BlueLancer

From what I remember the "Hesari" isn't really nationalistic at all, and I've read it just a few months ago thanks to a friend who had finnish newspapers (yes I can read them thanks to my mother's side of family, as well as swedish)... :? The reporting is very professional and objective, and it has dedicated space for public opinions. The editors didn't seem to have an agenda either... It's exactly what I'd expected from the NY times or the online BBC etc.. Admittedly it has tons of ads though. Unlike american/british newspapers screaming with big headlines of current events, the Helsingin Sanomat (news of Helsinki) has it's first page covered 100% with ads.. :lol:

Seems like you're making quite an assumption there. I edited my post to cater to the probable exemptions of that... It would be interesting to hear how you came to follow your religion not including peer pressure at school/friends/parents. Yes I'm aware some people voluntarily pick up religions or convert, but that's a fraction % of the followers of the world's main religions. Every religious person I personally know in real life had/have parents who were religious as well.

To all the people criticising the Bible, Qur'an, Torah, the Veda etc... Remember those are man-written books. Just because in those tales God supposedly did this or that doesn't mean a God (if one were to exist) is really genocidal and causes floods and diseases. To believe a person has communicated with God or that some text is "divine" is up to your blind faith. Personally, I see that as completely irrational. People who belong to big religions only see them as "divine" because there are many other people who think it is "divine", including their parents who have told them so since their childhood. I haven't met many people in real life who studied and compared religions and came to a conclusion and started worshipping a certain god/gods. Personally the eastern religions seem the most humane and peaceful, with some eastern monks of varying faiths even going to great lenghts to ensure they don't kill any living creatures while being alive, living an ascetic life with only the barely essential materials etc. (Then again, those are mostly philosophic codes, not cults demanding you worship God X or face eternal burning in a pit of deep-voiced laughing remons)

I was watching BBC on TV a few minutes ago, I'm shocked to find out the people went to protest in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to demand her execution (by shooting). That's barbaric, no culture or religion should justify that... :? And the islamic council said something along the lines of her being a "part of a conspiracy against islam, along with the offending drawings of Muhammad and the iranian writer's book about Islam"... That sounds like my father when he's rambling about his irrational conspiracy theories at which even I know to just laugh at... Don't these people have intelligence capacity? Not even in a totally islamic state such as Saudi Arabia would the public refuse to even the attempt to understand it was a honest mistake, AND demand her death..?

Author has requested lock on the grounds of not being able to reply to all posts, but as this is the only "religion" topic currently active, it could stay open as long as there's no flaming or abuse towards other users. I have read the Bible and I certainly never read such a passage. Please tell me where in the Bible it says you are going to "hell" if you don't obey the ten commandments. Not that it couldn't be used as a weapon against christians; Just about every person has broken a commandment or doesn't even remember them, I just don't recall that being in the old or new testaments. Couldn't had said it better... I don't follow any religion, but I also find total atheism irrational. You can never rule out the possibility the universe has been created illogically. Heck, I'm not appealing to authority here, just showing an example.. Albert Einstein was one of the most rational and intelligent people on Earth when he lived. Yet he believed in God. I don't believe in God, but it wouldn't be surprising to find out one (or multiple) exist. Matter doesn't just appear out of nowhere... That doesn't mean I should belong to a "fanclub" of God such as the 'christians', 'islam', 'buddhism', 'judaism' or anything else... You can believe or acknowledge his possible existance despite not 'belonging' to cults worshipping them.

I don't understand why people in the US should fear their government. Without the people's and companies (which are made up by people) tax money, surviving on import taxes and tariffs, USA would be a 3rd world country. Everything they do, plan, execute (even the salaries they recieve) are paid by the citizen. They don't just magically appear as a god-given grant by a council of sages. Hey, we can mock the french all we want, but when the taxation got too heavy and the rights too few, at least they had the balls to literally gather up all the tyrannic nobles and put their heads under a guillotine to take the power in their own hands.

http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/pdf/PIS ... y_2006.pdf School/college kids in the USA actually do much worse than most of the western world. GPA tells squat about your intelligence. Finland, Canada and Japan are the top 3 when it comes to education and understanding what they learn.

I'm sad to hear that man. :( Take a day off from school/work with no excuses necessary...

Try to discuss the thread itself rather than insulting each other...

Hi 8-) In the future post this stuff here: http://forum.tip.it/viewforum.php?f=200

Sadly, I was thinking the same thing. It might seem a big deal to you if you're a perfectionist in college, but people in "real life" mostly couldn't care less if you had some B's or even C's (hell, I had 2 F's but I can get employed in a white collar job) You might strongly disagree with me on the next statement because it might sound grossly unfair to an idealistic college student, but thought you'd want to know the ugly truth about "the real world" anyways: Good connections matter more than grades. When you grow up you'll see the most idiotic donut-munching jerks with no clue on how to run a hot dog stall (let alone a company) get the best positions and salaries, and you'll eventually find out they were somebody's friend or cousin or friend's cousin, while you work for under 10x his salary 10x as hard.

That's exactly what I was thinking of... The idea of wearing my grandfather's remains on my fingers or neck doesn't really sound appealing :-# I think the whole idea seems pretty cool. It's like wearing the cliched locket with a picture of them, but...it's actually them. Adds a little bit of a personal touch and better sentimental value. But the way those letters are written.... :uhh: Add a cool carving to the ring with the remains, sprinkle it with some holy water, at least you'd get a legit excuse to wear a ring called "Blessed serpent ring of the Grandfather" at work or pass it to your children as a heirloom without looking dorky.

To add to the good article above, sadly the MMORPG market is very saturated in the year 2007. Back in 1998 when Paul and Andrew Gower started developing RS, people didn't really even know about roleplaying games where thousands of players could interact. Diablo was released in 1999, but even that could be only played by a handful of people at once. After RS was released in January 4th 2001, it gained huge popularity due to the uniqueness of MMORPG's at the time, the 100% free cost of the game, frequent updates, tight-knit community, easy availability by simply opening a java-supported web browser etc. As Jagex has said multiple times, they spent $0 dollars on advertising to make RuneScape popular. It's all word-of-mouth promotion. A year later in February 2002 they turned their game into a succesful F2P-P2P model. Had Andrew and Paul started to develop their game now, though, they'd be in for a big disappointment. There are thousands of MMORPG's. Korean gamehouses release new ones every few days. A java MMORPG released today simply couldn't gain the popularity needed to make it succesful.

He wont be the only one.. :lol: Why does this stuff happen in the US? When was the last time they banned tag in schools or prevented black people from shaving due to 'security orders' in France, Japan, Australia, Switzerland...

Lenin64, socialist-capitalist-liberalist-anarchist-individualist-communist. Based on a few opinions you read by a person it's hard, but apparently every person can be "classified"

That's exactly what I was thinking of... The idea of wearing my grandfather's remains on my fingers or neck doesn't really sound appealing :-#

Islam literally means "submission/total devotion to God" in Arabic.

Read this. I hope you'll realize how horribly wrong you are. (I'm not a socialist, or a republican, or a democrat or anything else, just thought you'd want to know the government *can* and has censored the media during wartime even in recent years and decades) P.S: As you instructed me on another thread, "this isn't relevant to the topic" :lol:

Using terms like that is supposed to make the enemy look "weaker", it has nothing to do with liberalism. Soldiers or elite forces of the opposing nation in war are often called 'hostiles' or 'enemy combatants', even "terrorists". A roadside bomb will be called an "Improvised explosive device" even though it was NOT "improvised" in any way and was an industrially made powerful bomb. Heck, even hurricanes and storms are assigned names, to make them look psychologically "weaker" in the eyes of the public. "Katrina", "Manuel", "Barbara" sound much less menacing than "a destructive pacific hurricane". Independent media will often use the real term such as "nuclear bombs" so the readers get to know the truth, but in times of war, even in the recent years in the US, the government *will* force the biggest medias to use 'toned down' words to make situations look less dangerous or threatening.

As I understood though, Quebec is trying to become a country of it's own and has considerable public/political backing. No such endeavour is happening in the U.S. at the moment.

What I'm wondering is how can someone be so dumb as to keep ALL their personal data on an unencrypted, un-password protected flash drive... You wouldn't walk into school or a public place, your pockets filled with hundred dollar bills worth $20,000 would you?

I actually found the idea of making the ashes of a dead person I hold dear (or myself) into a jewel which can be preserved in the family for hundreds/thousands of years beautiful and honourable... :lol: But maybe I should go for psychological tests...

Yep, the compression-quality ratio is phenomenal in rmvb files. A TV episode can be shrunk to 140mb instead of 350mb and retail the same quality, a 700mb movie shrunk to a 300mb one, etc... But you really don't want to download RealPlayer which is infested with adware and other installs you don't want.. Just get Real Alternative (as linked above) or just get the windows codecs for RealMedia. http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm The K-lite is a good codec pack which also includes RealMedia, and doesn't contain bloat/adware.

Because the human race of 6.5 billion people inevitably fall within the two categories of 'liberal' or 'conservative', 'democrat' or 'republican'.

Legal action? Going to jail? Over a student's prank email to a teacher who was inappropriately teaching her classroom? I guess it's really true...