Bloodstain

You're assuming that there are jobs out there. Right now, there are 6 people for every job. And it isn't looking too great either. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/03/how-a-new-jobless-era-will-transform-america/7919/

Hopefully this slump lasts a couple more days so I can sell my herbs off and snag another red :smile:

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People are just horrible at financial management. Having regular meetings with them will cost money too. Welcome to politics bro.

I'm no pro, but, right now, I'd trade green and blue for red, if I could. All I needed to hear, thanks :grin: edit: looks like it probably won't happen. Upgrading green to blue sound good? edit 2: nvm, seems red isn't crashing as much as the others or something. not easy to get. Lol got it for blue + 21M after all

Double post, woop woop. Is the general consensus that trading green/blue mask + cash for red = a good thing? I've already got a set and just thought about this, thought I'd get a pro's opinion first though :razz: On one hand it's putting all my eggs in one basket, on the other it'll get me closer to purple hopefully

So you're doing this so you can take other people's calculations and release them as your own some how? Ps: Even if you do, it will be useless. There is more than one way to train each skill, and so far no one has posted more than one method.

Oh my. Certainly worth the time. Thank you You have to have junk to actually benefit from it unless you plan to buy something else with it...so... I've got a mask set + santa + cash that = about 325M. They're dropping, but hopefully once they stabilize I can get enough cash + a couple hooks to be able to get a purple.

Heads up, I was able to buy snapdragons instantly at minimum, so herbs are probably dropping. I'd think they'll go up again soon though

Oh my. Certainly worth the time. Thank you

How much are hooks worth? Thinking about going to the arena and getting one or two if it would be worth the time

Those are terrible estimates. Nearly every one of them is wrong. That's the point :wink:

From what I've read on the RSOF, the focus works with the full slayer helm, but the hex doesn't. IIRC, hex works on it's own though

Someone from Z found this in the RSCache. Could be what it looks like completed? [hide][/hide]

Same answers as before. http://forum.tip.it/topic/250202-money-gained-or-lost-from-each-skill/page__p__3954721entry3954721

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You will NOT be disappointed. Hilarious movie Is it a good horror/comedy, or is it a horror that's so bad it becomes a comedy? It's a good comedy, I can't say there is much horror in it (they didn't try to make it horror either). It's funny funny, not bad funny. Might be my top zombie film. Loved the actors, loved the zombies, loved the scenes. Don't think too much about the plot though. All around good

You will NOT be disappointed. Hilarious movie

Is it at all possible to get access to a gym? Very possible. But I'd like some exercises I can do at home daily and stuff. Like push-ups, crunches, stuff like that. Gym membership. With one you will see results a million times faster (if you even see any with working out at home). Why don't you want to get one? Nervous?

A large prison population does not disprove the fact that prisons deter crime. There are so many other variables to account for. The crime rate could have just went up in general. For all you know, if there weren't any prisons, the crime rate could be even higher (and I bet it would be). If you can find data that shows us that nobody has ever been affected by consequences, then I guess I'm wrong. But until then, you, nor your "experts" have not proven anything. You are just picking numbers and applying them to your argument where they do not fit. If the crime rates go up, then jail isn't a very effective deterrent is it? The deterrence model states that prisons deter, so there shouldn't be much crime, which there obviously is. How is it an effective deterrent then? (also see below hidden quote for profile of offenders) Separating criminals from the rest of society causes more harm than good? How so? I believe that preventing murderers from having the opportunity to murder again is a good thing. You are putting criminals with criminals. The only thing you learn in prison is how to be a better criminal. And make new connections. Murder accounts for a very small portion of prison populations. So what good is jail then, if it has no affect on prisoners? And YOU are the one who thinks it is a deterrent, yet you don't even know what specific deterrence is? This is why I hate arguing with people who do not know about criminal justice. Supposedly? Put a mouse in a box with two buttons. One that gives him food and one that shocks him. After a week, which do you think he is more likely to press? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning I know what conditioning is very well, and that it is dependent on trials. I'm not sure what you are trying to say here, but if it is about severity, then no longer/more severe sentences have no effect. [hide] [/hide] http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=634 And what references would those be? Did you read the entire article? And what part exactly is there psychology? These aren't psychologists. Once again I'm going to let the topic die, mostly because when it comes to CJ, it is incredibly frustrating trying to talk with someone who has no specific knowledge about it. I don't mean that as an insult, but there is a lot more to CJ than most people assume. And we are just going round and round in circles, and I don't think it's going to end unless one of us stops

I'm pretty sure it's possible to convince some people not to commit crimes, but just because it doesn't work for every single criminal does not mean the system is a failure. I cut out all the deterrence stuff to reduce length, but I'm going to comment on it. The thing about deterrence, is it is easy to disprove (large prison populations) and hard to prove. Obviously it isn't an effective deterrent judging on the prison population alone. You can keep saying it is, but I'm pretty sure that tons of experts and studies disagree with you. Onto the restorative justice, yes I am saying it is a better process than jail. Jail has virtually no benefits, except from separating people from society which can cause more harm than good. Restorative justice isn't just meeting with someone and that's that. Trust me, when I first heard about restorative justice, I thought it was all hippy, bleeding heart BS. The more I learned about it and it's successes, the more I realized that this was a way better method than jail. Hell, they took a bunch of people convicted of murder who had served (and were at the time currently serving) time in prison, and put them in an Aboriginal community. No police or anything like that, they basically got adopted by the community and learned how to live and it was amazing to watch. I would love to see more restorative justice programs, granted a sudden switch from our retributive system to a restorative one would have to be very, very gradual, but I think it would be a much better system. Meeting your victim is a HUGE deal. You have to meet them face to face and explain why you did what you did, and listen to how much harm you caused. Many criminals would rather take the however many months or years in prison and be on their way. Imagine having to meet the family of a man you killed while drinking and driving. That is a very, very scary experience. Restorative justice, imo, does a better job at preventing future crime. Also, I'd like to point out that I did mention that there should be more focus on the causes of crime and being more proactive. Really, I'd encourage anyone to read up on restorative justice, it's probably much too big of a topic for me to broach here, but it is quite an interesting topic. I bet any of us could name 5 - 10 people MINIMUM who speed despite knowing the risk of getting a speeding ticket (and probably actually gotten one too). If you have the time, read this meta analysis study. It is 20 pages long, but it is a really good and easy read. Here is part of the summary bolding mine http://web.viu.ca/crim/Student/S%20Wu%20Deterrence%20Theory.pdf

I love Breaking Bad. Bryan Cranston was so under used on Malcolm in the Middle, amazing actor. New season starts this month too! It's just got so many heart sinking moments, it's the only show where I would say things out loud to the tv

I don't understand why people make such a big fuss over that.....they just won an olympic medal, I'd be partying if that happened to me. Drinking age here in Manitoba is 18, a year really doesn't matter and oh my god they had a couple beers, after winning a WORLD COMPETITION! Someone please, THINK OF THE CHILDREN Olympics isn't about countries "winning", it's about the individual athletes. IIRC, the Olympic committees or whoever runs the Olympics aren't allowed to rank countries, because it isn't about countries winning. Ah, here it is

Yes, but unfortunately some members of society need something more than morals, education, good upbringings, etc. to prevent them from doing wrong. For example, you can try to teach a whole class about why stealing is wrong, but the students' opinions of the matter will still differentiate, and thus their morals will too. As primal as the idea of a scare tactic sounds, I believe it's an efficient (and reasonable) way of maintaining some order in society when all else has failed. And let's not forget: It's all for a good cause - not a bad one. It's for the purpose of protecting the lives of the innocent - not an excuse to make people suffer. I'd love it if we never had to resort to punishments. I'd love it if people just didn't feel the need to attack the innocent. But sadly that's not the world we live in. There could be. I'm completely open to bigger and better methods of accomplishing things, but I just haven't heard of anything of the sort yet. What is? A minor deterrent is still better than no deterrent. Like I said above, I'm open to new ideas but jail is all we have right now. We're talking about mostly adults and prison, not hypothetical school kids As for prison being an effective deterrent, to my knowledge no study has ever found that. Hell, how can you call it effective when people who have actually been to prison and experienced it have (iirc) a >50% recidivism rate in USA? As for other ways to deal with crime, look up restorative justice. When I started my criminal justice degree program, I thought the idea was ridiculous, but after taking restorative justice/conflict resolution classes, I wish that the government would implement them a lot more. One case that stood out to me was one about a rapist. This guy raped two women, both who had really really bad trauma because of it. While he assaulted one of the women, she looked at the clock and saw the time, and she accidentally turned on the radio. Ever since then, she hasn't been able to listen to music at all without freaking out, and she couldn't sleep at night until it was past that time she saw on the clock. The other woman I can't remember. They both agreed to meet with him, and he agreed to meet with them. They ended coming out of it extremely pleased with the process, and the first woman listened to music on the way home and was fine. There are lots of cases like that, and I think that everyone could benefit from restorative justice if it was used more. That + spending money on causes of crime and other methods would be a lot better than what we have now I think. And I don't think we'll ever be able to deter crime, but we could be more proactive about it

I still wouldn't say it's an effective deterrent. You and I don't murder or steal cars or rape people because we will go to jail, we don't do it because we have morals, education, good upbringings, etc. And this is ignoring the problem of attributing causes to lower crime rates. And for the sake of argument, let's say that it was a good deterrent, but a question then would be: is it the prison that is deterring, or is it the thought of being caught and punished? In which case, there would be better, cheaper, and more effective ways of dealing with crime other than prison.