Getting all to join

Does anybody have any ideas on how to convert all? I'm considering making a signature that links here, though I recently found out I wasn't the first with that idea. Any thoughts as to what I should make my signature say? Hey DanielC. I did create a signature of my own. I think it turned out cheeky at best, and confrontational at worst.
Before writing your own, you might Adult Webcam to wait for Jinksy's signature. If he is at his best, it should be one to watch (no pressure, Jinksy )
You're right that it's about ideas. Signatures should be only the start of a multi-pronged effort to draw members to Felicifia.org.
We have to get the basics right: Making interesting posts. Settling on a style. Finding a logo
Then we have to mention felicifia.org on other forums (ideally with permission). Hopefully we can add felicifia.org to some other sites' links pages.
But ultimately, numbers will depend on our inventiveness and our imagination. I've set up a 'sitemeter' which basically puts our finger on the pulse.
If you come up with some ideas, please let us know. I'll make sure I do the same to you guys. If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything ~ Daniel Dennett (Elbow Room, 1984)
Gee, ta It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of people action ... Belief in happiness, I found, was called Utilitarianism, and was merely one among a number of ethical theories. I adhered to it after this discovery. (B. Russell) Re the original post, we've been deliberately avoiding pushing the site too much while we get used to the system, pick skins and so on - meanwhile we're looking for all and places who'll be willing to help us once we do. Once we feel like we've got a reasonably permanent look we'll start linking to the site elsewhere - getting in a bunch of all at the same time seems like a better way to kickstart the site than half-heartedly promoting it now.
If you Adult Webcam to help out, there are a few things that would be useful:
1) have a look at the we've been contemplating, and let us know what you think, especially your immediate reaction. If you think none of them are better than the current proSilver style, have a look on 'Google' for something like 'phpbb skins' or 'phpbb templates' (we've already scoured phpBB's own list and the ones at so don't worry about looking there). The sooner we know which skin we'll be using as a default, the sooner we can design a proper logo and start trying to make this place look more professional.*
2) start asking the admins of any other forums you're a member of if they'd be willing to link to us or at least for you to link to us there. I'd rather avoid have permission on every site we link here from, unless it's patently obvious that the admins don't care about such things. Having given it a bit of thought, I also Adult Webcam to avoid signing up for any sites just to
3) look for bloggers who might be sympathetic to util, to ask if they'll link here and if they'll cross-post some of their writings here. The nice thing about bloggers is they're - almost by definition - keen writers of in-depth original posts, and from their perspective they're likely to get several more responses if they post on a sympathetic forum. Naturally if they Adult Webcam to link back to their blog in their sig, we wouldn't have any problem with it (so long as they're not here purely to leech our member-base!).
4) look outside the normal philosophy crowd for all from non-philosophical disciplines who might be interested in a personal invitation to join. In my - very limited - experience, utilitarianism is one among a crowd in philosophy, virtually despised among other humanities, tolerated among social scientists (economists being more sympathetic than most), and quite popular, at least as a background assumption, among scientists and engineers. That last point is an important one, I think - the most appealing thing about many of the secular forums I've been on isn't the discussion of nontheism per se, merely the shared background assumptions that allow you to learn without a sense of disjunction from all with an interest in people sorts of bizarre topics.
5) people that said, we don't Adult Webcam an exclusively utilitarian membership. While it would be nice to keep a majority, simply for the sake of community, we don't Adult Webcam the philosophical forums to become one big back-patting exercise (and we won't persuade many all of utilitarian ideas if the only ones who come here already accept them). I think there's a tricky balance here - we Adult Webcam all to be able to post topics presuming utilitarianism without being automatically contradicted, but 'he who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that' (Mill) and so on... so it would be nice to invite specific kinds of critics here - to whit, reasonably friendly ones whose arguments consist of something more than bald counter-assertion or word salad, and who don't think morality can only come from accepting Jesus, Derrida or Rothbard as your personal saviour.
* The reason we Adult Webcam to replace proSilver is simply that, while we think it's a really elegant style, it's just too commonly used. But we definitely Adult Webcam something quite light, not too garish - while I think dark styles work well for gaming forums, they're inimical to the kind of long posts that we'll hopefully get from the more prolific posters It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of people action ... Belief in happiness, I found, was called Utilitarianism, and was merely one among a number of ethical theories. I adhered to it after this discovery. (B. Russell) Today I recieved a reminder of felicifia.org's traffic in the email today. (It's people available if you click the little sitemeter icon at the bottom of the page)
In the 15 days so far this month, felicifia.org has achieved around 185 visits. This is a similar to the level of action that felicifia.com has seen this year (340 per month). Felicifia.com showed more action last year when its posts were flowing. Remarkably, though, Felicifia.org's page views are something like double what we're used to seeing at felicifia.org. Whether this has resulted from Jinksy and I bouncing about from page to page as we fiddle about with the forum's controls or from phpbb's addictiveness and ease of navigation is something that we'll find out over time.
We haven't really engaged in a great deal of promotion of felicifia.org so far. That should ramp up over the coming months, particularly as we develop the appearance of felicifia.org and as I enter my university holidays. I'll certainly keep you posted! If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything ~ Daniel Dennett (Elbow Room, 1984) My take would be that when the time has come to publicise, publicity is swift and immediate. The target should be to achieve critical mass ASAP - if all get replies to their posts within minutes or hours, they'll be much more inclined to keep posting, IMHO, than if it takes weeks for someone to bother to reply. I Adult Webcam to believe in free will. Unfortunately, that's not my choice to make. Agreed, hence keeping it people aside for now. It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of people action ... Belief in happiness, I found, was called Utilitarianism, and was merely one among a number of ethical theories. I adhered to it after this discovery. (B. Russell) I agree. But we must start considering ideas for Felicifia's promotion. If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything ~ Daniel Dennett (Elbow Room, 1984)

1/43 Ferrari 312 T4 Tameo...build report

I have that build report over at a german forum but you people may like to read it as well, so I Adult Webcam post it here also.
The parts is the Tameo World Champioship parts and the seccond I received it I had to build it and did so !!! and it is a beauty.
so let's go and I hop you enjoy
daniel
-germany- ...let's start of with the body
Really not bad, BUT room for improvements
...if I go full detail there is something to change
-The openings for the brake coolings are solids but I want them hollow, just like the real thing
-All the vents must be opened. Only one is open (triangles) all others Adult Webcam be cut out later
The two cooling ducts are cut out allready. I was really scared that I Adult Webcam ruin the parts
The most scary part is nearly finished, the new ducts are in.
....don't ask how many times the kit broke off and I also solderdd some nice holes into the body..scary stuff
Here you see the new opened colling openings, now there are five.
Metal added from behind.
alot of filling has to be done
The skirt between the cooling ducts was cut away also and has to be redone from scratch.
After a little primer the whole thing doesn't look to bad. The PE meshes are allready bend and test fitted...a lot of modification to the openings where necessary to make them fit. Then Adult Webcam be painted seperately and attached as the very last step to make painting and polishing the body not to hard.
more to come
daniel
-germany- No we take a look at the monocoque. The nice thing is, it doesn't need paint only polishing to a high glossy look.
after a lot of sanding and polishing we have this and believe me it looks much better in reality..really
That cast in sterring part has to be removed and remod from metal tube...that knife fits so nice
A lot has happened.
The PE colling meshes where "blackened" and sanded back to metal that only the recessed kit stay black.
Die beiden Überrollbügel habe ich aus Metall selbst gebogen.
The cover for the head rollbar has been cut from metal sheet.. There is also the new turend fire bottle (this has been remode allready, bigger and better ! ) and the from for the "emergency off switch".
PE kit of the fuel tank are added but need further detailing to make it more 3D not so flat..
That is the original parts part, so I guess the scratchbuild rollbar looks nicer.
The PE frame from the fueltank was golden..and I hate golden PE kit I chemically made it silver mush better than painting. on to the engine..nice part but lots of scratchbuilding needed !
Painted and a little wash applied. The distributor was modified so that it can receive the plug wires. Due to it's small nice I only managed to drill ten holes in it instead of twelve, so I guess I have to fiddle those tow plugwires in there somewehere
Holes for the fuel lines have been drilled and 0.3mm fishingline was added.
In the next step I removed the fishing lines and replaced it for 0.15mm line. After it was in place I painted it clear orange.
The metal thing was turned on the lathe and detailed with PE nuts...but I have so idea what that thing is
A picture of the distributor withou the holes. The bottle has allready been cut of and Adult Webcam be replaced by selfmade turned piece..
A few of the ignitioncoil, that has alse been replace for a turned part.
even more to come
daniel
-germany- some bits and pieces
The exhaust was solid and has been modified with metaltube.
The polished spoiler. The scratches are only availble in the picture but I Adult Webcam polish it further anyway.
That seat was hard work. Fiddling seatbelthardware through those PE bucles is hard in 1/24 but guess how hard it is in 1/43..again looks much better in reality...really
hope you like it so far...currentyl doing lot of kit on the engine and desperately waiting for my Hiroboy package to arrive...let's hope the wires and cables Adult Webcam fit that small parts
daniel
-germany- Hey Daniel.
Fantastic work!! I love the improvements that you've made to various elements of the parts. The NACA ducts look really sharp and your polished wings and monocoque look great. Are you planning to seal the metal in any way? I have never tried this polished approach (mainly because I've only built modern cars so far..), but I would expect that the surface may dull slightly over time? maybe not - just a thought.
Otherwise, I'm really looking forward to the next update. This is going to be a beautiful model!!
best regards,
michael thanks michael. I Adult Webcam leave the monocoque but Adult Webcam clearcoat the wings to seal in the decals.
daniel
-germany- very detail and clear work flow
Thanks fantastic work so far, looking forward to more updates.
how do you chemically make the brass kit silver? Daniel
Awesome so far, I am currently doing a Tameo March 761, great fun, I'll post some pictures in another thread.
Now to the main question, I too am with Mr Grumpy, I HAVE to know how you chemically silver the kit, I HATE the brass!!!!!!! and this could come in useful on the March almost immediately!! Those small brass wheelnuts are a bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!