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Actually it gives everyone the possibility to "merchant". This will naturally drive prices down because there will be tons more sellers. Previously, not everyone knew how to reach an audience with an item they want to sell. Not everyone knew how to use forums or advertise. An in-game "bulletin board" for your items guarantees someone willing to buy your item gets an instant chance, without having to wait back for 'messages'. The only people hurt by the update are ultra-rich merchants who control a lot of rare items. There will be a lot more rare items on the market when people have a direct chance to sell them while being away.

If you don't have anything to say, nobody's forcing you to click a thread and press the "reply" button.

RuneScape membership costs less in a month than 1 Big Mac meal does in a fast food restaurant. It isn't exactly a great financial sacrifice for any age, given your family is already wealthy enough to provide you with internet access which costs $10-$50 a month. You'd pay $10 for a movie ticket worth 2 hours of fun, but not $0.16 a day for premium in a game you like to play daily or at least many times a week? If you really want to pay for premium, you can buy Visa gift cards legally at any age (I think at least in the US). Or if you have a cellphone, use the PayByPhone option and ask your parents for permission so they don't get a surprise when the bill arrives :)

Which is how it determines your household's average annual income. If the sites visited suddenly change to banking sites, republican political news, diamond gift shops etc., it can estimate the parent profile to be about upper-middle-class within at least a $40,000-$60k income range. Seriously, it's tedious to explain how tracking cookies and programs work. It isn't something you just code overnight. The tracking algorithms are extremely complicated and sophisticated, just like google search results. Producing the systems costs hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars. They provide invaluable data to advertisers. All I can say is, the numbers aren't "made up". They're based on collected data from people who either 1. have tracking cookies or 2. a tracking program installed.

Been there tens of times on American Airlines, quite boring. A place I'd really want to visit is North Korea :) It's the last *true* dictatorship in the world besides Myanmar, the country is very secretive, it would be a real challenge to take pictures or escape from the tour guides (but then again, I really don't want to know what North Korean prison camps and interrogation facilities are like for 15 years) It would be a really unique experience. Heck, I've already seen all the normal boring stuff like beaches with palm trees, monuments, islands...

Lmao, I think it's because some men hafta do manly acts like stealing to prove themselves. The whole point, though, was that they thought nobody is watching them. :lol: So I doubt they tried to prove themselves. More likely, they saw an opportunity for easy money and took it... It's morally wrong, but McDonald's wont care about the 'morality' of the dollars when you order 2 cheeseburgers... Still if you looked at the results of the study, most people (75% returned it). Now if a rich researcher dropped wallets with $400 in them... You could really test people's morals. Anybody can pretend to be a saint by returning a wallet with $2.10 and cheap looking 'gift card'...

I have *no* idea what happened to Viktorkrum... :lol: The last thing I remember is he gets picked as mod, I take a break... A few months later I see he said he's not really up to the task, I come back even later, and he's banned? :shock: Why was he banned? I don't go on MSN often so I didn't ask him... Probably deleted his old contacts though.

If you don't want the Nasa or other heavier sources, here's something you can read fast. It's a fake, has absolutely no scientific basis, and is, well, plain "BS". But hey, if it gives your life a meaning, wait for it. It doesn't exist though, but you can pretend it exists. :)

Not only, like said above, women are on average more emotional than men... But they are often also more religious/they fear some divine power will punish them for 'misconduct'. Women are very often groomed from an early age to be 'nice' and obey rules. Sure this happens with boys too who eventually become men, but for some unexplained reason, with less emphasis on them being 'nice' (maybe fearing they will grow up to become weak men).

If you have tracking cookies/programs like Alexa on your computer, it can easily profile your most probable race, gender, age (country is determined by IP) Example: You are visiting neopets.com from time to time, this is logged in your tracking cookie. Program intepretation: Your most probable age range is 10-16, you are most likely caucasian, and you are in middle- to upper middle class (because you probably have wealthy enough parents to let you use credit card to buy extra stuff in the game). Of course it doesn't do that just by 1 site, it compares all the sites you visit from that IP address and makes the most feasible profile about you.

There are a lot of similar topics to this one.

I think you mean Southern USA (as in the 'bible belt'), yes I remember that scene... I still can't believe it wasn't staged. He started with the usual "God bless America" stuff, then progressed to chants like "Death to all people, women and children in Iraq" and a lot of people were still cheering for him :shock: Or the southern gun dealer who replied to his "What is the best gun for killing jews" with a straight face, recommending a gun... And those same people are allowed to vote...

I actually know few people who just believe what they are told. Heck, I grew up in a christian environment and I was baptized. Since age 8 I realized all the kids who try to scare me with 'hell' if I don't do this or that are just funny little robots with no free will. I found a lot of friends, including christians and muslims, who lived a normal life without absorbing everything they read/were told. I don't believe anything unless it can be empirically proven. Neither should you. 'God' is an exception, since I'm yet to find a plausible theory that tells how the first atoms just popped out of nothing, I'm keeping that option open (but am in no way religious). There are a ton of pseudoscientific theories out there, astrology seems to be just one amongst the many. Even astrologers themselves dispute the validity and truthfulness of their practice, admitting almost all astrologers intepret things differently and fight each other, all while trying to earn money. (Link is to Astronomical society of the Pacific) In science, you don't research things meant to help people, for money. You do it to further understanding of the subject and to prove it's correct. Astrologers seem to be in the business just to bring in gullible individuals, keep them hooked on rubbish, and cash in on them.

What I don't understand is what the planet's positions have to do with my, or anyone elses life for that matter. Heck, what were the astrology signs for that school killer 2 days ago? I don't even want to know in case it's too ridiculous. People base their actions on what they need, want, or can do. I could smash my PC right now but I don't want to. A planet isn't going to make me do this or that. It would be interesting to know how astrologers come to the conclusions they do, or is it just like Feng Shui - a pseudoscience without clear guidelines? Penn & Teller did an episode on that, and not one of the 'Feng Shui consultants'were consistent in what is the right 'Feng Shui'. They'd all just position the furniture randomly, or absolutely opposite from the last consultant's setup. If this phenomenon occurs in astrology too, it can't be regarded as a real science. Findings and techniques must be consistent. One astrologer can't say "Mars opposite Jupiter means good luck today" and the another "Mars opposite Jupiter means something bad will happen today". If that's the case, it's nothing but a hoax, or at best entertainment.

I agree with that, in fact I think the democrats' idea to totally pull out soon is horrible. It's a strategical suicide. Realistically the troops need to stay there for many more years to train the local troops and provide safety. What I was pointing out was that the american pubilc wants the troops back home, which is a huge reason why they voted the democrats in as majority. Bush is holding back everything based on his judgement on 'national security' (by saying those two words, apparently these days any official can excuse anything)

I seriously don't know if you're kidding or trying to troll-bait here. You can't possibly NOT know this: The new congress has tried to pull out the troops all along, but "one man" is holding it back. How is telling the truth "bashing" him? If I lived in the 1940's and criticized Hitler's policy to exterminate jews, would you tell me "whatever, keep bashing him dumb liberal"? (I don't have *any* political affiliation btw)

Read the above post. It's not random, it's 100% from collected statistics. However only people who have tracking cookies/tracking software like Alexa installed, are a part of the survey and statistics. By profiling user's, their visited websites, times of visitation, it's easy to determine the most probable gender/age/income of that person. Just like when you see a poll which says "73% of americans think cigarette taxes should be raised", it doesn't mean they asked literally over 200 million people their opinion. The test group consists of about 1000-10,000 people but is highly reliable in giving averages and estimates (with real results compared to general population only varying by about -3% or +3%).

Moving - > Questionnaires.

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Follow the above link and post there, if you wish to find a missing person through tip.it :) Your best bet is hoping he will read it one day...

Not believing an article which is properly sourced is a logically infeasible as well. There isn't a hidden trigger that reveals the truth after you read 400 articles about a subject. There also isn't a mystical conspiracy here. The president vetoed a bill for children's healthcare which would've been funded by raising cigarette taxes. That's all there is to it, if you want, I'll post you another 20 articles including ones from republican-oriented news sites. The bill doesn't include a secret $500 billion dollar funding for futuristic weapons. It doesn't contain legislation enabling his impeachment. All it does is piss off cigarette companies who are already responsible for over 400,000 annual deaths caused by smoking (last source is by American Heart Association so don't attack that one as well)

The info is based on tracking cookies on your computer by software you opted to install (note: Not even nearly all people do install tracking software like Alexa, but it's a pretty accurate average of internet users), and it profiles you by certain variables: What sites you visit, when you visit them, what other sites are being visited while the sites don't match the user profile (which means your parents are probably logged in) etc... It's quite natural it would show most traffic as being asian, because a lot of chinese/japanese/etc. just venture to the site to see what the game is about, but most don't even play the game. Those 2 countries alone total nearly 1.6 billion people (out of the world's 6.5b) They also determine your gender+age by sites you visit. Not a lot of boys will visit Neopets and some girls magazine sites, and not a lot of youngsters will read political news and affairs on CNN.com, etc. Of course it's not 100% accurate. It's just meant to give averages.

A thread about this already exists.. So it isn't really a new 'find' :)

Maddox has been posted quite a lot of times on the forum and topics about him have been left open (but, if you report it with a good explanation, I can view it neutrally and possibly remove the link.. Up to you). Jumping on a link to attack me isn't exactly constructive. If you read the second word of that post you'd see I didn't even implicate you believe in it. I've admittedly only read 1 brochure about it and a few articles, if you have further reading, post links? :) Because the stuff I read so far about astrology/horoscpes made it sound just like a bunch of pseudo-science..

The bill was to be funded exclusively by increasing cigarette taxes. If you actually read the article you'd noticed that. But hey, pleasing those angry lobbyists by not taxing them further is a smarter move than making sure millions of kids can live healthily. How come threating to veto the bill also enraged his own, republican party and it's members? Agreeing with him regardless of what he does, just because you're a republican is a logical fallacy. You know, not all nazis and germans agreed with Hitler either. When he got too crazy, some of them tried to assassinate him or just fled the country. This man isn't quite as mad, but the line is closing...