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So there's a higher percentage of free players on the foreign language servers? I wonder why. It's a percentage of capacity. 8.6k / 64k versus 2.4k / 8k

Unless the French worlds have 4000 people logged in at once, I don't see how it matters. The fact that they're running at about a quarter of their capacity after shutting servers down is troubling. Of course it matters. If he wants to make a statistic he should do it properly. And there are 3 other languages, not only french btw... And since the bot overrun it should be clear there aren't many legit f2p players left. Who would continue playing a game if he already gets spammed in the first 5 minutes? Yeah, not many. There weren't many new players that's why Jagex had to stop it or they would've run out of business quite soon. Right now there are 406 free players on one French server, 1900 free players on two Portuguese servers, and 93 players on a German server. Still about the same ratio at 30%

Unless the French worlds have 4000 people logged in at once, I don't see how it matters. The fact that they're running at about a quarter of their capacity after shutting servers down is troubling.

I think this just goes to show that 80% of the people botting were F2P. The bot infestation really was an open sore on the "most popular free mmorpg". Unfortunately not all the people playing in F2P are all players, advert bots have started to creep back into the game. Whatever, if JaGEx doesn't realize that its free to play business model is why they were so successful, we'll all have to find a new game.

I have faith in the ACLU and the Supreme Court. They're both [wagon], but at least they're consistent [wagon].

The solution for inactive players is to let them be. People will pass them up and feel good about themselves.

You know the reason there are so few free players right now is because of bots... No one wanted to put up competing with 600 bots on every world for resources, and now that they're gone all that's left is the fans. About a fifth of the people logged in are F2P now, I expect it to be an eighth pretty soon.

Jagex just alienated their most loyal fanbase. Seriously, for every legit free player there were 16 bots. Who else would put up with that?

Flower game anyone?

That shit sucks ass.

The study is bunk.

The issue isn't abortion, it's respect for human life. Abortion is related to stem-cell research about as much as pest control is related to scientific experiments on lab rats (The issue is animal rights or respect for animals). Someone from PETA would argue that both are morally unacceptable, but that doesn't mean you have to bring up both to discuss one. Also, adding comments about abortion does nothing to further understanding about what is being debated (embryonic stem cell research) and why its being debated, and adds to the confusion about what is going on and why people take issue with it.

The type that isn't a witch.

Fetus =/= embryo The only thing controversial about stem cell research is embryonic stem cell research. I don't understand why people are trying to bring abortion into this debate, as a bunch of dead 3 month old fetuses won't help stem cell research more than a bit of your skin.

:wall: By the time a woman gets an abortion, her baby has already differentiated enough that its stem cells are "adult" stem cells, not embryonic. A baby is an embryo for less than 6 days. Abortions cannot supply embryos for research, period.

93 years later, the world is about to explode. The one lesson from WWI that we've learned and have still applied is that the victors of war have a responsibility to help their opponents rebuild their countries.

Orphaned meaning abandoned. It's not what "can" happen, it's what does happen. Theoretically in IVF, one egg cell could be fertilized with one sperm cell and then implanted, leaving one child and no others frozen or discarded. Theoretically it could happen, but in reality it doesn't. Also included in the process is embryo profiling, where the scientist selects the "best candidates" and discards the others, so created life is killed.

If you can understand or appreciate why some people think embryonic stem cell research is wrong, you can apply their logic to IVF. Most of the time for IVF, multiple egg cells are harvested and then fertilized. Once a woman becomes pregnant, she doesn't need to have another baby implant itself. The end result are a bunch of humans in petri dishes left orphaned. Also, you can probably understand the whole idea behind a religious view of marriage and sex, and how IVF involves procreation, but leaves no place for love.

I think we need to make this into some kinda Chuck Norris thing... Andrew Gower uses unsigned integers in Java. Andrew Gower once beat Nex, using a bronze dagger, and a level 3. And he did it in one hit.

My roommate. Don't touch my alarm clock unless you make sure I'm awake, and holy shit let it ring for more than 5 seconds. I set the time because I WANT TO BE AWAKE AT THAT TIME, not because I want to annoy you. Also, eat your own damn food. I'm being nice enough to let you use my microwave and minifridge, you can do me the courtesy of leaving my food alone. I have no problem making both off limits to you, just try me.

The fact is that by the time someone is looking to get an abortion (2-3 months), their baby has already differentiated enough and it does not contain embryonic stem cells.

Working on my lab due in 12 hours. Have absolutely no idea how to do any of it, and having trouble looking it up. Spent 2 hours trying to figure out why I couldn't program my board, only to find that the LCD I'm interfacing to it is f-ing up and doing something wrong. I hate peripherals.

Umbilical cord blood is categorized as adult stem cells.

Mods, can you move your abortion debate into the abortion thread, and stick to discussing stem cells in here? kthxbai Having looked into this topic a bit, there are a few things to note: -AFAIK, all successful treatments to date have been from adult stem cells. I would expect to a huge fuss in the media for a successful treatment using fetal cells, mostly because of the left-wing bias and/or the moral debate flaring up. -The biggest problem so far in using fetal cells is that although they can form *anything* in the body, they also form tumors. Until this can be resolved, there will be no treatments using fetal cells -The biggest problem so far in using adult cells is that they can't form *everything*, and they don't have *unlimited* growing potential. If I understood correctly, these cells would only replicate a few times before they wouldn't replicate anymore. Getting a tad into ethics, a reason that may have been overlooked as to why embryonic research is considered unethical by some is the fact that harvesting cells from a developing baby (in the stage that scientist do it) is about the same as cutting off someone's arm, if you put it to scale. Also, at that point in life, you can't ask permission, so you're forcefully taking.

Does this mean we should say Hyt to Andrew/Ignite in game? Also, Andrew, would you still have a gold crown, and could you ever log in again?