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Immediately followed by the most unappealable ban imaginable.

Oh, never even saw that. I just said it and that's what he quoted. Shows me :P. Next time quote the article in context and not me, ya big lug. Guess I should go stalk down a crow and gorge.

It would obviously be kept in Biohazard Level 5 at the CDC. That place has all the plagues of history sealed in tiny vials, safely. I like the idea of finally ending AIDS. Hope they come up with something for diabetes soon.

I'm curious. Since the patch notes are replacing hidden updates, can we replace the thread? Remove hidden updates as it is now and make it a patch notes thread?

Not only did you actually respond to that, but what the hell are you talking about? I fully recognized the right of anyone to believe what they want without resorting to denying people rights. Any negativity about my "station" was directed at Lep for saying all scientists are morons who believe in one specific thing. Aka generalizing...really badly. And you are right, it was a weak insult. And guess what, you are the only person who cares. And you are the one making the big fuss, acting like you have the moral high horse, and continuing the pitiful flame war. If you would like to moan, do it in PM instead of spamming topics with it. Nobody else is complaining. Also, feel free to have an opinion and share it. I'm not saying that you are wrong for having one. I'm just trying to explain *why* certain issues take place with an insider's perspective (in regards to the other thread). If you would like to ignore my input, go ahead and do so. That's your God given right, and a natural right in it's own regard. If you really dislike my opinion so much, add me to your foes list or something. Otherwise, read the damn sticky at the top of this board.

Zierro, you are grossly mistaken. The school did not fire the coach for not being "Christlike." That was a sarcastic comment I made about it being a Christian school. It was never meant for more than a sarcastic comment. I'm sorry you took that the wrong way, and I should have added a rolling eyes smiley after it. Sorry for getting you confused and leading to pages of argument.

^Essence of the whole idea

Happy Singles Awareness Day! Celebrate by finding a member of the opposite sex who is single and go out and celebrate! Problem solved.

Who cares about rewards, it sounds like this game is FUN.

Ah, forgot about Garfield minus garfield. I haven't looked at it in a while. Pure genius every single time.

I'm fairly sure someone at Jagex can come up with ideas for community events without having to spy and "steal" your ideas! Ever thought that mods came to your events to show support for the community and bringing people together? Yeah, it has. But it's still possible that's not the reason they came. POSSIBILITY. Look man, I am sure they are not STEALING TET ideas. They have been attending your events in order to see how you guys work in action! They want to see what to expect when they host events. They wanted to see how players act. Like someone said, they could have just watched from the shadows easily and you would have never even noticed. But they graced the events with their presence, which only further increases TET and RHQET's reputation! Look, I'm sure they were not stealing ideas. To be honest, I would not pay someone to throw a dance party or find-me. I'm sure they are going to be having dueling tourneys and PKing events, or raids on boss monsters. Or maybe just a random fun idea. Plus guys, I'm not trying to be rude or mean, but all the events you guys do today? You got the idea from a past team member years back down the line. Sure, you might attach a unique story to it, but it's still the same event. It's not like TET or RHQET have a monopoly on having fun in Runescape. Jagex has always been watching the OoC and their attempts to spice up Runescape life for years. When we found out Jmods had been stalking us for months and that Cambridge has a printout of the OoC picking cabbage on which Andrew had scribbled "THIS IS WHAT THE GAME IS ABOUT" for the office to see, we were excited. They never told us they were even watching, to be honest. And look what came out of it. You know that cabbage-port that everyone is so fond of? All ours, baby! Which, by the way, is why the TET should be thrilled. Jagex might implement game changes and features that make hosting events EASIER and BETTER. By having their own ingame events (which by the way nearly every MMO has, but us) other groups might benefit from the framework these events provide. If you get on Jagex' good side, what's stopping a community relations mod from saying "And if you had fun today, check out suchandsuch tomorrow!" What if players who casually visit Tip.It decide they haven't had enough fun and now want to check out their very first TET event? To be honest, having been in the TET for three years, I'm thrilled about this. It's about damn time. I think you guys should be excited, too, because the potential for having a greater audience is there now. Jagex is hardly stealing ideas, they are making life more fun for all of the players. I wouldn't be surprised if they had people reading these forums looking at event times so they could plan their events around ours and other event groups. So get over yourselves! By being in the TET you should respect that your job is to make players have fun and enjoy Runescape. And if another team comes out, the more the merrier. Did we sit behind closed doors and complain about other groups like RHQET or H1P? No, we didn't. We planned exciting events and we carried them out. Because at the end of the day, it's all about fun. Bringing out the fun. Sound familiar?

Don't forget gas efficent. Saving money is generally viewed as good. See: All of the above. [hide=][/hide] My next car will be a Mazda3 5 door touring package. And after that whatever else is reliable, cheap, and fuel efficient. No sense drooling over vehicles I wouldn't buy if I had the money. I prefer to drool over the cars I can afford and will benefit me. Also, my favorite car (massive image) [hide=][/hide] I literally drove this thing until it fell apart. It put in 15 years of hard service. I WISH they still made cars like this.

Any car that gets me from point A to point B, is paid for, and has my exclusive name on the title. Oh wait, already got it :).

At another forum we actually used that image as our bot capture program. It worked flawlessly. My personal favorites are: CAD (been reading for years) Garfield Minus Garfield Indexed by Jessica Hagey ICHC and I guess Calvin and Hobbes. I want to buy the complete book but it's a 27 pound leather bound tome. I can afford it but where the hell am I going to put it?

Weight Watchers is a great diet. It provides results, emphasis on eating healthy, and tips on exercising. I've lost 45 pounds on their diet in six months now, and I feel great. As for diet, eating high amounts of fiber helps a lot. It cleans out your arteries (and your colon!) as well as being more filling so you eat less.

I have a Zune and the thing is amazing. Even the new slimline models are tough and durable while the old 30GB versions are veritable tanks. Microsoft's customer support also rocks. I had a few dead pixels on my Zune so they sent me back my irreperable old zune as a backup, and a brand new one free of charge, and even refunded me the shipping cost I spent to ship it to them. The software is very easy to use and very pleasant looking, and the menu on the device itself is intuitive. Now that Zunes have games, the only thing they truly lack is a TV tuner. The screen is very crisp and larger than most iPods for the price. Which is another part of the Zune's features. It's cheap. iPods are nice and all, but I am incredibly happy with my Zune. I'd recommend doing intensive research via consumer reports and getting into the store and trying them out before you buy, though. If my post wasn't enough to convince you, this thread will reek of fanboyism :P.

i dont get how that is a paradox, im familiair with the children's riddle but I dont see what would stop you from moving. You can only walk 10 miles. You walk 10 miles from your house. Are you stuck? I'd run home. Boo-[bleep]-yeah. Serious answer: This makes my head hurt. I'm leaning towards yes. That's one possible answer to the question. Another might be "I walked 5 miles out and 5 miles back. As I started from my home I walked from my house." I love you, I'd almost forgotten RVB. Those guys went to UT Austin so they are fairly bright fellows.

Like Laura said, this is kind of useless in modern technology. For CRTs it might save a minimal amount of power, but LCD displays still are backlit at black, which saves nothing. It's an artifact from an earlier age. Like Altavista :P. We used Blackie way back when the internet was "new" on the market at school. Back then it might have done something besides hurt our eyes, I don't know.

Well let's be honest, some have the right to claim they are victimized. Homosexuals, for one. That article that magekllr posted? Someone's claiming to have been victimized because of their beliefs. They feel that they can't express their views without being denied opportunity.

It really doesn't. I'm not this way off the screen, really. But while you do have experience, I have firsthand experience and my own set of rules to follow. When a coach signs a school's contract, he has to follow their set of guidelines for conduct, first. I'm really sorry if I give you the impression that I give [cabbage] about anything but "stations in life" but let's face it. There's conjecturing about something and then there's having firsthand experience. I'm qualified in discussions on education, history, and athletics because guess what, I get paid to do this for a living. Like I said before, if you have firsthand experience in a subject being debated, you damn well come out and say it. Real life doesn't give two cents for your opinion unless you are "qualified" to make it. When it comes down to it, experience and station are deserved. When I meet someone who has more experience than me, I sit my [wagon] down and listen. Because after all, they know more about it than I do. Their opinions go beyond opinion, because they are backed up by experience. So I'm sorry if I offend you with talk of experience but that's how the world works. Read some of my posts and you will note I never argue against atheism, not once. I simply seek to inform those who make uninformed and sometimes bigoted claims against people who believe differently from them. I don't label people, because I recognize that there is no black and white, merely varying shades of gray. Sorry I made the assumption. That's all I could really postulate considering you seemed to pick that quote out of air just to make a crack about Christian morals.

Being a scientist myself (care to come in here and moan about me saying that, Zierro?) I don't really find that too very offensive. Like I said, there are idiots and there are actual attacks. I find it more shocking that "science" becomes the antithesis of religion. It's not, unless you follow the "Church of Empiricism" that got started with the Principia as it's Bible. The two can coexist in many degrees (not all). It bothers me that people only think of two sides in these arguments, always black and white. Always ignoring the gray areas. Like me. I could really care less if people get their freak on. Do I like homosexuality? No, I find it actually repulsive. The fact that biology does not allow for homosexual procreation to me is nature's way of saying "no." And that's my right to think that way. But in the end if people want to do that thing it's their business. I'm not for banning their marriage but you have to remember that laws are built upon the ethics and morality of it's constituents. Ethics->Mores-> Laws. Someday the majority of people in Florida will agree that homosexuality is "meh" or "whatever" and laws will be enacted to allow for marriage between gay couples. Hell, despite what you may think that's how civil rights came along. MLK, Jr was not demonstrating for the government's benefit. The government already believed in equality. It was the people who did not. The Civil Rights Movement was all about convincing the PEOPLE to support equality and then relay that to their lawmakers. He changed their ethics, shifted the more, and law was born. I have to think that while I find homosexuality repulsive, others out there feel that it's beautiful and to them that's what love is. And I respect that. To each his own. It is not my place in this world to tell him/her what to do. And I have to agree that what really irked me about Lep's post was his comment regarding lesbianism as being "ok." Seriously? That's rather chauvinistic and sexist, really. "I really hate gays but two women gets my rocks off as long as they are hot, lol." That kind of reasoning makes me sick. My personal opinion of you dropped to negative levels for that. There's having a legitimate opinion, and then there's being ignorant. Amen. Bigotry is the big example here. It's one thing to dislike someone's way of life. Bigotry is where you don't even tolerate it, even in discussion.

If he put out his second and third string players and gave them equal play time in the second half, then they still would have won while giving at least a fair shot to the other team. I would have had no problem with it. He would have done his best to give the other team a chance without "copping out" as some others would have said. I do not think he should have had his athletes "hold back" as in passing the ball around and such, but he himself should have held back and put in the other lines. Let the kids do their best, but don't have the best players only out there. That would have been an excellent time for the bench warmers to play. I usually throw second string out if we are up by 30 and third when they get tired. I also mix my strings a bit to keep the kids from getting too winded. After all, they are 9th graders, not Magic Johnson. They didn't ride the bus 30-40 miles to sit on their butts.

I snuck in a ninja edit in the previous post, just to let you know. And again with the fallacies. I don't care, usually most people don't care since we toss them around so much. It's the internet after all. Last man standing has the bigger genitalia, and what all. So is this a legitimate argument or are you just making a big deal out of this because of your personal vendetta against Christianity? I'd say the latter. That statement was made weeks ago and you drag it out after the fact just because it bothers you. The reasoning behind the original statement was that Christian principles would have asked that he consider going easy on the other team. I never said that was the actual reason they fired him. For all I know none of the board members at this school are even religious, and that they'd fire a teacher for spilling a crumb on the floor. It was just a vague statement stated in a rather nonchalant manner to end a post with a bang. I personally thought it was ironic that behavior was even tolerated at a Christian school. I really had no major significance for it, but it seems to have bothered you to the point of starting this. Good for you, it's important that people get exposed to reality. Unfortunately this topic is about coaching basketball and I've coached said lost souls in basketball. Go figure if I assume I have a little leeway to interpret this story. There's a subtle difference between glory and self-respect. The latter of which is worth far more. The kids were just doing what their coach was telling them to do. I have no doubt that they played with great skill and deserved their victory. However he should have let up on the clearly inferior team and sent in the benchwarmers. For one thing, it gives THEM some of that self-esteem and gives them a chance to get some of that honor and integrity.

Ever met someone with a doctoral degree? Introducing themselves as Doctor So&So? It might sound rude and annoying, but they earned that right. Considering I've sunk $25 grand into my various certifications and degrees, I think I can pull the card whenever the hell I feel like it. Doesn't make my claims any less valid and to be honest I don't give a damn if it bothers you. I carved my pedestal out of years of dedication, hard work, sweat, and tears. I'm also very aware of the logical fallacies. I don't give a crap. You have given me the impression the last few years of your ability to typecast entire groups of people based on a small few, which is a fallacy in it's own right. Religious discussion on this board constantly violates Burden of Proof fallacy. Your specific fallacy here is fallacy of composition. God forbid Ad Hominem Abusive and poisoning the well. Again, I give you SCHOOL POLICIES regarding competition. These are children, not professionals and not college athletes. And I hate to be an elitist bastard parading around my authority, but you have no idea what some of these kids lives are like. I had children in my classroom who the only time they'd ever smile is on the court. I had kids who were so poor that the only food they really got was the free cheese sandwich at lunch. I had kids who, for them, the game meant everything. The very fact that people were out there cheering for them, win or lose, was enough to keep them from stepping out in front of a bus. High school athletics are NOT about winning or losing. While that's nice, that's not what it's about. It's about learning self-control, respect, teamwork, coordination, and putting your own glory aside to benefit the overall team. The job of the coach is to ensure that these needs are met. When we lost a game by a few points, I'd be upset for all of five seconds before the educator in me switched on and I'd ask "ok, what did we do wrong." Bam! Analysis for these kids, who probably couldn't read a periodic table if they tried. Yes, the goal on the court is to win. But that coach was not exercising self-control, nor was he setting an example onto his students. He was not respecting those other kids who were having difficulties. He was only looking for glory. That goes against every aspect of sportsmanship as defined by the codes of conduct I posted in my previous post. If you can't play with respect and sportsmanship, there's no point playing the damn game. This isn't college, you get paid win or lose. The kids are only there for fun, not for a chance to strike it big. It's a completely different league of competition. If Collegiate sports were the Olympics, High School would be the Special Olympics. No offense intended, but winning is not the goal. It's making dreams happen. That's the base definition of fair play. It's not the only definition. Oxford describes fair play as also being: The thing about dictionaries is that they are cold and ruthless jerks, without the ability to sense context in any given situation. It's called the no-mercy rule. At least in UIL rules, if the score is 60-0 at halftime, the game is over. 59-0 at halftime? Can you say technicality? Most refs would have called that if there were no complaints. In personal competition, yes. But then again, these are children who are playing their lives out. When victory is assured, the least you could do is give them a chance. Since all those school policies I quoted up there say that self-esteem is one of the most important factors that their districts have athletic programs, I think I'd want to allow those kids on the other team to walk away with at least a little self respect. After all, the coach not only strives to educate his own team, but provide the very same obligations to the other team. You are a role model, not some guy getting paid 100k+ a year to win. You are a teacher first, coach second. But that's me on my pedestal. Can you hear me down there? No, not in that context. But when you actually read the facts behind the story like how he was not a first time offender and how he had been boasting to the press about the win, that's damaging your school's reputation and undermining the respect that a school needs to properly educate students. Not to mention that when you have a private school paid for by parents, when said parents get pissy, results happen. Parents asked for this guy's head on a silver platter, they obviously did not want him teaching their children. And they pay the bills. EDIT: Don't know if you've read this, but in some situations I have no problem with his actions. If I was playing with friends, or coaching professional sports, I'd have no problem running up the score. Particularly in the latter sense where I am literally getting paid to win at all costs. But in this situation (read high school) the objective is not to win at all costs. Some schools may act like it is (coming from Texas where football is played like this) but basketball in high school as opposed to football usually involves students who come from impoverished backgrounds or have other problems as opposed to the popular "wealthier" kids who end up playing football.

I'm sorry if I am boasting. But that was my intent. Guess what, I'm qualified to say this. I know way more about how the world works than a lot of you guys by merit of age and life experience. To the topic, I know how these athletic events work because I have been there. Whenever we get to a subject that you are professionally licensed in, you can feel free to hoist your experience over me at any time and I will respect that. As for the second, I give you wiki. There's a difference between brute competition and the competition that happens between high school kids. It's called sportsmanship. As for high school sports, they aren't for winning: My school: Taken from various area school websites.