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Watched Blade, and it was particularly awesome, since I was really hating on Twilight yesterday. :thumbsup: Going to watch Avatar (for the second time with my cuz) over the weekend, and probably Shaun of the Dead as well.

I can also invent an "Eisenhower paradox" where i quote eisenhower's "increasing difficulties with cholesterol" completely ignoring the fact that his increasing cholesterol could be a result of continued smoking..... don't believe everything presented as scientific fact, that site you quoted is rediculous: do you excrete unabsorbed calories from easy-to-access sources of energy like proteins, fats and carbohydrates? show me some research showing that, and you can talk to me about "good and bad" calories. you have to expend the energy you eat, it is absorbed, and the only way you get rid of it is by using it. And yet, if you leave someone in bed, and feed them 2000 calories a day, and you have someone exercise and eat 2000 calories a day, the difference in weight loss will be negligible. However, if you alter the percentage of carbohydrates in one's diet, there will be a noticeable change. And no, not every calorie is created equally, rates of efficiency absorption vary hugely. And yes, I'm sure that Gary Taubes is a fraud, and it's just that not a single researcher or representative from MIT, PBS or the NY Times has been able to poke any holes in his research, theories and presentation.

That would be awesome. Herblore rocks have always been the most annoying to get, IMO.

The sad thing is, that's true.

F2P players deserve whatever Jagex gives them (and yes, I'm currently F2P). Free game = producer had no responsibility to fans. However, Jagex is a pretty nice bunch of dudes, so F2P is still fun.

Good job. 10 Internets for you.

Use Super Sets on every task. Unless it's something amazingly lame, like cave crawlers, even though I would still recommend it. Cancel anything that you dislike doing, no matter what the reason. I don't like black and metal drags, so that's what I would block. I get around 20K/hour, but I've heard it maxes out around 40k, although I doubt either of us could manage anything near that.

Does anyone know if you can get them from Red Salamanders? I'm guessing not, but catching Kebbits isn't exactly great XP.

I don't think many people are selling accounts anymore: I think that the number of people who are high level and quitting, and the number of people who want to buy accounts just isn't in the correct ratio: if you're only going to get $10 for your level 100 acc, why would you bother selling and never being able to play again?

It's possible that you have someone piggybacking: I have the same problem at the moment. What kind of security do you have set up? Otherwise, is anyone torrenting anything? A movie or two from The Pirate Bay can slow a lightweight network down noticeably.

Ecowar - Heaven Shall Burn

I know that it's not my decision, but why did this require a topic? I mean, why this shooting, and not any of the other recent ones?

^Lmao. Win. I'm writing a Civics assignment about global citizens, and when I chose Nelson Mandela and started writing, an hour later I had 4 pages about Linux and freedom of the internet. It's going on the blog at some point, but still, not what I was looking for, lol.

No, continue, please. Because I'm pretty sure you were just trying to be pretentious and flaunt your nutritional understanding of fat vs. sugar. You said you dont like the comparison, but they arent making a comparison. The commercial doesn't say "Drinking a soda has the same nutritional impact as drinking this huge glass of fat!" They just want to disgust you. So how does this deter you from soda if they aren't comparing soda to fat? The disgust factor is meant to say that it's the same thing as drinking a glass of fat. Yeah, they're throwing in the shock value, but yes, actually, they are trying to say that the nutritional value is similar (It is of course an exaggeration). They're using the commonly held (false) belief that dietary fat = body fat. If this belief didn't exist, they would use something else, and make it disgusting (For instance, if it was meat instead of fat, they might use meat scraps). They are showing the public that high sugar = higher change of weight gain, but they're also telling the public that dietary fat = high chance of weight gain. So they're implicitalk tly supporting the false belief in their attempt to raise awareness for the real issue. One Soda has a lot of calories. If you take in more calories in than you burn, then you gain weight. Nowhere does it talk about sugar. Disagree: http://higher-thought.net/complete-notes-to-good-calories-bad-calories/#part-three The research, when examined in context, does not support the conventional theories concerning weight loss.

Well, I don't feel like it's all that unfair to get one try, but a three-strikes system doesn't seem harsh enough. After all, people screw up, but if they're stupid enough to start, get caught and temp-banned, and then do it again....

I dislike the kind of person that she portrays herself as, and I doubt that she actually acts that way out of the spotlight. As for her music, all that I've heard, I've hated.

It's fun to do the Firefly marathon because if you have a day off you can do it completely in that day. You can also do the movie Serenity and fan documentary Done the Impossible in that same day. All that would total around 14 hours, so you could also read both of the comic mini series Serenity and Serenity: Better Days (official and part of canon, written by Joss Whedon). I have not yet done this, I have done the watch all 14 episodes in one day thing before but I usually leave the movies for the next day. Also I haven't read the comics since I first bought them (they were OK). Awesome, I'd forgotten about the documentary. And it wouldn't be quite 14 hours: they only run 42 mins each without commercials. That's a precious 588 minutes of the best T.V. show ever. :thumbup: 14 episodes (with the pilot being almost double length) + movie + documentary ~= 14 hours. Forgot about the double-length pilot. :thumbsup: I bow to your superior fan-powers. I actually only have a couple IRL friends that would be interested in this, although I'm not sure if we'll be able to do it in one go, since we've never done a marathon anywhere near that long. I'm thinking maybe over two or three days, instead.

That'd be pretty stupid. Removing it would only result in people being even more ignorant about religions other than their own, if any (and even then...). But it's important that they're not trying to shove it down peoples' throats, but instead teach the different principles of all the different major religions in a factual and unbiased manner. That's what they did in my high school, and religion quickly turned into one of my favourite classes. No, all they do is teach Christianity. If they say anything else, don't believe them, at least not in Canada. (And if it's like that here, I bet it's even worse in the States.)

Awesome. Glad it worked out. :thumbup:

Oops, I read it over, but missed it. I meant WPA.

That's just pwnage dude. Love the coincidence. =D

Me too, didn't take me long to switch back. I missed the Linux command line too much. Windows is restrictive, illogical CLI and is useless and annoying to use. Fixed. :thumbup: Just kidding, Windows fanboys.

Certainly better than iTunes! :lol: That is one frustrating program. I don't own any Apple products, but I have a friend who's computer died, and he wanted to use mine to load his stuff on it... it was a nightmare even when it wasn't in use, and when it was, it never seemed to actually work, no matter how many sophisticated functions it possessed.

A few months back, we started going over out bandwidth limit, which we'd never done before. This happened to coincide with when I bought my new laptop, so naturally enough, my parents decided that it was my fault. Then, I cut my internet usage to the bare minimum (IRC, IM'ing, Email, and a tiny bit of browsing.) And we went over anyway. Way over, $30 worth. This continued for a while, with my parents eventually agreeing that it must be one of my siblings use of the internet. So my Dad and I blocked YouTube, and stopped torrenting anything. Still went over. At this point, I added trackers (BitMeter) to every computer in the house. We still went over our 60gb limit, even though the usage of the computers in the house never approached anything near that. Since then, I've got nuts tracking everything. According to the Cogeco bandwidth meter, we're using about 1,500 mb every day (on average: that works out to about 1.5gb). My Mom insisted on calling Cogeco to see if they could do anything (I knew that they couldn't) and we were told to swap our modem in for a new one. We did so, and I now have it hooked up. They've said to leave my wireless on and protected to see if that is indeed the problem. I doubt that it is, but it's still worth a try. I've had MAC address limits suggested to me, but I can't get my router to accept any of them being input, and I've been told that it's fairly easy to clone them. My current security is: Hidden SSID 25+ character password Broadcast power turned down to the router's lowest setting. WPA encryption active So really, my questions are: Could it be the modem's fault? Circling packets or something equally strange? I doubt that it is, but I'm still curious (and currently testing it). & Is there any way to make my network more secure? I can't find anything else, but then again, this is not one of my areas of expertise. & Does anyone know how to find any firmware upgrades for a Dlink DIR-601 router? I can't find any anywhere, and I wonder if that's why the MAC address functions refuse to behave. Thanks for the help, if you can offer any, and thanks for the time if you can't. I'll keep watch and respond to any questions anyone has.