Randox

A thought. If windows is needed to use the recovery partition, then couldn't a second computer do it? Just plug the corrupted hard drive into a working computer as a second hard drive, and have the working computer do the wipe and re-install. I think my uncle did something like that for our computer once when it was unable to wipe itself (our computer also managed to crash the computer that was doing the repair). The risk of course would be that the infected hard drive would try to infect the working computer, so you'd want to access it in some sort of virtual machine that has no write permission to the primary hard drive (unless you can just set the whole hard drive to read only).

WRONG. Possibly. I guess they have found some problems with the equipment that did the test. I guess we'll find out in may when they repeat the experiment. Unless you meant the time travel thing, which is of course only theory based on relativity, though since if it's proved true in the re-test, its already violating it, so the prediction about time travel might not hold up anyway. Science is like the ocean. It's moving, changing, all-encompassing. It draws its data from findings, numbers, and other such devices that's quantifiable/measurable. The numbers don't lie - rather, we misinterpret them, often. Why? Because humanity is predisposed to doing so, especially when it comes to a controversial, highly emotional subjects. Your little statement about science being wrong does not give the 'ghosts exist' theory any more weight, like the way that it doesn't give religious 'faith' any more weight. We don't truly understand the Universe - that's the beauty of science; to unravel as much as we can. Is it too much to accept that we can't always explain everything immediately, given our limited resources? The objective ought to be learning about what we don't know, as opposed to attributing it to superstition like 'Ghosts', or 'God'. One day, we might even explain why we came up with such ridiculous ideas in the first place. My point wasn't to lend weight to the ghosts exist. My point was there is no point assuming science knows everything, because its a sure bet that it doesn't, and there's even a chance that in a century or two, people will look back on our understanding of the universe and laugh at how wrong we we're.

Alcohol doesn't freeze. It does. It just doesn't freeze in your freezer since its freezing point is down around -115 C. Since a drink is a mixture of water and ethanol (plus other), you'd probably be looking at needing -5 to -40 depending on alcohol content. The most your freezer will do is make beer slushies, and maybe beer cubes if its really ambitious. Depending on where you live, you might be able to make wine cubes outside though :thumbsup:

Where else were you planning to drive? Or rather on what else? TO THE CORN FIELD! I hate how 'time flies when your having fun'. When I am having fun, I want time to slow right the [bleep] down so I can seemingly enjoy it longer.

I get the pillows off my bed so I can lie down on the couch. I never really get the house itself to myself. Maybe once or twice a year I'll have a couple days when I know for certain everyone else is away, but normally its only my room I can garuntee (considering its big enough that I could fit a bedroom, bathroom and living room/kitchenette in it if I wanted to, that's still not a bad deal). I also eat while laying down on the couch when no one is around, because I like that more for some reason (and yes, this does generate more laundry sometimes). I also rock the houserobe sometimes, or put off getting entirely dressed in the mornings on the weekend. My room has blackout curtains, so its not like I'm afraid of being watched. And like many people, my stereo is used almost exclusively when I am alone, and it gets a lot louder if I figure I have the whole house for an hour (or its the weekend). I also use it for movies sometimes when there are special effects that have potential to be felt, and I want to go for the theater experience. I also sing quite a bit. The stereo has to be at least loud enough to mask it, because I am shy about my singing even though I have a trained voice. I only sing around other people once I have had a few shots. Actually, singing is probably the thing I enjoy the most when the house is totally empty, since it allows me to go to full volume which is a fair bit more fun. Sometimes I do this in the car, because I can.

Just a thought, but science has a long and proud tradition of being terrifyingly wrong. The thing is, you keep building theories that explain everything you understand about the universe as you currently know it, and then you go with that until you find something that doesn't fit, then you refine your theories and make them better. Look at the evolution of the model of the atom. Each one of those was considered to be a valid explanation in its own day, and every one of them before the quantum model are flat out wrong. We have discovered a few phenomenon that either do, or almost certainly do, violate the way we understand the universe right now, and it doesn't help that we know for certain our current understanding is incomplete because no one has been able to marry relativity (which is required for our universe to operate as we know it, so far as we can tell), with quantum mechanics. Heck, we still don't know how freaking gravity works. The other 3 fundamental forces have all been discovered (as in their carrier particles), but the carriers for gravity have yet to be found. Then we have neutrinos that travel faster than the speed of light, something which shouldn't be possible, and which could potentially violate causality by allowing us to send messages a short ways backward in time. Not an argument that ghosts are real, and if they are, I expect not in the way we understand them. Just that there are phenomenon in this world that are beyond our current level of understanding, either due to spiting in the face of established fact (faster than light neutrinos), or because they are exceptionally hard to study for whatever reason (ball lightning, which might actually be more than one thing). There are several things left that we already know should exist, such as gravitrons, that we currently lack the ability to find, and I wouldn't be surprised if the next big revision in our understanding of the universe leads us to a whole bunch of things we never even thought to look for. I just don't think there is much point in assuming we really truly understand how the universe actually works, seeing as we have been proving ourselves wrong on that front for thousands of years now. I mean yes, we obviously understand it well enough to do some pretty incredible things using that knowledge, but that doesn't mean our understanding is complete at all. It just means its complete enough to do whatever it is we are currently doing.

I'm such a genius that I left my PC at my parents today, and I actually kind of need it for school if only because its holding files I need. This means taking a trip back out to their place to get it once traffic clears up, which is a nice waste of time and money.

I guess this explains why the new tutorial was made members. Now it doesn't matter. I'm surprised this didn't happen years ago under the last CEO (the one who was all about putting members advertising in the free game, and brought us things like the gnome copters). Its a good plan, and I'm sure it will do a lot to help bolster the membership roster. It might also allow them to ease up a bit on the marketing front. And at the part where only some people are getting offered this, well I\m not sure what that is about. I suppose they are doing a study to see how effective it is, and what problems it might create, before they roll it out as universal.

I have stories from my mother, who moved around a lot as a child, and as an example she's talked about the house they had where the stove would always be on when they got home. From my own experiences, an observation I have had is that ever since we moved the Dog kennel to the back yard, where it has line of site to the 'graveyard' where we have buried all our previous dogs, sometimes the dogs will bark at that spot when there doesn't seem to be anything there. Maybe its just the wildlife that is being barked at and I can't see it or hear it, or maybe they bark at nothing in every direction and I just don't notice, but there seems to be an inordinate amount of barking at that one spot to me when there doesn't seem to be anything to bark at. Other than that, I thought I saw something on a local road across the lake on an evening boat ride once when I was little. I suspect it was my mind playing tricks on me, especially since what I thought I saw was a steam engine, and there have never been train tracks in that area as far as I know. It still makes me uneasy if I look across the water that way at night though.

For anyone who noticed I was gone (going to read the pages I missed tomorrow, 612 to 620 so I don't forget), I'm back. Spent a week is Disney World with my family. Weather was on our side with shorts and t-shirt weather the whole time, with one relatively cold night, and one hour long thunder shower (Florida does not skimp on the showers. When it rains, it really freaking rains). Not quite warm enough to make the water parks worth it though, so that was the first trip there I was on that we didn't bother with them. Getting home was a lot less fun, with snow storms in Canada delaying the plane that was to bring us back so much that when we arrived (in a snow storm, naturally), our plane was so delayed that our connection left without us (to be clear, there was supposed to be a two hour layover and our connection was an hour late leaving). The next flight was booked, so we were for the one after that, which was delayed by 5 hours. They got us on, and its now raining instead of snowing, and our pilots announce that they are about to run up against the legal duty hour limit, and if we have to de-ice we wont be taking off at all unless they can find another crew. So its all good, we don't need de-icing, so the [bleep]ing airport has us wait at the terminal for 20 minutes until it starts snowing again, and the flight gets cancelled. The best part was, we would have left hours earlier, but the plane before it had mechanical difficulties and tied up the gate for an extra 90 minutes, and even though the airport was half empty by that point, they couldn't be bothered to send our plane to a free gate. Airline did pay for a hotel after a 2 hour line up, but the next day it didn't look like we would get a flight back home for at least a couple days, so we got a rental car that needed to return to our home airport (for a sweet deal that saved like $1200 on the rental cost), and spent the better part of a day driving. Got home about 28 hours later than originally planned.

I've always wondered what kind of deterrent psychological torture would provide. The simplest implementation would be going beyond solitary confinement to full on sensory deprivation. One of the key symptoms of sensory deprivation is what it does to your sense of time, in that it cases time to seem to slow down so that minutes become hours, and hours become days. The problem (other than some very valid concerns about humanity and rights) I could see though is that say just a couple weeks of strait full on sensory deprivation would probably cause irreparable psychological damage (it would very literally make you crazy). I imagine a solid day of that would be unpleasant enough to motivate people to not want to go through it again, though much like capital punishment I doubt its ever going to cross someones mind during a crime of passion, nor will it deter people who are convinced they wont be caught. And again, I'm fairly certain this would fall under cruel and unusual punishment. What I am trying to decide is how much I would object to using this on say serial killers, people who attempt to commit genocide, or people who use biological weapons. On the one hand, I believe that such people should suffer as much as possible while they are still around to suffer (vengeance and retribution). I think ultimately I would have to side with my logic, which is saying that once we have separated them from the world so that they can't harm us anymore, then the needs of the world have been met. Or emotional need to make things right can't change the past, it can only commit further atrocities.

I've been drunk enough that my typing is slower (or less accurate, or both), but you wouldn't be able to tell because I do have a spell check on my browser. I do tend to avoid the internet once I've had a drink anyway though.

I would use a different definition myself than unlawful. I would go with 'without mitigating circumstance such as duress or self defense'. Same thing, but its a bit more robust. I also feel like war is a whole other can of worms. War is also at least two entirely separate issues. There is war where you are repelling an invasion, which I would consider to be self defense, and war where you are invading someone else (this gets called peace keeping a lot for some reason). There is also what I would consider true peace keeping, where a 3rd party military is invited in to act as a deterrent and enforcement to keep two other sides from warring. In other words, to keep the peace (how people ever manage to apply this to an occupational force is mind boggling for me).

At the end of the day, I can see some merits to muggi's approach. But I can't imagine going through life without actually loving someone. You can't love someone without putting yourself on the line, so by definition your apprach prohibits any love at all muggi. I just feel like never loving would be very lonely.

Valentines day was nice. Last night I had my first nightmare in...well in a few years I think. Normally my nightmares are disturbing. This one was full on panic, and its probably a good thing I don't talk while dreaming because I'm pretty sure that scream would have been enough to wake up the whole house and convince them I was being murdered. To be fair, in the dream I'm pretty sure I thought I was about to be dismembered. The weird thing was I didn't wake up heart pounding, though I had an urge to spend the rest of the night backed into a corner. Took a good hour before I was ready to go to sleep again. For anyone interested, what I can remember was this (I didn't write this one down, because quite frankly I don't need a detailed memory of it): There was something about what I suppose was a curse, something about an undead person being linked water. Then it skips to me being on a pier with maybe 25 other people, all of us are carrying a gun and running down a ramp to a maybe 80 ft long dock. I think the idea was that this undead girl was attacking, and we we're going to try and shoot her pieces. Anyway, when I saw her come out of the water, I pretty much totally panicked because somehow I knew if I didn't run I was going to die for sure, screamed, and ran as fast as I could. When I was done scrambling back onto the pier, I turned around and the dead girl was at the bottom of the ramp with her legs missing, and everyone else was gone. I kept trying to shoot her in the head, but I was shaking too much, so I decided I had to wait until she got closer. And the dream pretty much cut out there. If I have that dream again, I better get better than a revolver to defend myself with <_< It's weird, I've actually died in my nightmares before at least once (I woke up at the point of death), but I've never had the "holy shit I'm about to die" feeling before.

The vengeful part of me has no qualms with the idea of capital punishment for 1st degree murder charges. But another part of me has to agree with the problem of proof. Honestly, I think I prefer the idea of a penal colony (I think I once referenced a stargate sg1 episode in which a civilization used a 1 way gate situation to make a penal planet). First degree murder among some other crimes demonstrate to me an inability to function in our civilization, so the idea of forcing the murderers, and other who have demonstrated a total inability to function in society to all live together has some appeal. At the end of the day I'd have to say I don't feel it is our place to determine who gets to live and who gets to die, but we can be all about determining where they live.

Yes. Fat has a density a little less than that of water (~0.9 g/ml), as opposed to muscle tissue which is a little denser than water (at ~1.06 g/ml). Eithnicity also has an impact, since say Caucasians tend to have a bit less bone density than say, Africans do, which makes the former more buoyant on average. Also, next time you are in a pool, take a deep breath and let yourself float upright (as if you were standing up). Your mouth will probably be out of the water. Then slowly let your lungs empty (if you do it too fast you'll have to wait longer without taking a breath because you'll submerge fast enough to build momentum), and see if your eyes are even still above the surface. Some people will flat out sink to the bottom when they do this. Last night it kinda sounded like someone was on my roof, like someone took a step, or snow was falling on it. That was quite annoying.

I think the whole point was to make it so that effigies no longer allow combat to be a viable way of training anything (other than combat obviously). I think that was the "problem" they we're trying to fix.

My interaction with effigies is pretty limited. To be honest, I hate them because I hate getting them opened (I only have 2 skills that can open them, so I always need at least two assists). That said, I have a friend who has been keeping all their construction effigies for me, and I've been using them to gain some extra xp. The current arrangement allowed him to get get one or two a day, and considering the starting stock pile, I was set for 30k con xp a day for another week or two at least (already been doing this for two now), and probably 1 or 2 a day every day after that until he decided to kill something else. He gets enough a day that he might need to try and seek out other assisters for that skill, though I suppose con effigies are really easy to find if I want to take the time, so I'l live. My real beef is the timing. People have been stockpiling effigies pretty much since they came out, and they are only now deciding they want to do something about it? Its a little late for that. If its going to be ruled that this was a problem, then it should have been fixed on the same week Jagex figured out people were hording them, not a year later.

I second this. I almost forgot about this article, but those are all just awful. I think #2 was the worst song, video aside, with its 5 minutes of mumbling.

Exactly. No one else was posting except to insult you. You position is essentially that they came here for the express reason to insult you, for shits and giggles, and that this happened to coincide with your spam is pure coincidence. My position is that they were insulting you because you were preventing them from using the thread the way they normally do. I do watch this thread, even though I almost never post, and people not posting is pretty atypical here. I don't think its unreasonable to assume that you were in fact disrupting other people, which is why I am here now. As I said, if you truly believe that I am being unreasonable, and you aren't just having fun getting me to explain my position, take it up with an admin.

As part of all these games, people tend to respond to the last post. Your spam makes it much harder for people to do so, or to carry on a conversation. You are interrupting the normal operation of the thread. This is why the rule exists.

I would invite you to look at the responses other people made. I saw a few of them, you've told me about more. I think they should answer your question. Also, I only generally come here when there is a report. If you have a problem with my ruling, then you can pm me, and I'll elaborate on it for you. If you really disagree with me enforcing the rules, which were last updated Oct 11, 2009, then talk to an admin.

Then report it. And its an old rule. It's just been really lax in enforcement.

Yeah. The goal here isn't to stop you guys from having fun, but there is a limit. When the spam is preventing everyone else from enjoying the thread, its not cool anymore.