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How does the beta OS work? Will it cease functioning after a certain period of time, or just not be able to receive upgrades, etc?

I played all the games on that site like a year and a half ago (with the exception of some newer ones). The best music belongs to the Panda one, and the sailing ship one. I've got 98 on the apple harvest game, you must have played shortly after the scores were reset or something- because if you get all 100, you play again (so there were scores of like 196 etc).

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 7624501049 $7.99, new. I have one, but thanfully I no longer need it.

Google had a free program that I once downloaded named "Keyhole", that allowed you to view close up sattelite imagry. I wonder if this is the same thing, just renamed.

I just finished reading the book. I am quite confident Snape is good, and is only trying to protect Harry, though I'm not saying that he doesn't loath him. The way Snape screamed "don't call me a coward!" during his escape seems to point that he is risking his life, and sacrificing so much to help the Order against Voldemort, but is rewarded with ridiculing and harassment. I predict that Snape will play a very large role in book 7 (ie just as much as Harry or Voldemort), but will ultimately die, by either Voldemort or Harry's wand, probably the former.

It might have helped if you included a link to the article :wink: Here: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/22 ... 29609.html Taken from the article: Anyone who has played The Sims knows the developers had no intention of it being risque, and it's not. Now, I've been known to dislike Electronic Arts, but I hope they give this Thompson a good legal smacking.

The first screen says "PB Initation Failure", and the second says there are couple ports that are blocked. Looks like your getting kicked because punkbuster can't connect with your system, probably because of a firewall or router.. Try looking into that.

I made one months ago. I had planned on making an entire row of different colours, but the novelty has worn off.

Not a single person in this thread has given that reason for disbeliving They never directly said it, but they say they don't believe because there is so much pain and suffering going on.. If there was only "a little" pain and suffering going on, they would still be complaining. They are BASICALLY implying they don't believe in God because their lives aren't perfect. Thats how I see it anyways.. My reasons for disbelieving have nothing to do with pain and suffering in the world, that is my reason for not worshipping if there did happen to be a god. Nobody in this thread has said "I don't believe in god because my life isn't perfect". My life is far from perfect, but still a lot better than the lives of billions of other people, I'm not complaining. If thats how your seeing it, then your interpreting it wrong.

What does the toilet thing have to do with weather I would worship a god or not if one existed? That was for a completely different subject, the one about people claming you can/can't know if god exists. If a god existed, I would definately not worship it. The reasons are clear, who could revere someone who lets millions of innocent people suffer needlesly? "Suffering exists because Adam sinned" etc is not a valid defense, it is a cop-out. If there was a god, they would either have to be: A. Not omnipotent, or B. Not very good. If it was A, I might be willing to forgive them.

Yea but you can at least be pretty sure that the purple toilet thing would be false because there has been no one who has imploded. But you cant be pretty sure that God doesnt exist just because it seems absurd in your mind. Btw this topic isnt about wether God exists or not, its asuming he did exists, would you worship him or now. Both an imploding toilet and god are equally absurd from my perspective, I just made that post because I see so many people shouting "But you can't be sure!". As for worshipping a god if one theoretically existed, I already answered that on page one or two of this thread, no. I would never worship something that would let so much suffering exist. I'd rather sit on a purple toilet seat.

If you sit on a toilet seat that is purple, there is a one in ten chance that your body will implode. You can't prove this wrong, and I can't prove it right. Perhaps it is true, and people with purple toilets have just been very lucky to get away without succumbing to that ten percent chance. However, I will come to the conclusion that this statement is false. I am sure, as sure as anyone can be about anything, that purple toilet seats do not cause implosion, just as I'm sure that pigs don't grow wings if they are born in zero gravity while the planets are aligned, and that garbage disposal trucks aren't designed to be easily refitted with rocket launchers. You can say nobody can be sure of the existance of god. Technically, that is true, nobody can be sure of anything. But as much as can be, I am positive there is no god.

Fake as it is, we don't tolerate "so and so is banned!" posts.

I have the same garbage can as you Rizla! Unfortunately, I don't have a digital camera.. My room is very small, with a huge bed, a 24" tv, dvd player w/ 5.1 speakers, gamecube, PC w/ 19" monitor & 5.1 speakers, and printer. Luckily I have a double closet, where two dressers are, or else there would be no place to put them.

It's all part of the plan, eh. I'll remember that the next time a malnuourished and diseased baby dies at 8 months old. God is just trying to save it, duh!

I like the way we (Canada, I guess the US too) order dates. Month-Day-Year. For example, 04/17/05. Most people, when talking about that date, would say "April 17th, 2005", not "The 17th of April, 2005". Well, maybe they do other places, but not here :P

If I was absolutely positive that this god existed, I would simply look to the sky, say "jerk", and continue living like I always have. EDIT: But no, I'm not agnostic. Just answering a hypothetical question.

Okay then, we'll look to the animals.. Whoa! There are homosexual & bisexual animals in most every species. Lots of them. I guess that also debunks the theory that homosexuality exists because "god gave man free will". Unless by "man" people mean "everything".

The bill specifically states that priests etc do not have to perform same-sex marriages if they feel it infringes on their religious freedom. So no, they are not forced to.

I've never played the original Counter-Strike. I did buy Half Life 2 a bit over a month ago, and have been playing Counter-Strike: Source frequently. Although still not quite realistic, I was impressed that most guns kill with only a few bullets. The submachine-gun class is underpowered imo, as is the scout (the AK-47/M4 Carbine are just as if not more deadly at long ranges). I almost always play on the "Canadian Black Watch" server, you can find their site by googling it. It has a nice small community of regulars & clan members of the CBW, and is very strict against exploits/cheating/vulgar & racist remarks etc. :D

That is a truly awesome prize. I'd rather just get money though, and wait until payed flights into space become common.

My dream job would be a professional writer of fantasy & sci-fi fiction. English is my worst class though. I don't like it because they force you to write stuff you don't want to write about. Not only do I dislike writing anything relating to real life, I can't. I just freeze up, and stare at the paper, because I don't know what to write. On one assignment I got a long time ago, it said something like "A good writer writes about a topic they enjoy. Choose something your interested in, and go with it! Here is your topic: School Activities" - Could I change it? No. So much for choosing something I'm interested in, hypocrites. So there goes any chances at that career.

Soldat is pretty much the 2-d counterpart of Counter-Strike. There are cheaters, exploits like shooting through thin areas of wall (arena1, near the middle), and way too many lame people who only use the barret (sniper rifle), just like CS. (I've only played Source, I don't know what the original is like).

dark elves are always evil? Who's Drizzt Do-Urden then? (possibly the most well known character in D&D) Read the Dark elf trilogy by R.A. Salvatore (good author too) My point wasn't that dark elves are evil, but that many RPGs say stuff like that. I don't know what restrictions are in D&D, but I do know when I played Icewind Dale that if I was a certain race or class, I could only be a certain alignment, etc.

The only experience with D&D I've had is playing Icewind Dale. Although I appreciate how indepth and role-playish it is, I don't like the stereotypes it places on races/classes. Many fantasy games do this. Your a dark elf, can you be good? No, dark elves are always evil! No dwarf magicians either, dwarves are technologists! Even the game I am playing now does this (Guild Wars).. all monks look clean, shaven, like angels. While all warriors are big and brutish, and all necromancers are "evil" looking with bony bodies and scars all over their face.