BlueLancer

Reading the review... This game seems almost too good to be true. It seems to have very skilled programmers behind it to make an idea like that work. I don't see the point of this game though; What is the objective of creating those creatures? Making them fight?

Hi 8-) Post youtube and other video links here: http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=561170

All those sound like the fix would require intervention into the economy. That is not too libertarian sounding to me. Not really. It's perfectly fine to import and export, commerce is great, but at the level it is now, it is not. We are allowing China to control our market by increasing our reliance off of them. It is Libertarian to fix the problems that the Neocons and Democrats caused to our economy, especially with our fiat currency. For the sake of fair argument... China already controls the US economy up to astronomic proportions. They have over $1.4 trillion US dollars in foreign reserve accounts, hundreds of billions in american real estate investments and companies... If they ever decided to use their investments and american funds as a political weapon by withdrawing all of it/converting it into Euros/yens/etc... The american economy and dollar would cease to exist. That's not a problem one man can solve.

It's quite hard to believe Ron Paul is actually a republican, with the positive & humanistic values he advocates. I don't like any political party, but I'd register rep. just to vote for a candidate like him. :)

As runehq is the sub-domain and not the domain, technically speaking, it's not linked with RuneHQ at all. huh?i don't understand your fancy words, well i got the link from runehq and ive bought like 5 games already. Just to clarify since this got reported as a scam, the URL runehq.sayswap.com is in no way affiliated with the real runeHQ (unless explicitly stated on their website) Anyone can register a sub-domain at any address with any name. If there was a free webhost called 'examplehost.com', you could create 'runescape.examplehost.com', which doesn't make you affiliated with "runescape' in any way though. Don't fall for scams people.

Not a bad candidate at all, but since this is an advertisement, you can only post it here: http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=144061

You mustn't read newspapers then. It's actually a realistic possibility, now it's been half a year after their elections, and they still can't form a government because of grossly opposite views between the flemish and vallonian populations. If you read up on the history of Belgium, it's not even a 'real' country, it's a political state. Not to mention the french involved in this... Belgium could split very soon. Belgium has a king. You could apply for the job if the country breaks up, settle in one of the provinces, and declare overlord-emperorship. :lol:

I'm standing in a long line, and some middle aged woman suddenly jumps out of the que and comes back a few minutes later with 3 baskets full of stuff... Then she starts throwing a tantrum about how her 'spot in the line' should've been saved for her and how she has access to lawyers and she'd sue... Fortunately they called security soon thereafter. That's just one of the countlessly dumb things I encounter in shops. Or the people who stand in line for 20 minutes to return an item, when it clearly says over the counter in huge letters: NO REFUNDS, then start complaining about lost money while everyone else is forced to stand there and wait for nothing. Let's just say.. I could never work in a customer service job. :lol: Getting a heart attack from an overload of stupidity just isn't my thing. No offense to those who like heart attacks.

Exactly the same for me... (Except my 1 gum was impacted so they had to cut that open with a razor, remove some fluid and stitch it closed). Couldn't eat solids for maybe 1, 2 days? After that, it was just as normal. The process was nevertheless so painless and quick, maybe 10-to-20 minutes, I don't even see why you'd need to be put to sleep instead of local anesthetic administered in your mouth. Maybe different places and countries have different procedures. That, or some of the horror stories posted here were done by really incompetent dentists... :?:

Absolutely true. I rest my case. Do you have anything to say about my other two points? No time for a big reply right now since there's like 10 reports open... But I thought that's a very immature statement of you to make. You didn't even understand to try the person who made the argument... Here is his whole phrase: He obviously meant it's absolutely true atheists don't have any common beliefs besides the fact they don't believe in the existence of a God (which is true, atheism isn't an organised faith or idea, it's just the belief of no divine entities existing). Personal attacks based on straw-men like that don't really further the cause of learning more, and being more educated on the issue of religion by debating...

No one tells you your life purpose, you decide it yourself. Usually some people choose it from the obstacles and growth they've endured. For example, the father who grew up in a broken home who is battling to raise his 3 kids, eat, work, sleep and die. His life purpose was to raise his kids better than his own father raised him. Who decided that you decide your own purpose? That's a western-country illusion... People can only determine their own purposes and interests when they live freely. I'm quite sure the few million children, boys and girls aged under 10 who had their hands chopped off, forced to kill their parents and become a child soldier or prostitute, didn't choose their purpose in life: To serve another greedy human and die as if your life means nothing. If you live in a free, democratic country where no war, famine or serious diseases exist, you can possibly determine your profession, your passions, your family size, what you eat, what you do in your spare time... Pretty much anything. But go to a totalitarian country like North Korea, and ask the citizens do they decide their own purpose and life fate? No, the government assigns them to jobs, they may be forced to harvest fields in masses even if they are highly educated doctors and politicians (let alone poor workers), their entire life from the cradle to the grave is dictated by the people in power. Can that average North Korean think he has a free will and life when his every step is being carefully watched and everything in his life that matters, is decided by someone else?

That's quite false, ideas have died and been destroyed very quickly in history if a ruler or a wealthy class decided those ideas work against their own interests. After all, an idea only exists in an amount of people who know about it. If the Wright brothers were assassinated while inventing the airplane, nobody would have anything to continue their work from. If I right now knew a scheme to stop world hunger 100% foolproof, that idea only exists in my mind. If I die tomorrow, the idea dies. Or, if Albert Einstein had died before publishing his magnificent theories, facts, ideas about the world... They would've gone with him to the grave.

As said above, the collective financial gain by the funder of that iPhone is much larger than what your 20 friends (or whatever number of referral it takes) benefit from, because they have carefully calculated most people can't get the correct number of referrals anyways. These aren't scams, but honestly, it's just not worth the time (unless you actually have a huge subscriber base/readers who you could send this to). The owner of that site benefits much more than you do. Usually most of the offers also require you to buy some junk product for $5 to $20 as well. Tip.it doesn't allow those links however.. You can still post it here though: http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=144061

That's not quite true at all... You might want to see who the sites like thehungersite.com and freerice.com are affiliated with before making judgements. Anyways, locked on author's request. :)

Theravada is the "protestantism" of buddhism, it's a minority sect comprising about 15-20% of all buddhist people. In numerous buddhist countries, Gautama Buddha is considered divine, and a lot of deities, such as Yama, are considered Gods. From your own source:

Well... You might just as well ask any human or animal who has ever lived on Earth. Why are we any different from animals (we are specificly a species of mammals), just because of our intelligence capacity? For example, chimpanzees can understand their own existence, and are capable of compassion, love, sharing... Do they have a soul and afterlife? They share 99% of our genes, they just don't have developed vocal chords to create a story around their possible beliefs. If you look at the life of any average person to have lived in history, his meaning of life was to eat, work, reproduce, pay taxes and die. Now he's decomposed in a graveyard. Did he have a soul which traveled to some 'underworld' or 'heaven'? Up to faith... But biologically, all that happens is his living functions ceasing, and electronic waves and currents in his brain stop all activity in all parts of his body.

I usually help people or advice them, not because I 'want to affect' them, maybe I do... But it's mainly because I feel like they deserve it. Say, I had a really bad accident and my leg is broken (or I even lost my leg). Would I wish for someone to help me? Of course. That's what even the military is based on today. You don't leave a wounded man behind, think if you are wounded, would you want to be left behind? So if I see a person who really needs help (and even people who need lesser help, doesn't matter to me), I help them because I'd expect them to do the same to me if I was in trouble. Not that I actually think there are that many people in the world who would care about a stranger's misfortune, but I still do it. You can follow "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" even without being an exploitable wuss, you don't have to be a helping machine for people. But it's still something nice to live by, because you know those people 'had their prayers answered' (figuratively speaking, even if they're not religious) in times of need.

But if all the things in this life will most certainly fade away soon after your death, then what's the point of living? All the work you did in this life will only last for a very short amount of time... Why even bother in the first place? If this is the only chance we get then all the more reason to give your life a meaning and make something of it. This may sound dumb, but why? What reason do you have to give your life a meaning other than for the sake of giving your life a meaning? I totally agree with insane on this issue. There isn't really a "reason" to give your life a meaning. In 200 or so years, unless you were extremely significant, nothing you've done will have any impact. You and me basically just wasted the resources on Earth, experienced some emotions and events, then died. When people find out they are living for no reason, perhaps doing the same meaningless work from day to day, they strive to find a 'meaning' to their life. One of the best ways to find meaning, IMO, is helping those who can't help themselves. Not because Jesus or anyone else did it, but because it's what I'd want somebody to do to myself if I was helpless. Even if Jesus/Muhammad/Gautama Buddha weren't divine people or sons of God, did their existence mean anything? You can bet it did... It inspired millions and millions of people to be like them and value other human beings, to behave morally, even if scared to their behaviour by threats of 'hell' and other methods of control (which frankly weren't taught by those people, but rather the people using their memory as a tool of forcing others). Their existence had a meaning.

Well... The rule of thumb has usually been that bands, politicians, known people etc. can be (and are often posted) because those can be found easily by fans and interested people anyways... It's quite hard to judge a thread like this, because it seems your band is becoming commercialized and well known, not just some 'school band'. So I just removed the last 2 pictures with easily recognisable faces... (You can't really recognize a face in the first two ones) If you block out your face/eyes you can repost them though. :) I hope you understand, it's tip.it policy to protect especially the younger members here, that's why no recognisable real life pics should be included. Nothing personal against you or your band.

To comment on the link itself.. It's not actually a spoof, if you read the , those are all according to the Bible. Christmas is mostly a pagan festival (also, Jesus was born after the winter period, not in December)... But the report is right; Post any links such as this on here: http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=144061

Believing in Jesus isn't a matter of 'belief'. Any rational person who has studied history or knows how to search for reliable sources, will know Jesus as a person, just like Muhammad, Gautama Buddha, etc. existed. What is purely a matter of faith is whether any of those persons had 'divine' abilities or origins. If you believe so, you have all the rights to... Just remember, it's a personal belief instead of a fact. People believe in all sorts of different things, heck, a lot of people still believe in flat Earth or UFO's having visited our planet, or that eating a pig's meat turns your face into that of a leper... Though, if a supernatural event was recorded with reliable accuracy and original, unedited footage, I'd change my beliefs in an instant. For example, the 12 million mormons of the world believe a guy was in the USA just 200 years ago, and recieved golden plates from an angel who told him how to live. If I saw actual proof of that, I would become a mormon as well. They had primitive cameras already 200 years ago. But all I have is the guy's "word" some angel gave him items and disappeared. Not very convincing, but to 12 million people in the world, it seems like enough "evidence" to base your life values on. Apparently people can believe anything that is presented to them with a straight face and a man who looks important (like mormon recruiters and missionaries with their $5000 Armani suits)

And like UFO's, has largely been considered a hoax... 8-)

That wasn't the point.. The point is out of some 80 million americans who have tried pot, only a few hundred have actually died from it's side-effects (or overuse), compared to the annual death toll of cigarette-caused cancers and other diseases which is at over 400,000 human lives. Pretty needless to say, the tax loss of having 400,000 people less every year paying taxes and buying goods, employers losing their workers and costs of re-hiring, the emotional losses of relatives, toll on healthcare system... Exceeds even the tax share the government could have by legalising pot.

Cigarettes can be taxed, weed can't. The government barely cares that cigarettes do cause some 400,000 deaths annually, weed causes about 180 deaths per year (out of the nearly 40% of americans who have tried weed, both figures from government sources; check links). It's a money issue, they don't care about the fact weed is multiple hundredfold safer than using cigarettes...

Yeah, now that I think of this, the finnish news was pretty pathetic compared to the sad fact you posted (there are 1.5 million+ little kids in the world dying because they don't have clean water). I searched other news sites, actually only like a few hundred people in Finland caught diseases, and nobody is at risk of dying. I guess people became immune to news from poor countries, and think it's somehow normal and accepted for those people to live in sub-par conditions. Maybe I should go to a poor country to try and help...