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Actually Qeltar, several people have been praying for this kind of deflation over the years. Shiva and I would spend a lot of time at Shiloh discussing possible solutions to the hyper-inflated market. Case example of hyper-inflation: Santa Hats. Over a period of 4 months they went from 400k to 8 million, and within months after that up to over 25 million gp. Kind of odd behavior from an item that had remained at 200-400k for years. We blamed price manipulation. Magic training to end all magic training: High Alchemy. A classic case of hyper-inflation. Less items and more money. Considering the items back up the gold's worth, GP became less valuable and prices increased. This was invisible of course, and also manipulated by merchants who simply preached "inflation!" to justify prices. Shiva and I talked about a grand market like the GE. How using it Jagex could forcefully wrangle the economy (conspiracy-theory all you want, I admit that they DO want to reign the economy in as a way of controlling gold bots). All these prices coming down are simply expressing the fact that buying and selling is no longer invisible, and Merchants are losing their strangleholds on the market. With the GE all servers are linked, making the Gold vs Backup situation more favorable, with backup items now available in mass quantities, making gold more valuable. I would not call this a crash, unless you were one of the merchants who were profiting from inflation. For 96% of the Runescape population, this "crash" is one of the better things that could possible happen to the RS economy. The only people who should be concerned are those who have been hording items in order to make more money. In which case I don't care, because greed pays off eventually.

Hurray for Democrats.

"Hey, I hope they don't do anything cheesy like writing down my last words..."

I'm watching it now. Kind of weird. The Wicked Witch is like super hot though.

I will digress, but only because it includes science. A deity would not exist in material form, and would not be bound by material rules. The Universe, however, is made up of matter and must follow the rules. You mean rules like the conservation of mass/energy? Well, yeah. I meant the empirical rules of physics in general. Like I said a few posts of mine ago. The Cyclical model can't happen because if time was infinite the Universe would not exist. As time progresses, more energy is lost to unusable forms. Eventually that energy will run out in n-Gogol years. If the universe was infinite, that energy would have run out in theory n-Gogol years ago. And fun fact: I believe in the multiverse :0. Explains lots of things for me, like deja vu and such.

I will digress, but only because it includes science. A deity would not exist in material form, and would not be bound by material rules. The Universe, however, is made up of matter and must follow the rules.

I live in Texas, and we had a four day blizzard beginning on Thanksgiving. :P If you want to blame anything, blame El Nin~o

The last time I got bought, I had to follow the person for three hours dancing and singing praise. It was good fun, wot.

Our tree went up the day after Thanksgiving, as well as the outside lights. Just going to have fun with family and friends.

Nordic Trac or Bowflex is your best bet.

Honest1, if i have my facts straight, was the TET leader a while was he not? Let's just say it's a long story, and leave it at that.

Indy, I agree. I can't think before a beginning, after an end. Just blows my mind. And to the little debate going on: This topic was purely about science. The main trouble with Christians is that we can't keep the ignorant amongst us from talking. Bluelancer, you could have ignored his comments or deleted the post for spam. This was actually looking to be a fairly interesting discussion.

Oh. My. God. Warrior agreeing with me. *screenshots*

Exactly. Which is why time is finite. At some point there was a beginning. Energy can be converted to matter and vice versa, but there is a loss in transfer. Yes, that energy is conserved, but not in any usable fashion. It's just there, not energy nor matter. Over time, energy degrades because of this loss. If time was infinite, you might as well be dividing by zero. Because of it's linear fashion, time must be finite. I'm graduating to middle school physics on this one. From rough recall, the 2007 article (from the New Zealand guy?) resolves the thermodynamic problem. Got no idea how, why or if it's solid, but just letting you know. Edit: I'm talking about this, not sure whether the op talked about it. The evidence for that article relies heavily upon the dark matter, who's properties are less than theoretive (more like speculative). If this discovery happened 15-30 years ago, I'd be more willing to listen. But this evidence is literally months old. Even Einstein or Hawking haven't used theories that young.

Exactly. Which is why time is finite. At some point there was a beginning. Energy can be converted to matter and vice versa, but there is a loss in transfer. Yes, that energy is conserved, but not in any usable fashion. It's just there, not energy nor matter. Over time, energy degrades because of this loss. If time was infinite, you might as well be dividing by zero. Because of it's linear fashion, time must be finite. I'm graduating to middle school physics on this one.

I think he's trying to say that regardless of a cyclic model, time is finite. It has to have a beginning and an end. Matter too.

It's major evidence is less than a year old. A kindergarden class could disprove it.

Infinite regress would still apply. And Theoretical matter is just that. Yes, we have proven Dark Matter, but can "phantom energy" really be proven? Of your four questions there, the fourth applies the greatest. Time and Infinity are not casual bedfellows. Beyond that, theoretical physics are beyond my astronomical training to comprehend.

I started watching Nick in '88. Double Dare and What Would You Do, Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts... ...and the winner of all time was GUTS. That show still continues to be epic every time I see it.

Thanks, I was obviously too lazy to look up the name.

I hope my interview comes up soon :D.

Actually, it has the three stars. Chris Pine as Kirk Zachary Quinto as Spock The Dude who played Eomer in Lord of the Rings (I can't remember his name) as McCoy. If you are a fan of Hot Fuzz or Shaun of the Dead, that guy is Scotty, and Harold from White Castle is Sulu. :P Interesting casting, but I think it will work.

... 1) Right click, save as. It's a .mov file that uses Quicktime Movie Player. If you do not have Quicktime, it probably will not play. 2) If you left-clicked, it attempts to load quicktime through your browser. It takes a few moments to load the whole video, as it's 20 seconds of very high quality footage. 3) With close to 4500 posts, why would I post a logger now? 4) I posted it back in May? Today was the first time I'd ever seen this video. I am not Gabe Koerner. If I was, you would all be worshipping me for doing the CGI for Battlestar Galactica. EDIT: Here are some pictures at least. They are large, so I am not going to paste the image. http://www.gabekoerner.com/ent/ent3small.jpg (Not that small) http://www.gabekoerner.com/ent/enterpri ... t_1080.jpg http://www.gabekoerner.com/ent/render00.jpg

Now, this is NOT a clip put together by CBS/Paramount. This guy just made what he felt a logical leap from "Enterprise" and the NX-01 to a progressive look at what Kirks NCC-1701 would look like. If you haven't heard, Star Trek 11 is going to be a "feeler" at rebooting the Original Star Trek series. It has an amazing cast, a pretty awesome looking plot, and J.J. Abrams (of MI:2/3 and Lost fame) will be at the helm. Anyways, here's the clip. It shows concepts, the original NCC-1701, and the re-imagining. http://www.gabekoerner.com/ent/trekreel002.mov EDIT: The "battle scene" would be from the old show called "The Doomsday Machine" and Gabe hasn't made a 3-D model for the Planet Killer, so that's why the 1701 is shooting at nothing.