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I [bleep]ing love Wisconsin. This was in the gas sation parking lot this afternoon in my hometown. Look at that park job!!

HAHA! :P

Ugh....I'm sorry but I don't believe anything Bill O'Reilly says. You can pin me to the wall for that, but in my opinion he is not a citeable source.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed provided false information about Bin Laden's courier...I don't know where you're getting that from.

As for this part, definitely. It's just another form of racism/segregation/discrimination - no matter what the reason. Surprisingly, the group of people that benefits most from Affirmative Action is white women.

I might add that Editors do not just correct grammar. All members of the EP are allowed to provide feedback, criticism, etc. for an article. Ultimately, it is up to the author which version of the article they choose to publish, but the editors give plenty of "devil's advocate" feedback. Like I said above, being on the EP is very eye-opening. We don't just take articles "as is" and there are more ideas tossed about by authors and editors than you might think. Often there is a great idea, but by Thursday, General Discussion has already droned on for 8 pages about it. How interesting would it be to rehash a topic that has already been discussed? If you've got good ideas, save them, write them down, and work out a piece for the Times instead of posting it in GD :thumbsup:

The European model of slavery really didn't have much to do with Christianity. I know there were a lot of other factors involved, but religion was important too. They considered the native Americans and the Africans soulless, and therefore they had no feelings and were basically nothing more than animals. They were fair game for slavery, basically. Of course, it was also simply convenient to use slaves, and I'm not sure to what extent the Europeans actually believed this. :D You're probably more educated on this subject Those are accurate statements, but they did not believe that because those groups weren't Christians. The European model mostly traded slaves from the western coast of Africa (heavily concentrated in what is now Liberia) and native Americans were rarely used as slaves because more often than not they could not survive the strenuous slave labor (the same can be seen with natives in South America--specifically Brazil). Studies like this one are a better idea of why Europeans believed Africans deserved to be enslaved. While you are correct in saying they are "soulless", it was not simply because they weren't Christian. Christians believed in the Great Chain of Being and if studies like Crania Americana proved Africans (among other ethnicities) were biologically different from white Christians, i.e. another species, then--according to the Great Chain of Being--they were lower on the totem pole and deserving of their enslavement. Religion did play a part, but not as big a part as people may think. Like I posted before, the economic reasons far outweighed the religious. The religious reasons were only to justify an already existing slave trade system that was based on economic needs. :mrgreen:

When doesn't it?

If you're on the fence about applying...apply! :-D Being on the EP is a very rewarding and eye-opening experience.

The European model of slavery really didn't have much to do with Christianity.

If you are a male and have short hair, you really don't need to shower every day. It's actually bad for you to do so, but I do every morning because it helps wake me up and is cemented in my morning routine. "All you really need is to wash the four key areas: armpits, ***-hole, crotch and teeth! Got that? The hookers bath. Armpits, ***-hole, crotch and teeth. In fact, you can save yourself a whole lot of time if you simply use the same brush on all four areas!" -George Carlin

Drumset? Snare drum? Explain! :o Oh and Kalphite, I loved that book. So now you've met one. F. Scott Fitzgerald is brilliant.

ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICAAAYYNE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI2COawqMJQ

Why are you arguing? The much more efficient thing to do would be to go smith your cannonballs. :mrgreen:

I've tried to tell them 100 times they're doing speed but they never listen. If it comes from the doctor, it can't be drugs! :wall:

Their advice is sound and you would save more money and time following it, but if you're dead set on making cannonballs, more power to you.

I used to do the same thing as you--pop in a movie and AFK Smithing either with Cannonballs or Gold Bars. If I remember correctly, the XP is about 12,500k/hr. Not the greatest, but like you said, very AFK-able.

This is my first post on this thread, and most likely my last. I've had this as a goal forever, now I can finally get back to frosties and 95 Prayer :thumbsup:

We would cause the end of our species, but certainly not the world. As Carlin puts it, we're nothing more than a "surface nuisance" on this planet.

Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no [man], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Good to hear :thumbup:

I think a copy of the email sent to Jagex should be displayed. It's only fair, otherwise the answer is out of context.

Tons of my friends do Addy. It's really popular on college campuses during finals week and if you know a friend with a scrip you can make a lot of cash. It's also good for no-lifing RS or playing FPS games. Never tried it personally, I'm not a pill popper.

Recently (as in this morning) I heard a bit on public radio about an increase in narcissistic lyrics over the last thirty years or so. Essentially, the researchers have concluded that lyrics are now focused more on "me, I, my, mine, etc." whereas during previous decades, there was less focus on the self and more on a communal "we, us, etc." Here is a link to a conversation with the head of the research team, Dr. Jean Twenge, Tom Moon, and Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning host Kerri Miller. [spoiler=And Here's the Other Side] Source The New York Times, NPR and others have been hyping psychologist Nathan DeWall's recent claim -- based on extensive computer analysis of pop song lyrics from 1980 to 2007 -- that there is "a statistically significant trend toward narcissism and hostility in popular music." Because "the words 'I' and 'me' appear more frequently along with anger-related words, than 'we' and 'us' and the expression of positive emotions," DeWall further argues, contemporary youth must be more self-obsessed than those in previous generations. Do "late adolescents and college students love themselves more today than ever before," as Dr. DeWall concludes? I don't know. Neither does DeWall or his computer. Common sense dictates that using song lyrics to prove almost anything -- stripped of the irony, humor and ambiguity that so often inform those lyrics -- is inherently bogus. To compare the words used in certain '80s hits with those of contemporary charters to support yet another iteration of the "nothin's no good no more" trope is a stretch that would be laughable if it weren't taken so seriously. Specifically, DeWall's article in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts points to Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder's "Ebony and Ivory" and Diana Ross and Lionel Richie's "My Endless Love" ("two hearts that beat as one") as exemplars of the "happy togetherness" of the '80s. They then compare these lame tunes favorably to such more recent tracks as Weezer's "The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" "Sexy Back" by Justin Timberlake and Fergie's "Big Girls Don't Cry", in which the line, "It's personal, myself and I" supposedly proves not only her massive self-involvement but also that of those who like the record. Another '80s tune the researchers point to, John Lennon's "Starting Over," is a good, warm-hearted effort. But it hardly approaches -- in quality or cultural resonance -- Lennon's '60s masterpiece of self-reference, "Strawberry Fields" ("No one I think is in my tree/I mean it must be high or low"), written at the height of the supposed "peace and love" era, or " Imagine", that paean to togetherness that kicked off the '70s, widely regarded as the "Me Decade". It's silly on its face to characterize the '80s -- a decade dominated by such ego-enthralled superstars as Madonna, Prince and Whitney Houston, whose 1986 anthem "The Greatest Love of All" celebrated, above all, learning to "love yourself" -- as a benchmark of musical or societal harmony. The biggest '80s star, of course, was Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop" whose self-obsession would have made Narcissus himself blush. Even Jackson's "We Are The World", which raised a ton of money for a great cause, can be seen as something of an act of self-glorification. (Saturday Night Live's parody, with Billy Crystal as Prince singing "I am the world, I am the children..." brilliantly sent up the "we left our egos at the door" pretensions of that enterprise. On the flip side, a far better, more communal and more meaningful song, Lady Gaga's 2010 anthem "Born This Way" has already become a cornerstone of self-acceptance to an entire generation of record listeners. If young people were so darn communal in the '80s, how come punk rock was so easily co-opted as capitalism's way of bottling and selling revolution during those years? And why did so many young adults help elect Ronald Reagan twice by landslides and then cheer him on as he dismantled as much of the New Deal and the Great Society as he could get away with? I yield to no man in my revulsion of narcissism. In fact, I can say without hesitation that some of my worst friends are narcissists. And no doubt there are plenty of budding narcissists out there. Most young people I know combine an understandable dose of self-absorption -- in the face of skyrocketing health care costs, record unemployment for workers ages 16 to 24 and student loan debt now exceeding total credit card debt -- with some kind of spiritual practice and/or commitment to making the world a better place. Green Music Group is just one of many contemporary organizations promoting eco-friendly rock tours, which often include "green" accommodations. Maybe a computer comparison of this movement with the hotel room trashings of the halcyon days of happy togetherness will reveal that today's kids aren't as full of themselves as conventional wisdom, and DeWall's pseudoscience, suggest. I'm hoping to get a nice discussion going on this. So, any thoughts?

If it is clear who the users are that are part of this RS Mafia and that they have help from player moderators, this should be an easy fix for JaGex. Do not simply remove their player moderator status, ban them from the game altogether. The problem does not lie in the gambling companies, but the corrupt player moderators who assist them.