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Untrimmed prayer cape The prayer skill icon is one of the few that actually work on a piece of clothing and the cape goes better together with the emote without the trimms.

Basically, people shouldn't advocate that what they are doing is right because it is right in their religion. So, you're having trouble making a speech about how Christians shouldn't be allowed to keep slaves and how Muslims shouldn't be allowed to beat their wives? Yeah, I can see how that's difficult. On a more serious note, you could Google the key words on the topic and maybe run a search on the discussion board of richarddawkins.net (or just go there and start essentially the same topic if you're really having trouble) and some other websites where these things are commonly discussed.

What do you mean? 0.333... and 1/3 are exactly the same number. I think the most simple way to prove it would be 0.333...=3/9=1/3. Idk if I read this correctly, but the fact that 0.333... is the same number as 1/3 has nothing to do with not having time or not knowing how to discover something about the number. All we need to know is that 0.333... has 0 in the integral part and an infinity of 3's in the fractional part of the number. How I was taught to deal with repeating decimals: A common way to represent a repeating decimal is a line or dot over the repeating sequence of numbers, for example or 0.(9), so you don't have to use 0.333 to represent 1/3. Outside of mathematics in for example natural sciences, however, it's not a good idea to use any representation that would refer to an infinite accuracy. So a car moving at 120km/h in a physics calculation is a car moving at 33.333m/s even though 120/3.6=33.333...

Literally only a couple hours ago I had more than 180 posts: 187 was the last I saw, I believe. Are you sure you aren't the owner of both ScreamTheCore and Cooldog08 and you just mixed them up? I'm guessing so because in this thread you're thanking people for the advice being given to him and he has 185 posts: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=794011&p=6646270#p6646270

Muddaking's guide on YouTube seems to have a lot of thought put on efficiency. (The video description has extra info too):

We would just be discussing the 0.BBB...=1 problem instead. You can get 0.444... of something. 0.444... is 4/9. Similarly, 0.111... is 1/9, 0.222... is 2/9 and so on to 0.999... being 9/9, which is 1. I think you're mixing 0.999... with 0.999...9. 0.999... has no "last 9" and therefore there is nothing that separates it from 1. 0.999...=1 helped me realize that limit is a fixed value and not an infinite process.

It tells a lot about our values that even demons and spirits are thought to be this superficial. I can just imagine a ghost going "Sure, I'd tell them what afterlife is like and what happened to me if they just used something else than that cheap piece of crap". :lol: My hypothesis of why people believe in the ouija board is that it stimulates some of our normal cognitive mechanisms and people just fill in the blanks with intuitive reasoning. Human beings have the ability to conduct conversations in their imagination and we are all hyperactive when it comes to detecting agencies. The ability to conduct conversations is important for planning whereas being hyperactive enough to mistake a shadow for a burglar more often than a burglar for a shadow helps to survive. The ouija board makes use of these abilities and (sadly) spirits make intuitively more sense to most people than unconscious movement.

You're essentially telling me to vote for a candidate from the Finnish party that only looks out for farmers and the countryside. Not going to happen. It's already silly enough that Finnish farms are growing tomatoes during the winter and buying llamas just so that they can get more subsidies. I value net neutrality, but the EP deals with other things as well. I have found a good candidate that shares most of my views on a wide range of subjects from the party I always vote for. The party happens to belong to the EPP-ED/EPP group. I don't think your post did any favours for ALDE btw. You referred to an undefined "us" very early and didn't give any information as to why I should do as you say until the third paragraph. You also posted this on Runescape general discussion even though you knew it didn't belong there in order to get more views. The lack of links to things that you referred to such as ALDE's position on net neutrality coupled with little things like putting quotation marks on the acronym made you seem like you were underestimating the reader. The post was also spammy.

You can get it back from Maggie. In p2p worlds Maggie is at the Legends guild *(a bit west from it) and in f2p worlds you get to her realm by talking to Wendy south from Falador. (Maggie's realm is the only f2p exclusive area in Runescape as changing to a p2p world will teleport you out.)

Fixed. I think it could be a fun toy for small children. My policy for supernatural entities is that they need to tell me the correct lottery line before I believe in them.

I've also had a good experience with gold. I bought a Krugerrand in 2007 and sold it about six months ago for a profit of 115. It went up a lot when you consider how unlikely it is that it would go down a lot in value. Your post doesn't really say if it was a good deal or not. Do you know how much gold was in the chain? Nice job making a good investment though, enjoy the money. :thumbup: Why would anybody send their gold to a company by mail? I thought it was easy to find places that buy gold in the US. I'm sure you would also get a better price by just selling through an internet auction.

If you like multitasking, then go with fishing. I live in a one room apartment and I used to do the dishes, lift weights and do homework while training to 92. Farming would be very quick in terms of total amount of time used training it. For efficiency here's Muddaking's guide: [yt]gOhtRfvRvqg[/yt]

According to this guide: viewtopic.php?f=180&t=778424 The burn rate measured is 28.502%. There is also discussion of the burn rate in the thread and nobody there came up with a number lower than 25%. EDIT:RuneHQ has burn rate at 25%: http://www.runehq.com/database.php?type=item&id=014069 Runescape Wiki has burn rate at 30%: http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Inferno_adze

Did you use mousekeys to drop? That could easily explain the difference.

I don't judge, I just go :shock: and scratch my head. Watching some of the American TV shows is like watching alien porn, you just don't know what to think about it. This will be a similar situation.

What is wrong with the American TV? First you gave us Jackass with a few dedicated people trying to injure themselves, then you started feeding bull penises to strangers on Fear Factor, and now you're going to torture celebrities(Is he one?). Who comes up with this cabbage? Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if I opened my TV tomorrow and saw an America's next top model photo shoot where the models inject poison to the people who have received the death sentence. Jokes aside, I guess it's his decision if he really wants to go through with it. It would be bad if they didn't do the waterboarding properly and the charity thing was still going on. If you do something for charity, you need to do it properly.

Okay, I can see I had no reason to get angry. It just seemed like you didn't properly consider the possibility of CoI bias. The fact that your acknowledgement of it and the critique of the evidence I provided were in the same sentence may well have contributed to me not noticing you doing so, which it shouldn't have. After reading your post again it was obvious that it only seemed like you didn't consider CoI to me and that you actually rejected to the off-topicness of the evidence provided. I was wrong and I thank you for helping me notice it. :)

Scattered in what sense? In that the effectiveness varies depending on the immune system of the individual and by the match of vaccine to flu strain? In that case I agree. Here's some info from the CDC: [1] Seems pretty good to me. I'm looking into a few reviews at the moment. I'd like to see an example of a biased article if you wouldn't mind. Conflict of interest bias is a well known problem in medical science. Pharmaceutical companies are an important source of funds and scientists are tempted to for example not publish studies that would "bite the hand that feeds them". You can find many articles of this problem by searching PubMed for "conflict of interest" or Google for something similar. (Watch out for alternative medicine money-grabber texts on Google though.) A good example of a suspected published biased flu vaccine study would be Shumpei Yokota's study on behaviour differences caused by oseltamivir (his university received a donation from the company that makes Tamiflu and later studies have shown different results): http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUST151430 If you have access to The Lancet, Volume 369, Issue 9567, Pages 1056-1056 will have an article where Yokota's possible bias is acknowledged. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve ... 3607605029 (link to the Lancet article) Here is a news report of a later study done with a larger group of test subjects contradicting Yokota's study: http://www.smh.com.au/world/science/tam ... -ac3y.html I'd like to point out that I wouldn't think twice about taking Tamiflu if I had the swine flu. As is usually the case with vaccines, the benefits would far outweight the risks. I'm aware of conflicts of interest, but your example is regarding Tamiflu, not an influenza vaccine. I'm not doubting that there could be a similar case for a flu vaccine, but I just want to see what Goddess says. If you have any examples of bias in flu vaccine research I'd be willing to hear you out. I'm confused. Why does it matter in what form the preventive flu drug is administered? Or does it have something to do with the fact that Tamiflu can also be used in treatment? Mleh, I can't come up with other examples. I hope Goddess has an example involving a chemical substance with a P(o/w) value you like more. -.-

Watch YouTube videos, TV, read a book/magazine, browse Tip.it forums or do any other multitasking ...err... task. You also have the option of not fletching.

Scattered in what sense? In that the effectiveness varies depending on the immune system of the individual and by the match of vaccine to flu strain? In that case I agree. Here's some info from the CDC: [1] Seems pretty good to me. I'm looking into a few reviews at the moment. I'd like to see an example of a biased article if you wouldn't mind. Conflict of interest bias is a well known problem in medical science. Pharmaceutical companies are an important source of funds and scientists are tempted to for example not publish studies that would "bite the hand that feeds them". You can find many articles of this problem by searching PubMed for "conflict of interest" or Google for something similar. (Watch out for alternative medicine money-grabber texts on Google though.) A good example of a suspected published biased flu vaccine study would be Shumpei Yokota's study on behaviour differences caused by oseltamivir (his university received a donation from the company that makes Tamiflu and later studies have shown different results): http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUST151430 If you have access to The Lancet, Volume 369, Issue 9567, Pages 1056-1056 will have an article where Yokota's possible bias is acknowledged. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve ... 3607605029 (link to the Lancet article) Here is a news report of a later study done with a larger group of test subjects contradicting Yokota's study: http://www.smh.com.au/world/science/tam ... -ac3y.html I'd like to point out that I wouldn't think twice about taking Tamiflu if I had the swine flu. As is usually the case with vaccines, the benefits would far outweight the risks. Unless you travel in time to before 2000 to get your shots, there won't be mercury in them. Also, mercury in vaccines isn't dangerous despite what the pet detective Jim Carrey says. If this was true, then the lifestyle in the rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa would make sure that everyone there was immune to HIV. Sadly, that is not the case. I don't think flu vaccines should be madatory unless there is conclusive evidence that organizing a yearly vaccination campaign costs less than the sick days people will take because of the flu. Such evidence will rarely be available because flu viruses will cause different levels of sickness every year and the flu vaccines will protect people from the virus to a different degree every year and these factors are hard to estimate accurately as the flu virus can for example experience slight mutations as it spreads through the world. However, people in risk of getting very bad symptoms from flu viruses should have access to vaccines.

Humans would leave behind a very large amount of bones compared to the resources usually available in nature, an extremely fast mass extinction of other species and heightened CO2 levels (polar ice drilling studies can show this). Intelligent life would be able to conclude that we had highly efficient agricultural methods and had a large impact on nature. I'm not sure about some things like the use of platinum or diamonds and if a sufficiently intelligent species could notice that the deposits of those aren't arreanged in a natural way as a result of that use. I'm also unsure on how long space garbage can stay on orbit. If either space garbage or platinum artefacts such as large coins can survive over an evolutionary timescale, then an intelligent species can also conlude that we had written language. Plastics will mostly undergo chemical decomposition in an evolutionary timescale (20+M years in OP). If some survived, then the intelligent species could carbon date it to find out that we made it. I don't think it's probable that some writing on a piece of plastic would still be readable after 20+M years. http://mdc.mo.gov/nomoretrash/facts/ If there were species that were much more intelligent than humans living on the bottom of the ocean or underground, then it would seem probable that it would reasearch its surroundings which would lead it to contact with us. It's not impossible though, but I would see it as very improbable that such a species existed. While it is true that there are many definitions to intelligence, it is usually the case that when talking about different species, intelligence is the same as the ability to solve problems through the use of logic. Yeah, I probably didn't understand what you're saying. Prehaps something like telepathy? In that case I think it's improbable that a species could have evolved so far without leaving traces of its evolution like we do.

Again, I would like to hear the definition of "human being" that allows making this claim. Sure, it has organs formed by cells with the human genome. The cells can also be kept alive as long as a hose keeps bringing food to its stomach. I guess if that's enough for you then fine, but for me this child is as complete a human as my own right arm which I'm sure medical science will eventually be able keep alive on its own even if the rest of me dies. I realize that there is a strong bond between a mother and a child and I have no reason to believe that this mother doesn't feel the same feelings as any other mother, but that doesn't change the cold reality. This child has never been alive in any real sense of the word and it's not healthy that she treats it as if it were a living child.

I don't think it's a human. It doesn't have the capability or the potential to gain the capability to do any of the things that make human beings distinct from other creatures. It can't and no matter what it never will be able to use its hands, understand a language, do abstract reasoning or introspecting. How do define "human being" if you're able to make the claim that this creature is a human? It's like a braindead person who never was "brain alive". I agree with Rien_Adelric as well. I don't want to think about what this corpse with functioning organs would look like at the age of four after never having used most of its skeletal muscles. They are not stupid because they have a child to love. People with disabilities are still people. This "mother" is carrying around a bag of organs and thinks that calling it a person putting a hat on it to cover its head when taking pictures will make it a person. That is a bit silly.

I was originally going to post on this thread to say that people who are annoyed by things annoy me, because you can't really strike up a conversation on somebody being annoyed of something. We actually even had some radio talk show hosts in our school in the public/professional speaking class and they said that the word "annoy" is banned on their show for just this reason. However, while posting on the UN Voices thread I noticed that I have a lot of, well, issues. :lol: I'm annoyed by people living in Western countries who complain about their pathetic problems. If you get to eat and sleep, then you're doing brilliant in the world we live in. There are kids living on the streets of Rio de Janeiro who go to bed today without knowing if they'll ever wake up, where they're going to find food tomorrow if they do, or how long do they have to live before the HIV they were born with gets to the AIDS stage and finishes them off. Still, that doesn't stop people from complaining about the smallest hardships in their easy lives filled with abundance. Seriously, the next time you can't afford a new jacket for spring or you have to eat leftover spaghetti from the day before, don't go complain about it on MSN and expect people to feel sorry for you. You are one of the privlidged few in this world if you own a computer with an internet connection. People often get pissed off when they see upper class brats who haven't worked for anything that they have do something stupid, but in the eyes of the street children we aren't that much better than those brats. Phew, I feel a lot better now that I got that off my chest with the help of the internet. BTW I'm also annoyed by the fact that I can't buy a new jacket and running shoes this spring because I have to take a break from my job to study. Yes, this is me being annoying. (It's very late.) 8-)

This is why people hate the UN. They don't have the balls to stop religious zealots and their defamation of religion bs. They don't have the balls to say anything when big countries are suspected of human rights violations. They barely have the balls to "voice concern" when North Korea develops their new weapons. They will, however, use bucketloads of funds for hiring engineers with picture recognition software experience and plastering walls with sappy stories. What the hell was the point here? Am I supposed to be amazed by software that is able to determine which one of the seven mouths it is? It's not 2004. Or am I supposed to be going "Aww, poor that person"? All I wanted to tell those people is that there is always tomorrow, there is always hope and there is always somebody who would kill to be in your shoes. So you can either get on with your life or refer to the suicide thread. It's not like the rest of us haven't had any problems in our lives and it's not like your drinking your own urine to avoid death by dehydration while waiting for the starvation to finish you off. The only really rough life story from the ones on the video was the one from the refugee who had lost his entire family, my own mother probably has a sadder personal history than the rest. Well, at least the UN is finally doing something even if it's failing miserably when it comes to working for its stated aims.