These days, anyone with a cell phone is an arm's reach away from a calendar. So I kept working on him. With more help from Tek, and more online research, I built more complex, more useful functions, even adding a database of users to control who uses certain commands.