Everything posted by Jonanananas
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Tip.It Times - 11th March 2012
It's not dependant on your specs(or rather, in general it is but not these particular problems). It's just a matter of being lucky with hardware incompatibilites or not. You are lucky I guess.
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The "new" iPad
I was wondering this too. Same here. I know two friend with an iPad...all they ever really do is play some games on it and occasionally use it for their work stuff...but that's nothing what a laptop couldn't do and definitely not worth the price imo.
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Ethics and Morality
As far as I know, laws prohibiting incest are mostly based on the harm that will be caused to a child that may be a result of such a relationship and less the moral problems with incest. Not too sure on this though.
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Vanity Items - RS Prepaid cards and Ornate Katana
Meh...the other special offer stuff isn't great either. Katana is ok, a bit of a weird holding stance and nothing special unless you're really into eastern stuff. Green skin can be used nicely I guess. The ice mask...lol. On top of that, it doesn't matter if an exclusive item becomes pointless. As long as it's exclusive in the time period where the offer works, it does its job.
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Vanity Items - RS Prepaid cards and Ornate Katana
I actually think they're using this as a test, so hopefully it shouldn't be too unlikely :)
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72 - 99 magic
Yes sorry I didn't mention it, it's on the lunar spellbook and requires you to have dream mentor completed.
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72 - 99 magic
From 80 on, you can use plank make with mahogany planks, this usually yields a profit and is quite fast(around 150k xp/hour max). You have to check the prices for logs and planks beforehand though. Before 80, I believe high alching is the only good method here that might yield money. This alchemy calculator will help you find out what currently yields profits. Most of these stuff are limited to 100 per 4h on the GE, though.
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Funny Pictures!
I found those band logos funny...until I saw the bottom right. Seriously, that's blasphemy :evil:
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Ethics and Morality
Well...it does happen, though rarely. If the killing is involved, then no, as the "victim" likely has a mental disorder of some kind that has led him to that decision which means it shouldn't be acceptable to do something based on that. If he is dead and his express wish being eaten...I would still say no but I have to say I cannot really justify it, maybe apart from the feelings of relatives...
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Questionnaire - Shoot-em-up effects on people
Completed it for you
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How do you deal with randoms asking to be your friend?
I tell them my list is full...which is pretty much the truth. I usually hover around 195 or so, and I like to keep a few free spaces to be able to talk to people through pm when I need to.
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Beliefs, Religion and Faith.
Meh you might be true on that one, but it's equally as hard to prove the opposite. As long as there is no real evidence for either side(which will be hard to get) we're just working of our personal feelings. I don't think I misinterpret you because of your position, but rather your general way of posting and the tone of your writing, given that I seem to have similar problems at times on other threads. As for the last: Yes sorry, that wasn't expressed well. Anyhow, I don't feel pulling examples out in an attempt to get statistics is going to help the discussion. I'm sorry as I was the one who brought this up, but...say you find a few examples(which I guess should be possible)....does it prove anything or help the discussion? I don't really think so.
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Beliefs, Religion and Faith.
So you concede that it might be difficult to find examples. At the same time I can think of quite a number of examples around my area. Nope, I haven't. I couldn't care less about religion, I merely have seen your statements which I believe to be wrong, or rather, looking at it one-sided. I have to say I'm actually a bit surprised I have ended up on the "defending" side given that are several issues I personally have with religion. I didn't go around and ask people...it's what I experience in my everyday life. And sure, some will have hidden issues that can be attributed to religion but I believe that number to be small, given that I haven't personally encountered anyone despite knowing a number of people well enough to determine if this was the case.
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Reveal Confessions, Secrets & Regrets...
1.Makes it possible but not sufficient for anything yet. 2.Unable to describe it? I don't think this fits for pregnancy at all. It's quite easy to explain. Of course she may be anxious and it would make it more difficult for her, but even in that case I doubt she would say she is unable to describe it. 3.As with nearly everything else that is uncertain and lies in the future. Nowhere near a reasonable indicator. 4.Fitting slightly better than 3, but still applicable to a LOT of cases. Plus it might not be as likely after all and just be unconscious exaggeration 5.And again the same - This could be applicable to basically any bigger problem, which is obviously what she talks about so it doesn't narrow down the possibilites at all. All assumptions are based on *something*. As long as there aren't at least some reasonable indicators(which there honestly aren't) the assumption wouldn't be based on anything convincing from an objective point of view. If there were reasonable indicators, it would still remain an assumption, just one that's a bit more likely and actually based on some good indicators for it.
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Beliefs, Religion and Faith.
Ugh. Haven't we been over this a hundred times already? It's obvious that fundamentalist's views cause harm and don't really make sense so there's no reason to discuss it. No matter how big of an influence they have, if you're going to discuss whether religion makes sense/does harm/has any useful purpose, don't use fundamentalists but moderates, becaue honestly with fundamentalists it's a rhetoric question and discussion about it is a waste of time. Glad we agree on the first point. Now to my quote: What I am saying is: Whether a religion is true or not doesn't matter in the slightest as long there is no definitive proof(which would lead to people not believing it anymore). Christianity has shaped the world in a certain way. Whether that was good or bad I'll cover later :P Never has the fact whether God existed or not in reality made any difference. It doesn't matter if people believe in God and he doesn't exist or if they believe in him and he does exist. As long as there is no proof(which obviously there never will be) nobody can be sure and as such for personal behaviour it doesn't matter whether he exists or not. Of course, if, say a very revengeful god, exists who kills us because we didn't believe in him it makes a difference, but as we couldn't have known either way we didn't behave the "wrong" way. edit: This is kind of difficult to explain, I'll try to portray it with an example. Person A believes in God. Person B doesn't. We are going to take a simplicistic and a bit extreme view of god: Those who follow his will get rewarded, those who don't get punished in the afterlife. If they are being rewarded/punished in present life isn't able to be determined, so the same situation we are in. Scenario 1: God exists Person A acts according to the will of God. He possibly gets rewarded in his current life(but this isn't able to be determined). He gets rewarded in the afterlife. Person B doesn't do that. He possibly get punished, but again not being able to be determined. In his afterlife he has to suffer. Scenario 2: God doesn't exist Person A still acts according to the will of god(or rather, now the religion). He doesn't get rewarded, though he may think of some of the things happening to him as a reward. Person B doesn't act accordingly. He doesn't get punished. As you see, while the final outcome may be different depending on whether god exists or not, the behaviour of the persons doesn't change. Both cannot possibly know whether the god exists or not and as such are acting on their own beliefs as good as they can. As nobody changes their behaviour regardless of whether god exists or not, our current life doesn't change either. As such, whether god exists or not is irrelevant. Okay, agree then. Well you do believe in the importance of that. I don't do that necessarily(as in teh case for religion). Again, I see no big harm with (moderate!) religion even if I do believe they're wrong. And yes I'm getting my notion of 'religion does more good than harm' out of my "self professed statistics" or, as you might call them, my experiences. Where do you get the notion from that it does more harm than good? Let me guess, your personal experience? Data on this would be great but it would be incredibly difficult to conduct. I should also clarify that when I said "religion does more harm than good" I again refer to moderate religions and not the fundamentalist view. Given that you yourself have said you don't really know a lot about this, while I have experienced it for quite a while and have no biased reason to defend it(As I do not believe in it myself) I will dare to say, hopefully without coming over as arrogant, that I believe I am able to judge this better than you. And no I don't believe that religion has too much potential to become fundamentalism. Of course the possibilites are there but (okay just to avoid any attacks on this: purely my opinon, not any fact) fundamentalism will get mostly passed on through education of children. Moderate religious people becoming fundamentalists will be a tiny minority. Besides, just because something taken to the extreme is bad doesn't mean that it should be condemned when it's not bad in itself.
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Are Auras...worth it?
Don't bother with skilling auras, unless you are really trying for maximum efficiency there usually is better stuff to spend your points on. Jack of Trades is of course heavily recommended. Vampirism can be quite useful. Equilibrium or knockout can slightly speed up slayer trips, might be worth thinking about if you do a lot of slayer.
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Beliefs, Religion and Faith.
Indeed? I wouldn't know many examples of this if we ignore fundamentalists. No, we'll never know "the truth" - as something supernatural cannot effectively be proven nor disproven. And yes, to assume his existence is irrational. But that's simply how religion works. In the end, whether he exists or not doesn't actually matter, as long as there's no definitive proof of either thing. Christianity or really any religion works just as well without You cannot prove that a god doesn't exist. You may be able to prove that certain elements of a religion are wrong, but that doesn't disprove the god. It should be obvious to anyone that humans themselves dabble a lot in the theology and that certain teachings change over time, so it's no wonder that at least parts of a religion are wrong. Whether the god does exist is impossible to prove. Basically the same as above. Yes a lot of religions contradict themselves. It doesn't matter. If you choose to believe it, what does it matter? As long as they're happy with it and don't infringe the rights of others, they can do as they please. Of course, belittling others for interpreting scripture "wrongly" or to claim that atheists can't have morals isn't something that should happen. " I don't believe it's necessary, and it functions more as a burden than it does an enlightening spiritual thing. " For quite a while I've believed the same. But watching the people around me, I've come to the conclusion that for most religious people, their religion helps them a lot more than it harms them(and others). And as long as that's the case, there's no issue with religion, even if rationality suggests it's not true.
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Dragon bones
On the other hand, those who couldn't train prayer on the weekend because of the lower bonus might be buying more bones once the weekend is over. I would suggest buying at the end of the weekend, but not waiting too long...maybe on sunday or monday. The ge graph from last weekend shows them going down in price for quite a while after the weekend, but I'm not sure if there wasn't anything else at the time to cause this.
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28-Feb-2012 - Squeal of Fortune
How does your single example prove that it's not rigged? Honestly, I would be pretty surprised if it was NOT rigged.
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28-Feb-2012 - Squeal of Fortune
There was pic of a head tattoo on this thread(around page 13 I think?). But yeah, rare means rare and tbh if someone had heard of more than a few cases in this short amount of time it would be waaay too much.
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Anyone encounter this before?
What I find strange is that, juding from the pic, this happened straight after logging in. Both P-Mod and the automatic mutes should work immediately and not on the next login?
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Beliefs, Religion and Faith.
First of all, you cannot claim it is false, and discussions about it being true or not are useless. Not sure where you got the "tiny,tiny minority" from either. Also, to your main argument, for some people religion helps them to grieve and finish grieving. I see no big harm in a false hope if you're not going to witness it being uncovered as false. I guess you could say questioning god may be considered negative, but no one here uses god as explanation for natural phenomenon either, so it's really not a curiosity stopper. I agree that god shouldn't be used to cover scientific blanks. And, what exactly do you mean by your last point? Care to elaborate?
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Best Pet Troll names?!
They can and if you have them out, you will not lose them even if you're protecting three other items. Exception is if you're skulled.
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Reporting
I guess you have right-click reporting activated, this means you have to right click the player you want to report if he hasn't talked. If you need to manually put in a name, disable right-click reporting.
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Botting in Runescape
What most think of as colour bots are actually pattern recognition bots. Changing colours really only affects the worst of them.