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No, its what you said. Maybe the point you're trying to make is different, but you're not doing a very good job of making it.

This corn harvest is delicious. :thumbup:

See, now you're changing your argument because you were shown to be wrong. You're not being clever, you're being stupid. And frustrating. "Yes it happened" "No it didn't!" "Yes it did!" "No it didn't!" "Yes it did, and here's the proof." "Well, who cares if it happened." :rolleyes:

Are you trying to be dense? No. I'm trying to be concise. If we have proof that Pastafarianism is entirely false then I would love to see it. You're not being concise, you're being dense. The FSM is a parody because it was created as such, this is well documented.

Bet 10m it's f2p. your on, also Ill double my payout if you roll 60 or higher on dice, and I will pay 5x more then that if you guess the correct color of the power im going to plant. And a phat if you can stop me from logging out in time.

Are you trying to be dense?

Watching Glenn Beck right now... very entertaining. "Progressives Unions Muslims Buy Gold Cass Sunstein George Soros Buy Gold" I think his team does a better job with his books.

Bet its P2P only.

FINISH HIM!

By the time that happens, the average joe with that great new product will have become wealthy, and much better off than he would've been, much quicker than had he gone at it himself. We're already so far into a hypothetical that its almost pointless to argue.

You're claiming that there's some vast conspiracy in the "ruling class" against the average joe? I refuse to believe that people are that sinister. Not a co-operative conspiracy, but its common sense if Joe Smith's new product might screw you over you're gonna stop him somehow. Venture Capitalism: help him and profit with him. EDIT: I'd rather have everyone be rich and buy my product than everyone be poor and not buy my product. Suppressing the working class doesn't benefit anyone.

You're claiming that there's some vast conspiracy in the "ruling class" against the average joe? I refuse to believe that people are that sinister.

In any system then, not everyone can be in the wealthiest 1%, so poverty isn't special to capitalism. Was your point intentionally misleading? Plus, I'd rather be "poor" when it means that I can't own my home and instead have to rent an apartment, versus dying on the street from starvation.

From the video, I'm surprised he even put up with the first 2 hits, let alone 5. I don't think the retaliation was with proportionate force, or completely justified. If the bastard landed differently he wouldn't have walked away from it. Maybe a broken nose is about the limit of what I'd call justified...

Uh, no? Unless you're talking about relative wealth, where one person is poor because they can't afford the millionaire's yacht they wash for a living.

Because to own a home, raise a family and make a decent living you have to steal it from someone else. :rolleyes:

I've had about a dozen or so weird dreams, maybe more. They've been even more specific than what you're thinking and much more out of place - they make absolutely no sense whatsoever - have absolutely no context yet somehow strangely happen exactly as I dreamed it several weeks or months later. Two very specific examples come to mind, I'll share one. In my dream I had a fishing pole in hand, and as I'm casting it I see a mousetrap at the very end. It floats, hits the ground and snaps shut. I walk to a pond (recognizing it in my dream as the retention pond near my grandparents house), reset the mouse trap and cast it again into the pond. I reel it in, the mousetrap didn't go off when it hit the water. I walk back to my grandparents garage, the mousetrap hits the ground and breaks. Made absolutely no sense when I dreamed it, only to find two months later the exact same situation took place. I was with my cousins at my grandparents house, they wanted to go fishing. We go into the garage, only to find that the fishing pole doesn't have a bobber or a hook. My cousins go inside, and looking around the garage I find an old mousetrap. I tie the mousetrap to the line, and proceed to cast it. Only later did I recognize the dream matched exactly the situation. I've tried to come up with a rational explanation for the above scenario, the only thing I can think of is that in both cases I was given initial conditions, and in both cases I acted/dreamed the way I would've acted, and everything else was coincidental.

Surprised that rune scimitars are now alchable. Yay bots! <_<

Skipped most this thread, my apologies if I repeat any points already made in this thread. People are inherently capitalists, they'll do whatever they can to make a better life for themselves (which includes the benefit they receive from helping friends and family). America is unique in the regard that for most of its history, it has embraced the free market system and has allowed its people to benefit from their toil and sweat. It's also had fairly strong property laws, stability, and a large area of free trade. I don't think that being successful makes one greedy; I certainly don't begrudge people their success. Does keeping what you have and working for more make you greedy? In my opinion, no. With regards to the OP - America's response to tragedies like the earthquake in Japan or Haiti, is America greedy? In my opinion, no. I believe that most people (Americans included) will give what they can when directly asked (and when its deemed "A good cause"). The last point I'd like to make is that for all of you non-Americans that like to bash us, keep in mind that there is no American race/ethnicity. We're made up of people from the rest of the world, so when you insult all of us as a whole, you're essentially insulting all peoples of the world at once.

No, but it sounds like you're 13. I'd like to think that someone pulling an "inside job" at jagex would do something a bit more spectacular, like if you talk to the mean guy with a coffee and then fly to cinnabar island and surf on the side of the island, a weird missingo would appear and the item in your 6th inventory spot would miraculously have 150 more.

JMods can't trade players though, so even though they can spawn whatever inv they want, they can't trade it. They can modify your bank's content though, so why would they need to trade you? Don't think it was likely an inside job, I think it probably slipped their mind. Not surprised that it was discovered so quickly though - when you have an update that modifies drops, the first thing players will do is test it out. So something that might slip under the noses of 20 people at jagex testing it for 10 hours each won't slip past 20,000 players playing 20 minutes each.

Not sure how Jagex can do this and keep player versus player interactions. And if Jagex set an NPC up as the house, they'd probably do something boneheaded like give it no edge.

Wouldn't be surprised if the scraped mechscape was used as a base for this, with the graphics replaced with hasbro's stuffs. They probably had to pitch their idea to Hasbro, not some sign up out of the blue. Having an already developed scraped game would've given them a significant advantage over the competition.

Make armour not the last part of the smithing skill. Add an extra step - like sharpening swords or buffering armour. Give some bonus to this special armour, and let it degrade back to its normal result. Should make degraded armour more valuable than the non-degraded, and if the special armour is trade-able then the game retains its balance.

The strategy for figuring that out applies to all types of games and all types of statistics, whether its 60x2 or a different game. [hide=More complicated example using the same technique.] Take for instance 7-hi-lo. The house rolls two six sided dice, and the result is the two dice added up. You have the option of betting the dice will roll lower than 7, 7, or higher than 7. The house pays 2:1 if you bet higher or lower, and pays 5:1 if you bet 7. What is your expected long run return? This game isn't as simple as 60x2, but the strategy for computing it is the same. Say you bet lower than 7, how do you compute your long run return. When you roll two dice, there are 36 unique ways the dice can roll - the first dice could roll 1, the second could roll 1. The first could roll 1, the second could roll 2 and so on. The result of the dice can be 2-12, so what's the probability the roll is lower than 7? Its the same as saying the roll is either a 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. The probability of a 2 is 1 in 36, the same as saying you must roll a 1 and a 1. The probability of a 3 is 2 in 36, you can roll 1 and 2 or 2 and 1. The probability of lower than 7 is P(2) + P(3) + P(4) + P(5) + P(6), or (1,1) + (1,2) + (2,1) + (3,1) + (2,2) + (1,3) + ... + (1,5) or 15 / 36. If the house pays 2:1, you'll win 30/36 of your money back, or you lose 1/6 of your money bet in the long run. [/hide]