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I guess I should have found this thread during the event. Oh well. As a point of interest, the hardware behind the game servers are not equal across the board. I think it was easier to tell when they still listed location, but in general the highest quality servers are hosting the worlds that Jagex knows will be under the most load. Look for the worlds that host minigames, and the worlds that are on the same server (hence why this would be easier if you could see the location, though they can be located with the tracert command). Obviously, worlds that host instanced games don't count, because instanced worlds are on separate servers. This is probably part of why worlds with the same ping had drastically difference performance. I was on 62 for the whole thing because it was the best world our clan found (and I saw someone else mention that they had a great time on 63, which is probably the same physical server). With everyone being active, the server hardware probably matters more than the population or ping, within a certain bound. 82 on the other hand was a piece of garbage, doing the run-pause thing the entire time I believe.

Ho hum day. I accidently slept through my first class. Fortunately computer is by far the easiest to stay on top of if you miss something. I also found a movie again that I came across three years ago I think. I can't for the life of me remember how I came across this movie originally, but I thought it was very good. Considering watching it again, though it's kind of hard to find the right time to watch a movie like that. Movie is States Evidence.

Seemed to be pretty certain he jumped. It's not exactly new for really drunk people to up and decide to jump out a window (possibly deciding that it was cool enough to be worth repeating immediately), though I can't say I have ever known anyone who actually went for it, even second hand. Today I am tired, but still alert, and I kind of like it. I am exactly tired enough to be at my most laid back, and it's a place I like to be. If your trying to gross someone out, graphic internal human anatomy might be worth taking a look at (pictures of your insides). It's hit or miss, but if it's a hit, it'll likely be a good one.

Last night was interesting. Some high school kids pulled knives on some of the university students on our campus, and a fire alarm got pulled during this, so the area was crawling with fire and police for a while. Also, someone got drunk enough that they decided to jump out their second story window, and they landed on someones car (car looked alright). I think he was fine, but they sent him to the hospital. Also, his window wont hold itself open, which means that someone else held the window open for him. He did not however remove the screen, so he did jump right through that.

For the record, the states does not have that many carriers in active serve, not even if you count the reseve that isn't active but is technically sea worthy. There are 10 Nimitz class carriers, and the Enterprise (or gold toe) of the Enterprise class, for a total of 11. In reserve you have the Kitty Hawk, which is older and substantially smaller (it's not a super carrier). That picture is actually pretty haphazard since it seems to be counting several ships that are not in active service. Yes, you guys have a huge navy which a substiantial army and airforce of its own, but you do not have 21 active aircraft carriers :P There are not 21 active aircraft carriers in the world right now total. For submarienes, I expect you guys have more than you let on. Submarines are much easier to hide than the 11 largest warships in the world (Enterprise is the longest, but the Nimitz Class are a bit heavier), though you guys do have the Ohio class which is both very cool and very scary (cool because of what they are, scary because each one of them has enough nuclear arsenal to depopulate a substantial portion of Earth. I had a thought a couple days ago about how you could better set up a political system to avoid...well this. But I've forgotten what it was. I think it had something to do with the media, and preventing them from being a bunch of clowns. My hope is that if I post about trying to remember it, I might goad my subconscious into putting some more effort into remembering my thought, because it seemed like it was worth sharing (just not important enough to remember apparently).

A (good) cloak and pre-igniter would be nice. I imagine that would be two salvos off before they can fire one. Big engines help a lot on phase 2, because they help your shields longer, and make your chances better of having some when they light you up.

I will admit, having specialized weapons is kind of neat. Kind of like to stop having my heavy weapon replaced by the ones I find, but what can you do. I'll probably not use anything but the burst rifle for that slot, seeing as I always try to fire in bursts anyway, and this just helps out. I do miss the overwhelming power of overload a bit though. I think my fish died, so I bought new ones. Once I actually talked to Jack, I hate her a bit less, or at least feel a little sorry for her. I'd still like to fire her out an airlock though, once she's done digging up dirt on Cerberus got me. With any luck, the only mission she ever goes on will be her loyalty mission, because I expect she has a decent power, and it might be worth getting so I can use it. I also want Tali (got far enough to see I get her). I trust her, and I trust Garrus. They are good people, and powerful enough combatants.

Stared on Mass Effect 2. I do not like the new weapon system (and I am obviously not alone since they went back to the massive variety for the 3rd game), but I can live with it. I normally play games using only 1 or 2 guns, and I can handle upgrading it rather than replacing it. Two things have irritated me so far though. First, I would like to say that the role playing of the game is pretty awesome, and I am totally in love with the fact that paragon and renegade have no advantage over the other, and are simply 2 means of getting the same thing (the first game series I have ever played where being a good guy doesn't put you at a disadvantage). Following from that, I am somewhat irritated at being forced to recruit everyone, and not just the people I want. Also, not having access to C-sec annoys me, but I'm pretty sure I'll have more presidium access later. I also am mildly regretting saving the council. Getting the captain on the council seems to have done jack, since its still those 3 speaking to the two of us, and the Turian and the Salarian council are pretty much now my mortal enemies (at least the blue one has the decency to deny me because I don't have proof, rather than calling me a crazy liar. I know getting new ones wouldn't have really changed anything, but I'm not exactly getting a lot actual gratitude here, even if I do believe it was the best action to take for humanity.

Why would a chance of bringing someone to court over breaking the law have any impact on legality. I could conceivably go my entire life without ever getting a speeding ticket, even if I speed from time to time. That doesn't make it legal, and it's not exactly sound justification for breaking the law. Prosecution is done within the offenders country. To try them under British law, you would have to extradite them (unless they are already in Britain). Also, there is already legal precedent in several countries that an intagible good can be stolen (as in actual theft); precedents set involving RSGP. The circumstances are different, and it was actual theft and not copy infringement, but I would imagine that still shows that the courts can consider.

For clarification, Jagex owns everyone's accounts, and everything associated with it (as in all its items, skills, and any post you make on the rsof), which means that all the gold on an account is their property not yours. Since that property is also copyrighted, if you make a proffit off their protected property (such as by selling gold or items), then it is a violation of copy right laws, which most countries do have. This isn't a new or novel concept, in the eyes of the law it is exactly the same as copying a DVD and selling it yourself, or charging people to watch a movie at your house (and if you didn't know that was illegal, you do now). You don't exactly need to be a lawyer to figure out that selling something that doesn't belong to you probably breaks at least one law.

This song just sounds like everyone playing it is having a lot of fun. I love it when a song sounds fun. Also, saxophones.

Just got ME1, and looking through this thread. Sort of wish I had known about saving up to a million to see the best guns. I get the feeling I might not be seeing anymore stores for the rest of the game. I am however quite happy with my armour and weapons, and that of my allies (Tali and Lira), and seeing as everything I have is now at or above the level of everything I get as drops (by a nice margin too), I'm going to assume that my firepower is probably not going to be an issue. ME2 looks like it will be a nice improvement, except for the total lack of weaponry :( I mean, I don't need the hundred assult rifles I have now, but I'm pretty sure there are more manufacturers in the first game than there are assault rifles in the second, which kind of ruins some of the immersion (I'll still admit its a lot more choice than I am used to). I just really like the competing manufacturers. But then, that's what I hear. Gameplay gets better, story and immersion get worse, but I think I can live with that. Also, I am not used to recognizing the voice actors in a game, let alone two of them. Seth Green is really easy to recognize, but also the voice of Captain Anderson. I can't remember his name, but I've seen in a TV show or two as a bad guy, and at least one movie (transporter 2). I thought that was kind of awesome.

This argument needs to stop, and it needs to stop now, before more people need warnings or end up banned.

My playbook has slide to unlock. My phone is infinitely more fun. I just hit the top against my other hand which hits the lock/unlcok button :lol: I woke up late today :( Also, sharing information by IR transfer has existed for more than a decade (Palm Pilot, though I'd be willing to guess they weren't the first). Also, didn't a lot of older computers have IR ports as well? never did figure out what those were for.

Can you give me a little brief over some of the things that changed? Recent history has never been my thing, much like Geography.

Of curiosity, since I've not seen the 1990 remark yet, what specifically are you referring to?

I think I'll let this symbol summarize my thoughts on this matter: If you die, I promise to feel bad about this. I think you'll just be an at-risk survivor though, assuming you open a window or leave the room. And next time, try lighting the deoderant on fire before you spray the spider. Works much faster.

Wow, so this is what I have to look forward to. I have actually been greatly enjoying the latitude in style that we have been given. If it works, and if a human can read it, it's considered to be formatted correctly, which is to say I can put my { on the same line, or on the next line. I normally do same line for the class statements at the beginning, since it's not like I am lining up all my formatting with them. When I get to the point where the base level for my entire program isn't 2 tabs in, I might change. For if statements, I'll usually omit the braces if they aren't needed, and I normally put them a line down if I am nesting if/else statements because its easier for me to keep track of them if I can visually line up the opening and close (so I change formatting rules within my program, but I do it in a logical and visually pleasing fashion). I am annoyed that I might have lost a point on my midterm today by using less than rather than surprised (<=) . Sort of mistake that takes 5 full seconds to find and fix when I compile, or comes to me a minute after I hand in my exam. Might have been my only mistake though, which sort of makes it even worse, but I would be very happy with that.

Been thinking about something that could potentially be very depressing, though I'm not finding it to be such. What is love? For me, I have never found there to be any particular necessity for a link between liking someone and loving them. It makes it a lot easier, but it doesn't seem to be required, so loving someone would seem to be someone totally different from liking someone a lot. Similarly, when I see someone and for lack of better words, my body gets excited, that's not love either. That's just lust, and lust has even less in common with love than liking someone does. So next I would think about the people I do love, that I know I love, and what is different about those relationships. And a very long story made much shorter is familiarity and respect. If I had to describe it using other words, I would say that is a unique combination of familiarity and respect. I am thinking about this because of an observation I made about myself. I have dated people I was attracted to and people I wasn't with equal ease (with the difference being I tend not to initiate contact in the latter scenario), and I get along with people fine either way, but love, that takes a lot of time. I don't believe in love at first sight, which apparently means I am disqualified from being capable of felling love at first sight (to not be excluded, you have to believe in it first). But where I am going with this is for me (and I can't stress me enough here, because this is certainly not going to hold true for everyone), love isn't something I find, it's something that is created. It also leads to me wonder what one would call a relationship where physical and emotional relationships were in totally different spheres, with a person filling one need having no obligation to fill the other, and there being no expectation of such (without using the phrase 'cheating with a [bleep] buddy while in a celibate relationship'). I think that for someone like me, that might be ideal, since the person I love could easily end up being someone I have little or no actual physical attraction to, but would be the person I want to live and share my life with. The connection between physical intimacy and social intimacy is actually quite inconvenient (and no, I am not joining Muggi's camp. His lifestyle gives me even less of what I want, because the emotional relationship is paramount for me, and poly can't provide what I need).

So the problem for us was the services change. When we had TV, they secretly gave us a faster connection (10Mbit/s) so that with the TV's running we would get the proper internet speed (7Mbit/s). The modem-router we had before apparently does 10Mbit/s up to 30Mbit/s dsl connections, and now that we don't have tv, we need a modem that can do the pure 7Mbit connection. Shame, because the last one was actually a really really nice router, one of the best I have ever seen, with only a couple options missing (it couldn't throttle individual connections). Unfortunately, this one does not have all the options of its predecessor, but I think I can live with it as it can still do what I need/want by the looks of it. Very happy to have the internet back for my PC.

I am wondering the same thing. It's sort of like the media, which doesn't cover anything of importance because if its important, most people either find it too boring to pay attention to, or can't understand it anyway. Instead we elect based on who can talk trash about the other, because what the candidate did 10 years ago matters. I'd like to start the election season with a criminal record check made public so we can see how they moved through any life of crime (or just take a guess at how good they are at not getting caught), make sure they aren't part of a fanatical religion (quite frankly, I prefer to my politicians to be atheists as part of separation of church and state), and then put a moritoriam on schoolyard antics. Also, why is your election season still so insanely long? It's bad enough having policy dictated by getting elected in 4 years (rather than what is good in the long run) without a 6 month election season. I grasp why it used to need to be so long, but seeing as we sort of invented air transportation since the founding of america, I would have thought at some point you guys would you know, make it short enough for people to pay attention to, and use less money. Just doesn't make any sense to me.

If you wont miss the sleep, then I would say be awake, even if not productive, because it will last longer. Nothing worse than sleeping away your day off between to 6 day weeks, speaking from personal experience. Go out, and do as much as you can and still be happy with the consequences. That's the way to do it if you ask me.

I'm sorry, but I am not reading the entirety of the last 3-4 pages, in part because my internet might not live long enough to do it. I think I got some of the important points though, assuming I can remember them. First thing would be presentation. Long story short, if you wish to combat a strong help belief, you are likely much better off demonstrating why you are right rather than telling (which can be done through words, if you understand what I mean). When you tell, you put us on the defensive, because evolution dictates that being right is more important than reality. If you demonstrate, those of us who care can evaluate your position without constantly having to get past our own biological roadblocks all the time. I'll also cut strait to the point that your treatment of the people your with hits me as callous, uncaring, and with an air of superiority. Quite frankly, it kind of stops mattering if your right at some point and becomes a matter of principle. If your lifestyle would require me to give up my values, then its going to work, and I don't see people as interchangeable. I also know that's not a fair assessment, because I think I have a feel for how it could work (I've given your approach quite a bit of thought since it does interest me), and while I see a lot of, I wont say happiness because I think the pursuit of perpetual happiness is a terrific waste of time and a biological impossibility, enjoyment in it, and even a lot of emotional satisfaction, I can't see it lasting. I'll get into it below, but at some point there needs to be a balance between practicality and emotion, and I think the boat for this life style, for me, was highschool. Now that that's out of the way, there are some service reasons for favouring monogamy (as I prepare to isolate myself from the rest of the monogamous camp by devaluing relationships to practical reasons). I know I've mentioned it before, but the biggest one for me is children. There are a few rare souls out there who can raise a child solo, and do a damn fine job of it. I'm not one of them, I never have been and I never will be, and I'm fine with that. Quite frankly, I'm not even totally onboard the 'I want children' boat yet (and I sure don't want them right now), but I hope to be one day. For that, I would really like to have a partner for a whole bunch of reasons that I hope are fairly obvious, and I will be coming in a way anyway. The second is simple economics. Married people make more money and get more time off from work. This is fact. Even without these benefits (and also the lack of social stigma you'll discover when your 35 and single, especially since most people will assume you divorced), you have split living costs, and two incomes so that if one of you loses your job, your not out of new money and onto welfare right away. What I am saying is it makes your life cheaper, easier, and gives you a bigger safety net. The third major service reason off the top of my head really only applies to couples where both are at least the same age, though ideally the female will be say 2-4 years older (because women live longer), and that's companionship in old age. Simply put, old people get lonely, and it gives you a shot of having someone you really enjoy being with for a longer time. As another interesting point, the longer two people are together, they start to take on the characteristics of a single entity, such as automatically distributing the task of remembering certain types of tasks between them, so that as the mind and body slowly fail, each only has half the responsibility (of course, the downside is that the death of one half can virtually cripple the other, since they might now be stuck with a brain that delegated remembering all the important dates to their other half for example). So now that I am done 'devaluing' marriage, for me, a part of it is probably best described as sharing my life with someone. I consider life to be a journey, that we are here to experience something, and that one should enjoy the journey and lessons, good and bad. I'd rather not go through it alone though. One of the lessons I would like to learn is how to share myself, since right now my mind is still exclusive to me, and me alone. Some people are closer to knowing the real me than others, but only I know me, and before I die, I would like someone else to know me too, and I would like to know them in return. I can't think of a more rewarding journey, and it is certainly one that would take a very long time. Assuming I like what I find, and they do too, that's a journey that must last until one or the other dies, because we are every changing. Or simply put, the way I see it, it is more practical for me to pursue monogamy, given that I aspire to be a parent and live long enough to hit a retirement home. Besides, it's more interesting to me in the long run. Poly is a fascinating dynamic if I am studying myself as a teen, but I am thinking a lot less so once I hit say late 30's or early 40's.

Today has been a bit of a roller coaster on all fronts. We got our internet back, but our modem doesn't work, so it's kind of a hollow victory until it gets fixed/replaced. Found out that my macro midterm is structured much like micro midterm, which is great because it means I'll probably do quite well. It's also nearly 50% longer and 10 minutes shorter, and given that I would have liked about 5 more minutes to finish reviewing my micro, this should be exactly enough time to finish the entire thing in a panic fuelled frenzy which will inevitably cost me points. My micro professor has gone out of her way to make getting high marks on the midterm as easy as possible by not filling the entire multiple choice with boobytrap answers (she didn't go through, think up the likely mistakes and make them all possible answers), which I am not ashamed to say will certainly lead me to get a few points I might not have gotten otherwise (its a lot easier to notice your doing something wrong when you arrive at an answer that isn't an option). I guessing macro isn't going to be like that. Oh well. Midterm tomorrow morning (because nothing helps you do well on a test than taking it two hours before you finish waking up), so it's going to be a bit of an early morning to help my brain sort itself out. Computers have been a bit of a frustration for me. My labs are perfect. I can do the work, and I do it easier and faster than most. On the tests though, even though I am easily in the top of the class, my marks are refusing to be perfect, though my last lab was encouraging. I had a lot fewer syntax errors, and most of the ones I got were from toying around to see what I could and couldn't do, which is all very important to know when you writing a program by hand and can't check. Looking forward to the weekend, which will hopefully involve some internet because a lot of my life right now sort of revolves around that, and I'd rather not spend the weekend as an internet hobo. On the plus side, I have a large enough media library to entertain that point in my life right before I go to sleep even without new stuff coming in.

Well lets see, how has my day gone. A nice early morning, followed by the discovery that my ISP thinks that disconnect the landline means disconnect everything, including our internet. Took some time to get that sorted out, but I lucked into a couple of helpful people, and with any luck our proper internet will be restored quickly (as in, tomorrow), because I love losing access to the internet in the middle of my midterm season. Then I did a computer assignment, and managed to fit some last minute studying in before a late night midterm. That midterm actually went really really well, and I very well might have scored perfect minus 1 (unless I guessed right, in which case perfect). Going to be hard to top that, though it took me the full time because I went back over all the multiple choice, which was a good idea because I had to correct 4 of 30 (or 11% of the multiple choice section, which is at least half the midterm). I think everything after that was pretty solid. Then I get back here and see the lovely attempted decorating job some people tried to make on my favourite thread. Sort of have mixed feelings about that, and in a perfect world, so do some of the people behind it. So today has been both amazingly awesome, and one of the worst this year. But right now I am pretty happy, aside from my cold (though when it comes to midterms, having the cold probably bothers me less than other people, so I guess it's a silver lining situation). I'll have to go to sleep pretty soon to see if I can make any headway with getting rid of it. I thought I had it beat back with a hard won 13 hours of sleep, but in fact it made a full move from my throat to my nasals, and I'm sure it will see me through to my last midterm, cause me and my cold are there for each other. I'd kind of like to ditch it for Halloween though, if I can. We'll be reunited next fall anyway. Also, it's getting colder out. Much colder. Heating in the house actually came on last night, which is good because I might have been a little bit chilly when I woke up otherwise, and if not chilly under my puff, then in the process of trying to throw some clothes on as I sprint for the warm hallway bellow (and shower). I think having such a good midterm, coupled with pretty much no tiredness for the first time in a very long time just has me over the moon right now. Or perhaps I should say that I am just finally back to my natural state of being (or I will be, once the cold is gone, or at least stops making my nose run and settles for making me sneeze a lot). Oh, and as a note about the lock. Trust me, you didn't miss anything worth seeing. I've seen better :lol: