Racheya

Please tell me that this is the title of one book. No, it's two books. Blood, Sweat and Tea and the sequel More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea. The first one doesn't seem to be free any more, shame :(

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However whether or not F2P is a demo isn't the topic of this thread ;) So lets not get into it.

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I'm gonna nip this thread in the bud right here before it devolves into just chaos. Clearly people cannot discuss a probably flawed concept without resorting to trolling and flaming <_< Anyway, the premise of the thread can clearly be proved wrong as there's no WAY we could have more players than coins.

Recently finished reading Blood, Sweat and Tea & More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea. If you've got a kindle then I highly suggest you download these two. The first is free to get on kindle and the sequel only cost me £2. It's about the day to day life of an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) in the London Ambulance Service. It's basically a blog that's been turned into a book. I have to say, it was very gripping and I ended up reading three quarters of the first one in a day! I couldn't put it down. There's some really funny stories and some really heartbreaking ones. It often shows the lunacy of the Government and the daily crap that ambulance men have to deal with. I really loved them, shame there's not any more out yet! (Though he's still writing the blog). Right now I just started Tony Blair's memoir, A Journey. I only really became politically aware around the time that Tony Blair was leaving office so this is quite an interesting look at recent history and stuff that was going on while I was a kid, too young to care.

We already have many threads on this topic, here and here. Please post in them, don't make a new topic.

What an interesting idea :D I'd live in Seer's Village but travel to Catherby regularly :)

Finished PSG, epic show. Just bought Maria Holic on DVD. I saw it on amazon and for £17 I figured [bleep] it, I might as well. I loved that series :thumbsup:

Wow... That was the most useless piece of news I've ever read :mellow:

Yeah, take the gamble. I wasn't a big fan of Indian food until I found myself in a situation similar to yours. Ended up ordering something I thought I'd had before, turned out not to be what I thought it was but I ate it anyway and it was amazing. I guess I will do. I might mention it to my friend when we're going (there'll be quite a few people, though). She's nice so she'll understand, even so... eh, I might just have to go for it.

My friend is having a birthday meal tomorrow and I said I'm coming but she's having it at an Asian cuisine place which as nothing, aside from the plain rice and naan on the side menu, which I would remotely eat?! What would be better? Risking looking like a [developmentally delayed] by only eating plain rice & naan bread or risk throwing up by taking a gamble on a main meal I've never had before. Did I mention I never eat curry?! :unsure:

Moving this to the Tech & Computers forum so you can get some better input from people who might be able to fix it. It's probably an issue with your browser so that forum is best suited for you :)

That doesn't exactly work though, does it? How many corporations, particularly the huge media companies that have a vested interest in the internet, actually care about what their customers want? They tell us what we want and people buy into it. I'm not saying all are bad, I'm just saying that I wouldn't touch any form of method that corporations, or the Government, could use to identify me online to me IRL with a ten foot bargepole. If you're so stupid that you can't remember your password then you need to get off the internet, to be very frank. I can understand why having many passwords can get confusing (I know that when trying to log into old accounts on stuff, I struggle to remember which password I was using back then) but that's what password recovery is for. Also, most average people only have ONE password. They don't need this system. The Government and corporations are STILL scared of the internet and they're going to keep trying time and again to force restrictions on it because that's the only thing they know how to do. Yet you're using a government sanctioned ISP and can be easily identified by your IP address. I can get your IP address in a matter of minutes (presuming I didn't have it already), can find your ISP using online tools, and then, had I a contact at the ISP(which the government would), could easily get your home address and billing info. I'm pretty sure ISPs can't just disclose that information without a court order. Data protection act. Even if you had a 'contact'. If corporations had such easy access to that data then they wouldn't have to take ISPs to court trying to get the details of a suspected filesharer, for example. I see one huge problem with this. This can be hacked and will be hacked. Especially if a weak password is used. If you read a page back, it has been suggested passwords will not be used. It doesn't matter what is used, almost any identification system is open to being hacked. So you choose which is better. One place for hackers to target to get everything? Or making hackers have to try and crack every single account for different things?

The Government practically IS a corporation and either way, I talked about corporations not just the Government. The Government doesn't NEED to get involved in this at all, I don't mean in the running I mean in the whole idea of it. This is NOTHING to do with innovation. People have been getting along fine without a system like this for a long time now and there are already similar things in place (I think OpenID was mentioned)... why do we suddenly need this? How is this in any way similar to anything you mentioned? Don't use such a strawman. Computer illiterate people are scared of lots of things on the internet. So, how does saying 'don't worry, we'll put all your bank details, national insurance number, passwords and accounts to everything you have on the internet, in one place' help? It's not hard to see what a frightening concept that is. There's no proof at all that this is going to help the people you're talking about more than a piece of paper with a password or a notepad file. I can understand why people like Google and Paypal are being involved in this but this ISN'T their idea. They've been recruited by whoever IS developing it to make it work on the more technical side. The concepts and ideologies behind it, though, are being made by people in companies that are scared of the internet. If you're scared of something, what do you do? Run away from it. - Hard to do with how rapidly growing the internet is. Fight it. - Many companies, such as 'bricks and mortar' stores, have tried to resist the internet age but they're quickly going out of business. You can't 'fight' the internet. Control it. - If you can't make it stop what it's doing, try to take control of a bit of the internet yourself (often via bogus laws like the Digital Economy Bill and the upcoming ACTA in America). Because then, once you've got some control on the internet you can do something about the things you don't like - the things that aren't turning you a profit. And people are SCARED of corporations and the Government because they're not blissful places of cooperation and progress towards mankind. They're all self-minded and use everything they can to get an advantage, that bit more money.

Just make a google account :P Embrace the Great Allmighty Google :twisted: I have one, but I haven't used it for years. But that's not what I asked for :( To be frank there's NOWHERE that's like YouTube. There are millions of video websites out there but you won't find anything substantial on them. I suppose places like veoh & dailymotion were popular the last time I checked...

Just make a google account :P Embrace the Great Allmighty Google :twisted:

That doesn't exactly work though, does it? How many corporations, particularly the huge media companies that have a vested interest in the internet, actually care about what their customers want? They tell us what we want and people buy into it. I'm not saying all are bad, I'm just saying that I wouldn't touch any form of method that corporations, or the Government, could use to identify me online to me IRL with a ten foot bargepole. If you're so stupid that you can't remember your password then you need to get off the internet, to be very frank. I can understand why having many passwords can get confusing (I know that when trying to log into old accounts on stuff, I struggle to remember which password I was using back then) but that's what password recovery is for. Also, most average people only have ONE password. They don't need this system. The Government and corporations are STILL scared of the internet and they're going to keep trying time and again to force restrictions on it because that's the only thing they know how to do.

Locked at the OP's request since it's been answered :)

Its doubtful since by that logic in american servers NEx would need to be level 0110 Yeah but Jagex are British so it's possible they slated it for release today so that it would coincide and they could have a quick smile.

And your problem with that is? <_<

I would laugh and go 'silly America' but I'm haunted by a video from a guy who was telling all the people in America and across the world to stop pointing and laughing at Australia's government's attempts to censor the internet like China. He said because it's coming to YOU guys too. Well [bleep]. Guess it is. If this does get some ground in America, heaven forbid, the UK will be jumping on it too. Nobody is safe.

6ty9trt ... Not particularly close.

Fixed :P That never happened :shades:

Ridiculous. This will start off as a 'voluntary' thing but I bet that corporations will twist it around to their bidding - especially the media companies.