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I wish everyone would grow up, on all sides. Was talking to a friend irl about this, he was ticked off that megaupload was taken down. He said that they were equivalent to youtube in terms of what they did, and they were blameless because they had a policy against uploading other people's copy-written materials, same as youtube. He also said that they "regularly took things down that violated their policy," and that he's "found dead links all the time" to those things. He got mad at me when I pointed out that he was using it to pirate media, and said it wasn't about him, it was about how they could be taken down when "other's uploaded it and violated their policy," and "they're blameless." Orly. This all boils down to copy-write and intellectual property. As a software developer, I like getting paid for my work. As an inventor, I like getting a 20 year monopoly on my ideas for teaching the world how to do something completely new. However, I don't think any government should actively seek to find small time copy-write violators (it oversteps the whole "need a warrant" and right to privacy). I don't think people or corporations should be allowed to sue for disproportionate amounts of "lost revenue." A $1 song illegally downloaded isn't worth $10,000. Having said that, as consumers it is our moral responsibility to not break the law or illegally upload stuff that isn't ours. We're not off the hook for taking things that aren't ours. The argument against SOPA and other similar legislation is completely illegitimate if the ones [bleep]ing the loudest are the reason the law is going into place. Don't like SOPA? Quit giving them a reason to enact it.

Made cookies. They're like so good. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-mint-cookies-i/detail.aspx

That isn't each day, that is each week. I would assume the banning of RWT-ers or other abusers. Or purging the hiscores of inactive users.

Looks like Magebank decided to train some skills? Need to replace him with P H A T or Mr 9

Back in my day, BSOD meant something.

Back in my day gasoline didn't contain ethanol.

Back in my day, people sold "massages" on craigslist.

Back in my day, the speed limit on interstates was 65 mph.

The Republican base is made up of two main wings - The Tea Party, whose main ideology is to be small government and fiscally conservative, and the Evangelical Christians, whose main ideology is to be socially conservative. A mainstream/establishment Republican usually has a hodgepodge of those two beliefs (usually the small government is the first to go). [hide=Romney]The group with the biggest problem with Romney are the Evangelical Christians. They don't like Romney because he was too moderate on issues like abortion and gun control. They're the ones "seeking" someone else. The Tea Party has a big problem with RomneyCare, tax increases in Massachusetts, along with supporting Gun Control. To Romney's defense, he was the governor of the super liberal Massachusetts. His legislature was 90% democrat. Even if he wanted to be conservative, the legislature would've overturned him on anything he veto'd. Mainstream Republicans tend not to have any problem with Romney.[/hide] [hide=Santorum]Right now, Santorum's biggest problem is that he doesn't have a very big establishment behind him. Until about two weeks ago, he polled about 1% nationally. Nobody knew who the heck he is, and many still don't. Of the three corners of the Republican party, the two groups that aren't behind him are the Tea Party and the establishment. The Tea Party's biggest problem with Santorum is that his history indicates that he doesn't support a strong border. The establishment doesn't think Santorum appears presidential, but otherwise wouldn't have much of a problem with his policies. [/hide] [hide=Gingrich]Gingrich's biggest problem is with the Tea Party. He appears to be a Washington insider, having "not-lobbied" Congress for ten years after he left Congress. The only thing more damning for him for appearing to be an insider is his global warming commercial he made with Nancy Pelosi. Gingrich's second biggest problem is with the establishment Republicans. When he was voted out of his position as Speaker of the House, he burned too many bridges. Also, for all groups, there were absolutely no Republicans that appreciated when Gingrich called Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare reform plan "right-wing social engineering". [/hide] I honestly don't think there are any more serious contenders for Republican Nominee. Ron Paul might appeal to the die-hard tea partier and libertarians everywhere, along with liberals, but his positions on foreign policy (what the Commander in Chief has most control over) alienate the establishment Republicans, while his positions on social issues (the ones that get so much support from college aged liberals everywhere) alienate the Evangelicals. My best guess is that very soon it'll be Santorum versus Romney. As the "not Romney" candidates begin pulling out of the race, they'll be able to rally behind just one. Regardless, as "weak" as the Republican field appears to be right now, once Republicans have their candidate they will rally behind them. The best thing that can happen is a very long, drawn out race, with focus pointed squarely on Obama. That way Obama will be put between a rock and a hard place - tons of focus on his failings as president, while not being able to attack any primary contender for fear of losing his Presidential look.

I agree. MLP sucks. :twss:

Back in my day, there were public phones that you put coins in to make a call.

Back in my day, a 40 gigabyte hard drive was huge.

There were nine planets. Post things here and bookmark this so you'll remember them when you get Alzheimer's disease.

I think most of them quit, to be honest. Don't ask me how I know, but traffic to certain parts of tip.it's website plummeted after the nuke.

Looking at Magebank's profile, and it looks like JaGEx purged the hiscores. He gained 52k ranks today.

To everyone that hates the tea party but loves the intellectual grandfather of the tea party Ron Paul... #-o Actually, no, I understand it. If you had to pick any GOP candidate, you choose the one that's for the decriminalization of drugs, an isolationist policy, and a hands off approach to everything not specifically mentioned in the Constitution (i.e. abortion). But when you're faced between Ron Paul, who aligns with your views only because his principles mandate complete social freedom and limited federal government, and another (generic Democrat) who completely aligns with your views (food, medicine and money for everyone, complete social freedom, super regulated "markets" because corporations are evil), well let's be honest. You'd pick the latter because you're a progressive liberal at heart and not a conservative libertarian. The people that Ron Paul appeal to in a primary are not the same ones that would vote for him in a general election.

Yeah, when the Junior Senator from Illinois beat out Heavyweight Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nominee for 2008 and then went on to win the Presidency, I was a bit disheartened too. How can someone who's only accomplishment is running for office become President of the United States? Don't worry, all will be right within a year.

Yep, basically. :mrgreen:

Well, we did it. Number 1 overall pick. And in other news, Bill Polian and his son Chris Polian fired. While Bill built the Colt's superbowl team, Chris stunk it up big time. Not sad to see either one go. Now if only we can get rid of Jim Caldwell and replace him with Jim Tressel. If I was Jim Irsay and I had the number 1 overall pick, I'd try to trade for 3-4 first round draft picks.

I've been using RuneTracker so far. Unfortunately I'm not a robot and can't remember to check every day. Is this going anywhere? Links to P H A T, Magebank, and Mr 9 http://runetracker.org/track-p+++h+a+t http://runetracker.org/track-magebank http://runetracker.org/track-mr+9

Interesting take, however yours is a philosophical issue which is somewhat apples and oranges when it's about legal terms. If someone is financially forced into a bad paying job they hate, using your logic couldn't you call it slave labour? I'm not saying either case is right, but with such a complex society you get a lot of grey area. That's fine, but there is more dignity in working a job than selling yourself for sex.

This. i'll remember 2011 because the few negatives were well outweighed by some great decisions, notable FT+W and the bot nuke. And still they managed to put out good, and consistent content. The bot nuke was long overdue. When a company starts policing its own rules and people think its a good update, you know there's a big problem.

This is virtuallly never the case. If a prostitute isn't forced into it by armed gangs, she's forced into it socio-economically. It's a service that people want but only those who are forced to give, by in large. If you put it that way, then a McDonald's fry-flipper is forced into it socio-economically. Let's face it, there are many people out there who have to do jobs they are not proud of, yet they do it, and do it legally. Fine, we'll call barely making a living at a fast food restaurant minimum wage, but forced sex in any circumstance is rape.

Chris Christie vs Michael Moore Wiki: http://en.wikipedia..../Chris_christie http://en.wikipedia....i/Michael_Moore POI: http://www.politico....stie_jokes.html http://sithoughts.mu...ves/028112.html Aftermath: Wall getting to the stage, both Christie and Moore had a heart attack. Christie was able to survive just long enough to have a flat bed truck get him to the hospital, Moore died before getting there. Christie ended up needing quadruple bypass surgery, but survived. Chris Christie wins, 9-6. Fight 10, Santa vs Jesus. Who will win?

Right, so the first page is and will probably always be http://services.runescape.com/m=hiscore/hiscores.ws The last page is in a link at the bottom, right now its at 32040, which takes us to the very last player in the hiscores, Magebank at 704878ish. If Magebank stays member, you can find the last person by searching for their rank.