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Can we get a script to check how many users are on the hiscores every day? I think that data would be pretty interesting to look at.

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So as not to disturb this thread going down the page, I'll edit in my thoughts. Given the recent scandals with green energy, in my humble opinion this is the exact reason government should have no part in the free market. Government's job isn't to pick winners and losers, government's job is to create rules and enforce it's rules. Anywho, I could go on and on but there doesn't seem to be much interest... PM me if you'd like to debate. http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/16192 I'll add my thoughts later.

Unfortunately, legalizing, regulating and taxing something doesn't make it safe, just harder to prosecute. A good example of this is moonshine. With prostitution, you have to worry about human trafficking, pimps and sex slaves. The debate that you have framed does not truly represent what actually goes on, and is never as clean as you'd like it.

I wonder how many 5 year plans he went through...

I have a P2P account, I won't resubscribe on it. It'll go idle. Also, as it stands, I've been playing RuneScape less and less on my free account.

I expect the ACLU to challenge this law at the Supreme Court. Anyhow, I blame the Republicans in Congress for passing such a steaming pile, and Obama for demanding it. Hopefully Harry Reid throws a hissy-fit and buries it in committee. Or maybe Rand Paul will step up and filibuster it.

How about you write an article about something different? We would love to have a different perspective.

I think that's slightly disingenuous of you. You can't possibly have any understanding of this issue without acknowledging that those who want guns banned aren't doing so necessarily as a knee-jerk reaction. There are many people who would have them banned anyway for other reasons; this only highlights those reasons, but it isn't the reason itself. Doesn't matter what their motive is, and it probably isn't knee-jerk. Bringing forth your argument publicly, and immediately following a tragedy to gain support or get a new law rushed through is exactly the opposite of what should happen.

It wouldn't be a rational argument if we used that particular incident as a reason that guns must be banned. But nobody thus far has done that. It just brings up the topic again. It's the same as arguing against nuclear power after Fukushima. The accident itself shouldn't be the argument - but it brings up the topic again. I disagree. Specifically because people are arguing in this thread, and not in a different one. Or because the argument to ban guns only occurs immediately after a tragedy like this occurs. Also as far as nuclear power - once again bringing the debate up immediately following the worst of events is riding people's emotions. Look at how AWFUL and CATASTROPHIC this event was, we need to BAN nuclear power so something like this NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. Average people are less likely to think logically about an event and let it take over their emotions, like a mob mentality.

Tragedy involving a firearm occurs, "We must BAN GUNS!" Are you even trying to make a rational argument anymore?

Well, that would be your problem. Try replacing the line: private static String[] elements; With this : private static String[] elements = {"Honesty","Kindness","Laughter","Generosity","Loyalty","Magic"}; //Remember to initialize this array to something before trying to access it. Princess Luna is the best Pony. Honestly do not use this code in the final version of this program, from wyvren2000 The array is 103 inputs and they are supposed to be read from a file that I have. The file is an excel chart with every element in the periodic table that looks like this: | Name | Atomic Number | Atomic Weight | Symbol | 1| | | | | 2| | | | | 3| | | | | 4| | | | | etc. all the way down to 103. I have another question (yeah, I'm pretty bad at this) I am trying to set up a method that is used like this: mol.displayAtomicMakeUp(); I have initialized mol in the main and I'm trying to get the displayAtomicMakeUp() method to read in what mol actually is. It might sound a bit strange, but I'm not sure how to word it. If it was displayAtomicMakeUp(mol) it would make more sense to me, as I know how to actually take what mol (a string) is from that but what do I do for mol.displayAtomicMakeUp()? mol.displayAtomicMakeUp() should be defined in mol, or whatever type of class mol is. Sounds like its similar to a toString() method. You can write the method the same way as if you had it in a different class, except you can access all its elements without having to use get() methods. Hope that makes a bit more sense.

Unfortunately you can't test this with a placebo...

How many F2P worlds did you login to during that time? During that time, seeing a real person on F2P not at the GE/dungeoneering was a rare sight.

Or new sunspot activity triggers a new equilibrium temperature. I wouldn't care to try to explain the data, but what I do know is that the sun's activity is not on earth, unlike both temperature and greenhouse gases, which means that if any link exists its the sun causing stuff on earth, not stuff on earth causing the sun.

[hide=sunspot stuff] http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/05/spotting-the-solar-regime-shifts-driving-earths-climate/ [/hide] Sunspots fit the temperature graphs pretty well too [hide=pie chart of greenhouse gases] http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_contrib.html http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html [/hide] CO2 is about 3.618% of all greenhouse effect sources http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/03/al-gore-getting-rich-spreading-global-warming-hysteria-media-s-help Al Gore increased his wealth 100 fold after leaving the White House http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html Al Gore stands to become a billionaire from Global Warming regulations.

http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-global-warming-alarmism-192334971.html Over-blown media hype is over-blown. http://www.surfacestations.org/odd_sites.htm Bad sensor placement -> bad data -> bad analysis -> over-blown headlines Forgive me of being skeptical but there's been quite a bit done to disillusion me.

They never realized the Earth was cooling (except for some work done in the '60s which was based on Milankovitch cycles, which are poor indicators on planets with changing atmospheres), in fact, the more studies done, the more we find the Earth is warming faster than we previously though. The focus has switched to climate change because it's the broader problem. Global warming is only one issue withing all of climate change. Climate change includes various other factors such as changing precipitation patterns, desertification, and mass extinctions.. There is no scientific debate about whether or not the Earth is warming, but scientists have stopped calling it 'global warming' because it's only one problem of many. And not because people started challenging the conventional wisdom? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3624242/There-IS-a-problem-with-global-warming...-it-stopped-in-1998.html Markets can only truly be free with perfect information and no externalities. Both of which are not satisfied under current systems. Our current economic system is not adequate for a globalized world. Chances are that a forced labourer in the DR Congo died for the battery in your (and my) cellphones, laptops, etc. Tell me, is that price included in the purchace price? Externalities are HUGE in the globalized economy because we can ship all of the negative effects to the 'third world' and take all the possitives for ourselves. That's a heart-wrenching story. How is it relevant to a government taking over the entire economy? Right, and tell me, who decided what credits everyone are assigned? Are you naive enough to believe that there won't be any lobbying involved? How will stopping carbon fuel consumption help that child in DR Congo from dying? I'm sure you have dozens of examples of things that were invented because of cap and trade...

I think the entirety of "climate change" is a hot mess. Five years ago it was always "Global Warming". Bleh Bleh Bleh Global Warming Bleh Bleh Bleh. Then they realized that the earth might've been cooling, so it became "Climate Change". This whole business of politics mixing with science mixing with business is complete bullshit. The scientists go to the law makers warning them of catastrophic events in the future if they don't give grant money for their research. The scientists then find a result supporting their claim, rapidly publish it to the media with some trumped up headline to make a name for themselves or to get more grant money for their research. Meanwhile, politicians realize that they can influence the entire economy by regulating carbon based fuels or CO2 emissions. Killing the world's largest free market and controlling the reins is a big government wet dream. Also, business people realize there must be a solution to the trumped up problem and come out with a "free-market" solution of carbon credits. They then invest time in calculating carbon "footprints" and setting up a clearing house to allow trade of these made up carbon credits. Guess who is made a monopoly when this solution is mandated by law makers? We then find out that some of the "science" behind climate change wasn't science at all, but some other motivation. We also find out that one of the biggest reports written - comprehensive - by the IPCC wasn't properly written and one of the biggest scare numbers that the glaciers would be gone in 25 years was in fact a typo, and should've been 300+ years. Excuse me, but I'm going to sit this one out. The opinion I've formed thus far is that everything presented to date has had some greedy agenda. The one thing I can't stand is crony capitalism or legislative favors. This entire process has been filled with it. I don't care if the science is correct or the doomsday predictions are true; you've [climate change proponents] already lost my confidence and trust. Try harder next time.

enjoy the banhammer

Just wrote code to convert a black and white bitmap of characters into hex pixel data, for hard coding data. Yes, I'm that awesome.

Seeing the holiday shopping season has started, I'd like to know what you all are giving others, and whats on your wish list. I'll start - For my parents, I'm writing them a check for bar stools. They're remodeling their kitchen and won't have space for them come Christmas, but they'll enjoy them once the dust settles Older sister and brother in law - gift cards to buffalo wild wings, macaroni grill, along with a bottle of wine (unsure which one yet) and six pack of Sam adam's. Older brother - Holiday gift box of Johnie Walker Black Label, includes flask Younger sister - Purdue sweatshirt, sweatpants Younger sister - stud earrings 1/4 ct total weight diamond set in silver. Youngest sister - Lego Winter Toy Shop 10199 Youngest brother - Hot Wheels Sky Jump track set and Beyblade Metal Fusion Light Sword Yes, I have a big family. Fortunately they were all easy to shop for. On my list are work clothes. I think I'm getting something like 6 pairs of dress pants and 6 dress shirts. Should be a good Xmas.

My pic18f4525 isn't playing nicely. I'm trying to get some LEDs to blink, but nothings happening. No idea how to debug it. Bleh.

I spent $200 on silicon, aluminum, plastic, and probably some other materials too. Hopefully when I'm done with them I'll have made an LED cube. Oh, I also programmed a PIC microcontroller for the first time in 4 years. Now I just need to relearn everything I forgot... :shock: All I want to do is make some LEDs blink in a cool pattern.

Or they're celebrating Mod Poppy's bday