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it will be very interesting to see where the major clans go, if they care to participate. if embraced by the major clan world, this could be a massive success. if not, it'll be a miserable failure in my opinion.

I know we've been discussing about this before but saturated fat has got a bad name for no reason at all. except for as good as all research on the subject, i guess there is no reason. If you choose to deny science, few things have reason. If you choose to apply scientific principles only in some cases, they're not science at all. if all nutritional information is wrong, why would our governments all over the world still have the same advice? the lobbies in one country aren't the same as another. the money to be made in one country (if you believe the conspiracies) isn't the same as another. sorry, you're argument makes little rational sense. it makes no scientific sense, it makes no statistical sense (in terms of survivability and heart disease). you cannot deny science

well, if they are to re-balance the combat triangle, the most essential thing is to change the characteristics of everything that's currently in the game. otherwise, we'd all be in our good old dhide

back on taxes: in the US, how many percent income tax are you willing to pay to repay the american deficit? http://www.usdebtclock.org/ currently, it looks like every tax-payer would have to pay $117 859 to repay the deficit today. how much of that are you willing to pay every year, to get it down?

sorry, that's directly wrong. http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html 1% vs. 43% thus, you would need 43 times more women willing to adopt for the numbers to compare, if no one were to abort. 42% of un-aborted children in the US would be without parents. thank you for also under-building my claim of abortions being a low-class phenomenon with facts :)

hehe yeah, i wouldn't have asked if there was an obvious answer. just trying to make sure there wasn't something i'd forgotten.

Thanks dude. That's exactly how I eat: I ate chicken fried in pork fat last night, a side of well-buttered broccoli, and ghee-fried eggs this morning: that's enough saturated fat to make a nutritionist cry, bread (even whole grain) at most one slice a week, no drinks other than small amounts of milk, large amounts of cream and water, and yet I feel better when I do it. I can't really speak from the perspective of weight loss, since I've never been overweight, but I'm quite sure that this would help as well. god save you from cardiac disease! you're going to need divine intervention if you continue at that rate. internal fat, and total body fat aren't necessarily related. it's better to be over-weight and in shape, than lean and out of shape, just like it's better to be overweight yet eat healthily than lean eating unhealthily. a topic isn't about the OP, but about the topic, hence the name :D

adding fuel to the fire here, because this debate is somewhat one-dimensional at this point: 1) i challenge you to consider over-population and the global consequences in killing future life when we exploit the world in non-sustainable ways. 2) i challenge you to consider the fact that abortion is a "low-class" phenomenon 3) I challenge you to consider that: 4) I challenge you to consider that GLOBALLY an estimate of the number of total adoptions per year are 300 000. The Chinese take more than 10 million abortions every year. this topic has become very polarized pro/con based on ideological concerns. considering reality creates very new challenges, that cause problems in your simple theoretical models of ow abortion works. what do you pragmatically do with children, when the situation is as complex as it is currently?

thing is, if they implement some of the features of daemonheim in the rest of the game, dungeoneering will have been a paradigm shift. -they got negative attack bonuses on armours right (fixing of combat triangle) -they got weapon styles right (combat triangle, adapting to armour) -they got teamwork right -they made the skill fun (not everyone chooses to spend time on all skills) but all of this should have been in the main game. Daemonhiem works great as a testing arena before changing everything around. will jagex do that though? i'm not getting my hopes up

I appreciate that it's never been observed but I don't see in principle why it couldn't happen. Could you refer me to the proof of how superluminal particles cannot be detected? I'm curious and have never explicity heard of it, and it surprises me that quite a few experiments have looked for them if it's known to be impossible. at best, significant assumptions are made to allow vacuum Cherenkov radiation. http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v76/i2/e025024 is the best i can do in terms of articles that are available free online. there are vast assumptions made in all similar articles, assumptions that cannot be controlled, only inferred. when making assumptions, such as assuming Lorentz law needs modification at speeds close to the speed of light, you're moving in uncharted territory. None of our physical theories can directly be attributed to be true above the speed of light, as no one has yet observed superluminal particles, much less verified theories above the speed of light: therefore anyone can speculate, but that's all it is.

So, i'm starting to realize that my most important factor in choosing what to pickpocket, is if i have to right-click the NPC or not to thiev. Master farmers can be one-clicked. i like that, however they only give 43 exp per steal (about 90k an hour at 90+ thieving for me). Is there an NPC requiring more than the 38 theiving of master farmers that i can one click thieve? thanks for the help :D

indeed i have, i said "Hi tedbundty! :D " on the first one as well :P on topic: i think this topic is dead, as everything that can be said, has been said?

This is the correct reason. Why they still have it in is probably a mixture of everyone elses reasonings. thing was, you could simply bookmark the actual game, and you could instantly hop like everyone else. it wasn't an unfair advantage, people just didn't take the time to read RSOF or a fansite forum to figure it out :P but sure, jagex may have tried to babysit us in the past as they babysit us now :D

cold water: 1 kilocalorie (the calories we normally count) per degree the temeprature rises celsius (which is the same as kelvin). that means a glass of water can be a whopping 4 calories! :D sorry, just had to put that out there. you have to drink an awful lot of water for that to be the reason why you loose weight. being "full" so you eat less is the reason to drink more water :D

I remember back when the time wasn't 40 seconds, but 29 seconds. I remember how we would go rune rock pking before the set load time. I could solo rune rocks and cover between half and 2/3rds of all the worlds at heros myself, simply with a timer and a population tablet. the timer is strictly neccessary.

this power has been permanently delegated to the ECJ. there is no mechanism for retaking that control unless you leave the EU, the eropean economic area etc. you reject the ECJ, you've just rejected the entire package. sorry, i didn't mean Solange II, rather Solange 3, i remmebered it was the next solange one (checked it as well this time). Either way, the implications are none after the Lisbon treaty. . http://www.mpifg.de/people/mh/paper/ZERP%20Discussion%20Paper%201.2010.pdf is very informative on the German situation. what? the declaration reads: according to my EU law professor, the basis is immaterial: you can't withdraw from part of the EU, only the whole package. there is no proccess from leaving the whole package, however the sanctions the EU can impose (through member voting) on the UK can have extreme impacts.The legal basis of the US and EU may be different, but the legal implications are the same. You could technically leave the US prior to the civil war as well, which the south did. Before the first challenge, it's all speculation, just like other international trieaties only show their worth when challenged. That is the creed of policy: changing the law when you find the need. there is little any EU member can do if the other members choose to change the law. politics and law are so intertwined examining one without the other is like examining sports regulations, but not how they are applied in real life. Almost all UK representatives voted against the legislation today. loss of revenue was estimated by the BBC as £20-30bn over the next five years (these numbers may hav been picked out of the air, who knows). you, the british taxpayers, are the ones who pay the tab as EU law is implemented, not as EU law and thus rejectable, but as it is integrated into British law piece by piece. If there's really a magical "leave" button, enshrined in uk law, we haven't been told of its existance so far in our course. It would be magnificently unique, but then how are EU regulations "practically implemented" after ECJ rulings in the UK? the EU laws aren't made part of UK law directly, as in most other countries?

I run around in my green shirt and shorts when i don't need to be wearing anything (capes included) for me the only real desicion of what cape to wear comes in the selection of what skillcape to wear (when the skillcape is most effective, if any such situations still exist in p2p). Then i choose my prayer cape. the other real desicion is when i do things on f2p, when i'll be wearing my clan's teamcape, or the same prayer cape.

first and foremost: the Lisbon treaty overrides all older legislation where this conflicts, (Declaration 17). I discussed the legality of leaving the Lisbon treaty previously, your pre-dated argumentation is therefore only valid if your member nation unilaterally withdraws. Further: solange case: the position was reverted in the wünsche handelsgesellschaft case, and further with Solange II Brunner Decision: does not hold presedence after Solange II. you're directly wrong on the Factortame Desicion: there was at that point (agreements still in effect today) that allow for withdrawal of the UK past that case. However, Touché. your second premise: "it's actually been tested in court" no Act of Parliament (UK) has intentionally contradicted with EC law. quote me a case on that, if such a landmark desicion has happened within the last 6 months, i'm sure i'd have heard about it. I have my understanding of EU law from my course in EU law. I live in Norway, which is a member of EFTA but not EU. The legal proceedings of joining and leaving the EU have been the load-bearing stone in the debate on joining the EU here in norway for decades. Under EFTA, we are legislatively bound under the "first pillar" of the EU to enact Community Law. As a member of EFTA, norway (population of less than 5 million) had more than 1500 cases of EFTA law dictating free market policy. A poignant example, is the questioned legality of a waterscooter ban in norway, because it would de facto limit the European internal market, because there would be no import of waterscooters to norway. The case is not resolved, but is only one of 1500 last year where EU law overrides Norwegian law. it is still unknown if we will have certain areas where jetskis have to be allowed. This example proves my point of the European Economic area, and Community Law very regularly interfereing with national law. Where do you get your understanding of the contrary from? The EU isn't scary at all. I personally would like seeing Norway join the union. However, leaving the EU is probably the greatest counter-argument to my opinion. There is no official mechanism of unilateral withdrawal, and no mechanism of any type of withdrawal of a member nation has been tested in court. There is no option to override community Law (Declaration 17 again), and so, leaving or disagreeing with a certain ruling is almost impossible. Just look at hedgefund regulation passed today. If the UK could, the UK would not implement these regulations. The governments hand is forced, even though 80% of the European hedgefund market is located in London. It is true that the member states are the masters COLLECTIVELY but only through voting in the EU parliament: this latest law directly hurts the trillion dollar british economic trade, wouldn't the UK resent the law? http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-17/hedge-fund-law-opposed-by-u-s-u-k-set-for-eu-votes-update1-.html

To my understanding, yes. typical question you could ask a newspaper though, if you're in doubt, or want a clearer explanation? I really think those who live in the EU need to know more about what the EU actually entails, it's really scary.

If this topic is about the US: repaying the deficit. every single penny of my taxes would go there. the US cannot afford not to pay down the deficit, which interets will consume all spending in the future otherwise. I'm freaking out that noone else has said repaying the deficit. yes, you may not have been those spending the money, it's like inheriting a loan though: you get the house, but you have to continue paying the loan. the house is just about ready to be in an unending spiral towards reposession unless downpayments are made NOW.

No I agree, my point is that if you could detect Cherenkov radiation in a vacuum that would indicate that tachyons existed. Obviously that's inferring their existence, but did you mean that we can't directly see superluminal particles? No. i mean that since tachyons do not emit Cherenkov radiation in vacuum, they cannot be indirectly observed either (that proof is a more complex though). an analogy (although completely false) is that you can't break the sound-barrier in vacuum, even if sound could propagate in vacuum, due to there being nothing to "break through" in the vacuum itself.

The difference is that, in the United States, each individual state is pretty much a non-country. They have very few rights and answer almost entirely to the Federal government. If they tried to secede, the Federal government would declare war on them. The EU, on the other hand, consists of several SOVEREIGN nation-states that have the right to self-determination and can withdraw at will. Each constituent nation-state has much more freedom than a constituent state of the United States of America. That's what the difference is. The EU is more of an association of nation-states that seeks to make another European war impossible, and it is there in order to ensure that Europe can survive in a post-colonial world. The United States is a close association of states that have very few rights and cannot withdraw if they wanted to. The United States is an empire whereas the European Union is not. ah, that's where you're both wrong though. EU-law overrides national law automatically. No member has yet tried to withdraw from the EU (only terretories), when that happened in the USA there was civil war. your assertion is that any membernation may leave from the EU. That right was only formally established in 2009 with the Lisbon Treaty as far as I know. BUT, and this is the most important thing to remember, there NO alternative for UNILATERAL WITHDRAWAL, only NEGOTIATED withdrawal, at which only the Lisobon Treaty ceases its effect if the negotiations fail. No prveious treaties have had any option of withdrawal, so these are then not reversed, all the way back to the coal and steel union. According to the Vienna convention of international politics, there is no right of withdrawal unless directly stated, so in practice the UK can always withdraw from the Lisbon Treaty under special circumstance, but only after negotiation with the EU, i.e. EU vote. Further, in joining the Euro, a nation specifically enters an "irrevercible" pact, so these nations are particularly stuck. the whole debate in Germany over kicking Greece out of the EU was only in relation to Greece failing to satisfy the demands they faked their numbers to acchieve in joining. Greece has no option of choosing to leave, they can however be kicked out: they are at mercy to the EU, and in particular the Euro-cooperative. Before tested in court, noone really knows, but going by current Euro law, no member-nation may leave, other than the treaty of Lisbon, which is not the same as leaving the Union. the EU is very similar to the US at its beginnings. federal law expanded gradually over time as well, but were effectively independent at the onset. to me it seems EU members are stuck, at least legally.

well, that's really a simplification of the truth. things cannot cross the boundy of the speed of light. either they've always existed above the speed of light, or below since the bing bang, just like any other mathematical limit you can approach it from either direction. As sub-lightspeed particles we'll never be able to observe above-lightspeed particles and vice versa either. I though charged tachyons would emit Cherenkov radiation, lose energy and then speed up (counter-intuitively)? yes. tachyons are also by definition particles already travelling faster than the speed of light :wink: tachyons may theoretically absorb negative cherenkov radiation in metamaterials, gaining anergy and then slowing down (at least that's my understanding of synthetic meta-materials). I'm sure of my assertion. if you find mathetmatical physics proving me wrong though, i'd have beef with my physics professors and textbooks however :D

and then there are the group "others" who play sort-of like they act in real life, aren't completely obnoxious in one obvious way that lets them be catagorized. I'm glad there are a ton of these if you take the time to talk to people without your pm to friends or off, and your public chat to "on" as well :)