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the general thing with PR here (Norway), is that population centers gain a lot of power (read: cities). Others get little say, like those living in the countryside. Thus our politicians saw the need to impose some regional limitations in the same house (House of representatives, the senate in the US). That balance was struck in 1946, and is virtually impossible to change, although the populations in the countryside have decreased, and the cities have doubled and trippled their populations. Thus, cities are today under-represented. PR isn't perfect, but it's a ton better than the current British or American systems. Inherited seats in the house of Lords, and bipartisan states are greater challenges if you ask me: split the Democrats, republicans, Conservatives and Labour into parts, and you wouldn't have radicalized governments: you'd have the possibility of center-coalitions based on cooperation, not incessant conflict, like the systems function today.

I disagree. They have the right to voice their opinion and we have the right to tell them they are idiots and to stfu. All someone would have to do is say "OMFG! LOOK THEYZ AREZ HATE PREACHINZZZZZZ!!!" and goodbye freedom of speech. I may disagree with what they have to say, but they need to be allowed to say it. We have a free speech law here in norway. However, we have laws against public defamation, false advertising, alcohol and tobacco advertising etc. Does that mean anything constructive is barred from being publicly uttered? no. Do you deem the bleeps (censoring, limitation of free speech) in american media as a breach of your principle of free speech? I hate to sound condemning, but consider reality, rather than being blinded by grand ideals. What's the pragmatic value of NOT limiting speech rights within reasonable values that more than 99% of the population support? Why choose to mould terrorists because people should have a right to manipulation?

Natural history museum. Sounds nerdy, but is interesting for all. look into scedules to get a free (or really cheap) guided tour to a section that interests you. It's got all the famous booty from Britain's collonial past, Rosetta stone, mummies etc. etc. etc. ad infinitum. Madamme Tousaud's wax gallery is also fun, seeing famous people life-size. If you're an artsy person, National Art Gallery is also insane. It's like the Louvre where you cannot avoid recongnizing some of the greatest paintings ever made. If you haven't been to one already, try to catch a football match if possible, it's kinda like being at a baseball game in the US: an experience not to be missed.

what interests me the most at this point is how many strategic voters the parties can mobilize. Will people in numbers support the "lesser of two evils" if they vote in a district where their party candidate has no chance? will they bother showing? I think that might determine the outcome of the election, hopefully in a direction that ensures a more representative democracy in the future.

The norwegian mod, Mod Sommerz said he would run his chat on a "first come first serve" basis. To me that implies th 100-person limit stands. If so, this is a much worse tournament than what the clan world have organized themselves country v country in the past... we'll see what the future holds though.

indeed. if you're on a team that knows what they're doing, those with the highest skill levels in all skills will carry those tools, one person is responsible for farming herbs, making required pots, one person is responsible for all keys, and the rest of the people are pure killers who do guard rooms, and the requests of the key runner. If you cannot effectively fill any of those roles efficiently, you have no place on a high level team, that's the harsh truth. Just like i would slow down a team of level 100s. I'd be much more inclined to duo with a level 130+ than to 5:5 with sub-125s cause it'd be faster for all concerned.

You said it has to do with how you analyze things :P, I said it doesn't matter, overanalyzing is never good. the term over-analyzing means that analysis has progressed beyond the reasonable. It is by definition never good, and can never be justified. language mix-ups ftl, you seem to agree by what you say, but not on the language used.

atypical extremists? Christianity has them too. no pic no proof =\ I'm being serious, show proof or don't say stuff like that. (I'm not automatically dismissing the idea of it mind you) I was thinking of the modern IRA as just an example many have heard of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Continuity_IRA_actions: [hide] [/hide] There. is that enough proof of marginal bad apples ruining the image of all?

atypical extremists? Christianity has them too.

It snowed yesterday. I'm really glad our season hasn't started yet. It all depends on the weather here though. currently looks like a late may through june and late august through start of october though :) Due to actual tennis play, not just the running to get in shape, i don't think i'll participate in any events this year. However, i'll be sure to beat all the runners in at least one distance before that time though. It has to do with putting the runners in their place hierarchally speaking ;) (): -)

Key words: "at this time" I really hope they dont tbh :-/ they always say "at this time" for anything they have no plans to do ever though. just look at the Q&A sessions

Jagex is no shakespeare, but they both borrow better stories than they can themselves compose. It's the telling of a story, and the realization of an idea that reflects in the result, not "who thought of it first". In the latter case, we've all just been born a hundred generations too late...

I've read that the Edimmu does. confirmed. I wasn't fast enough to pick it up though. Which is kinda nice, cuase i now still have a goal with something i want to bind over the items i currently have :D

sounds grand doesn't it? However, the difference in you effectiveness against higher leveled monsters increases a lot from level 120 to level 130 combat. The level of the foes does not decrease proportionately. To epitomise that point, i played 2 floors with a maxed level 3 skiller today. 5 manning, our bosses were still in the high 300s from floor 1. It's like how 76king, mobilising armies, oldschool pest control and all group activities have been previously: you can try as many forums and clan chats as you like. There are only ever going to be 2-3 good arenas for effective gameplay. Effective gameplay means most of those playing will be high leveled (also combatwise) as they are effective players. sadly, much of this effectiveness comes from being illusive, as not to get lost in spam: it's like trying to go to a Mod's clan chat for good, intelligent conversation: no point. Further, if i spend 5-10 minutes longer, finding a lvl 130+ rather than a 120+, i'm saving time overall. If i spend 20 minutes finding a lvl 130+ rather than a lvl 115+, i'm saving time. As a lvl 137, i can offer effectiveness, speed, and reliability. With a lower level, how can i give that same guarantee, unless you have special combat /skill stats (such as 99 range + def and a saggitarian bow, or 2300+ total which even then will be obsolete most of the time). If i can see your dungeoneering is 70+ at this point, i also know you know what you're doing. It's about mutual trust, and that has to be gained somehow. For education, we use grades, for runescape, we have skills, combat levels and highscores. As for the "my man": those who are level 80+ dungeoneering aren't many. that much gameplay in a short amount of people demands a certain type of player, and they convene in the same arenas, and always have. therefore, they all gather in the same clan chat.

This. I've also seen parties that accept players with high total levels too. It's a bit harsh to not accept players with lower total/cb levels but it's an easy way to get a good/okayish team if you don't want to spend ages to find an awesome team. If you know where to look (you'll know when you've found it, cause that's where every one of the top dungeoneerers train) you will find teams if you know what you're doing, and are an effective, efficient and helpful member of a team. I played 5:5 large floors 30-35 with a team today, who all gathered up on skype to chill and chat, captializing on the team activity-aspect of the skill. We spent under 5 hours on these 6 floors, which is insane in terms of exp. 3 of the players were in the top 22 of the dungeoneering highscores, so they obviously know what they're doing, and play a lot. These people DO recognize the fact that total levels aren't everything, but speed is crucial to getting fast exp. Their type of players will accept anyone with clicking skills over runescape skill levels. To a point. dungeoneering is all about combat, so the more effectively you can kill things, the more of an asset you are to your team. going 130+ is a way for us higher level players to play efficiently. If we only have 3 or 4 people for a floor, obviously we'll try someone with a lower combat to see how they fare. These top players all play the same way, because it's the fastest exp before batch 2: 5:5 small dungeons through floor 29, then large 5:5 dungeons from 30-35. This is the fastest exp per hour, hands down, if you can find good teams. Sticking around for some waves with the same people is also the only real way to get to know people, and talk about more than just where each key is, or how anoying it is when you meet yet another door you have to pot to access. These same top players have all tried primal mauls, and spears. for some odd reason, they all have spears (p++). Probably because it's the most efficient. They don't bother with armour, even for large dungeons, as this just slows you down. before the update when summoning levels were not taken into account for boss monsters, we did have to make armour. Now everything is a cruise if you work in a cose-nit 5-person unit with gatestones strategically placed around. Killing stuff is also generally a lot slower exp per hour. If you doubt any of this, have a poke around, and try pming some of the people who have tonnes of dungeoneering exp already. many of them are nice people, with pm on, who are more than willing to answer your questions. Questions such as why everyone wants a blood necklace instead of having a bound plate (you need a weapon ofc).

The danger of all disease in the "I'm my own doctor"-age is that people "diagonse" themselves with all sorts of things. Thus, the difference between a disease and a diagnosis is swiftly eliminated. The two different words have very different meanings. I don't know about you, but the years spent studying psychiatry required to maintain a standard that can dignify humans as such seem worthy of some consideration. All those claiming to be *insert diagnosis here* go see a professional and the the diagnosis, don't water out what for some people is very real. If you don't have a diagnosis, don't group yourself with those that do. Mental diseases are not like allergies or a broken arm: either you have one or you don't. There are degrees to which symptoms can be seen. Almost all of us fit a few of the characteristics for being diagnosed with personality flaws such as OCD, addictive disorders, scitzophrenia and so on and so forth. It's the degree. I have an aquanintance from school (don't know him more than that he talks to some friends of mine sometimes) who has aspbergers to a severe degree. He applied to media-related jobs, got interviews everywhere he applied to based on his magnificent portfolio. Rejected at all interviews when he presented himself honestly (confirmation of diagnosis in hand). Asked all places for a task, so he could show he works within normal timeframes, and understands people socially. He got his week-long assignment many places (promised by the companies a lot more, never got back in touch with him), aced them all, got loads of job offers. BUT he rejected all the offers to jobs he got, because he wouldn't deal with bigoted, judging people, and is currently unemployed living with his parents. He's still applying for jobs, wanting to get accepted for who he is, rather than being judged. The first company to look at who he is professionally, rather than socially, will get a VERY dedicated worker, who knows everything there is to know about what he does (I don't), and will effectively be spending all his spare time working for free, because he loves what he does, and little else. Would you be able to go by your ideals, with jobs dangling tantalizingly close? I don't think i would.

Strength training is the foundation of any type of athletic prowess. Weights, or other supportive strength training is what we all need, after injury and to prevent injury. You are the only one to know your body, don't push too much, or be too lenient on yourself. Muscular stability through training is where you can go.

Catharsis indeed! self-reflection leads to more self-reflected selves. Freud's Es, Ich and Über-ich aren't mere philosphy. That is why self-reflection is so important, and why psychology is so complex. Following Camus' Stranger "I make my way into death" as Krista Wolf put it. Neither "Cassandra" nor Mersault exist outside the absurd. We don't take the time to sit and reflect any more. When was the last time you sat with a book, had an epiphany, and sat, open book in hand, simply to think, rather than dispelling the fleeting fish of Woolf's (not Wolf) "Idea" ? No, too busy doing everything to accomplish anything, as the saying goes.

in relation to both articles: for me as a high level player, with good skills, and who actually finds dungeoneering fun (an exception going by tip.it posts at least), dungeoneering reinvigorates the community aspect ingame to a very large degree. If you know where to look, you find very nice people to cooperate with. With 5 people spending the good part of an hour or more on a large dungeon, you get to talking about stuff. none-runescape stuff, anything and everything. You cooperate, you share, you help and you interact closely with the same people over and over again. Before dismissing either the runescape community or dungeoneering, and the vast potential of both, i suggest digging untill you find the right kind of people to dungeoneer with. I know my friendslist hasn't grown so fast (cleaned out and renewed, to be specific) than since i joined my first, and current clan. If you don't try, the community or fun with dungeoneering won't come by itself. just look a little, you WILL find the most avid, fun, mature ---simply the finest runescapians currently dungeoneering.

whew, after that first page, I was getting scared noone knew anything about the topic, but just decided to post anyway. A thrid major problem is the infrastructure required to perform empirical tests. Basically, the reactions that take place are too complex to be modelled by common physics, even emperically it can be hard to judge what you are obvserving because of extreme temperatures, and neccessary self-containment of the fuel in a fusion reactor. Basically, it's all guessing to a certain extent, then testing it out, rinsing and repeating untill you get better. That costst a lot of money, with very small economic gains (other than tiny steps in the right direction), thus financiation of fusion research is a very very big problem. The theories seem sound (if the Standard Model exchange particles are reliable), but even that cannot be judged (lengths of 10^-31 meters is kinda hard to obvserve, not to speak of interactions and charge). Therefore, even if seemingly valid, well margined models of improving a fusion reactor appear, which happens regularly, state financiation is a must, and the economic situation, politically, in terms of ageing populations and so on make this really hard to justify.

I'm pretty sure Britain would of continued the trend. Or the League of Nations, who were the ones to collectively sit down and agree that there should be a Zionist state in the Middle East. America didn't "win the war." If there was a single country who won the war, it would have to be Russia. You think Russia could of survived a two-front war? (Germany in the west, Japan in the east) Well, it all depends on how far back you choose to draw your historical lines: I would argue that the causes of WW2 would have to be analyzed, not just the actual fighting, as the terms on which the countries would be at war would be vastly different. The Washington Naval conferences and the 5:5:3 principle lead to Japan's domination in the pacific, this would not have happened without the United states on the world scene. The Great Depression would not have happened, thus there would be no economic incentive for Japan, Italy or Germany to become aggressive states, and no power to cause war. Embargoes by the League of nations could be enforced, as the US / soviet / german axis of major powers outside the league would have a much smaller importance globally, league members would dominate, and goods such as oil, coal and steel might actually be included in embargoes. Following that argument to its conclusion: The Italian invasion of Absyssinia, and the Japanese invasion of Manchuria could have been effectively sanctioned by a League of Nations that would resemble the United Nations a lot more closely, and Hiter would never assume (falsely) that the invasion of Poland would be interpereted as an act of war by the Allies (Remember Czechoslovakia). The war quite simply wouldn't have happened in those terms, and the world would be a very different place in terms of collonialism, imperialism, power politics, and English as the Lingua Franca. The german economy could easily have led to german attaining that role, who knows?

Surprised noone has yet mentioned open door economic policy or the cold war. But it's all on a tangent to the main topic at hand: no USA. However, i find it a lot more interesting to think about why Americans are so disliked in today's world. It's not like you can be that hated for over a century without having done something to aggravate people and nations around the world. Just look at how quickly it's passed for Germany, who are (for the second running year) the country most globally appreciated in terms of world impact.

indeed. For the surgical, efficient gamer, few things said hold true ( for example many dungeoneer although they do not enjoy it). But that can be said about any runescape activity: you can't choose what theiving to do because in reality one method is the fastest (that's the basic tennet many seem to be following). Then again, the avid, scientifically inclined gamers know relying on Jagex' public image for truth as being similar to trusting a fast food chain on healthy eating strategies. Forgetting the fun that's the main objective of any game, much of the rationale is indeed false or misleading to those already deeply immersed in runescape. However, I've dungeoneered with those of combat levels in the double digits. Much of the article is true to them (and true up until maybe level 45 dungeoneering thus far). Public companies and honesty: i certainly can't think of an example of a semi-large company who fit the bill.

it also includes "advanced pickpocketing (better loot from NPCs up to level 40)" from the lost her marbles! reward master farmers at 38 much? :D

Cynisca of Sparta. First woman to win gold in the olympics (the real ones, not the games). How do you compare to that? you simply can't.