Racheya

Bit late :P

Moved it :)

That much a day is enough to live on, I'd say (we live on like... £200 a week). But, living in London is particularly more expensive and the sort of lifestyle that you'd want to live (housing, evenings out, furniture or whatever) would eat into into your money, likely. Then again, I'm probably not the best person for this :P

Overdoziz: I've deleted the double post of yours and moved your post into the correct thread for sniping TIFers here. :)

I'm talking about the UK specifically, but if this sort of thing happens (or you think it happens) in your country then go ahead and post :) For many people (particularly us up north) it feels like there is an ever-growing focus on the South East & London. It's very rare you'll find something of importance going on outside of the SE and a significant amount of jobs and government spending is focused down there. Yet, there are still a LOT of us people out here in the the rest of the country who are feeling a significant lack of funding and prosperity. I'll give you an example: Also, in today's Budget it was mentioned that the government will be putting incentives in place that will encourage businesses to operate outside of the South/London zone, so the government does recognise that there is a problem, but will their measures be enough? Or do you think that London should be given more preference - it *is* the Capital?

HYT means Hey You Tipiter XD

Get a Tome of Frost with Dungeoneering - need like 38k tokens still. Purchase a set of Infinity Robes. Possibly reach 90+ magic. Complete Desert Treasure. I usually just play as I feel like it and summer won't change that :)

It was *meant* to be a bit of a humour piece. Don't forget to read our guest article as well, since it's more the sort of article you're used to :)

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Eh. Reminds me of when the Digital Economy Bill was being pushed through the UK, practically the music industry's wet dream, with hardly any debate or scrutiny from MPs. There were a lot of protest online and even flash mobs IRL but it still got pushed through in the final days of the previous government. I just really don't think the government understands the internet and how it works *coughtubescough*

The problem with this is not just that it's completely stupid, but that a LOT of servers are based in the US. Even ones that are used primarily in other countries. For example, I don't think that the UK has many data centres, we don't have as much free land as the US does so we would have a lot of servers that serve the UK over in the US. The crippling of the internet would practically stop ALL internet activity because of the sheer number of data centres in the US. The internet is a GLOBAL thing and the US has no right whatsoever to determine internet usage across the world. Governments are afraid of the internet because it's something that is largely out of their control. They don't understand it and believe that by putting controls and censorship on it they can control it. But it's the free nature of the internet that makes it what it is, and any sort of controls or censorship will simply be worked around. This goes for governments as well as tyrannical media companies trying to monopolise the internet for their own financial gain.

Yeah it's just an OVA really so it's pretty much for the lulz. The last episode was the best though and is the sole creation of the Rena/Takano ship :D

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^ BUT you can retrieve arrows with an Ava's Accumulator and ALL three attack styles use food - mage possibly even moreso than the others because of the weak defence bonuses that mage armour has. Range *does* have a cost but it's far less than magic.

Yeah it does seem to be getting pretty exciting now. There's only 2 episodes left (I think) and I think it'll be a good finale if they pull through with the drama and impending plot twist. And I lol'd at the title :D

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Moved to Help & Advice :)

Why didn't you just throw them in the bin like a sane person? Stuff it in an empty crisp packet and it'd never be found. Toilets are a bad place to hide misdeeds. Perhaps you should have used a river :ugeek:

Wait, wat? As in, if the bug has just recently been fixed, it shouldn't be explained how to be done quite yet in case there are other instances of this sort of bug occurring or it *hasn't* been fixed. Bugs that are very old had have no chance of still being in the game are able to be explained. And I mean, always as in - ever since the site was made, prohibited people explaining how to do bugs (except for in the case above, where the bug is old).

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Read a book such as "Deaf Again" by Mark Drolsbaugh, and you will probably understand my comparison. Or if you want a scientific book about Deaf opression, read "Mask of Benevolence" by Harlan Lane. Both books give a very detailed analysis of how our attitude toward deaf children can scar them emotionally and opress their natural abilities. 4 senses is not worse than 5. Do you want me to convince you to get a 3rd arm implanted? Surely 3 arms are better than 2. And lastly, not being able to hear SEEMS TO YOU like it would be more difficult, mainly because you are a hearing person and you are imagining your exact life without your hearing. If you were a deaf person your life would be different, and your attitude toward sound would be different. Can we get back to the main point of this thread? I think that you just brought up some common sense. I don't think there would be anything wrong with implanting a baby with a cochlear implant because they'll never have adjusted to being deaf. Once a person has adjusted and coped with being deaf then they won't be able to imagine life with sound, but if you told a child who has grown up with the ability to hear that you would take it away, they wouldn't like it. I think that the ability to give people the chance to hear is good, I can't imagine how you could say any different. I could honestly say the same thing about Deafness. If we all knew ASL I doubt deafness would be considered much of a disability. You should really inform yourself on some deaf culture literature and I think you will be suprised to find out how the deaf feel about their place in society. It would be a disability. Sign language only helps if you're around other people. You're deaf and you don't hear someone breaking into your house, sign language isn't going to do you any good now is it? The ability to communicate isn't the only thing that being deaf impairs to some extent.

And how many freaking situations have you been in where your working ears were the only reason you survived?? And don't say that you almost walked into traffic but then heard a car horn, because if you didnt have hearing you wouldnt put yourself in situations where you relied on it like that. I never said that there were many situations for this, but how many situations are there REALLY where being deaf would save your life? There are few times when hearing alone would save your life but I think there are far fewer where being deaf would save you, or having the supposed 'super senses' that you're claiming would save you. And everyone has differences in hearing ability. Your life will be different depending on your height, your life will be different depending on your hearing. Some things are easier for tall people. Some things are easier for short people. Some things are easier for deaf people. Some things are easier for hearing people. And english would only work if you can HEAR the person! Or happen to have their cell number and have the time to text your message. And FYI as a 3 year user of ASL I feel that my range of communication would be much greater than by using spoken english. Like 200 yards away and I think I could easily communicate with ASL. With english you would be shouting so loud at that point... And I guess nobody has ever approached you and said "excuse me where is the bathroom?" or "where can I find an Arby's"? I give people directions all the time and I dont happen to carry around a map of the city. I don't pretend to be an expert on sign language, but can someone really see hand signals from that far away? I find it questionable. Well when I give directions I say "turn left at the corridor over there then it's the second door on the right." I fail to understand what's wrong with that. Someone can explain directions using speech just as well as they could using sign language. And being woken up at 4 AM by construction outside your window would be a disadvantage of hearing. Being less observant would be a disadvantage of hearing. Having less sensitivity to visual communication would be a DISADVANTAGE that you are in versus a deaf person. Everything has its disadvantages. Having ear plugs would be an advantage at that time. So would a phone so you could call up the council and ask why on earth construction is going on at 4am outside your house :P Everything has it's disadvantages, you're right, but there are far more ADVANTAGES to being able to hear than not being able to.

And as I stated, there are situations where having "deaf eyes" could save YOUR life, but your senses are too accustomed to rely on your hearing. There are other situations such as places of intense noise where a deaf person would be able to react clearly, but a hearing person would be in pain due to the loud noise. I highly doubt that the need for 'deaf eyes' will pop up very often in someone's life. And as for situations of intense noise - that's what ear mufflers are for. How many situations like that are you likely to be in? If you're a construction worker then probably quite a few, but you have the correct equipment to deal with it.. What does choice have to do with anything? You still lack the ability. Also there are things you could not make the choice of. No matter what you want, you cant be as tall as Shaquille o'neil. I think there are some situations where his size could save his life. So are you disabled in your height? Everybody has differences in height, it's a common difference like hair colour or eye colour. Being deaf is not the same as being small. This just shows how little you know about sign language. First of all ASL works just fine at a distance...Secondly the Deaf have special phones that convert incoming speech to text and outgoing text to speech. Thirdly, it is true that you can communicate without eye contact with speech, but with ASL you can communicate through windows, and across rooms without getting the attention of everyone. You can also communicate at rock concerts, on airplanes, at race tracks, without having to injure your vocal chords. Also, ASL is a visual language and has many advantages in that department. Imagine explaining this picture to someone, by using only spoken or written english It would take a very long time to write that down in words. With ASL, you can use visual components of the language to create an exact idea of what you want the person to see. After learning ASL, there have been many cases where I go to give directions to somebody and think "This would be so much easier if I could use sign language..." There are a very strict set of guidelines you would use to describe that picture in ASL and it would take less than 50% of the time, and be a lot more clear. ASL would only work if you can actually see the person, once they reach a certain distance away, you wouldn't be able to see the hand movements and therefore communicate. The need for special phones would cost the person money, a disadvantage to people who can pick up any cheap phone and use it. You can also use text messages to communicate with people in settings like this (eg rock concerts). Why would you need to explain the picture to someone? I assume that they can just see it. Sounds like the type of thing Hitler would say about the blacks and the jews. These people live differently and therefore are at a disadvantage. There are some things that are a disadvantage. Not being able to hear IS A DISADVANTAGE. There are ways to work around it, but it doesn't make it any less of a disadvantage. And I assume you've never heard of Godwin's law

There's nothing *wrong* with being deaf, but I don't know how you can say you can be deaf or able to hear and it doesn't matter. It DOES. The ability to hear is important. It's not a matter of preference at all. If we didn't need the ability to hear then we wouldn't have it. The reason that deaf people want to stay deaf is because they're accustomed to how they are and don't want to change, if you ask me. It's got nothing to do with the actual ability to hear at all, it's just that they've managed to work around their disability and are comfortable. It doesn't mean that they don't wish they could have had the ability to hear right from the start.