BlueLancer

If you ask me, people should get paid for their abilities to work. If you aren't strong enough for certain work, you should find another job. No matter did you have a 5cm extra skin between your legs or not. Yeah, the firefighter example mentioned earlier would fit here. It's ridiculous how a woman can get the same job with less physical requirements just because of her gender. When somebody is in danger and you may be required to remove heavy objects in a burning building and possibly carry away people, the fire doesn't care what tests you passed to get that job. It only cares about how much strength you have to save those poor people. If it means the difference between life and death to one overweight person who couldn't be saved because a woman was unable to lift him, the system has already failed.

How do you buy a pack of cigarettes for 10 cents, anywhere in the world? Even in Ghana which is one of the poorest countries, you have to pay over 60 cents. Plus you play an online game, have a computer and internet access so I doubt you're from a very poor country.

It has everything to do with luck and nothing with brain stimulation. Though, I'm sure there are at least a few intelligent people in the world who can, like in poker, predict the game behavior of their opponents based on the movement of their arms, eyes, how they speak, how they smile etc. and it could *possibly* work in RPS. Didn't anybody notice the striking similarity of the tournament winner compared to Maddox, the beloved pirate? This is the actual image from the original poster's link.

Nothing, I buy stuff when I feel like it, who cares if it's christmas for not. I'm buying my brother a Nintendo Wii for christmas though because he's always talking about it. 8-) NO :shock: Geforce went past 8000 already? Holy mother, I checked the specs of the card on slashdot and it's quite.. Insane compared to my radeon x600... Actually, I'll be honest about it and it will probably run any game 10 times faster because it has triple the GDDR and much, much more clock speed.

Wow, amazing somebody should mention A Link to the Past. :) It's a brilliant game, if you haven't played it, download it or something, just as long as you play it. If you don't, you're missing out on a lot of fun. First of all, you must be in the light world for it to work at all. I assume you know the correct place because it's the same as the first dungeon. Then after you enter the woodlands you go down the invisible path and he asks you for money, 5 or 10 rupee I think. After you're there he'll extort you tenfold but it's the only way to get in the palace.

Not if you use solar powered hair dryers :roll: . :oops: .... anyways. I'll go halfsies Tigra :) Pfft, I'm using WATER powered hair dryers! It SOUNDS like an oxy-moron, but...Okay, maybe it is, but it'll work. Trust me. Please send your $500,000 investment to: Tiggie the Mad 1293 Nigeria Rd. Nigeria, Africa 89257 Oh yea, and something about a bank transfer not working because of rebel inslamic terrorists or some king being mad at your family, or somethin'. *Shrug* Woogie Boogie! Actually, some governments already do this, though in a different form. They intentionally take out the water from the coastal areas, let it dry for years and eventually it's totally arable land with possibilities of civilised living. But it would be fun to see your ranch anywhere near the north pole 8-) I'd like to ride the polar bear, thanks. Later on, if you can arrange it so, I'd like to harvest some snowflakes for use in my cereals.

O please, be a little less naief, please! It's like this for over 3000 (!) years now! Who says it has to be that way? I'm no pacifist, but unnecessary violence annoys me. Understandably. It doesn't "have" to be that way. If it depended on me, I'd rather make more 'neutral' entertainment available, like adventures and stuff that can still kick butt without being 'sissy' (no pun on the name :P ) But most people want some violent entertainment, even in western countries. Just look at western universities and colleges, even at such a young age fights are a big amusement when students are bored and people even bet money on who wins it, despite it being illegal and you could be suspended from the school. Most people in the world will never even access the internet or know what a video game is. They are possibly living in areas with thousands of years of violent entertainment tradition from the days of the caveman to roman gladiatorial games and up to religious persecution, duels, etc. You can't tell these people, not in a thousand years, that this "is not fun", because that's how generations upon generations have known 'fun' as. Not all people are savages, even in the poorest areas of the world people peacefully play card and board games, football, etc. but most 'ordinary' people do want violence, and video games like Call of Duty fill that market gap. Otherwise the company would go bankrupt; instead of selling millions of copies and being a success.

Exactly, great to see somebody understanding this. If you're skinny and start putting on muscle mass, you wont be skinny anymore, but you wont be fat. You can weigh 220lbs at over 6 foot and you could be the slimmest person you know, because there's a difference between muscle mass and fat. 1.That's a common misconception. It has nothing to do with a fast metabolism. As long as you eat less calories than you take in, your body fat drops in terms of % (percentage). Anybody can get 6% body fat (but it will look pretty horrible unless you have lots of muscle to 'back it up') 2. Don't get too depressed. :P Even if he eats greasy chinese food and McDonalds stuff every day, he still consumes more calories than he eats. Remember that just sleeping and living itself consumes about 2,000 calories daily. A hamburger is about 150-200 calories. That's not counting the fact the guy could play football or something else.

Around here, it's illegal. In fact, holding the possibility of a future child against either of the parents is illegal, and it's up to the employer to prove that no action is taken on that basis, including if the person in question isn't an emploỷ̮̩̉e, but someone being interviewed for a position. I'm fairly sure even asking whether someone intends to have children during an interview for a position is threading dangerously close, if for no other reason then if you turn the person down, you're the one who ends up having to prove it wasn't for that reason. Best not to know. That doesn't really count because you live in a nordic country. Most of the world population will never accept the degree of liberalism/equality nordic countries already take for granted in their culture, you can't just change thousands of years of different culture overnight. In most countries, not that I *personally* think it's fair, taking in account a woman could get pregnant is a reality that even the woman must acknowledge, and it does disadvantage the employer who could just worry less by hiring a man to do the same job.

Or you can just burn them... Immortality as in being immune to all external threats is not possible. Dying by entering a black hole is not a natural death.

Just remember when you eat a bowl of cereals, it is literally like you would be eating a bowl of chips for breakfast. They have very high amounts of salt and carbohydrates. But if it's the only thing you can eat in the morning, it's better than nothing (as long as the rest of your diet is balanced). Many cereal portions are even worse than eating multiple BARS of chocolate! If possible, the best thing to eat in the morning is something that keeps your hunger away well until the next meal, and usually that would be protein and fibres. Even switching to whole-grain bread makes a difference. If you simply can't eat anything (i.e. it comes up your throat) no matter what you try, then simply don't, you'll be hungry on your next meal. Why bother torturing yourself?

Yeah, and actually, there can be no "opinion" on a definition. Mortality means you die. Immortality means you don't die. Just because you're immortal, does not mean you'll stay young forever though. After a million years you will probably look drier than an old piece of bread. True, because in reality immortality is impossible, and your sense of existence relies on your brains that tell you you're conscious. Your brains are made of atoms. Just because you're immortal, it doesn't mean you can break the laws of physics and turn into millions of scattered atoms without dying.

No. :lol: Think of the side profile, it's safe to say it's not possible.

"HyvÃÆÃâÃâäÃÆÃâÃâä isÃÆÃâÃâänpÃÆÃâÃâäivÃÆÃâÃâäÃÆÃâÃâä" or literally "Iloista isÃÆÃâÃâänpÃÆÃâÃâäivÃÆÃâÃâäÃÆÃâÃâä" 8-) Though, in other countries of the world, if it's celebrated at all it's in the summer. I'd dare to say most people in the world don't even know of such an event. In most parts of the world that aren't well off economically yet, people just celebrate their local religious events. Think if we were to celebrate every possible event in the world, not just stuff like christmas or hanukkah or your birthday or whatever people celebrate a few times a year. We'd have to celebrate stuff a few times every day through the year. :P

This may be true in the UK, but in USA, there are "real" homeless people; Absolutely normal people who maybe worked for a low pay job but ended up homeless because their company wanted to cut on costs, somebody in the family got sick and they had to stay home, etc. And sometimes, there is no public welfare for these people. They have no other alternative than going on the streets and trying to scrape up what they can by picking up cans and begging for money. I can make a difference between these people and lifestyle narcs, and those people if somebody deserve my $20. In the USA, the attitudes against apparently homeless people or poorly clothed people who beg is very negative. I was sitting in McDonald's at about 11:40 AM on lunch and ordered a bunch of normal burgers with water. This guy walked up to by table, seeing the vast quantity of food I have, and asked "Hey, dude, could I have some since I didn't even get to eat any breakfast this morning". I thought about it and he seemed pretty genuine, but within 10 seconds the security guards were violently dragging him out of the restaurant and telling him "if you come back to harass our customers we'll call the cops". His only mistake was asking for food, which I have no problem with, not for booze money...

Thanks for convincing me about the actual crappiness of the site. 8-) As I've said before, I'm willing to change my opinions based on facts and observations, and I think the owner of that site is basically a clown just for faking that quote. And I don't really care about those millisecond differences in speed, because I don't see the difference in reality.

Holy *, I so wish you were playing for real money (so us lackeys may have a coin or two that drops from your fat purse once you actually get a RF) How many people would think you're cheating online when you get a royal flush? I'm not implying you do, but "noobs" may. Either way, you were really lucky. 8-) That's not very rare, when I play IRL it occurs quite often. But still, after years of playing, I've yet to see more than 1 real life royal flush, and that was when I was like 14. It happens just about never.

Though, that's just when Jagex first started using the in-game recoveries, by that time I was already around level 70. I started playing the game in about Jan-February 2001 when I heard about this new java game anybody could play for free. :)

As many of you know, you can no longer search the archive.org for http://www.runescape.com because it has been blocked. However, I remembered RS also used to run on parallel domains, such as runescape.org. 8-) A completely working copy from 2002 is at http://web.archive.org/web/200207050714 ... scape.html and even the hiscores work. :shock: Wow, not even one person had 99 in HP back then, highest was 95 by Zonghui. Can you find yourself or your friend or notice anything strange? I found my character on the fighting hiscore on position 1104. 8-) Also, the news are entertaining to read. Haha, "we have just released the fishing guild". Top prayer is 77 (but there appears to be a bug or a hacker with 237), and Snake Slava is still 8 levels away from being the first person to 99 ranged. Nobody is even near to 99 herblaw. Also, on runescape.co.uk, another parallel domain, there's an old news article by Andrew: http://web.archive.org/web/200209171038 ... scape.html Andrew really had to go through lots of crap to get runescape to where it is today.

Just wanted you to know that he still occassionally plays. :)

..Like the SARS "epidemic"? Who even remembers that now? Seriously, I'm starting to think these things are more and more scams to sell placebo medicine and make hundreds of millions of dollars.

Yeah, I totally agree with you. Why should you give your seat to another person based on her gender? Of course, if an old person with a kyphotic stature enters the bus, I'm going to offer him/her the seat. I respect old people and they have been through a lot in their lives. If it's a middle aged woman, what's obligating me to stand for 20 minutes and tire my legs for no reason? I strongly make a difference between being courteous and "chivalric". I think "chivalry" is outdated, unless you want to upkeep gender differences. Opening the door to a lady is not chivalric, it's common courtesy. If a woman asks you to assemble her new furniture she bought from Ikea and is just plain lazy, why would you agree to do it out of principle? (But if she was a good friend, I'd do it) What next, build her a house just because she asks you and is "too weak to do it herself"? B.S.

President Bush is DRINKING again Funny as heck. "We're... St-ra-te-gi-zing!"

"I wish my grass were emo so it would cut itself" Hate me.

Lol, I don't know why, but when I look at that, I think about the movie "swordfish" or this little place online called "darkwebz"... That guy is straight from the hacker movies of the dotcom boom of early 2000.