BlueLancer

F2P doesn't "deserve" anything... This coming from someone who hasn't paid for any rs membership in 6 years. It's solely at Jagex's discretion to even keep so many F2P content servers online as a demo version (face it, they could easily cut down on the number of servers, they aren't peaked all the time), let alone add new free content which comes out of their purse for no compensation.

I still can't find any supporting scripture in the Qur'an or Bible that prohibit assisted suicide if the person in question is in excruciating pain and asks for it. (Apologies if you were talking about another religion, such as Buddhism or Hinduism/Judaism) If the religion doesn't cover that area, it's not a religious view but your personal one. 'Thou shalt not kill' doesn't even remotely apply in this scenario.

I run Vista Ultimate on my 1GB desktop, and it runs like a piece of crap especially if multi-tasking while gaming. I'm not exactly a hardcore gamer but it's annoying when you minimize a game screen and it takes about 20 seconds for the OS to respond to anything at all (after the computer has been on for a while). Unless it's a laptop, or a desktop with multiple graphics processors, nothing is worth $1700. You can get very high-end prebuilt gaming rigs for $1k if you want to spend money (alienware excluded, their prices are through the roof), for even less if you build it yourself. Do the math for an AMD/Intel quadcore processor, 4gb of RAM, a medium sized hard-drive plus a motherboard, power supply & casing. The price doesn't come even near $1700, a lot of that price consists of transport, assembly fees, middle-man salaries, plus greed.

You're right, sorry.

Been getting lower and lower by the day, unless something groundbreaking happens or he suddenly gets assassinated, it's almost inevitable Obama is the next president. Some betting agencies even refuse to take bets for Obama anymore due to the extremely high probability.

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Likely, that's the ethernet card, which are usually 100/1000Mbps. It has nothing to do with your actual speed, which is capped by your service provider.

Well, you could say it's not a reason itself (since you can't continue existing, unless you exist in the first place), but besides procreation or survival it's hard to think of a true, logical meaning to life. Making the best of it? Nah, not for all people... Being helpful to everyone, following a religious code? Nope.. It's impossible to find something beyond biological necessities that connect all people to a single purpose. A better question is, "what's the purpose of the endless cycle of life?". What does the world gain from people being born, dead, born all over again, or is life itself a purpose (being better than just black emptiness?) In that case, experiencing things, be they good or bad, would be an objective reason to live.

A byte is always 8 times larger than a bit, easy to remember without being nerdy (longer word, short word correspond to the reality). So if you have a 2mbit/s internet connection, you can download about 240 kilobytes per second.

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Didn't say I agree with that at all, but that's an objective reason for our existence. Happiness, making art, playing games, helping poor people, is just subjective extra. Whether I or you like the idea, the only thing that constantly matters is staying alive. To make an analogy... You have a computer, it doesn't matter which part of it people think is the most interesting/useful, such as graphics card, processor, hard-drive.. None of those things matters unless it has a working power source & cord. Likewise, none of your life goals, memories, material possessions, actually matter if you can't be alive to enjoy them. So your ultimate reason of existence is staying alive. (There are exceptions though, like suicidal persons) There's tons of man-made purposes for life, but only one objective/neutral one..

Not really possible at all, because the filter works at the ISP level & is applied every time you send or recieve data. You can't just make a client-side 'fix' for it. Even if they somehow managed to hack an ISP's main server and remove the filter, it would be back up in no time. What's more likely is that proxies will just become more common for torrent users etc.

Not to be a spoilsport but the article makes it pretty clear the study was only conducted on old people, with the main focus on decreasing the risk of alzheimer's disease. It probably doesn't have the same 'activating' effect on young people whose brains are in constant use due to schoolwork, etc.

I think a lot of people are forgetting that he's not just going on a holiday. 1-12 months isn't really a short stay, which leads to my point... Greece easily offers the most cultural experiences even over France, but Greek isn't the easiest language for any outsider to pick up. It has it's own unique alphabet, and sounds significantly different than other European languages. At least if you go to Spain/France, you might be able to learn a thing or two if you studied either language in school. Living in Greece could be hard if you can't read a single letter of the alphabet or understand at all what people are saying. Only maybe Irish/Basque/Finnish are on par with Greek on the difficulty of learning the language tolerably.

No objective reason, you're right. People can make up their subjective reasons for hanging around and seeing life as worthwhile. I think it's more empowering and meaningful than it just being the will of god because he said so. When it's personal, it's true to who you are. There is actually a single objective reason for all living organisms to exist, which is reproduction (or continued survival, same thing). Not that it serves any deeper 'purpose' (other than just repeat the cycle infinitely), but that's pretty objective since you don't get to choose. Animals don't get to choose either. They just do it because their nature dictates it to them. Also in humans, anything else besides survival is just extra. Every person has his/her subjective view on what their purpose of life is (a divine being controlling them, raising kids, helping poor people, becoming famous/rich, nursing sick people/animals, punishing wrongdoes, assassinating a politician.. You choose)

Heh, already knew this years ago because I have friends who live in South Korea and Japan. East-Asian countries have always had the fastest connections since about 2000 or so... Americans even consider 5mb/s to be fast, Spanish people think 10mbit internet is godly... The truth is, even public access japanese backbone servers provide up to 60-200mbit/s of bandwidth to individuals, and you can get even more by forking out $$ (or actually, ¥¥). Peer2Peer gaming is extremely popular especially in S.Korea, it's a small country yet deeply linked together via fiber optics, you barely even need a central server when everything can be done between users. (Companies like K2 try the peer2peer gaming concept in Europe/USA with FPS games like Warrock but the phenomenal lag due to huge geographical distances make it a lot worse)

You'd be surprised at how many phenomena/existance of certain conditions in our world can be explained by pure mathematical probability. The endless list includes weather, politics, sports results, earthquakes, floods, birth rate of humans/animals, etc. If you have enough past and present data, you can calculate the possibility of anything almost precisely, and in the 21st century with computer models, it's even easier. By probability theory, it seems pretty illogical the rate of intelligent life in the universe is at a 1:~, where 1 represents our planet as compared to an infinity of stars and stellar systems. It just hasn't been proven yet, but it's extremely likely there's other thinking creatures in the universe besides us.

Doubt it, but how come the discussion always goes in that direction :lol: (That, or religion/politics) Just a matter of common sense... It starts quite innocent and then we have another 18-page crapfest of really disturbing posts..

Almost all countries, even the ones with a christian religion as the majority, require you to be 18 years old to make a decision about removing yourself from a church/joining it. (Some conservative countries with an islamic majority might even prohibit leaving) Otherwise you need the consent of your guardian or parent. As a minor you can't sign binding legal documents without the supervision of an adult responsible for you, so if you, Lenticular wanted to join/part from a religion and were under 18 years old, you'd need the permission of your parents too pretty much regardless of where in the world you live. It's not just Finland or the USA.

It does, for a person lucky enough to be born in a western country to a caring family. Say you were born in Cambodia/India, even worse if you were a woman.. Would you really want to life all your life in physical labour, no chance to effect what your life will be, raising 4 kids whose only purpose in life will just be doing more physical labour at $0.50 an hour, with absolutely no way to escape the life which will just consist of violence, poverty, crime? Or maybe if you just were born into such a situation, you wouldn't even know what's a "good" life or what's a bad one, because yours is all you've ever known. Just remember while saying that... There's millions of people who have never had a proper meal, seen a TV, had a home, a job, read words, even heard of things like the internet, or even had a friggin' toothbrush or clean clothes. After knowing/living life in a western country, I don't know if I could live as a street beggar amongst dirty streets and squalor in a poor country.. I don't despise those people in extreme poverty/poor countries, I genuinely feel sorry and would want to help them. There's no way to help all of them though..

A medical pro could likely give a more accurate statement on this, but it has to do with your hormones being imbalanced. A lot of teenagers, both male and female experience huge mood swings during ages 12-17 during the growth spurt period, some of them will develop depression. Check any items on this list, does it apply to you? http://www.helpguide.org/mental/depression_teen.htm Not implying it does, but if anyone reading that would possibly recognise themselves from the descriptions, they might be depressed. As the article says, depression isn't merely feeling down or having 'occassional' mood swings. It's a mental disease which can cripple your life.

Maybe a whole 5 megabytes :lol: (Jk, but 'legit' content is about 0.1% of all torrents) The problem is, if they start monitoring the traffic and the government asks IP access lists of popular public proxies (a venue commonly used by people wishing to mask their identity), RIAA/Australian equivalent can take legal action against private consumers such as you, not just the uploader. Wont be any jail time but monetary fines. Or, if you don't have a proxy at all, the ISP could just throttle your P2P bandwidth to 0kb/s if they obtain evidence you use it for illegal content which is otherwise blocked by the filter. Not really sure whether to agree or disagree with the law, but if they add political/neutral opinion sites and blogs to the filter, it's an intrusion of privacy and likely against any Australian legislature enabling free speech. It's not like any kind of downloads will ever stop though regardless of vast filters.. (Hint hint, irc/xdcc bots)

Yeah the pay sucks big time compared to the time spent, you're essentially working for about $1 per hour, you'd earn 5x the amount even flipping burgers at McDonald's.. But if he's too young to get an actual job, that's an option :lol: And some could say it's not even a job really... If you can enjoy leveling an online character. I couldn't do it for cash, but a lot of people can.

OP could also start playing another game in which gold has more demand, and enjoy playing the game while earning real world $$. Some games openly allow, or even promote real world trading (anarchy online/second life comes to my mind) Since he's a kid living at his parents and getting all expenses paid for, that has it's perks over the chinese WoW sweatshop worker who is employed by a man enforcing his 14-hour shifts with a firearm... He would get to pocket all his profits, he can take breaks whenever he wants, not play at all on some days, select his buyers, etc. Gold selling isn't some big ugly demon Jagex has set it out to be, but in their game, it is. So why bother when you're just likely going to lose your GP & months/years of work on your account after Jagex tracks it down to you? Rather play some other game for profit which has less strict rules about gold selling, less stress & more profit. If I was forced to make money fast with online games, I'd even take Lineage/WoW gold selling over Runescape any day. There's so many games where profitable real world trade can be made, RuneScape isn't one of them (anymore).