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SH-2031 Disable usage of glMapBuffer (again).  Despite using MapBufferRange, this is still a source of frame stalls.

SH-2031 Followup to curl threading work -- don't start and stop the thread on every request, use a signal (cuts time spent in Pump IO down from 1-2 ms to 0.1ms)

Reviewed by Kelly

Reviewed by Leslie

EXP-997 FIX -- Significant FPS degradation in 2.8.0 Beta on Mac equipped ATI video card

* Disabled VBO's on mac to avoid stalls in renderer
* Placed valid data into the padding between triangles in the vertex buffer to remove uninitialized craziness
* Removed invalid rendering checks causing GL errors in debug mode

Reviewed by davep

Added a function for parsing a date string of specific format.
Added strings defining the date format in Group Profile Land/Assets that should be localized.